11. The House That Dharma Built

A friendly game of strip poker between the newlyweds is interrupted by an emergency visit from Larry and Abby (who are willing to wait a half hour until the sex is finished, an offer Greg can't accept). It turns out that their property is under siege by an unscrupulous developer who happens to be a former, and hated, classmate of Greg's. After Dharma invites the developer and his wife to dinner, then has to fight off his sexual advances, she is forced to accept Greg's viewpoint -- that he is evil -- and to seek a flattered Kitty's advice on how to get rid of him and save her parents' beloved home.

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Complete story — includes the ending

Dharma fights to save her childhood home when David Saunders, a greedy developer with whom Greg went to school, pressures her parents to sell it. In an attempt to persuade him to change his mind, she invites Saunders and his discontented wife, Patty, to dinner, only to discover that he is, in fact, as unscrupulous and loathsome as Greg described him. After fighting off Saunders' sexual advances on a trampoline at her parents' home, Dharma solicits Kitty's help in devising a plan to discredit him. She and Jane go to Saunders' home at night to look through his garbage for incriminating evidence. They are soon joined by Greg and Pete. When IRS agents appear suddenly, a drunken Patty emerges from the house, and offers to provide the agents with her husband's shady financial documents, thus saving Larry and Abby's house.

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