A Long Way Home The Beachcombers : Season 16 Episode 5

John requests Nick and Jesse to make a run to Lund - one full day in each direction - to transport cantankerous seventy-six year old Duffy Bingham to his son Lorrie Bingham's house. Fed up with living at the senior's boarding house, Duffy figured that living with Lorrie a better option. However, Duffy hasn't seen his son in close to twenty years, when Lorrie, then a hippie, got married. But after Lorrie inherited a fortune from his grandmother, he has since built a house on his private island. Jesse refuses this job because of its cargo as he and Duffy aren't on the best of terms, so John decides to be Nick's second in command. Because of Duffy's ever complaining attitude and behavior, Nick also regrets taking this job by the time they reach the island. But Duffy too may regret the trip when he sees that Lorrie has not changed at all in twenty years, that the house is nothing more than a shack with no running water, and that Lorrie's dream house - a pyramid - is a long way from being completed if it ever gets done. They also find that life between Lorrie and his wife Mo is not totally harmonious, as she long outgrew her hippie beliefs, and finds that Lorrie is as much a child that needs to be taken care of as any of her and Lorrie's biological children. The question becomes what will happen with this new extended Bingham family in all its disharmony.