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- Steve Reagan presents a prologue on symbolism, then Barbara introduces Marc, who has a task neither easy nor difficult. He walks the streets of Chicago with a bouncing ball animation on Willie Nelson's "Stay all Night", (stay a little longer). He then finds a metal ball under a box of McDonald's. Meanwhile, a man in a tuxedo top and tails and bell-bottom jeans starts a tape of Mozart's 40th symphony, and pretends to conduct it from a bridge over highway 240. Then Marc is covered in silver cloth and Christmas lights.
- Eyes dart across a road, a car runs forward, then becomes a newspaper headline: "Dead Skunk," what follows are black and white and color tinted photographs of roadkill, and diagrams all out of biology texts, set to Loudon Wainwright III's famous song.
- The men of the Boston Company discover finding gold is more difficult than they had imagined. Meanwhile, Sam's empire expands, but will a huge fire halt progress?
- Part 1: Gold is first discovered in California. The new American dream is born. Boston Company, a motley group of gold seekers including Dr. Charles Robinson, make the dangerous trek west to the gold fields while entrepreneur Sam Brannan mines the miners.
- Sam seizes power in fire-ravaged, lawless San Francisco, dealing out his own opportunistic brand of justice. Meanwhile, the men of Boston Company toil in the gold fields.
- Part 2: Brannan takes over the gold fields, evicting miners from their claims, but the men of Boston Company won't back down without a fight. Doc Robinson leads a protest that devolves into a battle that will change the miners - and the country - forever.