Ed has trouble picking a subject for his screenplay. It turns out to be a false alarm, but Maggie resents Rick's belief in the 'O'Connell Curse'. Mindful of the weird, untimely deaths of all of Maggie's other boyfriends, he becomes worried. Rick ( Grant Goodeve) visits Joel for a physical, who finds a growth on Rick's chest. As they get reacquainted, they begin having second thoughts. To further complicate her relationship with Holling, her twenty-year-old hockey player husband, Wayne ( Brandon Douglas) shows up, looking for a divorce so he can marry her best friend. Shelly turns out not to be pregnant it was all in her mind. In the second of two dream sequences, tribute is paid to Twin Peaks famous waterfall opening scene and other recurring characters and catchphrases of the series. Joel attempts to coax the recipe out of Marilyn, saying they could sell it to a pharmaceutical company, and she could use that money for badly needed tribal aid. Marilyn takes it upon herself to prescribe a foul-smelling native remedy that cures everyone, but will not tell anyone of its ingredients. In their delirium, the townspeople blame the Russians and eventually the helpless doctor. Joel's fiancée Elaine ( Jessica Lundy) arrives for a visit, only to have the entire town come down with the flu, ruining their time together. Meanwhile, Maurice entertains a Japanese investor interested in building a resort in Cicely, who takes Joel's advice to add a golf course.

His family is long-lived both his father and grandfather were centenarians, while their wives died young, leaving them alone and grieving for over sixty years each. Shelly becomes pregnant and a wedding is arranged, but Holling has a deep-rooted fear. Ed tags along as a film crew works on a documentary on the deceased, Dr. Joel tells Maggie about the offer, but conceals the fact that the natives wish to use it as a tax shelter. She wants to create a nature preserve, while he has been approached by rich natives who want to buy it. Joel makes a house call to Maggie (and makes up with her) after having a talk with Uncle Anku, who takes Joel's medical advice after a talk with his wife.Īn old hermit dies, leaving his land jointly to Maggie and Joel, who have radically different ideas about what to do with it.

Chris is fired from the radio station after speaking of poet Walt Whitman's homosexuality on air.

When Maggie hurts her knee, she goes to Joel, but he gives her a hard time for 'being helpless'. Joel decides to try to fix his shower when the hot water stops working. Maggie berates Joel for not being able to fix his toilet, calling him helpless. The man is seriously ill, but refuses to seek conventional medical treatment out of a fear of losing face with his patients. Many of the main characters are introduced.Įd gets Joel to talk to his medicine man uncle ( Frank Salsedo). He tries frantically to get out of the assignment before realizing the consequences are too steep he decides to take on the position of doctor for a variety of wide cases, such as a beaver with bad teeth and a husband ( Art Lafleur) shot and then stabbed by his wife. Joel Fleischman arrives in Alaska and is informed that due to a surplus of doctors, instead of working in a modern hospital in Anchorage, he will be the sole doctor in the remote village of Cicely for the next four years.

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