It is the eighteenth overall episode of the series and was written by Bruce Eric Kaplan, and directed by Jeremy Podeswa.
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.
David (Michael C. Hall) provides Nate (Peter Krause) with Emily's funeral arrangements, which were all done by herself a long time ago.
When a friend of Melissa cancels her plans to be a "watcher" while she performs oral sex on a man, Brenda volunteers to accompany her.
Claire takes her SAT exam, and is shocked when she sees that a student pretends to be Parker to present it.
She takes her anger at her counselor, Gary (David Norona), revealing that Parker wanted to sleep with him but he refused.
Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) has taken Taylor (Aysia Polk) to live with her, but the stress affects his relationship with Eddie (Terrell Clayton).
When no one shows up for Emily's funeral, Ruth forces her children to accompany her in a ceremony presided by Father Jack (Tim Maculan).
Club wrote, "In contrast to the rather crudely sketched decedent of the week in “Driving Mr. Mossback,” Emily Previn plays a central role in “The Invisible Woman”: She sets an extreme benchmark against which the other characters are measured.
Previn's story works well alongside Claire's SAT stresses and her overwhelming fear that none of it really matters.
“The Invisible Woman” has quite a few big developments — David and Keith hook up when they're supposed to be seeing other people, Brenda's sexual awakening begins and she proposes to Nate.
But it's the vulnerability, fear and uncertainty of Emily Previn's death — and how the life she left behind manages to resonate beautifully with our characters — that makes this episode really stand out.