Hildy's decision to temporarily house a young shoplifter backfires when the boy convinces her son Kenny to run away from home.

When Hildy releases a bogus fortune with only a warning, the gypsy shows her gratitude by bestowing the legendary ""Golden Streak"" of luck.

The deputies are convinced that Hildy is having an affair with her henpecked handyman.

Hildy is determined to stop Max's mail-order-bride business.

Hildy's New Year's Eve 'stay sober' party doesn't quite stay sober.

Jealous of the attention Hildy is getting as spokeswoman for the Tahoe Visitors Bureau, Max mentors an allegedly destitute woman under and receives donations and sympathy from everyone except Hildy, who suspects from the beginning that the woman is a fraud.

One is a lonely number as only Hildy doubts a woman, supposedly down on her luck, who is collecting donations from everyone with her sob story.

Hildy develops her first romantic crush since the death of her husband.

Hildy has run out of patience with Max's antics and suspends him from the force. But when Max takes a temporary job at a trendy beauty salon, he is so popular with the customers that he announces he is quitting police work for good.

Romantic sparks threaten to ignite when Hildy meets a public defender who is much younger.

While working on a condominium time-share scam, Hildy suddenly finds herself under the investigative eye of a public defender who is much younger.

Hildy keeps an old high school friend from committing suicide, but then Hildy inadvertently complicates matters as they reminisce together.

Mishaps abound when Hildy works to prepare the department and the deputies for a surprise inspection.

Hildy tries to prove ""mother knows best"" when she battles with Kenny's baseball coach to be included in the annual Father-Son banquet.