Tommy has sent a report to the aliens' boss, the Big Giant Head, informing him that Dick has been squandering time in pursuit of an earth woman. When Dick hears about it, he vows to have a successful date with Dr. Albright. Nina intercedes on Dick's behalf, and Dr. Albright agrees to go to dinner at a Japanese restaurant where Dick dazzles her with his prowess as a chef.

The Solomons meet their neighbors the Mullers, whom they've been observing from afar. Dick makes overtures of friendship to Frank Muller, who is curious but responsive. However, when the Solomons pay a visit at 3:00 A.M. and reveal to the Mullers that they've been spying on them, the friendship strains. Dick feels that they've been treated unjustly and experiences anger for the first time.

Dick gives Tommy an assignment to check out high school. Meanwhile, Sally, in a quest to experience sex, goes out on a date and returns home giggly and girlish, only to be devastated when Brad, her date, doesn't call as promised.

When the aliens's car stereo is ripped off while they're at the mall, Harry and Sally pay a visit to the police station to report it and begin discussing security measures. Dick thinks they're being paranoid, but when he gets mugged at the ATM, he becomes disenchanted with the human race and demands justice.

Harry has a new job at a video store where he takes his work very seriously. Tommy is one of his first customers, renting a David Copperfield magic show that he thinks will save him the trouble of reading the Dickens novel. Dick convinces Dr. Albright that he should accompany her to Chicago to receive an anthropology award, and they wind up stuck in a snowstorm.

When Nina tells Dick that Stanford has no graduate records on him and Dick reacts defensively, Dr. Albright observes that it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer from Dick about his past. Dr. Albright becomes convinced that Dick is actually Manny Rosenberg, a 1960s activist whom she knew briefly and who has been in hiding from the FBI in decades.

When Dick learns that Dr. Albright is getting a bigger, better office and is leaving him with a new, eccentric office mate, he's devastated and tries to make her change her mind. But she won't hear of it, so Dick quietly makes a few phone calls.

Dick confides in Dr. Albright that he and Sally can't seem to stop fighting, and Mary tells him it's the same with her younger brother Roy. But when Dick meets Roy, he immediately likes him and invites him to dinner with the Solomon family. During dinner, much to Mary's embarrassment and the Solomons' alarm, Roy tells a story about being abducted from a cornfield by an alien spacecraft.

Sally takes on the job of researching women and their grooming and beauty secrets. Tommy runs into August, a girl from school. And when Dr. Albright leaves town for a short retreat, Dick feels devastated and abandoned.