Someone from Washington comes to New Mexico to shoot a new U.S. Marshalls training video and they are instructed to give the director any help they can. And Mary balks at it so Marshall offers to be the technical advisor but when he learns that the son of one his witnesses, Joseph Tancredi has died, he has to go tell him. Joseph wants to go to the funeral but WITSEC rules forbids it. So Joseph decides to leave the program. Marshall then decides to use his vacation and accompany him to Chicago. Mary in the meantime is not being a team player with the director.