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Amaar and Rayyan cut short their planned one year pilgrimage/honeymoon and return to Mercy early since Rayyan believes Sarah needs her support on Yasir's news that he will be staying in Lebanon to be with his ailing mother, ending Yasir and Sarah's thirty-one year marriage. Rayyan does whatever she can to help her mother over her supposed grief, including encouraging Sarah to attend Ann's divorce support group, and asking Sarah to move in with her and Amaar. Through this support process, Rayyan comes to an understanding on why she needs to help her mother so much, while Sarah tries to convince Rayyan that she's fine. Meanwhile, Baber, who has come to a love/hate relationship with Thorne in his renewed role as Imam, believes that Amaar has come back to assume the position of Imam, despite Amaar's assertion that he has no desire for his old job.

Rayyan resuming her medical practice in Mercy comes with some unwanted baggage, namely an overbearingly sweet nurse receptionist named Poppy, who doesn't seem to have a sense of personal boundaries. As unwanted as Poppy is to Rayyan as her nurse receptionist is Amaar's intervention in the matter. Meanwhile, Ann has decided to help Sarah by renewing her driver's license with Sarah's new old name, Sarah Cunningham (her maiden name) which Ann has had legally changed. This name reversion brings up the question from the name's bearer, "who is Sarah Cunningham". In looking back on the life of the old Sarah Cunningham, Sarah finds a woman who lived vicariously through her best friend Ann. As such, Sarah vows that this time around she's going to be a take charge, outgoing person who lives through herself, which is totally against her nature. A side effect of Sarah's name change is that, without consulting her herself, Baber and Thorne battle for her religious soul, or at least her body in their respective congregation.

After he blows an electrical fuse in their house, a less than handy Amaar wants to prove to Rayyan that he himself can fix the problem without calling in professional help. The problem proves to be too much for Amaar to handle, even with what he can glean from the Internet. What Amaar decides to do to fix the problem leads to further problems, both in what he will tell Rayyan and Rayyan's reaction to what he eventually tells her, which leads to a too up close and personal encounter with next-door-neighbor Fred. Meanwhile, Thorne and Baber, who feels he needs to lose weight, decide to go on a three day fasting challenge, the winner who will be able to give a sermon to the other's congregation. As they progress through the challenge, they have to decide if satisfying their increasing hunger or showing religious superiority over the other is more of a priority.

Ann believes that since it's been two years since Yasir moved away and six months since the divorce, Sarah should start dating again. As such, Ann fixes Sarah up on a blind date with a man named Steve. Sarah's date with Steve shows her that perhaps she may be ready to date, but not date specifically Steve. The problem becomes how to tell a needy Steve that she doesn't want to see him again. Meanwhile, Amaar has nominated Mercy for the Multi-Faith Spirit Award. He is excited that Mercy is on the three town short list for the award. When he tells Baber and Thorne about the award, the two balk at the entire concept that all religions are equal until they learn that the award comes with a $10,000 cash prize. Can Baber and Thorne put aside their differences long enough to show the visiting award's committee judge that they truly do live in complete harmony? And Nate notices that Fatima's daily special is always goat curry. He wants that to change, and offers to help Fatima re-envision her goat curry into a new dish. Will Fatima even let him in her kitchen?

Amaar and Rayyan are arguing about how and when to host their first dinner party, which Amaar sees as a piece of cake to arrange, while Rayyan sees it as an important milestone on how others will judge their marriage and as such which requires much thought and consideration. Regardless, they decide to hold it this evening. One unplanned invitee is Charles Thorne, Reverend Thorne's older brother who is in town on business to audit the city's books, much to Sarah's horror and Ann's disgust - disgust both for the audit itself and in that she is attracted to him as a man. The brothers Thorne are somewhat estranged - the reverend who uses the word hate to describe how he feels about his brother - but Charles seems to want to extend an olive branch. Amaar inviting Charles is a way to get the two brothers together and talking. Three issues have the potential to turn the dinner party into a total disaster. First, Amaar is trying an untested menu with non-cook Rayyan as his assistant. Second, three of the four invitees - Reverend Thorne, Sarah and Ann - hate the fourth. And third, the possibility of the character flaw that the reverend sees in his brother - his obsessive nature which led to Charles abandoning his little brother when they were younger - rearing its ugly head despite Charles' assertion that he is a changed man.

Reverend Thorne's brother, Charles, is still in Mercy auditing the town's books and carrying on with Ann. Seeing that the city makes little money, Charles believes a potential revenue generator for the town would be to make Mercy Anglican a "destination church". Ann and Charles convince the reverend to go along with the plan. What would make it a destination church would be a Broadway styled show. The story they choose is Jonah and the Whale. But with too many stars and too many directors - especially as Ann, using the town's money, finances the show - the show may be overwhelmed by this baggage. Meanwhile, more a means to get a rise out of them, Baber gives Amaar and Rayyan a chicken as wedding present, the chicken who Baber named "Rayhen". Although they don't give Baber the satisfaction of being annoyed by the gift, Amaar and Rayyan have to decide what to do with Rayhen. Amaar sees an incident with Rayhen as a sign to what lies in his future in Mercy.

Amaar may have a new goal in life of building a mosque in Mercy, but he doesn't really know how to get started in achieving that goal. Rayyan provides advice, which includes getting the help of some of their friends and family. That help doesn't come as easily as they would like. They need Ann on their side as mayor, but she is preoccupied with her obsession of speaking to a now absent Charles, who doesn't seem to be calling, faxing, emailing or texting as often as she would like. They want Sarah to be their PR person, but Sarah is having a slight crisis in Muslim faith as she flirts with the idea of having an affair with someone who hasn't touched her lips in thirty years: bacon. And Baber believes Amaar's plan will usurp his role as Imam. As such, Baber goes to extreme lengths to show Amaar that the residents of Mercy won't tolerate an actual mosque complete with minarets in their town.

Glenda Beckford, the Mayor of nearby Darnley and a colleague of Ann's from their college days, is stopping by Mercy for a visit with her old friend. Glenda is also Ann's best frenemy, the two who have been in open friendly and not so friendly competition with each other as long as they have known each other. Ann asks Sarah to arrange a lunch at the best restaurant in Mercy for Glenda's visit. When Sarah tries to crash that lunch, Ann refuses to let Sarah stay, which leads to the biggest argument the two have ever had and which might end Ann and Sarah's friendship. Glenda uses that opportunity to lure Sarah away to work for her. But working for Glenda isn't all that Glenda made it out to be. Ann is equally as heartbroken about losing Sarah both as a friend and employee. Can either Ann or Sarah mend their personal and professional relationships without crawling back to the other? Meanwhile, it's Rayyan's birthday, which Amaar has totally forgot about as he is preoccupied with tasks around the new mosque. At what ends up being Rayyan's one day late birthday dinner out, Amaar basically ignores her as he deals with those mosque issues on his cellphone. Rayyan is angry over Amaar's behavior, while Amaar refuses to apologize for his behavior. When Rayyan hears about the nature of the phone calls, will she understand why Amaar is so preoccupied? And the church and mosque are holding their regular rummage sale. Both Thorne and Baber are offended when they see that the other has donated to the rummage sale what were originally gifts from one to the other. Their offended selves decide to enter into a challenge on who can sell more. But their challenge may be not to get sentimental about their "friendship" first as those gifted items hit the selling block.

It's three weeks until the new Mercy Mosque is officially open, but no one, besides Amaar, seems to know or really seems to care. Even the fact that Yousef bought a new shirt - as nice a shirt as it is - is garnering more attention. Rayyan suggests that Amaar get Nate to print a story in the Mercy Chronicle, but making such a story exciting to Nate itself becomes a challenge. The one thing that Nate picks up from Amaar's ramblings about the new mosque site is that a dead body was found in the building many years ago. Amaar, believing any publicity is good publicity, fails to tell Nate the complete nature of that dead body. What Nate ends up printing is that the building the new mosque is located in is haunted. Baber designates himself as the official Jinn exorciser, until Thorne inflicts his own western cultural sensibilities on Baber. Only when Amaar and Rayyan turn to PR maven Sarah, who comes up with a PR stunt, may they be able to show all the Muslims in Mercy that the building is safe to enter. Meanwhile, Nate, who believes he has fallen in love, goes to extreme lengths to be with the object of his affections, much to Fred's delight.

Ann is lamenting the fact that Charles will soon be getting married. She feels it is her destiny to marry him, but she needs to help that destiny along. Rather than being the bad ending of a romance movie by stopping the wedding at the altar, Sarah suggests Ann show him how good a woman she is for him. Ann puts her own interpretation of that message to take extreme measures to be that Charles Thorne-worthy woman. Meanwhile, Sarah is testing the waters of being an Anglican again. Her short stint in the church choir makes her think twice about the move back to Christianity. And Amaar informs Baber that he plans on reassuming the position of Imam at the Rayyan Mosque when it opens. As such, Baber decides to keep the Mercy Mosque open. Thorne welcomes Baber's decision to stay. But will Thorne think the same if Baber can't raise enough donations from the Muslims who decide to stay at the Mercy Mosque to pay the rent? An action by Sarah may make Baber and Thorne's decisions on the matter a moot point.

A heartbroken Ann didn't make it to Charles' wedding if only to stop him from marrying another woman. The same applies to Charles himself in that he didn't make it to his own wedding since he came to the realization that he wanted to marry Ann and be with her for the rest of their lives instead. But in the sober light of day, will Ann, who has lived much of her life as the non-monogamous partier, settle down with only Charles if given the opportunity? Meanwhile, the fact that Mercy Anglican is no more due to the fact that Sarah accidentally burned it down and that Thorne failed to renew the insurance leaves Thorne's future in Mercy in doubt. The town is now a place he loves and doesn't want to leave. The fact of the church's physical structure no longer being there also means that the Mercy Mosque is no more, but that fact doesn't stop Baber still from refusing to be a part of the new Rayyan Mosque, with Amaar as its Imam. Amaar feels that he has to reach out to Baber somehow. In reaching out to Baber, Amaar ultimately believes he can kill two birds with one stone, the idea for which stemming partly from the first religious event he sanctions at Rayyan Mosque.