Horace and Pete

Episode 7 (1x7)

: 12, 2016

Kurt and the bar discuss Sodom and Gomorrah; Kurt relates the biblical story in his own crude fashion, to the general amusement of the bar. Without warning, Sylvia kicks him out for saying the word "cunt". A character named Rick makes advances on Sylvia, afterwards he feels rejected by her. Pete has a discussion with two cops, one of whom is a friend since childhood. He asks his friend, who is currently detailed to guard the mayor, to help him push forward paperwork to make the bar a landmark, so that Sylvia has more difficulty selling the bar. Horace's daughter Alice visits the bar with her boyfriend Eric. Eric is nervous, and the conversation is awkward and not helped by the strained relationship between Horace and Alice. Horace meets a woman named Rhonda, and gives her a free drink. She is angry about men in general, saying they are only good for sex and moving furniture. The conversation turns sexual, he asks her if she would like to have sex upstairs, and she agrees, spending the night. While having breakfast the next morning, Rhonda suggests she might be a trans woman. Horace isn't sure if she is joking; they discuss the matter, and Rhonda never reveals her birth sex. Though he professes equality and respect for all, Horace clearly has transphobic prejudices - for example he believes that a man in a relationship with a transgender women must have unusual sexual preferences, and that transgender women are morally obliged to inform men of their birth gender before sleeping with them. Despite this, Horace suggests that they meet again. During the conversation we also learn that Horace's two children were born at about the same time, one to his wife Sarah and the other to her younger sister. Sylvia gets good news regarding test results related to her cancer treatment.