TGH - The Gingerbread House (112) Tues Dec 21/99
Lily tells Jake she wants a divorce and admits to Rick that she made TBM. Rick, unable to forgive her, has to reconsider his holiday plans.

M - Mediation (113) Mon Jan 24/00
Lily begins mediating a divorce settlement with Jake. Miles is introduced. Rick and Lily run into each other in the classroom. Later, Rick and Lily meet in the coffeehouse where he attempts to break things off between them but discovers he is unable to let her go.

SF - Sneaky Feelings (114) Mon Jan 31/00
Karen dumps Lloyd after meeting Leo. Eli feels tempted to cheat on Jennifer with Cassidy which causes problems between him and Jessie.

MD - The Mystery Dance (115) Mon Feb 7/00
Judy meets Sam Blue. Lily tries to mend her relationship with Rick at the Seafood Restaurant. Rick and Miles continue to work together. Rick tells Lily he can't live without her.

DG - Daddy's Girl (116) Mon Feb 14/00
Lily hires a divorce attorney; Grace meets Jared. Phil comes for the re-opening of the restaurant. Rick gives Lily a cricket for Valentine's, but she brushes him off to work on her resume.

UB - Unfinished Business (117) Mon Mar 6/00
Grace rehearses her King Lear play. Phil and Grace get in a car accident. While recuperating at Lily's house, he meets Rick and asks his intentions. Phil has a stroke and dies.

SAB - Strangers and Brothers (118) Mon Apr 3/00
Aaron and Barbara come for Phil's funeral. Lily gets control of Barbara's share in the restaurant and gets the upper hand over Jake. Rick and Lily talk in the playhouse.

CIH - Cat-in-Hat (119) Mon Apr 3/00
Karen's involvement with Leo grows serious. Eli plays his parents against each other and gets caught in a nightclub by Karen. Jessie is reluctant to take her black belt exam.

MBC - My Brilliant Career (120) Mon Apr 10/00
Lily's new job helps put her priorities in order. Grace discovers that Jake was unfaithful to Lily. Lily tries to encourage Grace to forgive her father for breaking up the family.

LG - Letting Go (121) Mon Apr 17/00
Judy's relationship with Sam is discovered by Rick. Rick gets pneumonia and winds up in the hospital. Lily admits she has been taking him for granted.

ADATO - A Door, About to Open (122) Mon Apr 24/00
Lily and Rick decide the time has come for their families to meet. Miles pressures Rick into working overtime. Lily finds a note in her father's sweater. First family dinner.

WULS - Wake Up, Little Susie (201) Tues Oct 24/00
After a month apart over the summer, Lily and Rick make plans for a big date. Jessie's first days at high school don't go well and Grace isn't much help. Rick and Jessie come to dinner and Grace and Zoe fight over a game of Monopoly. Rick talks to Jessie about being lonely.

BL - Book Lovers (202) Tues Oct 31/00
Judy focuses on making her singles book club a success and hires Will to renovate. Lily promises to get Christie to cover the opening, but doesn't. Christie meets David.

ICSU - I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (203) Tues Nov 14/00
Eli tires of school and decides to pursue a music career. Karen and Rick confront Eli after he ditches a meeting with the guidance counselor. Eli's band gets a gig.

FoF - Feast or Famine (204) Tues Nov 21/00
Peg, Barbara and Aaron come to Thanksgiving dinner at Lily's. Peg confronts Rick about Jessie and Eli. Rick and Lily argue in the mall over his behavior at dinner.

OZY - Ozymandias 2.0 (205) Tues Nov 28/00
Rick gets a great opportunity to develop an office complex park which causes problems with Lily and David. Rick and Lily attend a dinner to meet the Atlantor people.

FFT - Food for Thought (206) Tues Dec 5/00
Rick and Karen take Jessie to a psychiatrist to find out why she is not eating. Rick tells Lily he is going to see Dr. Zwick with his ?wife?. Karen tells Rick she still has feelings for him.

LP - Learner's Permit (207) Tues Dec 19/00
Grace gets her driving permit. Tiffany breaks up with Jake and her and Grace have a heart to heart talk.

LOOB - Life Out of Balance (208) Wed Jan 10/00
Lily and Rick deal with a possible pregnancy. Grace finds the pregnancy test. Eli gets suspended from the basketball team and later quits. Eli and Carla get physical in Karen's van.

SR - Scribbling Rivalry (209) Wed Jan 17/01
Graham is hired to save Pages Alive and begins flirting with Lily. Lily risks her job when she meets Graham behind Christy's back to discuss her ideas.

LLL - Love's Laborer's Lost (210) Wed Jan 24/01
Judy sleeps with Paul and Will. Lily and Judy argue about Judy's inability to commit to someone. Eli has second thoughts about his relationship with Carla. Judy turns down Will

TLU - Thieves Like Us (211) Wed Jan 31/01
Rick peeks in Karen's briefcase and discovers that Miles and Atlantor are being investigated. Grace gets caught in the middle of Eli and Carla's destructive relationship. Grace steals some glitter from Jessie's bedroom.

S - Suspicion (212) Wed Feb 7/01
Lily risks her job and her dignity when Graham's behavior becomes inappropriate. Rick is having misgivings about Lily working with Graham.

EW - Edifice Wrecked (213) Wed Feb 14/01
Rick's relationships are compromised by his involvement with the Atlantor project. Karen tries to stop the project in court. David quits. Grace pickets. Rick proposes to Lily.

TOEOTT - The Other End of the Telescope (214) Wed Mar 7/01
A disgruntled waiter threatens the lives of Jake and Grace and puts the future of Phil's Restaurant in jeopardy. Tiffany tells Jake and Grace that she is pregnant. Lily accepts Rick's proposal.

SRO - Standing Room Only (215) Wed Mar 14/01
Rick and Lily announce their engagement to the kids and discuss moving into Lily's house. Rick runs into trouble when he and Jake decide to renovate. Lily and Tiffany meet at Phil's. Lily tells Rick and Judy about Tiffany's pregnancy.

AGB - Aaron's Getting Better (216) Wed Mar 21/01
When Aaron arrives for an extended visit, Lily and Judy clash over Aaron's progress. Rick and the kids come to dinner with Aaron.

FUOT - Forgive Us Our Trespasses (217) Wed Mar 28/01
Lily and Graham work on a project together. Judy believes she has a stalker. Will works at Lily's repairing the ice damage. There's a wreath in the attic.

BOE - Best of Enemies (218) Wed Apr 4/01
Karen worries about her relationship with Jessie. Karen talks to the Dr. Zwick about Jessie's therapy. Lily moves forward with wedding plans despite Judy's revelations about her feelings toward Rick. Jessie goes on a ski trip.

AP1 - Armageddon, Part I (219) Wed Apr 11/01
The Atlantor Project becomes the subject of a criminal investigation. Karen meets DA Bob. Rick testifies before the Grand Jury. Lily meets Karen at Rick's apartment. Lily eavesdrops on Rick talking to his kids. Rick's apartment gets searched.

WSPHGBT (GBT) - Won't Someone Please Help George Bailey Tonight? (220) Wed Apr 18/01
The investigation pushes Rick into a depression. Karen runs into DA Bob at a dinner. Amanda flirts with Rick. Rick comes home drunk and fights with Lily. He confronts Miles on his deathbed. Rick breaks down to Lily.

MO - Moving On (221) Wed Apr 25/01 Rick and his children prepare to move into Lily's house. Carla stays at Lily's to get away from her step mother. Eli feels pressure to choose between his family and girlfriend and decides to run away with Carla.

STA - Second Time Around (222) Wed May 2/01
Lily and Rick have second thoughts and call off the wedding. Jake tells Lily that the restaurant is in trouble. Rick and Lily get married.

B - Busted (301) Fri Sept 28/01
In the season premiere, Lily's job comes to an end when PagesAlive goes bankrupt. Judy, on the other hand, gets good news when another bookstore owner says that he wants to license the "Booklovers" concept from her. While driving Grace and Jessie to school, Eli gets into an auto accident. When the police arrive, they find marijuana in the car and arrest Eli. Karen and Rick demand that he get a job and straighten his life out. Karen also insists that Eli give up music. With help from Lily, Eli lands a job at a recording studio. Karen is not satisfied, and wants her son to get a "respectable" job. When he asks Lily for advice, Eli is told that "one day he'll have to make decisions for himself." He interprets this to mean that he should keep the job. When Karen learns that Lily has been advising her son, she is furious and demands that Eli move in with her. Lily tells Rick that she doesn't agree with Karen's point of view, and says that Eli's passion for music should be supported. After much debate, it is decided that Eli will keep the job and continue to live with Rick and Lily.

TAT - The Awful Truth (302) Fri Oct 5/01
Acting on a suggestion from Tiffany, Judy decides to take over Phil's, the bankrupt restaurant owned by Jake. The plan is to turn Booklovers into a bookstore/cafe, with Jake managing the restaurant-side of the business. Judy also asks Lily to be a partner in the business. While discussing the new business arrangement, Judy loses her temper and yells at Lily and Jake. This incident makes Lily realize that working with her sister isn't a good idea. Instead, Lily takes a job as the assistant to Les Creswell, the personnel director at a local radio station. Judy gets in touch with Will Gluck, and also hopes to rekindle a romantic flame. Will breaks her heart, though, when he says that he is moving to Florida to be near his daughter. Meanwhile, Grace's English teacher, Mr. Dimitri (Eric Stoltz) has instructed his students to keep personal journals. Mr. Dimitri presses Grace when he feels that she isn't being completely honest in her journal. The situation that Grace is trying to avoid in her journal is her attraction to Eli. Since their parents have gotten married and moved in together, Grace and Eli have become quite friendly with one another. They are, in fact, a little too friendly for Jessie, who is jealous of all the attention that her brother is giving her new stepsister.

KOB - Kind of Blue (303) Fri Oct 12/01
Sam Blue, the married man with whom Judy once had an affair, comes back onto the scene. He gets in touch with Rick, and offers Rick a job designing a posh new hotel. Sam also reveals that he is in the middle of a divorce. Judy also has designs on working with Rick. She tells Jake that she wants to hire Rick to renovate the expanded Booklovers. Jake is understandably reluctant to work with the man who is now married to his ex-wife, but he agrees. Outside of Rick's office, Sam and Judy run into each other. Their first meeting is a bit awkward, but they begin flirting with one another. They eventually kiss, but Judy tells Sam that she is not ready to get into another relationship with him. Meanwhile, the stress of having a new child, as well as the stress of almost losing his business and having to work for Judy, causes Jake to have panic attacks. He sees a doctor, but ultimately learns that he is still in good health.

AO - Acting Out (304) Fri Oct 19/01
Tensions in the house heat up when Jessie and Grace decide to audition for the same role in a school production of "As You Like It." At the auditions, Mr. Dimitri surprises the students when he tells them that he is planning a musical version of the play. Meanwhile, the ambiguous relationship between Judy and Sam Blue continues to get more, well, ambiguous. They spend the night together, and Lily suspects that something is going on between them, but their relationship is a bit unsteady. Judy wants a real commitment from Sam, but he's not ready for another serious relationship, as he is in the process of getting a divorce. After the call-backs for the school play, Grace tells Mr. Dimitri that she isn't sure Jessie could handle the stress of being in a play. When he asks what she meant, Grace reveals Jessie's eating disorder, but quickly back-pedals and assures him that it is not a big deal. In the end, Grace lands the lead role, and Jessie gets a smaller part.

DTOTR - Destiny Turns on the Radio (305) Fri Nov 2/01
At the radio station where Lily works, the station manager Les abruptly fires one of the on-air personalities. Scrambling to fill the air time, Les throws Lily behind the microphone. Lily is a bit nervous at first, but quickly gets into a groove, giving out advice to the troubled callers. She puts her foot in her mouth, though, by talking about some personal family issues, like Jessie's first date. Karen is furious when she discovers that Lily has been talking about her daughter's personal life on the air, and Rick is also annoyed with Lily. Meanwhile, Grace becomes quite jealous about Jessie's first date, as she thought that the boy, Tad, actually had a crush on her.

JATW - Jake and the Women (306) Fri Nov 9/01
When Lily offers to throw Tiffany a baby shower, Jake sincerely questions whether or not he will have a role in his new baby's life.

CT - Chaos Theory (307) Fri Nov 23/01
Lily and Karen both suffer from unrealistic expectations raised by the coming of Thanksgiving.

TSS - The Sex Show (308) Fri Nov 30/01
When sex becomes awkward for the first time in their relationship, Lily and Rick realize how much work it takes to keep a marriage exciting.

TL - Tough Love (309) Fri Dec 7/01
When Eli loses his job and Grace's teacher questions her acting, they both learn the hard way that real self-confidence can be one of life's toughest accomplishments.

P - Pictures (310) Fri Dec 14,01
Amid complete chaos, the early arrival of Tiffany and Jake's baby brings the entire family together on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, Judy's first encounter with Sam's 11-year-old son doesn't go very smoothly.

TS - Taking Sides (311) Fri Jan 4/02
When Sam and Judy's relationship becomes the talk of the whole family, Sam finally realizes he wants Judy to be more than just a friend. Meanwhile, Karen's loneliness and discomfort is compounded when Jessie cancels plans with her mom to stay at Lily's house.

G - Gardenia (312) Fri Jan 11/02
A tragic accident shakes Karen from her deep depression and sets her up for the toughest battle of her life.

FIP - Falling in Place (313) Mon Mar 4/02
Jessie's anxiety and guilt about her mom's slow recovery causes tension with every member of the family, especially Lily. Meanwhile, Eli is in denial about the seriousness of his mother's condition.

TGSA - The Gay/Straight Alliance (314) Mon Mar 11/02
Grace pursues her teacher and Jessie develops an attraction for her friend, Katie.

OSPB - One Step (Parent) Backward (315) Mon Mar 18/02
Sam places his dream of committing to Judy and having a family squarely on the shoulders of his eleven-year-old son. Meanwhile, Jake finally realizes his feelings for Tiffany and his new baby daughter.

ALOD - Aaron's List of Dreams (316) Mon Mar 25/02
When Lily's brother, Aaron, expresses a desire to move out on his own with a young woman who is also mentally disabled (Ally Sheedy), she finds it emotionally impossible to let him go.

EITT - Experience is the Teacher (317) Mon Apr 1/02
Grace further pursues a relationship with her drama teacher, to the detriment of his teaching career.

LY - Losing You (318) Mon Apr 8/02
Just when Lily thinks life can't get any more complicated, her mother begins to show early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

COAL - Chance of a Lifetime (319) Mon Apr 15/02
On the series finale, Rick is offered the career opportunity of a lifetime — but it's on another continent. Lily, for her part, also has some exciting news. The couple face yet another life-altering decision, but this one could displace the entire family.