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Northern Exposure Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 1
Three Doctors
Mon, Sep 20, 199346 mins
Ed is feeling uneasy. He keeps waking up in high places not remembering how he got there. First it is on a high limb in one of Maurice's trees. Next, it is atop the roof of The Brick. He consults with Joel about his problem and is told it seems to be sleepwalking. He thinks it is more akin to "sleepflying". He eventually talks with Leonard about his condition. Leonard says it is a message that this may indicate a calling for him to become a shaman. He buries Ed's hand in a hole and has him stay in place for a long time. When he returns and removes ed's hand, it is holding roots, vole food. This is a positive sign. Meanwhile, Joel complains of nose pain that feels like pins are poking him there. The locals roll their eyes and eventually reveal that he is coming down with "glacier dropsy". He tells them there is no such disease. He even calls his fellow medical student in New York who is an infectious disease specialist. They both agree it is an infection that should respond to tetracycline, but it doesn't. As Joel's condition worsens, the town rallies to provide him with their folk remedies. One such treatment is a sulfur pack that Maggie installs around his neck. He has delusional dreams in which three doctors (Holling, Ruth-Anne and Marylin) help him give birth to a baby daughter. While he is incapacitated, Leonard takes on his patient load. Joel is not happy about this when the disease has finally run its course and he is back to lucid thinking. Shelly, who has only been able to interact with others in song, suddenly finds she can once more talk normally. Leonard explains to her that it is a sign of getting beyond worries about the baby she carries. Now that she accepts that it is developing normally, she can talk normally.
Episode 2
The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop
Mon, Sep 27, 199346 mins
The past comes back to haunt the residents (of Cicely) when Maurice works himself into a minor heart attack while over-fretting his age. Maggie relives a childhood fantasy, and Joel traces the history of Cicely to long-forgotten Jewish predecessor.
Episode 3
Jaws of Life
Mon, Oct 4, 199346 mins
Ed is at Maurice's door with piqued curiosity because the box he has delivered has a pair of eyes in it. Madam Tussaud's wax museum staff have decided to add an exhibit that will include Maurice as one of their rugged individualists. They have sent Arthur Prabnanda, a former mortician, to produce the head from a life cast, a palette of paints, and the eyes that Ed delivered. Maurice, full of pride from this recognition, invites Holling, Shelly, and Ruth-Anne to dinner. They find it kind of creepy. As Maggie and Shelly visit on the street, John Summer, DDS, arrives with his mobile dental clinic trailer. Everyone seems to have some pressing business that will keep them out of his line of sight. Dave the Cook has puffy cheeks from wisdom teeth extraction. Maggie, however, greets him in The Brick and sets herself up for an appointment for a missing filling. As Summer works on her, she is amazed that it is so painless. She gushes about him to the point that he asks her to stop. He hungers for people to be real in his presence, not trying to butter him up. Chris stops by Joel's clinic to pick up some blood pressure pills. Marilyn tells him that he will now live to a ripe old age. This totally derails him as the Stevens men have always died at a young age. Chris oversleeps, missing his Chris in the Morning Show that has to be done by Maurice. When he does show up, Maurice gives him his pink slip. At The Brick, he picks fights with everyone. Back at his trailer, he is not interested in taking Carla for a motorcycle ride as planned. Holling visits Chris at his trailer and councils, "Pace yourself." That seems to do the trick. Chris goes back into town and bumps into Dr. Summer. He admits that he has only been to a dentist once in his 31 years of life. The doc is very interested in looking at his mouth. He is surprised to find it in fairly good order. A few visits will have it all tuned up. The museum does not come for Maurice in wax. They changed their mind on the exhibit. He can keep it. He and Ed take it to the dump and watch it get land-filled. Chris has his KHBR job back.
Episode 4
Altered Egos
Mon, Oct 11, 199345 mins
Obsession reaches new heights when Chris is dismayed that his ex-lover can't find any difference between him and Bernard in bed. Joel worries about losing his New York "edge". And Marilyn snoops through the medical files to find her perfect man.
Episode 5
A River Doesn't Run Through It
Mon, Oct 25, 199345 mins
The boys of the Senior class at Cicely High School invite Maggie to be their homecoming queen. There are no girls in the senior class and the only two juniors are a pair of twins. Picking one of them would be awkward. Maggie is reluctant to acquiesce, but the boys eventually wear her down. The night of the homecoming dance is at hand and Kevin Wilkins, their spokesperson, arrives with a corsage for her. He accidentally sticks her trying to pin it on. It seems to Maggie that his bumbling is due to his crush on her. While dancing with him, she learns that the senior boys thought it would be good for her to be the homecoming queen because, without a boyfriend, she is alone so much of the time. Maurice notices that for the first time, a native Alaskan, Lester Haines, is on the list of the state's ten wealthiest men. Maurice goes to congratulate him but with an ulterior motive in buying a piece of property that he has had his eye on. Although Lester already has some out-of-state buyers interested in the parcel, Maurice makes him a clever offer that he does not refuse. They draw the deal up over some drinks at The Brick. Maurice is feeling pretty smug about pulling a fast one over on Lester until the specifics of the deal are examined during the signing. It turns out that Lester has managed to pull one over on Maurice. The land he was planning to use for a fishing lodge has a mere 150-feet of riverfront. IRS Amy Patterson shows up at Ruth-Anne's store to conduct an audit. Their computer analysis of her return shows too little income for the supplies he has sold. As Amy watches, Ruth-Anne completes several trades. Amy jumps on this, saying that a trade constitutes reportable sales even though no money changed hands. Amy is in the midst of a messy divorce. A phone call has her so riled that she makes a data entry error in Ruth-Anne's favor. It takes a while, but Ruth points out the error and pays some more taxes that are due.
Episode 6
Birds of a Feather
Mon, Nov 1, 199345 mins
Family matters come to the forefront when Joel's parents, Nadine and Herb, visit. Nadine finds a unique connection with Marilyn and the eagles. Meanwhile Shelly is concerned that Holling will miss out on special father-son moments with their new baby after he announces that he's bored with sports.
Episode 7
Rosebud
Mon, Nov 8, 199345 mins
Ed is struggling to find his path in life and it doesn't help when Maurice wants to use his Hollywood contacts to organize a film festival. Joel's own path seems to have gone up in smoke when his truck ignites after he turns down Ruth-Anne's offer to join the volunteer fire department.
Episode 8
Heal Thyself
Mon, Nov 15, 199360 mins
Leonard wakes Ed before sunrise so he can get some clinical experience as a shaman. Ed accompanies Leonard to see a patient, Bonnie Norell, the college-aged daughter of a vacuum repairman. Since dropping out of her engineering program in Fairbanks, she has had to wear noise-canceling headphones to muffle the sound of chickadee songs. Although there is an immediate mutual attraction between Ed and Bonnie, Ed is convinced that she is only interested in him because he is a shaman. Meanwhile, Ed is catching glimpses of a green face snickering at him through windows and bushes. Leonard explains that the Green Man is an evil spirit, a manifestation of Ed's low self-esteem that caused his insecure feelings about Bonnie. Ed learns that every healer has a demon to fight, and he must simply learn to ignore it. He suggests to Bonnie that her response to birdsong is a result of guilt about abandoning her college program. When she re-enrolls, the problem disappears. With new-found confidence, Ed takes a floral bouquet to Bonnie to re-establish their relationship. When Shelly and Holling start childbirth classes, he is pleased about a role for him in the pregnancy. Losing his nerve when the lecture turns technical and embarrassing, Holling gets an infectious case of the giggles and disrupts the entire class with snide comments and jokes. He apologizes. But when the scenario repeats again the next week, Shelly kicks Holling out of the class and enlists Ruth-Anne to be her new coach. With Holling setting such a poor example, a young father drops out of the class as well and Holling is conscience-stricken. He confides in the young man that he acted up out of fear and they both decide to return to class. Fed up with the dilapidated machines at Maurice's laundromat, Maggie decides to splurge on a new washer/dryer combination for her house. Unfortunately, she misses the quality gossip time she spent with everyone over dirty laundry. When a minor belt breaks in the machine, Maggie gleefully sends it back to the manufacturer for fixing, it could take months, and rejoins the weekly gathering.
Episode 9
A Cup of Joe
Mon, Nov 22, 199345 mins
Maggie has been giving Chris flying lessons. He seems like a natural as he sticks one touch-and-go after another. All that stands between him, and a pilot's license, is passing the written test. That seems a significant hurdle as Chris was never much of a classroom student. Doing the necessary math for navigational calculations taxes his confidence. Maurice is coaching him along, hoping to help him get past his nemesis. It is all to no avail. When Maggie starts to administer the 4-hour written exam, he has a panic attack so severe that he needs to see Joel to eliminate the possibility of a heart attack. Everyone tries to help him with remedies to fight off his nerves. It is to no avail as he fails the exam when he tries again. Many in the community had wagers riding on his success or failure. Holling is all excited to tell Ruth-Anne about a rufous-sided towhee that has been seen locally. At the same time, Ed finds an old journal in Ruth-Anne's junk storage. It tells of her grandfather dying of exposure during the winter of 1897. Worse, it continues on to narrate how the rest of his party survived by eating him, one of them being Holling's grandfather. Ruth-Anne mostly dismisses it until she and Holling head out to bird. They split up at the reported site, Holling taking the boggier route to be nice to Ruth-Anne. Or course, he sees the bird and takes a great photograph of it. By the time he can get Ruth-Anne's attention, it is gone. She is furious and accuses him of intentionally sending her in the wrong direction so he could have all the glory. Now the cannibalism story rears its ugly head, and she throws it in his face. Eventually, she calms down and they make up. Joel is upset when $40 is stolen from the petty cash box that Marilyn keeps. She comes up with a logical explanation of how it happened and who the culprit was. Joel acts on her hypothesis subtly letting the person that if the money came back, all would be forgiven. When an unlabeled envelope is found with $40, Marilyn again uses her sleuthing skills to verify who it came from because of oil paint spots. Joel next wants her to find his missing skis.
Episode 10
First Snow
Mon, Dec 13, 199345 mins
The entire town of Cicely is growing excited with the first snow of season in the forecast. Joel drives to Nedra Larkin's place to try out some salmon lox she has prepared for him. He is delighted about it but dismayed when she tells him she is "winding down", getting ready to die. She does want to wait until her family members from Boston get there. Joel tells he she is delusional about dying, that he just checked her out and everything looked normal. The matter comes up again when Holling is soliciting information about how many graves he needs to dig ahead of the winter deep-freeze. He indicates one is for Nedra. Joel rushes out to her house and insists that he check her out again. Everything looks good. He notices a nice amethyst ring on Ruth-Anne's finger. "Nedra wanted me to have it." Joel goes out a third time. Her family is there and she's doing fine. Shortly after that, he goes a fourth time. She has died, just as she predicted. Joel is crushed that there was nothing he could do as a physician to save her. He seeks some condolences from Maggie at losing the first patient that he really knew. With Shelly's impending delivery, Maurice gives her an antique, silver baby rattle. He reminisces on that time in the gazebo when she told him that she loved him. She denies ever making such a statement. Maurice goes into a tailspin because this was the sweetest moment in his life. He pours through boxes of memorabilia looking for some concrete evidence to that effect. He can find nothing concrete. Shelly, on her part, suddenly thinks her nose is growing because of telling a fib. Maurice goes into deeper and deeper depression. Finally, he climbs aboard his caterpillar tractor to take out the gazebo reminder. as he crunches it to kindling, Shelly appears and contritely admits that she did say those words. She lied because she has moved on from that part of her life. Maggie redecorates her house and installs a new chair. Neither Ed nor Chris finds it comfortable, but Joel does. The first snow arrives.
Episode 11
Baby Blues
Mon, Jan 3, 199446 mins
A letter comes in response to Ed's submitted screenplay manuscript for "The Shaman". The agent, Judd Bromell, indicates that he will be on a work/play Alaska trip and would like to stop in Cicely to talk to Ed about his script. When he gets there, he indicates that some changes may be necessary before it can be sold and produced. By the time he has asked Ed to do all the alterations, the finished product looks nothing like his original submission. It has completely gotten away from the shaman aspect of the story, which Judd says would never fly with an audience. Judd then asks Ed for directions to a town where he is going to do a wilderness adventure. On the way there, Judd's vehicle plunges off the road, killing the agent. Ed is sad, but relieved that he can now send the script elsewhere as he originally wrote it. Meanwhile, Sheely is getting closer to her due date. When she sees Joel, he starts asking her about her birth plan. The barrage of decisions is overwhelming. She just wants to take it as is comes. At a baby shower thrown by Maggie at Maurice's, everyone starts telling horror stories about complicated births that they were part of or heard about. Eve, the most recent mother, brings her baby to the celebration relating how she experienced a face-first presentation. She hands the baby to Maggie who does not seem thrilled to hold it. Laster, in talking to Joel, he mentions that she must still feel unfulfilled as a woman because she has not had a baby of her own. Maggie is quick to counter that. She says she hates babies. This gives Joel a chance to admit to her that they have something in common. He hates babies, too. The men start watching sports on TV and the women's tales keep spooking Shelly. She tells everyone she needs some air and wanders into the woods. When she doesn't return, the party goers all go looking for her. They find her fast asleep against a spongy log in the forest. The next time she sees Joel, she gives him a rundown of the decisions she has made regarding her birth plan.
Episode 12
Mr. Sandman
Mon, Jan 10, 199446 mins
An abundance of northern lights seems to be invading everyone's sleep. Strangely, the dreams belong to someone else in the community. Maggie dreams that she finds an idling car. When she hops in, a French-speaking dog gives her directions and presses her to speed up. The next time, instead of a dog, it is an electric kitchen mixer. A glance in the rear-view mirror lets her see the source of the voice, an older man with a mole to the left of his mouth. At the same time, Holling comes to Joel in great distress. Suddenly, the mere thought of food is making him ill. He can hardly serve his customers without retching. He asks for Joel to do some psychoanalysis to cure his problem. Joel freely admits that it is not his specialty. Maggie starts describing her weird dreams within hearing of Holling and he recognizes her dreams are about his father. He takes her to Joel hoping that by analyzing her dreams, he can cure Holling. Joel thinks the idea is crazy. Then Joel starts having dreams about candy. One night he sleepwalks to Ruth-Anne's store and asks for Sweet-tarts candy. He recognizes these may be influenced by one of his young patients who is unable to eat candy because of medical problems but craves it none-the-less. Even more upsetting is when Ron, half of the gay couple that Maurice despises, starts having dreams about women's shoes. As Ron describes these at a poker game, Maurice recognizes that Ron is dreaming about his shoe fetish. Ron, Eric, Chris and Joel recognize that the dreams are Maurice's. He leaves furious, claiming that Ron and Eric are cheating. Joel finally is forced into accepting that Maggie's dreams may reveal Holling's problem. As the three-way conversation proceeds, Holling realizes that he has been worried that he will be a mean father as his was, that he was rejecting his mother's gentler, loving approach. Accepting to emulate his mother's parenting approach, suddenly curse his problem. He no longer finds food abhorrent.
Episode 13
Mite Makes Right
Mon, Jan 17, 199445 mins
Maurice invests $1.6M in an extremely fine Guarneri del Gesu violin. He then engages the concert violinist Cal Ingraham to evaluate its merits. He brings Cal to Cicely, covering all his expenses. Cal is moved by powerfully by its sound and behavior. He is horrified to watch as Maurice takes it over to his safe to lock it up. Cal insists that the violin must be played frequently, or its sound will die. Maurice counters with not leaving something so valuable just lying on the coffee table. Eventually, Cal offers to buy. Maurice ridicules him when he hears his paltry net worth. Cal says he'll run a fund raiser to get sponsors. No deal. Cal hangs around town desperately trying to think of something he can do to free the violin from the safe. He purchases the supplies to make a pipe bomb and wires it into Maurice's truck ignition. It detonates but only serves to make Maurice mad. He has Cal arrested. Cal ends up in a mental institution where Maurice can bring the violin weekly for sessions. Meanwhile, Maggie comes to Joel with complaints about a respiratory bug she seems to have contracted. Joel runs tests that reveal she is not sick. Rather she has grown allergic to dust mites that populate the insides of everyone's' homes. The more Joel describes their ubiquitous presence, the more paranoid she becomes about them. She gets a special vacuum, removes her rug, and outfits her couch with plastic covers. As Joel is working through all this with Maggie, he brings up a suggestion that maybe they should go on a date sometime. She is open to the idea, but when he moves in for a kiss, she can only visualize all the dust mites living on his skin. She finally gets beyond her mite hang-up and invites Joel to meet her in the wilds for a deep kiss. Chris, working on a new metal sculpture, hits a mental block. He goes to Ruth-Anne's store to buy peanut brittle to handle his nervous energy and hears Maggie's mite tales. He suddenly realizes how to fix his sculpture - it becomes a giant dust mite.
Episode 14
A Bolt from the Blue
Mon, Jan 24, 199445 mins
Joel has been called by US Forest Service officials to help them get Ranger Stan Burns to descend from his fire tower. The assistance of Alaska State Troopers has even been called in. Stan has spent years in the lookout and is remiss to come down and join society even though the tower has been deactivated. He thinks no one likes him. Joel is able to convince him that he is a friend and will help reinsert him into the community. Chris and Ed are fishing the Frying Pan River in the face of an approaching storm. As they run for cover, Ed is stuck by a lightning bolt and blasted out of his boots. Afterwards, he seems okay. Maurice is readying a big celebration for Presidents' Day, complete with a grand fireworks display arranged by a prestigious New York firm. He comes home shortly before the day of celebration to find Adam in residence. Adam declares that the pyrotechnics firm is run by unsavory characters who betrayed the US-backed anti-Sandinista's in Panama. Maurice is dismayed when the New York firm's equipment is vandalized, and they leave. Adam says not to worry, he'll cook up some fireworks of his own. Now that Stan is down from his tower, he begins talking the ears off of anyone who starts a conversation with him. People start avoiding him, reinforcing his original thought that no one likes him. Joel has a heart-to-heart visit with him, indicating that he is more his doctor than his friend. He diplomatically suggests that not everyone is as interested in what he has read as he is. Maybe they would visit if the conversation were more two-way. Ed searches for meaning surrounding his lightning strike survival. Leonard and Marilyn help him realize that it's just part of nature, that it has helped him appreciate things he would otherwise have not noticed. Presidents' Day arrives with Maurice fully expecting no fireworks. During his speech, there is a sizzle behind him. It is Adam setting off a plethora of grand, home-made fireworks. Stan is happily visiting with Cicely folks.
Episode 15
Hello, I Love You
Mon, Jan 31, 199446 mins
Shelly is scheduled for an induced labor because she is two weeks overdue. She heads to the laundromat where she meets a young girl named Miranda who is playing with a Barbie doll. She says, "Everybody calls me Randi." Shelly is surprised to meet a little girl whose name is what she has picked for her baby if it is a girl. Soon, Shelly is on the floor playing with her, totally enchanted. When she goes back to put her clothes in the drier, the young girl has been replaced with a 12-year-old version. Her name is also Miranda. Shelly helps her deal with her first period. The third trip to the laundromat finds Randi has turned eighteen. She is readying to try out for the Dallas cheerleaders. She indicates today is her birthday and that she was born above a bar. With this, Shelly realizes these are waking visions of the daughter she hopes to have. Back at The Brick, there is no need for an airplane flight to the hospital for an induction. She is having strong contractions. Joel takes her upstairs where she is surrounded by Holling, Marilyn and Maggie. Ed is taking video footage. Chris keeps running down the stairs to the bar to report on progress. Shelly gives birth to a girl and names her Miranda. Meanwhile, Ruth-Anne and Walt are driving a trailer loaded with some nice oak and glass display cases when Ruth-Anne's truck gives out. No one happens along the road, so they have to spend the night there. As they talk into the long quiet night, Walt reveals that he has feelings for her. In the morning, Ruth-Anne gets the truck going and proceed without pulling the trailer. They hear of Shelly's baby and celebrate with butter brickle ice cream. Joel and Maggie struggle with being together. Everything seems to turn into a competition - knitting booties, cutting firewood, and the cause of ulcers. They decide to start supporting each other. Maggie tells Joel how well he did with the delivery.
Episode 16
Northern Hospitality
Mon, Feb 28, 199446 mins
Joel is at a fancy fest prepared by Adam. When Adam sends a caustic remark his way about being taken care of, Joel is confused. He asks Maggie about it and discovers he has breached social etiquette by accepting dinner invitations and not reciprocating. To redeem himself, he decides he will throw a party. When people ask what they can bring, he tells them something. Maggie coaches him that he is supposed to thank them, but decline. For the entree, he selects a fancy chicken dish. He is surprised at how expensive it is to cook for a large group. He also finds that fixing the recipe may take longer than he planned. He decides to not worry about clarifying the butter as a time saving step. He is nowhere close to being ready as the guest arrival time approaches. Maggie pitches in with dishes and some food preparation. Despite Maggie's help, it is mostly a failure. Adam criticizes him for not clarifying the butter. Chris is shaken when a radio listener names him in a suicide note. He changes his play list and patter trying to avoid any song or comment that might be taken the wrong way. The town revolts against the changes he's made. It takes quite an effort to get him to return to the old routines. Shelly decides that she misses her Candian roots. She is also astounded to hear that Holling renounced his Canadian citizenship to become an American. She wants Randi to be Candian, so she takes her across the border to register her. Once there, she finds that some of what she thought was better as the Canadian way of life has lost some of its luster. Holling follows after her, fearing she will not return. She is thrilled when he shows up.
Episode 17
Una Volta in L'Inverno
Mon, Mar 7, 199445 mins
Joel is so looking forward to his get-away at the annual medical conference in Juneau that he dreams of the female participants running around in skimpy beach wear and fawning attention on him. He wakes to find that the weather has deteriorated so badly that Maggie will not be able to fly him to Juneau. They drive to the airport hoping for a change in conditions. Even worse, when they go to his car to return, it won't start. He and Maggie are stranded at the small airport building. At first he is upset about the situation. But a case of food is uncovered. He and Maggie start to have a hot date, much as they have been hoping to arrange. Right in the middle of it, however, Ed wanders in out of the storm. He sleeps (and talks in his sleep), bedded down right between them. It spoils the date. Ruth-Anne studies Italian in order to read The Divine Comedy in its original language. As she is practicing with her taped lessons, she finds that Shelly blurts out the translation before the tape moderator has a chance to do so. It turns out that Shelly dated an Italian fellow for a while and grew fluent from talking with his mother. Shelly becomes her unlikely tutor. Ruth-Anne eventually gives up on learning Italian and just has Shelly read to her from the book. Joel has been prescribing lighted visors for his patients who are suffering from seasonal affected disorder (SAD). Walt becomes addicted to his headgear. All of a sudden, he becomes hyperactive and spouting an amazing array of knowledge that no one suspected he had. Eventually, Chris and Holling stage an intervention to wrest if off. The mayor is plagued by a herd of caribou that are clogging Main Street. She uses a truck of hay to entice them out into the country. The fix is temporary. Soon the caribou are grazing in her front yard.
Episode 18
Fish Story
Mon, Mar 14, 199446 mins
Maggie is working on repairs in Joel's cabin and casually offers to prepare a Passover seder meal for him. Joel is uncomfortable with the idea. He manages to squelch her invitation sufficiently to chase her off. Later, while fishing, he mentions to Chris and Ed that women want to get into the middle of everything. Suddenly, he hooks a legendary Loon Lake monster called Gunaakadeit or "Goony". Line keeps being stripped off the reel. Walt brings him a deep-sea fishing chair that they bolt to the dock. Another resident splices his line onto a heavier rod and reel, and they bring a flag carrying belt to help hold the butt of the rod. It grows dark, so everyone but Walt leaves. Walt is sleeping in his truck and does not hear Joel's cries for help when the tugs increase in strength. He unbuckles himself and climbs into a boat that was tied to the dock. The fish drags him off into the dark. Amidst a swirling of water, Rabbi Schulman from New York City climbs into the boat. After a bit, the line goes slack, but the boat is capsized from underneath by a bulky object. This leads to a Jonah-like experience for Joel and the Rabbi inside a big fish. Ruth-Anne is having a hard day at the store with fussy customers. She shoos everyone out the door, climbs aboard Chris's motorcycle and roars out of town. She eventually meets up with a trio of bikers who call themselves The Diablos. The quartet of machines head up the road to the next town and hang out in its general store. Ruth-Anne eventually feels able to return to Cicely. Holling has taken to doing paint-by-number sets while carting baby Randi in the front pack. Maurice puts down his results in a very insulting manner. Holling takes his brushes to Chris because he is no longer going to paint. Chris explains that art is the process, not the product. He has Holling take a finished canvas and burn in in The Brick's boiler. Holling reconsiders and starts again. Several friends have given him commissions for canvases.
Episode 19
The Gift of the Maggie
Mon, Mar 28, 199460 mins
Maurice's heater blows up and his house catches on fire. Chris has an encounter with a cunning deer. Maggie tries to help Joel.
Episode 20
A Wing and a Prayer
Mon, Apr 11, 199446 mins
Ed is delivering morning papers when he happens to peer in through the windows at Ruth-Anne's house. He spies Ruth-Anne and Walt sharing a breakfast kiss. He is so thunderstruck by his discovery that he can't keep the news to himself. He tells Eugene, his first customer when he opens the store by himself. Ruth-Anne appears somewhat later blaming her alarm clock for her late arrival. After a minute's thought, however, she tells Ed that she and Walt have been seeing each other. Her next statement requests Ed to keep this information to himself. Ed is feeling super guilty. By the time he can catch Eugene, it's too late - the cat is out of the bag. Ed wants to crawl in a hole. Shelly is on pins and needles about the upcoming baptism of Randi. A real Catholic priest is coming to Cicely to perform the ceremony. When he arrives, it does not take long for him to fit right in with the locals. Chris talks him into letting him be his assistant. He then takes him out to his still cabin where they arm wrestle and do shots. Shelly is traumatized by what appears to be irreverent behavior. Meanwhile, Maggie and Maurice welcome a truck to the community that has brought a kit for her to build a light aircraft. She is upset when Maurice pushes her aside to take over its assembly. She puts her foot down and boots him off the project. Now on her own, she begins to have feelings of self-doubt about her ability to carry through on the construction of the plane. She perseveres in getting it together and schedules an inspection from the FAA to certify it airworthiness. It passes. Joel steps forward and says he's like to take a ride in it. She gracefully declines, hops in, and takes off. The whole town gathers atop the cliff for the baptism ceremony. Father McKerry is garbed in shining vestments and properly reverent for the occasion. As the ceremony concludes, Maggie does a fly-by in her new plane.
Episode 21
I Feel the Earth Move
Mon, May 2, 199446 mins
Ron and Eric are having dinner at Maurice's, a celebration for Ron's mother Pat who is in town. The conversation comes to a rapid halt when an unplanned comment from Eric slips out about the upcoming wedding for the gay couple. Maurice is upset saying that a gay wedding goes against the sanctity of marriage. Chris is planning to officiate at the ceremony, while catering has been planned by an outside supplier. Conversations about the caterer catch Holling's attention. He can't resist asking about the menu and how much the caterer is charging. The response of $75/person draw a counteroffer of $60/person from Holling. Eric jumps at accepting it. Ron is unhappy that Eric keeps making decisions for the two of them without consultation. He eventually goes to Maurice to borrow $500 to leave town. Maurice calms him down, much to his credit. As Holling purchases the supplies for the up-scale menu and starts preparations, he soon realizes he is in over his head. He finally has to ask the other caterer for assistance. Maggie is flying Joel back from Juneau when she feels some turbulence. Joel denies have felt any, very surprising because he is usually sensitive to it. Later at home, Maggie drops a cup when she feels an earthquake. At The Brick, no one else felt it. Then she gets sick at the wedding and heads for the restroom. Joel had become suspicious and done some research in the literature and found she has an inner ear condition that should resolve itself in a short time. He t shares this diagnosis with her. Maggie is greatly relieved and can enjoy the wedding, sharing a piece of wedding cake. Marilyn is taking a writing course that has her keeping a journal. She works on it incessantly at the office. Joel is curious as to what is inside it. While he is peeking, she opens the door and catches him.
Episode 22
Grand Prix
Mon, May 9, 199445 mins
Maurice sponsors a wheel chair race. Ed takes on a case as a shaman. Marilyn's boyfriend Ted takes a job and becomes obsessed with money and success, which causes a rift.
Episode 23
Blood Ties
Mon, May 16, 199445 mins
Each year there is a blood drive competition between Maurice and his neighboring district business rival Llyod Hilligas. There is a $1000 bet riding on the outcome, so Maurice does not intend to lose again. He insists that everyone take part, even Chris who has a thing against needles. Things are going great until Joel suddenly starts losing potential donors because he cannot seem to get the needle inserted in their veins properly. He's lost his touch. During the drive, Marilyn reveals to Ed that he has a very unusual blood type - AB Rh-. There is only one other person currently in Cicely with this AB- blood - Jeannie Hanson. Marilyn says that blood type is an inherited trait which makes Ed jump to the conclusion that Jeannie may be his mother. Her age is about right. He his private investigator Reynaldo Pinetree to check this possibility out. Reynaldo invites Ed to join him for a stake-out on the Hanson home. They fall asleep in the car. Jeannie wakes them up and tells them to stop spying her. She insists there is no way that she is Ed's mother. During the drive, Maggie's hometown friend Jed Fleming arrives in town with his hunting falcon named Taylor. He makes some very direct statements to Maggie about moving to Cicely and buying some land where they can live after their marriage. Maggie is taken by surprise and asks for some time to reconsider. She eventually decides that she is more interested in Joel than Jed. One Cicely resident is upset at Jed anyway after his falcon takes out her small dog Chi Chi. He leaves. Chris has been promoting the blood drive on KBHR but not donated himself. Maurice forces him to go. Chris bravely sits down in the donation chair and Joel inserts the needle. He's fine until he sees the blood start filling the bag. He promptly faints at the sight. In the end, Maurice wins his bet. Hilligas throws the winner's plaque at his feet, muttering that he cheated by bringing in a cruise ship to help him. Ed and Reynaldo go fishing together.
Episode 24
Lovers and Madmen
Mon, May 23, 199446 mins
Maurice bribes a doctor to get a violinist released as he prepares a big birthday for Barbara.