Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard. Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but ...

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward. Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and ...