The Big C

Episode 1

Quality of Life

Mon, Apr 29, 201360 mins

It's five months after the Jamison's Puerto Rican adventure, and Cathy finding out that her experience with Angel on his fishing boat was all a hallucination as she was lost during the scuba diving expedition. Regardless, she believes Angel was meant to be her angel of death. There is a death before Cathy's, namely Thomas, who has now joined Marlene. Cathy is stressing over what to place on his tombstone. It's a week before Adam's sixteenth birthday, and while he is focused on getting his driver's license, Cathy is focused on organizing a party for him, whether or not he wants one and despite her fatigue from recent chemotherapy treatments to remove the bits of the tumor the surgery could not remove. In her recent problems with Dr. Sherman, Cathy turns to her therapist among other people in how to deal with him, but he may be the best person to address the issue, that is if she can get some alone time with him outside of her scheduled appointments. She is still teaching, about which Principal Schuler quietly seethes as she feels Cathy is putting her own needs over the students' welfare. Cathy believes her and Paul's marriage is now in name only, as he works on promoting his business, taking over Joy's motivational speaking under his catch phrase "Flip That Switch", and completing his self-help book. And Andrea, now at college, has moved into the dorm. Having problems with her roommate, Andrea doesn't feel she can turn to Cathy anymore. Through everything, Cathy reevaluates the goal she has set out for herself for her remaining time.