This episode ties with The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice as my personal favorite episode of the whole series. Every scene, every line of dialogue, everything about this episode is excellently well done. The final scenes of this episode, especially the two closing scenes between Maddie and her father, reduce me to a blubbering ball of tears every time.
Maddie's parents, Alex and Ginny Hayes, are in town from Chicago, visiting Los Angeles to attend a wedding, and Maddie is a little anxious because she hasn't seen them in a long time. While Maddie and her mother are talking alone together, Mrs. Hayes lets slip that she suspects that her husband is having an affair. Maddie says nothing to her mother, but later, to David, she insists that her father would never do such a thing, and she and David set out to demonstrate that her mother has nothing to worry about.
David trails Mr. Hayes, and learns that he is in fact sharing a hotel room with another woman. Maddie is brokenhearted, and she resolves to tell her mother, on the grounds that her mother has a right to know the truth. David disagrees, insisting that Maddie keep the truth to herself, that telling the truth will only make things worse.
Maddie struggles to go through with her resolve, but she doesn't succeed, in part because her mother prevents her. Instead, in the end, Maddie violently confronts her father. The next morning they meet again, both of them in tears, and Mr. Hayes promises Maddie that it's all over, and that it will never happen again.
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