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3. The Plan

A man dies after a long battle with cancer, and his psychic widow discusses the funeral arrangements with the family.

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The funeral for cancer victim Michael Piper, whose wife is a psychic, raises many interesting questions. Ruth attends "The Plan" self-help seminar and tries to make "renovations" in her life, but ends up deciding it is all nonsense and telling the whole seminar group so. David and Keith continue to bond while Keith frets about his absent addict sister and her daughter. Claire tries to help Gabriel as the cops close in on him for armed robbery but he shoots a driver in a fit of rage. As Mrs. Piper transitions her husband into the afterlife, the ghost Nathaniel questions his sons about their beliefs.

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