After two nurses gave the haunted-looking Laurie her medications and left her locked room, Laurie (faking illness) removed the pills from her mouth and stuffed them (along with many others) into the insides of her rag-doll." She told him that in the 90s, "times have changed - You can't just go off shagging anybody anymore," and he realized his love for her: "You're everything to me.He sits in front of a large window (similar o Midge's cityscape picture window) that shows the immense size of his modern business with large cranes moving freight - he tempts Scottie (a "hard-headed Scot") to experience more excitement in his diseased or flawed life:The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast.Clark entered the office, seeking approval for his next assignment - to write a story about his return to his Middle-American hometown of Smallville for his high-school class reunion (Class of 1965) after 15 years, accompanied by Jimmy, while Lois was leaving on a long vacation to Bermuda.Meighan, come back in here.The doctor's gonna give you a prescription.Doctor: Archie Lee, what I think you need is some kind of a little harmless sedative...Receptionist:...It's not gonna help what's wrong with you one bit.At wit's end, Archie is the town's laughing-stock - everyone knows that he is unsatisfied and ruled by his stuck-up, spoiled, child bride.