11/13/99

Jarod sends Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots to Kansas. When they left the State and they reach the coordinates Jarod has given to them, they find a scarecrow with a yellow brick and an address.

Jarod is in a snack bar somewhere, when a woman enters. She seems as though she's running away. Jarod helps her to escape. Then, he follows her to her car and, when a man shows up, she has to accept him in her car and drive off. The man is a cop. The girl asks Jarod what he does and he tells her that he is an investment banker. Jarod is worried, because they are running from the police, but she explains him that the cop is an ex-boyfriend that didn't take well when they broke up. They introduce themselves: her name is Zoe.

Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots arrive to the address in the brick. They are received by a dwarf that calls her "Dorothy". When they enter the warehouse, he gives them flashlights and tells them to follow the yellow brick road.

During the trip, Zoe e Jarod arrive to a place where a couple of girls is selling lemonades. Zoe remembers how she used to do that with her sister. Then, she gives each girls two notes of $100 and she tells Jarod that she wanted to see how it feels to see a dream come true. Jarod and Zoe fight when he questions her about all the money she has in a box, thinking that she stole it. Zoe says that the money is all the savings she has, and goes on, saying that she left the cop because he hit her. Jarod leaves the car in a gas station. While he is waiting for a bus, another cop comes up and arrests Zoe, because she's being looked for as a criminal. Jarod goes to the police station, posing as a cop. After tricking the man who arrested her, saying that he's taking Vince's turn (her ex-boyfriend), Jarod is able to take her with him. They make it just in time, because Vince was arriving to the front door. When they stop, Jarod changes her plate, so the police won't find them. During the conversation that follows, Jarod tells her that he is looking for his family. Zoe says that she's separated from her family too, but by option. She says that she only misses her grandmother and her twin sister, Katie. Zoe decides to teach Jarod what a road trip is.

Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots find a "GI Joe" in a tree, while they are walking through the yellow brick road. The doll has a "B" engraved in its boot and, because of that, Broots knows that this was his doll. He remembers a moment in particular, when he was sick and the doll was his only friend.

Jarod and Zoe stop and she changes her cloths. Jarod asks her why she did it and, when they arrive to her grandmother's house, he understands why. At her grandmother's, Zoe introduces Jarod as her husband. Inside, Zoe finds her sister with her husband, who she didn't know. Despite the dark cloud that is in the room, Zoe's sister is trying to make conversation. So, she asks what Jarod does. Zoe answers that Jarod is an aeronautical engineer and, by coincidence, her brother in law does the same. Zoe is thinking is regretting what she said, but Jarod saves the moment, by answering some technical question, of course.

Still following the yellow bricks, is Syd's turn to remember a moment of his life. They find a vinyl record with the music "Les Mots D'Amour". Sydney tells how his father made his brother, Jacob and him listen to it, while he danced with his mother. The record was lost in the war.

At Zoe's grandmother's again, Jarod is seeing some pictures, and then her grandmother explains that after Katie's death, Zoe ran away from her family. In the bedroom, Jarod asks Zoe why is so important that her family thinks that she's something when, in fact, she is not. Zoe answers him that she only wants her grandmother to think that she has finally straighten her life and that she found happiness. While Zoe is in the bathroom, Jarod finds some prescriptions and discovers that Zoe has cancer. He then tells her that she has to do the treatments, but she tells him that she isn't going to do them. She then asks him not to tell anything to her grandmother.

Back at the warehouse, Miss Parker finds a picnic basket with a thimble in it. The, Miss Parker remembers a day when she was "stuck" with her parents in her house, because of a storm. They didn't have nothing to do, so they played Monopoly. Her father was the shoe, her mother was the car and she was the thimble. They find out that the message they have to tell the dwarf is "there's no place like home". Although they are correct, the dwarf wants them to say that another time, but with the shoes clicking. Miss Parker has had enough, threatens him and leaves.

Jarod and Zoe are leaving her grandmother's house. They say goodbye, and even though Zoe's grandmother doesn't notice, she's saying goodbye like that was the last time. Zoe thanks Jarod for not having said anything about her disease to her grandmother.

Back at The Centre, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots find a replica of a witch, and because it looks a little like Miss Parker, she takes it as a compliment. Then, she tosses water in it and it melts, leaving another brick in its place. Broots holds it and reads "return to scarecrow".

Jarod and Zoe are reaching to a motel, after being at a fair. Zoe sees a nearby pool and decides to swim. Jarod is not very comfortable with it, because he doesn't have a bathing suit, but Zoe tells him that she doesn't have one also and goes into the water. Jarod follows her. In the next morning, Zoe handcuffs Jarod to the bed and leaves. When she reaches her car, Vince arrives. While she's trying to talk to him, Jarod has removed the handcuffs and meets them. It's now Vince's turn to handcuff Jarod. And after a brief fight (that Jarod wins), Zoe leaves, leaving them both behind. In a cliff, Zoe is thinking about jumping. Jarod shows up and tells her that he knows that her sister Katie died there. Zoe says that it was her fault, because she was the one to tell Katie about the cliff, and that she deserves to die now. Jarod convinces her not to jump and promises that he is going to help her to fight the cancer.

Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots are back at the scarecrow. Apparently, nothing has changed, but the scarecrow is now wearing red shoes. In its pocket, Sydney finds a card with the message "There's no place like home. Everyone deserves it. So why don't you leave me alone and let me find mine."

Zoe is at her grandmother's again with all her family. She's saying goodbye to Jarod. She knows he can't say. They kiss and Zoe goes back to her family, holding her nephew in her arms. Jarod leaves, sad.