Spencer prepared for the first location shoot for "Oakdale 411" with Brad. Henry arrived at WOAK with Vienna and was surprised to find out Brad had a new show with a new co-host. Katie introduced the pair to Spencer. Henry invited Katie and Brad to join him and Vienna at Metro later for drinks, and they agreed.

After Brad and Spencer left WOAK for their location shoot, Vienna asked Katie about Spencer. Vienna thought Spencer might be interested in Brad, but Katie said all Spencer was interested in was learning her craft. Vienna strongly cautioned Katie about letting Brad become involved, even professionally, with a pretty young woman like Spencer. Katie said she trusted Brad completely, and she didn't think Spencer was interested in him, anyway.

The location shoot was at a toy factory. The owner, Horace Krane, showed Spencer a doll that spoke five languages. When Spencer suggested it was probably a toy for older children, the man insisted it was for two- to five-year-old kids. Spencer asked about the safety of the toys, and Mr. Krane assured her that he personally checked every toy before it left the factory. Brad then pulled the doll's head off; when several pieces fell out, he asked what would happen if a two-year-old choked on one of those pieces.

Mr. Krane insisted that a child wouldn't have been able to break the doll the way that Brad had, and he said he would have caught any defective doll before it left his factory. Spencer then produced the same doll, but one she had purchased at a toy store. She broke the doll the same way Brad had done. Brad asked Mr. Krane why he had ignored three warnings the product safety association had issued against his products, including the doll. Mr. Krane reacted angrily.

Spencer continued shouting questions at Mr. Krane. Mr. Krane shouted that he would sue Spencer, Brad, and the station, and said that neither Brad nor Spencer would ever work in Oakdale again. He threw them out. Brad and Spencer were thrilled with how well the segment had gone. After Brad said they made a great team, Spencer hugged him.

Brad and Spencer returned to WOAK, still excited about the segment. Katie and Kim, who had already watched the feed from the shoot, agreed it made for great TV. Brad asked Katie if they could go meet Henry and Vienna at Metro. Katie invited Spencer to join them.

At Metro, they all drank wine until Spencer said it was time for her to go back to her hotel. Katie asked how she would get there, since they had all come in Brad's car. Spencer said she would call a cab, but Katie said Brad could drive Spencer to the Lakeview.

In the lobby of the Lakeview, Brad and Spencer talked some more about how incredible the TV segment had been. Spencer said she was happy to have someone like Katie to mentor her and hoped one day, she could do the same for some other young woman. Brad told Spencer she would do well on TV because she had a great personality and was very likable. Spencer said she thought Brad was likable, too.

Vienna told Katie that Spencer had just engineered a way to be alone with Brad while making it look as though it had been Katie's idea. Henry told Vienna that he and Brad were too savvy to be suckered in by a woman like that. Vienna then became distraught, saying she suddenly realized she didn't have her wallet. She panicked, saying she thought she might have left it at Al's, and it had all her credit cards, driver's license, and cash in it. Henry and Katie tried to calm her down until finally, Henry realized Vienna was playing him. Katie insisted that Spencer wasn't doing anything like that, but she said she could handle it if Spencer did have a crush on Brad.

Brad left Spencer at her room. When Spencer unlocked the door and opened it, she immediately screamed. In the lobby, Brad overheard a security guard saying there was a report of an intruder in Spencer McKay's room. He got in the elevator with the guards. They all asked Spencer what had happened. Spencer said she had screamed when she saw a man in her room, and the man had shoved her into the door and then run from the room. Spencer's head was bleeding, so after the security guard checked the room, Brad took her inside to clean up her cut.

The hotel security guards asked Spencer if she could describe the man. She told them it had been dark when she opened the door, but she thought he was short, stocky, and balding. Brad said it could have been Horace Krane, and he told the guards about the TV exposé. Brad told Spencer he would stay with her until the security people had finished searching the hotel. He called Katie and told her what was happening, and Katie agreed that Brad should stay with Spencer.

Katie told Henry and Vienna what had happened. Vienna convinced Katie to go to the hotel, rather than leave Brad alone with Spencer. When Katie arrived, she asked Spencer about the attack, and Spencer repeated the story. Spencer asked Katie if she had ever been attacked because of a story. Katie told Spencer about a man in a turkey suit who had wanted to dance on TV; when Katie had turned him down, the man had threatened Katie with a butter knife. Katie said that wasn't as bad as the man with the gun who wasn't happy when Brad and Katie got married. Spencer asked if the man had wanted Katie for himself, but Katie said he'd wanted Brad. They all laughed.

Katie and Brad left and returned home. Katie told Brad it was too bad that Spencer was the only one who had seen the man who attacked her. Brad asked if Katie was questioning Spencer's story, and he asked if Vienna had put that idea in Katie's head. Katie said she just wondered whether Spencer might turn out to be more of a project than they had imagined and whether they had room for something like that in their lives.

Spencer turned on her laptop computer and watched the film from the exposé. She continued watching the unedited footage as it reached the end, when Brad and Spencer talked about what a great team they made.

In New York City, Paul hired a brunette woman, Claudia, with a young son, Andrew, to travel around the world for six months, pretending that they were Lucy and Johnny. He gave her a fake passport, credit cards, and driver's license. The woman, a struggling actress, said she had asked a friend who had gone to law school whether what she would be doing was legal. Paul told Claudia not to discuss his job offer with anyone else again.

Paul said the job was part of a project for a travel book for single moms, and that Claudia would be doing research for him. Paul told Claudia all she had to do was travel around the world and keep notes on the laptop he would provide to her. Claudia, who thought Paul's name was Raul Phillips, asked how many single moms could afford that type of travel. Paul said lawyers, doctors, and business executives could afford it, and that, in fact, Claudia would be pretending to be Dr. Lucy Montgomery.

At Fairwinds, Meg assured Dusty that Paul was out of town, in Cleveland, and that Paul no longer felt hostility towards him. Dusty was skeptical, but Meg said Paul had recovered from his "illness," and she told Dusty he should give Paul another chance.

Emily called Dusty and told him she had a lead on Lucy and Johnny. Dusty went to Emily's office, where she told him a contact of hers, a forger in New York, said he had done some quick work for Lucy Montgomery and her son. Dusty was doubtful of the story's accuracy, because he couldn't believe Lucy would be using her real name.

Emily had information about the stores where Lucy had supposedly been shopping. Dusty took the information and told Emily he was going to New York. He kissed her passionately and thanked her for her help.

Paul returned to Oakdale and went to Emily's office. He told her his accountant had told him he needed to sign some paperwork, and Paul had told the accountant he would sign it when he returned from Cleveland. Emily said she didn't know where the paperwork was and suggested Paul try the accounting department.

After Paul left, Emily received a call from someone looking for Paul. The person told Emily that Paul had left something on the plane on his flight back from New York. Emily hung up and called Dusty, telling him she had found out Paul had been in New York despite his claims of having been in Cleveland. Dusty was able to catch up with "Dr. Montgomery" in New York.

Paul returned home to Fairwinds and told Meg he had successfully concluded his business in Cleveland. He told Meg he was feeling much better, and they kissed. Dusty stormed into the room and told Meg where Paul had really been and what he'd been doing. Paul admitted it, saying he had wanted Dusty to leave town. Meg was stunned that Paul would act that way after Dusty had given him the money to resolve his financial problems. Paul said the money should have been his in the first place, because it was his father's money. Paul also said he didn't think his father was stupid, and he wouldn't have left his money to a dead man, so he thought Dusty had been working with James all along.

Meg told Paul she thought James had kidnapped Dusty so he could use Dusty to come between Meg and Paul, in an attempt to drive Paul crazy. Dusty said it had worked, and he advised Meg to get out before something terrible happened. Paul became irate, telling Dusty he could take care of his wife and unborn child. Meg begged Dusty to let it go, and Dusty left, telling Paul to stay away from his son, Johnny. Meg told Paul she would give him the benefit of the doubt once more, but that if Paul ever did anything like that again, she would leave him.

Margo went to Emily's office to ask her if she had anything to do with faking Dusty's death. Emily said no, but Margo continued to harass her. Emily pointed out that the night Dusty had supposedly been killed, Emily had been beside herself with grief, because she had loved Dusty. Margo accused Emily of having used Casey to get over her grief, and Emily told Margo to get out.