Mo White!
It’s Oldest Sister and Youngest Brother Day on Shameless! Due to Frank’s sexual escapades with the PTA, the parents have turned on him. That means Liam is punished for Frank’s actions. He’s kicked out of the private school with a few weeks left of the school year and he doesn’t know what to do. Fiona has decided not to bail Ian out of jail so she has a $50k hole burning in her pocket. She wants to invest it and starts looking at commercial real estate. While she dabbled in that sector with the laundromat, she’s stepping into a much bigger pool. Ford tells her to watch out when dealing with a certain guy he’s worked with before but Fiona is all about getting her real estate hustle on. With Liam sitting around the house kicked out of school, Fiona takes him with her. Liam is a really bright kid and has picked up on a lot of rich people lingo while at school. With Liam and Fiona teaming up, they outplay the fancy real estate agent and it looks like Fiona has found herself on the first rung of a very long and lucrative ladder.
Frank, meanwhile, is on to his next hustle. He’s strapped for cash again and finds himself running around town picking up campaign signs around the neighborhood. $5 a sign from the opposition is quick and easy money. This puts Frank onto the political tracks and when he gets rebuffed for wanting to pick up more signs, he spins it into his own crusade. It looks like political representation is starting to look less like him now (diversity! ack!) and he wants to do something about it. At the Alibi, he whips the local clientele into fundraising their out of nowhere champion, Mo White. This is going to get interesting.
Debbie is also out and about beating her own political drum. With the reality of her being paid less than her co-workers simply because she’s a woman, she does more research and she’s all fired up about it.
Carl is now back home and for some no good reason, it looks like whatever happened to Kassidi is going to be ignored. Carl shows no sign that anything happened and she doesn’t appear in this episode at all (not the first time Shameless has done something and quickly don’t-think-about-it-and-move-on). Carl still has his sights on getting to West Point and needs high ranking recommendations for his application. He also needs community service to bump his character quality up. With no real job experience he gets placed with a guy who euthanizes dogs on the cheap. Wary of the whole ordeal, he goes along with it until it’s go time. One of the dogs is a service animal and Carl draws the line, he wants these old dogs to go out on their own terms, when they are ready to pass on their own.
While Lip has been watching over Xan for awhile, things have been going well. That is until this week when she’s baby sitting Kev and V’s twins. She steals a woman’s wallet at the park and ditches the twins. A real crisis, Lip has to make things right and meets a kid at AA who is not doing well. When the kid asks Lip to be his sponsor, Lip shys away from the request, which Brad thinks is dumb. With some words of encouragement from Brad, Lip becomes a sponsor.
Ian gets out of jail! Not because of Fiona, but his Gay Jesus following. They crowd funded the bail money as soon after getting out, Ian sees that his following has been active without him. Gay Jesus has grown without him and now that he’s “back” all of these events and appearances have been made for him. Ian is in not a good mental place. It’s hard to tell where he is and he certainly doesn’t know. Getting pushed back into the spotlight freaks him out and Ian runs for it. Of all the plot lines, this one is my least favorite and I have no idea where they can go with this. Is Ian going back to the street? Will the family have to rescue him again? Odds are, since he ran he won’t be found for awhile and he’ll miss all the obligations he has to do to keep himself out of jail.
Last but not least, Kev and V look for a pre-school for the girls. And gad zooks is it expensive! After being priced out of one place they find one that looks more like a dog kennel. They run out of there and find another location that’s run by nuns. It looks great, the price is right, and they go, hey, this is a Jesus Rules family! Then the bad news: there’s only one spot available. With no other choice, Kev and V begin coaching their kids how to appear as one person at school. That makes sense it it will absolutely work!