Six Feet Under
The Silence
Season 5, Episode 7 · Aired 2005-07-17
Synopsis
Maggie Sibley's friend and fellow Quaker Peter Thomas Burns suffers a heart attack while watching a play, and Nate becomes intrigued about her faith when she brings it up. Brenda's blood tests reveal that her and Nate's child has a higher-than-usual possibility for developing Down's Syndrome or other complications at birth, and the doctor recommends amniocentesis to eliminate these factors.
In the series
This episode is part of Six Feet Under (2001–2005) on HBO.
A family funeral home where grief is the house style — and the finale still wrecks people.
Key cast
- Peter Krause as Nate Fisher
- Michael C. Hall as David Fisher
- Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher
- Lauren Ambrose as Claire Fisher
- Rachel Griffiths as Brenda Chenowith
- Freddy Rodríguez as Federico Diaz