Simon becomes emotionally involved with his best friend's sister, Karen who's a gang member. Meanwhile, in a show of independence Lucy dons makeup and revealing wardrobe with her friend's to meet guys at the mall and gets caught by Annie and Ruthie. In addition, Ruthie questions the speed of light to everyone in the family.

Ford, an old boyfriend of Buffy's comes to Sunnydale and, unknown to her, is part of a secret sect which worships vampires. While the others in the sect are misguided teens who believe that vampires are a higher order of life, Ford has a more sinister reason for his deciet. Because he is going to die soon of cancer, he makes a deal with Spike to hand over Buffy in return for eternal life.

The Federation advances on Deep Space Nine with nearly the entire Dominion's Alpha Quadrant fleet waiting for them. Outnumbering Starfleet two to one, the only edge that Captain Sisko has is to create a hole in the wall of Dominion and Cardassian vessels and race towards DS9. On the station, the situation looks grim as the Major and her collaborators are to be arrested for crimes they did not commit. Fortunately, the former crew of Deep Space Nine is full of surprises.

When Xena is summoned to the distant kingdom of Chin to kill the Green Dragon, a task she left undone years before, she tells Gabrielle about her past in Chin in an attempt to justify why she must commit murder.

Ally represents a jewish woman who needs her rabbi to grant her a spiritual release - divorce from her marriage. In so doing, Ally makes such an impression on the rabbie that she receives an unexpected offer. Meanwhile, Georgia is suddenly forced out of her law firm but lands on her feet when Richard asks her to join their firm.

Manny and April are being trained to be better lifeguards by doing a victim hoisting training exercise. Lt. Taylor Walsh keeps on eye on them and make sure that everything goes according to plans. The helicopter lowers the hoisting bed and the victim, this time a dummy, is secured. Now they need to reattach the hoisting device and give a thumb up sign to the helicopter.