If you've ever been seated on a nice, round keg of dynamite, you'll be able to appreciate the position Mary and Max are in today. Gerald Pruss and Merlin Davis, have incited the townspeople against Max, and the resentment had reached a point where a meeting was called to vote Max out as town manager. Mary won the support of the women, and they managed to have the meeting postponed. The men were furious about this postponement, and Mary's one hope had been that Mr Barton would arrive as promised, and close a deal with Max, which would put the town of Sanders back on its feet...