Just as Orson Hodge is falling off the hospital roof, due to Mike Delfino pushing him off the parking-lot border at the end of the last episode, he starts to flash back about what happened the night when Monique Polier died. Orson returns home to find Monique on the floor surrounded in blood, with his mother Gloria Hodge standing right next to her with Mike's wrench. The doorbell rings. Mike is at the door waiting for Monique to answer before he walks in the house to find Orson in a rather suspicious position, Orson and Gloria quickly hide Monique's body behind the kitchen counter and Gloria goes into hiding. In order to stop Mike from seeing anything, he quickly tips Mike off and says he can carry on the plumbing job from there. Mike leaves, and soon after Gloria and Orson are at the country club digging a hole, Orson gets into a row with his mother, as his mother is trying to remove Monique's teeth (so she can't be identified by dental records, which Orson regards as disrespectful to the corpse) and instead of burying Monique, he pushes Gloria into the ditch, causing her to break her hip (which explains why she walks with the aid of a stick). It cuts back to Orson just as he's about to meet his death, but he's in luck. A tree breaks his fall and paramedics standing by call for help. The narrator Mary Alice Young states that Orson's departure into the “white light” was not scheduled for this day.