Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura becomes a certified school teacher.
In 1880s Dakota Territory, teenager Laura Ingalls struggles to earn her teaching certificate, says good-bye to her sister Mary when she leaves home to attend a school for the blind, and shyly begins a romance with Almanzo Wilder.
Jack Reacher's tour bus crashes and strands him in Bolton, South Dakota, where the local police enlist him to shut down the methamphetamine lab being run by a Mexican drug cartel inside an abandoned military facility on the outskirts of town, and Reacher tries to protect the woman who plans to testify from a proficient assassin.