- Maggie is asked to be homecoming queen. Ed reflects on success. Maurice gets beat on a business deal.
- 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.
- The local highschool graduating class are short of girls and asks Maggie to be their homecoming queen. What seems at first to be the result af a crush from one of the students (notice a very young Jack Black as the high school kid) turns out to be a pity gesture because Maggie is always alone. Maurice tries to pull a fast one on a successfull Native American businessman, and fails miserably mainly due to having a couple of drinks at dinner. Ruth-Anne is being audited and balances on the edge of real trouble because of her habit of trading goods - without declaring. The auditor is admidst an ugly divorce and because of her distress, makes a mistake in Ruth Annes favour. Ruth Anne is torn between on whether to disclose the error.
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