Everyone in town is enthralled with Molly's latest novel, which is a fictional account of life in Gibsons. They are so enthralled that they lose track of their regular day to day duties. Each is most excited by the larger than life depiction of the character who is based on him or herself. Their excitement grows when Hollywood director Mr. Palooka and his assistant Whitney come into town, they who are making a movie of the book and who seem to want to use the local person upon who the character is based to portray that character. As such, each person tries to act the way they see their self portrayed in the book. So they all happily sign the contract that Palooka places in front of them, all except Nick, who sees that the contract is not all it seems on the surface. When Nick convinces them all that they have basically signed their life away to Palooka, they have to come up with a way to regain their life back from him. They get some unexpected support in the matter.

Relic and Nick Adonidas live on the west coast of Canada. The sale of alluvial wood to the sawmill brings so little money that the two "beach pirates" are dependent on ancillary business. The young Indian Jesse gets in the way of the beach pirates.

Scratch, Jesse and Jesse's granddad (who is a shaman) go head to head against a swordfisherman and his spooky friend in a challenge over the rights to a prize log.

The Irish Rovers are slated to perform in Gibson's Landing however one band part startlingly chooses to stop to begin an existence around the local area.

McLoskey and Ceece, alongside their accomplice Jesse, gained blasting grounds and Relic hopes to cheat it far from them.

Relic is being miserable and selfish as usual. He won't donate to the charity Margaret is collecting for, and he leaves McLoskey stranded out on the rough water since he won't pay the $50 Relic wants for his help.

Margret and Gus make a sensational find: At one point of the coast, they find huge oyster beds that no one has yet discovered. Since oysters are paid dearly, the two decide to keep the find secret. The first bucket of oysters is sold by them, as the conjecture that the oysters are infected by a poisoning condenses.

Relic gets Nick and Jesse off guard by guaranteeing the Persephone as rescue while the two are making a plunge the waters beneath.

Gus turns a web of fanciful stories to a kid welfare officer yet may soon come to lament what he has said.

Gus surrenders to enticement and takes a top from a neighborhood store yet is seen by Relic, who extorts Gus into doing him favors.

Scratch, Jesse and Jesse's granddad (who is a shaman) go head to head against a swordfisherman and his spooky friend in a challenge over the rights to a prize log.

Margret has taken care of a dog and promised to look after him well. Walking through the forest, the animal falls into a trap set up by a suspicious-looking man. The stranger, who is obviously on the run, threatens to kill the dog.

Hugh is resolved to have his very own room and the Reach is flipped around therefore.

While bringing home a Christmas tree, Nick and his companions become involved with a contraband bourbon influencing operation at a neighborhood logging to camp.

Hughie and family get to know a youthful Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to find his dad's old fishboat, appropriated amid World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were shamefully stripped of their possessions and dispatched inland as "adversary outsiders". They run head-on into settled in bias from a totally surprising quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-adored companions. Finding the old fishboat and the push to get it water-borne again shape the activity of this moving two-section scene.

Hughie and family get to know a youthful Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to find his dad's old fishboat, appropriated amid World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were shamefully stripped of their possessions and dispatched inland as "adversary outsiders". They run head-on into settled in bias from a totally surprising quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-adored companions. Finding the old fishboat and the push to get it water-borne again shape the activity of this moving two-section scene. Conclusion of two-part story.

Jesse is found napping while at the same time plunging and is cleared out to ocean by an effective tide and should battle to make due until the point that safeguard arrives.

Jesse and Hugh have found a lot of valuable flotsam. But salvaging on a self-made raft is very difficult. The boys have to fight against the tides, and it almost seems as if they can only be saved by a miracle.

Gus examines the bike that his girlfriend Margaret got given from Nick and Molly. Unfortunately, the two did not know which wheels are currently "in". So Margaret fears that she is embarrassing herself with the ancient wire.

Nick gets himself stranded on a pontoon with a debilitated and insane Relic.

Hughie gives Gus a progression of pieces of information to take after to discover his birthday present yet the trail turns out to be more unsafe than arranged.

Relic happens a mishap: The fuel pump of his boat must be repaired. He can not do his job for a week. He's anxious that Molly go on vacation for a week.

Jesse's little band enrolls Nick to paddle in a war kayak that has experienced more promising times.

Nick and Jesse search out a famous vocalist traveling in the zone with the expectation of offering him a melody and profiting all the while.

Jesse in a body cast? Laurel wearing a whiplash collar? Relic on crutches? Nick leads them all into court to get to the bottom of a bizarre series of events and chain reactions that lead to some thirty-nine separate lawsuits. The question is .... who was at fault? Guests: Stephen E. Miller, Garwin Sanford, Alex Bruhanski, Joseph Gallagher, and Zinta Williams