Synopsis
Michael is working at home when he notices something unusual: His pen rolls off the coffee table as if rolling downhill. A contractor examines the house and informs Michael that nothing is underneath, and since the drainpipes weren't hooked up, they just emptied under the house; that's why the living room is sinking. The city must "red tag" the house and an inspector will come to examine it.
Michael tells his father he'll have to leave the attic before the inspector arrives, suggesting that he hide at Lucille's penthouse, but George Sr. balks because his freeloading brother Oscar is still living there. Michael tells his father that, as he's being tried in absentia, Michael shouldn't know where he is anyway. He doesn't have to go back to prison, but he can't stay there.
George Michael, meanwhile, is finding it difficult to ignore his re-emerging feelings for his cousin. Maeby asks him to attend a screening of the American remake of Les Cousins Dangereux, a film he and Maeby saw a preview for the previous year. Maeby is currently overseeing the remake for Tantamount Studios, where she had conned her way into a job. George Michael agrees to go, so Maeby gives him 50 passes and tells him to invite everyone he knows.
Another surprise awaits Michael at the office: Tobias is resigning as his assistant in order to audition for the Blue Man Group in Las Vegas. He also tells Michael that Kitty called, wanting to see him. When G.O.B. comes in, Michael tells him that not only must he testify that he doesn't know where George Sr. is, but George Sr. is refusing to leave the attic, so Michael will be caught for hiding him. But G.O.B. is upset that Michael hadn't thanked him for all the dirty work he'd done for the family recently, or commented on the "thank-you" gift he made for Michael last week. The gift was a CD of G.O.B. singing with Franklin (which Michael misinterpreted as money to go in a mutual fund known as a Franklin CD). Michael assures G.O.B. that he loved the music.
Later, G.O.B. takes Franklin to see George Sr. in an attempt to get him to leave the attic. G.O.B. had soaked the puppet's mouth with ether to knock out his father (just like he had knocked out his mother, at his father's direction, in a previous episode.) Downstairs, Tobias shares his good news about the audition with Lindsay. But she doesn't want to move to Las Vegas and takes it as a sign that they should split up, or stay split up, whatever their status might be. Tobias then decides to pass on his audition to stay home and work on his relationship with Lindsay, to decide once and for all if they should stay together.
On this way to dump his father on the police-station steps, G.O.B. finds the still-unopened CD and thank-you card he made for Michael. Meanwhile, Michael meets with Kitty and it goes better than he had dreaded. She says she has been through rehab and is now at peace with the Bluths—as long as they don't anger her again. Tobias shows up to tell Michael he isn't going to Las Vegas after all. Realizing that he needs to occupy Kitty with a man, at least until the meeting about George Sr. is over, leaves her with Tobias.
Later, Michael prepares to sign the affidavit stating that he has no idea where his father has been. As soon as he does, attorney Wayne Jarvis summons the police in, telling Michael that photographic evidence discredits the affidavit Michael just signed. The "evidence" is a photograph taken from a red light camera, but while it appears to be Michael driving his father in the staircar, it's really G.O.B. driving and holding up the unopened thank-you card, which sports a picture of Michael on the front.
Now in police custody, Michael meets with Wayne, who says he could turn in his father if he wanted to go free. G.O.B. arrives at the station and angrily asks Michael why he hasn't listened to the CD yet. Michael just wants to know where George Sr. is so he can be released from custody.
George Michael tries to break up with Ann, but then finds out that she's excited about protesting the screening of "Cousins." He knows from past experience that Ann becomes inflamed at rallies and will probably kiss him in a fit of passion, so he decides not to break up with her. Meanwhile, Oscar checks up on Buster, and an innocuous comment about Pop Secret popcorn makes Buster finally realize that Oscar is his real father.
Lucille, meanwhile, is on the phone with Michael. He wants her to tell George Michael that his father is out of town on business, and she learns that Tobias is out on a date with Kitty. Knowing that this would devastate Lindsay, Lucille tells her immediately. Michael warns Lucille that he'll tell the police that it's actually G.O.B. in the traffic photo. Buster barges in and accues Oscar of lying to him about the identity of his real father.
Back at the police station, officers play the CD they had confiscated from G.O.B. The CD features Franklin singing Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do For You)". Inspired, Michael realizes that he can't actually turn in his brother. Singing the song at the same time while doing laundry, G.O.B. has the same realization and calls Barry Zuckerkorn to have him tell Michael not to testify. G.O.B. accidentally ruins Franklin in the dryer and he becomes all "puckered and white".
At the theater, George Michael and Ann are protesting, which surprises Maeby. But people still want to see the movie, thus ending George Michael's chances of a kiss. He slumps home, where Buster is waiting for Michael. Buster runs upstairs to shower and wash the smell of Lucille away. A distraught Lindsay then tells George Michael (who was still trying to process the news that his father is in jail) that he has to seize love whenever he has the chance. She then runs upstairs to take a bath, against George Michael's warning.
Maeby comes in and kisses George Michael in thanks for helping her movie become a success. The living room suddenly collapses a few feet, knocking Maeby on top of George Michael on the couch, where they kiss again, but this time more passionately... just when G.O.B. comes home to retrieve George Sr. from where he stashed him, under the house that just collapsed.
G.O.B. then realizes that this means Michael must go to prison. Barry is leading Michael into court when G.O.B. speeds up on his Segway and tells his brother that their father had not been crushed to death: although G.O.B. handcuffed him to pipes under the house, they weren't connected to anything, and George Sr. ran away. Angry that he's going to jail for this, Michael starts a fight with G.O.B. Tobias comes up, happily announcing that he is going to Vegas with Kitty, but Lindsay isn't about to lose her man without a fight. She rushes at Kitty, who knocks her out with one punch.
George Sr. rushes into the fray, separating Michael and G.O.B., telling them they are family and shouldn't be fighting. Telling Lucille she deserves Oscar, he marches into the courthouse. Earlier that day he had found Oscar, newly kicked out by Lucille; he drugged Oscar, took him into the courthouse bathroom, shaved his head, left him in a stall, and jumped out the window to stop Michael and G.O.B.'s fight before going back into the courthouse. The police, who followed George Sr. into the courthouse, then found Oscar in the stall and put him into custody, thinking he was George Sr.
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