While visiting New York, the group attends the Central Park Spook-tacular and it inspires them into telling their own scary stories.
The popular girls at school ask Rainbow to join their group Halloween costume as Tootie from "The Facts of Life"; Rainbow thinks she has an opportunity to fit in, but Denise thinks differently; Alicia doesn't want the kids to go trick-or-treating.
Rainbow is excited to go on her first real date with Bryce for Valentine's Day; Alicia is wary to let Rainbow start dating and invites Bryce's parents over for dinner to cross-examine them; Paul gets into a fight with Bryce's dad over politics.
Paul speaks at the school assembly on Martin Luther King Jr. Day; the kids think Paul is going to embarrass them, so they decide not to attend.
Alicia and Paul are both offered jobs to work on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign, but Alicia's law firm makes her an enticing offer to stay; Rainbow struggles to define her racial identity on a form.
