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Butterflies - Nov 5, 1979 Episode 2-8,   Grade C+ Detailed Summary by John T Burt 2001 Main Butterflies Page

    Food Disasters:
The boys cook lunch.

    Special Events:
In the field after Ria fails to stop a fox hunt, crying, she asks the butterfly she saved what it is looking so smug about.

    Summary:
Ben catches two butterflies in a field. Nearby Ria, talking to a dead butterfly (they don't hunt humans), sees a fox and then the hunters and is upset. She packs up in a heap and they leave with her unhappy and blaming Ben for all the deaths that day.

In bed that evening, she compares the fox family to hers. Ben just wants a quiet evening but she dreams about Leonard and foxes and needs Ben to hug her and reassure her. She's happy but her description of knowing Ben's bony body almost puts him off. Her wondering what it's like to be torn asunder does put him off.

The boys making lunch the next day do slightly better than Ria. At least the hard peas, missing toast, dropped meat pies and limp chips are identifiable. Ben complains about family life.

Ria harangues the lunch crowd around a fountain about the cruelty of fox hunting, passes out flyers and gets them to promise to come stop a hunt. Thomas and Leonard watch from their car.

That evening Ria tries to get Ben to stay home Saturday so she can go out on her mysterious mission. As they get romantic, Russell, in a costume, presents Mister Adam - Tarzan muscle man - on their way out to a costume party. Ria sort of anonymously lets slip her lunch activities of the day. Ben does not approve.

In the field, the only person who shows up is a sympathetic Leonard with Thomas driving and the bum from the fountain. Ria is in the wrong place anyway. Crying she asks the butterfly she saved what it is looking so smug about.