Episode #113 "Devil's Haircut"

  Lily's ecstatic when she learns that Eddie has scored four tickets for her to the No Doubt concert. Henry's wearing a hat in the house to cover up his awful haircut. Sean claims that Tony, their barber, did this. Walt says Tony is not capable of giving such a horrific haircut. Claudia says that clearly Tony's incompetent, but Sean had a talk with him. Walt's afraid Sean screamed at the man who's been giving Walt a perfect haircut for years. After Claudia leaves the room, Sean tells Walt the truth. It all started because Claudia felt Sean wasn't doing his share. Sean agrees to take Henry to get a haircut before his choir recital even though Claudia's convinced he'll forget. In fact, Sean doesn't forget but he makes a few detours on the way-to a movie, to the ice cream store and to watch the demolition of a building. When they get to the barber shop it's closed. Sean has no alternative but to cut Henry's hair himself, and he botches the job badly. Sean tells Claudia that the barber was drunk when he cut Henry's hair and swears Jimmy to secrecy telling him that if he goes down, Jimmy goes with him. Lily decides that she needs to think carefully about who she invites to the concert. These tickets could be the key to her popularity. Claudia's radar detects that Jimmy isn't telling the truth about Henry's hair, and he's quick to tell her the real story. Claudia tells Jimmy not to tell his dad that she knows the truth. He protests that now she's making him lie. The two lies cancel each other out, Claudia assures him. Claudia confronts Sean and says that he has no shame. Rather than tell her the truth he was willing to scream at poor Tony. In fact, Sean only pretended to yell at Tony and made a complete fool of himself at the barber shop. Lily is totally stressed at the prospect of not making the correct choice in giving out the concert tickets. She gives Eddie back the tickets saying that the stakes are just too high. And Sean apologizes to Claudia. He's just not programmed to be efficient like she is. He's in awe of her. Claudia says she can see right through him. She claims that she knew he was lying all along.