Shameless Recap: Lost

Frank broke a leg in “Lost” and Liam resurfaced in the 12th episode of Season 9 of Shameless (3/3/2019). Fiona tried to get her life back on track.

Only two things will be left roaming the earth after the next apocalypse: cockroaches and Frank Gallagher ~ Dr. Tyson

In the first scene of this episode, Frank woke up when they started demolishing Fiona’s old building with him inside it. He managed to get out before he was crushed with falling debris or worse, only to fall down hard on some metal frames when he jumped out of the way of a car. His leg was badly broken and he had to go to the hospital where, predictably, he begged for drugs both before and after his leg was operated on. We’re sure you know the routine by now. What we don’t know is why the teaser of the episode said his injury interfered with everyone’s plans or why in the very next scene with Kev and V, it was 2 weeks after Kev had his vasectomy. Later, when we were shown that Liam was at Todd’s house, it was the same timeline as Frank waking up in the building.

We need a Jesus for the St. Felicity pageant next weekend ~ Sister Patricia

After months of successfully pawning off their not identical twins, Amy and Gemma, as one person at the Catholic daycare, Kev and Veronica finally got caught. (It’s been going on since Episode 2 of this season). The nuns gave them two choices: (1) cough up $1,400 by Friday or they’ll call the police, or (2) Kev could play the part of Jesus in an upcoming pageant. He’ll be required to lug an impossibly heavy cross on his shoulder “as Christ did on his way to Golgotha” from the school to the church, about 150 yards. Their last Jesus got a hernia.

You fractured her cheekbone ~ Stacy Baer

Fiona’s public defender didn’t think there was much of a defense on that assault charge over the lemonade stand business, what with Fiona being drunk and having a felony conviction. She thought that Fiona started it without provocation (which she did) but Fiona countered that the woman had refused to let Liam sell lemonade in front of her house because he was black. Ms. Baer saw a possibility there: the D.A. might not want that to come out in front of a black Chicago jury so they might be able to plead the charge down to a misdemeanor. Fiona also will be a lot less likely to do jail time if she’s attending AA (she is), and if she gets a job (she does). On her first night shift at the Valero, who should pop in but Max Whitford. After getting over the initial shock of seeing how far Fiona had fallen, he reminded her about the Sunset Brook partnership she still had an interest in and offered to buy her out to save him the trouble of having to locate her next-of-kin after she got shot working there. Back in Episode 7, Max bought Fiona’s building and lent her $25K with interest so she would not default on the partnership. So we must assume that Max does not mind that he hasn’t been getting his loan payments since then.

I went to find out if I inherited a gene mutation from my mom ~ Tami

Tami’s father showed up at the Gallagher house to inform Lip that Tami was going to have the baby and it was not up for discussion. Brad told Lip that the Tamiettis were old-school Catholics and he better not mess with Bob, who’s tougher than he looks. Brad also said that Tami was going to see a doctor today and maybe she was going to solve the problem just to stick it to her dad. But Tami was just getting a test to see if she inherited the gene responsible for her mother dying of breast cancer, BRCA. Tami said there are two variations of the gene. If she has one, having a baby decreases her chances of getting cancer and that’s what happened with her sister Cami, Brad’s wife. If she has the other, having a baby will make it worse. Her sister Corey has neither. Lip wanted to know if the doctors can do anything if she has the bad one and she ignored the question. We just don’t know what to make of this situation. If Tami knew all this, she should have been a lot more careful about getting pregnant, no? If whether she is keeping the baby or not depends on these test results, she shouldn’t be sitting there, slugging down drinks containing alcohol. And what is this — like the third time they’ve had a cancer storyline? First there was Bianca and Frank, then Debbie (when she wasn’t gay) and the dying mother who miraculously recovered.

The Carl-Kelly-Debbie Stuff

An already depressed Carl got more bad news as he watched his former girlfriend go off on a shopping trip for Annapolis with his sister, Debbie. His application to West Point didn’t even make the first cut. At work, Lori told him to watch the register and Carl got the opportunity to vent all of his rage on a would-be robber with a pink gun.

Debbie became more infatuated with Kelly by the minute. After the shopping trip, they had some beers and jumped up and down to break in Kelly’s combat boots. They fell asleep on the sofa side by side. Kelly turned over so that she was facing Debbie and Debbie moved in for a kiss. Sleepily, Kelly responded but then woke up and realized who was kissing her. She jumped up and hollered “what are you doing!” She told Debbie that she is not gay and said she was sorry, blaming herself for leading Debbie on.

Carl heard Debbie crying when he came home and wanted to know what was wrong. She told him on the porch and he told her about his West Point rejection. They decided that it was all Kelly’s fault– she likes to break hearts. As they sat there consoling each other, Kev came down the street with his Jesus wig on, smoking a cigarette and lugging that big wooden cross. The cigarette should have been Debbie’s first clue that it was not Jesus.

Next week, the season finale “Found” is coming up. Who might that be?