Mom (season 5)

Adam proposes to Bonnie, who panics and says "no" twice before finally accepting. The girls think Bonnie is hiding feelings that she is not good enough to marry anyone, even someone she loves. Elsewhere, Natasha asks Christy's help to find her a job so she can get Emily back, while Jill is feeling depressed and has gained a lot of weight. Also, Christy is thrilled to hear that she passed her LSAT test with an "average" score.

Ray returns from rehab, saying he's doing really well being clean. As Ray and Adam go to a Warriors basketball game, Bonnie and Christy borrow Ray's Mercedes to drive to their meeting. They get stopped by a police officer because of a burned out taillight, and while the officer is back at her car, Christy finds both cocaine and marijuana in the glove box. Christy and Bonnie confront Ray, who says he only uses "occasionally" and does not need help. The girls later find out that Ray lost his job and is "on a break" from his husband David. Bonnie wants to help him but eventually listens to Marjorie's advice on "tough love".

Bonnie helps Natasha move into a rundown, unused apartment in her complex. When it comes time for Emily to move back in with her mother, Jill decides to quit feeling sorry for herself and be helpful. Meanwhile, Christy is assigned a younger partner named Cooper (Michael Angarano) for a law school project, and the two soon become romantically involved.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Christy and Bonnie give up cable and internet in their home to help with financing Christy's college applications. Natasha tells the ladies about potentially being discovered for her singing-songwriting. Jill has a meltdown, prompting her to take action.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Bonnie injures both ankles when she accidentally steps off a curb while talking on her cell phone with Christy. Bonnie experiences what it's like to be unable to walk, which helps her to better understand Adam. Christy fills in for her mom as the apartment complex manager and is surprised to learn that Bonnie does a lot of nice things for the tenants, even though she also has to deal with some of Bonnie's old worse self trying to leverage the injury for her own benefit.

Adam tries to go meet with his visiting brother Patrick (Steven Weber) without telling Bonnie, who eventually finds out and wonders why Adam does not want her along. After inviting herself and Christy to the dinner meeting, Bonnie learns that Adam and Patrick have been at odds for years over business and emotional issues. Complicating things, Christy later strikes up a conversation with Patrick and the two go on a date.

As Christy tries to figure out where her relationship with Patrick is going now that he's returning home to Santa Cruz, the girls learn from Marjorie that Victor had a stroke and is in the hospital.

Christy and Bonnie's house gets ransacked, where their stolen possessions includes the former's laptop containing her term paper. With Marjorie and Wendy's help, they locate a seller for the stolen contents through Craigslist, only to find Mary, one of their fellow meeting attendees, living there. Absent: Jaime Pressly as Jill and William Fichtner as Adam

Christy, Bonnie and Adam bail Ray out of jail after Ray calls Adam for being arrested for getting into a fight at a Warriors game. Bonnie intends to force him to get sober and go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but Ray insists that he gets cleaned up his way and stays with Adam, only to resort to using cocaine again. Meanwhile, Christy fights to get her job back after the snippy new manager at the restaurant gets fed up with her tardiness and fires her. Absent: Jaime Pressly as Jill

Although she still wants to make the long-distance relationship with Patrick work, Christy hooks up with Cooper after running into him at school. Christy continues to see Cooper but considers it a sex-only relationship, while it becomes clear that Cooper thinks it's more, and Marjorie points out that Christy needs to stop trying to make everyone like her all the time. Meanwhile, Bonnie tries to give up coffee with little success. Absent: Jaime Pressly as Jill

Christy travels to Santa Cruz to surprise Patrick and tell him that she wants to start a real relationship, but their attempts to be physical together fall flat. Meanwhile, Bonnie and Adam attend a wedding together, which starts an argument over what they want for their own wedding. Absent: Mimi Kennedy as Marjorie, Jaime Pressly as Jill and Beth Hall as Wendy

Christy's car dies on the way home from Patrick's house and Bonnie refuses to let Adam loan her money for a new vehicle so Christy turns to someone she knows in the car business for help.

Special guest star: Matt Jones as Baxter

Absent: Jaime Pressly as Jill

Jill comes back from her weight loss retreat as a new and improved woman. When Jill decides that she will no longer pay for the group's meals because it symbolizes buying their affection, Bonnie becomes upset. Meanwhile, Christy receives some disappointing news that will affect her future plans.

Jill introduces the group to her "inner strength" coach Miranda (Kristin Chenoweth). After witnessing Miranda help Wendy assert herself, Christy approaches Miranda to help with her depression over her law school rejections. Meanwhile, Jill still struggles with controlling herself from overeating, so she tries to use Miranda's advice and has some success but also tries to apply it elsewhere with disastrous results.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Jill's everyday relapses cause a strain in Christy and Patrick's relationship when the latter arrives over the weekend to celebrate his 54th birthday.

Christy accepts Jill's offer to take her on a shopping spree after Christy turns down Patrick's proposal and they break up, only to see Jill's ex-husband's new wife shopping as well. Meanwhile, Bonnie takes in a puppy to cheer Adam up after his dog passes away, only to find out that he is not ready to move on just yet.

When Christy and the group hold a meeting at a women's prison, Bonnie gets attacked by a woman named Tammy (Kristen Johnston). Soon she realizes Tammy was a foster sister in her past, when they were both teenagers. It is revealed that Tammy holds a grudge, saying that Bonnie ruined her life by getting her kicked out of her only decent foster home.

First appearance of: Kristen Johnston as Tammy
Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Christy finds a new sponsor named Nora (Yvette Nicole Brown) after seeing Marjorie lose her temper at a deli clerk in the grocery store and later having a heated argument with her at a women's spa day. Christy later goes on a date with a guy she met casually only because she learned Patrick is dating someone new. Marjorie reveals she hasn't had a sponsor since hers relapsed almost a year ago and apologizes to Christy for her actions.

When Bonnie clashes with new building owner Rita (Patti LuPone), who is the ex-wife of the previous owner Tony, Christy is worried that they might get kicked out of their apartment. Bonnie first refuses to do her job out of petulance and fear that she'll be doing menial labor for the rest of her life, but actually begins working hard after heeding advice from Marjorie and Christy. Bonnie later stands up to Rita when the owner demands Bonnie evict Mr. Munson, a blind Army veteran who is battling prostate cancer and is behind on his rent payments.

Nora tells Christy to accept the fact that she is choosing to live with Bonnie, and that she needs to be nice to her even when she is being a pain in the ass. Meanwhile, Bonnie thinks that "Fiancee Adam" is not making any effort in their relationship like "Boyfriend Adam" used to do. When Christy starts to do nice things for Bonnie without taking credit, Bonnie thinks it is Adam doing those things and that he really is making an effort. Christy becomes very angry when she sees Adam taking credit for the things she has done for Bonnie, but is also happy that the two have patched up their differences.

Bonnie and Adam have a weekend planned in Reno, but Adam suggests Bonnie take Christy as she is very depressed after learning Patrick got engaged. During a stop for ice cream, a police officer notices there are no plates on the car and later arrests Bonnie for having over $2000 in unpaid parking tickets. To get Bonnie out of jail, Christy goes to the nearest ATM after they get Adam to wire money to her account, but the ATM is in a casino and Christy gambles it away. She soon asks Jill for money, but loses that in the casino, too. Bonnie and the local cop bond over parenting issues and things sort of work out.

Note: Allison Janney submitted this episode for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Christy is celebrating both five years sober and her college graduation. The ladies get her diamond earrings as a graduation gift. The next night, Chef Rudy talks Christy into a poker game where she proceeds to lose her tip money and the earrings. Bonnie blows up at Christy during her graduation party when she finds out. Christy grudgingly has to admit she needs help for her gambling addiction. After the ladies' next AA meeting, she walks down the hall to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. Upon returning home, Christy opens a letter and learns she got into law school.

Special guest star: French Stewart as Chef Rudy