Horace and Pete (S01E10): Season 1, Episode 10 Summary

Season 1, Episode 10 Summary

The first half of the episode is set in 1976. Horace senior is abusive and controlling towards his wife Marianne and children; he forbids his wife from seeing her sister Abbie. In the bar, a broke customer attempts to scam free drinks with a magic trick. Jimmy and other customers argue about the presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter. Uncle Pete humiliates his nephew Horace in front of the customers. Marianne finally walks out on her husband after years of abuse taking Sylvia and Horace, but leaving Pete. The second half of the episode is set in the present. Kurt and other customers discuss Donald Trump. Ricardo visits the bar and tells Horace and Sylvia that Pete is almost certainly dead, and they will have to call the search off. Sylvia tells Horace that she intends to leave the bar and live with Harold. An eccentric and extroverted woman named Mara lifts Horace's mood when she interviews for the job. Horace tells Sylvia he knows what he wants to do with his life now. Pete returns to the bar and picks up a knife. Sylvia screams as Petehugs Horace. As Sylvia prepares to leave with Harold, Horace's son, Horace IX comes in the bar and asks about his father. Sylvia says there was nothing particularly distinctive about Horace, then breaks down in tears.

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Horace and Pete Show Summary

The series is set in a run-down family-owned bar called Horace and Pete's in Brooklyn, New York. The bar has been owned by the family since 1916 and has been passed down through several generations, always with a Horace and a Pete in charge. The current owners are the 49-year-old Horace Wittel VIII, who inherited the bar when his father Horace Wittel VII died one year earlier, and his 52-year-old cousin Pete.