Season 1

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. In Which We Meet Addison, A Nice Girl from Somewhere Else

Addison Montgomery resigns from Seattle Grace Hospital to accept a position as a gynecologist at the Oceanside Wellness Center. During her first day of work, her six co-workers (and main characters) Naomi Bennett, Sam Bennett, Violet Turner, Cooper Freedman, Dell Parker, and Pete Wilder, are introduced. Addison has difficulty adjusting to her new work environment on discovering Naomi did not tell anyone that she had been hired, and learning she will handle a lower number of patients than expected. All of the doctors deal with individual patients, while trying to resolve problems in their personal lives. Addison and Dell help a pregnant teenager with a difficult childbirth, Violet consoles her patient in the middle of a nervous breakdown in a store, and Naomi and Sam discuss whether they should fulfill a woman's wish to extract her dead boyfriend's semen and impregnate her with it. At the end of the day, Addison delivers a speech to her co-workers, announcing that she will be staying at the practice.

2. In Which Sam Receives An Unexpected Visitor…

Cooper hires a stripper for Sam to help him adjust to his new single life. Naomi becomes upset with Sam when the stripper is admitted to the practice as a patient. After performing genetic testing on a clients' baby, Cooper, Addison, and Naomi discover that the child was switched at birth. The doctors collaborate with Charlotte King to determine the identity of the person who switched the babies and the location of the clients' real child. Charlotte and Addison clash over the best way to handle the situation. The mothers meet and bond over their love for the children, with the babies being returned to their biological parents. Cooper consults a patient who becomes extremely sick whenever he drinks alcohol. Violet attempts to deal with her continued feelings for her ex-boyfriend.

3. In Which Addison Finds the Magic

Addison and Pete treat newlyweds who are experiencing sexual problems. Addison diagnoses the wife with vulvar vestibulitis, and Pete treats her through alternative medicine. Cooper attempts to find out why his patient and her three siblings are all displaying signs of ammonium nitrate poisoning. Through a home visit, Cooper realizes that the children were playing in a shed containing bags of fertilizer. Violet tries to convince her patient to leave his wife, but he stays with her after she is diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (referred to by the former Nazi eponym for the disease "Wegener's granulomatosis"). Naomi is distraught when Maya chooses to spend the week with Sam. Dell attempts to comfort Naomi by bringing in freshly-baked cakes every day. Pete honors the anniversary of his wife's death.

4. In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get-Together

Addison feels offended when none of her co-workers have responded to her invitation to a party. Sam makes his first talk show appearance to promote his latest self-help book. Cooper counsels a young, lovesick patient and makes a pact that they both reveal their crushes to their friends. However, the boy is beaten up for revealing he is gay and Cooper consoles him. Violet is caught off guard when her ex-boyfriend's new wife admits herself as a patient and is diagnosed with a bladder infection from having too much sex. Addison agrees to help a psychiatric patient, who everyone believes has Munchausen syndrome, and finds out that she in fact has Crohn's disease. Pete tries to treat an elderly man who keeps falling asleep unexpectedly, but he faces issues as the man doesn't believe in his kind of treatment. When Addison tells her co-workers about her frustration over the party, they tell her that they had always planned on going to it.

5. In Which Addison Finds a Showerhead

Addison experiences frequent sexual dreams about Pete that leave her in a constant state of arousal, leading to Naomi and Violet suggesting that she masturbate using a shower head. Naomi's daughter Maya approaches Addison and tells her that she may have an STD and asks her not to notify her mother. However, it is revealed that Maya was asking to help her friend Ruby, who is found bleeding on the kitchen floor. Naomi is angry at Addison and Maya for keeping information from her, and Addison suggests that Naomi talk to her daughter about sex. Pete and Charlotte attempt to help an athlete, but her refusal to follow their orders leaves her physically unable to race again. Violet and Sam help a woman who is considering undergoing drug-induced amnesia to remove traumatic memories of a home invasion. Despite Cooper's insistence, Violet attempts to become friends with her ex-boyfriend. Dell performs his first Pap smear on a patient after several failed attempts. Addison decides to use her shower head after imagining Pete as a cowboy and a gladiator.

6. In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole

Charlotte seeks help from Oceanside Wellness, saying that she has not been able to sleep for more than three hours over the last three days. She is sent to Pete after refusing a sleep aid from Sam. Following several failed attempts, Charlotte finally sleeps after talking to Pete about her family's lack of intimacy and affection. Addison and Naomi consult a couple who plan on having a child; the wife, Angie Paget, tells them in private that she does not want children as she believes that she has the gene for Huntington's disease. Angie is tested positive for the gene and tells her husband about her family's history with the disease. They both decide to continue working with Addison and Naomi so they can raise a child before Angie gets the disease. Cooper discovers that his patient is being physically abused by her mother, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Sam becomes concerned and angry when Dell develops a crush on Naomi.

7. In Which Sam Gets Taken for a Ride

While answering a house call, Sam gets caught in a hostage situation at a convenience store and is held at gunpoint by a pregnant woman named Kelly. When Kelly goes into labor, Sam helps her to deliver her baby and persuades her to let him call the police. When Sam returns to the practice, he and Naomi reignite their passion and have sex. Violet and Cooper agree to start a friends with benefits relationship, but Cooper advises against it due to his romantic feelings for her. Meanwhile, Pete and Addison decide to pursue a casual relationship, while helping a woman deliver a baby after her boyfriend died. However, Pete ends up standing Addison up. Meanwhile, Addison attracts the attention of Kevin Nelson, the former police partner of her patient's dead boyfriend. Dell delivers his first baby, but he, Naomi and Violet have to help the mother accept her son after she rejects him because she wanted a daughter.

8. In Which Cooper Finds a Port in His Storm

Cooper discovers that he has been talking to Charlotte on an online dating website, and the two initiate a sexual relationship. Addison goes on a date with one of Violet's patients but is disturbed to learn about his shoe fetish after finding out that he stole one of her shoes and inserted it in his rectum. Naomi and Sam attempt to find the cause for a typhus outbreak in a convent while providing care for the affected nuns and priest. They discover that the priest is the carrier and spread typhus by sneaking into the nunnery. Addison and Pete help with a program involving the safe-haven law. She becomes attached to one of the babies, whom she names "Batgirl".

9. In Which Dell Finds His Fight

Dell suspects that his grandfather is being abused at his nursing home after noticing bruises on his body. Sam investigates the nursing home and discovers that Dell's grandfather is a part of a fight club run by the residents. Addison begins a romantic relationship with a police officer, Kevin Nelson, while attempting to maintain a friendship with Pete. Addison and Naomi are treating the couple from the third episode after they have difficulty in conceiving a child. Violet and Cooper discuss the changes in their friendship after Cooper avoids her to have a secret sexual relationship with Charlotte. Cooper and Pete participate in a program to prepare first-time fathers to care for their children. Sam and Naomi also have a secret relationship after having sex in previous episodes. Dell kisses Naomi and proclaims his feelings for her and his desire to fight for her.