Probing the Central Coast for missing reporter Chris Christian, Deputy Delmar Johnson encounters a badly beaten Stacey Chernak and suspects a connection to his case. Just hours after his romance with Miranda Jones ignites, Zack Calvin's life is endangered by a powerful underwater explosion just off the Santa Barbara coastline. Meanwhile Sally O'Mally flees Milford-Haven to decide the fate of her unborn child; Jack Sawyer reacts to the revelation of a life-long secret; and Susan Winslow considers breaking and entering to discover secrets locked away in Samantha Hugo's journal....