Shameless: Civil Wrongs Recap

Civil Wrongs (Shameless Season 3, Ep. 10) is all about finding stuff out: Fiona finds out about Jimmy’s med school plans, Lip finds out that Mandy sent Karen the text that led her to the park, Kev and V find out some great news, but Jody makes the discovery of all discoveries: the miracle cure for comas.

Frank is not thrilled with the perks he is getting from Abraham Paige, who just doesn’t appreciate the Irish gift of gab, but his listeners do and are ponying up donations that Frank wants extra credit for. Since Paige won’t provide the rewards Frank feels he deserves, when Alistair Huddleston comes calling, Frank wangles a better deal working with the Return to Paradise project. They use conversion therapy to help gays overcome what Huddleston believes is an addiction. But he’s not much of an improvement — All Frank gets is better lodging and room service.

Jimmy tells Fiona about his plans to re-enroll in med school, more or less. At first he pretends he can do that from his current location, but later admits that he will have to go to Michigan for a year. Jimmy also tries to get Beto on board with this plan, but Beto reminds him that he is not the man in charge and Jimmy ought to do what he’s supposed to, like Beto does. At work, Fiona shares the doctor news with Connie who translates that into an engagement, just when Supervisor Mike arrives. Fiona says she’s not engaged and later, Mike convinces her to come to the firm’s after hours softball team. Jimmy is invited but shows up late and when he does, Fiona calls him out on his lying.

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It’s that time of the month to check out the pregnancy kit with V’s momma, Carol. Veronica is down in the dumps because she can’t even find her mother but it turns out it’s because Carol’s not feeling well. When they get a positive from the test, V brings the stick down to the Alibi to triumphantly announce that Kev is going to be a daddy. Kev is ecstatic.

Ian is able to get more info out of Mandy to ascertain that the woman Mickey got in the family way is the Russian from Cascading Failures and Ian takes it pretty hard. He seeks guidance from his brother Lip who advises him to find a new guy pronto, and he doesn’t mean some old sugar daddy like Jimmy’s dad. Ian and Debbie both prevailed upon Lip to show more appreciation for Mandy, but Lip wonders how he and Ian got mixed up with the Milkoviches, and he is yet unaware of Mandy’s crime at this point. Mandy is very frustrated that her actions backfired to where Lip is going to the hospital to “show support.” Yet, there was a sense of tentative fear on her part that Lip will find out what she did.

Sheila and Jody have been at Karen’s bedside in the hospital, while she is in a medical induced coma. The doctor determines that the swelling in her brain has gone down and decides to “kill the meds,” a little terminology he is forced to explain to Sheila unless he wants Jody to throw him out the window.

Lip visits and confesses to Sheila that he wasn’t very nice in his last meeting with Karen but she comfortingly tells him how excited Karen was to get his text message about meeting him in the park — so excited that she forgot to look both ways. Lip goes through Karen’s bloody things to find her phone and sees the text message he supposedly sent himself. Sheila tells Jody how she used to used to read fairy tales to Karen when she was little and she believes that Jody is Karen’s prince that can wake her up with a kiss. Sheila says that she was wrong to take up with her daughter’s man and wants Jody to be there for her daughter. Jody, it turns out, does have the magic kiss. He rounds up the hospital staff to announce this medical miracle.