While Jonah works up the courage to ask Nicole's friend Emma to a dance, Zuzette, a biologist on exchange from France, races to collect five tropical frogs that accidentally escaped from their aquarium.

The Roberts assist in an archaeological dig in a nearby forest: Grant must deal with an arrogant paleontologist convinced her theories are correct, while Nicole must handle a fellow student who keeps stealing her credit for unearthing fossils.

Upon returning from a camping trip to visit his old friend Pete, Grant discovers he is the recipient of the Fairfax Award worth sixty thousand dollars. When it is revealed the award is a distraction to the environment damage caused by the company sponsoring the award, Grant must decide whether to accept it or refuse.

When his research proposal is inexplicably turned down, Grant resigns from the aquarium and tries to figure out why a power-wielding scientist is trying to blacklist him in the scientific community.

The Roberts family tries to uncover who has been secretly drugging the prize-winning racehorse of one of Nicole's friend's, causing her to loose an important race.

While doing a school project, Jonah befriends a refugee from Vietnam whose own tragic past is complicated by the bullying and taunting of his prejudiced classmates.

Jonah and Nicole enlist aboard a schooner and must prove themselves to its skeptical captain.

As Jonah enters UBC, he is hired as an assistant to a scientist studying the use of sign language with chimpanzees; as he gets closer to his boss, jealousy flares on two different fronts with unfortunate consequences.