Little House on the Prairie Mary's Baby Dies

"May We Make Them Proud (Part i)"
Season six, Episode 18 #133 overall in Serial

Network/Land:	NBC-TV
Original air date	February iv, 1980
Production code	618
Episode Guide
IMDb	May We Make Them Proud (Part 1)
Written by	Michael Landon
Directed by	Michael Landon
Guest starring:	Tobias Anderson Paul Barselou Beak Calvert Dago Dimster Michelle Downey Ken Colina Tom Kindle Gil Lamb Ketty Lester Dan McBride De'voreaux White Naomi White John Zaremba
Episode Chronology
Previous episode: "Silent Promises"	Side by side episode: "May We Brand Them Proud (Part 2)"

"May We Make Them Proud" was a feature-length episode, also the 156th overall series episode, and the 18th episode of Flavour half dozen of Little Firm on the Prairie. Written and directed by Michael Landon, the episode originally aired on NBC-TV on Feb four, 1980.

ane Plot summary
ii Full Summary
3 Quotes
4 Cast
- 4.1 Recurring bandage / Guest stars
5 External links

Plot summary

In an episode that marks the turning point for both the characters and the series in general, Albert and a friend, Clay, inadvertently cause a fire at the School for the Blind, killing Alice Garvey and Mary and Adam's baby son. Later on Albert unwittingly causes Mary to snap out of her trance, he runs abroad to his old dwelling in Olney, only to find a grave that says J. QUINN on information technology (which means that afterwards the episode The Family Tree Albert's biological father somehow died). Soon Albert must come face-to-face with what he has done. It is unknown how Albert'south biological father died.

Total Summary

During a picnic at the School for the Blind, Albert and a friend sneak into the basement to smoke a piping that they stole from an elderly visitor. Hester Sue shoos them out of the basement. In Albert'due south haste to leave, he leaves the pipe with the all the same-called-for tobacco in the basement.

The pipe begins to smolder for several hours well into the evening. Hester Sue, Alice Garvey, and Adam, who is wearied from the long day are relaxing over coffee in the kitchen, completely unaware that the entire basement is now upwardly in flames.

When Adam notices a smell of fume, Hester Sue goes to check information technology out. When she sees some smoke creeping out of the basement door, she opens information technology and unintentionally allows the fire to permeate the upstairs area.

Adam, Hester Sue and Alice blitz to wake up the children and become them out of the edifice. Adam runs into his sleeping accommodation where Mary is with the infant. Adam grabs her hand and leads her out, leaving the baby in his crib. Shockingly, Mary does not even telephone call out to or try to grab her son. Meanwhile, Hester Sue and Alice are helping get the other children outside.

When Mary finally remembers nearly her baby, Alice shoos her outside and goes to get the baby herself, And so she hears a child calling out from the bathroom, so she leaves the baby in the bedroom and runs to tend to the other kid, who is stuck in the bathroom. She manages to get him out and transport him exterior while she goes to go the baby.

By the time Alice gets the babe in her artillery and turns around to get exterior, it is much likewise late. The doorway is now null but a wall of fire and Alice and the baby are trapped on the other side of it.

The kid who was stuck in the bathroom stumbles outside, cough and disoriented. Hester Sue frantically runs back in to look for Alice, but the entire upstairs is in flames, and so she rushes dorsum exterior. And then, to her horror, she sees Alice from the upstairs window, screaming and trying to escape by breaking a window.

At present enlightened that their baby is nonetheless in there, Adam and Mary are in a state of panic. Adam tries to go back in, just Hester Sue holds him back, telling him information technology is also belatedly. There is nil left to exercise but sit in the grass as their love bullheaded school burns down with Alice and Adam Jr. unable to escape.

The next morning time, the blind school is completely gone. The body of Alice Garvey has been found, but not Adam Jr's. Mary (who is in a state of shock) refuses to go anywhere until her baby is in her arms. Charles finds the baby and has his expressionless body in his arms as he walks upwards to Caroline and Mary. Mary insists on property him. In a full daze, she starts rocking him and singing him a lullaby.

Doc Baker and Charles walk through the rubble, trying to observe some trace of what may have caused this tragic burn down. In the surface area that was in one case the basement, Md Baker finds the pipe and determines that this must have been the cause.

Afterward that dark, at domicile, Charles tells Laura what Medico Baker establish. Albert (who overhears) is stunned as he learns that the piping he threw away carelessly was the crusade of the burn down.

A couple days subsequently, when the funeral takes identify, Albert (who has nevertheless not told anyone well-nigh his use of the pipe) is an emotional wreck and talks Charles into letting him stay domicile.

Meanwhile, Mary (who woke upwards the night before screaming for her baby and smashed her hands through a window) has now officially slipped into shock. Nobody can go her to rising from her bed and come to the funeral; all she does is stare into space and softly hum the aforementioned lullaby to herself.

Jonathan Garvey (who is anguish over his married woman's expiry) turns to drinking to cope with the hurting and in doing and then, he alienates his young son Andy, who is likewise trying to cope with the loss of his mother. It gets to the betoken where Jonathan tin can no longer fifty-fifty wait at his own son because it reminds him too much of Alice.

Charles takes a pain-stricken Albert with him to Sleepy Eye. He knows that he is going through something, only since Albert won't talk nigh it, Charles just assumes that he's all the same shaken up over the fire.

When they are in a store shopping, Charles attempts to cheer Albert up past ownership him a rifle, merely just before he's about to pay for it, Albert comes across a music box. The box plays the exact same lullaby melody that Mary (who is notwithstanding in stupor) hums to herself all the fourth dimension.

Thinking that this is Mary'southward favorite song, Albert asks Charles if he can get this for Mary instead of the rifle for himself. Charles agrees and when they get dorsum to Walnut Grove, Albert goes right to the hotel to come across Mary and requite her the gift.

When Mary won't open it herself, Albert opens it for her and starts playing the music. Of a sudden, a strange look comes over Mary's face and she starts screaming violently "My infant! My baby!" over and over. Terrified and in tears, Albert says "I didn't mean it! It was an blow!" and runs out while Laura and Nellie run upstairs to help Mary.

Meanwhile, Jonathan's hurting and alcoholism is flaring deeper which causes Charles to intervene and he helps his friend not but come to grips with this tragedy, but also learn to encompass his child (who is a living piece of Alice) again.

It helps Jonathan a great deal when Charles tells him how disappointed Alice would be to see her husband carrying on this way. Charles says, "Nosotros need to effort and live in a way that will make them proud" and this is of particular significance to Jonathan, who finally finds the strength to make amends with Andy.

In the next scene, everyone goes over to the hotel to run into Mary, who is now out of her daze and finally acknowledges that there was a fire and her baby died in it.

The music box dug up all those bottled-up emotions, and so she was able to recover. Mary so remembered the words Albert kept screaming over and over and she doesn't sympathize what he meant by them.

Hester Sue, who is also there, puts all the pieces together and remembers how she shooed Albert and his friend out of the basement that day. She realizes that they must have been smoking and that's where the burning pipe came from.

Charles rushes dorsum to the house to look for Albert, but he has run away. He and Jonathan keep a frantic search to locate him. Outset, though, they become over to see Albert's friend, who was with him on the mean solar day of the picnic. They get the boy to break down and admit that they were smoking. From there, Charles and Jonathan go to find Albert, and finally Jonathan tracks him down.

Albert resists and keeps proverb it was his fault, but Jonathan assures him that it wasn't anyone's fault; it just happened and at present they all take to motility forwards. Jonathan and Albert then become to encounter Charles, who calls out "I love you lot" to Albert. Albert runs to him and they hug.

A few days later, at that place is a gathering at the site where all the debris is from the burn down. Adam (who went to spend fourth dimension with his father after the burn down) talks about how his father has asked to fully finance the edifice of the new bullheaded schoolhouse.

Adam now realizes that people tin change (even his father, whom he once resented). Adam's father also requested to name the new school, and he sent a special plaque dorsum to Walnut Grove with Adam.

Adam asks Mary, Jonathan, and Andy to step forward as he unveils the sign: "The Alice Garvey and Adam Kendall Jr. School for the Blind."

"May we make them proud" are the concluding words of this emotional episode, spoken past Adam every bit everyone watches in dead silence.

Quotes

Charles (to Jonathan): I only thought I'd cease by.

Jonathan: Well, that'due south overnice, only I'thousand fine.

Charles: Well, your son's non.

Jonathan: Go out of here, Charles.

Charles: No, Jonathan.

Jonathan: I didn't invite you here, and so it would exist best if you lot left at present.

Charles: Not until we talk.

Jonathan: (getting angry) I don't want to hurt you lot, Charles.

Charles: Why, because I'm your friend? Andy's your son. You don't seem to heed hurting him.

Charles: Why don't you come up to Church building with united states of america on Sunday? It helps, believe me.

Jonathan: Thank God for letting my married woman die? That'due south what He did, own't it? That's what He did for me. He permit her die. And you want me to praise Him?

Charles: Jonathan.

Jonathan: No. If you want to believe, that'due south fine for y'all, but not for me.

Charles: You believe and y'all know information technology.

Jonathan: I don't want to. I don't want to believe. It'south easier if I don't. Cuz if there is a God, Charles, he allow your grandson dice, and he let my Alice die, and I don't want to exist believing in a God who would do that.

Charles: Why is God responsible? It's just something that happened.

Jonathan: Considering he could take stopped information technology. I read virtually all them miracles in the Bible. If he could perform them miracles, then why didn't he perform one the other dark? Why didn't he finish it? Tell me, Charles. Why?

Charles: I don't know. (long intermission) If I did know, I'd be God.

Jonathan: I simply don't seem to know what I'm doing. Oh, dear God, am I supposed to forget her?

Charles: No. Dear God, no, you lot don't forget her. Time doesn't brand y'all forget, not somebody you loved. You're gonna remember Alice, and I'k gonna call back my grandson. But we're gonna go along, and we need to try to live in a style that would make them proud. We've got to try.

Jonathan: Oh, God, I tin can't!

Charles: You can!

Jonathan: I can't!

Charles: Yes, yous can. If you actually love Alice, you tin can.

Jonathan: I can't!

Charles: You can! Andy'southward non just your son. He'southward a living part of Alice, a role of the woman you love. Every fourth dimension you injure him, yous hurt Alice and you hurt yourself!

Adam: All right, whose plough is it for prayers?

James: Mine. Dear Lord, cheers for all your blessings and thank you for all the folks of Walnut Grove who helped united states of america today. And I know you'll do something bad to the folks who didn't help.

Adam: James.

James: Yes, sir?

Adam: Prayers are for thanking the Lord, not telling Him to punish people.

James: I didn't tell Him to do nada. I just said I knew He would!

Adam: Just terminate the prayer, James.

James: Yeah, sir. Do what you think is best, Lord, and God anoint all our loved ones. Amen.

Adam: Every bit some of you may know, I was back East last week in New York. I spent some time with my father and told him most the tragedy we have had. You'd all have to know the mode my male parent was in the by to realize what a miracle it is when I tell y'all that he has asked to be able to finance the rebuilding of the blind school. Believe me, I will never again await at any man on the face up of the Earth and say that he'll never change. My father did make one asking, that he exist allowed to name the new school. He sent this plaque back with me. Mary? Jonathan? (Mary, Jonathan, and Andy step forward) We dedicate this school in memory of Alice Garvey and Adam Charles Holbrook Kendall. (Adam unveils the plaque) May we brand them proud.

Cast

Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls
Karen Grassle as Caroline Ingalls
Melissa Gilbert equally Laura Ingalls Wilder
Melissa Sue Anderson equally Mary Ingalls Kendall
Lindsay Greenbush / Sidney Greenbush every bit Carrie Ingalls

Residuum of cast listed alphabetically:

Tobias Anderson as Hank Mays (as Tobias Andersen)
Paul Barselou every bit Herb Gooder
Bill Calvert equally Clay Mays
Dago Dimster as Tim
Michelle Downey as Susan Goodspeed
Ken Hill equally Lawyer
Tom Kindle equally Jason
Gil Lamb every bit Harlan Potts
Ketty Lester as Hester-Sue Terhune
Dan McBride as Henry
De'voreaux White equally James (as D. White)
Naomi White every bit Secretary
John Zaremba equally Judge Adams

External links

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TV Guide
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Little House on the Prairie Mary's Baby Dies

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Little House on the Prairie Mary's Baby Dies

Contents

Plot summary

Total Summary

Quotes

Cast

Recurring cast / Guest stars

External links

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