Sam works in show business in L.A. and Nashville.  He and Cass were friends in high school.  He came out gay at age 30 and was recently diagnosed with HIV.  He walked out on church and didn't get struck with lightening on the way out.  After a year and half break-up with "god," he found passage in the Kabbalah.  He's funny and feisty and doesn't take any sh*t from Cass.