The episode opens with
Andy giving
piggyback rides to everyone in the parks department. Later,
Ron,
Jerry and
Mark look forward to their annual "trail survey", which is actually a yearly secret hunting trip. Determined to prove she can be just like one of the guys around the office, Leslie insists the ladies of the parks department attend the trip this year, as well as
Tom, who has also never been invited. Ron is visibly disappointed. Leslie asks
April to check on a budgeting request while they are gone. What should be a simple chore, however, has April waiting on hold at the phone for hours. When she desperately has to use the restroom, Andy agrees to wait by the phone. When she returns, the two start to bond by making up their own lyrics to the hold music, playing a non-water game of
Marco Polo around the office, and seeing who can make the best
spit-take. When Andy says he is jealous that his ex-girlfriend
Ann is going to the hunting trip with Mark, April offers to give him a
hickey to make Ann jealous, which Andy accepts. Meanwhile, the others arrive at the cabin for the hunting trip.
Leslie proves to be an excellent hunter and bags the first quail. Growing increasingly threatened, Ron agrees to a challenge that Leslie cannot shoot more birds than he can, and they split up. After a few hours of hunting, Ron screams and the others rush to his side and find he has been shot in the head, with the gun also shooting out the window of Donna's Mercedes. Ann takes Ron back to the cabin, where he is absolutely furious even though the injury is not serious. Ron asks whether Leslie shot him, but she insists she did not. Ron takes several pain pills and washes it down with
scotch, which forces Ann and Leslie to hold his mouth open and induce vomiting, despite fierce opposition from Ron himself. The others discuss who shot Ron, and Tom creates a minor panic when he suggests perhaps an outsider is hunting them. Ann takes Leslie aside and says she knows who shot Ron, and a few minutes later Leslie admits to the group that she was the shooter, even though Ann knows this is not the case. A park ranger arrives and interrogates Leslie, implying that the accident is the result of her femininity. Leslie knows that she is a good hunter, but goes along with the ranger's sexist implications in order to appease him. Later, a bandaged Ron repeatedly berates Leslie, prompting Ann to tell Tom she saw him shoot Ron, and insist he come forward. Tom admits he shot Ron, and that Leslie covered for him because he did not have his
hunting license, which could have resulted in a $25,000 fine and possible prison time. Ron is impressed with Leslie, whom he calls a "stand-up guy". The episode ends with a get well party for Ron, where Ann is unimpressed with Andy's neck being covered in hickeys, and the whole party is horrified by Ron's head wound. ==Production==