On their way home Erin & Jason notice that the Pembroke house is occupied which has been vacant for many years as most of the family has passed away. Jason says that there is still a son alive, Derek, who was studying art in Europe.
Erin and Elizabeth pick up groceries at the store. Derek walks into the store and is immediately drawn to Erin. She turns away from his constant gaze. Corabeth, nosey as ever, asks where he is from and he reports that he was in Paris. He asks Ike if he will honor a cheque to pay for his supplies.
At the Dew Drop Inn Jason plays to an empty room except for Derek who sits alone drinking wine. Jason invites him over to sit by the piano. Derek asks if he knows any French songs and Jason plays a song that Derek knows and sings the lyrics to. Jason asks what it means and Derek says that it is about how the pleasure of love last but a moment but the pain of loss lasts a lifetime. He then storms out of the bar upset by his thoughts.
Erin runs into Derek in the woods as he sketches. She turn to leave and he asks her to stay. He likes how the light hits her hair and he does a sketch of her but refuses to show her when he completes it. He offers to take her on his horse but she rejects his offer. As she arrives home her mother asks her for help carrying down preserves to the cellar. Erin in lost in her thoughts but asks Mama if she ever gets bored with everything being the same. Olivia says of course she does but the mundaneness makes the special moments so much better when they happen.
At home Erin writes her feelings in her diary and is disturbed when Elizabeth walks in. Ben arrives and says that Daddy wants to talk to her downstairs. Jim-Bob has told their Daddy what they had seen at the Pembroke place and he scolds them for not respecting the neighbors privacy.
Derek arrives at the store looking for more supplies but Corabeth says that he cheque was returned with insufficient funds and that he already has built up a sizable amount on his store credit. He offers her 3 paintings of scenes of war in Europe as collateral. When she sees the powerful images she is in awe of his talent and agrees to help out the community’s leading artist to go hungry. Erin walks in and asks if she can look at his paintings. He agrees and he says that the important thing is realizing the emotion it creates in you. Corabeth returns with Derek’s supplies, Erin gives Corabeth some letters she want to mail and Corabeth reports that she is going to open an Art Gallery featuring Derek’s work. Erin leaves and Derek follows her outside. He asks if she will pose for a portrait at his house. She tries to deny his request and then Jason arrives to drive her to work.
Erin decides to go to the Pembroke house to pose for Derek. He answers the door holding a candelabra for light. He has lit the house with candles. He shows Erin the spot that he has reserved for her portrait. Derek embraces Erin and mistakes her for Gabrielle the woman that he lost in Paris. Erin races out of his house leaving he still calling out for Gabrielle.
The next day at the store, the Godsey’s show the paintings in their new art gallery to Olivia and Mary Ellen. Olivia finds them very disturbing but admits that he is very talented. Ike would rather have the money instead of culture and wonders why he doesn’t get a real job instead. The women arrive home with the groceries and Grandma is still stubbornly trying to get the canary to sing.
Erin reads from her diary about her experience the previous night at the artist’s house. Mary Ellen comes in and asks about John Curtis. She sees that Erin is disturbed by something. Erin tells her that she believes that she is in love with Derek but she is torn by his behavior. She says that it in’t the same for her as it is for John-Boy, Jason or Mary Ellen, she didn’t earn her pretty looks like they earned their talent. She know that she can’t see Derek again.
Later Erin finishes at at the Rockfish School of Business. As she gets into the car to return home Derek sneaks up and pushes her into the passenger seat and takes her to his place where he prepares to paint her portrait.
Mary Ellen has been working in the Psychiatric ward and collects some files from a doctor’s office. She sees a painting on his wall that resembles Derek’s work. She learns that he was admitted in the hospital with a leg wound after coming back from the fall of Paris to the Nazi’s. The doctor says that they tried to admit him but he wouldn’t stay. The doctor believes that he could be dangerous. When Mary Ellen arrives home from work she discovers that the family has been looking for Erin who hasn’t come home from Rockfish. Mary Ellen believes that she might be at Derek Pembroke’s place.
As Derek completes his portrait he to the floor collapses into a fit of despair and madness. He recalls the horror of the Nazi’s invading Paris while he and Gabrielle were trying to save paintings from the Louvre. Erin consoles him. John and Mary Ellen arrive and Derek agrees to be taken to the hospital and placed in the care of the doctor at the Psych Ward.
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