It's the day after Thanksgiving and Chuck faces the most awkward of family reunions when mom comes over for dinner—along with the dangerous Alexei Volkoff. Back at the Buy More, Morgan deals with the busiest shopping day of the year as Jeff and Lester hatch their latest scheme.
Lightman is hired by a terminally ill restaurant owner to find his daughter's killer as his dying wish.
Chuck, Serena, Blair, Dan, Jenny and Eric find themselves faced with a crisis when a member of one of their families is hospitalized. Meanwhile, Nate attempts to help his parents, The Captain and Anne, put their complicated past behind them and reconcile.
Helen and Frank send their son Rob off to his first day as a temp at a local factory. When Rob doesn't return home, Helen sets out to find justice for her son.
Naomi jumps back into the dating world when she notices one of Ivy’s hot surfer friends, Zach, and tries to impress him by pretending to know how to work a surfboard. Ivy remains upset by her mother’s actions with Oscar and decides to rebuild her relationship with her father. Dixon and Annie decide to help Debbie get back into the dating world by signing her up for online dating, but while on her first date, she and Ryan sneak away for some one-on-one time at the Beach Club. While at the beach luau, Teddy gets jealous when he sees Ian with another guy and allows his feelings to control his actions. Navid and Adrianna’s relationship is strained now that she has found fame, which leads him closer and closer to Silver.
A year after taking office, the prime minister's approval ratings are low, her government is in internal conflict, and her marriage is hanging by a thread. As she prepares for another year in parliament, what can be saved?
The final numbers for the Fibbies are in, and Fitz is way out of contention. But there's a loop-hole - salesmen can enter as a team. As Fitz schemes to sign Larry as his 'plus one', Larry gets an anonymous letter: a clue into a past he no longer remembers. Though Fitz agrees to help Larry investigate his past in exchange for his help winning a Fibbie, mere hours before the Fibbies start, they end up trapped in an abandoned warehouse. Larry doubts his abilities as a conscience, and wonders if the world would be better without him. Fitz talks him out of his noose, and they get to the Fibbies just in time, but as Fitz practices his acceptance speech in the parking lot, a hood is thrown over his head and he's kidnapped. Let's just say the list of suspects is long...
Phaedra adjusts to motherhood as she brings her new baby home from the hospital and proving it doesn't get easier, Kim wrestles with her daughter's questions about sex. Sheree decides she has had enough and confronts "the doctor" about his evasiveness. Kandi rewrites "The Ring Didn't Mean a Thing" to make it more Kim friendly and plays the new track at Kim's parents' dinner party. Cynthia plans her dream wedding with a celebrated stylist friend and high-end wedding planner, while NeNe's marriage nears the breaking point as her relationship problems are exposed in a very public way, leading to a dramatic confrontation with Gregg.
While the communist group plans their next move, Daniel comes to Marcel with urgent news.
Marcel and the communist militants conduct a resistance operation but it goes wrong and the French police catch Suzanne.
Returning from war, weary and wounded, British sailors are treated with contempt and abuse at the Greenwich Hospital. One man bravely exposes the corruption, and finds himself in a Newgate cell. Southouse accuses Garrow of mixed motives as his uses the case to attack The Admiralty - and in particular its Under Secretary, Sir Arthur Hill.
Stella gets nabbed shoplifting, and Leonard, who has a checkered past of his own, shows little support; Dan goes out of his way again to embarrass Andy on TV, but takes him out for a drink afterward; Dan's daughter and her crew party it up at a local strip club.
Working as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Logan confides in Hemingway, knowing he must make decisions about Freya and Lottie. With the outbreak of WWII, Logan is recruited as a British Agent by Ian Fleming. Foreign assignments lead to encounters with the formidable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Although the world is in turmoil, Logan's domestic life is bliss. Freya and Stella, their daughter, are thriving and it seems at last that Logan understands the meaning of true love.
Rick leads the group to the CDC after the attack. Jim must make a terrible life and death decision.
Mike visits a forensic entomology lab where he helps inspect pig carcasses for maggots and other insects.
Homicide uncovers some key evidence linked to one of Dexter's and Lumen's prior victims; Debra identifies two more suspects in the case.
After Bart nurses an injured bird back to health, Homer enters it in a race.
It’s Thanksgiving in Langley Falls, and as usual, Stan invites his half-brother, Rusty, over to show off his cornucopia of wealth and good fortune. But when Stan finds out that Rusty is far wealthier than he led on, Stan tries to take from Rusty what he feels is rightfully his. Things don’t go well, and the Smith family nearly loses it all.