Episode 1

Annie's father starts to withdraw his financial support, beginning with getting her car repossessed.

Annie tells Ben that Del laughed at her plan to buy Bugsy Siegel's boat, and that her father never loved her, and that he never will.

When she tells Ben that she wishes Del would die, and Ben tells her never to wish anyone dead.

Annie plays with Eddie's police revolver, asking what it's like to kill someone. He says that once you decide to do it, there's no going back.

Later, she pulls Eddie's gun on him and pulls the trigger. It turns out to be unloaded; she just wanted to see if she could do it.

Annie sees Ben looking out his window at her in her hot tub, so she comes on to Eddie.

Later, when Eddie says that he knows that they only had sex to make Ben jealous, she throws him out.

When Meg confesses she has no place to stay, Casey offers her his sofa.

The words "S.B. Lifeguard" on a hanging on the wall further convinces Meg that Casey is S.B.

Michael is surprised to find Meg in his and Casey's apartment. When Meg tries to get Michael to tell her if Casey has a girlfriend, Michael asks if she's interested in him, which she denies. Finally, after Meg has a complete breakdown in front of him, he tells her that he doesn't have a girlfriend, because he spends too much time on his computer.

Over dinner, Casey and Meg hit it off immediately. When he asks why it seems like they've known each other more than a few hours, she says, "Maybe we have."

Meg calls her mother and tells her that she thinks that Casey is S.B., but that she hasn't asked him for fear that telling him she left Tim at the altar would scare him away.

After Mark tells Tiffany that "SB" is Ben and that Ben and Meg have no idea who the other one is, Tiffany breaks into Ben's house.

As she leaves, Tiffany sets off Ben's alarm. Flustered, she drops the transcripts, leaving one behind, which Ben finds.

Ben is upset over finding Maria's music box in Annie's house.

While she's in Ben's house, Tiffany finds a locked room.

Casey tells Rae that Trudy, a nurse, said that Rae's crazy about Casey, because Casey makes Rae smile. Rae denies it vehemently.

When Rae asks why Casey is pursuing her romantically, Casey responds that it's because he makes her smile.

Rae's surprised when she finds out that Casey went to Stanford.

Mark talks Casey up to Rae.

Rae tries, and fails, to buy Casey out because she doesn't want to live with a stranger.

Rae and Casey dance together.

Meg is shopping for a dress when she runs into Tiffany, whom she recognizes as the one who stole the tip, but not as the one who stole her backpack.

After Tiffany apologizes and lies that she thought her boyfriend had already left the tip, she buys the dress that Meg told her she wanted because S.B. would like it.

Mark tries to tell Meg that Casey isn't S.B., but they keep getting interrupted.

Seeing Rae and Casey dance together makes Meg run to hide in her new boss (Ben)'s office. Meg realizes that Ben's the man she saw at the pier at sunset the day before.

Tiffany convinces the D.J. to play Ben and Meg's favorite song. He sees Tiffany looking up at his office, and leaves the office, missing Meg saying that it's her favorite song.

Meg tells Mark that when she wants something, she doesn't let it go.

Gregory runs into Olivia at the Resort at Sunset Beach.

They see Annie drop a gun in the lobby, which Annie explains is a prop to scare Del because he's cutting her off financially.

Bette gets access to Annie's trust fund. Temporarily, at least.

Gregory and Olivia tell Del about the gun that Annie had. He nearly calls the police, but Gregory talks him out of it. Del says that Annie is just like her mother.

Del finds out that Annie tried to take money out of her trust fund.

We find out that Del and Olivia are having an affair and that Del has a briefcase full of jewelry. She suggests they make love on top of the jewelry.

Before they can make love, however, Del tells Olivia that he's leaving the country and that he wants her to come with him. She tries to get out of it, but he's set her up in order to force her to come with him. Gregory is at the hotel room door.

Elaine gives Paula a tape of a television show on untrustworthy men, warning Paula that she can't trust Ricardo, because Ricardo is just like Paula's father.

The television show makes Paula doubt Ricardo.

When Ricardo sees the tape that Elaine gave to Paula and tells her that Elaine is trying to poison their relationship, he makes a joke about Paula moving in. When she says that it isn't funny, he says he's not joking.

At the same moment Ricardo says that he and Paula don't live together, Paula is telling Elaine that she and Ricardo are moving in together. Elaine tells Paula that she's only interfering because she loves Paula so much.

Ricardo tells Vanessa that there's no proof that a crime has been committed.

Vanessa tells Michael that someone broke into her office, even though there was no actual evidence of a break-in. She says that this story could get her killed.

Mark dubs Rae and Casey's house "Surf Central."

Rae is surprised that Meg, Mark and Michael will be moving into their house with them. Then she becomes angry that Casey made this decision without consulting her.

Annie, wearing a hooded cloak, interrupts Tiffany and Ben's confrontation to tell them that Del's been shot.

Olivia gives conflicting stories about here whereabouts to Gregory and the radio station

Meg flirts with Casey.

Tiffany tells Mark that Ben thinks that she's Dorothy, and Mark tells Tiff that if she's not afraid of Ben Evans, she should be.

Casey says that if she ever has any problems with any of the roomies or if she ever gets a little crazy, she knows how to find him, not knowing that he's echoing words that S.B. once said to Dorothy.

When Annie arrives home, Bette hides Del's wallet in her pocket, wrapped in a scarf. Before Bette can speak to her about the wallet, Ben interrupts. When he asks if she killed Del, she denies it. Ben is still dubious. Annie says right out, "I didn't kill my father." When she tells Ben that she was at home at the time of the murder, Ben tries to help her find a way to prove it. She asks Ben to be an alibi for her. Ben refuses, telling Annie to tell him the truth.

Annie and Ben ask Gregory to be Annie's lawyer.

Paula overhears Ricardo say that solving Del's murder means more to him than anything else. Later he says it was just a passing comment.

She tells Elaine that she thinks their relationship is over. Ricardo, on the other hand, reassures her that he loves her and that he's never worked this hard at any relationship before. He says that he's never felt about any woman the way he feels about her. She lays it on the line, telling him that she's ready to settle down with him, but that maybe he's not so sure.

He asks if they can go back to the way things were, and she returns his key to him, telling him that it's over between them.

Ben/Meg
Maria's Death

Meg and Tiffany talk about Tiffany's interest in Ben, an interest that Meg doesn't share. Meg offers to teach Tiffany how to use the internet to research Ben. Tiffany finds information on Ben winning a regatta in the Mariah, but leaves before she sees that Maria died in a boating accident.

Mark is incensed at Tiffany for using Meg to get to Ben.

Tiffany decides to have a model of the Mariah made by a local artist.

At the Java Web, Michael needles Vanessa about being paranoid. She's in such a hurry to get away from him, she leaves her tape on Del's murder behind.

Michael goes to her apartment to return the tape, to find Vanessa getting attacked. He breaks the lock of the door trying to save her, but only distracts the attacker long enough for her to save herself. When the adrenaline wears off, she passes out. The attacker gets away while Michael is tending to her bruised hand.

She tells him not to call the police, but finally agrees to have the blackjack that the attacker used dusted for fingerprints, as long as they don't tell the police why. He tells her that she can't stay there with the lock broken.