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==Summary==
The episode begins ''in media res'': against a black screen, sounds of tires squealing, a crash and then an anxious voice asking if a young woman is ok are heard.
The scene then cuts to a few days before at the Morgendorffers’. It’s morning and the refrigerator is being replaced. Later that day, at school, [[Jane Lane|Jane]] and [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] talk about [[Tom Sloane|Tom’s]] absence from Lawndale while he attends a family wedding at the Cove. [[Timothy O’Neill|O’Neill]] than asks Daria to serve as a Lawndale High tour guide to upcoming middle school students but is dismayed when Daria refuses. Later, at the Sloane’s, Tom invites Daria to spend a few days at the Cove, but she declines, clearly will at ease.
At the Morgendorffer’s that afternoon, Daria notes the new refrigerator paperboard box laying around on the garden and [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] instructs her daughters to take it to the trash. Daria’s memory is stirred by the box and she insistently asks both her mother and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|sister]] about a similar big carton box she remembers having played with in the past. Despite both Helen and Quinn lack of recollection, she remains transfixed by the box as childhood memories of a fight surface, and later she goes to retrieve it from the trash bins.
Early the next day, Helen notices the box and angrily orders a confused Quinn again to trash it, which she does, fuming. Daria, however, again goes to retrieve it before the trash collectors take it away. Later that day, at school, O’Neill observes the poor result of Kevin and Brittany’s guided tours and again tries to convince Daria to do them, with the teenager still refusing, taking offense at O’Neill’s observations and berating him with unusual harshness. Daria’s bad mood continues during the afternoon: she talks back to her mother about the still un-trashed paperboard box; and even later when she phones Tom, who pleads for Daria to talk to him and again invites her over to the Cove, which she again refuses.
Later that afternoon or the next day, Daria has Jane come over and shows her the box. While talking she unexpectedly crawls inside it and sits down, being able to finally recall the childhood events that had been stirred: when she had been four or five, her parents had had a big fight, with [[Jake Morgendorffer|her father]] storming off during the night. The young Daria had only found consolation by crawling inside a similar box in her room and starting to read. The flashback is confirmed by an excited Quinn, who joins her sister and friend and tells them about their father storming off, adding they had been fighting about Daria. This tricks another memory: before the fight, Daria had been talking to a psychologist about school, revealing she did not interact with other children and preferred to read, in contrast to her already very sociably sister. This despite her parents pleadings to try to be more sociable. Daria’s lack of enthusiasm had triggered her parent’s fight.
Later that day, when Jake arrives from the conference he had been attending, he and Helen try to make sense of why Daria remains in the box, until Quinn tells them about the past fight. Helen and Jake are able to convince Daria out of the box and the three go inside the house to talk. After some hesitation, Helen and Jake confirm the episode, explaining that they had been under a lot of stress and that the calls from Daria’s school regarding her anti-social behavior had been the last straw, resulting in the fight she remembered. Upon hearing this, Daria suddenly walks out of the house and picks up the car without explanation.
Daria calls the Cove from the car phone while driving and talks to [[Kay Sloane]], inviting herself over. However, sometime later it starts to rain and an accident occurs right in front of her car. At this moment, the introductory scene is played with images and we see that Daria is able to swerve and avoid a collision, is shaken but unhurt.
Some time later, Jane arrives at a road dinner Daria has stopped at and is stunned by the strong hug Daria greets her with. Over coffee, Daria retells Jane the conversation with her parents, explaining to her confused friend why she had run away: she was feeling guilty by the way she had caused them worries and pain by her flippant behavior over the past years, behavior she had considered justified before. Jane consoles her by stating Helen and Jake didn’t seem to mind and advises Daria to talk about it with them. Daria assures she will, adding she just needed to talk before to the most trustworthy person she knew, clearly indicating her friend.
Later that night, Daria returns home to her very relieved parents and the three resume their talk. Helen and Jake insist that, while they had been unhappy about Daria’s situation, they hadn’t been unhappy with her, but rather because she was unhappy, adding that they expected some kind of socialization issues due to Daria’s high intelligence. They also add they respect her choices. Daria is genuinely moved and compliments them for their patience, commenting that she must had been a difficult child to raise. As she enters her room, she finds the box inside, having been salvaged by Quinn for her sister “just in case” (sic).
A few days later, Tom drives Daria to Lawndale High as they comment her accident. In the last scene, Daria and Jane give a tour of Lawndale High to impressionable middle school students, describing the school in truthful though somewhat colorful terms.
==Trivia==
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