![]() ![]() However, the man and his family remain unsatisfied and barricade themselves inside of the unit. Fiona does her best to make amends offering a settlement and temporary use of an apartment. Things come to a major head when a maintenance man falls off the roof and attempts to sue Fiona for $3 million, the title to the building, and the little flesh-eating dog. Convinced she's caught the woman rent dodging, Fiona enters the apartment to find a miniature poodle nibbling the woman's face. However, Fiona's troubles continue when an elderly tenant dies alone in her apartment. Luckily, Debbie stops by with her welding tools and saves the day. Most of season 8 finds Fiona separated from her family as she copes with a series of unruly tenants at her newly renovated apartment building, the unruliest of the bunch being a single mother who writes Fiona a check for one cent and then barricades her apartment with a steel door. Naturally, Liam has second thoughts about betraying his friend and leaves his father high and not so dry when Frank is forced to hide in a portable toilet to avoid the police. All Liam has to do is supply the alarm code. "We have a moral duty to rip this assh*hole off," argues Frank, who considers himself Robin Hood, even though he's the only poor person in this equation. But now that Frank has failed at all of his other endeavors, he takes advantage of Liam and suggests they conspire to rob Dylan. Not only has Frank gotten the young Gallagher into a private school, but he's also given his son permission to go to the Caribbean with Dylan, one of the school's rich kids. Meanwhile, the one person Frank has successfully helped is Liam. Of course, Frank almost immediately gets caught in the woods by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and returns home defeated. This inspires Frank to use his new car to shuttle cheap pharmaceuticals and people across the Northern border. The injustice of what Frank describes as a broken American system sends him crawling back to the Alibi where he witnesses the deportation of an undocumented immigrant, attempting to flee the US to Canada. According to his six-week work history, he's entitled to $3.42 per month. Disillusioned, Frank decides to collect social security benefits using stolen IDs he's acquired over the years, but he has no luck until he uses his own information. Initially, Frank succeeds at his reform efforts - accepting a job at a home supply store, lecturing others on the importance of workplace safety, earning employee of the month, and buying a car on which he makes regular payments until he gets laid off. This act of patriarchal protection marks the beginning of a renaissance for Frank who vows to become a real grown up. When Eric draws his gun, Frank steps in front of the barrel and declares that if half the stash belonged to Monica, they should be even. But even after the grave robbery, the Gallaghers are $37,000 short and still very much in danger, that is until Frank has a moment of clarity. Fiona initially refuses to help her siblings with a solution, but finally proposes the unthinkable - dig up Monica's casket to retrieve the packet of unwanted meth Fiona stuffed underneath the body. With only $9,000 left between them, the Gallaghers can't match the $70,000 Eric demands. Unable to resist the lure of easy money, Carl returns to Monica's storage unit to salvage more items and runs into Eric, a ruthless gangster who claims partial ownership of Monica's drugs. Carl buys a hot tub, Ian gets a tattoo, and Debbie buys new welding tools, but Fiona warns them all about the danger of ill-gotten goods. The rest of the family finds solace in the money earned from the crystal meth she left behind. Frank is the only person heartbroken over her death. The eighth season opens with the Gallaghers still mourning the death of Monica. ![]()
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