BWW Recap: Do You Really Want to Yurt Me on SHAMELESS

Remember when we were all concerned because Fiona was falling off the deep end and Lip seemed to be the one in control? Yeah... forget that. It's all backwards now.

Frank is on the run from G-Dogg after stealing drugs from him. He decides to escape with Queenie and Chuckie who are taking Debbie to her Eco-Village. She sets Debbie up with a luxurious maternity tent while Frank is stuck doing mindless chores during the day and watching Queenie sleep with all the older men in the village at night. He's about at his wits end when Guru Jupiter assigns him to keep the generator going by riding on a stationary bike for hours, when Queenie shows him the plans for the village which is a huge Opium den they intend to turn into income.

When Ian visits Lip at school, his visit is interrupted by a frantic call from Mandy. She is in town and now works as a paid escort and happens to have a dead client in her hotel room. Ian arrives to help and despite Mandy's pleas to throw the body out the window, Ian talks her in to calling the cops and doing the right thing. She crashes the night with him and they reignite their friendship. Ian tells her about Caleb, but he knows Caleb is too good for him. He does miss Mickey, but he knows the Caleb thing is only temporary as he's sure he'll get sick of living with the bipolar disease and leave him.

Lip, meanwhile is a tad out of control with his drinking at the sorority house. So much so that he winds up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning after one of the sisters, Brynna called an ambulance for him. He cusses her out for causing him to have a big hospital bill instead of thanking her and heads home. When he arrives, he and Mandy run into each other, but don't exchange any words.

After Carl stops pursuing Dominique, suddenly she can't get enough of him. When he starts working at the diner for pennies, she shows up and he confesses he knows if she didn't want him when he had a lot of money, he knew she wouldn't want him now. It's quite the opposite as she likes how real he is now. She shows up at his house and offers to lose their virginity together, an offer Carl, quite literally, jumps on. When he begs Ian and Lip for more condoms, they toast to his "becoming a man." (#dudes...)

Fiona is still in full fixer mode trying to get Sean to talk to her again after they found Will with one of Carl's guns. He just wants her to stay away while he's angry.She keeps pushing until finally she gets tired of waiting and breaks it off with him. Sean tells his ex wife what happened and she threatens to pull custody agreement of Will. Gus shows up and asks Fiona for a formal divorce and he only wants his grandmother's ring back. When she returns to the pawn shop, the price is now $6000. She decides to hire a lawyer who really wants to go after Gus when he discovers his family has money. When the negotiations get nasty after the lawyer calls the pawn shop and the ring is gone, Gus decides to sue her for the value of the ring, $15,000. Fiona's lawyer pulls out all of Gus' assets and starts listing everything she's entitled to. Sean shows up with the ring, that he purchased and proposes to Fiona. She accepts and throws the ring at Gus.

So now, Fiona has found a really good dude that she's going to marry and Lip is basically in the sewer. What was the longing glance between Lip and Mandy? Is he realizing that they were actually good for each other? Was he looking at his past and wondering if he's headed down that road again? Is he glancing at his bipolar brother and seeing how even he has it more together than he does? All fair possibilities.

And I'm totally on board with the prospect of V marrying Svetlana. Why? Svetlana, growing up homophobic and driving Mickey to the brink of insanity winds up marrying a woman for a Green Card. It's just poetry. I used to think Svetlana was such a cardboard character based on stereotypes. She's turning into a strong woman who is doing everything she can to survive. And I adore how much Kev and V need her. They are, dare I say, shameless?

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