Lindsay’s maternity leave is coming to end and it looks like it’s time to go back to work and she’s dropping hints that maybe it might be nice to stay home and take care of the baby full time to Mel. I mean, who wouldn’t want to stay home and not go to work? Melanie decides to talk with financial wizard Ted to see what can be done and if they can find a way for Lindz to stay home with Gus. It appears Mel has an inheritance from her father that we didn’t know about and from the way she told Lindsay how she “crunched the numbers,” Lindsay has no idea either. Hmm… secrets?

On a beautiful autumn day Jennifer’s back yard was filled with mums and pumpkins when Justin surprised his little sister with a beautiful sketch for her birthday. Jennifer talked with Justin about coming home and said that he was welcome. He was willing if only his father would meet him halfway, which was never going to happen and so he left.

But he may actually have been better off staying home because once Brian gets his hands on him his life will never be the same. Seems as though Sunshine didn’t turn the alarm on before he left the loft and Brian’s place was burglarized and all of his Armani suits and designer shoes were stolen. Me oh my, what is a fag to do? Blame the boy of course! Note to Brian: never ever let pretty-faced blond boys in charge of arming your security system. It will never work! Of course none of Justin’s stuff was stolen and the police were of no help considering the continual parade of strange, uhm, “guests” that Brian so frequently entertains so he threw Justin and all his crap out the door. So then what’s the pretty-faced blond boy to do but take his boyfriend’s (who isn’t his boyfriend) credit card and run off to New York to become a go-go boy. Raise your hands, boys and girls, if you think Justin did this knowing full well Brian would track him down, have his way with him and bring him home.

The little ploy worked, well sort of. Debbie berated Brian for throwing him out and made Brian go after him and so Michael, Emmett, and Ted tagged along for the road trip. Brian didn’t listen to Mysterious Marilyn’s warning to check the tires and so they had a blow out on the turnpike. He should’ve after all she was right on three other counts: she got that Ted was an accountant, Justin took Brian’s credit card and ran away to be a go-go boy, and the first three letters of Michael’s true love’s name are B – R – I. Alongside the highway Em’s butch side came out as the other guys stood around pondering what to do as Em dove right in and changed the tired! Brian told Michael that he knows that he can be shitty to him sometimes but that he knows Michael will always love him no matter what and Michael confirmed it and they kissed. Brian told Michael that he loved him to… always have, always will.

Justin left a trail leading right to him and Brian found him and gave him the fucking of his life and drug him home. But not to where Justin thinks! His new living arrangements place him living at Debbie’s, with Jennifer’s consent, but Debbie has her own rules that she is going to impose on Sunshine, starting with no bringing tricks home after midnight!

Michael is still not sure he wants to change his own living arrangements and move in with Dr. Dave. But David’s pressuring is relentless and maybe just a little too intense if you ask me. The topper is when he arranges a brunch for him and Michael with a gay couple who have been together for 50 years. There must be something in the back of Michael’s head telling him not to. But fairy godmother Emmett puts the thought in Mikey’s head that he’s not doing it because Brian wouldn’t approve. And, well, he may be partly right since Michael has really never gotten over his crush on Brian and is just hanging on to any last hope that maybe one day Brian will cave and they will hook up.

After the trip away with the boys to recover Justin, Michael turns David down and tells him he just wants to be boyfriends. But David doesn’t want a boyfriend; he wants a partner and so ends the relationship – all or nothing it seems. Hmm… perhaps the good doctor doesn’t know the word compromise? But then you’re left with the nagging thought that if David really does love Michael, wouldn’t he want to do something to make Michael happy and not isolate him from his friends and the life he knows and find some way to keep him in his life? Makes one wonder…