Plot summary
During summer season, things have changed for the Gallagher family and friends. Fiona (Emmy Rossum) and Veronica (Shanola Hampton) now work as waitresses at a local club. Sheila (Joan Cusack) continues to make progress in overcoming her agoraphobia, while Karen (Laura Slade Wiggins) now attends Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings and constantly hangs out with Jody (Zach McGowan), one of her group members. Debbie (Emma Kenney) and Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) are running a summer babysitting service in the house to bring in extra funds. Lip (Jeremy Allen White) now forms part of a fight club to earn money, while also trying to get back with Karen. Tony (Tyler Jacob Moore) has now moved into the house next to the Gallaghers, performing renovations.
At the Alibi Room, Frank (William H. Macy) overhears a bar patron, Baby (Marcus Brown), claim that he survived being tasered twice without falling or urinating. Doubting his story, Frank bets $10,000 to see him replicate it. However, Baby wins the bet and immediately demands the payment. Frank uses Liam to win sympathy panhandling until Baby takes Liam as collateral. At the nightclub, Jasmine (Amy Smart) introduces Fiona to David (Casey Biggs) whom she is having an affair with. Fiona also flirts with a handsome banker, Adam (James Wolk), whom she later has sex with. Meanwhile, Ian (Cameron Monaghan) continues to work at Kash's store, although Kash (Pej Vahdat) secretly leaves his pregnant wife Linda (Marguerite Moreau) and children for another man. Ian expresses interest in attending West Point, and Lip agrees to help him with his application and grades, despite fearing that his brother might be killed in combat.
Kevin (Steve Howey), with the help of Ethel (Madison Davenport), has begun growing marijuana in the Alibi's basement, causing the building's electric bill to increase, much to the dismay of the bar's elderly owner Stan (Jack Carter). When Veronica (Shanola Hampton) discovers the marijuana, she orders Kevin to destroy it; Kevin secretly buries a small amount of the marijuana in their garden. When Frank fails to return Liam to the Gallagher house, Fiona and her siblings arrive at Baby's house to pay for Liam's release. Despite coming short, Baby accepts the payment and Fiona uses some of Kevin's marijuana to cover the rest. Fiona decides to run in the field and try to break her personal record time. The episode concludes with the entire South Side neighborhood celebrating as Kevin burns the remainder of the marijuana in the streets.
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