It's a Wrap!

Kids Radio prepares a special report following Whit through an ordinary day after his return from the Middle East. Lucy Cunningham-Schultz introduces the project, while Glenn Adams joins Whit for breakfast at Hal’s Diner. Glenn promises to remain as unnoticed as a fly on the wall but immediately begins commenting on Whit’s food, the diner, and nearly everything else around him.

Whit explains that he enjoys eating at the diner several mornings a week, where he can read his Bible amid the activity around him. He has reached the account in John 9 of Jesus healing a blind man, a passage that has taken on deeper meaning since Whit visited the place in Israel where the miracle may have occurred. Glenn promptly wanders from the subject to camels, head coverings, and other details of Whit’s trip.

At Whit’s End, Lucy records Connie and Eugene beginning their workday. Eugene speaks as though negotiating with a supplier is far more important than Connie setting up tables. When Connie objects, however, he recognizes the hurt he has caused and apologizes. Whit sees important growth in both of them: Eugene has become more sensitive to other people since becoming a Christian, while Connie is showing greater patience and maturity without losing her energetic nature.

Glenn then finds Sam Johnson outside with a wallet he discovered in a nearby field. It contains a large amount of cash but no identification. Sam wants to give it to Whit, although he becomes uncomfortable when Glenn turns the situation into part of the report. Harlow Doyle arrives, sees the money, and begins treating Sam like a suspect because no one witnessed him find it.

Under the pressure, Sam admits that he had been tempted to keep the money and buy a bowling ball he wanted. He carried the wallet around all morning before finally bringing it to Whit’s End. Whit reassures him that temptation itself is not a sin when a person refuses to give in. Sam may have hesitated, but he has still chosen to do what is right. Whit then takes him upstairs so they can speak privately, firmly keeping Glenn and his microphone out of their conversation.

Moments later, Harlow realizes that the wallet is his. Because he believes a private investigator should carry no identification, it contains only a membership card with no name on it. He cannot remember why he has several hundred dollars in cash, however, and declares the mystery a new case.

As Connie slices bananas, Harlow’s sudden shouting startles her and causes her to cut a finger. Glenn accompanies Connie and Whit to the emergency care center, excited to report on her stitches. He boasts that girls are more squeamish than boys, but the sight of the needle makes him faint before the doctor even begins.

Back at Whit’s End, Lucy asks Connie to demonstrate how the accident happened. Although she carefully warns listeners not to imitate the demonstration, Harlow interrupts at exactly the wrong moment. Connie startles again and cuts another finger, leaving her with two bandages and another visit for treatment.

Near closing time, Eugene reflects on honesty, temptation, and the importance of handling sharp objects carefully. Whit insists that Connie go home and rest, but Harlow stops everyone with another supposed emergency: someone has stolen his valuable television-show lunchbox from his office.

Harlow finally mentions that he had taken the lunchbox to a collectors’ meeting that morning and received three hundred dollars for it. Whit and Eugene help him understand that the lunchbox was not stolen at all - Harlow sold it, and the mysterious cash in his wallet is the payment. The day’s great detective case ends with Harlow astonished by the obvious.

As Lucy finishes the report, Whit gives thanks for the families who visit Whit’s End, the friends who enrich his life, and another day lived in God’s grace. He is home, looking forward to tomorrow and to whatever an ordinary day in Odyssey may bring. In this town, “Anything can happen.”