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- TV SeriesDetective Karl Alberg and his partner Edwina Yen deal with a surprising string of murders in a usually quiet Sunshine Coast community.
- A Nantucket bookshop owner known for matching others finds connection with a bestselling author who visits her store.
- A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
- After Charlie survives a car crash that kills his younger brother, he is given the gift of seeing the spirits of his brother and others who he has lost, and must use his powers to save the woman he loves from impending disaster.
- The adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in Gibsons, British Columbia.
- Set in a rundown Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, twelve-year-old skater girl, navigates the unbridled, unstructured, summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer.
- A young woman receives a letter that her deceased grandmother requests she hand-deliver to a man in her grandmother's childhood home in Maine. She begins a journey of discovery of her grandmother, herself, and quality of life.
- Liz receives a call for help from her father to return home for Christmas and she wants to create a whimsical Christmas celebration.
- A woman who accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal is invited to her aunt's home for Christmas and develops romantic feelings for an inn owner.
- Christina learns of a developer who is planning to tear down the wharf that is home to her toy store. Tensions rise as she falls for the developer's son, Andy.
- John Constable and his family return to Gibsons to find a new cast of characters who will battle over the fate of the now condemned Molly's Reach and Nick's old salvage business.
- The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died. The friends, led by Allie, are searching for Allie's missing father. As Allie comes to understand that he was one of the vigilantes, her friends begin to die gruesome horrific deaths on the point of The Seamstress' needle. When the last two surviving vigilantes arrive, locked in their own dance of death and revenge, Allie must either preserve her own innocence or be corrupted by vengeance herself.
- While Donna MacGonigal is tempted by a business offer by an old love, her father and friends decide to put on an old timers celebrity hockey game and auction for charity, only to find themselves cheated by con artists.
- A daughter questions her father's mental health and mysterious death.
- When their daughter was born, Mélissa Offner and her husband Aurélien Offner decided to leave the capital of British Columbia to settle in a small town on the Sunshine Coast: Gibson. They were far from suspecting that this trip would be the genesis of a TV documentary. Indeed, just after their arrival, Mélissa saw through her window strange lights appear above Keats Island. Out of curiosity, but also to occupy her long nights as a young mother, she began to do research to try to elucidate the mystery linked to her last visions. With DOSSIER OVNIS, Mélissa sets out to meet ufology enthusiasts and scientists from across the country to better understand these inexplicable aerial phenomena. An exceptional journey in search of the truth to be seen on March 19 at 10:30 p.m. EDT as part of Doc humanity on ICI TÉLÉ and available on ICI TOU.TV. For the team behind the documentary, the pandemic has forced Canadians to spend a lot of time at home and thereby facilitated, if not multiplied, the possible opportunities to observe what is happening in the sky. Over the course of her discussions, host Mélissa Offner saw her prejudices against the fanatics of strange aerial demonstrations deconstructed. "I had a lot of compassion for people like Michel, Archivist for Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study. I am very attached to him during the shooting. He had stars in his eyes as he told us about all this. We really felt that he was full of hope that they were saving us from ourselves," says Mélissa Offner. Beyond these scattered locations, which capture the attention of the curious, the host notes that it would now be the governments that are interested in these phenomena. Would this suggest that there is a suspected connection between UFOs and recent discoveries of earlier traces of life in our solar system? Aurélien Offner, director of the documentary, revealed that "even if we very much wish it, the two are not connected to each other". The truth about unidentified aerial phenomena is much more subtle and complex than that. »
- Agent Fleur is scared. Her partner is being chased and hunted by men in black suits. Unable to save him, she watches as he is taken down and they insert a mysterious chip into the back of his skull. Even worse, it appears the entire town is controlled by something, some hive-mind computer, turning all the citizens into soldiers against their will. Not only must she find her missing partner in this small mid-American town, but she must learn to work with a cocky, arrogant Agent Dempster who has been sent in to back her up. Will she find Agent Travis before it's too late? Will she figure out what's happening to the citizens of this perfect town and save them from an uncertain fate?
- It's hard to imagine a more vulnerable experience than being naked on stage-but for some women, this experience profoundly changes their lives. The film follows six unconventional performers as they find empowerment through burlesque.
- Visually bold and captivating, the films peer into the artists' inner words to uncover common truths about creativity, the artistic process and living and working as an artist in BC.
- On his way back into town at the Homestead Café, Graham, who had been out with Nick in the woods collecting eagle dropping samples, stumbles across Constable Fernley, who is on an undercover sting as a character named Clint. Because Graham doesn't leave in time, he is forced to play Clint's business partner, Buck - a role which was supposed to be played by John - to the targets of their undercover sting, Brink, Naomi, and Dirk, who are in the market for illegal bear gall bladders, prized within the Asian culture. This bungle not only causes a professional problem for John and Fernley, but also Graham. Believing it to be a sample of the gall bladders, Brink took Graham's locked case containing Graham's eagle droppings which he needs to get analyzed within 36 hours or they become useless. And Graham is forced to complete the sting on another meeting with the targets later that day. As Graham works with Fernley, the plot becomes more and more complicated, but also uncovers some information of a personal nature which may make it difficult for Graham to complete this task.
- Laurel has just had an interview for a promotion at the bank, the interview which she believes went terribly. On top of that, she is feeling under-appreciated at home as she is forced to work at The Reach as Jesse and Sara go off on their own personal tasks. So she receives a boost in morale when she receives a letter from her band requesting that she apply for a job as band finance manager. If she gets the job and accepts it, that would mean she would have to move back to the reserve. Although she and Jesse have always talked about one day moving back to the reserve so that Tommy could learn more about his ethnic heritage, Jesse always assumed that reserve would be his and not hers. He feels that he will always be seen as riding on her coattails if he accompanies her, while she feels the need to have some say in what happens in their future beyond what Jesse directs. This impasse may be a marriage breaker unless one or the other changes their mind, and/or if her job situation changes.
- Late one evening, Pat ends up passed out on the road in front of Molly's Reach. Nick initially believes that Pat was run over, but soon learns that Pat is stone cold drunk and he fell out of the car an equally drunk Graham was driving. Pat is all right physically otherwise. Nick is able to stop Graham and take his car keys before he hurts anyone else. Nick chastises Pat for his behavior, but sees it nothing more that Pat being a typical teen-aged boy. The next day, Pat misses a job interview because he's hung over, but isn't too hung over to go out partying with his friends again. This time, it is a house party to which good girl Sara is also going. While Sara tries to abstain from drinking, she who has no interest in it, Pat, Graham and their friends feel they need alcohol to have a good time. But Sara gets caught up in the flow of the party, as she joins Pat, Graham and Elaine on a motor boat ride toward Keats Island in the dark. They all quickly learn that alcohol and the water don't mix when they lose control of the boat and capsize. Without life jackets or a radio, they cling to the overturned boat hoping that someone will come and save them.
- Nick and Jesse spot a log on the beach at Mackerel Island. Once they get to the beach, they are met by an officious young man, Jaff, with a group of youth dressed in similar "uniforms". Jaff speaks cryptically about not allowing Nick to take the log or be on the private island as it would upset his boss and jeopardize his mission. Later back in Gibsons, Graham and Sara spot Pat, who was supposed to be in Vancouver visiting friends, getting into a speed boat with an unknown man. Although Pat heard their yelling after him, he goes off like he heard nothing. Based on Tommy's new found baseball cap, Pat wearing that same cap, and those caps being part of the uniform of the youth on Mackerel Island, Nick believes Pat is on Mackerel Island. They do find him there, Jaff who is local head of the Divine Connection Church (DCC) - a cult - that has indoctrinated Pat, who refuses to leave the DCC, and the other youth there. John discovers that the DCC is a legal entity and their "official" activities are also legal, which means he cannot do anything from a legal perspective. But Graham and Nick, both working individually, believe they have to do something to save Pat from his so called "saviors".
- Teenager Jordon Cooper has arrived in Gibsons to do some long distance swimming training in the open water in the pursuit of swimming the much more difficult Bay of Fundy. She is in town with her coach father, Derek Cooper, who dictates every aspect of his daughter's life. Jordon used to be a competitive sprinter, but always finishing second or third in races made her father believe that long distances was a winning approach. It is unclear whether Jordon achieving this goal is more her desire, if at all, or her father's, and if the latter if he is using her solely through which to live vicariously. Regardless, they run into a difference in wants as she befriends Graham, Pat and Sara, the former in particular who is attracted to her. As such, she wants to hang out with her new friends rather than train, which is all Derek wants her to do. As such, Derek has a few run ins specifically with Graham and Pat, from who he want Jordon to stay away. But during their stay in Gibsons, both Jordon and Derek may come to the realization that, although setting goals and trying to achieve them to the best of one's abilities are important, other things in life may trump those goals.
- Jack is dressed to the nines, and in his own world, as he is planning to meet his long love, Constance Bourne. In the minds of the people who have known Jack and Constance the longest, such as Nick and Relic, the problem with Jack's plan is that Constance has been dead for ten years, which Jack, when in his right mind, knows. As Relic refuses to drive Jack to his date with Constance on his boat, Jack steals Relic's boat. Fearing for his safety, the group organizes a search for Jack, the problem being not knowing where to look besides Constance's grave site. John feels a strategic geographic approach is required, whereas Nick decides that he will use what little information he knows about Jack and Constance to do a more methodical approach. Relic, who is more concerned about the personal property of his boat, tags along with Nick. But it's an unusual clue that Pat finds finds in Jack's warehouse about Constance in combination with information from Blackie Bowman, the man who now lives in Constance's old cabin, that may provide the answer to where Jack has gone, and whether there is any sanity to his seeming madness.
- Sara becomes enthralled by Mother Teresa and her work. Sara believes her imminent beatification justified. Nick tries to encourage Sara to do her small part in making the world a better place through everyday kindness to others. What Sara ends up doing is inviting Didee, a homeless woman she just met, to dinner and to stay with her, Nick, Jesse and Laurel in the spare bedroom. Nick, Jesse and Laurel are taken aback enough by the dinner invitation, let alone the open invitation to stay for as long as she wants. The differing value systems of Didee on one side, and Nick, Jesse and Laurel on the other are quickly evident, which causes some quietly antagonistic feelings on both sides. Caught in the middle is Sara, who is still trying to find the right thing to do. Meanwhile, John is trying to convince everyone to attend the police fund-raiser, the Mountie Stomp. Pat, in particular, takes John's challenge to heart. And using the Heimlich maneuver, Nick saves Relic from choking. Using his own values, Relic, not wanting to be indebted to anyone, offers Nick what he believes is fair compensation for saving his life. Nick on the other hand, wants other things from Relic.
- A young woman by the name of Carla Maloff is visiting Gibsons for the first time. When she meets Nick, she is up front with him that meeting him was the reason for her trip, as her mother, Sonia Maloff, speaks often about him, the two who met and last saw each other over twenty years ago when Nick was passing through Sonia's home town of Hazel Ridge, Manitoba. Carla implies that she'd like to stay in Gibsons for as long as her meager funds will allow, which leads to Laurel offering her a short term position and board at The Reach. Nick isn't concerned about what seems to be Carla's obsession with him, until Carla's true motive for the visit eventually comes to light. Nick has to help her come to grips with her misunderstanding about his personal connection to her, and help her deal with an issue in her personal life about which she is in denial. Meanwhile, Pat has developed a computer program as a matchmaking service which he is trying to market to potential lonelyhearts, such as John and Sara.
- Gibsons city council has approved Sara's idea of an annual Founder's Day event, but for this first one they have provided little money, meaning that it has to be done on a shoestring. Despite the lack of budget, Nick and the gang are planning among other things a parade, a fair in which they will highlight rhubarb in unique new uses as town founder George Gibson was a commercial rhubarb grower, and have a George Gibson lookalike act as honorary mayor for the day. The choice of the honorary mayor will be done through a contest held through the newspaper. The planning for this event coincides with the unexpected visit into town of Jane Carmichael, a renowned travel writer who has made or broken the tourist trade in many other such towns. Because of the way the planning is going, the townsfolk have to decide whether to go ahead with the event at the possible risk of its failure and thus the demise of their tourist trade. Other things that may negatively affect Jane's perception of Gibsons are Relic, who is going through his own issues with Gibsons city council, and the person who ends up being chosen honorary mayor for the day.
- Nick and John seeing him play his saxophone for the whales out on his boat anchored off of Tuck Island is the first indication that anyone has of the return of former Gibsons resident Stuart Brody, better known as Halibut Stu. Nick and John end up spending the day with their eccentric old friend, who seems to spend his life playing music, drinking homemade wine and inventing things that have no real world use. Nick and John spending the day with Stu is why they are the second to last people in Gibsons to know about the two mysterious but bumbling men in town, they who are wearing matching suits and hats, that are looking for Stu, and are willing to pay big money to find him. Stu is the last person to know. Relic has no problems taking their money and showing them where Stu is, no matter who they are. But when Nick and John tell Stu of the men, he doesn't tell them who the men are beyond not wanting to have anything to do with them, which means his immediate departure from these waters. Will the two suits or Stu get what they want in their immediate tasks?
- Nick is helping John with a case of cargo ship thefts, the latest of microchips, which they believe are being smuggled out of the country. Nick would have a better handle on where the smugglers may be hiding along the coast. Meanwhile, Sam, while skateboarding, gets into an accident with Relic, destroying Relic's $1,000 sonar device. Sam makes an agreement with Relic to work the $1,000 debt off. Sam's first job, on which he takes his camera for some shots for a photo essay, is an on-land salvage mission with Relic up the coast. While Relic relaxes on the boat, Sam does all the heavy lifting. But their separation places Sam in danger as he secretly comes across someone doing suspicious activity, that person being one of the smugglers. Sam's situation becomes more precarious as he starts to film. If the smugglers discover him, his life could be in danger. But if he isn't caught, he could really help out John and Nick's work by catching their activities on film.
- Ever since her water-skiing accident which left her a paraplegic, Jenny Halstrom has tried to do everything on her own without help. She loves living in Gibsons, which is why she is distraught to learn that her mother is thinking about selling their house and moving the two of them to Vancouver, which she sees as providing them greater opportunity. Beyond the marine work which Pat cannot get to which he forwards to her, Jenny hopes to be able to provide for herself and her mother in Gibsons through other work. That other work becomes more important when Jenny learns that Pat could have done the work given to her, but that he was trying to give her a sense of self sufficiency. This revelation, which she considers charity, places a strain between her and her friends: Pat, Graham and Sara. The additional work which she does get is for Sal at the newspaper on a trial basis. The story on which she wants to work is the reason for the spate of dead fish found near the new development happening at Starlight Bay. When she reported what she saw to John, he found nothing upon investigation. But when the development lawyer threatens legal action if the newspaper prints anything libelous against them, which makes Sal more cautious, Jenny is more determined than ever to find out what's going on. But she realizes that she will require the help of her friends, that is if they are still speaking to her.
- Having reconciled with her friends Pat, Sara and Graham, Jenny enlists their help in gathering evidence of toxic waste being dumped into Starlight Bay, the site of a new residential development. All Jenny knows right now is that dead fish are appearing in the bay, and that the development lawyer and owner, Jason Leonard and Joe Malik, are trying to hide the fact of those dead fish. Pat, Sara and Graham are able to find hard evidence of something illegal going on, including more dead fish and birds, and PCB contaminated underwater sand samples in various locations in the bay. But their discoveries are not without Leonard and Malik finding out that Jenny is still snooping around, Leonard who further threatens legal action against Sal, and criminal charges against Jenny and her friends. Undeterred, Jenny still proceeds and is able to find the source of the contamination with some help from Relic as the former owner of the property in question. But as Jenny and the gang realize that Leonard and Malik may make one last dump to get rid of the evidence, Jenny and her friends put themselves in harm's way in trying to protect the environment.
- Kelly is an 11-year-old boy who keeps running away from foster homes that are not accepting of his pet otter Kate. Convinced that his father, missing for two years in a small plane accident will one day return, Kelly stays on the run lugging Kate around in a pet carrier. The episode opens with Kelly wandering around the docks at Gibsons telling Kate that they'll soon find a boat in which "some yazbo" has left the ignition keys. Kelly actually finds a boat with the engine running and is soon under way. Owners Max and Susie report the missing boat to Constable John at the Reach where Nick suggests they offer up a reward of $250 to ensure its recovery. Relic suggests an amount of $300 which is enough to get him on the case. Relic catches up with Kelly and the boat and demands the reward money from Max and Susie. John Constable has to attend to a serious accident and leaves Kelly with Nick. Upon learning that his father most likely perished in the place crash, Kelly plans to talk off again. Nick, John and social worker Mary Ross try to find Kelly a stable home where Kate will also be accepted.
- While out on the water, Nick and Jesse come across a Chinese junk. The four man crew - who Nick and Jesse later learn are Captain Chong Ling, his two adult nephews Ming and Wah, and his adult niece Lin - are suffering from dehydration and exposure. Their story: they are part of a Chinese fishing expedition that got separated from the rest of the fleet in a storm. Both Nick and Relic do not fully buy the story as there is no sign of fishing equipment on board the junk, but there is diving equipment. Relic believes the worst: that they are modern day pirates. With John and Coast Guard official Danny Lee on the case, Nick is not overly concerned whatever their true motive for being in the area. But when the Chinese take off unexpectedly, John, Danny, Nick and Jesse try to locate them so that they can get the true story, while Relic does whatever he can to raid them of whatever loot he believes they may have or will pilfer. Their true mission is a search for family history and restoring family name, but one that could be hindered by international red tape.
- Jesse wants to pay off his new fishing boat as quickly as possible, meaning taking the boat out as often as possible when the fish are running. Jesse's problem is keeping a deck hand. Welk, his first deck hand, quits over a dispute with Jesse. Although Jesse in his single-minded pursuit does overwork Welk, Welk in turn is lazy. Jesse would like to take Tommy out, which he in return would love, but Laurel feels Tommy is still too young. John goes out with Jesse on one trip, but his day job as police corporal gets in the way. So Nick agrees to the job until Jesse can make more permanent arrangements. On Jesse and Nick's inaugural fishing trip together, they find they have a third, a stowaway, on board: Tommy. Nick finds that he's not well suited to the work. They decide to connect with Travis, another commercial fisherman who purchases cleaned fish for cash from other fishermen, and provide supplies. When he learns that Travis is heading to Nanaimo, Nick, who wants to head back to Gibsons and his other work while Jesse wants to stay out fishing for a few more days, figures it better to hitch a ride with Travis as opposed making Jesse go in. When Nick boards Travis' boat, what he is unaware of is that Travis' new deck hand, Welk, with the reluctant cooperation of the other more mild mannered deck hand, Bob, has taken over the boat in a mutiny. Welk had planned to set Travis on a skiff to fend for himself while he and Bob absconded with the boat and Travis' money to Mexico. With Nick now aboard, that alters Welk's plan to two aboard the skiff. The only person who may be able to save Nick and Travis is Jesse, who feels that something isn't quite right with his fellow fisherman.
- Tommy and Sam are going through the initiation process to join a boys club called the Night Flyers, led by Patrick, who most of the adults know as a troublemaker. Of late, John has noticed an increase in mischief - primarily vandalism - which is probably largely attributed to Patrick. Although the things that Tommy and Sam are asked to do for the initiation would hurt friends and family, Sam in particular is willing to go through with them since he is still trying to find his place in Gibsons, which includes making new friends whoever they may be. Each initiation task becomes more hurtful. The questions become whether Sam will come to the realization that the initiation is not worth the friendship of such boys before he gets into some real legal trouble, and if he does what he will do about it.
- Nick has entered a new mellow phase of his life, where not even the antics of Relic in their professional competition bother him anymore. But Nick's mellow phase is short lived by a visit from his accountant, who tells him that most of his business deductions have been disallowed, meaning that he now owes taxes in the amount of $3,683, money he doesn't have. Meanwhile, Relic is going through changes of his own. Gibsons is quickly changing around him - growing up so to speak - and he no longer feels he is a part of it, and that he is beginning to be somewhat invisible. As such, he decides to turn over a new leaf by actually being nice to people, especially his long time acquaintances. Among his supposed good deeds are offering Nick an assistant manager job at the marina to help him with his financial issues, and offering Jesse and John a fancy speedboat at a reduced rental for their long planned fishing outing. The questions become whether these actions are Relic being a truly good person without ulterior motives, and if so how long this new Relic will stick around.
- A man by the name of Giles Hope has the Gibsons marina behind fencing and around the clock security protection. Apparently, a now absent Smitty lost the marina in a Reno casino bet, Hope, on behalf of the casino, who is the new owner and thus landlord. He will only provide access to the marina and the boats moored there to those people who were not in arrears to Smitty. The problem is that Smitty's records are spotty. As the police, John is allowed access. Nick, Jesse, Pat and Jack are among those not permitted access. And Relic is still in his shack, meaning that he is behind the fencing, and conversely cannot get out without giving up his right to return. Further, Hope plans on selling the boats belonging to those in arrears to recoup those outstanding debts. The problem for Nick is that his payment in full records are on his boat. As such, he plans on stealing his boat. He has many problems in carrying out this plan. First, John cannot find out as it would place him between a rock and a hard place. Second, Sam wants to do whatever he can to help, and does whatever he can to help against the wishes of the adult figures in his life. If Sam is able to accomplish what he wants, it would place a strain between Nick and Dana. And third, Nick's plan requires the assistance of Relic, which more often than not cannot be counted upon. Nick is hoping that Relic will agree to help if Nick also steals his boat, which means that Hope can't sell it. What Nick is unaware of is that Relic has his own plan which may be incompatible with Nick's own.
- Pat has been putting off many of his jobs in preparation for writing his final exam for the five month long correspondence business course he has been taking, the exam and final course results which he believes are bad. Those jobs include refurbishing Ted's boat which Nick encouraged him to buy for possible commercial ventures such as charters, and fixing John's motor. Those jobs seem to go by the wayside when Pat receives the results: he passed with flying colors. Pat has a stereotypical outlook on the life of a white collar businessman, which he now believes he is: they don't have grease under their fingernails, and all play golf, which is a sport reserved solely for their kind. Pat believes the world is his oyster, he who wants to get specifically into real estate. But when he discovers that people in Gibsons still see him solely as the marine grease monkey, he decides to move to Vancouver, where he can start his professional life anew without those perceptions. Getting that multi-million dollar business break in the city is more difficult than Pat realized, while that self-important talk to his friends and family has made them get on with those jobs which seem no longer part of his life... that is until he realizes that he still needs to make a living in the meantime. Something will have to happen to light a fire under Pat to get him to get back to his old work or truly move on with his life in a constructive way in a new direction.
- A storm has swept much debris into the area. There is some miscommunication on the issue, as before Nick and Jesse can clear the larger logs off the water, Graham and his friend Jenny, with Pat and Sara at the boat's helm, are water-skiing in the area. Hitting one of the logs, Jenny crashes and suffers what looks to be a serious injury, which requires a full body cast upon her admittance into the hospital. After Jenny initially feels sorry for herself about her situation, she learns from the doctor that she will most-likely regain full use of her upper body with physical therapy, but that she may never walk again. Jenny possibly being confined to a wheelchair brings up the issue of accessibility in all her old haunts. But as Jenny tries to cope with the news of her prognosis, Graham, Sara and Pat all deal with the issue of Jenny in a different way. While Graham goes overboard in trying to push Jenny to the limit in every aspect of her new life, Pat, feeling guilty about the accident, can't even face her. The question becomes whether the four can ever have a "normal" friendship again.
- With the newspaper as sponsor, Sal organizes a sailing boat race. There will only be two entries as the race is an exhibition, primarily to preview the Kydaka, a new boat designed by a Toronto company, which is backed by an unknown syndicate. But the sentimental local favorite is the Pauline Johnson, a Vancouver based boat helmed by an all female crew. This sentimental favorite status is despite the antagonistic first meeting the Pauline Johnson's captain, Anna, has with Nick, Jesse and Relic. What everyone is unaware of is that Sal has ulterior motives for wanting the Kydaka to win: she is a member of that syndicate. She figures if the Kydaka wins, sailors from around the world will be clamoring for sister boats to the Kydaka for the upcoming Victoria to Maui race. She confides in Relic, who she wants to conduct a little sabotage on the Pauline Johnson in turn for a small cut in the profits. Will Relic be able to pull off Sal's wants?
- Sam is the latest person to hear Jack's oft told tale of the fire of 1906, the other locals who know the story by heart as they've heard it so often. One component of the story is Potter's treasure, a supposed treasure buried by the Potter family but never found after their demise/departure from the area. Most of the locals have looked for it in their life to no avail. Meanwhile, it's Dana's birthday and Sam, wanting to use money he's earned but which he doesn't have since no one will give him a job, wants to buy his mother something nice, especially as she is particularly down since it is her first birthday with only her and Sam. As he knows Sam won't accept a loan or a hand out, Nick thinks that he and Jack can concoct a plan to bury one of the many nice antique items from Jack's warehouse, and lead Sam to it in the guise of it being Potter's treasure. They don't want to tell anyone what they are up to, as the more people know, the more likely Sam will find out it's a hoax. However, with all this secret activity happening, some come to the belief that Nick and Sam truly are digging for Potter's treasure, and want to beat them to the punch.
- Despite none of them knowing anything about the game, Nick has formed a cricket team - the Gibsons Giants - with the sole purpose of playing against the Sechelt Senators, captained by officious Brit, Ashley Putney III, who, along with his team takes the game very seriously. The one person on Nick's team who seems to have a natural talent as a batsman is Sam. Their first practice coincides with the return into town of Dana, who has brought along Sam's cousin, Billy, for a week long visit. Dana did not tell Sam this news beforehand as she knows that Sam does not like Billy. To put it more precisely, Sam is ashamed of Billy, who has Down Syndrome. What further irks Sam is that he believes his mother always sides with Billy against him. Sam does whatever he can not to associate with Billy during his stay. But one mean and self serving move too many by Sam makes Billy run away, despite Billy really wanting to be Sam's friend. Billy's disappearance coincides with the cricket match, which makes Sam have to make some decisions about what is important in his life.
- While local bank manager Arthur Carruthers is away on business in Toronto, a suit named Morton Stanley from the regional office in Vancouver comes in in an acting manager capacity. One of his first orders of business as he sees is to seize the Persephone as he feels Nick has defaulted on his $8,000 loan by only paying interest on it, despite Nick having an agreement with Carruthers to do so when business is slow, such as now. Just as the bailiff Charlie is ordered to put the seizure notice on the Persephone, Nick manages to escape with his boat with a somewhat reluctant passenger, Pat, who just happened to be on the boat at the time. Relic, however, senses an opportunity and offers to buy the loan from the bank in order to put Nick out of business. Stanley agrees. This situation lays the framework for each person's task. Nick and Pat's task is to hide themselves and the boat from Stanley and Relic. Relic and city slicker Stanley's task is to find Nick and the Persephone. John's task is to uphold the law by finding Nick, but he who wants Relic and Stanley out of his way. Jesse's task is to see if he can raise the money to pay off the loan. And bank employee Laurel's task is to see if she can contact Carruthers in Toronto to override who she sees as her opportunistic and slimy temporary boss.
- Sara, who is making her annual trek to commune with nature by spending some time to paint in her grandfather's run down cabin located in the forest on Putnam Island, is dismayed to learn that Graham wants to work for WestCom, the logging company on which his father is a board member. Graham, who is an environmentalist, believes he can do more good from the inside as the company's environmental consultant. He however finds that the company has no intention of hiring for such a position, and he doesn't want his father to pull strings for him. Ted, however, does speak to the board, and Graham is hired as WestCom's environmental consultant. But Graham's dealing with the operations manager, Jim Briggs, is less than harmonious. Graham quickly learns that WestCom as a company agreed to Ted's proposal solely to put a good face on the company, which had no plans to do any environmental stewardship, and continue with its clear cutting ways, and that Ted knew about all of WestCom's plans. They plan to clear cut Putnam - which is old growth - which had long been proposed as a nature reserve. WestCom intends to take as much timber as possible before the nature reserve transition process is completed. Sara learns of WestCom's intentions to clear cut, she who does whatever required to stop them, including illegal activity. Graham has to figure how best to support his environmental goals, whether it be from the inside or out. And the more personal problem is the strain their individual actions may cause between Graham and Ted. Meanwhile, Nick and Relic are having a disagreement about Relic's want to move Nick from his long time moorage spot on the marina.
- After many failed attempts when he was younger, Sam now believes he is mature enough to have a pet, more specifically a dog. Dana refuses. Later, Sam finds among the items in Jack's warehouse an old weather-vane, this type which Jack calls a weirdlyworks. Jack truly believes it has magical powers - it can predict back luck or good luck - and thus is happy for Sam to take it away. Sam also believes in the weirdlyworks' powers, as its predictions of bad or good luck seem to be coming true, most specifically for "good luck" Nick, and "bad luck" John. But Sam is particularly convinced when the weirdlyworks points him toward finding a seemingly abandoned dog, which Sam names Skeletor. Dana initially allows Sam to keep Skeletor overnight, a decision which she soon regrets as beyond Sam, Skeletor seems to have it in for everyone else. Although Dana seems to be softening to the idea of keeping Skeletor if only because Sam truly is taking care of him, the decision on Skeletor's future may be placed into someone else's hands.
- Dana and Sam are still adjusting to small town life in Gibsons, compared to their former life in Toronto. Dana wants Sam to experience all that Gibsons has to offer in terms of outdoor activities. She is, however, somewhat reluctant but ultimately agreeable when Sam wants to go on a day fishing trip with Tommy. Nick convinces Dana that although only eleven, Tommy knows the waters and is smart enough to know what he should and should not do. Dana's anxiety about the boys being out on the water is raised again when an elderly tourist couple, George and Mildred, stop in The Reach, he who is an ex-marine meteorologist. He states that there is a small craft warning, and although clear in town, that there is definitely a storm on the horizon. Despite George and Mildred being an obviously over-the-top cautious couple in every aspect of their life, Dana, who is assured by locals that the warning means little for where Tommy and Sam would be fishing, will still be anxious until Sam comes home, whenever that may be. She is also anxious about some news she has to pass along to Sam from home, which in combination with the fishing trip is making her reflect on whether it was a smart move to relocate to Gibsons from Toronto. Meanwhile, hypochondriac Relic believes he's dying from what most think is a bee sting.
- It's Christmas, and the festive holiday mood has hit most of the regulars of Molly's Reach as demonstrated by them being aboard the caroling ship which is circling the harbor. There are a few people however who are retreating from the Christmas holidays. One of those seemingly is Coug McCoy who came into town from his remote cabin to pick up supplies, but who, behind closed doors, is celebrating Christmas in his own special way. Another is Relic who is his old crotchety self, he who wants to get as far away from the caroling as possible. And yet another is a young couple, Joel and Jessica Turner, who came to Gibsons from Vancouver for Christmas to get away from their traditional family obligations. They purchased a boat to do so, despite Joel not being either marine or mechanically inclined. His lack of aptitude in these areas become problems when the boat breaks down out on the water while a just over eight months pregnant Jessica goes into labor. Even if Joel knew how to operate the radio, it may be difficult to contact anyone with most in town being preoccupied on the caroling ship.
- Brandon Lewis is new to Tommy's class. He and his widowed father, Cliff Lewis, an unemployed engineer, live on a boat moored in the marina, which allows them to move easily from place to place as Cliff looks for work. Cliff seems overly protective of Brandon from everything outside of their small two person world. In trying to help them, Sara suggests that Cliff may be able to help Nick with a small immediate job as Jesse is out of town. An insurance company is paying $5,000 for the recovery of a missing barge which got lost during a recent storm. Of all the people in town, Nick is the only person who knows the barge's location, but can't tow it in on his own as it's grounded on some rocks in a out of the way cove. Cliff agrees to the job, leaving Brandon at The Reach with Sara and Tommy. Cliff may regret taking the job for two reasons: the unknown cargo aboard the barge in combination with what is waiting back at Gibsons for him and Brandon.
- While Pat is helping Nick with his latest contract - making regular trips to Blubber Bay towing barges filled with vegetable oil - he misses another contract as Donna Lansing with Omega Chemicals, which has been doing some stream restoration work in conjunction with an environmental group called Clear Streams, wants to release salmon fry into a newly restored stream in the area. As such, Relic wrangles the Omega contract for himself. The plan for Donna and Relic to release the fry hits a snag when they learn from DFO that there is something toxic in the waters off Blubber Bay that is killing pockets of fish in the area. When Donna goes with Relic to investigate, she finds a green liquid floating on the surface, which she recognizes as a chemical toxic to fish as well as humans. She saw it coming from the Persephone and/or the barge, which implicates Nick and Pat as the culprits of illegal dumping. With help from John and others, Nick and Pat have to figure out what's going on with the Blubber Bay contract so that they can restore their good names.
- A motorcycle gang called the Devil's Disciples has just purchased some farmland in the area. Individual locals have differing reactions to the group, who have not done anything wrong. Sal, through editorials, has taken it upon herself to rid the area of the gang, using such tactics as mobilizing businesses not to sell to any member of the gang. Tommy, who has gone swimming on the Disciples' newly acquired property in the past, meets Emma, the young adult daughter of the head of the gang, Freddie. For Tommy, it's love at first sight. And John, who is on holidays, has just spent all his vacation money on a Harley-Davidson, his first motorcycle. He is a novice rider, and gets assistance with his new bike from the members of the Disciples, they who he has not told he is a policeman. The fact that Emma is to be married in the next couple of days leads to a series of events which clarifies whether the Disciples will be good neighbors or the scourge of the Earth that Sal believes them to be.