Melanie disappears with Gus. Lindsay, who was supposedly at a teaching conference, doesn't return and she isn't answering her cell phone. Brian takes a sabbatical from work and goes in search of them thinking that the women have taken off with his son. After several weeks, he locates Melanie and Gus, but before he can find out why Melanie took off with Gus and why Lindsay isn't with them, he has to get past her very protective and very wealthy cousin, Justin Taylor.