Michael realizes he needs a car and also that he just lied to the investors because, in fact, his father never did file the proper permits. When he finds out that Gob has been secretly driving their father's car, he confronts him about it at the banana stand. Fed up by Gob's deception, Michael doesn't allow him to have the free banana he wants. Gob insists that he should get all the bananas he wants and on top of that, instead of paying for the bananas, Michael can just use his likeness for some sort of Hamburglar-type character for commercials. Mr. Banana Grabber or something. Gob calls Michael selfish and glides off.
Next, Michael tracks down Lindsay for the car. She says she has no time for this because she needs to prepare for a Bachelorette Auction for charity - To save the wetlands - From drying. Lindsay says Michael wouldn't understand since he's not charitable. In the meantime, where's the car? Lindsay thinks Buster has it. It's on the schedule. There's a schedule?
At his mother's house, Michael receives even less support. Why should anybody help him with the car after he was so selfish with Gob's banana? Besides, she has to get ready for the Charity Auction as well. Of course, she doesn't care about the charity. She only cares about getting a higher bid than Lucille Austero. She then gives Buster explicit instructions to bid $10,000 on her. Michael gets the car keys from Buster and he's on his way to the prison to confront his father about the permit issue. George Sr. advises his boy to break into the permit office, slip the application into a folder and tell the permit office they messed up. Have Gob do it.
Michael approaches Gob with his job while Gob is enjoying a candy apple. That just chipped his tooth. Gob will do it on certain conditions: free banana when he wants plus creative control, spin-off rights and theme park approval of Mr. Banana Grabber, Baby Banana Grabber and any other Banana Grabber family character that might emanate there from. He also wants Michael to make up for humiliating Gob in front of George Michael. Michael does by giving Gob a free banana and instructing him to do whatever Uncle Gob wants him to do.
Stung by constant charges of being selfish, Michael decides to do something nice and offer a ride to Lucille's housekeeper. Except it's not her. It's a different woman. A different woman is who is freaked out to now be inside a car filled with the skull Buster found on an archaeological dig, the burn marks from a Gob illusion gone bad and the dried streaks from the blood-red nail polish Lindsay spilled.
Gob, meanwhile, was casing the permit office. But his disguise of the new delivery car who whistles through his chipped tooth when he talks didn't work, so he needed a new plan. He orders George Michael to break into the permit office. George Michael is reluctant at first, but Maeby's enthusiasm changes his mind.
Michael gets a call from Lindsay, who begs him to pick her up from the wetlands. Where she tried to prove she cares about the environment, but ended up stabbing a frog and making a crane. At the same time, Lucille Austero was stalking Buster, hoping he was saving up some grand romantic gesture to save their relationship.
Lindsay, running out of time to get to the Charity Auction, called a cab home - but forgot to call Michael. When he arrived at the wetlands, his terrified passenger took off running with the car keys, stranding him.
The Auction starts, and a scratched, scraped, ragged Lindsay isn't fetching any bids. Until Michael pledges $1,000 for her. Lucille then takes the stage. Lucille Austero, that is. Buster comes rushing in and desperately/accidentally bids $10,000 for her. A grand romantic gesture!
Walking to the parking lot following a semi-successful evening, Michael is arrested for the forced abduction of his passenger earlier in the day. And when he's tossed into the back of a squad car, George Michael is sitting there waiting for him. Breaking into the permit office didn't go as cleanly as it could have.
On the next Arrested Development...
Michael gets a lucky break when Helen makes the same mistake that he did, and G.O.B. kicks himself for a bad business decision.
