In one part of the picnic area Lynn and Nell entertained Robbie's grandson. By the lakeside, Laura watched Robbie and Lizzie fish and enjoyed the beauty and tranquility of nature. Suddenly they all heard the strum of a guitar and James introducing his "Magnificent Flying Machine." All eyes turned towards James.
James' drone lifted off from where James had prepared a comfortable launching and landing area for it. Hathaway carefully worked the controls to fly it over and around Robbie's grandson, knowing that the boy would be thrilled by it. Hathaway then maneuvered the drone to buzz around Robbie, Lizzie and Laura. Hathaway was careful with them as well. Striking a fellow officer of the law with an unregistered drone might be breaking some kind of rules. James did not want to find out what those rules might be.
James landed the drone carefully, and everyone applauded. Lynn guided her son over to the drone and James showed it off to the child with great care and enthusiasm. Nell seemed to be frustrated that her brother James would bring, "that thing" to a quiet picnic. Robbie and Lizzie thought it was kind of interesting and Laura was skeptical about what James would do with the drone next.
Eventually, they heard the drone take off again, this time Robbie's grandson was working the controls under the close supervision of his mother and James. Robbie and Lizzie were fine with it. Laura did not like a child that young near the controls, but she kept her reservations to herself. The drone flew out over the lake that Robbie and Lizzie were fishing in and then came back in for a landing.
Lynn was pleased that her son was so thrilled to playing with such a cool toy. This of course elicited the question "When can we get one? It might help me with my homework, when I go to school?" Lynn was amused at the question from her son. Also intrigued by his creative justification of his request for a drone of his own, as being something that would help him with his school work, when he went to school.
James sent up the drone again, but this time with an attachment that would supposedly empower the drone to be able to fish, using a modified fishing pole that James had developed himself. James flew the drone out over the lake, what he regarded as a safe distance from Robbie and Lizzie since they were fishing, still. The drone buzzed them, then it went out further above the lake to fully deploy its fishing apparatus. Robbie and Lizzie watched closely, as did Laura.
The drone hovered majestically over the lake, fishing. A fishing drone. James was very pleased with himself, but wondered if the drone would catch any fish and if it did, what would he do then to get the fish landed. He had not quite worked out that part of the process.
Robbie and Lizzie kept fishing, focusing on their lines and trying to ignore the sentry like monitoring of the drone's hovering position. Suddenly, Robbie got what felt like a catch on his fishing line. He started to consider the best technique to land the fish. It felt like a powerful fish. Lizzie got the same sensation on her line a few seconds later.
James sensed some tension from the controls of his fishing drone and decided to give it more power to lift the catch from the lake, if possible. What James had caught was Robbie and Lizzie's fishing lines. Robbie and Lizzie realized that their fishing lines had been captured by the drone's fishing mechanism before James did, because James was busy working the drone's controls.
Laura ran up to where James was and said "Stop it, your drone has caught Robbie's and Lizzie's fishing lines." James immediately reversed the modified drone's power, so that it would release the fishing lines belonging to his boss and his sergeant. James was able to recall the drone and guided it back to the landing area. Robbie's grandson thought that the whole show was hilarious. He was probably the only one that felt that way.
James was very apologetic to Robbie and Lizzie. Robbie told Lizzie "We both had some fishing lessons today, including "thou shall not fish with drones." Robbie examined Lizzie's and his own fishing pole, but no damage was done to the poles from when the drone caught the fishing lines.