Tonight on Showtime, The Affair continues with an all new Sunday November 8, season 2 episode 6 called, “6” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, a medical emergency with Martin (Jake Siciliano) casts Helen (Maura Tierney) and Noah’s (Dominic West) litigation process in a new light.
On the last episode, Alison was thrown by an unpleasant shift in behavior from her Hudson Valley hosted and furious with Noah after a chance discovery about his new book. Meanwhile, Cole rejected Scotty’s plan to make money for the family and enjoyed an unexpected connection with someone new; and Scotty catched Cole in a situation best kept secret. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the Showtime synopsis, “a medical emergency with Martin casts Helen and Noah’s litigation process in a new light; Helen makes a long-overdue decision; Noah is surprised when Alison wants to stay with her mother at the Sousanna Institute and realizes that the dynamics of their relationship have shifted, which leads to some troublesome discoveries.”
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Since the have decided to forego mediation, Helen and Noah have done nothing but fight with each other.
First Noah was the one in the wrong what with his affair and eventually leaving his marriage in order to pursue a relationship with Allison however the tables turned not so long ago when Helen began screwing up. She showed up to pick up her kids from camp while she was under the influences and unfortunately her mistakes didn’t end there. So her son Martin was the one to suffer the most.
He had been experiencing stomach pains for the past couple of months and yet no one besides Noah and Allison wanted to take the condition seriously. Therefore Helen’s mother fought them the most on taking Martin to see a specialist. Apparently she was so convinced that Martin’s stomach pains were psychosomatic that she managed to talk her daughter out of taking Martin to see someone more qualified than a therapist and a pediatrician.
And like usual, Helen followed her mother’s advice even as it began not to make the best kind of sense. So both Noah and Helen were in for a shock when they’re son suddenly collapsed and was vomiting a green substance.
Thankfully, Noah’s first response had been to take their son to the hospital and that’s when they found out what was really wrong with Martin. For it was not his parents’ divorce or his father’s deviant ways like his grandmother had suggested. It was Crohn’s disease. An immune related disease that was possible inherited from Noah’s side of the family but meant Martin was going to be dealing with chronic problems for the rest of his life.
And most importantly it was a disease that had been overlooked. So that’s when it hit his parents. They had been arguing nonstop and they had let that interfere with their parenting.
So Helen came to a truce with Noah. She told him that she wasn’t going to fight for full custody and that they could back to mediation to work out the details. Meaning no more lawyers or throwing mud at each other. And as a plus they had both agree to go forward with their children first.
And that’s why after her conversation with Noah, Helen decided to kick her mother out of the house. The other woman had always put certain ideas in Helen’s head like what’s right for her and how Noah would never make anything of himself. But in the end Helen realized that her mother had just been a bitter woman who had inserted herself into Helen’s marriage because she didn’t want to deal with her own.
Plus with Margaret Butler out of the picture, both Helen and Noah were finally agreeing about events and how it all panned out.
Noah saw Helen as the caring mother she is and she saw him as an excellent dad. So their overall relationship did go on to improve and that in turn made the kids finally accept their parents’ divorce. Whitney was no longer shying away from her dad and the younger kids had grown used to seeing either their father or their mother at separate intervals.
However the biggest concession that Helen made was her somewhat welcome of Allison. Helen had told Noah that she wasn’t going to interfere in his relationship nor was that relationship going to reflect whether or not he received just custody. Helen was simply going to accept that Allison was part of his life.
And while he appreciated the effort that Helen had gone to, Noah didn’t really want to flaunt his relationship with Allison in Helen’s face. So he made sure to be respectful. He had kept his distance from Allison and mostly stayed in contact through phone calls and text messages while Martin was recovering.
Then, after Martin had come home, Noah was going to finally meet up with Allison. But by then she had gone to stay at a spiritual retreat with her mother seeing as the guesthouse accommodation hadn’t actually worked out for long.
So Noah ended up coming back to a new Allison. As in Allison that had read his book and yet had also found inner peace once she realized how much her inner demons had taken control. And how much she really was like the girl Noah had written about. Yet Noah hadn’t wanted Allison to change. He liked the older version as broken as she was.
And therefore the two were soon fighting about the changes in their relationship until one day Noah got into contact with his own demons. The ones that have just been lurking right under the surface and that made him haul Allison away from what he believed was new age crap so that he could have her to himself again. Though at the end of the episode he found out she was pregnant and that means he can’t have her to himself for that much longer.
So quite honestly it wasn’t that surprising that Noah was able to finish his book. All of the fighting with Allison must have provided motivation because he finally knew how he was going to end it. Noah realized his character needed to kill Allison so that she could never change.
