Hannah is thinking about what to do after Nick's declaration of love towards her. Nick and Eddie are in New York to bring Owen back to his family - a task which won't be easy to achieve since his brother is hell bent on Owen staying in New York. It turns out that Nick has a house sitter Eddie immediately feels attracted to. Meanwhile, back at Knights Ridge, Janet wallows in speculation of what Eddie might be up to in New York. Alison, on the other hand, is suffering from people judging her based upon her cheating on Owen. Ray offers Ikey a job as an apology after revealing his and Alison's affair, but Ikey refuses. He visits Physical Phil, who declares that for Ikey's violation of the code there is no absolution. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

Nick wakes up happy and optimistic, but soon loses his job and is turned down by Hannah. Hannah has Ray over for dinner, and he brings a ring in a box. Aubrey returns, and it turns out she has written a book that seems to include Nick as a character. Homecoming approaches, and with it the anniversary of Eddie's legendary high school touchdown, but Eddie wants to exchange the usual adoring girls with a relationship with Janet. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen

To find out if he can forgive his wife, Owen makes Nick act as guide on an infidelity tour of the places where she and Ikey carried out their affair. For Nick, the tour triggers memories of happy times with Hannah before he left town. Meanwhile, Sam doesn't respond well to the big changes in his life caused by Hannah's wedding plans with Big Cat. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen

It's Christmas, and Hannah is preparing a big Christmas dinner, but not everything works out as planned. Janet thinks she has the perfect gift for Eddie, but she makes a memorable mistake. Owen finds the holiday spirit with Alison, but is he ready to trust her again? Phil's parents come to town to be with their son, who they still think is a hotshot architect who travels the world, but then Pizza Girl drops by unannounced. Nick is eager to celebrate with his family, but his father isn't pleased. It becomes a Christmas of old memories and revelations. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen

Pizza Girl discovers Phil's secret project and tries to woo him to leave the house. Nick is trying to hook Ronnie up with a girl and introduces him to Taylor but it turns out that Ronnie has better chemistry with Aubrey... Hannah decides to have a yard sale. In January. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

The band is auditioning for a drummer. The local elementary school is getting renovated and they need windows. Nick and Eddie go to see the man in charge, Carter Bump. Turns out that he's really pissed at Nick who wrote a series of comic books called The Cupcake Kid when they were in high school. Carter was the titular character, who got superpowers from eating cupcakes. Carter throws Nick and Eddie out. Owen reveals that Carter now has a side job as Plumpy the Clown. He tries to talk Carter into giving Nick and Eddie the contract. Nobody will hire Ikey. The Commander suggests Ikey call together a tribunal to get him back in the fold. Hannah, Ray, Janet and Eddie are about to go out on a double date, but then Ray's pal Matt provokes Eddie who punches him. The date is off. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

The Commander is not into the others' idea of having a viewing party for the televised spelling contest final where the local kid Jimmy might have a shot at winning. Pizza Girl learns that Jimmy's brother Allen is spiritually broken for having had to live in his little brother's shadow ever since he was 9 and Jimmy was 4. Janet is insecure about her relationship with Eddie. Ronnie overhears Aubrey saying I love you to someone over the phone and tells about it to Nick. He questions Aubrey about it and she tells it was just her way of saying thank you when her computer guy has managed to salvage 200 pages of deleted text from her hard drive. Then The Commander sees Aubrey getting out of a man's car and going into an alley to cry for some reason. He tells about it to Nick, whose suspicions increase. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

Nick decides to face the man that Aubrey went to meet. Turns out it was her father! Dean tries to lure the Commander to take her dancing. Hannah invites Ikey to have dinner with her, Sam and Ray. Ikey mentions that Ray has talked about adopting Sam and Hannah is not happy that Ray hasn't kept the matter private. Allison tells Owen that she is going out on a date so Owen claims that he already has been on several dates. He then has to solve the problem of finding a date whose existence can actually be proven. Pizza Girl suggests her earthly friend Bethany, Phil suggests Jody Watson, his personal service rep at the cable company and Eddie suggests a sexy and divorced Vanessa. Pizza Girl bets $50 that her candidate is the right one, and Eddie and Phil accept it. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

Nick reveals to Owen that Aubrey's dad is a marked man. The conversation turns to Fate and Owen says that one can mould one's fate like he does by trying to find the woman who saved his life. Which proves more difficult than he thought. Janet invites Pizza Girl to a girl's night out with her and Hannah. Hannah's baby sitter has become unavailable so Eddie and Phil have to substitute. The Commander has an appointment with an oncologist, which gives him the urge to join his sons, Owen, Aubrey and her dad on their trip. Hannah is having problems with decisions concerning the wedding. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

Ray's business has benefited from their TV commercial, so Nick decides that they should have one too. Phil conceives it and Nick says he'll finance it. However, to his surprise, Nick learns that he's broke. So he has to apply for a bank loan. Which he can't get. Owen gets to go out on a date with the girl of his dreams, Jenny. He just has to make a difficult decision first: hat or no hat? Hannah's parents cause her trouble during their visit. Pizza Girl's home assignment from her painting course is to paint someone close to her in the nude. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

There are flashbacks to 18 years earlier when Nick, Eddie, Owen, Phil and Ikey got saved from Ray's gang by a slingshot-using girl, Angela (There are similarities to Stephen King's 'Stand by Me' and 'It'.). In the present, Nick manages to distance Aubrey from him without realizing how, Pizza Girl is not interested in watching a movie with Phil, Eddie gets Janet upset when he does not want to go to a nursing home to see Janet's grandparents. Then Nick reads from a paper that Angela has died. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland

Eddie's high school sweetheart Rory is back in town after a failed marriage, and Eddie is not cold to her advances. Janet gets nervous and makes a rash decision of her own. Hannah and Ray's engagement spurs Christine Cataldo's rage, and she has Hannah arrested for assaulting her and announces her intention to seek full custody of her children. Nick's agent comes to town in his limo to get Nick to accept an offer from rock band U2 to chronicle their world tour. Nick's father is diagnosed with cancer, but has a hard time dealing with the reality of the disease. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen

Hannah apologizes to Christine and invites her to the engagement party. She also invites Nick. Eddie isn't returning Janet's calls. Little does she know that Eddie is in the hospital until Nick calls her. When she goes to see him, Eddie tells her he kissed Rory but stopped because of Janet. Janet cannot tell Eddie about Rooster. Nick has decided to leave town, despite Dean's opinion that he should stay with his father who is sick with cancer. Written by Toni Tapola, Finland