Later in Emma and Erica's apartment, Erica is working at the kitchen table while Emma and Ben are playing Monopoly in the living room.
"Yes, that's the last of it. I win, you lose, pay up, bro,"Emma says holding out her hand for the fake money.
"Best two out of three,"Ben says reluctantly handing his sister the money.
"No way, you just don't want to admit I'm the Gellar champion,"Emma says counting her fake riches.
"You are not the Gellar champion, I've had that title in the bag since before you were born,"Ben says leaning in closer to his sister.
"That's just because I hadn't been born yet, and after I was, it went to me,"Emma says leaning in equally close to her brother.
"Guys, can we not do this again, I'm trying to work,"Erica says from the table.
"What do you mean again ?"Emma asks as she and Ben turn to face her.
"Every time you guys play a game, you both get all über competitive and it spins way out of control,"Erica says still not looking up.
"We don't get über competitive, we just get into spirited debates,"Ben says as Emma nods.
"Oh, do all spirited debates end in the emergency room ?"Erica asks finally looking up.
"One time, one,"Emma says holding up her index finger to make her point.
"Three times,"Erica says holding up three of her own fingers,"The Candy land catastrophe of 2009, the Twister episode of 2015, and the most recent, the go-fish incident of 2027. Since then we keep you away from games,".
"Well we're not going to get carried away, we're just going to go down to the park and play some chess. Right sis,"Ben says as he and Emma stand up.
"Okay, but if you end up in lock up for throwing the bishop at a cop, call another lawyer, because there is no way I'm gonna go down and bail you again,"Erica says as Ben and Emma exit the apartment.
Just before the door closes Sophie comes in bouncing on a pogo stick.
"Oh what fresh hell is this,"Erica says as Sophie bounces into the apartment.
"Hey, Erica, I've, Got, Another, Pogo, Stick, At, My, Place, If, You, Want, We, Can, Go, Down, To, The, Park, And, Bounce, It, Helps, With, Brainstorming,"Sophie says in between bounces.
"Soph, honey, I thought I told you, you were going to spend the day with Jack,"Erica says getting up from her chair and walking up in front of her friend.
"He's, At, The, Dentist, Bad, Gum"Sophie says still bouncing.
"And what about Luke"Erica watching Sophie bounce and getting a little sick doing so.
"He's, Over, There, In, His, Apartment, Said, He, Was, Busy, So, I, Came, Here,"Sophie says still bouncing.
"Well I'm going to go talk with him, so just wait here,"Erica says as she leaves the apartment, leaving Sophie bouncing.
In his own apartment Luke is trying to wipe the coffee table, which is covered in a bunch of different kinds of magazines.
Unable to just move them to the side he swipes them all to the floor.
"Hey Luke,"Erica says as she enters the apartment and sees all the magazines on the floor,"Did your coffee table explode because I've been waiting for that to happen,".
"No I'm trying to clean up, but your brother just has so much stuff,"Luke says as Erica walks over, sits down on the floor and starts to organize the magazines, by date of release, color pattern, and general interest.
"He's always been like that, thinks that everything has a purpose and can be used over and over, but it really can't, he's almost as bad a hoarder,"Erica says holding up a six-month-old penny saver.
"I tried to talk to him about getting rid of a few things, but he just shut me down,"Luke says sitting down on the couch.
"Do you want to know what our Mom used to do, tough love. Get rid of anything he doesn't use, he'll be mad at first, but in a few days he'll forget it ever happened,"Erica says setting the magazines into three stacks.
"That could work,"Luke says nodding,"By the way, why are you here ? I thought you had to work,".
"What, oh right. I need you to keep Sophie busy, at least for a few more hours,"Erica says looking up from her work.
"I can't, one of the other doctors at the clinic is nine and a half months pregnant. So I'm on call in case the kid drops and I need to fill in for her, and I'm afraid if I take Sophie..,"Luke says thinking over what to say.
"They'll put her in a psych ward,"Erica asks as Luke nods.
"Yeah,"Luke nods again.
"Well I don't know what else to do, I need to work, Emma and Ben are down at the park, and have probably killed each other by now, and Jack's at the dentist..,"Erica says before Luke interrupts her.
"The dentist, he was fine this morning. What's wrong,"Luke asks confused.
"I don't know, something about bad gum,"Erica says going back to the magazines.
"You see this is exactly what I'm talking about, half of the stuff he owns is too old to be of any use, or could cause harm to him,"Luke says standing up and walks over to the counter where the gumball machine was.
"Remember, tough love. It's really for his own good,"Erica says turning to Luke.
"You're right, tough love,"Luke says as he picks up the gumball machine and throws it into the garbage.
"You're doing the right thing. Now with the rest of the apartment, I think we should start with the..,"Erica says as Luke comes back over to her.
"Erica, don't you have work to do, and you need to go look after Sophie,"Luke says as Erica looks disappointed.
"Oh, right. I hate my job,"Erica says as she walks back to the door,"And Sophie,"as she slams the door.
Luke looks around his apartment,"Okay now where to start,".