Nevermind the lie about the town being cool, and how it can't be beat for a summer resort etc etc - the Boss is telling him to come back to work. This suggests that the strip might return to its roots, and the whole horrible experience suffered by our hero - his wife's insanity, his desperate pre-mid-life-crises - can be cured with the steady application of gag-a-day scenarious tangentially related to journalism.

Next week: the last installment.