The vineyard opens up and the whole family attends. Holly also makes a move on Mark when Nora is gone.
A father and his son come to Peter after their insurers refuse to pay when their fishing boat is destroyed in an explosion. Lyle investigates further, discovering that the father once served a prison sentence for insurance fraud. Beatrice meets a local artist, Alan, and joins his life class as the model. The council takes revenge on Snell after his many small plots of land prevent them from building anything. Peter meets Christopher Waller's parents when he finds out that Simon's bank account has been regularly paying out to them.
Peggy tries to reach the pinnacle of real estate success by selling houses in the exclusive neighborhood of Arlen Heights, but she winds up selling pots door to door. Meanwhile the real Rusty Shackleford pays a visit to Dale.
On Halloween, Kate Johnson is killed in her bedroom, the victim of a shotgun blast. Her husband Guy is the obvious suspect, having now disappeared. In an odd twist, the couple had been part of a television broadcast the previous Halloween where hypnotist Lee Knight demonstrated that people could be induced to do anything, including murder. The dead woman's daughter, Katherine Taylor, is convinced that the hypnotic suggestions of a year ago are what caused her father to kill her mother and that Knight is responsible. When she is found dead however, the case takes yet another turn. Meanwhile, Dalziel undergoes hypnotherapy to quit smoking.
Susan goes into the woods to try to find Mike. Gabrielle gets into an argument with a meter man who gives her a ticket. Victor is elected mayor, and Gabrielle goes back to teach the meter man a lesson. Edie's ex-husband comes back to collect Travers. Lynette realizes she has feelings for another man.
Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.
Dangle visits his ex-wife and her new husband on their anniversary. Meanwhile, Trudy, Clementine, Raineesha, and Cheresa stake-out a lecherous Meth Dealer and his girlfriends.
NorBac searches for the source of a resistant strain of c. difficile; despite his limited vision, Bob proves to be an asset to the team.
As King Henry gains in confidence, his displeasure with the way the Catholic church handles his request for an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon grows. As a result, Cardinal Wolsey's position is weakening, leaving him vulnerable to his enemies.
The dead body of pro boxer Diesel Swanson has gone missing. Things get weird when a tape shows Diesel getting up and walking out of the funeral home.
The relationship between Christopher and Paulie's falters, while A.J. grows depressed over his break-up with Blanca.
After Chris is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school that his grandfather Carter attended, but Chris doesn't exactly fit in. Meanwhile, the chicken returns to pick a fight with Peter.
After learning that Principal Fakey is doing something wrong, Orel goes to his father to find out about wrong-doing authority figures. There, he learns that repression is the antidote to everything.
A high school student goes missing after leaving her prom early to get some rest in her hotel room, leaving behind a bloody dress and a lot of questions about what may have happened to her.
Sportacus gives each of the children an energy book and stickers to help them keep track of their daily habits, including exercising, brushing their teeth. Robbie attempts to distract them from using the stickers by appealing to each of their own character traits.
"Medellin" is back on the table for Vince, but Ari and producer Nick Rubenstein must make the deal happen on the holy day, Yom Kippur. They have until sundown, and must finish the deal with use of a cell phone. Eric wonders how the relationship between Vince and Amanda is affecting the deal. Drama grows attached to a race horse.
The boys use Bubble's love for model trains when they make a plan to smuggle marijuana across the border into Maine. They send a team consisting of Jacob and his "crew" to scout the location, however the scouting team goes missing.
Annie rushes her husband to the hospital when he wakes up with a certain hunch about his heart condition. The kids are a bundle of nerves--especially Lucy--since they don't know whether the news is good or bad. While sitting around in the waiting room, Ruthie and T-Bone decide to get back together, but an unexpected twist of events brings back unresolved issues with the guy who broke Ruthie's heart a year ago.