Hello and Farewell (Part 1)

Mark and Jonathan join the campaign of a friend of Mark, who’s highly honest. But his less than honest opponent is doing what he can to smear him.

Jonathan helps Commander Michaels deal with flashbacks of Vietnam as well as try to convince her to go to therapy. Mark deals with his fear of flying.

Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. She also discovers that her son went in to the emergency room because of a motorcycle accident. David wants to meet his biological mother but makes his adoptive parents worry about the meeting.

A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.

Mark Gordon attends his five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started again only to be told he isn't needed anymore. Also the prom queen feels out of place at the reunion because she's changed too much.

Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was married. The two kids see the opportunity to report the story incorrectly leading to the bus driver losing his job.

Wayne Secrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better access to places for handicapped people. Wayne attends a ribbon cutting ceremony and uses the occasion to put people on notice about building ramps and widening bathroom stalls for handicapped people.

Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are too much for him. The students of Lincoln High School plan a birthday/retirement party as well. They feel their efforts go down hill when their teacher doesn't want to attend the party because of the retirement notice he received. The students gathered together to form a petition to stop their teacher from retiring but face a big battle when they try to present their petition before the president of the school board who has no intention of changing his mind or listening to what the students have to say.

A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and

After suffering major burns in a freak accident, a top fashion model and actress becomes a counselor at a summer camp for blind children run by Jonathan and Mark's blind friend Frank.

A young man is considering institutionalizing his brother, who has been completely paralyzed and speechless for many years, against the wishes of their mother who insists that the brother is not vegetative but can truly understand. Jonathan and Mark set out to prove that the brother does indeed have a brilliant mind locked inside his disadvantaged body.

Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.

On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people (an energy magnate, a farmer and the President) to forsee the consequences of their actions.