Against Eric's advice, Matt takes a job caring for a dying boy named Steve. Annie goes into the muffin-making business after being convinced by her daughters Mary and Lucy. Annie goes into business with a cookie shop owner, David Friel who's looking to expand his profits, although it's much harder work for Annie than what she had originally anticipated. Also, Ruthie teaches Simon a tough lesson about the art of being a salesperson when being his competition in selling greeting cards.

The secrets of Giles' unnatural past as a wild teenager are revealed when an old friend of his comes to warn him that a demon that they both summoned has returned. As a young man, Giles turned in his Watcher studies in favour of dabbling in witchcraft and the occult with his old buddy Ethan Rayne and several others. They discovered Eyghon The Sleepwalker and summoned him while one went into a deep sleep. Unfortunately, Eyghon gained power by this and killed them all one by one over the years by possessing a dead or unconscious person and is now after the last two members, Giles and Ethan.

Stardate 51247.5: Due to Alexander's new assignment aboard another Klingon vessel that will take him far from Deep Space Nine, Dax pressures Worf into pushing up the wedding date and holding it at the station. While Worf and Martok leads the men in the Klingon groom's ceremony, Dax is given the test of the House of Martok by Martok's wife, who will see if Dax is fit to join the family.

After Gabrielle's betrayal of Xena's murderous intentions, Xena is imprisoned by the Green Dragon and sentenced to die, and she reminisces about Lao Mao's teachings and the debt owed to her.

Billy reveals to Ally that he's not completely over her, causing the one-time lovers to talk about altering their boundaries. Ally and Georgia try to get around a pre-nuptial agreement for a woman whose wealthy husband is seeking to divorce her for another woman; and Elaine starts the process for a sexual harassment case against the law firm by hiring Caroline Poop, who tries to win by intimidation.

When Cody is driving on the beach in a lifeguard truck, he suddenly sees a huge hole in the sand. He alerts Mitch over the radio. When Mitch arrives, he tells everyone of the Santa Ana syndrome. It's a warm wind that comes in from the desert and it bring all weirdoes down to the beach. Mitch calls the county and lets someone fill up the hole with new sand. Max from the county arrives in his tractor. He tells Cody that the lifeguards get all the credit for everything that happens on the beach. Nobody cares about the guy watching the sand.