A dispute between Mitch's lifeguard career and his father's desire to have him take over the family architecture business becomes intensified by devastating news about the elder Buchannon.
A rock concert and political rally are the backdrop for a chilling assassination plot that finds CJ unconscious on an explosive-laden Scarab heading for the crowded pier.
Summer and Matt face grueling personal and physical challenges in Rookie School, the "boot camp” of lifeguarding, while unusual circumstances force female odd couple CJ and Stephanie to share an apartment.
Jimmy Slade and Matt Brody tangle with a violent surf gang, while Mitch's life is thrown into turmoil when former lover Stephanie Holden assumes co-command of Baywatch headquarters.
A whitewater rafting trip turns deadly when Mitch, Hobie, Eddie, Shauni and CJ are pursued by the murderous miners that killed Mitch's uncle to get his map leading to the "Golden Boot" that Mitch and the others are now searching for.
The mysterious death of Mitch's uncle, and the cryptic will he left, finds Mitch, Hobie, Eddie, and Shauni on a whitewater rafting adventure. Meanwhile, rookie lifeguard hopefuls participate in the annual qualifying swim.
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.
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.”
After helping break up a gang fight on the beach, Eddie gets the idea of having some gang members join the lifeguard W.A.T.E.R. program designed to help troubled youths.
Mitch receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited brother, whose troubled son entices Hobie to surf the pylons of a treacherous condemned pier. Meanwhile, a local vendor nearly causes a riot when his bikinis disintegrate in the water.
Cort promises to come up with $10,000 for a nursing home, but he needs Mitch and Craig's help to compete in a water-skiing race with a big cash prize. Shauni's traumatic fear of the ocean after Jill's death threatens her future with Baywatch.
A local restaurateur puts up a $25,000 bounty for the largest shark caught during the weekend's Shark Derby he's sponsoring. To attract more sharks, he illegally chums the waters, drawing hundreds of sharks uncommonly close to shore.