Carly and Hal make love for the first time. Hal leaves the room to make Carly something to eat, returns to ask a question, and finds Carly checking the calendar. He is suspicious she has made a mistake on whether or not she could get pregnant at this time. Will Hal be in for a surprise? Hal shares with Carly a dream of having a chess set his father once owned (or one like it) if they had the money to get it. Carly insures they will have the money someday. She is convinced that she is pregnant.

David tries to anger Lucinda at the Mona Lisa by sitting with Molly. Molly is there to see Emily though and has to leave David to eat with Emily. Molly then pitches her novel to Emily. Emily tries to convince Molly to give up Holden completely as well as the novel she wrote. Lucinda overhears a conversation between Molly and Lisa and destroys Molly's copy of the manuscript.

Ben finds Jack at work and is upset that Jack left the hospital. Ben asks Margo to look after Jack.

Nikki was going to drop her photography class because Andy was right about Matt but she is having second thoughts. Andy is being very understanding towards Nikki.

John is having problems dealing with Barbara being gone. He visits the nursery and remembers Johnny.

Barbara asks Lisa if she and her children can move in with Lisa. Barbara states her fears to Lisa about John. Lisa does not agree Barbara should move in with her. Barbara then goes to visit Johnny's grave. She decides to quit running away from her problems and John. She returns to Lisa and finds John there too. Barbara tells John she is not going to run form him anymore.

John asks Lucinda if she will help John get a child so he and Barbara can have a baby. Lucinda does not agree a baby is the answer to their problems. Since Lucinda wouldn't accept John's idea, he goes to Lisa.

Molly tries to get Emma to send her book to Emma's publisher. Emma won't do it. Molly is caught on Emma's porch later on while writing her ideas down to rewrite parts of her book. Molly gets thrown out. Holden, Lily, Luke, Emma, and Lucinda sit down to have breakfast when there is a knock at the door. Everyone assumes it is Molly but it is someone serving Lily with a subpoena from David Allen for breech of contract. What will Lily and Lucinda do now?

Tom returns from vacation to find Margo has been involved in yet another dangerous police operation. He is unhappy about this but Margo justifies it by telling him she had lot of help and it was Hal's sting. Tom tries to convince Margo to leave work for awhile to eat with him. She says she has too much work to do. Tom goes out with Emily instead.

Barbara wants a legal separation. John talks her out of doing anything just yet. John goes to the hospital to work and finds that Ben and Camille have admitted a patient who is in labor and wants to give the child up for adoption. John approaches her and mentions he and Barbara are interested in adopting.

Lucida wants David to drop the lawsuit. David refuses to do anything about the lawsuit. Lucida then sees Tom and tries to get help from him. Tom keeps saying he is on vacation and does not want to discuss business at this time.

Jack is back at work. He blows up at Margo for not putting him on a case. Margo does not back down. Hal walks in just as Jack starts telling Margo what happened in Teague's cabin. Jack explains to Hal how one-sided the feelings were. Carly comes to the police station to get Hal and has to go on a call. Carly is left behind and runs into Jack.

Hal and Carly are caught by Nikki. Carly wants to "get to know" Nikki. Nikki has no time for Carly and doesn't care to make time for her. Carly knows Nikki does not want to be in the same house as her and figures it is a matter of time before Nikki moves out so Carly and Hal can have the place to themselves (and the new little one).

Lily and Holden meet with Jessica to discuss David's lawsuit. Jessica informs them that David has a solid case and they should consider settling out of court. Holden thinks it's a good idea, but Lily refuses. Later, Tom stops by the office and tells a stunned Jessica he doesn't feel like playing lawyer anymore and to give his cases and fees to the junior partner because he is taking an extended vacation.