Lana tells Cole the text was a wrong number, then reads the rest of Clay’s letter while he searches the dark yard. What it says about the sheriff changes everything. At midnight she walks to the grain elevator to meet Nadine, and a pair of high beams comes on.
Elyria, Ohio firefighters and their dive team rescued a dog trapped on a log in the Black River just upstream of a low-head dam. They floated him to shore in a life ring, named him River, and now he is waiting at the county kennel for his family.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts Fire Chief Dante Suarez was having lunch with his wife in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, when a kitchen fire broke out next door. With no sprinklers and no gear, he borrowed extinguishers from the neighbors and kept the fire from spreading.
Royce finally reads the letter his brother Clay wrote the night before Lana’s mother died. The second page names the man Clay was afraid of, and it hits closer to the sheriff than anyone expected. Then a photo arrives from the dark yard outside.
Avishka Kaumadi’s cat Chuuti slipped out of his carrier at Dubai International Airport on October 11. She searched the cargo area at midnight, waited 28 hours, and flew home without him. Ten days later he was found in the baggage area and came home to Sri Lanka.
A radio call about a medical emergency sent the principal and the bookkeeper of Millbrook Magnet High School in Raleigh running to a bathroom. Minutes later, the school’s security officer had a healthy baby girl, and the school had its tiniest Wildcat.
Guide Vrettos Sklavos and his group rappelled down to remote Kalami Beach on the Greek island of Kythira and found a week-old Mediterranean monk seal pup alone and starving. With rough seas blocking any boat, they carried her up the gorge in a climbing bag.
Dale, 86, of Mineral Wells, Texas, has spent nearly forty years welding a 62-foot steel boat in his front yard, dreaming of sailing her to Alaska. Three English visitors shared his story, and strangers around the world are now helping him get her on the water.
Lana tells Royce that his brother Clay once wrote him a sealed letter and handed it to her mother the night before she died. Back at the county jail, Rita tells them about the pickup that followed Caroline home, and exactly where the envelope went.
Jennifer Britton looked out at her yard in Lake of the Woods, Nova Scotia, and saw a young buck caught by his antlers in the family hammock. She backed away and called for help, and three wildlife officers sedated him, cut him free and cooled him with ice and lake water.