Dylan Sprouse | Grace Under Fire | Season 3

"Great Eggspectations"

To Grace's great shock, Nadine and Wade asks her to donate an egg so they can become parents. Grace is cornered and she agrees. She is put on Hormone shots. At work, everyone is careful with Grace due to her crazy mood swings. Dougie then mentions that he has donated sperms. Grace then seriously thinks about the egg donation and refuses Nadine. She is very upset initially and then admits that she does not want children anymore. She then reluctantly tells Wade and he also feels the same way.

"Movin' on Down"

Grace is demoted at work and John blames it on downsizing. She is very upset and almost decides to start drinking again. She then goes to meet her boss, Rick Bradshaw to ask for her old position. There she learns that her demotion was John's idea. When she confronts John, he admits that, he wanted to save his position for his retirement benefits, so he had to sacrifice hers. Quentin starts hugging Nadine every chance he gets. Wade get Jealous and asks Quentin to stay away from his wife. Grace then talks to Quentin about the new changes.

"Grace and Rick and the Dance of Doom"

When Rick wants everyone to work on the weekend, Grace says she is busy and mentions going to a museum with Libby. He comes to meet Grace when she is with Ben, and asks her out. She refuses as he has fired many of her friends. After a chat with Nadine, she realizes that she likes Rick and agrees to see him. When Quentin trades his bike for a pair of shoes just like Wade's, he thinks that Quentin sees him as a role model. Later, he discovers that it was a co-incidence, but finds out that Quentin is worried about being short. Wade cheers him up.

"The Breakup"

Grace starts a relationship with Rick before she breaks up with Ben. She tries talking to Ben, but he changes the subject. Quentin walks in on Grace and Rick kissing. He is very upset and tells Ben. Grace and Ben breakup. Libby is fine with the new situation. Nadine starts messing up with Wade by using his toothbrush. It freaks him out and he decides to take revenge by sleeping on her side of the bed in her satin panties. Russell is angry about working with his father.

"Grace Under a Wig"

It's Halloween and Jean is visiting. Libby is in trouble with the neighbors' son as she pushes him down for saying that she is going to hell. When the neighbor gives Grace a hard time, Jean comes to her defense. Quentin decides to play pranks, so Grace grounds him. He keeps trying to sneak out. Finally, to give Grace a break, Jean sends Libby and Patrick with Nadine and asks her to leave. Grace puts on a black wig, gets a new identity and goes to a cafe, where she reads a poem and tells stories.

"Daycare"

Grace needs a new sitter for Patrick and is unable to find any. She cannot afford the daycare as Patrick is not potty trained yet. Jean asks her to force train him, but Grace is not ready for that. She asks John for a daycare at work. He refuses, so she starts a signature campaign and asks Rick to help. John, on Rick's orders, promises a new daycare in 6 months. Grace finally force trains Patrick and sends him to daycare. Russell has a tough time dating a woman who was kissed by his father.

"Matthew Gets Busted"

Matthew is arrested for running nude though a protest on a bet. Grace bails him out, but his adoptive mother (Emily) is not happy. When Matthew acts up, Grace puts him straight and asks him to respect his adoptive mother. She assures Emily that she is not interested in taking away Matthew from her. Russell's dad starts smoking and his wife starts a makeup counter in her pharmacy. He decides to start a photo counter and starts looking for investors, namely Wade. Finally Russell's dad invests.

"Grace Really Under Fire"

It's Grace's anniversary at work and the guys get her a ladies rest-room. During the party, they are held hostage by a disgruntled ex-employee, Jules. Grace tries to flirt her way out of it and almost succeeds when an interview by Rick on TV ruins everything. Finally the police save them and her affair with Rick is out in the open. Meanwhile back home, Nadine tries her best to hide the news from the kids and Wade covers the event from his helicopter. Russell and his dad listen to the update on a radio and pray for Grace.

"Thanks for Nothing"

It's Thanksgiving and Jean is upset that Grace has sent Jimmy a lawyer's notice for pending dues. Emmett is out on a fishing trip and Jean is alone. Libby invites her for dinner. Quentin is upset that Rick is coming for dinner. At dinner Rick makes a great impression and everyone likes him. Grace starts a fight with him and later apologizes when she realizes that she is getting addicted to the fighting. Wade and Nadine fight over Thanksgiving dinner, as Wade wants to barbecue pork.

"Sleeping Together"

Rick and Grace finally sleep together and it's amazing the first night. The next morning, Jean catches them kissing and asks to know who Rick is. The next night, Rick makes dinner and they have sex again. This time, it's very bad and it gets awkward. Grace tries to break-up, but he admits that he is in love. They patch up. Nadine discovers a mole on Wade's neck and when seeing the doctor comes up, he admits that he hasn't been to one since 1973. Russell then has a look and discovers that it's just tar.

"Emmet's Secret"

Grace and Rick take a vacation together to St Louis, where they accidentally go to a gay bar. Back home, Jean is babysitting and Emmett is on a fishing trip. At the bar, Grace sees Emmett with another man. He confesses that he is gay and has been in a relationship for 15 years. He asks Grace not to tell Jean and she promises. Russell asks Wade to run for city council, but Nadine is against it and she is worried that the nude pics her second husband took of her may surface.

"Emmet, We Hardly Knew Ye"

The Kelly family's Christmas celebration is dampened when Emmett dies suddenly. During his funeral, his "significant other" appears at the funeral. Grace tries to keep Emmett's secret, but the truth comes out. Jean goes into denial, but finally comes to terms with the truth. Jimmy is worried that he might be gay too.

"Daddy's Girl"

Grace meets Rick's daughter, Amy, who is rather ill-mannered and not Grace's cup of tea, but she controls Rick and isn't too happy to see Grace. When Rick and Grace go to a symphony, she babysits and Libby starts to copy her. Grace gets upset with Libby, which upsets Amy too. Rick sides with his daughter and asks Grace to stay out of it. Nadine then points out that Amy is trying to split them up. Grace then confronts Amy and asks her to stop it.

"No Help Wanted"

Grace wants Quentin to move to the basement and wants Patrick to move-in with Libby, so that she can have her room back. Evie arrives announcing that she is married to a rich man. Grace's landlord asks for $500 to fix up the basement, but she has no money. When Evie offers to help, she gets upset and starts a fight. When Rick offers to pay, she starts a fight with him too. She starts fixing the basement on her own. Rick arrives and apologizes. He then offers to help with building the basement. She then makes up with Evie too. Russell is upset that his father stays out late every night. He is upset that he is not a part of it.

"Good Neighbor Sam"

A neighbor's son, Sam, starts hanging out at Grace's house and she finds he is escaping from a "perfect" mother. She tries to talk to his mother, Katherine, but it does not go well. Meanwhile, Wade discovers that his name has been engraved on a veterans' memorial. He tries his best to remove it as he thinks is a bad omen. Grace thinks that it is survivor guilt.

"Positively Hateful"

When the janitor at Libby's school is about to be fired for being HIV+, Grace wants to help him, but he is very hostile. Wade and Rick have no sympathy for him, but Nadine is on her side. She tries to defend him, but he is very nasty with her, and she ends up speaking against him. Quentin has got his first date and Grace wants Rick to teach him about going on a date. Russell also decides to help and gives Quentin some bad advice on kissing a girl. Rick sets him straight.

"Why Buy the Bull?"

Due to a gas leak, Grace and her kids have to move in with Rick for a while. Rick asks Grace to move-in permanently. Before she can answer, Rick gets a call about more job cuts in her department. Later Rick learns that he is fired. When Grace tries to move back home, Rick accuses her of running away because he is jobless. She is angry of the implication. When Rick gets a job in Alaska, Grace is scared that he will move away. Rick turns his job down to be with Grace. Russell's dad, Floyd, decided to have lunch with Russell's ex-wife, Barbara. Barbara offers Floyd a job in her pharmacy and he uses it to get a raise from Russell, but it turns out that he was just hustling Russell.

"Love Thy Neighbor"

Grace's new neighbors are Afro-Americans (Matt and Bailey). Jean pulls a gun on them and Jimmy insults them, which makes everyone think that she is a racist. To clear the misunderstanding she decides to invite them to dinner. Jimmy takes Quentin to shave his head, against Grace's wishes. The dinner doesn't go as planned and it upsets Grace.

"Pregnant Pause"

Nadine is finally pregnant. Wade and Nadine become obsessed with the baby and Grace feels left out. They even have a fight. She goes to the cafe (the one in Grace Under a Wig) to read her poetry alone and spends some time with Bailey (the new neighbor). Wade is very happy, and shares it with Floyd and Russell. Wade tries to patch up between Nadine and Grace.

"Broads for Broader Horizons"

Grace takes a creative writing class and Wade takes a CPR class in the same building. She gets an assignment to write pretending to be a in-animate object. She writes it during work and at home, but is unable to finish it. Her teacher Stan Meadows criticizes everyone. Rick becomes Grace's baby sitter and the kids are getting ignored. She decides to quit, but Rick encourages her to go back. Stan criticizes her and she takes a stand. Libby is suddenly interested in Grace's bras. Russell starts going to Single Tall Women club to meet new women.

"Head Games"

Quentin tries to finish his book report by watching the movie. He tries to get Grace to write him a letter that he is sick, but she refuses. At school, he uses his bald head to create an impression that he is very ill and the treatment is making him very sick. When his teachers start giving him flowers and his class-mates write poems for him, Grace goes to school to clear up the misunderstanding, but the teacher refuses to accept the truth. Grandma Jean has a new beau, George, with an amazing past. She feels guilty and breaks up after a while. Grace takes her out to dinner along with Rick to meet George. Nadine is nauseous of Wade's natural body smell, so they buy a range of scents to make her feel better.

"Mr. Mullens' Opus"

Grace starts working on a crisis hotline for charity. She starts talking to a Ron regularly to stop him from drinking again. One night when he is particularly unhappy, she rushes to the bar to meet him, only to discover that he is the nasty janitor, Mr. Mullens. In the beginning he is very hostile, but later and tells her that his wife has thrown him out. Grace asks him to clean up and reunites him with his wife. Libby is asked to sell cookies for charity and she has a tough time. Quentin scratches Wade's car by mistake and Libby blackmails him. Quentin sells cookies for Libby. Russell and Floyd are in trouble and are sent to crisis hotline as community service.

"Take Me to Your Breeder"

The oil refinery has a toxic spill and all the employees are sent to the hospital. Rick babysits for the children and Quentin gives him a particularly bad time, as he is upset with Jimmy when he cancels their plans. When the situation is out of control, Grace rushes home. On the way, she hallucinates that aliens have abducted her and she meets her father. When Grace is late, Wade and Russell search for her and find her in her car. After she comes to her senses, she grounds Quentin for bad behavior.

"Guess Who's Not Coming to Lunch?"

Jimmy's child support checks bounce again and there are money problems. She refuses to take money from Rick. To save money, she enrolls her kids for the free lunch program. Quentin and Libby are ashamed as the free lunch kids stand in a separate queue. Grace goes to their school to sort the issue and learns that Libby is having stomach aches. Grace finds out they are from a stress-related ulcer. She feels guilty and tries to keep Libby stress-free. She and Rick take her to a carnival. Quentin asks Rick for some money and buys sneakers. He also gets Russell and Floyd to take him to the carnival. Grace then talks to Libby and asks her to take it easy.

"You Go Girl"

Grace gets Rick a job in the oil refinery, working under John. John and the others are not too warm towards him. One night he gets drunk and proposes to Grace who is inclined to accept until she learns that his new job site is Alaska. She talks to the kids and Jimmy about it. Rick proposes to her again when he is sober and she turns him down. Rick leaves. Russell is invited to his detested ex-wife's wedding. His ex-wife is left at the altar at her wedding.