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Shelly turns out not to be pregnant; it was all in her mind. To further complicate her relationship with Holling, her twenty-year-old hockey player husband, Wayne ( Brandon Douglas ) shows up, looking for a divorce so he can marry her best friend. As they get reacquainted, they begin having second thoughts. Rick ( Grant Goodeve ) visits Joel for a physical, who finds a growth on Rick's chest. Mindful of the weird, untimely deaths of all of Maggie's other boyfriends, he becomes worried. It turns out to be a false alarm, but Maggie resents Rick's belief in the "O'Connell Curse". Ed has trouble picking a subject for his screenplay. He imagines the other residents in scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Midnight Cowboy before finally taking Joel's advice and writing about what he knows - the inhabitants of Cicely. The episode's title is a takeoff of the Steven Soderbergh film Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
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