The series is set in Los Angeles, and depicts the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home, along with their friends and lovers.
In the episode, Nate meets Brenda's Australian friend, while David starts a relationship with a dance instructor.
Business is slow at Fisher & Sons, and David (Michael C. Hall) hopes Nate (Peter Krause) can use the time to study and earn his license to become funeral director.
She is uninterested in following the instructions of the crossroads leader, Dennis (Michael Cudlitz), and prefers to hang out with her friend Topher, to whom she sold marijuana.
While visiting Brenda (Rachel Griffiths), Nate is shocked to find her Australian friend, Connor (Stewart Finlay-McLennan), naked.
Claire returns home, lamenting that the people she knew were never honest, just as David prepares to provide funeral service to a family.
David welcomes the distraction: “There's work to be done.”"[4] Entertainment Weekly gave the episode an "A" grade, and wrote, "One of the series' richest hours ever: Among the myriad highlights are Nate's drug-fueled meltdown over Brenda's exhibitionistic ex-boyfriend and Ruth's sexual fantasy about Nikolai as a conquering cossack.
"[5] Mark Zimmer of Digitally Obsessed gave the episode a 3.5 out of 5 rating, writing "Highly involving and entertaining throughout.
"[6] TV Tome gave the episode a 8 out of 10 rating and wrote "The girls manage to get talking and realise that their preconceptions of one another aren't as accurate as they were lead to believe by other people's thoughts - Claire's kinda normal and Parker is something of a DangerSlut.
[9] In 2016, Ross Bonaime of Paste ranked it 54th out of all 63 Six Feet Under episodes and wrote, "While on a camping trip in “Crossroads,” Claire decides to purposely take a wrong path.
But it's Rico's big change that is the most important here, as he takes a job at Fisher & Sons' competitor Kroener, as a way to set up his own independence from the company that he believes he can never be a part of.