Cynthia's Back

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Cynthia's Back was the fourteenth episode in season three of Malcolm in the Middle. It originally aired on 17 February 2002.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Cynthia (Tania Raymonde) returns (evidently from Europe judging by what Malcolm says) but has changed into a depressive person and acts annoyed in front of everybody. Malcolm tries to learn with her but gets into a fight with her. During the discussion, she accidentally lights her sweater on fire and strips it off. Malcolm promptly notices that she has developed large breasts. Malcolm swears that he won't tell anybody.

Meanwhile, Karen, a neighbor of the family who sobered up, makes a therapy where she tells her mistakes the people she has hurt. She tells Lois that during a party on neighbors eve kissed Hal. She confronts Hal who assures her he's never thinking about other women. Francis' friends on the other hand have stolen totem pole while being drunk. Francis defends the pole from them and starts dreaming of it. During all this, Dewey learns that his father can't fly a kite and also has some kind of trauma from it. He tries to help him with bad results at first, but can teach him when Hal runs after Dewey with a kite attached to his jeans.

In the meantime, Malcolm accidentally told Reese about Cynthia's breasts, who developed a plan to make her his girlfriend, touch her and then humiliate both, Malcolm and Cynthia. Malcolm, first in fear that Cynthia would get angry with him, confronts Reese when he sees them kissing. Unable to find evidence, he is still able to trick Reese. Out of desperation, Reese touches Cynthia's breasts and is immediately beaten down by her.

In Alaska, Francis has grown a delusion that the totem tries to communicate with him. An Indian bursts in and tells Francis that the pole is just a piece of wood he made himself with no meaning at all. He takes the pole with him and leaves a confused Francis behind. The show closes with Cynthia having dinner with the family and Karen comes over again, just to learn that Hal is Lois' husband and the man she kissed is someone completely different.