[Now for what everybody else is doing on Wednesday.]

At Tantamount Studios, Maeby sat in her office trying to decide what scandalous information she should give to the publicist about her father to stoke interest in her biographical movie. Should she expose how Tobias pushed unsafe drugs in the family band? Or maybe how he incompetently broke a guy's sternum in Boston and lost his medical license? Or, since the Scandalmakers episode on the Bluths had featured Tobias's cutoffs, maybe the publicist could explain that he wore them because he was a never-nude?

Then Maeby's phone rang, and it was Ron Howard, wanting to talk about casting the movie.

"I have just the right girl for the part." He wanted Rebel Alley to play Michael's wife Tracey, with a big, tear-jerking death scene. "It's more fun that way."

Maeby rolled her eyes. This was just like how Ron Howard talked her into casting Rebel in the Dangerous Cousins remake, even though she looked nothing like the French actress in the original movie. Rebel wasn't too bad an actress, but she was so unreliable, partying all the time and getting into trouble. Ron Howard tried to get her parts so that she wouldn't keep having to do public service announcements to pay her debt to society.

Maeby had to go along, since Ron Howard was providing a lot of the financing. So in return she tried to get him to agree to a bigger budget, enough for a trilogy about the Bluths. "It was a suggestion by the writers."

"Sounds great!" Ron Howard hoped that with a trilogy, the Tracey part could be expanded into a really meaty, prestigious role for Rebel.

After saying goodbye to Lupe and the mariachi band, Steve Holt closed up the banana stand for the day and drove Buster back to the model home.

However, as they approached the new Paradise Gardens sign, they were surprised by crowds of people in the valley beyond. Not only were Bluth Company construction workers trying to build houses on the empty lots, but there were reporters gathered around the model home, hoping to pester any Bluths arriving home.

Steve had to slow the car to approach the house, and he managed to toss a smoke bomb out the car window. The distraction worked long enough so that Buster could rush into the house without being hounded, then Steve drove away.

Inside, Barry Zuckerkorn was meeting with George to discuss the divorce and to write Michael out of the will. Barry had arrived in the morning before the reporters did, but he was still stuck here in the afternoon.

"Hey, father/uncle dad. Hey, Barry." Buster told them excitedly about his meeting with Lupe.

George rolled his eyes and criticized Buster for not stealing Lucille Austero away from Sitwell.

"We're just friends, now," Buster said.

George muttered about none of his sons ever doing anything he wanted.

Barry was more easy-going about the date. "At least he has a girlfriend, what with his hook and fake hand." Barry congratulated Buster, then started to talk about a date he had at the Tobias is Queen Mary club last night. "She also sometimes wears a plastic part as well, called a strap-"

George interrupted impatiently, "Enough!" He wanted to get back to drafting his will to make Lindsay his heir, since all his sons turned out to be so useless. But he still worried a little bit that Lindsay's loyalty might switch to Sitwell once she moved into the Sitwell's guest house.

Then Tobias came downstairs and stood at the landing over the wetbar. He had been trying to avoid George since he returned from Hollywood this morning, but he heard the recent commotion outside. "Buster!"

"Hey, brother-in-law."

Tobias beckoned and asked Buster how things went with Lupe at the banana stand.

"She said yes!"

"Great!"

So Buster went upstairs with Tobias and told him all the details, and in return Tobias explained about the newspapers attacking Lindsay, and how Trisha Thoon dredged up the Graft vs. Host video at the prison gala.

"So Lindsay had to move out to Sitwell's guest house. Ice had to pick up her bags earlier." It was a big hassle, and Tobias had felt embarrassed to see the guy that Lindsay was having a secret affair with.

(Ice had already been in the neighborhood in a new Bluth Company food truck. He catered lunch for the construction workers, and also sold some snacks and smoothies to the paparazzi hanging around. When Ice got the phone call to pick up Lindsay's bags, he just had to slip out of the truck and sneak into the model home by the back patio door. To avoid awkwardness with Tobias, he put on his serious bounty hunter face and just took the luggage without comment. By the time reporters saw him taking the bags into the food truck, Ice closed it up and drove away from Paradise Gardens.)

Buster felt sorry for his sister's troubles, but also for himself. "Oh. So she won't be here to make hot ham water for me."

"No, but don't worry. I'll get a new can of ham and make it." For now, Tobias told Buster about filming his homeschool teacher scene at Tantamount Studios. "Hopefully Maeby will get a new director to reshoot it. Maybe write more lines next time too." He was so excited about his new part and he wished all the reporters outside wanted to interview him about Maeby's movie, but no such luck.

Downstairs, George went on the porch to yell at the reporters that this was private property, and it was under construction, so they should clear out or risk getting injured.

"Is that a threat?"

George almost felt like threatening them with poisoned muffins, but he realized that they would film him saying it, and that evidence could be used against him later. "Get out of here!" He slammed the door and went inside again. If he got Tobias to make dinner, maybe that would take his mind off the paparazzi.

After dinner, George and Barry worked on the will some more, and George offered to let Barry stay the night on the couch downstairs.

When the construction workers left for the night, the reporters also left, not wanting to camp out in the deserted place without even a food truck for supplies. Besides, they needed to find out where Lindsay had gone.

Meanwhile, Lucille Bluth met with her lawyer John Haverstock at the penthouse.

Lucille called him John and tried to flirt with him, but Haverstock assumed she was just drunk and lonely because of her house arrest. The new housekeeper Maria was apparently making her drinks throughout the day.

He told Lucille about her arraignment hearing next week. "We'll stand before the judge while the list of charges against you are read out. Normally we'd like your family to be there to look supportive. Can you get your grandson to show up?"

"Well, it's the least that Steve can do, since I'm letting him live here with me."

"Good. Use guilt against him. Then we won't have to pay him to show up."

Lucille grumbled that the rest of her family seemed to be taking George's side by living at the model home with him. "Except for Gob and Michael." She was still somewhat suspicious that the brothers were colluding against her somehow. She also didn't know that Lindsay had moved to Sitwell's guest house.

Haverstock moved on. "Now about your divorce... My private eye says that George has been meeting with Barry Zuckerkorn all day, probably going over all the marital assets. Does George know about your stash of money?"

"No he was in prison when I hid the money I inherited from my mother."

"Good, we'll keep those assets secret." He was just as sneaky and scheming as Lucille was, which made him all the more attractive. It was like they were the same, and he had great hair too.

Haverstock had left by the time Steve returned to the penthouse. First he put away the doves in Lucille Austero's apartment, then he went across the hall to greet his grandmother, who was smoking and reading newspapers gleefully.

Maria had made dinner for them, and they ate at the dining table together. Steve told Gangee about how his day went, though he didn't mention helping Buster get a date with Lupe. Buster already warned Steve to keep that a secret.

Lucille drank with her meal and gloated about Lindsay's bad press today. She mentioned the TV news reports too and said that Lindsay deserved the scandal for pretending to be 35 and trying to recapture her social status from Boston.

Steve felt uncomfortable that Gangee was a mean drunk, and to change the subject, he got out the iMagician/i videos and asked to watch them on the TV.

Lucille shrugged, since she was starved for entertainment due to her ankle monitor, and they moved to the living room.

They watched a few episodes, but Lucille lost interest and asked Steve to come to her arraignment hearing next week. The guilt trip totally worked, and he agreed to make sure that he and Gob didn't have a magic show that day.

"Wear a nice suit," she said.

"Okay." He tried to get back to enjoying the show.

When Maria finished washing the dishes, she got ready to leave, but Lucille made her stop and inspected her bag, as she used to do with Lupe.

After Maria left, Steve felt nervous and distracted, trying not to think about alcohol or be tempted to drink again. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea moving in with his grandmother after all, if he couldn't get her to stop drinking or being mean to people. He wondered if he could get permission to clear out the Gothic Castle apartment and move there. Maybe he would ask around tomorrow.

For now he just stopped the videotape and went to bed.

At home with George Michael, Maeby told her husband about casting Rebel Alley as Tracey, and Ron Howard agreeing to make a trilogy so that she would have more screen time.

George Michael was pleased, wanting the world to know how saintly and perfect his mother was. "So I can give the writers more stories about her."

Maeby sighed. He was such a mama's boy.

George Michael made dinner and thought about the familiar name. "Rebel Alley... wasn't she-?"

"She was in the American remake of Dangerous Cousins. Yeah."

"Oh, that's where I know her from." George Michael had only seen the movie once, preferring the French original that he had on DVD.

"That and all her PSAs on TV. She's a hot mess."

They ate dinner together and fondly reminisced about their second kiss, after the movie protest, and the living room dropped into the sinkhole.

While her husband washed the dishes, Maeby opened her laptop to do some work. Then she looked up the old BabyTock infomercial on the internet. It was so bad, especially when Lucille dubbed lines over Tracey.

George Michael pointed out, "See, my mom wasn't lying. She only said that I liked it, and I did."

Maeby still couldn't believe that his mom and dad would agree to put BabyTock in his crib like that, much less keep using the Cornballer too over the years. Actually, Michael wasn't that surprising, given how Pop-pop could manipulate him and pressure him into doing stuff against his better judgment. But for Tracey to agree and even endorse the product in a commercial, when she wasn't a crazy Bluth to begin with... that was cause for concern.

George Michael obliviously kept reminiscing about his mother and how she encouraged him to play woodblock when he needed to pick an instrument in school. Keeping time was his special talent.

Maeby was relieved when Sally Sitwell called her. "Hi!" She excused herself to another room while George Michael stayed at the dining table, making a list of stories about his mom that he wanted to tell the movie writers tomorrow.

Sally told Maeby how her father reacted to the mean newspaper articles. He accused her of writing them and lectured her to be a good sister to Lindsay.

Maeby said sarcastically, "Wow, he's great."

"I know!"

Sure, Stan Sitwell was right about the source of the articles, but it was so unfair that he dismissed them as petty jealousy. He kept defending Lindsay instead of seeing the point that she was a corrupt, awful person.

Maeby said, "Well maybe he'll be less suspicious of you when there's mean articles about my dad next."

"I guess so." Sally sighed.

"Speaking of my awful dad," Maeby told her about Tobias filming his scene, then coming out as gay to her. "Like that was a surprise."

"No kidding." Tobias had always been obvious, and over the years it comforted Sally to know that Lindsay had married so disastrously; her plan to piss off her mother had backfired and made herself miserable.

They discussed what scandals the publicist should release tomorrow, and Maeby mentioned her talk with Ron Howard about casting the movies.

Sally was impressed by the famous name but also a little distracted. "A trilogy?"

"Yeah." Maeby told her about what a mama's boy George Michael was, wanting more screen time for his beloved mother.

After their long talk, Sally said goodnight and went to bed. She was at Tony Wonder's place, but because of the possible STD, they couldn't have sex until after they both got tested.

So that night they turned out the lights to just go to sleep. Tony had been weird lately anyway, smoking and zoning out all through dinner.

She had kind of wanted to vent about that to Maeby, but it would mean telling Maeby that she was secretly dating Tony Wonder, who wasn't really gay. So Sally didn't confess yet, and she tried not to worry about her boyfriend; it was just his usual self-involved misery after one of his brothers betrayed him. Surely Gob had been like a brother to him.