Steve is left home alone when the family takes a trip to look at a potential college for Hayley. When his friends arrive and realize he has the run of the house, they persuade Steve to break the rules. They’re soon in over their heads when they discover that what they thought was a video game is actually a military controlled drone. They crash it but Snot brings it to a mechanic he could trust not to ask questions.

Stan returns, having been barred from the plane for leaving to get a magazine in the terminal (even his CIA badge failed to get him in), to find that Steve has betrayed his trust and thrust them into a high-level security situation; if the CIA finds out the drone is missing, then they’ll cut off Stan’s buttocks. They go to the body shop but the Chinese Mafia had taken the drone as payment for the mechanic’s debts, only to sell it to a man for a parade. Stan accidentally informs them that the drone cost 50 million dollars, compelling them to get it back, as well as attack him. Steve calls Stan on his cell phone and tells him to get on the drone, as he remotely controls it away from the parade. This is just the start for Steve to regain his father’s confidence.

Meanwhile, Roger dresses up as a young girl named Katelyn on the flight. When the drone flies over, the plane is grounded and Roger finds himself unable to drink because of his disguise, so he dresses up as Stan. When the air marshal notices that “Katelyn” is missing, he refuses to let the plane take-off and threatens to kill a passenger every minute. Francine and Hayley pleads Roger to get back in his girl costume but he is so drunk and into his persona that he’s forgotten he was Katelyn. When he realizes this, he dresses as the girl again, but as the plane takes for take-off, the drone flies over again and they are grounded again; Hayley swears at the top of lungs at this.

In another side story, Steve had accidentally crashed the drone onto a squirrel, who happened to be the president of the squirrel community. The Vice-president takes off.

“Home Adrone” is the third episode of the fifth season of American Dad. It aired October 11, 2009, on FOX.

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