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S3E5 · The Library

Jerry is investigated by the library for a book he checked out in 1971 and never returned. Elaine fears for her career when her boss hates her recommendations, and Kramer strikes up a relationship with the librarian. Meanwhile, George believes that a homeless man is his old gym teacher, whom he got fired.

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Jerry receives a 20-year library fine for failing to return Tropic of Cancer in 1971. Adamant that he returned the book with then-classmate Sherry Becker, he fails to plead his case when the hard-nosed "library investigation officer", Lt. Bookman, pegs him as a miscreant. George recognizes a homeless man as his bullying high school physical education teacher, Mr. Heyman, and wonders if he ruined Heyman's life by getting him fired. Kramer strikes up a romance with a librarian, while Elaine, fearing for her job at Pendant Publishing, tries to placate her boss with literary finds.

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