It’s Rayna’s mom’s birthday (and 30 years since her death), so she and Tandy have taken the girls to visit her grave. Maddie’s still being moody, but she’s been listening to a lot of Deacon’s music, particularly the song ‘A Life That’s Good’. Rayna invites the girls to be her dates to the Symphony Ball, an event her father runs each year, carrying on from her mother’s work before her death. Rayna later speaks quietly to the grave alone, tearful that she’s lost her voice and she feels so lost (I can’t help feeling there’s some parallels to her feelings about Deacon here). At the symphony ball, Maddie is unhappy and bitching every chance she gets. She is really happy to see her Teddy at the ball, however this is shortlived, as Peggy turns up. Teddy has proposed to Peggy with his mother’s ring, which Peggy is wearing around her neck, so as not to arouse suspicion. Unfortunately Maddie gets it straight away and yells at everyone, storming off and running away.
A search breaks out, with the police on it, but nobody can find her. Maddie has walked for miles until she gets to a gas station in the middle of nowhere, and, panicking, calls Juliette, who picks her up and brings her back to her place. Maddie expresses her frustration at her parents, but Juliette calls Rayna regardless, cuing a cute bonding scene between the two country queens. Rayna begins to talk to Maddie the following day about Deacon, and some wounds are healing between them. Pre-occupied in the other room, Rayna misses a call from Deacon to check that Maddie’s okay, but Maddie herself picks it up, and they have a really cute conversation, and after she hangs up she says “dad”. She and Daphne play Deacon’s song ‘A Life That’s Good’ together, and a teary Rayna secretly watches, breaking when she automatically tries to sing along and can’t. Meanwhile, Peggy still isn’t getting pregnant, and Teddy has decided to go for some senator position or something (who cares?).
Juliette has an album to promote and wants to get back out on tour. However, Rayna tells her she needs to be at home with her family, and Juliette throws hissy fits, not wanting to open or co-headline for anyone, and not wanting to downsize to theaters. She also refuses to do her old glitzy pop material, against Glenn’s advice, preferring her newer, more serious image. In the end, she decides to invite Layla (however much she hates her) out on tour to open. Layla can perform her older stuff, while Juliette can perform her newer stuff, and everyone wins. Deacon goes to thank that lawyer woman for helping him get out of jail, and tries to pay her for her work. She refuses, instead asking him to buy her dinner. When they go out, Deacon finds out she’s basically a saint, having got to know the man who killed her husband so that she could forgive him and get over the heartbreak. This is why she helped Deacon, she likes to do the odd bit of good work where she can. She goes back to his, and they begin to connect. They’re interrupted by Rayna searching for Maddie, and Deacon and the lawyer discuss the fact that Maddie is his kid. There’s no sexytime, so it seems as if this relationship will run deeper for a while.
Tandy finds out that it was her father who caused the accident that killed her mother. It also appears that a housekeeper was killed after she gave some evidence to police that would convict Lamar – that Virginia had said she was leaving him the day of the accident. Tandy is full of horror throughout the episode, innocently asking Lamar at the Ball what her mother’s last words to him were. He fluffs the answer, and quickly leaves to speak to someone else, leaving a pretty distraught Tandy. Tandy decides to pass on the information to convict her father.
Scarlett is struggling with her career, not feeling comfortable with the “sexy” photoshoots and the outfits etc. She speaks to Zoey, who says she’ll help her fix the fact she’s not having fun. We also get to hear a bit of Zoey performing in this episode, once alone in church and later, getting drunk with Scarlett, up on stage at a bar. Zoey reveals to her best friend that she’s actually a lot less innocent than Scarlett thinks, and that things can’t go back to how they were when they were kids. She persuades Scarlett to start making new, adult memories with her, and it looks like we’ll start seeing a less goody-two-shoes Scarlett from now on. Scarlett also gets asked for her autograph from a guy who keeps taking pictures from her, a sign of new fame to come.
Will’s performance of ‘What If I Was Willing’ is going down a storm, and Jeff wants him to record it. Gunnar is avoiding him and says he’ll think about it. Avery is now working at the Bluebird too after Juliette fired him, and he privately offers Gunnar some advice about things he could do with a recording of the song. Gunnar ultimately decides to keep the song for himself as an artist, and Will is kind of rightfully furious (as Gunnar is primarily a songwriter).
Phew, that was a complex one! Sorry it was so long. ‘Nashville’, episode 5 airs tonight on ABC at 10/9c. Come back next Wednesday for another recap!
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