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6. Spies & Lies

Mel catches Joe with a woman in the house in the middle of the day, someone Joe tries to pass off as a girlfriend. Mel believes him at first, asking him to be discreet with the kids, but later overhears a conversation and discovers that Joe and this woman are secretly tracking down Mel's con-man brother-in-law, and she questions Joe's motives for wanting to be her manny in the first place. Meanwhile, as Joe's been pretending to be a spy, he's totally missed the fact that Ryder seems to be slowly "losing" all of his new belongings at school.

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Joe's suspicious behavior prompts Mel to assume that he is in a relationship, when in reality he has teamed up with a former co-worker in hopes of finding Mel's brother-in-law, Lewis. Meanwhile, Mel and Lennox team up to conquer what they think is Ryder's bully, after they discover him missing his new shoes and backpack. It turns out that Ryder himself gave his possessions to a friend, in hopes of repaying him since his family was impacted by Ryder's own parents' dishonest investment.

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