She doesn’t take it kindly, runs Tony off, and tries to track down her boyfriend. Tony figures out Steve is a car thief and comes by the house to warn Fiona off. She seems like she’s either scheming to enlist Fiona in an affair or a criminal scam.įiona has enough to deal with, without obsessing over Jasmine. But one mom who grew up in the neighborhood, Jasmine (played by Amy Smart), takes a fancy to Fiona, plys her with drinks and free clothes, and kisses her full on the mouth when she says good-bye. Ian bolts, not nearly as eager to trade up families as Lip is on his behalf.Īt Debbie’s school, Fiona has to contend with a duo of snobby moms who bore her with talk of mortgage rates. But his wife, who suspects he had an affair with Monica years ago, freaks. On to another red-haired uncle, Clayton, who is prosperous, handsome, and an Ian look-alike. His hair matches Ian’s but it soon looks like Frank is, if anything, the more warm and civilized of the twins. Since parents pop up like pimples on Shameless, Frank’s brothers prove easy to find. In a crackling cameo, she gives them the name of their uncles and some crude wisdom about life in jail, all in exchange for cigs. She’s in jail for blowing up her meth lab and two college students along with it. Surprise: It’s Louise Fletcher in a traffic-cone-orange jumpsuit. Lip and Ian go see grandma to get info on Frank’s brothers. (It’s going to work, but her entire freak-out seems a bit on the nose.) Lip’s no help, noting, “without judgment” of course, that she really is a whore.

She now has black hair, a nose-to-ear chain that looks like she’s aiming to be saddled for the Derby, and a video blog designed to make her dad miserable. Maybe, unlike Frank, “he has a job or is sober or he likes kids.” He invites Karen along, but she’s still slashing clown paintings in the basement, not fully recovered from her dad calling her a whore. Lip, wanting better for his brother and perhaps another source for child support, is searching for Ian’s real dad. Impatirent, he finally nail guns his own hand. Frank tries to speed things up by sniffing chemicals.

He’s horrified to hear from his droning co-worker that it took the last employee who got disability seven years to acquire emphysema. Frank flees a factory that brags it’s 93 days accident-free and ends up at a furniture workshop where nails litter the floor. Debbie’s horrified, but Carl’s delighted at the various dangers - he really perks up at the talk of the splinters. “How do feel about metal splinters to the eye?” a genial employee who’s getting a cut of the disability asks. He takes the little kids along, explaining: “Time you learned the family business.” At an employment agency, he asks for jobs with hazardous conditions. After his worker’s comp is cut off, Frank goes on a mission to find a temp job, or rather a place where he can swiftly get re-injured. Meanwhile, the men of the Gallagher family shop around, Goldilocks-style, for jobs and fathers this week. His partner comforts him: “We’ll find you another skanky hood girl to obsess about. Outside the Gallaghers’ house, he watches from his cop car as Steve kisses Fiona good-bye. Tony, jealous but growing a backbone, is suspicious. Fiona, by choice, commitment, and destiny, is probably stuck in the Chicago slums. On the con side, he’s lied from the second he met her. Will he be revealed as a cheater with another identity, or arrested as a car thief? Will he be run out of town by Tony, or just beaten to a pulp by Fiona for landing Lip in jail? In the pro-Steve column, he bought Fiona a house, puts up with her crazy family, and dots her arm with little kisses as she fusses over breakfast. “You better.” He promises: “Tonight.” And thus, we know: He’s never going to make it to that conversation.Īs the show nears its season-ender next week, Steve is running out of luck. “You tell her the truth yet, Jimmy?” Debbie asks. While in their bedroom, she takes the time to nudge Steve about coming clean. Debbie interrupts the pair’s goofy canoodling (turns out Emmy Rossum can put her leg behind her neck and sing the “Star-Spangled Banner”!) to urge Fiona to show up to a mom’s event at her grade school.

This week begins with Chicago’s biggest ticking-time-bomb relationship, Steve and Fiona.

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