Written By Daniel Truly
Directed By John Behring
Frank deals with a social justice warrior who is recruiting a mole in his own family, Henry deals with a porch pirate, Eddie deals with her con artist father and Danny deals with a pair of identical twins who alibi each other for a murder.
Tropes
- Bed Trick: One of the twins, Seth, sleeps with his twin Steve's girlfriend, who had no idea there was a twin. Both twins ghost the girlfriend after that until Steve comes back to use the girlfriend's car to commit murder. It turns out Steve has been getting Seth laid by bedtricking his girlfriends, and when one of them preferred his loser twin Steve killed her out of jealousy.
- Con Man: Eddie's Bernie Madoff-esque father tries to manipulate Jamie into getting him out of prison so he can attend Eddie and Jamie's wedding. Eddie is going to agree but when they visit him in prison he calls her "my angel" which makes her do an about-face because he only calls her that when he intends to use her for something.
- Double Agent: Nicky gets a job offer from a social justice organization and Frank thinks they're only hiring her in order to get inside information on the Reagan family, but Nicky says instead she'll work to influence the organization on behalf of the family's interests. Frank pulls strings to get the social justice leader's brother into the NYPD so he can use him as "insurance".
- Drugs Are Bad: A package is stolen from Henry's porch by the junkie granddaughter of his neighbor. Henry convinces the grandmother to trust the junkie and send her to rehab instead of jail for everything else she's stolen, and the junkie agrees to go, but overdoses the night before she is to go on drugs she couldn't have gotten had she been locked up.
- Evil Twin: the murder suspects of the week are twins who alibi each other (and whose identical dna render useless the dna recovered from the murder weapon).
- Good Is Not Nice:
- Henry and his neighbor were nice to the junkie granddaughter and didn't lock her up, so naturally this caused her death.
- Refusing to give in to the toxic niceness impulse to let one's con artist father attend the wedding short-circuits whatever scheme he's planning.
- Intimidating a social justice warrior by telling her you're getting her brother a job in a really intimidating tone of voice is the best way to protect one's family.
- Hard Truth Aesop: Trust and loyalty, especially familial loyalty, are not unmixed goods.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam:
- Eddie's father attempts to reconcile with her but at the last minute she decides she can't tell if his attempt is genuine or another con and breaks it off.
- Henry's neighbor initially refuses to forgive her junkie granddaughter, but Henry talks her into it, leading to the granddaughter's death.
- I Am the Noun: When the social justice leader asks Frank if he pulled strings to get her brother into the NYPD Frank warns her: "I am the string".
- Impersonating an Officer: the guy assaulting illegal immigrants the social justice organization was nagging Frank to hunt down turns out to be a fake cop, not a real one.
- Redemption Equals Death: agreeing to go to rehab, instead of being a scumbag who refuses to reform and gets locked up, causes the granddaughter to die by drug overdose.
° Suicide Pact: When their crimes are discovered Steve and Seth conspire to commit suicide: Steve shoots Seth and then himself.
Undying Loyalty: Danny admits admiration for the twins' loyalty to each other and is unsure whether he would cover up one of his brother's crimes. This goes a bit too far when the twins decide they would rather die than be separated, recite their catch-phrase "come hell or high water" and engage in their suicide pact.
