Arrested Development

Michael Bluth was working at home when he noticed something unusual. His pen rolled off the coffee table as if rolling downhill. A contractor examined the house and told Michael there was nothing underneath and since the drain pipes weren't hooked up, they just emptied under the house. Which is why the living room was sinking. The city was probably going to have to red tag the house, so an inspector would be out to examine everything.

Michael told his father he'd have to leave the attic before the inspector arrived. Michael suggested his father hide at Lucille's penthouse, but George Sr. didn't want to go there because the freeloading Oscar was living there. Michael tells his father with him being tried in absentia, Michael shouldn't even know where he is anyway. He doesn't have to go back to prison, but he can't stay there.

George-Michael, meanwhile, was finding it difficult to ignore his re-emerging feelings for his cousin. Maeby asked if he wanted to attend a screening of the American remake of Les Cousins Dangereuses, a film he and Maeby saw last year. Maeby was currently overseeing the remake for Tantamount Studio, where she conned her way into a job, and it was not going well. George-Michael agreed to go, so Maeby gave him 50 passes and instructed him to invite everyone he knew.

And later at the office, Michael had another surprise. Tobias was resigning as his assistant in order to audition for the Blue Man Group in Las Vegas. He also told Michael that Kitty called wanting to see him, so Tobias scheduled her for a 4pm meeting. Gob came in and Michael told him that not only did he have to testify that he didn't know where George Sr. was, the old man was refusing to leave the attic, so Michael was going to be caught for hiding him. But Gob was 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 being a CD of Gob singing with Franklin. Michael assured Gob that he loved the music.

Later, Gob took Franklin to see George Sr. in an attempt to get him to leave the attic. But really, Gob had soaked the puppet with ether to knock out his father, just like he knocked out his mother previously. And downstairs, Tobias shared his good news with Lindsey. But she didn't want to move to Las Vegas and took it as a sign that they should split up. Or stay split up, whatever their status might be. Tobias then decided to pass on his audition to stay home and work on his relationship with Lindsey to decide once and for all whether they should stay together or not.

Soon, Gob was on his way to dump his father on the police station steps. And that's when he found the CD and thank you card he made for Michael, still unopened. Meanwhile, Michael was meeting with Kitty and things weren't going as badly as he thought they might. She told him that she had been through rehab and was at now peace with the Bluths, as long as they didn't anger her again. Tobias entered and told Michael he wasn't actually leaving for Las Vegas. Michael realized he needed to occupy Kitty with a man, at least until his meeting about his father was over.

Michael prepared to sign the affidavit that he had no idea where his father had been. As soon as he did, attorney Wayne Jarvis summoned the police in, telling Michael he had photographic evidence discrediting the affidavit Michael just signed. The evidence being a traffic camera photo. But actually, Gob was driving and holding the card he had made for Michael – complete with Michael's photo on it – in front of his face.

Michael was now in police custody. Wayne Jarvis told Michael he could turn in his father if he wanted to go free. Gob arrived at the station and angrily asked Michael why he hadn't listened to the CD yet. Michael just wanted to know where George Sr. was so he could be released from custody.

And George-Michael tried to break up with Ann. But he found out Ann was fired up about protesting the screening of Les Cousins Dangereuses, he couldn't. He knew from past experience that Ann became inflamed at rallies and would probably kiss him in a fit of Ann passion again. This was too enticing to turn down. Oscar, meanwhile, checked in on Buster. And an innocuous comment about Pop Secret popcorn made Buster finally realize that Oscar was his real father.

Lucille, meanwhile, was on the phone with Michael. Michael wanted Lucille to tell George-Michael his father was out of town on business, and during the conversation, Lucille learned that Tobias was out on a date with Kitty. Knowing this news would devastate Lindsey, Lucille immediately told her. Michael also warned Lucille that he was going to tell the police it was actually Gob in the traffic photo. Buster barged in and accused Kitty of lying to him about the identity of his real father.

It was at that moment that the police played the CD that they had confiscated from Gob. It was Franklin singing Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do For You)". Inspired, Michael realized that he couldn't actually turn in his brother. Singing the song at the same time, Gob had the same realization and called Barry Zuckerkorn to instruct Michael not to testify.

And Lucille confronted Oscar. At the theater, George-Michael and Ann were protesting, which surprised Maeby. But people still wanted to see the movie, thus ending George-Michael's chances of a passionately bland kiss. He slumped home, where Buster was waiting for Michael. Buster ran upstairs to shower and wash the smell of Lucille away. A distraught Lindsey then told George-Michael – who was still trying to process the news that his father was in jail – that he had to seize love whenever he had the chance. She then ran upstairs to take a bath.

Maeby then came in and kissed George-Michael in thanks for helping her movie become a success. The living room then collapsed a few feet, knocking George-Michael and Maeby onto the couch. Where they kissed again. And that's when Gob came home to retrieve George Sr. from where he stashed him. Under the house. The house that just began to collapse.

But then Gob remembered that this meant Michael would have to go to prison. George-Michael and Maeby awkwardly went their separate ways. Barry was leading Michael into his trial. Gob sped up and told him George Sr. wasn't actually crushed to death because even though Gob handcuffed him to pipes under the house, the pipes weren't connected to anything. So George Sr. ran away. Angry that he would end up going to jail for this, Michael began a fight with Gob. Tobias came up, happily announcing that he was going to Vegas with Kitty. But Lindsey wasn't about to lose her man without a fight. She rushed Kitty, who dropped her with one slap.

George Sr. rushed into the fray, separating Michael and Gob, telling them they were a family and shouldn't be fighting. George Sr. then went into the courthouse, but not before telling Lucille she deserved Oscar. As we then learned, as he was hiding under the house, George Sr. overheard Buster tell George-Michael that Oscar was Buster's true father. And George Sr. vowed to get Oscar. From there, George Sr. found Oscar, who had just been kicked out by Lucille. He then drugged Oscar, took him into the courthouse bathroom, shaved his head and left him in a stall before jumping out of the window. The police, who followed George Sr. into the courthouse, then found Oscar in the stall and put him into custody. While George Sr. got away.

Narrator: On the next season of Arrested Development, Oscar, robbed of his fingerprints, has difficulty proving his identity, Tobias and Kitty go to Vegas, only to find that his dream job has been filled by a man looking suspiciously like George, Sr., and George, Sr. turns out to be right about the effects of stress, as Oscar's hair won't grow back.