Despite her collapse being a seemingly minor issue and her resulting hospital stay hours instead of days or weeks, Maura is concerned, not so much for what caused the collapse, but that if something serious had truly happened, she would have died a sad woman who did not fulfill what she wanted in life. As a side issue, she has no idea what happened to Elizah who could very well still be at risk. Sarah, who has moved back in with Len while he still maintains a sexual relationship with his millennial girlfriend, takes the first step to volunteer for the Board at the synagogue, Rachel who states that the meeting with the other members is only a formality. It may be a formality except in the case of Sarah, who is open to an extreme about her life. Josh immerses himself back at work with the new company, with one of his underlings, Seth, a seeming younger version of himself, sort of. Ali begins her teaching assistant job under Leslie. While the professional and personal balance between herself and Leslie may be difficult to negotiate in a practical sense, what Ali learns from and her dealings with the other TAs may make her life even more complicated. And Shelly gives a talk at the synagogue about how she has emerged from the depths of hell to a better place. After a talk with Buzz about it and receiving generally positive responses from those in the audience, Shelly has a notion of how she can parlay that talk into something bigger.
—Huggo