The siblings start a fire and toss all sorts of Ike paraphernalia into the inferno: The T-shirt from the bar mitzvah, the checkbook for the Yaron Foundation, and tickets to the PEN Gala all get burned. She softens a bit and begins to help her brother move on. And Phyllis sees that Marty was trapped in an abusive relationship, just like she was with her cheating ex-husband all those years ago. You’re just a schmuck like the rest of us.” Anyone can make mistakes. So, when Marty claims that he’s an idiot for following Ike, Phyllis repeats Marty’s words to her from back in 1982, saying, “You’re not an idiot. She’s so angry and sad, but at the same time she can see that her brother is broken. She explains that the only way she could move on with her life was to make Marty dead to her. It’s the one thing that matters to him, and Phyllis shows more interest in it in two minutes than Ike did in an entire decade. Phyllis continues her tour of Marty’s twisted life with Ike, and Marty finally guides her to the koi pond. Marty waves her concern away, but honestly it’s no weirder than what actually went down in that house. In a hilarious moment, Phyllis expresses her fear that Marty was engaging in a sexual relationship with Bonnie and Ike. After Marty has a disastrous meeting with his now-adult niece Nancy, Phyllis tracks him down at the Hampton house to yell in his dumb face.Įver the curious person, Phyllis invites herself in and starts to poke around her old family home. Phyllis’s bandwidth for forgiveness and her immense love for her brother - despite the terrible things he’s done to her and her children - powers the remainder of the episode. Jeffrey Osborne’s “On the Wings of Love” kicks in, and Marty starts singing. When Phyllis tearfully apologizes and calls herself an idiot, Marty counters by saying, “You’re not an idiot you’re just a schmuck like the rest of us.” They drive away, and Marty clicks on the radio. As Phyllis and Marty navigate this charged moment, Marty lifts his sister and her children up with every opportunity he gets. In it, Marty helps Phyllis leave her no-good, cheating husband. And who does he see there? Phyllis! After being absent for three episodes, Kathryn Hahn is back, people! This is not a drill!Īn earlier flashback to 1982 already reacquainted us with Marty’s fast-talking, brash, and opinionated sister. Marty calls Ike, gives him the brush off and heads off to the Hampton house to change the locks. The promise of who Marty could have been if not for Ike’s influence hovers over every scene like the Ghost of Christmas Past. The owner adds insult to injury by telling Marty that Hannah even has a husband and kids now! Paired with the fact that Bruce pointedly mentions his grandkids to Marty earlier in the episode, it’s becoming quite clear that Ike stole Marty’s entire life from him. However, he shares that Ike was the one who told Hannah to stay away from Marty. The store owner informs Marty that Hannah stopped working there a while ago. Marty’s eyes pinball all over the place before he reluctantly agrees.īut things change when Marty heads to the frame shop to talk to Hannah. He wants Marty to be the best man at a vow-renewal service for him and Bonnie. His body language is screaming NO even as Ike slithers closer. Instead of being enraptured by every word Ike has to say, his face is alive with discomfort. During this session, Marty is guarded, skeptical, and tense.
And she’s totally right to be furious at him. Phyllis is determined not to give Marty anything: not a kidney, not even a drop of her blood. Marty calls Phyllis, and when she picks up the phone in a whirlwind of personality, he chickens out and pretends to be Ike’s alter ego, Marshall Feldhammer. Bruce remains a mensch and the ultimate work friend.
Bruce gracefully declines Marty’s bumbling offer of friendship, but he subtly redirects him back to Phyllis. So, in a very awkward scene involving a food truck, he tries to buddy up with Bruce. As much as Marty doesn’t want to return to Ike, he knows he has to fill his empty support system somehow. Instead, our focus is on Marty as he begins the difficult process of shaking himself loose from Ike’s iron grip. However, Ike mostly takes a back seat in the finale.
#Shrink next door series
But in the final episode of The Shrink Next Door, the series reminds us repeatedly of the untold damage that Ike did to Marty throughout nearly three decades of emotional and financial abuse. Ike Herschkopf, Marty had a family and a life and a sense of humor.
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