Recently promoted to Colonel, Kira continues to oversee Deep Space Nine while Captain Sisko is away on Earth. The Dominion War continues to go badly for the Federation and a Romulan delegation is invited to the station to coordinate efforts. Away for the past three months, Sisko waits in his father's establishment in New Orleans, waiting for a message from the Prophets. He finally receives one and is shown an image of a woman in the sand.

Fraser's childhood mentor(Tom Quinn)arrives in Chicago with the hope of stopping a U.S. company from constructing a hydro dam that will leave his northern village under water.

Abby and Larry assemble a village, which includes an African spiritual adviser, a troubadour, a storyteller who has taken a vow of silence, a lesbian lactation expert, and Jane to help Dharma and Greg with the baby. Greg is pleased, sort of, until he realizes that this entails everyone living with them during the baby's first formative years. Meanwhile, Kitty takes to her bed, convinced that her life is over now that she has become a grandmother overnight. Dharma promises to help Kitty fulfill her matriarchal ambitions by having "a whole buttload of kids", but is taken aback by Kitty's first dynastic decision: to name the baby after Edward's wealthy uncle Fergus.

Abby announces that she and Carl are planning to elope in Las Vegas, and asks Val to be her maid of honor. Valerie bonds with Carl during an evening at the casino, and sleeps with him the night before the wedding. A depressed Kelly begs Val to let her tag along on the trip because she believes that Brandon is seeing someone else. She has a good time gambling and hanging out with a stranger, until the sight of a woman in a wedding dress brings her back to reality. Noah develops an obsession with his father's gun after the police return it to him. He drinks heavily and causes an embarrassing scene at the Martins' 25th wedding anniversary party. While working on Mr. Hunter's obituary, Brandon begins to fear that he will never have any meaningful accomplishments. He meets with a reporter from a New York paper, who sets up a job interview. A woman helping Donna pursue an account poses as her business partner, then steals her designs to get an in-house position with the client. Steve catches

Its the annual Cow Days festival, but the cows themselves are not interested in the event as they have become transfixed on a memorial statute. The cows relocate the statue but the town thinks that their two tourists are responsible. Meanwhile the boys want to purchase some Terrance and Phillip dolls and to get the funds they enter Cartman into a bull riding contest; but a freak accident during practice results in Cartman believing that he is a Vietnamese prostitute.

Boats are being attacked in Porta Vista and Ash & co discover that the Tentacool are responsible. For saving people from disaster, a girl called Nastina thanks them and offers them a million dollars and dinner if they will help to wipe out the Tentacool. Ash and Brock are keen to accept but Misty is upset at the thought of hurting the Tentacool. It seems that Nastina's invitation has been extended to the rest of the town and a deal is struck with Team Rocket. Success is never their strong point and of course they fail but not without managed to enlarge a Tentacruel which begins an attack on the city. Ash and Misty manage to stop the Tentacruel and he is about to leave when Nastina launches an attack of her own. Not without consequences and the only thing destroyed in the end is her cousin's half built cottage!

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