EPISODE

7. Occupy Fiona

Ian tests Fiona's patience and resolve by bringing a messy "Occupy Fiona" movement right to her front door. Lip struggles to get Professor Youens to court for his DUI trial. Meanwhile, a now unemployed Frank goes on a job hunt and Carl gets a feisty new rehab client with a plan to help him get the rest of his tuition.

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Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is awakened when Ian (Cameron Monaghan) throws cold water on her bed. Later, he shows up in the field next to the tenement building with people from the youth center, beginning an "Occupy Fiona" movement to annoy her and the residents. Trevor (Elliot Fletcher) is not delighted with Ian's actions, as he is only using them to get back at his sister.

Lip (Jeremy Allen White) helps Youens (Alan Rosenberg) in preparing for his DUI trial, finding him passed out in his own vomit. He asks Brad (Scott Michael Campbell) to help him clean Youens, although Youens vomits on Brad. Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) continues running his rebahilitation center in the basement, and gets close to Kassidi (Sammi Hanratty), one of his customers. She convinces him that she could earn the money needed for the military scholarship by faking her kidnapping and cashing the ransom money. The plan works, and her father pays the money. However, the father tells Carl that this is not the first time Kassidi tried this on him.

Jobless, Frank (William H. Macy) travels the city to search for a new job, but is unsuccessful. After speaking with an illegal immigrant, Frank is inspired to begin an import-export business through the US-Canada border. Kevin (Steve Howey) tries to be more sexually dominating with Veronica (Shanola Hampton), but cannot bring himself to hit her. Debbie (Emma Kenney) is annoyed when a man acts rude to her in the parking garage, to the point that he destroys the gate. She retaliates by welding his car to a dumpster, getting herself fired in the process.

Fiona meets Ford (Richard Flood), an Irish carpenter hired by Nessa. When Ian calls a fire inspector, costing her $400, Fiona decides to get back. While Ian momentarily leaves, Fiona convinces the youth people in leaving for a free pizza and paying them $20. During this, she gets city workers in taking the tents to the dump. As Ian and Trevor stare at the empty field, Fiona asks to end their rivalry; she got Margo to show them another building. While Trevor is interested, Ian refuses, angrily yelling at Fiona for her actions.

At the trial, the owner of the house that Youens crashed reveals that she is now forced to wear a neck brace. While Lip delivers a testimony to ask for leniency, Youens is revealed to be drunk during the trial, ruining his case and landing him a prison sentence, and Lip and Brad are shocked of what happened. Lip visits Youens in custody, angrily scolding him for not caring about his actions. Youens tells Lip that he appreciated his help, but he didn't ask him for a thing. Devastated, Lip asks Youens if he cares about anything, and he simply replies, "I chose booze a long time ago.

You don't like what you see, don't look." Trevor tells Ian that he visited and signed the lease on Fiona's suggested apartment, angering Ian. Fiona once again tries to mend her relationship with Ian, but he is still unwilling to accept it.

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