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The frozen body of a French soldier is found, along with a diary that claims that Napoleon came to Alaska with the deceased, rather than fight the Battle of Waterloo. Joel gets a visit from the prophet Elijah, and as his disbelief is slowly undermined, he begins to worry that his stay in Cicely is changing him. Maurice aspires to build a museum to take advantage of the frozen body. Holling, seeing the body as a reminder of his descent from evil French aristocrats, is worried about what Shelly would think, and aspires to not have children, while Ed gets encouragement from Ruth-Anne about continuing to write. The body disappears, stolen by the Tellakutan tribe, who evidently are of French descent.
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