Christmas 1992. Anna mother arrives in town for her daughter wedding and is promptly pulled over for a random breath test by Tom who has yet to be introduced to her. Anna mother is not happy about the impending nuptials and, after Billy is taken to the hospital with a spider bite, she informs Anna why—Anna is a carrier of a genetic disorder that she could pass on to any children that she and Tom were to have. Bernice marries Pearl White and Pudge McKeever but Pudge and Perce later come to blows when Pudge learns of an affair Pearl once had with Perce.