He tells Carl to scream just a couple more times for good effect. His arm’s broken, shouts Frank, who now has ammunition to use against the investigator. I think my arm is broken.” Frank, seized by an amoral genius idea, gets the investigator to follow him in his car until he turns a corner, at which point the already injured Carl shoots out into the street on his bike, and gets hit. He lands with an ugly thud, and comes to Frank: “It really hurts. Meanwhile, Carl’s in the backyard rigging up a ramp contraption that he hopes will send him soaring on his bike above the backyard. The investigator’s car crawls behind Frank, hour after hour, as he walks through the neighborhood, just waiting for him to show some energy. An investigator is tailing him to prove he doesn’t deserve his disability check, because he’s not really disabled. Since her parents are clearly incompetent, can she be declared Liam’s guardian? No such luck, it seems, as he, and the other kids, would probably just end up in foster care while the case slogged on.įrank, in his never-ending ratcheting up of self-involved thoughtlessness, ratchets it up yet another notch. Frantic that Monica will do damage to them, emotional and physical (shortly after Liam was born, she burned his footie pajamas with her cigarette while nursing), Fiona and Veronica visit a lawyer they’ve found on the web (where we find out Monica has only been gone for 22 months). ![]() A baby monitor/walkie talkie provides a lifeline to the little kids, who seem to need to keep in touch less than she does. Instead of enjoying the space, the freedom, the (small) distance, she sits by the open window to hear what’s going on in the Gallagher household, sad-eyed and lonely. She just wants Liam, like a little brown teddy bear, to hold and keep as a souvenir.įurious at her return, Fiona’s moved into the cavernous, empty house next door that Steve has bought them. She can’t make a meal, can’t stand up to her lover Bob barking meanly at the children, can’t handle money, and can barely tell her kids apart. This week’s episode might well be called: “Bad Parenting: Can you top this?” Monica Gallagher has moved back home, and she’s a Mommie Dearest of incompetence and neglect. Photo: Monty Brinton/Copyright: Showtime 2011
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