Patrick Dollaghan

Lynette discovers that no good deed goes unpunished when she momentarily befriends mean Mrs. McCluskey (guest star Kathryn Joosten), and Susan, still reeling from her breakup with Mike, is mortified when her mom (guest star Lesley Ann Warren) – also now single – decides to jump start both their love lives.

Billy and Charles (Parker Stevenson, Lewis Smith) meet during the Battle of Antietam; Virgilia (Kirstie Alley) and her hospital administrator (Olivia de Havilland) quarrel; a pregnant Madeline (Lesley-Anne Down) asks a family friend (James Stewart) for help.

Walker and Trivette protect the only remaining witness in a mob trial and Walker faces a conundrum when the witness is one of Alex's old beaus.