Once again, it is lunchtime on the construction site. Mr. Cavanaugh invites Kelley to eat with their family, but Kelley rudely explains to Mr. Arnold that he is there to work, not to bond.

While the Arnolds and the Cavanaughs enjoy lunch, Samantha smuggles a sandwich out to a forlorn Kelley, sitting on a cannon in the middle of town. Kelley and Samantha talk while Jasper watches from afar.

Back at the construction site, Jasper warns Kelley to stay away from Samantha, which Kelley counters with a disparaging remark about cows. When Jasper replies by insulting Kelley's mother, a vicious fight breaks out.

At the Arnold home, Jasper has a heart-to-heart with his mother at the piano, establishing that music has always been their "thing." Jasper's mom reminds him that Kelley may be rich, but apparently he's not lucky enough to have a mother.

As Kelley turns down yet another meal, the viewer reflects that perhaps these people should stop trying to offer him food -- not as a matter of pride, but as a matter of personal safety, as Kelley's circuitry is clearly malfunctioning and there is no telling what he might do. To be sure, there can be no other explanation for the wild shift between this snotty remorselessness and the breathtaking sensitivity witnessed by Samantha in the woods.

Kelley's continued isolation from the town is demonstrated as he lumbers over and takes a seat on a cannon. Though probably just a decorative piece of rural ephemera, it seems inadvisable for Kelley to go anywhere near something that might blow up Mable's Table again before it's even completed. As Samantha abandons her family and boyfriend to flirt with Kelley, her first breakthrough occurs when she deems him "a really big baby," eliciting Kelley's first smile since moving into town and alluding to his serious mommy issues, explored further in the next few scenes.

Later, when Jasper tells Kelley to stay away from his girlfriend, Kelley responds with a rather illuminating soliloquy on bovine eroticism that is clearly intended to insult Jasper, but reveals much more about himself than anything else: "You got your hands up their skirt every morning... You serenade them every night..." "What is that supposed to mean?" Jasper responds with genuine confusion, perhaps wondering if Kelley has been reading too much of Gary Larson's "The Far Side" , in which cows frequently enjoy wearing people clothes.

When Jasper implies that he has been having sex with Kelley's mother, however, Kelley instantly loses control and tackles Jasper; initially, this may be construed as an act of joy, as Kelley reasons that Jasper might be his biological father. However, it quickly becomes clear that Kelley's mother is a sore subject for him. Certainly, Kelley has a lot to learn about playing it cool, as even if Jasper was fondling his cows and "serenading them every night," he seems capable of maintaining composure in the face of Kelley's accusations.

Unhelpfully, Kelley and Jasper's fellow construction workers do nothing to break up the fight, opting instead to crowd around and cheer them on. When Sheriff Cavanaugh and Mr. Arnold eventually break up the fight, Mr. Arnold disciplines his son, but Kelley is once again allowed to wander off and not be accountable to anyone, except perhaps Robert Frost, whose poetry Kelley is probably reciting in the woods again by now.