This sort-of spinoff from "All Creatures Great and Small" concerns a rural vet, Noah, whose son, Tom, is a big city vet. At the beginning of the series, Noah is found to have diabetes and Tom returns home, somewhat reluctantly, to help out with the practice.

        This episode concerns Liza, who is doing a tree preservation thingee on her farm, using the lovely Clydes she has, instead of machinery. Anyhoo, Murphy, the wheel Clyde, has contracted a hoof abscess and Tom has come to give her a second opinion, which is, sadly, that the horse should be put down.

         Claire, the small animal vet with the practice, has a converation with Tom about poor Liza, out there all by herself, with her sweety off in Scotland, maybe never to return.