Maggie is nearly in a car accident and she gives the driver a piece of her mind. She discovers that the driver is a racecar driver and Sonny Mayfield, the owner of the restaurant where she has been hanging out with ""the gang"" that Rachel wants to belong to. When she discovers that they all like him, she works to make herself liked by him, when it appears as though he doesn't like her. Turns out it is just the opposite.

Maggie wants to surprise her mother by having her father join them at Thanksgiving. When she realizes her mother would rather never see him again. So she checks her father into a motel under an assumed name, but word gets out the Maggie Winters is seeing an old man at a sleazy motel, her mother is beside herself. On Thanksgiving Day, Maggie reveals who the old man in her life is; now Estelle is really beside herself.

It's girl's night out! Tom's not invited, so Estelle suggests that he have a guy's night out. Maggie plans to take the girls to a place her ex-husband never took her to, so imagine her surprise when they run into him and his girlfriend there. The rest of Maggie's evening is spent reconciling her feelings for Jack. When Tom's arrangements don't go as planned, he winds up spending the evening with Estelle.