Hobie's new friend Isaac is an angry kid who will do anything to get his father's attention. His risky behavior is a problem for the lifeguards. Meanwhile, Caroline meets a jockey who has lost the will to race after an accident.
Stephanie, CJ, and Caroline go on a girls only junior lifeguard trip to Catalina which turns dire when two of the girls get trapped in a flooded cave. Meanwhile, a woman who dies in a car accident bequeaths an odd inheritance to Mitch…
Mitch's mother arrives in town for a visit, and after some strange occurrences he insists she see a doctor. Meanwhile, Cody loses the motivation to continue his Olympic training and it is up to Stephanie to reinspire him.
Caroline tries to stop her sister from making the worst mistake of her life. Cody and Neely rescue two surfers that fall ill due to a highly polluted beach. Mitch enlists the Beach Boys for a benefit concert to raise money to clean up the pollution.
Kaye Morgan asks Hobie to volunteer at a school for young blind children. Things take a dangerous turn when a huge brush fire traps Hobie and the blind children in the hills, and Mitch is the only one who can save them.
As the crippled oil rig sinks and floods with water, Cody, Neely and Stephanie begin a desperate rescue effort to save the two young couples, and themselves, until the Baywatch lifeguards can arrive to help.
Mitch considers a new career working with Garner as a private eye. Logan cheats on Caroline again. The explosion of an offshore oil rig endangers Stephanie, Cody and Neely.
Shauni and Eddie visit a local fortune teller who predicts that Eddie will soon meet his first true love. Shauni thought he already had, and that it was her! But it's Lorna, an older woman Eddie had a "Summer of '42" affair with as a teenager.
Harvey and Mitch go to play poker on an offshore yacht where they are robbed by a masked man that drives an amphibious Jeep. Shauni invites Eddie over for dinner at her parents' house where her snobbish father strongly disapproves of him.
Mitch helps a former lifeguard, Lane Brody, investigate a corporation suspected of dumping deadly chemicals in the bay.
A bohemian poet flirts with Shauni, and with danger, when he uses his metal detector to find the buried stash of two jewel thieves.
Shauni is suspicious when a swimmer training for the Olympics disappears in "Shark's Cove.” Eddie's world is turned upside-down when he is reunited with his schizophrenic half-brother.
Mitch has an out-of-body experience when his attempt to save a trapped diver without scuba gear leaves him with the bends, dangerously close to death and in desperate need of a decompression chamber.
A drugged-out drifter torches Eddie's lifeguard tower which leads the team to discover an illegal, lab distributing a new drug. Mitch and Thorpe try to convince the city board to buy wave runners in order to optimize their ability to save lives.
Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle reconnect at their twenty-year high school reunion with unforeseen results. Eddie discovers an abandoned baby under his tower with a note imploring him to take care of it for 24 hours.
Mitch falls for the beautiful woman he saved from drowning after she drove her car off a cliff, unaware that she's a cold-blooded murderer and con artist who was attempting to dispose of the murder victim of her latest scam when Mitch rescued her.
Eddie is suspended from Baywatch over the statutory rape charge. He feels abandoned when no one believes his innocence pleas. Meanwhile, the reckless, paraplegic Turner, wanting to win Megan back, tries to impress her by hang-gliding off a cliff.
Eddie is arrested for statutory rape after a teenage girl lies about seducing him in his tower. Meanwhile, Eric Turner, bitter about the paralyzing accident he suffered as a lifeguard, returns to Baywatch to reconcile his relationship with Megan.
Eddie goes on a blind date with Nicole, who turns out to be morbidly overweight, which leads to complications and an unlikely friendship. But Nicole's diet pills prove life threatening... Meanwhile, Mitch's life is comically disrupted by a stray dog.
Baywatch lifeguards gain insight into the plight of the homeless when Hobie befriends a girl who's living on the streets. Eddie is attacked by a former mental patient known as “Hector the Collector.”