Eight episodes after leaving Los Angeles and spending the intervening time with her parents in Chicago, Maddie finally returns to Blue Moon. But rather than fly directly home, she is travelling by train. While on the train, she has nightmares about returning home – more than anything, her nightmares show how terrified she is about meeting David again. While on the train she meets Walter Bishop, and by the time she arrives home, they are married.
Casual viewers of Moonlighting may wonder why it is that Maddie Hayes married so suddenly, and why she married Walter. On the surface, that decision seems very out of character for Maddie (who, in a previous episode argued strenuously with David about the virtues of careful planning and deliberation over rash spontaneity), and Walter seems like an unlikely choice, in view of how different he is from both David and Sam Crawford. (In a later episode, when David first meets Walter, David himself comments on the type of man that Maddie is likely to marry, and is surprised to find that Walter is not that type.)
But this episode – in my opinion, very poignantly – answers all of those questions. Maddie's decision to marry Walter stems directly from her love for David and her fears about what will happen to him when she returns. Some of Moonlighting's very best dream sequences appear in this episode, and the lessons we learn from them about Maddie's character – her feelings, her fears, and her love for David – are powerful and intense.
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