In the finale of the previous season, Caitlin Sweeney succeeded in bombing Community General and a number of characters are now trapped in the rubble.
The couple’s plan is to kill Wayde, by poisoning, and leave sufficient (planted) evidence for Mark and Steve to conclude that Wade’s younger wife, Denise, was the murderer.
The best acting in this episode is reserved for the 'B' story which concerns the burgeoning relationship between Steve Sloan and the attractive female FBI Agent, Kathy Wately.
A supposedly dead man, a survivor of a mass shooting at a restaurant, escapes from Dr Amanda's Pathology Lab and terrorizes Community General.
The miraculous survivor of the mass shooting who, initially, appears to be a cut-price Freddy Krueger rampaging around Community General Hospital, later turns out to have an entirely logical agenda.
This episode culminates in a very tense sequence in the Pathology Lab at Community General which comes down to a desperate fight for survival between Amanda and the killer.
Steve joins his troubled partner, Detective Reggie Ackroyd (Joe Penny) in a rehab unit for stressed-out cops.
On their way to Carmel for their long planned romantic getaway, Jesse and Susan’s car breaks down near the small coastal town of Sea Ridge.
Intrigued, Mark, Amanda and Steve start researching Greg’s ‘fatal’ accident and his record as a professional diver.
Upon arrival, he finds that Shelby Turner, an investigative reporter from a tabloid obsessed with space aliens, has already loudly introduced herself as his wife.
After throwing a housewarming gets them fingerprints which match to dead people, Mark pieces together what the three victims had in common with each-other and the true nature of Hill Ridge Estates starts to emerge.
Mark, Amanda and Jesse decide to celebrate with lunch at a fancy restaurant where they bump into Dr Herb Downey a top man in infectious disease.
Reasoning backwards, Mark, Amanda, Jesse and Steve realise the chilling truth that there is a serial killer operating inside Community General.
Rushing to help, he manages to extricate the driver, a young woman, from the wrecked vehicle via the already open passenger side door.
The increasingly disturbing topics of obsession and manipulation in this episode are leavened by two scenes of Mark performing joyously as part of a talented barber shop quartet and his comic encounters with the rather terrifying new head of Nursing Services who has the ability to reduce grown men to tears.
Drs Mark, Amanda and Jesse are at BBQ Bob's discussing the pros and cons of hosting a musical benefit there when Steve enters holding a note that was left on his windshield.
Incredibly, the very crime referred to in Steve’s note is happening at the Jewelers store just across the lot from the restaurant, and there are plenty of casualties for Mark, Amanda and Jesse to tend to.
A juvenile delinquent, Tommy Anders (Shane Van Dyke), is assigned community-service time at a boxing gym, where the death of a twitchy young fighter quickly arouses suspicion.
Steve blames himself unconditionally but Mark reserves judgement suspecting some other element at the gym to be the cause of the strange effects upon the boxers there.
An unusual patient at Community General is the "Masked Magician", who reveals magic tricks in highly rated specials on Pox TV, but gets wounded by a real arrow due to sabotage.
Meanwhile, rival channel GBS prepares a series "Doctor Danger", supposedly based on Dr Mark Sloan, but when shown the pilot he refuses to have anything to do with this mockery; Jesse however agrees to write scripts for it.
While Kent Beudine presents a cynical show on the horror gripping Hollywood after two TV celebrity murders, Mark is convinced Jesse is on the right track for motive by remarking it all upsets the program line-ups of rival networks in terms of the almighty ratings.
Producer Jackson Burley is ignored even by his former protégés, and minutes after star Jerry Lane turns down an offer to transfer to West Coast VP Garth Zand's network GBS, the winner on Thursday after the previous crimes, he is run over by a fake parking valet.
Devlin being the female officer who 'made Detective faster than any woman in LAPD history', whereas Lucas is unorthodox and recklessly fearless.
This episode, which is largely played for laughs, morphs into a version of Magnum Force as it transpires that the LAPD contains a Death Squad composed of all female officers who are killing criminals whose organs just happen to be urgently needed!
Dr Mark Sloan attempts to have a new doctor arrested for murder after she helps a pair of terminally ill patients commit suicide.