There were two really important Cameron developments this week:

1. Cameron, Tom, and Joe

At the very beginning of the episode, there is a flashback of Cameron explaining to Tom why she slept with Joe. She says:

“I was sad, I needed to pour that sadness into something.”

Tom asks if she loves Joe and she answers that:

“Joe’s impossible to love, he’s empty, he just becomes whatever circumstances require him to be.”

But she does love Joe, and Joe isn’t just a shell. Joe is trying desperately to hide who he is while Cameron is putting how she feels and who she is right in the world's face.

Joe desperately wants the world not to see HIM so he creates important masks to wear so that the world doesn’t know he feels inadequate and small (in relation to his Father). He swallows his pain, is never surprised when the world lets him down, and is constantly reinventing the Joe people see.

Cameron insists the world see her anger, frustrations, and failures. She is an incredibly authentic person, and, as a result much more easily broken by events.

Joe hides behind a facade of masculine confidence (backed up by moments of real genius) while Cameron gives the world the finger as she screams at the world as it disappoints her over and over again.

Joe’s despair is a deeply buried tumor where Cameron’s despair is an angry open wound.

There is a great scene where Joe gives Cameron the “present” of a pair of headphones while she is making breakfast to the music of Belly’s song “Slow Dog.”