Syd returns home after battling encephalitis, but has doubts about her handsome physical therapist's treatment methods. Robbie is stalked by an angry producer.
As Halloween approaches, a recovering Syd misjudges and prescribes a dose that nearly kills a young girl. An obsessed game-show producer blackmails Robbie.
Syd discovers something startling about her new beau John. Joanie and Burt get busy waiting. Syd helps a troubled teen who was prescribed the wrong medication.
As Thanksgiving Day nears, Syd searches for the missing parents of a lost Chinese girl. Joanie makes a life-changing decision. Robbie bonds with a stranger.
Syd worries about an elderly patient refusing throat surgery so she can sing in a Christmas concert. Robbie meets an unusual man during his charity shopping spree.
While Syd is stranded with reclusive patient Graham in a lighthouse during a storm, he confesses his dark, painful past. Burt and Joanie take a road trip.
Syd helps reclusive lighthouse keeper Graham adapt to public life after his facial plastic surgery. Stubborn Jim won't stop working while he's sick. Joanie avoids Burt.
Syd fights a pharmaceutical company in the hopes of attaining a drug to save a deathly sick baby boy. Joanie encourages Elliot to come out to his mother.
Syd urges a pharmaceutical company to continue testing a drug that could cure a deadly childhood disease. Elliot pushes Joanie to get back into the dating game.