Grace calls Alma. Rita isn't convinced that Alma is a good fit. The entire nominating committee is coming to the house for a home inspection. Alma has work to do!

Alma gets what she needs from Mrs. Yost's home.

Mrs. Yost's car has been found. They think that she fell asleep and drove into the lake.

But there are men's footprints in the mud.

Rocco is digging for Mrs. Yost again, and Bertram finds Alma filling the home with her dead neighbor's possessions.

Rita empties Scooter's apartment as she hopes to get him to feign that compromising position with Catherine. He's still not interested.

A husband calls Vern to threaten him since he ruined his life. Vern assures him that what ruined his life was knocking boots with his secretary.

Scooter visits Dee in overalls, asking for money. He's desperate, he says. He could end up on the streets. She gives him money even though he left her out in the rain.

He cries. He never meant to upset her. He thought they were just having fun. She was falling in love. Maybe this turned out for the best, he says. There's gotta be someone out there who can treat her better than he did.

Alma also got a dress from Mrs. Yost's closet. She wants all of her things to be taken to the attic, including their family portrait.

They're in Mrs. Yost's living room when the police pull up outside.

The police looked in the window, but Alma still wants Bertram to steal the painting. She runs out the back door and out the front, calling to the police.

After doing her best impression of a fainting woman, the policeman says not to worry since his mother is going through the change, too, and she sweats even more than Alma.

Dee asks Vern to lunch for their first date, which throws him. Rita enters next, wanting to know Dee's identity. He doesn't bite.

Vern was engaged once, but he went to war, and she didn't like the guy who came back. They exchange snide banter, making Dee laugh.

There is another gumshoe tracking the two of them.

When the garden club arrives, Rita is rude before entering. Grace tries to add some levity as Rita insults Alma's garden.

Rita thinks the timing is a little too perfect.

The French painting is the topic of conversation and forces Alma to lie about visiting the city many times.

Another guest arrives with her aunt, which seems like a friend of Mrs. Yost's. Oh no.

Vern asks the gumshoe why he's there, and Vern and Dee leave by the backdoor. It's not another gumshoe! It's the angry husband, and he has a knife. Dee successfully wrestles the guy to the ground, cutting his leg. When she looks at his leg, she's shocked, and he's upset.

Aunt Martha is falling apart, she says, which piques Bertram's interest.

The women are disgusted when one notes her son, Chip, is dating a 36-year-old woman. Rita tries to say that's not bad at all, but as they drill into that topic, she retires to the kitchen for spirits.

Alma tells Rita that she's breathtaking and cannot imagine being that beautiful that anything could be wrong. She envies Rita, who suddenly realizes that Alma is a very nice lady.

Probably too nice for the club, but she thinks that Alma has some tricks up her sleeve, calling Alma out for Paris and the dress. Rita admires Alma's desire to reinvent since she has done so herself.

Rita decides she'll mentor Alma and admit her to the club, as long as she starts stocking better booze.

Scooter goes to Rita's house to beg for cash and catches Catherine's eye. He scores more cash and makes an impression on her.

Aunt Martha has cancer and so much pain and is so happy that he would want to visit a dear windbag like her.

Rita and Joan are not great friends. Rita thinks she's quite a chatterbox, and drags Alma into the conversation by hoping she agrees with her.

Rocco is in the garden digging like mad, and he pulls up Mrs. Yost's arm. Alma and Bertram need to make fast work of the body while keeping the women in side. She says the dog is vicious and escaped, so they just want to keep the ladies safe.

They play piano and sing anything goes.

Rocco has plans for Bertram that don't include allowing him to take care of the body.

When Vern got hurt, his girlfriend saw his leg and broke up with him. Dee can't believe he just gave up on love after that.

When Mike's friend, the detective who visited the Yost house, comes over, Dee says she's Vern's girl.

Alma is absolutely thrilled with the results of the day.

Bertram wants to return Mrs. Yost's things now. Alma doesn't agree. How will she explain that their nicest things are missing?

He loves the woman in the portrait. But she grabbed any scraps she could get for so long because she was told that's all she could have. She wants to bury the old Alma and assured Bertie that the family is her heart.

Outside, the ladies talk new members and decide to nominate Alma. Rita is almost jealous of Alma and Bertie, but then Dee arrives.