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 Gifted that you probably should watch.
Joey's heart was heavy as she dragged her feet up the hotel stairs. She had just spent the last three and a half hours at the 24hr emergency vet clinic with her mother and it looked like the puppy that her father had tried to kill was going to be okay, but he had to spend the next few days with them under observation.
Unfortunately, the tiny chihuahua puppy hadn't survived unscathed. The poor thing had suffered a broken front leg and a fractured shoulder. But his most serious injury he had sustained had been to his little face. They were waiting to hear if he would have to lose one of his eyes if his condition didn't improve over the next several hours and Joey was keeping her fingers cross that that wouldn't have to happen.
She didn't care how much it was going to cost her in veterinary bills. There was no way that Joey was going to put the puppy down unless it was a last resort and for the puppy's own good. She willed the little guy to survive in spite of her father and hoped that sweet puppy would have the last laugh and live a long happy life.
To add insult to injury, the vet had informed them, as they waited for test results, that the puppy appeared to have been far too young to have been separated from his mother and suspected that the chihuahua had come from a puppy mill a few counties away that they had been trying to shut down for years.
"Fuck! Well, that answers that question!" Joey had bitterly spat out in the middle of the vet's office. Her mother had tried to calm her down in the hopes that she would stop making such a loud scene, but Joey just couldn't contain herself.
To try and appease her peacekeeping mother, Joey had instead angrily paced through the building and tried to make sense of everything and not take it out on the staff that had been just trying to help.
Everything had happened so fast, Joey didn't have time to figure out why Mitch had a damn puppy in his truck in the first place. He must have grabbed one on a whim to give her as gift but when she essentially spit in his face he took out his anger on the tiny thing.
Why wouldn't Mitch Clauson be involved in puppy mills? Nothing should surprise Joey at this point. After years of of having dog fighting as a disgusting hobby, it wasn't as though her father was would be renewing his PETA membership any time soon. Just thinking about all of those animals being abused made Joey want to scream.
The police that had been dispatched to her mother's house, were rerouted to the emergency vet clinic and Joey and Jessie had given their statements to the officers and made it clear that Cameron had done his best to mitigate the situation and shouldn't be lumped in with his father.
Before they left the vet, Joey begged the officers to get involved and stop her father from hurting more dogs, or at the very least charge him with animal cruelty. But she figured that, after years of corruption, her pleas fell on deaf ears.
