Alternating between manic attentiveness to his official duties and depressed apathy, Marlon eventually becomes disgusted with the inertia of politics in Tallahassee and purchases a second-hand motorhome.

His change of heart also wins over Elizabeth Sinclair, a former aide at the public relations firm owned by Marlon's father's best friend.

She was a young Latin American woman who escaped to the U.S., and found the men who had gang-raped and tortured her, living well in South Florida under false identities supplied by the CIA (one of several callous acts that Marlon rubber-stamped before his reformation).

Sirocco faked evidence of his innocence, won a last-minute exoneration from Marlon, then called to rub his guilt in the governor's face.

In the epilogue, Marlon and Elizabeth marry, and continue to tour the country in the motorhome, holding jobs as guest political commentators on CNN.