MOM'S DEAD
written & directed
by Nathan Wellman

Oh well.

4 Episodes
Original Run: 3 Eps, 4/6/13 - 4/20/13
Playoffs Run: 1 Ep, 6/22/13

SUMMARY:  A family mourns at the passing of their matriarch.  Arthur, her husband, has the most ostentatious display of drunken tears.  As the rest of the family try to come to terms with their dysfunctional history, son John shares a terrible secret with his brother Leo: their mother didn't trip.  She was pushed, by their father, for the insurance money.  John saw it happen.

SUMMARY:  Siblings John and Alice have a tense talk about their mutual and continued dislike of one another, as well as an absent brother. Things get fraught when Leo attempts to confront his father, who offers Leo nothing but contempt, and forces Leo to confront the fact that he's been selfish.  Leo draws a gun, but fires just as his teenage nephew, Alice's son Gary, enters, returning from an ill-thought-out attempt to run away from home.  Meanwhile, Alice is seen in the arms of a young man who is not her husband.

SUMMARY:  At the hospital, Gary is slipping in and out of consciousness and coherence as the family continues to argue and come apart.  Pat unceremoniously tells Gary he was adopted, much to the anger of his adoptive father, Dave, who is also understandably upset at Leo for shooting Gary.  Meanwhile, Gary hallucinates a memory of his late grandmother holding him as an infant.  That night, the prodigal son, Mike, finally arrives... just as Gary flatlines.

SUMMARY:  As the family melts down, Alice realizes, with horror, that her father may have killed their mother for the insurance check she just got - to fund her return to college.  Meanwhile, Arthur confesses his guilt to Mike... who suffocates and kills him.  Leo walks in as Arthur is breathing his last, and, shell-shocked, agrees with Mike to say that their father died in his sleep.