Sunday night, David said his goodbyes and went back to Chicago, while all of Dan's kids went to see a movie with Jerry. Dan used this time to host a poker game for his prison drywall buddies, all came minus Mark.

"Man I hope they don't call in work tomorrow. Anne Marie is so used to me going to work that she's ready to kill me." Chuck said, smoking a cigar.

"At least you have a wife." George said.

Dan looked at George and felt a sudden pang of sadness as he realized that George was including him in that statement. Chuck saw Dan's sudden sadness and changed the subject quickly. "So Dan have you heard anything from Mark?"

Dan took a drink from his Coke. "No. But I hope he calls you if he's not coming in tomorrow. I'd feel bad if I knew you were two men short."

Chuck smiled. "Actually I found a replacement for you."

Dan looked at Chucky, with a face that said he was happy for him. "Really? Who?"

"Some guy named Booker Brooks." Dan laughed as he held his cards in his hands away from the view of his friends.

"Booker? Booker is taking over for me?"

They all looked at Dan. "You know him?"

Dan smiled wide. "Yeah, I do. He's dating Jackie, and he used to be Roseanne and Jackie's boss when they worked at Wellman's."

George looked at Dan. "Roseanne worked at Wellman's?"

Dan shook his head, "Yes."

Later, all four of Dan's kids got home with a sleeping Jerry. Dan took him from Becky. "Did he give you any trouble?"

All the kids looked at their dad. "No, he was asleep through the whole movie."

Dan nodded and then took Jerry up the stairs and into his room.

The sleeping arrangements remained the same as yesterday, and on Monday, Dan woke up amazingly energized and ready for work.

His three older kids were glad to see that his depression seemed to have been healed, but Darlene worried that it was only suppressed and that it would take over her dad again. Every single Conner had Cheerio's and Dan drove DJ to school on his way to work, while Becky filled in for Stacey at the diner (That looked to be permanent as Leon had grown tired of Stacey's constant tardiness and preoccupation with every single single guy that walked through the diner). Darlene stayed home with Jerry. Dan ultimately refused but Darlene convinced him that even though she was pregnant she could take care of a baby. "Dad, mom took care of me when she was pregnant with DJ and took care of Becky when she was pregnant with me…"

At his new job, Rocko explained that really all Dan needed to do was help out with customers and keep tabs on the younger employee's. This put Dan in a good mood; he found he really liked this job. Pretty much the sum of his day was asking if customers needed help, helping them, checking them out and asking what the other employees were doing every half hour.

One younger employee went missing for a lengthy period of time. Dan went looking for him and found him sitting nonchalantly, behind a stack of shelves that various garden supplies. The kid, who was named Devon, took a drag off his cigarette, eyeing Dan in a way that Dan found a small bit unsettling.

"You're supposed to be stocking the nail and screw jars." Dan said sternly as if he were talking to one of his kids.

Devon said nothing but stared at Dan and took another drag at his cigarette. "Yeah, and you're supposed to be checking up on me. That's the only reason you were hired."

Dan stared back at the 20 year old. "I'm doing my job. Which is the least I can say for you."

Devon smiled. A creepy chilling smile that reminded Dan of his first meeting with Mark. He stood up, as he put out his cigarette. The kid was at least a foot taller than Dan and skinnier even with Dan's slimmed down size. The kid wanted to make Dan feel threatened. Dan knew this and hid his tiny amount of fear.

"I heard that your daughter divorced Mark." Somehow saying this made the kid seem evil. Dan didn't let his uneasiness show though. That would give Devon power over Dan.

The kid glared at Dan but walked away and did what he was supposed to do.

One customer came by and Dan recognized him immediately. It was Steven, Leon's partner in marriage.

Steven saw him and came up to him. "Oh Dan. You work here now?"

"Yeah, todays my first day. Can I help you with anything?"

Steven talked with his hands as he talked, "You can actually. The tile in our kitchen has spaces in between it, like its missing that stuff. I don't know what it's called…."

Dan nodded knowingly, "Grout…"

Steven pointed at Dan. "Grout yeah that stuff. Anyway Leon tells me that he won't help me fix it because I don't do my fair share around the house. I told him that it wouldn't get fixed if he didn't do it himself, but Leon tells me that if I don't do it that he would stop cooking dinner because he can't do that if the tiles in the kitchen hurt his feet." Dan listened to all this trying to block the images of Leon and Stevens married life out of his head. He respected Leon and Steven and their beliefs but he really didn't want to get involved with their drama.

Dan waved his hand. "I understand, Steven, and what you need is this."

Dan walked down an aisle and found the tubes of Grout. "See this? This works just like a tube of icing. Point it, push the trigger down, and stay in the lines. Be careful you don't smear it and it'll dry in about an hour. My advice is start at the far side of the kitchen and work your way out or you'll be playing hop scotch." Dan's advice came from experience. He had used the stuff hundreds of times.

Steven smiled and walked away until Dan remembered to ask something. "Wait how big is your kitchen?"

Steven scrunched his eyes together as he thought. "I don't know. "

Dan sighed, not every man had his gift for correctly estimating the square footage of a room. "Well then I'd buy two just to be careful. You can always return the other one if you don't need it."

On his lunch break at noon, he walked down the street to the diner. "Hey, dad." Becky said as Dan sat down at the counter.

"Hi, Beck. Busy today?"

Becky shook her head. "No but Leon is pissed at something and is making us all suffer."

Jackie heard this from the loose meat pan, and shook her head with her hand on her hip and the meat spreader in her hand (In reality it's a small garden hoe that caused a great commotion on a season five episode of Roseanne on YouTube.) "He's driving me crazy!"

Becky put a plate in front of her dad, and Dan pointed at the chips rack. Becky gave him the BBQ ones, and Jackie put a sandwich on his plate. "I'll take a Coke, too."

As Jackie was handing him the Coke, Leon came out and he looked mad. "Dan thank god you're here. I need you to fix the pipes in the kitchen."

Dan watched Leon talk. "Sorry Leon. I'm working."

Leon exclaimed with hands. "You're the one that did the pipes in the first place."

Dan started to get annoyed with Leon too. "Yeah you're right I did. I'll fix them when I get a chance."

Leon was amazingly snooty today. "You know Dan it seems like everything you fix needs fixed again." He said before exiting the room quickly to avoid physical confrontation with Dan.

Dan stood up. "You know that was brave coming from a man who is normally afraid of me." Dan said sitting back down. Dan had always a feeling that Leon was afraid of him, which showed immensely the time he came to see him after work one day, and they talked about Roseanne and Leon wanted Dan to stay away from him. That night Dan sat on his hands at the counter to set Leon at ease.

Jackie lowered the heat on the loose meat but then went over to Dan. "I would like to know what his problem is." She said, with a hint of contempt.

Dan looked in the direction where Leon went. "Maybe he's having a problem with 'STEVEN'." Becky looked at her dad. Dan saw her strange look and then swallowed the bite in his mouth before answering, "Don't ask."

Booker walked in, took off his coat and sat next to Dan at the counter. "Hey Booker, how's the drywall treating you?"

Booker looked Dan up and down. "Good, it's a very interesting experience."

Dan laughed a small laugh as he looked at Jackie. "I thought that's what you said about dating Jackie."

Jackie reacted to it by gently slapping him across the face. Dan finished eating and then journeyed back to work.

He got off work in time for his meeting. To Dan's dismay he was called up to speak.

Dan walked up to the podium feeling the crushing weight in his chest as he remembered that he was afraid to speak in front of a group. Dan stood at the podium staring at everybody, he knew what he was supposed to say, he just wasn't sure how to say it. He looked down and cleared his throat and then he looked up again and began.

"Hi. I'm Dan and I'm an alcoholic."

The audience replied, "Hi, Dan."

Dan nodded and continued, "I have four kids. The oldest is going through a divorce and the youngest is still in diapers. I was uh, in a car accident that killed my wife, Roseanne. Something happened when I was in the hospital and I realized that I was an alcoholic. Because I was afraid of what would happen to me with my wife gone I asked my sister in law to watch my two sons, and went to rehab. When I got out, I went back to work and started attending meetings. Thank you." Dan watched the eyes of his audience. For a split second he thought he did something wrong but then they clapped. Dan smiled nervously and sat back down next to Benny. Benny leaned over.

"That was good son."

When the meeting was over Dan went home, and found all his kids at home, with Becky making grilled cheese sandwiches and Campbell's tomato soup.

"Hi dad." They each said as he stood in the kitchen after coming in through the back door.

"Hi." Dan looked around and saw that the pictures of the dogs playing nine ball had made an appearance by the living room door. "I see that you've decorated."

Becky and Darlene looked at each other. "Well we know you like those pictures so we bought new ones."

Dan smiled. "Ah ha. Well thank you." Dan put his lunchbox and thermos on top of the fridge. The girls were happy to see him do that as that was one of his signature characteristics.