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.
Principal Bobby Davis sprinted to the cafeteria of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School to stop what he thought was a fight. It was a birthday prank, and the video drew millions of views. The senior who planned it says Davis changed his life.
Abel finally says who opened Cole’s desk drawer first, and it changes how June remembers Hank. Then Lana walks into the county jail alone to read the rest of her mother’s letter, and Rita tells her where she drove Caroline the night before she died.
Luna, a 10-year-old Jack Russell and Chihuahua mix, darted out of her family’s Yellowstone cabin on Sept. 10 and survived more than a month among bears and wolves. A volunteer rescuer set a live trap baited with her family’s scent, and on Oct. 14 her owner found her curled up inside.
Four-year-old Remi Floro of Port Clinton, Ohio, had to sell his tickets to Twenty One Pilots’ Ohio Stadium show when his leukemia relapsed and his bone marrow transplant was scheduled. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph visited his hospital room instead, and Dun wore Remi’s name on stage.
Rita’s confession names the woman sitting across June’s table. But at the bottom of the page the handwriting changes, and inside Hank’s envelope Lana finds a letter June waited twenty-three years to read. Then Cole arrives with one more page, in a handwriting Lana knows by heart.
Rita claims Grandpa Hank sat in her kitchen until sunrise the night of the creek crash. June remembers a truck with one headlight, Abel realizes why Rita’s spare key was missing, and back at June’s table, Hank’s old barn coat gives up a secret sewn inside it for twenty-three years.