"For Better or Worse: Part 2" is the twenty-ninth episode of season 3 of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Sully arrives back from warning Cloud Dancing, and celebrates in Hank's Saloon. He also visits his late wife Abigail's grave, where he tells her he has grown out a lock of hair which interweaves with a piece of hers. It was his way of keeping her with him, but he has to move on now, and thus takes a knife and cuts off the one long braid of hair on the left side of his head, leaving it resting atop her burial ground. Dr. Mike celebrates but is upset when Dorothy offers her a wedding dress that she prefers over the extravagant one her mother had sent in from Paris. Dr. Mike and her mother continue to argue over the wedding, and the matter of giving her away comes up. Because Dr. Mike's father is deceased, she believes her mother should do the honors. Unwilling to defy tradition, Mrs. Quinn refuses to give Dr. Mike away, and Sully overhears this. He goes to Loren to ask him to give her away and he accepts, as he was the one who gave his daughter away to Sully in the past and Sully is able to appeal to Loren's kinder, sentimental side. Jake and Robert E. knock out Custer before he sees Cloud Dancing, and put him in the clinic and tie him up. Mrs. Quinn later changes her mind and gives Dr. Mike away. Knowing the risk his presence brings to the others with Custer's relentless pursuit of him spilling over into the wedding, Cloud Dancing leaves quickly after the vows, to Sully's disappointment. However, through trials and tribulations, the Quinn-Sully wedding happens as planned and ends happily in a bedroom that Brian (helped by John) custom made in the last train carriage as his gift since no one allowed him to help in the preparations. As soon as the train pulls away from Colorado Springs and the newlyweds begin their honeymoon, they share a very intimate moment where Dr. Mike protests because it isn't even dark yet, until Sully starts lowering the window blinds. The two draw all the blinds shut to make it completely dark, and then Dr. Mike and Sully consummate their relationship together.
This episode provides examples of:
- A Man Is Always Eager: Sully begins undressing Mike the second they're alone.
- All Women Are Prudes: Despite being married and free to do whatever she wants with Sully, Mike starts squealing when he begins undressing her, as "it isn't even dark yet!"
- Hair Memento: Sully kept a lock of Abigail's hair, which he has woven into a lock of his own that he has grown out.
- Historical Domain Character: General Custer, of course.
- Marital Rape License: When complaining about her husband, Marjorie states that "he insisted on his right to my bed".
- Multi-Part Episode: "For Better or Worse: Part 2" follows "For Better or Worse: Part 1".
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: An Irish lace handkerchief from her sister Rebecca is Michaela's "something old", shoes from Colleen are her "something new", pearls from her sister Marjorie are "something borrowed", and a cornflower bouquet from Dorothy is her "something blue".
- Sexy Discretion Shot: The camera pans away from Mike and Sully as they lie down on the bed.
- Talking to the Dead: Sully tells Abigail that he is moving on now, cutting off the braid of her hair interwoven with his own, and leaving it on her grave.
- Wedding Episode: The season finale focuses on Michaela and Sully's wedding.
