`Blue - Season 3, Episode 3

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Blue pays a visit to the therapist to discuss her recent panic attacks. Lara gives Satya an ultimatum regarding their future after Satya performs a few songs for tips. Josh reveals his life changing secret.

"What are your options?"  "I could have the baby."  "Francesca, you've no idea what it's like to take care of a baby."  "But I could learn."

Blue dances a cagey dance in therapy, stepping toward the heart of her anxiety attacks, but mostly stepping away and around.  It is a dance of denial, probably repression, too.

Then, in the next segment, she approaches the heart of the matter closer, yet.  This is the first time that the show strung two segments back-to-back on the same scene.  

"What's he like?"  "He's a widower.  Actually it's a little bit more strange than that.   His wife mysteriously disappeared a few years ago, and is believed to be dead.  So she's like this fucking ghost."

Francesca has an expectedly tense conversation with her father about being pregnant.  He responds caringly but firmly, and doesn't let her off the hook about telling her mother.  

Josh relates the situation on Skype, with Blue at the office wearing earphones, and we hear nothing.  Dead silence.  We see only glimmers of shock on her face.

"If you're old enough to have unprotected sex and old enough to be a father, you sure as hell can give me details!"  "I'm not going to be a father."  "Oh, so you and Francesca have made some major decisions, have you?"  

"You're very beautiful."  "Thank you."  She hesitates to reciprocate his approach, but she kisses him.

"Please come home with me, after dinner.  I would like that very much, Francine."  "It would have to be off the clock.  In fact this whole evening would have to be off the clock."  

Whoa, another tour de force episode from Rodrigo Garcia.  That final scene, as Blue and Arthur return home, is dreamy, hypnotic, suspenseful.  There is such hesitant but growing tenderness between them.  Garcia does it all purely with look, movement and posture, and touch.  No dialogue.  In slow motion.