Helen Bragg is Randy's competent sister-in-law who is accustomed to running her household alone while her husband Mark is away on military duty. Lib McGovern genuinely cares for Randy but has to visit him quietly due to her parents' disapproval. Dr. Dan Gunn is the town doctor whose partner was killed during a raid on their clinic by drug addicts, and who had wanted to spend his career healing people abroad rather than for money and prestige, but his wife divorced him and saddled him with debt.