Todd Eckert

When the family takes a vacation to a casino, Hal is banned from gambling and takes Malcolm and Reese on an ill-fated trek into the desert. Meanwhile, Lois and Dewey win a free day of spa pampering and Francis spends a lonely weekend at home.

Will's poker night is disrupted by a distraught Grace. He advises her to break up with her boyfriend permanently and she sets off to do just that, but returns having got engaged to him instead.

Grace claims that the reason she's not dating is that she's having too much fun with Will, so she proposes that they try their best not to have fun. Meanwhile, Jack is all agog over his relationship with an IRS agent, so he enlists Will's help.

A boy wants to sue his parents over their divorce, Cindy seeks to marry her partner, and Sam Adams wants to sue a dancer.

Horatio investigates the stabbing death of a prostitute who is found stuffed under a bed in a hotel room; a German tourist is murdered in an attempted carjacking.