After Bryson returns home from prison, NeNe enlists some unexpected help to straighten him out. Old tensions resurface between Cynthia, Peter, and Mal at the couple's one-year anniversary party. Eager to get her hands on a "real dead body," mortician-in-training Phaedra takes her first embalming class. Meanwhile, Sheree and Lawrence confront Marlo about her use of a gay slur, and Kim nears the end of her rope with her assistant, Sweetie.