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'Weeds' Comes to Washington Heights

By DNAinfo Staff on June 27, 2011 8:08pm

Mary Louise Parker's character on the Showtime series
Mary Louise Parker's character on the Showtime series "Weeds" will move to a halfway house in Washington Heights.
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DNAinfo/Olivia Scheck

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Nancy Botwin — the lead character of the Showtime series "Weeds," played by actress Mary Louise Parker — will soon be coming to Washington Heights.

While the first episode of Season 7 doesn't air until Monday at 10 p.m., clips from the show, already up on the series' website, revealed the character's impending move to Upper Manhattan.

At the end of Season 6, the drug-dealing widow turned herself over to police, taking the wrap for a murder that was actually committed by her son, Shane.

In one of the clips from the upcoming season premiere, Nancy is shown in prison, having just learned that she will be released and sent to a halfway house in New York.

In the other clip, Nancy's sister, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, notes that the halfway house is in Washington Heights.

That detail is revealed during a video chat with Nancy's sons, brother-in-law, and her pot-smoking accountant Doug, all of whom are shown living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

But a line from that clip suggests that the rest of the gang might be joining Parker in the Big Apple.

"Is Washington Heights closer to JFK or LaGuardia?" Shane asks at the end of one of the previewed scenes.