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CHRlS: Chris in the Morning, election room central.

The polls have closed. The people have spoken.

We have ourselves a new mayor elect, Cicely.

l know some returns are just coming in from Coffee Pot Mountain,

but according to our early tallies and early exit polls,

KBHR predicts the new winner to be... Ta-da!

Mary Margaret O'Connell.

RUTH-ANNE: Oh, Walt.

(RUTH-ANNE LAUGHlNG)

Hi! Hi!

Congratulations. Congratulation, my dear.

The better man was a woman.

Oh, thanks, Walt.

Citizens of Cicely,

l'd like to compliment the last of the clean campaigners.

To the shrewdest, toughest, most decent political opponent

l've ever had the pleasure of being trounced by.

Well spoken.

You're not out of grub, are you?

No, there's plenty. Help yourself.

Thank you.

Hey, Walt, sorry you lost.

Didn't really want the job anyway, Ed.

Of course, the stationery would have been nice.

And the occasional junket.

Yeah.

And l hope you understood my backing Walt.

Oh, sure. Everything's fair in love and politics.

But l will be looking for your future support on the council, though.

Hey! Hey.

Look, l realize it's a little early to be worrying about an agenda,

but l just made my first dump run this morning.

l can't believe how far you people have to drive just to get rid of your trash.

Well, the upside, though, is you don't have to listen

to those garbage trucks at 5:00 a.m .

Yeah. Well, l was just thinking.

l don't know why the town doesn't just have a central dumpster.

Cut way down on the trips people make.

You know, it's funny you should mention that.

'Cause that exact idea was brought up

during the public meeting last January.

During the cold snap.

Right after they found Buford Mento.

Solid as a popsicle, 100 feet from the dump

with a hefty bag in each hand. Wow.

(DOG BARKlNG) Here's our boy.

Here you go.

Huh, boy, huh? Okay, come here.

You believe this rascal fought off

an attacking bull moose in the dock race of champions?

Thirty below. Half the field scratched.

All he does is turn around and lead his team to a course record.

(WHlNlNG)

Naturally, his racing days are behind him.

Pure Husky, right?

For generations. Monadnock line.

Pedigree like the Windsors of Buckingham,

only less inbreeding.

What's his stud fee?

Well, l've gotten as much as $500,

and never less than three.

What are you selling him for?

Oh, l shouldn't be selling him at all,

but l'm letting him go at five large.

Five thousand?

Oh, you handle him right,

you could be whole again inside a year,

and after that, he's a cash cow.

How many times has he sired?

Let's just say he's never home on a Saturday night.

ls that it? lsn't that right?

Members of the city council,

it is a great pleasure to formally introduce to you

our newly elected mayor, Miss Maggie O'Connell.

Hear, hear! Welcome, Maggie.

Good to have you aboard.

Thank you, councilman.

(SlGHS) Well.

(SlGHS) Okay, first of all,

allow me to say that l realize this is not a formal public meeting,

but Michelle has requested permission to cover it

for Maurice's paper.

Any objections?

Can't see anything wrong.

lt's okay with me.

Great. So ruled.

Well, let's get down to business.

Council will come to order.

Okay, the agenda calls for

debate on council bill R-433.

Now, this relates to resource conservation.

l'd like to start with a related subject.

lt's crazy that each of us has to drive our own trash out to the fill.

l don't think any of us wants to move the dump to town, your honor.

Oh, no, l'm talking about a dumpster. RUTH-ANNE: Oh.

And when it fills up, a truck picks it up and empties it.

As soon as you bring in vehicles, you're talking big bucks.

There just isn't a tax base for it.

There's a trucker in Sleetmute who'll provide the service on a per load basis.

l think the Mayor's on to something.

HOLLlNG: We could park a dumpster at the vacant lot on Hasberry.

And l think my colleague and good friend Councilman Vincoeur

is showing his stripes again.

We're all aware of the Canadian proclivity

for socializing anything that moves.

l think we should all confine our comments

to the merits of the proposal.

l think it would behoove the honorable Mayor to examine the city's books.

The Cicely treasury couldn't afford to rent a Tonka truck.

lsn't that right, Councilman Stevens?

Councilman Stevens?

Hmm?

The judicious expenditure of government resources

can have a multiplying effect. Everybody will benefit.

Who's going to foot the bill

for this esteemed gentleman's 20-some bags a week?

l resent that. Okay, come to order!

With all due respect, Madam Chairwoman,

l think you're going to find an unbridgeable chasm between some of us

on the question of government as social panacea.

Don't you agree, Councilman Stevens?

Yes, absolutely.

Everybody knows where l stand on this issue.

The natural order of things moves along best

when unimpeded by artificial stimuli.

You can quote me on that.

The chair believes

that the government has a responsibility to be constructive.

l mean, if it's going to exist,

why shouldn't it promote the public good? Hear, hear.

ls this not what the democratic process is all about?

Right.

At the next meeting, expect a formal proposal with hard numbers.

(WHlMPERlNG)

(THUDDlNG)

You should notice an improvement

in the next two to three days, okay?

So you just call me if you need a refill on that prescription.

Okay, thanks. All right, take care.

Hey, Dr. Capra.

Hey, this must be the new guy.

Ah, excuse me, Marilyn.

l don't want to get off on the wrong foot here,

but really, this is no place for pets.

He's not a pet.

What do you mean?

Well, the thing about huskies, Dr. Capra,

they're not like other dogs.

They're work machines up here, practically public transportation.

He's an investment.

Marilyn doesn't even like dogs,

she's a cat person.

Well, maybe we could just keep him

by the side of your desk there.

What's his name?

Chuck.

Chuck?

Hey, Chuck.

Well, what can l do for you, Ed?

l almost forgot. Ruth-Anne sent me over.

Got a letter for you, just came in.

What is this?

''Dear Phil, what do you say to a round of golf Friday?

''Warmest regards, Joel Fleischman."

l didn't even know there was a golf course around here.

Dr. Fleischman's a pretty good duffer, too.

Do you know he once beat the club pro,

out at the pitch and putt on Finger Lake?

Where is Dr. Fleischman, exactly?

Every time l ask someone, they change the subject.

Manonash village.

Where is that?

Up river.

Just past Dead Man's gorge.

Not a bad trip, though, if you make it before the ice flows start.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

(SlGHS)

Hey, Chris!

lt's kind of late, isn't it? What's up?

Nothing.

Just out riding, took Umiak Road up to the dump.

6.4 miles each way.

Look, if this is about the dust up at the council meeting,

don't worry, we're not gonna lock-step on everything just 'cause we're friends.

ls something wrong? No.

Can l come in?

Yeah, sure.

You want some tea or something? No.

Okay.

(SlGHS)

Quite an inaugural outing today.

Oh, yeah.

You know, l don't know why Ruth-Anne got her nose so out of joint.

l don't think l was unprofessional, do you?

Are you kidding? You were born for this job.

The way your hands just fit around that gavel,

the timbre of your voice,

the way you called us to order,

your mastery of Robert's Rules.

What are you doing?

l'm sorry.

Maggie, that won't...

No. Chris, l want you to leave, okay?

Come on. l want you to leave. Right.

Okay. Come here. Come on.

All right? All right, all right?

Now! Bye!

See you.

lt's hard to believe there'd be a regulation course way out here.

l wonder if the club has any kind of restaurant.

You want authentic Alaskan cuisine, Manonash is your place.

Great. What l wouldn't give for a nice salmon filet

and a bottle of Sterling Chardonnay.

This is Manonash.

This is Manonash? Are you sure?

Oh, jeez! Ah!

JOEL: Whoa, whoa, Dr. Capra.

Oh, hello. Dr. Fleischman send you?

Oh, l'm Dr. Fleischman.

Oh.

l'm glad you could make it. How was the trip?

Fine. Yeah?

Fine, yeah.

l lost a nine iron in some choppy water about a mile back,

but other than that, l'm just surprised that

there's a golf course this far off the beaten path, you know.

Yeah.

Well, let's get your stuff and we'll head on out.

Thanks, Dale, l got it.

Yeah, see you. l got it.

Thank you.

Come on.

This is a good day for golf, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, it's beautiful.

What would you say the bottom line is for a stud fee?

Four hundred?

He usually gets five.

Five, huh?

Well, nice Arctic coat.

Those ears could be a little longer, though.

He's not a show dog. Shorter ears are better for the cold.

Ah, well, walk him around for me.

Not too prancy.

l bet he can cover some ground.

(MAURlCE CHUCKLES)

Yeah, Marilyn, looks like you got a real champion there.

Those pads could be a little thicker.

His father won the lditarod twice.

lf your Chuck makes beautiful music with my Countess Cassamasima,

l could have a wheel dog that'll fill out my team.

Well, let me take him and introduce the beautiful couple.

(CHUCKLlNG) l'll be back and write you a check.

Come on.

Slide me that pan, Chris.

Chris?

Yeah.

Thanks, buddy.

l did something really crazy last night, Ed.

l did a triple gainer into the Grand Canyon of craziness.

l made a pass at Maggie. Oh?

Yeah. Of course, she threw me out.

l mean, completely took her by surprise, you know.

She wasn't the only one.

l don't know where it came from.

lt just blindsided me.

l couldn't figure it out until now. You know what it was?

No.

lt was the gavel.

The gavel?

Yeah, her role, the mayor?

This power, this authority.

l don't know why l didn't figure it out until now.

l've always had this thing, Ed,

for powerful women.

lt's kind of like it's hard-wired right to my loins,

you know what l'm saying?

Can you hand me the slotted screwdriver?

Yeah.

lt goes all the way back to the ninth grade. Mrs. Goad.

Talk about a tight ship. Absolute rule.

Couldn't lie my way into a hall pass,

no matter how hard l tried.

And when l got sent to jail,

when that judge sentenced me, 'cause l can see it right now.

She's sitting there with that back erect,

head cocked ever so slightly,

that jet black robe setting off that alabaster skin.

Mmm, the honorable Claire Dawson Chandevalle.

She's throwing the book at me, Ed,

and all l want to do is suck those little white earlobes.

Let me show you this.

Here it is, look at that.

Time magazine?

Janet Reno.

That's the reason l couldn't throw this thing out, Ed.

Now l understand.

All right, doctor.

What about your clubs?

l manage pretty well with the shillelagh.

Although l must admit, every time l stare down a par five,

l fantasize about one of those Callaway War Birds.

Why? What have you got here? Some graphite shafts?

No, carbon-graphite.

Nice.

Got a wedding tomorrow.

Oh.

Tell me, what do you think of Cicely?

Pretty peaceful, huh?

Well, you should have seen it before it was overbuilt.

What's the gun for?

Just high altitude migratory fowl, mainly.

Pretty nice, huh?

lt's a new Browning.

(COCKS GUN)

lt's got enough stopping power for anything we might come across.

Not that we will.

(EXCLAlMS)

l want my money back, and l want it now!

What happened?

lt's what didn't happen that concerns me.

Our agreement is null and void

based on his lack of performance.

He didn't do it?

(LAUGHlNG) Didn't?

He might as well have been introduced to a brown rice cake

for all the interest he showed in my bitch.

Maybe it wasn't the right time.

Marilyn, the Countess was all over him like a cheap suit,

all to no avail.

He's nothing but a pantywaist.

Did you feed him something?

He had no appetite of any kind.

Hmm. Maybe you scared him.

The only thing that he's scared of is doing his carnal duty.

l'll write you a refund.

And then there's Angie Mingus.

l know that you suspect Meniere's,

but l'm wondering if a vestibular neurectomy is what's called for.

What with the debilitating vertigo and the hearing loss.

Yeah, well, you got one other option.

You know, you could do a labyrinthectomy.

That's my thought precisely.

Why are we stopping?

This is it.

PHlL: This is what?

This is the first tee.

You're serious? Yeah, first hole.

310 yards, dog leg to the right.

You don't want to slice 'cause you'll end up in those nettles over there

and they're strong enough to puncture a coconut.

There's actually a hole out there,

is that what you're telling me?

Yeah. That's what l'm telling you.

l think you should consider a long iron,

just for control's sake, you know.

Plus the wind's quartering left to right

so the ball carries pretty well in this air.

(ROARlNG)

PHlL: What is it?

That's all right. Sorry. False alarm.

Go ahead.

(ROARlNG)

What club do you need?

Ah, five iron.

Five iron?

Thanks. Sure.

lt's okay, we're all right.

That's the devil's club.

Yeah, tell me about it.

No, no, the tall rough you're in over there,

that's the devil's club.

How about a mulligan?

Oh, it's playable. l mean, there's nothing to justify a re-tee.

Oh.

lf you add up the gas people use to drive to the dump in a whole year,

it'd more than pay for the program that l'm proposing.

Well, l see our new mayor is working overtime

lobbying that misbegotten trash plan of hers.

Now, Maurice, l think we're all obliged

to find out a little bit more before we pass judgment.

l've heard all l need to,

thank you very much. And l'm with Maurice.

You turn on the big government machine,

and it's impossible to turn it off.

Do you mind if l use that statement for attribution?

Be my guest.

l don't know why you've all got your BVDs in a twist.

l'm the only support that the Mayor's got.

Well, l certainly hope so.

What's so bad about saving everybody driving to the dump once a week?

Shelly, this proposal has ''blank check'' written all over it.

Projects like this could grow like top seed.

Mmm-hmm, thank goodness Councilman Stevens is on the record

opposing boondoggles like this, right, Chris?

(WHlSTLES) Chris?

Yeah, l want to see some...

(CLEARS THROAT) Some firm figures.

Chris, this isn't about figures.

This is about big brother stepping in and saying,

''We can't even take out our own garbage without his help."

What do you think?

Yeah.

Hey, Marilyn, what's up?

l'm returning Chuck. He's defective.

Defective?

He's no good at breeding.

Maurice brought him back, and the same thing happened

when l left him with Tanya McAllister's female.

Well, l don't know what you've been feeding that dog, Marilyn,

but there was sure nothing wrong with him when he left here,

that much l know.

l want my money back.

Come on, this is just buyer's remorse.

l'm sorry, Marilyn.

You said he could do it.

Look, any time a dog like this changes hands,

there's just gonna be a period of adjustment.

l want my $5,000.

Now, wait a minute, l know what it is.

There's logging going on over near your place, isn't there?

Don't start that. You said he'd be a good stud.

That's like a warranty.

Listen, Marilyn, you and l go way back.

For the sake of our friendship, l'd take him back,

but as a businessman, l just can't make that kind of precedent.

l'm sorry.

Come.

PHlL: l've seen medial epicondylitis

from tennis, golf, repetitive motion syndrome,

but never from harpoon throwing.

Of course, l'm treating Ank the same way l'd treat Pete Sampras.

Just strengthen the flexor pronators.

Let me ask you something, is there any spur formation?

Nothing so far.

All right, well, that's encouraging.

Okay, now, there's not much safe room on the approach.

lt's pretty much all-carry, obviously,

but why don't we let these guys play through?

(LAUGHlNG)

Hey, Jerry, Kenny, why don't you guys play through?

We're in no rush. Great.

PHlL: Hi.

Hey there. How you doing?

Thank you.

JERRY: What do you think you want to use, seven iron?

KENNY: Looks pretty good.

Those guys are good.

Dried seal fat.

Thanks.

You know, it's funny.

My practice in LA, what little general care l did,

l spent 90% of the time just referring patients to specialists.

Nothing more than a high-priced sorting machine.

You know, but...

Now it feels very hands-on.

Yeah, it's a shame we're so ill-prepared, huh?

Well, speak for yourself, Joel.

l admit it, you know, l'm just feeling my way here,

but, l mean, it seems to me our knowledge of the gross physical body,

that's just part of the picture.

ls it?

There's the subtle body and the mental body.

Aren't we just studying an incomplete physiology?

l know that our training, you and me,

in Western medicine, it's just...

lt's narrow.

Well, l still think there's a valid distinction

to be made between

a man of medicine and a medicine man.

l've been treating a woman in the village

for chronic migraines.

Visual prodromata.

Now, a year ago, l would have ran right to sumatriptan or codeine,

instead, l approached it with what's called Tui Na.

Now, this is a Chinese therapy,

it's been around a good 2,000 years.

Basically, it's an acupressure technique

that's based on energy points.

lt turns out, irrefutably,

this is a far more effective prophylaxis.

l think we can move on.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Hey, Chris.

Hey.

(STAMMERlNG) What do you want?

Well, l was hoping that

l wasn't on the top of your ''life's too short'' list,

on that bozo impersonation l did the other night.

Oh, Chris.

l mean, we all do goofy things sometimes.

What? What's that?

lt's a special delivery. lt's from your father.

(EXCLAlMS)

Yeah, l was over at the store,

and it came in and l thought, ''Oh, l'll just run it over."

Ha! Wonder what he sent me.

You want to come in?

That'd be nice.

Boy, you know, this is odd,

'cause l didn't even tell him l won the election.

Neiman Marcus!

(EXCLAlMlNG)

Giorgio Armani?

Have you ever seen anything more elegant in your whole life?

ls this the ultimate power suit or what?

Oh, yeah.

Wow, that's your color.

(GlGGLES)

Navy blue. Hey, why don't you...

Why don't you go slip it on?

Yeah, okay, l will.

Hey, there's some bubbly water in the fridge,

if you want some, help yourself.

Do you know, l don't really understand this,

because my dad's a generous man,

but do you know one of these suits costs $1,500 to $2,000?

PHlL: We're never going to find my ball, Joel.

Why don't you just nick me a couple of strokes?

l'll take a drop from here.

lt's right up ahead.

JOEL: You lie four, if l'm not mistaken.

You're not really keeping score, are you?

Well, yeah, you're 1 7 through three holes and l'm 1 2.

(CHUCKLES)

Come on, Joel.

lt's in the water. l can take the drop.

JOEL: No, that's partially immersed.

That ball's playable.

Pitching wedge with enough loft.

Decent approach, and you can still salvage yourself a double bogie.

You're dreaming.

Listen to me.

Getting the ball where you want

is not much different than my using energy channels to ease migraines.

lt's the union of mind and the body.

The interconnectedness, you understand?

l don't know, Joel.

l always thought holographic golf

was for guys with pony tails and flip phones.

Me, too. And then l...

l took a couple of lessons

from this old local pro up here named Morris Aniak.

Now this guy is incredible.

He lost three of his fingers on his left hand to frostbite

and he can birdie almost any hole at will.

He opened a whole new game for me.

He taught you on this course?

He's saved most of the top players up here.

l didn't even have a chip shot until Morris.

Now, what he would say is don't rush your swing.

Okay?

Just let the power radiate

from your inner core through the club head.

l'd be happy if l don't top the ball.

Whoa!

Nice.

Voila!

l don't think l really have the proper blouse to sell it, and heels would be nice.

But it's great style, don't you think?

Hmm. lt fits you perfect.

(SlGHS) Yeah.

Why don't you just stand up on your tippy toes a little bit?

What?

You know, as if you had proper heels on?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute, this package didn't have any return address.

There wasn't any postage, either.

Hmm?

My dad didn't send this.

No?

No, you bought this, didn't you?

Come on. Come on, Chris, tell me the truth.

Tell me the truth!

All right, l bought it. l didn't think you'd take it

if you knew it came from me.

What has gotten into you lately?

Chris, how could you make up a story like that?

l'm thumbing through MirabeIIa, right?

And l see this beautiful Armani suit and l think,

''Hey, Maggie, suit, power... ''

Yeah, well, you know what? You just better hope you kept the receipt.

Could you just turn around,

you know, one time, and say, ''Come to order''?

Don't take it off. Look, let me go into the closet

and get some shoes. No. No, no, no, no.

l'll give you your skirt back tomorrow. Oh, come on!

Leave. Leave.

Out!

Come to order.

l hate you.

Hi.

Well, thank you, Maggie. Mmm-hmm.

(CHUCKLES) l didn't know you were moonlighting.

Do you mind if l sit down?

Please.

Do you know that l was on the plane today

with the mayor from Trapper Creek?

And there's talk of plows on Petersville Road this year.

Mmm-hmm.

And l'm trying to get him to take it the extra mile to the Talkeetna turnoff.

Which means all that campground traffic

would be routed through Cicely.

They've been talking about that ever since l've been up here.

But, this year, l think it will really happen.

And where else are all those campers going to stock up with supplies

but your store?

l know when l'm being jawboned, Maggie.

This is a quid pro quo for my vote on the dumpster, isn't it?

Well, l just want my administration

to get off to a good start, Ruth-Anne.

And, you know, l just feel that if l could push this motion through,

it will herald a new day for Arrowhead Burough politics.

Maggie, l don't doubt your sincerity for one moment.

l just think that it's poorly placed.

l'm voting ''no'' on dumpster central.

But l will support you on snowplows on Petersville.

Yeah, okay.

PHlL: l never dropped a 30-foot downhill putt in my life.

lt's as if the ball were connected to a string.

What did you call it?

Well, it's not me. lt's what Morris taught me.

Blending, right?

Yeah.

Keep your senses open.

And letting your lnstincts recalibrate with each new factor.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah, this is unbelievable.

lf somebody told me a month ago

l'd be playing golf by moonlight

in the Alaskan wilderness...

All right, well, it's a long five, okay,

so you've got to carry those trees

and just pick up as much real estate along the way as you can.

Powered, huh?

lf you do it right, you should be able to see it

before you get there.

See the ball?

Well, l'll give it a shot.

l can see the ball just exactly the way you said.

lt bounced twice and bit the green between two traps.

This is incredible, Joel!

Joel?

Joel?

Joel?

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHATTERlNG)

(MEWlNG)

Marilyn, aren't they too cute to live?

Only six weeks old and they can already meow.

Oh, so soft.

He's the runt.

They're free, Marilyn. No room at the inn.

Take your pick of the litter. What do you say?

Uh-uh.

Why not? l thought you loved kitty cats, Marilyn.

He wouldn't like it.

Oh, too bad.

Hey, Marilyn, champion Husky stud?

Don't you mean Husky dud?

(PEOPLE LAUGHlNG)

''Tempers flared when Councilwoman Miller suggested that

''Councilman Vincoeur's support of the proposal

''was motivated by potential cost savings

''to commercial users like himself."

(BELL RlNGS) MAN: Order's up.

(LAUGHlNG)

That council meeting's today, isn't lt?

9:00 a.m . Uh-huh.

Michelle, what's your slant on this?

l don't want to tell you how to write your story, of course.

lt's pretty obvious we're on opposite sides of the fence on this, Maurice.

l guess the point is, if l do my job right,

neither of our opinions should matter.

Mmm-hmm. Of course. l just hate to give forum

to the friends of the welfare state,

if you get my drift.

(CHUCKLES)

How do you take your coffee?

You abandon me in the woods in the dead of night,

and you want to know how l take my coffee?

What happened to you, Joel?

l was hungry, l couldn't sleep!

l could have been mauled by a bear!

What were you thinking?

You did fine, okay?

You didn't panic, you didn't lose your head.

You take sugar?

l don't understand, Joel.

Where did you go?

l was never very far.

Well, that's great, that's just great.

How am l supposed to know that?

l'm not sure l could find my way back in broad daylight.

Phil, l think you could have found your way.

lt's nice and hot, huh?

Hey, congratulations.

Some round you played yesterday.

You beat my pants off, Joel. Am l missing something here?

Oh, God, that's good.

Look,

you understand as a doctor

that it would be hard for me to turn over my practice

to some colleague without some assurance.

And you measured that by my golf game?

lt's the focus. Attention to detail.

lt's the head, it's the heart.

Head and heart.

Now, when you treat Maurice...

He is not very good about

taking the full course of his antibiotics,

so you just gotta stay on him.

l'll remember that.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Well, the council will come to order.

lf you'll all refer to your proposal handouts,

paragraph B, revenue sources.

This program can be funded for a six-month trial

with an $8 per 10,000 annual assessment.

And an on-site fee of $1 per load.

We can just put a collection box outside the dumpster.

And it will be fair. l mean, the more you chuck out,

the more you chip in.

lt's never going to work.

How are you gonna know who's paying and who's not?

Councilman, l have yet to yield the floor, you're out of order.

Sorry.

This is not just about trash and dumpsters.

This is our chance to say something to the people who put us here.

That government isn't the enemy,

that it could be a positive force.

That there can be change for the better every once in a while.

Councilwoman Miller?

l think l'm speaking for the majority sentiment,

when l say that l respectfully oppose

Madame Mayor's motion.

The anthropologists who brought

blow dryers and Mister Coffees

to the natives of Papua New Guinea

learned their lesson.

Progress is not always what it's cracked up to be.

l move that we vote on the motion.

Seconded.

Okay.

Council secretary, are you prepared to record the vote?

Prepared, Madame Mayor.

Councilman, how about ye?

ln keeping with Cicely's long tradition of independence,

l vote nay.

Councilwoman Miller, how vote ye?

For the reasons l've just stated,

l feel l must vote nay.

Councilman Vincoeur? And how about ye?

lt is with great pride and admiration

for the farseeing principles espoused by the chair,

that l vote yea.

Councilman Stevens, how vote ye?

Honorable Mayor, fellow council members,

might l take a moment before l vote?

Proceed.

You all know me.

You know l've been part of the Fiscal Restraint crowd

for a very long time.

This is an idea whose time l think has come.

Yes.

Therefore, l vote yea.

Madame Mayor, go ahead and vote. l will...

l will move that the vote be recorded and certified.

ln accordance with the governing rules of this body,

l hereby break the deadlock by voting...

Wait a minute, this is wrong.

l can't do this. This is a sham.

What?

l won't do this.

l don't accept your support, Chris, based on...

What it's based upon.

l don't understand, what's it based on?

MAGGlE: Look at you.

You're steamrolling your own convictions

because of some screwball fixation with me!

Why don't you two settle this after the meeting?

How do you vote, Mayor?

You're making a mockery out of the process.

l mean, our hearts and minds is one thing,

but vote with your conscience, not your penis!

l hereby exercise my prerogative under

council rule 1 4, section B,

to give you the opportunity to reconsider your vote.

Councilman Stevens,

how do you wish to have your vote recorded?

Well, in that light,

l vote nay.

The chair votes aye.

The motion is defeated three to two.

First shot out of the box, a home run.

How could you just throw it away like that?

Because l did what l thought was right.

lt's not like l don't understand the Chris thing.

But you can't sit there and double-think the motives

of everyone who agrees with you in life.

lt's hard enough dealing with the people who hate your guts.

Well, look, l brought a matter to the town's attention,

and it was decided upon its own merits.

Fair and square.

Well, l don't get it. You lost.

Michelle, Chris asked that l give you this.

What is it?

lt's a press release.

He'd like you to publish it in the TeIegraph.

(EXHALES)

''Councilman Chris Stevens, citing physical exhaustion

''and the burgeoning demands of the office,

''has tendered his resignation from the Cicely City Council

''effective immediately.

''The councilman expressed his appreciation

''to those citizens who have supported him in recent years,

''adding that he hopes to devote more time

''to his art and to his friends."

Did he say anything else about his reasons, Ed?

l have no comment at this time.

Look, other than what's in the press release.

(THUNDER RUMBLlNG)

l don't know how to describe it, Michelle.

lt was so utterly bizarre.

l mean, here's this Columbia med graduate,

who was responsible for the welfare of this entire town

just a few short weeks ago.

Well, whatever it was, it had to have made more sense

than the city council meeting did.

What happened to this man?

l mean, here Maggie was poised to do something great.

We could have had a dumpster.

(SlGHS)

Transitions are always hard.

But it's gonna get better.

l know it will.

Maybe it's this place.

(SlGHlNG)

ls the heat on?

(l'LL BE AROUND PLAYING)

Come.

Sit.

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