The East Park Mall in Reston, Virginia. A young man named Buddy is trying to sell seedlings explaining to mall goers that they grow into beautiful Christmas plants and the proceeds go to help the charity Christmas Toys for Tots.  The scent cause Noah (Harrison Knight) to stopped and talk with Buddy who is impressed with Noah’s knowledge of ferns. Buddy comments how it’d be a shame for Noah to walk away with a seedling. Noah tells Buddy he doesn’t have any money to purchase one. Buddy understands as he just graduated from Frostburg University with an art degree and now he’s selling seedlings. Film major Noah can relate as he’s unemployed.  Buddy offers Noah a job helping him sell the seedlings saying he’ll pay Waldman ten dollars an hour and throw in a seedling. After Buddy goes to sell his seedlings on another corner of the mall, a woman approaches Noah wanting to know who is in charge. She tells him that she paid fifty dollars for some seedlings and told all her friends but haven’t received them in the mail yet. And customer service on the website has been disabled. “Is this a real charity or some kind of scam? Are these even real trees?” she demands. Noah tells her he doesn’t even work there yet but says he knows some people that may be able to help she and her friends. “You need to contact The United States Postal Inspectors.”

Mitch (Terry Serpico) and Amanda (Jessica Lundy) talk about the complaint against Christmas Toys for Tots. He comments how scams and Christmas go together like children and clowns. Preston (Bret Green) appears and explains his research into Christmas Toys for Tots didn’t yield any information about the charity.  Mitch then shows Amanda and Preston a photo of the child he fosters, which turns out to be a goat. Preston laughs that Mitch is a “goat dad.”