The yearly retreat at Happy Time is happening, Delores (Christine Willes) wants George (Ellen Muth) to come, but she’s not a joiner and at first refuses. Delores points out that she’s the only one without pictures of the family on her desk, so she gets an advertisement featuring happy people in tennis togs and frames it. At the same time, she and Daisy (Laura Harris) reap the souls of the pastel-wearing Zoe and Chloe, the air-head twins, who are crushed by a weight dropped by a weight-lifter. George recalls her parents hiding from the carollers at Christmas and realizes that her whole family avoided commitment. But the more she stays out of the group, the more attention she gets, so she decides to go on the retreat. Daisy is reaping bikers—the Bald Eagles. They don’t wear helmets.
Mason (Callum Blue) loses his post-it note and is beside himself. With Daisy, he breaks into Rube’s apartment and they find an entire wardrobe full of post-it notes. They get into Rube’s liquor supply and end up drunk. Eventually, Daisy gets Mason to remember what was written on the note. The note is blowing down the street and is picked up by a woman. She finds her name on it and an address, so she goes to that address, arriving just as Mason does. She is shot by mistake on the street.
George’s Mom (Cynthia Stevenson) is preparing the house for a couple scheduled to come and look at the house for sale. She sets the table, but she and Reggie (Brit McKillup) eat fast food on the floor—like homeless people, Reggie says. She bakes bread so the house should smell good and puts flour on her face. The couple come and Reggie tells them that the place is haunted by George’s ghost.
George rides to the retreat with Delores (Christine Willes). A separated couple there—Frank (Paul Anthony) and Sally (Amy Adamson)--argue constantly. Sitting around the fire eating Smores, the retreat facilitator asks everyone what kind of animal they are. One is a crab because he’s always going sideways. At first, George says she is not an animal, but then she says she’s a cat—not a nice Kitty, but a stray wandering the streets, who cannot be petted, and she has claws. She’s a black cat and has many lives.
Rube shows up with a post-it note for George. As he tells a ghost story over the fire, George goes to a nearby camp, where a hunter is sleeping it off. A Graveling knocks over his shotgun and he dies. Rube’s story is about a man who leaves his love and is told that he must be back in three days or he never will come back. Suddenly, he decides to return and takes a short cut through a swamp. There is a bog in front of him and he asks a boy if the swamp has a hard bottom. He says yes, but the man and his horse start to sink. I thought you said it had a hard bottom. It does, but you haven’t reached it yet. After listening to the story, Frank and Sally get back together.