The brothers argue about it, but Lip eventually comes to terms with his brother’s orientation. Lip eventually catches Ian just after having sex with a married Muslim man who is also his boss. At that point, Fiona eagerly joins him for a joy ride. He lets her believe it for a while before he steals an expensive car in front of her and explains that’s how he makes his money.
He takes her to a fancy restaurant, where she starts to reject him because she thinks he’s too rich and privileged. Initially offput by the gift, Steve explains that he had seen her at the club before and tried to work up the courage to talk to her. But he notices her buggy dryer and has a new one delivered and installed for her. Lip only escapes by jumping out of a second story window, injuring his ankle in the process.Įlsewhere, Fiona rejects Steve’s attempts to start a relationship when he returns the next day. Meanwhile, Lip brings Ian to Karen’s house for some science blow job action, but they are soon discovered by her clown obsessed father who chases the boys around the house. He also boasts that the investigators trying to prove that he’s not disabled will never catch him doing anything. Steve leaves the home and the next day, we see Frank arrive at a bar and use his entire disabilities check to pay for his bar tab. However, their romantic interlude is interrupted when the police arrive with her drunk father Frank, whom Fiona leaves passed out on the floor. But Fiona shows Steve her gratitude with some quick sex in the kitchen. Later at the Gallagher house, Steve is dismayed when the large family and Veronica’s boyfriend Kev (Steve Howey) tell him that the bouncer has killed men for less. When the trio are refused readmittance to the club and insulted by the bouncer, Steve decks the man and wins the admiration of the girls. A young man named Steve (Justin Chatwin) tries to intervene but gets a cut on his head for his troubles. But his day is darkened when he finds a porno mag in his room that suggests that his younger brother Ian (Cameron Monaghan) is gay.īlowing off steam from her multiple day jobs, Fiona dances with her friend Veronica (Shanola Hampton) at a nightclub until her purse is snatched. The blow job he gets under the table from her daughter Karen is just a bonus.
The oldest brother, Phillip "Lip" Gallagher (Jeremy Allen White) tutors a girl in science after school, paid for by her mother Sheila (Joan Cusack).
It soon becomes clear that the entire family has at least a small job to keep things afloat. The Gallagher family awakens and Fiona realizes that the power bill is due, so she gets a cash collection from her much younger siblings over breakfast with her dad noticeably absent. While the oldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum) picks up the slack, the entire family is off beat, slightly criminal and as the title promises, "Shameless." Macy) is an unapologetic drunk with a several children and apparently no wife.