Ep 8. Tender Age

As Bailey tries persuading Sarah to join the Salinger family for Thanksgiving, Charlie loses Owen at the mall. As Charlie frantically searches for his little bother, Julia works on Ned to come to Thanksgiving dinner while Kirsten asks her husband Paul to do the same. Calling Daphne for help, Charlie insists that she not tell Claudia. However, when Bailey and Griffin learn what's happened, they hurry to help with the search. And once Julia and Ned arrive for dinner they, too, are off to the mall where police officer John Flaherty tries to calm a nervous Charlie. With Charlie and Flaherty working the mall's security monitors, everyone else fans out to look for Owen. While having Ned and Griffin helping in the search is uncomfortable for Julia, Daphne continues to keep Claudia from learning the truth. But, when it appears that Owen may have been abducted, she cannot fool Claudia any longer. And when Claudia insists on coming home at once, Bailey convinces her to stay where she is as word of an unidentified child who's been hospitalized following a brutal beating sends him and Sarah to the hospital. As the search exacerbates tensions between Ned and Griffin and Kirsten and Paul, Bailey and Sarah find that the beaten child isn't Owen. As the unsuccessful search of the mall sends Charlie and Flaherty to the streets, they are summoned to a nearby shelter where a homeless man brought Owen to safety. Finally, as Charlie sees just how hard his little brother is taking the arrival of the new baby, the Salingers and their friends gather at home to celebrate.