John Beard

The Bluth family are thrown into turmoil when Michael Bluth Senior is arrested for shady accounting practices at the family owned conglomerate and the Bluth family assets are frozen.

Michael realizes that running the company isn't going to be as easy as he thought, especially since his father seems to be pulling some strings from inside the joint.

Convinced that the family's image is hurting his son's future, Michael hires an attractive publicist who proceeds to write a scathing article after Michael rebuffs her advances.

Jealous when his girlfriend is nominated for a "daytime Desi", Gob decides to stage a publicity stunt for his magic act by breaking out of the same prison where George Sr. is being held.

Michael believes he is gloating to the wrong person in prison when the company stock has risen. Maeby and George Michael are dealing with the aftermath of the kiss, and avoiding one another, while Lucille has stopped taking her postpartum medicine.

Gob tries to trick the company's Japanese investors when they come to visit, but Tobias ruins everything after he mistakes a CIA agent for a talent agent from CAA.