While dining at the home of Liz Hetherington, Burton is disturbed when, in an apparent attempt to show off for Shannon, his fifteen-year-old nephew, Jeremy, nearly hangs himself to death. Realizing what might happen if Jeremy actually attempted suicide, Burton encourages Liz to be very careful about what she tells the doctors at the hospital. Asking for a chance to make it up to everyone, Jeremy invites Burton, Nick, and Shannon to dinner. But when they are back at the Hetherington home, Burton calls the police after he's forced to break up Jeremy's attempt to rape Shannon. Meanwhile, after Alvin walks in on them having sex in an LSP conference room, Lulu decides that the time has come to formally date Nick. And as Burton sets out to make up for Shanno's years of substandard education, Jake buys a ramshackle mountain cabin and then goes looking for someone to share it with.

Once Burton gets the police involved, Nick steps in to serve as Jeremy's lawyer. While Jeremy accuses his mom and Burton of using the rape accusation as a way to control him, Liz worries about what a conviction will do to her son's future. Yet, when she insists that he pressure Shannon to recant her story, Burton refuses. Meanwhile, when it appears Jake is after something more than just a casual weekend of fishing and fun, Fallin & Fallin's receptionist, Gretchen, bails out of the trip. And facing a private school's difficult entrance exams, Shannon turns to Nick for help.

Convinced that Burton is serious about her changing schools, Shannon takes off. So, tracking her to the apartment of a stripper who used to work with her mom, Burton insists that she come back home. After bailing out on his evening with Lulu, Nick is summoned to Liz's house to stop Jeremy from committing suicide. And once it becomes clear that the boy suffers from schizophrenia, Liz reveals that there's a family history of mental illness. Finally, as Jeremy is transferred to a treatment facility for observation, Lulu decides that she and Nick need to make a statement about their relationship by having their LSP colleagues over for dinner at her house. And when he catches Shannon preparing to run away again, Burton convinces her to stay.

From ATV