- When Fanny's attorney gives her shocking news, she takes it hard and makes the situation more awkward for Michelle. Making matters worse, Michelle has a run-in with the law when she takes off in Hubbell's car to blow off steam, only to break down in the driveway of a handsome, local recluse. Meanwhile, the girls compete against other dance studios in an "ugliest feet" contest.—ABC Family Publicity
- After Michelle's good deed for Fanny, their relationship starts to blossom & Fanny is undeniably warming up to Michelle. All is well until a visit from Fanny & Hubbell's attorney visits dropping a bombshell. As worlds are turned upside down again, Michelle & Fanny seem to be back where they started. In an effort to escape & clear her head, Michelle decides to take Hubbell's convertible for a ride only to breakdown in the driveway of a handsome local recluse Grant, who happens to be a millionaire. With the girls preparing for the Joffrey Ballet auditions, they enter an ugliest feet contest with other ballet schools.—Carrie DeCosta
- Immediately after the wake, Jerry the lawyer explains how Hubbell called and had everything put in Michelle's name on the drive back from Vegas. He switched her voter registration and got her a subscription to Rolling Stone. It starts next month.
All Hubbell ever wanted was to be married. He dressed up as a groom for Halloween six years in a row. When it finally happened he just wanted to let everyone know.
Michelle gets the house and land, but the studio is Fanny's to run as long as she likes. "Look at it this way: You didn't own anything before, and now you...still...don't...own anything," he explains. Jerry leaves them alone in awkward silence.
Michelle grabs the booze and pours them each a shot. She downs hers but Fanny walks away. Michelle drinks hers, too.
The next morning, hungover Michelle is awakened by a barking cuckoo clock. She goes looking for food among the knick nacks.
Outside, the girls show off their ballet wounds, including a split toenail and bunions. They're competing with studios all over California because who ever has the nastiest feet are the best dancers. One studio has a ringer -- a girl with a shrunken toe. They've come in third and second, but never won.
Michelle tells them to keep her posted, which is easy because apparently everyone in town has Michelle's phone number already.
"Thornton Wilder never mentioned the creepy aspect of small town life," Michelle says. "Who?" "No one, he was in Menudo. Ok, I'm going to go be old now," she says.
Sasha arrives, triumphant about her big toenail falling out.
Michelle returns from the gas station ("they have a baked goods section!") with scones and finds Fanny rooting around for a tea kettle. It came with the house so she figures it's "legal" for her to use. The shiny new one is Michelle's now. Fanny tries to figure out where she can get water, including from a well or a pothole. She goes on until finally Michelle asks if they can talk about it.
Michelle tries to assure Fanny that Hubbell didn't mean to throw her out, he probably thought Fanny would die first. It doesn't go over well.
Ginny brings Boo a handmade snood (that thing that goes over buns) for good luck for her Joffrey audition.
Melanie's surly brother Charlie and friend bring her to class and are upset to learn they have to hang out for the whole thing. Boo can't keep her eyes off them. She wishes she'd known he was coming so she could put on make-up or something.
Claire, Ginny's mom, drops by the house with a casserole -- taco in a bag. She tells Michelle to call if she needs anything.
"The day I lost my husband was the worst day of my life. Of course, I lost him to the divorcee in the Jeggings across the street and not in a car accident, but it still hurt," Claire says.
Claire already knows that Michele owns everything. She tells her to call if she wants to sell -- she's a real estate agent. Michelle learns she now owns seven acres. Claire shows her around the property, telling her to deal with root rot and thinning the trees. She also has a lake and two swampy ponds. She overwhelms her with household to-dos, including draining the septic.
Next they check out the garage, including a rebuilt Ford Mustang that Hubbell built himself from pieces found via the internet.
Back in the studio, Fanny leads the class through practice. She sees Michelle outside with Claire and accosts her. She thinks Michelle called her to sell the house.
Fanny starts yelling at Michelle, telling her she wants her to leave, she's an interloper.
Michelle storms off and frees the Mustang from the garage. She goes for a drive. It's going well until the car sputters to a stall at the bottom of a drive.
In the studio, Melanie encourages Boo to stand up front to get her brother's attention. When Boo takes her place, Sasha says: "God, Boo, why don't you just give him a lap dance." Boo is mortfied.
Lou the tow truck driver comes but he won't tow the Mustang because she's on a private road. He says she has to get the owner's permission to have it towed, but he's a rich guy possibly named Bill who nobody talks to.
Chief Clayton arrives and also gives her grief for driving three feet onto the unmarked private road. He starts to write her a ticket for trespassing and she goads him.
Cut to Michelle zip tied in the back of the police car and Fanny gleefully joining her. She sees that Michelle is released, as she swing dances with the police chief.
With the chief out of sight, Michelle tromps up the private driveway.
Back in the studio, Melanie and Ginny lament Sasha's meanness. Boo defends her, saying she has a lot she's dealing with so maybe that's why she's mean. Sasha hears her and tells Boo not to psychoanalyze her. "I'm fine, you're the one who needs to hide in the back of the room," Sasha says.
Boo declines to join Melanie for a sleepover. Her mom Nannette picks her up and suggests she go -- dinner at home is going to be terrible. She made light macaroni and cheese and it smells like dead feet. Sasha sees Boo and her mom cracking up and enjoying each other and then gets into her mom's BMW.
Her mom immediately starts complaining and tells her she's getting a massage instead of having dinner with her.
Michelle arrives at "Bill's" front door panting and out of breath from the long hike up the drive. His name is actually Grant and he's cute and age-appropriate.
He gets her water and she checks out his telescope. He says he puts up private road signs, but the local cop takes them down.
He calls his chauffer Rusty to check out her car.
He hasn't heard her story. He doesn't get the local paper. He mountain bikes and reads and keeps to himself. She explains she's more of a renter. She recites some of Claire's land concerns and he tells her Claire's an idiot.
He says she could sell and give Fanny a cut. She doesn't know where she'd move home to.
She gets a text from the girls that they won the ugly feet contest. He points out a dancer with a dance studio doesn't sound so rootless.
She asks for some of the wine he's pouring, but it's not for her, he has a date coming.
Michelle returns to the studio at night and finds Sasha alone, dancing in front of the mirror. She packs up as soon as she sees Michelle. Her parents think she's in her room and won't notice she's gone. Michelle asks if she's OK and Sasha very unconvincingly says she is.
Michele goes into the cottage out back, with its bathtub in the middle of the room, and thinks it feels like home.
She finds Fanny in the house, zoned out among her knick nacks. Michelle takes out wine and explains that Fanny can stay in the house and she's going to move into the guest house behind the studio.
"All I know is that you are going to live here, and I am going to live there and tonight we are going to get very, very drunk," she says.
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