CAREER MOVES & THE BAD GUY

Theme: Listening to the right advice/Temptation
Episode Number: 444
Writer: Marshal Younger
Scripture: Proverbs 19:8/Proverbs 4:26-27
Album: # 34: In Your Wildest Dreams
Last Air Date: 04/29/2000
Original Air Date: 4/29/00
Summary:

In "Career Moves," it's another Career Day in Odyssey, and Nathaniel Graham gets the opportunity to work with Bart Rathbone. After Whit cautions Nathaniel on listening to advice, Bart begins to give Nathaniel advice, including selling at any cost. On one assignment, Nathaniel convinces a customer to buy some batteries, claiming they are the best, though he never uses them. The customer comes back later and demands a refund because the batteries were defective. Nathaniel agrees to give him a refund, which causes Bart to make Nathaniel stop working. Whit mentions to Nathaniel that it is important to discern who your advice comes from.

Then, in "The Bad Guy," Nick’s old friend Vince shows up in Odyssey and Nick expects him to act like he did back in New York- big and bad! Nick is even trying to give lessons to Whit and Connie on how to act in his presence. Vince surprises Nick, however, by telling him he is a Christian and acting nicely to everyone. Nick wants to prove that Vince has not changed and tries to get Nick to sin. He plants cigarettes in Vince’s car, tries to get him to start a fire, go partying, and even get into a fight. All his efforts fail, but then a camera ends up missing at Whit’s End. Nick is overjoyed! Vince fell on his own, he says.

Vince, however, comes back and returns the camera, saying how sorry he is for stealing it. Whit reprimands Nick for trying to tempt Vince and then tells him to go after Vince. Nick apologizes to Vince and it’s clear he’s learned a bit more about what it means to be a Christian.

The character who played Vince in "The Bad Guy" also played Monty Whittaker-Dowd and Digger Digwillow.