Raymie, Louisiana, and Beverly show up for their third baton-twirling lesson the next day, but Ida Nee is not there. The girls decide to find her—a “search-and-rescue mission” for the Three Rancheros. They knock on the door. When Ida doesn’t answer, Beverly picks the lock to Ida’s office, and the girls go inside. They find hundreds of baton-twirling trophies, some of which don’t belong to Ida. Beverly even finds one belonging to her own mother.

Ida is not in the office, so the girls knock on the front door of Ida’s house. No one answers, so Beverly picks the lock, and the girls enter Ida’s house, calling out “Miss Nee?” They find Ida Nee drunk and asleep on the couch holding her silver baton. To the protests of Louisiana and Raymie, Beverly decides to remove Ida’s baton from her sleeping grip. Beverly succeeds and joyfully performs some impressive twirling with the silver baton before the Three Rancheros leave the sleeping Ida and walk back to town, with Beverly smacking Ida’s precious baton against rocks along the way.

As they walk, Louisiana suggests that they should go and rescue Archie from the Very Friendly Animal Center. Beverly sharply resists and accuses Louisiana of not understanding how the world works.