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- The press brings the hospital hostage story, so the worried wedding party gathers outside. Young Tony finally pulls through after David and Syd's tireless efforts, under absurd conditions, but needs long-term care. The boy's despair-driven dad faces facts, kisses Tony goodbye and surrenders his weapon the the SWAT team. The next day, Syd has her last dream-visit from mother Linda before saying goodbye to dad, Jim, the Hansen home and Providence hospital. Both her and Owen's families and guests can finally enjoy the Christmastide wedding.
- Robbie asks dad to 'babysit Petie' so he and Tina can retreat to sort out their tax claims urgently, but Jim can't move his earlier date. That means poor Pete has to play with Hannah and her doll-house, which he proves great at but can't admit to it when a pair of hockey-mates drop by. In fact the young couple are firstly to frisky to get much paperwork done, then rather obsessed with picking baby names, which they can't agree on. Owen encourages Syd, whose patient accountant John Smith is tax season-stressed, to play ruthlessly in a city-wide Gocha (paint gun mystery) game for charity. Jackson Palmer's 'fun course' rock history seemed so cool, but soon convinces Joanie she's the class dinosaur, except with fun student Aiden, who appreciates a Mrs. Robinson to 'improve his dating technique'.
- Five months later, premature baby Nicholas Luke is keeping Robbie and Tina awake to their despair, everybody suggests some soothing technique. Pete enjoys camping in the Hansen backyard. Jim waves Heather's worrying Meredith's postcards are rather impersonal, she's just in time for the christening but on a different wave-length. Syd worries St. Clare clinic is closed after a terrible building report, repairs will take six more months after uncertain funding and planning. Owen warns her not to take too much notice of arrogant college professor Dr. Bill Augustine and cheers her up with a romantic surprise, then a big one. Joanie feels no guilt for chasing both perfectly good lovers to new jobs in Denver and Canada, and volunteers as college radio WWEN's graveyard shift gopher under med student rock DJ Ray, who passes out on air, exhausted from cramming.
- On Thanksgiving, the Victorian street decorations committee 'queen' blackmails Robbie (who needs consent to open his B&B) to decorate according to a fitting Candy-lane theme by the next day, yet Joanie refuses him the use of the Hansen home decorations. Jim sells his vintage trains, a gift from his granddad, to pay for Syd's ideal wedding reception, but Tina has a better idea. A patient keeps Syd away from her bridal shower, so the hens horde holds Owen hostage, sitting trough the male stripper he ordered, hunky Wally, who proves actually a charming young father.
- Young Pete is hostile towards the wedding, Tina grounds the boy 'till he apologies' for preferring an ice-hockey match with his dad Peter. This is answered with a lock-out barricade; poor groom Robbie is caught in the middle and squirms heroically both ways till he can come to the kid's rescue. Jim is miserable now that Fearless is afraid of him, and his surgery role may be reduced to fur-grooming, although his relevant memory starts returning. Syd is finally frolicking with Joe, but days before the senatorial election his veteran adversary Susan Bradshaw starts playing dirty. When his campaign retaliates with the truth on her marijuana abuse and abortion, this causes their own affair to become Examiner interest. Syd cancels her trust but gives a campaign-favorable TV interview, denying a relationship; he wins without her vote.
- Pete has fought with Nicole at school, so the principal insists 'parents' Robbie and Tina chaperon them at the winter dance that neither kid even wants to attend, each embarrassing the kid of their gender with outdated 'tips'. Pete ends up the only boy in a suit, but they sneak out to skateboard and bond anyway. Jim is finally back in the surgery's driver seat. His canine patient belongs to a couple in marital crisis and swallowed a crucial prop. Syd accepts teaching a med school class, with insecure eager beaver Alexander Conrad. She dislikes unconventional, erudite top lawyer Owen Frank at first sight, but given his record and the lack of an alternative accepts to follow his instructions. She can't keep her big trap closed during the deposition and is dumped by the lawyer. After Joanie left Phil frolicking on the couch to check an the babysitter, he cooks her an aphrodisiac feast and loses his patience when she calls it a porn set.
- Robbie is impressed by Tina's Halloween preparations, neighbor kid Taylor annually pulls his pranks on Jim. Yet Tina, who really can't handle baby Nicholas's incessant crying, comes down like a ton of bricks on Pete for trying to retaliate (which lands him and especially Jim in surprising trouble) and on sympathetic ex-rascal Robbie for making her the only 'bad cop'. Syd gets stuck working on Halloween night. Owen is vexed she seems to make life-changing decisions without even consulting her groom. The hospital is swamped with costumed patients and total weirdos, including 'witches' and lonely Hank who claims to be a harmless vampire. After Pete bluntly tells Tina she's so impossible since the baby's birth and her choice to start a B&B that he would be better off without such a mother, she snaps back to hate him too and runs away.
- Robbie's wedding preparations prove pure torture, especially if Tina's dad and twin mates the cops have their wicked prankster way, which only appeals to dad's reduced mental abilities, making him a worthless best man, her ma is pathologically vain. Syd ignores a hint to buy Robbie a microwave and gets nearly scolded when she pretends to know 'obviously' what her 'kid brother' -the offensive phrase- wants, her alternative crystal punch bowl breaks in the commotion. After the idiotic in-laws' coarseness chases him from his own bachelor party, getting blamed for dad joining in their stripper fun by his haughtily (but badly) 'advising' sisters gets too much even for gentle Robbie. Still the wedding is serene and moving, even dad's speech till he loses his thread and clumsily slaps the groom a bloody nose.
- Robbie worried he will be fired when pub owner Terra O'Neil's visits, despite his great business-boosting innovations like a baby salad and Friday live band. Instead he gets a proposition to take over as managing partner for 25% of the profit. Tina sees Syd behind his back about her 'pregnancy' symptoms, and tells him they're not ready for a baby; they both reconsider. Jim is finally back in the veterinary surgery, albeit shadowed by his temp, and finds a way around a father's religious objections against medical 'meddling' in treating his daughter's dog. Syd's clinic is under suspicious scrutiny by Dr. Minkus from the Board as she's being sued for alleged malpractice, yet refuses a settlement on principle. Phil and Joanie try to intercede for the needy with bureaucracy, notably Mike O'Brien's preteen son Ethan who needs special help to stay in his school where he's captain of the hockey team.
- Robbie decides to earn extra money to set up a trust fund for the baby. However, Tina wants him to pull the plug on surprisingly lucrative parties at O'Neils when she discovers it's how prostitutes recruit customers. Syd won't have the family attend her jury trial but can't wait, so she decides to track the victim's grandfather herself. However, Owen discovers the overbearing mother Lenore Decker gave a fake name. Syd meets the real dad, a charming 17-year old Jack Finch, after visit hours and messes up her testimony, but Owen gets inspired. Immature Joanie decides to register in college but takes her cue from cute student Aidan Green to change a sensible minor to history of rock music.
- Robbie eagerly prepares Tina's return from the hospital, but Pete isn't over the scary feeling of abandonment which makes him insecure. Jim is on the case of a stray cow who escaped from a meatpacking plant. Syd worries about unlikely patient Finch with LSD delusions and imagines even crazier possible consequences of telling Owen about her having kissed Dr. David Baylor.
- Jim, who warned Robbie an address he asked about to deliver whiskey from O'Neill's could be a mob club, is testing a harmless mousetrap, but his rodent hunt only succeeds in wrecking half the house. The Italian customers sort of railroad Robbie into joining their poker table. They get grumpy when he outplays them every hand, but once they realize they mistook him for a don's son take him to the woods, stripped to his underwear, contemplating spy execution modes... Being preoccupied with a terminal cancer patient who feels guilty as an absent mother, Syd gets Joanie in her place to attend the Biltmore medical convention, for the free samples, but someone who remembers Syd gets her thrown out, and into jail with three hookers; they contemplate life and commiserate...
- While young Pete is off to his dad Peter for Thanksgiving, Robbie tells Tina he's on pub duty till 11PM on their first married holiday, but secretly plans a turkey barbecue dinner with Heather and vegetarian Hindu Raji's hopeless help, with a ridiculous result. Jim finally gets to take a bus to go shopping alone again, and promises the driver Diego Sandoval to pick up his mother from the airport. However, he loses his wallet and accepts a wild ride from punks he was too kind too. Joanie and Hannah enjoy a wheelchair visit from Phil Sutton, whose family never celebrated Thanksgiving; they decide to take a ride in the country, where the little minx 'rescues' a live turkey. The Providence Mayflower Daughters hold their annual Thanksgiving dinner in St. Clare's; their snobbish president wants Syd as personal physician for her knees complaints, but is surprised by some DNA tests.
- Even Robbie's "accelerated" three days Miami honeymoon looks miserable as his nose hurts when he tries to kiss. Even if they got there despite trouble with the cheap airline, Thrifty; when they do, so did a hurricane. Jim goes on external coached rehab therapy for a day but walks off even more irritable, especially attacking busy-body Syd, who is told by the therapist she may need help with her own trauma of 'loosing' the father she knew.
- Robbie impresses fiancée, Tina, and Pete with his handy-man skills, also it's his way to hide from his moody dad, who falls and seems to have great trouble remembering anything not related to animals. Jim's professional psychiatric therapy is hard enough to cope with without whining Joanie butting in. She refuses to take notice of Syd's medical expert advice that the father may need institutional care. Heather is rushed off her feet and alone in the surgery, and looses cocker-spaniel Arthur. Syd's hunky adolescent pneumonia-patient Jason Zeller has nobody to take care of him; he refuses any contact with, or help from, his estranged father, Steven Zeller, who lives with his gay partner Chris. Joe won't take no on his dream invitation to a governor's ball with the king of Morocco, even throws in a private fashion show, but she's otherwise preoccupied.
- Robbie's family is getting desperate to find new lodgings, within 16 days, while the renovation has already started, so he takes the first place he can get. While Jim successfully delivers Patty's puppies, Tina has a crash C-section, but she and Robbie's premature son pull trough. Owen and the police have difficulty protecting Syd now schizophrenic Kevin had sent photographs suggesting that he's a danger to her loved ones too. Joanie is still spoiled with attentions from both Phil and Jackson, but tells them to stop rivaling, yet refuses to choose.
- Tina tells Robbie to write wedding gift thank you cards and help Pete with his school project on Jupiter in the morning, so they can train for his skateboard tournament in the afternoon. However, the boys get bored and sneak off. Robbie shows his most daring trick but Petie copies and breaks a wrist. Neither dares telling Tina, who blames the brand new step-dad. Dad's insurance finally pays for his rehab therapy. He holds back to spare fellow patients, even making troublemaker George his buddy. Joanie is presented to the occupational therapist and basketball coach Phil Sutton, a former patient, in a wheelchair, who also helps her with administratively troubled patient files. Meanwhile Syd starts her psychological therapy, where she realizes how she really feels about her late mother and her own medical vocation.
- Idealist Heather is tickled pink she can work for this year's Earth Day regional committee, and presents her hand-picked stand-in: Robbie, who keeps doing bar evening shifts at the same time. Alas his social skills aren't matched by secretarial ones; dad doesn't have the heart to fire him, but sets a crafty hamster trap... Syd was excited that a New York med school reunion offers her another chance with hunky bachelor Eric, who even sent her flowers, but is preoccupied by lying patient Talia, whose baby needs a blood transfusion from her haughty black single father Marcus Weber, who refuses unless Talia dumps her charming white mate Jake, the baby's loving dad... Doug has a great innovating idea, the aromatic pet mating collar in functional colors, but promises his boss a prototype demonstration without having tested anything, Joanie helps while instincts don't. Actually his success comes at a surprising price...
- Robbie is late for an auction of city-impounded goods but is assured he gets an incredible break: a huge Victorian house for $7.50. The picture proves outdated; he now owns a regular ruin which he's legally obliged to renovate or tear down, but Tina's reaction surprises him. Syd feels like her engagement with Owen is being tested by the universe as Joanie suggested: she keeps meeting magnificent men, including a dancing-seducing groom and underwear model Lucius, who dreads cancer or any scar, yet the one she dreams of kissing is equally medicine-devoted Dr. David Baylor. Jim diagnoses a whole stable of riding horses with equine infectious anemia, which will kill them in about a year, but suggests an alternative to having them put down as the absentee owner Mike Weaver wanted.
- Robbie's sudden urge to paint the apartment, general paternal attitude and weirdly coming and going health complaints are diagnosed by Syd as nesting and sympathetic pregnancy syndrome. As her lawyer Owen Frank believed her case would only be tried in weeks, Syd decided to forget about her indefinite suspension by helping Joanie at the Barkery, but is miserable without medicine, her all-consuming vocation, and her rigid efficiency just won't square with either customer service or the kitchen, where she's out-staged by a former summer temp which she suggests should be fired, only to be sacked on her first day; Owen drops by to tell her case is advanced to next week, year now she can't concentrate on that either.
- Robbie is now really interested in coaching, even changes shifts to be there early, but is also focusing on Pete Calcatera's mother Tina. Learning Pete's father will never return, and she runs a garage, he actually sabotages pa's muffler -alas accidentally also an expensive part- to have an excuse to drop by, but she refuses to go lunch together meanwhile; luckily Pete insists to have him invited at Chimp Fun Zone to celebrate his successful school project. Syd gets Joanie, who is impossible to live with, neglects the Barkery and can't face Burt since the miscarriage, to go in therapy. Syd can't drag Graham to Mary's funeral, but learns she owned his lighthouse, which is now to be sold; she gets him to plastic surgery consultation, but the teaching crowd scares him off after a few minutes; she finally gets him to the graveyard, facing his lasting nightmare, where he accepts surgery.
- Robbie looks forward to a weekend with Tina while Peter takes their son Pete camping, but she doesn't know he still lives in his old room at dad's. On her Saturday off Syd welcomes MD Rick Rozelli, back from Uganda, and shows him St. Clare clinic. Rick came to invite youth friend Syd to join a partnership running a clinic there, but suddenly falls gravely ill. The Health department determines it's serious, possibly hemorrhagic fever (Ebola?!) and immediately quarantines both clinic and Hansen house. Joanie is trapped with all Hannah's birthday party guests. There were no further fatal cases until Izzy Nunez manages to cut herself, so she's probably infected...
- Sydney visits her family to attend her very pregnant sister's wedding.
- Robbie worries that his marriage may be lacking some romance, but Tina not only tires quickly of his gestures, she actually takes offense, to his surprise, for hiring a nanny so they can have quality time as a couple. Syd is too sick to take an active part in the wedding preparations, and ignores Owen's urging to get checked by another doctor - this lands her in hospital, where Owen's hostile attitude to 'rival' Dr. David Baylor turns into a row and Dr. Bill Augustine taking over.
- Robbie is promised a percentage in O'Neill's if he can save the authentic Irish pub from a threatening chain. It starts badly, when a diner goes into labor, word spreads and many pregnant women show up hoping to go into labor too. Jim is finally allowed to test living independently; everyone is confident he'll pass but he worries about fellow patient Meredith, who has nobody at home. He can also resume working part-time at his veterinary practice as long as he has someone to supervise him. His temp refuses, after Jim 'borrowed' a kitten for Meredith. Syd's therapist agrees she has come to terms with dad's condition, but may still need help with her personal life, or the tendency to bury it under her work. Joanie tried to avoid Phil Sutton as she keeps messing up at their meetings, but he cheerfully pushes her along, this time rock-climbing.
- Robbie considered Pete's school PTA a waste of time, but his fund raising idea is carried: he's put in charge of the talent auction (and freak show), assisted by the junior rascal, with a painful and an honorable twist. Owen is flat out but his assistant is absent, so Syd barely gets his attention during dinner. Documentarian Kevin Norris however, whom her Heimlich saved while choking at O'Neils, eagerly invites her to lunch and proves a fascinating, erudite and good listener. Owen strikes back at a tuxedo event. Jim accepting to join Georgia up-coast to a motorcycle show in Portland crosses Meredith, until he finds out and returns. Joanie stayed in rock history after all, and keeps dating her British professor, the ex Cronck band member Jackson Palmer.
- Robbie has a hard time defending his van with Tina, who compares it to the canoe Peter bought was she was expecting Petie, so his promises to sell it. Dad expects his drivers license back, and buys a rare vintage motorcycle to ever-broke Robbie's envy. When Syd is invited by residency friend Richard as guest speaker on a UCLA alumni luxury reunion, she takes flirtatious Joanie along to LA. Robbie, meanwhile, minds Hannah and accepts to counsel a medical series -rather like her life- that Richard is producing. After fun trips and tours, Joanie is the one who loves Hollywood enough to take acting classes and sublet. Jim gives the van keys to a crook who dumps it after stealing the motor, but comes up with a solution.
- While Jim is away meeting Victoria Everdeen in Chicago, Robbie, Joanie and finally Syd get a visit from Thomas Wheelock (a rich McArthur Far East campaign veteran). That evening they realize they are visited by the same man when invited to his hotel. There Syd realizes that Thomas Wheelock is his grandfather, the very same man that disinherited his mother for marrying 'beneath her'. Thomas makes them an offer they can't refuse, or can they?
- Robbie's date with Tina falls through when Pete's dad Peter cancels last minute to chaperon his scouts event. Robbie is happy to be invited by the kid to his birthday party, but Peter demands he steps out of the divorced family's only annual event. Syd's clinic is selected as contender for a grant from the prestigious Medfund. The Barkery hires pastry chef Elliot Anderman, who finds cooking for animals beneath him, let alone cleaning, but lost his Chicago standing after malicious food poisoning. He proves sympathetic to Joanie's miscarriage-trauma and reorganizes efficiently and ergonomically.
- When Robbie generously obliges a beggar's plea for food, instead of waiting for an omelet the apparent scumbag takes off with his benefactor's wallet and keys, yet stops when Robbie hurts his head chasing and claims it wasn't him, the police threw him out- indeed, a careful colleague found his things, so Robby brings food to the shelter and offers grumpy Dwayne, who plays guitar, a gig at O'Neill's, only to have it refused. Jim gets a circus's confused chimpanzee Danny and is railroaded into attending his overbearing suitor Cynthia Blake's Thanksgiving party, while none of the family is up to it anyhow. Syd is invited at John's grand family feast, makes a fine first impression on his ma Constance Hemming and gets Social Services officer Alex's permission to put up apparently abandoned girl Anchee for a week. The Hemmings family discretely donates an EMG and Chinatown P.I. Simon Chang... Burt proposes a place to Joanie to move into together and shouts a fancy restaurant, where he clearly doesn't tolerate noisy children... Dwayne turns up, but insists he must have his own guitar back, pawned for $800, beyond Robbie's means to advance, so he rents one- a waiter recognizes his artistic playing... Jim figures out the ape uses sign-language, to say he's called Rocket and home-sick...
- Sydney crusades to compel a huge company to continue clinical tests of a wonder drug that could cure a rare but deadly childhood disease. She thinks she's found a powerful ally in a congressman, but he has political ties to the drug firms.
- Joanie plays the domestic martyr of the world; even Robbie's marriage announcement is scolded as 'selfish rubbish'. Bride Tina is determined to be understanding, so Robbie pushes them to bond by shopping for the wedding, while he minds whiners dad and Hannah. This works, and they're incredibly lucky. Jim fails to return to his beloved surgery and chase his temp Sam; Heather welcomes him back 'assisting', but he gets so frustrated he smacks Fearless' snout. Joe Connelly's senatorial campaign nears its end, so he invites Syd along to Washington D.C. Syd worries about mountain biker Victor Ortiz who broke two ribs and faints from concussion, while his mother only whines about his possibly compromised suitability as donor for his spoiled, ingrate terminal sister, violinist Sandra.
- Jim is rushed to hospital by ambulance with the mob-inflicted head wound meant for Fearless. Joe Connelly's divorce is announced in the press. A month later, Robbie is too furious the police are making no progress for Tina's divorce decree to stir rampant joy, but realizes a cat left the shooting day without valid contact address is probably the killer's alibi; alas his set-up with a waiter's roommate's tip only attracts cops, who arrest him and Heather. Joanie proves an ingrate again when Elliot can return to Chicago now his ma bankrolls another catering business for him. Jim is returned home, but is moody and may never regain full memory, doesn't recognize Fearless but mourns for Buddy, his first (stray) dog, practically thrown in front of a car by his laid-off dad, then disappears during a party thrown in his honor. Yet that dog's grave is where he and Robbie, who can't handle seeing him confused, bond back.
- At Christmas time, Robbie and Tina look forward to a day alone when Petie stays with a friend. Syd's patient, Charlie Elway, a Brown student in ancient languages, mainly Latin, complains of excessive fatigue. Her own therapist insists she must learn to take time for herself. Syd goes speed dating and Joanie agrees to go on the show Blind Date while Phil babysits Hannah.
- Dr. Jim Hansen makes a big deal of accompanying morally good but legally incorrigible son Robbie to court, again, for some bookie deals, and actually convinces the judge to give him a better lesson then a fine: community service by coaching a boys ice-hockey team for the rest of the season. Initially reluctant coach Robbie generously adjusts his already busy time-schedule and proves the only optimist who ever dared insisting to them winning should be a serious option, and stands up against stressed player Billy's overbearing father, winning the boy's heart and the sympathy of equally uncertain teammate Pete Calcatera's attractive young mother Tina... After three failed white wedding productions, Joanie convinces fiancé Burt to follow Syd's flippant suggestion to 'elope' to Niagara Falls. The trip is terminated by cramps... Syd concentrates on lighthouse-keeper Graham Hollings, who refuses to allow plastic surgery on his badly scarred face, and can't even bring himself to visit his only true friend Mary in hospital after successfully giving her CPR together.
- Robbie's restaurant date with Tina is a lip-locked success. Yet the next day she's aloof again, Robbie sees she has another man, who drops by at O'Neill's. Gym coach Russell Banks brings in pupil Kylie with a strained ankle, later picks up his coat- and Syd for supper. It's love at first bite. After three years of therapeutic disillusions, a patient is determined not to try a new treatment that Syd insists on. Chef Elliot Anderman's cookie range "man's best friend" (for people and dogs) convinces banker George Blankenship to support the "Barkery's" $8,000 oven investment loan. Elliot even accepts to pose as a straight couple, but seems to overdo it.
- A dream of kissing a young Romeo thrills Syd while a real kiss from a man dressed as Zorro sends Joanie to her seventh heaven. Robbie moves into Heather's flat. An old fortune teller dies and leaves a grandson with no legal papers and a grave health problem.
- At the one year anniversary of Lynda's death her family dines at Chez Pascal. A letter he wrote the fatal day haunts Jim.
- Lester Moody brings in a ferret to Jim, threatening to shoot it. Syd's old class mate, Kerry King, comes to town as a famous celebrity. Charlie tells Robbie that he is going to propose to Heather and Robbie is desperate.
- Robbie worries Tina, who won't consult a doctor, still does too much, even for Pete's birthday. Owen is determined to get the wedding preparations out of the way so they can enjoy their engagement, even if Syd's hospital duties mess up the timing. When Joanie has to fill in at a college radio show on Local Heroes, she first asks vet Jim, and then then his friend and client, international wildlife activist Doc Croc, who travels the world with his chimp.
- An aggressive man with a knife collapses at the clinic. He demands that Syd keeps him alive for three days. Jim is despaired and Robbis devastated because Heather is about to wed Charlie and move to the west coast.
- Paul donates a new roof to Syd's clinic. An old friend, Nick from the DA, warns her against further involvement with Paul. Robbie suggests a local TV commercial for the Barkery. Jackie, 14, seeks help at Syd's clinic alone.
- A female patient is desperately frustrated as her daughter is autistic. Joanie's daughter and a dog are given names.
- A baby boy needs immediate treatment at the clinic but his father demands a male doctor. Kyle and Jerry both put serious choices to Syd.
- Syd offers Lilly a job at the clinic, but her new foster parents wants her to work in their shop. Robbie uses one of his father's client's dogs to earn easy money. Joanie gets a double-edged offer from Japanese business.
- Sydney reaches out to help a reclusive young man whose face is severly scarred. Joanie's suddenly in overdrive as she prepares for a whirlwind marriage to Burt. Burt's vagabond parents arrive in their RV and can barely hide their resentment.
- Darla is a blacklisted patient and when Syd shows her good will to help she's punched in the nose. Jim and Robbie take drastic methods in use to help a chimpanzee in trouble at the local zoo.
- Jerry calls from L.A. that a child star, Cameron, needs immediate plastic surgery. Joanie sponsors a school girl's project. A catholic priest has an old dog that concerns him. Robbie finds out that History can be financially smart.
- Infomercial presenter Earl Popper passes at O'Neill's and encourages fan Robbie to come up with a gimmick invention to enter it in his TV program and earn a fortune, but that' easier said the done, even for the most inventive Hansen... Syd's nice young paperboy David (12) is brought in with a gun-wound; according to elder brother and guardian Matt, David must have shot himself accidentally with a gun Matt bought after a recent wave of break-ins, but the wound indicates someone shot the kid and he can't move his feet without an operation. Matt asks him where the gun is, as the police asks for it, but... Joanie is tired of cleaning up etcetera for Jim, Robbie and Syd, so she eagerly hires Burt's sister Doreen Dunfey as professional 'life organizer', who presses the Hansens to sacrifice everything that doesn't fit in a lifeboat to a yard-sale next Saturday, which only makes them realize they really care for their memories, and Doreen...
- Robbie is in a tough betting situation as Vince demands money paid quickly. Syd attracts more interest to her clinic than the hospital's chief fund raiser likes. Jim gets a new assistant, Heather, as Joaney joins the cooking school where she quickly gets a date.
- After Tina objects to Robbie joining Pete's eager preparations to welcome the (baby) brother he wants, they decide not to learn the sex yet, but a temp nurse hands Pete ultrasound pictures. Owen's attempt to give Syd a nice night out keep going pear-shaped, leading to bets and a row about cheating at games. Joanie's professor fails her besides the point Madonna rapport (not a word on the music!) but invites her along to a live band concert, yet she's pissed-off to find that's no private date, so she drops his class- actually what he waited for. Jim dates Georgia, by bike, but no strings or sequel.
- Hearing Pete still hasn't picked a school project, helpful Robbie sweetly volunteers to help make his coolest ever, a rocket, but is told that pa Peter is much cooler with cars. Jim is cranky and a bit loony, ordering gardening gnomes and other products from TV. Syd tries to juggle her schedule with Joe's and a plastic surgery patient, who's a friend of Joe's estranged wife.
- Sydney fights the system when she treats a deathly sick baby boy suffering and her only hope is to convince a major company to provide a life-saving drug. Meanwhile, Robbie hopes to rough it when he sweeps Tina off to a mountain cabin.
- Robbie and Tina were enjoying a quiet weekend without Pete, but his pa Peter has papers served: he sues for full custody. Tina's lawyer convinces Robbie his criminal record would wreck her case; he's inclined to bow out, but a pub colleague suggests he provokes Peter's known violent temper, with plain-clothes cop Reggie standing by. Fearless makes a sizable drug-bust for Officer Duncan, then is poisoned in Jim's surgery. Elliot's coaching succeeds in making Joanie go out with his friend, studly artist Mitch, but she's not over Burt yet. Syd's aggressive tone ruins Congressman Joe Connelly's amicable approach of his Ziodex friend Bill Graff; Joe still promises to organize a Congressional hearing if hard proof is produced the life-saving drug is willfully sidetracked, which only Dr. Carroll can.
- A huge storm hits Providence. Robbie and Heather travel to Las Vegas to get married.
- Kyle invites Syd to a Grand Canyon tent trip. Doug enters the Barkery with a classy dog he claims to be a street dog. Robbie warns Joanie that Doug is somewhat too weird. Robbie grabs an opportunity to matchmake Heather. Syd gets a patient that she remembers from her childhood.
- Robbie gets a 30 days renovation eviction notice, and decides it's better to take a mortgage for a house, so he goes looking for one with Pete. However who would take his bid seriously without pre-approval, which his bank denies? While Owen starts to get a bit possessive, Syd discovers Kevin's friend Tim is an imaginary patient, and tells her therapist she suspects he has schizophrenia. Syd learns Kevin still lives with his ma, who confirms he is in long-term medication and discovers he stopped taking it some days ago, which 'they' overhear. Heather instantly recognizes Lorna Berlin who brings in her pageant prize-winning shepherd, Bandit, for emergency grooming, but her special shampoo proves disastrous. Joanie felt like dumping distant Phil for Jackson, but Phil Sutton is back and even sexier. However, she gives precedence to Jackson's romantic overtures, while Phil wants her to try out living in Denver all summer and hopefully move there with Hannah for good.
- Tom Cromwell introduces Mr. Robert (Robbie) Hansen to his professional contacts as the face of the Pilgrim Fathers historical event, then leaves him in charge last minute, with the fancy sports car but no checkbook... Syd and her mates decide to drive penniless old Rose Bidwell all the way from Kansas, but during some line-dancing in Indiana Vonda Vickers collapses, as Syd guesses with MS; alas Cathy drives off at night... Back home, vet Jim sadly diagnoses Pete's loving owner the old priest Duffy with Alzheimer's; when he goes missing, Jim takes Pete looking for him. Frances Carlyle gets sponsor Joanie to do anything, even enter the pound...
- Jim wrestles with his paternal wedding speech and the Hansen house being emptied more permanently then ever before. But he's called away for a live problem, just now Robbie is getting his B&B ready and hopes to be listed on 'the' website by 'inspector' (read: advertising fee connector) Stout: a skunk, and she didn't exactly come alone. Knowing his bride, Owen encourages Syd to join David on an emergency mission to a thrice tornado-struck town in Tennessee. Owen defends Joanie's Barkery against the large corporation Grandma's, which claims to own the name. He finds out it's only buying the Bakery for a brand it hasn't even launched and stumbles on a golden opportunity for himself.
- Robbie celebrated Tina's regained freedom with a dinner, but an accidentally delivered ring out-stages him; it sets both thinking. Congressman Joe Connelly insists Syd should consider an affair with him, as he is already determined to divorce his socialite, cold-ambitious wife Erica, who approaches Syd to plead for his scandal-vulnerable career; pictures make it real, but who sent them and why? Elliot takes Joanie to a diner where all firemen meet, and bingo: Burt, then coaches her to reaffirm her feelings for the stud, but just too late. Heather convinces Jim to try curing Fearless's post-poisoning depression with sibling therapy: Peerless, courtesy of Mr. Coleman; the mob now sends a gunman.
- Mark wants Lily to join him in a school dance. A local Mob boss has an old dog at Jim's clinic and his son romances Syd intensely. A young sports runner is training too much. Joanie happens to make terrific dog's food that inspires a new business project.
- Kyle has two tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert but his dog is very uneasy so Jim offers to dogsit. The Barkery looks likely to be closed as Joanie's finances are very low. Syd suggests that Jim makes a pep talk show there but he's uncomfortable in front of what he sees as a crowd.
- Syd asks a patient, Lilian Gerrish, to rest, but she says that's impossible as her husband claims to have a brain tumor. Jim goes out wearing an elegant tie and after shave.
- David invites Syd to a hotel weekend in Boston. Lily is 16 and wants Syd to give her p-pills. Robbie takes over the early hours as his father's assistant. Brady is eager to put Mom's Clam Chowder on the national market. Chase Westlake's pig has not eaten a couple of days.
- Robbie plans to let his his father be a star on cable TV. A therapist and Syd have their differences what's best for Kyle who suffers phantom pains. A sports agent for a rising star in grave alcoholic trouble wants help with a contract from Kyle and a favor from Syd.
- Robbie takes Pete along to meet his now destitute 80's idol band, Wings of Lead. Since their manager just took off with their van, he buys one 'as a family car' and becomes their manager/roadie. This is cool in Pete's eyes as reporting on it counts as a school report and he digs a groupie's tween daughter (however dodgy in Tina's eyes). Seeing fan-mechanic Violet likes her Robbie too much Tina takes Pete home, leaving Robbie with the band, until she decides whether to tell him her big secret. Jim is finally back in charge, but decides to ask his temp to be his partner and expand into a larger veterinary clinic, only Dr. Sam gets his fellowship unexpectedly early and bails out - project buried. 'Wedding expert' Joanie is asked to arrange a wedding - for Hazel's dog Patty and Jim's dog Fearless, who, alas, don't get along . Meanwhile Phil is going to Denver for a job interview as a rehab physiotherapist. Joanie freaks out, breaks up with him, then changes her mind. Syd worries about Korean patient Justin Kim, who has a bad hand-cut and an infected street drug gang tattoo; soon he is found shot next to her car, still not talking. Owen Frank assures her the malpractice charge should go easy if she keeps her mouth shut.
- Dad takes a vacation to witness seals' births, so he gives instructions to Robbie, who also babysits Hannah for 'businesswoman' Joanie, whose partner Brady Pullman just dumped his girlfriend. Lily announces she may switch jobs from her foster parents to Syd's clinic after all--but actually, they had caught her smoking and kicked her out and she has nowhere else to go. When Syd proposes taking her in 'for awhile,' Joanie welcomes another babysitter and Robbie welcomes her to stay in his attic because he has found a 'bat cave' to housesit.
- A woman seeks Syd's help to her daughter. To make a favorable impression on Heather Robbie wants his father to learn him a special recipe. Joanie is eager to enlist and prepare Hannah for an elite school.
- Syd gets Kyle a tempting job opportunity, and so does one of his own old friends. Heather is really unhappy about her love life and seeks spiritual help from a shaman. Robbie sells his father's show to a TV company even if they unconditionally hires a younger host. A new nurse, Izzy, is hired by Syd at her clinic.
- When Robbie tells a detective he knows nothing about Andi's fire, he's served a subpoena. Burt consults Syd medically about his poor performance in Joanie's bed, then plans a day rest before major quality time. Jim calls in canine behavior counselor B.J. Maximus about hyperkinetic puppy Fearless who raids all the family's footwear, in her view a bid for picking order supremacy. Syd meets John's patient Beckca, a dancer who refuses proper care, even free diagnosis, before risking permanent injury at an untimely audition, and suggests John systematically has improper relationships with clients...
- Sydney sympathizes with a young girl who is to go to college next year and reminds her of herself in that age, as does her father, Jim, with an old bulldog whose master just has died.
- Syd wants to move out of the family house into an apartment nearby. Heather gets a troublesome visit by her mother who impresses Robbie. Sarah brings her dog to Jim who suspects tuberculosis.
- Robbie is worried now that Tina is missing, luckily Jim helps with baby Nicholas. Pete has stayed in his tent, then announces to Robbie he's going to his dad 'till things settle'. However, after a reassuring talk, Pete proves a very helpful big brother. Syd agrees to go to the prison to examine convict Darla Rosario, a pregnant diabetic, about to be extradited to Florida and executed for murdering her husband. Jim eagerly cares for Julianna's dog, Donatella, but she refuses to have the pet's flees killed and Heather joins the parasites' cause. Owen replaces the ring Syd lost with an heirloom from his other grandmother. He agrees to try and delay Darla's extradition for the baby's sake. Syd finds out two very different mothers.
- A dog is severely hurt when it saves a boy from being knocked down, and Joanie invites to her second wedding with Richie.
- Syd applies for work at the local hospital. Danielle tells Robbie that she has to leave her education. A blind woman's dog has trouble with his eyes. A slightly change of a recipe is a spice at Hannah's half year birthday.
- In a Christmas dream Syd's late mother shows her what would have happened if she had chosen to stay in California.
- The police questions and suspects Robbie, who didn't even know the studio burnt down. Andi repeats her scary blackmail threat, but even Heather's heirloom wedding ring proves paste... John has a hard time making Syd realize she needs time before she can resume work normally, then encourages her to. She's suspicious about her nearly fatal judgment call causing a malpractice lawsuit and her too-good-to-be-true stand-in Dr. Jordan Roberts, who convinces the board of a major building project... Burt accepts Joanie's request to join her at costumed ball against inhibitions, but finds her about to make love with another 'Zorro'. Jim seems a bad dog-trainer, but actually diagnoses pup Fearless with curable ear-disease, still no miracle...
- Richie is back in town newly married to Kris. Regarding Hannah they request shared custody. Tracy is intensely overjoyed of her new dog, but her father fears that it makes her ill. Doug enters the Barkery to get some of his favorite food and his job back. Kyle is in doubt whether to move into Hansens' new guest house, i. e. former garage. Hannah makes a high level adventure of her very own and sets matters into perspective at her one year birthday.
- Karen Potter's sister died a month ago of breast cancer and Syd urges Karen to have a DNA test. Patrick, a charming painter, set both Syd and Joanie on hot heat. Robbie joins Donna's scheme to make Charloe leave town and Heather.
- A young stripper with back pain saves money for a breast reduction operation, and Syd offers to do it. Cynthia's dog has become lazy in breeding sessions and Joanie enters a cooking contest. Vince tempts Robbie continuously to bet.
- Vindictive vixen Andi sneaks in to vandalize Robbie's room; at O'Neill's he receives a packet- a live snake, which dad Jim recognizes as harmless patient Minnie. Robbie doesn't tell to spare dad worrying, she blackmails him to meet her in the empty studio- she's waiting with matches... Syd is released home, but revalidation starts with a month minimum. At first she refuses the conventional physiotherapist Goodlander being replaced by college hunk John Hemming, who based his play-wise approach on his crippled dog Earl's spontaneous revalidation. Heather is back at the practice and gets even more attached then Jim to two temporarily abandoned pedigree pups, only one of which actually gets a new owner, or... Burt is Joanie's dream-prince, unhurt in the big fire, but most unwilling to suspend dating during Sid's revalidation. Despite a fall from the treadmill, she drives to the clinic, and has a mild accident on the way back in Joanie's car. She nearly runs to Norwich, but John intelligently wins her over to his thought-trough therapeutic touch.
- Robbie's protégé Dwayne not only bail out again after telling how badly he misses his late wife, he's the police's only suspect for the theft of his guitar from the pawnshop; Robbie sells his comics, Dwayne accepts to sing at the family Thanksgiving. Joanie feared announcing her pregnancy would have chased Burt, but he stays. Chimpanzee Rocket's last revealed talent, painting, allows identifying his training center, so he can be reunited with his handler after two years. The Hemming money allows Chinatown P.I. Simon to find Anchee's parents by posting a reward; ma Constance's influence also gets the hospital finally to offer Syd a surgeon's job, but she refuses it and even tells John to take distance from ma's influence or they're through....
- Syd's clinic gets trouble with Molly who is a mentally disturbed woman after losing a child. Helen gets a job offer from her home town. The Calloways both love their dog more than each other. Hannah can't walk yet and that concerns.
- An iguana makes way for a special connection between Robbie and Heather, Jim helps Lily with a practical school project. Syd seems to be buried with gifts from her admirer. A landscaper has aching stomach and head. Brady is uncomfortable with Hannah.
- [PART 1] As the wedding approaches, Owen's family and best mates fly over for the rehearsal dinner and a surprisingly well-attended bachelor party. The best man, Rick, inadvertently tells the Hansens what Syd intended to tell them herself: she has agreed to follow Owen to Chicago, where he can become a top law firm partner. Both funny lawyers guest star on Joanie's radio show. Robbie and Tina overspend on Christmas presents, while Pete teaches Hanah ice hockey. Syd still works in the hospital, where Tony brings in his teenage son who got shot by accident during a desperate hold-up in order to get him away from his mother's abusive boyfriend. He forbids even moving him to an OR, so Syd and David operate on him under poor conditions. Heather is delighted by a boy who found an adorable puppy. [PART 2] The press brings the hospital hostage story, so the wedding party gathers outside. Tony's son finally pulls through but needs long-term care. Tony faces the facts, kisses him goodbye, and surrenders. The next day, Syd bids goodbye to the Hansen home, the hospital, and the Christmastide wedding.
- Robbie's Christmas bonus at O'Neill's depends on organizing a charity toys drive, so he goes to a cheap sale, but finds out painfully it's run by a malicious mall Santa and his matching midget elf, Barnabus Finkel, who is fired after a public fight and turns up in the pub. Betting the meager $150 toys budget makes the disaster complete, save for a Christmas miracle... Syd is supportive of Joanie's second pregnancy, and her dad is clearly disappointed. Exposure to mischievous kids at her doctor's office tests Burt's preparedness for the burden of fatherhood. Her mean nagging about punctuality makes it even worse, so she fears to have chased the second accidental father away even before the birth.
- Robbie tries to be supportive now player Pete Calcatera is desperately nervous as his dad Peter promised to come watch his game on Friday, but private coaching seems to do the trick; on the big day Robbie's pep-talk gets the kid over his fear, but a brute knocks him over... Syd's doctor's orders keep Jim out of the surgery, but Heather must bring Graham's solitude-stressed Byron and other dogs to him, till after Graham's operation, which is a medical success, and he actually dares facing people again. Syd discovers the late Mary left something to Edward 'Eddie' Joyce, who isn't Graham's father in law as she assumed, that's Harold Joyce, but Graham's own son, Harold raised the now ten-year old lovely boy. Jim helps her gather the courage to tell grandpa, who initially wants the secret kept, then sends Eddie to Syd, who passes on his boat design, a source of pride for former professional Graham... Joanie is drinking too much, so the Barkery risks going down the drain and Burt is neglected even worse, she actually fails to open his gifts for their dating anniversary which she forgot about; yet Burt's patience even stretches to allowing her some time apart 'to think'.
- Robbie is increasingly worried about Tina who can't stop exhausting herself on the renovation of their Victorian ruin, baby Nicholas, job and regular household. Syd is startled when Owen's family arrives for their formal engagement party: sister Anny he's so close to she feels excluded and their parents Charles and Nora, who seems suspicious and even critical of everything, she even takes a couple compatibility test; the pair behaves suspiciously, almost like spies, for a surprising reason. Only Jim misses the party, as he participates in a lab animal abuse protest and to ever-supportive Robbie's sympathetic amusement now has to be bailed out of jail.
- Dad Jim's 60 birthday is approaching, but the kids nearly forgot about it, and his accountant insists it's time to consider selling out to retire in wealth; the best bid seems to be offered by the modernist, commercial Garribaldi brothers he abhors as 'circus surgery'. While he's rationally convinced, it makes him so grumpy that he actually denies poor Robbie, who was mercilessly and bluntly thrown out of ex-bride Heather's apartment after the Las Vegas disaster -she even scolds his 'squandrous' peace offer of roses- permission to stay in the attic for a while again 'no longer a little kid', so he decides to bail out on the birthday dinner Syd planned and use good ice-hockey seats... Syd's patient Ted Lumley, a gentile TV salesman, asks her help to prep his precious private for a bris (Jewish circumcision) but chickens out, even if that probably cancels his marriage to Jewess Debbie... Joanie tries to make dog-walker Doug postulate for a more stable job, as junior executive in a pet-related company...
- Despite all her evildoing, Robbie helps arsonist Andi to a waitering job at O'Neill's and even dealing with her lazy Public Defense attorney, who feels her case is hopeless if tried, given Chuck Chance's willingness to testify against her. She tries to jump bail... Syd is declared physically healed, but didn't regain her muscle control. John offers therapy as needed, but tells her it's time after she treated illegal laborer Francisco Aguilar for a leg wound and seeing his eight year-old boy Carlos has a split pallet arranged a pro deo by Dr. Mark Leggett, who at the last moment, after she got the pair released by Immigration, bails out so she operates herself. Afterward she thanks John for the kick in the pants, he finally can offer a post-professional, intimate relationship. ... Burt checks in for an erectile operation, but is desperate to hide that for his fellow firemen. Henry Pillup wants Jim to make his parrot stop chattering, but then finds him too silent...
- Kyle is back in town on a surprise visit, and Lily asks an old friend to leave her alone. Heather announces she's to leave her job as Jim's assistant, and he asks Robbie to talk her to stay.
- Robbie is cramming trivia for the next round of Down on Your Luck, his ticket to a chance of winning $100,000, but assistant Andi insists he can only succeed if she continues -as he suspected- feeding him answers, which would cost 40%, and his self-respect... Syd is not herself, obsessed with getting fat or going mad, even gets Alice in Wonderland day-dreams and faints feverish. Dad looks forward to an exhibition of Monica's photographs, including some with him, but didn't tell the kids in time. Monica has a new assignment, a month in Paris in all- and asks Jim along. Discovering her colleague Donald feels being in a Nicaraguan prison created a unique bond starts trouble when the reporter pair is urgently sent to cover a Karen (tribal) rebellion in Burma... Joanie feels her Burt is too much of a gentleman, but hopes that will change in old Bud & Darlene's 'exclusive' B&B Château D'Amour- alas she's rather put to domestic - and he to repair chores, by the time they're alone they doze off, in the morning the oldies even steal her elaborate breakfast. Syd is hospitalized for a CAT scan...
- The Hansen family hopes to be strong and supportive now Syd is comatose, cause unknown, dreaming about ma and St.Peter introducing her 'in between' to paradise or return to life, a paradoxical choice her body and heart must make. Andy suggests Robbie will need the $100,000 prize to pay for Syd's long-term care, and announces she'll move on to an LA game show after his finale. Joanie is happy with Burt and his new Dalmatian puppy, kissing and dining yet absent-minded, but he is called for a huge fire, and gets trapped inside. After Syd gets convulsions only to revert to an even deeper state then coma, Jim remembers Syd was with him in a cloud of mosquitoes at the marina, Dr. Hopper concurs encephalitis is around. Robbie is not handed the answer but knows it anyway, only...
- Skateboarder Jamie Rohan bumps into Syd's car and hurts his wrists; his mother is furious to get a call, as Syd used his late hyperactive big brother Scott's name which she read on his skateboard, and he takes his ADHD tranquilizers, with adverse effect... Robbie still wants to help Andi, whose public defender Lou Keppler is ready to throw in the towel, so he goes begging with sole witness Chuck, who suggests a deal, if she can sell a format to the TV network... Burt's operation was a success, but he cannot get aroused in the next 72 hours. Jim gets a red-dyed goat from three youngsters, as it turns out team mascot raiders... Syd accepts John's unusual taste, but temporarily dumps him when he's seen with Cheryl until he explains she's less about him than his filthy-rich family.
- Dad is reluctant to be Syd's friend photographer Monica Lang's American workers series vet, but a puppy abuse project gets him riveted. When his daughters see them getting on like a house on fire, they fear the younger woman might, once the fire subsides, leave him and keep the house... Robbie considers game shows a lame waste of time, especially Chuck Chance's 'Down on Your Luck' where contestants tell their pitiful loser story before playing the trivia quiz, but hearing the prize is $100,000 still gets a fan to give him Providence auditions specifics. The only hurdle is abusive quiz-master Chuck himself, but Robbie's rascal charm seemingly gets his assistant Andi Paulsen on his side.
- Robbie is already in heaven expecting to win $100,000 on TV in two weeks, and generously roots for dads happiness with much younger Monica Lang, who his sisters sort of selfishly shun as step-mother-to-be. Syd's old friend John Currier intends to turn from workaholic to recreational angler after beating his pancreatic cancer; alas the oncologist tells her it spread hopelessly already... Joanie stupidly starts a fire in her Barkery and wakes up in the strong arms of part-time barman-fireman Burt Ridley; even better, he asks her out for lunch and calls her the only significant girl since he has both jobs, only after a passionate kiss lets her realize he's her secret Zorro... Quizmaster Chuck Chance's assistant Andy shows Robbie a trivia gossip book; he does well in Down On Your Luck, but wonders how many answers are in that very book... Syd invites Monica for a family dinner but sees her intimate with a younger man. John dies...