A mousy scientist wants his Filipino fiancée, whom he met through a marriage broker, to remain in the U.S. for treatment of a parasitic infection she thinks voids their nuptial plans. Trapper and Gonzo are confronted by two — or is she really one? — women, both rather cool, classy, and sensuous. And both are wives of patients about to undergo surgery.

A doctor preparing to use an experimental procedure on a cancer patient dies in the operating room. Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) is having ghostly visions.

An aging flower child (Ronee Blakley) delivers a stillborn baby; the Riversides' son is kidnapped from his stroller.

A 6-year-old orphan confined to a sterile plastic bubble desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant.