Suddenly we can hear Adam's voice calling through the rain: "Hello? Hello?" We also hear a man's voice calling, "Anybody?" Joan turns, looking in the direction of the sounds, and then she races off the porch, calling, "Adam!" He's making his way down the slippery, muddy hill: "Jane!" They struggle toward each other, and if I'm not mistaken, Adam hesitates a half a second before trying to embrace her, probably not entirely sure it'll be okay, but they're very quickly in each other's arms, panting and gasping. (Not like that. Geez.) She asks him what happened, and if he's okay. There's a guy standing behind him (Wentworth Miller of Popular, a show I've never seen) wearing a red coat with the hood pulled up over his head. Adam assures her he's okay, and gesturing to the guy, says, "Ryan really helped me out." Ryan says, "I was lost, too! Never should have been out here!" Adam's father's standing a few feet behind Joan now, and calls out to his son. Adam runs over to him and embraces him tightly, and tells him he's okay. Then he hugs Grace. Ryan says to Joan, "So you're Joan!" Joan says she is. Ryan: "I was wondering why he wanted me to go hiking on a day like this." Joan: "What? Who?" Ryan stops and stares in the direction of Ranger God, over by his vehicle. There's some cheesy thunder-and-lightning effects that accompany the starefest between God and Ryan. Joan, puzzled, looks at God and at Ryan. Ryan walks off without explaining anything, and Joan says, "Who are you?" He turns and glowers from under his hood: "Ryan Hunter. See you around, Joan." (Props to dcalley for pointing out that Ryan is an anagram for "yarn," and one anagram of Ryan Hunter is "hear nun try." Also, Ryan is Celtic for "little ruler." Overthink this stuff? Us?) Then "Sympathy for the Devil" starts playing, and then I can't tell you what happened after that, because Professor Frink had to take me to the hospital for my concussion.













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