Episode #101 "Pilot"

  Hilton has a nightmare that he's been fired from the airline, and his wife Ruth reminds him it already happened to him three weeks ago along with ten thousand others. Ruth tells her friend Pauline that it's tough having Hilton under foot all day; he's trying to fix things around the house that aren't broken. Hilton has a frustrating encounter with the dry cleaner. Hilton and Ruth realize that the woman at the hardware store has written the paint estimate on the back of her husband's suicide note. Ruth and Hilton have dinner with daughter Erica, a flight attendant, and her good friend John, a co-pilot. During dinner, Griffin, who has a crush on Erica, arrives. Ruth and Hilton agree to care for Shelly, Erica's turtle, while she's out of town. Later, Ruth tells Hilton that Shelly is his responsibility, but Shelly crawls into the incinerator as Hilton is burning some dead foliage and Hilton has to come to the rescue. Hilton decides to use an empty pill bottle for a urine sample he needs to take to his doctor. He falls asleep with the empty pill bottle and the paint estimate/suicide note nearby and is discovered by Pauline who thinks Hilton's job loss has driven him to suicide and desperately tries to revive him. Hilton tells Ruth that he's become his own worst nightmare, but just because he's retired, he isn't going to roll over and play dead.