Flesh Is Weak

''You made up the game. I was just playing it.''

"Flesh Is Weak is the fifth episode of the first season of the television series Animal Kingdom. It premiered on TNT on July 5, 2016.

Synopsis
Pope goes to extreme measures when Deran will not come home; Baz gets an idea for the Codys' next job; J goes out with his teacher; Smurf confronts her past.

Summary

 * Nicky's dad visits Smurf's house after he discovers that she's been lying to him and sleeping over at J's instead of her friend Shannon's house. To calm him down, Smurf invites him and his family over for dinner that night.
 * Deran breaks into his boyfriend Adrian's house and they wordlessly fight each other a little bit before they have sex.
 * J sneaks out after the dinner with Nicky's family to go to an art show with his teacher, Alexa Anderson. After the show, she takes him back to her house, gives him a beer, and asks him about his family. She puts his hand on his knee and J says that he should get home and leaves.
 * Deran asks Pope to do something for him without asking questions. Later, Pope beats up Adrian's new boyfriend David Rodriguez and takes his boat out two miles from shore and leaves him to swim home in the dark. This angers Adrian greatly and he confronts Deran about it and about coming out, saying that Deran is scared to come out. Deran just says that he'll see him tonight.
 * After being asked to beat up the man who left her to die and robbed her when she overdosed, Craig has to beat up a man named Sage. After Sage cuts him, Craig is more aggressive and makes Sage cry.
 * Smurf makes out with the gallery curator after she finds a picture she recognizes in the brochure she found in J's pants. She is looking for information on the person in the photo but learns little.
 * J goes to his teacher's house and kisses her. She tells him that they can't and he leaves.
 * Andersen is being blackmailed by Detective Sandra Yates into giving her information on J and the Cody family.