
CarterMatt has The Big Bang Theory season 12 episode 4 synopsis below for some more details: The Tam Turbulence When Sheldon won’t tell anyone why he’s never mentioned Tam (Robert Wu), his childhood best friend, Leonard takes matters into his own hands. Also, Bernadette and Penny take out Raj’s fiance, Anu (Rati Gupta), for. Sheldon receives a message from his best friend in high school, Tam Nguyen, that he is coming to California to show his son around Cal Tech.



When teenage Sheldon was accepted to grad school at Caltech, Tam had promised to move from Texas to California with him and be his roommate. When Sheldon confronts him, angrily, and stalks off, Tam reveals he wasn’t aware Sheldon even had a problem with him.Leonard, meanwhile, has earned a spot on the enemies list because of his interference in the Tam matter.Finally, after Amy comes home and hears Sheldon on the phone trying to replace Leonard with Howard as his new BFF (Howard is as unexcited about accepting the new position as Sheldon is to be offering it), she gets the Tam story out of him. But when Leonard, Howard, and Raj scope out Tam during his Caltech visit, they’re more frustrated to find out Tam doesn’t know what he did.
Besides, he knew his brilliant friend would go off and do great things, meet great new people. Tam’s still confused, but tells Sheldon he’d fallen in love back in Texas. Later, realizing Amy is right about how he could have missed out on his current group of friends, Sheldon meets with Tam and tells him he forgives him. But in this new, Sheldon-imagined edit of that scene, Tam is inside the apartment, and tells Sheldon to reject Leonard as a new roomie.From there, we see the what-if version of Sheldon hugging Penny after she gives him a signed, used Leonard Nimoy napkin as a Christmas gift, while Tam, not Leonard, proclaims it “a Saturnalia miracle.”We see Sheldon and Tam, not Leonard, meeting their new neighbor, Penny.And we see Tam, not Leonard, chasing a stressed out, “Bazinga!”-ing Sheldon around a ball pit.“No, my life woulda still been great,” Sheldon says after visions of his alt-life with Tam. If you think about it, if Tam had moved out here with you, who knows what your life would have been like.”Cue that clip scene, a delicious montage of some of TBBT’s greatest moments, which begins with Leonard knocking on Sheldon’s door to inquire about a room for rent.
Penny and Bernadette decide they should get to know the person who’s about to become a member of their group, so they go to the swanky hotel where she’s a concierge to meet her.Savvy Anu knows they’re really there to scope her out, so she suggests dinner at a hot restaurant where reservations are tough to get, then promptly nabs a reservation. “I’m very happy,” Tam insists.Sheldon, patting his friend on the arm: “Brave, brave, Tam.”Backing up the Sheldon-centric story line is the furthering of Raj’s relationship with new fiancée, Anu. “Oh Tam, you don’t need to be brave on my account,” Sheldon says, after Tam tells him he has a great wife and amazing children.
The women bond during the meal, though Penny and Bernie dish on some of Raj’s more eccentric habits, like bathing with his dog and wearing ladies’ deodorant so he’ll smell “daisy fresh.”Raj’s not thrilled with their liquored-up loose lips, so Penny and Bernie decide they need to make it up to him … during another dinner chat with Anu, at another local hot spot.“Do you think she can get us into Soho House?” Penny wonders.Bernadette: “I don’t know, but we owe it to Raj to try.
