- Holling decides to finish high school; Marilyn goes to Seattle on vacation.
- Marilyn decides to use her semi-annual "Indian corporation check" of $5000 to go for a vacation in Seattle. It it the first time she's going to leave Alaska. "I just want an adventure", she tells Fleischman who produces never ending advice on how-to-survive-in-the-city. He brings he a neck pillow for the airplane, a money belt, hires a town car to meet her at the airport, and makes reservations at a hotel in a good part of the city. She spurns all of this help as she wanders the city totally enjoying herself. Holling has decided that he wants to get his high school diploma finally. He tells Shelly that he quit after his junior year to work for good money on the railroad. Although he can read, write, and manage the books for his business with no trouble, he wants the certificate as a sense of pride to show Shelly that he wants to be a good provider. At school. he fifty years older than everyone else. During math he displays a trick for multiplying large numbers that a patent medicine salesman taught him. The teacher, Miss Jane Harris, is mightily impressed, but tells him that won't work on the GED exam because they will want to see his work. His essays are full of rich life experiences but have run-on sentences and punctuation errors. Maggie is enthralled by Jane because she flew cover and refueling mission in the Middle East. Thus, she is disappointed when Jane suggests that women are not suitable to be fighter pilots. Maggie was sure she was part of the "sisterhood". Jane manages to coach Holling through a successful GED exam and present him with his diploma. Maggie apologizes for not allowing Jane to hold her own opinions. Jane accepts it. Joel borrows $800 from Holling to go search for Marilyn in Seattle. He finally finds her eating a corn dog at the zoo. He need not have worries at all about her. She has had an adventure.—Garon Smith
- As Holling goes back to school to get his high-school diploma - Shelly encourages him by quoting the Fresh Prince, "Don't be a fool / Stay in school!" - Marilyn plans a holiday in Seattle. Or, at least she tries to plan it but Joel rather takes over. But when she doesn't arrive at the hotel Fleischman had booked for her, the worried doctor flies down to Seattle to make sure she's safe, concerned that the warring gangs may have pushed her onto the monorail track for her savings.
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