Still unemployed and bills mounting, Mary continues her downward spiral to rock bottom as Eric and Annie fight about how to effectively deal with her numerous lies and immature behavior. Meanwhile, the fear of what may happen to Mary starts to take toll on the rest of the whole family. By this, it is prompting the children to break open the twins piggy banks to help Mary pay her bills. To get the credit card company to stop calling, however, they are forced to make a risky decision. During all this, Mary CONTINUES to ignore her responsibilities.

After the death of congresswoman Whitaker, Max and the gang visit her hometown, Copper Summit, Arizona, where they find themselves trapped in enemy territory when they learn the whole town population are Skins.

Trance Gemini is learning to navigate the slipstream without Dylan's knowleadge,but she recks the Andromeda inside the slipstream and leave them stranded in the Witchhead Nebular,where a great battle between commonwealth and Nieztscheans is about to take place,but the battle was fought for over 300 years ago,now it's up to Dylan to decide if he wants to try and change the outcome of the battle allready lost.

Becker's office is vandalized, and many, many people appear to have a plausible motive. It turns out that it was just Linda throwing a party, but she goes on a date with the clueless cop assigned to the case to keep him quiet. Meanwhile, Bob has been hanging out in Becker's apartment during the day and impersonating the doctor.

Mark's girlfriend finally reveals "her" secret; Ling and Nelle represent a woman suing a relationship guru whose advice ruined the woman's marriage; Ally is dating two different men who end up being related.

Continuing her assault on Sean's team, Jenna calmly announces that she hopes to bring Leigh back to the North Shore Lifeguards. Sean keeps saying this won't happen, but Leigh knows how Jenna is when she gets her mind on something. Meanwhile, the Snowden family (Jim, his wife Gwen and young son Jamie) are having a good time on the beach. Unbeknownst to them, Danny and another of his nefarious buds, Vin, are planning on scamming them and robbing them. They go into their routine and are about to steal the Snowden's things when Gwen hears Jamie calling out: he's gotten into trouble in the water. Not wasting any time, Danny jumps into action and saves the boy. Later, because Jamie was saved, the Snowdens decide not to press charges. Sean offers Danny a chance to reform: join the training team and start a new life. Danny enthusiastically agrees. Leigh thinks Sean's making a big mistake.

With no end to the IPS workers strike in sight, Doug tries substitute teaching at his sister Stephanie's school.

Tonight Senator Arlin Specter.

Roberto asks everyone to discuss the situation with Betty and she calls her lawyers. Armando and everyone else are surprised by the change. The lawyers tell the board that Betty should remain in charge of Ecomoda.