On Halloween, Denise Bauer receives bad news about her fianci, Daniel Post, and goes on a bizarre search for him. Meanwhile, Alan Shore defends Jerry Espenson for lying about his death penalty beliefs on a Federal jury questionnaire; Jeffrey Coho is sued for defamation by Lincoln Meyer, the peeping tom neighbor from the Scott Little trial; and as things heat up between Denny Crane and his diminutive girlfriend, Bethany, she takes him to meet her mother, and all three receive a big shock.