Shameless

When Frank gives up drinking, Carl and Debbie enjoy having their dad back despite Lip's warning it won't last. Meanwhile, Fiona barely has time to notice Steve's suspicious behavior as she scrambles to earn money and find a better job. Kev and Veronica take in a foster kid, Ethel (guest star MADISON DAVENPORT), and are surprised to learn she's a married member of a polygamist religious-sect. When Lip meets with a college professor, Karen begins to question the seriousness of their relationship. Ian continues to pursue Mickey (guest star NOEL FISHER). Sheila worries Frank is no longer attracted to her.

Frank has some settlement money coming his way but needs his ex-wife's signature on the documents; Debbie learns that Steve may not be who he says he is; Fiona is enraged when Monica shows up and announces she's taking baby Liam with her.

Monica's return to the family wreaks havoc on the Gallagher clan, leaving the children determined to find out if Frank is their real father. Fiona, disgusted with Monica, moves in with Steve next door and tests the waters of living outside the Gallagher home. Karen decides to trust Eddie and his seeming desire to be close to her when she agrees to join him at the Purity ball. Frank hits a new low when he uses Carl to stop a disability worker from tampering with his free money from the state.

Debbie convinces Fiona to get involved with her mothers group, where Fiona finds a new friend in the alluring Jasmine; Tony begins to unravel the truth about Steve's car-stealing business; Lip and Ian set out to uncover which of their uncles is Ian's dad; Frank loses his worker's compensation and sets his kids on a hunt to find him a new and promisingly dangerous job.

With Tony having discovered Steve's true livelihood and threatened with jail if he doesn't skip town, Steve tries to convince Fiona to leave with him. Fiona grapples with how to get Lip and Ian out of jail following their arrest for car theft. Frank and Karen's secret is discovered and Frank must run for his life, hiding first from Karen's father, Eddie and eventually, from his own son, Lip.

In the Season 2 premiere, despite her breakup with Steve, Fiona tends bar at a local hotspot with Veronica, hangs out with a successful young business executive, and enjoys her youth; Debbie runs a daycare with Carl; Ian takes over at the Kash and Grab when Kash leaves town; Lip runs a Little League book and helps Kev out with their annual ice cream/pot truck; despite Eddie's disappearance, Sheila takes small steps to finally leave the house; Frank loses a bet and surrenders Liam as collateral.

As Sheila conquers her agoraphobia, a worried Frank finds a new financial plan in fellow bar patron Dottie, whose declining health and city pension make her an ideal match; Fiona juggles her job, the kids and her burgeoning love life, and Jasmine tries to help by setting up Fiona with a sugar daddy; Veronica takes some old folks from the home on an excursion; Lip worries about Karen's growing relationship with Jody; Ian tries to land a recently released Mickey a job at the Kash and Grab; Debbie wants her own room; Carl moves into the van.

Fiona hopes her moral compass isn't leading her astray when she reconnects with her married high school crush, but when she finds an abandoned purse with over five hundred dollars inside, she assumes her luck is finally changing; Frank is willing to do just about anything to stay in Dottie's good graces, even marry her; after Harry's passing, Debbie becomes obsessed with death; Kevin thinks about buying the Alibi; Lip meets with a colonel to glean information for Ian about West Point; Jody asks Frank for Karen's hand in marriage.

Fiona deals with the consequences of sleeping with Craig when his angry wife shows up at the door; Debbie develops a stress-rash and Fiona wonders if she's putting too much responsibility on the kids; Sheila has made it all the way to the hair salon and Frank realizes his days in the Jackson household are numbered; no longer having sex with Karen, Lip tries to dig up dirt on Jody; Ian continues on the path to West Point; Carl house-sits with his friend, Little Hank; Ethel meets Malik, a boy on Kevin's youth basketball team.

Now that Eddie Jackson's body has been recovered Frank's on a mission to claim Eddie's pension or insurance benefits. But wait, wasn't Frank last seen running from a murderous Eddie? Frank's now a prime suspect in his disappearance. Fiona's sugar daddy Richard takes her to a high-profile wedding. Not wanting to surrender her fantasy life Fiona lies about where she's from; and although Richard falls for it the other wedding guests don't. Lip is devastated when he learns that Karen and Jody got married. He steps up to be a father to Karen's baby but Karen tells him to back off... for good. Carl rents Frank's room to a hooker. Debbie wants to be attractive for Little Hank. Veronica thinks that Kev is cheating. And Sheila finally learns what really happened last season between Frank and Karen.

Grammy Gallagher shows up on a medical furlough and tries to track down a former meth lab protege that owes her money; Sheila plans Karen's wedding reception; Fiona double dates with Steve and his Brazilian girlfriend, and discovers that Steve is married; Ethel reacts to Clyde's death; Frank discovers the identity of Eddie's insurance beneficiary.