Lydia discovers that Eric's wife is having an affair. Fed up with municipal bureaucracy, Dolly takes matters into her own hands.

Secrets continue to weigh down Lydia, who continues to keep mum about Paulie's marriage and Karen's affair. Dolly gets depressed when she learns a sordid secret about her father's past.

Paulie is frantic when Plum is reported missing on Halloween. Dolly is forced to entertain Plum's neurotic mother and Jackie receives a lesson in parenting from a lost trick or treater.