Previously, Wally took it upon himself to restructure Eddie's finances in the wake of the Pizza Palace disaster. Now Eddie has bought a pool table with the money that was to go to the bank for his next payment on his restructured loan. At the same time, Beaver's youngest son, Oliver, who always has the active imagination, fancies himself a secret agent and everything as being some kind of plot or crime in progress that only he can halt.
Oliver has a heart-to-heart discussion about this with his dad in the famous Cleaver den, but yet his imagination still runs away with him. At the same time, Eddie finds a life insurance policy that Gert has taken out on herself, hidden under the floor boards of their house. These two things - Eddie needing money and not wanting to sell the pool table to get it, and Oliver letting his imagination run away with him, has Oliver believing Eddie is planning to kill his wife for the insurance money. Complications ensue.
Eddie says some pretty horrible things about his wife - things that possibly wouldn't land so well today. What in the 80s seemed clueless, today sounds pretty creepy. Again, Wally turns out to be a better friend than Eddie deserves, and yet neither of them seems to realize that.
Oliver has a heart-to-heart discussion about this with his dad in the famous Cleaver den, but yet his imagination still runs away with him. At the same time, Eddie finds a life insurance policy that Gert has taken out on herself, hidden under the floor boards of their house. These two things - Eddie needing money and not wanting to sell the pool table to get it, and Oliver letting his imagination run away with him, has Oliver believing Eddie is planning to kill his wife for the insurance money. Complications ensue.
Eddie says some pretty horrible things about his wife - things that possibly wouldn't land so well today. What in the 80s seemed clueless, today sounds pretty creepy. Again, Wally turns out to be a better friend than Eddie deserves, and yet neither of them seems to realize that.