SIX FEET UNDER: THE FOOT (TV)
Summary
One in this series about the Fisher clan, a loving -- if dysfunctional -- family struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy in the face of the stressful day-to-day operations of the eccentric family business, a funeral home in Los Angeles. This episode opens with the grisly death of a baker who falls into an industrial mixer that tears him to pieces. The baker's family brings him to Fisher and Sons, demanding that he be made presentable for an open-casket funeral. Federico is given the task of putting the pieces of the body back together again. Meanwhile, Nate and David argue over whether to sell the business to Kroehner, the corporate funeral business that has been attempting to move in on them for some time. Nate is interested in returning to Seattle with whatever money he can make from the sale, but David is opposed to parting with the business their late father built. After a heated exchange, David caves in, and Nate goes to meet the Kroehner representative, Matthew Gilardi, to sign the sale paperwork. Sitting in the Kroehner office, however, Nate realizes that Kroehner's impersonal attitude toward helping people through their grief goes against everything he stands for, and he decides that he and David will keep the business after all. Claire shows up at school one day to find that rumors of her most recent sexual episode with local ne'er-do-well Gabriel Dimas have spread across campus like wildfire: everyone seems to have heard that she "sucked on his toes." Claire confronts Gabriel, who confesses to having bragged to his friends about the affair. Infuriated, Claire comes up with a truly macabre way of getting revenge on Gabriel for his loose lips. Ruth decides that she has been feeling numb since the death of Nathaniel, Sr., so she tags along with a friend to a horse-racing track, where she ends up blowing $25,000 in an effort to "feel alive." Finally, Nate realizes that his relationship with Brenda may be more serious than he realized.
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: June 17, 2001 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:07
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:69252
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Comedy; Families; LGBT Collection
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 2001-2005
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert Greenblatt … Executive Producer
- David Janollari … Executive Producer
- Alan Ball … Executive Producer, Created by
- Bruce Eric Kaplan … Supervising Producer, Writer
- Alan Poul … Co-Executive Producer
- Christian Williams … Co-Executive Producer
- Christian Taylor … Producer
- Laurence Andries … Producer
- Lori Jo Nemhauser … Co-Producer
- Robert del Valle … Co-Producer
- John Patterson … Director
- Richard Marvin … Music by
- Thomas Newman … Theme Music by
- Peter Krause … Cast, Nate Fisher
- Michael C. Hall … Cast, David Fisher
- Frances Conroy … Cast, Ruth Fisher
- Lauren Ambrose … Cast, Claire Fisher
- Freddy Rodriguez … Cast, Federico Diaz
- Mathew St. Patrick … Cast, Keith Charles
- Rachel Griffiths … Cast, Brenda Chenowith
- Richard Jenkins … Cast, Nathaniel Fisher
- Caroline Aaron … Cast, Amelia
- Eric Balfour … Cast, Gabriel Dimas
- Garrison Hershberger … Cast, Matthew Gilardi
- Hayden Tank … Cast, Young Nate
- John Capodice … Cast, Tommy Romano
- Sandra Purpuro … Cast, Barbara Romano
- Carol Ann Susi … Cast, Pauline Romano
- Christina Carlisi … Cast, Judy Romano
- Joe Basile … Cast, Morgue Attendant
- Lindsey Parks … Cast, Jeannie Fritzen
- Marty Belafsky … Cast, Bakery Worker
- Christopher Michael … Cast, Deadwagon Attendant
- Darren Le Gallo … Cast, School Boy #1
- Scott Torrence … Cast, School Boy #2
- Eric Keith … Cast, Newlywed Man
- Lenora May … Cast, Freckles' Mom
- Beans … Cast, Freckles