Christopher Fennell

Carter Bowen panics when Sheriff Buck wants his teenage daughter to work for him as payback for an old favor. When he refuses, his life quickly begins to unravel. After his wife is mysteriously injured and Buck sends a lecherous former acquaintance to taunt his naïve daughter, Carter realizes he is in over his head. Meanwhile, Caleb's school science project serves as a battleground for Buck and Dr. Crower as they compete to be his mentor.

Sheriff Buck calls in a favor from the local judge who is overseeing Caleb’'s custody hearing, hoping to ensure his favored status, but he doesn’t stop there. A beautiful mirror given as a wedding gift to Crower’'s co-worker, Dan Trulane, begins to have a strange effect on Dan'’s new bride. Repulsed by his wife's bizarre behavior, Dan realizes that if he wants the woman he married back, he must go along with Sheriff Buck's mission to ruin Crower. In the meantime, Merlyn's spirit leads Caleb to a temporary refuge.

Gail may have pushed Sheriff Buck too far when she accuses him of foul play in the death of his former girlfriend, who was with him just before her car mysteriously drove off a bridge. Buck, meanwhile, gives Caleb a warped lesson in competition when he presents him with a "special bow" and arrow for his archery contest, and Deputy Ben Healy tries to handle his domestic troubles without the sheriff's help.

Selena reaches out to Caleb and tries to help him with his school work. She begins to spend extra time with him which bothers Lucas. Selena also tries to reconcile with her father who is the reverend at the local church. Ben tries to sort out his animosity towards Lucas by visits to the psychiatrist, Dr. Perry. As usual, Lucas finds out that Ben has been telling the doctor a few things that he doesn't want known and threatens Dr. Perry with a secret from his past.

She leads him to a house which turns out to be the place that Judith Temple used to help abandoned children. With Gail they discover drawings from the young children as well as several drawings of Lucas done with a great amount of love by Judith. Merlyn is trying to make Ben aware of the truth about her mother's death. Gail confronts Lucas about Judith. Lucas tries to explain to Gail how much he loved Judith and wanted to marry and have a family with her. He also claims that Judith was in love with him, but could never leave her husband. Caleb confronts a school bully, Tina, who is later discovered living at the abandoned house.