- Earl finds out that by accidentally shooting a young girl with a BB gun, he has caused an argument between her and her father. It will take all his energy and patience to get father and daughter to reconcile again.
- Earl's attempts to make amends bring him to the courthouse, where he meets another person on his list: a woman who he had once accidentally shot in the buttocks with a BB gun. It turns out this incident had caused a fall out with her drunk father, so Earl will need all his patience and people skills to get father and daughter to reconcile.—Field 78
- As part of his penance, Earl tries to help people avoid getting parking tickets by putting money in the parking meter before it expires. Unfortunately, an officer points out to him that this is an offense, so he gets a ticket himself. Because he cannot produce his licence (which Joy had kept for herself in case she could abuse it in some twisted way), he has to appear in court.
Arriving at the courthouse, Earl recognizes another person on his list: a bitter woman called Gwen, who works there as an sketch artist. She cannot get through the metal detector without setting it off, because of several metal bullets in her buttocks. Earl realizes why Karma has brought him there: he had accidentally hit Gwen in the buttocks with his BB gun when they were children (he had a crush on her and was aiming for her boyfriend). It turns out that this incident caused her to have a fall out with her alcoholic father, who took sides with young Earl instead of her. This led to an argument and the father leaving her and her Mom two weeks later.
Earl tells Gwen about his list, and his intention to fix the relationship between her and her father, so that he can cross Gwen off his list. Gwen states that she has not talked with the man since, and she forgives Earl for the shooting. She assures Earl that the incident that followed was not his fault; her father would have left one day anyway, the BB gun incident was just the straw that broke the camels back. Earl still feels guilty for setting these vents in motion, and is adamant to get the two to reconcile in order to cross Gwen off the list.
He and Randy track Gwen's dad down, but the man appears to be a totally unreasonable and unintelligible drunk. Earl tries to get him to sober up by putting him inside his trailer and having Randy guard all the booze outside, while he brings Gwen over. Unfortunately, Gwen is adamant not to speak with her father ever again and refuses to come, and when Earl returns, he finds that Randy has been tricked by Gwen's dad, who has reclaimed all of his booze back inside. In a desperate final attempt, Earl boards up the trailer, locking Gwen's dad inside, and drives the trailer all the way to the courthouse. When Gwen comes out and sees her dad (who is so drunk that he cannot even get his own pants on), she finally realizes that the man is just a pathetic drunk, and that she has been mad at him all those years for nothing. She has no desire to speak to him, but she is a better person now that she can't be mad at him anymore, so she gives Earl permission to cross her off his list.
Gwen's dad makes an escape attempt when Randy locks him into Earl's car with the keys still inside, but Earl assures Randy that he won't get far, as the man does not know to put his foot over the hole in the floor of the car to keep the exhaust gasses out.
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