Trudy finds herself in a bind – literally – when her sister Wren and her fiancé Ned try to “cure” her right-wing beliefs by performing an exorcism rite. The exorcism goes tragically wrong when Wren, with an agenda of her own, proves once again that all politics is personal.

Lucy may have convinced boyfriend Sean to come on a UFO-sighting trip on the ferry, but she has her work cut out for her. Sean is a UFO non-believer, and worse, has been trolling her online UFO site. Lucy's excitement builds as the hour of the sighting approaches, but Sean is having none of it. He encounters Joe at the snack bar who seems to have a way of guessing everyone’s beer choices, and mysteriously more. After false sightings and irked with Sean, Lucy shares her disappointments with the increasingly interested Joe. As Sean and Lucy finally find common ground, Joe makes a last minute gesture toward Lucy to join him, but she doesn’t notice. Joe, dejected, jumps overboard to join his alien parents who have come to get him in their UFO.

Tiana thinks she may have trouble getting into Annansdale College, given her background and challenging life circumstances. The admissions officer is at first inclined (and coerced) to agree, until she considers her own history with Annansdale. And, her role in filtering out applicants like Tiana.

In the near future, Helen is a new inmate at Harmony House, where ‘Senior Juvies’ are dumped for committing minor offenses. The resident choir wonders whether to let Helen sing during the Founder’s Day hymn, where they plan to secretly deliver a manifesto to a visiting senator, demanding that all seniors be absolved of criminal punishment. Helen objects to their manifesto and threatens to speak against them to the visiting senator, who she reveals is her son. The choir now sees that their plan has failed, and they are in danger of being shipped to the penitentiary next door. They lock her in a closet and move on to manifesto plan B as Helen’s cries in the closet dim.

Ollie, prone to medical student syndrome, tries to convince his girlfriend Gina that he has real symptoms of real diseases. After rejecting his worries at first, she falls prey to his suggestion that she is sick too. She decides
that there is only one way to stop his infecting her with his dangerous ideas.

Juan is suspicious of Skye's motives for inviting him out to a backwater lake - and of the predators he encounters there.

Mary makes a dangerous journey to join a far off colony, only to find at the other end that Tomas, a scientist, subjects her to a set of grueling scenarios to test her reactions.