Whistler

Ryan finds himself under the suspicion of murder and must turn to Quinn for help. Adrien's business is in jeopardy and the McKaye's hold the only solution. Nicole makes a shocking discovery about her family.

Just as Quinn decides that Isabelle is the girl for him, Isabelle realizes he's still got a thing for Carrie and breaks up with him. Carrie, who feels she's lost her chance with Quinn, discovers a surprise that Beck has left for her. Ethan and Jen are shocked to learn that their block has been re-zoned for resort use only. Knowing Adrien manipulated the City Council, Jen accepts Ryan's offer to lend them money to fight it. On the business front, Adrien's resort is going through an audit. Financiers are attempting to determine the true value of Varland Enterprises as Adrien pursues his dream of building a mega resort. And Adrien finally makes an openly romantic advance on Nicole. A.J., back on the street dealing drugs, has a deal go wrong and is badly beaten. Out of options, a contrite A.J. returns home to his father who takes him back. Ryan finds the missing Shelby hiding out at a seedy motel. He doubts her story that Adrien is trying to have her killed until he spots Kaliciak making a late night clandestine payoff to someone in a dark parking lot.

Ethan, wracked with guilt over his one night stand with Lisa, fires her. Carrie's relationship with A.J. goes south when she has to track him down to pay back the money she loaned him. A.J., cut off from his father's money, has been dealing drugs to earn cash. Unaware of his drug dealing, Jen invites A.J. to stay with the McKayes until he can get things straightened out with his father. Quinn's relationship with Isabelle heats up, but Carrie has a way of popping up and distracting him. Despite Ryan's warnings, Nicole is only too happy to take Adrien up on his offer to join him at a business party that turns out to have some very kinky overtones. Her aroused passions send her back into a surprised Ryan's arms for a one night stand.

Against her better judgment, Nicole procures an escort for a married VIP. But when the man dies from an overdose of passion, Ryan's skillful lies to the man's wife convince Nicole she can never have a relationship with Ryan. Quinn is devastated when he discovers that Carrie has taken a down and out A.J. to her home for a shower, thinking the two have become a couple. Ethan, too busy with his discovery that Adrien Varland is buying out the local businesses around his Tavern, has no time for Jen's emotional needs, sending her to seek comfort with Adam Lawson. Adam's interviews raise his suspicions about the Coroner's report on Beck's death. And Shelby Varland, worried that Adrien may be suspicious of her affair with Beck, makes a startling discovery.

Quinn suspects his uncle knows more than he's saying about Beck's involvement in the blackmail scheme.

Quinn continues to dig deeper into Beck's hidden life by forming his own friendship with Beck's rich best buddy, A.J. Varland (Brendan Penny). Meanwhile, Ethan prepares to go back to work; Jen considers accepting a proposition from Adrien; and by rejecting the advances of a VIP guest, Nicole inadvertently puts her career at the Varland Resort on the line.