Whitley looks for a job when she runs short on cash and has to borrow money from her tuition in order to pay the rent.

Valentine's day brings tension when Whitley doesn't ask Dwayne to participate in her "Men of Hillman" calendar and Ron juggles three dates.

Rudy writes her own fairy tale.

Cliff's competitiveness bowls Clair over.

Clair counsels a friend in need.

Denise Huxtable returns home for a visit.

The police bring a shivering Overton to the apartment. The horse subdued the mugger, but bucked Overton into the bushes. He still does not tell Synclaire about the ring. Overton later picks the mugger out of the lineup. Synclaire breaks down the door and tries to attack the man. Overton's belongings are returned to him and (after an interruption from Khadijah) he proposes to Synclaire at the police station. She immediately accepts. As she has no chance of winning in court, Khadijah agrees to a settlement with the band, which will force Flavor to go bankrupt. Russell saves the day when he bursts in and announces that he has deconstructed the song in question. He gradually strips away parts of the song, and reveals that it actually was a rip-off of "Mandy." Max's campaign appears to be back on track when Kyle uncovers evidence that proves the incumbent is corrupt, but the documents are shredded. Max instead admits the allegations against her are true, but claims that they prove she has the passion to fulfill her duties.

The police bring a shivering Overton to the apartment. The horse subdued the mugger, but bucked Overton into the bushes. He still does not tell Synclaire about the ring. Overton later picks the mugger out of the lineup. Synclaire breaks down the door and tries to attack the man. Overton's belongings are returned to him and (after an interruption from Khadijah) he proposes to Synclaire at the police station. She immediately accepts. As she has no chance of winning in court, Khadijah agrees to a settlement with the band, which will force Flavor to go bankrupt. Russell saves the day when he bursts in and announces that he has deconstructed the song in question. He gradually strips away parts of the song, and reveals that it actually was a rip-off of "Mandy." Max's campaign appears to be back on track when Kyle uncovers evidence that proves the incumbent is corrupt, but the documents are shredded. Max instead admits the allegations against her are true, but claims that they prove she has the passion to fulfill her duties.

Khadijah re-considers Flavor's endorsement of Max when she insists on spouting clichés, rather than discussing the issues. She instead backs a little-known high school teacher named William Perez. Max claims that Khadijah is jealous and does not want her friends to outshine her. Max runs into Perez at a public park (where he is cleaning up graffiti with his civics class), and realizes that her reasons for seeking office are entirely selfish. She withdraws from the election, and tells everyone to vote for Perez. The voters are so moved by her honesty that she receives enough write-in votes to win. Max apologizes to Khadijah, who is impressed by her integrity. Their parents disown Overton and Synclaire when Kyle and Regine accidentally share news of the engagement before the couple had gotten around to it. (They had been trying to follow a James family tradition, in which no one can get married until Synclaire's great aunt Ada gives her "okel doke.") They patch things up, but their parents begin bickering about churches over the phone. Kyle suffers through a series of terrible driver's license photos. He discovers that the clerk has a crush on him and intentionally took bad photos so that she could see him again.

Regine is outraged when Keith ignores her at his opening (aside from asking her to change a light bulb in the bathroom). He refuses to defend her when an art critic comes on to her. Russell tells the man to take a hike. After her friends point out that Keith has always seemed aloof, Regine goes to his loft to confront him. She threatens to break up with him unless he begins to take their relationship seriously, but Keith says that he cannot change. Regine comes by the Flavor offices to meet Khadijah for lunch, but she has to cancel. Russell agrees to give Regine a ride into town, then forces her to stop at his aunt's house for lunch. She cheers up after eating a delicious meal and dancing to lively reggae music. Regine begins consulting self-help books for tips on how to land the right man, but finds herself thinking about Russell more than she would like to admit. Kyle and Max go to war over the right to park in a spot in front of the building. When they get into a collision, they both decide to sleep in the parking spot while their cars are repaired. Overton tells them they have a "sickness."

When a woman goes missing, police are reluctant to jump on the case because of her past. But, when they begin investigating the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, detectives find alarming evidence, leading to an even more disturbing crime.

When a young man leaves his troubled life in the city behind for a peaceful desert town, he finds love among the desert heat. But when he is brutally gunned down inside his own home, police wonder if his past has come back to haunt him.

Misguided teen T’Keisha Gilmer is relieved when she’s taken in by an older man. But when a road trip to Lanham, Maryland promises quick cash, she learns just how steep the price of love really is. And in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brandy Holmes teams up with a criminal bad boy to prove her deadly devotion.

When Belinda Henry, a lonely divorcee, meets aspiring model, Keith Henry, her way of life shifts from pain to pleasure. Later, young love turns deadly when Keithron Fields walks into Ashley Ervin’s life.

Police Officer Antoinette Frank falls for a street thug and commits the most heinous blood bath New Orleans has ever seen. After falling for a local bad boy, teenager Linda Pedroza is willing to eliminate anyone who dares to come between them.

Whitley looks for a job when she runs short on cash and has to borrow money from her tuition in order to pay the rent.

Valentine's day brings tension when Whitley doesn't ask Dwayne to participate in her "Men of Hillman" calendar and Ron juggles three dates.

Kim is concerned that the differences between her and Matthew are too much for her to handle, until she observes Dwayne and Whitley.

Shazza Zulu, a Hillman undergraduate publishes a book on the behavior of men which starts a war between the men and women on campus.

Rudy writes her own fairy tale.

Cliff's competitiveness bowls Clair over.

Clair counsels a friend in need.

Denise Huxtable returns home for a visit.

When a truck driver is found dead in the cab of his semi-truck, investigators are determined to solve the case. However, without a lead, the case reaches a stalemate until a tip reveals a killer whose greed outweighs the bonds of love and even family.

When a young woman begins a family with the man of her dreams, everything seems perfect. But after an argument with a neighbor goes too far and threatens her new family, she’ll be faced with protecting her man or risking everything she holds dear.

When the body of a single mom is found near a pond, police are determined to locate her killer. After discovering surveillance footage capturing the victim hours before her death, detectives zero in on an unexpected suspect with a vengeful motive.

When a young woman is found dead in her car right outside of her home, investigators struggle to find proof of any foul play. But as they delve deeper into the timeline of events that led up to her death, they uncover a killer who was out of control.

Detroit is shaken to the core after a well-respected community member is gunned down during a robbery. The search for the killer sends investigators into the taboo world of a shocking romance, and at the center is a young woman who fell so hard for her man that she hit rock bottom.

When a Facebook post spawns a street brawl, a young man dies by a deadly stab to the heart. Despite multiple cell phone videos of the fight, investigators must struggle to pinpoint the vengeful perpetrator that struck the fatal wound.

Imunique invites Jasmine into her ghetto investment club. Jasmine’s new investment idea gets the group scammed and the girls have to call Pookie and Nem to get their money back. Meanwhile, Bridget thinks Delroy is cheating on him when she catches him canoodling with another woman.

When Bridget has a pregnancy scare, Delroy panics over becoming an older dad and has an incredibly colorful and stressful dream sequence. Meanwhile, Latrell takes advantage of Imunique and Fabian while under house arrest… guilting them into being his personal servants.

While refurbishing one of Delroy’s properties, Latrell and Imunique stumble upon a lot of money. They immediately start spending it, only to find out Delroy has been kidnapped by the rightful owners of the cash. Meanwhile, Jasmine recruits Huggy to help her record a sports podcast and he completely takes over.