The Housewives pack their bags and head up to a frozen Lake George to thaw out their issues. Teresa prepares to confront Jacqueline, Melissa chips away at Teresa's lies, while Kathy plays referee on the sidelines. Years of hostility fracture the group when relationship building exercises turn in to a throwdown between the Joes -- threatening to crumble this fragile group forever.

Teresa and her brother, Joe, and their spouses, Joe and Melissa, get down and dirty with a relationship expert. But the warmth of family love doesn't quite reach everyone as Kathy gets left out in the cold. And with the family finally turning a corner, Caroline reveals her own surprising agenda for healing, leaving everyone looking in Jacqueline's direction for a final solution.