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Joe feels the weight of the world coming down on him as everyone comes to him to help solve their problems. As the stress mounts, he knows he must make a drastic change.

The sad news of Harrison Kingsbury's death in Miami is occasion for celebration at Sandpiper, as Kingsbury's oldest daughter hires the Hacketts to bring the body back to Nantucket for the memorial. But the brothers fly the wrong body back to the island, and it's up to Joe to impersonate the late Kingsbury at the funeral.

With Joe MIA, the burden of running Sandpiper Air falls all on Brian. As he struggles to keep things in the air, he gets a clue to where Joe ran off to.

Roy gets bored and decides to have some fun at everyone else's expense.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Helen spilling soup on a man lands her a job offer with the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She fights to get even one person (besides Roy) to attend her inaugural performance, but in the end, they'll all wish they'd stayed on the island.

Joe and Brian are divided over their new-found inheritance: Joe wants to expand the business, and Brian wants to use the money to leave Nantucket and the tedium of his job. Joe's agony over the dissolving of the partnership is further complicated when he learns of Helen's earth shaking news: she's been invited to study cello in Vienna with the world's greatest cellist. Joe is prepared to sacrifice Sandpiper to help Helen finally live her dream, but it is Brian who makes the final sacrifice by postponing his and Casey's move to the Caribbean in order to run Sandpiper for one year while Joe and Helen are away in Vienna.

When Joe is too busy with his new wife to spend time with him, Brian turns to food. He ends up trying to deal with his problems at a meeting of the "Eat-A-Holics." Meanwhile, Antonio tries to get used to tight shoes, after he pays $200 for them, and Casey gets hired by the Nantucket Tourism Board.

When Joe's back goes out and forces him into a stay at the hospital, Brian takes over Sandpiper. His eagerness is soon deflated when all his new ideas and crazy promotions turns into a disastrous mess.

Everyone is of course skeptical when Brian announces that his relationship with Alex is special. To try to insure that their relationship lasts longer than a couple of weeks, they decide not to sleep with one another yet.

Joe and Helen just want some time alone with one another, but Brian and Casey continually interrupt them. Brian and Casey decide to surprise them with an engagement party as an apology, but Antonio misinterprets an overheard conversation and believes Brian to be sleeping with Casey. When she hears about it, Helen drags Joe to the party site well before they are expected.

Lowell and Bunny make their separation final by signing the divorce papers only to start sleeping together again. Meanwhile, Antonio consoles a woman who's cheating husband left his cellphone in Antonio's cab.

It's Roy's 12th birthday (he was born on a leap year), and Helen contacts Roy's son R.J. and convinces him to come back to Nantucket for the party. But the initial reconciliation is dashed when R.J. brings his significant other to the party. Meanwhile, Brian helps Antonio out by driving the cab while Antonio waits for his driver's license.

After Joe and Helen burn down Brian's house, he's expecting a big check, much like the one Joe and Helen got. But the gutting of the old Hackett house is cause for an appearance by an insurance investigator, who has serious doubt about the legitimacy of the two claims in the last year—until she and Antonio's wild night of passion sparks a blaze at the local hotel and that convinces her the cases are legit.

Brian and Joe gain a new roommate after Brian accidentally sinks Lowell's houseboat.

To lift Antonio's spirits after he's dumped by the "Big Faced Girl," Joe and Brian set him up with a girl at the Club Car only to discover later that she's a very expensive hooker.

When digging through the rubble of Helen's home, Brian and Casey unearth a suitcase and photograph that had been the Hackett brothers' only inheritance from their late father. Brian's attempts to remind Joe of that fail, but Joe later sees a vision of his late father and forgives Brian. Meanwhile, Antonio executes his revenge on Brian and Casey and Helen takes out her anger on Casey's clothes.

To help pay for his new used cab, Antonio gets a job as a chauffeur for Carlton Blanchard. Things get even worse when Carlton's equally annoying nephew, Lewis, arrives on Nantucket to attend Carlton's banquet.

When news arrives that Sandy Cooper is returning to Nantucket, Joe fears her high school obsession with him will return but the others think he's imagining things. Meanwhile, Antonio tries to raise money to send to his family and Roy is worried about a visit from his cranky mother.

Joe and Helen return from their honeymoon in Jamaica to receive bad news: a night of passion between Brian and Casey in Helen's house resulted in a devastating fire. That leaves Brian kicked out of both the house and Sandpiper by Joe.

Helen dates a guy with an annoying laugh. Antonio has trouble with his jerk neighbor.

After having a few drinks, Alex asks Joe to drive her home and when he arrives late the next day everyone assumes that they spent the night together.

Joe and Brian learn their childhood home has been condemned due to storm damage and all efforts to save it fail. The gang visits one last time before the wrecking ball flies, and they relive some childhood memories.

Back from vacation, Lowell goes out for a meal of hot wings with Antonio and lands in hot water when he witnesses a mob hit. After he is threatened by the gangster's lawyer, he decides to join the Witness Protection Program and leave Nantucket forever, rather than see the gangster released and have a chance to kill again.

Fay is forgiving at the loss of her annual raise when Joe tells her how tight money is, but when she sees the brothers gloating over a pair of new leather flight jackets, she quits. She takes a position with Aeromass while Joe struggles at Sandpiper.

Brian falls for "R" after reading her love letters mistakenly sent to a former occupant of the house. Meanwhile, Joe and Helen ask Antonio to install a new security system for them.

Roy is struck out at Fenway Park by his own rendition of the National Anthem, and Fay commits a costly personal foul at work.

After fighting with Helen over the architect's plans for their new house (he wants a big screen TV in the bedroom, she wants a walk-in closet), Joe has a strange dream involving Tigers, Clowns, Roy belly-dancing, and the couple dying in a plane crash with Antonio. As one by one the dreams events come to pass, Brian tries to convince Joe to heed the dream's warnings, but he fails. Joe, Helen and Antonio soon find themselves plunging to earth in the plane…

While trying to create a perfect evening with her boyfriend, Davis, Helen runs into obstacle after obstacle with various friends who assist in aiding with what can only be certain disaster.

Much to Joe's surprise, Helen wins a job with the Maine State Symphony. But when Helen comes to Joe and tells him she would stay if he only asked, the discussion turns into a huge fight involving a fire extinguisher and a grease gun. Meanwhile, a confused looking woman who doesn't speak english and has been hanging around the airport gains Fay's sympathy and Roy's hostility.

When Helen discovers that she and Antonio are still married (by finding papers under her cash register), she turns to Roy for help. He convinces her she needs to fly to Mexico over the weekend to get a quickie divorce, but that means sending Joe out of town on a weekend fly fishing trip. But Helen's plan are strained when Antonio brings in a priest for an annulment and Joe's flight is delayed.

Antonio performs his civic duty when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then testifies against him. But then the suspect gets released on a technicality, and Antonio starts to fear for his life.

To cheer up Helen, Joe restores her old cello. While Helen is busy rediscovering her old passion, Joe and Brian discover that the ages-old treasure hunt they undertook when their father died isn't over yet. They and the rest of the gang are led all over New England, only to wind up back at the airport and discover $250,000 in an old suitcase in an airport locker.

Sandpiper is finally back in business but Joe's nose is broken by a man who mistakes him for Brian. At the surgeon's office, the doctor's observation of a bump on Brian's nose has him obsessing about getting a nose job.

Antonio's repeated success with a video dating service soon has Joe, Brian, Helen and Lowell plunging into the video dating fray, with less than stellar results.

As his birthday approaches, Joe firmly insists that the rest of the gang not throw him a party. When Fay asks him to stay late to wait for a shipment of airplane seats, Joe becomes convinced they're throwing him a party anyway.

Concerned by Helen's persistent anger over her break up with Joe, the rest of the group convince her to seek help with a transition group, not realizing exactly who the group is for. Meanwhile, after escorting Helen to the group meeting, Brian becomes obsessed with talking about Carol and takes over the group.

Lowell convinces Helen to go on a date with him.

While the house is being fumigated, Brian is forced to stay with Fay. The experience turns out to be surprisingly pleasant—that is, until he becomes convinced he's seen her featured on the "Most Wanted" show he is watching about a serial killer.

Stunned by the news that their "quickie" divorce won't be for another three years, Helen sadly resigns herself to life as Antonio's wife. But she gains new hope when Brian tells her about a green card lottery.

Joe is thrilled to learn that, for a charity auction, a plane ticket he donated to fly to any nearby airport goes for a staggering $10,000. But his mood sours when a misprint on the ticket forces him to fly crabby old Carlton Blanchard on a cross-country trip for a reunion with his brother.

The return of 9th grade English teacher Laura Jenkins to Nantucket reawakens the Hacketts' schoolboy crushes. For Brian, fantasy becomes reality when he spends the night with her, but to his embarrassment he doesn't perform. Meanwhile, Roy deals with a con man interested in marrying his mother for her social security check.

When Joe and Helen decide to meet at their "special place" on Valentine's Day, they end up on opposite ends of the island. Meanwhile, when Roy's blind date exceeds all his low expectations, all he can do is try and figure out what's wrong with her.

Helen gets the quartet role but hates it. However, she doesn't know how to quit without letting Joe and Brian down. Faye, Roy, Antonio and Lowell practice for their awful play.

Casey finally catches up with the husband who abandoned her, but her rage lessens as he professes his heartfelt remorse at his desperate act. She's understanding to his sad stories of bankruptcy and shame causing him to leave in the first place…until she sees him on his yacht. Meanwhile, Roy teaches Antonio how to dance.

Joe and Helen's initial fortune at landing famous architect Y.M. Burg to design their new house soon turn sour as he suggests a house shaped like a giant "7." Meanwhile, Brian hires a new mechanic, Budd Bronski, who attempts to live down a previous "incident."

During a cargo flight, Brian and Joe see a UFO. Joe's concerned about unfavorable media attention, but Brian wants to report the sighting to the FAA. Meanwhile, Helen and Fay end up arm wrestling over a lunch bill dispute.

Roy reveals his wife Sylvia is not dead after all, but living in Boston after having deserted him abruptly sixteen years ago. Accompanied by Brian, Roy flies to Boston to win his wife back, only to find her life has taken a surprising turn without him.

Weeb Gilroy's death has Lowell searching for the right words to eulogize his long time friend. Words fail him at the end and all he can think of is to finish working on the plane they built together.

Out of boredom while the airport is shut down for fog, Brian tries his hypnosis act on volunteers, during which Roy makes a shocking revelation.

When Helen and Casey's mother arrives on Nantucket, Helen isn't sure which sister her mother came to see. And when she finds out her mother gambled away the $10,000 for her and Joe's wedding, she is convinced that Casey has always been the favorite of the family. Meanwhile, Fay and Roy split a ticket to a Barbara Streisand concert; Antonio adopts Deedee as his own mother; and Lowell and Brian stuff themselves on Deedee's food in an attempt to see who can out-eat the other.

Helen refuses to pay for the repairs to Joe's office, even after she ran her Jeep through it. As matters escalate, Joe winds up struggling to find someone to deliver a subpoena to Helen after suing in small claims court.

Roy tries to make friends with the gang by joining them in a game of Trivial Pursuit.

When a long time rival drops out of a boxing tournament, Joe finds himself matched up against Brian. But what starts out as a friendly competition gets decidedly unpleasant.

To ease Alex's embarrassment over having to take a job as a waitress at a medieval themed restaurant during the off-season, the gang tell their own stories of embarrassing off-season jobs.

Brian is surprised to find out his new girlfriend Emily's son is already in college. Further complications ensue when Casey takes a shine to young Shawn. Meanwhile, Joe and Roy go to the circus: Joe to try and deal with his childhood trauma, and Roy to demand an apology from the clown who humilated him in his act.

Antonio volunteers to man the Nantucket Suicide Hotline. It soon pays off for him when he scores a date with a caller he helped. When they meet he can't believe his eyes or his luck and keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop—for her to dump him.

Nothing goes right at Helen's christmas party: Joe wants to hit the road to head for the slopes before they are snowed in; Antonio gives but does not receive; Roy misses his mother; Budd tries to be social; and Casey invites Carlton's annoying nephew Lewis.

As a furious storm rages outside, Joe and Helen stop by the "Singles Mingle" to drop off Brian's wallet, intent on leaving as soon as possible to begin celebrating the first anniversary of their wedding. But news soon comes that the roads are closed due to high water and everyone is trapped. Not wanting to let everyone know they are married, for fear of their reaction, Joe asks Helen to be his bride again. Meanwhile, Fay, Roy and Casey mingle, while Antonio is offered his money back and asked to wait in the office till the party is over. And Brian tries to convince the only woman in the place he's attracted to, the sexy bartender, that he's not a pathetic as he seems.

Antonio upstages Lowell in front of the Tuesday Night Rat Club, while Brian and Joe are grounded by an attractive helicopter pilot.

Joe and Helen deal with a crooked vacuum cleaner salesman charging them to repair a vacuum originally sold with an "eternal" guarantee. Meanwhile, Brian gets close to Roy to get closer to his niece.

When Fay goes on vacation, the Hacketts hire a beautiful woman to fill in at the counter. Brian finds her distressingly distracting, while Joe and Helen have uneasy dreams about her. Meanwhile, Casey helps Antonio get a job at the department store, only to see him promoted ahead of her.

Roy invites Joe and Helen over to his house on an important night for him: the introduction of his girlfriend to his mother. But when he's dumped before the fateful evening, Helen reluctantly fills in. Meanwhile, Brian passes on his cold to Casey before her big date.

The arrival of Millionaire Mimsy Borogroves has Fay, Roy and Helen eager to tap into her wealth. But Mimsy has eyes for Brian, and he soon enjoys the good life, receiving expensive presents and accompanying Mimsy everywhere, much to Joe's disgust.

With nothing to do one Saturday night, Joe and Helen start socializing with a new couple on the island, the Tuckers. Their initial trepidation is soon forgotten in all the fun, but the Tuckers quickly tire of their needy counterparts. Meanwhile, Brian and Casey start hitting the singles hangouts together and Antonio becomes Lowell's "hands" when Lowell injures his working on the cab.

Brian's excitement over appearing on a talk show is dampened when his ex-girlfriend Alex also appears. After bitter words on and off the screen, the two sleep together, but Brian decides to end things.

When Cord chickens out on delivering a presentation before his father's board of directors, Joe and Brian must deliver it. Meanwhile, hanging in the men's, Helen learns a nasty secret: Cord was expected to fail at Sandpiper for the tax write-off.

Brian flys to Boston to see if he can reunite with his ex-wife Carol.

The unearthing of a 20-year old time capsule is occasion for Joe, Brian, Helen, and Casey to reflect on what kind of a future they envisioned themselves having as kids. Joe dreamed of being a pitcher for the Red Sox, Brian dreamed of being a suave secret agent , and Casey dreamed of being a supermodel—but only Helen's dream came true.

Roy gets the surprise of his life when he agrees to let his star athlete son take cello lessons from Helen.

Fay encourages a retired pilot to complete his trip around the world.

After selling off the valuables of her George's, Fay is visited by their ghosts, demanding that she buy back their items. Meanwhile, Joe's Valentine's Day efforts seem paltry to Helen compared to the man intending to propose to his beloved with a banner flying from the Sandpiper plane, and Brian and Casey prepare to go out on a sham date.

After receiving $25,000 from the family trust fund, Lowell invests the money in an old wax museum. Despite everyone's doubts, Lowell renovates the museum. but he comes to realize it won't be easy at the lackluster grand reopening of "Lowell Mather's House O' Wax". When news comes of a disastrous fire at the museum, Lowell is determined to start again from scratch.

In the series premiere, brothers Joe and Brian Hackett search for a suitcase full of cash that their dead father supposedly left them.

Another odd Christmas falls on Nantucket as Antonio drives a nun around in search of a vision she saw in a dream, while Joe plays reluctant host to feuding brothers Lou and Harry, and a little last minute shopping ends up trapping Fay, Helen and Casey.

Joe's future is up in the air when Sandpiper Air is grounded by his insurance company, but Brian's plan to save the airline doesn't fly right with Helen.

Kicked out by Joe and Helen, Brian and Casey move into a new home with Antonio. Meanwhile, Joe and Helen's fling with nudism has them being threatened with blackmail when the neighbor kids snap pictures of them.

Joe holds a bachelor party for a guy he can't remember going to high school with.

Brian tries to save face when Fay trounces him in a friendly game of tennis.

Tired of Lowell's strictness, the brother's boot him out of the house. Despite his reluctance, Lowell buys a new house and tries to adjust to the experience of living alone for the first time.

When Brian's old friend shows up and they resume their wild, partying lifestyle every night, Alex grows increasingly neglected. Lowell takes in his idol, over-the-hill television superhero Big Strong Man, who takes advantage of his hospitality.

Somebody is asking questions around the island in search of Fay and she's spooked. Antonio loves the new cable TV service that Roy's shady friend installed.

When Brian starts to date Kenny's mother, Kenny is worried about Brian's reputation with women. But just as Kenny warms to the idea of them dating, Brian dumps her. Meanwhile, Joe and Helen squabble over the issue of privacy.

Joe spies on Brian and Helen when they go on a date.

When Roy flies in a mail-order bride from Russia, Helen tries to convince Roy and Anya that this marriage should never be, but both ignore her. Anya's resolve is weakened by a chance encounter with another man, and the sight of her weeping just moments before their wedding convinces Roy to free her from his commitments to him. Meanwhile, Fay convinces Lowell to pretend to be her lover to impress her soon-to-arrive friends, but Lowell insists on cramming and it finally gets to Fay who calls the whole thing off just moments before they are to arrive.

Joe plays nursemaid to Helen when she has her wisdom teeth pulled, but loses his patience when he tries to sneak away to watch a basketball game.

Brian and Helen's trip to New York to see "Rent" turns into a nightmare when the theatre refuses to transfer the tickets from Helen's benefactor to her. Even worse, a con-man robs them of their money and Helen is forced to compete in a drag queen contest in order to get the money to get home. Meanwhile, a bad back leaves Joe in the house alone with a suddenly talkative Antonio.

The contractor Joe and Helen hires to build their new house falls apart when his wife kicks him out, and the Hacketts try to rebuild his confidence and get him back to work. Meanwhile, a vacationing George Kennedy is bothered by an annoying fan: Brian.

When Sandy Cooper returns to the island, Joe fears yet another bizarre encounter with the obsessed woman. She tells him it was all a practical joke, and he believes her until a stop at Helen's house becomes Sandy and Joe's wedding day. Meanwhile, Fay forces the old '70s wardrobe of one of her dead husbands onto Antonio, and Lowell tries life as a vegetarian.

Casey encourages Brian to use his insurance money to open a martini bar, offering to help manage it. But things go awry immediately when the first customer through the door slips and falls on the floor. Brian's problems are compounded when he learns Casey never got insurance.

Cord's first act as the new President of Sandpiper is to hold a meeting, informing everyone they need a "big idea". Something that drives Joe crazy, trying to get everyone to see there is no "Big Idea". But Roy mentions to Cord that the charter business is the one, he hasn't been able to crack. Roy's "Big Idea" pays off when Sandpiper becomes the charter for singing sensations, the Todds.

Brian dates a policewoman to get her to drop charges on his unpaid parking tickets. Meanwhile, Lowell totes his video camera around the airport trying to capture something to submit to the show "America's Wackiest Videos."

Helen plays her cello to a very famous conductor (special guest star David Ogden Stiers), who tells her she's terrible.

Joe and Brian compete to see who Carol loves more.

Joe is upset at playing chauffeur to the other couples for their romantic trips off the island but it's everybody else who ends up suffering. Meanwhile, Antonio and Fay help Roy change his image to try to impress a new woman.

Fay quickly falls for Lyle, the dashing man she met on a cruise, but the wedding is jeopardized when Fay learns the awful truth about him. His real first name is George, just like her first three dead husbands. Armed with this new knowledge, Fay decides against marrying a fourth George and calls off the wedding.

Hoping to impress Alex, Brian claims to know Clint Black. Helen and Alex are entertained while they expect Brian's scheme to attend a concert and meet him will backfire.

Joe faces a moral dilemma: can he lie to Helen so he can go to a strip club with Brian? To soothe his conscience, he volunteers some time at the Golden Crest retirement home, but ends up taking one of the residents with him to the strip club. Meanwhile, Fay and Antonio write their own eulogies.

To Helen's disgust and Brian's envy, Joe starts dating a 19-year-old co-ed. Roy and Antonio find a dog whose cute charm no woman can resist.

Brian's vow to find a deeper, more meaningful relationship is tested by beautiful but dumb Dani. Meanwhile, Joe tries to deal with the fact that one of his best friends didn't invite him to his wedding.

A financial crisis forces Joe to seek out an investor for Sandpiper. He thinks his luck has changed when businessman Jonathan Clayton comes to the island. But he soon informs them he doesn't invest in companies; he buys them.

Brian talks Joe into a vacation so they can do a little golfing, but neglects to tell him it's a time share weekend promotion. Roy and Lowell tag along and disasters mount. Meanwhile, Antonio discovers money to be had in playing guitar for tips at the airport but only knows one song.

On the verge of losing her job with the Tourism Board, Casey sees a solution when her sister city idea is accepted. But things go downhill when Brian sleeps with the visiting princess of prospective sister city Khirinan. Meanwhile, Antonio offers to take the little princesses for their hair care appointment. It turns out to be two dogs, which he promptly loses.

Brian sets Joe up on a date with a woman who's been with every man on the island.

When Fay decides to retire, Joe and Brian hire Casey to replace Fay at the counter. To the Hacketts' surprise, Casey works wonders for their business. When Fay asks for her old job back, the brothers face a predicament. Rather than fire Casey, they decide to keep both at the counter, and sparks soon fly between the women.