- Tod and Buz befriend a woman who has just been released from a mental institute.
- Buz's sarcasm unwittingly freaks out a new office clerk at a shipbuilding plant, not knowing she's just been released from a mental hospital. She spent 18 years in Catonsville, Maryland's Spring Grove Hospital, ironically (& actually) located near Paradise & Prospect. Dundalk ship-workers Tod, Buz, and the female office staff rally around her as she battles to adjust to a world she's feared for so long.—David Stevens
- While Tod and Buz have jobs at the Balto Marine Repair Shop, they meet Lillian Aldrich, new to Balto's human resources office. In what is their second encounter, Buz innocently does a harmless action that sets Lillian off, with all the other women in the office coming to Lillian's defense. It is not until later that both Tod and Buz find out much of Lillian's story, the basics of which those in the office knew. That day was her first day out of Spring Grove, a state psychiatric hospital, after being a patient there for eighteen years, which is half of her life. She was married with an infant child at the time she went into the hospital. She was hospitalized because she tried to kill her daughter, feeling a sense of being trapped as her daughter's primary and often singular caregiver. Her husband eventually divorced her, while she doesn't know whether her daughter even knows she exists. On the outside, Lillian tries to grasp a world she doesn't really know, while coming to terms with with her past. The question is whether Lillian is mentally well enough for this new world, or if her stumbles, such as that with Buz, are just situations foreign to her that she will have to come to grips with as part of her learning experience away from the protection of the hospital walls.—Huggo
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