Storms and Rainbows

**Storms and Rainbows** is the tenth episode of the first season of *Sweet Magnolias*.

## Plot

*As prom night approaches, Maddie comes to a decision about Cal, Dana Sue scrambles to secure her future, and Helen calls an emergency margarita session.*

## Synopsis

Cal impresses the entire Townsend family at his first dinner: he even researches baseball musicals to impress Kyle and dinosaur facts to impress Katie. He tells Maddie he loves her and that they should go away together, which sets the alarm bells ringing in Maddie's mind, as Maddie still doesn't trust herself to be open to him in the way that he deserves, especially not after her divorce from Bill Townsend.

Later, Cal asks Erik to help him with a surprise dinner for Maddie at the back of the Corner Spa, and she decides that she wants to move forward. However, Ty is getting scouted by Cal's friend, who has a good eye for talent and think Ty would be a fit for the Braves. However, Maddie wants Ty to go to college first and is very put out by how this has been handled around her. This leads to her and Cal's first argument.

Bill spends the day with Katie, wanting to get a bit of his life back on the tracks. They go to Ash Grove Park and discuss Ty's prom and the story of how Bill proposed to Maddie.

Kyle, on the other hand, is now doing much better. After Annie becoming upset due to Ty being asked out to prom by CeCe, she decides to do a "no prom night" with Kyle. However, she is asked out by her friend Simon, and Kyle feels disappointed that Annie stood him up. He discovers that Bill is taking him to see *Hamilton* and later, Nellie Lewis, Jackson's little sister, invites her over to her house and they spend the whole night playing videogames.

However, the "date" goes south when Jackson decides to host the prom after-party there. A fight breaks out between and Ty and Jackson when the former intends to defend his brother, and CeCe ends up punching Jackson in the mouth. Then Kyle intervenes and, upset about how he lives in the shadow of his brother (who, in Kyle's opinion, always comes to save the day without Kyle needing someone else to defend him), runs away and takes Ty's car. There is a cut to him is in a car accident, unconscious, with many wounds; it is also told that another person was in the car with him .

Meanwhile, at Sullivan's, Dana Sue meets Micah, an old friend of hers who is also Dana Sue's silent partner: he is the co-owner of Sullivan's. After cooking with her, it turns out Micah wants a favor: he wants Dana Sue to buy him out so that he can help his sick brother Joel pay the treatment. So Dana She asks Helen for help, and she says that there are two ways to do it: one of them is getting a mortgage for her house, which Dana Sue doesn't want to do.

The other option is to divorce her estranged husband Ronnie so that she can get a business loan and buy out Micah. However, things get complex when Ronnie doesn't see things the same way and wants to get back together with Dana Sue. And in case there wasn't enough turmoil, Isaac suspects that he could be Dana Sue and Micah's child, so he tearfully asks her if she is his mother, to which Dana Sue answers she isn't.

Lastly, Helen has a huge rift about kids with Ryan, as his nihilistic and hopeless attitude is incompatible with Helen's hopeful, idealistic vision of a next generation that might "save us all." They break up and Ryan leaves for the last time. However, she is cheered up by the margarita night with her old friends and by Erik's coming to the rescue with some baked goods and a few comforting words and life advice.

## Cast & Characters

### Main

* JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Maddie Townsend
* Heather Headley as Helen Decatur
* Brooke Elliott as Dana Sue Sullivan
* Logan Allen as Kyle Townsend
* Anneliese Judge as Annie Sullivan
* Carson Rowland as Tyler "Ty" Townsend
* Dion Johnstone as Erik Whitley
* Jamie Lynn Spears as Noreen Fitzgibbons
* Justin Bruening as Cal Maddox
* Chris Klein as Bill Townsend

### Recurring

* Harlan Drum as CeCe Matney
* Dion Johnstone as Erik Whitley
* Frank Oakley III as Harlan Bixby
* Chris Medlin as Isaac Downey
* Sam Ashby as Jackson Lewis
* Chase Anderson as Jeremy Reynolds
* Bianca Berry Tarantino as Katie Townsend
* Simone Lockhart as Nellie Lewis
* Brittany L. Smith as Peggy Martin
* Brandon Quinn as Ronnie Sullivan
* Michael Shenefelt as Ryan Wingate
* Michael May as Simon Spry
* Hunter Burke as Trotter Vidhyarkorn

## Co-Starring

* Sanna Erica as Firefighter
* Marland Burke as Micah Harrison
* Darrell Snedeger as Policeman

## Gallery

**Storms and Rainbows** has a **photo gallery**.