George’s family used to drive to a lake in the country on vacation. George (Ellen Muth) used to hate it, or claimed to, but now that the family is going on vacation without her, she is jealous. She asks Mason (Callum Blue) to steal a car for her, probably to follow them, but she’ll settle for a post-it note about someone’s death so she’ll have something to do. But there are no post-it notes because Death is on holiday. The Gravelings have the day off too and people all over town are doing stupid things and not dying, so Rube (Mandy Patinkin) and the reapers have to take inventory and do paperwork.
As George’s family packs, the phone keeps ringing. If George’s mother (Cynthia Stevenson) answers, there is no-one there, but if her husband (Greg Kern) answers, he says it’s work. We figure it’s the student he’s having an affair with. At the lake, mother and younger daughter (Britt McKillup) have a moment together. They find George’s named carved into the dock and agree to vacation somewhere else next time.
The records are sorted according to dying thoughts. They have to enter every soul’s last words in huge ledgers. The reapers revolt and George convinces Rube to computerize their data at George’s old office, where she still has the keys. The gang, including the Gravelings, head out to the office to use their computers. Crystal (Crystal Dahl), the weird receptionist. turns up, allegedly to water the plants, and helps with the data entry. They all type in people’s depressing last thoughts upon realizing they are dying. Daisy is getting lonely hearing them and invites Mason to her apartment for a drink. But he finds Daisy’s last words in 1938—Why has no-one ever loved me?—and he begins actually to care for her, so he begs off. In the end, George thinks maybe death is a temp job and life is the vacation.