Army Wives
Four women and one man share the common bond of loving someone in the U.S. Army.
Cast:Brian McNamara , Wendy Davis , Catherine Bell , Sterling K. Brown , Terry Serpico , Sally Pressman , Kim Delaney , Drew Fuller , John White Jr. , Brigid Brannagh , Jake Johnson , Chloe J. Taylor , Katelyn Pippy , Luke Bartelme , Jeremy Davidson , Richard Bryant , Kelli Williams , McCarrie McCausland
S1.E1 ∙ A Tribe Is Born
After only a four day courtship, Roxy impetuously decides to marry Private First Class Trevor LeBlanc and moves with her two kids to his Army post. Floundering in her new life as an Army wife, she takes a job bar-tending at an off-post bar. While on the post, Roxy meets Claudia Joy Holden, who believes that her husband Colonel Michael Holden's promotion didn't come through because of base politics. Another Army wife, Pamela Moran, is heavily pregnant with twins - she's secretly acting as a surrogate to get her family out of debt. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Dr. Roland Burton is trying to reconnect with his wife, Lt. Colonel Joan Burton, who has just returned from Afghanistan. Then there's Denise Sherwood, who is dealing with her son Jeremy's anger-management issues as her strict husband, Major Frank Sherwood, is about to be deployed. The unlikely group bonds when Pamela unexpectedly goes into labor at Claudia Joy's wives' tea party. Not wanting everyone to know her family's dire financial situation, Pamela relies on these new friends to keep her surrogacy from being exposed.
S1.E2 ∙ After Birth
Trevor LeBlanc gets on great with his kid stepsons Finn and T.J., yet his wife Roxy's joy over the plan to adopt them, although the biological fathers may still cause problems, is overshadowed by her inability to help prepare or even accept his orders to leave for Iraq. Chase Moran is far from amused that his wife Pamela begrudges him any 'luxury' while her parents aren't paid back to the last cent. Worse, trouble with delivering the newborn babies cause the surrogate mother, who stays 'just a day' in major Michael Holden's home, to bond with the twins.
S1.E3 ∙ The Art of Separation
The preparations for an Iraq tour go on in Fort Marshall. Jeremy tells his pa about his refusal to go to West Point and presumed psychological disorder. Trevor makes his will and tells Roxy he wants to adopt her lovely boys to spare them his horrible youth as foster reject. Sergeant Peter Belgrad has a physiological crisis. Pamela ends the whispering by shouting her surrogate results trough the microphone. A helicopter crash probably means a widow on the base.
S1.E4 ∙ One of Our Own
Instead of comforting each-other now his father Frank is MIA, probably dead, Jeremy's ma meanly tries to make the boy feel guilty. Sergeant Peter Belgrad takes his doctor and the major's wife hostage to demand a meeting with his CO, who stupidly failed to report truly his previous armed break-down. The doc gets to the bottom of his unit's bloody Afghanistan mission trauma, but just before Belgrad can hand over his pistol a sharpshooter kills him. Trevor LeBlanc's adoption papers for Finn and T.J. get filed to his delight.
S1.E5 ∙ Independence Day
Michael Holden does his duty by filing formal charges for the failure to report mental disorder which lead to the fatal sergeant Belgrad incident. Jeremy Sherwood's patient care reconciles him with his mother, who realizes she would miss him terribly, while they wait for news from his missing father, which arrives just when hope become slim: he's alive! Trevor and the other military family-men have to leave during the children's Independence day performance which was planned to serve as their send-off party as their actual orders arrive.
S1.E6 ∙ Who We Are
While minding his rascal adoptive sons and trying to teach him flag respect, Trevor badly hurts his knee, disqualifying him for a tour of duty during six months. Mother-in-law Marda Brooks, an (ex?)alcoholic, makes her first-ever visits, unannounced, actually having lost her home and business. Jeremy's dad major Frank Sherwood, merely bruised, gets a hero's welcome and accepts his boy's failure to enroll at West Point in favor of architecture, until Jeremy owes up he lost his self-control with ma and is completely disowned. Amanda's sister betrays her affair with Jeremy to pa Michael Holden, who bans Jeremy from seeing her. The desperate knave enlists in the army.
S1.E7 ∙ Hail & Farewell
Jeremy is found by his ma trough lover Amanda, but she can't talk him out of enlisting. Returning his youngest fellow soldier's goodbye message to father Craddock get Frank thinking about his own disowned son, but not act. Michael Holden tells Amanda about Jeremy's excess, which she first can't believe, then doesn't care about enough, so they sneakily meet and make love the night before he boards the boot cam bus. Trevor, the boys and friends enthusiastically help Marda prepare a birthday surprise party for Roxy. But the loan she hoped for falls true and she abandons the babysat boys to drawn that sorrow, which earns her irrevocable marching orders.
S1.E8 ∙ Only the Lonely
The Fort Marshall base school's new arts teacher is ex-cop Pamela's old friend Scott Decker, and they still lust for each-other. Trevor finally gets a good medical report: he'll be training again soon. Army brat Javier's ma, Diego's widow Dolores, can't face moving out within 6 months as regulations require, but gets help. Michael Holden tries to keep daughter Amanda in line, who confesses her love night with Jeremy to ma, who fails in her second attempt to become a base hospital nurse.
S1.E9 ∙ Nobody's Perfect
Frank Sherwood expects wife Denise to make network for his promotion hope her priority too, but is impressed by her ER nursing efficiency enough to agree to her own career relaunch. CO Michael Holden tries to steer the upcoming series of postings and promotions as he has general Ted Baker's confidence. Chase and Trevor feel good again.
S1.E10 ∙ Dirty Laundry
Trevor finally and happily starts training for war action again, without complaint despite the grueling blisters directly after revalidation, but Roxy wines to her friends that he's too tired to perform in bed. Worse, she goes behind his back to ask for medical care, which only gets him the demeaning nickname 'baby soft'. Widow Hannah's official demand for an inquest in Congress concerning her late husband lieutenant-colonel Derek White's death, presumably in friendly fire, illegally sent to Pakistan, causes outspoken loyalty conflicts.
S1.E11 ∙ Truth and Consequences
Colonel Michael Holden's base CO position is on the line now general Baker has recovered from cardiac trouble. Holden can't appreciate his wife's ill-considered attack at general's wife Leonore, whose dirty gossip is smartly countered by a trap set by the deciding general's wife. Jeremy's dad gets his deployment orders, grudgingly accepts to visit first and finally admits his absence, even when not on foreign tour, drive the boy to his desperate move. The new PR officer, major Clay, has a bruising first meeting with even sassier Pamela, yet makes her a radio show offer she only accepts when pushed by her friends.
S1.E12 ∙ Rules of Engagement
Colonel Holden is promoted to brigadier-general. His predecessor Baker's wife Leonore files for divorce. Trevor encourages Roxy to make use of her business potential, but has to discourage long-term ambitions, given the army's habitual base transfers. Chase takes offense at Pamela's outspoken, unpaid radio-show. Ron's marital misery sparks a notorious bar-brawl. His distracted wife is chosen as Holden's XO, but screws up the first major logistic task big-time and dares blame Ron, who refuses 'apologizing' for wanting a proper wife-mother, so they plan a divorce, putting separate careers first.
S1.E13 ∙ Goodbye Stranger
Munitions are stolen from Fort Marshall, setting the stage for a terrorist alert, early deployments and shocking twist when the bomber is revealed.
S2.E1 ∙ Would You Know My Name
Instead of a terrorist action, the missing explosives were stolen by sergeant George Polarski in a deranged revenge for his wife's adultery. It kills four people in coarse Betty Camden's Hump Bar and wounded 15 more. The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) starts interrogations. For survivors, all that only adds to the worries about loved men deployed in Iraq, Trevor's Roxy turns paranoid until she gets reassured he's still safe. Jeremy gets his first home leave. His lover Amanda was among the victims because she procrastinated leaving for college.
S2.E2 ∙ Strangers in a Strange Land
General Holden slowly looses his patience with his wife's wining and her troublesome friends, and his surviving daughter Emmalin with both of them, but minding her is just what helps Denis trough. Trevor is deployed in Iraq and confronted with unimagined horror but reports home he's adjusting well. Chase surprises his family with understanding and a home-cooked meal.
S2.E3 ∙ The Messenger
Brave, handsome corporal Mac, who lost both legs in Bagdad, charms Denise without any infidelity on either side. They become platonic friends over their lost passion for motorcycles, and his surprise goodbye present for her is his. Even when the general tries to teach Emmalin stick-driving, her sister's ghost gets in the way, just as it still does in his marital bed. Chase has a few day off his Iraq tour, which he spends mainly helping good son Lucas and brat Katie rehearse their parts in a Jeanne d'Arc church play. Little Fyn's imaginary friend harry inspires him to try his courting skills on none less then the general's wife, who stunningly finds Harry is the same specter who comes advise her to resume enjoying life.
S2.E4 ∙ Leaving the Tribe
After Trevor gets wounded while patrolling in Iraq, it's a long wait for news, but his family feels it was worth it: daddy is coming home! Meanwhile Betty admits her beastly behavior to the boys actually stems from infertility frustration. When her insurance settlement finally comes trough, she insists to rebuild the Hump Bar, with Roxy in charge. General Holden has a confidence crisis but remains on post, given general acclaim for his balanced attitude after the bomb, except from the rogue solider's widow. Denise is tempted to start riding corporal Mac's present-motorbike by 'Getti', who turns out to be doctor Chris Ferlinghetti, a new surgeon in the base hospital.
S2.E5 ∙ The Hero Returns
Trevor returns home a hero but is conflicted; Frank, still in Iraq, becomes worried about Denise's newfound independence.
S2.E6 ∙ Thicker Than Water
Trevor has a hard time being paraded around as public hero while killing didn't feel right at all, yet reaffirms his patriotic sense of duty and tells Roxy it cancels his preference for being with his family while his unit is deployed. Pamela initially declines an offer to work for commercial radio in Atlanta, but resigns when censored by Lt. Colonel Evan Connors for questioning army tour rules together with Claudia-Joy on air. General Holden overrules that while Pam waves a topics list suggested by the Atlanta station boss. Roxy rightly questions a contractor's estimate for the Hump Bar's rebuilding, which Betty announces is all hers as chemo fails so she's off to a Californian clinic. Frank calls off his objections to Denise riding Mac's motorbike, yet she bitches about his phrasing and resumes 'morning dates' with doc Ghetti.
S2.E7 ∙ Uncharted Territory
Trevor is formally reprimanded, yet privately supported, by general Holden for his coarse attitude towards the press. He's happy to return on Iraqi tour, unlike his family. Jeremy has a training period on the base, but dislikes late lover Amanda's kid sister expecting them to spend time together. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti and Denise discover they both love poetry, another step towards uneasy romance. Chase continues spoiling his family, now as breakfast cook. Lieutenant colonel Evan Connors prepares to take over the XO-job thanks to Joan's pregnancy. The Hump-bar is reopened and renamed after its former owner.
S2.E8 ∙ Loyalties
Trevor assures everyone he's recovering well and pleased to prepare for resuming his active Iraq tour, but can barely bite the pain with plenty of pills. Chase is arrested at night and kept completely incommunicado, accused of art-theft, as he can only explain afterward to protect him and the hunt for the real materialist war-criminals. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti admits to Denise he hopes for more then friendship, yet after kissing she claims to remain faithful to Frank. General Holden patiently handles mixed signals concerning his rekindled child-wish from Claudia-Joy.
S2.E9 ∙ Casting Out the Net
Trevor finds it hard having to serve as XO's driver during his medical rehabilitation. Yet he spares no effort to spoil Roxy, who has to take a business course in order to manage the bar properly. While general Holden arrives in Iraq, Jeremy is arrested and shortly jailed as suspect in a drug case against his roommates. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti is shattered when Denise dumps him, after receiving news husband Frank is on his way home, and asks for a transfer. Shortly after, 'Getti' has a serious motor crash. Pamela is invited as guest in a civilian radio talk-show.
S2.E10 ∙ Duplicity
Trevor revalidates at record-speed, but becomes dependent on pills and his doctor still won't let him return to active duty soon, yet he does an outstanding job as involuntary temporary XO's driver. Travis encourages, even helps Roxy taking a business course. Emmalin's infatuation with Quinn is completely reversed when the handsome knave is discovered to be part of drug dealing at the base high school. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti sadly solves Denise's dilemma by dying.
S2.E11 ∙ Mothers & Wives
Claudia Joy's mother shows up. Roland helps a teen whose father was killed in Iraq. Roxy's about to take the GED and is nervous. And Frank confronts Denise about her relationship with Getti.
S2.E12 ∙ Great Expectations
Claudia Joy learns the real reason for her mother Charlotte's (guest-star Marsha Mason) visit when her father Randall (guest-star Len Cariou "Brotherhood") arrives unexpectedly at the Holden household.
S2.E13 ∙ Safe Havens
After Roxy tells Roland about her suspicions concerning about Trevor's painkiller dependence, his confidence is betrayed, Trevor is 'temporarily' replaced as XO's driver, Roland is banned from the bar. General Holden diplomatically finds a way to convince foreign Academy mate Paolo Ruiz, a close presidential adviser, to help renew a US base's contract in his country. Jeremy leaves for duty in Iraq, while his parents discretely discuss how to separate with minimal stress for the boy. Pamela remains obsessed by a possible stalker.
S2.E14 ∙ Payback
Trevor manages to do his duty admirably while wresting with his tranquilizer dependency, but the stress over his Silver Star award ceremony finally gets to him. After hearing the boys get scared of his temper, he stops stealing pills and resolves to seek rehab treatment after all. After academy friend Paolo Ruiz went way past flirting with Claudia-Joy, she agrees with the Pentagon national interest comes first, so the general must limit his satisfaction to a fist-blow. Denise decides to fully enjoy her separation now Frank has agreed to ideal terms for sparing Jeremy, who leaves on Iraq duty still unaware.
S2.E15 ∙ Thank You for Letting Me Share
Trevor courageously combines daily therapy sessions with his full day-job, yet has some trouble convincing Roxy to join him for some joint therapy. General Holden is appalled to hear about his wife siding with Denise in the break-up with his man Frank. Lt. Colonel Evan Connors's wife seems a good match for the gang, being a lawyer like Claudia (who ceased practicing), but soon proves rather too arrogant to fit in.
S2.E16 ∙ Transitions
Trevor fears his shoulder may never recover and if so wants to move to Wyoming, which appeals to the boys but appalls Roxy, who wants to keep the bar. Lucas's birthday seems doomed when daddy Chase is once again ordered on call for a mission and the boy refuses to celebrate without his hero again. Emmalin meets her cool pen pal, private 1st class Logan Atwater, and bitterly resents maternal worries and warnings, but dad approves after a discrete screening. General Holden tells Denise he won't turn on her on Frank's account.
S2.E17 ∙ All in the Family
Trevor is delighted to be diagnosed fit for combat duty again, so his mood is good enough to keep the peace between Roxy and her ma Marda, who visits unannounced to present her older, well-employed fiancé Jerry Bernard. Jeremy and Frank cheerfully meet on mission in Iraq. Corporal Mac may be a tower of optimistic strength around Denise, holding pep-talks for fellow crippled veterans daunts him, yet he braves that too. General Holden tries to keep calm although Emmalin pretends to study with a female hotshot classmate but actually sneaks out with private Logan Atwater, who is drawn into a fight by bully mates over their affair.
S2.E18 ∙ Departures, Arrivals
Chase arranged for Trevor to be promoted corporal and team leader, albeit in a new unit which won't be deployed again soon. Denise overcomes Mac's embarrassment about people staring at his prosthesis in a restaurant by a public kiss, which soon leads to making love. Unlike Emmalin, her lover private Logan agrees with general Holden military etiquette doesn't allow inviting him to dinner, but the memorial Roxy holds for just deceased Betty provides an acceptable venue. Now Marda has dumped her stealing fiancée Jeff, she's welcome again, even after Trevor discovers her drinking again but manages to get her into AA. The Holdens prepare to move to Brussels as the general is appointed at NATO, which Emmalin hates as it means separation from Logan. Frank's defense of perpetual marital fidelity ironically seems to lead to him tasting sweet infidelity with a divorcée.
S2.E19 ∙ Last Minute Changes
News of the Holden's new posting spreads and packing begins. Pamela upsets her listeners and is removed from her show by Lt.Col. Connors. Betty's nephew makes a surprise visit.
S3.E1 ∙ Best Laid Plans
Emmalin is discovered missing. Denise suffers the consequences of her affair with Mac. Pamela has suspicions about Betty's nephew. The Holdens make some tough decisions.
S3.E2 ∙ About Face
General Holden installs himself in NATO's Brussels HQ, while Emmalin doesn't make it easy back home. Having volunteered for a risky mission in Iraq, Frank is reported missing.
S3.E3 ∙ Moving Out
Denise waits to hear from Frank. The Moran household is erupting into warfare. Trevor makes a potentially deadly mistake at work. Roxy holds a garage sale to raise money. Claudia Joy has difficulty reaching Michael on the phone in Brussels.
S3.E4 ∙ Incoming
Michael has good news. Joan has an opportunity. Frank heads home, and Denise waits to see if she is still welcome. Jeremy makes a new friend. Roland receives an offer of a new job.
S3.E5 ∙ Disengagement
Pamela gets tired of being contradicted. Roxy re-launches the Hump Bar. Joan changes her mind about Sarah Elizabeth being christened. Frank and Denise go to a mediator. There is a reconciliation amongst friends.
S3.E6 ∙ Family Readiness
Sarah Elizabeth has her christening. Chase takes Katie to ballet while Pamela takes Lucas to football. Lucky makes it to the base and LeBlanc is assigned to take him to the pound. Frank and Denise come to an understanding.
S3.E7 ∙ Onward Christian Soldier
The Holden household prepare for their guest. Denise shares her news. Lucky has some problems settling into his new home. Frank and Denise start work on moving forward. Pamela learns about being a coach. Joan is given a challenge.
S3.E8 ∙ Post and Prejudice
Trevor is dead-eager to fully rehabilitate himself after the arms incident during the prestigious, Pentagon-watched war games. He may however be the meat in the sandwich while both commanders play dirty. General Holden however blames and dismisses only colonel Connors. His wife spearheads a campaign to get funding for Haneen's further physiotherapy after repatriation. Pamela helps a timid, financially stretched base wife set up a home business, even hosts her first sales party, which proves somewhat embarrassing.
S3.E9 ∙ Coming Home
Trevor and Roxy first worry about Finn's apparent study problems, but it turns out he's actually high-gifted, so they must finance a private school, a tall order even if Trevor passes the sergeant exam. Frank and Denise are fully reconciled and cohabitate again. General Holden must receive an important general without his wife, who accompanies Haneen back to Iraq, but Emmalin steps in as hostess.
S3.E10 ∙ M.I.A.
Lucky buries things, including Pamela's wallet which contains the pass without which no base facility is accessible. General Holden delights Frank with a promotion to lieutenant colonel and the ladies with a base staff post, meaning no more regular deployment. Yet Claudia-Joy's one-sided celebratory dinner initiative causes tensions. While looking for live bar entertainment, Roxy takes under her wing one-hit singer Stella Raye, who is looking for the son, now soldier, whom she gave up for adoption.
S3.E11 ∙ Operation: Tango
Trevor has finally been promoted to sergeant. He helps the very screw up who disturbs his party, private Day, into therapy and is asked to consider becoming an army recruiter. South Carolina senator Clayton Calhoun's merry widow Jean, expected to open a troops help center dedicated to his memory on the base, proves quite a handful for general Holden and his welcoming committee, and a carpe diem teacher flirting with the men. Finn is a good candidate for the prestigious school Fordham Academy, but they also screen the parents, so Roxy is a nervous wreck at the interview, yet they even get a scholarship.
S3.E12 ∙ First Response
Jeremy's Iraq unit mate PFC Scrounger Smith, who always got things fixed, is badly wounded and repatriated. Finn has a ball at his new school and with his new, enormously rich buddy Byron Dunwood. That renders TJ violently jealous, but Trevor compensates with quality father-son time, fishing at his 'secret spot'. Claudia Joy recovers well from her car accident, but is diagnosed with serious diabetes.
S3.E13 ∙ Duty to Inform
Trevor has a difficult start as Army recruiter under demanding staff sergeant Brandon Cappi, but perseveres. A potential recruit whom he can interest in a double date dinner, stressing full medical insurance, is scared off when Roxy tells his fiancée about the risks. Chase's long, unexplained absence makes the Moran family paranoid, fearing fatal news. Finally home, Frank is delighted to hear Denise is back in the general's favor.
S3.E14 ∙ Need to Know Basis
Jeremy's patrol in Iraq loses his mate Rison to a sniper just after they traded places to accommodate Rison's ailment. Trevor finally wants the agreed baby with Roxy, who can't help doubting if he'll still treat her boys equally. Trevor runs a physical exercise class as a recruiting tool and comes up with a social advancement model-coup. Chase is released home after hospital treatment officially after a helicopter crash but Pamela comes to realize he must have been tortured. The general is getting really worried about Claudia Joy's denial but an accidental encounter works wonders. Denise's EMT training starts well.
S3.E15 ∙ As Time Goes By...
The cast plays "all-new characters" in a series of World War II era stories told in the present to Roxy and Pamela by two older army wives, Elsie and Virginia.
S3.E16 ∙ Shrapnel and Alibis
Jeremy returns home after the bombing in Iraq; Joan says an emotional goodbye to Roland and Sarah Elizabeth; Pamela and Chase struggle to get along after she catches him in a lie.
S3.E17 ∙ Fire in the Hole
Jeremy is tormented at home by Iraqi front nightmares. His happiness over finding Lucky alive on the base is tainted by the news his canine savior was adopted by the Leblancs. Being denied a drink as 'under age' triggers a bar brawl. Trevor coaches prospective recruit Ricardo Martinez and, even harder, the wives who flippantly registered for a charity golf tournament, where Roxy's noise en clumsiness outwear captain Pamela's patience. Michael is left alone receiving 4 star general Ludwig, who praises his skills but announces Fort Marshall is on a shortlist of bases likely to be closed due to budget cuts.
S3.E18 ∙ Fields of Fire
The Hump Bar brawl leaves the establishment off limits for troops for about a year. Trevor fears the financial consequences mean a they should postpone a baby, ignoring Roxy just got pregnant, but is ecstatic when she tells. Michael Holden is sworn is as just-promoted major-general by general Ludwig, whose wife is none other then general Baker's obnoxious widow Lenore 'Lenny'. Pamela fails to understand that Chase needs to be loyal to his mates rather then stick to futile family activities, as if she had to raise the kids 'all alone'. Jeremy's depression reaches a tragic climax.
S4.E1 ∙ Collateral Damage
Denise and Frank face the aftermath of the gunshot that was fired in their home. Trevor and Roxy celebrate the impending arrival of their new baby, but Roxy is hesitant to share the good news.
S4.E2 ∙ Scars and Stripes
Joan's healing takes longer than anticipated, leaving Roland feeling emotional about not being with her. Roxy is stressed about the financial burden that a new baby will have on the family.
S4.E3 ∙ Homefront
Claudia Joy hosts a breakfast for the Army Spouse of the Year Award finalists and the catty nature of fellow nominee, Lenore (guest star Rhoda Griffis), comes out in full force.
S4.E4 ∙ Be All You Can Be
Trevor must drop everything when Ricardo 'Ricky' Martinez doesn't turn up for enrollment, finds and convinces him, yet feels guilty. Chase is conspicuously absent from a baby birthday party, where Pamela is overheard about her divorce plan by Katie. After a campus visit, Claudia Joy's law professor friend Shuster impresses and inspires curious Emmalin.
S4.E5 ∙ Guns & Roses
Trevor's old car breaks down, so he can't make it to the base's mother's day celebration. Due to a crucial Washington meeting concerning the impending selection for closure of bases, general Holden must cut short hosting his surprise guest, sister in law Edie, who mourns his brother, went missing in action a year ago. In Iraq, new father sergeant David Cole finds it hard to commit to his men without emotionally shutting out the home front.
S4.E6 ∙ Evasive Maneuvers
It seems unfair that the men at camp in Iraq see their USO concert canceled due to a storm while the base gets one. Through Pamela's radio past contacts, with backstage motivation, record-fast arrangements are made to broadcast it live at the front. Emotional reactions to domestic 'loose hands' from General Holden down rattle the military chain of command, with promising NCO Pete Evans's future ruined first and worst.
S4.E7 ∙ Heavy Losses
Jeremy has been promoted specialist and wants to reenlist, even though that probably mans a tour in Afghansitan, but tells Denise he won't go if she can't bear it. Roxy has a miscarriage. Chase is back, even early, but no amount of gestures seems to suffice for Pamela, until passionate sex makes her agree to his compromise: 4 more years to complete his ambition in Delta, but also maximal attention for the kids. The Carolinian law-school allows Claudia Joy to resume her college studies.
S4.E8 ∙ Over and Out
Trevor and Roxy decide to try making a another baby. Against hope, Denise is pregnant again. The brigade is back in the Fort. The Holden parents must deal with a wining Emmalin as a leg injury compromises her hockey scholarship dream. Chase finds Pamela already mistrusting about their deal.
S4.E9 ∙ New Orders
Roland plans a trip day trip to Savannah with Joan but when the babysitter backs out last minute Frank volunteers to watch Sarah Elizabeth.
S4.E10 ∙ Trial & Error
The LeBlancs need a new car as even Trevor's mechanic skills can't patch up Roxy's good old Mustang after a serious accident. Pam, who returned to the police force, must impose a hefty fine. Law professor colonel Winston represents the base concerning a complaint on civilians' behalf pleaded by his student Claudia Joy.
S4.E11 ∙ Safety First
The base is very nervous as they approach an unprecedented 100 days of training without a serious incident, which would earn the men a day off and Roxy extra business. Trevor is doing well in his new job as field team leader, which requires being strict to save lives, including Jeremy's, almost the record breaker. A boy calling the dispatch where Denise now works is dismissed by her supervisor Bernie Edmunds as a probable prank, but she finds out it's Taylor Hoffman, a young army brat in real trouble, helped by Pamela, who in the process finally gets a rapport with her grumpy, taciturn police patrol partner Boone. Joan is diagnosed seriously shocked, yet shamelessly denies her obvious symptoms until general Holden wisely follows medical advice and puts her on sick leave for a month, canceling her next deployment.
S4.E12 ∙ Change of Station
Trevor is about to be deployed in Afghanistan and sooths the boys' frustration, asking TJ to be 'the man in the house', but Roxy crosses that by mothering after a penknife accident, traumatized by her own youth with a lush single mother. General Holden motivates Emalin to commit for rehab all the way rather then risk life-long regret. Chase and his kids are delighted with college-grad neighbor Kristy Tifford, rendering Pamela jealous. The Pentagon orders the whole base to the field, including the staff. Childishly moping Joan proves the rehab patient from hell, bitching even at Roland.
S4.E13 ∙ Army Strong
The base buzzes with preparations for nearly all of the 23rd airborne division's troops to go on mission in Afghanistan. Jeremy is allowed to go, having successfully finished his therapy. Trevor is surprised that Roxy is now so impatient for another baby that she wants artificial insemination in his absence, but each attempt costs $1200, without insurance payment. Michael must first make arrangements for Emalin's rehab and Claudia Joy's anxiety nightmares. Officer Boone mediates a date for Pamela and a shy colleague. Frank and pregnant Denise pick baby names.
S4.E14 ∙ AWOL
The 23rd airborne is on a base in Kandahar, part of a 42 nations force. Bringing in mate Giron for a dislocated shoulder, incurred during sports, Jeremy gets a crush on rude nurse specialist Tanya Gabriel, who changes her mind about him after meeting again in a session on dealing with emotions on a mission. Fellow divorced school parent Bob Wilson meets Pamela and bonds initially over their kids, then more romantically. The wives club and Claudia Joy as professor Chandler's co-counsel stand up for deserter Amber Stiles and baby Maddie, who is scheduled for foster care or even adoption unless the mother reaches a settlement with the army based on her resignation.
S4.E15 ∙ Hearts & Minds
Zamboni operator Zach, an NCU student Emalin meets when she tries to re-enter competitive ice hockey, charms her, but Claudia Joy's excessive enthusiasm for the potential son in law at a home dinner scares her. General Holden resists radio contractor Anne Perkins' flirtation. The Hump Bar needs a gig while the soldiers are all overseas, so the girls help Roxy set up speed-dating. Chase picks up Pamela there after losing a bet. Roxy takes home a very pregnant and sleep deprived Denise.
S4.E16 ∙ Mud, Sweat & Tears
In Afghanistan, Trevor's unit enjoys visiting a friendly Afghan village, until a bomb car kills most of the civilians, including a young boy Jeremy was just playing soccer with. Jeremy is wounded and traumatized, but learns Nurse Tanya Gabriel only pretended to be engaged to avoid admitting she started caring too much for him. Chase's patience with Pamela's absurd demands as if they were still together, runs out. Denise's two sisters Beth and Suzanne, come to help her during her last trimester of pregnancy, but their sibling rivalry upsets the dynamics in all aspects of their visit, including the girls' charity "Fun Run", when they are both recruited to replace Claudia Joy, who must receive the Vice President's wife, and Emmalin, whose hockey coach forbids her to take part.
S4.E17 ∙ Murder in Charleston
Patroling, Boone and Pam arrest who turns out to be drug investigation informer Jasmine Wilkes for the bloody shooting of Travis Wilkes. When Atlanta PD detective Julie Maddox arrives, detective inspector Gibson allows her to investigate, but only with a shadow: rookie Pam. Next Travis's Iraq comrade in arms sergeant Joe Cory's corpse floats in the marina. The cases proves more dangerous and important then anyone expected, involving stolen gold and missing evidence. The men are occupied in Afghanistan in secret operations, dealing with friendly tribal Afghans and Taliban, until bad news arrives at the base.
S4.E18 ∙ Forward March
Michael is reported missing, causing a major shiver throughout the Fort home front. In fact he aw abducted and taken into brutally abusive Taliban captivity, but Chases Special Ops team finds and frees him. Repatriated Dan Malone's therapy fails until Lucky, a fellow hero, by his quiet presence gets the shy, soldier to open up. Tanya tells Jeremy the truth and accepts his wedding proposal with an improvised ring. All good news arrives at the base, in the general's case in person, at Emmalin's till then subdued graduation. Backed, despite mixed feelings, by Roxy, Pamela applies for an Atlanta PD detective post.
S5.E1 ∙ Line of Departure
While Trevor works his tail off to train Afghan recruits, Roxy welcomes a surprise visit from her ex, contractor Whit, who brings a share of his father's inheritance for their uniformed son Finn's future college fund and stays the night on the couch. Without a firm fatherly hand, T.J. gets out of control. Jeremy, also in Afghanistan, assures his fiancée Tanya his mother will love her, but Denise gives the fellow nurse, who aspires med school, a very cold welcome. General Holden is delighted to be in line for the West Point command, Claudia Joy can barely handle daughter Emmalin move to a college dorm. Pamela still hesitates whether to accept the Atlanta police job or stay and start again with Chase, who is prepared to apply for a base job then.
S5.E2 ∙ Command Presence
Trevor, still in Afghanistan, is furious to hear all the base knows that Roxy invited Finn's father to sleep in their house and failed to keep T.J. in line, who ends up incurring a $500 fine for shoplifting at a base board. That also prevented the last gang girl from attending Claudia Joy's law school graduation, but professor Chandler invites her to a celebratory dinner and offers her a perfect, part-time job. Chase is back, having opted for an instructor job over his Delta career, so Pamela declines the Atlanta PD offer. Mother-in-law to be Denise eats humble pie after the baby survives only because Tanya observed more carefully.
S5.E3 ∙ Movement to Contact
Beloved daddy Trevor's absence on Afghan tour and Roxy's inability to substitute his masterly parenting now render TJ so aggressive that a forced sleepover at Pamela's ends in semi-accidentally breaking Lucas's arm during rough garden football. Jeremy is appalled to hear that a silly partner knowledge quiz at her hens party makes fiancée Tanya doubt their marriage plan. Professor Chandler suddenly misbehaves at Claudia Joy's first work day in his office, but what she mistakes for his infidelity provides a moving explanation.
S5.E4 ∙ On Behalf of a Grateful Nation
General Holden presides over the first mission where the Afghan trainee troops are supposed to fight the Taliban on their own. Trevor's training team however has to fight hard, and casualties include a most beloved soldier. Wedding preparations at the base are abruptly ended when the dreaded news arrives, for groom Jeremy will arrive in a body bag. Trevor must remain with the shocked comrades, but TJ steps up at the tearful funeral. Roland hides his guilt for having enabled Jeremy's redeployment by therapy.
S5.E5 ∙ Soldier On
Trevor is not amused when Roxie refuses to let him veto her plan to mortgage the Hump bar and invest in a truck stop with a returned trucker. Chase is safely back to Pamela and their kids great joy. Roland hasn't grieved Jeremy's death in action but guilt feelings make him reluctant to clear any soldier to return to Afghanistan. Denise feels guilty for giving her blessing to Jeremy when he wanted to re-enlist.
S5.E6 ∙ Walking Wounded
Claudia Joy is haunted by the memory of Amanda. Pamela and Chase try to set a good example for their kids.
S5.E7 ∙ Strategic Alliances
Chase and Pamela planned to remarry quietly, despite Roxy's insisting on a grand party, but the kids have their hearts set on attending their parents' wedding. Trevor won't even discuss Roxy's plans to build the truck-stop cheaply, so she doesn't even mention the contractor is her ex Whit, who ingratiates himself with everybody by saving the wedding when the power breaks down. Claudia Joy confides only in boss Chandler that she's being tested for cancer.
S5.E8 ∙ Supporting Arms
Whit has become the favorite playmate of still absent Trevor's boys, even initially hostile TJ. Roxy is livid and unforgiving when she learns that Pamela told Whit to leave the base as a potential marriage breaker. Chandler and Claudia Joy take the case of the Salvadoran wife of Afghanistan-deployed specialist Antonio Cabrera to prevent her eviction by Imigration because of paperwork, which only media pressure can solve. General Holden g-reluctantly cooperates and spreads joy on the base: his division is returning home early. Colonel Frank Sherwood lets Denise drag him to grieving therapy, but furiously refuses to stand by when group member Laura, who lost her husband in action, calls the war senseless. Whit hands Roxy's construction to a colleague, for the same price. Claudia Joy's exploratory surgery proves her tumor benign, not spread.
S5.E9 ∙ Countermeasures
The troops get a warm welcome on their long-awaited return from Afghanistan. Jeremy's lonely mates thank Denise for her continuous support. Trevor can't accept that Roxie hired Whit, of all people, behind his back and ends up picking a fight in her bar. Learning about Chandler's kiss stealing, general Holden discretely intimidates the law professor. Taking pity on a kid patient whose mother he had to declare unfit, Roland convinces Joan to apply for his adoption, but is dismissed due to this very 'conflict' of interest.
S5.E10 ∙ Battle Buddies
Frustrated Trevor gets into trouble for 'slacking' on training. Colonel Sherwood gets him off and convinces him he must settle his marital crisis. After exchanging fears with Roxie, they patch up their marriage post-Whit. Chandler reluctantly allows Claudia Joy to volunteer pro bono assistance to a homeless veteran who needs therapy won't even tell what drives her misconduct. After winning the case, she resigns as he can't afford to seem favoring her. The Burtons volunteer as foster parents, but Jaden, whom they bond with at first sight, has HIV.
S5.E11 ∙ Drop Zone
Trevor's marital reconciliation has returned his family to a blissful state. His boys are now in a good enough mood to take charge in making the Burtons' new foster son David, who bonds only with Roland, feel welcome at a families barbecue. General Holden is already grumpy, feeling his career is unfairly blocked. The Emalin returns home, and confesses only late that she's failing in university for both studies and hockey team, which already suspended her, even considers dropping out. Officer Boone is Pamela's patrol partner again, now for her evaluation, but no longer romantically interested, as he presents her his twice-divorced girl Lisa, whom she instantly suspects of being a gold-digger.
S5.E12 ∙ Firefight
An airborne exercise at the base goes wrong, landing dozens of men in hospital. Cold-blooded Trevor achieves hero-status and is told by colonel Sgerwood he would be excellent officer course material, yet also feels for Chase's opinion that fine NCOs like them are the backbone of the army. Denise helps out informally with the casualties and is rewarded by the suggestion the new administrator would be prepared to lift her nursing ban. TJ finds and brings back David, who ran away having been duly punished for school vandalism. Officer Boone spots a wanted card, enabling him, Pamela and SWAt backup to make high-profile drug arrests.
S5.E13 ∙ Farewell to Arms
Trevor is over Whit, enough to suggest rehiring him as contractor to get the truck stop finished on schedule after a failed inspection, within budget and to standard. After Finn overhears him discussing paternity with Roxie, they explain to both adopted boys, who come to terms with having different biological fathers. Officer Boone and Pamela are suspended after an amateur video suggests she let 'drunk' general Holden off without suitable sobriety tests, but I.A. ends up clearing them. the base's preparations to celebrate the troops' full repatriation are overshadowed by a bomb shell from DC: it's about to be closed and the division disbanded due to budget cuts.
S6.E1 ∙ Winds of War
The last of six months allotted to evacuate Fort Marshall, everyone is about ready; but Roxie, whose friends fear she's in denial. To Trevor's shock, she won't listen and even turns down the only offer on the truck stop for hopelessly outdated 'reasons'. General Holden refuses a pentagon desk job and decides to retire in stead, so Claudia Joy's law career prospects may determine where they move to. Pamela rescues Roxie, who was driving Fynn to a friend to say goodbye during a hurricane, but it's Denise who gets seriously hurt in the hospital.
S6.E2 ∙ Perchance to Dream
The hurricane has damaged the new base so much worse that the move is canceled, Charleston's Fort marshal will instead receive the corps HQ as well. General Holden therefor won't retire but assume temporary command, finally a shot at a third star. Trevor hesitantly allowed Roxy to take Pamela and her kids in for the rest of the school term, as their apartment was recked, but starts to regret the resulting, overpopulated home conditions. In coma, Denise imagines how life could have been if Jeremy hadn't signed up for a second tour but studied architecture and married Tonya.
S6.E3 ∙ The Best of Friends
Trevor takes a dim view a Roxy shamelessly dropping the general's name to elbow past the cue for a bigger home, but admits the result is great, although their Moran guests still cramp it, albeit is shortly, as Pamela is determined to join Chase in California soon as their apartment is beyond repair. General Holden takes up temporary command and warmly welcomes his former mentor, general Clarke. His wife Jackie impresses the ladies auxiliary too 'luckily' with benefit plans not to seem fishy to Claudia Joy, who suspects a dirty campaign for the third star, yet can't object to Michael's suspected rival moving into the now derelict grand commander's villa they abandoned years ago.
S6.E4 ∙ Learning Curve
Trevor is now lieutenant and leads his own platoon, but platoon sergeant 'Ski' Wisniewski warns he still doesn't think like an officer. To Roxy's horror, he unilaterally invites all his NCOs and families for a barbecue. Alas, food poisoning strikes, but it still works out. General Bryce Whitaker's wife warns the Holdens that new acting division commander general Clark's ruthlessly efficient, ambitious wife Jackie is rapidly gaining advantage for Kevin over Michael. Even Denise is drawn into her benefit concert, a lucrative exclusive event for civilians and high officers only. Roxy isn't allowed to see her idol, Craig Morgan, perform.
S6.E5 ∙ True Colors
Michael refuses to believe Claudia Joy when she finally realizes that Audrey's completely right about the Clarkes' dirty campaign tricks, including his ludicrously grand flag ceremony, resembling a pompous coronation, yet hesitates to play the card of their Kosovo period break-up. By the time she does, even Denise is focused on Jackie and Roxie takes over the unruly tween group. Trevor build confidence now his platoon's NCO families understand about the 'distrous' barbecue he and Roxie hosted but tried to make up for, and warns her that stepping in also means pushing one of his NCO's wife away. General Clarke duly scolds Joan's miserable communications concerning the move, which is already behind schedule. Roland, who accepted chairing a group for troubled youngsters half an hour a week at Heather's day care center, gets her to coach how to improve information for families, not the stiff military way, and it works.
S6.E6 ∙ Viral
Trevor hopes his team wins a training competition and hence a day off. PFC Hector Cruz, a newly wed whose New York wife Gloria bitches at him and Roxie when Trevor sends her with an invitation for the women's auxiliary, tries too hard and lands in hospital, dehydrated. Claudia Joy makes up with Pamela in the Clarkes's absence but collapses with a medical problem. After school playmate Dustin Ridgeway accidentally gets some of David's blood on an open wound, the adopted boy's HIV becomes known to his shocked army parents, and the mother starts a ruthless campaign against the Burtons.
S6.E7 ∙ System Failure
Finn's birthday was planned to be perfect for once, but daddy dear and his platoon are on the rapid deployment brigade, whose response time was mysteriously shortened to 30 minutes, and gets the signal just when Trevor cut the cake. General Clark has followed an amateur 'Africa expert' captain's advice to recommend the Pentagon to send his troops on a humanitarian mission to a Central African failed state. In hospital Claudia Joy is diagnosed in need of a kidney, and Emalin insists to donate one, but isn't even fit given the hereditary diabetic risk and neither parent would consent.
S6.E8 ∙ Casualties
The airborne troops are deployed in the failed African state after a political murder started a tribal civil war, the anxious home front only hears where after the press arrives and wounded, mainly from the landing, are evacuated to Germany. Trevor's platoon is assigned to repatriate an NGO doctor, but his clinic is beleaguered by an improbably strong force from the least aggressive tribe. The kids need counseling and distraction, the women seek some in the auxiliary, but bicker pointlessly, Roxie can't cope and Gloria fills in even worse. Dr. Blake Hanson molds Tanya, finally back in field hospital.
S6.E9 ∙ Non-Combatants
In Africa, Trevor's platoon has a hard time repatriating the beleaguered doctor as the backward tribe believes he maliciously failed to cure their kids as opposed to those of their neighbors. An NGO woman pigheadedly objects to being evacuated without the kids in her more sensible husband's orphanage. Back home, TJ steps up while Roxie and Gloria, already friends, unite with grumpy Gisela Wisniewski to rein in auxiliary rebels after divorce-facing Mai-Li's suicide, which Roxie nearly prevented. General Clarke's wife hides a pills problem. Dr. Blake Hanson kisses Tonya after confiding about his noble dream but refuses to pursue a forbidden affair with a non-officer.
S6.E10 ∙ After Action Report
Trevor and Roxie must step in to help Hector and Gloria Cruz, who are in debt being utterly clueless about budgeting and misleading credit advertising, Gloria gets a waiting job in the Humpbar. Dr. Blake Hanson publicly puts cheeky nurse Gabriel in her place, yet they can't resist an illegal 'fraternisation' in bed. General Clark campaigns tirelessly for another star, even sanctimoniously reverts his position against gays in the army, but gets a bad press an account of the 'abandoned NGO orphans'. Densie finds out that his wife Jackie is on pills.
S6.E11 ∙ Fallout
General Clark's rapid deployment force is in PR trouble when the press gives a forum to vindictive NGO orphanage volunteer Rachel Miller. General Holden conducts the investigation for the Pentagon, which concluded Trevor's platoon and direct CO colonel Sherwood correctly followed orders in accordance with Washington's binding policy. Jackie Clarke can't handle the stress, combines excessive pills with alcohol and has to be stopped from attending the grand dinner for the troops. Ex-con Marcus Williams demands to see his biological son David, and when the Burtons dismiss him as a probable fraud gets a court order and a positive DNA paternity test.
S6.E12 ∙ Blood Relative
Trevor's fine record gives him a shot at the elite Rangers, but that would require another move, which Roxie won't even discuss. She works out her mean mood on the Hump bar staff, despite Gloria's surprising progress in beverages expertise. After her fainting, it takes Trevor to get her home and next day to a doctor, who diagnoses a pregnancy. Dr. Blake Hanson realizes, after Denise figures out his affair with Tonya and a breakup failed, that a radical move is required and arranges a transfer to Virgnia. The Burtons get biological father Marcus Williams to accept it's David's choice whether to meet him, but the boy soon reverts his initial refusal. Franks is furious that Dnise didn't even tell him she's a match for a kidney donation and committed to Claudia Joy.
S6.E13 ∙ General Complications
Trevor must step in personally when Hector Cruz picks a brawl with a bar regular for petting his wife Gloria's bottom. Their marriage is in serious trouble as he demands she stops working, which she won't even discuss, and Hector moves out. The Pentagon finally awards the third general's star, to Michael Holden, considering general Clarke's bad press over Africa. Roxy's pregnant moodiness is worse then expected, the gynecologist spots it's twins. Holden's mentor Bryce's wife Audrey Whitaker claims she swung the star and demands an improper reward. Denise's kidney donation goes well, but transplanting it to Claudia Joy runs into complications. Williams's meetings with the Burtons go completely sour when he show David a less patriotic attitude, due to his father's Vietnam plight.
S6.E14 ∙ Fatal Reaction
Michael can soon relax, Claudia Joy pulls trough, so he and Frank treat their recovering spouses to a beach-house. On the beach, they meet a charming man, Henry, who soon returns to prove first impressions most misleading, and ends up shot at close range by Denise. Trevor meanwhile has a hard time controlling Roxy, who fears he has no idea what to expect the next nine months and afterward. David now meets Marcus in secret. Hector is treated badly everywhere, Gloria gets discrete advice to reconsider throwing away their marriage.
S6.E15 ∙ Tough Love
Trevor's buddy, Cory, arrives with his wife to have surgery on his burns. Hector tries to reconcile with Gloria. Denise tries to deal with the beach house shooting, and Jackie takes Claudia Joy to a gun range to teach her how to use a gun.
S6.E16 ∙ Battle Scars
Nicole's mother invites herself to the presentation of the Bronze Star. Deployment plans are being made, and someone has to stay behind. Claudia Joy helps a vet who has been declared dead. Victor and Gloria attend marriage counseling.
S6.E17 ∙ Hello, Stranger
Pamela and Chase ask Roxy and Trevor to go away with them. Then Chase gives Trevor a job opportunity that Roxy thinks is too good to pass up. When a doctor nearly kills a patient, he tries to put the blame on Tanya. Denise and Claudia Joy try to help her. And Jackie's daughter comes for a visit and Jackie's hope they can spend some time together but she doesn't want to.
S6.E19 ∙ Centennial
Fort Marshall welcomes military dignitaries for its centennial celebration.
S6.E20 ∙ The War at Home
The group deals with the fallout from the Centennial celebration.
S6.E22 ∙ Domestic Maneuvers
Roxy and Trevor prepare for a new future; Roland and Joan argue.
S6.E23 ∙ Onward
The group learns that Fort Marshall is merging with an air force base.
S7.E1 ∙ Ashes to Ashes
People of Fort Marshall mourn the loss of one of their own.
S7.E5 ∙ Disarmament
Gloria meets a new man; Jackie's son reveals surprising news; Denise and Frank celebrate their anniversary apart; Joan has a disagreement with Latasha and Maggie; Holly is disappointed when she is unable to talk to Tim.
S7.E6 ∙ Losing Battles
Denise helps Michael sort through Claudia Joy's clothes; Eddie's impending deployment prompts Caroline to insist on living with her real mother; Gloria regrets moving fast with Pat; Joan struggles to juggle work and parenthood.
S7.E7 ∙ Brace for Impact
After an awkward conversation with Jackie, Gloria decides it's for the best if she calls things off with Patrick.
S7.E8 ∙ Jackpot
Despite their best efforts, the tribe falls short of their fundraising goals for Claudia Joy's garden until Gloria discovers Holly has a hidden talent that could help them. Hector finds out about Gloria and Patrick. Michael unknowingly encourages Kat's daughter Hannah, a Citadel cadet, to switch from Air Force to Army.
S7.E9 ∙ Blood and Treasure
The tribe gathers for Claudia Joy's dedication ceremony. Denise gets caught up in an emergency at the hospital.
S7.E10 ∙ Reckoning
The troops get orders to return to Fort Marshall; Maggie bonds with Caroline; Latasha worries about unexpected expenses; Hector gets some sad news; Gloria searches for a new apartment; the soldiers come under attack in Afghanistan.
S7.E11 ∙ Adjustment Period
The men return from Afghanistan; Holly is excited to reunite with Tim.
S7.E12 ∙ Damaged
Latasha worries about Quincy's future in the Army. Gloria agrees to go out on a date with Hector, but is torn when Patrick asks for a second chance. Denise volunteers for a relief mission to an earthquake ravaged country. Tim's behavior starts to worry Holly. Michael and Kat share a moment.
S7.E13 ∙ All or Nothing
When Tim goes missing, Holly reaches out to the tribe and Tim's platoon for help. Denise catches Michael in a compromising position. Latasha and Quincy receive news about his military career. Gloria continues to be pulled between Hector and Patrick. Roland and Joan prepare to say goodbye to Fort Marshall.
