Paralyzed during a heroic rescue, Mitch undergoes a vigorous rehabilitation regimen. While he struggles to walk again, he becomes increasingly angry and frustrated at not being able to use his legs. He pushes away Hobie and even Stephanie, who offers him support. Only Ben Edwards can relate to Mitch with his own walking disability. Meanwhile, the hitman Riddick sent to kill Jason plans one last attempt to murder the boy at the hospital swimming pool, and Mitch is the only one nearby who can save him. 

A brash new Australian lifeguard named Wiley Brown arrives at Baywatch on an exchange program. He and Mitch don't get along because of Wiley's self-serving ways of lifeguarding. He is also flirting with Kaye Morgan, who is now debating with herself whether to start dating Mitch after he finally asks her to dinner. Mitch is also troubled by a bad memory of a failed rescue attempt of a female windsurfer who died in Australia ten years ago. When Mitch is the victim of a series of life-threatening "accidents," he correctly begins to suspect Wiley, whose wife was the windsurfer.