While trying to find Axl the cat, Adam and Joe wind up getting sprayed by a skunk. Corri and Laura race to the local convenient store to find vinegar for the boys, but find themselves detained by the police who are suspicious about their questionable purchase.

When the gang finds themselves trapped in the apartment without power during a Christmas Eve blizzard they reminisce on how they all first met and Adam and Corri's complicated relationship takes an eventful turn. Meanwhile, a deranged serial killer named "the Christine Cringle Tingler" escapes from Framingham Women's State Penitentiary and is on the loose. An hour-long very special episode of Holliston.

Though Corri suspects that Adam's new girlfriend may not be exactly who he thinks she is, everyone else seems to adore her and think that Corri is just jealous. Meanwhile, Lance is paid a visit by a young man claiming to be his illegitimate son.