Race Against Time

Written by Michael Berk & Deborah Bonann Schwartz


Adramatic ocean plane crash underscores a series of personal crises amongst the Baywatch lifeguards.


Mitch’s ex-wife Gayle flies in for a weekend visit and introduces Mitch to her new fiancé, Ken Jordan, a self-made millionaire. Mitch, unprepared for the news of his ex-wife’s marriage, is shocked and then angry when Tail tells of her plans to marry Ken over the weekend in Mexico and to take custody of Hobie. Trying valiantly to not let his anger be attributed to jealousy, Mitch reluctantly lets Hobie fly with them to the wedding back to France. His father, Aaron, demands that Matt move with them, but Matt is reluctant to leave his newfound friends at Malibu Beach High and at Baywatch. In a painful decision, Matt risks being cut off from his family rather than give up his life in Los Angeles.

Summer and Jackie make a similar decision when Jackie loses her
waitressing job. Instead of returning to Pittsburgh, they take the leas on the beach hut restaurant and transform it into “Jackie’s Summer Place” which quickly becomes a regular hangout for the Baywatch team.


Flying high above Santa Monica, Hobie calls Mitch at the back from the plane’s cellular phone to say good-bye. Mitch is touched by Hobie’s thoughtfulness, but when Hobie cries out that the jet is crashing, Mitch springs into action and mounts a massive coordinated rescue effort. But wil they be in time to rescue Hobie, Gayle, Ken, and the plane’s crew trapped underwater in the flooding plane?

Written by Michael Berk &Deborah Bonann Schwartz
Adramatic ocean plane crash finds Hobie and his mother trapped 40 feet beneath the surface while Mitch and the Baywatch lifeguards mount a massive rescue effort to save the trapped passengers and crew.


When a luxury Learjet goes down off Santa Monica with Mitch’s son Hobie and ex-wife Gayle aboard, Mitch desperately attempts to free them from the fuselage resting 40 feet below the surface. Inside the rapidly flooding compartment, Hobie courageously works to free Gayle, who is unconscious and pinned under her seat. Hobie can’t pry his mother loose and asks for Gayle’s fiancé to help. He panics, however, and tries unsuccessfully to escape the cabin by himself, using up valuable oxygen in the process. Meanwhile, in a dramatic display of technology and single-minded determination, Mitch and the Baywatch team cut a large hole in the fuselage with an underwater are welder and bring the passengers to waiting rescue boats. But Gayle has stopped breathing, and Mitch and CJ work feverishly to save her.
Later, at the hospital, Gayle, Mitch, and Hobie share an emotional reunion in which Gayle decides that Hobie should continue to live with Mitch. Unaware of Ken’s failure to help during the rescue, Gayle credits him with bringing her out alive. Hobie can’t believe that ken hasn’t told her the truth and urges Mitch to tell Gayle the “whole story.” Mitch ignores his own feelings, however, and doesn’t dash Gayle’s illusions about Ken’s heroism.


Meanwhile, Matt’s parents leave for France and he asks CJ and Stephanie if he can live with them. CJ, conscious of her attraction to Matt, doesn’t think it’s a good idea, but Stephanie knows he has nowhere else to go, so Mat moves in. More complications arise when Summer and Matt’s friendship turns to romance. With Slade out of the country, neither is sure where their new relationship wil take them.

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