As the Corvette motors down a scenic mountain highway, the boys reminisce about past adventures, rattling off the small towns spotlighted in prior "Route 66" episodes. With only $219 saved up after a journey of thousands of miles, they wonder if the trip was worth it.
They arrive at Grant's Pass, Oregon, with the next shot showing teenage Joey Heatherton dancing sexily atop the bar -a star is born! Her protective brother gets into a fight with a lecher ogling Joey and wouldn't you know it, Maharis arrives just in time to knock out the lech. The siblings' rich father hires M & M to work on his hops harvest, but mainly to look out as role models for the kids.
Lovely scenery's on display in an impromptu race in row boats over the local white water rapids: the lech versus Joey's brother, a quickie setup toward melodrama to come. The plot thickens when the brother, Curt, turns out to be somehting of a daredevil, taking a delivery truck in the hops operation out for a dangerous spin, with M & M needed to chase him down with the trusty Corvette. A fine chase scene climaxes with a violent climax, killing the foreman as Curt drives off the cliffside.
A sense of fatalism hangs over this story, once again depicting people in a small town cut off from the cares of the outside world, while our pair of heroes are "just passing through". Marshall delivers a strong monologue about his authoritarian father and how he had swung to the other extreme and brought up spoiled children.
It's time for Curt to leave town, hated as a "killer". That leaves Marshall's business falling apart when his mill employees all quit (in solidarity with the dead foreman) and Joey's aimless life going nowhere fast. Milner fetches Curt from a local bar, hoping they will all pitch in to save the harvest and the business. But Curt's given up, and so's her dad, leaving Joey to try and save the day.
Her teenage friends to the rescue, but melodrama lingers as the lech is ready to go to work on virginal Joey (don't worry, Maharis is always the violent savior!).
Silliphant's story is a bit schematic this tiem, but seeing Joye is worth it, no doubt about it. And it was fun listening to Milner, of all people, as the boys drive away, waxing philosophically (explaining the meaning of the episode's title, regarding the edge of a coin as metaphor) in the "My daddy used to say..." vein.