Soap

- Season 4

(1980)

In a recap of season three, Jessica pleads with her guardian angel to allow her to rejoin her family on Earth.

Jessica comes out of her coma; Eunice wins Dutch from Corinne; Burt and Danny receive blackmail photos; Mary's baby seems normal; Jodie's custody battle for Wendy is decided.

Corinne bids goodbye to her mother; Polly turns down Danny's marriage proposal; Burt refuses to knuckle under to Tibbs; Mary returns home with baby Scott; Jodie discovers that his daughter Wendy has been kidnapped.

Jessica admires Burt's blackmail photos; Eunice and Dutch announce their engagement, as Jessica banishes Chester to the pool house.

As Dutch and Eunice tie the knot, Chester meets Eunice's maid of honor, Annie; the X-rated photos of Burt appear in the newspaper and Burt and Mary face the public's outrage, as well as each other's; Annie moves into the poolhouse with Chester; on her private vacation to Malaguay, Jessica frees El Puerco, a Malaguayan revolutionary, who immediately takes her hostage.

Jodie hires private detective Maggie to find his kidnapped daughter; Billy heads off to Malaguay to find his mother; Mary is depressed over the media's treatment of her husband, who plans to infiltrate one of Tibbs' massage parlors for evidence.

Burt and Danny disguise themselves at the massage parlor; Danny recognizes Gwen as one of the girls in the blackmail photos; with Jessica still lost in Malaguay, the Tates have no access to her money.

Jessica convinces El to conduct his revolution from her Connecticut home; Danny promises protection for Gwen; the Tates are still strapped for cash as Dutch gets fired from a car wash because he didn't know what 'agua' meant.

Learning that Carol is now into rodeo clowns, Jodie and Maggie follow her trail to Albuquerque; Danny persuades Gwen to tone down her clientele while under his protective custody.

Jessica's entourage arrives home safely; as Danny and Gwen acknowledge each other's feelings, Jodie and Maggie admit their attraction for each other; Burt's crisis of faith results in the death of his boyhood Bishop.

After Jessica announces that she's now officially divorced from Chester, he announces his engagement to Annie; Jodie and Maggie confirm their relationship; a bullet meant for Gwen hits Danny instead.

Burt vows to make Tibbs pay for his crimes; Jessica makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce El; Danny's critical injury requires a kidney from a blood relative.

Jodie and Maggie are taken captive by Minja warriors in Malibu; Burt becomes a hero after finally capturing Tibbs; and Mary reveals that Danny's natural father is Chester.

Chester becomes the vital kidney donor on Danny's behalf; Dutch and Eunice try to spice up their sex life by playacting; believing her sister has betrayed her, Jessica refuses to speak to a despondent Mary, who reveals how their mother arranged scatterbrained Jessica's marriage to embezzler Chester.

Jodie and Maggie are rescued from their dungeon prison, after which she proposes marriage; Jodie visits a psychiatrist who puts him under hypnosis that turns him into an elderly Jewish man; Chester and Annie celebrate their marriage, but his jealousy over Jessica will not end; Mary reconciles with her forgiving sister, then walks out on her high-and-mighty husband, telling him she doesn't like him anymore.

Nobody believes Mary when she insists her baby can fly; lamenting his washed-up relationship with wife Eunice, Dutch fondly recalls the days of 'screaming and scratching Corinne'; the Governor offers Burt a run for the Senate; and Danny finds his attractive new stepmother Annie as lonely--and irresistible--as he is.

A despondent Chester wants to kill himself, until he finds his new bride in bed with his son; the syndicate baits a trap for the unsuspecting Burt; El Puerco's enemies kidnap Jessica and put her in front of a firing squad.