6.01 Dinner at 7:30 Storylines ---------- Joel is whisked into an out of body experience in New York City. Music ----- 1. Talkingheads: This Must Be the Place-Naive Melody (Joel visits Ed's apartment) Quotes ------ Since we live in such a faceless society, I thought I'd give the models a sense of anonymity. (Chris to Bernard, explaining the sacks on the models' heads) My mother loved to watch the sun set. She'd take me by the hand, pull me out on the porch as if it were some extraordinary theatrical event that just couldn't miss. Where did all those years go? (Dr. Ruth-Anne to Walt) It's like I'm walking around with a blindfold on. It's like if someone would just rip it off, I could see. I could make some sense of my life. (Holling to Shelly, about life) Maybe that's your message from the Almighty. It's a page from my offering circular. (Holling and Shelly catch a paper airplane) Chris, we're shooting Kate Moss next week, do you really want to miss that? (Bernard to Chris, on the ledge) Put down that ferret. I didn't come up here to kill an innocent animal. Put it down! (Maurice waves a gun at Ed) Homo Caicagenus Est. Man is born blind. We're little moles tunneling under the winter rye unaware of the sky above us. We're ignorant folks. It don't matter how many Ph.D.s we got perma-placked on the wall, we're blind and we're ignorant. And there's one piece of information that we don't have. The only piece that will pry open those baby blues: knowledge of self. The answer to all our question is right here [places his hand over his heart] Library of Congress. Kabir, Sufi poet, he knew. "Near your breast bone there is an open flower", he said. "Drink the honey that is all around that flower". (Chris, after not jumping off the ledge) I lost everything tonight. My life savings, my job, my self esteem. But I feel somehow ennobled, like I've been through fire, like I've been forged, tempered. (Maurice to the bartender) I don't want this life! I'd rather practice medicine in some hick rural outback than stay here another minute! (Joel comes back to reality)

6.02 Eye of the Beholder Storylines ---------- Hayden Kees files a disability lawsuit. The library holds a benefit auction. Quotes ------ You didn't drink it yet? So much wine, so little time. (A wine connoisseur looks at a specific case in Maurice's cellar) Remember: Alert, Aware, Awake. And whatever you do, don't get out of the truck. Every minute, eyes on the prize. (Renaldo advises Ed on surveillance) You remember when we were up at Lemon Creek? That bull moose charged and you let him have it with both barrels? Old Bill said, "What'd you do that for, he was just coming in for tea." (Maurice to Holling, remembering a gun) Today she's one, tomorrow she'll be potty trained and then boom, she's off to school with her lunch pail and her pencils...if she doesn't get scarlet fever. Shelly, it's just a house. (Shelly to Holling, not wanting to give the dollhouse) I was just going over some books for the library. Here's one that should be on every 20th century woman's desk, "The Bell Jar." When I was in the joint, I had bars. Miss Plath here had the bell jar. Too bad you couldn't hang in there Sylvia. (Chris to Ed, while sorting his collection) It's no picnic in there, Ed. Bad food. No babes. Psychotic bedmate. Tick tock, tick tock. Hope you pull it off. Most do. (Chris describes prison to Ed) The man wouldn't know a decent grape if it jumped up and bit him on the behind! (Maurice defends his action to Walter) Seven fifty. No. Eight hundred. No way. Nine hundred. Look, I told you no. A thousand! Sold. What!? I hate to see the little guy go. You can write a check. (Maggie pleads with Chris to sell his bank) We come onto this Earth with the gift of life, and it's a journey. One that we all have to travel on our own. Randy will move on. But we'll have given her some help. It's beautiful when you think about it. It's sad, and it hurts, and I think it sucks. (Holling to Shelly, on Miranda growing up) It's not always black and white, Ed. It rarely is. It's not our job to judge. We're hired eyes. Eyes, and eyes only. A word of advice? Sure. Don't play God. (Renaldo to Ed)

6.03 Shofar, So Good Storylines ---------- Maurice hosts a fox hunt for Lady Ann. Joel fasts for Yom Kippur. Quotes ------ Check it out anglophiles, Maurice Minnifield in his new range rover, doubtless inspired by his guest of honor at this year's Sons of the Tundra fox hunt, the Lady Ann Reynolds from Devon, England. Good squire Minnifield met the lovely lady last year at Ascot week and here she is in Cicely making her colonial debut. Pip. Pip. I don't know about you but I'm getting pumped for the hunt, morning mists blanketing the ground, the smell of horse flesh and saddle leather, the music of the pack in full cry. (Chris on the air) Morning Maurice. Walter. Nice tweeds. Thank you. Lady Ann, may I present Walter Kupfer. Walter, this is Lady Ann Reynolds. How are you? How do you do? Maurice says you have a hell of a seat. Are you referring to my dressage or my derrier? The former, of course. How very disappointing. (Maurice introduces Lady Ann to Walt) I'm signing up volunteers for Hayden Kees' houseraising this weekend. Hey, Gene. I've got you down for some trowel work in the master bathroom. Should be about a six hour job. Six hours, huh? We're talking about a man who basically burned his house down by smoking in bed? Yes? Which in addition to being incredibly stupid, is directly against doctor's orders. The man suffers from obesity, high blood pressure, insipient emphezema. So what're you saying Dr. Fleishman? It's what I AM saying. Why should I give six hours of my time to someone who absolutely refuses to help himself? How about some painting? The living room. Should be about two hours. You don't get it. Do you not see that by indulging him in this way you're basically giving tacit approval to this deeply imbedded pattern of incredibly negligent behavior? I mean, look, you want to help this guy, you let him spend a night in the cold and then maybe he'll realize he brought this on himself and he's going to have to get himself out of it. (Gene to Joel) You must be hungry Dr. Fleishman. Well, just doing a little carbo loading for Yom Kippur. Jewish fast day. Well, 27 hours and counting. You going to eat that pickle? No. Let me ask you something Dr. Fleishman. This fasting on Yom Kippur is some kind of visionquest thing? No, it's not that mystical. Basically we fast so that we can concentrate on being better people, stuff like that. Are you really interested in this? Oh, absolutely. Leonard says I need a much stronger background in comparative religion to be a shaman. OK, Rosh Hashan is a time when supposedly God decides what is going to happen to everyone in the coming year and then what happens is you have basically 10 days from Rosh Hashan to Yom Kippur to reverse the call. How? You examine your soul, you atone for your sins. In Biblical times they would have a high priest and he would symbolically place all of the sins of the entire community on the head of a goat and drive it off into the desert, which is where we get the term scapegoat I believe. There is a saying, on Rosh Hashan it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed. That's a great story Dr. Fleishman. That's right up there with "Tale of the Otter People." (Ed and Joel discusss Yom Kippur) It appears that our fox inadvertently stumbled into your rabbit pen. I'm giving it sanctuary. You can't give sanctuary to a fox! I can do anything I want you big buffoon. (Maurice to Ruth-Anne) Who am I kidding? Me, trying to hob-nob with a lady like that. She's a queen. I'm a cowboy. I was a fool to invite her here. This is far out. Maurice Minnifield with an inferiority complex. (Maurice to Chris about Lady Ann) Look, Rabbi, I appreciate this Dickensian paradigm, but maybe can we just shorten it a bit. (Joel to Rabbi present) Repentence, it's not like washing your hands you know. It takes time, devotion, pain even. On Yom Kippur we are commanded to afflict our souls. (Rabbi to Joel) Open unto us the gates of mercy O God before the closing of the gates. Yea, the day vanishes, the sun is setting, let us enter thy gates. May the Lord bless your going out and your coming in. From this time forth and forever. (Rabbi recites a prayer, Joel watches sunset)

6.04 The Letter Storylines ---------- A new barber arrives in town. Joel finds a bump on his head. Maggie receives a letter from herself 15 years ago. Shelly receives a chain letter. Music ----- 1. ABBA: Dancing Queen (Young Maggie writes a letter to the future) 2. ABBA: Take A Chance (Maggie meets her younger self) 3. (??) (sounds a bit like the Ventures, or maybe the Doors) (Joel rides the motorcycle) 4. Blondie: The Tide is High (Maggie writes a letter to the future) Quotes ------ Who ever it was that said "give me a head with hair" neglected to add "and a barber that knows what to do with it." Chris Stevens with a message of hope Cicely. Lay down your flobies. What's it been, two years since the good barber Earl hit us below the sunbelt and split for Tampa? Well the bad hair days are behind us because I'm pleased to welcome Cicely's newest tradesman, Angelo Maxwell. Bartenders and headshrinkers notwithstanding, nothing is more conducive to a good conversation than a visit to the Pomade-scented bastion of civility, the neighborhood clip joint. Early reviews feature superlatives usually reserved for the art of the pre-Raphaelites. What price genius? Haircuts start at nine bones. (Chris welcomes the barber) I don't care how great a parent you are, if you don't get a break once in a while you can go major league Filbert. (Shelly on parenting) Just a tad off the sides. If you have to err, err on the side of length. You know what I mean? Not a clue. I like that, a little levity to make the customers feel at ease. I'll give you the haircut you need. If that's not acceptable I have a customer waiting. (Joel gets his hair cut) Could be some tiny perforation or scar tissue. I'm impressed, you got yourself a barbershop and H.M.O. all under one roof. (Angelo finds a bump on Joel's head) No offense, but all I really wanted from this relationship is not to have hair down the back of my neck when we're done. (Joel to Angelo on getting his hair cut) Grosse Pointe was never exactly the Mecca for alternative lifestyle. (Maggie on growing up) I just don't think my teenage Maggie O'Connell would be impressed with how things turned out. She expected me to be some kind of heavy hitter by now, ensconced in a penthouse with a rich husband and 2.3 children. She thought life was one long romance. (Maggie to Joel) The 60s. I can see how a barber would have a real slack period. Slack period? It was the battle of Chancelorsville. Twenty thousand dead after the first hour. I should've gotten out after "Hard Day's Night." I never thought of the destruction of barber profession as a by-product of counter culture. It's not just hair length, it's the wholesale breakdown of values, the decline of goods and services, the death of personal accountability. (Chris and Angelo) Look, I'll tell you something. Anybody can pony-up a ticket on a jumbo, but I fly this plane! (Maggie to her younger self) Whoa, Maggie! What? You see something? Kind of a luminous egg. Oh, I'm sorry, you probably want to be alone with your manifestation. (Ed sees the younger Maggie) You ever see anybody who's ridden on his skull of 300 feet? Hey officer, I'm a doctor. I've seen it all, and not enough. (Joel caught speeding) We got the news about the guidebook, Randy stopped teething, and my chain letters never went out. What does it all mean, Ed? (Shelly to Ed) I guess what happens in life really isn't in our hands. That's a little fatalistic, isn't it? I don't know about that, but it sure is a drag. Things are going to go their own way no matter what you do. Predetermination. It's been debated for centuries. Hey, if Calvin was right, if everything is preordained, why make plans? Why go to the doctor, go to work? Hell, why do anything. Well, if the deck isn't stacked, why do things happen the way they do? "Destiny is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance. It isn't something to be waited for, it something to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan. Sensible man. (Shelly and Walt) I could have been road kill on the Alcan! (Joel to Marilyn, finding out he's OK) Shelly, we can't drive all the way to Fairbanks and just show up without reservations! You think the pioneers who came to Alaska made reservations first? No way. They went out and made their own manifold destiny. You know, wagons ho. We got to get looser, take some risks. (Holling to Shelly, on their trip) Chris-in-the-morning here fresh from the chair of maestro Angelo Maxwell, all clipped and combed, smooth and scented. I'm primed and ready to face the first day of the rest of my life. What a journey it is--you never know what's going to be in that bend in the road. Will it be the tiger or the lady, Ali Baba's treasure or a cement overcoat? You know that signpost up ahead just might be a barber's pole. But take heart 'cause I'm going to paraphrase the words of Joe Campbell who said, "Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be." Vayan con dios amigos. (Chris over the airwaves)

6.05 The Robe Storylines ---------- Joel directs a clinical trial. Chris plays with a dummy. The devil tempts Shelly. Quotes ------ Message of the day, every coin has at least two sides, behind every great pro look for the con, yin and yang, another man's meat, blah blah blah, you know the drill. (Chris In The Morning) I know what you're thinking. Ventriloquism on the radio. It's just a cut above pantomime and close-up magic in the kit bag of useless skills. (Chris in the morning, with Esau) It's refreshing to see a man stand by the code, even under pressure. It shows moxy. (Maurice to Joel, trying to find out the drug name) Life doesn't come with an extended warranty. How do I know that I'm not going to get turned into a road slick the next time I'm toolin down the Alcan by an oncoming Kenworth? (Chris on the air) It's a hard, new reality out there. Ever since prozac. (Roger to Shelly, why he's a salesman) So, you came to Alaska? I couldn't resist you gals. All that swirling estrogen. (Shelly & Roger) Leonard, he says you can't have a tug of war with no one at the other end of the rope. (Ed to Shelly, on the existence of the devil) I don't get it. Why would you make my swiftest dreams come true for a dogmeat bathrobe? I know, it's like I was telling you. I'm reduced to being the Monty Hall of dualistic theology. (Shelly to Robert) Do you think you can go to hell for burning a bath robe? Why don't you rainbow curve that one by me one more time. (Shelly to Chris) Do you think I'd get eternally damned for it? Well, let's weigh the sin. What's a robe? It's a schmatza, it's a fashion kibble. On the other hand, maybe it's not about the robe at all. No. No, maybe what it's really about is connubial infrastructure: trust and honesty, the age-old quest of Diogenes in a post-Milton universe. (Shelly and Chris) What are you going to do now. Well, there's a lady over in Nipnuk who's clipping coupons out of her neighbor's paper. It's not much, but it's a start. (Shelly bids goodbye to Roger) Chris in the morning solo once again, bidding a fond adieu to my good friend, Esau. Hope the next wayward soul who finds him learns as much as I did from my brief, intense, apprenticeship. It's funny, all the qualities that flow so naturally from Esau like water from a spring melt are qualities that are in me and embracing them means embracing Esau's black and white world, turning my back on the rainbow, letting one piercing note drown out the orchestra or one persuasive voice silence a clambering chorus. I don't know, Esau, maybe your straight-from-the-hip answers ring truer than my own fuzzy search for enlightenment. Sometimes we just need the uncertainty and if I ever figure out exactly why, maybe then we'll have an act worth taking on the road. (Chris on the air)

6.06 Zarya Storylines ---------- Ed tries to heal Marilyn by filming her. Lenin and Anastasia hold talks in Cicely. Mace and Kit build and offroad vehicle. Quotes ------ Boy. Film. So much richer than tape, so much more vulnerable. Yeah, it speaks to the nature of the human condition, huh. (Ed & Chris watch Ed's film of Marilyn) Here I am, Mace, week after week. Cast Satan out of here, get the devil out of there. How can we? How can we, or even should we rid ourselves of the demonic? What? Human consciousness couldn't exist without the demonic. The destructive. For every thought that is created, one is destroyed. I can't think about X if I'm thinking about Y. Well, you might want to think about that 2,000 dollars I shelled out for your new parsonage. I can't face that congregation every Sunday and preach against evil when it is an absolute necessity for our existence and even more than that, if we are created needing evil, what does that say about our creator? (Kit to Mace) What's the one thing Alaska doesn't have? Snakes? Roads. Doesn't have roads. This baby will make all of the territory of Alaska one giant highway! (Mace to Kit, on his off-road vehicle) Of course! Plato's Republic. The parable of the dark cave. What's the sun? The truth of science. Science, the light that blows away illusions and shadows. Let me in on this Mace. Let me help you out. You? I've traveled the spiritual route. There's no answers there. Only questions and paradox. But this, technology, it's something I can get behind. Deis Novus. You know what I mean. No! The new God. What do you say? I do need some help putting this prototype together, but no philosophizing. No talk about the imminence of God or the existence of a free will or the nature of the trinity. Deal? It's a promise, Mace. (Kit to Mace, on his off-road vehicle) Got a little chest cold. What do you got for it? Tincture of opium is good. Codeine. Oh, and heroin syrup. Why don't you try them all and see what works best? (Walt and Ruth-Ann (as historical figures)) Let me tell you what Marx's mother said. "If Karl, instead of writing about capital, had made some capital, things would have been much better." (Ruth-Anne to Lenin) Marxism is not the answer. No system which denies the soul can be. (Maggie/Marina to the doctor) What the hell is that? I think it's called jazz. (Mace and Kit in The Bearded Nail) Tolstoy believed it's historical events that propel men to greatness. It seems they also doom us to failure. (Lenin to Joel/Mikhail) As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. Intangible? Have you suddenly become religious? I can only say I have become more aware of my ignorance. I can't afford to be aware of mine. (Mikhail to Lenin)

6.07 Full Upright Position Storylines ---------- Maggie and Joel head to Russia. Maurice's cousin Maurice visits. Chris tries to get inside electricity. Quotes ------ Electron, that's negative. Proton, positive. Not a value judgment, just tagged that way to keep them straight. (Chris on the air, talking electricity) It only looks cool, Ed. Doesn't say it, doesn't make it. Say what? Electricity. I'm here, it's there, and I can't figure out how to get inside it, how to BE it, without getting fried. (Chris to Ed) Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun? It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract. (Chris)

6.08 Up River Music ----- Falling in Love Again, by Frederick Hollander & Sammy Lerner (Ruth-Anne tells Walt her feelings) Storylines ---------- Joel abandons Cicely, Ed goes after him. Chris remodels his trailer. Ruth-Anne realizes she loves Walt. Quotes ------ Joel. Maggie. Joel. Maggie. (Maggie and Joel practice using first names) I don't need this, I don't want it. The heart palpitations, the mindless daydreams, horrible stirring in the pit of my stomach. (Ruth-Anne to Joel, on being in love) Here you are, guy from New York city. You're tanning hides, you're out spearing fish, drying salmon, and me, the guy who was born here, what do I know? All I know is who took top honors at the Banff Film festival. (Ed to Joel) We just moved in together. We just need time to get used to each other, that's all....You don't have to make excuses with me, I'm not expecting the Kama Sutra. (Maggie to Joel, when he mentions the third gun firing) That's a turn-on for you? That's great. Putting our lives in danger is an aphrodaisiac for you. (Joel to Maggie, on the gun-sex coincidence) What's that man done to me? I'm sitting here like a nitwit writing poetry. (Ruth-Anne to Holling, who wants the store open) What's a house? It's a metaphor for the mind. You got to tear down the old before you can build the new. You got to lose your mind before you can find it. The universe whacked my house. It was really whacking my mind. It was saying, 'let go, give up man, throw out all those old plans and stick your face in the here and now.' (Chris to Joel, on remodeling his house) Joel, you exhaust me. There's just too much of you. (Maggie kicks Joel out)

6.09 Sons of the Tundra Storylines ---------- Phil and Michelle arrive in Cicely. Ed has clairvoyance for a few days. Holling applies to the Sons of the Tundra. Special moments --------------- Walt buys a flamingo for his yard. (In Alaska?) Michelle's "baptism" in the river. Music ----- 1. (??) (Phil & Michelle driving to Cicely) 2. Ezekial saw the wheel (Barbershop quartet at Sons of the Tundra meeting) 3. (??) (Holling & Shelly drive away from Cicely in "The Brick") Quotes ------ The sky, there's so much of it. It's Alaska honey. (Michelle & Phil driving to Cicely) Phil, look out! It's a moose. Yes, it is. (Michelle & Phil driving to Cicely) Wow, nice flamingo. Isn't she a beauty! Been a while since I've done any landscaping. (Ed & Walt in Ruth-Anne's store) You know Phil, I was thinking that given your background maybe we could make Cicely the endoscopy capital of the Alaska Riviera, you know, sort of a resort destination for the colo-rectal crowd. You check in, get a colonoscopy, do a little fly fishing. Great idea! (Maurice to Phil) You've worked here a long time and I would like to defer to that experience, so is there any procedure you would like to see changed or any piece of new equipment we might need? Toaster oven. (Phil & Marilyn establish work patterns) You can see the future? Well, just since yesterday. See, I ate this trout, only it wasn't really a trout. What was it? Well, you know... No, I don't really. Yaith. Yaith? The raven, he can be a shapechanger. I guess I should have known at the time, with the way he was staring up at me and all. But, I was really hungry and had already cooked the almond slivers, so... You ate him? (Phil asks Ed about his clairvoyance) For five years I've been looking at the world through a flexible sphygmoidoscope. There's so much more to medicine than that. (Phil to Michelle) It's amazing isn't it? All this life? Too much maybe. Not too much, just lots. Give yourself some time. Listen. You hear that? That's a sound we never heard in Los Angeles. Silence. Isn't that something! (Phil and Michelle experience culture shock) Bill Dainy bagged this beauty. Barged into his tent, didn't have time to use his rifle. Had to beat him to death with an entrenching tool. Of course, he can't use the left side of his face anymore. Took 89 stitches. Does every member have to bag a trophy to get in? Has to be a mammal over 300 pounds. No whales. No roadkill. (Walt shows Phil the Tundra trophies) Chris, if you had the power to go back and change the future, would you? Just say you could go up to Bruce Willis and say, "Don't make Hudson Hawk." You'd be messing with the space-time continuum. You pull one string, you never know, the whole crazy quilt might unravel. Yeah, the prime directive from starfleet command--do not change history. (Ed & Chris) Those without a Johnny need not apply. (Shelly's opinion of men's clubs) I got all that male-bonding stuff out of me when I was in the joint. What'd Groucho Marx say? "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member." (Chris to Holling, on not joining Sons of the Tundra.) My God. A week ago I was at Starbuck's having a decaf latte with friends and now I'm on the trail of a larcenous rodent. They're carnivores actually. (Michelle and Ed search for the stolen key) Did you actually see the truck coming around the corner and the beer keg break free? So that's what it was. I wasn't sure if it was that or maybe a 55 gallon drum full of heating oil. But you really saw it hit the car? (Phil and Ed)

6.10 Realpolitik Storylines ---------- Phil joins Joel for a game of golf. Maggie becomes mayor. Chris develops an infatuation for Maggie. Marilyn buys a breeding Husky. Music ----- 1. I'll be around, Frank Sinatra (??) (Marilyn knits during closing scene) Quotes ------ We're all aware of the Canadian proclivity to socialize anything that moves. (Ruth-Anne comments on Holling's position about the dumpster) Huskies aren't like other dogs, they're real workhorses...almost public transportation. (Ed to Phil, about Marilyn's 'pet' in the office) It's hard to believe there's a regulation course way out here. I wonder if the club has any kind of restaurant? If you want authentic Alaskan cuisine, Mononash is your place. (Phil and his guide head up river) She's throwing the book at me and all I want to do is suck those little white earlobes. (Chris to Ed, recalling his day before the judge) What do you think about Cicely? Pretty peaceful, huh? You should have seen it before it was overbuilt. (Joel to Phil) The only thing he's scared of is doing his carnal duty. (Maurice returns the husky to Marilyn) Why don't we let these guys play through. (Joel to Phil, on the 'course') My practice in L.A....I spent 90% of the time referring patients to specialists. Nothing more than a high-priced sorting machine. Now it feels very hands-on. (Phil to Joel, during the game) I think there's a valid distinction to be made between a man of medicine and a medicine man. (Phil reacts to Joel's comments) This is unbelievable! If somebody had told me a month ago I'd be playing golf by moonlight in the Alaska wilderness... (Phil to Joel)

6.11 The Big Mushroom Storylines ---------- Maggie visits Joel in Mononash. The Capras have some unexpected guests. Ed loses the cure for shingles. Music ----- 1. Gimme Three Steps (Phil visits Ed's room) 2. Caminando por la calle, Gypsy Kings, Mosaique (End music) Quotes ------ I'm worried about Joel. I'm concerned. You mean, because all your other boyfriends died such an untimely death? (Maggie and Holling) I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. Id be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been. (Joel to Maggie) I turn it on, it makes that little beep, and the hairs on the back of my neck all stand up. It's like, all of the sudden, there's somebody else in the room with me and he's just sitting there, glowing, humming. Ed, it's just a machine. (Ed and Phil look at the computer) You're not suggesting we set the house on fire! (Michelle to Phil, trying to kick out their guests) Phil, what are we doing? Look at us! We're sabotaging electrical appliances. We're acting like children. (Michelle to Phil) Do you realize we've moved seven times in six years? Our life is like an endless trail of change of address forms...we have no roots...what are we looking for, and why don't we ever find it? (Michelle to Phil, on moving to Cicely) Electrons are like pigs coming into the pen. Gate's closed, that's zero. Gate's open, that's one...That's all there is to it. In infinite combinations, of course. (Walt eases Ed's fears) How can you want to have dinner with me? You know, I almost killed you. It's no big deal that in your heart of hearts you wanted me dead. Par of you definitely wanted me six feet under. That's not so strange. We broke up. I moved out. I'm not your lover. I'm being deprived of an intimate ongoing relationship with Maggie O'Connel. I should be bereft, but no, I'm not. I'm happy, I'm at peace. I can see where that would be a tremendous blow to one's self-esteem. (Maggie and Joel)

6.12 Mi Casa, Su Casa Storylines ---------- Marilyn visits Joel in Mononash Holling and Shelly look to buy a house. Ed house watches for Maurice. Quotes ------ Don't hyper-ventilate, son. It's just house sitting, not brain surgery. (Maurice instructs Ed to watch the house) Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He like his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard. (Joel to Marilyn) When do we ever picnic? We could start. (Shelly reacts to Holling's demand for the picnic table) Well Marilyn, that's true. Dr. Fleischman can be nervous. What can you expect, he's from New York. What's he doing here, then? Can you blame him? Just remember, it's a long way from New York to Mononash. (Village person to Marilyn) A house off by itself...doesn't hold anything for me, Shelly. I was a trapper. I've been by myself plenty enough. We're not talking about camping out, Holling. (Holling to Shelly, on why he doesn't want a house) That's what people do. They get married, pop out a rug rat, and picket-fence it! (Shelly to Holling. Her opinion of life.) I'm just glad to be out of there. That big house, all that food and stuff. It's just no good unless you share it with people. Only then, you start feeling like you know something, cause they don't have it, and you do. You start acting bossy, telling people what to do. Kind of like Maurice. (Ed and Shelly, on housesitting) Look at me! Lug boots, hair shirt. What was I thinking? That I could just walk away from everything, just escape my culture, myself? (Joel to Marilyn, on his life in Mononash) I'm supposed to be your friend, Chris, and friends don't care if you have unrealized potential. They like you just the way you are. You lit a fire under my butt, gave me a healthy dose of tough love. If you can't count on your friends to set you straight, who are you going to count on? (Ed apologized to Chris for remarks at the supper) We're a family now, and we live above a bar. So what? Who says we can't? Nobody, I guess. That's right. A house--you get in there and you go mind your Ps and Qs, making sure everything is just so. (Shelly accepts Holling's dislike of houses)

6.13 Horns Storylines ---------- Maurice starts "Cicely Water." Gender roles reverse. Cal appears in town. Quotes ------ When I saw you standing next to all that heavy equipment this morning, I said to myself, "That's one good-looking flyboy." (Barbara comes on to Maurice) Right here, right now. In the radio station? (Barbara to Maurice, affected by the water) You were playing the violin on Ed's roof? It has marvelous acoustics...it's the surrounding hills. (Phil and Cal) I thought you had a date with Joel last night? Fleischman was on another planet! You know what he was in to last night? Serving tea. (Michelle and Maggie, under the water's influence) If you think I'm going to put my nationwide rollout on hold because your wife would rather shoot baskets than cook dinner, you've got another thing coming! (Maurice to Phil, on his Cicely Water) You know, Ed, aiding and abetting is a felony. You have a nice day now. (Barbara to Ed, hinting that Cal is around) How come when men get horny it's OK, but when women get horny it's a disease? (Shelly at the impromptu health meeting) Debra Tannin said, 'men see the world as a battle to be won, women see it as a community to be preserved." I say, let the women fight it out for a while. I'm digging this noncompetitive groove. (Chris at the meeting) I suppose what it comes down to is this: If a violinist plays in the woods and there's no one there to hear him, does he really make a sound? Playing for the amusement of voles and marmots just isn't the same as playing for people. Even in the dark, from the rooftop, even though I can't see who's listening, there's something about a live audience, knowing someone is out there, just one person, perhaps, who is touched by your music. (Cal to Ed, staying in Cicely) Maybe your water is being aggressive in a new way. It's trying to balance itself out in the human metabolism. Maybe it wasn't comets that wiped out the dinosaurs, maybe it was the water. Hell, you get a couple of sec-crazed lady velociraptors chasing after some understandably terrified males...maybe tyranosaurus rex went to the well once too often, got humped to death. (Phil to Maurice, on Cicely Water) For five years I've had to listen to you whine how you can't stand this place, how you can't wait to get back to New York, and now that you can, now that there's nothing holding you back, you're not going? (Maggie to Joel)

6.14 The Mommy's Curse Storylines ---------- Walt tries work in the store with Ruth-Anne. Phil and Holling become chums. Maggie's Mom visits. Quotes ------ Things change. Look at me. (Maggie's Mom to Maggie) (Note: Maggie's Mom was a different actress than in earlier episodes) Don't you see, Mother? We're cursed, pariahs for any male that comes into our life. We either kill them of we drive them away. (Maggie to her Mom) Maybe you could send for another hat. What, like a pair of dress socks? Is that what you mean? This is my hat! So, no? (Shelly to Holling, as he mends his torn hat) Nothing tastier than five-fingered discount candy. (Walt to Ed, on shoplifted food) If we're going to crash and burn, we might as well get it over with. (Ruth-Anne to Walt, inviting him to move in) I'm finished with men. I don't need another M.I.A. on my conscience. (Maggie, to her mom) I think it's THEM. Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skipping our at the first hint of trouble. Tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces? Ship the body? Clean out the closets? And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex. (Maggie's Mom reacts to Maggie's lament) For a good fit, comfortable feeling, there's nothing like an old hat. You know what I mean? (Holling to Maurice, making up)

6.15 The Quest Storylines ---------- Chris sues Dr. Capra for malpractice. Joel and Maggie embark on a quest. Michelle reviews The Brick. Music ----- 1. Latin Playboys: Forever Nightshade Mary (Latin Playboys) (Closing scene, Joel on the ferry) Quotes ------ They know. (Marilyn to Michellle; about special treatment in The Brick) Whoa, wait a minute. What's going on? This is a couple of years old. You understand me, don't you? This is English! I just like to keep current. (Joel and the old Japanese soldier) I fought a lot of dragons in my day--demanding father-in-law, gum surgery, but nothing like this inflated real estate market. (The Japanese man explains why who moved to Alaska) Personal injury suit? I don't believe you'd do this, Bernard! You're a Republican! (Maurice comments on Chris's lawsuit) This is not some overstuffed H.M.O. you're suing here, this is the burrough of Arrowhead county. (Maurice to Bernard) Bernard slapped me with that complaint and all of the sudden, I was back on the 405, traffic grid-lock, semi in front of me spewing diesel fumes, all the cellular phone circuits overloaded. It was like everything we wanted to get away from was back, screaming in my face. It made me want to step on the accelerator and ram the car in front of me. (Phil to Michelle) When I was a kid, I remember thinking that nothing was real. It felt like a movie set, and if you turned your head fast enough, you'd catch God changing the scenery. (Joel to Maggie) I don't know what kind of hallucinogenic tubers you've been sucking on, but my name isn't Adam, it's Gustav. (Adam to Joel) Look, this isn't brain surgery, just answer the riddle. (Adam the gatekeeper on answering the riddle) I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet. (Maggie to Joel, on life) It was one of the most intimate and personal relationships of my life. (Chris to Phil, describing his doctor Joel) New York...the jeweled city? (Maggie expresses her disbelief to Joel) New York is a state of mind. (Joel's postcard to Maggie)

6.16 Lucky People Storylines ---------- Maurice tries to "adopt" Miranda. Michelle and Phil have second thoughts about Cicely. Music ----- 1. Family Tradition, by Hank Williams Jr. (Phil in the Brick) 2. Rankin Family: Mo shuil ad' dheidh (Fare Thee Well Love) (People watch the parade) Quotes ------ If I ever have offspring, I'd want it ready made about 10 or 11 years old. A boy of hunting age. (Maurice to Shelly and Holling) Why would a moose attack our car? He didn't attack your car, he tried to mount it. Mount it? Mate?! I know it's not the season for it, but sometimes the scent of these Japanese radios mimics the natural pheromones. Drives them wild. (Phil, Walt, Michelle inspect the damaged car) I wonder what caused it. I think it was the woods. The woods? You mean like agoraphobia? No, worse than that. Nature. Naturphobia. You're afraid of nature? (Michelle to Phil, after his anxiety attack) The car puts the whole male-female thing into perspective. Cicely and Roslyn, they drive up here in that model T, 1909. No Alcan. No Stuckeys. No roadside assistance. You throw a rod in that 2000 mile strectch from Billings to here, you belong to the bears. They did it. No less than Hannibal crossing the Alps. They did it themselves. Men need not apply. (Chris to Maggie, restoring Cicely's car) No delivery today, Michelle. Red Murphy had to jettison his cargo. (Ruth-Anne to Michelle, about the mail) I don't care who it was--if it was the mother Theresa of the North. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (Michelle, on the anonymously given coat and boots) It's all my fault...I brought you here to this arctic wasteland, this frozen jungle...We've ruined our lives Michelle. Idaho is as far north as we should have gone. (Phil to Michelle) Look where we've ended up. In a place where moose copulate with cars, where people toss the mail out of airplanes, where log tossing is considered high culture. We have gone down the rabbit hole. There's no way out. (Phil to Michelle) I've been thinking about Roslyn and Cicely. They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo. (Chris to Maggie, on male/female relationships) I have absolutely no desire to participate in anything that celebrates this gulag. (Phil, on Cicely's Founder's Day parade) Roslyn's story made me see that if you have courage, if you maintain your essence, your sense of fashion, nothing gets the best of you. My problem goes a lot deeper than a lack of accessories. (Phil to Michelle)

6.17 The Graduate Storylines ---------- Maggie buys the cinema. Chris defends his dissertation. Holling meets his nephew. Music ----- 1. Motels: It Happened One Summer (Chris welcomes Prof. Erin Martin) 2. When the Ice Worms Nest Again (Holling and Patrick sing to Shelly) 3. Ray Charles: Tell Me What I Say (Chris has second thoughts about the M.S.) Quotes ------ Here's to 16 ounces of apple juice, one teaspoon of bilboa leaf extract, blend thoroughly. Voila, one genuine smart drink! Down the hatch, Cicely. I figured a little I.Q. boost was in order on account of some special visitors I got coming up later today from the U of A at Anchorage. Seems my homespun dissertation of Casey at the Bat, An Antiphiliopyotistic Metaphor for Americas's Role in Post-Cold War Geopolitics, might have gotten me one step closer to that elusive masters degree I've been chipping away at through the postal service. Hard to believe, Cicely, your number one dabbler just might actually finish something. (Chris on the air) Erin, to academia. In a world of evermore compromise and pettiness, the last refuge of ideas and idealism for their own sake. (Chris toasts Erin) Professor Martin did say you might have some reservations. He said it that simply, did he? It's not often you can find a deconstructionist that succinct. Excuse me? Deconstruciton. It's Erin's basillica, his holy see. It's why he's gaga over you dissertation and I, as you say, have reservations. Look, obviously Thayer, writing in 1888, couldn't have predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of terrorism. Of course not. It's just a metaphor. Just a metaphor? The scalpel of which irrevocably cleaves the work from the artist's intent. God forbid we should pay homage to a poem as a poem. (Chris welcomes Prof. Shuster) Keep your answers concise, yet complete. Remember, brevity is the soul of wit. As it is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker. (Martin and Schuster advise Chris) Chris, in what way does the relativism embodied in Melville's duality of evil presage the moral ambiguity of 20th century colonialism? Heaven help us. (Prof. Martin's question and Prof. Schuster's reaction) Take Moby Dick. The white whale is unbridled nature, the implacable universe versus old Ahab. Where's the real evil? Is it the gnarly denison of the deep who chowed down on El Capitan's drumstick, or is it the crazed Ahab, obsessed to the exclusion of humanity with bringing down this great white whale to it's knees. Isn't that the whole paradox of colonialism, right there in a nutshell? The benevolent imperialist, the hubris of the first world, the marine corporal with the zippo in Nam who had to burn down the village in order to save it? (Chris answers a question at his defense) The more I read, the more the contradictions just whacked me in the head. Whatever happened to truth is beauty, beauty truth? It's the very multiplicity of interpretation that's the heart of deconstruction. Deconstruction? It's only when you remove the author as the final arbiter that all the suppressed meanings are allowed to proliferate. Ergo misinterpretation is no longer a literary crime, nor is plagiarism, for that matter. Think of the interpretive freedom that allows! (Chris, Martin, Maurice, Schuster on deconstructionism) In one fell swoop you and your car-jacking protege there have put 2000 years of accumulated knowledge into a rhetorical osterizer and grinded it all into oblivion! (Prof. Martin's opinion of deconstructionism) My god, they've taken out the whole transcendental 45th. Emerson! Fuller! Thoreau! They've taken out the whole western canon! (Chris with Beethoven, Van Gogh, Poe. Fighting himself) Why ask Brother Ray Charles what he meant by that? Doesn't art speak for itself? You analyze something too much, you end up grinding it into the dust. I sure don't feel like dancing, I'll tell you that much. (Chris has second thoughts on his dissertation) Ten thousand eyes were.... (Chris recites Casey At The Bat and strikes out Prof. Martin)

6.18 Little Italy Storylines ---------- Phil discovers the Italian side of Cicely. Ruth-Ann writes for All Things Considered. Holling and Shelly fued. Quotes ------ Don't get your gonads in an uproar Capra. It's not much of a restaurant. (Maurice to Chris about Little Italy's restaurant) I want to tell you about the time my friend Chris Stevens flung a piano with a medieval siege weapon known as a trebuchet. Chris is our local D.J., a self-taught, ex con, mail-order minister with a passion for the transcendent. The piano in question was a 1943 Baldwin upright--good, solid mahogany which had been hauled all the way to Alaska... Ed knew that Maggie ended up with this piano and had no use for it, Chris got it free of charge and the fling was on. Chris told us all to meet him out at Ivory Springer's farm where... flew into space, leaving a vapor trail of broken keys in its wake, and when at last it fell to earth and broke into a million pieces, our spirits were elsewhere, somewhere still aloft in the clouds. (Ruth-Ann's "Tales of Cicely" on N.P.R.) Miranda's going to know how to use this machine before you do. (Shelly to Holling on credit-card readers) Hey, Ruth-Ann, getting lots of good feedback down at the station Me too. Some people really dig the thematic subtext. The what? The way you link the Christ imagery with the reborn piano. I did no such thing Chris. Unintentionally maybe. I was just trying to tell a good yarn. (Chris to Ruth-Ann) Your shelves could be teeming with "Tales of Cicely" merchandise. Never underestimate the ability of the American public to buy t-shirts, not to mention coffee mugs, beach towels, refrigerator magnets... (Maurice to Ruth-Anne, on her radio spots) Excuse me. I just can't believe what I'm seeing. One minute you're plotting against your neighbor and the next you're fawning all over your little girl's patron dress for a Catholic holiday honoring the saint of all families. Yeah? (Michelle to an Italian family leader) I hate apologizing. It's such an unchicklike thing to do. (Shelly to Maggie) We Italians invented the vendetta. I don't know, maybe that's good. Some people never invented anything. What I mean is, we are a passionate people. That's what makes us great painters, great poets, makers of what everyone acknowledges are the world's finest shoes. (Phil to Italian family leaders) I didn't come here to moderate a discussion on the changing views of the immigrant experience! (Phil at the meeting) You know what I learned? That good reviews can be more damaging than bad ones. Don't take yourself too seriously, and get your second project done as quickly as possible so you can move on to your third. (Ed advises Ruth-Ann on the artistic process)

6.19 Balls Storylines ---------- Cicelians engage in a bowling match. Ed dates Heather. Michelle and Phil split. Music ----- 1. (??) (Ed and Heather go shopping) Quotes ------ You know what they say--life throws you a gutter ball, you got to slap on the old rosin bag and step up to the line. (Chris to Maggie, relating bowling to life) I enjoy a good hunt. Keeps me in touch with tribal values. (Mr. Haines to Ed, after a "hard" hunt) I noticed you're favoring your left side. Recent injury? No, just my style, I guess. Married? Was. Ever bowl mixed-doubles? No. Last book read? The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. (Chris frowns) Any past-life experiences or O.O.B.'s you might want to tell me about? ? Out Of Body. No. (Chris interviews a potential bowler) You don't have to do anything--just bowl. Just see if there's a basic bowling compatibility there. (Chris tries to pair up Maggie and Bob) I have always hated bowling shoes. With the green and the red and the blue, they're like Bozo-the-Clown shoes. The worst part is you've got to put your feet in these things that have been rented out continuously since the Eisenhower administration. Have you ever seen a new pair of bowling shoes? I don't think they exist. They're like V.W.s--they just get recycled. We're talking magnets for fungal infection! (Phil's excuse to Michelle for not wanting to bowl) Strange but true, Cicely. Bowling started in church. Seems certain athletically inclined parishoners in Germany around 200 A.D. would roll a stone down the aisle and knock over a club representing the devil. From there it was just a hop, skip and a jump to bowling for dollars. (Chris on the air) That's what we do, isn't it? We fight, then we buy each other bowling balls. This is the first bowling ball I've bought you, Michelle. (Michelle and Phil after a fight) Is that how a marriage ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper? (Phil, on fighting with Michelle)

6.20 Bus Stop Storylines ---------- Michelle directs Bus Stop. Music ----- 1. There's no business like show business... (Chris on the air, talking about auditions) 2. First movement of Mozart piano sonata #11 in A (K331, 1778) (Maurice explains to Michelle what happened to Oklahoma) Quotes ------ Come in, come in, it's Alaska out there! Ah, it's invigorating though. (Ron welcomes Michelle on a cold day) Holling, that's just acting. I'm talking about presentation. I was Miss Northwest Passage, Barley Queen, Snow Princess. If I know anything, it's how to work an audience. (Shelly to Holling, complaining that she didn't get the lead role) Hayden, isn't this door frame a bit low? Well, it's got to be. It's a shallow stage. You've got to force your perspective. (Michelle to Hayden, on the stage door) Golly, when you kiss someone for serious, it's kinda scary, aint it? Yeah, it is. (Chris to Maggie in "Bus Stop") Hayden, what is THIS?! Why, it's a trap door, Mrs. C. A trap door. In Bus Stop? (Michelle confronts set builder Hayden again) You've got to feel like dog meat...making a dude so creeped out he won't lay a wet one on you. (Shelly to Maggie, on Chris not kissing Maggie) The theater is like a virus. It changes people--alters them. In a place like Cicely where you've got so many independent spirits, it's even more virulent. Petty jealousies. Creative differences. All kind of little spats. Then, finally, there's a suspicious fire in the barn of the leading man. People come up here to reinvent themselves, rewrite the book so to speak. They're not the kind of people who easily take direction. (Maurice to Michelle, explaining why Oklahoma was never staged) Love, like an inheritance due, that we had to wrangle about with angry relatives in order to get our share. (Holling to Eric and Chris, reciting the play in the still) This is not making me happy. It's making me sleepy. (Phil to Michelle, on her muscle tenseness) In a couple of hours, all those seats are going to be filled and the house lights are going to dim and the audience, the animal in the dark. Us and them. Richard Burton thought that it was a beast that he had to tame, like a tiger. But, what is theater, really, but a group of people gathered together to sit bravely and quietly and try to solve their humanity. And who are we, the actors? We are a conduit of change. People come here to be altered and we send them away knowing something or feeling something that they have never known or felt before. (Eric to Michelle, before opening night)

6.21 Ursa Major Storylines ---------- Ed tries to adopt a bear cub. Chris experiments with lucid dreaming. Maurice tries to raise Cicely's population. Music ----- 1. (??) (Chris and Melisssa meet at the Woodbine) 2. Happiness (??) (Ed returns the bearcub to the wild.) Quotes ------ There's going to be a lot of single-parent families in fishville tonight. (Chris to Maggie, while frying fish) You've got some nerve, Maurice Minnifield, flagrantly mowing down that sign, and you can't deny it cause Walt Kupfer was an eyewitness. I'm not trying to deny anything. It was a surgical strike, it's what was needed. (Ruth Anne confronts Maurice about driving over the sign) Do you have any idea what this negative publicity will do to us? You might as well take out an ad in the Fairbanks Daily Miner saying 'Cicely loses economic base'. (Maurice to Ruth-Anne, on the population decline) Ed, I'm Salmon Clan. Bears and salmon, we're natural enemies. (Eugene explains his reason to Ed for not taking the bear) I understand the Kerouac thing. If you want to get down with the people, that's fine. I just want you to come home. (Phil to Michelle, who is waitressing) Wait till you get woken up 44 times a night. Sometimes you just go mental. (Shelly to Ed, on being a parent) Being a moom is just under being a cop and an air traffic controller for high-stress occupations. (Unknown mother at day care, to Ed) I had my staff do some research on Cicely--housing starts, per-capita income. It's not exactly the Atlanta in the seventies. (Prospective merchant to Maurice, on Cicely's economy) Do we have anything you can spray on furniture to keep bears off--like BEAR AWAY?" (A desperate Ed to Ruth-Anne in the store) I'm Ozymandis. That's me. Standing in the ruins of an an empire that never was and never will be. (Maurice in the Brick, quoting "Ozymandis") We never had a relationship. We just jumped in the sack without saying two words. Talk is cheap, Chris. What we had was a lot more interesting. What we had was anonymous. Purely physical. Right. I don't want that. I want communication. I want intimacy. I can't believe I just said that. You showed promise, Chris. There was something wonderfully meaningless about us. (Melissa to Chris, on their affair) You want to come home because I mauled a juke box? I'd forgotten that side of you...like a wild animal foaming at the mouth. It was stirring, it was beautiful. (Phil and Michelle discuss her return home) They stay with you even after they leave home. (Ed to Maurice, on raising children)

6.22 Let's Dance Storylines ---------- Cal turns himself in to Semanski. Marilyn teaches Cotillion. Music ----- 1. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Cal serenades Barbara and Maurice) Quotes ------ Something wrong, Ed? Well, now that you bring it up, Dr. Capra, that was a pretty serious breach of etiquette in there, putting more food on Mrs. Whirlwind's plate like that. Rude. See, if a Tlinget leaves any food on the plate at all, it's considered a terrible insult to the host. (Phil and Ed) I don't think I've ever seen you hoof it, Chris. Well, he's always got one excuse or another. You don't dance? It's a center of gravity thing...I hear the music, but it's a long way from my ears to my feet. (Shelly, Maggie, and Chris) I'm a little surprised. A man of you calibre. That was a terrible breach of etiquette. You never corner a Tlinget elder into a direct yes or no answer. It's a matter of respect. You don't force an answer that you want to hear. (Hayden to Phil, who tried to apologize to Mrs. Whirlwind) Good manners are a tradition in Cicely. Living on the frontier, in a cultural mix like this, if you don't make it a priority, why etiquette just goes right out the window and the next minute you know people are splitting each other's skulls with hatchets. If you don't believe me just go down to Sleetmute on a Saturday night. Marilyn teaches cotillion now that her grandma is retired. I took it for three years, 10 to 13. Learned all the basics. What to do at a potlatch, how to use a marrow fork, pretty good fox trot, too. A marrow fork? (Holling and Hayden enlighten Phil) Wakenod Motel? It's not the Ritz Carleton, but I guess it will do. Right. I mean, what else do we need besides clean sheets and a decent bed? (Maurice and Barbara transport Cal to Ellisburg) You need the practice, and it's MISS Whirlwind. (Chris attends cotillion) You read Kierkegaard? No. I don't like the sound of his name. Oh, you don't know existentialism then. Kierkegaard was the big daddy, all but ignored until after he kicked. (Chris and young girl discuss Camus and Kierkegaard) It's bad enough I'm giving dance lessons to a dweeb. (Girl to Chris, referring to Chris) I could use some caffeine. Anybody for black coffee? Thank you Mr. Minnifield. Perhaps if they have a Yoo-Hoo? (Maurice and Cal, on the road to Ellisburg) Hear ye, hear he, it's cotillion time in Cicely once again. It's a time for ritual, a time for protocol, manners. I've been doing a lot of thinking about manners lately, about courtesy, the dance, the gentle behaviors lumped together that we call civility. Let me read you something. "Manners are the happy way of doing things. Each, once a stroke of genius or love, now repeated and hardened into useage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows." Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Chris quotes from "The Conduct of Life", Ch 5, "Behavior") Hey, Walt, is it me, or is there anything crueler than a 13 year-old girl? I know lifers in the joint who weren't so judgemental. Bad age, no doubt about it. (Chris to Walt, after being rebuked by the girl) I've given some thought to the prisoner transport. I experienced a transitory abberation. I want a real relationship, Maurice, not some schoolgirl crush. (Barbara to Maurice, on her "feelings" for Cal) I understand, you don't want to squander your social capital. (Chris to the girl, on why she doesn't talk to him)

6.23 Tranquility Base Storylines ---------- Maurice hosts his friends at his new lodge. Michelle has trouble making decisions. Chris realizes he loves Maggie. Music ----- 1. Astrud Gilberto: Fly Me to the Moon (Maurice proposes to Barbara) 2. Iris Dement: Our Town (Infamous Angel) (We say goodbye to Cicely) Quotes ------ You're an enabler Phil, and enabling hurts the enabler, too. You think for her, then you get mad at her because you're thinking for her and then you feel used. That makes you feel sorry for yourself. Phil, just say no. She's going to have to learn to think for herself sometime. (Ed to Phil, on Michelle's problems with decisions) Why are you skydiving in a suit? That's a good question. (Michelle to Rabbi Shulman, who arrives by parachute) Ed, put out the coffee and pastries in mission control--some of them want to play charades. (Maurice to Ed) Barbara, please. I'm tired of talking. Time for walking. So it's come to this. I wear a badge, Mister. That's me. If that don't cut the mustard, then sayonara. (Maurice and Barbara) Hayden, just stand here and hold that. Hmm. What's this.....1983.... Aiyaaaa! (Chris opens the champagne bottle with a sword) You OK, Chris? Never better, never better. You don't look so good. You should have been there, amigo. Finished off the French fizz, got a quick six of Colt 45s. How about some extra-strength Tylenol? Yeah, alright. (Hayden to Chris, after his all-night solo party) Ed, do you know why I really bought this place? To have a family compound like Jack Kennedy had in Hyannisport. Touch football on the lawn, dealmaking on the porch, children underfoot. Oh well. A lot of my other dreams came to fruition. Tumult and the shouting dies. The captains and kings depart. (Maurice to Ed, on his new lodge) Here I am in Alaska with a world war 2 clicker, no Joel, and a wandering gentile. At least in the past I had some clue what was going on. You mean this has happened to you before, you just show up out of the clear blue sky? Never by parachute. One time Joel fished me out of a lake. Another time, just before Yom Kippur, I materialized in his bedroom. (Rabbi and Michelle) There's an old Yiddish proverb--When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. (Rabbi to Michelle, on being lost in the forest) Perfect. A disfunctional rabbi and a paralyzed Catholic howling in the wilderness. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Or not. (Rabbi to Michelle) Rabbi, Look! Oh my God. It's a bush, it's a burning bush. (Michelle and Rabbi find a burning bush) Barbara, I owe you an apology. I've been trying to turn you into something you're not. You're no gentle lady. You're a warrior. That's what attracted me. That's what attracts me now. (Maurice to Barbara, right before he proposes) I'm the teflon kid. Dozens of chicks, nothing sticks. (Chris to Ed) If they could see how the sun's setting fast And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye But hold onto your lover 'Cause your heart's bound to die Go on now, and say goodbye to my town, to my town I can see the sun's going down on my town Good night... good night..." (Iris DeMent sings "Our Town")

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