Thu, Jan 13, 2005
After the gang comes up with Jason's bail money, the police ask him to help them implicate Vincent for his drug running operation, or they will nail Jason instead. Jason refuses to cooperate, until he figures out (too late) that Vincent may have lied to him about wanting out of the drug business. Meanwhile, Nicole has to struggle with her heart. Also, MJ shows an unknown talent with music composing, while Frankie has to deal with betrayal when the scheming Alexandra plots to use him and Tessa to take over the nightclub for herself.
Thu, Nov 4, 2004
M.J.'s worries increase when Lindsay's husband, radio talk-show couples counselor Dr. Clayton Kellogg, from the same part of Chicago as Chris, tells her he had marital problems with Chris's client, whose real first name is actually Melinda: she's the fiancée he left there. In fact she made her startled ex drive the jeep fatally off the road on the volcano flank by suddenly sliding her horny hand in his shorts, having caused their break-up by sleeping with his best friend. He hurts his knee in a mud slide. Both Kelloggs play dirty to get to sleep with the true lovers... Vincent tells Jason and Nicole -who is pestered by her new boss Tessa- to stay on under Alexandra to keep the Grand Waimea afloat till he hopefully can get majority control back. Both new bosses play seductress games on Jason and Frankie. Tessa gets Nicole fired, but Jason has the whole loyal staff strike... When Erica tells Gabe Charlie has left the island, with all their possessions, he tries to spare her returning to her disapproving Californian parents by finding her a waitress job. She runs off on her first day, so he is pulled out of a pro surfing tournament he was finally acing to fill in for her, she has a memorable explanation...
Mon, Sep 20, 2004
Vincent is near despair when he learns one of his two remaining private investors even Jason didn't know about sold his half of the Grand Waimea shares to Walter Booth, who tells Frankie heads will roll after his take-over, only the club is doing too well to estrange. The name of the second investor is also sold by the same traitor, suspects being Nicole and Tessa. Alexandra Hudson reveals first to Walter, then to Nicole, she's the illegitimate, discretely kept daughter of Booth's former secretary Jill, who only told her shortly before her recent death, claiming to want only her real family, but with a secret agenda, including tipping off Nicole his story about her mother's death is staged... Chris is delighted when M.J. invites him to help house-sit a luxurious beach-house for a friend of her mother, but feminine decorative despotism soon spoils the frisky mood... Gabriel's pulling out of the threesome with the lesbians puts all three bilateral relationships are under dangerous strain...
2005
Vincent's situation is resolved along with the relationships of many people from Grand Waimea. Gabriel has to choose between a sponsorship or a girl. MJ and Chris got back together and MJ gets into a music career. Frankie decides to start a new club after finding out about Tessa being setup by Alex. Vincent tries to make things straight with the police by giving away his partner, Xao Ling, to the police. Jason and Nicole get married. Vincent gives his share of the hotel as a wedding gift. As Jason ignites the car, it explodes.
Mon, Jul 19, 2004
The staff is at red alert now the US Vice-president is staying in the hotel, swarmed by Secret Service security, plus his teenage daughter Emily, who promptly pushes a journalist in the water for being her father's ex-mistress. Jason is told to take a day off as the scene he witnesses could cause the hotel unspeakable trouble, so he joins Morgan Holt, who prepares his celebrity style-wedding with Nicole, tells Walter that Booth has ways to force Vincent to sell the hotel and proves pretty frisky in a night-club, for a groom. Gabriel was excited to find surf star Trey Chase in the water and even got invited to join him, but is told Chase was MJ's first and inconsiderate lover, then Jason warns Gabe he can't go on working as an unreliable life-guard. MJ is dumb enough to spend time with Trey again. When Emily sneaks out alone, Chris gives her a ride to join Gabe, who she appreciates as a healthy hunk, but embarrasses by entering a wet t-shirt-competition; when gentleman Gabe pulls her out, Jason has a hard time saving his employee's boyish bacon, again...
Mon, Jul 5, 2004
The Grand Waimeia must simultaneously accommodate groups of triathletes and astronomers on their 15th annual Spasky meteor shower visit. Gabriel accidentally damages 'local' Kurt's water-scooter after another training ride with Frankie, who has to use all his influence as former classmate to make him accept payment of damages, but that's $2,100 and a payment plan is refused, meanwhile Gabe is banned from the surfing beaches, Jason refuses a raise or advance- his desperate move is to take boisterous rock-star Damien Pruitt and his friends along for that price on the 'ultimate aquatic kick', an invention of his own, which alas proves too dangerous for the cocky amateur... Jason is down to learn a studly triathlete is no other then Nicole's New York fiancé Morgan Holt, and he can't find a single flaw in the charming chap, he even has to reassure him in his honest wedding gibbers. Because Nicole is unreachable, obsessed with wedding preparations, Tessa has to decide on her own, ordered by Vincent to keep the stargazers happy enough to stay although the weather forecast for the meteor night is cloudy, to offer Dr. Burtwhistle's bunch on her own their stay is free if they can't observe the shower...
Thu, Nov 11, 2004
Clayton threatens to expose a secret about him and MJ. Alexandra resorts to blackmail. MJ has big decisions to make about her relationship with Chris. Hotel politics rise and Vincent almost loses everything at high-stakes poker, leading him into a new business with a Chinese woman named Xao Ling.
Mon, Aug 2, 2004
Nicole's father, Walter, pays a surprise visit to the hotel but gets a surprise himself; Jason tries to forget about Nicole by getting closer to Tessa, who is working to help Walter take over the Grand Waimea. Meanwhile, Frankie meets a girl on the beach, but realizes that he is not the only man involved with her. He also could be putting his job and health at risk.