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Mack discovers that Pomerantz is dead. He finds the doctor who signed his death certificate works for Oakman and is Pomerantz's uncle. Mack presses the doctor, who finally admits that Pomerantz is alive and living in Canada. Val tells Amanda she won't get away with her false accusations. Using psychometry, Ginny has a "psychic" feeling that Danny did rape Amanda and agrees with Gary to never leave him alone with the twins. Eric tries to work things out with Linda, who says she no longer loves him. Mack and Karen confront Michael about his involvement with Linda. Eric overhears and punches Michael. Eric packs and leaves. Linda moves out to her apartment and Michael decides to move in with Harold.

Mike loans Harold a lot of money, which he loses gambling. Olivia tells Gary she needs money for tuition, but instead invests it. Mac finds out that Pomerantz is living in Canada as Neil Strauss. He asks Tom to accompany him to Canada. Tom pretends to call Paige, but really alerts Oakman. Oakman sends Joe to Canada to kill Mac, since Tom won't. Pomerantz tells Mac that he'll trade his books of illegal loans for his freedom. They go to the airport and exchange books. Joe is about to shoot Mac when the police arrest Joe and thank Tom for the tip. Tom calls Oakman and says Joe screwed up. He says Mac has the books and is going to the DA. Oakman tells Greg that his pension fund scam is going to be exposed.

The D.A. says he'll look into the pension fund. Mack discovers that Greg owns Oakman Industries. Greg gives a press conference saying he fired Oakman and will restore the pension fund. Olivia makes a profit. Karen talks to her and explains that Harold is under a lot of pressure to provide for her and she decides to give him another chance. Harold loses even more of Michael's money in a poker game. Michael asks for the money back because he needs it for a condo he's buying. Greg's daughter, Mary-Frances comes to see Greg. She was working in a third world country, but came back to the States to research bio-genetics. Greg is really happy to see her and they spend time together. Mary-Frances goes to Greg's office. He steps out to speak to his secretary when they hear a shot. Mary-Frances has been shot in the head.

The Sumner Group is in chaos. Tom and the police question everyone. Greg's first wife Jane comes for Mary Frances' funeral. Tom discovers Paige had a relationship with Greg, and is angry she didn't tell him. Val and Danny move up their wedding date, and Gary implores her minister not to marry them. Danny tells Val that Gary attacked him with a bat. Val confronts Gary who tells her that when she gets married and the minister gets to the part about any objections, he's going to stand up and yell "Rapist, rapist, rapist!" Gary asks the William's to keep on eye on Danny so he won't hurt the twins. Gary asks Mack if he has any legal recourse, but Mack says no. Val and Danny elope with only Ginny and the twins at the service.

Both Michael and a bookie pressure Harold for money. Harold asks Mack to loan him $13,000, but when Mack hears how much money Gary has already given him, he says no. Harold calls Tom and says he knows who he works for, but will keep it a secret if he helps him out financially. Greg gets drunk, and the ghosts of Mary Frances and Galveston follow him around. Worried, Carlos calls Paige, but then Paula shows up. Jealous, Tom follows Paige to Greg's. Paige is angry, but Tom says he's never been in love before, and they make up. Carlos gives Greg floppy discs that Mary Frances had in Greg's computer. Police discover where the sniper shot from and due to garbage on the site, think he was there a long time, so Greg wasn't his target, Mary Frances was.

Greg discovers that Mary Frances had been part of a subversive group, and used his computer to look up shipments from Oakman Industries to Monbasa over the past two years. Val brings Danny to meet the neighbors. He charms them all except for Karen, who "knows" that Gary is right about him. Gary and Amanda sleep together and she moves to Phoenix to start her life over. Paige breaks up with Tom when he lies to her. Mac figures out that Tom is a "dirty" cop who works for Oakman. Willis tells Tom he has one last job for him. Harold empties Olivia's bank account to pay his bookie and goes to Florida. He leaves a note telling her to apologize to Michael and for her to have a nice life. Greg is shot.

Dianne berates Karen for bringing Eric on the show. Karen demands to see her own fan mail when she learns the station reads and responds to mail sent to her. Eric and Michael make up. Tom tells Willis he quits, but Willis won't have it. Later, Willis turns up dead. Baylor helps Mack connect Sumner to Willis and the disposition of poison in third world countries. Gary refuses to leave the twins alone with Danny when Val is not home. Danny wants to adopt the twins. A man breaks into Greg's hospital room and injects poison into his IV, claiming responsibility for Mary Frances and Willis' deaths before turning himself into police. Linda tells Michael and Eric that she is working for Sumner Group.

Eric threatens Linda to stay away from Michael, but she immediately tries to cozy up to him at work. Doctors indicate that Greg's IV was poisoned and the effects of the drug will not be immediately known. Karen meets Jeff Cameron, the assistant producer for her show. Jeff butters up Karen while sleeping with Diane. Paula admits to Karen that she is in love with Greg. Anne Matheson returns. Val is not happy that Danny has initiated adoption of the twins. Gary pleads with Val for them to tell the twins that he is their father. Danny violently reacts when Val says that she will not allow him to adopt the twins. Tom admits to Paige his involvement with Willis, but he says that falling in love with her has changed him.

Diane tells Jeff she wants Karen fired from the show. Paige tells Mack that she believes Tom has changed. Michael is unhappy when he and Linda are assigned to work together on a project. Danny punishes the twins for making "too much noise", and Ginny tells Val that she made a mistake marrying him. Linda is successful in her project at Sumner Group. Val notices a picture in Danny's wallet that he claims is his sister, but she later sees the woman and Danny's engagement in an old newspaper clipping. She learns from the woman's father that Danny beat and raped her. Anne creates trouble for Paula with Greg. Danny violently attacks Val when she confronts him with what she knows. She stabs him.

Pat saves Danny's life while a hysterical Val watches. Greg tells Paula that Anne is a lot of fun, and he doesn't need a mother. Anne hocks her jewelry for money. Val is comforted by Gary. To get ahead at Sumner Group, Linda tries to cozy up to Paige. Later, she assists Paige's top client with a personal matter and finagles her way into sharing an office with Michael. After Pat quits her job and says she wants to go back into medicine, Frank threatens to leave her and take Julie with him. Anne uses a connection to invite Paula on a out-of-town panel. At a hearing, Danny claims Val's attack was unprovoked, but he also says he wants his marriage to work. Later, he shows up at Val's.

Harold calls Olivia to apologize, but she says she's having the marriage annulled. The police tell Val that they cannot remove Danny from the home without a court order. Olivia lies to Gary to get money, but later returns it. Karen gives a fan attention, much to Diane and Jeff's concern. Paige is not happy that Anne is trying to date Greg. Anne suggests to Tom that Paige and Greg may have feelings for each other. Tom later proposes to Paige. Danny throws Val's possessions onto the lawn after she moves to Gary's ranch. Pat gets a job at a hospital. Danny changes the locks, insisting he will have Val's house as community property. Olivia joins Harold in Miami. A stalker leaves Karen a creepy note.

Diane tells Jeff they can use the stalker to scare Karen out of Open Mike. Both Val and Danny are unhappy that the divorce process will take six weeks or longer. Danny tells Bobby that Gary is his father, and he runs off the ranch. Gary tells the twins he is their real father. Danny is fired from his consulting job. Paula tells Greg she has a job offer in Toronto. Paige cannot commit to Tom's proposal, but she eventually accepts. Karen's stalker gets an autographed photo that he adds to a collection of other Karen memorabilia. A drunk driving Danny hits Pat in the cul-de-sac.

Julie lashes out at Val and later Frank, blaming them both for Pat's accident. She refuses to leave her mother's bedside. Karen's stalker, Wayne, ends up getting a job as a security guard for the station. When Frank learns Danny hit Pat in a rental car, he vandalizes Danny's car in the cul-de-sac. Frank visits Danny and threatens to hurt him if he ever gets bail, which does eventually happen. Diane questions Jeff's loyalty to her; he no longer wants to be intimate. Greg proposes to Paige once he learns she accepted Tom's proposal. Greg hires an investigator to follow Tom. Pat regains consciousness but later lapses into a coma.

Karen receives a letter at home from her stalker requesting an on-air birthday wish, then gets a call at work when she doesn't honor the request. Greg tells Paige that Tom is a thief, but she says she has dated worst. Anne steals Paige's driver's license, adds her photo to it, and uses it to open a new bank account. An accident on-set spooks Karen. Linda sets out on a plan to seduce Michael. Tom and his partner are accused by IA of stealing money from a narcotics sting. Gary sees Danny hiding in the background of a video the twins made while on the ranch. Karen's stalker leaves her torn photo with the words "I hate you" on her dining room table.

Karen is on edge with fear at the station. Danny serves Val and Gary with restraining orders. Anne secretly knows that Paige is set to inherit a trust fund from her grandfather upon her marriage. Diane secretly leaks news of Karen's stalking to the press. Gary purposely stalks Danny to annoy him. Karen says she will leave Open Mike after the press and the stalker's phone calls become too much. Karen receives flowers with live snakes in the box. The doctor informs Frank that Pat is brain dead. Tom is suspended from the police department and learns $100,000 was deposited in his bank account. Mack sees Wayne's shrine to Karen.

Jeff and Diane take down Wayne, who expresses shame to Karen for what people will think of him. Frank refuses to take Pat off life support until he can find a way to tell Julie that Pat is dead. Karen warns Linda to stay away from Michael. Wayne denies writing the letters and without proof, the police cannot hold him. Linda claims to Michael that Eric abused her. Frank punches Danny when he blurts out in front of Julie that Frank will be responsible for Pat's death if he ends life support. Karen's unseen stalker (not Wayne) puts a beef heart in a gift box with a menacing note for Karen. Julie threatens Danny with a rifle.

Frank disarms Julie. The threatening letter to Karen now gives police evidence to prosecute her stalker. Pat dies after life support is removed. Wayne accuses Diane of being Karen's stalker. Anne forges a blank marriage license so that she can have Paige's trust fund wired into the account she opened. Police find evidence in Diane's home that links her to stalking Karen. Val and Gary work together to get Danny re-arrested. Diane ends up in a psychiatric ward after she is found to have LSD in her system. Greg is the mastermind behind Tom's set up and gives Tom a way out of his trouble. Tom leaves the church before the wedding. Michael tells Karen he wants to marry Linda. Jeff is revealed as the stalker and is promoted to producer of the show after Diane's "psychotic break." He has a scrapbook of dead TV personalities with a blank page earmarked for Karen.

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.

Jeff is presumed dead. Anne's livid that Paige's trust fund didn't go to her account, and she returns Paige's wedding gifts for money. Greg asks Paige to go away on a cruise for him. Claudia asks Greg's doctor if a six-month cruise is safe for him and the doctor says he doubts Greg will live that long. Tom comes back and confronts Greg with a gun to have his charges dropped, and tells Paige that Greg set him up. Paige is still mad. She goes to meet Greg for the cruise and asks if he's really dying, because she won't believe her good fortune until he is dead and buried. Kate gets a scholarship she was hoping for, but Claudia lies and says she didn't get it. Danny lets out all the horses at Gary's ranch. When Gary comes to the stable, Danny closes the door behind him and takes out a bat.

Claudia has Anne checked out and finds out she's broke. Anne decides to seduce Greg, but he never comes home. Tom stops by Greg's and sees Anne's clothes strewn about, and he assumes that they are Paige's clothes. Danny beats Gary up with a bat. Then he ties Gary up and forces him to drink alcohol. When Gary's nearly passed out, he puts him in a running car that goes off a cliff. Meanwhile, Danny's girlfriend, Kim, goes to see Val, and she kicks Danny out. Val waits up all night for Gary. She calls the police, knowing that Danny has done something to him. Val, Mack and the police find Gary's empty car. Danny is floating in a pool, dead.

Karen is overjoyed to find that Jeff is alive, until he locks her in the station and tries to kill her. He says Wayne was killed in his apartment, and he sent her all the letters. Dianne is there and calls the police. Jeff lies to the police, but Dianne taped the whole thing. Gary calls a frantic Val, and says the airbag saved him, but he kept passing out from the booze. He later talks to Karen, and Karen gives her famous "Pollyanna" speech. Paige makes up with Tom and moves in with him. Anne receives compromising photos of herself and a note demanding a million dollars. Danny is found dead and police say his fingers were broken, so they'll have to investigate. The coroner tells Val she's responsible for Danny's body and she's being charged rent until she has his body moved.

Paige is offered a promotion which upsets Linda Fairgate. Anne attempts to manipulate an ex-lover.

Nick suspects Anne of the blackmailing, and says that he is going to stay with her and go wherever she goes. Anne's upset that Marco only sent $20,000 for the blackmailer. Paige is angry that everyone at the office thinks she got the promotion for sleeping with Greg. She asks Greg why he treats her like dirt. He asks Paige to marry him, but she walks out. Greg is really starting to get sick. Karen goes back to work. Diane says Karen is an egomaniac, and that she got a new job and can't wait to leave. Police find a button by the pool where Danny was killed. Ginny decides to leave. Gary tells Val that his dreams have all come true and that he can't wait to marry her. They go on a family picnic, and the twins run to Gary yelling that something has happened to Val.

Greg gets really sick and Carlos tries to call Paige. Tom and Paige fight about her working for Greg and she leaves. Nick makes her sleep on the sofa. Tom goes to see her at the office and tells her she's a brat and a bitch. He sees Greg and punches him. Julie has skipped school since the day Danny died and the police think she saw something. Anne tells Nick the blackmailers called. They're to drop the money at a department store. Anne drops alarm tags into a lot of shopping bags, so all the alarms go off. Anne grabs the money and runs. Nick apologizes to Anne for suspecting her and is worried about what Marco's will do to him for losing the money. Val fell on her head, but insists she is okay. She starts acting strangely, but Gary thinks it is pre-wedding jitters.

Paige tells Mack that she never loved Tom the way that she loves Greg. Anne and Nick sleep together. She tells Nick that the blackmailers have called for the rest of the money and she's to meet them alone. Nick switches the briefcase with money to one with a bomb in it. Michael gives Linda an engagement ring. Julie tells the police that Danny showed up drunk when she was swimming. He slapped her and said he was going to have her arrested for trying to shoot him. Julie said she ran to the house with Danny following, and his fingers were broken as she tried to shut the sliding glass door. In pain, he staggered around and fell into the pool and drowned. The police rule Danny's death an accident. Val freaks out when Gary sees her trying on her wedding dress, and accuses him of lying to her when she shows up for the rehearsal dinner on the wrong night. She calls off the wedding.

Gary tells Karen he's backing off from Val, the "queen of her own drama". Greg collapses and Paige waits with him at the hospital. Claudia tells the doctor that Greg only wants family to visit, and lies to Greg that Paige and Carlos aren't there. Claudia's mad when she finds out that Greg is leaving the ranch to Carlos and everything else to Meg. Julie's friend Jason mouths off to Frank. Nick finds the $20,000 Anne stole, and admits there is a bomb in the briefcase he gave her. Anne has hidden it at Paige's office, but Linda has taken it. Linda seduces Harvey to get him some of Paige's reports, and then accuses him of leading her on. Finding out the briefcase is Anne's, she puts it back, and tells Paige. Anne has called a bomb threat into Sumner group. Paige takes the briefcase home. Anne and Nick decide to split the million, but don't know which briefcase has the money and which has the bomb.

Jason's father beats him. Anne and Nick take the suitcases to a luggage store and call in a bomb threat. Tom, one of the investigators, notices the suitcase is Anne's. He takes it, and with the money buys a one way ticket to Brussels. Anne and Nick go to Tom's apartment, but discover he's gone. Linda sucks up to Alex, who works for Calloway. Alex tells Calloway that Sumner Group is ripe for a takeover. Val tells Karen that Gary is messy and smells like a barn. The maid tells Gary that Val left and said she'll be back when "hell freezes over." Kate tells the hospital that Paige is her cousin so she can see Greg. Greg is very happy to see her. Claudia finds out that a liver is going to another patient. Since she's not yet in Greg's will, Claudia tells them if Greg lives, he will donate money for a new wing, so they decide to give the liver to Greg.

Because Julie skipped, Frank goes to school with her and sits in on her classes. She's mortified but they make up. Jason tells Mack that his father died and he lives in a foster home. Mack talks to the school who says it isn't true. Mack goes to his house and hears his father beating him. Claudia tries to keep Paige from seeing Greg, and meanwhile makes a new will for Greg with her as executor. Greg has his operation and asks Paige to marry him. She accepts. Nick and Anne get married, using Paige's name. Alex asks Linda for confidential figures, so she has him sign a contract that he'll hire her if she's fired. Gary and Karen are concerned about Val's behavior. A doctor tells them she could be having brain seizures due to her fall. Val gets her haircut, leaving the twins home alone. They climb up onto the roof to play.

Gary rescues the twins. Claudia finds out that Anne married Nick for Paige's money, and uses this to blackmail them into signing Greg's fake will. Anne finds out there is no money left in Paige's trust. Nick has to go to Rome but tells Anne he'll be back. Linda tells Greg that Paige's Calloway report was inaccurate, so she made another one. Greg calls a meeting at his hospital room and berates Paige. Furious, she walks out. Alex tells Linda that Greg has cut his company off and is firing their management. Michael wants to get married on New Year's eve, but Linda wants to wait. Carlos brings Paige her Christmas gift from Greg: a diamond bracelet. Mack calls the police about Jason, and he is taken away. Mack later finds Jason standing in front of his house, and Mack tells Jason he doesn't have to go in.