Rose makes a stunning discovery while admitting a patient at the hospital. Meanwhile, Sophia has to have surgery but a mix-up occurs after the operation and Sophia becomes lost in the hospital.
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney that may be responsible for the death of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
After she buys a haunted house, Charlene hires Sugarbaker's to redecorate.
With the elections coming up, Al convinces his family to register and vote for the first time in an effort to stop a proposed tax on beer.
When Allison Sugarbaker, a cousin of Julia and Suzanne, buys out Suzanne's share of the business as an investment, everyone at Sugarbaker's mistakenly assumes that she is not actually planning to work there.