S02.E04: The Fury Of Firestorm

[Hecate7]

On 10/28/2015 at 3:35 PM, Chicago Redshirt said:

Iris was faced with two possibilities: either 1) Francine had become pregnant by Joe and kept secret from him that he has a son who he had been denied the chance to even know existed, let alone get to know 2) in her addict-dom, Francine cheated at least once with someone and gave birth to a son.

 

I would think I would want to know which of these was true. But I could see Iris saying, "Either way, it doesn't matter, since it will hurt Dad, so just GTFO."

Or there is a third possibility: Francine didn't know she was pregnant until she'd already been out on her own a couple of months, and by then Joe simply refused all her calls and would not speak to her. It's not so much "keeping a secret" as it is just not having the opportunity to tell Joe the truth. Sure, she could maybe have shown up 8 months pregnant, but who wants to do that if they're just going to be escorted out by security? I suspect Francine got it together once she discovered she was pregnant again, so maybe Joe's tough love did some good.