Mitch's attempts to throw Dave a great birthday are interrupted by a town-wide skip-a-thon and a visit from his brother Pete.

Mitch and Dave's relationship is under the pump as they make a mad-dash, cross country drive to drop Tama off at an All Blacks game he'd forgotten about.

Mitch discovers an unkind school report Dave wrote about her, meanwhile Tama plots a proposal with a most unlikely ally: Derek.