Episode 36. The Good Janitor?
SPECIAL GUEST STARS:
JAMES CAAN as Paul Harland.
MICHAEL ROSENBAUM as Kenneth Depp.
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL as Sandra Hill.
and Introducing J.K. Simmons as Donald Blunt.
Paul Harland befriends a teenaged girl called Molly at the hospital, who is awaiting a heart transfusion. After a few days, it's clear the girl is pretty smitten with the janitor, despite him being years older than herself. Lola brings him lunch and reminds him that it's Tina's and Greg's birthday in a few weeks. Paul tells her he hasn't forgotten.
Tina suggests to Harry, they should adopt straight away. Harry figures there is no rush, and states they should foster first as a start to see how they cope with certain children. Tina agrees.
Lola finishes work and fobs Greg off with a story, that she is meeting a friend, when in truth she is meeting Kenneth Depp to prostitute herself. Lola adds that she would rather do the deed away from city limits, as she doesn't want familiar faces noticing. Kenneth cruelly taunts her, by explaining that's what she gets for turning against him and insists $100,000 sounds a better target than $10,000. Lola begs Kenneth to go easy on her, but Kenneth refuses and continues to threaten to expose her past.
Sandra worries that Audrey is trying to warm back to Billy, by visiting him a lot. Billy assures her, it's nothing and that it's only conversation on Tina and Greg's birthday. Sandra accepts this.
Jeff and Sylvia are on their way taking Christopher to the New York and stop at traffic signals, when Lola pulls up alongside them. Lola partially smiles and Jeff smiles back, but Sylvia feels really uncomfortable.
A patient at the hospital suffers an asthma attack and Paul being a good Samaritan, gives him CPR. The patient regains consciousness and Paul is given a heroes applause.
The next day, Paul and Lola are out strolling in Central Park, when Paul spots the hospital receptionist, the heart patient girls sister, paying Kenneth Depp for drugs. That evening, while on a shift, Paul is stock taking, when interrupted by the girl who needs a heart transplant. Paul suggest she go back to rest. She refuses and tells him, she has waited for this moment, since she first laid eyes on him. Paul allows her into basement room and lock the door behind him. Sometime after, the girl pressures Paul into another moment of passion, but Paul says that they should take it easy, but the girl threatens him, by saying she will suggest he took advantage of her, which he did in truth. The girl threatens to tell the receptionist, who is her sister. The girl is informed of a successful donor. That evening, Paul breaks into the receptionists locker, knowing they are sisters and infiltrates the girl patients room and takes her drugs. In a secluded part of the hospital, he fills the capsules with the cocaine and returns them to the teenaged girls room and places the cocaine back into the receptionists purse.
The next morning, hours before the teenaged girls operation, she suffers a cardiac arrest and passes away. The coroners report suggests she was poisoned and that a certain drug was slipped into her capsules. Sylvia arrives to investigate, as does Christopher who does a reporters investigation and takes it upon himself to search the lockers and finds the receptionists cocaine in her bag and she is arrested. Sylvia and Christopher ask questions and Paul takes it upon himself, that she was drug dealing with a guy in Central Park, the previous day. The receptionist is now up for murder, who pleads her innocence by screaming she loved her sister and would never put her life in danger. It is revealed that she was on drugs due to the fact her sisters illness was causing her distress. Sylvia asks the description of the supplier to the receptionist. Paul said he couldn't remember off by heart the description of the supplier, but the receptionist refuses to tell the identity of the supplier as she doesn't want to put her family in danger. When asked about security footage, the surveillance system had been suffering technical difficulties, which had worked in Paul's favour since he knew, but it seems the more vital evidence, stays with the receptionists drugs and that Paul's evil intentions has got him off scot free, due to the sibling connection between the girl and the receptionist. Lola comforts Paul, who fakes being upset.
Harry and Jeff head for a swing at golf, where they discuss Jeff adopting Christopher and Harry and Tina fostering before adopting.
Christopher is given a job at the New York Times by Donald Blunt.
Helen is shaken when Kenneth stalks her at work.
A new receptionist arrives at the hospital, where Paul offers her a rose a welcome gift. The former receptionist is charged with her sisters murder.
END OF EPISODE THIRTY SIX.