"Can't you understand, little girl? Jebediah was no criminal." Mayor Quimby said sitting alongside Lisa's Principal Seymour Skinner, Rev. Lovejoy, and Dr. Hibbert. "That's right. The reason they say he had a silver tongue is because he was such a fine speaker." Lamely explained Lovejoy, "That's a myth that got mixed up with the truth." Lisa politely telling him before Quimby tells her "You are tampering with forces you can't understand. We have major corporations sponsoring this event." Pointing to a group of men in suits sitting at a table watching them.
"I hope you know you're sponsoring a celebration for a murderous pirate." She yells out to them getting them to leave and remove their sponsorship from the celebration, "Well, I see no way of settling this." snaps Skinner. Police Chief Wiggum suggests they arrested them but is interrupted by Lisa who suggests they dig up Jebediah's grave and see if the silver tongue is there. They murmur to themselves for a brief time until Lovejoy says "I guess, but human decency prevents..." Suddenly Homer starts ringing his bell and starts chanting to dig up his grave before he gets in the mayor's face and tells them that "If you really love Jebediah Springfield, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong." They leave and the committee breaks up to leave but Quimby stops them.
"Wait, why is it that every meeting we have ends with us digging up a corpse?" They agree and sit back down and ask him what are they going to do. "Well how's about we end this meeting with us burring a corpse?" They all are shocked that he would suggest this and more importantly claiming he's lost faith in Jebediah Springfield "Hey now! I have faith in our town hero, but what if her little theory where to be true? The town would be in dismay and people might even leave! We can't have that gentlemen, I've served this town faithfully for years and I'm not going to let a little girl destroy a 200 year old town and it's celebration!" All look at each other not believing this but they know Quimbys right, well all but one. "I can't believe you all! You're going to end a 8 year olds life just because of a stupid conspiracy theory? May god have mercy on all of you!" He storms off but is brought back and Quimby bribes all of the members to keep shut and promises he'll do them favors as well, but if they reveal the plan they all will be buried alongside Lisa. They all regretfully accept it and keep their silence and the committee leaves.
Quimby and Wiggum start talking about the plan while they leave the building and notice a spikey haired kid listening to what they're saying and nab him before he can run away. They bring him to the police station and interrogate him, "Alright young man, who are you and what were you doing snooping around listening to private conversations?!" Quimby asks, "Jeez man! All I wanted to do was see what was happening to my little sister and my dad. Moe had got them arrested or something and I wanted to know what for." "So you are the little girls sister?" "Yeah." Wiggium all of the sudden remembers who he is and blurts out, "Oh yeah! You're Lisa's brother, Bart. I remembered when she broke Ralph's heart." Quimby snaps towards him and angrily asks, "You knew their names the entire time?" "Ye-Yeah?" "Ugh, ok now we're getting somewhere. So, Bart you wanna make your town proud?" "No." Bart quickly replies angering the mayor, "Well too bad! You're going to do this or else!" "Or else what?" he asks nervously, "You'll be arrested for murder!"
Lisa lays in her bed wondering why it was taking so long for the committee to dig up Jebediah's grave but she immediately guesses that they're waiting for the vail of night to cover it up. She gets up and sees Bart walk up the stairs, she sees him tearing up and asks what's wrong. "It's no-nothing…..Just forget it!" He slams his door close and Lisa worries for her brother and wonders why he's upset. She walks down stairs and into the kitchen where her father is and asks him if he heard anything from the committee. "Uh? Oh no, sorry sweetie." She tells him it's okay and walks back up stairs to her room where she reads a book to pass the time.
Soon the warm sunny day turns into a cold dark night and Lisa gets woken by her brother Bart who tells her that "the committee or whatever is wanting you." She thanks him and is about to get her dad but Bart stops her and tells her that only she is needed. "Oh, ok Bart.." She walks down stairs with Bart following behind her, he reasons that he wants to accompany her to see the grave dug up. Bart and Lisa get on their bikes and ride away from the house and to an alley way which confuses Lisa. "Bart? This isn't the grave yard. I should've woke up dad and get him to drive me here." She gets off her bike and starts murmuring to herself while Bart gets off his bike. He reaches into his pocket with tears in his eyes and starts sobbing. Lisa notices this and turns to Bart and asks if he's alright.