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- Sarah is steered toward a singing career by a "well-connected" man, named Tony. But Maguire correctly suspects that Tony is interested in more than Sarah's music which she asks a reluctant Maguire to pose as her boyfriend to Tony. Meanwhile, J.B. is unavailable to celebrate Romy's success when she lands a small roll on a TV soap opera when he renews a secret relationship with Joan, a wealthy older woman whom he relies on for his income and personal pleasure.
- 1999–2001TV-148.1 (15)TV EpisodeIn the days after Molly's murder, Maguire fortifies the apartment for a tense Sarah still in fear for her own safety, while Spencer offers her a distraction by taking her out to a dance club, which reinforces Maguire's jealousy. Meanwhile, J.B travels to Portland, Maine to ask Romy to return to New York where he also squares off against her father when she doesn't want to return with J.B. to the city. Also, Cecilia and Andy's relationship grows to a point of intimacy where he finds the sex with her an adventure, but she mistakenly thinks that's all he's interested in.
- In an attempt to impress her first client, Sarah turns the record/CD store into an office for her new business, called "Temporary Sanity," with a little help from Maguire and Spencer. But when Maguire's boss discovers him assisting with another business in the store, he fires him and Sarah feels guilty. Meanwhile, Romy sees that she needs to make some changes in her own life with J.B. when Aaron tells her that he happens to be HIV positive which puts a new view in Romy's head on life in general. Danny, Joss' new wealthy investor boyfriend, tells her that he's going to Aruba on business and invites her along, but she is reluctant to go.
- With Sarah's temp business really taking off, she asks Romy and Cecilia to look for more temp employees. When Spencer hires a consultant to meet with Sarah, without her prior consent, she gets angry at him about him trying to run her life, as well as arguing about their sex life, or lack of it. Meanwhile, J.B. teams with Danny in his stock investments with making money and soon brings in a lot with J.B. hoping to make enough money for him to move away from New York. But later, J.B. thinks that the whole thing could be a scheme that Danny is trying to pull over when a vice cop starts asking J.B. questions about Danny and his business. Also, Romy meets J.B.'s mother for the first time and they get along great, but J.B. resents Romy's budding with his mom since he cannot stand her.
- 1999–20011hTV-148.4 (17)TV EpisodeSarah, more discouraged then ever on what she wants to do with her life, gets an idea when she helps Spencer out with a web site launch party and decides to open up her own temp agency. But when Sarah manages to finagle her way into a high-powered company to land her first client, Spencer is less encouraging after his own web site fails. Meanwhile, Romy and Aaron, the assistant director for the play she is understudying, spend time rehearsing together which makes J.B. jealous.
- 1999–2001TV-147.7 (17)TV EpisodeAfter hitting a snag in her recording plans when Tony's shady business partner is arrested for income tax evasion, Sarah find herself hosting a Thanksgiving dinner with a quartet of suitors who include Maguire, who resents spending the holiday with anyone, the caterer Spencer, Tony, and a schizophrenic homeless man named Jerry, who turns out to be a former opera conductor.
- 1999–2001TV-148.3 (18)TV EpisodeFitzwirth gets Sarah (having chanced her last name to Merrin, her birth mother's name) a job as a personal assistant to a wealthy Upper East Side matron with a menagerie. When the woman's snobbish son, Spencer, invites Sarah to a formal banquet just to show off to his peers, Sarah quits. Meanwhile, Maguire expresses feelings for Sarah, unaware about Bailey Salinger, her boyfriend back in San Francisco. Also, Romy and J.B. have their first date which turns bad since Romy has a thing for the theater, and J.B. has a thing for gambling.
- In the days before Sarah's 21st birthday, the word "difficult" defines Sarah's new charge as an au pair to Ashley, and her rebellious teenage daughter Flynn, as well as dealing with Spence himself, who's still angry at Sarah since their failed time out, as well as his new girlfriend, a not-so-bright model named Leya. Meanwhile, Andy Beam, the smitten orthodontist whom Cecilia met during the Sarah and Romy's party months earlier, hires her as his new receptionist where she's liked by him, but not the patients. Also, Maguire and J.B. decide to go into the party-DJ business which turns into a competition for both of them when they both fall for Sophie, their party coordinator.
- Sarah, Romy, and Joss get together and decide to form a contest to see who can have the first meaningful dating experience for the new year, which leads to all three of them to a series of men with varieties of baggage. Joss tries dating a man at an AA meeting, then meets Frank, a single parent with an eight-year-old daughter. After a failed attempt with a guy in an acting class, Romy meets a newspaper critic offering her a chance to succeed in show business with a good review. Also, Sarah meets an unbalanced artist, a closeted voyeur, and eventually an angry Spencer when she gets a new job as an assistant working for his very pregnant stepmother, Ashley, whom he does not like.
- 1999–2001TV-146.9 (18)TV EpisodeAs New Year's Eve towards the new millennium approaches, bad luck happens to everyone starting when Maguire's apartment is robbed and he takes it out on Joss, who gets fired from her job at the bar and she takes it out on Sarah and Maguire, in which Sarah learns of Joss and Maguire's living "arrangement" after a grumpy Romy kicks her out of her apartment and takes out her anger on everyone over J.B. two-timing infidelity. Meanwhile, J.B. stumbles into a dream date, named Angela, for the event approaching. Maguire then looks up Jessica, his old girlfriend, to find a direction in his life, and Sarah ends up in Archer Fitzwirth's apartment alone to spend the New Year's Eve evening.
- After Detective Gordon Merrin reveals to Sarah that he is her biological father, she is a little disappointed that Gordon is just an ordinary person who has been married and divorced three times, and has nothing but contempt for her mother who abandoned him over 20 years ago. Meanwhile, J.B.'s trial for his involvement in the money scam begins in which he gets a three-month prison term and is forced to say goodbye to Romy, who finally goes on her way after she lands an important role in a major Broadway play. Joss decides to revamp her own career by landing a lucrative job as the bartender at the club, and Cecelia and Andy announce to everybody of their engagement. When Sarah decides to close down her temp agency and return to San Francisco, feeling that her life effort to start over has been a failure, Maguire helps by giving her his money and moves away to go on tour playing his guitar. After Maguire leaves town, Sarah saves her agency and decides to stay in New York to be near her father.
- After Sarah finally breaks up with Spencer after telling him that that their relationship cannot work out, he withdraws all of his investments into her agency, which takes a turn for the worse when a disgruntled client sues her. Meanwhile, J.B. is trying to land a new client for his sales scam and finds one, only that the client turns out to be an undercover cop who arrests him for insider trading and mail fraud in which after questioning J.B., begins investigating Sarah. Also, Romy continues to audition for a Broadway role, and Cecelia's relationship with Andy grows to a point of wanting a commitment in which he asks her to marry him, and she accepts.
- Having money problems, Sarah and Romy throw a singles party for profit in their apartment. During the party, after getting a letter from Bailey in San Francisco announcing their breakup, Sarah decides to do "something outrageous," with her now free-spirited life which leads her to drink, party, get a tattoo and consider spending the night with Spencer. Romy also becomes concerned about J.B. who becomes acquainted with a few too many girls that show up. Meanwhile, Maguire gets jealous when a musician friend of his, named Kenny, hits on Joss. Also, Cecilia becomes acquainted with an orthodontist, named Andy Beam, who shows a strong interest in her.
- Molly jumps in when Romy can't join Sarah to audition for a jingle-singing gig, which they win together. But later, tragedy precludes them from doing the job when Molly is killed by a mugger in a deserted alley. This devastates everyone, especially Romy, who feels frustrated at not being able to have done anything for Molly. After an encounter with Molly's visiting father, Romy decides she needs a break from the city. Maguire also deals with his own anger and frustration and gets no help from Joss, who does not think that it's a big issue. Also, Sarah deals with her own shock at this turn of events and is befriended by Douglas, the detective in charge of the investigation.
- Sarah learns a dark part of Maguire's drug addicted past after the arrival of Taylor, an old friend of Maguire's who spent 18 months in prison for drug possession, which ruins their first date together. When Sarah decides to break up with Maguire, her decision changes when he proclaims his love for her. Meanwhile, Romy presses the issue of J.B.'s lack of intimacy with her and begins to think that he does not like her, while at the same time, J.B. continues his involvement with Joan and is torn between both women since Romy wants his love, and Joan just wants companionship.
- In the month since she turned 21, Sarah is still working for Ashley at being her Lamaze coach, and dealing with Spencer who's still having problems with the beautiful but dim-witted Leya. When Leya leaves town for a photo shoot, Sarah attempts to fix up the continuing feud between Leya and Spencer by sending him e-mail messages which soon lands Sarah in a bind which she must keep of the charade of playing Leya over the Internet for a clueless Spencer. Meanwhile, Romy is taking acting classes to expand her acting talents when an old best friend, Molly, a talkative and noisy young woman, arrives in town for a visit whom she learns, and teaches Romy, about life in New York and a career in acting. Also, J.B. seeks to expand his DJ business by playing at more gigs which lands him and Maguire in a bind when they have to play at two engagements on the same night, one of them being an important dinner engagement for Sophie's business clients.
- Seeking another better paying job for the Christmas holiday, Sarah gets a big break when she goes to work at New York's Bloomingdale's and gets a lot of commission for a personal shopper. Meanwhile, Joss' problematic sister, Casey, pays a visit and reveals her pregnancy. When Joss and Casey travel to Queens to visit their parents, their mother does not hide her contempt for either's lifestyle. Cecilia gets pneumonia, but refuses to seek treatment until she collapses where Sarah finds her, takes her to a hospital, and learns that Cecilia uses someone else's health insurance. Also, J.B. crosses a line with Romy by sleeping with her on their first date after getting back together. But later Romy finally meets Joan after seeing her in the company of J.B.
- Sarah Reeves arrives in New York City from San Francisco to find her biological father only to encounter one mishap after another starting when she loses her luggage at the airport and arrives at the apartment building where her mother grew up and shacks up with Romy Sullivan, a struggling, near-starving actress determined to make it big, as well dealing with the cynical building superintendent Cecilia Wiznarski. Sarah also meets musician and CD shop employee John Maguire and his waitress friend roommate Jocelyn "Joss" House who works at the seedy nightclub down the street, as well as Romy's neighbor J.B. who lives across the street. Sarah's search for her father leads her to her late mother's dance instructor who steers her towards a wealthy stage producer named Archer Fitzwirth, who denies being her father but brings out a self-retaliation to Sarah in her life as to who or what she wants to be in life.
- Spencer discovers Sarah's role in his e-mails with Leya while she is reluctant to start dating him again. Meanwhile, Romy fires her agent in a frantic career drive that prompts Sarah to set her own sights once again on her singing career and asks Maguire for help. Romy tries to get into an off-Broadway show, but learns that she cannot get in without an agent, she resorts to lying and cheating her way in and becomes the lead actress' understudy.
- Justin Thompson arrives in San Francisco for his engagement party where Julia tries to remain supportive of his coming marriage to Laura. But when Adam notes to Julia that Justin and Laura lack a link between them, Julia tries to tell Justin not to get married which alienates him and Laura. Meanwhile, Daphne objects to Charlie's control over her and baby Diana. But when Charlie realizes that he doesn't want to fight another ugly court battle and let Daphne be unhappy, he eventually tells her that she can leave town with their daughter and Luke. Also, Bailey tells Evvie that they should start living up their lives by going to a party and drinking, where as Bailey drinks in moderation Evvie ends up collapsing from alcohol poisoning and is rushed to the hospital. With his AA sponsor and members against him, rejected by both Evvie and Holly, feeling abandoned by Sarah, and that everyone is against him, Bailey gets drunk and takes his jeep out with the intent to crash it and kill himself.
- Bailey has a full plate to deal when he starts drinking again and then discovers money missing from the restaurant and learns that Joe is responsible. Meanwhile, Charlie and his foreman, Gus, clash on cost cutting for the new furniture line. After some incidents with the workers, Gus decides to let Charlie run the business all by himself. Bailey's love life takes yet another turn when he meets a young woman, named Evvie, at an AA meeting who asks him to be her sponsor. Adam takes Julia out for a time on the town where she curbs his romantic ideas for her in which he suspects that she doesn't like him. Also, Daphne announces that she and her Army boyfriend, Luke, have decided to move back to Texas and she wants to take baby Diana with her in order to take her off Charlie and Kirsten's full hands.
- Unable to find his calling, Bailey becomes reacquainted with Holly where he attempts to help her older, pie-in-the-sky sister, Fiona, find her calling as a costume designer. Meanwhile, Claudia gets the violin position Todd coveted in which leads to some hostility and competition for both of them. An order for a hotel chain may be more than Charlie can handle due to his lack of funds and manpower to build the chairs, while Kirsten deals with morning sickness during her first trimester of her pregnancy. Also, Julia seeks to cure her writers block with frequent sex with Adam as their relationship heats up, which unwittingly creates a writers block for him.
- Charlie and Kirsten cut corners in cutting back electricity, heating and other utilities while seeking more fertility drugs as they and the rest of the family pitches in to help pay for Griffin's hospital costs from the motorcycle accident. But things get only worse when a tip leads them to a shady man who claims to have cheap drugs for them to buy. Meanwhile, Bailey doesn't waste another chance to be with Holly by setting up a picnic in the 49ers stadium which leads to a heated meeting. Seeking to relive her childhood days, Claudia enters a violin competition with her former violin coach Ross tutoring her, but soon has an inner conflict about playing again after a long hiatus. When Griffin learns from Daphne that the Salingers are paying for his medical costs, he angrily leaves the hospital and states to Julia that he does not want to be a burden on the family due to his pride and self-reliance.
- In order to ease Clint's suspicions regarding the new windfarm deal, Bob recruits the man who taught him everything about being a con man to help him with the scheme: his father. Meanwhile, Lindsay begins to realize that she may not know Bob as well as she thought, and Cat is forced to repeatedly bail her brother Drew out of trouble.
- On New Year's Eve, Holly takes Bailey to a family wedding where Bailey's fears and uncertainty about commitment reveal themselves. Meanwhile, Griffin and Julia track down her elusive new editor which leads to a party where Julia learns from her editor that her book may not get published due to another story similar to hers. A promotion at the factory holds little advantage for Charlie after his boss, Gus, tells him about his reluctance to use his ideas for a new furniture line. Claudia and the rest of the Salingers come together when they must decide what to do about their bulldog Thurber who gets sick and the suggestion is that he be put to sleep. Also, Daphne shows off her new boyfriend Luke, an army reservist from her home town in Texas, to Charlie and Kirsten during a dinner out.
- Kirsten steps in once again when Daphne seems unable to handle the tasks of motherhood in responding to the baby's constant crying fits and Charlie's demands. But Paul finally puts his foot down after Kirsten misses a few too many nights of them together to be with the Salingers. Meanwhile, Julia's efforts to get to know Ned's autistic brother, Richie, upsets not only Ned but Richie as well. Griffin flies to Boston to come to Claudia's rescue when the rest of her siblings won't. Also, Bailey goes on a wild spending spree after receiving a large tax refund check. But his generosity to Sarah makes her feel like a kept woman.
- As a new father to Daphne's baby, Charlie is afforded little quality time with Owen, which brings out jealousy in the five-year-old. Meanwhile, a would-be-competitor has Bailey running scared with threats to open a trendy new eatery across the street from Salingers. So Bailey resorts to an all-out war to prevent the restaurant from opening near Salingers, much to Sarah's and the former restaurant owner, Joe's chagrin. Julia thinks that Ned is not all he says he is after catching him in a lie, and discovers that he's trying to prevent her from meeting his visiting parents and autistic older brother, Richie, all of whom make a good impression on Julia, but not to Ned. In Massacusetts, a homesick and lonely Claudia resorts to drastic measures at her school after a curfew is imposed.
- Julia goes into therapy, with Ned in tow, after she vows to remain with him if he agrees to get help. But when the psychiatrist tries probing into the source of Ned's anger, he backs out while at the same time, he also manipulates Julia into moving with him into an apartment in order to keep his abuse a secret. Meanwhile, Owen's kindergarten teacher tells Bailey about a suspected learning disability Owen may have, which leads Bailey to consider raising Owen by himself. In Los Angeles, Charlie urges Daphne to return home with him to get psychiatric help to overcome damage done by Daphne's own neglectful mother. But Charlie discovers that he too could use some help in raising baby Diana as well as Owen and Claudia. Also, Kirsten moves out of the Salinger house after thinking that Charlie is still committed to Daphne, and Griffin prepares to do the same.
- Will panics after a meeting with an INS agent asking about the authenticity of his and Holly's "marriage," while Bailey grows with discomfort after Will and Holly pretend to act intimate in public. Meanwhile, Adam arrives back in San Francisco and asks Julia to join him and his artist friends living at a camp in Mexico. Kirsten frets about her pregnancy and fear of losing her baby by miscarriage. Claudia lets the "love" word slip to Todd after telling him about a romantic dream about him. Also, a foreman named Mitch opposes Charlie's assembly-line plan when production gets slowed down due to shortage of labor.
- Just as Bailey begins taking business college classes, Holly's student visa is revoked which means that she must return to England. After considering every option, Bailey then tries to convince Holly to marry him, in order for her to get her green card, before Will steps in to help. Meanwhile, a discontented Daphne returns to town with baby Diana and reveals to Charlie and Kirsten about her difficulties and doubts about Luke, which Kirsten sees as parallel to her own life with Charlie over his busy hours at the furniture factory. Despite Griffin's objections, Julia confronts her former boyfriend, Ned, after spotting him in town which leads Julia to re-examine her own troubled life. Also, Victor rejects Claudia's matchmaking for him and Ross.
- Bailey is reunited with his old friend, Will McCorkle, and accompanies him on Will's job assignment as a chauffeur of a pro wrestler which turns into a comedy of epic proportions when the wrestler forces the guys to drive to his estranged wife's house. Meanwhile, Julia hears rumors about her and Evan being romantically involved as a result of their spending time together. But during a Halloween costume party, Julia thinks that her feelings for Evan run deeper than she thought especially when she sees her friend, Isabella, trying to get chummy with him. Charlie and Kirsten visit a fertility doctor to see if there is still a chance for her to get pregnant which brings up more worry and complications. Also, Victor, Owen, and Griffin decorate the Salinger house for a Halloween party which gets too much for them to handle. Claudia sees that Cameron has feelings for her when he tells her about his decision to break up with Alexia.
- All of the Salingers come to mean frustration that threatens to tear the family apart starting when Bailey and Charlie begin to verbally quarrel over custody of Owen since both brothers do not want to back down on trying to raise Owen by themselves. Meanwhile, Julia feels left out when Bailey and Charlie take out their frustration on her. But due to Claudia's suspicious, and after a meeting with Maggie, both Bailey and Charlie confront Julia on an alarming truth about Ned's abuse. For Sarah, family means something new about which she doesn't see eye to eye with her adoptive mother who has decided to get married again.
- Julia reacts to Evan's lack of reaction when he hears about Brian's kiss with her. Meanwhile, Claudia has a little too much tequila to drink at Grant High's Homecoming dance and it makes her give the slip about Derek and her contempt for the clique. Bailey believes it's fate when an attractive British immigrant and struggling medical intern, named Holly, rings his doorbell by accident and he becomes stricken with her almost immediately. Charlie thinks about his future as he prepares to celebrate his 30th birthday. Also, Daphne and Griffin have an auto accident when he teaches her how to ride his motorcycle and everyone must come together for them after they both land in the hospital, especially Griffin who has the most injuries.
- Charlie's constant worrying about Daphne's pregnancy upsets her. Julia starts college at Stanford, and Bailey and Sarah take Claudia to her new school in Massachusetts.
- Charlie delights in learning the sex of his unborn child, but Daphne has no interest in anything about the baby. Meanwhile, Julia seems incapable of interacting with Josh, especially after finding out that Griffin is trying to move on with his life without her when he moves into the Salinger house while looking for a new place to live, and pretends to have a new girlfriend. Sarah tries reconnecting with her birth mother, much to Bailey's chagrin. But after Sarah learns of her birth mother's sudden death in an accident, she instead tries seeking out the woman's parents. In Massachusetts, Claudia takes little interest in rebelling at her school with her more outgoing classmates.
- With Charlie still in the hospital, Bailey and Julia continue to remain oblivious to what's happening on the home front due to their continuing life problems and daily visits to the hospital to be with Charlie. As a result, Claudia and Owen end up what most people consider neglected. When a visiting Social Services man makes a routine visit and finds Claudia and Owen alone, and the house in a drastic state of disarray, he has them removed to the state services. Meanwhile, Charlie makes out a living will and asks Kirsten a major favor: to care for Claudia and Owen if he dies when she agrees to look after them for Social Services. But Paul tells Kirsten that he's against the idea of raising someone else's children. Griffin begins his new job at his former bike shop, now an auto repair garage, and tries to help the attractive manager, Rosalie, make a deadline to repair one motorcycle.
- Bailey and Annie re-evaluate their relationship after Annie gets out of rehab. Justin's reappearance causes trouble for Julia and Griffin. Charlie makes his stage debut in Daphne's charity musical show. Claudia begins to feel suffocated by Jamie.
- Daphne, upset with herself for ignoring baby Diana, pays a visit to a priest for answers when she sees her own sanity beginning to crack over her maternal responsibilities, while her puzzling behavior begins to worry Charlie. Meanwhile, Bailey tries to find common ground with Owen by taking him out on a camping trip which doesn't go well as all. Julia begins to see a new side of Ned when he begins acting moody and angry over his former girlfriend, Maggie, having a new boyfriend and starts taking it out on Julia. Also, Kirsten volunteers herself as a supervisor to the children's ward at Paul's hospital and becomes acquainted with a rambunctious, disabled boy.
- The arrival of Julia's former boyfriend, Justin, fuels Ned's jealousy and anger during an anniversary party for Justin's parents. Despite Bailey's objections, Sarah insists on seeking a bond with her attacker, and soon regrets it when the man robs several apartments in the building. Meanwhile, Kirsten makes a major decision in her life on ending her marriage with Paul, and turning to Charlie for help. Also, jealousy prompts a creative performance from Claudia during her first gig with Griffin's band when a new lead singer, named Melanie, turns out to be an old girlfriend of Cody's.
- Cameron's covert kisses confuse Claudia who thinks that getting involved with him may not be right while she deals with a clueless Alexia. Meanwhile, Evan becomes more mindful of Julia who tries to set some ground rules to their newfound romance. The fertility changes dictates life for both Charlie and Kirsten when she has to take fertility injections with her lithium, and he has to take a second job to pay for the medical costs. Griffin and Will accompany Bailey on a 3,000-mile drive to New York in an old truck to drop off some of Sarah's belongings. When the guys truck breaks down in a small town, Bailey reveals his obsession to get to New York and bring Sarah back with him. Also, Charlie pairs Myra with Claudia for a studying time despite the fact that they both can't stand each other. But when Myra discovers Claudia's secret involvement with Cameron, it gives Myra some leverage against Claudia who uses this info to intimidate Claudia to talk to Charlie to back off his discipline of her.
- Myra turns to Charlie instead of her oblivious mother for help in her troubled, neglected home life. After Myra gets arrested for being drunk and disorderly, Charlie intervenes by reporting her to Social Services and the angry Myra decides to seek revenge. Kirsten begins seeing another fertility doctor to get pregnant. Meanwhile, Julia wants to introduce a reluctant Evan to the rest of the family as her new boyfriend. Bailey, feeling that he has lost Sarah for good, meets a sexually aggressive, fun-loving woman, named Tracy, in a bar while he fights his sudden urge to drink again, only to learn later that Tracy is married. After breaking up with Cameron, Claudia attracts a new admirer, a guy named Derek who is in her in her photography class through Alexia, and soon gets in over her head after she defends herself against a sexual assault by the guy during a party. Also, Griffin runs into Daphne who's working at a strip club, and Bailey asks Will to move in at the Salinger house after his parents threaten to throw him out.
- Charlie looks into buying the furniture factory when Gus decides to sell it to a major corporation. But Charlie learns more about owning it when he must come up with some collateral for a bank to give him a loan. Meanwhile, Bailey's lack of education and no college degree sets him back on his un-chosen career, until he learns more about a college business education while accompanying Holly on her pre-med lectures. Julia begins to resent Adam when he challenges criticism from his writing instructor in which he responds frustrated at himself and everything and leaves town. Also, Claudia discovers that Victor is hiding a secret about his past involving his former one-time girlfriend while she deals with Todd going away to New York for a violin concert.
- A recently rediscovered file on Daphne about her troubled childhood sends Charlie to Los Angeles to find her which arouses jealousy and fear in Kirsten. Meanwhile, Griffin gets no help at all from Bailey or Charlie who refuse to believe that Julia is being abused and controlled by Ned, especially when Julia convinces them that Griffin is the problem. So, Griffin takes matters into his own hands by beating up Ned and ends up in jail for it. Bailey considers a risky partnership concerning the restaurant with a sleazy entrepreneur who wants to open a chain of restaurants statewide, while at the same time Bailey tries to balance time to Owen's kindergarten basketball practice meets. Also, Claudia begins to have doubts about seeing Cody after their first date goes bad.
- Charlie struggles to remain strong for Daphne, whose complications with her pregnancy has landed her in the hospital and jeopardized her life and that of the baby. Meanwhile, Julia and Ned decide to tell Maggie about their blossoming relationship, but they are delayed by her announcement of her dead pet dog. Bailey helps Hannah make an important decision about her future with or without her baby, or Will in her life. In Massacusets, Claudia hits every imaginable delay while waiting to catch a plane back to San Francisco to be with Charlie in his time of need.
- A city-wide power failure traps Julia and Griffin alone in an elevator where feelings for each other resurface. At the same time, Charlie goes to the hospital to help baby Diana where he has a chance meeting with Kirsten's husband Paul. The blackout increases tension between Bailey and his new restaurant manager, Lauren, over how to manage Salingers due to the blackout and Lauren's domineering management techniques. Meanwhile, Claudia frets about some of the boys at her 16th birthday party that Sarah throws for her at the loft while she also tries to calm Claudia down by explaining the pleasures and pain of life and love.
- Bailey slowly discovers Annie's relapse into alcoholism on the 2nd anniversary of her sobriety, which also threatens his sobriety as well. Julie rediscovers the academic world in a college literature class she begins taking to cover for Bailey. With Julia away, Griffin discovers he can no longer fight his growing attraction to Rosalie and caves into her advances towards him. But Julia later becomes more angry than ever when she discovers a love note that Rosalie wrote to Griffin. Meanwhile, Claudia gets help from a psychologist over her depression and uncertainty which leads her to ask Charlie to spend more time with her in teaching her how to drive a car.
- After Myra's mother accuses Charlie of abusing her daughter, he is given the offer to resign from the school, quietly. Charlie decides to quit, but an encouragement from Kirsten convinces him to make a stand. Meanwhile, Julia meets Evan's angry and rebellious teenage son, Brian, while at the same time, she also encourages Claudia to report Derek after she confides in her about the incident. Bailey ponders a future with the married Tracy, while Joe, Victor, and Will help plan a Thanksgiving dinner at the house. Also, Griffin and Daphne have a lot to be thankful for when they discover their own primal passions for each other.
- With a little of Maggie's help, Griffin whisks Julia away to try to talk some sense into her about her relationship with the abusive Ned. Julia still won't listen to Griffin or anyone. But upon returning to San Francisco, Ned's words may later ring true for her. Meanwhile, Claudia feels pressured to take sides when Bailey tells her to support him in his custody battle for the dyslexic Owen, and Kirsten feels the same after a visit from Bailey. The events lead the family gathering under trouble circumstances at the hospital when Owen is admitted with a broken arm after falling off his new bicycle which only strengthens Bailey's determination to get custody of Owen.
- Bailey and Annie are thrown for a loop when Annie's ex-husband reappears. Uneasy about Daphne's line of work, Charlie follows her to a job. Griffin wins a trip for two to Los Angeles and invites Julia.