Maggie and Whitley plan a debate on balancing career and family life. Dwayne pursues a campus disc jockey job.

Rudy comes to Hillman so she can see Denise, but she ends up bonding with Whitley instead.

Russell Huxtable pays his granddaughter Denise a visit, which puts a damper on her plans to pull a prank with her friends.

Denise tries out for the track team making her Dad proud, but she can't handle the practices. Maggie tries to find a book that she needs for a term paper.

As Halloween approaches, the Huxtables make elaborate preparations and look forward to dressing up in outlandish costumes. Vanessa spends most of her Halloween party trying to mask her true feelings for Robert, whom all the girls think is the coolest boy in the seventh grade.

Denise is determined to spend her savings on the first car she sees, and balks when her father forbids her to buy an expensive lemon. But the bargain-conscious Cliff becomes a wheeler-dealer when the family handyman, Mr. Lucas, offers to sell Denise his aunt's old car. Also, Cliff informs a middle-aged couple that they are going to have a baby, which comes as a shock to them, as they already have a five-year-old grandson!

Kyle receives a promotion, but becomes extremely disenchanted after realizing that he is no longer allowed any contact with clients; the entire job consists of attending meeting after meeting. When Kyle is asked to speak before a church youth group, a young man who has followed his career closely suggests that he use his creativity to make his job more interesting. Kyle proposes an intermediary position, in which he would be involved in middle management, yet still work with clients. He must take a pay cut, but feels it is worth it. Meanwhile, Max tests Regine's claim that she doesn't mind when Keith paints portraits of nude models by volunteering to pose. Regine finally admits her jealousy, and Keith agrees to work with her to put her mind at ease.

Khadijah's estranged father asks her to keep an eye on her spoiled half-sister, Stephanie, while she is in town for a track meet. Khadijah asks Ivan to take her out and keep her out of trouble, but she slips away at a party and gets really drunk. She has a terrible hangover the morning of the finals. Khadijah forces her to get in the blocks, but she has to quit the race to go throw up. Khadijah can't understand why Stephanie would throw her opportunity away, but Stephanie explains that she is tired of being touted as a future Olympian; she would rather be a regular college student. Khadijah doesn't sympathize, pointing out that Stephanie at least has a father to pressure her. She is surprised to learn that their father always holds up Khadijah as a role model to her sister. Regine suspects that Max penned a letter to a magazine expressing concern about her habit of pushing men away (one in particular). She and Kyle pester Max about this, but she steadfastly denies it. Overton, however, sees through her lies.

Max defends Jackson Turner, an environmentalist accused of murdering a CEO. He insists he was on a plane at the time the crime was committed, and Max locates a stewardess who remembers his snoring. Max and Jackson begin falling for each other. After he is cleared, they go to his cabin for the weekend. Max learns that the CEO died from the venom of a rare poisonous spider; Jackson could have killed him without being present. She jumps out the window, but later returns with Overton to confront Jackson. He insists he is innocent, and notices that a spider is missing. They realize that his assistant, Peignor, had access to the spiders. Synclaire, Regine and Kyle arrive to check on Max and Overton. Peignor emerges from the bathroom with a gun. Kyle and Overton jump him, but break the spiders' case. When Peignor tries to grab the gun, Max tosses a spider at him. Kyle and Overton carry him to the clinic. Max apologizes to Jackson, but decides he isn't right for her after he asks her to help track scorpions in New Mexico. Khadijah breaks up with the achingly dull Teddy, but must provide counsel to his jilted kid sister. She hangs around the apartment and ties up the phone.

Laverne is very impressed with Keith at their first meeting, but things take a turn for the worse when Ms. Hunter catches Keith and Regine in a romantic interlude on the roof a few days later. (Max, who observed the entire encounter from her apartment, documents it for the neighborhood newsletter.) Regine cannot get her mother to speak to her, so she comes down to her favorite bingo parlor with Khadijah to confront her. Laverne explains that Regine's behavior reminds her of the time that Regine was conceived in the bleachers during a Mets game. Regine assures her that she has control of her life, and there is no reason to worry. When one of Laverne's bingo cards is a winner, she and her daughter celebrate with a shopping spree. Overton decides to pop the question to Synclaire. He spots the perfect ring, but must negotiate with the eccentric old man who presently owns it.

Eddie wants to join a college fraternity but his prospective fraternity brothers ask him to give up his friendship with the socially inept Steve.

In a ghost story that the Winslow family invents during a power outage on Halloween, Carl and Harriette play vampires living in a castle.

Misguided teen T’Keisha Gilmer is relieved when she’s taken in by an older man. But when a road trip to Lanham, Maryland promises quick cash, she learns just how steep the price of love really is. And in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brandy Holmes teams up with a criminal bad boy to prove her deadly devotion.

When Belinda Henry, a lonely divorcee, meets aspiring model, Keith Henry, her way of life shifts from pain to pleasure. Later, young love turns deadly when Keithron Fields walks into Ashley Ervin’s life.

Police Officer Antoinette Frank falls for a street thug and goes against everything she swore to protect by committing the most heinous blood bath New Orleans has ever seen. After falling for a local bad boy, teenager Linda Pedroza is willing to eliminate anyone who dares to come between them.

After Candice Martinez falls hard for her college sweetheart, she helps him with a daring plan to get quick cash. Teenager Genet Rembert gets involved with a manipulative pimp who uses her in an elaborate scheme filled with sex, drugs and money.

Maggie and Whitley plan a debate on balancing career and family life. Dwayne pursues a campus disc jockey job.

Rudy comes to Hillman so she can see Denise, but she ends up bonding with Whitley instead.

Russell Huxtable pays his granddaughter Denise a visit, which puts a damper on her plans to pull a prank with her friends.

Denise tries out for the track team making her Dad proud, but she can't handle the practices. Maggie tries to find a book that she needs for a term paper.

As Halloween approaches, the Huxtables make elaborate preparations and look forward to dressing up in outlandish costumes. Vanessa spends most of her Halloween party trying to mask her true feelings for Robert, whom all the girls think is the coolest boy in the seventh grade.

Denise is determined to spend her savings on the first car she sees, and balks when her father forbids her to buy an expensive lemon. But the bargain-conscious Cliff becomes a wheeler-dealer when the family handyman, Mr. Lucas, offers to sell Denise his aunt's old car. Also, Cliff informs a middle-aged couple that they are going to have a baby, which comes as a shock to them, as they already have a five-year-old grandson!

Clair goes from overprotective mom to football fanatic when Rudy "Sweet Feet" Huxtable becomes the star of her pee-wee football team. Cliff is delighted that his daughter will follow in his footsteps on the football field, and cons a wary Clair into going to see her play. Clair is swept off her feet by Rudy’s play.

The Huxtable family is thrilled when Clair's sister, Sara, announces her engagement. Legendary jazz vocalist, Joe Williams, plays Clair's father, Al, who refuses to sing at his younger daughter's wedding unless Clair sings with him. Clair and her mom, Ethel, join forces to teach Sara a little something about marriage while Grandpa Al and Cliff chide the groom-to-be about the role of a husband.

When a nursing student succumbs to a gunshot to the head, detectives’ strongest suspects all have strong alibis. But when a recording of the victim is found, police will hear her name her own killer from beyond the grave, exposing one alibi as a lie.

After a man is found castrated and suffocated to death, authorities hunt for a vicious killer, until they uncover allegations of sexual abuse that prompted a young woman to seek retribution while ensuring her abuser will never strike again

When a man is found bludgeoned to death in his Baltimore apartment amidst drug paraphernalia, police assume this is a drug related crime and the case goes cold – but his daughter senses this is home grown vengeance and works to solve the case.

When exotic beauty Maria Christopher falls in love with a rising star, they are ready to take on the world by storm, but this blazing romance will crash and burn when police uncover a heinous crime shrouded in fire leaving a shocked community to wonder if passion and desire could ignite so much hate.

While refurbishing one of Delroy’s properties, Latrell and Imunique stumble upon a lot of money. They immediately start spending it, only to find out Delroy has been kidnapped by the rightful owners of the cash. Meanwhile, Jasmine recruits Huggy to help her record a sports podcast and he completely takes over.

Fabian starts to get jealous when Adonis is recruited by his female friend to be part of a steamy dance competition… in fact, it seems that she is putting Adonis back into the closet. Meanwhile, Imunique and Jasmine go through great lengths to put back together the important real estate documents they destroyed.

Delroy’s wildly-successful former-protégé buys out Del Jones Realty. When the deal goes down the protégé insist on closing an elderly home which infuriates Delroy. Meanwhile, a game night with the gang at the condo goes terribly wrong and turns everyone against each other, including Latrell and Imunique, who draw a line across the condo, splitting it in two.