Stan has gotten accustomed to this unassuming, compliant version of his wife, so her new self-awareness begins to worry him. It’s not that Stan doesn’t want Francine to be informed, but he argues that if she continues too far in this direction then she’ll end up like Hayley, scowl lines and all, which is the lesser of two evils as far as Stan is concerned. Stan naturally gets ready to walk Francine off a ledge when she falls into a conspiracy wormhole full-force. Stan prefers his wife when the extent of her problems are what sort of rodent is about to be married on “Morning Mimosa,” not when she’s trying to figure out who’s a lizard person and what’s the government’s next big scandal.

Rather than simply talk to Francine on the matter like any involved husband would do, Stan attempts to sweep the problem under the carpet by doubling down on his deception. Stan notices that his support structures are beginning to weaken here, which is when he reveals that he’s actually been in charge of “Morning Mimosa’s” production for years now. The whole program has been engineered to be the show that he needs it to be for Francine so she’ll remain placated and worry-free through her days. This is a drastic, over the top scheme that Stan has in motion in order to solve this very minor problem of his, but it’s hardly the most extreme behavior that Stan’s demonstrated before.

When Francine stumbles onto all of this, it of course doesn’t help her frazzled mind. She literally finds out that her life has been turned into a conspiracy in order to keep her powerless, which only confirms her paranoid thoughts and that she’s alone in the world. It’s enjoyable to see Stan and Francine bounce off of each other with conspiracy theories as the basis and it’s frankly a little surprising that the show hasn’t explored this territory earlier. There have been occasions where Stan has gotten a little CIA crazy, but a storyline where Francine’s government conspiracies ostracize her from her husband is a no brainer.

Roger’s interests nicely dovetail with Francine’s this week as he decides to keep himself busy with his attempts to run a conspiracy theory convention in the attic. His paranoid, radical viewpoints come at exactly the right time for this fragile version of Francine and she very much takes to the ideologies that Roger’s conspiracy nut pushes forward. It doesn’t take long for Francine to start to experience her very own “truth twitches” when she begins to become enlightened.

Francine is able to further channel her newly realized truth seeker persona with Roger on his conspiracy theory podcast, Truth Planet. The two are great foils for each other here and their many unwarranted fears only cause each other to increasingly unravel. Most importantly though, this gives Francine a sense of purpose and lets her feel like she’s in control of her life for once. The final act of all of this culminates in a rather interesting way when one of Francine’s radical conspiracy theories ends up being right on the money. It’s not long until Francine becomes a target for Bullock and the rest of the CIA to eliminate so she’s unable to reveal more secrets to her Truth Planet audience.