The Johnsons find there is no such thing as a mother's unconditional love.

Axl is taken to school; Ty is scarred for life.

A party is in the offing in the world of the Johnsons: allegedly just a few quiet drinks to celebrate Mike's new bar. Zeb is much keener than Axl on the idea of a Johnson party - but not as keen as Gaia, who seems a changed woman since her mysterious (and as yet unexplained, to the boys) return.

Ty is put into an impossibly difficult position after his mother interfers with his marriage.

Axl, Zeb and Gaia stumble in, drunk, returning home from a Pimps 'n' Ho's party. The next morning 'Axl' awakes to find that 'he' is still wearing the dress, but some kind of Godly transformation has taken place and 'he' is now a she: a tall, blonde, very attractive woman.

As Ty sleeps soundly in his bed, Colin stands over him, speaking in Old Norse. As Colin walks round Ty's bed, flames spring up behind him, and by the time his work is done, Ty sleeps on, surrounded by walls of fire. Later, to a panicked Ingrid, Ty - singed but very much alive - reveals one of the benefits of running cold - the ability to fight fire with ice. And Ty most definitely knows this was an attempt on his life - one he's been expecting.

Axl's good nature is being taken advantage of as Ty palms Ingrid off on him. Ingrid needs someone to take her to pick up someone named Danny, from an as-yet-to-be-disclosed location. Despite her assurances it won't take long Axl then finds himself, with Ingrid, waiting in the middle of nowhere, where it transpires that Danny - an ex-psych nurse/lover of Ingrid's - is just being released from prison. When Danny and Ingrid commence making love on the backseat of his car Axl really regrets being a nice guy.

Not exactly a lot of happiness in God-world, as both Axl and Michele are suffering from some kind of lurgi, while Anders is just generally unhappy with the lot of them.

The day gets off to a strange beginning, as Axl wakes to find Gaia shifting furniture, in response to a dream she had about the perfect furniture arrangement for the flat. She has also phoned in to quit her job, for reasons even she's not entirely clear of. But before Axl can get to the bottom of this Bryn and Jacob barge in, demanding that Gaia come with them now. Gaia refuses, and goes to her room. Then, before Axl can get to the bottom of that a very large man kicks the door down, demanding to know where 'the girl' is.

Picking up from where we left off, Gaia is still not getting her head round the idea that she is Frigg. In fact, she is openly mocking Axl and Bryn. Axl tries again to convince Gaia, this time on a personal level, but the arrival of Thor/Derrick at the house does not help matters. As Axl has to deal with Derrick trying to kill Bryn, Gaia takes her opportunity to slip out her bedroom window (again) and make a bid for freedom.

The trail leads Axl, Mike, Bryn and Michele to an unremarkable suburban house, where they find that Gaia is far from being in danger or even held against her will. In fact, Gaia is feeling right at home because it transpires that the bad men who kidnapped her - and who go by the names Jerome, George and Leon - are actually Gods, Maori Gods: Maui, Punga and Rongo. In this way the Johnson learn they are not the only deities in town.

We find Axl and Gaia parked up beside a beach. Since doing their impromptu runner they have been sleeping rough, in the car, without a change of clothes, or money, or toothbrushes, or, indeed, any of the necessities of life. Axl, especially, is getting tired of this lifestyle, but Gaia isn't ready to go back to the surreal version of reality she is hiding from. She's still got stuff to figure out, and is awaiting some kind of sign as to which path she will head down - the Frigg path or the Papatuanuku path.

It is the day of Gaia's actual 21st and, therefore, the day of her attainment. Will she become Frigg? Or is Papatuanuku her destiny? Axl and Gaia wake up together, in Axl's bed, to face whatever the day brings - though the first thing it brings is Zeb, who is one step ahead of Axl in that he has actually bought Gaia a birthday present.