Darnell and Maya get remarried in Las Vegas, while Toni begins to think she and Todd are not destined to be together after giving birth to their child. Lynn, meanwhile, proposes marriage to a desperate woman during a hiking trip, and Joan and William spend an intimate night together.
Maya and Darnell decide to stay in their quickie marriage, but start dating to see how it works out, while Toni and Todd finally decide to end their own marriage after going back and forth on the issue. Lynn finds it tough to break off her engagement to Jennifer due to Jennifer's fragile emotional well-being, but tries to tell Joan that she isn't into women. Meanwhile, William tells Lynn about his night with Joan, causing Joan to fume.
Toni becomes overwhelmed by her new responsibilities as a Mom, which translates to her forgetting doctor’s appointments and accidentally locking herself out of the home with the baby inside. Todd then decides to step in and make some severe decisions. Meanwhile, Joan tries to cope with the J-Spot’s dwindling business.
Joan tells Toni that by breastfeeding her new baby, Morgan, she will create a bond with Morgan that will keep Todd from getting full custody. Joan tries to put together a post-wedding party for Maya and Darnell, but Maya begins to worry when Darnell backs down from accepting the offer. Meanwhile, Jennifer worries that Lynn’s lack of intimacy with her is due to a crush on Joan.
William is forced to confront unpleasant childhood memories when he returns home for his mother’s operation and deals with his distant father. Meanwhile, all the girlfriends begin to come to terms with Toni’s new life as a mom.
Joan receives romantic interest from an older man as she tries to determine whether or not she should continue with her restaurant venture or return to the legal world. Meanwhile, Maya nearly loses the advance on her second novel when the pitch doesn’t go so well.
The court battle for custody over Morgan turns nasty when Todd sicks his lawyer on Toni and paints her as an unfit mother. Meanwhile, William begins to see a younger woman, while Joan, astonished by her older boyfriend’s lovemaking abilities, wonders if he's been popping Viagra.
Lynn finally decides to come clean to Jennifer about their relationship, after Jennifer begins to tire of Lynn’s resistance to sex. Meanwhile, Maya, Joan and Toni give William’s girlfriend the idea that he is a control freak.
During a blind date with one of Darnell's buddies, Joan learns that Darnell may have slept with somebody else the night before he and Maya got remarried. Meanwhile, William is elated to be hanging out with Darnell and the guys.
Joan must come to terms with her failing restaurant when William manages to turn the J-Spot into a hot sports bar and asks her to stay on with the new business. Meanwhile, the other girlfriends do what they can to help keep Joan's dream alive.
Todd and Toni spend the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays together for Morgan's sake, and Todd drops the news on her that if she'll bring up their daughter as Jewish, he'll relinquish full custody rights to her. Toni then struggles with which decision to make and turns to her girlfriends for advice.
The girlfriends try to get Lynn back into her music following a split with Jennifer. Meanwhile, William's overworked assistant turns to some drastic measures in order to get William to take some time for himself outside of work.
Joan's J-Spot restaurant lands her on the cover of a hip Los Angeles magazine, but she begins to worry that her one-night stand with the reporter is what got her the story. Meanwhile, William tries to kickstart Lynn's long-time interest in playing music by buying her a guitar.
Joan and Lynn coax Darnell into leaving his job to work in a racecar pit crew after he feels inadequate in the shadow of Maya's high-income. Meanwhile, William tries to become quite the handyman after he starts to believe he needs to compete with Darnell's fix-it abilities.
Joan begins to undercut her own confidence after making a foolish comment at a seminar put on by Maya. Toni finds herself hounded by a go-getting young woman who is determined to snag an internship. Meanwhile, a rejected Lynn's attempt to bitterly upstage several bands at the seminar lands her a one way ticket out of the venue.
Toni and Joan begin squabbling after Toni fires her nanny and calls upon Joan for help, only to find that Joan is now unavailable as L.A.’s newest social butterfly. Meanwhile, William catches the video game bug after being turned onto it by Darnell.
Toni discovers that juggling motherhood, a career, a lawsuit with Todd and time with the old boyfriend is quite difficult. Meanwhile, Joan lives up to her status as a woman on the scene, while Maya and Darnell consider buying a house.
Toni looks to Joan for help when her custody fight with Todd begins to takes its toll on her savings, but can't pin down Joan due to her new social commitments, causing a serious rift among them. Meanwhile, Darnell and William get into a competitive video game-playing routine after Darnell shows William the ropes.
Joan's relationship with Toni is further tested when she starts dating three guys, Derek, Jevon and Kurtis, all at the same time. Meanwhile, William finds himself paired up with ex-girlfriend Monica once again after he joins a premiere dating service.
Joan decides to split with Derek and Kurtis and be exclusive with Jevon, but she quickly learns, to her detriment, that Jevon has some specific ideas about how they should proceed into a relationship. Meanwhile, Toni ends up in jail after physically confronting Tammy about a scheme to have her car jacked.
Joan gets drunk at a posh Hollywood party and gets a verbal lashing from Derek. Worse than that, she never makes it to Toni's side for her custody hearing with Todd. Meanwhile, William desperately tries to get back his old girlfriend, Monica, while Darnell tries to convince Maya to move to Florida with him when he is offered a racing pit crew job.
Joan gets drunk at a posh Hollywood party and gets a verbal lashing from Derek. Worse than that, she never makes it to Toni's side for her custody hearing with Todd. Meanwhile, William desperately tries to get back his old girlfriend, Monica, while Darnell tries to convince Maya to move to Florida with him when he is offered a racing pit crew job.