Alex's rival though, Sanjay (Suraj Partha), also gets called with his parents and the principal announces them that they are going to be co-valedictorians, something that they refuse to accept.
One day before the competition, Sanjay goes to Alex's house and tells her that he likes her and that she is the reason he can attend college because she was always pushing him to study more and become better.
Javier (Benjamin Bratt), who is visiting to see Manny (Rico Rodriguez), disapproves of what Gloria is doing and he prevents her from doing it by saying that she forgets and rejects her roots.
After Gloria finds out that Jay wants her to become American citizen because he hates waiting in the long lines at the airport, she decides to abandon the idea.
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) are at a store with Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) buying things she needs for a school project.
They run into Longinus (Kevin Daniels) and Jotham (Matthew Risch) who inform them that they are going to participate in a protest against a local restaurant that is against gay rights.
It’s a fairly blatant message for a sitcom, but "Patriot Games" pulled this off in a nicely sentimental way, from teen romance to the culmination of a lifelong dream.