Brennan and Booth suspect a military cover-up when a protester's suicide in Arlington National Cemetery turns out to be the murder of an Iraq War veteran.
Fred mistakes a scene between Lamont and his acting partner as a murder attempt and immediately expresses his discomfort with the duo rehearsing in the house.
Fred disagrees with Lamont and Rollo's decision to manage an-all female singing trio from Philadelphia, until he meets the women as they prep for a show.
Fred learns that his uncle has died and left him an inheritance, but the one major obstacle that stands between him and the money is a flight to St. Louis.
Lamont buys Fred a pool table as a birthday gift, but it attracts one too many of his father's friends and threatens to turn the house into a 24-hour pool hall.
McCoy's former colleague, Jamie Ross, returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.
A frustrating investigation of a purse-snatching victim, who was fatally shot, leads to tension between Briscoe and Green over age and racial innuendoes.
A school bully with an avid interest in martial-arts weapons is accused of killing a boy, and the bully's father is responsible for buying the murder weapon.
Convinced that she is the reason Andy isn't getting married, Aunt Bee invents a serious beau and is forced to grab Fred Gross, the Mayberry dry cleaner.
Barney's return to Mayberry goes largely unnoticed due to an unexpected visit from a glamorous Hollywood starlet with ties to Barney's distant romantic past.
One of Andy's old high school girlfriends returns to Mayberry and seeks shelter at the Taylors' house while hers is repaired, throwing Helen into a jealous fit.