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The
"Ask the Vet" Show
Robbie meets with the network executives, who love the show.
However, there's one change they want to make: they want to replace Jim with a younger, good-looking host. His
replacement is an actor, not a veterinarian. Robbie says "no deal", until they tell him that they will
replace Jim whether or not Robbie and the Barkery stay in the deal.
Robbie tells this to Joannie when he gets home. She is appalled that he agreed to work with them - she says he
should have dropped the deal. She says The Barkery will not work with them.
Later, Jim's new replacement comes by the Barkery. He introduces himself to Joannie, who tells him what she thinks
of him. He tells her she's right - he shouldn't be doing the show, he can't even keep acting jobs. Joannie immediately
feels badly about what she said, and tells him he's charming and that he will do a fine job. He flashes a smile,
and tells her she's wonderful.
Later, as she and Robbie are talking about how to break the news to Jim, Jim comes in and conveniently announces
that he really doesn't think he should do the show himself: he likes being a vet, not playing one. His business
has tripled, and he is busy enough. Joannie and Robbie breathe a sigh of relief.
Heather
Charlie (the fellow from the bar with whom Robbie set her up)
tells Heather he is leaving to go back to his hometown to join a group which is acting to save a certain type of
fish. However, his former girlfriend is the one organizing the group. He wants to stay in touch, but Heather
feels
betrayed and tells him to go. She tells Jim she'll be late for work the next morning.
When she arrives at work the next day, she tells Jim (who is trying to hold down the fort with a waiting room full
of patients) that she has visited her Shaman. She tells him how Charlie left her, and Jim asks her if she's okay.
She says she doesn't think so, and faints.
She visits Syd at the clinic. She tells her about visiting the Shaman, who runs the Psychic Nails salon in town.
She was given herbs to take, but doesn't know which. Syd goes to visit the Shaman, and asks for the names of
the herbs, and tells the woman that Heather had a reaction to anesthesia when she had an appendectomy, and therefore
could be allergic to some of the herbs. The woman tells her which herbs were given (they're common ones, including
ginseng) but says that she had been unaware of the appendectomy: removing part of a person lets part of their soul
escape.
Syd runs blood tests, which are fine. She tells Heather that one shouldn't put so much faith in these people -
it is just convincing herself that she's ill. Heather begs Syd to come along with her to the Shaman, who is going
to help her find her missing soul. Syd agrees, and a ritual is performed. Heather immediately feels completely
better, and the woman tells her she can now find true love. Heather goes back to work, walking on air. Robbie
asks how she's doing, and she explains how wonderful she feels now that her soul has been reclaimed.
Syd
Syd arrives to a full waiting room at the clinic, and every
patient wants to see her right away. A woman stands up and commands them all to sit quietly and tells them Dr.
Hansen will be with them in three minutes. They all
listen to her. This woman is a physician's assistant, arriving for her interview with Syd. Syd has checked her
references, which are excellent, and keeps talking with her as she examines her first patient. The boy says he
stepped on glass, but the interviewee says that's not true: it's a bullet hole. She demands he hand over the gun.
Syd looks surprised, but the boy indeed has a gun in his pants, and hands it over. The PA tells Syd she can
handle the boy, and Syd can move on to the other patients. Syd tells her she's hired.
Syd grabs a minute later and meets with an old friend, who has a job open for which Kyle seems suited: coordinating
athletic events for the Big Brothers Association. She talks to Kyle about it later, and tells him that while she
doesn't want to push him, she thought she'd let him know she just happened to bump into the friend and learned
of this opportunity. Kyle agrees to interview with the man, and is offered the job. He says he will think about
it and decide the next day.
Later, Syd and Kyle are together at his place. She asks if she can crash there for the night, on the couch.
He says it's fine, but he'll take the couch: he can't sleep anymore these days. She wakes to find him watching
TV downstairs. She tries to talk to him about it, but he says he has to go for a walk.
The next morning, she talks to him and apologizes for being pushy about the job. He says she has nothing to apologize
for; he's just not handling things well.
Later, they bump into an old friend from high school. He transports boats, and lives near Kyle. He seems glad
to see Kyle, though his wife can be overheard as they walk away, feeling sorry for poor Kyle.
Later on, the friend stops by to see Kyle. He wonders if Kyle and Syd would like to go along the next day when
he transports a boat to a faraway locale. Syd says she can't, but the man says they don't have to decide right
now.
Syd nods off at her desk, and dreams that she is with her mother and Kyle, and her mother is a fortune teller.
Her mother places a card in front of Syd, and it's the card of death. Syd takes one herself, and it's another
card of death. She keeps trying, but they're all the death card. Her mother says she's sorry, but this means
she will experience a loss.
She wakes and the Shaman is paying her a visit. She offers Syd a bracelet, which is to help her keep her soul
from escaping. She tells her that sometimes love is forever, sometimes it's a stage that lasts to get from one
point to another. Syd says of course, but one never knows that until it's over. The Shaman tells her sometimes
the only thing to do is to let go, and she'll know she did the right thing when she sees the tiger dance on the
water.
The next day, Syd comes over to see Kyle. She tells him that her friend mentioned that Kyle is not returning
his calls and he wants to know if Kyle has decided about the job offer. Kyle says he cannot accept it: he has
to get out of the area. Syd tells him he can't run away from his home and the people who love him, but he says
he can't adjust to what has happened to him in a place where people remember him throwing the winning pass.
She sees him off as he leaves on the boat. She gives him a present: a one-way ticket back to Providence, good
anytime. They hug, and she tells him he's doing the right thing. As the boat pulls away, tears roll down her
face. Then she looks over and sees a boat advertising a nightspot, on which a person in a tiger suit is dancing.
She smiles.
[Preview for next week: a Providence
Thanksgiving movie!]
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