‘The Mick’ Season 2, Episode 7: Mickey, Jimmy Return To Their Hometown

Mickey and Jimmy are heading back to Warwick in the next installment of “The Mick.”

According to the synopsis for Season 2, episode 7, Mickey (Kaitlin Olson) and Jimmy (Scott MacArthur) bring Sabrina (Sofia Black-D’Elia), Chip (Thomas Barbusca), Ben (Jack Stanton), and Alba (Carla Jimenez) to their hometown to celebrate the retirement of Jimmy’s high school baseball number and discover how much of a big shot he was.

As seen in the trailer for the episode, Mickey and Jimmy reconnect with their old friends, including one character that’s seemingly played by guest star Rhys Coiro. In the video, Mickey gets a hug from who appears to be Coiro’s character, Ipp. While Mickey is thrilled to see Ipp again after a long time, Jimmy doesn’t appear to be pleased with the reunion. Was Ipp Jimmy’s rival for Mickey’s heart back in the day?

While the homecoming is supposed to be fun, Jimmy later finds out that Mickey may have had a hand in ruining his chances at a professional baseball career. This discovery seems to have caused Jimmy to break down at the baseball event itself. In some promo photos for the episode, a seemingly drunk Jimmy attempts to undress on the baseball field, much to the shock of the audience.

Olson and MacArthur teased the episode in an interview with Fox 7 Austin earlier this month. MacArthur said that viewers will “kind of get” Mickey and Jimmy’s “origin story” in the episode, which the actor described as “comedically tragic.”

Olson said that Mickey and Jimmy’s relationship is so mysterious that the writers decided to give them a backstory this season. “I always was wondering what’s happening [and] what’s going on [between Mickey and Jimmy],” Olson said. “At some point last season, I was like, ‘Guys, we have to address this because I don’t even know how to act around this character. I don’t even know how I feel about him.’ So that was sort of the impetus for doing some episodes where we dive in and figure out who they are to each other. Those are really fun.”

Elsewhere in the next episode, Chip and Sabrina find themselves in a pickle with some spoiled Warwick teenagers, while Alba makes out with “psychopath’ Michael Meera.

“The Mick” Season 2, episode 7, titled “Homecoming,” airs on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 9 p.m. EST on Fox. Watch the trailer below: