After the contentious custody battle, Frank & Mary go on with their lives as usual. But it isn't until an eventful night at Ferg's that Frank starts to wonder if maybe his life might be missing something. Now that his niece has a normal life, maybe...
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Deleted Scene from the movie Gifted is referenced:
The sun was starting to set as Frank surveyed the damage to Ed's old front door. It needed to be boarded up for the night for security reasons until a contractor could fixed the door frame later the next day. After checking in on Mary and Sam at Roberta's, Frank grabbed his tool box and headed back over to help Jessie and Joey out.
He was happy to be of service, and enjoyed all of the playful hot handyman comments and catcalls that he got from Joey as he worked. He was relieved that Bonnie hitting on him hadn't caused any permanent damage with her.
He really liked that he knew where he stood with Joey. She wasn't the kind of girl that was interested in playing games and Frank found that sexier than he thought he would.
The two of them kept stealing glances at each other, even though she was distracted with Gus, the now orphaned golden retriever, and had been fighting with her mother for the past 20 minutes.
When they let Ed's old dog back into the house it broke Joey's heart to see him sniffing around and looking for his owner. He looked so sad. To comfort him, she had taken to sitting on the floor with him while she continued to scoff at her mother's outlandish, yet very generous, offer.
"A house? A whole freaking house! ...Ma, I swear. Do I need to be worried about you? You're way too young to be this senile!" Joey laughed. "Is she goin' crazy, Gus? Is she, old boy?" she playfully asked her new friend in a cute voice. "Do we need to start looking at nursing homes or getting her one of those 'I've fallen and I can't get up' buttons?"
Frank tried not to, but he couldn't stop himself from smirking as he eavesdropped on their mother daughter conversation. He was learning a lot about Joey by watching her with her family, and, so far, it had been a pretty entertaining show to watch.
"Josephine Juliette Kincade, you watch your sassy little mouth!" Jessie gasped in mock outrage. "This is my house and I can give it to whoever I damn well please. Don't listen to her, Gus."
They were both pretty adorable. Frank wished that the arguments that he had with his own mother were that cute. The two Kincade women obviously loved each other dearly, and were more alike than they cared to admit.
As it turned out, Ed's son who lives in Dallas and given Jessie permission to pack up all of Ed's belongings with instructions to trash them or give them to GoodWill as she she saw fit (as per his dad's wishes) and had already paid for the movers to make it happen. They were set to drop by later in the week after the funeral.
In the meantime, Jessie had the bright idea to gift the entire three bedroom house to her daughter free of charge. Frank could practically see Joey's brain try and wrap itself around such a generous gesture. It was a lot to take in, and Joey had been refusing ever since he got there with his tools.
