Phyllis and Arthur Bannister, teachers at Thoreau College, receive a real shock at a faculty meeting when they learn that a Madison Avenue expert has been hired to modernize the school image.
Young Sue Dulaney and Gordon Killman go out for a drink, and on the way home Gordon runs another car off the road. Gordon calls the police, but refuses to give his name.
Lily Forrester just can't stand the fact that her ex-husband Philip is getting along so well with his new wife, and decides to put a little marital strife back into Philip's life.
Alison Bradmoor is playing a tape recording of her favorite Bach concerto, when the recording is interrupted by another woman's voice with a message for Alison: "He's back - and together we must get him out of the way."
Twenty years ago, a murder took place at the Fennel boarding house. A man was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a twenty year prison term. Now, he has returned to the scene of the crime.