As her wedding approaches, Cate takes off on a road trip with Lux to find her father, Gordon, who abandoned her when she was a little girl. After Bug's friends trash Baze's bar, Lux invites Baze to join the road trip so Bug has time to repair the bar before Baze discovers the truth.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 12 of Life Unexpected resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Life Unexpected Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Home Inspected
• s01e03 - Rent Uncollected
• s01e04 - Bong Intercepted
• s01e05 - Turtle Undefeated
• s01e06 - Truth Unrevealed
• s01e07 - Crisis Unaverted
• s01e08 - Bride UnBridled
• s01e09 - Formal Reformed
• s01e10 - Family Therapized
• s01e11 - Storm Weathered
• s01e12 - Father Unfigured
• s01e13 - Love Unexpected

Life Unexpected Show Summary

After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux has decided it's time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze leads Lux to her biological father, 30-something Nate Bazile, who owns a bar, lives like an aging frat-boy with two slacker roommates, and is astonished to learn that he has a teenage daughter. Lux is equally astonished when Baze reveals that her mother is Cate Cassidy, a star on the local Morning Madness radio show, along with her on-air partner and real-life boyfriend, Ryan Thomas.

Lux has been listening to Cate's voice on the radio as long as she can remember, so she feels an instant connection with the mom she's never met. Baze takes Lux to meet Cate, who is shocked and saddened to learn that Lux has grown up in foster care, but thrilled to finally meet her beautiful daughter. When a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves.