Joel looks forward to a weekend in Juneau, hoping to spend it with attractive female physicians. But, instead, he winds up in a hotel suite with Maggie who clearly cramps his style. Meanwhile, Chris is flustered when Bernard, his "karmic doppelganger", returns from Africa.

An elderly visitor recounts Cicely's beginnings with tales of what was once a cultural mecca, known as "the Paris of the North," settled by a free-thinking pioneer and her companion.