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Episode 2020

Vic Boswell tells Kelly and Reese that he saw B.J. leaving the police station with Frank. Kelly persuades Reese to leave with her to search. Warren tells Sawyer about the terrible history concerning his sister. Sawyer is collapsed, and does not manage to understand how he could see nothing. Warren asks him to search for B.J. He joins Kelly and Reese in the chalet with Walker and helps Reese to accept the truth finally. B.J. drives Frank to Rosas Cantina to drink. She tries to persuade him by making him believe that she shares the same feelings. But when she speaks to him about going to see her mother before going to the hotel with him, Frank guesses that B.J. tries to trap him. A demonstration takes place against the demolition of the warehouse, which proves to be an ancient slaughterhouse belonging to Angela. Angela tries to make the public understand that she wants to destroy the building to replace it with a park, while it is part of the historical architectural heritage of the city. Indoors, Jodie and Cruz try to keep confidence. Jodie entrusts to Cruz that B.J. is his daughter...

Episode 2021

Lionel tries to be excused by Gina for having doubted his sincerity while the guardianship of Channing III was taking place. He asks Lily to help him to be reconciled with her mother. B.J. persuades Frank that she feels a lot of love for him and follows him up to a hotel. Kelly and Reese arrive at Rosas Cantina and question the waitress who tells them that B.J. was present with Frank. At the hotel, B.J. asks Frank to drive her to Jodie and Cruz, after which she will present herself to him without a problem. Jodie apologises to Cruz to have lied to him all these years about B.J.. She explains that at that time as a 17-year-old, she did not want to risk losing Reese with whom she wanted to make her life with. Cruz excuses her. He writes the word "Help" with his blood on a piece of paper and, in spite of the wound in his leg, tries to send it across the tile broken by a window. Suddenly, B.J. makes her appearance in the warehouse. Jodie and Cruz welcome her very full of emotion. Jodie asks B.J. what she promised Frank so that he allows her to join them...

Episode 2022

Lionel arrives at Gina's dressed in knight's armour, while she discusses the guardianship of Channing III with C.C.. Gina criticises Lionel for his eccentric behaviour, which could cost him the guardianship of Channing. Warren enters Angela’s place in the early hours and they immediately argue about B.J.. Angela offers to return his clothes which he left at home so that he leaves definitely. But there, she gives him Ted's clothes who she spent the night with. Warren accuses her of deceiving him and leaves. In the warehouse, B.J. explains to her mother and Cruz that she promised Frank to spend a last night with him. Jodie is appalled and asks her not to give into the advances, in spite of the threats. Frank listens to them, discreetly hidden. B.J. joins Frank and they make a stopover in the diner where she had spent a night with Warren some weeks earlier. She phones Angela's to reach Warren, in vain. Jodie manages to send by the window pane broken at the warehouse a cry for help. By car, Frank says to B.J. that he knows that she lies to him to save Jodie and Cruz. Warren arrives at Angela's and questions her outright of the thread with B.J.. He understands that she went with Frank to the famous diner...

Episode 2023

Lionel gets the agreement from C.C. for the lawful guardianship of Channing III. A homeless man finds the note thrown by Jodie outside the warehouse and recovers the alliance that was used to tie him. He is stopped by a policeman in a zone forbidden to the public, after a few minutes of the destruction of slaughterhouses. At the police station, Reese recognises Jodie’s ring in the homeless man’s possession. He immediately goes to the warehouse. C.C. arrives at Angela's to invite her to have breakfast. Ted just has the time to hide not to be seen by his father. He then phones the police station, and falls on Kelly who he tells that Angela confirmed the destruction of slaughterhouses. Kelly rushes there, and tries to prevent a programmed explosion. Inside the building, Reese finds the trace of Jodie and Cruz. He helps his wife to slip under a door, but does not manage to get Cruz, unable to move because of the wound to his leg. Outside, Jodie joins Kelly. Suddenly, an explosion takes place...

First appearance in the series of the police officer Jerry Delacio.
The poor young interpreter of Channing III seems very frightened facing the armour worn by Lionel, and does not cease to cry as soon as he looks at him !

Episode 2024

One of the explosives started and the building still stands. Reese gets up again, coated with dust. He clears away pieces of the wall which encircle him and helps Cruz, remaining unconscious under debris. Outside, Julia, Vic Boswell, Rafe and C.C. join Kelly and Jodie. Rafe suddenly hears Reese shouting for help. Reese ends up getting out of the building carrying Cruz in his arms. All go to the hospital. Cruz, threatened to lose his leg, finally awakes and regains consciousness on his own. While he falls asleep, Kelly hears him saying that he is B.J.’s father. Frank drives B.J. to a hotel room and forces her to obey him. He goes to the diner, where Warren and Sawyer notice him from a distance. Sawyer phones his father at the police station, who immediately arrives by car with Jodie. At the hotel, B.J. hears on the radio that Reese, Cruz and Jodie got out unharmed from the explosion at the slaughterhouses. Warren joins Frank in the diner and asks him to drive him to B.J....

Episode 2025

Lionel hides dozens of banknotes in his room and lets Gina progressively discover them with rejoicing. He declares that all his money is from now on also hers. In the hospital, Cruz continues being delirious continuously pronouncing B.J.’s name. In spite of Kelly’s intervention, he tries to get up and collapses down. C.C. and Rafael call for a doctor. In the diner, Warren tries to stop Frank, but he pushes him to the ground. Frank escapes up to his hotel where he finds B.J.. Jodie, Reese and Sawyer arrive there. They find B.J. and Frank’s room, but he manages to escape. Jodie tries to comfort B.J. and to justify all of her suffering. Sawyer finds Frank's trace on the beach. He tries to disarm him and hits him very violently and repeatedly to the face, without managing to stop. While Sawyer ends up getting up again, Frank grabs his revolver and points it in his direction...

Episode 2026

Sawyer is lying immobile on the beach. While Frank goes up to him, he gets him get up again and continues the fight. Frank gets closer to his car and points the gun again towards Sawyer, who collapses. Ted informs Angela that Cruz nearly died in the destruction of the slaughterhouses, an owner of which she is. She immediately calls C.C. to get advice on what she must do. Lisa and Rafe get ready to make love, when Lily calls Rafe to ask him to come to replace the pianist at the Oasis. Lisa invites Rich to join her to have dinner in the Oasis, and to make Rafe jealous. Ted, who is sitting down at the table with Katrina, sees Angela toasting a glass in the bar with C.C.. Haunted by her, he completely forgets his neighbour at the next table. Jodie, Reese and Warren arrive on the beach and find Frank's lifeless body, sitting in his car. Warren goes to the diner to phone Boswell, when Sawyer appears, covered with blood and shell-shocked. He swears that he did not kill Frank. In the hotel room, B.J. gets out of the shower, also in a state of shock. She is persuaded that Frank is going to come back be get her. Warren joins her and tells her that Frank died. On the beach, Vic Boswell asks Sawyer to follow him to the police station to question him. Reese fears that his son is accused of murder...

Episode 2027

C.C. finds Gina and her team of Gina Jeans working in the meeting room of Capwell Firms. He shows all of them the door and asks Gina to speed up the departure of Ken. Gina finds an excuse to send Ken in the evening to Hong Kong. In his hospital bed, Cruz dreams that he is married to Jodie and that he must announce to B.J. that she is in fact Reese’s daughter. On his waking, he thinks that it is better to continue hiding the truth from B.J. and Reese. Sawyer’s arrest hits the headlines of Santa Barbara Tribune. Micah tries to hide the information from Aurora, in vain. Sawyer is questioned by Julia and Vic Boswell. Connor McCabe, a N.B.I. agent, makes his appearance to take the affair into his own hands. He obtains the results from Frank’s autopsy and discovers that Frank did not die from an internal haemorrhage further to the fight, but by a bullet. Sawyer refuses the advice from a lawyer. He swears that he heard only three gunshots, contrary to his parents who heard four. Connor announces that traces of powder were found on his t-shirt. He decides to indict him with murder...

First appearance in the series of Connor McCabe.

Episode 2028

In the hospital, Kelly tells Cruz that Frank died and that Sawyer is the prime suspect. Warren watches over B.J. and accompanies her to the police station. Sawyer continues proclaiming his innocence facing Connor McCabe, defended by his parents and Aurora. Connor moves the idea forward that if it is not Sawyer who pulled the trigger on Frank, it is willy-nilly Jodie, Reese or Warren. B.J. takes the blame for having created all these worries in the family. Jodie asks her not to feel guilty anymore. Taken to the chalet by her parents, B.J. has a nightmare where she sees everyone pulling the trigger one after another on Frank on the beach. Then, she sees Frank getting up again, still alive. She wakes up, thrown into a panic. Warren comforts her...

From now on, just before the ending credits, one of the characters facing the camera announces one of the storylines treated in the next episode.
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Episode 2029

Jodie asks Julia if she knows a good lawyer to defend Sawyer. Julia immediately thinks of Mason, who has just been returned to the bar. Sawyer discovers that Aurora plans, at the request of her father, to leave Santa Barbara to undertake studies. He offers her a break. Aurora loses her temper, wanting first of all to stay with Sawyer. Julia and Mason inform Micah that the leader's post of surgery is available in the Santa Barbara hospital. Gina, Lionel, Lily and Minx go to the office of a judge to make the adoption official of Channing III by Lionel. But C.C. keeps people waiting. He ends up finally arriving and signs the papers. Micah explains to Jodie that he does not want Aurora to go out with Sawyer, now that he is suspected of murder. Exhausted, Jodie has a feeling of faintness. Aurora and Sawyer go to the Oasis, where Sawyer must be photographed by a famous photographer of stars. But Connor McCabe and Vic Boswell come into sight, and put Sawyer under arrest. Mason then offers to be his lawyer...

In the ending credits, Thaao Penghlis joins the regular cast of the series in the role of Dr. Micah DeAngelis.