Matt and Slade decide to settle their mutual affection for Summer in a daring surfing contest. A prison break gone awry finds Mitch held hostage on a fishing boat by a desperate, beautiful woman. She forces him to perform surgery for a gunshot wound on her escaped convict husband. Meanwhile, CJ tries to help Summer overcome her eating disorder. While Summer, Matt, and Slade dive into an underwater cave searching for Matt's surfboard, an octopus pulls Summer down and nearly kills her.

Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which of two young brothers to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.