- Mitch Buchannon, Hobie, Eddie and Shauni travel to northern California's rugged gold country, with C.J. as their guide, to investigate the death of Mitch's prospector uncle where they find an old treasure map leading to a valuable gold nugget along a rough river. Back at Baywatch, two new recruits show up for rookie training season who are the wealthy and spoiled teen Matt Brody, and lower class swim champion Summer Quinn who moves to California with her divorced single mother looking to escape from an abusive past.—matt-282
- The episode starts with an old man on a river trying to get away from two bad guys. But the bad guys, Lonny and Drew, kills him and he ends up in Devil's Mouth. The old man turns out to be Mitch's eccentric uncle Alex. Mitch, Hobie, Eddie and Shauni go to his home in the mountains. Eddie and Shauni are having problems with their relationship. Eddie is going to spend a year in Australia and Shauni is convinced that it will jeopardize their relationship.
Mitch finds out from the Sheriff that his uncle may have found the golden boot. Two villains named Lonny and Drew believes that too, but Mitch doubts it. Alex left something for Mitch in their secret hiding place, but Mitch doesn't remember where the hiding place is located. During their first evening in the mountains, Mitch and Hobie decide to camp outside Alex's house while Eddie and Shauni checks into a motel. Eddie feels romantic but Shauni who thinks she's pregnant due to a late period, doesn't feel romantic.
The next day, Mitch finds out that their guide on the river is C.J., an old lifeguard. He convinces her to come back to L.A. and try out to become a lifeguard again. While they are on their way, Mitch starts to remember and they find his secret hiding place. There they find a text with a description to a treasure. The text is based on the lyrics to "My Darling Clementine". Shauni breaks the news to Eddie about the pregnancy. Then she decides to go back to the motel while the others continue. Another guide is supposed to pick her up. But before he arrives, Lonny kidnaps her.
Meanwhile back in Los Angeles, Matt and Clint are two promising swimmers that compete with each other all the time. Their swim coach tells them that Bobby Quinn, the east coast champion is coming to Malibu Beach High for the start of the semester. Matt decides to join Clint in the lifeguard try-outs, just because his father wants him to take a summer job. Matt's father is a rich Hollywood writer and producer. Summer and her mother Jackie see the ocean for the first time. They come from Pittsburgh, where Jackie's abusive ex-boyfriend Jed lives.
Jackie is a singer and she is looking for a job in L.A. Summer is a swimmer and she wants to be a lifeguard. When Summer is standing outside Baywatch headquarters, Jed comes to take her away. But Matt stops him and soon Clint and some other guys help him out. Jed ends up leaving without Summer, but he promises to be back.
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