Eric and Good Cop join the smattering of customers at Bailey's. Mary greets Eric with, "Where the hell have you been?" Eric brushes straight past that and asks if Mary overheard anyone at the bar saying something like, just as an example, "After this beer, I'm gonna go steal some horses." Mary grumpily admits that earlier someone mentioned buying a horse from "some guys out at the airfield." Good Cop gasps, "We have an airfield?" and exits, stunned. Eric tries to escape as well, but Mary chases after him, complaining that last she heard, he was going to dump his wife for her. Eric moans that he thinks about Mary every second, and that when he wakes up in the morning he wishes she was there instead of his wife. Ew. Eric, get a spine and choose, already. He concludes, "I have a wife and I owe her...something." Before the bombs, Eric worked for Hallmark.
Suspenseful music plays as we watch Jake walk around...somewhere. Could somebody run out to the store and pick up some context, please? There's a field behind him, and he's walking around the corner of a building. On first viewing I thought he was back at the Green stables looking for clues. Which made it particularly amusing when the camera zooms in on the ground to reveal hoofprints, because I was like, "Yes, Jake. There were horses here. You saw them." But then he walks around another corner, and we finally discover that he's at the airfield. That they now have. How he knew to come here is anyone's guess. Maybe he's supposed to have followed the hoofprints, because he's also an expert tracker.
Back at Casa Green, Dad is grumping about being sick. Mom tucks him in on the couch and suddenly moans, "I'm worried about Jake." Dad says he is, too. I guess he's recovered from the sudden burst of respect he felt for Jake last week. Maybe that was the flu talking. Dad reminisces about how one night he got a call: "I went out there and saw that Mitch Cafferty in handcuffs, that other kid all covered in blood, and all I could think is, one of those boys coulda been Jake." The fretting is interrupted by Stanley, who barges in to explain about his problem with cornworms. He says that none of the other farmers can spare any pesticides, so he thought he'd see if the Greens had any on their ranch. Dad says that he can't help, and asks if Stanley's tried Gracie. Stanley says that she won't sell, which isn't true. Mom expositions that Stanley's farm is the biggest one in Jericho, and tells Dad, "If we lose his crops, we all starve." Dad's busy having an attack of nausea that may have been triggered by the cornworm discussion. He's lucky he didn't see them. Ew. Dad recovers enough to propose putting a crew together to pick the corn, and then ration it out. Stanley interrupts, "This is my corn." Dad agrees, but says that right now they're going to need him to share it. This seems like a good time to give props to Dcbi for this hilarious post in the forums: "I've heard the episode is titled 'Great Leap Forward.' If the spoilers are correct, those show trials will be awesome." Mom tells Stanley that there's plenty for everyone. Stanley's brush with Gracie seems to have stimulated his own brain cells, because he argues, "For five thousand people, plus livestock, for God knows how many months?" And then his brain goes back into its dormant state as he goes off on a tear that everyone's laying claim to his crops, and storms out.