The Namesake

Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Lance und Melissa erreichen ihren Höhepunkt. Melissa gesteht Cole, dass sie ein Kind von ihm erwartet. Richard Channing schreckt auch vor kriminellen Methoden nicht zurück, um in Tuscany Valley Fuß zu fassen.

Richard schemes to buy a piece of county property earmarked for a park, on which he plans to build a memorial to Douglas Channing on one small part and plant a vineyard on the rest. While Chase vehemently opposes the plan, Richard plants a bomb in Nick's truck and successfully intimidates Nick to vote his way at the board of supervisors meeting. Leaving her prescribed bed rest in order to win Cole back from Katherine Demery, Melissa collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she delivers an unhealthy, premature baby, whom she names Joseph Angelo Cumson, after Lance's great-great-grandfather. After Cole moves out of Katherine Demery's house, he moves back into his parents' house.