EPISODE

11. If You Don't Know Me By Now

Addison's mother, Bizzy, aggressively demands her daughter do whatever it takes to save her partner from dying - including working with Dr. Rodriguez once again. Meanwhile Amelia and Pete's medical consultation is complicated when a patient's wife and his mistress disagree on the course of treatment, Charlotte and Cooper try to be intimate with each other again, and Violet considers publishing a personally-revealing book she's written.

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Bizzy demands that Addison save Susan's life, at any cost. Violet tells Naomi that she has written a book that is going to be published. Amelia and Pete work on the case of a man who needs brain surgery, but his wife won't let him get it if it's going to harm his intelligence. Cooper and Charlotte attempt to have sex for the first time since Charlotte's attack. Naomi and Sheldon read Violet's book and both approve, but when Pete reads it he questions whether Violet is going to want everyone to know every little detail of their lives.

Addison is distraught after her mother slaps her when she says that Susan is going to die; then decides to collaborate with Dr. Rodriguez in efforts to save Susan's life. After Charlotte thanks Violet for telling her about her rape, saying it helped her, Violet decides that she is going to go on a book tour. When Addison goes to tell her mother how she really feels, Bizzy confesses that she divorced the captain and is going to marry Susan.

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