Keeping Up With the Henricksons: Big Love 3/1

Did anyone actually think Joey and Kathy would get married? Or that Nikki wouldn't lie about something/everything? No, I'm sure you aren't surprised when Big Love moments like those occur, but isn't it just the timing and setup of the show that still gives you those OMG moments?

We have all felt the sense of doom following Kathy for quite some time now. We have felt it in every crazy look, hum, and chant that Wanda has given when dealing with Kathy and definitley knew she was a goner last night when she was a) really happy about her impending marriage to Joey (no one can get away in the Henrickson clan without something going awry) and b) Roman wants her to be punished for her "sins." But...did we think she was going to die as simply as she did? I mean, yes, she was being chased down in a car to marry off an evil polygamous patriarch, but it was almost anticlimactic to just...be killed in a car crash, yeah?

With Nikki, on the another hand--we can't seem to figure out if her current actions are the climax or if this is her denouement(there are spoilers that says Chloe Sevigny wants out or her contract, so Nikki might be a goner)... All we know is Nikki, supposedly the least progressive and most religious of the wives, has been taking birth control to ensure she does not expand her heavenly brood; has taken on Margene's identity at work; and, oh, went on a date with her boss and kissed him. Nikki's life just seems like a ticking timebomb, but when will it explode? Any predictions as to Nikki's fate with the family?