A movie star always has the money to spend on his kids but never the time to spend with or be a real father to them, and Jonathan and Mark (who have been hired to look after the children) must show him the error of his ways.
An advertisement brings Jonathan and Mark to a neighborhood where an elderly scriptwriter needs an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood, but making the film may mean tragedy for Mark.
Julie makes news when she travels to Baltimore to defend a man charged with murdering a newspaper editor, and runs into her ex-husband, who's prosecuting the case.
Conrad runs away to join the circus on orders from Matlock, who juggles the defense of a clown accused of strangling his partner during a center-ring routine.