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Episodes 0615Only By His Grace 0617The Other Side of the Glass, Pt. 2
0616 12 May 2007 22 min Part 1 of 3

The Other Side of the Glass

A mysterious hidden symbol - Power Boy's secret call for help - starts appearing in brand-new windows all over town, and Bernard, Wooton, and the Whit's End crew set out to discover who put it there and why.
A strange symbol is hiding in the town's brand-new windows - and it only appears when Bernard sprays them with Howard's no-streak glass cleaner. It's Power Boy's secret call for help, and it's turning up on every pane from the Seawright window company, even at Whit's End. Bernard suspects a prank, but a trip to Howard's chemical lab proves the mark is sealed inside the glass itself. Then Connie's Internet search uncovers the same symbol painted on a wall in Greensburg, where protesters are accusing Seawright of mistreating its workers. When a company vice president blames a bitter ex-employee and offers to replace every window for free, Bernard is happy to call the case closed. But Wooton can't let it go... someone chose a symbol that means a person is in real trouble, and he's heading to Greensburg to find out who - and why.
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0610 Hear Me, Hear Me When a forgotten allergy sparks a battle over who listens better, Wooton turns Connie and Eugene's friendship into a high-stakes quiz show at Whit's End.
1 of 3 0611 The Top Floor When a dangerous man from Leonard's past resurfaces, father and son must return to Africa to recover the one piece of evidence that could bring him to justice.
2 of 3 0612 The Top Floor Posing as janitors inside a bitter rival's fortress-like penthouse, Leonard and his allies race to recover stolen evidence before its owner discovers who is hunting him.
3 of 3 0613 The Top Floor A grieving father discovers his long-lost son alive in a penthouse fortress - and must risk everything to prove the truth to a boy who loves the man who took him.
0614 Best of Enemies When new roommates move in for three weeks, Tamika and Connie each discover how hard it is to share your space with someone completely unlike you.
0615 Only By His Grace A hopeful daughter piles on good deeds and prayers to keep her family together, while Grady's over-eager helpfulness at Whit's End spirals into disaster.
1 of 3 0616 The Other Side of the Glass A mysterious hidden symbol - Power Boy's secret call for help - starts appearing in brand-new windows all over town, and Bernard, Wooton, and the Whit's End crew set out to discover who put it there and why.
2 of 3 0617 The Other Side of the Glass A hidden cry for help etched in glass pulls Bernard, Wooton, and Whit into a late-night investigation of the powerful Seawright factory.
3 of 3 0618 The Other Side of the Glass A midnight stakeout at a secretive factory forces Wooton and his friends to decide whether trusting a mysterious boy's cry for help is worth risking the livelihoods of an entire neighborhood.
1 of 3 0619 A New Era With his long ordeal finally behind him, Eugene's father settles into a peaceful new life in Odyssey - until a hidden illness and an urgent plea from a distant village upend everything.
2 of 3 0620 A New Era As Eugene recovers from donating a kidney to his father, he and Katrina wrestle with whether a plea from Africa is God's call or a distraction from the ministry they already love.
3 of 3 0621 A New Era Long-buried family secrets come to light as Leonard finally faces the truth about his past, and an urgent crisis abroad demands a decision no one expected.
0622 B-TV: Temptation When B-TV explores why smart people fall for bad choices, the story of history's wisest king shows that wisdom alone is no shield against temptation.

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Bernard Walton is cleaning the windows at Madge's shop when Wooton notices an odd mark in the glass. It resembles the special symbol Power Boy uses to summon help in the comic books. Bernard assumes someone has played a prank, but the mark appears only when he sprays on Howard Chastiderwitz's new no-streak, no-glare window cleaner.

The same symbol appears on four newly installed windows Bernard has cleaned. Since Wooton has seen each mark, Bernard briefly suspects him, but Wooton insists that he has not caused them. Bernard tries to dismiss the mystery and returns to work, only to discover another new window at Whit's End bearing the same hidden sign.

Whit and Connie help Bernard compare the affected windows. They tie the affected windows to a sales offer taken up about a month earlier - Whit's End had replaced its front window under the same deal - though the supplier's name comes out only as a half-remembered “Seymour or Seeshine.” Howard's cleaner is the other link. Bernard and Wooton decide to visit Wayne Chemical Company, where Howard works, while Whit and Connie continue searching for information.

At the laboratory, Howard explains that his cleaner changes the way light reflects from glass. When Howard sprays it on a Seawright test pane, the Power Boy symbol appears again. The discovery proves that the mark is already inside or beneath the surface of the glass, though no one yet knows who put it there. Howard, another devoted Power Boy fan, becomes so excited by the mystery that he has to stop and catch his breath.

Back at Whit's End, Connie tries an unusually direct Internet search and finds a newspaper photograph from Greensburg. The same symbol has been painted on a wall there. Whit and Connie trace it to a protest against the labor practices of Seawright Window Manufacturing. Protesters are using Power Boy's call for help to draw attention to their cause.

When everyone compares discoveries, Whit explains that a Seawright vice president, Mr. Corelli, blames the protest on a bitter former employee. Corelli offers to replace every damaged window at no cost and asks Bernard to contact him. Bernard is relieved that the company seems ready to solve his customers' problem.

Wooton is not satisfied. To him, the symbol is more than graffiti or a manufacturing mistake. Someone chose a sign that means a person is in serious trouble, and he believes that plea deserves an answer. Though the others think the mystery has reached a simple conclusion, Wooton announces that he is going to Greensburg to learn who needs help - and why.