Shameless

In the season five premiere, it’s summertime again in Chicago. Fiona balances her job at Patsy’s Pies with a crush on her older boss, Sean (Mulroney). After saying goodbye to college and Amanda (recurring guest star NICHOLE BLOOM), Lip heads back home where he struggles to fit in with his old Southside friends. But he’s not the only thing in the neighborhood that’s changing. With realtors buying up property, there’s even a new trendy yoga studio that’s popped up. Meanwhile, Frank, still recovering from his liver transplant, is living at Sheila’s and working on a secret project in her basement, while Sheila (Cusack) works upstairs to get rid of a problematic Sammi (Bergl) and Chuckie (guest star KELLEN MICHAEL).

Fiona is finally officially off house arrest, while Lip starts his first day of work for Tommy (recurring guest star MCIHAEL PATRICK McGILL). But manual labor turns out to be much harder for Lip than he thought…and the brutal hazing from his co-workers certainly doesn’t help. Meanwhile, a manic Ian plans his revenge against a homophobic military funeral protest with Mickey and Mandy Milkovich (recurring guest star EMMA GREENWELL).

The gentrification of Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood continues as Frank enlists Carl to scare off potential investors who are buying up more property in the neighborhood, while pleading with Sheila not to cave and sell her home. Meanwhile, Frank sets the owner of a junkyard up with his daughter, Sammi, under shady pretenses in exchange for new brewery equipment.

When Frank arrives at Lou’s to pick up his six-figure insurance settlement, he’s shocked to discover that he’s already collected it. Meanwhile, Lip visits Amanda and her family at their luxurious house in Miami.

Fiona and Gus must navigate the awkwardness of their quickie wedding. But Fiona’s plans to announce her marriage at a family dinner become unraveled when her coworker, Jackie, OD’s on heroin. Meanwhile, Frank, who promised an irate Sammi a new trailer once he got his insurance money, avoids her by staying with the still grieving family of his donor liver.

Fiona is thrown in to chaos by the return of Jimmy/Jack/Steve, but she must deal with an even larger crises first as Ian, in a full psychotic break, steals Mickey and Svetlana’s baby, Yevgeny, and takes him along on a road trip. But Jimmy is relentless in his pursuit of Fiona who, despite her recent nuptials, eventually gives in to their fiery chemistry and long history.

As Ian begins to regain some of his senses, he is upset to find himself under a mandatory 72-hour hold at the psych ward. Meanwhile, when Frank returns home from the hospital refusing to apologize to Sammi and with a new determination to take care of himself without her help, Sammi is forced to take more drastic measures to teach Frank a valuable lesson.

When Lip and Fiona arrive to pick Ian up from the psych ward, Mickey is noticeably absent. Ian’s doctor encourages them to get Ian on a regimen of pills, which proves to be difficult as Ian refuses to accept his bipolar diagnosis. Debbie is tasked with minding Ian’s new meds and when he flushes them down the toilet, Debbie will go to great lengths to get him new ones.

When Lip and Fiona arrive to pick Ian up from the psych ward, Mickey is noticeably absent. Ian’s doctor encourages them to get Ian on a regimen of pills, which proves to be difficult as Ian refuses to accept his bipolar diagnosis. Debbie is tasked with minding Ian’s new meds and when he flushes them down the toilet, Debbie will go to great lengths to get him new ones.

Frank is having a ball with new sick friend Bianca, but when Bianca thinks Frank might be developing feelings for her, she kicks him to the curb. But Frank returns to put up a fight, assuring her that he won’t put her through what her family is putting her through. She relents when he promises he won’t ask her to seek treatment.

A lot of new sexual tension exists between Fiona and Sean after their night at the diner. But with Ian now in a military pretrial facility, the gang must set off to visit him and to explain his condition to his attorneys. In the end, Fiona returns to Sean for support, and they get each other through another romantically charged, difficult, and emotional night.

In the fifth season finale, Fiona reunites with Gus after he returns from his tour but is torn by the fact that her friendly feelings for Sean have turned into love. Meanwhile, down in Costa Rica, Frank has love struggles of his own while he works to keep Bianca happy in her dying days despite the fact that she no longer wants to live.