By Jacob
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Lip and Ian have been arrested in connection with the stolen car Steve loaned them to look for Ian's dad, but thanks to Tony's whole obsessive deal about Fiona, they're released free of all charges. Of course, there's no reason Tony should tell Steve that, so Steven spends the entire episode running around trying to get them free, and eventually gives Tony the house he bought door to Fiona's house.
Seems dumb, but that's not the whole plan: Because of Tony's decree, Steve's flying to Costa Rica for a while anyhow, so he figures Fiona will just come with. Even Lip signs off on that one, but eventually Fiona decides to go work at Amy Smart's company, and lets Steve take off alone. Intriguing, especially given that Debs has finally come clean to Steve/Jimmy's mom about his double life and what he's been up to.
Meanwhile, the Daddy'z Girl sex tape goes viral, causing several awesome and a few sad things. Karen dumps Lip out of her guilt for sleeping with his dad, but Lip doesn't find out about that part for most of the episode, assuming it's because he blurted out "I love you" during their makeup sex. Once he learns the truth, Lip hands Frank a pretty awesome ass-beating which sort of makes the whole thing bearable, and in the end, Eddie kills himself. So that's sad -- I guess -- but Karen and Lip get back together, and then Lip pees on Frank, so it basically comes out even.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Last week, Tony accidentally arrested Lip and Ian at the conclusion of their dad search, and Karen fucked Frank on webcam to prove just how much she wasn't angry at her dad, and it was super gross.
Frank wakes up surrounded by clowns and profanities in Karen's scary little den and tries to remember what happened; he falls down with his old man ass up in the air and finds Karen's panties under a teddy bear or something.
Jasmine, Debs and Fiona are waiting in the police station, looking as usual a mess, when Tony comes in looking harried and trying to avoid their eyes. Seems Lip might be charged as an adult, felony GTA, and Fiona gets all over him about how they wouldn't steal a car or do anything, she's pretty scary right now, and Tony explains that if they don't tell where they got the car, Lip could do five years.
Lip and Ian are chilling, chained to a bench, talking about how this might really cut into Ian's plans to enlist and head to Korengal. "This your first felony bust? Getting a little late start for a Gallagher, aren't you," grunts the cop, and when Lip asserts that they're both Frank Gallagher's sons, pursuant to Ian's declarations last week, Ian gets a little pissy about Lip answering on his behalf. "I stole the car," Lip declares after the first of several unconnected prison rape jokes we'll be getting this week: "Ian didn't know anything about it." Ian doesn't say a word, at this point; Lip's poker face is unassailable.
After some annoying Frank behavior, Frank casually asks Kevin about the Illinois age of consent, which question Kev does not, to his credit, even think about answering.
Steve is, once again, not picking up his phone; Fiona's looking even scarier as she hisses into his voicemail about whether or not they got the car from him and similar questions. Where Steve is, is at the chop shop, still bloodied from his prior run-in with Tony, and hearing from his boss about how the Cayenne the boys were driving never got delivered. There's some stalling and double-talk, and then Steve calls the boys, but of course their phones are in personal-effects bags, and he's too scared to call Fiona about it. Jasmine is being, as usual, helpful to the point of creepiness -- she offers to take either Fiona or Debbie home, or both -- but this time when she leaves it's without a kiss.
Fiona sits through a long, pretty but unnecessary time-passes montage; Sheila nails barfed-up sleeping Frank with a snowball in her front yard and invites him inside, looking adorable in a giant fur hat, standing there in her pink mittens and huge fuchsia boots: "Every day a few more steps. I'm up to thirteen! Come on, sweet man. Let's get you a nice warm bath!" Not enough Sheila, I would say, has been a problem for a while.