Soul Food Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Soul Food: Season 5 (2004)

• Season 5 Episode 14: Don't Think This Hasn't Been Fabulous

  Damon tries to win Teri's love; Teri makes a career choice; Lem and Bird reconcile; Maxine enjoys a windfall.

• Season 5 Episode 13: Fear Eats the Soul

  Damon returns to Chicago; Alliance makes Kenny an offer; Lem collapses.

• Season 5 Episode 12: In the Garden

  Aunt Ruthie moves in with Teri; Bird tells her sisters about the kidnapping; Ahmad and Amina's relationship is strained.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Take It to the Limit

  The family discovers Bird's secret; Teri is uncomfortable with Charles' relationship with his ex-wife; Bird and Lem work on their marriage.

• Season 5 Episode 10: Love Me or Leave Me

  Lem discovers Bird with Malik; Teri and Charles juggle their relationship and careers; Kenny realizes the dangers of being a repo man.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Successful Failure

  The sisters argue on Mama Joe's birthday; Bird and Lem drift apart.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Angelitos Negros

  Teri agrees to spend the weekend with Charles; Bird has an encounter with Malik; Kenny's brother shares bad news.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Survival Techniques

  Bird is kidnapped; Maxine questions Amina's influence on Ahmad; Teri mistakes Charles' daughter for his girlfriend.

• Season 5 Episode 6: A Rock Hard Place

  Willie White pressures Lem; Teri makes a decision about Brian; Malik tests Maxine's fidelity.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Decisions and Choices

  Brian comes to Teri's rescue; Chadway Towing becomes the location for an adult movie.

• Season 5 Episode 4: We Plan

  Damon's mother arrives to retrieve the engagement ring; Maxine is offered a full-time position at work.

• Season 5 Episode 3: The Son Also Rises

  Kenny's brother visits; Willie White increases the pressure on Lem; Ahmad seeks refuge in a neighborhood school.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Two to Tango

  Teri takes control of her obsession with Damon; Bird insults a politician; Maxine pursues an educator to help her daughter read.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Pagan Poetry

  The FBI blackmails Lem; Ahmad is arrested; Teri struggles through her breakup.

Soul Food: Season 4 (2003)

• Season 4 Episode 10: Falling From Grace

  Estella returns for Mandel; Teri investigates her rights; Tobias is released from the hospital.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Nobody's Child

  Mandel is left at Maxine's house; Cameron turns to Lem; two girls check out Ahmad.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Sacrifice Fly

  Damon agrees to be interviewed about the accident; Kenny struggles with a damaged friendship; Teri possesses one of Bird and Lem's videotapes.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Attracting Opposites

  Ahmad tries to avoid his recent dreams; Baron's son comes to town; Teri catches Eva and Bird together.

• Season 4 Episode 6: My Brother's Keeper

  Lionel receives surprising news; Ahmad begins an underground publication; Damon gives Teri a ring.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Shades of Grey

  Ahmad learns the importance of tolerance; Kenny agrees to hire someone from 'The Transition House'; Eva's friends feel threatened; Teri is called in for jury duty.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Truth's Consequences

  A visit from Aunt Ruthie wreaks havoc; Damon confesses to drinking; Ahmad finds himself falling for Reggie's girl.

• Season 4 Episode 3: The New Math

  Damon runs interference between Benny and an ex-girlfriend; Teri tries to help a student; Maxine and Kenny struggle with Kelly's poor test scores.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Life 101

  Bird makes a surprising discovery; Teri struggles with being 'Superchick'; Ahmad and Keisha get back together.

• Season 4 Episode 1: All Together Alone

  Damon is arrested; Lem finds out that Michael King is stalking Bird; Ahmad catches his parents.

Soul Food: Season 3 (2002)

• Season 3 Episode 10: Emotional Collateral

  Maxine jeopardizes her job; Damon is offered a new job.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Big Dreams in Small Spaces

  Bird and Lem plan to renovate.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Let's Do It Again

  Kenny and Maxine decide to renew marriage vows; Bird jumps to conclusions about her neighbors; Teri and Damon adjust to living together.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Child Safety

  Ahmad's life is in danger; Damon's client has an odd mistress.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Stranger Than Fiction

  Kenny moves back in; Teri and Peter break up; Bird hosts a hair segment on a local talk show.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Empty Spaces

  Kenny and Lem argue about a business venture; Teri and Damon define their relationship; Maxine gets a job.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Out With the Old ...

  Lem tries to help a friend; Bird enters a hair show; Brian hints at his feelings for Teri.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Past Imperfect

  Kenny apologizes to Maxine; Teri and Damon reveal their feelings; Bird makes a disturbing discovery about her affair.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Ultimate Power

  Maxine considers buying a gun; Ahmad accuses a teacher of violating his rights; Teri takes on a powerful client.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Tonight at Noon

  Teri returns to her old firm; Damon is haunted by Christine's ghost; Bird and Lem try to reunite Max and Kenny.

Soul Food: Season 2 (2001 - 2002)

• Season 2 Episode 20: This Must Be Love

  Damon reacts to Christine's pregnancy; Lila sends a love letter; Bird is propositioned.

• Season 2 Episode 19: In Transition

  Lem's loyalty is tested; Teri is fired; Damon gets a new client; Ahmad is upset about the breakup.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Lovers and Other Strangers

  Lem blackmails his mother's boyfriend; Kenny is rattled by his father's relationship with Lila.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Help

  Teri suffers a panic attack; Kenny pitches for a bank loan; Christine is jealous of Teri.

• Season 2 Episode 16: A Taste of Justice

  Lem finds the arsonist; an egotistical client frustrates Damon; Kenny is banned from his child's soccer games for fighting.

• Season 2 Episode 15: From Dreams to Nightmares

  Damon's first client is a bankrupt hockey player; Ahmad learns about making the right choices in life.

• Season 2 Episode 14: If You Don't Know Me by Now

  Lem is suspected; Ahmed is challenged to a fight; Kenny feels the strain of Lila's absence at the office.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Fly Away Home

  Lem and Bird's marriage suffers; Teri forces her family away from Damon.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Running as Fast as I Can

  Ahmad is caught in a lie; Maxine decides to run for office.

• Season 2 Episode 11: I'm Afraid of Americans

  A riot breaks out; Kenny and Maxine disagree; Lem tries to save a young drug dealer.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Never Can Say Goodbye

  Maxine and Kenny are at odds with a basketball coach; Teri finalizes her breakup.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Root

  Lem turns a profit at the grocery store.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Life Lessons

  Damon's father offers an investment; Teri takes a sexual harassment case.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Games People Play

  Teri is reunited with an old crush; Lila comes to terms with her feelings for Kenny.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Come Back for the Comeback

  Faith returns in trouble; Kenny returns to work; Damon woos a college athlete.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Sex and Money

  Lem disapproves of Bird's new lifestyle; Ahmad sells kinky videos at school; Damon rekindles a relationship with an ex-girlfriend.

• Season 2 Episode 4: God Bless the Child

  Lem's mother attempts to reassert herself into the family; Teri tries group therapy.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Who Do You Know

  Kenny and Lem visit a strip club; Teri gets a visit from her first ex-husband.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Welcome Home

  Kenny returns from the hospital; Maxine and Lila manage the towing business; Ahmad jeopardizes his new relationship.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Aftermath

  Teri juggles her career and family; Ahmad believes his family's mishaps are the result of his 'baptism curse.'

Soul Food: Season 1 (2000 - 2001)

• Season 1 Episode 20: Take Me to the Water

  Teri's personal crisis leads her to seek spiritual guidance.

• Season 1 Episode 19: A Clear and Present Stranger

  Kenny faces unresolved issues with his father.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Everything Is Unfolding Perfectly

  Teri consults a psychiatrist to help her deal with anxiety.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose

  Kenny hires a sexy new assistant; Teri is angry at being denied partnership at her firm.

• Season 1 Episode 16: This Crazy Life

  Lem and Bird are held hostage at the salon by a quarreling couple; Ahmad wants to be treated as an adult.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Little Girl Blue

  Teri lands a major client for her firm; Kenny is troubled when he learns that Ahmad is friends with a gay man.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Nice Work if You Can Get It

  Lem becomes a joint partner in J&H Grocery Store; Damon blames himself for his brother's emotional problems.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Ordinary Pain

  The sisters learn that their father has another daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Language of Life

  Lem's lying causes Bird to make a life-altering decision.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Man Trouble

  The police suspect Lem in Jack's disappearance; Teri discovers Brian in a sexual encounter.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Samurai Secrets

  Maxine discovers that her husband and sister once dated; Lem tries to get Jack out of his life.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Anything You Can Do

  Maxime teams up with Lem to invest in a tech stock; Ahmad questions a friendship's validity.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Bad Luck

  Ahmad asks Teri to hold a party in her upscale neighborhood to impress his private-school friends; Kenny lands in jail.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Truth Be Told

  Damon gets caught with another woman; Hardy's sister has shocking news; Damon and Teri encounter a robber at gunpoint.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Claiming

  Gang members threaten Kenny's business; Teri meets Damon's parents.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Watermelon Theory

  Teri takes on a client accused of racism; Ahmad catches his father during a private moment.

• Season 1 Episode 4: What Women Want

  The sisters win back half their father's store; Bird returns to her salon following pregnancy leave.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Heart of the Matter

  Teri's unresolved feelings for Miles come to a head.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The More Things Stay the Same

  The girls take their father's partner to court; Lem addresses money problems; Teri ruins her relationship.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The More Things Change

  Three sisters struggle to keep the family together in the wake of their mother's death.