
Dan learns that Correction Services will be closing down one of the halfway houses in the area with the other run by an arch rival of Dan's. With the other house populated by seemingly perfect puppets, Dan and his charges seem destined to lose this competition.
Dan resolves to get back garden shears from his neighbor but seems to be stymied when the neighbor dies and is buried with the garden shears. Meanwhile, Buttons plans to steer clear of a tryst with a woman supposedly cursed to have her lovers die unexpectedly but his plans goes awry.