My Sister’s Keeper: 29. The Weekend: Julia Summary & Analysis

Julia asks Izzy if she thinks Julia likes Campbell “because he’s an asshole, or in spite of it.” Izzy is watching a movie and is initially annoyed at being interrupted, but she responds that maybe Julia just has an attraction to jerks, and it’s also difficult to get over the first person you have sex with. She warns Julia that Campbell might be handsome, but he’s rotten inside. Just then, Campbell himself arrives. He tells Julia about Sara’s bargain and invites her to dinner to talk about it. Julia refuses at first but ultimately relents.

Campbell drives Julia to the edge of the water, but Julia doesn’t see a restaurant. Julia tells him that her first rule is that they only talk about the trial. He tells her to take off her shoes and put her feet in the grass to relax; he does so himself. Julia, watching him, wonders if he took the case for PR or if he wants to help Anna; she can’t help but hope it’s the latter. She then relents, sitting on the grass with Campbell. He asks her what the second rule is, and Julia tells him that she makes all the rules. He smiles.

The night before, Julia talks to Seven. He asks her what she’s hiding from, and he says she’s not hiding from anything. Seven points out that she’s hiding out in a gay bar during the evening while wearing a suit. Julia tells him that she won’t take fashion advice from him, and he bets her that he could get her to dye her hair again, since “you can take the pink hair dye out of the girl, but you never lose those roots.” Julia responds that he doesn’t know her, and he says that she doesn’t know herself, either.

Julia and Campbell have dinner on a sailboat, and it becomes clear to Julia that Campbell is stalling on giving her information. They drink some wine and discuss which animal they would be. Julia says goose because they mate for life, and while Campbell doesn’t answer directly, he says that Anna told him she’d be a phoenix. He then asks Julia what she thinks of Anna, causing her to stiffen as she realizes Campbell is trying to figure out what her decision for the hearing is. The two of them argue over Campbell’s unethical behavior, and Julia asks him if anything that comes out of his mouth is honest. Campbell claims that he never lied about anything, and she asks him what Judge is for. He kisses her, and the two begin to undress.