While the exact details behind Balthazar Getty's departure from Brothers & Sisters are yet to be finalized, one thing is for certain:

The actor will simply be a recurring guest star next season.

As a result, an Entertainment Weekly reader posed a question to Michael Ausiello this week: what will this mean for Tommy's planned takeover of Ojai? Will it fail, thereby leaving the company entirely under Holly's control?

Our favorite television columnist calmed such fears with his reply: No, another Walker will step in to replace Tommy by the end of the season, much to Holly's horror.

Help is on the way for Holly. But from which member of the Walker clan?

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