Commercials. Tami sits in her fluorescently-lit cinder block prison cell, er office. Levi comes in and asks how she's doing. She admits that, out of the five appointments she scheduled today, only one showed up. She tells him that she's discouraged. Levi just sort of chuckles knowingly. All resource-poor high school principals must take a class on chuckling knowingly.
Step-mother Doreen hangs out outside in her bathrobe, smoking a cigarette, and bitching on the phone to her husband about Becky and how much she doesn't want to deal with the girl. Becky overhears.
At Jess's house, Vince and Jess watch football on television when Andre comes in with a Ding Dong or something. Jess tells him to put it back, she's about to make some sandwiches. He starts tantruming about how she isn't his mother OR his father and she can't tell him what to do. Jess bitches back that she doesn't WANT to be his mother and he chucks the sweet treat at her and storms out. Sad loss, that. Jess gets up to go yell at him some more when Vince tells her to stay put, that he'll handle this. Cut outside where Vince sits down next to the kid-- "You feel like your dad walked out on you?" Vince tells Andre he hasn't seen his dad in five years and understands how much that can piss a kid off. Andre points out that Vince's dad is in jail, and Vince tells him that's true but "not around's not around." He tells Andre that his father will come back, but that in the meantime, the kid needs to give his sister a break. "Your dad's not here, so you gotta step up. You're the man of the house now." And, I get it, heartwarming and such, but that "man of the house" shit is one whack-ass way to get a young boy to behave.
Cut to the Playgirl Ranch. Becky shows up at the door and tells Billy that she needs a place to stay. Billy's like, "Who are you again?" Becky tells him that she doesn't feel like she has a family right now and Tim told her that his family is her family. Meanwhile, Mindy's come into the background with the baby. Billy tells his wife "She needs a place to stay" and Mindy's like "Here?" and Billy lets Becky into the house, ignoring Mindy's stinkeye. For someone with a rough past herself, Mindy has really turned into a real Judgey McMichelle Bachmann. I mean, seriously, lady!









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