Fertile Ground

Da Janet finder ud af, at barnepigen ikke er den uskyldighed, hun har udgivet sig for, bliver Steve tvunget til at afsløre sine egen fortid med den ombejlede Darby. Mats bror Patrick og hans kone Juliane er i byen. Det viser sig, at Patrick ikke kan få børn, og de spørger Matt, om han vil være surrogat-far til deres fremtidige barn, en idé Kelly absolut ikke bryder sig om. Gina får løfte om et job i tv-branchen, først skal hun imidlertid hjælpe tv-direktørens søn med at tabe sig. Hun har tre dage til projektet og tager frisk kampen op. Noah er stadig involveret med det kriminelle søskendepar Josie og Shane, og de prøver at overtale ham til at få Dylan til at betale Josies gæld på 90.000 dollars.

Matts Bruder und seine Partnerin wünschen sich nichts sehnlicher als ein Kind. Da er zeugungsunfähig ist, will Matt als Samenspender einspringen. Kelly hat jedoch Einwände. Unterdessen erlebt Noah nach der Trennung von Donna die wildesten Dinge – unter anderem wird er von einer Drogendealerin entführt …

Matt's brother and sister-in-law come to town and reveal that they cannot conceive a child on their own. They ask Matt to be their surrogate father. Kelly objects and orders Matt to turn them down, then becomes angry upon learning that he told his brother that he had to bow to her wishes. She later realizes that not everything is about her and gives Matt her blessing. Gina, with Dylan's help, gets a shot at another television job. The man will not hire her unless she helps his teenage son lose weight before the school dance. Gina loses the job (as usual) after she encourages the boy to stand up to his overbearing father. She convinces the man to treat his son with respect by detailing the way that her pushy mother shaped her life. Gina escorts Michael to the dance, where Dylan surprises her by showing up to give her the prom she never had. Donna dates the clothing buyer for a chain of stores. He buys a bunch of her designs, but Donna nixes a relationship because they have nothing in common. She becomes jealous when David gets involved with Camille Desmond, the editor of a fashion magazine. Steve confesses his past fling with Darby to Janet, who fires the woman. Steve suffers a bruised ego because Darby doesn't remember the encounter. Josie fears for her life because she had to flush $90,000 worth of merchandise; she insists that the other dealer will kill her. Josie asks Noah to lobby Dylan on her behalf. He refuses to help. Josie's brother Shane and another man kidnap Noah at gunpoint, as they assume that someone would actually pay to get him back. Music 'Take a Picture' by Filter, 'If You Believe' by Sasha.

Le frère de Matt et sa femme ne peuvent pas avoir d'enfant. Matt accepte de donner son sperme...

El hermano y la cuñada de Matt llegan al pueblo y revelan que no pueden concebir un hijo por sí mismos. Le piden a Matt que sea su padre sustituto. Kelly objeta y le ordena a Matt que los rechace, luego se enoja al enterarse de que le dijo a su hermano que tenía que inclinarse ante sus deseos. Más tarde se da cuenta de que no todo se trata de ella y le da a Matt su bendición. Gina, con la ayuda de Dylan, tiene la oportunidad de conseguir otro trabajo en televisión. El hombre no la contratará a menos que ella ayude a su hijo adolescente a perder peso antes del baile de la escuela. Gina pierde el trabajo (como de costumbre) después de que ella anima al niño a enfrentarse a su autoritario padre. Ella convence al hombre de que trate a su hijo con respeto al detallar la forma en que su insistente madre moldeó su vida. Gina acompaña a Michael al baile, donde Dylan la sorprende al presentarse para darle el baile de graduación que nunca tuvo.