Windfall

- Season 1

(2007)

Nineteen ordinary people from a single neighborhood win a lottery super pot, $20,000,000 each. The initial ecstasy is soon tainted for many by practical and relational worries. Teacher Cameron Walsh now reconsiders his offer to his ex Nina to leave their spouses, made when he still had to move to get tenure. Nina refuses to replace Beth and stays with unsuspecting good house-father Peter Schaefer. Damien Cutler (17) is so eager to get rid of his domineering dad that he hastens emancipation by marrying a Russian mail order bride, which after sex may not be broken up as...

Planning a trip to Paris creates tension between Beth and Nina. Damien throws a bash where Frankie realizes she's having romantic feelings for him. Kimberly learns her son has gotten into a fight at school. Things heat up between Sean and Zoe.

Sunny claims Kimberly George's lottery share, and files a law-suit, which blocks payment to everybody. Sean is briefly arrested after searching Zoe's flat, fearing she's abducted by Jeremy Benzing. Their lawyer warns the money is still all in her name. He teams up with her sister Tal, who finds her PC password. Cameron gets custody of the junk's baby, but only gets Beth's support when the boy needs hospital care for withdrawal symptoms. Damien keeps spending and dates a winner's daughter. His bride seeks legal advice and tries to seduce him again. Peter suggests ...

Sean discovers Zoe's sister Tally is armed. Jeremy's sister Jill allows them to wait till his next visit. Peter moves to a grand home, next to lawyer and potential plant investor Dave Park, who takes him 'fishing' (in fact for investors) to Baja behind Nina's back. Cameron and Beth are now happy with baby James and plan to get a biological child too, but he can't forget Nina. Damien visits his parents and considers terms to move back home. Frankie hates her ma's plan to move to New York, where she buys an apartment and dates a Marco. Damien flies over and discovers ...

During the break-in wave, Frankie's dad accidentally shoots Sunny. Sean pays a P.I. to trace Zoe's credit card, used in Santa Fé - alas a lie. Damien buys Galina a diamond wedding ring after she was mistaken for a prostitute. She offers to be exclusively and intimately his. After returning baby James to his junkie mother, Peter is trying for his own. Park asks Peter for a share rewarding his connections and legal services, so Nina gets Cameron to become the factory's main partner. The police arrests a Russian robber, who confesses murdering Zoe, with an accomplice- ...

Sean refuses Park's offer to plunder Zoe's overseas account 50-50 by fraud. During the robber-murder trial, Damian finally realizes Galina stole form him and dumps her, only to discover later she was used and loves him. Peter's emotional ties with former plant colleagues still inspire financial risks, Parks is now the voice of sheer investor greed. Cameron tries to mediate. His priority is Nina. Beth sees trough his lie he was unfaithful with a student on an Italian trip. Doug's cooking talent convinces a winner to become his restaurant partner.

Buoyed by a new business partner, Peter jets off to Europe to sign a big deal for the factory and his new investor Sunny goes with him unknown to Nina. Damien must find a way to prevent Galina from getting deported once their divorce is finalized. Meanwhile, Tally and Sean notice that huge sums of money are missing from Zoe's account after she was found dead.

Sean and Tally continue to search for the truth about Zoe's disappearance. Meanwhile, Cameron and Nina find comfort in each other's arms as Peter launches his first bicycle off the new lot.

Nina's intense attraction to Cameron is starting to obstruct her parenting abilities made worse by Peter's distance. After Colin Evett tells Peter that he will not be stopping using drugs at the same time that a sports editor asks Colin to do an on-the-spot drug test Peter's ad campaign sinks but he grows closer to Sunny because of it. Meanwhile, Tally briefly reunites with her sister Zoe against Sean's wishes for it to only bring heartache. Elsewhere, Frankie and Damien go on the run but soon realize it's not as much fun when you don't have money and Beth has a ...

Nina and Cameron start planning for their future together unknown to Peter. Sean runs from the law when the police start to investigate Zoe's death and he begins to doubt Tally and follows her. Meanwhile, Beth's hopes are dashed when she tries to adopt privately but she ends up reuniting an El Salvador family in the process. Elsewhere, Damien finds out that Galina is playing him when she won't sign the divorce papers.

Peter finds out about Nina and Cameron's affair from the accident and throws Nina out of their home. He then turns to Sunny for comfort. Nina finishes it with Cameron when she sees how much she has lost because of their affair. Galina lies to Damien about how she got bruising saying it was Razmik but Frankie has an encounter with Razmik's wife Judy who sets the record straight. Knowing that she's about to be kicked out of Damien's life for good she concocts a story about being pregnant with Damien's baby. Elsewhere, Maggie is highly suspicious of her brother Ramon's ...

After spending their first night together Sunny tells Peter that she lied about the ticket and that the ticket was indeed Kimberly's. Peter is furious with her as he defended her. An injured Sean goes to Maggie's asking for her help and he eventually gets her to help him find incriminating evidence about Tally. He is then admitted to hospital by Maggie when the bullet starts to cause problems. After his operation Detective Sinclaire arrests him telling him that Tally has come forward and accused him of killing her sister Zoe. Frankie finds Galina's pregnancy test and ...

Dave Park is arrested when Tally's stolen millions are found in his office. Galina tells Damien that Razmik has left his wife and they are going back to Russia to raise the baby. Peter and Nina go to counseling and after wards they decide to try and reconcile for the sake of their kids but Peter's not sure that her feelings for Cameron have completely gone away. Peter finally decides he cannot trust her and tells her to go to Cameron. Kimberly goes to see her ex-husband Michael. Beth gets a call from the adoption agency to say that she will be able to adopt her ...