When Kurdy discovers that Smith has been telling everyone he comes from their home town, he decides to investigate the man's strange comings and goings. Over in Milhaven, Jeremiah and Libby must protect a family fleeing from one of Daniel's forced labour camps.

One of Daniel's labour camps is on Kansas's eastern border.

A family manage to escape one of Daniel's camps and tell Jeremiah that anyone who doesn't cooperate at the camp is killed. A posse is sent to Milhaven to recapture them before they can spread "lies" about Daniel. However the fugitives reveal the location of mass graves, corroborating their story.

Daniel has put people to work, working on roads and buildings. He has even restored power to many cities. As well as cars, he has, or rather had, at least one functioning tank. One suspects his followers have built ammunition factories, too, judging by how carefree they are with their firepower.

A group Smith calls the "Tellers" travel around, picking up stories about the period after the Big Death to create a rich oral history. Smith has been telling them about Kurdy.

Jeremiah and Libby take up residence in Milhaven. Jeremiah is initially reluctant to get involved in the town, but eventually his conscience gets the better of him. They are slowly starting to acknowledge that there is an attraction between them.

Smith tells Kurdy he came from Laurelhurst in Portland. Later, however, he says he doesn't remember his childhood - "some part of my brain, it just doesn't want to go there" - and so he adopts the histories of the people he meets.

Smith has been checking in and out of Thunder Mountain every couple of days, usually at night. Kurdy follows him and discovers he has a shack within walking distance of Thunder Mountain, where he keeps, among other things, a large number of photographs including some from inside the Mountain. Later he tells Kurdy he has many such repositories in different locations.

Frank is a Milhaven resident. He wants to start up a newspaper. Richard is another prominent resident; he tries to get Jeremiah to turn the fugitives over to Daniel's gang.

Plenty of amusing exchanges between Jeremiah and Libby, such as, "is any of this the answer to 'what's wrong?', or has Mr Dictionary deserted us yet again?"

The start of the Teller's story: "Here begins the story of the world after the Death - the birth of the new, out of the ashes of the old: the first great fire claimed the city of Atlanta which burned for seventeen days…"

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who survive history, and those who make it. You, Kurdy, are one of the latter… I'm like your scribe, dude." To which Kurdy replies, "Is there some kind of hat that goes with that?"

"We are the hand of Daniel - we wish you no harm." Said from inside a tank as it opens fire on Milhaven buildings.

When Kurdy tells Smith he returned to Portland the previous year, he's likely talking about the events of "City of Roses".

"Daniel says, 'hello.'" Could this be a subtle nod that Daniel is God's opposite strange attractor?

There are a couple of points in this story that suggest some link between Daniel and Valhalla Sector. The most obvious is that Daniel has access to some pretty serious military hardware, and has obtained the knowledge to keep it functioning. The second comes when Jeremiah ponders how they knew the fugitives had arrived in Milhaven. Possibly there were followed there; but there may be some Milhaven residents still loyal to the town's previous bosses.

Interesting that after the closure of the last episode, Jeremiah's personality swings towards how Kurdy behaved when they first met - saying "not my problem" but helping anyway.

This may only affect the original widescreen broadcast, but whatever happened to Joanne Kelly's credit?

How did Jeremiah know where fuel access on the tank was? Perhaps Thunder Mountain have similar tanks hidden away somewhere.

Classic Jeremiah, this: despite the title only referring to the Kurdy / Smith half, there's a good balance between the two plots, with Luke Perry perfecting his Clint Eastwood impression, and the "freedom of the press" sequence and the Libby / Jeremiah interplay adding a touch of humour.