Grady's cousin Emma comes in from Chicago for a visit, promising to make things easier for Grady and Lamont by doing all the cooking and cleaning. Lamont correctly suspects that she's a freeloader when she makes a variety of excuses to get out of work while Grady defends her. After a while, even Grady begins to see through her empty promises, so he and Lamont devise a scheme to get her out of the house by pretending to have an extremely contagious skin disease.
—Jerry Roberts