List of Baywatch episodes

Mitch Buchannon, just promoted to lieutenant, is having regrets about what he is giving up. He has an argument with his former wife Gayle who has filed suit to have full custody of their son Hobie. Eddie Kramer and Shauni McClain are two of the rookie class of '89 to qualify. An Australian immigrant, Trevor Cole, is a lifeguard at a beach club which uses part of the beach overseen by Baywatch, but he alienates Mitch with his arrogant, competitive attitude, which extends to putting lives at risk during a rescue.

Shauni resents being assigned to a lifeguard boat, but when ordered to perform CPR on a young girl who has been rescued, she freezes, and lifeguard Jill Riley tries to console her.

A young women, Laurie Harris (Mädchen Amick), attempts suicide by jumping off a pier, and is rescued by Craig Pomeroy who takes her back to his tower to keep an eye on her. She develops an extreme infatuation with him, and when Craig is about to close his tower, Laurie disrobes and tries to seduce him. Craig rebuffs her, but they are seen by fellow lifeguard Owen arriving to give Craig a lift. Later at Mitch's party, Laurie manages to convince Gina that she and Craig had sex together. Next day, Craig and Gina find a distraught Laurie with bruises on her neck which she says were inflicted by her father, so they let her spend the night in their house. Next morning, Craig visits Laurie's mother who tells him that Laurie's father has been dead for ten years and Laurie was recently released from a mental hospital because she was harming herself. Fearing that Gina might be in danger from Laurie, Craig finds them under the pier with Laurie attacking Gina with a knife. Craig wrestles the knife away from her and subdues her.

Mitch's is ordered to tell his long-time lifeguard friend Al that he is being taken off the beach because he is past his prime. Later, Al takes Hobie on a fishing trip and an accidental propane explosion in the ship's kitchen destroys the boat. Al tries to calm the other survivors as they cling to debris in the water. Among the rescuers is Shauni, who must overcome her fears, and Mitch who, along with Al, try to rescue three people including Hobie trapped underneath the capsized boat on the ocean floor. After Mitch dives to the boat to investigate, he returns to a rescue boat for scuba gear, while Al free-dives and reaches those trapped. Mitch and Al rescue the survivors, but, in the process, Al's legs become tangled in a fishing net, preventing him from surfacing. Mitch dives and releases him, but, despite Mitch performing CPR on him, Al dies. Baywatch arranges a funeral at sea for Al, at which Mitch eulogizes his fallen friend.

Notes: Richard Jaeckel who plays Al Gibson in this episode, also played Lieutenant, later Captain, Ben Edwards from 1991 to 1994. Gina Hecht plays Gina Pomeroy in the pilot, but Holly Gagnier takes over the role in subsequent episodes. Nancy Valen who plays Hallie in the pilot, later became a regular cast member in 1996 as Captain Samantha Thomas.

Brian Austin Green, who would later go on to star on Beverly Hills, 90210 has a small role as a boy on the beach in this episode. John Sherrod has a small role as life guard Owen in this episode. Kellie Martin plays Chelsea Carol, a girl in whom Hobie is interested.

Music: "Look Out Any Window" and "The Show Goes On" performed by Bruce Hornsby & The Range, "Slave to Love" performed by Bryan Ferry, "Dirty Dancing" performed by Diana DeWitt.

Instead of attending summer school, Hobie decides to go power skiing with two friends, whose recklessness leads to a tragic accident. Eddie's lack of financial resources is revealed when Craig finds him sleeping in one of the lifeguard towers.

Notes: First appearance of Garner Ellerbee.

Absent: Monte Markham as Don Thorpe

Two boys become stuck in a large drain that is rapidly filling with the incoming tide and Mitch leads a group to rescue them before it's too late. Meanwhile, Craig, under pressure from his law firm bosses, must make a decision whether to be a lawyer or lifeguard for the future.

An old acquaintance of Eddie's comes to L.A. but it quickly becomes apparent that Eddie does not welcome this visit. Trevor dates a rich woman that is a handful for him to deal with and Mitch worries about upcoming mandatory tests that all lieutenants, including him, must take.

Mitch's former wife is planning to move to Ohio and wants to take Hobie with her. Upset over the squabbling that ensues, Hobie takes off with a friend and runs into pirates on a nearby island. Eddie and Shauni squabble after Shauni accidentally hurts Eddie.

Gayle and Mitch continue to fight over Gayle's plan to take Hobie with her. She ultimately changes her mind after Hobie risks his life to save a drowning young girl. A plane crashes into the water near the beach with the occupants, after they are rescued, looking to recover a suitcase of stolen money that they had with them. Captain Thorpe decides to join Eddie and Shauni on their tower in order to teach them. Thorpe later detains the money thieves in a way that impresses Eddie.

A man is found drowned off the beach and Jill suspects foul play is the reason. She begins seeing the son of the victim and during the investigation discovers the man's cousin was responsible for his father's death. A man who helped Jill bring the victim ashore decides he wants to be a lifeguard as well even though he is not qualified.

A woman steals a book from a powerful man and hides out from him with the help of Eddie. Craig and Gina contemplate having children when they are married but have second thoughts after meeting a couple while on a romantic weekend. Trevor discovers that his hardest competitor among the rookies is doped.

Eddie does not like Shauni's new boyfriend or the way he treats her when things do not go the way he wants. Also Hobie gets in trouble with a girl who likes him. Meanwhile, a man who organizes large parties on a boat becomes a problem for the lifeguards at Baywatch.

A new hotel opens near the beach and a string of murders occur around the same time, which convinces Craig the two may be connected. Meanwhile, Eddie's dreams as he gets dental work causes him to act nervous around Craig's wife. On the beach Shauni finds herself strongly adored.

An approaching tropical storm has the Baywatch lifeguards preparing for its effects but the presence of two wanted criminals cause unforeseen events. Eddie and Shauni rest. Hobie and a girl have storm parties.

Mitch attends his high school reunion and meets a classmate that stirs up old feelings. Eddie, frustrated at having no car, buys one at an extremely low price from a buddy but quickly discovers the reason why the cost was so low.

A proam beach volleyball tournament is being held and Trevor tries to convince Jill to be his partner for the competition. Their main rival in the competition is Jill's ex-partner, which cements Jill's resolve to compete. Meanwhile, an exhibition geared to drum up interest in saving a local pier leads to Shauni & Eddie becoming trapped underwater in a locked armoured truck after part of the pier collapses.

A new lifeguard arrives at Baywatch and stirs up different emotions for the current staff. Jill and Shauni go into business selling sandwiches but find competition to be stiffer than expected.

Craig joins Cort and Eddie on a trip to Mexico for a long overdue vacation but things turn out very differently from their expectations. Meanwhile, Mitch has an unexpected houseguest and Hobie falls in love with Shaunie.

Cort and Eddie go to a local water theme park to teach teenagers about lifeguard duties but one of them quickly resents Eddie's presence. At Baywatch, Hobie finds out that parents of his fellow students at school have a dim view of the occupation of lifeguarding and Shauni gets into trouble over her pinup magazine pictures.

An illegal offshore casino causes problems for Cort and some of his fellow lifeguards. Hobie thinks his English class is going to be a breeze when Mitch starts dating his teacher but soon learns otherwise.

Eddie believes he sees a ghost by the water and the others believe that he is losing his mind. Hobie learns that a friend's pet is going to be euthanized for an alleged attack and resolves to help both of them.

A local business owner organizes a shark derby but the event quickly spirals out of control and leads Jill to run into the water to save a little boy but then is attacked by the shark. She is saved by Mitch but later dies from a blood embolism.

Cort enters a race to win the prize money and fulfill a pledge he makes on a yearly basis. Meanwhile, Shauni anguishes over the events of the past few weeks and deliberates her future.

Mitch, Craig and Garner go on a hang gliding trip that results in a series of accidents for all three. Meanwhile, Cort sees someone that he thought had died a year ago.

An earthquake shakes Baywatch headquarters and causes many problems for the lifeguards and for one, a life altering decision is made.

An underwater photographer is attacked and more than a few people believe a sea monster is responsible. With the hysteria over the 'sea monster', Mitch and his fellow lifeguards are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Shauni's work as a lifeguard leads to conflict with a bunch of locals and her father but her father has a change of heart after he learns more about what she does.

Note: Pamela Bach appears in this episode as Kaye Morgan, a news reporter (later surf restaurant owner) in a two-parter episode. Bach was the then-wife of David Hasselhoff.

A fisherman tricks new lifeguard Megan into rescuing him in order to attack and rape her. When he continues to stalk her, Mitch has to find a way to stop him. Meanwhile, when Shauni suffers from lifeguard burnout, Eddie takes her on a romantic weekend getaway, which quickly turns passionate.

Mitch is offered the lead role in an action movie when the star is injured, but risks losing his role when he rejects the amorous advances of the film's producer. Meanwhile, Shauni tries to raise money to keep an animal rescue organization from shutting down.

Mitch's brother Buzzy comes to visit with his estranged son Kyle, who proves to be a bad influence on Hobie. When Kyle illegally surfs near the condemned San Dimas Pier, he collides with a submerged piling, and is sent underwater, unconscious.

Cort returns to Baywatch, helping Eddie in an aquatics program designed for inner-city youths. When Eddie takes a gang leader under his wing, he finds himself in conflict with the boy's father (Danny Trejo), who has encouraged his son's gang activity.

Hobie becomes enamored with a homeless girl whose mother has disappeared.

Eddie teaches an overweight girl (Melinda Riemer) who has loved him from afar the importance of self-esteem, while Mitch and Hobie adopt a dog that is the only witness to the owner's kidnapping.

Eddie's life is torn apart by the accusation of statutory rape from the overprotective father of a lonely teenager trying to make friends lied to a group of other teenage girls about her encounter with Eddie (which one of the other girls told her father to get rid of her), while Mitch deals with the anger of a paraplegic former lifeguard.

Note: Kelly Packard guest stars in this two-parter episode as Joanie. She would continue to appear in guest roles on subsequent seasons before becoming a regular cast member in season 8 as lifeguard April Giminski.

Facing rape charges, Eddie is suspended from Baywatch, but when Shauni confronts the teenager to ask her to tell the truth to exonerate Eddie, the teenager, tired of feeling like an outcast, attempts to kill herself. Mitch saves a paraplegic's life in a daring glider rescue.

Mitch falls for a beautiful woman (Shannon Tweed) he has rescued, never dreaming she is actually a murderess.

Mitch attends his high school reunion, rekindling an old flame with former wife Gail, while Eddie plays father for the day.

Ex-con and martial arts master Mason Sato (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), terrorizes Mitch, Kaye, and Hobie.

Kaye Morgan introduces a deaf girl to sign language, while Mitch confronts a terrifying childhood memory and Hobie a fear of waves.

The Baywatch crew crack a seaborne drug ring, and Ben finds love with an aging movie star.

A routine rescue sends Eddie on a madcap adventure to "Gilligan's Island".

Mitch rescues a diver trapped 90 feet below the ocean surface, but almost dies while experiencing the effects of decompression sickness.

A beautiful Olympic hopeful disappears after a savage shark attack and Eddie's brother Bobby arrives for a weekend visit.

Two thieves lose their loot under a lifeguard tower and Shauni is swept off her feet by an eccentric beach poet.

Toxic waste, corporate greed, and a determined environmental spell trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards.

Harvey and Mitch pursue and capture a disgruntled gambler turned high-seas pirate. Meanwhile, Eddie struggles with the disapproval of Shauni's father. While Eddie is walking away from Shauni's sister's engagement party, Kim (Shauni's older sister) gets her hand stuck in the pool pump and luckily Eddie saves her.

Note: Jason Brooks played Brown Goodman in this episode. He would later appear as a regular cast member as Sean Monroe in the final two seasons of the series.

After seven years, Eddie's first love appears in Los Angeles, complicating his life with Shauni and entangling him in a web of lies and an unsolved murder.

Mitch receives news of his uncle's death. He recruits Hobie, Eddie and Shauni to trek to northern California's rugged gold country where he learns his uncle may have found the golden boot. Eddie and Shauni are having problems in their relationship when Eddie is accepted into a year-long lifeguard exchange program in Australia. Meanwhile, two new recruits show up for rookie training season. Drew shoots at the raft. Shauni is taken hostage, and pushed off the cliff. After Eddie and Mitch save her, she finds out that she's not pregnant. Eddie proposes to her. Mitch climbs down with the help of a rope and finds the golden boot; Jed arrives at the trailer. Eddie marries Shauni and they move to Australia.

Notes: Pamela Anderson (as C.J. Parker) makes her first appearance in this two-part episode. Eddie mentions that it was Chief Thorpe's recommendation that lead to his acceptance into the lifeguard exchange program.

Absent: Gregory Alan Williams as Garner Ellerbee, Kelly Slater as Jimmy Slade, Alexandra Paul as Stephanie Holden

A woman from Mitch's past Stephanie Holden (Alexandra Paul in her first appearance) becomes one of his fellow lifeguards and stirs up memories for Mitch; Matt must contend with surfers wanting to take over part of the beach.

The lifeguards compete against each other to determine who is the best; Stephanie and C.J. move in together but things get complicated for both of them.

Hobie weaves a web of lies to impress a girl Heather (Juliet Sorcey); Summer is humiliated when she mistakes an offhand invitation from Jimmy Slade for a date. Elizabeth Berkley plays Courtney Bremmer.

The love strings between Courtney (Elizabeth Berkley), Slade and Summer are pulled tight; C.J. accepts a position at Malibu Beach High; Garner tires of work.

Matt meets a motorist, Jessie Majors (Jennifer Campbell) and they go on a date. Matt drives his motorcycle on the cliffs above Malibu and challenges Hudson; Mitch trains to beat Stephanie with Garner as his coach.

C.J. is almost run over in a race, causing Mitch and Newmie to finish; Lewiston is engaged to a princess; Catherine's bodyguard Roland kidnaps her.

Mitch and Stephanie go undercover as two wealthy individuals to stop murderous pirates from taking over Baywatch.

Mitch and Stephanie discover a dead man on some rocks; C.J. meets a couple on their honeymoon named Dennis and Arlene; unfortunately Dennis falls in love with C.J. and ends up deceiving both her and his wife.

The governor holds a speech on the pier; three bad guys plan to blow the pier into pieces with a boat. Garner meets his sister's old friend Wendi again. Guest star Randolph Mantooth.

Mitch's parents come to visit; Al, Mitch's father, wants him to take over his architectural firm; Summer must tell Jackie about her horrible nightmares.

C.J. and Stephanie go to Catalina for their women's weekend, but the trip does not go according to plan; Hobie and Mitch agree to hire a housekeeper.

A diamond smuggler looks for loot he has hidden in one of Slade's surfboards; a group searching for extra-terrestrials drives the lifeguards crazy.

Guido tells Mitch that he has started a new business called Windows by Guido; a Captain named Rolf Angstrom visits headquarters; a drug dealer escapes.

Stephanie is shot off the cruise boat by a drug dealing women and Mitch jumps in to save her. They struggle to stay afloat in the water; Matt and C.J. win big in the casino; Summer gets worried when she can not find Mitch.

A murderer escapes from prison; Kilmer and Stephanie drive to Summer's tower where Kilmer takes them hostage; Hobie makes a periscope for his science class.

An actress, who is running from two crooks, is saved by Mitch. He decides to help her capture them; Guido attempts to convince his visiting mother that he is a lifeguard.

Three teens are trapped on some cliffs with massive waves surrounding them; Mitch is soon paralyzed from the cliffs; Riddick is sent to L.A. to kill Jason.

Mitch must contend with gangsters while going through rehabilitation.

Matt competes in kickboxing with Mitch as his coach; Mitch meets Michael Branson again; C.J. has the opportunity to become a model.

Strange occurrences take place at Baywatch after the arrival of a new lifeguard.

Hobie, a cold-hearted Gayle and Ken, Gayle's fiance, get trapped inside Ken's plane when it crashes in the ocean. Hobie, Gayle and Ken get rescued from the crashed plane; Matt's father takes back Matt's motorcycle; Jackie has problems with the renovation of her Summer Place.

Hobie falls in love with a girl in junior lifeguards; Mitch and Jackie have a number of interrupted dates; Matt and Summer discover that they love each other. Thinking he is romantic, Hobie takes the girl on jetski to a cove near a seaside monastery to kiss her as the bells toll, but they get caught in a dangerous current. Mitch, after rescuing them, reveals that Hobie's girlfriend got hired by Baywatch as a result of Make a Wish Foundation.

Cort returns to Baywatch, but C.J. is worried there is something wrong with his eyes as evidenced when he bungles a simple rescue by bumping into many beachgoers. A beachside attraction where a very tall man works as a "feral man" scares customers is seen by Hobie, who finds the man is a depressed immigrant with no family. Hobie befriends the man, but when he falls in the water by accident his extra large size is a challenge for the Baywatch crew. Special guest star: former Los Angeles Dodgers Steve Garvey as Dr. Corey and Jorge "Giant" Gonzalez as Manuel.

Matt and Slade have a confrontation on the waves over Summer and decide to have a huge bungee-jumping contest; Garner and Mitch chase pickpockets.

Matt and Slade compete for Summer's affections by surfing. Mitch encounters a desperate woman who needs help for her boyfriend. Meanwhile Summer, Matt and Slade all go into an underwater cave searching for Matt's surfboard when Summer is pulled down and nearly killed by an octopus. C.J. tries to help Summer overcome her eating disorder.

Stephanie's sister, Caroline, arrives at Baywatch with exciting news, but her joy is shattered by a cataclysmic event. Mitch finds himself at the mercy of a wounded but dangerous adversary.

Mitch must make a difficult decision when he must choose which boy to rescue from the ocean, and the boy he does not save first ends up in a coma.

Note - guest star Donny Most as Roger Clark.

Mitch tries to show he can still compete with younger men by taking part in the Ironman competition; Matt's late hours make Summer suspicious. Standing in for a tired Matt, Summer Quinn is knocked unconscious attempting a rescue.

A local gang causes trouble for a new lifeguard at Baywatch. C.J. befriends a local magician–escape artist who tries to impress her with a dangerous stunt.

Baywatch is host to the Special Olympics and a long-time friend of Mitch arrives to help oversee the event. There is a special appearance by gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton.

Matt rescues a woman following a jet ski accident and realizes he knows her from before. Things get complicated for Matt as the woman pleads with him to help her fend off a rejected suitor from her past.

A reunion of older lifeguards stirs up painful memories for Ben. Jackie's big chance to impress a local music executive could be damaged by problems that are unexpected.

Four Baywatch lifeguards go to San Diego to demonstrate the usage of the scarabs to lifeguards in that area. However, Hotel Del Coronado, which they stay at, has a legend of a ghost haunting its hallways. Meanwhile C.J. met, befriended and then she fell in love with a man named Keith, dolphin trainer from sea life park, but to her disappointment, found out he is already in a relationship with someone. This breaks the episode into two parts.

Stephanie, with the aid of the Coast Guard, searches frantically for the missing Mitch and Buzz. Summer and the other lifeguards find out the truth behind the ghost tales at the hotel.

A woman (Carrie-Anne Moss) who has dissociative identity disorder becomes obsessed with Mitch and takes him hostage.

A woman on the run from a deadly man finds comfort and protection when she meets Mitch; Matt pushes for a houseboat but Summer stands firm against the ideas.

When TV-producer Don Brand visits the beach, he is delighted to discover that the actions that take place on the beach are perfect for a TV-series. He calls the TV-series Rescue Bay.

A famous country musician searches for his wife and son in L.A. and upon finding them he promises to do fewer tours; Hobie's crush wants to turn him down for Mitch. Musical guest star: Martina McBride as Sadie Jennings.

When the Baywatch gang find out that their jobs are in jeopardy due to budget cuts, everyone decide to volunteer as civilian lifeguards. At the same time on the beach, a couple named David and Julia is having a romantic time.

When a man is seen drifting in the ocean, Matt and Stephanie are called in to rescue him. But as they are approaching the victim, a Coast Guard helicopter waves them away from the victim, and they rescue him instead.

Matt rescues a woman from the ocean and tries to get her reacquainted with her dying father but she refuses; Stephanie falls for her Coast Guard partner.

The team arrives to Los Angeles in order to place an underwater seismometer in the Malibu fault. Stephanie agrees to be their safety officer, because she is in love with the team leader Reily Ferguson. Reily is an expert oceanographer and free-diver. It is revealed that Summer left Baywatch to enroll at Penn State University. Logan and Matt get into an argument after resuscitating a drowning girl. Gordon Jump guest stars.

The big earthquake was a 7.2 on the Richter scale. While Stephanie is rescuing Max and Tom on the surface, Riley is trapped underwater under some rocks, Jackie is in big trouble as her trailer is about to go off the cliff and Mitch rescues Hobie in the garage just before the big heavy boat engine is about to fall down on him.

Mitch reunites with Gayle for Hobie's sake, but she changes her mind when Mitch leaves the wedding for a rescue; Matt is recommended for the Medal of Valor.

Cort returns to Los Angeles after a year in Mexico; Mitch and Cort participate in the Baja run; Caroline chooses Logan over Matt; Matt soon falls for C.J.

Mitch and Stephanie enjoy a 24-hour shift together and during their time on duty they have a deep heart-to-heart concerning the possibility of dating again.

Logan earns the title "Rookie of the Year" after completing rookie school; Hobie's friend's father, a dwarf, almost drowns while trying to save a girl and her dog.

A cynical, female FBI agent goes undercover as a lifeguard in Mitch's tower to catch an escaped convict. Guest star: Kathleen Kinmont

Treasure enthusiasts flock to the beach when a radio DJ announces a competition for hidden treasure, and Matt and C.J. become involved in the festivities.

Caroline is called to rescue a man who claims to have seen his daughter drowning in the ocean; a man's fiancée retains a crush on Mitch after a rescue 11 years ago.
Guest stars: Bobbie Phillips as Kim, Lisa Stahl as Destiny, John O'Hurley as Bill Cooper, and Geraldo Rivera as Albert Romero.

Matt teams up with a pro for a volleyball match; Garner faces his fears of singing in front of an audience; C.J. expresses her disdain for oil drilling.

As Christmas nears, Mitch and Tracy fall in love. Mitch and Hobie let a lost boy stay with them during the holidays, only to discover he's a girl, and she's a con artist. C.J. believes a priest has developed romantic feelings for her. Matt suspects that a group of vacationing little people are really Santa's elves.

At Christmas, Mitch tries to reunite Joey with her mother; C.J. worries that a priest is leaving the church for her and Matt investigates whether Santa's elves are really vacationing at Baywatch.

The 100th episode of the series. Logan and Gator take on Matt and Barnett in a rubber ducky contest; Mitch and Tracy become romantically involved, but she keeps a personal secret from him.

Stephanie ponders whether to travel the world with her boyfriend Riley. A ship is seen off the shore and it belongs to a woman named Coral. They meet her and all goes well. Stephanie confronts Coral after seeing her load explosives on her boat. The two begin to fight. After a brief scuffle, Coral is too strong as she overpowers Stephanie and knocks her unconscious. She ties up Stephanie's helpless body. Will she succeed in her evil plan?

Mitch discovers that Tracy is terminally ill and tries to make the best of their short time together; Logan and Caroline confront two reckless drivers.

Hobie seeks advice from a radio station on how to help ease his father's pain over losing Tracy; Caroline saves a person who has AIDS.

Logan has recurring flashbacks of a traumatic childhood incident; after his father dies, Mitch learns that his father appreciated his job as a lifeguard. The end credits contain a dedication to the memory of Dr. Archer Gordon, who was one of the pioneers in developing the modern CPR technique.

Andy Jamieson, a part-time sheriff and an old friend of Mitch's, arrives at Baywatch wanting to fill out some time as a part-time lifeguard. But Mitch disapproves of Andy's ways of man-handling two belligerent vagrants who harass beach goers. Meanwhile, Logan tells Caroline that he's annulling his marriage to the heiress and asks a reluctant Stephanie for help to acquire a green card fast.

John D. Cort returns to Baywatch, homeless and depressed, but finds a purpose for living when the potential donor of a young leukemia patient is reported missing.

Mitch is injured as he attempts to track down the sister of a young Chinese girl he rescued only to find out that the woman he rescued is pregnant and cannot return to China for fear of losing the child.

Kaye hires Molly, a young Englishwoman panhandling on the beach, as a singing waitress at the Sandy Cay Cafe to boost business. In addition to wanting to be a famous singer, Molly also has a young teenage runaway girl under her wing, as well as her jealous and possessive fiancé from England shadowing her. Meanwhile, British daredevil stuntman Richard Branson arrives to set a new world record by water skiing from behind a blimp and Mitch and Matt have to handle the safety for the event. Also, Stephanie begins to get on Caroline's nerves once again when Stephanie tries to keep Caroline in check from making mistakes as a rookie. Richard Branson, Little Richard and Gladys Knight guest stars.

A new lifeguard named Neely Capshaw has been transferred to Baywatch from Huntington. She asks if she can work with Matt so that he can train her in basic procedures. In their tower, Neely comes on to Matt but he rejects her telling her about his relationship to C.J. Later when Matt arrives to Neely's tower she is nowhere to be seen, so Matt is forced to rescue a little girl in trouble.

Mitch and his crew face a desperate situation when an old mine collides with an offshore oil rig, causing it to explode and sink into the ocean depths. Mitch hints at starting a detective agency.

Mitch and company must fight their way out of the collapsed oil platform that has sunken to the bottom of the sea while rescue teams attempt to lift it up to the surface.

Logan becomes jealous when Cody begins to flirt with Caroline during and after rescues; Neely wants to break away from manning the switchboard and become a tower lifeguard; Kaye asks Hobie to help volunteer a group of four young blind children she is looking after at a blind school; The lifeguards must save a blind boy trapped in a forest fire. Mila Kunis guest stars.

A surfer gets ill after surfing in water polluted by E. Coli and it's up to the Baywatch team to solve the problem. Special guest appearance by The Beach Boys.

Mitch's mother visits and it is discovered that she has Alzheimer's disease; Cody trains for the Olympics; Logan continues to be insanely jealous with Cody hanging around Caroline, while the manipulative sociopath Neely sees an opportunity to use their feud to her own advantage by continuing to taunt Logan with some damaging information she has about him.

C.J. returns from her trip to France and along with the rest of the team, they train some Junior Lifeguards.

Hobie and his friends almost drown while surfing in a dangerous part of the beach; Caroline befriends an ex-jockey who is pretending to be blind.

From headquarters, Caroline sees that the local surfers are getting territorial again. When Mitch is forced to make a rescue, the locals and the victim's friend end up in a fight, but Logan breaks up the fight. Logan is still pursuing his business venture of Aussie swimwear and he has an important meeting with a major clothing manufacturer.

Matt Brody returns to Baywatch to try to make up his lost relationship with C.J. But things take an unexpected turn when a group of ruthless modern day pirates take a millionaire couple hostage and place them under water on the wreck of the sunken oil platform with handcuffs and air for six hours. When Matt and Neely speed by in their Scarab motorboat, the pirates take them hostage as well. Meanwhile, Joey's past may jeopardize her adoption to Mitch when a professional beatnik criminal, named Trapper, recruits an unwilling Joey to commit a burglary job as payback for her mother's past scams against him.

After finding an abandoned baby in his tower, Logan wrongly assumes he's the father and decides to raise it. Cody participates in the trials for the Olympic swim team.

Caroline blames herself for a victim drowning after a night time rescue. Spurred on by Neely, Caroline takes a walk on the wild side.

After swimmers are attacked by an alligator living in a storm drain, Mitch, Logan and Cody hunt for the creature. C.J., Caroline and Neely compete to become the cover model for Inside Sports magazine.

While vacationing in Mexico, Mitch and his new girlfriend witness an attempted murder and are then hunted by the killers. Country and Western singer Jesse Lee Harris helps Logan and the Baywatch lifeguards raise money to save a ranch that conserves rare horse breeds.

When Logan is terrorized by a mad man, Caroline dreams that the detectives from Charlie's Angels arrive at Baywatch to help him. In her dream, Caroline is Kelly Garrett, C.J. is Jill Munroe and Stephanie is Sabrina Duncan.

Hulk Hogan and the Baywatch team work to raise money to keep a youth recreation center open. Randy Savage and Ric Flair face off in a wrestling match for charity; Stephanie discovers that she has developed skin cancer. The title of the episode comes from WCW's Bash at the Beach 1995. The wrestling event featured Randy Savage and Ric Flair facing off in a "Lifeguard Match".

Mitch is involved in a sky-surfing incident that stirs up bad memories; C.J. forms a relationship with a football player.

Stephanie gets her fellow Baywatch lifeguards to participate in a sailing regatta. Mitch looks to formally adopt Joey but unforeseen complications threaten to dash his hopes.

Mitch and Caroline help to reunite a Vietnamese refugee with her American father. C.J. and Cody help a comedian who uses a wheelchair fulfill his dream of swimming in the ocean.

Mitch, Stephanie, Matt, C.J., Logan, and Caroline travel to Hawaii to train with the Hawaiian lifeguards.

While in Hawaii, Mitch and Matt are saved by islanders; Stephanie finds love and Logan proposes to Caroline.

Kaye is reunited with her ex but disaster strikes. Stephanie seeks treatment for her skin cancer. Caroline catches Logan and Neely together.

While Stephanie is training Cody in underwater search-and-rescue techniques, Cody finds a Spanish medallion. He has the medallion appraised and the shop owner offers Cody $3500 for it. But he does not accept it and is convinced that he will find more gold at the bottom of the ocean.

Logan wants to become a director, and he has written a script named Shark Fever. He makes a movie about it and Caroline stars in it. In the movie, Caroline is supposed to be attacked by a shark and the shark is driven by Newmie. But the shark will not work. Logan gets disappointed and asks a captain on a boat if he can sedate a shark.

Mitch judges a beachside beauty contest, but is tempted by two of the contestants, who both vie for his vote. Caroline's acting teacher puts her relationship with Logan in jeopardy. Cody designs a new rescue vehicle.

C.J. befriends a homeless man, who then dies and leaves her a fortune in his will. Hobie helps aspiring lifeguard Manny make the Junior Lifeguard.

Mitch is the prize in a bachelor auction, but things go awry when he and his date end up stranded on a deserted island. Cody competes with his roller hockey team to win a championship.

A heatwave precedes a visit to the beach by the President of the United States, as Mitch encounters a bumbling Secret Service agent. Cody faces an audit by the IRS. Caroline thinks no one has remembered her birthday.

Mitch and the Baywatch gang compete against Jenny McCarthy and the MTV VJs in a charity games to raise money for the Special Olympics. Meanwhile, Mitch finds himself being admired from afar by Idalis, who has a cryptic secret about herself she wants him to uncover.

C.J.'s mother pays her a visit while on the run from criminals.

The International Ironman Competition is held at Baywatch and Neely sets off a battle of the sexes when she decides to enter the competition.

An earthquake causes Mitch and other lifeguards to be trapped in tunnel that collapses during the lifeguard training session; Donna's past of posing in Playboy might affect her future with Baywatch.

The lifeguards must save the lives of those on a pier that catches fire; a man that thinks he is a vampire causes problems for Mitch; Cody asks C.J. to paint his portrait.

After Mitch falls ill from swimming over contaminated waters, Cody, Caroline and C.J. investigate the cause.

Stephanie and Tom plan their wedding. Despite having cheated on her with Neely, Logan and Caroline agree to resolve their problems with a new beginning as just friends, without having her seeing his accent stuff, before he left Baywatch for good.

Disaster strikes on Stephanie and Tom's honeymoon. But even worse, Stephanie realizes there is a kid missing. She finds Trisha in the cabin and risks her life, then the sail of the boat falls and lands on Stephanie, crushing her. She dies and they hold a funeral service for her at Baywatch and Mitch gives a speech.

Mitch rescues the life of a talk show host, who then invites him to appear on her show. C.J. is convinced that a stray dog found by her and Caroline possesses the reincarnated soul of the late Stephanie.

While rescuing some youths, Caroline receives help from a boy who mysteriously vanishes; Neely gets a surprise visit from her ex-husband.

Manny attempts to help a young boy turn his troubled life around; Mitch and Samantha reveal their relationship.

Cody has an encounter with a mermaid; two teens form a suicide pact after their parents disapprove of their relationship.

Sam, Neely and Caroline investigate a military jet containing a virus that crashes into the ocean; C.J., Cody and Newmie try to shut down a nude beach.

Caroline is sued by the mother of a victim of a failed rescue. C.J.'s desire for motherhood hits a snag when she realizes Cody's not ready for that type of commitment.

The gang travels to Sea World in San Diego for the opening of the Baywatch stunt show.

Neely tries to help a depressed bodyboarder named Jamie Duncan; Newmie meets a beautiful woman who does not speak English (Layla Harvest Roberts).

C.J. finds out she has a secret admirer.

It's a new year on the beach as Lifeguard hopefuls try out to join the Baywatch squad. Lani is haunted by a man from her past who does not want her to start a new life without him.

Lifeguard Rookies compete to join the Baywatch team, while Mitch makes a choice about accepting the job of Captain.

Veteran lifeguard Jack 'J.D.' Darius shows up to try for the open Lieutenant position, but memories of a failed rescue still haunt him.

Two old codgers try to give their old Navy buddy a 'proper' burial at sea. Romance blossoms between Cody and Lani.

April's brother Charlie and her mother Paige are living with her in her small apartment. It's very hard for April to see Charlie so sick and that everyone is being nice to him out of pity. Everyone has been told that Charlie has a rare form of cancer and that he is getting treatment for it at UCLA. Later April tells Mitch that Charlie is not being treated there, they just use him for research. Charlie dies, and Baywatch, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, and United States Coast Guard, hold a memorial service for him.

Caroline Holden returns to Baywatch and sparks fly between her and her new boyfriend, J.D. while sleaze-ball reporter "Riptide" Roger Pelton (Shadoe Stevens) plagues the lifeguards with insider scoops. The tables are soon turned when his cameraman falls in the shark-infested ocean and his copter sinks.

Caroline is torn when she must make a choice between J.D. and her dream of being an actress. Jordan meets her birth mother.

The Santa Ana winds blow an air of mystery into Baywatch, as well as a deadly creature that is disturbing the ocean calm. April's love life is reeling as she has to choose between Manny and Hobie.

Neely returns from a skiing accident hooked on painkillers. Craig Pomeroy returns to Baywatch to defend an old Native American trying to die on his tribe's land, now the public beach.

Cody breaks regulations and leaves his tower five minutes early. In those few precious minutes a teenage girl disappears in the surf. A full scale search and rescue mission is instigated.

Caroline is hijacked by a young thief and forced on a wild chase across the beach. Mitch confronts Neely about her addiction to painkillers -- and learns a shocking secret.

While diving, April and Craig are pulled through a power plant intake pipe and into a chamber and must fight for their lives to avoid getting sucked into the deadly turbines.

Cody is left to die in a sunken boat after he and Mitch track down and are captured by smugglers.

When Manny breaks up with April, romance heats up between her and Craig.

When Cody and J.D. try to make extra money collecting sea urchins, disaster strikes and Lani loses her hearing during the rescue. After engineering a meeting with a beautiful woman, Mitch has the wildest first date of his life.

Mitch helps old buddy Garner Ellerbee track down drug smugglers.

Cody makes a wild bet with some local hotshots.

Comedian Jeff Altman guest stars as an annoying medical supplies salesman who drives the lifeguards crazy while they are quarantined at headquarters (except for Michael) - a quarantine that is interfering with everybody's plans.

The new nanny for Neely's baby develops a deadly obsession for Mitch.

A beautiful jewel thief tricks Hobie into asking her to join him and the other lifeguards on a cruise to Alaska.

On a cruise to Alaska, a brush with death intensifies the growing relationship between Mitch and Neely.

On a cruise to Alaska, Mitch and Neely realize they're in love.

In the teaser, Mitch is approaching a tower while talking to Craig over the radio. It turns out that tower 14 has been washed very close to the shoreline. As a result of a storm, the tower's ramp has been moved from the tower. Meanwhile, a Boeing 747 jet airliner takes off as El Nino strikes. It gets struck by lightning and crashes into the ocean. Meanwhile, Mitch discovers that his marriage to Neely is invalid, and her ex-husband shows up with no knowledge of her baby or her current marriage, and Mitch realizes she lied to him all along.

Mitch receives a phone call at home about the plane crash. Later, Craig finds out that it's Cody and April's flight. When the lifeguards arrive to the scene, Mitch is relieved when he finds Cody alive in the water. Meanwhile in the first-class compartment, Francine starts having contractions. If that's not enough for April to handle, Hans freaks out and is convinced that he is going to die. Later, Neely and Mitch separate after her lies were revealed in the previous episode, and she goes back to her conniving and devious ways.

Mitch and Cody witness a disaster involving a parasailer and a boat. While heading for the rescue, they are again beaten to the scene by Bayguard, a new firm that specializes in privatizing lifeguards. When the rescue has been completed, Mitch is introduced to Alex Ryker, CEO of Bayguard. She tells Mitch that she plans on going up against him for the county contract as Baywatch's contract is about to expire. The next day, Alex shows the Chief a videotape of some of Bayguard's amazing rescues. She also shown the Chief a tape showcasing the Baywatch team apparently slacking off. Mitch objects, but the Chief thinks Alex's proposal warrants consideration. Later, Mitch tells his lifeguards to start acting like professionals, otherwise they will not have any jobs left by the end of the week.

Meanwhile, when April sees a man having a heart attack, she calls for backup and heads for the water. But Arnold, one of the Bayguards, detains her. This upsets Mitch who brings April to Bayguard for an apology from Alex. When Mitch and April arrive to Bayguard, they see Arnold paying off a stuntman. That stuntman turns out to be the parasailer who almost drowned. Mitch realizes the rescue was a fraud. After that, Cody fakes an argue with Mitch and starts working at Bayguard instead. Alex wants him as her new lieutenant.

Later Cody approaches the Bayguard mobile tower truck and climbs inside. From there he talks to Mitch over his cell phone, and by using Bayguard's lap top computer, he finds out that almost all of the lifeguards at Bayguard are on short-term contracts. When the summer starts, Alex will be left alone with a couple of wannabees protecting the beach. But Arnold arrives to the truck and Cody is busted. When April tells them that a diabetic boy named Teddy is missing, Baywatch and Bayguard must work together as a team. It turns out that Teddy is trapped in a storm drain. Mitch and Alex manages to get him out. Later, Mitch learns the Chief has hired Alex to be Baywatch's new administrative consultant. Bridget (played by Marci Brickhouse) decides, after an opportunity presents itself, to stay at Baywatch rather than become a model.

When Mitch and Cody have rescued a little girl, it all turns out to be just another training exercise for some kids. While doing this, they are observed by Alex's nephew Timmy, who is mildly autistic and doesn't speak. Timmy loves dolphins and his mom Valerie is taking him to Hawaii where he can visit Dolphin Quest, an organization specializing in providing young children the opportunity to swim with dolphins. When Valerie arrives to the beach and tells Alex that she can't get away from work, Mitch convinces Alex to take Timmy. Cody joins them to participate in an outrigger race. At the Dolphin Lagoon, Alex and Cody want Timmy to swim with the dolphins but he is afraid of the water. When Cody and Alex turn their back on him, he suddenly disappears. They find him with an artist named Wyland who also happens to like dolphins. Later, Cody meets Kali McKenzie, who tells him the outrigger race has been postponed due to a storm. Now Cody does not have any plans so Kali decides to give him a guided tour around the islands. When a boy falls off a cliff and ends up in a cave, Cody and Kali must work together to save him. When they return to the beach, Alex goes to help them out and forgets about Timmy for a couple of seconds.

Timmy sees a girl knocked out cold by a windsurfer. He is able to bring her to shore and perform CPR before Cody and Alex arrive. Before they leave Hawaii, Timmy receives a painting from Wyland and also gets the opportunity to see a pregnant dolphin giving birth. Before Cody leaves, he says goodbye to Kali; although attracted to each other, they decide to put their feelings aside. When they return to Los Angeles again, Timmy shows the painting Wyland gave him to his mother. Timmy utters the word "Mama" to her as he touches the painting and then his mother's heart.

The episode starts with someone rescuing a surfer in trouble. When the rescue has been completed, the phantom lifeguard is nowhere to be seen. A minute later, J.D. arrives in a lifeguard truck and he is able to see tracks in the sand showing clearly that someone else made the rescue. He tells Cody, Sheryl and Bridget about the incident. Later during a roll call, Mitch is surprised to find out that Alex has hired a new maintenance person, a girl named Jessie Owens. Everyone likes her at first, especially Cody and J.D.. While Cody and J.D. are on patrol, they are surprised to see Jessie jumping off a pier. They are convinced that she is trying to commit suicide. But they soon figure out that Jessie wants to become a stuntwoman. Jumping off the pier was just one of many tricks she has been working on. It turns out that Jessie is the phantom lifeguard when she rescues a little girl named Beth and then disappears mysteriously once again. It does not take very long until everyone finds out that Jessie turns out to be a bad maintenance person. Alex has no choice but to fire her. While Alex is talking to Jessie, she notices scars on her arm. Beth, the little girl Jessie rescued, had the same kind of scars. Later Jessie rescues Sean. When two of Sean's future fraternity pals bury him up to his neck, he starts sinking into a sinkhole. Mitch, Alex, J.D. and Cody assist Jessie during the rescue. When everyone has seen for themselves what a great lifeguard Jessie is, she gets the opportunity to join rookie school that is supposed to start next week. One day, Alex approaches Mitch and tells him that she wants to come out from behind her desk. Mitch knows that she is a lifeguard and a certified paramedic, but still he lets her stay at headquarters.

Ed Symes returns (8.18 "Quarantine") and offers Mitch some free medical supplies if he lets him ride in the call car with him. Alex comes along and Ed bothers her all the time. When Sheryl calls them from her tower about a man with a possible heart attack, they drive to her tower. It turns out, however, the man just has cramps from a too-vigorous workout. Ed who wants to be a hero, rushes towards them with the defibrillator. Trying to save the jogger, Mitch is shocked instead. To get even with Ed, he and Alex ask him to demonstrate a sling/stretcher victim. When Ed is completely tied up and helpless, Mitch and Alex leave him on the beach.

While Mitch and Newmie are walking down the beach, Mitch tells Newmie about a confrontation he has had with a gang. He tells Newmie that he talked them out of returning. Then suddenly Mitch's tower explodes. That is a warning from the gang. Meanwhile, April meets two tourists from Salt Lake City on the beach. They are named Sherri and Vic. Sherri wants to paint while Vic goes for a swim. When the swells are getting bad, April warns Vic but he assures her he is a good swimmer. A while later however, Vic gets swept under by the growing waves. April tries to rescue Vic but the waves are too big. When April resurfaces, Vic is nowhere to be seen. Many lifeguards arrive to the beach to search for Vic, but they are not able to find him anywhere. Mitch feels sorry for Sherri and promises her to continue the search the next morning. Mitch decides to escort Sherri to her hotel where she tells him that she is pregnant. Later at headquarters when April tries to comfort Sherri, she confronts April and blames her for Vic's death. When Vic's body finally is recovered, Sherri knows for sure he is dead.

When Jessie and Alex walk by a group of convicts working on a chain gang, Jessie keeps staring at one of them named Deke. When Jessie and Alex have walked away, Deke's partner Garcia fakes a stomach-ache. When the security guard approaches Garcia, Deke knocks him down and the two convicts are able to escape. Deke decides to hide himself in Jessie's tower. It turns out that Deke is her ex-boyfriend and now he wants Jessie to follow him to Mexico. She makes him believe that is what she wants as well. But it all turns out to be a trap because Jessie has alerted the Coast Guard. Deke tries to escape by climbing up a cliff followed by Newmie. When Deke almost falls down, he is rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter and returned to prison. Jessie tells Mitch and Alex about her life with Deke. They let her stay in rookie school.

When Mitch and Hobie are walking down the beach after a tough day, they notice a strange smell in a tunnel. When they have entered the tunnel, Mitch immediately recognizes the smell. Some workers have accidentally damaged a gas line. One of the workers drops his cigarette into the tunnel and Mitch and Hobie have to run out before it explodes. Later in the marina, Hobie meets his friends Brad, Josie and Randy. Because they are in no condition to drive, Hobie drives Brad's dad's boat. While they are driving, Josie pulls the throttle to full speed. Hobie loses control and it is just a matter of time before the boat turns over. Hobie manages to rescue everyone with the help of Jessie and April. Josie ends up in a coma and Brad tells Josie's father that Hobie caused the accident. Hobie ends up in prison due to reckless driving. His bail is set at $ 300 000. Mitch pays his bail using the deed to his house along with April's money as collateral. When Hobie meets Josie's father at the hospital, he threatens to sue Hobie. The next day, Mitch has to give Hobie the bad news that he is temporarily off the lifeguard roster. Hobie leaves upset and feels like everyone has abandoned him. Mitch takes Hobie to the hospital to meet Josie who has come out of her coma. Josie tells her father the truth that she pulled the throttle. After finding out about the truth, Josie's father apologizes to Hobie.

Meanwhile, Jessie is a little scared about taking tower responsibility. She is afraid she is going to lose someone just like April did (9.6 "Drop Zone"). When she is in her tower, Jessie has a terrible nightmare that she is guarding the beach and then everyone starts drowning and calling to her. Later the same day when she and April are supposed to pick up a ghost net, they are forced to make a rescue instead when a diver has been caught in the net. But Jessie is frozen with fear. After the rescue has been completed, Jessie announces that she is going to quit Baywatch. But Mitch talks her out of it and she decides to stay.

Mitch meets a young boy who is physically abused at home. Jessie and J.D. develop feelings for each other. Alex becomes a contestant on Jeopardy!, and she later meets Alex Trebek when she saves him from drowning. However, she is later disqualified from Jeopardy! for knowing somebody on the show, which is against the rules. But Alex then gives her a bunch of Jeopardy! merchandise to make up for not being on the show. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek guest stars as himself.

Jessie hires a medical supply instructor as her stunt instructor.

Mitch takes in an orangutan, named Morton, that escapes from its abusive dwarf owner, which complicates Mitch's and Alex's plans for Baywatch's annual Special Olympics program, while Cody and Jessie deal with Morton's owner, Herbert Green. One of the Special Olympics participators, a hearing-impaired girl named Kara, takes a liking to Morton and when she tries to hide Morton from Herbert, they end up trapped in a cave with a rising tide that threatens to drown her and the orangutan.

Cody puts his career (and life) on the line when he starts using a performance-enhancing supplement in hopes of making it to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which soon begins affecting his life guarding job as well. Meanwhile, Newman makes a play for Alex who's oblivious to his moves, while she quarrels with Mitch over running the Baywatch lifeguard program. But when Mitch spends more time with Alex, including getting stuck in a traffic jam and ending up in a lifeguard tower to spend the night, Newman becomes jealous.

Mitch becomes acquainted with some old armed service friends of an Army parachutist team where he tries to reunite one sky jumper, Tracy McComb, with her estranged Naval officer father who has a terminal illness. Jessie becomes intrigued with skydiving and persuades Mitch to go along with her for a jump, which takes a turn when they are forced to rescue some people from a boat wreck off Catalina. Meanwhile, Cody helps out Mehgan Hanley-Grier, a world famous, beautiful free-diver in training for a national deep dive competition.

Mitch finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he becomes reacquainted with Tanner, the abused nine-year-old boy, whom he saves from his abusive father, Blake, and lets the boy stay at his house while Alex becomes Mitch's co-conspirator in helping Tanner. Meanwhile, Jessie has a secret admirer that turns out to be a stunt pilot who is apparently leaving her expensive gifts in her lifeguard tower, much to J.D.'s indifference. Alex has her share of trouble when several swimmers show signs of food poisoning from a bad batch of hot dogs. And Mitch and Tanner bond during a ride on the windjet but it's interrupted by Blake, the abusive father, and a fight breaks out between Mitch and Blake. In the end, Blake heads off to prison and Mitch becomes Tanner's foster dad and Tanner moves in with him.

Craig returns to Baywatch after spending three weeks in Washington D.C. Both Mitch and April notice a change in him. Craig seems more depressed than usual. During a rescue, Mitch rescues the woman, while Craig is stuck with a 300-pound man. Craig is almost knocked unconscious by the man, but Mitch arrives just in time to return them to safety. Mitch is concerned about Craig's health after the rescue. He tells Craig that divorces can be tough and if he needs someone to talk to, Mitch will always be there to listen. Craig just tells him that everything is fine. Mitch and April decide that he needs to talk to Craig. Therefore he plans on taking him paddle boarding.

Just before they are about to go out on their boards, Craig tells Mitch that he has lymphoma. The doctors discovered it early and Craig might live for another ten years. When they have paddled out, they are caught in a fog. While they are waiting for the fog to disappear, Craig starts eating a candy bar that he had stored in a compartment of his wet suit. Of course Mitch wants some and they end up losing it in the ocean. Craig tells Mitch that he is going to break up with April. He does not want her to end up without a boyfriend when he dies. Mitch talks him out of it.

Later a shark arrives and knocks Craig off his board. Craig is knocked unconscious. After Mitch has scared away the shark, he rescues Craig. When Mitch hears a seagull, they know they are close to shore. They end up at San Clemente, an island the military use for target practice. They are arrested by the military and returned home. Craig decides to give his relationship with April another chance. Meanwhile, Cody and J.D. get into a battle of egos. Both J.D. and Cody try to put up the sail on their sailboat. But both of them fail and Jessie is the one who ends up doing it. J.D. is working extra at a local Bally Total Fitness club. When Cody arrives, he starts training the girls for free. This upsets J.D. who thinks that Cody is stealing money right out of his pocket. The two of them also decides to have a churro contest. Cody is planning on entering the Oceanside pre-Olympic triathlon. J.D. tells him that he can do it too. Then Jessie decides to participate as well. Cody and J.D. keeps ruining the race for each other all the time. And in the end, when they have injured themselves, Jessie beats them at the finish line.

Meanwhile, Manny has returned for his ten days on the beach. He goes to school at Stanford. Manny wants to talk to April but she avoids him all the time. She is afraid to tell Manny the truth about her and Craig. When Manny finally gets to talk to April, he tells her that he is engaged to someone else. He met her at Stanford. April is happy for him and confesses that she too is in love with someone else. They decide to remain good friends.

Mitch gets the need for speed when Tanner's cousin Damon Lusk, a race car driver, visits for a race car competition, and who also has a meeting of the minds with Alex. But when Damon falls ill due to an allergic reaction to shellfish, he asks Mitch to take his place for a major grand prix race, where Mitch comes up against Mark Martin, an old rival from his own former race car days. Meanwhile, after the rescue of an obnoxious couple from the ocean that attracts a lot of media attention; Newman, Cody, April and the other lifeguards help to develop a new TV show about lifeguards, titled 'Beachside', which Newman's brother-in-law is going to sponsor.

Mitch, Alex, April, Jessie, Cody and Jake Barnes from Zuma Beach are participating in a big rescue. A car has ended up in Bologna Creek. When the driver has been returned to safety, Mitch notices that Jake is missing. Jake is trapped under a fallen tree.

Terry leaves the house in the morning and leaves a note for Jake. He goes to the dock where Clare's sailboat is. He takes his dog Spencer with him and sails away. Jake finds the note and tells Allie and Jessie that he needs some clues about where Terry is hiding.

While out paddling on their surfboards, Mitch and Cody encounter Ariana, a beautiful violinist, on a yacht. Lena Svenson, the yacht's owner, is Ariana's guardian and has forced her to live a restricted life. The next day, Ariana performs a recital hosted by industrialist Miles Clayton. Unbeknownst to Ariana, Lena and Miles plan on smuggling a valuable etching in Ariana's violin case. After the recital, Ariana runs away and turns up in a lifeguard tower, with the etching hidden in her violin bow. First Mitch and Cody, then Ariana's two bodyguards show up. A fight and chase ensue.

While on her way to her grandmother's birthday party, Alex's day gets sidetracked when she tries to save a diamond runner, named Ben, whose partners, Lisa and Jason, want to silence him for good, which leads to a standoff in an underwater cave with Alex and Ben trying to avoid the rising tide and the smugglers circling above in their motorboat. Meanwhile, Hobie and Mitch begin to get on each other's case over privacy in the house, which prompts Hobie to think about moving out. But when Hobie cannot get in with his friends, Neely Capshaw returns and makes Hobie a lucrative offer to move in with her for awhile, which makes Mitch angry knowing that Neely always has an agenda.

April tries to save Manny from himself after he sustains a life-altering back injury during a rescue. April then decides to take Manny's place with Hobie in a boat race with the other lifeguards from Baywatch. Meanwhile, Neely begins a new plan of revenge against Mitch first by taunting him and then bringing assault charges against him. Then Neely meets her match when she goes after Alex who tries to intervene in the feud between Neely and Mitch. When Neely tries to drug Alex with sleeping pills, Alex is forced to take time off and she finally stands up to Neely by firing her from Baywatch, and gives her a farewell punch to the face witnessed by lifeguards and beachgoers.

Newmie and Alex are spending a lot of time together riding SeaDoos, going scuba diving and stuff like that. Newmie is convinced that Alex has the hots for him and plans to make a move on her. He tells Mitch about it, but Mitch tells him that it can not be true.

Minor sub-plot: Alex one morning is doing her morning workout run on the beach where she finds a big beautiful sand castle on the beach in front of her tower; she gets curious and tries to find out who has been making these lovely sandcastles. A couple of days later she runs down to her tower to find a young boy building a sand castle outside her tower. He sees Alex and runs away; she chases him and discovers something personal about his appearance.

Mitch feels that he needs to "find himself", so he travels to Hawaii to have some time off. While on the beach in Hawaii, Mitch rescues a family in trouble, but he barely makes it. He then realizes that he would have saved them all much more effectively if he knew more about the currents and these waters in general. In an effort to reinvent himself, he sets out to begin Baywatch Hawaii, an international training camp for lifeguards. He has to pick out the best of the best, and make a perfect team to start out with. Meanwhile, Jessie realizes that she has some competition for J.D. after he meets Kekoa.

The Baywatch team moves in and gets acquainted, and they're all introduced to the new training routine. Sean makes them jump off a huge cliff as a startup, but none of them gets scared. Later on they face some problems with the personal differences between the team members; J.D. is an organization freak while Kekoa and Jessie are already fighting. Mitch saves Hina, a former victim, from a secondary drowning. Later on, Mitch and Sean plan a team exercise that's going to put all the lifeguards' cooperative skills to the test.

The 200th episode of the series. Dawn Masterton, a specialist in the human body, joins the team, but the other members are not confident in her skills. When they start off with an exercise led by Dawn herself, she blacks out, and the other team members have to rescue her. Dawn and J.D. later discuss how they should handle their little secret, that they know each other from before, and decides to keep it secret. Dawn manages to annoy Jessie with initiating that Jessie does not have a chance against her when it comes to J.D. Mitch and Tanner join Allie on a helicopter ride, but it ends pretty soon when they notice a possible victim waving at them from shore nearby. Later on, Tanner meets a girl who wants to teach him to ride the waves on a board. He then discovers that she's really sick and wants to end her life. J.D. gets to ride the boat "America's Cup" and makes it to the team, but he turns them down. In the end, Sean wants to cut Dawn from the team, but Mitch refuses, so he gives her an underwater challenge she passes perfectly.

Mitch and Tanner visit Shark Island and a mysterious man who lost his son there appears in front of Tanner. Meanwhile, the lifeguard team performs a big mistake when assisting the Coast Guard in a rescue, which leads to a new kind of training for the team. Allie meets Nick Montgomery, a rescue swimmer working for the Coast Guard, and finds him fairly attractive. Kekoa flirts a lot with J.D., which pisses Jessie off completely.^{[clarification needed]} Later, Sean tells Jessie about his attribution to nude swimming, and she decides to try it. After a while, a swimmer nearby gets in trouble, and Jessie has to save him. In the end, they return to the new training involving the Coast Guard. Jason is chosen to wear blacked-out swim goggles because Sean finds him too self-reliant. He then gets placed on a cliff without knowing where he is. By accident, Sean, who's hiding close to Jason to make sure that he's safe, gets a rock in his head and needs a Coast Guard rescue. Jason has to take off the swim goggles and help him, even though he knows that he might lose his job by doing so.

Baywatch teams up with the Coast Guard to search for a group of kids in the water. They all have to search in caves all day, but they still can not find all the kids. Allie is filming the caves with a camera with an infrared sensor to see what they have. When night falls, there's still two kids missing, but after watching over the film from their camera, they see what they think is a hand in one of the caves. They then decide to go out at night looking for the last ones, but soon discover that the victims have been swept into another cave via an underwater channel.

The Baywatch team go on a weekend getaway to the Waimea Valley. Jessie and Kekoa are still fighting for J.D., and he loves it. After a while, they decide that they should stop being childish and start sorting stuff out, which they manage to do. When going paddling, Jessie and Kekoa have to save a man trapped in a waterfall by working together. Jason and J.D. are going to check out girls, but they do not have much success. Meanwhile, Allie and Sean search for treasure, but end up in some kind of graveyard.

The new training center is finally done and ready to be boarded. Jason's individuality becomes a problem as he performs a way too risky jet ski pickup, so Sean wants to dismiss him from the team. After talking to the other lifeguards, Sean decides that he'll try to teach Jason some risk management; basically the skill of preventing accidents - on the sand. Jason learns and does his job perfectly, but three guys would not listen to him, and one of them breaks his neck. Meanwhile, Dawn outstays her welcome when she joins Nick and Allie in their private helicopter ride. All of a sudden they find a boat with no crew, and later find out that a pregnant woman went into labor after falling overboard.

Then Hawaii governor Ben Cayetano appears in the episode.

Hobie is suddenly getting married and Mitch needs to stop the wedding. Meanwhile, Sean notices that Kekoa hesitates a lot like she's afraid to commit to the team, and demands that she finds out why before she gets someone killed. She thinks it's because she's so afraid of failure, something she's been afraid of for a long time. Her father wanted a son and did the usual thing when he got a daughter instead, so she's always tried to be the best athlete - and she's made it. That is until she joined Baywatch, where all the people are top trained, which leads to her decision of leaving Baywatch since she does not think she can change something that goes this deep. Before everything is settled with Kekoa deciding to leave the team, the lifeguards have to make a difficult rescue to a victim trapped in an underwater cave. Kekoa has not left the team yet, so she helps out as best as she can. When performing CPR she breaks down completely before the victim wakes up, and realizes just how much of a difference they've done this day. In the end, this means that Kekoa overcomes her fear of failure.

Jessie and Jason notice a shark coming way too close to shore on their watch. When they're unable to scare it away with the jet ski, they dive down to see that the shark fins have been cut straight off. Both of them find themselves emotionally affected by this, and Jessie sets out on a personal mission to stop a shark hunting boat in the area. Jason feels that he has an emotional connection to the shark, so he decides to visit one of the true Hawaiian men to figure out what he's experiencing. When Jessie tries to stop the people hunting sharks, they throw shark bait on her after ruining her jet ski. The lifeguard team comes to save Jessie and Jason proves himself as a true kama'aina - a person belonging in the Hawaiian family.

The team becomes obsessed with money-lust for a sunken treasure. Their argument about who the unfound treasure belongs to sets Sean off; he thinks they're destroying the team. Jason convinces Sean to permit their treasure hunt by referring to it as a scuba diving exercise and succeeds. The Coast Guard rescue swimmer Nick helps Allie find the areas where they'll most likely find a ship, but warns her that it's very unlikely that they'll be able to locate anything. Sean confronts Dawn with her lack of engagement to the team, and expresses his wish for her to step out of the sideline and into the game. Later on, they are able to locate the sunken ship and dive down to it, but the search becomes dangerous when Jason causes a torpedo to shake loose at the site.

An experimental submarine and its passengers ends up in a devastating tragedy for Allie, who finds & loses love all too quickly. She finally learns to trust Nick, a rescue swimmer working at the U.S. Coast Guard; a man she's been into for two weeks. Nick takes some huge risks when trying to save the passengers in the submarine, which unfortunately leads to him getting a severe case of the bends. He never wakes up, and Allie is devastated. Mitch arranges a lifeguard memorial service for Nick. Mitch tells her "Nick wasn't a lifeguard, but he died being one."

Jason experiences success during a training exercise with the lifeguards, able to find "the path of least resistance" - being underwater instead of swimming with his head over water. J.D.'s inventions pay off, as he performs a daring underwater rescue. Jessie and Allie become parents for a day after they come across a boy who has lost his mommy. Also, Dawn deals with a painful memory of a life and death choice from her past, as a lawsuit comes her way. Sean promises to fix the mess she's in, and he's able to do so pretty easy. They all get to know that J.D. and Dawn knew each other from the past, which makes the relationship between J.D. and Jessie even more complicated.

Dawn rescues a man, underwater for over 20 minutes, and tries to learn his magical secret. The doctors said his body "shunted", something Dawn knows a bit about from before. Meanwhile, Jessie, Kekoa and Allie spend a girls' night out after spending the day shopping - all because they feel that they all need to cheer up. Kekoa can not seem to find the right guy, Allie is missing Nick (who died in S10E11, "Bent"), and Jessie needs a day off. None of them would expect that it all ends up with a rescue off the side of a cruise ship while they're all in their underwear. Later on, Sean shows interest in the secret of the man who survived 20 minutes underwater, and Dawn decides to show him a special emerger technique she learned in India, giving them a weird underwater experience Sean finds quite frightening. In a rescue at the end of the episode, Dawn gets trapped underwater, and tries to make her own body shunt. After several minutes underwater, Sean is able to get her out and get her heart going again after performing CPR.

Sean and Jason encounter Jenna for the first time when Sean spills shaved ice on her chest. They then realize that Jenna's plans for the team will make life on the station more difficult. Later on, environmental activists starts a protest against the radioactivity in the air, craving attention from the public authorities. Jessie and J.D. find themselves alone on a beach they're supposed to watch for the whole day, seeing this as an opportunity to discuss their personal issues with each other. After they've finished their watch, J.D. is set to be the judge for a beauty contest - to Jessie's annoyance.

The rescues the team makes make them forget about their personal troubles. Sean and Kekoa begin a romantic flirtation, which leads to a confrontation between Sean and the female lifeguards. While all this is happening, Jason accidentally makes his way into a movie cast and finds that the lead actress is attractive.

Jason returns to a beach where lifeguards have lost their lives, and fights the memories that haunt him. An underwater maze leaves Jessie fighting for her life.

Sean sends Jason to pick up a canoe from some friends of his. It turns out that Sean wanted Jason to build a canoe of koa wood, so Jason learns an ancient Hawaiian tradition from a wise old man and his granddaughter. In the beginning, his granddaughter detests Jason, but as Jason learns to respect their old traditions, the mood changes, and they begin a romantic flirtation. While all this is going on, Sean's dating Jenna, ending with a dinner. In the middle of it, Jenna starts talking Sean into giving her more rights when it comes to the training center, which makes Sean run off angry.

Sean and Jenna, even after working together in a daring rescue, are still fighting for control of the team. Allie and Jason make a double rescue.

With Dawn's help, Jessie prepares herself mentally and physically for the competition of a lifetime.

Sean and Jenna plan a romantic getaway in Maui, but end up in a rescue that puts Jenna's life at risk.

Jessie exhibits a psychic bond with her grandfather, but the emotional understanding between him and Mitch saves him from ending his life.

Mitch faces off with an old Navy Seal vet who is planning to bomb in the name of ecoterrorism. While Mitch is diving he is supposedly killed by a bombing attack but then survives.

A new group of recruits has arrived for training at the new Lifeguard Training Center. Jenna has returned to oversee the center, making life difficult for Sean. Adding to the problems is Sean's friend Cliff, who has troubles of his own.

Sean's relationship with J.D. begins to get more complicated as J.D. begins to feel resentful about being on the team. The two have a falling out in front of all of the lifeguards. Kekoa's ex-boyfriend has returned to win her back, and her life gets even more complicated when she's threatened with a lawsuit from the father of a teenager who endangered the lives of a married couple swimming at a beach she lifeguarded. Later on, J.D. and Sean hug it out.

Leigh gets jealous when Sean becomes attracted to a new team sponsor.

Leigh falls for an adrenaline junkie who might put her life at risk. Meanwhile, Kekoa tries to win the respect of her father while her cousin is visiting. Things get complicated when Kekoa's father snaps at J.D. and Kekoa and then her cousin.

Jason becomes smitten with a volleyball player who has a heart disorder. Jenna takes advantage of the tension between Sean and Leigh.

Danny reluctantly joins the rookie team when he gets into trouble with the law again. Kekoa moves out of her father's home. Two women steal Zack and Jason's truck.

Zack endangers J.D. and Kekoa during a rescue and is placed on suspension. Jenna shows up and takes possession of a Scarab and two Jet Skis. While Zack's on suspension, he meets a mysterious woman who places him on a new path. Kekoa, seeing how close J.D. came to losing his life during Zack's rescue, starts to realize she's falling in love with J.D.

Sean deals with a notorious "shark tour" provider. Jason has problems with a bumbling tourist trying to impress his son. J.D. and Kekoa try to keep their relationship a secret.

Sean sees visions of his dead son after a teenage friend dies on a surfboard outing. Jason, J.D., Leigh and Carrie are forced to have Jenna on their team in a lifeguard competition.

Zack and Jason befriend a man and his daughter who are on the run from the man's ex-wife. Sean promotes Carrie to lieutenant despite Zack's attempts to catch a purse snatcher.

A millionairess is vacationing in Hawaii with her husband who dies while swimming. As Sean attempts to unravel the mystery of the murder, she accuses him of molesting her on the beach and draws the ire of the new police chief.

During a rescue, Jenna's reckless behavior places her life in danger and that of Zack, who rescues her, in return. Zack's in danger of losing his hearing, which stirs up feelings of remorse on Jenna's part. Sean discovers that the rescue was a false alert and discovers that it was Councilman McKenna's own son who was calling in the false alerts, which put Jenna and Zack in danger in the first place. Pat Morita (The Karate Kid) makes a guest appearance as Kekoa's father.

Carrie, one of the rookies who was made a permanent member of Baywatch Hawaii, helps rescue a pair of scuba divers. After the rescue, one of the divers becomes infatuated with Carrie and begins stalking her. Sean becomes suspicious of this stranger, and it quickly becomes apparent as he begins showing up everywhere Carrie is. After Sean, Jason and Zack save Carrie from the stalker, she realizes that she's no longer safe and that she isn't cut out to be a lifeguard. The incident has left her so shaken up she leaves Baywatch Hawaii for good.

Kekoa's father visits her beach. During his visit, he's saved by a junior lifeguard. At the same time, another vacationer complains to Sean that his gold watch has been stolen. As these two incidents merge, Sean is served with two lawsuits and restricted from having any contact with the beaches or the lifeguards. J.D. and Kekoa announce their engagement. Kekoa's father forces her to make a tough decision regarding her lifeguarding profession as well as her relationship with J.D. Meanwhile, Zack teaches junior lifeguards and makes a connection with one of them. In the aftermath, Kekoa's father, who filed one of the lawsuits, suffers a massive stroke after Kekoa confronts him about going after the center just to break up her marriage to J.D.

There's a hurricane coming, and the lifeguards at the Baywatch headquarters are all preparing for the worst. In the middle of this mess, Jenna sends a false rescue to Sean because she needs a ride back to HQ. This puts them both in a dangerous situation as the storm is approaching when they're far away from the other lifeguards. They accidentally crash their Scarab and find shelter in an old military bunker. A tree falls over the entrance, making it impossible for them to get out, and later on it starts to leak water into the small bunker. Sean manages to find a drain, but the water isn't draining at the same speed it's flowing in. They both realize that they're going to drown in there, and share a lot of personal experiences with each other. At HQ, Zack is all alone with his music and Jason's donuts. All of a sudden, a tourist approaches. He later finds out that she's a freelance journalist named Ivy, searching for some big news to get on television. She's so desperate that she's going to put them both in danger.

Sean and Jenna save a man who got his head smashed against some rocks while surfing. A friend of the victim starts a romantic flirtation with Jenna. He is working with finance, and Jenna wants him to help her with some investments. In the meantime, Jason and J.D. spends some time with Derek, a childhood friend of J.D. They soon find out that he has got a lot of personal troubles, and that he is going to put J.D. in a life-threatening situation. Later on, Jenna gets drugged by her new romance. He's trying to run off with her money, and Jenna contacts Sean for backup.

Jason, J.D., Kekoa and Zack are sent to Kauai to go on a trip with Britt, the daughter of one of Baywatch's sponsors. In the meantime, Sean and Brian make a rescue of Matt, a boy new to windsurfing. Afterwards, the brand-new computer system at HQ breaks down. Sean was supposed to show this system to the sponsor coming over that day, so he is pretty stressed out. Matt shows up later on and offers his help to fix the computers, and he's able to do so right before the sponsor shows up. In Kauai, J.D. and Kekoa are bickering about a watch J.D. got from Jessie. They decide to stand by at the lowland to sort out their problems while Jason and Zack lead Britt away. They're both arguing for Britt's attention.

Jessie returns to Baywatch Hawaii with news that she's entered to race in the Ironman Triathlon. Things get awkward when she discovers that J.D. and Kekoa are seeing each other, and she wants to get back together with him.

Sean and Leigh are held captive by the head of a local company that's using toxic chemicals to create a manmade reef. Zack accidentally breaks a friend's paddle and tries to replace it.

Sean, Jason and Zack along with the rest of the team participate in a natural obstacle course. Jenna helps Leigh get out of a prickly situation.

Sean turns down a free week at the Hilton Hawaiian Village after saving a local TV celebrity, so Zack goes in his place. Zack and Jason argue about a photographer. Sean helps a friend with a boat situation.

The final episode of the series. Leigh's getting married as Sean contemplates a job offer from Australia to train with their lifeguards. He's also still dealing with his feelings for Leigh as he tries to choose between the two. Kekoa and J.D. reevaluate their relationship and finally decide to get married in the future.

Mitch Buchannon, who supposedly died in "The Killing Machine", is recovering from amnesia in Los Angeles. He returns to Hawaii to marry Allison, a woman who looks like the late Stephanie Holden, but who's actually part of a revenge plot by Mitch's old nemesis Mason Sato (from "War of Nerves").