- When Leonard brings Ed along on a shaman visit, the patient grows closer to him, which is sabotaged by a creature called the Green Man.
- Leonard wakes Ed before sunrise so he can get some clinical experience as a shaman. Ed accompanies Leonard to see a patient, Bonnie Norell, the college-aged daughter of a vacuum repairman. Since dropping out of her engineering program in Fairbanks, she has had to wear noise-canceling headphones to muffle the sound of chickadee songs. Although there is an immediate mutual attraction between Ed and Bonnie, Ed is convinced that she is only interested in him because he is a shaman. Meanwhile, Ed is catching glimpses of a green face snickering at him through windows and bushes. Leonard explains that the Green Man is an evil spirit, a manifestation of Ed's low self-esteem that caused his insecure feelings about Bonnie. Ed learns that every healer has a demon to fight, and he must simply learn to ignore it. He suggests to Bonnie that her response to birdsong is a result of guilt about abandoning her college program. When she re-enrolls, the problem disappears. With new-found confidence, Ed takes a floral bouquet to Bonnie to re-establish their relationship. When Shelly and Holling start childbirth classes, he is pleased about a role for him in the pregnancy. Losing his nerve when the lecture turns technical and embarrassing, Holling gets an infectious case of the giggles and disrupts the entire class with snide comments and jokes. He apologizes. But when the scenario repeats again the next week, Shelly kicks Holling out of the class and enlists Ruth-Anne to be her new coach. With Holling setting such a poor example, a young father drops out of the class as well and Holling is conscience-stricken. He confides in the young man that he acted up out of fear and they both decide to return to class. Fed up with the dilapidated machines at Maurice's laundromat, Maggie decides to splurge on a new washer/dryer combination for her house. Unfortunately, she misses the quality gossip time she spent with everyone over dirty laundry. When a minor belt breaks in the machine, Maggie gleefully sends it back to the manufacturer for fixing, it could take months, and rejoins the weekly gathering.—Garon Smith
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