Alaska Daily was back this week, and it was time to go to the fair where half the state would be in attendance. “Hootie and the Blowfish” was headlining.

Anyways, Eileen was too cool for all of this, and continued this unlikable behavior from a lead prime time TV character. Roz left her behind and why not? Why get Hilary Swank to play such a monotone, one dimensional character?

Next, the bad guys sent her a threatening package complete with a bullet in a ring box. Then the bad guys called her again with a second threat.

We also had Gabriel covering a giant cabbage contest and after some advice from Eileen, he decided to go to a strange home and put his cellphone in a box. He discovered that the cabbage contest winner’s dad, Brandon, was anti-technology, leading Gabriel to sneek into his forbidden barn by trespassing. Did you get all of that?

Eileen got a call from an old colleague and then had another panic attack, collapsing in the process. It did allow her to talk to Pritchard, the shady publisher before she broke out of the hospital and decided to join Gabriel to take down the shady cabbage farmer.

They then discovered that the large amount of fertilizer in the barn could be used to build a bomb. After confronting Brandon’s daughter at church, he was given a manifesto from a group of ecoterrorist her father was meeting with.

This led to our conclusion where they confronted Brandon the cabbage growers at the fair.

But it ended up going nowhere because they had no proof the fertilizer was being used to build a bomb. To end the show, Eileen did get a break in the murder of the woman she was investigating in the form of an unredacted police report.

While as goofy as a lot of this stuff sounds. It may have been the best episode of the show so far. Keep in mind, that’s also not saying a lot.

Eileen is still a terrible lead. The show still can’t write reporters. But I wasn’t bored this week. That is progress.