Earl Houston Bullock

Red's mother Bernice has once again managed to make everyone miserable during one of her visits. While driving his grandmother home, Eric lashes out and tells her that it wouldn't kill her to be nice once in a while. Bernice promptly drops dead, leaving Eric to think he killed her. The entire Forman family (including Laurie and Red's brother Marty) comes together for her funeral while Eric gets drunk at a bar with the guys.

In a special episode, Carter travels to the war-torn Congo as part of a voluntary medical program. He finds primitive Third World facilities, a few heroic staffers and woeful patients overflowing the tiny hospital while a bloody civil war threatens to engulf them all. After Carter ventures deeper into the jungle to reunite with Kovac, they risk their lives manning a crude outpost used for a vaccination campaign--and soon find themselves in the line of fire between the warring tribes.

To get Aunt Effie to follow her doctor's advice to exercise, Mama persuades her to join a tap dance class at the Senior Citizens Center. Mama soon takes over the class, forming a troupe of blue-haired hoofers that becomes the toast of Raytown.

Stephanie is furious when she discovers she will not be participating in a beauty contest.

A documentary crew records the attorneys as they fight to win a stay of execution for a man convicted of murdering a young girl.