In the aftermath of Elaine's kidnapping, Danny, Mary and Burt scramble for the phone. As Billy grows even taller, Det. Donahue searches for Chester, agreeing to take the case because he like Jessica's smile. The one-month-newlywed Corinne, whose last lover Peter has been dead for over six months, is five months pregnant. Jodie is filming a happy, peppy cereal commercial with a mean-spirited flake and a hostile raisin. Carol wants to cancel the wedding because the family is in such an uproar. Dennis offers to give up football if Jodie will take him back; Jodie sends him away but the raisin wants to call him. Burt and Danny go to the pay phone near the elm tree to receive the ransom call; Danny negotiates the ransom from $250,000 to $50,000 but (a) they do not have $50,000 and (b) they cannot get out of the telephone booth.
—LA-Lawyer