Because You Left

**Because You Left** is the 3rd episode overall of Amazon Prime's *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel* and the 3rd episode of Season 1. It was released on Amazon Prime on November 29, 2017.

## Synopsis

*After another arrest, Midge finds herself in legal trouble, forcing her to rely on Susie's street smarts. Abe approaches Moishe with an interesting proposition. Lenny Bruce offers some unconventional inspiration for Midge's act.*

## Plot

Lenny Bruce bails Midge out of jail. Midge starts performing at The Gaslight, leaving her parents baffled by their daughter's new single life and late-night hours. During her court appearance, Midge clashes with the judge, landing her in jail for contempt until paying a $200 fine and she apologizes. Joel agrees to give Midge the money without any questions. Joel's father, Moishe, accepts Abe's offer to buy half of Midge and Joel's apartment, in the event the couple should reconcile. Midge joins Lenny Bruce at the Village Vanguard where she does a short set. Susie barges into the Friars Club to talk with talent agent Harry Drake about Midge's career. Later, Joel wants to reconcile with Midge, but she refuses; her reason being is because he left.

## Cast

###  Main Cast

* Rachel Brosnahan as Midge Maisel
* Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson
* Michael Zegen as Joel Maisel
* Marin Hinkle as Rose Weissman
* Tony Shalhoub as Abe Weissman

## Episode Notes

### Music

* You Belong to Me performed by Jo Stafford
	+ *Flashback to Joel talking to a blonde Midge at a college party.*
* Woo-Hoo performed by The Rock-A-Teens
	+ *Lenny Bruce bails Midge out of jail; they go to The City Spoon and meet up with Susie.*
* Turkey in the Straw performed by Andrew Patrick Oye
	+ *Midge and Imogene walk with their children, Esther and Eric in prams.*
* Moment Musical, Op. 94, D. 780: No.3 in F Minor performed by Brian Usifer
	+ *Abe plays the piano while Midge and her mother talk.*
* What's In It for You? performed by The Original Broadway Cast of "Tenderloin"
	+ *Abe in the elevator at Moishe’s factory; he arrives on the correct floor to find Moishe.*
* Scrapple from the Apple performed by Charlie Parker
	+ *Midge arrives at The Village Vangaard to see Lenny's set.*
* The Love Fish performed by Lindsay Trent & the Hot Three (Spike Wilner and Stacy Dillard)
	+ *Lenny walks offstage, where he spots Midge sitting in the audience. He happily sits down beside her and offers her a cigarette.*
* Doxy performed by Lindsay Trent & the Hot Three (Son Rollins)
	+ *After Midge’s impromptu set whilst high, she heads back to where Lenny is sitting.*
* Comedy Tonight performed by Cast of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
	+ *Susie goes to The Friars Club to see Harry Drake.*
* Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) performed by The Mills Brothers
	+ *Flashback to Midge coaching Joel for his conversation with his father.*
* In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning performed by Frank Sinatra
	+ *Midge tells Abe that she sent Joel away; end credits.*
* Hungry performed by Paul Revere & The Raiders
	+ *End credits.*

### Trivia

* When Abe visits Moishe at the factory, Moishe tells him, "My God, Abe, I've been trying to get you out of tweeds since Hector was a pup."
	+ The phrase, 'Since Hector was a pup", first began to appear in North American newspapers around 1906 and became a catchphrase in the 1920s, especially among flappers. It was an extension of an earlier idiom - "as dead as Hector" - which was widely used in the 1860s. The reference is to Hector, the son of King Priam of Troy and his second wife Hecuba - a symbol of the consummate warrior - and one of the chief participants in the tale of the siege of Troy by the Greeks in Homer's epic The Iliad. King Priam, as we all know, was killed in single combat by the Greek champion Achilles. Hecuba was responsible for the murder of Polyxena, who was the murderer of Hecuba's older son, Polydorus. The gods turned Hecuba into a dog as punishment for taking Polyxena's life which, literally speaking, made Hector his mother's pup. What's more, by the early twentieth century, "pup" was well established as a mildly dismissive comment that referred to a young person who was particularly inexperienced in the ways of the world.

## References

1. ↑ This description was taken from *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Amazon page.*