For the first five episodes of Samantha Who, we witnessed how Sam attempts to rediscover her life after being a victim of a hit and run. Although she is shocked to wake up without any memories of her family and friends, she plans on making a fresh start. She goes back to work and even attends her first board meeting, where she discovers how competitive the old Samantha was. Sam also attended a wedding of her “so-called” friends , as a bridesmaid, without her knowing that the bride uninvited her earlier due to a fight. She tries her best to patch things up even if she has no idea what she has done.
Since everything about her past is completely gone, Sam considers herself a virgin. She is faced with a desicion of waiting for the right guy or experimenting on her sexual side. She is even shocked to know that one of her ex-boyfriends has a restraining order against her. This week, Sam questions her parents and thinks that she may be adopted. She believes that it would be the only reason why she acts normal and her parents appear nuts.
In a desperate attempt to regain her memory, Sam tries hypnotherapy. She comes out of the therapy with a bit of memory that she’s adopted. She also learns that she used to Smoke and Dena admits that she was the one who got Sam smoking. Her parents, on the other hand, find the adoption thing amusing. Sam challenges her parents for proof, but they came up with a bunch of reasons why they have no baby pictures (having stolen by a boy named Sean Miller) or copies of her birth certificate (which they say is impossible to get because she was born on a cruise ship in foreign territory). Sam doesn’t buy any of the stories for a second, but she remembers about a heart-shaped locket that her parents gave her. She later finds the locket in a heating vent, near the spot where she and Dena used to smoke.
Sam confronts her parents again, but they still won’t admit she’s adopted. She tells them that she doesn’t feel safe with them because they’re lying to her, then she leaves. Sam tries to crash at her bestfriend Andrea’s apartment, but she says she’s having none of that, so Sam ends up at Todd’s place. Todd confesses something to Sam. As it turns out, Sam really owns Todd’s apartment and he has only been squatting there all this time. Sam kicks him out too since she can’t trust him either. Alone at last, Sam tries to make herself at home, but nearly burned down the place when she lit a cigarette.
The next morning, Sam walks up in front of her building to find Frank the doorman there. She tells him what she’d learned from the hypnotherapist, including her locket, her dog Sandy, her bald birth father and meeting ex-President Roosevelt. Frank wakes Sam up to tell her that those weren’t her memories; and instead was from the movie/play “Annie”. Sam then remembers that, as a child, she played the role of Annie.
Dena gives Sam all small items that she has of Sam’s life. Sam then goes back to her apartment to apologize to her mother. Her mother Regina explains that the reason why she doesn’t want Sam to go to the hypnotherapist because she believed she wasn’t such a good mother and was afraid that she’d remember that. Sam apologizes and her mother pats her back saying “That’s my girl”, triggering another of Sam’s flashbacks. In this flashback, Andrea and Sam dances on a bar in one club then Andrea says “that’s my girl” while somebody slips a napkin with a phone number right into Andrea’s mouth. Sam then reads the number.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Samantha Who? episode 7, which airs Monday at 9/8c on ABC.
