Przystanek Alaska

Fleischman receives a Dear John letter from his fiancee Elaine. When Holling installs a satellite dish at the bar as a gift for Shelly, she becomes addicted to watching television and buying offerings from home shopping shows.

When Ed wants to learn more about his parents, he receives help from One-Who-Waits, a 256-year-old Indian spirit. Meanwhile, a gorgeous woman passing through town steals Chris’ voice. One-Who-Waits tells Chris (via Ed), that the only way to get his voice back is to sleep with the town’s most beautiful woman - and Chris believes Maggie is the one.

Holling turns Shelly on when he faces off against a drunken roughneck and then decides to get a circumcision to be "more in style" for her. When an unknown man dies in Dr. Fleischman’s waiting room, the locals try to ascertain his identity and then become attached to him. Maggie is embarrassed when her dad arrives on a surprise visit and gets more than she anticipated when she begs Joel to charade as her doctor boyfriend.

Maggie has some surreal dreams that portend Joel’s death should he take the flight he’s booked to New York for vacation. His substitute arrives beforehand and is so charming, energetic, and smart that the rest of the town falls in love with him, but Joel is jealous and thinks he’s too good to be true. Maggie seeks spiritual guidance from Chris, unsure as to whether or not to tell Joel about her dreams. Eventually the whole town finds out and a town meeting is held in which Joel is given an impromptu funeral before he leaves, so that he can be there for it. Joel then has his own surreal dreams foretelling of his flight’s crash, dreams in which Maggie figures. Meanwhile, Maurice is visited by a married “astronaut groupie” with whom he has a yearly fling, and Chris prepares for Cicely’s anniversary and reveals that the town was founded by a lesbian couple, Roslyn and Cicely, fleeing narrow-mindedness in Montana in the early 1900s.

Spring arrives and Maggie and Joel find their dreams invaded by each other, State Trooper Barbara Semanski enchants Maurice, and the other citizens of Cicely have their yearly bout of spring fever, experiencing all kinds of weird feelings, stolen radios, and Holling’s urge to pick fights and "do some damage".

A Russian opera singer and international celebrity makes his yearly trek to Cicely to visit the townsfolk, who greet their friend with open arms. His visit reopens old wounds with Maurice, who is intent on another challenging chess game. Ed has an affair with Light Feather, who is only excited by his flowery letters, which Chris writes for him (in the manner of Cyrano de Bergerac). Holling is plagued by dreams that deprive him of his sleep. The whole town steps out of the situation to reflect on war (the first Gulf War) — and moves on.

A satellite plunges out of orbit and crashes into Maggie’s boyfriend Rick, killing him instantly and fusing with him. A disgruntled wife tries to persuade Maggie to date her husband so that he can suffer from the "curse". Rick’s funeral is enlivened when his casket, complete with protrusions for telemetry equipment, is rolled into the church. Two men are interested in purchasing a house from Maurice, but he objects to their lifestyle. However, he is torn when they misinterpret his hostility and raise their offer to match his inflated asking price.