1993: Athena Barnes, an actress/singer that's hoping to become famous, is throwing a party in the East Village. Her friend, Gregory Paget, is attending. Gregory has hopes of becoming a filmmaker in the future. Along with Gregory is Josh Adler and Joe Rivera, with whom he shares an apartment with. Josh's dad is a very wealthy real estate dealer and Joe is working on becoming a lawyer. One of Athena's friends from yoga class, Beth Greenway, also attends the paty. Beth is a teacher. Josh and Joe both go after Beth and try to win a date with her. Their plans are interrupted when a man with a gun decides he'd like to join the party, too. 2001: Joe and Beth are now married and live in a lavish apartment in New York. They also have a three year old son named Tyler. Joe has become a lawyer and is in the middle of a big case, defending a very powerful man on the charge of murder. Beth is no longer a teacher, but is now a full time homemaker. Josh has become a real estate developer,

1993: Athena Barnes, an actress/singer that's hoping to become famous, is throwing a party in the East Village. Her friend, Gregory Paget, is attending. Gregory has hopes of becoming a filmmaker in the future. Along with Gregory is Josh Adler and Joe Rivera, with whom he shares an apartment with. Josh's dad is a very wealthy real estate dealer and Joe is working on becoming a lawyer. One of Athena's friends from yoga class, Beth Greenway, also attends the paty. Beth is a teacher. Josh and Joe both go after Beth and try to win a date with her. Their plans are interrupted when a man with a gun decides he'd like to join the party, too. 2001: Joe and Beth are now married and live in a lavish apartment in New York. They also have a three year old son named Tyler. Joe has become a lawyer and is in the middle of a big case, defending a very powerful man on the charge of murder. Beth is no longer a teacher, but is now a full time homemaker. Josh has become a real estate developer,

1993: Josh and Beth begin dating. Josh tries to impress Beth with the fact that he works on real estate projects that help out people with low incomes. While having lunch with Beth in one of the complexes that is being renovated, Josh is schocked to find out that a Union representative is now working with his father, Russ Adler. Russ has now had all of the locals that were working on the project fired. After Beth visits Josh at his shared apartment, she and Joe wait outside to get a cab. They decide to put their first meeting in the past and start over. It's pretty clear that there's a little something more going on between them. 2001: Joe is still very busy with the Brackett trial. Meanwhile, Beth is up for house-hunting and has finally convinced Joe to look at some houses out in the country in Millbrook. Joe doesn't like the idea of living in Millbrook until he finds out that the senior partners of his law firm have weekend houses there. Beth is happy when Joe agrees that th

1993: Athena is getting ready for an audition. However, she feels pretty insecure about her acting. Gregory tries to coach her and make her more confident about her acting. After they rehearse and Gregory talks to her, she feels like she would be perfect playing Cora in ""The Iceman Cometh."" When Athena gets to the audition, she realizes that she's not auditioning for the role of Cora, but for the role of Maggie. She is not prepared for the new role at all. The director, Randy Gendel, leaves Athena feeling worthless. Gregory talks to Athena yet again and makes her feel like she should ask for a second chance. When she does get a second chance, it's not clear how far she'll have to go in order to win the role. Meanwhile, Carlito Rivera, Joe's brother, is trying to get a job working in the mailroom at Joe's firm. Joe is reluctant to help his brother out, figuring that Carlito would make him look bad. Teresa, the Office Manager, ends up hiring Carlito without talking to Joe abou

1993: Joe Rivera solves an environmental lawsuit and one of his superiors, Andersen takes credit for it. When hanging out with Josh, Beth, Gregory, and Athena, he runs into his brother, Carlito. Joe discovers that Carlito weighs in on Joe's situation with Andersen. Josh continues to try and have sex with Beth but ends up partying instead. 2001: Joe ends up staying at the office (even after promising Beth they would both go to Millbrook to look at new houses) because of new developments in the Edgar Brackett murder case. When Joe comes home, he discovered that Beth has bought a home in Millbrook without him. 2008: Frannie Batista, Joe's campaign manager, talks Josh into letting Joe hold a fund raiser at the Josh's restaurant. (Even though Joe and Josh's friendship is rocky). Josh's attention isn't focused on Frannie, however, because he's got another problem that needs attention. Josh confronts Janine, his pastry chef, about her flirting with him.