Mike and Rio are thrilled about having their first Christmas alone as a married couple, but a wrench is thrown into their romanticized holiday plans as they are interrupted by crisis after crisis; Kay invites Beau home for Christmas.
Seven years have passed and Lorenzo hopes to close the accounts with the Pope by obtaining the signing of a peace treaty between the various Italian rulers. Riario hopes to induce Lorenzo to return to open war. While the Magnificent faces this new diplomatic crisis, his mother Lucrezia involves Clarice in the management of the bank. Worn out by the constant clash with Sixtus IV, Lorenzo decides to start his son Giovanni on an ecclesiastical career hoping to increase the influence of the Medici in the Roman Curia. The Treaty of Bagnolo, signed by all the Italian rulers, marks the triumph of the Medici family and Lorenzo, who has become the deciding vote of Italian politics.
Arriving in Naples with Bernardi, Lorenzo finds it difficult to convince King Ferrante of Aragon to abandon the alliance with the Pope. While the Magnificent tries to win the king's trust, Florence remains under siege: the people and Clarice herself fear that Lorenzo has abandoned them.
a storm strands Victoria and Rey together, while Billy opens up to Amanda, and Chelsa and Adam vow to save their son.
When Julia tells Ted about her engagement to Benjamin it causes unexpected consequences. Meanwhile Patrick entreats Julia to get Benjamin to sign a pre-nup to protect her wealth.
The Stallworths, a working class African American family, scratch off a lottery ticket and jump to middle class overnight.
The Girls and the Boys compete to get to the top of Bear Mountain, using very different styles of camping. But when the legendary bear appears, they have to team up to survive.
The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup d'état and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth, the king's only daughter, sets out on a journey to find the “Seven Deadly Sins,” and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.
Miranda and Max investigate the death of a world-famous DJ after he plays at Mallorca's most popular nightclub, leading the detectives to investigate a sophisticated drug network.
Chrissy and Erik Kopplin, owners of KCC Design + Build, find themselves in a tight spot after being hired to transform a tiny Manhattan hotel room into a high-end sushi restaurant and bar.
When Langdon's father shows up for a testes check, Steph brings a group of medical students in to observe the procedure in order to teach her colleague a much needed lesson in patient privacy, but soon finds that she may have pushed Langdon too far.
When Steph becomes irritated by her perpetually upbeat colleague, she decides to get even with Langdon by sending him on a mission to check the prostate of a dangerous bikie gang leader, pushing Langdon's can-do nature to the limit.
When a video of Steph accidentally burning a rainbow flag goes viral, Steph is branded as a homophobe, despite being part of the LGBTI community herself. Langdon attempts to help her remedy the situation by putting on a pride celebration rally at the clinic.
When Graft finally makes good on her threat to close down Metro Sexual, Langdon decides to put on a musical to save the clinic with his new theatre actor boyfriend Tim, but Steph is dubious of Tim and suspects his motives might not be entirely pure.
Mark Hobson walked out on his happy family with no explanation on New Year's Day. Five years later he went on a murder spree, killing his girlfriend, her sister and an elderly couple. Criminologists and psychologists try to decode this enigma.
Kayla and Luke have a gender reveal; Stephan takes his girlfriend to Florida; Ashley and Bar are not on the same page about their status; Rachel's birthday doesn't go exactly as she plans; Brianna goes to the emergency room.
In Africa, Adam and Caveman Rob search for the Nile Monitor Lizard and the Velvet Ant but are attacked by an even deadlier animal and are lucky to escape with their lives.
Holiday-themed incidents include a shopper pushed over the edge, a woman who is literally having a "Blue Christmas" and a luggage handler accident on a tarmac; Maddie revisits her past to embrace her future; Bobby receives shocking news.
A few months after the Pazzi Conspiracy, Lorenzo is still animated by the spirit of revenge. There is a distant clash between Lorenzo and Pope Sixtus IV; the cruel count Riario - the last of the conspirators left alive - tries to take advantage of this conflict. A Dominican friar arrives in Florence who seems capable of reading Lorenzo's heart: Girolamo Savonarola.