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- Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high-school students headed to Manhattan, New York.
- An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
- Shelly, institutionalized following the death of her father, returns home desperate for answers about his death. Her memories return, revealing long-repressed dark family secrets.
- A nerdy shy high school kid convinces the most popular girl to spend a weekend together to prove he's a nice guy.
- When Hanson and Amy go to the supermarket a armed gunman takes them and the cashier hostage and has a traumatizing ending for Hanson and everyone involved.
- On his way back into town at the Homestead Café, Graham, who had been out with Nick in the woods collecting eagle dropping samples, stumbles across Constable Fernley, who is on an undercover sting as a character named Clint. Because Graham doesn't leave in time, he is forced to play Clint's business partner, Buck - a role which was supposed to be played by John - to the targets of their undercover sting, Brink, Naomi, and Dirk, who are in the market for illegal bear gall bladders, prized within the Asian culture. This bungle not only causes a professional problem for John and Fernley, but also Graham. Believing it to be a sample of the gall bladders, Brink took Graham's locked case containing Graham's eagle droppings which he needs to get analyzed within 36 hours or they become useless. And Graham is forced to complete the sting on another meeting with the targets later that day. As Graham works with Fernley, the plot becomes more and more complicated, but also uncovers some information of a personal nature which may make it difficult for Graham to complete this task.
- At the last minute, Pat decides to accompany Nick and John to Vancouver to investigate an unknown business opportunity advertised in the newspaper. It ends up being the active but junior part owner of a run down laundromat. The active part includes being able to make whatever renovations wanted. Although originally not interested, Pat decides to put all his resources into the venture including using his boat as collateral for the bank loan for the down payment. But he requires private investors to make the renovations he wants, namely for social items such as an espresso bar and video games. Nick invests if only to show support for Pat. Relic also invests as a silent partner, but one with steep terms. Pat enlists Sara and Graham's help in the necessary legwork, despite both having much on their respective plates with regard to schoolwork. And Sara suggests a mutual benefit scenario as her art school colleague Xavier is putting together an exhibit on the theme "dirty laundry" which Pat allows to be held at the laundromat for its grand opening. But Pat learns the hard way that there is more to running a successful business than just the cosmetics. Meanwhile, helping Pat has reunited Sara and Graham, who haven't seen each other since they both moved to the city. Lonely, they both explore a potential relationship with each other, which was never evident while they were friends in Gibsons.
- Jack is dressed to the nines, and in his own world, as he is planning to meet his long love, Constance Bourne. In the minds of the people who have known Jack and Constance the longest, such as Nick and Relic, the problem with Jack's plan is that Constance has been dead for ten years, which Jack, when in his right mind, knows. As Relic refuses to drive Jack to his date with Constance on his boat, Jack steals Relic's boat. Fearing for his safety, the group organizes a search for Jack, the problem being not knowing where to look besides Constance's grave site. John feels a strategic geographic approach is required, whereas Nick decides that he will use what little information he knows about Jack and Constance to do a more methodical approach. Relic, who is more concerned about the personal property of his boat, tags along with Nick. But it's an unusual clue that Pat finds finds in Jack's warehouse about Constance in combination with information from Blackie Bowman, the man who now lives in Constance's old cabin, that may provide the answer to where Jack has gone, and whether there is any sanity to his seeming madness.
- Gibsons city council has approved Sara's idea of an annual Founder's Day event, but for this first one they have provided little money, meaning that it has to be done on a shoestring. Despite the lack of budget, Nick and the gang are planning among other things a parade, a fair in which they will highlight rhubarb in unique new uses as town founder George Gibson was a commercial rhubarb grower, and have a George Gibson lookalike act as honorary mayor for the day. The choice of the honorary mayor will be done through a contest held through the newspaper. The planning for this event coincides with the unexpected visit into town of Jane Carmichael, a renowned travel writer who has made or broken the tourist trade in many other such towns. Because of the way the planning is going, the townsfolk have to decide whether to go ahead with the event at the possible risk of its failure and thus the demise of their tourist trade. Other things that may negatively affect Jane's perception of Gibsons are Relic, who is going through his own issues with Gibsons city council, and the person who ends up being chosen honorary mayor for the day.
- Nick is helping John with a case of cargo ship thefts, the latest of microchips, which they believe are being smuggled out of the country. Nick would have a better handle on where the smugglers may be hiding along the coast. Meanwhile, Sam, while skateboarding, gets into an accident with Relic, destroying Relic's $1,000 sonar device. Sam makes an agreement with Relic to work the $1,000 debt off. Sam's first job, on which he takes his camera for some shots for a photo essay, is an on-land salvage mission with Relic up the coast. While Relic relaxes on the boat, Sam does all the heavy lifting. But their separation places Sam in danger as he secretly comes across someone doing suspicious activity, that person being one of the smugglers. Sam's situation becomes more precarious as he starts to film. If the smugglers discover him, his life could be in danger. But if he isn't caught, he could really help out John and Nick's work by catching their activities on film.
- Ever since her water-skiing accident which left her a paraplegic, Jenny Halstrom has tried to do everything on her own without help. She loves living in Gibsons, which is why she is distraught to learn that her mother is thinking about selling their house and moving the two of them to Vancouver, which she sees as providing them greater opportunity. Beyond the marine work which Pat cannot get to which he forwards to her, Jenny hopes to be able to provide for herself and her mother in Gibsons through other work. That other work becomes more important when Jenny learns that Pat could have done the work given to her, but that he was trying to give her a sense of self sufficiency. This revelation, which she considers charity, places a strain between her and her friends: Pat, Graham and Sara. The additional work which she does get is for Sal at the newspaper on a trial basis. The story on which she wants to work is the reason for the spate of dead fish found near the new development happening at Starlight Bay. When she reported what she saw to John, he found nothing upon investigation. But when the development lawyer threatens legal action if the newspaper prints anything libelous against them, which makes Sal more cautious, Jenny is more determined than ever to find out what's going on. But she realizes that she will require the help of her friends, that is if they are still speaking to her.
- Having reconciled with her friends Pat, Sara and Graham, Jenny enlists their help in gathering evidence of toxic waste being dumped into Starlight Bay, the site of a new residential development. All Jenny knows right now is that dead fish are appearing in the bay, and that the development lawyer and owner, Jason Leonard and Joe Malik, are trying to hide the fact of those dead fish. Pat, Sara and Graham are able to find hard evidence of something illegal going on, including more dead fish and birds, and PCB contaminated underwater sand samples in various locations in the bay. But their discoveries are not without Leonard and Malik finding out that Jenny is still snooping around, Leonard who further threatens legal action against Sal, and criminal charges against Jenny and her friends. Undeterred, Jenny still proceeds and is able to find the source of the contamination with some help from Relic as the former owner of the property in question. But as Jenny and the gang realize that Leonard and Malik may make one last dump to get rid of the evidence, Jenny and her friends put themselves in harm's way in trying to protect the environment.
- Jesse wants to pay off his new fishing boat as quickly as possible, meaning taking the boat out as often as possible when the fish are running. Jesse's problem is keeping a deck hand. Welk, his first deck hand, quits over a dispute with Jesse. Although Jesse in his single-minded pursuit does overwork Welk, Welk in turn is lazy. Jesse would like to take Tommy out, which he in return would love, but Laurel feels Tommy is still too young. John goes out with Jesse on one trip, but his day job as police corporal gets in the way. So Nick agrees to the job until Jesse can make more permanent arrangements. On Jesse and Nick's inaugural fishing trip together, they find they have a third, a stowaway, on board: Tommy. Nick finds that he's not well suited to the work. They decide to connect with Travis, another commercial fisherman who purchases cleaned fish for cash from other fishermen, and provide supplies. When he learns that Travis is heading to Nanaimo, Nick, who wants to head back to Gibsons and his other work while Jesse wants to stay out fishing for a few more days, figures it better to hitch a ride with Travis as opposed making Jesse go in. When Nick boards Travis' boat, what he is unaware of is that Travis' new deck hand, Welk, with the reluctant cooperation of the other more mild mannered deck hand, Bob, has taken over the boat in a mutiny. Welk had planned to set Travis on a skiff to fend for himself while he and Bob absconded with the boat and Travis' money to Mexico. With Nick now aboard, that alters Welk's plan to two aboard the skiff. The only person who may be able to save Nick and Travis is Jesse, who feels that something isn't quite right with his fellow fisherman.
- Tommy and Sam are going through the initiation process to join a boys club called the Night Flyers, led by Patrick, who most of the adults know as a troublemaker. Of late, John has noticed an increase in mischief - primarily vandalism - which is probably largely attributed to Patrick. Although the things that Tommy and Sam are asked to do for the initiation would hurt friends and family, Sam in particular is willing to go through with them since he is still trying to find his place in Gibsons, which includes making new friends whoever they may be. Each initiation task becomes more hurtful. The questions become whether Sam will come to the realization that the initiation is not worth the friendship of such boys before he gets into some real legal trouble, and if he does what he will do about it.
- Nick has entered a new mellow phase of his life, where not even the antics of Relic in their professional competition bother him anymore. But Nick's mellow phase is short lived by a visit from his accountant, who tells him that most of his business deductions have been disallowed, meaning that he now owes taxes in the amount of $3,683, money he doesn't have. Meanwhile, Relic is going through changes of his own. Gibsons is quickly changing around him - growing up so to speak - and he no longer feels he is a part of it, and that he is beginning to be somewhat invisible. As such, he decides to turn over a new leaf by actually being nice to people, especially his long time acquaintances. Among his supposed good deeds are offering Nick an assistant manager job at the marina to help him with his financial issues, and offering Jesse and John a fancy speedboat at a reduced rental for their long planned fishing outing. The questions become whether these actions are Relic being a truly good person without ulterior motives, and if so how long this new Relic will stick around.
- A man by the name of Giles Hope has the Gibsons marina behind fencing and around the clock security protection. Apparently, a now absent Smitty lost the marina in a Reno casino bet, Hope, on behalf of the casino, who is the new owner and thus landlord. He will only provide access to the marina and the boats moored there to those people who were not in arrears to Smitty. The problem is that Smitty's records are spotty. As the police, John is allowed access. Nick, Jesse, Pat and Jack are among those not permitted access. And Relic is still in his shack, meaning that he is behind the fencing, and conversely cannot get out without giving up his right to return. Further, Hope plans on selling the boats belonging to those in arrears to recoup those outstanding debts. The problem for Nick is that his payment in full records are on his boat. As such, he plans on stealing his boat. He has many problems in carrying out this plan. First, John cannot find out as it would place him between a rock and a hard place. Second, Sam wants to do whatever he can to help, and does whatever he can to help against the wishes of the adult figures in his life. If Sam is able to accomplish what he wants, it would place a strain between Nick and Dana. And third, Nick's plan requires the assistance of Relic, which more often than not cannot be counted upon. Nick is hoping that Relic will agree to help if Nick also steals his boat, which means that Hope can't sell it. What Nick is unaware of is that Relic has his own plan which may be incompatible with Nick's own.
- Pat has been putting off many of his jobs in preparation for writing his final exam for the five month long correspondence business course he has been taking, the exam and final course results which he believes are bad. Those jobs include refurbishing Ted's boat which Nick encouraged him to buy for possible commercial ventures such as charters, and fixing John's motor. Those jobs seem to go by the wayside when Pat receives the results: he passed with flying colors. Pat has a stereotypical outlook on the life of a white collar businessman, which he now believes he is: they don't have grease under their fingernails, and all play golf, which is a sport reserved solely for their kind. Pat believes the world is his oyster, he who wants to get specifically into real estate. But when he discovers that people in Gibsons still see him solely as the marine grease monkey, he decides to move to Vancouver, where he can start his professional life anew without those perceptions. Getting that multi-million dollar business break in the city is more difficult than Pat realized, while that self-important talk to his friends and family has made them get on with those jobs which seem no longer part of his life... that is until he realizes that he still needs to make a living in the meantime. Something will have to happen to light a fire under Pat to get him to get back to his old work or truly move on with his life in a constructive way in a new direction.
- Sam is the latest person to hear Jack's oft told tale of the fire of 1906, the other locals who know the story by heart as they've heard it so often. One component of the story is Potter's treasure, a supposed treasure buried by the Potter family but never found after their demise/departure from the area. Most of the locals have looked for it in their life to no avail. Meanwhile, it's Dana's birthday and Sam, wanting to use money he's earned but which he doesn't have since no one will give him a job, wants to buy his mother something nice, especially as she is particularly down since it is her first birthday with only her and Sam. As he knows Sam won't accept a loan or a hand out, Nick thinks that he and Jack can concoct a plan to bury one of the many nice antique items from Jack's warehouse, and lead Sam to it in the guise of it being Potter's treasure. They don't want to tell anyone what they are up to, as the more people know, the more likely Sam will find out it's a hoax. However, with all this secret activity happening, some come to the belief that Nick and Sam truly are digging for Potter's treasure, and want to beat them to the punch.
- Despite none of them knowing anything about the game, Nick has formed a cricket team - the Gibsons Giants - with the sole purpose of playing against the Sechelt Senators, captained by officious Brit, Ashley Putney III, who, along with his team takes the game very seriously. The one person on Nick's team who seems to have a natural talent as a batsman is Sam. Their first practice coincides with the return into town of Dana, who has brought along Sam's cousin, Billy, for a week long visit. Dana did not tell Sam this news beforehand as she knows that Sam does not like Billy. To put it more precisely, Sam is ashamed of Billy, who has Down Syndrome. What further irks Sam is that he believes his mother always sides with Billy against him. Sam does whatever he can not to associate with Billy during his stay. But one mean and self serving move too many by Sam makes Billy run away, despite Billy really wanting to be Sam's friend. Billy's disappearance coincides with the cricket match, which makes Sam have to make some decisions about what is important in his life.
- Sara, who is making her annual trek to commune with nature by spending some time to paint in her grandfather's run down cabin located in the forest on Putnam Island, is dismayed to learn that Graham wants to work for WestCom, the logging company on which his father is a board member. Graham, who is an environmentalist, believes he can do more good from the inside as the company's environmental consultant. He however finds that the company has no intention of hiring for such a position, and he doesn't want his father to pull strings for him. Ted, however, does speak to the board, and Graham is hired as WestCom's environmental consultant. But Graham's dealing with the operations manager, Jim Briggs, is less than harmonious. Graham quickly learns that WestCom as a company agreed to Ted's proposal solely to put a good face on the company, which had no plans to do any environmental stewardship, and continue with its clear cutting ways, and that Ted knew about all of WestCom's plans. They plan to clear cut Putnam - which is old growth - which had long been proposed as a nature reserve. WestCom intends to take as much timber as possible before the nature reserve transition process is completed. Sara learns of WestCom's intentions to clear cut, she who does whatever required to stop them, including illegal activity. Graham has to figure how best to support his environmental goals, whether it be from the inside or out. And the more personal problem is the strain their individual actions may cause between Graham and Ted. Meanwhile, Nick and Relic are having a disagreement about Relic's want to move Nick from his long time moorage spot on the marina.
- After many failed attempts when he was younger, Sam now believes he is mature enough to have a pet, more specifically a dog. Dana refuses. Later, Sam finds among the items in Jack's warehouse an old weather-vane, this type which Jack calls a weirdlyworks. Jack truly believes it has magical powers - it can predict back luck or good luck - and thus is happy for Sam to take it away. Sam also believes in the weirdlyworks' powers, as its predictions of bad or good luck seem to be coming true, most specifically for "good luck" Nick, and "bad luck" John. But Sam is particularly convinced when the weirdlyworks points him toward finding a seemingly abandoned dog, which Sam names Skeletor. Dana initially allows Sam to keep Skeletor overnight, a decision which she soon regrets as beyond Sam, Skeletor seems to have it in for everyone else. Although Dana seems to be softening to the idea of keeping Skeletor if only because Sam truly is taking care of him, the decision on Skeletor's future may be placed into someone else's hands.
- Dana and Sam are still adjusting to small town life in Gibsons, compared to their former life in Toronto. Dana wants Sam to experience all that Gibsons has to offer in terms of outdoor activities. She is, however, somewhat reluctant but ultimately agreeable when Sam wants to go on a day fishing trip with Tommy. Nick convinces Dana that although only eleven, Tommy knows the waters and is smart enough to know what he should and should not do. Dana's anxiety about the boys being out on the water is raised again when an elderly tourist couple, George and Mildred, stop in The Reach, he who is an ex-marine meteorologist. He states that there is a small craft warning, and although clear in town, that there is definitely a storm on the horizon. Despite George and Mildred being an obviously over-the-top cautious couple in every aspect of their life, Dana, who is assured by locals that the warning means little for where Tommy and Sam would be fishing, will still be anxious until Sam comes home, whenever that may be. She is also anxious about some news she has to pass along to Sam from home, which in combination with the fishing trip is making her reflect on whether it was a smart move to relocate to Gibsons from Toronto. Meanwhile, hypochondriac Relic believes he's dying from what most think is a bee sting.
- While Pat is helping Nick with his latest contract - making regular trips to Blubber Bay towing barges filled with vegetable oil - he misses another contract as Donna Lansing with Omega Chemicals, which has been doing some stream restoration work in conjunction with an environmental group called Clear Streams, wants to release salmon fry into a newly restored stream in the area. As such, Relic wrangles the Omega contract for himself. The plan for Donna and Relic to release the fry hits a snag when they learn from DFO that there is something toxic in the waters off Blubber Bay that is killing pockets of fish in the area. When Donna goes with Relic to investigate, she finds a green liquid floating on the surface, which she recognizes as a chemical toxic to fish as well as humans. She saw it coming from the Persephone and/or the barge, which implicates Nick and Pat as the culprits of illegal dumping. With help from John and others, Nick and Pat have to figure out what's going on with the Blubber Bay contract so that they can restore their good names.
- A motorcycle gang called the Devil's Disciples has just purchased some farmland in the area. Individual locals have differing reactions to the group, who have not done anything wrong. Sal, through editorials, has taken it upon herself to rid the area of the gang, using such tactics as mobilizing businesses not to sell to any member of the gang. Tommy, who has gone swimming on the Disciples' newly acquired property in the past, meets Emma, the young adult daughter of the head of the gang, Freddie. For Tommy, it's love at first sight. And John, who is on holidays, has just spent all his vacation money on a Harley-Davidson, his first motorcycle. He is a novice rider, and gets assistance with his new bike from the members of the Disciples, they who he has not told he is a policeman. The fact that Emma is to be married in the next couple of days leads to a series of events which clarifies whether the Disciples will be good neighbors or the scourge of the Earth that Sal believes them to be.
- Two people that are out on water are Dana, who is taking a pleasure sail alone on her boat, and Relic, who is transporting a boat to Powell River for two young men. Relic had no intention of taking this job until he saw the wad of cash they had and the large sum they are going to pay him for it: $2,000. What Relic is unaware of is that the two men are drug dealers. They needed someone to transport the drugs for them in case the drugs were found and seized by authorities. Once in Powell River, they, at gunpoint, plan to set Relic adrift on another boat for him to fend for himself, while they escape with their cache of drugs. However, while Relic is en route to Powell River, he picks up a stranded Dana, whose sailboat broke down. Relic and Dana's life may be placed in jeopardy as they approach Powell River, as the drug dealers will not let anyone get in their way.
- A U.S. marshal and a Canadian Mountie share jurisdiction and an office in a town that is on US-Canadian border. The border splits the town in two.
- A Cree Indian arrives in Bordertown with documents that prove that the Canadian half of the settlement and all the land to the North actually belongs to the Cree nation by a treaty signed with the British government. A Canadian official arrives to sort out the matter and Bennett believes that the government agent will go to any steps, including forging documents, to prevent the town from being turned over to the Native Americans.
- Peter Olsen states Gabriel Couteau murdered a stranger who rode onto his family's farm and his teenage son, Karl, claims to have been an eyewitness to the shooting. The Olsen's charges are enough to convince Jack to make an arrest, but Clive thinks the newcomers' story is too pat. When Karl's friend, Willie Haddon, discovers that Karl couldn't possibly have seen the shooting, Peter's accusation begins to unravel.
- Marie and Clive find themselves in the middle of a deadly game of cat-and-mouse being played by Jack and Don Carlos. Years earlier, Jack killed Don Carlos' brother while serving as a Texas Ranger and the Mexican rancher murdered the marshal's wife and daughter in vengeance. Still not satisfied that the score has been settled, Don Carlos has journeyed to Bordertown and hired a noted gunslinger to kill Jack and complete his revenge.
- Clive's former partner in crime, Archie Stanton, travels to Bordertown after being released from prison in hopes that Clive can help him find honest work. Clive gets Archie a job working as a blacksmith for the town banker, McWherter, but when a large sum of money is stolen, the ex-convict is blamed. Clive is convinced that his friend was framed and with Jack's help, tries to find the real criminal.
- Jack is shot while escorting a pair of desperadoes to jail. When his horse returns to Bordertown with an empty saddle, Clive rushes to recapture his prisoners, but his gun misfires, temporarily blinding him. Before the outlaws can close in to administer the coup de grace, Clive is unexpectedly rescued by a pretty, red-haired woman who is handy both in the woods and with a gun.
- Clive, Jack and Couteau discover a small band of Indians dead of disease. A Catholic priest who was attempting to minister to them fears influenza killed the families and when Marie tries to treat an sick Indian child in a field, the priest attempts to stir up trouble by insisting that Bordertown's doctor is threatening their lives with illness by insisting on keeping the young boy in her house. Meanwhile Jack and Clive discover evidence that the dead Indians were poisoned.
- When one of Joanna Radway's cowboys becomes deathly ill after visiting Zack's saloon, the ranch woman blames the bartender and destroys his saloon with an ax. Marie suspects that Zack may have purchased some tainted whiskey and is abducted when she confronts his new distributors.
- After killing a Mountie, the Connaught Gang send their newest member into Bordertown impersonating the dead lawman to gather information about a payroll shipment. The young man begins to have second thoughts about his career as a criminal when he discovers the respect the townspeople give to their red-coated lawmen.
- The notorious Nebraska Lightning gang ride into Bordertown and take a special interest in Marshal Jack Braddock. Jack learns that someone using his name killed the gang's leader and the five remaining outlaws have journeyed north to avenge his death. Fortunately for Jack and Clive, famed American lawman Bat Masterson has come to Bordertown for reasons of his own and offers to lend a hand in the coming shootout.
- Relic receives a $2,500 bill from the federal government. Upon hearing the words "computer generated" about the bill, Relic believes he's got a way out of paying: by calling his former partner in crime, high school computer whiz, Jordan 'Silicon' Smith. By hacking into his boarding school's computer, Silicon is able to manufacture a lie which allows him to ditch school and visit his old friend Relic. Upon his arrival in Gibsons, Silicon is easily able to fix Relic's problem, which ended up actually being a computer error. With nothing else to do, Silicon decides to help Relic in other ways, namely by hacking into the computer system which handles the salvage contracts, all of which have just gone to Nick and Jesse. When Nick hears that one of their contracts has been revoked since it was a computer error, Nick, upon seeing Silicon with Relic, knows how that error was created. Nick decides to fight computer whiz with computer whiz as he hires equally young and talented Kimberley Blake, although she admits she is no match for Silicon. Kimberley has to find a way to outwit Silicon at his own game.
- A starving Indian nearly burns down Marie's general store when he breaks in late at night to steal food. When Marie discovers food meant for the local tribesmen has been sold to settlers by the government's Indian agent, she tries to find the needed evidence to convict the unscrupulous civil servant.
- The wagon delivering the Mountie payroll and the Bordertown mail is discovered with covered with bloodstains and bristling with arrows. Clive and Jack quickly realize that the "clues" are planted to throw the law off the scent - since the route was secret and the bodies of the escort never found, the robbery had to be committed by deserters. While the Mountie and the marshal search for the thieves, Marie entertains a cousin newly arrived from France.
- Scratch winds up amidst a coercing plan including Les Boog, a man who possesses the main log rescuing financier organization in the zone. Pontoons explode, the marine bursts into flames, and conditions point to Nick as the liable party. As Nick pursues the offenders down, his life is jeopardized. Relic and John act the hero. Scratch comes to understand that beachcombing as a methods for making a decent living has turned into a difficulty. As the sun sets, and Nick thinks about his choice to resign, he discovers solace and fellowship in his Gibsons' more distant family.
- Dana is making what she considers subtle but significant changes to The Reach in order to make it what she wants, not disrupt what the locals expect, and attract a larger tourist trade. Many of the regulars like the changes, but Relic is not one of them, he who is forthright to Dana in his criticisms. Regardless, Dana tries what she considers her best to accommodate Relic, a customer. Even with these changes, Dana decides to make one more only because many of the regulars treat the café like their own private club, staying hours on end just to hang out and drink bottomless cups of coffee. This last move irks many of the locals but is the last straw for Relic. Because she cannot tolerate what she considers his inconsiderate and rude behavior, Dana bans Relic from The Reach forever. Caught in the middle is Nick, who John and Jack appoint as mediator as he is perceived Dana's closest friend in Gibsons. After Nick speaks to both Dana and Relic, they both soften their stance slightly, but if Relic is to return to The Reach, it has to be on each their own terms, which may be a deal breaker for the two combatants.
- Nick and Jesse, and Relic are racing to a site with a large number of beached logs. Relic arrives first, which in a way is good news for Nick and Jesse as they are aware of a much larger and more easily salvageable pile of logs close by. So Nick and Jesse leave Relic to his own devices with that pile of logs. In trying to untangle his pile of logs, Relic gets trapped beneath one of them. In addition, his boat goes adrift which means even if he is able to get loose, he is stranded. This situation becomes even more perilous for him as he has been under the weather, the exposure to the elements which will take its toll more quickly, and which may hider his own ability to help himself. The issue arises that if no one notices him missing, what that means about the state of his relationships within the community.
- The Reach is closed as it's chore day. While the women are cleaning up the kitchen and dining room, the men are supposed to fix the patio floorboards. However, the men decide to help Jack with his inventory instead, which the women know is just an excuse to hang out at Jack's warehouse and do nothing, despite Jack truly needing the monumental task of the inventory completed. During that chore and seeing all Bert's technological gadgets, John and Jesse get into an argument, not only about the lack of ingenuity of each compared to their RCMP and First Nations ancestors respectively, but also about doing things using the latest technology versus traditional methods during pre-technology days. John believes the former is superior while Jesse believes the latter superior. As such, they make a bet, with Graham being John's partner and Pat being Jesse's partner: Nick will drop them off at an undisclosed location in the mountains, and without using the road as navigation, they are to make their way back into town, John with his plethora of technological gadgets, and Jesse using old fashioned First Nation's know how. The losing team is to fix the floorboards on their own. As the race progresses, John and Jesse find that the mentality of their partner is the exact opposite of their own. But they may find that there are other more important issues in life besides winning. Meanwhile, the women decide to take the matter of chore day into their own hands.
- One morning while alone at the Reach, Dana has this eerie feeling that someone is in her presence when the door to Nick's office mysteriously blows open. Upon Dana telling her story, Nick, John and Relic jokingly tell her it was a ghost, which calms her nerves. But Jack, who overhears the conversation, says seriously that it could be the ghost of Captain Jonathan Stubbs, a fisherman who died tragically off the waters here. Despite the fact that Stubbs actually did exist, Nick, John and Relic know Jack is also only joking about the ghost story, but Dana truly believes his story and the possible presence of the ghost of Stubbs. Over the next while, every little creak she hears freaks Dana out, more so since she is alone as Sam is away for the week. Truly seeing her distress, the guys, even after telling her that Jack's story was told in jest and is not real, have to figure out a way to bring Dana down from her panicked state. In the process, Dana may in turn convince the guys that her beliefs are instead indeed correct.
- Sara is having problems finding a focus for her project required for her video arts class. When her professor, Mark Carter, sees the street chalk artist that Sara has been filming, the artist who only does copies of Jimmy Galson originals, Sara believes she has the focus of her piece as she learns that that seemingly grumpy homeless man is indeed Jimmy Galson. After much negotiating, Sara gets his permission to be her subject, he even heading up to Gibsons with her, where she provides him temporarily with a roof and lots of streets, chalk and tourists for him to continue doing his street art and collecting pocket change from passersby. Jimmy tells Sara and the others the reason why he stopped painting and only now creates temporary art: he is in an on-going feud with his agent, Maurice Dawson, who has first option on any work he creates. But Jimmy's continual grumpy behavior, even when Nick and Dana provide him with options in overcoming his legal issues, makes Sara think that there is another underlying reason for him dropping out of life, that reason which she believes is his last gallery showing three years ago being panned by the critics. Sara learns the real reason, one which she hopes he can overcome.
- Based on advice from supposed expert Jack, Nick, John, Jesse and Jack are thinking about investing in a race horse named Eleanor, who they will give the racing name Little Nell. Although the financial payout on their initial $1,000 investment apiece is important, it is the dream of participating in the sport of kings that is the more exciting adventure. With Jack handling all the logistics, the plan would be to enter Little Nell in small races in the Okanagan over the summer, and if she does well, to enter her in a claiming race in Vancouver at the end of the season, her result there which would dictate how much money they would sell her for. Their plan hits a snag when Laurel and Jesse fight over the investment, Jesse ultimately giving in to Laurel's wishes. As such, the other three have to find another investor or the deal falls through. They reluctantly find a fourth partner in Relic, who solely sees this as a business venture. Regardless of how Little Nell does, Jesse now feels like he isn't living the dream, and Relic may ruin the experience for Nick, John and Jack.
- Tommy's mind is not on the canoe time trials for the upcoming races as his paternal grandfather, George, is coming for a visit. George gave Tommy the hand made oar he uses for canoing. Tommy and George are close, especially as George is Tommy's only connection to his long deceased father, who he never knew. When Tommy arrives home expecting to see his grandfather, he is dismayed to learn that his grandfather has just passed away. Although everyone in their house is saddened by the news, it hits Tommy the hardest, he who does not express his grief in tears but rather anger. Tommy goes about memorializing his grandfather in his own way, which in large part entails giving away all his material possessions and retreating from life. Laurel and Jesse in particular hope they can give Tommy a better understanding of how he can more productively remember his grandfather.
- Sam and Tommy are at each others throats over a disagreement on how to build their tree house, which leads to name calling. Jesse and Laurel are at odds with each other over a decorating issue, which also leads to name calling. And Dana is having yet another issue with Relic over the menu. So it may be good timing, at least for Laurel and Dana, to take their planned mother/son boating trip on Dana's new sailboat, although the mothers may have to keep their sons from killing each other. But eventually the sons' feud extend to the mothers, which is not helped by a boating incident resulting in them being stranded on a remote beach. Their issues are compounded by what Laurel believes is a culturally insensitive remark by Dana. As the four try to figure out what best to do in their stranded circumstance, they will either kill each other until the last person is standing, or come to a state of peace in bonding together to work through their current predicament. Meanwhile, the men, back at the marina, are discussing the age old battle of the sexes. That battle may soften when they realize that Dana's sailboat has not yet returned.
- Dr. Marie Dumont is having a bad day. First she learns that Bordertown's new unscrupulous lawyer owns half of her general store, then she discovers that her new partner is representing a woman who is suing her for malpractice when her husband died while in the pretty physician's care.
- While tracking Jim McKay, a man wanted for bank robbery and murder in Montana, with Corporal Bennett and Marshal Craddock, Gabriel Couteau discovers that their quarry is his long-lost brother. In spite of his revulsion for the criminal acts his brother has committed, Couteau agrees to help him escape the lawmen who are hot on his trail.