中秋家宴之上，女主人因保姆擅自更换菜品执意辞退她，却遭到全家人一致反对。女主人心生疑惑调取家中监控，竟意外揭开保姆隐藏多年的恶行：她不仅挪用公公的养老金，还长期伤害年幼孙女，致使孩子患病。恶行败露后保姆得到了应有的惩罚，顾家众人也幡然醒悟，化解了彼此之间的隔阂。女主人变卖婚房为女儿治病，最终女儿逐渐康复，全家迁居南方，放下过往开启了安稳新生活。

Mack goes to Mexico to search for Michael and Paige. Frank finds an unconscious Val on her bedroom floor. Gary rushes to the hospital and pays for Val's medical care. He calls Jill and notifies her of Val's suicide attempt. When Jill arrives and learns that Val will live, she excuses herself to vomit. Jill later muses to herself that Val is in a psych ward and no one will believe her when she regains consciousness. Fearing Manny may hurt her or Mack, Karen leaves Meg with an unhappy Greg. Harold, Manny, and his goon imprison Mack. They call Karen and force Mack to tell her to allow Manny's shipment to be unloaded. Mack plays on Harold's guilt about Olivia to shake his faith in Manny's promise to release Mack, Michael, and Paige. Later, Mack and Chava attempt to overtake Manny and his goon. Chava and the goon are killed. Harold is forced to kill Manny to save Mack. He tells Mack he doesn't know where Paige and Michael are.

Pierce pulls a knife on Paige. She jumps out of the car. Alex is there and punches Pierce out. Pierce is arrested screaming that he loves Paige. Mary returns Meg and tells the MacKenzies that she's Laura's mother. Mary gets a lawyer, Toni Fields, to obtain visitation rights with Meg, but she really wants money. Claudia kicks Alex out. Greg is at a remote cabin, but Anne finds him and tells him she's pregnant. He doesn't want her to keep the baby, and wants her to leave. She won't, so he goes off hiking and Anne follows. Gary is worried when Val doesn't return from Florida, but has checked out of her hotel.

Kate blames Claudia for setting Steve up. Ann runs into Benny Appleman, who owes her money. He lets her stay with him, and they try to think up some scams. Linda secretly meets with Brian Johnston. Gary meets Joseph Barringer, a professor who is experimenting with how to capture ocean waves to make energy. Gary is excited by the idea, and wants to back him. While in Toronto for business, Paige meets Pierce Lawton, and is smitten. She waits by the phone for him to call, but he shows up at her apartment. Jason, in the hospital, tells Karen the other teens were the gang members who stabbed their friend. Karen tells one of the boy's mothers off, and then he dies. People make Karen into a hero for standing up to gang violence.

While in jail, Danny has found “the Lord.“ Upon release, he moves in with a woman named Kimmy who is also religious. Danny keeps going to Val's on the pretext of getting his belongings. He tells Val he won't give her a divorce, as God doesn't sanction it. Greg's poisoning is affecting his liver, and the news hits the paper. His sister Claudia Whittaker shows up, and Greg says “I see the vultures are circling!“ Claudia's daughter Kate looks just like Mary Frances. Jeff gives Karen and Mac cell phones for protection and then experiments making a phone bomb. Karen goes to Jeff's, but he sneaks out, and then Meg calls Jeff's number thinking Karen's there. Jeff's apartment building blows up.

Paige decides to leave the ranch with Ted, who insists that she tell him where Greg is storing the key at the ranch. When Greg calls and leaves a message proving that Paige took the key, Ted demands she give it to him. She throws him a key. Paige learns Rick Hawkins has a second home in Spring Lake and goes there, followed by both Greg and Ted. Greg hires muscle to get from Ted the key. Mack and Paula act awkwardly around Karen, who is discharged from the hospital. Karen notices Paula's odd behavior, but Mack pretends he doesn't notice. Val visits Danny at his place and they share a kiss, but Val leaves before things escalate. Gary is teased by Val and Pat about his mystery woman, but he admits to Pat that he's never met her. He later tells “Sally's friend“ that he no longer wants to talk to her unless she gives him her number. When she doesn't, he hangs up. She receives a phone call from someone she insists not call her again. Later, she calls Gary back and agrees to meet him.

Sid survives the car crash but goes into a coma. Gary is apologetic to Karen but she won't listen.

Sid is accused of rape by a hitchhiker. Meanwhile, his younger sister Abby Cunningham arrives in Knots Landing.

Knots Landing followed the lives of several families living in a small California town. Gary Ewing and his wife, Valene, arrive from Dallas to make a new start for themselves. They becomes friends with their neighbors, Sid and Karen Fairgate. Sid's wicked sister, Abby Fairgate Cunningham, seduces Gary and Val divorces him. Gary later marries Abby, and even more shocking things happen when Val realizes she is pregnant with Gary's children! Written by {causing_a_commotion@hotmail.com}

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