Jess invites her divorced parents to Thanksgiving dinner and schemes to get them back together; Schmidt and his visiting cousin compete to prove their manhood.
Sue feels suddenly free without Axl at school; Brick is anxious as he enters middle school; Frankie is jealous of Mike's texts from Axl.
Frankie attempts to plan a graduation party for Axl; Sue goes in for her driver's license for the sixth time; Brick struggles to put together a slide show highlighting the past four years.
