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.
The mother sings a lullaby to Dillon and subsequently leaves, but the baby dies soon from SIDS after while staring at the crib mobile.
David (Michael C. Hall) and Nate (Peter Krause) prepare to leave for the Western States Funeral Directors Conference in Las Vegas.
Claire (Lauren Ambrose) visits Gabe (Eric Balfour) at a hospital in Barstow after discovering he overdosed on heroin.
Ruth (Frances Conroy) is still confused after discovering David's homosexuality, and is further dismayed when Nikolai (Ed O'Ross) demotes her to the cash register after her flower arrangements lead to customers complaining that they are funereal.
Back home, Nate and Brenda their photos and are disturbed to find that Billy broke into their room and photographed them naked and asleep in bed.
Club wrote, "In the operating room, after Vanessa undergoes an emergency C-section, Rico's face contorts with joy and relief.
"[4] Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a "B–" grade, and wrote, "Billy's psycho routine is growing tiresome, and it's too soon after Gabe's brother to go back to the dead-kid well.
But Hall turns David's anti-Kroehner rant at the convention into a tour de force, and his encounter with a buxom lap dancer is a hoot.
"[5] Mark Zimmer of Digitally Obsessed gave the episode a 3.5 out of 5 rating, writing "Ruth has difficulty in dealing with David's homosexuality, or more specifically his reticence about it, and tries to move beyond funereal flower arranging.
"[6] TV Tome gave the episode a 8 out of 10 rating and wrote "It's really the action in Las Vegas that will keeps viewers hooked though as Nate, David and Brenda attend a funeral director's conference.
On a trip to Las Vegas for a funeral director's conference, David stands up, once again, to Kroener... but is then arrested for having sex with a prostitute in public.