Masters of Sex S1E8 - "Love and Marriage" Recap

Virginia coaches Jane on some tips to be a good secretary for Bill. Virginia is also hoping to finish getting her college degree and she needs to take Dr. DePaul's Basic Anatomy class as part of a requirement. She asks if she can place out of it based on her work with Masters, but Dr. DePaul refuses.

Libby has a new handyman over to take care of some problems with the house. He later teaches her how to tango.

Margaret tells Teddy that she no longer wants to continue their affair but they part on good terms. Teddy returns home to his wife and children with gifts in hand and Margaret heads to a bar where she by chance encounters Dale, Scully's lover. They get into a brief conversation where he briefly speaks cryptically about Scully, saying he is waiting there for someone. When Barton arrives, Margaret confronts him over the fact that he had claimed he had a board meeting that night and he claims that Dale is a grad student of his. Margaret can tell he is lying. Before Dale leaves, Margaret advises him to stay single. Barton follows after Margaret and says that Dale is a pimp who supplies him with prostitutes and then throws a fit, claiming Margaret is there to have an affair of her own.

Bill and Virginia realise that the best way to compile evidence for their findings is to film them, but they'll need a camera that can go inside a woman and a cameraman to develop a device for this. Bill later hires a cameraman named Lester for the job, with whom he has previously worked with.

Ethan and Austin are both less than secure about their relationships. Ethan wants to propose because of social decorum and other less than romantic benefits to marriage. Teddy feels like the spark is gone in his relationship with his wife and later has an affair with the saleswoman at a jewellery store he had visited with Ethan. Ethan proposes to Vivian and she ecstatically says yes.

Virginia talks Jane into being the one to have the inside of her vagina filmed for their research. Lester is a bit shocked to learn what the camera will be used for but carries out with it no less professionally. Virginia is still taking Dr. DePaul's anatomy class and demonstrates herself to be knowledgeable and studious. Dr. DePaul later admits to Bill that Virginia is one of her better students. In private, we learn that she is suffering from terminal cancer, which is why she is extra determined to push funding through for pap smears.

Barton takes Margaret on a date and she confronts him on the fact that he is not now nor has he ever been sexually attracted to her. A passionless marriage is no longer enough for her and she insists that they get a divorce. He later approaches Bill and asks him about aversion therapy to change his sexuality. Bill reluctantly gives him some information on it. Barton then gets some drugs from the hospital and asks Dale to help him with his aversion therapy. Dale refuses, saying he enjoys his company. Barton offers to pay him double, triple, or whatever he wants. Dale is horrified with the whole plan and becomes emotional. Dale leaves and tells him to come find him when he changes his mind.

Teddy approaches Virginia to get back in the study and says he can be partnered up with anyone and is no longer suffering from performance problems.

Libby is having another dance lesson when she faints. Walter, the handyman, brings her to the hospital where she learns that she is pregnant again.

Masters of Sex airs on Sundays on Showtime at 10PM.