Despite the pressure of unpacking one of TV's greatest episodes, Val and Alex do their best by talking about how communication, camera movement, and the passage of time tie together the various story lines. Also Meadow and Jackie Jr's scrabble game, the backstory behind hunter Bobby, inverted paintings, Chechens and Czechoslovakians, Chris' sophisticated grasp of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Pine Barrens as a metaphorical world.