Jaunted

Joining Maggie onboard is the usual crew of Dean, Ted (co-pilot), Colette, Laura (on whom LIFE Magazine is doing a follow-up story) and...wait where's Kate? Flame-haired FA Kate is pulled from the flight over a mix-up with her smallpox vaccination files and instead goes off to enjoy a day-long date with new beau, Yugoslavian diplomat Nico Lanza (see last episode's recap to learn his deal).

In a cultural nod to the times, the cockpit's pre-flight chat focuses on Ted's having read The Feminine Mystique. Does he get women more now, asks Dean. "I understand women less than ever, but at least now it sounds like I do," he replies. Back in coach, a woman orders a ginger ale "with bourbon, two fingers of it." We'll have to use that on our next flight.

Flashback time! As Maggie's struggle to keep her job is the focus of this episode, we see three flashbacks that frame Maggie's trouble employment past. She began at a small diner, being yelled at in Portuguese and living on her tips, one of which is three measly cents. Confronting the cheapskate customer, a trucker who imparts inspiration to leave her dead-end job, Maggie hitchhikes away with him.

Further flashbacks reveal that Maggie illegally attended college by working in a registrar's office and picking up classes dropped by students, and that she not only was late to her Pan Am job interview, but that she lied all the way through it. Liar, liar—little blue Pan Am skirt on fire. We still majorly dislike the character of Maggie, obviously, as does Laura now. Maggie comes out of the shower to apologize to Laura, so we actually see Christina Ricci in a towel. God, she is thin.

Maggie and Laura

Back in Rio, Ginny is along for the ride and distracting Dean while Maggie and Laura hit the Rio shops to replace the watch Ted sold to buy back Laura's engagement ring in the last episode. Whoops&151;the girls are arrested for it being a "stolen" watch, it's revealed Maggie lied about her ability to speak Portuguese, and the girls wallow in despair as they can't even speak enough to offer the bribe the police so obviously want. Until Ted arrives. He lays out some cash and everyone merrily returns to the Hotel Intercontinental. [Bonus points for historical accuracy! Intercontinental is the chain started by Pan Am].

In the mean time, Dean and Colette double-date in Rio with Ginny and her Pan Am exec boyfriend, who gets comfortable enough with Dean to ask him to call him "Henson." While the girls go powder their noses, Henson admits his love for Ginny. Uh oh! Dean later cuts it off by resisting Ginny's advances...until she admits she loves him. Love triangle, for reals! All of this will come crashing down soon enough, as Maggie trades her knowledge of Dean and Ginny's secret affair with Henson in order to keep her Pan Am job.

Dean and Ginny

Before we can roll the credits, we must mention the underlying storyline of Kate and her dude, Nico. They'll be the stars of next week's episode, as Kate's CIA agent friend wants Nico to come over to the side of the CIA and do a little spying here and there. Kate must "turn him," even though Nico's pretty primed with his anti-communist feelings. Previews hint at a kidnapping and secrets out in the open!

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