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5. No Room at the Inn

Rev. Matt Jamison takes his vegetative wife, Mary, outside Miracle to seek answers about her condition, but their lives take a dangerous detour when he is barred from returning to town. Racing to get her back into Miracle, he struggles to keep Mary safe from desperate tourists squatting just outside the town's gates.

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Since Mary's temporary recovery, Matt has been duplicating the circumstances of that day to no avail. Frustrated, he takes Mary to Austin, Texas to get an MRI and discovers she is pregnant. Returning to Miracle, they come upon a man and his young son with car trouble. Matt stops to assist, and the man assaults him and steals both of their wristbands, allowing access to the exclusive town. Mary seemingly awakens for an instant and proclaims that the baby will die if she does not return to Miracle. Lacking their wristbands, they are refused entry.

John refuses to sponsor them, believing that Mary's pregnancy is proof that Matt raped her while she was comatose. Nora and Kevin attempt to sneak them in but find the dead body of the wristband thief with his son quivering nearby. After asking Kevin and Nora to care for Mary, Matt takes the boy to John. He tells John to take care of the boy and decide to not enter Miracle again until he can prove that Mary's pregnancy is miraculous. Matt goes to the refugee camp and displays an act of endearment.

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