SUSPICIOUS MINDS   Listen to Sample
Theme: Trusting each other; not jumping to conclusions.
Episode Number: 113
Writer: Paul McCusker
Scripture: Isaiah 30:15
Album: A Maze of Mysteries
Album: Gold Audio #08: Beyond Expectations
Last Air Date: 11/28/2005
Original Air Date: 5/5/90
Summary:

It's closing time at Whit's End, and Whit is totaling the receipts for the day. Eugene and Connie make small talk. Connie mentions she needs $100 to buy a used car, while Eugene needs the same amount to purchase a new personal computer. But when $60 winds up missing from the register that day and another $40 disappears the next, Connie and Eugene end up suspecting one another. Eugene sets out to catch and "reform" Connie, while Connie decides to replace the money from her own bank account to keep Eugene from getting into trouble.

The whole thing comes to a head when Eugene actually booby-traps the cash register (a ploy which backfires on him), and Whit solves the mystery of the missing money. It was stuck in the back of the register drawer the whole time. Whit scolds his employees for their lack of trust in each other. Connie and Eugene promise to try to do better-a promise they keep for about 30 seconds.


Suspicious Minds showed a quirky side of Bernard-he got a real kick out of Eugene and Connie's silliness. The actor who played Bernard ad-libbed the continual chuckle through the last scene.