BOOOOOOOOOOOONE!
Fiona continues down her rocky road. She’ still mad as hell and isn’t taking any amount of shade from anyone, lest it be real or not. She’s gone from yelling to physically attacking people so that’s a serious slide. Deb is the only one to get into her face right away, demanding the money Fiona owes for rent and utilities. Fiona throws the “I’ve kept you alive for 18 years” card and Deb isn’t having it. Deb rules the roost, forcing Fiona to shower at V’s and locks her out of the house at the end of the episode.
Frank and Ingrid find out that all of her eggs have been successfully fertalized. All 6 of them. Their doctor tells them they can safely (and legally) keep 3 and Ingrid becomes hellbent on keeping them all, health and ethics be damned. Frank is in a pickle no matter what, 6 or 3, that’s a ton of babies on no income. He’s already failed 6 kids. When the kids find out with Ingrid right there, classic stuff. Fiona cracks up right away and they go around the room saying how borked they are. For the first time Ingrid looks worried but tosses the feeling aside. So Frank needs to figure out his next hustle pretty quick so he hits the streets. When he goes to The Alibi and finds out about the Loco Hobo Man competition, Frank may have found his designer product. The stuff is basically paint thinner but he thinks it’s great. Fifty grand to push this garbage is right down his alley. I laughed out loud at the first scene when the marketing company is making the pitch for this stuff and one of the slides is Frank climbing out of a dumpster.
With Ingrid hiding out at the Gallagher house from the doctor, she meets Carl’s girlfriend at just the right time, when she could use some motherly advice. Kelly doesn’t know what to do with her life. She’s been told what to do and when to do it by her father (who she calls The General) for her entire life. When she met Carl, her rebellion was under way but she took it to a new level with Carl. She’d spend as much time as she could with him, ditching her responsibilities, stealing stuff, whatever kind of mischief they could get up to. For the first time in a long time she was having fun. Then her dad finds out about it all puts his foot down, tries to pay off Carl to leave her, and that makes it worse. Ingrid asks Carl and Kelly to make a vision board, a graphic representation of their lives and dreams. Carl makes one quickly and Kelly is part of it. Kelly comes with basically nothing and admits that she doesn’t have a future in mind for herself. She’s aimless because she hasn’t thought for herself. 17 is very young to have a midlife crisis. Ingrid tells her it’s time she takes the power back and Kelly drags Carl along to confront her father. It goes well.
Liam shows up! When Deb hands out the monthly fee to everyone to pay up, Liam is on the list too. A 9 year old needs to come up with $70 and he doesn’t know how to. Luckily he’s pretty good at speaking Spanish and Santiago helps him out. They come up with a funny making scheme but he falls short of the full amount and Deb won’t let him back in the house. He camps out on the porch where he runs into Fiona, fresh from stumbling home after throwing Ford’s tools that she stole through the windows in his house. With another bad day in the books, she sits down next to him and asks him to never hurt women when he’s older. In a cute and touching dialog, the young Liam agrees. Deb, who doesn’t have a whole heart of ice, lets them in for the night.