Fishslap Season Summaries

A condensed summary of each season of Fishslap, broken into two parts each.

## Season One

### Part I: Episodes 1 - 9

Mitchell “Mick” and Chelsey Johnson, along with their children Scarlett, Bridget, and Dodger, relocate to Duluth, MN for unknown reasons and meet up with Chelsey’s sister, Carol Slinkenhofner. Despite not knowing the reason for their quick move, Carol pledges them her discretion and helps them find a new house to move into. The house comes with Berta, a quick-witted housekeeper, along with their neighbors, eccentric Stewart “Stu” Gibbons, with his adoptive daughter Evangeline “Vangie”, the perky yet nosy Margot Dash, and her daughter Lydia, as well as Olive Kipling, the local free spirit and avid drinker. Mick and Chelsey decide to burn their important documents, pertaining information about their previous identities as the Davenports, which leads Chelsey to befriending Mayor Emily Larson and securing a job as her assistant in an effort to forge new identities and legal documents. Mick later enlists in a job at Stu’s bar The Fainting Goat.

At their new schools, Scarlett befriends the quiet Jenny Robinson, Bridget grows closer to Lydia, as well as Lydia’s rival, the flamboyant Tristan Parker. Dodger bonds with Vangie, who is showing signs of being oddly obsessed with him. Meanwhile, Margot begins to pester Carol and others for information about the Johnsons and pressures Lydia to manipulate Bridget into revealing details about their mysterious past. Chelsey later befriends a local police officer, Shelby Bates, at a fracking protest, which drives a divide between Chelsey and Mayor Larson. Bridget later develops feeling for Tristan, who despite not reciprocating the same feelings, agrees to begin dating her. Lydia discovers Scarlett is harboring a gun and tells her mother, which prompts Margot to begin a solo investigation into the Johnsons. Stu later begins to develop feelings for Carol, who struggles with trying to figure out where her feelings for him lie, which leads for her to decide to ignore him. During a Halloween party, Margot’s obsession with the Johnsons is discovered by Carol and revealed to everyone, however Carol begins to question why she is blindly loyal to them. Tristan later breaks up with Bridget, devastating her.

Following the events of the Halloween party, Margot attempts to apologize to Chelsey and Carol and takes them out for a girl’s night. However, after returning to the Johnson household, Margot confronts a drunk Chelsey and Carol with events she figured out about their past, prompting Chelsey to accidentally push Margot down the stairs to her death. With the help of Scarlett and Berta, they stage Margot’s death as a home invasion gone wrong. Chelsey orders Scarlett to shoot her to make their story stick, as she places a fake voicemail to Margot’s phone, telling her she thinks there’s an intruder in the house. After Stu and Mick return to the house, Stu freaks out and drives away, before almost running over Margot’s twin sister, Helena. Meanwhile, Dodger and Vangie, high for the first time, along with Bridget, try to dispose of Margot’s body, but are intervened by Carol. The family decides to drive to their cabin and use it as their alibi, as Chelsey places a call to the police, who show up and discover Chelsey in a pool of her blood and Margot’s body, their story having sticked.

### Part II: Episodes 10 - 15

With their staged home invasion to cover up Margot’s death a success, the Johnsons attempt to move past the horrific events in their lives and deal with having dragged their families and friends into it with them. Candice (Chelsey and Carol’s older sister), and her girlfriend, Muffy Trudeau, travel up from Minneapolis to check in on everyone after their traumatic events, where Candice was unaware that Chelsey even moved back to Minnesota. Margot is given a proper funeral, where the Johnsons are determined to keep the secrets of that night buried with Margot. Helena becomes Lydia’s guardian, as Mayor Larson fires Chelsey, claiming that scandal seems to follow her. Carol becomes determined to know the Johnson’s past if she’s going to keep their secrets and defend them.

After her recovery, Chelsey and Mick drive to Dearborn, MI (their old home) in disguise to destroy any remaining evidence of their lives as the Davenports. In Dearborn, they run into Mick’s childhood best friend, Arlo Hutchinson, and bring him to Duluth to keep him quiet and live with them. Dodger begins to experiment with marijuana after bonding with Muffy and Candice. Scarlett intends to find the reason Tristan broke up with Bridget, where he comes out as gay to her. Scarlett later begins to question her sexuality after noticing weird quirks in her and Jenny’s friendship.

With the secret of Margot’s death eating him up, Stu tells Helena everything, which she is indifferent to. With the secret off his chest, Stu gets the courage to ask Carol out again. They share their first kiss, which is interrupted by Stu’s ex-wife Nina Perales unexpectedly showing up, who has come to win Stu back. However, Carol attempts to make Nina leave, fearing that all of Stu’s progress as a father and an individual will be lost if he lets her in again.
Chelsey is thrown a surprise birthday party, where their family and friends eventually get fed up protecting the Johnsons time and time again, despite them not being trusted with the reason they came to Duluth in the first place. After multiple breakdowns, Mick and Chelsey decide to surrender and reveal to everyone why they left:

While living in Dearborn, MI, Mick was prescribed medicinal marijuana to help with insomnia, which evolved into a growing and selling business run by Mick and Chelsey. A rival drug dealer, Roy Willett threatens the Davenports to stop selling, and eventually hires Demetri Stanford, a hitman, to get rid of the competition for good. Demetri reveals this plan to them and advises them to make a quick sale of all the weed to Roy and get out of the business for good, but this is thwarted by Roy who discovers Demetri hiding in their grow room, and kills him. After shooting Chelsey, he makes tries to escape, but is bludgeoned by Bridget who mistook him as an intruder. Amidst the chaos, Roy eventually comes to and tries to attack everyone, where Scarlett kills him with his own gun. With two dead bodies and a basement of marijuana, they agree to dispose of the bodies, burn the house down, frame their deaths, and start new somewhere else. They drive away, and stop at a hospital, where Chelsey is stitched up, and they make their way to Chelsey’s hometown of Duluth under the new identities of the Johnson family.
After revealing their secret, Chelsey comes clean about Margot’s murder to Helena and Lydia. Stu then goes to leave, freaked out at all the trouble he’s been dragged into, where he’s consoled by Nina. Nina goes and tries to turn them in to Shelby Bates, who dismisses Nina, and later burns the file for the Johnson home invasion. With all of the secrets out in the open, the families all agree to stick together and try and move on from what’s happened in the past. However a flashforward that depicts a masker assailant and another dead body reveals that Chelsey and Mick may never be able to escape their sins.

## Season Two

### Part I: Episodes 1 - 9

The Johnsons and their family and friends are trying to adjust to their lives after sharing the reason they moved to Duluth and successfully covering up Margot Dash’s death. Mick and Stu transform The Fainting Goat into an undercover brothel in an effort to increase profits. Officer Shelby Bates warns Chelsey to shut down the brothel as a courtesy before they get in real trouble, triggering Nina to ask why Shelby is looking out for Chelsey. Nina, who is broke, is forced to live in Duluth, while Candice and Muffy decide to move to Duluth permanently to be close to their family.

Chelsey goes through a series of odd jobs before getting a job working at The Historic Glensheen Mansion, where she meets fellow co-worker Thea Rhodes. While working at a gala, Chelsey is pulled outside by a drunk Mayor Larson, who accidentally trips down the stairs to her death, prompting the announcement of a mayoral election to elect a predecessor. Chelsey eventually confronts Shelby about why she destroyed their files, where Shelby reveals she is in love with her. Chelsey later learns that Thea is an investigative journalist who came to Duluth to learn about the Johnsons. Chelsey, frightened, kidnaps Thea, but eventually comes to learn that she can trust Thea.

The Johnson children are finally starting to feel accustomed to their new lives. Bridget attempts to patch her friendships with Lydia and Tristan, and the three start up a band, joined by badboy Naoh Alcott, who Bridget begins falling for. In an attempt to make Noah notice her, Bridget dates a series of boys, only to learn that Noah is asexual. One of her boyfriend, Rodger, who looks oddly like Dodger, is used by Vangie to attempt to get over her crush on Dodger. Bridget and Tristan’s friendship comes to a close after a production of The Lion King Jr. directed by Julie Taymor, where Tristan feels like he has to compete to be friends with her. Meanwhile, Scarlett befriends her teenage idol, Saffron, an ex-Youtube emo-punk singer. Scarlett confides in Saffron about her confusing feelings for Jenny, and is eventually given the confidence to come out to her family. Scarlett later tells Jenny about her feelings, who doesn’t reciprocate them, causing Scarlett to put their friendship on a break. Scarlett is left in charge of the house when the parents are gone, and Bridget uses this as her opportunity to host a party and get Noah drunk. After talking to each other, Bridget, Vangie and Scarlett get the courage to kiss their crushes: Noah, Dodger and Saffron, respectively.

This season begins to focus on many of the ensemble characters, in contrast to the previous season. Carol and Stu assess their relationship and agree to remain friends, which leads Stu to begin pursuing Helena to get over Carol. Carol temporarily bonds with Nina as they swear off men, which doesn’t work as Carol begins to discover her feelings for Stu run deeper than she realized. Berta challenges Candice, Muffy, and Arlo to stop smoking marijuana for a month, which leads to Dodger stealing Arlo’s stash. Candice and Muffy also struggle with their relationship, after Candice reveals to Muffy that she wants to get married and have kids. Olive gets high and gets the idea to run for mayor of Duluth.

Once Carol and Stu finally get together, they go on a triple date with Candice and Muffy and Mick and Chelsey. Chelsey passes out and wakes up at the Glensheen Mansion, late after hours, and calls Shelby to check to make sure everything is okay. The triple daters (and Arlo) eventually arrive at Glensheen to pick up Chelsey, when the power goes out and a gunshot fires. However, this is revealed to have been from Shelby who triggered a booby trap. As everyone splits up, they begin to realize they’ve walked straight into a trap set for them. They discover a masker sniper is in the mansion with them, who eventually kills Shelby when she’s left behind. Chelsey gets the courage to attack the sniper, and discovers Thea underneath the mask, who like Chelsey, woke up after being passed out, and was trapped in the costume. With everyone split up, they try and find ways to escape. Carol, Muffy, and Arlo discover underground tunnels, where Arlo gets left behind and assumed shot by The Sniper. Carol and Muffy reach their cars, but Muffy is attacked by The Sniper. Mick and Chelsey reconvene and begin to plan their escape. Unbeknownst to all of them, Scarlett arrived to the mansion after receiving a call from Carol and decided to hide in Thea’s abandoned sniper costume. Scarlett, and later Candice, escape the mansion and meet up with Carol as they radio for help. Chelsey and Mick come face to face with The Sniper and learn that The Sniper is someone they know. The Sniper then begins to escape through a secret passageway and out the mansion. As the police discover the survivors, they realize that Arlo is the other fatality of the night. Muffy and Mick are taken to the emergency room for their injuries, as the family is shocked at the events that have transpired. That night at the Johnson house, The Sniper sneaks in, grabs Carol from behind, and flees.

### Part II: Episodes 10 - 15

The Sniper kidnaps Carol and puts her in a demolished cell in an unknown location. Carol then learns that Arlo isn’t dead, but in the cell next to her. Arlo hypothesizes that The Sniper had a mission to kill Mick and Chelsey, which failed, and so they’ve been taken as ransom. After a few days of getting familiar with her surroundings, Carol attempts to escape through the bathroom, but she is caught by The Sniper and his guard. Arlo is killed as a punishment. Carol, although with little hope, gathers the strength to take a pipe from the bathroom and hits the guard, kill him, and steal his keys. However, after unlocking the door, she is greeted by The Sniper, where she learns her cell was a set-up and she’s actually being held in a larger warehouse.

Scarlett becomes determined to find where Carol is, but Chelsey believes that Carol has ran away, who has a history of doing this when things get too intense for her. Stu begins then to have a breakdown, prompted by the events of the Glensheen attack and Carol’s disappearance. Chelsey is proven innocent by security camera footage in the Glensheen, and later quits her job there, along with Thea. After a joint funeral is held for Shelby and Arlo, Dodger shows the Johnsons a ransom video of Carol that was sent to them. Carol explains the happenings of the Glensheen Mansion attack and how Chelsey and Mick needed to surrender their lives for her safe return. This takes a toll on the survivors of the attack, with many of them unsure about what to do. Stu resents the Johnsons for dragging him into their lives, which leads Chelsey and Mick to hypothesize if Stu is The Sniper. After a torture video of Carol is released, they break into Stu’s house to look for evidence. They discover Stu has found a way to be in contact with The Sniper, who’s trying to negotiate Carol’s return. After wiring money, they try and track the IP address of The Sniper, who is aware of their plan and relocates Carol and disconnects the server. Carol is relocated to a log cabin, and after an escape attempt, is punished by having a barcode branded into her back, additionally in an effort to force Mick and Chelsey into surrendering sooner.

Additional stories include Olive’s mayoral campaign, which follows Olive replacing Nina as her campaign manager for Lulu, and her smear campaign against opponent Dell “The Sauce” Pollizzio. Olive later seduces Dell, and gives him syphilis in an attempt to make him seem unfit as a mayor. Olive and Dell both later lose the election to write-in candidate Harambe the Gorilla by 11,000 votes. However, Olive, being the runner-up, ends up becoming the next mayor of Duluth. The Johnson kids additionally follow their own stories, trying to navigate maturity: Scarlett and Saffron become an official couple, Bridget and Lydia reach out to their friends they’ve neglected (Tristan and Noah), and Dodger begins coping for his neglectful parents by becoming addicted to smoking weed. And finally, Muffy’s injuries from the attack lead her to be in a coma, leading Candice to question her future with Muffy. After Muffy wakes up, Candice decides to surprise her with a trip to Poland to meet their sponsored “adopted son”, Nikodem. Muffy later proposes to Candice, which she accepts.

This season also features extensive flashbacks that reveal much of the backstories for the Slinkenhofner sisters, their mother, and their tumultuous relationships with their significant others. In 1998, the Slinkenhofner sisters meet Mick and Arlo after they got stranded in Duluth. Six months later, Mick is granted Constance (Chelsey, Candice, and Carol’s mother)’s approval to marry Chelsey. Carol is appointed to be Chelsey’s Maid of Honor, but on the day of the wedding, has a breakdown on how her life has no direction and deserts. Candice assumes Carol’s position, as Carol packs her bags at Constance’s house and runs away. Six months later, and no word from Carol, the family is alerted that Constance has caught a fatal form of pneumonia and is going to die. Chelsey reveals to Constance that she is pregnant, before she dies. After she does, Carol shows up after being alerted from Arlo, as they’ve been keeping in contact in secret. Chelsey then disowns Carol as her sister, leading her to begin drinking heavily. However, they reunite later that year for Christmas, where Chelsey is at full term. Carol has a drunken outburst, causing Chelsey to go on a night drive to clear her mind. While driving, Chelsey gets into a horrific car accident, where her son is delivered in an emergency C-section, stillborn. Unsure if Chelsey can have children again, Mick and her adopt a girl who was born on Constance’s death day, and name her Scarlett Constance. In 2006, Candice intervenes a verbal fight between Muffy and her then-husband, Clint at a bar. Candice soon becomes best friends with Muffy, helping her with her divorce. They eventually develop feelings and begin a relationship. On their five-year anniversary, they decide to sponsor a Polish orphan, Nikodem, in an effort to consider it their child without the lifelong commitments.

In the final moments of the season, Mick and Chelsey end up viewing the branding video and decide to turn themselves into The Sniper, having given up. They learn Carol is being hidden somewhere in their old hometown, in Dearborn, MI. Chelsey and Mick are ready to turn themselves in, most likely to be killed, but Chelsey receives a call from Dodger, which changes her mind, as she tells Mick to go with ‘Plan C’. Carol is relocated to an old barn. She then gets the strengths to charge at The Sniper, disarm him, and hold him at gunpoint, demanding him to unmask himself. The Sniper then reveals themself to be Arlo, who explains that he’s been blackmailed to get revenge on Mick and Chelsey and explains what has happened to her:

After Carol disappeared from Mick and Chelsey’s wedding, Arlo got in contact with her, and the two started a relationship. Arlo then worked to get Chelsey to give Carol another chance, which leads to their fight at Christmas. Arlo went to calm Carol do, but she in turn broke up with him. Arlo then begins to drive away, heavily drinking, and gets into a car crash. He stumbles out of the car to discover he crashed into Chelsey, pregnant and unconscious. Arlo flees the scene, and confides in his old roommate (and drug lord), Roy Willett, who tries to push Arlo to be sober to get his life straight. Arlo is successful in being sober, until Mick is prescribed marijuana. Roy is successful in scaring Arlo to reveal that Mick and Chelsey have started dealing and pressuring them to stop, blackmailing him with the knowledge of Arlo’s hit and run. Arlo is then forced to pledge loyalty to Roy over the Davenports. After the Davenports flee and Roy dies, Arlo thinks he is off the hook, however he is later reunited with the Davenports, now the Johnsons. While living in Duluth, he is visited by members of Roy’s drug ring, and blackmailed into avenging Roy by getting revenge on Mick and Chelsey. Arlo is then instructed of the plans for the Glensheen Mansion Attack and is told that he will kill Mick and Chelsey. Arlo purposefully separates himself in the mansion and disguises himself as The Sniper, where he is forced to kill Shelby after she discovers his identity. Arlo then frames his death to rule him out as a suspect. However, when he corners Mick and Chelsey, he is unable to kill them and begins to flee. He shoots Mick in the shoulder, instead of killing him. Roy’s successors, although upset at the failure, initiate their back-up plan: to kidnap their children to use as ransom. Arlo purposefully kidnaps Carol, where they concoct the plan to psychologically torture her by making her believe they killed Arlo and making his fate seem sealed. Arlo then began to fight back, refusing to hurt Carol, and in turn, ending up being tortured himself.
Roy’s successors enter and shoot Arlo, but two of them are shot from above, as Chelsey and Mick reveal they’ve been hiding in the second floor of the barn. The final hitman blows up the barn and himself, as Chelsey, Mick, and Carol escape. They return home and the family reconnects. Vangie is revealed to have stowed away and flown to Poland with Candice and Muffy to meet Nikodem, or “Niko”. As the season closes, it’s revealed that Arlo escaped the barn as well. While stopped at a gas station, he throws away his clothes, shaves off his hair, and drives away.

## Season Three

### Part I: Episodes 1 - 9

Two weeks have passed since rescuing Carol and discovering that Arlo was The Sniper, but no one has heard from Arlo and they all are nervous of what he is capable of. The first episode sets up many of the storylines that the season follows. Candice, Muffy, and Vangie return from Poland with Niko, who can be officially adopted once Muffy and Candice get married. Carol secludes herself, unsure with how to deal with the kidnapping. Bridget discovers a positive pregnancy test, only to find out that Bulldog Chicken was pregnant, and she assumes the role of the midwife. Scarlett and Saffron navigate being in a new relationship together. New mayor Olive Kipling enjoys the luxuries of being a local celebrity and political figure. Mick becomes obsessed with trying to track Arlo down, as he remains on the run.

One of the major storylines follows Chelsey’s transition back into drug dealing when she meets local dealer Swayne Ballard and his team, Bender and Esmé (who’s pregnant) at a pro-weed rally. After cancelling the rally, Mayor Olive Kipling declares Duluth a drug-free zone as Chelsey becomes a part of Swayne’s team. After being unable to move a large sum of weed by a deadline, Chelsey enlists in Muffy to help her sell, and trusts in Bender from keeping Muffy’s involvement a secret from Swayne. Chelsey later begins working at Panera, which is their cover business. After believing their weed was jacked at a music festival (but it was really stolen by Dodger, Vangie, and Niko), Chelsey and Muffy have no choice but to reveal Muffy’s involvement with Chelsey, which Swayne is at first furious at, but then accepts. Chelsey slowly learns the origins of Swayne and Bender’s enterprise, and learns of Bender’s desire to grow his own product, as well as learning Swayne has been giving her a low quality product, to which she demands she has proven herself to be a valuable seller.

Mick and Stu’s friendship is put to the test after Mick becomes co-owner of The Fainting Goat. Mick is threatened to shut down the brothel, but notices immediate change in the bar’s income and patronage. Olive has begun an affair with her old mayoral opponent, Dell “The Sauce” Pollizzio, and after he demeans her work done as mayor, Olive gets a makeover à la Hillary Clinton. Olive then decides to forgive and make up with Nina, and gets her a job at The Fainting Goat.

Unsure with how to deal of the aftermath of her kidnapping, Stu enlists Carol in Alcoholics’ Anonymous, which is run by Carol’s ex-high school rival, Brook Posen. Carol additionally begins spending a lot of time with Scarlett, as she teaches her to drive. Brook decides to torment Carol by giving Scarlett a job at her store, Namaste Gifts and Healing. Arlo spends much of the season running away from the Johnsons, but begins to start feeling remorse and reaches out by calling Carol, who hangs up on him. Arlo decides to drive back to Duluth to make amends, but is unable to face the Johnsons, and accidentally runs into his old co-worker, Tori Knox, whom Chelsey met at the pro-weed rally. Tori and Arlo soon begin a love affair, and she is able to coax him into facing the Johnsons. However, Arlo accidentally runs into Scarlett and explains his history to her, revealing that she’s adopted.

Many of the storylines begin to intertwine as Berta is forced to deal with the family members by herself. Berta gives advice to Scarlett, who has discovered that Mick and Chelsey are her adoptive parents. Dodger, who has begun skipping school, starts showing some dark tendencies, such as biting Niko. Additionally, Berta’s history with the house is revealed: She grew up in the house, and eventually her sick mother passed away in the house, leading to Berta becoming obsessed with the house after moving away from it. She eventually broke and entered in the house, and upon being caught, disguised herself as a housekeeper and fabricated a story about her being the designated housekeeper, delegated in the estate’s will. Chelsey and Muffy reveal that they’re dealing again, which Berta keeps a promise. Olive discovers this, and threatens to arrest Chelsey and Muffy, who then strike up a business partnership with Olive. At a family dinner, Arlo decides to make his return, which everyone is speechless at.

Arlo’s return sparks an idea for Chelsey as she helps him create a new persona and discrete lifestyle. Chelsey later proposes to Bender that they could leave Swayne and start their own growing business, which he declines. Chelsey later concocts an undercover plan and has Arlo burn down the Panera store in order to prompt Bender to reconsider her offer. Chelsey reveals what she did to Bender and how she saved his hybrid plants, and he agrees, however, Swayne, nervous of Chelsey, forbids Bender from communicating with her. Other events include Stu blaming Mick for the bar failing and for his life failing since he entered his life. However, Mick gets the idea to use security footage to blackmail Olive into letting the brothel continue secretly. Other events include Scarlett, dealing with her adoption, and beginning to bond with Brook at work, Carol, on her sobriety journey, where she begins to give back to her family, and bonds with her nephews and nieces, like giving Bridget alcohol. Additionally, Muffy and Candice learn they need to move their wedding up a month, sending everyone into wedding planning frenzy.

The day of the wedding rehearsal comes, where Scarlett and Saffron’s relationship is on the rocks after disagreeing about how to confront Scarlett’s adoption situation to her parents. Stu decides to cut Mick out of his life. Chelsey is able to finally get Bender to talk to her, and they test out his product on Olive, who urges them to start a growing operation and include her in it. Swayne discovers Chelsey gave Olive a sample of a higher quality product and confronts her about it. Chelsey is later confronted by Scarlett about her adoption, and they fight after Chelsey tries to shut Scarlett down. Scarlett then swallows a handful of pills after Chelsey leaves. Swayne later confronts Muffy in the house, who actually has no idea about the potential growing business, but their gunpoint confrontation is interrupted by a distraught Scarlett. Carol is then verbally attacked by Brook, prompting her to break her sobriety and drink heavily. Bridget finds Carol’s bottle and sneakily drinks some, only to have her first period. Intoxicated and bleeding, Bridget passes out in front of a burning fireplace. Berta, Scarlett, and Muffy discover Bridget and panic, as Berta and Scarlett take her to the emergency room so Candice and Muffy can have their rehearsal. However, Esme shows up at the house to retrieve Swayne’s gun and Muffy is put in an awkward situation, avoiding that she hasn’t told her soon-to-be-wife the truth. Candice smokes the weed they left behind, and suddenly collapses on the ground, as the joint hits the spilled vodka on the ground and sets it ablaze. Arlo shows up at the Johnson house later, where he sees firetrucks and ambulances, but isn’t allowed to know who was found unconscious inside the house. Arlo drives to the emergency room where he realizes he is in public and begins to have a panic attack. Mick shows up at the emergency room and confirms that the body found is Candice. Muffy arrives to the rehearsal, where no one is there and learns of all the events that have transpired. Muffy arrives at the hospital, but isn’t allowed to see Candice because she isn’t a spouse or blood relative and hurriedly calls Chelsey, who is overlooking Duluth with Bender, as they avoid their phones and talk about their growing operation. Chelsey later answers a call from the hospital, only to learn that Candice was found unconscious in her house and has cancer.

### Part II: Episodes 10 - 15

After Candice’s diagnosis of cancer, her wedding with Muffy is put on hold. Muffy is left with no choice but to come clean to Candice about her dealing, which angers Candice. Chelsey and Muffy return to Swayne’s house, where Muffy informs him that she’s leaving the operation to focus on family and Chelsey says she needs some time away. Scarlett finally finds her answers after Mick confirms that she was adopted, leading to Scarlett mending her relationship with Saffron. After Carol’s relapse, Stu advises Carol to go to rehab, which she accepts. Due to Muffy and Candice’s wedding being postponed, adoption and immigration agents show up and take Niko away. Chelsey decides to put her plan of starting up her own growing and dealing operation, and creates a team of herself, Bender, Muffy, Olive, Arlo, and Tori, with plans to grow right inside Olive’s mayoral mansion.

The season then faces a two month time jump to the first day of summer. Chelsey’s business has flourished while Swayne’s business has suffered. Olive is happy to finally establish a friendship with Chelsey, Tori and Arlo begin a relationship, and Bender struggles with his guilt about betraying Swayne. Meanwhile, Candice is well into her chemotherapy but hasn’t fully forgiven Muffy yet, and the two struggle to keep their relationship together and get Niko back again. Scarlett and Saffron, who now additionally works at Brook’s store, have grown closer as they’ve been searching for more information on Scarlett’s birth parents. Brook is able to track them down and hands Scarlett a manila folder with their information to open whenever she is ready. Carol is granted release from rehab and is reunited with Stu. The Fainting Goat has prospered under Mick’s leadership, and he has developed a close friendship with Helena, whom he confides in, as he is growing more suspicious of Chelsey. Dodger’s dark tendencies have increased since Niko’s deportation, and Bridget learns her mother is dealing from her classmates. Vangie becomes known as “The Creamy Cubes Girl” after she is cast in a commercial, giving Nina purpose in her life as a stage mom.

Dell’s brother comes to town to meet Olive, prompting Olive to reconnect with her ex-stepbrother, Bender. However, they soon learn that Dell’s brother, Holden, is a DEA agent, and is investigating the drug ring in Duluth. After some advice from Berta, Candice forgives Muffy and re-proposes to her. Dell soon learns that Holden is suspicious that Olive is working in the drug ring and warns her, despite not knowing her involvement. Candice suggests that they use her wedding as a cover-up to explain why people have been going in and out of the mansion all week. The growhouse is then moved to Lulu’s house, as oblivious Lulu is moved into the mayoral mansion. Candice and Muffy are officially married, but the wedding is interrupted by Holden and a team of DEA Agents. The raid is called off as Olive panically tips off Swayne to Holden, who in turn begins proofing their house for another raid.

Swayne and Esmé are able to proof their house in time to fool Holden, but Swayne is put on red alert and his suspicions about Chelsey are put on high. Arlo and Tori finish unpacking the new growhouse at Lulu’s place and the operation resumes. Scarlett finally opens her adoption folder and figures out her birth parents: Andrew and Scarlett McClain, and her birth name was Natalie. Candice and Muffy’s honeymoon takes them to Poland to adopt Niko officially. Mick learns about Dodger’s morbid obsessions and Bridget’s drinking and begins to realize that he and Chelsey have neglected their children. Swayne and Esmé soon begin to put together the pieces that Chelsey and Bender are working against them right underneath their nose. Swayne angrily drives to Chelsey house, only to find Mick. Swayne reveals how Chelsey began dealing again to Mick, who instantly feels betrayed. Swayne then cuts Bender out of their operation, who goes to warn Chelsey that Swayne knows everything. Mick, who was stalking Chelsey, enters the growhouse after Bender, leading to a confrontation between Mick and Chelsey and the truth finally being revealed.

On July 4th (additionally Mick and Bridget’s shared birthday), Chelsey decides to make the decision to get out the business and focus on her family, while Swayne becomes determined to bring Chelsey down for good, but is sidetracked as Esmé goes into labor. Scarlett and Saffron are invited to a party hosted by Brook at her store, but they are disturbed that half of the attendants are all in their late term of pregnancy. After not being able to leave until the party is over, Scarlett discovers that they’re attending a ritualistic pregnancy cult dinner as many of the women start going into induced labor. Esmé escapes the hospital and arrives at the party, revealing her involvement in the cult as well. As the Johnsons and friends watch the fireworks, Swayne sneaks into the basement of the mayoral mansion and lights fireworks in an attempt to get rid of the growhouse.

The fire started in the mayoral mansion soon engulfs it and quickly spreads to other buildings in the city, as Olive orders an evacuation. Trapped at the fertility cult party, the pregnant woman deliver their babies as Brook calls an end to another successful cycle, but reveals that their next cycle is just beginning. They learn that Brook is the head of CLOWN (Compliant Ladies Offering Wombly Niches), and frequently earns the trust of young women and manipulates them into feeling a sense of purpose so that they will blindly get impregnated in hopes of creating a superior race. Scarlett attempts to escape, but is sedated. She wakes up hours later as the building is in flames. Amidst the chaos, Brook slits her throat, Esmé is burned alive, and Scarlett, Saffron, Tori, Cleo, and Pat are able to escape. As Scarlett reunites with her family, they soon learn that their neighborhood is being evacuated as well. At the evacuation center, the everyone is reunited, but a DEA agent drags Lulu away, as her growhouse was discovered during evacuations. Olive is reported to have gone missing as well. After catching up with Bender, Chelsey drives to the lookout where she finds Swayne and reveals she knows he started the fire and thanks him for destroying any evidence of her involvement in the drug operation. As she denies a business proposition with Swayne, she returns back to her neighborhood as she calls Mick and alerts him to commence Plan C. Olive, who has hidden away in her old home, quits being mayor and hands her duties over to Dell as she breaks up with him. Chelsey and Olive later reconnect, and Chelsey reveals they’re fleeing Duluth and denies Olive the chance to come with them. Chelsey then burns down their house in order to ensure any evidence of their illegal activities are destroyed and packs some stuff up in Olive’s campaign RV and drives off. Mick informs their family that they’re leaving Duluth for good As they say goodbye to their family, Scarlett and Arlo additionally say goodbye to their significant others, Saffron and Tori, respectively. As the family meets up and boards the RV, they are greeted by Carol, Candice, Muffy, Stu, Vangie, and Niko who explain that they’re family and they’re sticking together. The twelve of them (Chelsey, Mick, Scarlett, Bridget, Dodger, Arlo, Carol, Stu, Vangie, Candice, Muffy, and Niko) say their goodbyes to Berta and drive further away from the city of Duluth, only to discover that Olive has stowed away with them.