Tom's attempt to win back his job is marred by Carol Anne's suspicion that he's having an affair with Janice, who allows herself and Edda a designated period of depression to deal with the divorce.

Lunching together, Carol Anne and Janice clear things up between them, but find there's still a problem they both share. Meanwhile, cable TV viewers are offered the philosophy of Norris.

There's one little thing that Tom never told Carol Anne about his past, and it's just arrived in Grand, behind the wheel of the Porsche that smacked into Carol Anne.

Bonding in the woods, Tom and Dylan get tips about fathers and sons from Norris, while surgery-bound Desmond imparts a surprise on the same topic to Weldon.