A wealthy woman hires Mason to buy stock in her husband's land company, hoping to force his mistress out. But her plan goes awry when she is charged with murder.
Andy tries to counsel the constantly bickering couple, Fred and Jennie Boone, with mixed results.
Beaver is invited to an all-girl party.
Andy's eager-beaver deputy jails Aunt Bee and her friends for gambling at their charity bazaar.
The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands.
