Parents' nightmare comes true when their children mysteriously disappear after society and the media get involved in the fight between pupils at their school.
While the Lakers travel to Palm Springs to begin their training, Buss discovers he's in over his head; the team's new coaches but heads over competing visions.
Buss clashes with West over coaching issues; Paul pulls a favor from Pat Riley; Earvin struggles to reconnect with loved ones in Lansing while on the road.
With the 1980 NBA championship on jeopardy, the outgunned Lakers turn to an unlikely source for help; Earvin challenges his role-model-turned-rival Dr. J.
The team faces a series of humiliating defeats even after winning another championship; Buss deals with accusations from Honey; Norm is rocked by shocking news.
When a celebrity feels that her career is hitting a roadblock due to her age, she begins to use an illegal drug that temporarily alters her physical appearance.
An older woman looks back on her life and how her beauty was both a blessing and a curse, by how it affected her life at home, in school and much more.