When Olivia returns home to Waltons Mountain, after recuperating from TB in Arizona, she finds that everyone is anxious to fill her in on the changes in their lives. Ben introduces his new wife, Elizabeth tells her that Aimee is due to come home after being at boarding school, Erin tells how she employed Mary Ellen as the nurse at Pickett's Plant. The family's catching up around the dinner table is interrupted by Ep Bridges at the door, telling John that a young local boy has disappeared from the army and that he will be jailed if he doesn't return quickly. He asks John, as head of the draft board, to visit the family and try to urge him to come back voluntarily. The young man, Tommy, does eventually go back voluntarily, only to be killed overseas. His distraught father comes looking for t