Patrick Pankhurst

Ojai's newest wine is submitted at a local festival; Justin and Rebecca harbor life-changing secrets from each other; Nora has a secret crush on a younger man; Sarah and Luc may not be as compatible as they had hoped.

Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason uses the fictional Atlanta design firm of Sugarbaker and Associates as a witty bully pulpit for caustic social and political humor. The founder of the company is Julia Sugarbaker, a sharp-tongued but elegant and surprisingly compassionate woman. Her younger sister, Suzanne, is a former beauty queen who is long on charm but a bit slow on the uptake. Their associates are Mary Jo Shively, a recent divorcee, and officer manager Charlene Frazier, whose sweetness is matched only by her naivete. Their deliverman is Anthony Bouvier, a well-spoken ex-convict, and cheerfully dotty senior citizen Bernice Clifton often drops by for a visit as well.

Sydney and Dixon are dispatched to Las Vegas to question an agent with ties to the group that nearly destroyed SD-6.

The team tries to track down a Marine's old unit after he is murdered by an exploding cell phone.

Adam, a visiting angel, gives despairing J.R. a view of what life would have been like had he never been born, in a special two hour series finale.