Dead to Me season 3 recap guide: All 10 episodes explained

Dead to Me season 3, episode 6 recap: We’re Gonna Beat This Thing

Dead to Me season 3, episode 6 begins with Jen telling her kids how things are going to change now that Judy is undergoing treatment with the kitchen/bathroom repairs going on in the background. To be honest, I’m not sure what the point of the whole bathroom-leak thing is because it doesn’t really impact the plot at all going forward.

Judy is going to be staying in Charlie’s room for the time being while Charlie relocates to the guesthouse. Jen assures the boy that it’s going to be okay. Medicine has come a long way since Jen’s mom had cancer and was in treatment.

At the hospital, Jen is all set to stay by Judy’s side as she undergoes treatment, but it does trigger some difficult memories of the time she spent with her mom experiencing the same thing as a kid. While sitting there, Jen intends to start folding the 1,000 origami cranes she agreed to do for Henry’s recital. But she gives up pretty fast and lets Judy take over.

At the police station, Nick brings a bunch of those wooden birds from the craft stores to Perez. He, rightfully, figured out that the piece of wood lodged in Steve’s skull was broken off from the bird. Perez tries to get him off the trail and tells him she’ll bring the bird, and his theory, to Glenn.

A significant chunk of this episode is devoted to a montage as Judy goes through her chemotherapy up until the final day of her treatment. She has bonded with her nurse, Francine (Lee Garlington). Unfortunately, on Judy’s last day of treatment, she gets a new nurse. Francine died the night before from a sudden heart attack.

When Perez and Jen meet up again, Jen ends up telling Perez about Judy having cancer, which does earn her some sympathy.

Back home, Judy is struggling to celebrate after her chemo is complete because Francine’s death has seriously unnerved her. To calm her down, Jen takes some of her psychedelic mushrooms and they both start tripping out in a hilarious montage. As she starts coming down from her trip, Jen freaks out and panics that she’s having a heart attack, convincing Charlie to drive her to the hospital since Judy is in no condition to do so.

Judy stays home with Henry and they bond, with Henry even calling Judy his “second mom,” and tells her he wants to use his 1,000 cranes wish on her. It clearly means a lot to her that he thinks that since Judy has never been able to have children of her own and she thinks of Jen’s kids as hers.

Speaking of having kids, at the hospital, Jen learns that she’s pregnant with Ben’s baby!