Narrator: Having lost her parents and her house, Maeby stopped bothering with high school, skipped her grandmother's trial, and headed to LA. She now had to make sure that she had an income.
Kitty: Guess what.
Maeby: What?
Kitty: I'll just tell you. Yeah. 'Cause I feel like we'll be here forever, and I have a meeting. Um, you're fired.
Maeby: Why?
Kitty: Well, because you don't have a high school diploma, and we have a very strict policy here that everyone has to have a high school diploma, on account of the fact that Ron never graduated.
Maeby: Is this really happening?
Kitty: Actually, I was thinking I wasn't even gonna have to fire you 'cause it's been on Deadline all day.

Narrator: With no parents, no job, and no place to live, Maeby had squat, which is exactly what she decided to do at her grandparents' penthouse. And that's when Maeby did what we in the entertainment industrycall "deadlining."
Maeby: Come on.
Narrator: On the plus side, each parent thought she was with the other. So Maeby was as free as that bird. So she retreated to the long-abandoned model home, where she discovered it's a lot harder to get out of a Bluth home than into one.
Maeby: Pieces of [bleep].
Narrator: And maybe it was because she had never fully disappointed her parents, and they were getting older. Or perhaps it was because there was no Internet at the model home.
Maeby: That is it. This is like living in 1999.
Narrator: But that's when Maeby became a high school senior for the third time, and then a fourth. And then it just sort of became what she did. And it ultimately led to this.

Maeby: So I'm still going to stay in high school until they notice me. You know, just, like, let them think, "Oh, no, should we be worried? Is she really that immature?"
George Michael: Yeah. Well, I mean, isn't it kind of a little immature to try and make your parents worry like that?
Maeby: Oh, that's good. I'm gonna try and work that in there.
George Michael: No, I think it's in there.

George Michael: Yeah, well, let's get you in here before our third roommate shows up. That's Paul Huan.
Maeby: Hi. So there's three people who live in here?
George Michael: Yeah, well, one guy is just kind of crashing here.
Maeby: Well, it can't be worse than living with your dad.
George Michael: It's not. No, it's not worse than that.

Perfecto: Hey, how was your tutor? He's not gonna take you away from me, is he?
Maeby: Well, not until his software hits and he can buy me an apartment. I'm living in a [bleep] hole.
Perfecto: I hear they're hiring at Chipotle.
Narrator: And that's when Maeby realized maybe she should have graduated high school.

Donnie Richter: Young lady, you better pull it together or you're not going to graduate. What is it going to take to get you to focus? Are you on drugs? Because, from what I hear, there might be an undercover cop at this school.
Narrator: In fact, it was an undercover cop she was searching for a way to incriminate.
Donnie Richter: How long do you want to stay in high school? You're 17.
Narrator: And that's when she remembered that Perfecto thought she was 17, too.
Maeby: You know what? I think I will do better once I get a little Mexican in me.

Narrator: Maeby got her cousin to drive her to the Opies so she could impress him with her achievements.
Maeby: Well, I'm going to go mingle with a bunch of 13-year-olds who think they can still play fifth grade. Have fun.
George Michael: I'll catch up.
Narrator: And Maeby ran into her old studio boss, Mort Meyers.
Maeby: I'm actually getting the lifetime achievement Opie tonight.
Mort Meyers: I'm very sorry.
Maeby: [scoffs] Yeah.
Mort Meyers: No, they only give that award away to somebody after they die, or even worse, after your career is dead.
Maeby: Really?
Mort Meyers: Well, consider yourself lucky. They told you your career was over. I didn't find out until I was locked out of my office, 'cause, see, I passed on Hunger Games.

Maeby: Perfecto.
George Michael: De nada.
Maeby: That's my undercover cop boyfriend. I'm trying to get him in bed.
Narrator: And Maeby set to work in trapping him into becoming a predator.
Maeby: Hey. I know why you're here.
Perfecto: Promise me you won't tell anyone at school. I'm just a huge fan of teen stars.
Maeby: Yeah. That's very convincing. Yeah. You're a better actor than most of the kids here. Even Zack and Cody.
Perfecto: Are they here? I thought they were filming a movie in Maui.

Maeby: Look, I may only be 17, Perfecto, but I know you're a cop. Yeah, there it is, that cop stare. I got to tell you, I find it very sexy.
Perfecto: Okay. Okay, all right. I'm a cop. I'm working here undercover. We're hunting down an ex-CIA operative named Esteves who's gone rogue, and it's the kids from Modern Family. Sorry. He's become a drug kingpin and his son goes to Newport. There's something going down tonight or possibly even at Cinco and that- Rico!
Maeby: Wow, you are good.
Perfecto: I have to be. Young lives depend on it.
Maeby: To be continued.
Perfecto: You better believe it. Rico!

Narrator: Although, in that moment, she did gain some respect for her mother. And perhaps that's why she chose to share her problems with her.
Maeby: I'm getting a lifetime achievement award for my work in the entertainment business.
Lindsay: I tried. Tell your therapist I tried.
Maeby: I'm not in therapy!
Lindsay: Then I must have done something right.