Uncle Bill & Mr. French attend Buffy & Jody's open night at school to view their latest art and work. At school, Bill meets another single parent with two young children and one teenager. Bill starts dating her and thinking of family merger.
For an upcoming audition, Ann needs a comedic line, and seeks help from both Donald and a washed-up comedy writer, neither of which prove to be adequate.
McCall can't believe that a doctor, a pregnant trauma specialist who once treated her, began drinking again and killed herself by driving off a cliff.
A distraught driver visits the man she backed over in a parking lot; a parched soldier in the desert tries to convince his commanding officer that the bar and barmaid he sees aren't mirages; guest Kay Cole.