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Days Short Recap Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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Marlena went to Bayview to check on Harris. They are both surprised when they see Ava. Ava confronted him and accused him of being there for her. Harris was confused and Marlena wanted to find Ava’s doctor. Ava thought Harris was her dead son Charlie. She yelled at him so a nurse arrived and sedated her. Marlena returned and asked Harris if he was okay. He couldn’t get over the fact that Ava seemed like she knew him. Marlena left to go to the hospital. He sat down and Ava approached him. Shawn arrived at the police station and told Jada that his suspension was done. He wanted to know how he had to talk to about it. She didn’t know because no one was given Rafe’s job yet. The acting mayor was thrilled to see Shawn. He thought Rafe suspended him because he told on him. Shawn told him that he was drinking on the job. He promised not to do it again. The acting mayor took his word for it. He said he had to replace Rafe. Shawn suggested he give the job to Jada, but he gave the job to him instead.

Kayla brought Abe lunch. He thought she was an actress on Body & Soul, but he remembered who she was. They talked about him staying at her place. She told him that he could stay as long as he needed to do it. He was afraid that he hurt Paulina by leaving, but she assured him that she understood. She showed him flashcards that she made up for him. She made the cards of his family and friends. She wanted to quiz him on the flashcards. Chanel went home and saw Paulina watching TV. She told Chanel what happened with Abe. Chanel tried to comfort her. She told her mother about her dinner with Talia. She admitted that she still had feelings for Talia. Chanel got a call that her bakery was shut down by the city again. They went to the town square and saw the acting mayor. He let them know that he did it based on a technicality. Chanel was upset, but she knew there was nothing she could do about it.

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Paulina complains to Chanel about the acting Mayor thinking he can shut down the Bakery over a sticker that she was never sent. Chanel insists that it was personal and that Mayor Rawlings wanted her shut down for good and thinks she got preferential treatment because Abe was the Mayor. Paulina declares that she’s not going to let Mayor Rawlings bully Chanel out of business, so she’s going to take care of him and storms off.

Kayla sits with Abe and continues to try to jog his memory with photos. Kayla shows him Chanel which Abe correctly recognizes. Abe then suggests going through the photos again so Kayla starts over with Marlena.

Marlena asks Talia what kind of feelings she wants to talk about in regards to Chanel. Talia doesn’t know and admits it might be romantic feelings, but she knows Chanel dated Marlena’s granddaughter and was married to her grandson, so she understands if this is too weird for her to talk about. Marlena responds that Talia is her patient, so she is here to listen to her without judgment.

Tripp is at the hospital and calls Wendy to ask what she’s doing. Wendy responds that she just got home from work and was just about to watch a movie. Tripp says there’s a change of plans and she will meet him tonight as he swapped shifts. Wendy asks what the plan is. Tripp informs her that he booked them another room at the Salem Inn that isn’t occupied so there will be no interruptions. Tripp says it will just be them tonight. Wendy responds that she will pack a bag and see him there.

Ava returns to Harris at Bayview and tells him not to worry as she’s not going to attack him again and she just wanted to apologize. Harris questions her calling him Harris. Ava assures that she knows that’s his name now and introduces herself. Ava says she’s feeling better after earlier thinking that he was her dead son Charlie. Harris informs her that Marlena explained. Ava asks if Marlena told him why she would attack her own child. Harris admits she did not. Ava then explains that her son Charlie had issues, kidnapped her, and drugged her food which started her hallucinations. Ava adds that her other son Tripp found her and she lost her grip on reality, so she ended up in the hospital where her hallucinations continued. Ava notes that just when she was starting to feel better, Charlie showed up to try to kill her but luckily, people showed up to stop him and then someone stopped him for good as he was shot to death. Harris tells Ava that he’s so sorry. Ava says it’s okay and that after that, her hallucinations stopped for awhile and she was doing great for a bit, but then she was having a rough time a couple months ago and the hallucinations started again with Charlie telling her to do terrible things. Ava admits that she had a full on psychotic break and that’s how she ended up here. Harris mentions that Marlena thought she was improving. Ava confirms that she had been between the meds and therapy, so she thought the visions were gone but apparently not. Ava is sure Harris didn’t want to hear all that, but she really wanted to apologize for attacking him earlier as it was nothing personal. Ava comments that Harris seems like a really nice person and assures she will do her best to make sure nothing like that happens again.

Talia informs Marlena that she’s never been attracted to women before and has like no experience as she’s only really been in one relationship in her life and that guy turned out to be a lunatic. Talia can’t help but think that her interest in women is because of what one terrible man did to her. Marlena questions if that’s what she thinks is happening. Talia admits she doesn’t know and says after everything that happened with Colin, she doesn’t trust her judgment anymore so it’s entirely possible that her feelings for Chanel aren’t real.

Johnny finds Chanel in the town square and questions the Bakery being shut down. Talia confirms that Salem’s acting Mayor shut her down because she failed to display the City of Salem sticker in the window which they never sent her. Chanel argues that the whole thing is bogus as she doesn’t see any stickers around but somehow, only her business was hit by the surprise inspection. Chanel adds that Mayor Rawlings practically admitted to being out to get her. Johnny asks what his problem is and why he is targeting her. Chanel responds that she has no idea and wonders what difference it makes. Johnny argues that he can’t just shut her down, so she has to fight back. Chanel mentions that Paulina agrees and said that she had someway to fix it but wouldn’t tell her what and that Paulina then just stormed off so lord knows what she’s up to.

Kayla shows Abe a photo of Paulina. Abe states that she is his wife but repeats that every time he tries to picture her, he sees Whitley. Kayla suggests taking a break and getting fresh air. Paulina then shows up at the door and declares that she needs to see Abe now.

Harris comments on Ava being so upset awhile ago but now seeming sane. Ava responds that the meds work fast. Ava admits she tried to take herself off the meds but she won’t make that mistake again. Harris relates to thinking you’re recovered but realizing you’re not. Ava says under different circumstances, she would ask what he’s in for but she doesn’t want to pry. Harris tells her that he doesn’t mind sharing since they are here to talk, listen, and learn from one another. Harris says before getting to him, he’d like to finish talking about her. Harris asks if Ava knows why she’s still having hallucinations. Ava responds that her shrink thinks it’s a manifestation of her guilty conscience. Harris asks what she feels guilty about. Ava asks where to begin.

Talia tells Marlena that she doesn’t even know why she’s talking about this since it’s not like anything can happen between her and Chanel after everything she did to hurt her family. Marlena reminds her that they talked about that before and that Talia was in an emotionally abusive relationship where Colin manipulated her in to doing things she didn’t want to do. Talia mentions telling Chanel that so she could understand. Talia adds that they only met because Colin wanted her to destroy Chanel’s life, but she actually ended up genuinely liking her and still does. Talia admits that she misses Chanel and she hasn’t felt this way about other friends. Talia asks if that means she’s bisexual. Marlena doesn’t think they have to label it but that she has to acknowledge if she has romantic feelings for Chanel and be honest with herself. Talia then declares that she has romantic feelings for Chanel.

Chanel tells Johnny that Paulina is probably going all mama bear on someone in City Hall. Johnny encourages that if anyone can get the job done, it’s Paulina. Chanel brings up not seeing Johnny in awhile so she asks how he’s been. Johnny responds that he’s been good and that he was out of town for awhile. Johnny then sees Wendy going in to the Salem Inn with her bag packed. Chanel asks where Johnny went. Johnny tells her that he was in New Zealand as Will invited him out to see his film set and he had nothing else going on. Johnny praises the film technology over there. Chanel asks if he went sight seeing while there. Johnny says he did and that New Zealand is beautiful so he wishes he could’ve stayed longer. Chanel asks about family. Johnny talks about Arianna and Henry. Chanel adds that he can tell her about Allie, guessing that he did see her. Johnny confirms that he did.

Wendy enters the room at the Salem Inn where Tripp is inside with a candle lit dinner set up. Tripp tells her that she looks so beautiful. Wendy comments that he didn’t have to do all this. Tripp reminds her that they wanted their first time to be perfect, so he hopes he can live up to the hype. Wendy assures that he already has as they kiss.

Kayla questions what Paulina is doing there since she agreed to give Abe some space. Paulina pushes her way in and declares that this is an emergency. Paulina sits with Abe and tells him that she is his wife. Abe responds that he knows who she is and he thought she understood that he’s not ready to go back to her place. Paulina argues that it’s their home and she wishes he was there with her, but that’s not what she came to ask. Abe states that whatever it is, the answer will still be the same as he cannot be a good husband right now. Paulina questions if he can be a good mayor.

Harris tells Ava that he understands if it’s too personal. Ava agrees they are there to talk, listen, and learn. Ava explains to Harris that her older son Tripp was taken from her as a baby when her father sold him on the black market. Harris says he’s so sorry. Ava says she was devastated and her father thought she could just have another kid and magically be cured. Ava adds that when she held Charlie, she felt nothing because it just reminded her of what she had lost with Steve and Tripp, so she gave Charlie to his father. Ava talks about how Charlie would try anything to get her attention but she gave him nothing. Harris understands she had been traumatized. Ava points out that wasn’t Charlie’s fault and he didn’t deserve to be punished for what her father did as he needed a mother’s love but he didn’t get that, so he grew up with hate in his heart and did horrible, hateful things just like she did. Ava states that an innocent woman died because of her and she can’t say Charlie made her do it because it was a voice in her head. Ava adds that it’s not the first time that she’s caused someone’s death and remarks that Harris has no idea what it’s like to be responsible for something so tragic. Harris corrects her that he unfortunately knows exactly what that feels like.

Wendy tells Tripp that she’s actually not hungry for dinner and suggests they skip ahead which Tripp agrees they can do.

Talia tells Marlena that Chanel even considering her a friend again is more than she could’ve expected, so she worries that expecting anything more would be too much. Talia adds that she doesn’t deserve to be happy with Chanel after everything she did. Marlena feels that sounds like something Colin would put in her head and says it isn’t true. Marlena adds that Colin kept power of her, but now she has taken back her power and is working on her mental health. Talia guesses it’s probably not a good idea to jump in to a relationship right now. Marlena says maybe not but it’s also not good to repress her feelings.

Chanel brings up that Johnny and Allie weren’t on the best terms when Allie left town. Johnny acknowledges that she moved to a different hemisphere without letting him know or saying goodbye. Chanel talks about the mess between them and Allie and Alex. Chanel hopes things are better between them. Johnny confirms that Allie apologized for leaving the way she did. Johnny gets that Allie just needed to get out and start fresh and she seems to be doing really well now that she’s seeing someone else. Chanel admits that rattled her at first but she’s fine now. Chanel asks what Allie’s boyfriend is like. Johnny claims that he’s a total tool with zero personality and jokes that he’s ugly. Chanel says nice try but she has seen pictures of him and he could pass for a Hemsworth brother. Chanel tells Johnny to tell her the truth and guesses the guy is great. Johnny admits he’s pretty cool and that Allie seems happy with him. Chanel says she’s glad. Johnny then states that he doesn’t hold a candle to Chanel as nobody does.

Abe questions what Paulina is talking about. Paulina explains that the acting mayor, Clint Rawlings, has shut down Chanel’s bakery again and complains that it’s not fair or right, while Abe is the only one who can fix it. Abe questions how he can do that. Paulina argues that it’s Abe’s job and Clint only stepped in when Abe was presumed dead, so he needs to go take his job back and kick that power tripper to the curb. Paulina says if it was some random person, she wouldn’t ask, but it’s Chanel and Abe thinks of her as his own. Paulina brings up that Chanel was only able to open the Bakery because of Abe. Paulina talks about how Abe was so impressed that Chanel got the approval to open the bakery and was thriving. Paulina knows that if Abe could remember, he’d do everything in his power to get the Bakery running again. Paulina pleads with Abe to help Chanel before it’s too late.

Ava says that Harris being brainwashed is not his fault. Harris says it doesn’t fit with who he is or who he thought he was as Navy SEALs are trained to resist but he couldn’t resist orders to kill two innocent people and a couple weeks ago, he was going to kill someone that he didn’t even know. Harris doesn’t understand why he’s so vulnerable to being controlled this way. Harris says he had to make sure it didn’t happen again, so he asked Marlena to have him committed. Harris always thought of himself as an elite, invincible warrior. Ava points out that nobody is invincible and nobody likes being controlled. Harris responds that all he knows now is that he’s done walking out worrying that he could become someone else’s pawn. Harris asks how long it’s been since Ava has talked to Tripp. Ava admits it’s been awhile because last time he came to visit a few months ago, she thought he was Charlie and attacked him, so the doctors told Tripp to stay away as they were afraid that seeing him would trigger her. Harris knows that must be really hard. Ava admits she was relieved as she can’t keep putting Tripp through that and doing that to him. Ava brings up that the doctors recently said she could see him again but she doesn’t want to snap on him again and feels she can’t keep dragging Tripp through her own nightmare as he doesn’t deserve it. Harris asks if the alternative is not seeing her son anymore and if that’s what she really wants.

Tripp presents Wendy with dessert and says he knows what she meant but they can’t let it all go to waste. Tripp then brings in another room service cart of chocolate fondue. Wendy then calls Tripp her dream come true. Tripp says she is his too and they kiss.

Talia questions what she’s even supposed to say to Chanel about her feelings. Marlena suggests a more nuanced approach. Talia asks what if Chanel freaks out on her and gets furious. Marlena admits she can’t promise that won’t happen but the last thing she wants to have is regret. Marlena worries that if Talia doesn’t talk to Chanel, she will never know what might have been.

Chanel thanks Johnny. Johnny thinks Allie was nuts to give her up. Chanel says she would say the same about Wendy giving Johnny up. Johnny thinks Wendy would disagree and admits that he just saw Wendy heading in to the Salem Inn with an overnight bag. Chanel says she’s sorry and asks if he didn’t see it coming at all. Johnny thought things were going great. Chanel asks if Wendy gave him an explanation. Johnny admits that she did and thinks back to Wendy telling him that she didn’t think he was over Chanel. Chanel asks what Wendy’s reason was for breaking things off.

Paulina worries about the town of Salem with Mayor Rawlings in charge. Kayla pulls Paulina aside and insists that Abe needs to focus on his recovery. Paulina argues that she is Abe’s wife. Abe interrupts and says he may have lost his memory, but he still has a brain and free will, so this decision is all up to him. Abe announces that he’s decided he will do it which excites Paulina.

Ava tells Harris that the idea of never seeing Tripp again is unimaginable but feels she’s been nothing but a burden to him, so maybe it’s better if he just stays away. Harris asks if she thinks that’s what Tripp wants. Ava knows her son loves her, but says all she does is cause him pain and he’s had so much of that in his life. Ava talks about the things Tripp has overcome and that he’s a doctor now. Harris states that he’s not a parent but he can hear the love in her voice, so he knows Tripp must feel that and there’s no way he’d want to be cut off from that. Ava worries about attacking him again and insists she must protect Tripp like she failed to do with Charlie. Harris questions if she’s protecting Tripp or herself. Harris knows Ava is scared and admits that he is too, but they can’t let it stop them from trying. Harris feels if they say Ava is ready, she should try, and he’s sure Tripp would say the same thing.

Tripp and Wendy kiss. Wendy talks about looking forward to this so much but admits she’s a little nervous. Tripp says he is too. Wendy suggests they’re putting too much pressure on themselves in thinking it all has to be perfect because being here with him feels so right. Wendy knows this is their first time but points out there will be other times. Wendy decides they should give up on being perfect and just be in the moment with no pressure. Tripp agrees as they continue kissing until they are interrupted by Tripp’s phone ringing. Tripp apologizes as he forgot to turn it off but sees the call is from Bayview, so Wendy says he better answer it. Tripp answers the call and says he understands, mentioning the timeframe of 7-9. Tripp thanks them and hangs up. Tripp informs Wendy that Ava told her doctors that she wants to see him and they gave her the okay. Tripp notes that he’ll have to try to figure out how to get off work tomorrow in time since he’s working a double. Wendy points out that Bayview hours are open until 9 PM tonight. Tripp says there’s no way he’s leaving now but Wendy says he should since his mom wants to see him, so he better get over there before anything changes. Tripp says he wants to but they’ve been waiting so long. Wendy assures that she’ll still be there when he gets back as she’s not going anywhere. Tripp thanks her for understanding as they kiss.

Johnny starts to tell Chanel why Wendy broke up with him but Talia comes by and asks if she’s interrupting. Johnny says they were just catching up but he has to get going. Johnny tells Chanel to hang in there and to let him know if there’s anything he can do to help. Johnny then walks away. Talia asks what Johnny meant and if there’s anything he can do about what.

Paulina calls Abe an angel. Kayla questions if Abe is sure he wants to be the Mayor again. Paulina says he sounded sure to her. Abe admits he has to agree that he has a purpose and a reason to get up in the morning, so he thinks it would help with his recovery and he would be able to help others too. Paulina agrees. Kayla cautions him as her doctor. Abe knows she thinks it’s too much, too soon, and if it is, he gives his word that he will come right back but he has to at least try to help his stepdaughter. Paulina excitedly hugs Abe and says she can’t thank him enough.

Ava informs Harris that she just spoke to her doctor, who called Tripp and now he’s on his way. Harris says that’s great. Ava says everyone thinks she’s a badass that’s not afraid of anything but she’s really shaking. Harris encourages that it will be okay. Ava thanks him for encouraging her to reach out. Harris says he has a session to get to and tells Ava that it was nice talking to her. Ava guesses she will see him around as Harris then exits. Tripp then arrives and hugs Ava.

Wendy decides to turn on the TV while she waits for Tripp.

Johnny goes to see Marlena in her office at the hospital. Marlena hugs him and welcomes him home, saying it’s great to see him. Johnny asks if she has a patient right now. Marlena says no as she was just catching up on paper work. Johnny says he had something he hoped to talk to her about. Johnny can’t believe he’s about to say this, but he thinks he might still have romantic feelings for Chanel.

Paulina tells Abe that she’s sorry for getting carried away but she’s so grateful. Paulina calls Abe a good man, who always comes through for the people he loves. Paulina thanks Abe again and says she can’t wait to tell Chanel the good news as she hurries out. Abe knows Kayla thinks he made a mistake. Kayla hopes she is wrong. Abe says that makes two of them.

Talia questions Chanel about the acting mayor being out to get her. Chanel says she has no idea. Talia asks if there’s any way she can help. Chanel doesn’t think so. Talia points out that business was going good which Chanel confirms. Chanel notes that Talia seems nervous and asks if everything is okay. Talia says she just left therapy and Marlena encouraged her to talk to her. Chanel asks what’s going on. Talia says Chanel doesn’t have to respond but she has to get it out. Talia then tells Chanel that she has romantic feelings for her and she doesn’t know if Chanel could ever return them, but asks her to let her know if she could if she wants to. Talia then decides she has to go and rushes off.

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Shawn goes to the police station and informs Jada that his suspension is up today, but he doesn’t know who to talk to about coming back to work. Jada responds that she doesn’t know either because the acting Mayor hasn’t appointed a new police commissioner since firing Rafe which Shawn blames himself for.

Talia goes home to Jada’s room above the Pub after working community service. Talia complains that she’s going to need a shower, but then Rafe comes out from the shower and is surprised to see her.

Paulina sits at home watching Body and Soul. Chanel comes home and asks what Paulina is doing. Paulina invites her to watch Body and Soul with her. Chanel questions what’s going on and why she’s sitting in her robe in the middle of the day. Chanel then asks where Abe is. Paulina responds that he moved out.

Abe sits at Steve and Kayla’s as he turns on Body and Soul. Kayla comes home with food from the Pub. Kayla asks Abe if he knows who she is. Abe responds that she is Cassandra from Body and Soul.

Marlena visits Harris Michaels at Bayview. Harris says he’s fine. Marlena asks if he’s adjusting to life at Bayview. Harris says so far, so good and mentions running in to Eve Donovan which went surprisingly well as he had the chance to apologize for hurting her in the past and she accepted his apology which Marlena calls a wonderful sign of progress. Ava Vitali then appears and questions what the hell Harris is doing there. Marlena tells Ava to calm down but Ava demands to know what this son of a bitch is doing here. Harris says he’s sorry. Ava responds that she should be as she thought she got rid of him a long time ago. Harris repeats that he’s sorry and asks if he knows her. Ava questions him playing dumb and responds that he knows her just as well as she knows him.

Chanel questions Paulina about Abe moving out and explains that she stayed out late last night to give them alone time and then when she left this morning for the Bakery, she just assumed she was still in bed. Paulina responsd that she was but Abe was long gone. Chanel asks if they had a fight. Paulina says no but he was clearly uncomfortable and guesses he didn’t like when she kissed him which she did impulsively, thinking it would help him remember but all it did was disgust him. Chanel encourages that’s only because Abe doesn’t know her but as soon as he gets his memory back, he will be kissing her back. Chanel asks where Abe stayed instead. Paulina responds that he had Steve pick him up to stay with he and Kayla.

Kayla clarifies to Abe who she is. Abe recognizes her as his doctor but says she reminds him of the character on Body and Soul and apologizes for getting mixed up. Kayla understands that he has all these new faces and names so it’s like they are all these characters in a soap opera doing crazy things…

Rafe gets dressed and apologizes to Talia as he didn’t expect her back so soon. Talia explains that she came home to shower after dealing with all the trash from the White Dove Motel. Talia says Rafe and Jada using the place while she’s out is fine and asks him to just give her a heads up next time. Rafe admits that makes sense and notes that Jada just left for work while he didn’t have anywhere to be. Talia still can’t believe Rafe got fired for dating her sister. Rafe acknowledges that he was her boss and they have a policy against dating subordinates. Talia calls that a stupid policy. Rafe states that he did it and probably shouldn’t have. Talia argues that Mayor Rawlings would have never found out if it wasn’t for Shawn Brady.

Shawn asks if Jada’s not going to say anything about it being his fault that Rafe was fired. Jada asks what there is to say. Shawn guesses he was hoping she’d say she knew it wasn’t intentional and that he didn’t mean for Mayor Rawlings to hear what he said about her and Rafe. Shawn acknowledges that he was drinking and shooting his mouth off, then he tried to back pedal. Jada reminds him that Mayor Rawlings asked her and left her no choice but to admit so his back pedaling was pointless. Shawn offers to speak to the Mayor to get him to reverse the decision. Mayor Rawlings then arrives, so Jada tells him now is his chance.

Abe tells Kayla that it’s very generous of her and Steve to let him stay for awhile but he thinks he’s imposing. Kayla insists that he couldn’t impose on them if he tried. Kayla brings up all the weeks they didn’t know they would see him again and calls it a gift from God. Kayla talks about Abe knowing their whole family and calls him family, even though he doesn’t remember that. Abe says he appreciates that. Abe adds that as much as Paulina wanted him to, he knew from the moment that he went home that he couldn’t stay and that’s when he called Steve to come get him so he could stay with them for awhile. Kayla is glad they could be there for him. Abe appreciates their generosity but notes that the look on Paulina’s face made him know how much he upset her.

Chanel encourages that it’s not so bad that Abe is staying with Steve and Kayla since at least they know he’s safe. Paulina talks about Kayla telling her to just be patient which Chanel knows is hard for her. Paulina adds that Kayla said she would work with Abe to help him see that she only wants him to get better. Chanel insists that sooner or later, Abe is going to come back to her. Paulina admits that her optimism lifts her spirits, but she’s sorry that Chanel had to stay away last night for nothing. Chanel then reveals that it wasn’t all for nothing as she actually spent some time with Talia.

Rafe tells Talia that it’s not Shawn’s fault that he got fired. Talia argues that if Shawn hadn’t opened his big mouth, Mayor Rawlings would have never found out. Rafe points out that if he hadn’t been seeing Jada in the first place, there would have been nothing for the Mayor to hear. Talia complains that cops are supposed to look out for one another, not gossip about their personal lives, and says that at least Rafe told Shawn off. Rafe appreciates that Talia is on her side but says he got himself in to this mess so he has to take the blame for it.

Mayor Rawlings says he just came to see how things are going now that Rafe has been relieved from his post. Shawn says he needed to speak with him. Mayor Rawlings brings up that it was Rafe that suspended Shawn and says they have to fix that error. He remarks that he can’t believe Rafe had the gall to go after Shawn and calls it outrageous that he put Shawn’s job on the line for blowing the whistle on him.

Ava argues that Harris obviously knows who she is and that’s why he showed up here. Marlena goes to find Ava’s doctor. Harris argues that Ava is mistaking him for someone else. Ava laughs off the idea of forgetting him after all the trouble that he put her through over the years. Ava blames him for her ending up back with her family and the mob connections. Harris responds that he’s sorry that happened but introduces himself as Harris Michaels which Ava laughs at. Ava questions if that’s the best he can come up with. Harris insists that’s his name. Ava tells him not to lie to her as she knows exactly who he is. Harris then asks who she thinks he is. Ava calls him her son Charlie and questions why he keeps coming back. Ava tries to attack him until Marlena comes back with a doctor. Marlena shouts that they are only trying to help her as the doctor injects Ava with something that causes her to pass out.

Jada explains to Mayor Rawlings that Rafe didn’t suspend Shawn for telling about their relationship. Mayor Rawlings questions the timing. Shawn confirms that Jada is right and reveals that Rafe caught him drinking on the job as he was going through a rough patch, but he’s seeing a therapist and promises it will never happen again. Mayor Rawlings remarks that it seems Shawn learned his lesson but he’s afraid the same can’t be said for Rafe which is why he needs to appoint a new police commissioner immediately.

Talia guesses it’s good that Rafe is not holding a grudge. Rafe calls it too exhausting. Talia notes that Chanel said something just like that to her. Rafe questions her talking to Chanel. Talia says she ran in to her yesterday and they actually had a good time. Rafe calls that great and suggests maybe Chanel is ready to put everything behind her and they can be friends again. Talia comments on friends so Rafe asks if she was hoping for something more than that.

Paulina questions Chanel spending time with Talia. Chanel explains that she ran in to her in the town square after Talia had just come from Colin’s hearing where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison which Paulina calls some good news. Chanel talks about how Colin said some horrible things to Talia, so she tried to make her feel better as no matter what Talia did, she didn’t deserve to be abused by Colin. Chanel adds that next thing she knew, they were having dinner and she remembered why she liked Talia so much in the first place before everything went south. Chanel states that the more they talked, the more she started to feel a connection to Talia. Paulina questions if Chanel is saying she’s attracted to Talia.

Kayla tells Abe that Paulina has been through a lot the past few weeks but understands that Abe just needs some time. Abe insists that he didn’t mean to hurt her, but he knows if he stayed, she would be watching him and prompting him to try to get him to remember while hiding her hurt. Abe feels it would’ve been awful and hurt her more than him leaving. Kayla thinks he might be right. Abe adds that when Paulina kissed him, it was just strange as he knew she was his wife, but he didn’t know her. Kayla asks if he doesn’t remember her at all. Abe responds that he gets little glimpses and would see her in his dreams for a moment, but then the next minute he wouldn’t know her at all. Abe complains that everything is just so jumbled in his head and he just doesn’t know how to make any sense of it.

Talia tells Rafe that she doesn’t know if she wants to be more than friends with Chanel since she’s never been attracted to women and she only came on to Chanel because Colin was pressuring her to break her heart and she did everything he asked her to. Talia admits that when she and Chanel kissed, she actually felt something. Rafe asks if she’s not sure she wants to act on it. Talia repeats that she doesn’t know as everything right now is so confusing and after everything with Colin, she doesn’t know what’s true and what’s not. Talia suggests she should just talk to her therapist about it.

The doctor assures Marlena that he will have Ava taken back to her room. Marlena asks if Harris is alright. Harris says yes and asks if Marlena knows Ava. Marlena confirms that she does and explains that Ava has been having hallucinations about her dead son Charlie. Harris informs her that Ava thought he was Charlie. Marlena guesses something about him reminded her of Charlie and somehow triggered that episode. Harris calls it strange how Ava looked at him as it felt like she actually knew him.

Shawn suggests Mayor Rawlings just bring Rafe back as he’s a great guy, great boss, and did a lot for the city. Jada agrees and praises what’s been done since Rafe was in charge. Mayor Rawlings remarks that Jada is still under Rafe’s thumb which Jada argues against. He points out violating the city policy. Shawn states that Rafe made a mistake and that has nothing to do with his job performance. Mayor Rawlings argues that showing poor judgment has everything to do with it. He repeats that he needs to appoint a new commissioner and admits he’d be foolish not to consider an internal hire. Shawn agrees and thinks that Jada would make an excellent commissioner. Mayor Rawlings then reveals that he was actually thinking about Shawn.

Abe talks to Kayla about how one minute he knows he’s married to Paulina and the next, he pictures Whitley in a wedding dress. Abe knows Theo is his son, but he still sees Jerry and he can’t seem to get it straight. Kayla understands since he suffered a severe head injury and then Whitley kept giving him drugs to keep him prisoner while claiming strangers were his loved ones. Abe points out that Whitley is not still telling those stores or giving him drugs, so he asks if the effects are permanent and if he’s going to be like this forever.

Paulina acknowledges that Chanel was attracted to Talia before they found out what she was really up to. Chanel thought there was something there at the beginning but Talia was just putting on an act. Paulina brings up Chanel saying she felt last night like she did when she first met her. Paulina asks how Chanel really feels about Talia. Chanel then gets a call about the Bakery which shocks her.

Kayla doesn’t think Abe needs to worry about the drugs as it was mainly sedatives and nothing that would cause permanent damage. Abe still doesn’t know why Whitley would do this to him. Kayla explains that Whitley suffered severe trauma after losing her husband in a tragic accident, so she thinks Whitley had a psychotic break and Abe had severe amnesia, so it gave her the perfect opportunity to relive the life she wants. Abe states that he had no choice but to believe it was his life too since he doesn’t recognize the faces of any of his friends or family. Abe complains that all these new names and faces is just overwhelming. Kayla thinks she has a way to maybe help him.

Marlena tells Harris that she’s sorry to leave him after all that but she has to get back to the hospital. Harris understands and says he actually has a meeting with his therapist. Marlena tells him to call if he needs anything at all as she then exits.

Talia tells Rafe that she has to go shower since she has an appointment. Talia tells Rafe that it was really nice talking to him as she then goes to shower.

Chanel hangs up and informs Paulina that there was a surprise inspection from the health department at the Bakery and they failed, so they are being shut down. Chanel complains that it doesn’t make sense as she’s been so careful to follow every regulation and kept the place spotless. Paulina argues that there must be a mistake. Chanel brings up that the order came straight from the acting Mayor, who told her a few weeks ago that he was against the Bakery reopening and threatened to shut it down. Chanel worries that this is personal as Mayor Rawlings is out to get her.

Shawn questions Mayor Rawlings wanting him to be police commissioner. Mayor Rawlings asks why not and brings up that he comes from a long line of commissioners so he thinks it’s time to have a Brady back in that spot. Jada asks if he’s serious, reminding him that Shawn is just coming off a suspension. He says that’s why it’s the perfect time to accept this new position. Shawn responds that he’s sorry but he can’t accept it. Mayor Rawlings warns him that he will accept if he wants to continue working in the police department. He declares those are his terms, so Shawn can take it or leave it.

Talia meets Marlena at the hospital and hopes she’s not late. Marlena says she’s right on time. Talia mentions her community service. Marlena asks how that’s going. Talia says it’s fine. Marlena brings up knowing that Colin was sentenced yesterday. Talia confirms that she was in the court room. Marlena guesses seeing him again must have brought up a lot of feelings and asks if she wants to talk about it. Talia responds that she doesn’t want to talk about her feelings for Colin, but about her feelings for Chanel.

Paulina and Chanel go to the Bakery and finds a temporarily closed sign on it. Mayor Rawlings arrives and asks about them wanting to see him. Paulina questions the bakery being closed again. Mayor Rawlings responds that Chanel failed to follow regulations as she didn’t display the official City of Salem sticker which all businesses are required to do. Chanel argues that she wasn’t given one since they were out and said they’d be sent when restocked. Mayor Rawlings insists that no business can run without displaying the sticker. He remarks that maybe Abe was happy to look the other way at her numerous scandals, but his administration is by the book and he makes the rules now. He declares the Bakery is closed and walks away. Chanel asks Paulina now what.

Kayla presents Abe with photos of his friends to try and jog his memory. Kayla starts with Marlena, who Abe says looks very familiar and first thinks she’s a character from Body and Soul. Kayla explains that it’s Marlena, who is married to his best friend. Kayla then shows him a photo of John. Abe recalls meeting him with Steve. Kayla then shows a photo of Rafe. Abe guesses it but admits that he saw his name on the back of the photo.

Jada goes home where Rafe is watching Body and Soul. Rafe asks what she’s doing back so soon. Jada informs him that she had to come tell him about new developments at the office. Rafe guesses it must be something big. Jada suggests he brace himself.

Shawn enters the police commissioner’s office and takes his seat at the desk.

Ava returns to Harris at Bayview.

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[ Door clicks open ]

Nate: Oh, hello, nikki. Nice to see you again.

Victoria: Mom, is there some reason that you’re avoiding your own office?

Nikki: No, I was hoping to speak to you and I thought this would be the most efficient way.

Victoria: Good, I would like to speak to you as well.

Nate: If you’ll both excuse me, I have some newman media business to handle with audra.

Nikki: Certainly.

Victoria: Mm-hmm. Apparently, you didn’t waste any time while I was away, putting nate on the spot and grilling him about all kinds of things.

Phyllis: Listen to me, no more lies and I mean it. No more lies.

Summer: I really need you to mean it this time, okay? This doesn’t sit right with me, carson suddenly coming back and then tucker is in your room? I– I don’t– I don’t get it. What’s going on, mom? The truth. Not some made up story to spare me or any other excuse, please.

Phyllis: All right. Listen, my world has been spinning out of control. I’m trying to find a path out. Just trying to extricate myself and most importantly, you, from this mess.

Summer: So, that means something risky and dangerous that’s gonna blow up in our faces.

Phyllis: No, no, no. No. Honestly. This is doable. But I just need you to know my freedom hinges on tucker mccall.

Tucker: Your concern for your mother is touching, daniel, but I have no issue with phyllis. You got nothing to worry about, really.

Daniel: Why should i believe you?

Tucker: All I can give you is my word.

Daniel: That’s very reassuring.

Tucker: I’m telling you, there’s no– no games, no secret plans, no collusion of any kind. Uh, she and I share a distrust and a dislike for diane and your mom, um…

Daniel: And?

Tucker: Well, from what I understand, phyllis is working very hard to forge a new path ahead. She’s trying to let go of all her anger and her bitterness that has upturned all your worlds. And after what stark put her through, I’m impressed by her strength. Why aren’t you?

Jack: Zelda, it was great catching up with you in the big apple. I’m very excited about this new project that you and traci are leaning into.

[ Knocking on door ] Yeah, I think there’s a lot of promise. Yeah, I’m glad I could give you a few leads. We’ll talk soon.

Abby: Uncle jack, hi!

Jack: What a nice surprise. Come on in.

Abby: Oh, thanks. Um, well, I’m happy to hear that you are keeping in contact with zelda and that you’re supportive of aunt traci’s writing projects.

Jack: I’m especially excited about their latest endeavor.

Abby: Yeah. I just wish that things could be the same way with you and my mom. I– I am heartsick over the tension between the two of you and how it’s escalated off the charts. And if there is any way that I could help you fix this and– and put this behind you… hopefully, uh, before next week when my mom and tucker are getting married at the chancellor house.

Jack: They are going through with this farce of a marriage? And you and devon are hosting? Shingles.

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Abby: Okay, yes. Devon and I are helping my mom and tucker plan the wedding, but if you think about it, it makes sense because tucker is katherine’s son and devon and I will be standing up there with our parents.

Jack: I cannot believe what I am hearing. You are ready to sign off on a union between your mother and tucker mccall after how much you despised him in the past?

Abby: Okay, yes, I despised him, I hated him for how badly he hurt my mom, but my mom is happy now and honestly, I think tucker has changed. And my mom believes that, too.

Jack: Abby, I know you want your mother to be happy, I do, too. And I’m sorry to shatter your dream that this could be her next big chance at happiness, but tucker has not and will not change. He is the driving force behind her vehement determination to tear jabot apart and to punish me for loving diane. Look, she is not just willing, she is determined to break your grandfather’s company into pieces. We have disagreed in the past, we’ve not always seen eye to eye, there was always love and respect underneath that. This time, I have to admit, I– I’m scared for her. I don’t know how he pulled this off, but he has convinced her to shred her career and her family all at once.

Abby: Uncle jack, I’m sorry, but this time, I think you’re wrong.

Daniel: So, just to be clear, the only reason that you and my mother were hanging out was to talk about your mutual hatred for diane? And that’s it? You weren’t trying to work any kind of angle or come up with a plan that’s gonna ruin her life even further? No, seriously. [ Chuckles ] Just a friendly little conversation, right? And that’s why you were in her suite in the middle of the day while she’s facing murder charges?

Tucker: Daniel, I don’t think there’s anything I can say or do that’s gonna reassure you. You just don’t trust me. And apparently, you don’t trust your mother either, which is a real shame given how much love and trust she’s given you.

Daniel: Wow. You just love talking in circles. You know, I’m gonna try and be as direct as possible here. Stay the hell away from my mother. Enjoy your drink.

Phyllis: Tucker found carson. And I still need him to clear my name.

Summer: Tucker is the one that found him?

Phyllis: Yeah. He has resources, he has money.

Summer: So, what you’re saying is tucker is paying for his testimony?

Phyllis: Tucker is just making sure he stays around until I need him.

Summer: What, o– out of the goodness of his heart?

Phyllis: Listen, it’s quid pro quo. Tucker is asking that I get jack to forgive me and, in turn, diane will spin out.

Summer: And then what?

Phyllis: I don’t know. I don’t know. I guess diane goes too far, she leaves town, ashley’s happy to be rid of her, and tucker and ashley get to live happily ever after. I don’t know, I don’t care. What I do care about is keeping carson around.

Summer: Okay. Mom, I get it to a certain extent. I mean, I was willing to pay this guy to lie for you initially, but it– it’s not a good idea. Daniel and michael were right about that and you said that you understood that.

Phyllis: I do understand that, but that was before I heard the truth.

Summer: What’s the truth?

Phyllis: The truth is carson saw everything. He saw everything through the motel window and I didn’t know that, but he saw jeremy stark try to kill me and he saw how I stopped that from happening.

Summer: He saw? If he saw then why wouldn’t he come in? Why wouldn’t he try to help you?

Phyllis: I don’t know, maybe he was afraid. He’d already broken so many laws, he didn’t wanna be implicated. I don’t know.

Summer: You think that he could be trusted now?

Phyllis: I don’t know, but he’s all I got. Really, he’s all I got and– and this is the thing, is in order to get rid of tucker, I needed some leverage and I got that from adam. Okay? Tucker has rescinded the agreement and he’s rescinded everything and now I’m in direct communication with carson.

Summer: Oh, my god. This is– this is insane. This is nuts, mom. I don’t even know what to think. My head is actually spinning from all of the twists and turns in this story. I–

Phyllis: Listen, don’t do that, okay? Let’s stay positive, okay? I got this. This is all okay.

Summer: This is okay? I mean, mom, you just traded owing tucker for owing adam. This is what we’ve been fighting for? This is your freedom? This is your future? Oh, my god. Mom, you just got out from underneath one egomaniac, barely, and now you’re already cycling through two others? How is this okay to you? What are you thinking?

Nate: It’s nate.

Audra: Hi, uh, thanks for coming over so quickly.

Nate: Yeah. I had to give victoria and nikki an excuse about newman media.

Audra: That’s fair enough considering this mess is about that company anyway.

Nate: What’s going on?

Audra: Look, I know that it should be understood about all our conversations, but this should be kept in absolute confidence. Promise me you’ll do just that, as my total future hangs in the balance.

Nikki: Yes, victoria, I did have a very interesting lunch meeting with nate. It was very spur of the moment, it would’ve happened eventually whether you were in town or not.

Victoria: So, you put him on the spot and you grilled him and it was going to happen sooner or later, so I shouldn’t care? Is that what you’re saying?

Nikki: Well, don’t overreact. I’ve known nate a long time, since he followed in olivia’s footsteps as a doctor to his business endeavors and I am impressed with his drive and his accomplishments, but given the significant role he has at newman and in your personal life, your father and i naturally have some questions.

Victoria: I see. So, after this so-called lunch meeting, A.K.A interrogation, what is your take on nate? Is it more positive or is it more negative?

Nikki: Well, let me first say this, I was impressed with his directness. He laid all of his cards out on the table, that’s for sure. Including admitting that someday he’d like to have my job.

Victoria: Interesting.

Nikki: Uh-huh. Then he was quick to say he didn’t mean any disrespect.

Victoria: Nate has always been very direct about his ambitions. He’s never pretended otherwise.

Nikki: No, no, he has not. I guess I’m going to have to watch my back a bit more since he wants to replace me. All the more reason to keep an eye on him.

Victoria: Don’t worry. I am.

Nikki: Oh, well, I’m glad to hear that. That’s very wise. I mean, he did speak of co-piloting newman with you, but I think he just said that for my benefit.

Victoria: Oh, come on. I mean, you are being just as ridiculous as nicholas. Nate is not a threat to me or to you or the company in any way. He’s a valuable asset. He’s a strong leader and he has a lot to offer newman enterprises as we build our future.

Nikki: He made another interesting statement. He said he didn’t love you. So, please tell me that you’re not falling in love with him.

[ Nate sighs ]

Nate: I’m not so sure what I can promise until I know the deal.

Audra: That’s heavy, nate. Uh… the fate of newman media is on the line and ultimately, my future along with it.

Nate: You keep saying that. How so? What’s going on here?

Audra: Look, I really need your help, but I– I can’t expose myself and give you the details unless I know I can trust you.

Nate: Audra, what the hell is going on? What have you gotten yourself into?

Audra: It’s a mess I inherited via tucker and I would be in the direct line of fire.

Nate: Sounds like I could catch the fall out too if I helped you. So, you’re really not gonna tell me? Make me work this out myself? Fine. Let’s connect the dots here. Um, the fate of newman media plus tucker. This is something about mccall? Well, adam is running mccall these days, soon to be joined by nick and sharon with a consolidation merger. I know adam has been pushing hard to get his hands on newman media since he took over and you say this impacts newman media. Did adam dig up something that compromises your executive role? Is he the threat?

Jack: Abby, honey, I know how much you want peace with your mother, but this marriage, this so-called marriage, is moving at warped speed which says to me it’s only political. This isn’t about love, this is about love of power and it breaks my heart that my strong, capable, brilliant sister is allowing herself to be manipulated by this man.

Abby: Look, I am– I’m not gonna argue with you about who tucker is, but I don’t think he’s the problem.

Jack: What does that mean?

[ Abby sighs ]

Abby: Unfortunately, I think my mom is leading the attack. Her hatred for diane, it drives everything.

Jack: Yeah, she is irrational, but that makes her only more vulnerable to tucker’s control.

Abby: And I agree, my mom is strong and capable and brilliant, but she hates diane so much that she will do anything to take her down or to tear the two of you apart. And I think that tucker’s just along for the ride, happy to be the one person that she thinks isn’t conned by diane. Tucker loves my mom and he would do anything for her.

Summer: How could you involve adam in all of this? I mean, why– why would you do that? What does he want in exchange? Who are you gonna make a deal with next to get out from underneath adam’s thumb? Mom, it’s never gonna end.

Phyllis: Oddly enough, adam is doing me a favor.

Summer: Let me get this straight. So, adam is in control of tucker now, so that means that you’re in control of carson and you’re supposed to just trust that both adam and tucker aren’t going to do anything to screw this up for you? And that’s if, if carson’s testimony makes any difference at all because it is suspect, mom, no matter what you say. It doesn’t take a lawyer to figure that out. Does heather know about any of this?

Phyllis: Don’t worry about heather. I will deal with heather.

Summer: This all happened because you hate diane so much and you resented all of us who were willing to give her a chance, right? That’s why this all happened? You went to such extremes to prove your point. Look at where we are. Right back where we started. How am I supposed to trust anything that you have said since you came back from the dead? How? What happened with stark, you begging for forgiveness, wanting to make amends, saying that you’ve changed? After everything that has happened, mom, it– it seems like you haven’t changed. Yeah, everything’s taken care of.

Phyllis: Listen, summer,

[ Phyllis chuckles ] You don’t know what it’s like to be me. To stand here, facing you, telling you the truth, knowing that maybe you will never ever believe me again. I made mistakes, I realize that. I am trying like hell to make amends to you and your brother. I am trying so hard and it kills me to my core to have you doubt every single thing that comes out of my mouth.

Summer: Don’t talk to me about your pain, mom. I thought that I lost you and when you came back, I lost my marriage. I’m not gonna pity you. You’re the one that set that in motion.

Phyllis: Okay, I’m not gonna engage with you like this. I’m not gonna do it because every single thing I say to you, you have a counter attack to–

Summer: I’m not attacking you! Oh, my god! If the truth is that brutal, that is on you! I have tried. I have tried to accept you for who you are. I have tried to forgive you for everything that you have done and the damage that you have caused to me. If you want honesty, mom, this is what it looks like.

Phyllis: Listen. I’m gonna find a way out of this. It’s all gonna be good like I said earlier. I will find a way out of this.

Summer: The way out isn’t by colluding with tucker and adam, but you don’t care because you– you like it. You like the chaos and the destruction. You don’t know how to exist without all of this drama in your life.

[ Summer sighs ] You don’t have any ethics. You don’t have any shame and I– I’m finally seeing it now. You’re never ever gonna change back. Yeah.

[ Door slams ]

Jack: I can only imagine what your grandfather would think.

Abby: He’d be heartbroken, but not hopeless. He’d think that there’s a way to come back from this.

Jack: He was a wiser man than I.

Abby: Uncle jack, I’m sorry that my mom has gone off the deep end about diane, but tucker isn’t egging her on anymore.

Jack: Abby, I don’t see it.

Abby: I think that you don’t see it because you’re at the root of it. I mean, it’s your undying defense of diane, and the way you’ve been rubbing it in my mom’s face. And, okay, if– if you’re gonna bring diane to the wedding, then maybe you shouldn’t come.

Jack: Wait, you’re asking me to leave my wife at home?

Abby: My mom has found a level of happiness that she hasn’t had in a while and she does care about tucker and he cares about her. And you know if you bring diane, there’s gonna be some look, some sort of verbal attack and it’s not gonna be about love anymore. It’s gonna turn into this war and I will not let that happen.

Jack: You are putting me between a rock and a hard place, abby.

Abby: Uncle jack, I am trying to be switzerland here, I really am. I want to help fix this sibling bond between the two of you, but I can’t do it alone.

Victoria: As I’ve already told nate, I’m– I’m content with our current relationship status as is.

Nikki: So, you’re not falling in love?

Victoria: Oh, god no. No, I’m far too busy and I– I have too messy of a track record.

Nikki: Well, darling, you have known real love in the past. Life is short. Love is too important to give up on. I mean, I’m not talking about nate, I’m just talking about the general scheme of things.

Victoria: Well, yeah, you’re right, mom. I have known love, which is why I know that I can live without it. It just leaves me more time and more emotional freedom to focus on the kids and work and my life. I’m not… [ Scoffs ] Anxious to rush into anything right now.

Nikki: No, not now, but eventually.

Victoria: What if I’m just not, you know, good at it?

Nikki: Oh, victoria, come on.

Victoria: I mean, I’m good at a lot of things. I’m exceptional, if you get right down to it, at some things.

[ Sighs ] But love, uh– I’ve kind of made some poor choices at times and I’ve been selfish. I’ve also been too giving at times. Sometimes, I’ve lost myself along the way. I’ve betrayed people that I love and I’ve been betrayed.

[ Victoria sighs ] But you know the worst part, mom, is that I’ve trusted men so much. I’ve loved them so much that I didn’t realize who they really were. I don’t wanna blindly trust anymore, but I also don’t wanna have a permanent distrust. I don’t wanna carry that around. So, love isn’t really an issue for me because I won’t let it be.

Nikki: Darling, uh, love may not last forever, but that doesn’t mean that you should cut yourself off from it. Don’t give up. Allow yourself to love and trust and put the past aside when the right man comes along, of course.

Victoria: [ Scoffs ] Okay.

Nikki: Wait, wait, wait, just a minute, just a minute. I’m not quite finished. I know you and nate are having fun right now, but don’t be afraid to look elsewhere for something meaningful. I know you feel you’ve been burned a few times, but real love is too important to miss out on.

Audra: Uh, there was a major issue with one of our artists while I worked for tucker at mccall. While on a worldwide million dollar tour, the pr department found out that the singer was sleeping with, um, underage girls.

Nate: Statutory rape. Tucker knew about this?

Audra: Uh, no, no. He was, um, he was on one of his quests with no direct oversight or a knowledge of day-to-day matters at the time.

Nate: Still, it’s disgusting. Not to mention a huge financial liability.

Audra: Yeah, and a public relations crisis during a locked in, sold out tour. So, the pr department went into overdrive. They kept things quiet until the tour wrapped, at which time the star, you know, he admitted to the crime, went through due process, et cetera.

Nate: And tucker made you keep it quiet.

Audra: Yes. He did. And then when he returned, he learned about what had happened during his absence and then he directed me to wipe all traces, including replacing the pr team.

Nate: Okay, so what went wrong?

Audra: Well, some of my private emails to tucker slipped through to his spam folder. He never saw them and they were somehow missed during the data purge.

Nate: And now, adam is in control of those corporate it assets.

Audra: That’s right and he’s forcing my hand, insisting that I convince victor that the merging of newman media with mccall makes good business sense.

Nate: He is obsessed with getting his hands on your company.

Audra: And if he doesn’t get it, he’s gonna go to the press, I’ll be toast, and my career will be over. Dupixent helps you du more with less asthma.

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Victoria: Don’t worry, mom, I’m– I’m not hiding from love or from anything else, you know? I’m– I’m enjoying my life. I am. I– I wake up excited. Every day has challenges and I just– I love each and every single success. And you know, I’ve finally put the pain of ashland behind me. I love working here alongside you.

Nikki: As do I.

Victoria: And look, I mean,

[ Victoria sighs ] The kids are doing so great. They’re in such a solid place right now.

Nikki: Darling, you’re a wonderful mother. We are so blessed to have such a loving family.

Victoria: And as for nate, I have to say, I mean, I finally feel like I’m living my life as an adult, you know? Both work and play, nate is just so fun to be around at the office. He’s– his spark and his energy, it just kind of fuels my productivity here at newman and– yes, I do also enjoy time with him outside of the office. I do. Mom, I’m content when I look at my future. For now. And I appreciate your motherly and your business instincts around here, but I have to ask you, in regards to nate, to back off. I insist on it.

Audra: I can usually finesse these kinds of situations, but I don’t like being stuck between two men like adam and tucker.

Nate: Listen, we think this through and come up with a solution.

Audra: That was exactly what I was hoping you’d say.

Nate: In the big picture, I don’t think there would be anything criminal to charge you with. From what you said, the guilty person has been dealt with under the law.

Audra: Absolutely.

Nate: Okay, and what kind of proof is there?

Audra: Of my involvement?

Nate: And tucker’S.

Audra: Uh, just two emails from me to him indicating knowledge of the coverup, uh, proof that we were both aware and kept it private.

Nate: The professional stain can be hard to wash off. You might be unemployable for a bit.

Audra: Well, any time is– is too long. And it was tucker’s damn company.

Nate: Yes, guys like tucker never take the fall and you know that. (Wheezing)

Audra: Um, you know, I’m– I’m pretty confident that I can sell victor on the idea of merging mccall with newman media. You know, I’ve got solid business reasons. Like, our most successful competitors today are more nimble and– and adaptable than ever. You know, this move will facilitate a united front, fewer silos. You know, victor should approve.

Nate: He’s claimed he’s not interested.

Audra: Look, I know that. Adam made that clear, but he doesn’t care. And– and victoria is the other issue. You know she’ll just be a stumbling block because they will bring adam into the same business unit.

Nate: She’s unlikely to support this given the sibling dynamics.

Audra: I am aware of that, nate, which is why while I work on convincing victor, I need you to please convince your boss and your romantic partner that this makes sense.

Nate: Listen–

Audra: It’s much better to have adam on the same team versus being our internal rival.

Nate: Listen, I see the big picture business logic in this, but why aren’t you putting up a fight? Or coming up with a plan b? Audra, if you sell this, you will ultimately be in a weaker leadership position at newman media. Do you understand that?

Audra: Yes, I do and I am working on a plan b, okay? But I can’t stall tucker. His highness is demanding that I resolve this right away, and plus, there’s too much on the line to wait. So, please, I need you to work your magic and convince victoria. Can I count on your support?

Jack: Abby, I love you and respect what you’re trying to do. I, too, would like to restore peace at home, at work, and with my sister.

Abby: Wonderful. Then help me fix this.

Jack: I can’t fix this. I am not gonna turn my back on diane. I think you know I waited a long time for love like this. I’d like to think I deserve it. And– and unless ashley can accept it, there will be no peace.

Abby: Look, uncle jack, someone needs to extend an olive branch, make some movement. And here I am. I am extending the olive branch. My grandfather would want that. So, please, can we just get in a room, just the three of us, and talk this out?

[ Jack sighs ]

[ Summer sighs ]

Summer: Sorry, I needed to go for a walk and clear my head.

Daniel: Just when you think there’s nowhere to go but up when it comes to mom, things spiral again. This is insane.

Summer: So, I– I went over there and I tried to convince her to not take the plea deal and then we just ended up arguing about other things. I mean, there is no getting through to her. She is still stubborn to the point of obsession. She can’t even listen to somebody else’s perspective.

Daniel: I think at this point, it’s better that she serves time in prison rather than you.

Summer: As horrible as I feel saying it, I think you’re right.

Phyllis: Hi. I need to see you right away. Yeah. It’s urgent. Everything’s about to change. -We’re done. -What about these?

Jack: Abby, I don’t want you to be disappointed. I know this has put you in an impossible position. I hate that it has come to this.

Abby: I know.

Jack: But look around. I never imagined things would escalate to this point on both sides and I worry that I– I’m going to slam into a brick wall if I try to mollify things with ashley.

Abby: Please, uncle jack. Just one last try. We have to. There’s too much on the line.

Jack: Okay. Okay. For your sake, I will make one last attempt at peace. Text your mother, tell her I will meet with her.

[ Abby gasps ]

Abby: Thank you, uncle jack! Thank you! Ah, thank you. Thank you, uncle jack. You’re not gonna regret this.

Nikki: Victoria, I can’t–

[ Knocking on door ]

Victoria: Nate.

[ Sighs ] Is everything handled regarding newman media?

Nate: A holding pattern for now. Am I interrupting?

Nikki: No, I’m done for the day. I’ll let the two of you get back to work.

Victoria: Goodbye, mom.

Nate: Take care, nikki. I’ll see you soon. Is everything okay with your mom?

Victoria: Yeah, she’s fine. She’s just being mom. Tell me about this holding pattern. Did you speak with audra? Was everything okay over there?

Tucker: Hi. Can I buy you a drink? Toast to a deal well done?

Audra: I’ll stick with club soda.

Tucker: Hey. I apologize for earlier. None of this is your fault. It’s my fault. I let my frustrations get the better of me and I took them out on you and you didn’t deserve it. I’m sorry. Anyway, I guess everything is handled now, yes?

Audra: Like, I’m handling it, but things are far from over.

[ Tucker scoffs ]

Tucker: Oh, not what I wanted to hear.

Christine: Phyllis.

Phyllis: Christine.

Heather: Madame D.A.

Phyllis: I’m ready to make a deal.

Summer: As much as it breaks my heart, I– I just don’t see another choice. This is the only way that we’re gonna be able to move forward.

Daniel: I agree. It’s time to let go.

[ Summer sighs ]

Summer: Hopefully, this makes mom see the light and actually change her ways. I mean, she’s got to pay a price for what she’s done and not at our expense.

Heather: I need to speak with my client in private. I apologize for wasting your time, christine. We will be in touch with you–

Phyllis: I’m taking the deal. I’ll plead guilty to avoid a trial. I need to protect my daughter at all costs.

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Valentin: Well, that’s not the usual greeting I get when I walk through the door. How would I know who shot at you?

Anna: We’ll get to that. Can you tell me, first of all, what that message meant?

Valentin: Okay, maybe I’m still a little jet-lagged, but, um, what message are we talking about?

Anna: The one you had me deliver to Sonny.

[ Door opens ]

Martin: So, how is big brother feeling today? I know they’re shipping you back to Pentonville. I can’t imagine you’re very happy about that.

Cyrus: Just tell me you did as I asked.

Martin: Yeah. I did exactly as you asked. Transferred all funds from your account to the Rodden Institute to End Recidivism.

Cyrus: Excellent. With the help of god and that money, many lives will be saved.

Martin: And what about your life? I mean, I’m far from being able to second-guess your generosity, but it appears you’re penniless. You sure you made the right decision?

Cyrus: “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”

Martin: All right. Okay, fine, Cy. Play it your way. I don’t have to understand your benevolence, all right? I just can’t shake the feeling that somehow, some way, there’s something in it for you. I did my part. Let’s leave it at that.

Cyrus: The rest is in god’s hands.

Sasha: Cody.

Finn: Excuse me, Miss. I was wondering if you knew where I might find the head nurse.

Elizabeth: May I ask what this is about?

Finn: Well, it’s a bit personal. Embarrassing, really, but, um… well, you have a kind face, I suppose I could tell you.

Elizabeth: Go on.

Finn: Well, I wanted to thank her. You see, I was having this crisis of confusion. I… I had feelings for a coworker, and I… I thought she didn’t feel the same way about me, which is understandable, so I… I was thinking about leaving G.H. to avoid running into her every day. Literally. I’m quite clumsy.

Elizabeth: And I’m guessing you had second thoughts about this?

Finn: I have, yes, and, um… I won’t be seeking a position at another hospital.

[ Elevator bell dings ]

Elizabeth: Well, I think I can speak for her… she’s very happy with your decision to stay.

Finn: Really? Well, I just — I realized that… G.H. has something that I wouldn’t find anywhere else in the world. Hey. Dad, what — what brings you by?

Tracy: Where is he?

Olivia: Who?

Tracy: [ Scoffs ] My son, the wandering warbler, of course.

Olivia: Well, since I no longer share a bed with him, I really wouldn’t know. But I presume that “Eddie” is still asleep since he was out all night club-hopping again. Why?

Tracy: Enough is enough. We have to do something now.

Olivia: What do you mean?

Tracy: It’s time to have Ned committed.

Elizabeth: Hi, Gregory.

Gregory: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt. You two just carry on with your conversation and pretend I was never here.

Finn: Dad, Dad, it’s okay. I was just telling Elizabeth how I decided to stay at G.H.

Gregory: I had no idea you were planning to leave. I hope everything’s okay.

Finn: More than okay. I just — I… I thought I might be better off at another hospital, but then I realized what I’d be giving up.

Elizabeth: G.H. would have lost a brilliant doctor. And what would we all do without his scintillating bedside manner?

Finn: Mm, yes. This from a woman who once referred to me as a “curmudgeon”.

Elizabeth: Oh, I didn’t say that. Everybody else calls you that, but not me.

Finn: Ah.

Elizabeth: I find you very charming, Dr. Finn.

Finn: Really? What?

Gregory: You’re smiling.

Finn: I can’t help it. She just said I was charming.

Gregory: [ Chuckles ]

Olivia: Now, when you say “committed”…

Tracy:  You — you know… to a mental ward. Olivia, Ned needs help. Analysis under a doctor’s supervision.

Olivia: I don’t know. Tracy, do you really think that’s the way to go? I-I mean — I mean, what are they gonna do, t-throw him in a padded cell in a straitjacket, or — or…

Tracy:  This is not “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” I’m trying to save my son, and a psychiatrist can tell if he’s faking or if he… if he really believes that he’s Eddie Maine.

Olivia: Do you really think that this is the way to go?

Tracy:  Yes, I do. He can’t keep staying out all night and partying. He’s gonna crash and burn, and I’m trying to stop it before that happens. The best thing you can do for him is put him in a psychiatric facility!

Olivia: Tracy…whatever Ned is calling himself these days, I am still his wife, so legally, I am the only one that can have him committed.

Tracy:  Fine. Have at it. Do the honors. Just do it soon because this has gone on way too long, and we have to put an end to it.

Sasha: Cody, it’s so good to see you. Are you okay?

Cody: Okay? How could I be okay when you tried to murder me, Sasha? You plunged a knife into my side, or don’t you remember that?

Sasha: Cody, I-I never meant to —

Cody: You knew exactly what you were doing! And all I’ve ever done is try and help you! What the hell was I thinking?!

Sasha: Cody, wait!

Cyrus: You’re nothing but a strung-out junkie. No one can help you now. You’re gonna die in a back alley with a needle in your arm.

Sasha: No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You’re not real. You’re not here. Leave me alone!

Cyrus: Come on, Sasha. You know you want it. Here it is. Go on, take it.

Sasha: No, leave me alone.

Cyrus: You need me, Sasha. And no one else wants you. So come back to me. Okay?

Sasha: [ Whimpers ]

Cyrus: Come back to me.

Sasha: [ Sobbing ] No, no, no, no, no. [ Sobbing ]

[ Note plays ]

Cody: What are you doing?

Brook Lynn: Knitting.

Cody: Ha, very funny. I’ve been looking for you all day. You didn’t answer any of my texts.

Brook Lynn: Oh, I’m sorry. I left my phone upstairs. What’s up?

Cody: I need your help.

Brook Lynn: With?

Cody: It’s Sasha. I’m really worried about her. I need to help her. And the only way to do that is to get into Ferncliff.

Brook Lynn: Good luck with that.

Cody: Yeah, well, that’s where you come in.

Martin: You are gonna leave everything in god’s hands?

Cyrus: Yes, I trust in our benevolent creator.

Martin: Yeah, well, obviously. Certainly enough to pad that foundation’s bank account, that’s for sure.

Cyrus: You know, in discovering the truth of life, you realize how meaningless money actually is.

Martin: Yeah. Listen, Cy, you’re sure that the, uh, heart attack didn’t damage your… well, your memory, for one thing, although you did manage to put together those forms, give me access to your money, so…

Cyrus: I remember the kind of man I was. And I know the road to forgiveness is long and treacherous.

Martin: Oh, and I hope you remember the kind of man your brother is. I’ve always been a bit of a cynic, so…

Cyrus: Oh, yes. Yes. A-and I pray that one day you and I can remedy that frailty together.

Martin: Until we do, you mind if I proffer an opinion?

Cyrus: Oh, be my guest.

Martin: As your attorney, I said it appears that you are penniless. As your brother, I strongly have my doubts.

Cyrus: You saw all my accounts. You divested and gave everything away.

Martin: That’s right. But in my experience, men like you — no, excuse me, pardon me — men like you used to be seldom stashes every penny in a place where it can so easily be found.

Cyrus: Are you accusing me of holding back, brother?

Martin: I am strongly suggesting it’s a possibility, yes.

Cyrus: Oh, ye of little faith.

Martin: Come on, Cyrus. Please. Just back away from the good book long enough, look your baby brother in the face, and give him an honest answer.

Cyrus: [ Exhales deeply ] You gave away every dime I had, brother.

Martin: Huh. Well… I guess I’ll just have to take your word for it, then.

Cyrus: As god is my witness.

Anna: Of course you remember. You called me from Chechnya and you asked me to deliver a message to Sonny. You asked me to take it to him in person, which I did. But our connection was so bad, you know, that I-I wanted to get some more information from you because I have a lot of questions.

Valentin: Such as?

Anna: Well, okay, so h-here’s the thing — Sonny… he’s being very kind to me recently, which is nice, but it really doesn’t change the fact that he’s running a criminal enterprise, so it makes me wonder why you’re sending cryptic messages to him, but more importantly, what did that message mean? Because he seemed to understand what you were referring to. I think I’d like to, also.

Valentin: I’m sorry. I had no intention of involving you in any of this, but I was helping Laura in Russia. I didn’t have a choice.

Anna: No, I understand that. Yes, your priority was to help her find Nikolas, and I think that’s probably why I just went ahead and did what you asked without questioning it. And I appreciate that.

Valentin: Thank you.

Anna: But the timing is really interesting, right? Because I was delivering that message to Sonny at the metro court pool, and two minutes later, we’re shot at. There’s got to be some kind of connection. Are you keeping something from me?

Martin: Good luck to you, Cy. Is there anything else, anything at all you — you need me to do for you?

Cyrus: Oh, no, you’ve done enough, brother. Thank you.

Martin: Yeah, it’s just, uh… you know, I… I do worry about you going back to that place. I mean, I’d hate to have to tell Mother that something happened to you there.

Cyrus: Somehow, I don’t think she would care, but I made peace with that a long time ago.

Martin: She always asks about you. Yeah… well, I got to go see a client.

Cyrus: About a horse?

Martin: [ Chuckles ] Take care of yourself, Cy.

Martin: Doctor, can I ask you a quick question?

Austin: Sure.

Martin: Um… my brother’s being transferred back to Pentonville today, and I’m, uh — well, I’m concerned that it’s so soon after the heart attack. Are you sure it’s not too risky?

Austin: All of his test results are back and things look good. Yeah, I don’t know.  I don’t know Mr. Renault very well, but he seems like a pretty tough cookie to me, so…

[ Cellphone chimes ]

Austin: You know, I-I wouldn’t worry. I’m sure he’s fine. Excuse me.

Martin: Okay, well, thank you, Doc.

Austin: Yeah.

Cyrus: You’re just a violent psychopath.

Sasha: [ Sobs ] [ Screaming ] No!

Cody: You’re gonna be locked away for the rest of your miserable, pathetic life, and then you’re gonna rot in hell for what you did to me, you crazy bitch!

Sasha: No! I never meant to hurt you! You have to believe me! I thought you were someone else! I thought you were Cyrus! I stabbed Cyrus —

Cody: Look at me! Look at me! Look at what you did to me!

Sasha: [ Screams ] [ Sobbing ]

Cody: Sasha does not belong in Ferncliff.

Brook Lynn: I know you keep saying that, Cody, but…

Cody: No, no, no, no. Something isn’t right here. I-I can feel it. But I just need to find out what it is.

Brook Lynn: And you think getting into Ferncliff will give you the answers?

Cody: Yes, I do, I do. But that’s the problem — I can’t get in. I mean, I already tried once. I almost got caught.

Brook Lynn: When you say it like that, it sounds like something shady is going on.

Cody: Yeah, I may have said I was Dante Falconeri.

Brook Lynn: You impersonated a cop? Cody, are you crazy? You already don’t have a great relationship with the PCPD.

Cody: But I do have a good relationship with Dante.

Brook Lynn: Then why wouldn’t you just ask him to get you into Ferncliff?

Cody: Because that shyster Gladys has to give permission for any visitors. She doesn’t want me anywhere near that place. Last thing she wants is me talking to Sasha, but… she does like you. Brook Lynn. You are my only hope. Will you call her, please?

Olivia: Absolutely not. I cannot do it. I will not have my husband committed.

Tracy: He won’t be your husband again unless you commit him. The best thing you can do for him is get him help.

Olivia: But how do you know that committing him is even gonna help? Tracy, they could — they could load him full of drugs. They could give him electroshock therapy. I mean, you know, it’s still legal to give a person a lobotomy.

Tracy: Olivia, you’ve seen too many movies. Listen, it’s only a matter of time before he puts himself in really dangerous situations, or worse than that, he runs off with a groupie, and we can’t find him.

Olivia: Ned would never do that.

Tracy: You’re right. Ned would never do that. But Eddie Maine would. We have to get him treatment. You need your husband. I need my son. Leo needs his father. Olivia, please, just —

Olivia: No, Tracy! I’m not gonna do it, okay? Not now, not ever. I don’t care if he calls himself Eddie Maine for the rest of his life. I’m not having my husband committed.

Tracy: We’ll see.

Valentin: I’m not keeping anything from you.

Anna: Okay.

Valentin: Initially, I was to be an intermediary between a third party and Sonny Corinthos. They asked me to reach out to him on their behalf, and I did, and as soon as they came to a preliminary agreement, I assumed that was the end of my involvement.

Anna: Until you asked me to deliver a message to Sonny concerning who he should and shouldn’t trust while doing business with this third party.

Valentin: Well, that was information that I was compelled that Sonny should have.

Anna: How did you obtain this information that you felt compelled to share?

Valentin: I’m not sure I’m comfortable with this line of questioning.

Anna: Oh, my god. You sound like a lawyer. Come on. You’re not talking to your client. You’re talking to me. The person that you claim to love. Can you just tell me what the hell is going on? Like, why are you involved with Sonny? And who is the third party?

Valentin: A defense contractor.

Anna: What’s the name of the company?

Valentin: Pikeman.

Mason: Hey, Cuz.

Austin: What’s with the hiding?

Mason: You get anything from Betty on Corinthos and his Pikeman connection?

Austin: Okay, this is your game, not mine. You put all these pieces into play. You handle Betty. Although, I do hope you handle Betty better than you handled Gordon.

Mason: What, you think I shot him? Oh, come on. Guy wasn’t even worth my time.

Austin: You never liked that guy, and you owed him money. Wait until the PCPD put that little piece of information together. Motivation for wanting somebody gone, don’t you think?

Mason: If it was me, I wouldn’t be the one worried about the cops sniffing around. How long you think it’s gonna be till they find out you got in a fight with Gordon outside that restaurant? Place seemed pretty fancy. Bet you they had security cameras everywhere.

Anna: Are you working for Pikeman? Do you have any idea how dangerous that company is?

Valentin: I’m not working for them. Years ago, before Charlotte was even born, I had dealings with them.

Anna: You had “dealings” with them?

Valentin: I handled logistics. But I wasn’t working for Pikeman. I was working for an independent contractor, and we consulted on a few projects.

Anna: Why haven’t you ever told me about this before?

Valentin: I’ve done a lot of business with a lot of companies I’ve never told you about before.

Anna: Okay, and that’s supposed to make me feel better, is it?

Valentin: I hate you thinking that I’m intentionally keeping secrets from you. Pikeman came to me because they know me and they like my work. They know I have an acquaintance with Sonny Corinthos. It didn’t seem like an unreasonable request, so I did it. I thought that was gonna be the end of it.

Anna: I don’t understand. Like, y-you’re not the only person that can make an introduction to Sonny. There has to be a specific reason why they chose you.

Valentin: It’s not that easy to get a meeting with Sonny Corinthos. They asked me to be an intermediary, and I agreed.

Anna: Why would you do that? What were you thinking?

Ned: I heard everything that you and Tracy said. Thank you for standing up for me. That woman is a bully.

Olivia: [ Sighs ] Well… that woman usually gets her way. [ Chuckles ] But not this time. You have nothing to worry about because legally, I’m the only one that can have you committed, and I have no intention of doing that. But I do want you to get help. Just — just not on Tracy’s terms.

Ned: I appreciate your support. I really do. But the bottom line is… I’m not Ned, so no matter what you may try to do — therapy, hypnosis, analysis — nothing is going to change me into someone that I’m not. There is no Ned, okay? [ Chuckles ] He doesn’t exist.

Olivia: That’s just it. Yes, he does. And there’s a ton of evidence to prove it. There’s birth certificates and passports and driver’s license.

Ned: Those are just pieces of paper, Olivia. I know who I am.

Olivia: You can’t argue with fingerprints. Whatever you may believe, you are Ned Quartermaine. You are my husband. You are brook Lynn’s father. You are Leo’s father. And we love you. And we need you back.

Ned: Sorry. Ned’s not coming back. So…he’s gone. You just have to accept that and move on. I mean, I-I won’t pretend to be someone I’m not. Okay? I need to sing. I need my music. Okay, that’s who I am, okay? And without it, without it… I’ve got nothing.

Olivia: Wait, wait, wait, wait. What if there was a way that you could have your music and be part of this family, too?

Ned: I don’t follow.

Olivia: Your daughter. Your daughter, Brook Lynn, is a spectacular songwriter and producer. Why don’t the two of you make music together?

Gregory: Looks like things are going well between you and Elizabeth.

Finn: Well, you know, the — the signs point to yes. Uh, the game. The kid thing. You sh– uh, Magic 8 Ball, right? You shook it up, you asked it a question, it floats — never mind. The outlook’s good, or at least it’s a maybe.

Gregory: I’m happy for you, son.

Finn: Thanks. But hey, you never told me why you came — came over here.

Gregory: Yeah, um, doing some research. I-I’m doing an op-ed for The Invader on memory care facilities.

[ Cellphone chimes ]

Finn: Oh, okay. Wait, sorry. Uh… hey, look, Dad, I’m sorry. I got — I got a patient I need to see. Um, but listen, we got to talk about that trip to Disney World, all right?

Gregory: Yeah.

[ Elevator bell dings ]

Tracy: Professor.

Gregory: Hello, Tracy. What are you doing here?

Tracy: Actually, I was worried about you at the Metro Court.

Gregory: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Tracy: When we had dinner, you — you… well, you couldn’t pick up your credit card. Was something wrong?

Brook Lynn: [ Sighs ] Hi, there. What’s your name? Janice. Oh, that’s a nice name, Janice. I’ve actually always liked the name Jan. “Brady Bunch” was my favorite show. Do you remember Jan? She was always so jealous of her sister — “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.” Does anyone ever call you Jan?

Janice: Just how can I help you, Miss?

Brook Lynn: Um, I’m actually here to visit my friend Sasha Gilmore. We work together at Deception, the cosmetics company. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. You should actually try our perfectly peach lipstick. It would look great with your coloring.

Janice: I don’t wear lipstick, and I hate peach. The color and the fruit. Just hand me your driver’s license so I can check to see if you’re on the list of approved visitors. Wait a minute. Your name looks familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?

Brook Lynn: I don’t think so.

Janice: Are you the BLQ that works with Blaze and Chase?

Anna: You had to know anything connected to Pikeman wasn’t gonna be above board. This is a defense contractor wanting to do business with the Corinthos organization. I mean, it just screams illegal activities.

Valentin: Of course I knew the deal would be questionable, but I didn’t care.

Anna: Why? Please help me understand. I mean, it’s not the money. You don’t need that.

Valentin: It wasn’t about the money. I was hoping they could provide me something more valuable than that.

Anna: What?

Valentin: When Pikeman first reached out to me, Victor had just framed you for Lucy’s so-called “murder”. He was blackmailing Holly Sutton. He was holding her son hostage. He looked unstoppable. I was looking for a way to stop him.

Anna: So you thought that Pikeman could help you bring down Victor?

Valentin: Yes. I thought there was a chance.

Anna: Why?

Valentin: Because they’re connected to the WSB.

Gregory: You know, just because we had one dinner together doesn’t give you the right to call around prying into my private life.

Tracy: I wasn’t prying. I was asking a friend out of concern for you.

Gregory: Concern? You made a call asking if I had a medical problem. And since when are you and Alexis friends? My impression is she doesn’t include you in that category.

[ Elevator bell dings ]

Finn: Oh, Elizabeth. Hi. I have mold for you.

Elizabeth: Oh. Yeah, I don’t really like flowers anyway.

Finn: No, it’s not really for you. It’s — it’s for Jake. Uh, h-he’s doing that science project for summer school, and he called me up and asked me for some help. It’s about how mold turns into penicillin, so I-I grew some samples for him in my lab. I mean, there’s some really good spores in here.

Elizabeth: I’ve never seen someone so excited about…fungus. Thank you.

Finn: Okay, careful.

[ Chuckles ]

Tracy: This has absolutely nothing to do with Alexis.

Gregory: The more I get to know you, the more I understand why Alexis is not your biggest fan.

Elizabeth: Poor Gregory. What’d he do to deserve the wrath of Tracy?

Brook Lynn: Yes, I am. Well, I was Chase’s manager. So you know his music?

Janice: Know it? I am his biggest fan. The second a new song is released, I download it, and I recorded his performance with Blaze at the Nurses’ Ball. I must have watched it a dozen times.

Brook Lynn: Wow. Well, it’s your lucky day because Chase and Blaze, they actually recorded a new duet, but it doesn’t come out for months. I could give you a sneak peek. You want to hear it?

Janice: That would be great.

Brook Lynn: Okay. Here. Find it…

Austin: Okay. It wasn’t a fight, it was a heated discussion.

Mason: Well, still… doesn’t look very good for you.

Austin: Got nothing to do with me. Gordon said he wanted money. I told him he should talk to you. Something about another job that he did for you. You want to explain to me what that was all about?

Mason: You don’t need to know.

Austin: You’re right. I don’t. Get the hell out of my office, will you?

Mason: Where are your manners? You know, you should be careful when you disrespect family. Never know when they’ll turn on you.

Tracy: So what did Alexis say that makes you think that she’s not my biggest fan?

Elizabeth: I’m sorry.

Finn: For what?

Elizabeth: I know Tracy’s your friend. But sometimes, she can come off a bit strong, don’t you think?

Finn: Sometimes? Look, um, Tracy’s definitely an acquired taste, but, you know, she’s — she’s a-a-a good person, and — and I know it’s hard to believe, but she has a soft side. You’re right. It is hard to believe. She’s also a ferocious backgammon player, and I really like the competition.

Elizabeth: [ Scoffs ]

Finn: And just like my dad, loves a good argument. And, you know, it looks like he’s holding his own, kinda.

Tracy: I’m not gonna stand here and defend my relationship with Alexis. It’s none of your business.

Gregory: Just like my health is none of your business.

Tracy: I cannot keep arguing with you about this. I have to speak to a doctor.

Gregory: Oh, so you’re the one who needs medical help?

Tracy: No, it’s not for me, it’s… it — it’s for my son. He needs to be committed.

Olivia: So, um… that’s Brook Lynn’s keyboard. This is where she writes most of her music. Actually, um… I-I’m sure that she would love to have a writing partner. You know, you could be the — the Lennon to her McCartney.

Ned: [ Chuckles ] Uh, I don’t know. I’ve always done my own thing. I don’t see myself as a duo.

Olivia: Well, she — she wouldn’t be singing, you know. She’d be helping you write songs and, you know, producing, and…

Ned: Oh, so she doesn’t sing?

Olivia: Well, she used to. She used to. It’s — it’s, uh… it’s a long story, but [Chuckles] it beats busking on a street corner, right?

Ned: I need more than this. I mean [Chuckles] I need to be on a stage. I need an audience.

Olivia: Well… you’ve got one.

Anna: So, when did this connection between Pikeman and the WSB start?

Valentin: I don’t know. I don’t know how far back it goes. I was at the WSB when Pikeman recruited me, as were a lot of current and former WSB agents who now find themselves working for Pikeman. It seemed to me some kind of… revolving door. Any agent who left The Bureau could find a position at Pikeman.

Anna: [ Exhales sharply ] Okay. So you worked for them years ago. I’m presuming this is around the time that Victor was head of The Bureau.

Valentin: Yeah. Why?

Janice: Here you go. You’re all set.

Brook Lynn: Thank you, Janice.

Janice: I’ll have an orderly take you to Ms. Gilmore’s room.

Cody: Sasha? Sasha. Sasha, hey. Hey, it’s me, Cody.

He can’t keep staying out all night and partying. He’s gonna crash and burn, and I’m trying to stop it before that happens. The best thing you can do for him is put him in a psychiatric facility.

Ned: (singing) I don’t know who to turn to and learn to love again [ Clears throat ] (speaking) My throat’s really dry, um, from all the singing. Do you think you could just get me something to drink?

Olivia: Uh, how about — how about iced tea?

Ned: Perfect.

Olivia: Okay.

Gregory: Committed? Why on earth would you do that to your son?

Tracy: You saw him at Rice Plaza. He is delusional. He has abandoned his wife, his children, and his business. You tell me — what kind of mother would I be if I didn’t get him help?

Gregory: He’s not your responsibility. He’s an adult.

Tracy: He’s an adult who believes he’s someone else!

Gregory: [ Chuckling ] You can’t lock him up just because he doesn’t conform to who you want him to be.

Tracy: This is not about me wanting him to be the perfect son. This is about me trying to get him to see that he is my son. He’s Ned Quartermaine.

Gregory: You have no business taking away his agency. He has every right to live his life as he chooses. You can’t make decisions for him. You can’t deprive him of his liberty and independence. Doesn’t his freedom mean anything to you? ‘Cause it should. Who cares what name he’s calling himself? The important thing is he’s living his truth without anyone else interfering. If he hasn’t asked for help, he doesn’t need it.

Tracy: I did not ask for a lecture, professor.

Gregory: I’m just trying to help you see it from Ned’s point of view.

Tracy: Don’t you mean Eddie? [ Exhales deeply ] Look, I’m… I’m sure you are really trying to help me, but… …I know what I have to do.

Gregory: I don’t know how you put up with that woman. Uh, if you’ll excuse me, I have some research to do.

Finn: Yeah, uh, Dad, you — oh, okay.

Elizabeth: Well, that was uncomfortable.

Finn: Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Janice: Now, before you see Ms. Gilmore, you might want to prepare yourself.

Brook Lynn: What do you mean?

Janice: Well, your friend is in a fragile state. She’s emotional and volatile, so you’ll need a medical professional with you during the visit. Ronald will stay in the room with you.

Brook Lynn: [ Chuckles ] Is that really necessary?

Janice: Yes, Dr. Montague left a note in her chart saying all visits must be supervised. It’s for your own safety as well as the patient’s. Right this way, please.

[ Elevator bell dings ]

Olivia: Ned? Ned? Eddie?

Anna: You used to work for the WSB. You put together a deal with Pikeman and Sonny, and then you ask me, also a former agent, to deliver a message to Sonny. And then a couple of minutes later, shots are fired, either for him or me. And the rifle used happened to be at one point in the custody of The Bureau.

Valentin: You think the WSB and Pikeman are behind the shooting?

Anna: I think the connection is stunningly obvious. I was the target, and I refuse to be a sitting duck. So you know what? If you’ve got anything else that you’ve forgotten to tell me, now would be a really good time to do so before they take another shot. Because honestly, the next time, they might not miss.

Valentin: I have told you everything I know about Pikeman and their connection to the WSB, and it kills me to think that I put you in danger because I would never have sent you to Sonny with that message if I had known. I want to — Okay. Where are you going?

Anna: Well, there is a missing piece, Valentin, and I’m going to find out what that is.

Cody: Sasha, it’s me. It’s Cody. Everything’s gonna be okay now. I’m gonna try and get you out of here, okay? Sasha.

Sasha: No, no, no. Don’t touch me! No! Get away from me!

Cody: Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey. It’s okay. It’s just me. It’s just me. It’s okay. You’re safe.

Sasha: Leave me alone! [ Screaming ] Help!

Cody: Sasha —

Sasha: Help! Get out! Get out! [ Screaming ]

Ronald: Hey! Both of you get out of here, right now! I’m calling security!

Sasha: [ Screaming ] Leave me alone! [ Sobbing ] Get away from me!

On the next “General Hospital” —

Portia (to Trina): This is the best news I’ve had in a long time!

Jordan: I want to help.

Dante: So far we just have more questions than answers.

Olivia (to Carly): How can you even offer that after the way I treated you?

Sonny (to Nina): What’d you go to her office to talk to her about?

Marshall (to Curtis): I don’t think it’s a good time to leave town.

Alexis (to Gregory): It makes me so mad!

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Oh, hey there, uh, former partner. Sean, what are you doing here? Well, my suspension’s up today. But I, uh, don’t know who I’m supposed to speak to about returning to work. I don’t know either. The acting mayor hasn’t appointed a new commissioner since he fired Rafe. Yeah. She fired

Rafe. Because of me.

Oh, the garbage. Lovely. It’s lovely. I’m going to need a serious shower. Cheetah, I thought you were… Whoa. Oh. You’re not Cheetah. No. I’m not. Nope. Nope.

That’s right, Cassandra, don’t let Charlemagne go after your man.

Mama, what are you doing here? Watching body and soul. Wanna join me? Cassandra’s about to throw Charlemagne in the pool. Again? Mama, what’s going on? And what are you doing sitting here in your robe in the middle of the day? And where’s Abe? He moved out.

Charlemagne, told you you were asking for trouble. Oh, hi! I thought you might be hungry, so I stopped at the Brady Pub and got some takeout. Oh, thank you, thank you. You know who I am, don’t you? Of course. You’re Cassandra. Charlemagne’s mortal enemy.

Harris, it’s so good to see you. Always good to see you. I just came by to see how you’re doing. Uh, I’m, I’m fine. And you’re adjusting to life at Bayview? Yeah, I mean, so far so good. Uh, I ran into an old acquaintance. Eve Donovan. Alright. How did that go? Uh, surprisingly well, actually. I actually had the chance to say I’m sorry for how I hurt her in the past, and she accepted my apology.

Well, that’s wonderful. A sign of progress that you’re beginning to interact with the other patients.

What the hell are you doing here?

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Ava, you need to calm down. Don’t you tell me to calm down. I want to know what this son of a bitch is doing here. I’m sorry. Yeah, you should be sorry. You should be sorry because I thought I got rid of you a long time ago. And now you’re showing up. You’re showing up here.

You’re trying to drag me back into my old life. Sorry, but do I know you? You’re going to play dumb with me. Of course, you know me just as well as I know you.

A move down. That’s what I said. I stayed out late last night so that I could give you two time to be alone together. And then when I left for the bakery this morning, I just assumed you were still in bed. I was, but Abraham was long gone. Did you guys get in a fight? Nope, but clearly he was uncomfortable here.

Oh, Mama. Oh, and I guess he didn’t like it when I kissed him. Which I stupidly, impulsively did. You know, thinking, you know, would make him remember. But all it did was disgust him. Oh, well, that’s, that’s just because he, he thinks that he doesn’t know you, Mama. But that’s all gonna change. Just, as soon as he gets his memory back, he is going to be kissing you right back.

I know it. Oh. Mama, if Abe didn’t stay here, this is his home, so where did he stay? He had Steve Johnson come get him. He shacked up over there with him and Kayla. Um, no, no, I’m not Cassandra. I’m, I’m Kayla.

Of course. Cassandra’s right there. On body and soul. You’re Kayla Johnson, my, my doctor. That’s right. I, you know, you just remind me of her a little. That lady by the pool? Yeah. Yeah, I kind of get that all the time. Really? No. No. That was a bad joke. I’m sorry. Well, I’m sorry. I got the two of you mixed up. Oh, come on.

It’s no big deal. I mean, look at all you have to deal with all these new faces and names. I mean, it’s like we’re all just characters in a soap opera doing crazy things. You know?

Okay, I’m good. You can turn around now. Yeah. I’m really sorry about that. I, um, yeah, I didn’t expect you back so soon. Yeah, well, I decided to come home and take a shower after dealing with, you know, all the trash from the White Dove Motel. Uh huh, yeah. Yeah, that, that explains it. Mm hmm. Yeah, I’m, if you and Jada want to, like, use the place, I’m out doing community service, like, that’s totally fine.

Just, next time, try to, you know, give me a heads up, just a little bit. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, see that? That actually, that makes sense. Mm hmm. Yeah, well, Jada, she just left for work, and, uh, I didn’t have anywhere to be. I still can’t believe you got fired for dating my sister. Well, I… It was Jay’s boss. And we have a policy in the city that says, superiors cannot date subordinates.

It’s a stupid policy. Well, I don’t know about that, but, uh, I did it. And, uh, I guess I probably shouldn’t have. Well, from my understanding, um, Mayor Rawlings would have never found out in the first place if it hadn’t been for Sean Brady. Mm hmm. So that’s it? You’re not gonna say anything? About what? Um, maybe about it being my fault that Rafe was fired?

What’s there to say? I don’t know. I… Look, I guess I was just hoping that you’d say that you knew that it wasn’t… It wasn’t intentional. I, that, that I didn’t mean for Rawlings to hear what I said about you and Rafe. I would, I’d been drinking and I was shooting my mouth off. And then Rawlings overheard it.

But in the end I, I mean, I tried to backpedal. But if you remember, Rawlings asked me about it. And he basically left me no choice but to admit it. So your backpedaling was pretty much pointless. Okay, well, yeah, I can speak to him. I can speak to him, get him to reverse the decision.

Well, here’s your chance. Detective Hunter. Detective Brady.

You know, it’s very generous of you and your husband to let me stay here a while. But, I think, I think I’m imposing. Trust me, you couldn’t impose on us if you tried. All those weeks that we didn’t know if we’d ever see you again. Like my mother would always say, it’s kind of like, uh, a gift from God. You know, the way you said that, I knew her, didn’t I?

Yes. Your mother. You did. You knew our whole family. You were family. And even though you don’t remember us, you still are. I appreciate that. You know, going home with Paulina, as much as she wanted me to, I, I, I knew from the moment that I got there that I, I, I couldn’t stay. And that’s when I called your husband and asked him to come and get me.

So I could be here for you. Well, I appreciate your generosity. With the look on Paulina’s face, uh, I, I knew how much I had upset her.

Well, it’s not so bad that Abe is staying with Steve and Kayla, right? I mean, at least you know he’s safe. I suppose so. Anyway, I talked to Kayla this morning and she said that I just need to be patient and let Abe get used to me and everyone else in his own time. Well, that’s good advice. You know, I know it’s hard for you, taking the hands off approach.

Patience has never been my strong suit, has it? Me neither, Mama. Like mother, like daughter. Anyway, Kayla said that she’s gonna work with Abe and maybe help him see that I only want him to get better. He will. He will. And sooner or later, no matter what, he is going to come back to you. Mama, I know that he will.

Oh. Your optimism, baby, that it does lift my spirits. And I’m sorry that you had to stay away last night for nothing. Oh, well, it wasn’t exactly for nothing. I actually spent some time with

Talia. It’s not Sean’s fault that I got fired. Not his fault? No! If he would’ve never opened up his big mouth, Rawlings would’ve never found out about you and Jada. If I hadn’t been seeing Jada in the first place, there’d never have been anything for him to hear. But still! Aren’t cops supposed to close ranks?

Look out for one another? Not gossip about each other’s personal lives? Well, at least you told him off, right? Talia, I appreciate that you are on my side, but I’m the one who got myself into this mess. It doesn’t matter what Sean said. I gotta take the blame for this. I just came down to check how things are going, now that Commissioner Hernandez has been relieved of his post.

Mayor Rawlings, about that, um, I’d like to speak to you. And I need to talk to you. Oh. Oh. Okay. It’s come to my attention that it was the former commissioner who suspended you? Uh, yes, that is correct. Well, that’s something we have to remedy as soon as possible.

I can’t let this grievous error stand. And honestly… I’m surprised Rafe had the gall to go after you in the first place. I mean, it’s outrageous that he would put your job in jeopardy for blowing the whistle on him.

You showed up here. I’m going to find her, Doctor. Ma’am, whoever you, you think I am, you’re mistaking me for somebody else. Oh, you think that I could forget you? After all the trouble you’ve put me through over the years? I was trying, I was trying to make a new life for myself and thanks to you, I ended up back with my family.

I ended up back to my mob ties, back to being a person I never wanted to be. I’m sorry that happened, but we don’t know each other. My name is Harris Michaels. Harris Michaels, is that the best you could come up with? What? I didn’t come up with it, it’s my name. Don’t, don’t you lie to me. I know exactly who you are.

Okay. Who do you think I am?

Who do I think you are? You have to ask. You’re Charlie. Charlie? You’re my son. Charlie. Why? Why do you keep coming back? Why? I just think I’ve done everything I can to get rid of you. Just leave me. Let go of me. He won’t leave me alone. We’re only

Look, Rafe didn’t suspend Sean because he told you about a relationship. Are you sure about that? Because the timing would suggest otherwise. Detective Hunter is right. But Commissioner Hernandez caught me drinking on the job. I see. Is this a serious problem? No, no, it’s definitely not. I was just, I was going through a rough patch and I’ve been seeing a therapist and it will never happen again, I can promise you that.

Well then, it seems you learned your lesson. I’m afraid the same can’t be said for your former boss, which is why I need to appoint a new commissioner. Immediately.

Well, I suppose it’s good that you don’t hold a grudge. Try not to. Mainly because it’s too exhausting. Wow, Chanel said something just like that to me. What, you talked to Chanel? I ran into her yesterday. And we actually had a pretty good time. That’s great. Yeah. You know, maybe she’s ready to put everything that happened at the bakery behind her and you two can be friends again.

Yeah. Friends. Oh. You were hoping for something more than that? You

spent time with Talia? I bumped into her in the square and she had just left Colin’s hearing and he got sentenced to 20 years. Oh, well, there’s some good news at last. Amen to that. Anyway, as they were taking Colin out of the courtroom, he said some pretty horrible things to Talia. And I told her that none of that was true and I tried to make her feel better.

No matter what Talia did, she didn’t deserve to be abused by Colin. Anyway, next thing I know we were having dinner together and we had such a good time that I remember why I, I liked her so much in the first place, before everything went south. And, the more we talked… The more you talk? The more I, I started to feel connection to her.

What kind of connection? Are you, are you saying that you’re attracted to this girl?

You know, Pauline has been through a lot these past few weeks. But I talked to her this morning and I think she understands that you just, you just need some time. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I know that. I know what would have happened if I’d stayed. She would have been watching me. Prompting me. Trying to get me to remember and then trying to hide her hurt if I didn’t.

It would have been awful. It would have hurt her more than my leaving. I think you might be right. And when she kissed me, it was just so strange. I mean, I knew she was my wife, and…

But I didn’t know her. You don’t remember her at all? I get these little, these little palimpsests. I’d see her in my dreams for a moment. And I’d even recognize her for a moment.

Then the next… Next minute I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t know her at all.

Everything, everything, everything is just so jumbled in my head. I, I, I, I, I just, I just don’t know how to make any sense of it.

Do I want to be more than friends with Chanel?

Honestly? I don’t, I don’t know. I mean, I’ve never been attracted to women. And the only reason I came on to Chanel in the first place is because Colin was pressuring me to. He wanted me to break her heart. And I did everything that he asked me to. But it’s like, when, when we kissed, I actually felt something.

Huh. But you’re not sure you want to act on it? Look, like I said, I don’t know. I just know that everything right now is just, God, it’s just so confusing. And after everything with Colin, it’s like, I don’t know what’s true and what’s not.

I don’t know, maybe I should just talk to my therapist about this.

Don’t worry, Dr. Evans, I’ll text another orderly to bring a wheelchair down and take Ms. Vitale back to her room. Thanks, Janima. Thank you.

Are you alright?

Yeah, do you know that woman? Yes, that’s Ava Vitale. She’s been having hallucinations about her, her dead son, Charlie. Yeah, she said she thought I was Charlie. Oh. Well, maybe something about you reminded her of him. And somehow… Triggered that episode.

Yeah, maybe. It’s just so strange the way she looked at me.

It felt like she actually knew me.

If you need a commissioner, why don’t you just bring Rafe back? He’s a great guy, he’s a great boss, and he’s done a lot for this city. Yeah, Sean’s right. The department has had an incredibly high clearance rate since Rafe has been in charge. Every cop has done his or her job the best for him. So, ex commissioner Hernandez still has you under his thumb, shall we say.

I have never been, nor am I, under his thumb. Our relationship was and always has been completely consensual. Despite explicitly violating the city’s policy. Rafe made a mistake. But that has nothing to do with his job performance. By engaging in a relationship with a subordinate, he proved that his judgment isn’t to be trusted.

Which has everything to do with his job. Now, my decision stands. Which is why I need to appoint someone to his position. But… As you pointed out, detective, with the department’s high clearance rate, I would be foolish not to consider an internal hire. You

know, I agree with you. And I think that Detective Hunter would make an excellent commissioner. You know, I was actually thinking about you, detective.

I just can’t think straight. One minute I know I’m married to Paulina. The next I picture Whitley in a wedding dress. And then I, I, I know, I know Theo’s my son, but I still see that actor, Jerry. As hard as I try, I can’t I just can’t seem to get it straight. You know, it’s understandable. You suffered a severe head injury.

And then Whitley kept giving you drugs to keep you a prisoner. And then parade a bunch of strangers in front of you and claim that they’re your loved ones.

She’s not still telling me those stories. Or giving me drugs. What, are the… Are the effects of those, are the effects permanent? Am, am, am I going to be like this forever?

I know you were attracted to Talia. You know, when you first started working together, before we found why she really came here, you know, what she was really up to. Yeah, I thought there was something there at the beginning. But then she was just putting on an act. And now you know everything about her and told me that just last night you felt like you did when you first met her.

Well, I guess I’m wondering how you really feel about her.

Hey, Marie. Well, I’ll be back from lunch in a little while. Can’t it wait until then? What?

I don’t think that you need to worry about those drugs. I saw your blood work at the hospital and it was mainly some sedatives with a little psychotropics mixed in. Nothing that would cause permanent damage. I still don’t know why she would do this to me. She experienced some severe trauma. She lost her husband in a tragic accident.

I think she had some kind of psychotic break and then you had amnesia and it gave her the perfect opportunity to relive her life that she lost. I had no choice but to believe it was mine too. You know, I, I don’t recognize. Faces of any of my family and friends. Just like you, your husband Sam. Steve.

You see? Uh, all these new names and faces, it’s just… Oh,

it’s just overwhelming.

You know, I, um, I think I have a way that maybe could help you. I’m,

I’m sorry to leave you after that, but I’ve got to get back to University Hospital. Oh, it’s fine, I understand. Actually, I have a meeting with my, uh, therapist in a little while. Really, it’s, it’s, it’s okay. Alright. You’ll call me if you need anything at all. I will.

Sorry, I really have to go shower. I have an appointment, and I can’t show up smelling like whatever’s rotten behind the white dove. No, not good. I hope I didn’t use all the hot water. I doubt it. You know, between me and you, I’m pretty sure the water pressure is why Jada stays in the first place. Anyways, it was really nice talking to you.

Yeah, you too.

It’s alright, Marie. I’ll be there as soon as I can. What’s wrong? What happened? There was a surprise inspection from the health department and we failed. So, the inspector said that they’re shutting us down. What? Yeah. This doesn’t make any sense, Mama. I have been so careful since they let me reopen. I have followed every single regulation.

I have kept the place spotless. Oh, there’s got to be some mistake. That’s just it. Maurice said that the order came straight from the acting mayor. The mayor? Mm hmm. I met him a few weeks ago, and he told me that he was against Sweet Bits reopening, and he said that if there was one more scandal, he would have me shut down.

This is personal, Mama. That guy, he’s out to get me.

Carla, you want, you want me to be commissioner? Why not? You come from a long line of commissioners. Your mother, your uncle, even your father. If you ask me, It’s high time we had another Brady sitting in the commissioner’s chair. Mayor Rawlings, are you serious? Detective Brady is just coming off a suspension.

Which is why it’s the perfect time to accept this new position. But Detective Hunter’s right. I’m sorry, but I, I can’t accept it. Yes, you can. And you will if you want to continue to work in this department. Those are my terms. Take it or leave it.

Come in. Hi, Dr. Evans. I’m so sorry. I hope I’m not late. No, you’re right on time. I’m behind because I had to clean up after doing community service. How’s that going? Fine. Yeah. I know that Colin Bedford was sentenced yesterday. Yeah, I was in the courtroom. Oh. Well, that must have brought up a lot of feelings for you, seeing him again.

Do you want to talk about it? No. Actually, I don’t want to talk about my feelings for him. I want to talk about my feelings for Chanel.

You wanted to see me? Yes, we did. Mayor Rawlings, Sweet Bits has been recertified by the Department of Health after that unfortunate biscuit incident. So why on earth has it been closed again? Well, it’s simple. Miss Dupree failed to adhere to the city’s regulations. That’s not true. Oh, Chanel has followed every rule to the letter.

She doesn’t display the official City of Salem sticker, which all businesses are required to do. Well, that’s because they didn’t give me one. When Sweet Bits got recertified, they were out of them and then they told me that they were going to send me one as soon as they restocked. Be that as it may, the city cannot allow any businesses to operate without displaying the sticker.

This is outrageous! Sweet Bits has been open for weeks now and never one problem. You know, when my husband was mayor But he isn’t. Mayor. Not anymore. And maybe he was happy looking the other way at your numerous scandals, would I assure you? My administration is by the book. I make the rules in this town now.

Which means the bakery is closed. Good day, ladies. Oh my god, mama! Now what? So

you had these made up for me? Yeah, I, um, I picked them up from the printer this morning. Well, that’s kind of you. Well, let’s see if they work, okay? Do you know who… this is? Uh, she looks very familiar. Uh, Char… Charlene? It’s um, it’s Marlena. Marlena. Marlena. Marlena. Right. Marlena. And she’s married to your best friend.

Um. John. John. John. Right. I, I met him with your husband Steve. Right. Right. Um, okay. And who is, this one’s kind of hard. I don’t know if you’re Wraith? That’s amazing! I saw his name written on the back of the car. Nice. Nice. You’re a cheater.

Hey. Just, uh, catching up on some body and soul. Oh, mind if I turn it off? Yeah. What’s up? What are you doing back so soon? Well, I had to get here to tell you about the new developments at the office. In person. I must be something big. You could say that you might wanna brace yourself.

Mhm.

Mhm.

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[ Relaxing music ]

Eric: Good morning, steffy.

Steffy: Good morning, granddad.

Eric: I’m fixing some coffee for you. You want some?

Steffy: I would love some. I didn’t really sleep that well last night.

Eric: I don’t imagine you did.

[ Steffy sighing ]

Steffy: Hayes fell asleep right away. Kelly wanted to play all night.

Eric: Well, I’m very happy they’re enjoying this art project outside so much.

Steffy: Yeah, enjoying a beautiful day outside. Thank you so much for everything, granddad.

Eric: Of course. You and the kids are welcomed here anytime you want. I love having you here. I just wish it was under better circumstances. You don’t have to explain those circumstances to me until your dad gets here, but I just– I want you to know that you and the kids are safe here anytime you want. This is your home, too.

Steffy: Thank you.

Ridge: Hey, you two.

Steffy: Hi.

Eric: Ridge, hey. We’re having a coffee. You want some?

Ridge: I’m okay. My daughter summoned me, so here I am. What’s up?

Steffy: Okay, there’s– uh, there’s something I wanted to fill you in on. Something happened that you don’t know about. Look, the bottom line is, the kids and I are going to be living here for a while.

Finn: Who’s the brilliant artist?

Kelly: Me. I drew it to make you come home. I missed you, finn.

[ Finn sighing ]

Finn: You’re leaving?

Steffy: I’m gonna stay

at my grandfather’S.

I need to know that the kids

are gonna be safe from sheila.

Finn: Nothing is more

important to me

than you and our children.

I love you.

You have to believe that.

Don’t take the kids, okay?

Don’T. Don’T. I’m begging you.

Please don’t walk out the door.

[ Knocking on door ]

Rj: Hey.

Finn: Rj.

Rj: What’s up? How are you? I was, uh– I was just headed to paradise cove, so I thought I’d stop by and, uh, say hi to you and steffy and the kids. Are they around?

Finn: Uh, no. No, they’re not.

Rj: Okay. Are they down by the beach or something? I was thinking maybe later we could go grab some lunch, if you– if you’re interested.

Finn: They’re gone, rj. They left.

Wyatt: I can’t believe kelly almost drowned. I mean, I’m– I’m– I’m so glad she’s okay. I– I just– I’m sorry this happened to you, man.

Liam: You– this happened or that finn allowed it to happen?

Wyatt: Why would he take his eyes off her at the beach?

Liam: I don’t know, man. I don’t– I don’t even know. Could you imagine how terrified she was, though? Like, if we had lo– if we had lost her that day–

Wyatt: I don’t even want to think about that. Just thank god finn was there. He realized and then–

Liam: Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no, no, no. No, wasn’t finn. No, wasn’t finn. It was sheila. Yeah. Sheila pulled my daughter out of the water.

Rj: Finn, what do you mean that they’re gone? I thought because of the whole sheila situation, you decided to keep the kids home from– from camp, right? Until you found a new nanny?

Finn: Yeah, that– that was the plan.

Rj: Well, hey, I don’t mind entertaining them. I’m– I’m free, you know, if you need help with anything. I know you guys are up to your ears with work and everything else.

Finn: She’s going to have plenty of help at her granddad’s house. That’s where steffy went after she took the kids and left.

Rj: She… left? And you’re saying she, like, she walked out on you? Why? What happened? Why would my sister do something like that?

Finn: Because of liam.

Liam: Yep. Yep. Apparently, sheila was at the beach that day and she got to kelly first.

Wyatt: What? Was she sunbathing? I don’t understand. Why was she there?

Liam: I think you know the answer to that.

Wyatt: Of course. Finn.

Ridge: So, you’re moving in here? Okay. Why?

Steffy: I left finn. I had to get the kids out of the house as fast as possible.

Eric: I saw how upset you were last night, but I had no idea it was something this big.

Steffy: I couldn’t stay there, granddad. It was too dangerous.

Ridge: Because of sheila? What happened?

Zyrtec!

Rj: Kelly’s my niece. She could have died. It was your job to keep her safe, finn.

Finn: I know, okay? And there’s no way that I can apologize enough. I am horrified about what could have happened.

Rj: Now, I see why steffy was so upset. That’s her little girl, you know? Is– is this why she walked out on you? Is this why?

Finn: I wasn’t the one who saved kelly.

Rj: Well, who did?

Finn: Sheila. My mother saved kelly’s life.

Wyatt: Wow. I mean, this– this– this whole situation is crazy. Look, I’m glad kelly’s okay. That’s the most important thing here, but see, this– this proves that sheila’s just not going to stay away.

Liam: Oh, yeah. Oh, no, 100%. She’s barely, barely out of jail, and she’s already stalking finn and my daughter.

Wyatt: Yeah, I mean, look, I’m glad– I’m glad steffy made the decision to finally take the kids and get away because that’s just– honestly, that’s the right thing to do here.

Liam: Yeah, no, the kids– the kids are okay. They’re going to be safe at eric’s, which is really, you know, all I care about.

Wyatt: Yeah.

Liam: But whether finn wants to admit it or not, he is– he is a magnet for sheila, especially after hugging her, you know, like, sending that message. Now, she’s really gonna– she’s not gonna give up on being in his life. And– and so, thankfully, steffy and I are on the same page now. There’s– there’s no way we’re letting that monster anywhere near our family.

Ridge: What was finn thinking?

Eric: Wait, he– he took his eyes off kelly for a phone call?

Steffy: Finn is horrified about what happened, and thank god kelly is okay. But that’s only a part of the story. Finn didn’t save kelly.

Ridge: What do you mean?

Steffy: Sheila was there.

Ridge: What– what do you mean sheila was there?

Steffy: Sheila rescued kelly. Finn swears he had no idea that she was there.

Ridge: But she was there? She was watching them?

Steffy: I– I guess. I don’t know. I’m still trying to process all of it. I– I can’t believe that my daughter is alive because of sheila, that awful human being who tried to kill me and the people that I love. And after everything that happened, finn is actually defending sheila. He says that I should cut that psychopath some slack.

Eric: Cut her some slack?

Steffy: He called sheila his mother. Look, I– I love my husband. I– I really do, but he admits, he admits that he has a connection to his birth mother. And honestly, I don’t think it’s ever going to go away. After everything sheila has done to me and my family, I just… I can’t live with that.

The thought of getting screened

Rj: Well, thank god she’s okay. It could have been a lot different, finn.

Finn: I know, okay? It was all my fault. I keep seeing it play over and over in my mind. It’s terrifying.

Rj: Well, the fact that sheila was involved– yeah, I understand why steffy walked out.

Finn: Yeah, well, liam? He’s stoking it. He’s using the fact that sheila’s my birth mom to try and break up my marriage.

Rj: Finn, what are you talking about?

Finn: How did you even know

about that? You weren’t there.

Steffy: Liam told me.

Finn: Liam told you?

Steffy: He followed you.

He saw you and sheila together.

Finn: So he just–

he told you everything?

I mean, he must have loved

doing that.

Steffy: He didn’t just

tell me, finn.

He showed me.

Finn: What are you

talking about?

Steffy: He recorded it

on his phone.

Finn: Liam has it out for me. He wants steffy back, so he’s doing everything he can to undermine my marriage to your sister. I’m not going to let him get away with it.

Wyatt: You and steffy seem to be a united front when it comes to sheila.

Liam: Why you got to– why you got to do that? Why you got to make it sound like that’s a– a surprise?

Wyatt: I’m not surprised. I’m just– I’m happy. But, uh, what about, uh, finn? Does steffy feel the same way that you do about her husband?

Liam: Obviously, steffy and my number one priority is keeping the kids safe. And obviously, finn has proven he’s not capable of helping us do that, so.

Wyatt: Right, but, dude, you got to admit that things are a little complicated here with your feelings, right? You– you kissed steffy twice. Once back in rome, and then recently when you got back to L.A.

Liam: Yeah, there’s– yes, there’s a lot of history there. And– and I will continue to love steffy very much, which I have been honest with you about.

Wyatt: Okay.

Liam: But god’s honest truth, man, I’m not– I wasn’t– I really wasn’t trying to break up their marriage. It was just a– it was a moment, you know? And I even– I– I told steffy, like, I will never do that again.

Wyatt: Fact of the matter is, she still walked out on finn, so there’s that.

Liam: Okay, yeah, but, bro, the whole situation is different now. I mean, like, new information came out, right? So for me, I’m just– I’m, like, tunnel vision. I’m laser focused on– on– on keeping steffy and kelly and hayes safe.

Wyatt: Right. And I get that. But, dude, I’m just saying, maybe deep down, somewhere, you realize there’s an opportunity here that you could possibly reunite with steffy.

Eric: Sweetheart, I’m sorry you’re having to go through all this. I am. I’m so glad that kelly’s okay. All right?

Steffy: Yeah.

Eric: You can stay here as long as you need to. I love you. And selfishly, I’m very glad to have you here under– under my roof.

Steffy: Thank you. And I love you, too. I feel safe here.

Eric: You are safe here. Okay?

Steffy: Mm-hmm.

Eric: I’ll make sure that you have everything you need. I’ll give you two some time alone, and, uh, I’ll let the staff know you’re going to be staying. Okay.

[ Steffy sighing ]

Ridge: I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.

Steffy: Oh, it’s just– it’s just a lot. Oh, it’s a lot.

Ridge: It’s a lot.

Steffy: Yeah. So afraid for my children. The thought of kelly losing–

Ridge: Hey, kelly’s fine. You’re fine. You did the right thing coming here. Don’t doubt that. We’ll get through this. The way we always do. As a family. Scout is protected by simparica trio,

Ridge: Dad is right. You’re safe here. How about this? How about I move in and help with the kids?

Steffy: I appreciate that, but I think you want to stay close to brooke.

Ridge: No. Kids are more important. She would understand that. She would do the same for her children.

Steffy: I really appreciate the offer, but I’m– I’m fine. I’m just emotionally gutted right now. My head is spinning. Everything’s just moving so quickly.

Ridge: You know finn’s going to hear from me, right?

Steffy: Yeah.

Ridge: How does he take his eyes off his daughter at the beach? How do you do that?

Steffy: Look, dad, there’s something else you need to know. I didn’t want to say it in front of granddad. I just… okay, when– when sheila was released, when she walked out of the courtroom, finn followed her and… he embraced her.

Ridge: He did what?

Steffy: He hugged sheila, his mother.

Ridge: And you know that how? You saw it? He– he told you?

Steffy: No, liam did. Liam took a video of it and he showed me. He said he was picking up this weird vibe from finn in the judge’s chambers. And when finn left, liam followed. And that’s when he saw finn and sheila.

Ridge: Hugging.

Steffy: Yeah. I– I wanted to believe in my husband. I– I really did. Like, there was some kind of explanation.

Ridge: How do you explain that? How?

Steffy: I don’t know. I don’t know. After what happened with kelly at the beach, I– I don’t know how I’m supposed to trust my husband. With finn, sheila’s always going to be part of our lives.

Ridge: I’m sorry.

Steffy: Yeah. Me, too.

Ridge: What happens now?

Finn: I know what you’re doing.

Liam: What’s that? Looking out for my daughter and her mother because you can’t?

Finn: No, no, believe me, I can take care of my family just fine.

Liam: Really, finn? Really? Because you almost got my daughter killed. She was about to drown. Steffy and I would have lost her because of you.

Finn: I know, okay? Believe me. No one feels worse about what happened than I do.

Liam: Okay. So, what do you– what do you want from me? Like, am I supposed to feel gratitude toward your psychopath mother for this? Like, what?

Finn: Sheila has done terrible things. Believe me, okay? I know firsthand. But she is the reason why kelly’s alive.

Liam: Finn. Do you– do you hear yours– the woman shot you. She shot you! She shot your wife! And you’re still– you’re still here defending her. I mean, you’re– you’re even embracing her physically.

Finn: See, the– there it is. There it is, liam. Exactly. You took that video and you didn’t come confront me about it. No, you ran straight to steffy and showed it to her, didn’t you, you little puke? I know what you want, liam.

Liam: Yeah, I’m– I’m– I’m sure you do. What I want is for steffy to have all the information so she can start making decisions to protect our kids.

Finn: That’s not the only reason! We both know that. Your marriage to hope is ending, but that does not give you the right to just cycle back and make a play for my wife and try and interfere with my marriage.

Liam: Finn, all due respect, you are doing this on your own and at least steffy has taken the kids somewhere safe.

Finn: Steffy and i love each other. We’re committed to each other. And like before, we’re gonna do whatever it takes to get over whatever obstacles come our way together. You think that you have, like, this– this in with her and this– this– this history, and you exploit that! But that’s all it is, liam. It’s ancient history. She’s with a real man now and I’m not going to let you interfere with my marriage, so you need to stay away from steffy. You need to stay away from my wife!

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Days Update Monday, August 7, 2023

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Maggie is at a hotel in Chicago. She’s on the phone with Justin, assuring that she will be home in time for Victor’s welcome home dinner and that Alex is invited. Maggie mentions that she’s just in Chicago for a brief visit with Sarah. Maggie says to remind Cook to prepare all of Victor’s favorites and tells Justin that she will see him later as she then hangs up. Sarah then comes home with a bag of groceries covering her stomach, surprised to find Maggie inside and questions what she’s doing there. Maggie informs her that the doorman let her in. Sarah wishes she knew she was coming. Maggie apologizes for surprising her but guesses that makes them even since Sarah has been hiding something from her. Maggie thinks it’s time that Sarah comes clean.

Xander proposes to Chloe but she tells him to get up and questions what he’s doing. Chloe asks if this is a joke. Xander insists that it’s a real proposal but Chloe says not until he convinces her that this has nothing to do with Gwen.

Gwen knocks on Leo’s door at the Salem Inn and says she wanted to say goodbye before she leaves for her honeymoon. Leo is naked in bed with Dimitri and they start to panic. Dimitri tells Leo not to open it and that she’ll go away, but Gwen continues knocking and says she’s not going away.

Nicole goes home and thinks back to Eric informing her that he was proposing to Sloan. EJ then enters the room and greets her. EJ comments that she was obviously deep in thought and asks what’s on her mind. Nicole admits that it’s Eric.

Sloan asks Melinda again if she won’t say anything to anyone. Melinda tells Sloan that her secret is safe with her right as Eric comes home and asks if he’s interrupting. Melinda says she has to get to the office and tells Eric that it was nice seeing him. Melinda tells Sloan that she will talk to her soon. Eric stops them and suggests they tell him what secret they were talking about first. Sloan starts to respond but Melinda tells her to just tell him the truth.

EJ questions Nicole thinking about Eric. Nicole explains that she saw Eric in the town square when she was having breakfast with Chloe and they got to see the very lovely engagement ring he picked out for Sloan as he’s apparently going to propose. EJ guesses that must have been a surprise. Nicole admits it makes sense since they are having a baby together.

Sarah questions what Maggie wants her to come clean about. Maggie tells Sarah that she’s been waiting for her to open up about this ever since Bonnie told her. Maggie knows Sarah swore Bonnie to secrecy but says it’s not like her to keep a secret from her, especially big news like this. Maggie then asks if Sarah was ever going to tell her that she’s involved with Rex again and if she thought she was never going to find out. Sarah then gets a look of relief and stops herself from moving the grocery bag covering her stomach. Sarah then claims she learned her lesson that there’s no keeping anything from Maggie.

Xander questions why Chloe would think this is about Gwen. Chloe argues that when she left this morning, Xander was reading the article about Gwen’s wedding. Xander asks if Chloe thinks that’s why he proposed to her and denies that, mentioning that he just ran in to Gwen and he wished her the best. Chloe says it’s still really fast as they’ve only been together for 3 months. Xander insists that he’s fallen deeply in love with her, so he doesn’t care if Gwen marries Dimitri or Sarah goes back to Rex. Chloe stops and questions where he heard that Sarah and Rex were back together. Xander explains that Maggie told him when he went to see her earlier as she said she was going to Chicago to see Sarah. Chloe then questions if that was before or after he bought the ring. Chloe says he might be able to convince her that the proposal had nothing to do with Gwen, but Sarah is a different story.

Leo answers the door and tries to not let Gwen in but shes pushes her way in anyway. Gwen looks around and sees the room trashed which she questions. Leo claims that’s why he didn’t want to let her in and says that since she abandoned him, he had no one to keep it clean for. Gwen argues that she might not live there anymore but she would never abandon him. Gwen says she will only be gone a couple weeks and she had to come back to get one last hug from her best friend. Gwen is grateful that Leo told Dimitri about her wanting to go to Iceland. Gwen wishes that the three of them could all be great friends one day. Gwen then hears a sound from the bathroom which Leo claims to not hear. Gwen calls him a liar and accuses him of hiding somebody, adding that she knows exactly who it is.

Xander swears to Chloe that this has nothing to do with Sarah. Chloe points out that he was just talking to Maggie about Sarah. Xander says he was talking to Maggie about Victor and the Sarah stuff was just a side bar. Xander adds that he told Maggie that he’s happy Sarah has moved on because he has too. Chloe questions if putting a ring on her finger is proving that to the women he’s loved in the past. Xander says that would be a lousy thing to do to her. Chloe doesn’t think he’s doing it consciously but argues that all of this is really sudden, so she has a hard time believing it doesn’t have anything to do with Sarah. Xander then tells Chloe to forget what he said as this has everything to do with Sarah.

Maggie tells Sarah that she doesn’t expect her to tell her every detail of her life, but getting back with Rex is not exactly small. Sarah brings up that Maggie is not Rex’s biggest fan which she admits as Maggie hates that Rex cheated on her more than once. Maggie feels there is something that Sarah isn’t telling her. Maggie asks how they can have a decent conversation when Sarah is holding a bag of groceries. Maggie asks her to put the bag down so they can sit and she can tell her how serious this is with Rex. Sarah hesitates but then puts the bag down and turns back to Maggie, revealing her pregnant stomach. Maggie then realizes it is that serious.

Sloan agrees with Melinda that there is no point in trying to hide this any longer. Sloan starts to speak but Melinda interrupts and claims it was that Sloan shouldn’t have met with the judge behind her back and she came over to blow her out of the water, but they hashed it out and agreed no one else needs to know except now Eric does. Melinda states that Sloan bent the rules but understands she did it for her brother. Melinda adds that Sloan has so much to look forward to with being pregnant, so she’s willing to look the other way. Eric questions that being what they were discussing and assures he’s not angry as he thanks Melinda for keeping it from coming out.

EJ asks Nicole if Eric is going to marry the woman that is carrying his child. Nicole points out that she has to say yes first and assures that she will and that Eric will want to do the right thing by getting married. Nicole insists that she’s not upset at all because she’s not invested in Eric’s life, she’s invested in her and EJ. Nicole adds that she loves EJ, he is the father of her child and he is the man that she wants to be with. EJ then asks if she wants to be with him enough to say yes if he asked her to marry him right now.

Eric thanks Melinda for being so understanding. Melinda apologizes if their little mystery caught him off guard. Melinda says she should get going, so Sloan walks her out. Sloan thanks Melinda for saving her. Melinda says he doesn’t want to ruin her life and feels like they are becoming friends and friends have each others’ back. Melinda gives Sloan her word that Eric won’t hear from her that he is also the father of Nicole’s baby. Sloan agrees that she totally owes her. Melinda states that maybe she’ll need a favor in return one day as she then walks away. Sloan then heads back inside where Eric is down on one knee with a ring.

Nicole questions EJ bringing up marriage. EJ asks why she’s surprised since it’s not the first time. Nicole complains that last time EJ proposed to upstage Stefan and Gabi while now he brings it up after she tells him that Eric is going to propose to Sloan. EJ understands her thinking this is a spur of the moment reaction to that. EJ then goes to his desk drawer and pulls out a ring, revealing that he’s been holding on to it for quite some time, waiting for the right moment to give it to her. EJ declares that moment is now, thanks to her with what she just said. EJ said it’s all true for him too that he’s invested in their life together and he loves her too. EJ calls her the mother of his child and without question the one he wants to be with forever. EJ says it seems like she feels the same unless he misunderstood.

Gwen says now she knows why Leo didn’t want her to come in and it has nothing to do with the room being a mess. Gwen goes and knocks on the bathroom door and says he can come out now. Gwen brings up how she saw Leo sexting with “MP” which he said was Matthew Perry and says she wants to meet the man that Leo is so enamored by. Leo tells Gwen that he’s not coming out. Gwen asks what the big deal is and questions what is going on.

Xander tells Chloe that this proposal is about Sarah and Gwen, but not in the way she thinks. Xander explains that Gwen married a Euro trash tosser who tried to blow up the world while Sarah is now back with a jerk who couldn’t stop cheating on her, but they are happy and he doesn’t begrudge them that because he wants to be happy too and he wants Chloe to be happy. Xander thinks they can be happy together. Chloe points out that they already are happy. Xander wants to commit to her and insists he’s not trying to compete or prove anything to anyone. Xander asks Chloe to think about it as they could get their own house with a yard for the kids which Chloe questions.

Maggie is shocked to see Sarah is very pregnant and questions why she didn’t tell her and if she thought she wouldn’t be happy for her. Sarah says it’s not that. Maggie argues that it’s one thing to not tell her they were dating again but to lie all this time about a pregnancy. Sarah argues that she didn’t lie but Maggie calls it a lie of omission. Maggie points out that it looks like she got pregnant right after leaving Salem. Sarah admits it was before she left Salem and claims it was the one night that she and Rex hooked up around Valentine’s Day. Maggie questions what possible reason she could have to hide this from her all this time. Maggie then guesses that the baby is not Rex’s. Sarah asks what she is talking about. Maggie points out that Rex wasn’t the only person she slept with before leaving Salem and that’s why she didn’t tell her, because the baby she’s carrying is Xander’s. Sarah tries to laugh it off and says it’s not helpful for her to hear that. Maggie argues that she can’t even look her in the eye and they both know why. Sarah then breaks down and admits it’s true that the baby is Xander’s. Sarah tells Maggie that she can never tell him.

Chloe had no idea that Xander wanted to be a father. Xander says of course he does and the sooner, the better. Chloe points out that they’ve talked about everything over the past few months and he never mentioned wanting children. Xander brings up how he helped raise Rachel and he was a good dad, so he misses it. Xander says when he hears Chloe on the phone with her son Parker, he imagines what it might be like for them. Xander insists that he wants children of his own but not with just anyone, with Chloe, and that’s why and what he is proposing. Xander says it’s not just a marriage, but a life and a family. Xander tells Chloe that he has fallen madly in love with her and he can’t imagine his life without her in it.

Leo tells Gwen that “MP” is not coming out because he doesn’t want her to see him. Gwen asks why not. Leo then says because he’s a married man and his wife doesn’t know about them. Leo acknowledges that he went there again but says they are mad for each other and calls himself a terrible person and a monster. Gwen encourages that if the man is mad for him then his marriage obviously isn’t working so he wouldn’t be responsible if the marriage ends. Gwen calls Leo one of the best people she knows and she doesn’t care what anyone else says. Gwen declares that if this man makes him happy, that’s all that matters because he deserves happiness. Gwen adds how long she’s waited for happiness and now she has it. Gwen says she has to get back to Dimitri and finish packing. Gwen tells Leo that she will miss him so much as they hug. Gwen then exits the room. Dimitri comes out from the bathroom and complains that was close. Leo brings up what Gwen said. Dimitri agrees that Leo deserves happiness and kisses him. Leo questions how he will get through a few weeks without him. Dimitri tells Leo to go check his e-mail, so he does and is shocked by what he finds.

Nicole questions EJ buying a ring for her and holding onto it. EJ repeats that he knew the perfect moment would come along.

Sloan questions if Eric proposing is for real. Eric acknowledges that she wasn’t crazy about his last attempt, so he wanted to get it right this time.

EJ knows Nicole was underwhelmed by his last proposal, so he wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice. EJ reveals that he bought the ring when they found out she could carry the baby to term.

Eric brings up that Sloan said she wanted a real traditional proposal, so here he is and he can tell she didn’t see it coming.

EJ states that Nicole may be surprised, but he’s been counting the minutes until he could put the ring on her finger as he wants them to be one when their child is born.

Eric explains that Sloan said she would get married when she was asked by a man who was as deeply in love with her as she was with him.

EJ says he and Nicole have told each other how they feel, so now he gets down on one knee.

Eric guesses there’s only one thing left to say.

EJ tells Nicole there is only one thing left to say.

Eric asks Sloan to marry him.

EJ asks Nicole to marry him.

Eric starts to worry at Sloan’s hesitation and complains that he didn’t think this through but Sloan kisses him and says yes.

Nicole tells EJ that he doesn’t have to get down on one knee since they’ve done this before. EJ feels their history makes it all the more significant and asks what are the odds they would end up here, so happy and very blessed. Nicole calls it a miracle. EJ feels the universe is giving them another chance to get things right with their child and he wants to celebrate that by announcing their love and commitment to each other and their child to the world. EJ asks her to allow him to do that by placing the ring on her finger.

Melinda sits in the town square and starts to text Sloan but decides she’s got it. Melinda gets up to walk away but sees Gwen walking through. Melinda greets her and says she just read about her wedding and congratulates her. Gwen thanks her. Melinda brings up her husband having an interesting track record. Gwen calls Dimitri a wonderful man. Melinda remarks that she looks forward to trying them jointly for the crimes they will inevitably commit. Gwen responds that not even Melinda can spoil her day as in just a few short hours, she’s heading to Iceland for the trip of a lifetime. Gwen then walks away.

Leo is shocked that Dimitri got him a plane ticket to Iceland with a hotel reservation. Leo worries about Iceland being a small country and says he can’t crash his honeymoon. Dimitri kisses him and says he’s sorry but they both know he’s coming. Dimitri tells Leo to pack a sweater or else they can rely on body heat as he then exits the room. Leo flops onto his bed and screams into a pillow.

Chloe tells Xander to forgive her as she didn’t expect to come home to him waving an engagement ring around. Xander argues that he wouldn’t have to wave it around if she would just give him her finger. Chloe responds that she’s sorry but it feels like just yesterday, they were roommates and now they are talking about marriage and babies. Xander points out that they’ve been more than roommates for awhile now and he can’t help but think fate had a hand in it. Xander explains how they weren’t looking for each other but somehow the stars aligned and they may be the most unlikely couple ever who would have never gotten together in normal circumstances which makes him believe they are meant to be because they work just by being themselves. Xander declares that may be the best way to find love with no illusions, just the real thing, as they kiss. Xander remarks that it felt like a yes to him but Chloe responds that she’s afraid it’s not.

Maggie questions Sarah not telling Xander about the baby and thinking he’ll never find out. Maggie reminds Sarah that she did this with Eric and it ended in disaster. Sarah argues that this is different and complains that Xander is a criminal who kidnapped Bonnie and Susan which led to Susan’s death. Sarah insists that Xander is still the same amoral, untrustworthy and dangerous person which is why she divorced him, because he will never change. Maggie points out that now there is the baby to consider. Sarah declares that it doesn’t matter what Xander says, does, or promises because it’s always just a matter of time before he ends up in a dark scheme like kidnapping or blackmail. Sarah adds that it’s one thing to lie to her, hurt her, and break her heart, but this is her innocent child at risk. Maggie says she understands, but the child is as much Xander’s as Sarah’s and he deserves to know. Sarah says absolutely not because if Xander knows, then he will insist on being part of the child’s life and that can never happen. Sarah pleads with Maggie to say she won’t tell him.

Xander questions Chloe really saying no. Chloe admits the proposal was beautiful and sincere but she needs time and thinks Xander needs time to figure out his feelings for Sarah going forward. Xander understands she needs time, but assures he doesn’t. Chloe thinks it’s the wise thing to do. Xander can’t imagine a single thing could change his mind about her.

Sarah argues that Maggie knows she’s right that letting Xander be part of the child’s life would be a huge mistake. Sarah knows Maggie cares about Xander but this is about her grandchild’s safety. Maggie says she worries about Sarah because this plan basically means that she can never come back to Salem. Maggie questions when she’s going to see her then. Sarah responds that she can come here anytime. Maggie asks if Sarah wants to live in Chicago. Sarah insists that she will make it work. Maggie questions Rex being her pretend boyfriend. Sarah confirms they are just friends. Maggie asks how Rex feels about all of this. Sarah responds that Rex is amazing and understands that she has to do this her way, so he has promised to keep her secret which she noticed Maggie has not yet. Maggie brings up that she spoke to Xander before she left and told him that she got back with Rex. Sarah asks if he lost his mind. Maggie says he was actually very happy for her as it seems Xander has finally moved on with Chloe. Sarah mentions that Bonnie told her that. Maggie declares that it won’t matter as if Xander finds out about the baby, all bets are off. Maggie decides she will not be the one to tell him as that should be Sarah.

Gwen goes home to Dimitri in their room at the DiMera Mansion. Gwen asks where he’s been since she thought he’d be packing for the honeymoon as they kiss. Dimitri says it won’t take long and they will soon be off to paradise. Gwen comments that it will be just the two of them and she can’t wait as they continue kissing. Gwen jokes that Dimitri is in for more sex than he can possibly imagine. Dimitri remarks that it sounds like his kind of trip.

Leo looks at his e-mail and sees it is a first class ticket, noting that the hotel does have a champagne bubble bath. Leo then brings up Gwen saying he’s the best person she knows, so he must do the right thing, delete the e-mail, and forget Dimitri ever sent it. Leo then puts his phone down and decides he may not be a good person as he begins to pack a bag.

Eric and Sloan lay in bed as Eric then puts the ring on Sloan’s finger and they kiss.

Nicole says yes to EJ’s proposal, declaring that she would be very honored to be his wife as they kiss.

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B&B Short Recap Monday, August 7, 2023

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At Eric’s, Liam and Steffy make sure Kelly is OK after her ordeal at the beach. Steffy vents to Liam about the situation she’s in with Finn. He agrees with her completely and offers his support.

Finn, upset about Steffy, complains to Li, but his mom tells him that she doesn’t blame Steffy for leaving because Sheila is dangerous and almost killed them all. Finn explains why he hugged Sheila and called her mom. Li suggests he make things right with Steffy. He declares that he and Steffy will get back what they had.

Hope is very busy right now, thanks to the success of Hope to the Future. She and Brooke reminisce a little about Rome. Brooke tries to get Hope to see that she should get back with Liam and stay away from Thomas, but Hope doesn’t want to be with him any more, since he still loves Steffy. She’s enjoying her life now, and concentrating on work. Brooke thinks that she should fight for Liam and not give up so easily.

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Primetime TV Review: Worst Cooks in America: Love at First Bite

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“Worst Cooks in America:  Love at First Bite” Review on by Eva 8/8/2023

Season 26 of Worst Cooks in America has Chef Ann Burrell and Chef Jeff Mauro teaching a group of sixteen boot camp recruits how to cook. The twist this season is that all the recruits are single and want to learn how to cook so they can find a significant other.

I enjoy watching the show because I like watching the contestants become better cooks each week. I do, however, recommend that the first two weeks you eat before you watch the show because after you watch the food they make, you may not want to eat for a few hours.

This year the Blue Team and the Red Team, known as the Rocking Red Stars, are divided into pairs and the winning pair that cooks a restaurant quality meal will win $ 25,000.

I like this show because it is fun to watch and you get attached to the contestants and want them to learn how to cook. The show lasts 8 episodes and can be streamed on Max.

I give this show 5 out of 5 stars.

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GH Short Recap Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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Martin tells Cyrus that he gave away all his money and Cyrus is happy that the Lord will put the money to good use. Martin wonders if Cyrus is hiding money somewhere, but Cyrus tells him that he has given away all his money. Cyrus is later released from the hospital and taken back to Pentonville.

Austin talks to Mason and tells him he thinks he killed Gordon Stevens. Mason reminds Austin that it is a good thing the police don’t know he fought with Gordon outside of the hospital but who knows if there are any surveillance cameras outside of the hospital.

Tracy tells Olivia she should have Ned committed to a psychiatric ward but Olivia refuses to do that even if he calls himself Eddie for the rest of his life. Eddie overhears the conversation and thanks Olivia for defending him to Tracy. Eddie tells Olivia Ned is gone and he will never come back. Eddie also tells Olivia that he needs to sing in front of an audience so Olivia suggests that he write songs with Brook Lynn and she can be his producer. Olivia goes to the kitchen to get some iced tea and when she returns Eddie is gone.

Tracy argues with Gregory at the hospital because Gregory tells her she doesn’t have the right to take away Ned’s freedom no matter what Ned is calling himself now.

Anna and Valentin have a long talk and he admits that he used to work for Pikeman and that Pikeman is connected to the WSB.

Sasha continues to hallucinate with Cyrus and Cody because of the drugs doctor Montague is giving her, so when Cody sneaks in to Fern Cliff to see her with Brook Lynn’s help, Sasha screams for Cody not to touch her and get out of her room.

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Y&R Short Recap Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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Lucy surprises Daniel with a visit because she was worried about him and wanted to check and see how he was doing.

Summer tells Chance that she finally feels ready to move on from everything that happened to Phyllis and move on with her life. Summer invites Chance to ride a rollercoaster with her to symbolize her fresh start but he says he has to work.

Christine will plead guilty to the charges against her if she gets a written guarantee that she won’t press charges against Daniel and Summer and Christine agrees to Phyllis’ terms. Phyllis goes before the judge and tells her all the details of everything she went through with Jeremy Stark and then she pleads with the judge for leniency because she wants a chance to make amends to all the people she hurt.

Christine talks to Chance while she is waiting for the judge’s verdict and tells him Paul called her and asked her to go to Lisbon so they can talk about their future. The judge gives Phyllis six months community service and a year probation, but if she is anything less than a model citizen during that time, she will be back in her chambers and she won’t be so lenient with her.

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Abby persuades Jack to meet with her and Ashley, so he and Ashley can talk and try to make peace.

Victoria tells Nikki she isn’t in love with Nate, but she is having fun because she doesn’t think she is meant to be in love. Nikki tells Victoria not to give up on finding love even if it isn’t with Nate. Victoria tells Nikki to stay out of her personal life.

Audra confides in Nate about the famous singer being involved with underage girls. Audra asks Nate to persuade Victoria to let Adustus merge with Newman Media while she tries to persuade Victor the merger would be a good idea.

Phyllis tells Summer the details of her deal with Tucker, Adam and Summer tells Phyllis that she shouldn’t be under Adam or Tucker’s thumb and there is no guarantee that Carson will testify on her behalf because he could decide not to testify at all. Phyllis tells Summer not to worry about getting out of this mess. Summer tells Phyllis that she is selfish and has never thought of all that helping her has cost like ending her marriage to Kyle

Phyllis and Heather meet with Christine and Phyllis tells her she will take the deal because she must protect Summer at all costs.

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Y&R Transcript Monday, August 7, 2023

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[ Knocking on door ]

Nate: I didn’t think you’d be back from L.A. ’til tomorrow.

Victoria: Well, you know, once I closed the deal, I– I had nothing else holding my interest.

Sharon: You wanted the truth. There it is.

Phyllis: Okay, let me see if I have this straight. Um, if I manage to stay out of prison and accept Adam’s offer to make me the chief technology officer at your company, you want assurances that I’m contrite about blowing up my life?

Sharon: Phyllis, this is more than just a business deal for me. Cameron Kirsten was a hateful man.

Phyllis: Who left you a company.

Sharon: And that’s why I really want to see something good come of this, and I thought that was something that you could appreciate.

Phyllis: What, well, ’cause I’m poison, right?

Sharon: Well, actions do have consequences.

Phyllis: And karma’s a bitch.

Sharon: Listen, I am not trying to be gratuitously hurtful or anything like that. No, I think that you and I, we have gotten to a place of peaceful coexistence. I really thought that this would be a good opportunity for you to change. To learn something. To grow up.

Phyllis: Yes, I want all those things. Uh, hopefully, I can manage to stay out of prison.

Summer: Hey. Can we please just be civil about this?

Daniel: By this, you mean our mother, who has not only dragged you into this mess, but now has you in the D.A.’s crosshairs?

Summer: Look, Christine’s not gonna come after me. She was just making noise to rattle Mom.

Daniel: Is that what Mom told you? ‘Cause Christine wasn’t playin’ around. She was serious about her offer.

Summer: What are you talking about?

Daniel: Well, I assumed you already knew, since Mom is so eager to share everything else with you.

Summer: What offer, Daniel?

Daniel: Christine may not prosecute you if mom pleads guilty to all the charges.

Summer: She’s not gonna do it, is she?

[ Knocking on door ]

[ Knocking on door ]

Tucker: I’ll tell you, it is hard to believe that someone as smart and capable as you could make us such a monumentally stupid mistake!

Audra: Is this your idea of a compliment? Because that would explain why Ashley has been so slow to come around and forgive you now.

Tucker: On the other hand, maybe you did it on purpose.

Audra: Did what?

Tucker: You left something linking me to that singer issue, knowing full well the damage it could do to me if it ever got out, which it has. So, I’d like you to tell me, are you truly that incompetent or did you deliberately try to screw me over? The company goes to the firstborn, Audrey.

Audra: How am I supposed to know how to respond when I have no idea what you’re talking about?

Tucker: A singer signed to the McCall label, who, it turned out, was getting involved with underage girls on the road. Ringing any bells? He went to jail for statutory rape when the tour was finished.

Audra: Yeah, because the PR department decided to cover it up. Yes, I– I remember.

Tucker: Yeah, and do you remember that I asked you to clean up this mess, so it would not come back to haunt us? I fired everyone on that PR team and told you to take care of the rest!

Audra: I did take care of it. I– I deleted all the information relating to that decision. I averted all crisis.

Tucker: And then decided it was a good idea to email me the progress. Emails I never got because they went to my junk mail.

Audra: Okay, so what? Okay, Tucker, that was years ago. And– and didn’t you wipe the system when you sold the company?

Tucker: Of course I did, Audra. But apparently the junk mail remained on one of the servers and guess who has found it. Adam freakin’ Newman.

Audra: How?

Tucker: How do you think? He is in charge of the company now, is he not? He has access to everything, does he not?

Audra: I know that, okay? What does this all mean, exactly?

Tucker: Well, he needed some leverage over me, so he went digging until he found it.

Audra: And you believe him?

Tucker: Let’s see if this sounds familiar. “Singer problem remedied. Hands clean.” You got careless, and now you’ve put us both in jeopardy, and now you’re gonna fix it.

Adam: Hey, I couldn’t help but overhear your, um, your, your–

Sharon: Our discussion.

Adam: Discussion.

Phyllis: Grim assessment of my character.

Sharon: That’s not how I meant it to sound.

Phyllis: Sharon is, um, nervous that I am going to experience some, I don’t know, karmic payback for my recent actions and that my bad juju…

Sharon: Mm-hmm.

Phyllis: …might affect your plans merging these companies.

Sharon: I was just encouraging Phyllis to do a little introspection.

Phyllis: Mm-hmm.

Adam: You know, it– it’s good to get this all out now. You know, some honest give and take before we embark on this venture together.

Phyllis: Mm. Well, not all of us are as confident in this collab as, um, some of us are.

Sharon: I never said that. I didn’t say that. I just felt it was important to express some of my concerns.

Adam: And I fully support that. But I would encourage you to focus on the positives, and not dwell on the worst-case scenario. I don’t think Phyllis has to worry about karma playing any cosmic jokes on her. She’s in a better place now.

Sharon: Do you know something we don’t?

Adam: No, I just– it’s just a gut feeling. I expect big things from her as our CTO.

Phyllis: Yup. And that’s what I intend to give you, if I have the chance.

Sharon: Well, Adam sounds confident.

Adam: Mm-hmm. So, we proceed accordingly. We be optimistic, we plan for success. And if we are to take you at your word that you’re gonna walk the straight and narrow, our media powerhouse is gonna be run by a team of veritable angels.

Sharon: I’m all for optimism, but that might be pushing it a little too much.

Daniel: I hope Mom does take the deal that Christine’s offering.

Summer: Do you even hear yourself? That deal means guaranteed prison time for Mom. You really want her to do that for my sake?

Daniel: No, Summer. I want her to do it because it’s the right thing to do. I– do you really feel like there should just be no consequences?

Summer: My god, we have been over this so many times. Stark manipulated her. He threatened to kill her!

Daniel: This is Mom’s chance to prove that she’s serious about having changed, about wanting to live differently and do the right thing, but you know what my gut tells me? My gut tells me that she’s willing to let you be punished because she’s more interested in protecting herself.

Summer: I’m not gonna let her do this.

Daniel: What– summer! You are not helping her by buying into this. You’re enabling her worst instincts. You know I’m right.

Summer: You know what, Daniel, you don’t need to understand the bond that I have with our mom, and you– you don’t need to understand why I’m not gonna let her do this! You just need to back off!

Audra: Look, it’s not my fault that you decided not to check your spam folder–

Tucker: Your job was to make this disappear completely!

Audra: Okay, if that’s all Adam has, it’s not much in the way of leverage.

Tucker: Do you think he’s just gonna stop digging? He could contact the PR team who was responsible for the cover-up. For all we know, he already has.

Audra: He just has a couple of cryptic emails. Let’s– let’s not overreact.

Tucker: Oh, no, let’s not overreact. Sure. No, you’re right, I’m sorry. He’s just in a position now to derail all my plans, but no, let’s– let’s not overreact.

Audra: What do you want me to do?

Tucker: I think I’ve made it clear. You need to fix things with Adam. You get him to back off. ‘Cause your future depends on it, you know.

Audra: My future?

Tucker: No, that’s right. I’m gonna handle my end of things.

Audra: Why would you put it that way?

Tucker: Let me see if I can explain it to you. Adam runs a media company under the Newman umbrella. You run a media company under the Newman umbrella.

Audra: I know.

Tucker: Yes! And do you think Adam is going to be content to peacefully co-exist?

Audra: Victor said that he doesn’t wanna merge Newman Media with Adustus.

Tucker: Oh, did Victor say so? Oh! Hallelujah, ’cause Adam always does his father’s bidding to the letter.

Audra: Oh, my god.

Tucker: Do you wanna keep your position at that company? If so, you manage Adam and you make this go away.

Audra: You know, you said that you’d handle your side of things. So, Adam isn’t the only problem you’ve got, is he? Who else knows about this?

Phyllis: In all sincerity, Sharon, I really want this to work and I really want to be part of making this new company a success. I really do. I hope you believe me.

Sharon: Yeah, yeah, I believe you right now. While you’re in this place and everything’s hanging over your head, but you know, I know you. I’m a realist.

Phyllis: Well, that is fair. That is fair. Yeah. I have to walk the walk.

Sharon: Look, the reason that I needed to have this honest conversation with you is because this is really, really important to me. But I also– I see this as a good opportunity for everyone as well.

Phyllis: So, don’t screw it up, Phyllis, right?

Sharon: Well, I wouldn’t put it that way, but yeah.

Phyllis: [ Scoffs ] ‘kay. I’ll do my best, all right? I really want this. I– I do. I– I see it as a really great business opportunity and… I mean, I heard, Adam told me, that you and Nick weren’t really happy to learn that, um, he had offered me the job, so…

Sharon: Oh, well, that had more to do with how it came about. It should have been a joint decision.

Adam: Well, I let my enthusiasm get the better of me.

Sharon: Still, you know what? Nick and I, we would have never agreed and gotten on board if we didn’t think it could work.

Phyllis: Right. Okay. Well, may– it may be a little awkward, you know, given our history, of course. I mean, even the four of us. But, uh, you know, I think we can make it work. I mean, hey! We had some good times at Restless Style, remember?

Sharon: For a time, yeah!

Phyllis: Yeah, yeah!

Adam: Yeah! And I remember when it went from fashion to a gossip rag and I was a regular target.

Sharon: Oh, well that was really more Billy, not us.

Adam: Oh, no, Nick and Phyllis, they got their digs in at me as well.

Sharon: Okay, well…

Phyllis: Um…

Sharon: Why don’t we just all agree that it won’t be anything like that? I mean, we’re all on the same team, right, Phyllis?

Phyllis: Yes, we are. We absolutely are.

Victoria: So, I wanna know how things went while I was away.

Nate: Oh, you weren’t gone that long.

Victoria: I know, but Dad’s in Europe and you and Mom were running things. Did the two of you get along?

Nate: We did. She invited me out to lunch, actually.

Victoria: Really? Well, what prompted that?

Nate: Uh, she wanted to have a frank conversation about you and my intentions.

Victoria: Oh, god.

Nate: Well, it’s– it’s fine, it’s fine. She’s protective of you. I respect that.

Victoria: So, what did she say?

[ Nate chuckles ]

Nate: Well, uh, she talked about my ambition… Nick’s belief that I have some kind of agenda, but it all came down to one question. What is it that I want?

Victoria: Well, what did you say?

Nate: Told her the truth. In the most direct, respectful way I could. That, in an ideal world, you and I would run Newman side by side.

Victoria: Oh, wow. That must have surprised her.

Nate: Well, she was surprised that I was that honest. I was just as honest with her when she asked about my feelings for you.

Victoria: Oh?

Nate: I told her how much I admire and respect you. That we have a rare understanding. That, uh… the foundation of our relationship is a deep friendship.

Victoria: You know what? That’s a perfect description. I approve.

Nate: I also said that things hadn’t progressed to what you’d call serious, but that I could see that happening.

Victoria: If we’re being honest…

Nate: Please.

Victoria: I don’t know if I’m capable of having a– a serious, committed relationship with anyone again.

Nate: I get that. I know what Ashland put you through.

Victoria: But not just Ashland. After so many failed attempts, I just… I feel like I’m in a good place, you know? Like, a stable place.

Nate: I wasn’t saying it to put any kind of pressure on you. I’m not there either, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it did happen. That’s how much of a connection I feel with you.

Victoria: I like what we have together.

Nate: Because it’s amazing.

[ Victoria chuckles ]

Nate: Spending time together like this, while being able to work together, feeding off each other the way we do. Planning global domination.

[ Nate chuckles ]

Nate: It’s all I could ever really ask for.

Victoria: I feel the same way. I don’t wanna rush things.

Nate: We won’t.

Sharon: Well, this is a nice surprise!

Mariah: Tessa and I have some news that we just couldn’t wait to share.

Sharon: Good! What is it?

Mariah: Well, I know that there was a time we thought it was never gonna happen, but we finally found the perfect babysitter for Aria.

Tessa: Everything we were looking for in a caregiver.

Sharon: Oh, that’s great. I know what a relief it is to feel confident you’re leaving your daughter in good hands.

Tessa: Mm-hmm. Which leads us to the next part of what we came to tell you.

Sharon: More good news. I can tell by the looks on your faces.

Tessa: Well, I can’t wait to see the look on your face.

Mariah: Tessa and I have been talking a lot about this, and we’ve finally come to a decision, which was made easier by the fact that we now have a first-class caregiver for Aria. I’m gonna leave Jabot and come work for you at the new company.

Sharon: Oh, Mariah.

Tessa: There it is!

Sharon: This is wonderful news, the best news.

Tessa: Right? I just love the idea of you two working together.

Sharon: I know how proud you are of the work you’ve done at Jabot and I know that it’s a big deal for you to walk away from there after everything you’ve accomplished.

Tessa: Well, I encouraged Mariah to do what was best for her. I mean, staying at Jabot and navigating all that tension, or going to work for someone who’s gonna welcome her with open arms and endless brownies?

Mariah: Which was, uh, excellent advice.

Tessa: Mm-hmm.

Mariah: So, I know things are moving very fast with the new company, so I am ready. Whenever you need me.

Sharon: Uh, now. Immediately.

[ Both chuckling ]

Tucker: Hi.

Phyllis: Wow. Breaking into my hotel room.

Tucker: Is this your room? [ Scoffs ] I’m sorry, I thought it was my room. They all look so similar.

Phyllis: Don’t you have people for that? You know? I’m sure it’s hard finding competent people to sort of cover up your messes, isn’t it?

Tucker: Phyllis, I have to admit, you and Adam really got the better of me this time.

Phyllis: Hmm. Well, I’m sure you’d rather eat glass than admit that.

Tucker: No, no, no, I’m impressed, really. ‘Cause I did not see it coming. Although, I feel like I have to make a couple of things clear.

Phyllis: Oh, okay, if you must.

Tucker: Uh, the singer in question who was–

Phyllis: Um, sorry. Singer. Um, is that– hmm, that’s– it’s the guy who was interested in the underage girls? Charged with statutory rape, and then finished out his lucrative tour? That’s right, that– that singer, right?

Tucker: Hmm, yeah. I had nothing to do with the cover-up. That was the PR team in place at the time, uh, and I fired everyone on that team when I discovered they had covered it up, so–

Phyllis: And got rid of all the evidence, right? Or so you thought?

Tucker: Yeah. And that was a foolish oversight on my part. But cleaning up the mess, that’s just good business, you know. Gotta protect the company.

Phyllis: Protect yourself. Gotta protect yourself. Hey. This little ambush? Obviously, you, uh, created it to throw me off of my game, and it hasn’t, so… why are you here?

Tucker: I’m prepared to make you an offer.

Phyllis: Yeah. You know, I’ve had my fill of being threatened and manipulated by you.

Tucker: Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but I’m the one currently being threatened here, so– uh, if I get proof that Adam has erased any and all evidence implicating me in this scandal and I’m assured that he’s not seeking any more, I will give you whatever you need to be exonerated.

Phyllis: I need Carson.

Tucker: Yes, your star witness who will claim to have seen you act in self-defense.

Phyllis: I did act in self-defense and he did see it.

Tucker: That’s right. Sure. I– it doesn’t make any difference to me. Plus, I’m not the one you have to convince. And once I’m satisfied that you’ve handled your end, I will let you know where I’m keeping him. And no games.

[ Phyllis scoffs ]

Phyllis: How can i take your word for it?

Tucker: Mm, I can understand why you wouldn’t, but it’s just the way it’s gonna have to be. And one more thing. Uh, if you want his testimony, you have to be the one to pay for it. I’m out. I’m not gonna spend another dime on it.

Phyllis: What about Jack? And throwing Diane off her game to destabilize Jabot?

Tucker: I no longer need you for that. Ashley’s been warning me all along you’d let us down anyway, so–

[Phyllis chuckles ]

Phyllis: Oh, really? That’s rich. This coming from a woman who’s trying to undermine her family’s company by screwing over her brother?

Tucker: You didn’t want anything to do with it from the beginning, remember? And now, I’ve given you the key to your freedom. God. You’re really holding on to so much anger, Phyllis. You know that?  [ Chuckles ] I think you need to work on opening up your chakras. Hey.

Summer: What are you doing here?

Daniel: So, Christine is talking like she might be willing to make a deal with Mom in order to protect Summer.

Heather: What kind of deal, exactly?

Daniel: She will leave Summer alone and Mom would have to go trial as long as she pleads guilty to all the charges.

Heather: What the hell? Is she cutting me out of the loop because of things with my father or is she doing it because she knows this is a very sketchy way to handle this?

Daniel: I think she should take the deal.

Heather: Which is why you’re not a defense attorney. It’s not gonna happen, Daniel.

Daniel: Okay. Yes, Christine is close to crossing some lines, and–

Heather: It’s coercion.

[ Daniel scoffs ]

Daniel: It’s a way to keep Summer from being punished for crimes that our mother committed.

Heather: No, no, no. It’s a brazen tactic. Christine is boxing your mom into a corner. I– I won’t allow it.

Daniel: Summer knew that Mom was still alive. She didn’t say anything. She let Diane sit in jail. I mean, she could be charged with obstruction. With aiding and abetting and god knows what else. All because my mom played on her emotions and manipulated her into keeping quiet.

Heather: Does Summer know about the offer?

Daniel: Told her about it.

Heather: And?

Daniel: She doesn’t think Mom should take the deal, and, you know, Mom’s got her brainwashed. Summer’s the only one who understands her. It’s the two of them against the world. Mom is only lookin’ out for herself. You have to get through to her.

Heather: Phyllis is my client. It’s my job to protect her.

Daniel: Even if it means Summer taking the blame. You’re gonna let that happen?

Heather: Daniel, I know you wanna protect your sister, okay? But she doesn’t want protecting. So my advice to you is, leave this one alone.

Tessa: Things won’t be the same without you at Jabot, but this is a dream situation. You’re working with your mom.

Mariah: And with Phyllis! Yippee!

Sharon: Hey, if I can do it–

Mariah: How are you managing that?

Sharon: Very carefully.

Mariah: No, I’m serious.

Sharon: Well, we’re all in different places now. You know, we’ve all grown up and changed. I will be keeping a close eye on things. You know, everyone has signed onto this for their own reasons. But we all needed to work.

Tessa: So, this partnership is outrageous, full of quirks. This speaks to me.

Sharon: It has its challenges!

Mariah: Well, I know that you’re working on old relationships, but I hope you don’t ignore the new one, with Chance?

Sharon: [ Chuckles ] Okay. Aren’t you smart? Yeah. You know, I really am enjoying my time with Chance. And I have been super busy with work.

Mariah: Well, don’t neglect that relationship. It seems like there might be something there.

Sharon: Yeah. There may be.

Adam: Well, that didn’t take long. Come on in.

Audra: Tucker thought it was important to share this latest development with me as soon as possible.

Adam: What? The proverbial sword hanging over his head?

Audra: You know, it’s, um, it’s terrible. What happened at McCall, all those years ago. But the way the PR team covered up for that singer, none of which Tucker was privy to.

Adam: Mm, not when it was happening, but after the fact.

Audra: There’s no need for this to get acrimonious. I’d like to make a deal.

Adam: Well, I am listening.

Audra: It’s as much in your interest to keep the scandal buried as it is for me and Tucker.

Adam: Oh, yeah?

Audra: Mm.

Adam: And why is that?

Tucker: I was just checking in on your mom, asking her how the case is going.

Phyllis: Yes, and I– I said it’s going great.

Tucker: She said it’s going great.

Summer: Hm.

Tucker: It’s– it’s wonderful to see you feeling so confident.

Phyllis: Thank you.

Tucker: You’re welcome.

Phyllis: Yeah, um, uh– I’ll see ya. Bye-bye.

Tucker: I’ll see you. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Summer: What the hell is going on?

Phyllis: I don’t know. I mean, he is–

Summer: Mom!

Phyllis: I mean, anything could be going on with that guy.

Summer: Is this about messing with Diane again?

Phyllis: Listen. Honestly, I want nothing to do with that woman.

Summer: Okay, that’s not what I asked. Daniel told me that he has seen you around with Tucker. Is– is he pressuring you, somehow? Mom. I have been the person that has stood by you through all of this. The person that understands everything that you’re going through.

Phyllis: I know. I know, babe. And I am so grateful to you.

Summer: Okay, well, Daniel also told me about the deal that Christine offered you?

Phyllis: He did, did he? Really? I can’t wait to hear what he said to you, given the way he feels about me right now.

Summer: Just please tell me that you’re not considering it.

Phyllis: Of course I’m considering it! I’d do anything for you.

Summer: That is what Christine is counting on, Mom!

Heather: It’s coercion.

Christine: Ugh, look, Phyllis completely exaggerated our conversation.

Heather: Okay. You circumvented counsel, went directly to my client and tried to leverage her into pleading guilty.

Christine: She came to me. She asked me to stay away from Summer. She was the one who was trying to leverage things.

Heather: How exactly did she do that? She didn’t, she couldn’t. She doesn’t have any leverage.

Christine: Ah, she was trying to intimidate me. You know, Phyllis, the force of nature, who has to have things her way. I– I just refuse to put up with that anymore.

Heather: I’m sure there are witnesses to this intimidation?

Christine: Okay, look, I– I understand your obligation to Daniel. And Phyllis is Lucy’s grandmother, but once you set aside those emotional complexities, this is not a woman you want to go to war for.

Heather: Christine, she’s innocent until proven guilty.

Christine: Do you really want Phyllis Summers on a stand? The public has a long memory and it would be a jury of her peers.

Heather: And now you’re trying to bully me?

Christine: I’m stating facts, Heather– uh, look. I respect you, okay? And I appreciate the connection we have through the law. You believe in justice.

Heather: And I always thought you did, too. I know the history that you, my father, and Phyllis share. But the Christine I know would never wage a personal vendetta against someone on trial.

Christine: I don’t have to. I’m letting the evidence speak for itself. Uh, I have to say, you’re starting to sound as desperate as Phyllis.

Heather: Uh…

Victoria: Do you want to get a coffee to go?

Nate: Yeah.

Tucker: Do you guys live up there together now?

Victoria: Well, here you sit, all alone. Clearly, you have way too much time on your hands.

Nate: While we have a company to run. So, if you’ll excuse us.

Tucker: Hey, speaking of your company, I have some advice for you.

Nate: Nothing of value, I imagine.

Tucker: Ah, that’s too bad. Imagination is such a valuable tool in the business world.

Victoria: Ugh, what is it, Tucker? I mean, please.

Tucker: I have a feeling that Adam is preparing to make a move to acquire Newman Media. I know Pops told him it was verboten, but you know Adam.

Victoria: Oh, well, if he’s foolish enough to make that kind of move, then we’ll just deal with it.

Tucker: Well, that’s just it. You’ve got Audra Charles running Newman Media at the moment and she will be on the front line when the onslaught begins.

[ Tucker sucking teeth ]

Tucker: Are you sure she’s up to the task?

Audra: Tucker was not involved in the cover-up.

Adam: Well, he definitely covered up the cover-up. More specifically, he had you do his dirty work. You did exactly what the boss told you to do. I mean, now that is loyalty.

Audra: Yeah, it’s what any other management team would have done to protect their business.

[ Adam scoffs ]

Adam: That is exactly what Tucker said. I mean, it’s a very compelling argument. But you have to consider the source.

Audra: Listen to me. There is no need for this to blow back on any of us.

Adam: You know, the real problem is there’s no proof that you and Tucker weren’t involved from the very beginning. And now, that’s the kind of thing that could cause a scandal that you never recover from. So to me, you and Tucker have the most to lose. So, I have an offer for you. (Wheezing)

Audra: What do you want?

Adam: Isn’t it obvious? I want Newman Media.

Audra: It’s not mine to give.

Adam: Well, that is why you have to convince my father.

Audra: Oh.

Adam: That merging it with my new company is a smart and lucrative idea.

Audra: How do you expect me to do that?

Adam: Oh, come on. I am sure with all your years with Tucker, you’ve honed your skills. Very nicely.

Nate: I have total confidence in Audra to handle whatever’s thrown at her.

Tucker: Uh, your confidence is endearing, Nate. Really. Although, I suspect Victor might have a different word for it.

[ Tucker chuckles ]

Nate: What happened, Tucker? Did Audra get fed up with all your games and tell you she’s done with you? So, now you’re gonna try to undermine her?

Victoria: That’s awfully vindictive of you, Tucker.

Nate: I’d say it’s beneath you, but clearly, it’s not.

Daniel: Hey, there.

[ Tucker sighing ]

Daniel: Hey, Tucker.

Tucker: Hey.

Daniel: You know, man, I’m not really sure what your game is with my mother, but do me a favor. Stay away from her.

Phyllis: I’m not just going to blindly accept some plea deal from The Bug. I mean, she only said that she would– well, she might consider not pursuing charges against you.

Summer: And you don’t trust her.

Phyllis: What? I’m not gonna bargain my life away without protecting you.

Summer: Mom, don’t listen to Daniel. I don’t need you to protect me.

Phyllis: You know, this makes me so sad. That you and Daniel are at odds again.

Summer: I know. But you’re gonna keep fighting this, right?

Phyllis: Of course. It’s what I do. I keep fighting, of course.

Summer: Mom, I– I need you to tell me the truth. Everything.

Phyllis: Okay, yeah.

Summer: This has all felt a little too convenient. Carson, the EMT coming back and turning out to be the only person that could possibly exonerate you. And now, you’re in the mix with Tucker? I–

Phyllis: Yeah, it– listen, listen. Tucker, you don’t have to worry about him.

Summer: I’m not worried about him. I am worried about you. Okay? You came to me for help, right? And now, I need you to be honest with me about everything. Seriously, Mom. No more lies.

Christine: I resent you making these accusations about me. It’s hurtful and I actually feel like you owe me an apology. As an attorney and as someone I thought I had a bond with.

Heather: I was speaking to you on behalf of my client, one professional to another, but now you’re going to invoke our connection to manipulate me into backing down–

Christine: Heather, you know that’s not what I’m doing. You don’t owe Daniel’s mother this kind of blind faith.

Heather: I was really wanting to believe that you wouldn’t take advantage of a situation to settle an old score, but I have lost all confidence. This is– this is bordering on the territory of prosecutorial misconduct.

Christine: Oh, my god, that’s ridiculous, I– you’re serious?

Heather: Dead serious. Christine, I’m going to the judge with a motion to have you removed from the case.

[ Christine sighing ]

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Sam: Wow. [ Laughs ]

Scout:  I had so much fun, Mommy! Thank you for taking me to my swim lesson.

Sam: You’re welcome. You did so good, sweetie.

Scout: Did you see me do the butterfly?

Sam: I did.

Scout: Daddy said it’s getting better.

Sam: Well, I think he’s right. You’re doing great. It’s good.

Scout: Mommy, I miss Daddy.

Sam: I know, sweetie. I miss him, too.

Scout: We can miss him together.

Sam: Yeah. Come here.

Gladys: Oh, that just breaks my heart.

Sam: Yeah, I bet it does.

Salon worker: May I help you, sir?

Cody: No. Uh, thank you, though. Hi, Ms. Miller? Yeah, your assistant let me know where to find you.

Diane: Well, that’s the last personal information she’s going to give out about me.

Cody: Are you still Sasha Gilmore’s lawyer?

Diane: Mr. Bell, this is neither the time —

Cody: Listen, I just — I just needed to let you know that I will not be pressing charges, and I won’t cooperate with the PCPD if they go after Sasha.

[ Door opens ]

Mandy: Good morning.

Sasha: Good morning.

[ Door clangs shut ]

Mandy: I hope you slept better last night, Sasha.

Sasha: I’m sorry. I — I can’t remember your name.

Mandy: I’m Mandy. How are you feeling this morning?

Sasha: [ Sighs ] Um, confused. A little scared to be here.

Mandy: It’s not unusual.

Sasha: I-I feel like I am missing something important. Like I’ve — I’ve lost a-a chunk of time.

Mandy: Let me get you some water and maybe some breakfast.

Sasha: I think what would help is if I could talk to my guardian. My mother-in-law.

Mandy: Let me see if I can get in touch with her.

Sasha: Thank you so much.

Nina: Hi, my name is Nina Reeves, and I’m calling about your venue for my wedding. Um… no, we haven’t actually picked out a date, but we were thinking Valentine’s Day.

Sonny: Thanks for meeting me.

Brick: Always. Always good to see you. You know that.

Sonny: Yeah. So, you got something good for me?

Brick: I always have something. We’ll see how good it is.

Nina: Thank you. Uh, I-I will be in touch.  [ Chuckling ] Okay, bye. Ohh, okay, planning this wedding, I think, is going to drive me crazy.

Olivia: Really, Nina?

Nina: Oh. I’m so sorry, Olivia. I know that you’re dealing with so much more with Ned. I — I’m sure that he’s going to come out of this.

Olivia: Well, he’s not out of it now. My husband is running all over town all night. I have no idea where he is or what he’s doing.

Nina: Yeah, but when things like this happen, sometimes it’s just —

Olivia: Things like this? Things like my husband thinks he’s Eddie Maine?

Nina: But the bottom line is, Ned — he loves you.

Olivia: Yeah. Sonny loved Carly, and now he’s marrying you.

Gladys: I remember you. You were shopping for dresses at Logan’s.

Scout: You had that pretty coat on you didn’t want me to touch.

Gladys: Well, kid… [Chuckles] I mean, it was couture.

Sam: Oh, my god.  Come on. Let– let’s take a picture by the pool so we can show your dad when we visit.

Gladys: Oh, it must be so hard. How are you doing with your Daddy in the slammer?

[ Cellphone rings ]

Sam: You know what, Scout? Why don’t you go over to the chair and grab a snack out of the bag? I’ll be there in a minute, okay?

Spencer: I’ll get it.

[ Knock on door ]

Valentin: Morning, Spencer. May I come in?

Spencer: Why are you alone? Where’s my grandmother and Kevin?

Valentin: They’re still looking for your father.

Anna: Where do you stand with the WSB?

Robert: [ Irish accent ] Ah, top of the mornin’ to you, too, lass.

Anna: Oh. Good morning.  Where do you stand with the WSB?

Robert: [ Normal voice ] Well… since I became DA, I’ve had very little contact with them. Anyone that was there during my era has either been fired, put out to pasture, transferred — y-you name it.

Anna: Don’t you think it’s suspicious?

Robert: [ Chuckles ] I think anything to do with The Bureau is suspicious — in particular, their arresting you for treason.

Anna: Yeah, well, I mean, that’s over now.

Robert: Is it?

Nina: I didn’t realize that you were still so upset.

Olivia: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for it to come out like that, okay? But it must have occurred to you that your situation with Sonny, where he fell in love with you while he thought he was Mike might cross my mind given my current situation with Ned.

Nina: Yeah, and you still resent the fact that I didn’t tell anyone.

Olivia: I know that it’s in the past, but the whole situation with Sonny is shoving it right back up in my face.

Nina: Well, you know, it’s a little different with Ned, right? He’s here in Port Charles with his family.

Olivia: Yeah, but he doesn’t realize that we are his family. I-I thought, honestly, that this whole thing was gonna be over very quickly, that I would just stick around, I would wait, I would talk to him. I would be with him. Honestly, I look in Ned’s eyes, it’s like he’s not even there.

Nina: Well, you just — you know, you just keep trying, you’ll get through to him.

Olivia: I thought I was making a little progress yesterday. He — he — he asked me to make a breakfast, and he actually asked me to tell him a little bit about my past, and so I did.

Nina: Sounds like progress.

Olivia: No, but — but it wasn’t Ned. It was Eddie, and Ned already knows all of the things that I told him. Eddie — pbht. No.

Nina: Okay, you just take one step at a time.

Olivia: He was out again all night last night. I didn’t even bother to check to see if he came home in the morning. For all I know, he’s out there falling in love with some other woman, just like Sonny fell in love with you.

Brick: We’ll start with the little fish.

Sonny: Good.

Brick: I’m sure you recognize her.

Sonny: Ava’s favorite nanny.

Brick: Betty Rutherford, 26, no criminal record. She actually worked as a nanny briefly.

Sonny: I’m not surprised about the “briefly.”

Brick: [ Chuckles ] She also worked as a receptionist at a trucking company. Would you like to venture a guess as to where that was?

Sonny: Pautuck.

Brick: Bingo.

Sam: What the hell is wrong with you?

Gladys: Oh. What? Hey, her dad’s in prison. She needs to learn the world is not always a safe place.

Sam: I will decide what my daughter needs to learn and when, and if you say another word to Scout, I will throw your ass in that pool so fast you will not know what happened.

Gladys: Okay, all right. Maybe I got carried away. I mean, being here is really bringing back the horrible memory of Sasha stabbing Cody.

Sam: [ Scoffs ]

Gladys: The look in her eyes was… she wanted to kill him.

Sam: I don’t believe it for a minute. What really happened that day, Gladys?

Gladys: Well, after she stabbed him?

Sam: No, before. Who drove her to do something like that?

[ Knock on door ]

Sasha: Did you get in touch with Gladys?

Mandy: I called the contact number your mother-in-law left on your admission form, but unfortunately, I got voicemail.

Sasha: Did you leave a message?

Mandy: I did. I said you were asking for her.

Sasha: Thank you, Mandy.

Mandy: Is there anyone else you’d like me to call?

Sasha: Yes, please. Cody Bell.

Cody: Ms. Miller, did you hear anything that I just said?

Diane: Loud and clear.

Cody: Okay, well, Sasha shouldn’t be in Ferncliff, and I will not do anything or say anything to help keep her in there.

Diane: Okay, Mr. Bell. At the risk of sacrificing the one hour I have to myself today, I will engage. But you’ve got to settle.

Cody: Okay, yeah. I’m — listen, I’m sorry for barging in here like that. Please don’t fire your assistant. It’s just Sasha needs help as soon as possible.

Diane: And you don’t think she’s gonna get that help at Ferncliff?

Cody: Yes. N-no. [ Stammers ] Something is wrong about everything that’s going on with her. And the look in her eyes when she… stabbed —

Diane: Allegedly stabbed you.

Cody: Yes. That wasn’t Sasha. At least not the Sasha I know. Something else is going on, and I’m really worried about her safety.

Diane: What do you mean? And you got to give me something specific.

Cody: And I will give you something specific as soon as you get me into Ferncliff to see Sasha.

Spencer: What happened in Chechnya?

Valentin: We found the Cassadine house, and there was a new owner and there was no sign of Nikolas anywhere.

Spencer: And you just left them there?

Valentin: No, no. We left Chechnya for Prague, and that’s where Kevin and Laura decided they wanted to continue the search on their own.

Spencer: Where?

Valentin: Cassadine Island, but there was no trace of Nikolas there, either.

Esme: Maybe you can’t find him because he’s dead.

Anna: We can’t talk to Frisco because he left the bureau.

Robert: And the person who’s replaced him thinks that the way to clear up the bureau image is to fire everyone.

Anna: By disgracing and then distancing themselves from so many former agents.

Robert: ‘Tis the way of bureaucracy, my dear.

Anna: Erase the past. Just convince everyone that it was all bad, and then it makes the new regime seem so much better. At least that was the impression that I got when I was in London after the whole Greenland fiasco.

Robert: The late, not-lamented Victor.

Anna: [ Sighs ] You know, the debriefing — it was… just so weird. Like, the entire process. I-it was orchestrated in a manner that I-I just didn’t recognize. It just all felt so alien to me, and I’ve been debriefed more times than I care to count.

Robert: And this is the only reason you came charging in here?

Anna: No, there’s another reason. What do you know about Pikeman?

Valentin: Good morning, Esme. And good morning to you, Ace. Wow, he is getting big, isn’t he?

Esme: Do you think his father could be dead?

Valentin: I’ve seen no evidence that Nikolas is dead.

Spencer: Well, we don’t seem to have any indication that he’s alive, either.

Valentin: That is true, also.

Spencer: He’s just hiding the same way that he did when he had us convinced that you had killed him. I spent three years grieving that man.

Esme: Look, Spencer, we — we don’t know if —

Spencer: Don’t you see that this is just what he does? He makes a mess of his life, and then he runs away from it, and he has certainly made a mess this time, getting his son’s girlfriend pregnant.

Valentin: You think he’d abandon Ace?

Spencer: Well, he abandoned me, didn’t he? That’s who our father is. He’s a coward. My grandmother’s off searching for him. She’d be better off just coming home, not wasting time. He’s better off gone for me and for my brother.

Dr. Montague: Mandy, in the future, could you please consult me before you make any calls for Ms. Gilmore?

Mandy: Of course, Dr. Montague.

Dr. Montague: Thank you. Hello, Sasha.

Sasha: Hi, Dr. Montague.

Mandy: I thought I could maybe help Ms. Gilmore get more comfortable and remove her restraints.

Dr. Montague: I think that’s a good idea.

Sasha: Oh. Thank you.

Dr. Montague: Is that better, Sasha?

Sasha: Yes.

Dr. Montague: Good. Thank you, Mandy.

Mandy: I’ll be back later, Sasha.

Sasha: I-I hope she’s not in trouble for calling my mother-in-law.

Dr. Montague: No, no, of course not. But I’m curious, why did you ask to speak to Cody Bell?

Sasha: Cody is my friend. He has helped me before.

Dr. Montague: Under the circumstances, you didn’t think that would be awkward?

Sasha: [ Sighs ] Because I’m in this place?

Dr. Montague: Because you tried to kill him.

Diane: I appreciate your desire to help her. But even if I thought this was a good idea, I have no power to authorize a visit to Ferncliff. Only her guardian can do that.

Cody:  Oh. All right. Well, I’ll find another way ’cause Gladys wouldn’t lift a finger for me. And I wouldn’t trust her if she did.

Gladys: How dare you accuse me of doing something to hurt my daughter-in-law.

Sam: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. I didn’t accuse you of anything. Unless, of course, you think there was a reason I should, then…

Gladys: Of course not. But after you grilled me in the fitting room about my relationship with Selina Wu, it was crystal clear that you are out to get me.

Sam: No, what’s clear to me and Sasha’s friends is she was perfectly fine and handled a very difficult situation at Home & Heart without a problem. What doesn’t make sense is what happened after.

Gladys: Maybe it would make sense if you paid more attention to your “friend” Sasha and less to snooping around about me.

Brick: Dr. Austin Gatlin-Holt, 48, no criminal record. Graduate of New York State University Buffalo and Great Northern Medical School. Came to Port Charles soon after delivering Maxie Jones’ baby, in the woods, no less. They had a brief relationship. He’s currently dating who?

Sonny: Ava.

Brick: Related to the Quartermaines on his father’s side.

Sonny: Edward’s bastard son, Jimmy Lee Holt, was his father.

Brick: We can move on to this guy.

Sonny: I met him. Then he got whacked.

Nina: The little I know of Eddie, he doesn’t seem like the type that would go out and fall in love with someone.

Olivia: Great, maybe he could cut a swath of one-night stands through Port Charles. Wouldn’t that be great? Don’t think that that hasn’t crossed my mind.

Nina: Listen, Olivia, if Sonny and I are causing you to overthink things, we can just keep a low profile.

Olivia: Mnh-mnh, mnh-mnh, mnh-mnh. No, no, no. This is my problem, not your problem. I have to deal with it, and I will. [ Chuckles ] You know… Leo actually likes Eddie.

[ Both chuckle ]

Olivia: And then he asks me where his father is, and I don’t know what to tell him, and it breaks my heart.

Nina: Maybe you should go home, Olivia. I could take care of things here.

Olivia: No. Brook Lynn is taking Leo to class and she’s taking him to the stables, and Tracy can drive someone else crazy today. I came here so I could get my mind off all things Quartermaine and Eddie Maine, and… and I think that I have found the perfect thing to focus on to get my mind off of it.

Nina: [ Chuckles ] The books?

Olivia: I’m gonna plan your wedding.

Sam: Wow. Why are you so paranoid, Gladys? I think if I did some real snooping, I’d find some big trouble.

Gladys: [ Sighs ] All I’ve ever done is try to take care of Sasha. She’s family to me.

Sam: Right.

Gladys: You know what? I saw the look on your face at the hospital when Sasha wanted my guardianship rescinded. You thought it was a good idea.

Sam: Yeah, I certainly did.

Gladys: Can you not see that my love and concern is exactly what Sasha needed? Look what ended up happening.

Sam: According to witness testimony, she had no idea what happened.

Gladys: [ Sighs ] That’s my point. You and all the rest of her so-called friends thought she was fine. I was the only one who saw the truth. I was the one who wanted to take care of her.  Her friends couldn’t see it because some people managed to conceal their feelings and hide what’s really going on.

Sam: Oh, there you go. I think you’re — I think you’re right about one thing. Some people are really good at hiding things. Sasha isn’t one of them.

Gladys: You know what? That’s ’cause you don’t know her the way I do. And you never will.

Sam: Hmm.

Sasha: I already told you, I don’t remember stabbing Cody.

Dr. Montague: But you did stab him, Sasha. In front of a lot of people. You very nearly killed him.

Sasha: [ Sighs ] I guess that’s why I’m in here.

Dr. Montague: Yes. To get the help you need. So, why don’t we start with what you do remember?

Sasha: Everything was going well. I mean, some days were more difficult than others, like when someone tried to upset me on Home & Heart. But I handled it, and I was proud of myself for being able to handle it.

Dr. Montague: But it’s clear now that you weren’t dealing with it.

Sasha: I was. I think it started happening after I took those pills you prescribed me. I-I took them for a few days, and — and I-I started to feel groggy and paranoid and… and I started hallucinating a-and hearing voices.

Dr. Montague: The pills I gave you weren’t causing your hallucinations, Sasha. And they aren’t what caused your violent behaviors.

Sasha: But I was fine before I started taking them.

Dr. Montague: Sasha. We found these in your purse. It’s what caused you to try to kill Cody Bell.

Nina: Are you sure you’re thinking clear– I mean, you… you don’t think this is gonna be too painful for you?

Olivia: I love Sonny. We have an amazing son, a spectacular grandson. I want him to be happy. And you seem to make him happy.

Nina: What about Carly?

Olivia: She’s my best friend. That ain’t gonna change. And deep down, I think she wants Sonny to be happy, too. Even if we aren’t on the best terms right now.

Nina: Oh.

Olivia: She still believes that Ned turned her and Drew in and got Drew sent to prison.

Brick: Gordon Stevens, 52. You met him?

Sonny: Briefly. Took him for an ex-con.

Brick: Good eye. Five years in Pentonville for grand larceny. No wife, no kids, no family. Worked for a trucking company in…

Sonny: Pautuck.

Brick: And finally, we have this guy. Mason Gatlin.

Valentin:  Well, I’m sorry that I-I couldn’t bring better news for all three of you. What do you say, Ace? You remember me? Can I hold him?

Esme:  Yeah.

Valentin:  Spent a lot of time together in Greenland, didn’t we? Good for you, Spencer. Not every brother would step up the way you have.

Spencer: Well, it’s not Ace’s fault that our father’s a coward.

Valentin:  You’re doing a good job. Look at you. After everything we went through in Greenland, you’re still a happy and well-loved young man, aren’t you?

Esme’s taken a lot of the responsibility. She’s determined to make sure that Ace has everything that he wants. She’s a good mother.

Esme: Thank you, Spencer. Although I can’t quite figure out how to give him a bath without winding up drenched myself, so… [ Chuckles ]

Valentin:  You’ll figure it out. Ace, you are a credit to your brother and your mother, aren’t you?

[ Ace coos ]

Robert: Pikeman is an independent defense contractor. Been around forever. But then again, you should know that. So what are you really asking me?

Walsh: I’d like to ask you about the Greenland incident. Before you arrived here in London, I went over several reports about Greenland, and I have a few questions.

Anna: Yes, of course. Whatever you need.

Walsh: What possessed you to go rogue, run interference, and ignore the very specific mandate Agent Hursley gave you?

Anna: Well, with all due respect to Agent Hursley —

Walsh: You provided him no respect whatsoever.

Anna: I have to be honest with you. He didn’t seem to grasp the fact that people’s lives were at stake and that there were extenuating circumstances.

Walsh: There always is, Ms. Devane. Particularly with you. It says here that after your arrival, you sought out Valentin Cassadine. As you’re well aware, the bureau has been keeping track of him for several years, and there appears to be a discrepancy in your reporting on pages 6 and 12.

Robert: Anna. Earth to Anna. Why are you talking about Pikeman?

Anna: Oh, I’m sure it’s nothing. Thank you. You’ve been very helpful.

Robert: I didn’t do anything.

Nina: Carly blames Ned for what happened to drew?

Olivia: Carly came to the hospital when Ned was in the ICU. We didn’t know if he was gonna make it. I was a complete wreck and I bit her head off. But it seemed like she still believed that Ned did it, and I know that he didn’t. You know, before this whole thing went down, Ned swore to me that it wasn’t him, and I believe him, Nina. Somebody else turned in Carly and Drew.

Nina: And you haven’t spoken to her since?

Olivia: No, I haven’t. I don’t know what she believes now, but you know what? We’re gonna get through it. She and I have been through a lot worse.

Nina: Well, Olivia, if you’re sure about this, yeah, Sonny and i would be honored if you want to help us plan our wedding. Yes, um, I-I called a couple of venues, and —

Olivia: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I’m gonna stop you right there.

Brick: Again, no criminal record. Austin’s cousin on his mother’s side, a trucker, worked for the family business.

Sonny: The same business that Betty and Gordon worked for?

Brick: Oh, are you doing my job for me now?

Sonny: Well… you think he’s the biggest fish?

Brick: So far. Company was bought two years ago through a very well-hidden LLC. No record of his “occupation” since.

Sonny: Blackmail.

Valentin: All right, buddy. Your cousin charlotte and i are not gonna be strangers. I promise you that, Ace.

Spencer: Listen, I haven’t had the chance to thank you yet for Greenland.

Valentin: No, you don’t have to thank me.

Spencer: No, if you hadn’t shown up… Uncle Victor was gonna use that pathogen on me and Trina, and I wouldn’t have been able to face losing her.

Valentin: Oh, we all did what we had to do.

Spencer: I’m trying to say thank you, and I’m trying to tell you that I was wrong about you.

Valentin: No, you weren’t. Spencer, my father’s dead. Nikolas is gone. We Cassadines have a rare opportunity to reinvent our family.

Spencer: You think?

Valentin: Yeah. You, Ace, Alexis, her daughters — you’re good people.

Spencer: Well, I’m not sure that i deserve to be included in that, but, uh, I’ll keep my nose clean if you will.

Robert: And Mr. Bell sought you out?

Diane: He did indeed, and I did not engage. Okay, well, I engaged a little bit, but only after he made his intentions perfectly clear.

Robert: And?

Diane: And he is not going to press charges against my client, Sasha Gilmore, and he steadfastly refuses to cooperate in any police investigation into the matter.

Robert: She stabbed him.

Diane: Allegedly.

Robert: In front of witnesses.

Diane: Robert, he’s not going to press charges and he’s not going to cooperate. You have no case. So I request that all charges against Sasha Gilmore be dropped immediately.

Robert: I’ll talk to the ADA.

Diane: Mm-hmm.

Robert: Uh… you didn’t come all this way to tell me that.

Diane: No, I didn’t. I came to invite you to the Port Charles auto show this weekend.

Robert: I love the car shows.

Diane: [ Chuckles ]

Robert: It’s a date.

Diane: No, no, no, no. It’s not a date. It is simply two colleagues going to look at cars because you need a new one desperately.

Robert: I love my car. I’ve had it forever.

Diane: Precisely my point. It’s not good to hold on to things forever, unless, of course, you like being stranded by the side of the road.

Robert: Oh, well, not particularly.

Diane: Mm-hmm. And that’s what happens. You hold on to something forever, and you get stranded by the side of the road again and again and again. Whereas a new model, very dependable, could also be exciting. Of course, you never know until you try.

Walsh:  It says here that after your arrival, you sought out Valentin Cassadine.

Anna: We can’t talk to Frisco because he left the bureau.

Robert: And the person who’s replaced him thinks that the way to clear up the bureau image is to fire everyone.

Sonny: I’ve been working with a high-powered security firm lately. You know, you ever heard of Pikeman?

Walsh:  You sought out Valentin Cassadine.

Sonny:  Okay, go ahead.

Anna:  You’re not to speak to anyone new. If your contact person is to change, do not proceed until you’ve spoken to your original contact first. Does that make sense?

Sonny:  Yeah.

Anna:  [ Exhales deeply ]

Sam: Hi, uh, my name is Sam McCall. I was hoping I could visit my friend Sasha Gilmore today.

Janice: Only approved visitors are allowed to see Ms. Gilmore.

Sam: Approved?

Janice: Yes, you would have to have the permission from her guardian, Gladys Corbin.

Nina: If you change your mind about helping Sonny and me with the wedding, I completely understand.

Olivia:  No, no, no, I haven’t changed my mind about anything. What is this crazy talk about other venues? There is only one venue, and you and I own it.

Nina: Olivia, don’t you think that people are going to —

Olivia:  People — people are gonna what?  They’re gonna read all about the preparations on every website known to man. They’re gonna be dying to have the wedding here. They’re gonna bring in all kinds of business. Come on, Nina. You can’t possibly be selfish enough to deny the Metro Court all that free publicity, not to mention the fact that you will have a beautiful, spectacular wedding yourself.

Nina: Well, yeah. As co-owner of the Metro Court, I guess that makes sense.

Olivia:  Yeah, if you had your wedding anywhere else, everyone would wonder why, and there would be cancellations all over the place. It can’t happen. It can’t happen, okay?

Nina: Okay. Okay.

Olivia:  So when’s the date?

Nina: Well, we haven’t picked an exact date, but we were thinking Valentine’s Day.

Olivia:  Oh, ooh, la, la. Romantic. Uh, it’s a great idea. Uh, several months away. I could plan Harry and Meghan’s wedding in less time.

[ Both chuckle ]

Nina: Thank you.

Brick: This bastard’s blackmailing you?

Sonny: Ava.

Brick: Because of the connection to his cousin? Why don’t we just take all three of them out and be done with it?

Sonny: Can’t. ‘Cause he has Nikolas Cassadine’s body.

Brick: So he didn’t run. He’s dead.

Sonny: Ava killed him. But she says it was an accident.

Brick: Wait a minute. So he has her ex-husband’s body?

Sonny: I got to protect her because she’s the mother of my child, so we can’t do anything until we get the body back. Hands off. He lives until we get that body back.

Esme: Is Valentin gone?

Spencer: Yeah.

Esme: Oh, well, I wanted him to see Ace’s new outfit. Oh, well. Next time. He liked you, huh, Ace? He didn’t seem so bad.

Spencer: He’s not.

Esme: It was kind of you to say that I’m a good mother.

Spencer: You are.

Esme: It’s just nice to hear. Guess it’s not hard to be a good mother to this guy. Sometimes I think I couldn’t love him more, and yet every day, I do. Maybe it’s ’cause you get cuter every day, huh?

Spencer: That’s true. You are a very good-looking kid, little brother.

Esme: [ Chuckles ] Why don’t we take some pictures?

Spencer: Yeah, sure. Can never have too many of those, right?

Esme: Very true. [ Chuckles ]

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

Spencer: That’s a really sweet smile in that one. Maybe we send this one to Grandmother?

Esme: Yeah.

Spencer: Actually, Ace, we probably just send all these to Grandma. She’ll love to see you.

[ Chuckles ]

Sasha: No, no, those aren’t mine. I-I haven’t been using. Someone must have planted them in my purse.

Dr. Montague: But you know exactly what these are, don’t you, Sasha?

Sasha: I stopped taking them.

Dr. Montague: Your blood work says otherwise. You’ve been taking these for months.

Sasha: No, no, no, n– I went through rehab. I beat my addiction.

Dr. Montague: You must know how common relapses are. It’s nothing to be ashamed about.

Sasha: But I didn’t take them.

Dr. Montague: Sasha, if I’m going to help you, I need to deal with the facts that I have. And you need to accept them, too. We need to get those drugs out of your system, and this will do just that.

Cody:  Hi.

Janice: Can I help you?

Cody:  Uh, yes, I’m here to see Sasha Gilmore.

Janice: What’s your name? I’ll need to make sure you’re on the list of approved visitors.

Cody:  I’m sure I’ll be on the list. Sasha was married to my — my late cousin, Brando Corbin. I’m Dante Falconeri.

Janice: Sasha talked about her husband, Brando.

Cody:  Yeah, his, uh — his death was a blow to all of us, really, but particularly for Sasha, obviously. That’s why my family’s really worried about her. Can I please see her?

Brick: You take good care of your exes, that’s for sure. First, you make sure to protect Carly’s new beau in prison. Now Ava. What’s next?

Nina: Hey, Brick, Sonny.

Brick: Hey, gorgeous.

Nina: [ Chuckles ]

Brick: And another gorgeous.

Olivia: [ Chuckling ] Hey, Brick.

Nina: Everything all right?

Brick: It will be.

Sonny: How come it seems like you guys have been up to something?

Nina: Well, Olivia graciously agreed to help us plan our wedding here at the Metro Court.

Sonny: Really? You know, that — that means a lot to me, Olivia.

Brick: You live a charmed life, my man.

Janice: If I could just see your driver’s license, Mr. Falconeri.

Cody: Uh, yeah. I must have left it in the car.

Janice: I’m sorry. No one gets in to see Ms. Gilmore without the consent of her guardian. If you want to run back to your car and get it, visiting hours are until 7:00 P.M.

Cody: Yeah, no, I-I parked pretty far away.

Mandy: But, Janice, he’s family. A cousin-in-law.

Janice: But it wouldn’t matter if he were her brother. Ms. Gilmore’s guardian was very specific.

Cody: Yeah, I bet she was.

Mandy: Isn’t it time for your break, Janice? I can cover the front desk for you.

Janice: I couldn’t ask you to do that. I’m sure you have patients to check on.

Mandy: Always do. See you later.

Cody: I’m sure you can understand how concerned we are about Sasha.  Really, I just need a few minutes.

Janice: I think I made it pretty clear what you would need, Mr. Falconeri. I’m sorry. I have to follow the rules. The only way you’re getting in here is if you have an id or you’re a patient.

Cody: Have a nice day.

Janice: I intend to.

Scout: What’s wrong, Mommy?

Sam: Nothing’s wrong, sweetie.

Scout: You have that look on your face.

Sam: Hey, what look?

Scout: The look you get when I’m in trouble. Did I do something bad?

Sam: No, sweetie. Come here. You didn’t do anything wrong. Someone else did.

Gladys: No, it’s not “too young” for me.

[ Cellphone rings ]

Gladys: Everything okay?

Dr. Montague: Yes, I have everything under control.

Gladys: How’s my daughter-in-law?

Dr. Montague: Oh, don’t you worry. She’s doing just fine.

Sasha: [ Breathing shakily ] [ Shivering ] Please… I don’t want to be here.[ Crying ] I want to go home.

Diane: Oh, you suddenly don’t seem too enthused about the prospect. Never mind. I’ll take Alexis.

Robert: Alexis doesn’t appreciate cars.

Diane: Right, but she appreciates spending time with me. Adios.

[ Door opens ]

Anna: Valentin linked to Sonny. Sonny connected to Pikeman. What is Valentin’s link?

[ Door closes ]

Valentin: Hey, what’s going on?

Anna: I think I know who shot at me. And I think you know them, too.

On the next “General Hospital” —

Brook Lynn (to Cody): When you say it like that, it sounds like somethin’ shady’s goin’ on.

Martin: You sure you made the right decision?

Anna: Are you keeping something from me?

Elizabeth (to Finn): Are you having second thoughts about this?

Cyrus: Just tell me you did it as I asked.

Tracy:  It’s time to have Ned committed.

Sasha: I never meant to hurt you!

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B&B Transcript Monday, August 7, 2023

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[ Relaxing music ]

Kelly: I’m okay, I promise.

Liam: We are so grateful for that.

Kelly: I don’t want you guys to worry.

Steffy: Baby, we’re always going to worry about you. What do I say to you every time I tuck you in at night?

Kelly: That the whole world can’t hold all the love for me.

Steffy: Exactly because you mean the whole world to me.

Liam: And to me too because we love you so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much.

Kelly: And you love Mommy so much too?

Finn: I just– I just can’t believe that Steffy just walked out the door with the kids and left me.

Li: For good reason. Yeah. Because Sheila Carter saved Kelly’s life while you took a call. And you embraced that woman when she was released from prison. Steffy leaving seems quite obvious to me. It’s because of Sheila.

Finn: No, Mom. Steffy left because of Liam. He’s trying to undermine my marriage.

Brooke: My goodness! You have four more interviews today.

Hope: Yup. It’s been pretty nonstop. Katie has me booked pretty much throughout the rest of the month.

Brooke: Yeah. And the orders just keep pouring in. You are very much the it girl in the fashion world at the moment.

Hope: Well, at the moment. It does feel nice to have all of our hard work finally pay off. Have a little bit of success and notoriety, but if I am being honest, I’m just grateful to have a distraction right now.

Hope: You know, I’m still smiling about modeling with you in Rome. I don’t think I have ever seen you look more beautiful.

Brooke: You too, baby.

[ Hope chuckling ]

Brooke: That will always be a very special memory for me.

[ Brooke mouthing ]

Brooke: Italy was just so magnificent.

Hope: Yeah, I… especially for you and Ridge. Not so much for Liam and me.

Brooke: Right. Are you and Liam really going to go through with this divorce?

Li: Finn, make no mistake, this is not about Liam. This is all happening because of Sheila. She managed to get out of prison yet again! She could be outside this house this very moment waiting to strike. It is such an injustice that she was set free. Please tell me you agree with that!

Finn: Yes! Of course I think that Sheila should still be in prison.

Li: Okay, great. That’s a start. But Finn, you let that woman embrace you and you embraced her back. Why would you ever do that?

Finn: Mom… look, I don’t– it’s– it’s difficult to explain, okay? Especially to you. But do I feel something for Sheila? Yeah, okay? I do. I just– I can’t help that.

Li: No. No. You cannot feel anything for that woman! Finn, if you do, honey, you will lose Steffy forever.

Liam: Of course, baby girl. I will always love you and Mommy.

Steffy: Kelly, why– why don’t you go check on Hayes, okay? But first, can I get one more hug? Love you.

[ Steffy sighing ]

Steffy: All right, go check on him.

[ Steffy sighing ]

Liam: I meant that, you know. What I said about Kelly. And you.

Brooke: Honey, you know there are always solutions to repair your marriage.

Hope: I do know that and I do agree, but I just don’t know what you are trying to get at right now.

Brooke: I just don’t feel that this divorce is something that you really want.

Hope: Ah. Well, we signed the papers. I– I don’t know what else you want me to tell you, Mom. Liam and I were at an impasse.

Brooke: Honey, so what? You just throw your arms up in the air and say, “that’s it?” You just give up? Just like that, jump in bed with some other guy? Come on, Hope. You have a family. You’ve gotta fight for that family. You have children.

Hope: Mom–

Brooke: This isn’t all about you.

Hope: I know that. I know all of that, Mom. And you’re right. This hasn’t been all about me, has it? Liam has always allowed Steffy to be a part of it. That’s part of the issue, Mom, and– and I’ve allowed it and I’m just tired because I don’t want to feel like I’m sharing him or his love anymore. I’m sure it’s the same way you felt about Ridge and Taylor and I don’t want that for my life, okay? It’s just about me and what I am willing to tolerate and the kind of example I want to set for my kids and, hey Mom, if I am the new It Girl of fashion, well then… this It Girl doesn’t want to come second anymore to anyone.

Finn: Wait, you just– you have to understand. I have no idea Sheila was even there in that moment. When I saw her holding Kelly in the water, all that mattered was that little girl, all right? I didn’t care who was doing the saving, I just wanted to make sure that Kelly was safe.

Li: That’s not hard for me to comprehend, Finn. Kelly is your step-daughter.

Finn: So, is it so wrong for me to be grateful to Sheila for getting swept up in the moment and calling her Mom?

Li: Of course it was. You can never call her that. And how can you ask Steffy to cut Sheila some slack. I don’t blame Steffy for taking the kids and leaving.

[ Steffy exhaling ]

Steffy: What a big day for them. Hayes is already dozing off, but our girl, Kelly, yeah, she’s– she’s begging to play another game.

Liam: Yeah, well, I’m sure the adrenaline hasn’t worn off yet. When it does though…

Steffy: I’m gonna let her sleep in tomorrow. I may have to bribe her with those pancakes at a certain point to get up.

[ Liam chuckling ]

Liam: Well, if I recall correctly, those pancakes are worth getting up for at any hour.

Steffy: Yeah.

Liam: I bet Eric’s really happy you and his grandkids are here.

Steffy: Yeah. Yeah. It’ll be nice for them to spend time with their great-grandfather. You know, I can tell when you have to say something.

[ Liam chuckling ]

Liam: Yeah, I should know better by now. Uh, it’s not– it’s just– um… all right, fine. I’m a little shocked that you actually did it. You took the kids and you left.

Steffy: I didn’t want to do it, Liam. I didn’t wanna pull the kids out of their home. But, I no longer feel that their safe there and I had no choice. Finn’s too vulnerable to Sheila.

Brooke: You are saying things are over between you and Liam, so where does that leave you and Thomas?

Hope: Oh, I don’t know, Mom. I’m just trying to concentrate on work.

Brooke: Hope.

Hope: What? I really am. I’m just trying to ride this wave of excitement and enthusiasm for Hope For The Future.

Brooke: With your lead designer.

Hope: Hey, um, what can I tell you, Mom? When I’m with Thomas, I don’t have to question that I am his everything and I cannot even tell you how good that feels. After years of feeling like– like I’m not enough for Liam. Years of having to beg for reassurance that his feelings weren’t divided and now? I just– I feel… free and I’m not saying this to disparage Liam, to say that he’s not a bad guy or that he doesn’t love me, I’m not saying any of that. I’m just– I don’t wanna be a part of it anymore.

Finn: You don’t blame Steffy for leaving me? How could you say that?

Li: I understand why Steffy felt she needed to protect her kids. Unfortunately, that meant leaving her home and you.

Finn: I’ve asked for your support, Mom.

Li: I won’t coddle you. Your wife wants to feel safe and protected. Finn, you’ve done just the opposite.

Finn: What? So, I’m not allowed to say one word in support of Sheila? I mean, she saved Kelly’s life.

Li: What? Are we supposed to forget everything because Sheila was in the right place at the right time? Finn, she shot you and Steffy and she tried to kill me as well. Steffy has very strong maternal instincts. She will do anything to protect Kelly and Hayes. What happened at that beach, outside the Judge’s chamber, Finn, it could never happen again. Not if you want to regain your wife’s trust.

Finn: My marriage can withstand Sheila and Liam. We’re strong enough.

Li: Don’t be a fool. Finn, honey, do not underestimate what is happening here. Steffy walked out! She left you because you made some terrible choices. But, I still think there’s hope. This is not the end. You will reunite with Steffy.

[ Finn sighing ]

Steffy: Leaving my home, walking out on Finn, I never thought that this could be a possibility, but I had to get the children out of there. As we know, Sheila could strike at any moment.

Liam: No, you absolutely did the right thing. I’ve been so concerned about all of you, but this is– this is– this is good. I mean, you guys are gonna be safer here. Eric’s already amped up security, plus everybody in this house has your best interest at heart.

Steffy: Yeah.

Liam: That includes me, by the way. I’m gonna do everything I can to keep you and the kids safe, so.

Hope: I’m just stating a fact. Steffy has always played a big part in our marriage and I don’t know, maybe I– maybe I brought it on with my insecurities or some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, but whatever it is, I just– I don’t want to be a part of it anymore. And right now, I have never felt more energized or alive, and quite frankly, I don’t even have the time to compete over someone’s affections, whether it’s with Steffy or anyone else, so.

Brooke: Oh, wow. Okay. I can understand why you don’t want love advice from me. I– I do, Hope. Sure, go ahead, you can get a divorce, but if you love somebody as much as I know you love Liam, you need to fight. You need to persevere.

Finn: Steffy! It’s me. It’s me! I found you! Steffy, it’s me. It’s really me.

Steffy: Oh!

Finn: Honey, I’m alive.

[ Bells tolling ]

Finn: We lost each other once. I’m not gonna let that happen again.

Steffy: Finn has always put the kids and me first. I hate that I’m even speaking poorly of my husband. I’ve always been able to trust him implicitly. Especially after everything we’ve been through. It made us closer, it made us stronger. That’s why his– his recent encounter with Sheila is so, so hurtful. She tried to take us away from our kids, our– our family. Like, what the hell was he doing? What the hell was he doing embracing her? How am I supposed to trust him now? Not to mention, our daughter almost drowned on his watch. Do you know what Finn actually said to me? He said that I should cut Sheila some slack.

Liam: Oh, boy.

Steffy: Yeah.

Liam: Well, I’m sorry you’re going through this, having to doubt your own husband, but your feelings are valid and for what it’s worth, I’m just as shocked about Finn as you are. Just, hey. Just know something. I’m here and you get to lean on me because I’m not going anywhere, okay?

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Tucker, furious at Audra, confronted her and accused her of being incompetent or vengeful in the mishandling of eliminating evidence that a musician Tucker employed was sleeping with underage girls while on tour. The information in an email was left in a junk folder and remained on a server. Audra stated she did not know about it, and after the crime was hidden, she said at the time his hands were clean. He accused Audra of being careless and of putting them both in jeopardy. He told Audra that Adam was in a position to derail his plans for Newman and Adam will not want to coexist with him and Audra both running Newman media companies. Tucker ordered her to get Adam to back off because her future depended on it.

In a later discussion Audra had with Adam, who has the email about the coverup, she said there is no need for anyone to suffer any repercussions. Adam said the real problem is there is no proof that Tucker and Audra were not involved in the coverup. Adam, who had previously made it obvious he wanted Newman media back, said Audra has to convince Victor that merging Newman media with McCall Unlimited is a good idea and lucrative too.

Phyllis opened her door to find Tucker waiting for her in her hotel suite. He told Phyllis he had nothing to do with and no prior knowledge that the musician he employed was sleeping with underage girls while on tour. He said he will produce Carson in exchange for proof that Adam gets rid of all evidence that links Tucker to the scandal. Carson is the paramedic who will testify for a price that he saw Jeremy Stark attack Phyllis, and that she had to kill Stark in self defense.

Summer knocked on the door to talk to Phyllis and was surprised to find Tucker there. He told Summer he was there to check in on Phyllis. Summer, suspicious of Tucker’s visit, told her mother it was too convenient that Carson was the only witness who can exonerate her mother. Summer told Phyllis she must tell her everything.

Daniel mentioned to Summer that DA Christine Williams suggested that Summer may avoid being charged for not telling the police where her mother was while the police were investigating allegations that Diane killed Phyllis. Daniel said the DA’s offer is their mother’s chance to prove her statement that she has changed.

Daniel mentioned to Heather that Christine was thinking of offering Phyllis a deal that stipulates Summer would not be charged if Phyllis pleads guilty and gives up her right to trial. Heather said that is coercion and she will not allow it. Heather said it is her job to protect Phyllis, not Summer’s.

When Christine and Heather met, Heather accused Christine of trying to take advantage of Phyllis’ current situation to settle an old score and Christine’s actions border on prosecutorial misconduct. Heather informed Christine she is going to ask the judge to remove Christine from the case.

Tucker, deflated by the scandal he and Audra face, was having a drink at the Athletic Club when Daniel told him to stay away from Phyllis. Daniel was unaware of his mother’s deal with Tucker.

Nate told Victoria he had dinner with Nikki who asked him about his intentions where Victoria and the company were concerned. He told Nikki although he was not ready for anything serious, he could see it going that way and that in an idea world he would love to run Newman Enterprises with Victoria. Nate told Nikki that the foundation of their relationship was built on a deep friendship. A perfect description, Victoria said, as she and Nate were again snuggling in the Newman suite at the Athletic Club.

Victoria informed Nate that she is not sure she is open to having a serious relationship again and that she liked what they have right now.

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LOS ANGELES - SEPTEMBER 22: Sally Kellerman as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, James Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Paul Fix as Dr. Mark Piper and George Takei as Lt. Sulu in the STAR TREK episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Season 1, Episode 3. Original air date, September 22, 1966. Image is a frame grab. (Photo by CBS)

Kirk: Captain’s log, Star date 1312.4. The impossible has happened. From directly ahead, we’re picking up a recorded distress signal, the call letters of a vessel which has been missing for over two centuries. Did another Earth ship once probe out of the galaxy as we intend to do? What happened to it out there? Is this some warning they’ve left behind?

SPOCK: Your move, Captain.

KIRK: We should have intercepted by now. The Bridge said they’d call.

SPOCK: I’ll have you checkmated your next move.

KIRK: Have I ever mentioned you play a very irritating game of chess, Mister Spock?

SPOCK: Irritating? Ah, yes. One of your Earth emotions.

KIRK: Certain you don’t know what irritation is?

SPOCK: The fact one of my ancestors married a human female…

KIRK: Terrible having bad blood like that.

KELSO: Bridge to briefing lounge. Object is now within tractor beam range.

KIRK: No visual contact, Mister Kelso?

KELSO: No, sir. It’s too small to be a vessel. It only reads about one meter in diameter.

SPOCK: Not large enough even for a lifeboat.

KELSO: Small enough to bring it aboard, sir, if you want to risk it.

KIRK: Lock onto it, Mister Kelso.

SCOTT: Materializer ready, sir.

KIRK: Bring it aboard. Old-style ship recorder that could be ejected when something threatened the ship.

SPOCK: More like destroyed the ship in this case. Look at it. Burnt, pitted.

KIRK: Let’s hope its tapes are intact. We’ll feed it through Mister Spock’s computer.

SCOTT: Yes, sir. It’s begun transmitting, sir.

KIRK: Flash the Bridge. Put all decks on the alert.

MITCHELL: Hold it, Jim.

KIRK: Getting into shape?

MITCHELL: Yeah, well, I figured you weren’t on the Bridge. Kelso’s voice sounded a little nervous. Well, uh, you finish the game?

SPOCK: He played most illogically. His next move should have been the rook.

MITCHELL: You’re relieved, Mister Alden.

ALDEN: Acknowledged, Mister Mitchell.

KIRK: Screen on.

KELSO: Screen on, sir. Approaching galaxy edge, sir.

KIRK: Neutralize warp, Mister Mitchell. Hold this position.

MITCHELL: Neutralize warp, sir.

KIRK: Address intercraft.

MITCHELL: Intercraft open.

KIRK: This is the Captain speaking. The object we encountered is a ship’s disaster recorder, apparently ejected from the S.S. Valiant two hundred years ago.

SPOCK: The tapes are burnt out. Trying the memory banks.

KIRK: We hope to learn from the recorder what the Valiant was doing here and what destroyed the vessel. We’ll move out into our probe as soon as we have those answers. All decks, stand by.

MITCHELL: Department heads, sir. You wanted everybody on the Bridge before we left the galaxy. Jones.

SMITH: The name’s Smith, sir.

SULU: Astro sciences standing by, Captain.

SCOTT: Engineering division ready, as always.

PIPER: Life sciences ready, sir. This is Doctor Dehner, who joined the ship at the Aldebaran colony.

DEHNER: Psychiatry, Captain. My assignment is to study crew reaction in emergency conditions.

SPOCK: Getting something from the recorder now.

DEHNER: lf there was an emergency, I’d be interested in how that crew reacted, too.

MITCHELL: Improving the breed, Doctor? Is that your line?

DEHNER: I heard that’s more your specialty, Commander, line included.

MITCHELL: Walking freezer unit.

SPOCK: Decoding memory banks. I’ll try to interpolate. The Valiant had encountered a magnetic space storm and was being swept in this direction.

KIRK: The old impulse engines weren’t strong enough.

SPOCK: Swept past this point, about a half light year out of the galaxy, they were thrown clear, turned, and headed back into the galaxy here. I’m not getting it all… The tapes are pretty badly burned. Sounds like the ship had encountered some unknown force. Now, orders, counter orders, repeated urgent requests for information from the ship’s computer records for anything concerning ESP in human beings.

KIRK: Extrasensory perception. Doctor Dehner, how are you on ESP?

DEHNER: In tests I’ve taken, my ESP rated rather high.

KIRK: I’m asking what you know about ESP.

DEHNER: It is a fact that some people can sense future happenings, read the backs of playing cards and so on, but the esper capacity is always quite limited.

SPOCK: Severe damage. Seven crewmen dead. No, make that six. One crewman seemed to have recovered. That’s when they became interested in extrasensory perception. More than interested, almost frantic about it. No, this must be garbled. I get something about destruct. I must have read it wrong. It sounded like the captain giving an order to destroy his own ship.

KIRK: Comments?

PIPER: The only fact we have for sure is that the S.S. Valiant was destroyed.

KIRK: That’s probably the best argument to continue the probe. Other vessels will be heading out here someday and they’ll have to know what they’ll be facing. We’re leaving the galaxy, Mister Mitchell. Ahead, warp factor one.

SPOCK: Force field of some kind.

MITCHELL: We’re coming up on it fast.

SPOCK: Sensor beam on.

KELSO: Sensor beam on, sir.

SPOCK: Deflectors full intensity.

KELSO: Deflectors full intensity.

SPOCK: Deflectors say there’s something there; sensors say there isn’t. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.

KELSO: Whatever it is, contact in twelve seconds.

KIRK: Gravitation on automatic. Emergency stations. All decks on fire alert. Neutralize controls. Kelso, put it on manual. Any radiation? Anything?

SPOCK: Negative!

KIRK: Helmsmen, take us out of here. Helmsmen!  Lateral power! Take damage reports.

SPOCK: Damage control reports, all stations!

CREWMAN: Gravity control switching to batteries.

DEHNER: Something hit me, like an electrical charge.

PIPER: He’s alive. Appears to be in shock.

CREWMAN: Engineering Deck Three, can you give damage report?

CREWMAN 2: Sensor beams. Full power on the deflectors.

SPOCK: Main engines are out, sir. We’re on emergency power cells. Casualties: nine dead.

CREWMAN: Gravity is down to point eight.

CREWMAN 2: All decks, this is Bridge Engineering. Due to emergency conditions…

KIRK: Gary. Gary, are you all right?

MITCHELL: I’m a little weak for some reason, Jim, but I feel all right now.

KIRK: Captain’s log, Star date 1312.9. Ship’s condition: heading back on impulse power only. Main engines burned out. The ship’s space warp ability gone. Earth bases which were only days away are now years in the distance. Our overriding question now is, what destroyed the Valiant? They lived through the barrier, just as we have. What happened to them after that?

DEHNER: Autopsy report, sir. Each case showed damage to the body’s neural circuit. An area of the brain was burned out.

KIRK: And you… are you feeling all right?

DEHNER: Yes. Mitchell, too, except for his eyes. We’re trying to find a reason for that now, and why, out of our whole crew, only certain people were affected.

SPOCK: I think we’ve found that answer, Doctor.

KIRK: You mentioned that tests show you have a high degree of extrasensory perception. So do the records of the others. Gary Mitchell has the highest esper rating of all.

DEHNER: lf you’re suggesting there’s anything dangerous…

SPOCK: Before the Valiant was destroyed, its captain was frantically searching for ESP information on his crew.

DEHNER: Espers are simply people with flashes of insight.

SPOCK: Are there not also those who seem to see through solid objects, cause fires to start spontaneously?

DEHNER: There’s nothing about it that could possibly make a person dangerous.

SPOCK: Doctor Dehner is speaking of normal ESP power.

DEHNER: Perhaps you know of another kind?

KIRK: Do we know for sure, Doctor, that there isn’t another kind?

MITCHELL: Hello, Jim. Hey, you look worried.

KIRK: I’ve been worried about you ever since that night on Deneb IV.

MITCHELL: Yeah, she was nova, that one. Not nearly as many after-effects this time, except for the eyes. They kind of stare back at me when I’m shaving.

KIRK: Do you feel any different?

MITCHELL: Well, in a way, I feel better than I’ve ever felt before in my life. Actually seems to have done me some good.

KIRK: How?

MITCHELL: Well, I’m getting a chance to read some of that longhair stuff you like. Hey man, I remember you back at the Academy. A stack of books with legs. The first thing I ever heard from an upperclassman was, “Watch out for Lieutenant Kirk. In his class, you either think or sink.”

KIRK: I wasn’t that bad, was I?

MITCHELL: If I hadn’t aimed that little blonde lab technician at you…

KIRK: You what? You planned that?

MITCHELL: Well, you wanted me to think, didn’t you? I outlined her whole campaign for her.

KIRK: I almost married her!

MITCHELL: Better be good to me. I’m getting even better ideas here.

KIRK: You? Spinoza?

MITCHELL: Once you get into him, he’s rather simple though. Childish, almost. I don’t agree with him at all.

KIRK: Go on.

MITCHELL: Hey, I’m trying to tell you I feel fine. When do I go back on duty?

KIRK: I’m going to ask Doctor Dehner to keep you under observation for a while.

MITCHELL: With almost a hundred women on board, you can do better than that, friend Captain.

KIRK: Consider it a challenge.

MITCHELL: That doesn’t seem very friendly. Didn’t I say you’d better be good to me?

SPOCK: He’s reading even faster now than just a few moments ago. Is that Gary Mitchell, the one you used to know?

KIRK: Put a twenty-four-hour watch on the Sickbay. Fullest possible range of examinations and tests.

PIPER: Perfect, perfect. I’ve never had a patient like you, Gary. Even the healthiest are generally off on some reading.

DEHNER: I know you don’t particularly like me, Mister Mitchell, but since I am assigned here, can we make the best of it?

MITCHELL: I’ve got nothing against you, Doctor.

DEHNER: Nor against the walking freezer unit?

MITCHELL: Well, I… sorry about that.

DEHNER: Women professionals do tend to overcompensate. Now let’s talk about you. How do you feel?

MITCHELL: You know, everybody– everybody seems worried that I don’t have some kind of fever or something. Maybe if we could just change these dials… Now back to normal, I think.

DEHNER: How did you do that?

MITCHELL: I’m not sure… I– I just thought of making it happen, and it does. It’s… hey, er, hey, watch this, Doc.

DEHNER: Stop it. Stop it! You were dead for almost twenty two seconds. There were no readings at all.

MITCHELL: Yeah. Oh, boy. You– you know, Doc, there have been other things, too, like going halfway through the ship’s library in hardly a day. Yeah. Oh, what’s happening to me?

DEHNER: Do you remember everything you read that quickly?

MITCHELL: Yeah.

DEHNER: On any tape?

MITCHELL: Sure. Yeah.

DEHNER: Try this one.

MITCHELL: Yeah.

DEHNER: Page three eighty seven.

MITCHELL: My love has wings. Slender, feathered things with grace in upswept curve and tapered tip. The Nightingale Woman, written by Phineas Tarbolde on the Canopius planet back in 1996. It’s funny you picked that one, Doctor.

DEHNER: Why?

MITCHELL: That’s one of the most passionate love sonnets of the past couple of centuries. How do you feel, Doctor?

DEHNER: What?

MITCHELL: How do you feel?

DEHNER: I just fell. Nothing happened.

MITCHELL No? Are you sure? Are you sure?

KELSO: Er, I was on my coffee break. I thought I’d check up on

MITCHELL Yeah, that’s okay, Lee, come on in. Don’t let the light in my eyes bother you, pal. It’s all for our– our good-looking lady doctor here.

KELSO: Yeah. Sure.

MITCHELL: So, er, so, how go the repairs?

KELSO: Well, the main engines are gone, unless we can find some way to re-energize them.

MITCHELL: You’d better check the starboard impulse packs. Those points have about decayed to lead.

KELSO: Oh, yeah, sure, Mitch.

MITCHELL: I’m not joking, Lee! You activate those packs, and you’ll blow the whole impulse deck.

KELSO: I’ll, er, I’ll get on it right away. I just wanted to stop by and make sure you were okay. See you later.

MITCHELL: He’s a fool. A fool. He’d seen those points and he hadn’t noticed their condition.

DEHNER: How do you know?

MITCHELL: The image of what he’d seen was still in his mind.

KELSO: Well, it didn’t make any sense that he’d know, but naturally, I checked out the circuit anyway. I don’t know how, but he was right. This point is burned out exactly the way he described it.

DEHNER: Sorry I’m late. I became so interested in observing Gary– Mister Mitchell.

SPOCK: Our subject is not Gary Mitchell. Our concern is, rather, what he is mutating into.

DEHNER: I know those from your planet aren’t suppose to have feelings like we do, Mister Spock, but to talk that way about a man you’ve worked next to for years is worse than–

KIRK: That’s enough, Doctor.

DEHNER: I don’t think so. I understand you least of all. Gary told me that you’ve been friends since he joined the service; that you asked for him aboard your first command.

KIRK: It is my duty, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to listen to the reports, observations, even speculations, on any subject that might affect the safety of this vessel, and it’s my science officer’s duty to see I’m provided with that. Go ahead, Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Have you noted evidence of unusual powers?

DEHNER: He can control certain autonomic reflexes. He reads very fast, retains more than most of us might consider usual.

KIRK: Mister Scott, would you repeat what you just told us?

SCOTT: About an hour ago, the Bridge controls started going crazy. Levers shifting by themselves, buttons being pushed, instrument readings changing.

SPOCK: And on my monitor screen I could see Mitchell smiling each time it happened, as if this ship and crew were almost a toy for his amusement.

KIRK: Are they right, Doctor? Has he shown abilities of such magnitude?

DEHNER: I saw some such indications.

KIRK: And you didn’t think it worth mentioning?

DEHNER: No one’s been hurt, have they? Don’t you understand? A mutated superior man could also be a wonderful thing. The forerunner of a new and better kind of human being.

KIRK: Mister Sulu.

SULU: If you want the mathematics of this, Mitchell’s ability is increasing geometrically. That is, like having a penny, doubling it every day. In a month, you’ll be a millionaire.

SPOCK: In less time than that, he will have attained powers we can’t understand and can’t cope with. Soon we’ll be not only useless to him, but actually an annoyance.

KIRK: There’ll be no discussion of this with the crew. Thank you.

SPOCK: We’ll never reach an Earth base with him aboard, Jim. You heard the mathematics of it. In a month he’ll have as much in common with us as we’d have with a ship full of white mice.

KIRK: I need a recommendation, Spock, not vague warnings.

SPOCK: Recommendation one. There’s a planet a few light days away from here. Delta Vega. It has a lithium cracking station. We may be able to adapt some of its power packs to our engines.

KIRK: And if we can’t? We’ll be trapped in orbit there. We haven’t enough power to blast back out.

SPOCK: It is the only possible way to get Mitchell off this ship.

KIRK: If you mean strand Mitchell there, I won’t do it. That station is fully automated. There’s not a soul on the whole planet. Even the ore ships call only once every twenty years.

SPOCK: Then you have one other choice. Kill Mitchell while you still can.

KIRK: Get out of here.

SPOCK: It is your only other choice, assuming you make it while you still have time.

KIRK: Will you try for one moment to feel? At least act like you’ve got a heart. We’re talking about Gary.

SPOCK: The captain of the Valiant probably felt the same way, and he waited too long to make his decision. I think we’ve both guessed that.

KIRK: Set course for Delta Vega.

KIRK: Star date 1313.1. We’re now approaching Delta Vega. Course set for a standard orbit. This planet, completely uninhabited, is slightly smaller than Earth. Desolate, but rich in crystal and minerals. Kelso’s task: transport down with a repair party, try to regenerate the main engines, save the ship. Our task: transport down a man I’ve known for fifteen years, and if we’re successful, maroon him there.

MITCHELL: I’m thirsty. It’s like a man who has been blind all of his life, suddenly being given sight. Sometimes I feel there’s nothing I couldn’t do, in time. Some people think that makes me a monster, don’t they, Jim?

KIRK: Are you reading all our thoughts, Gary?

MITCHELL: I can sense mainly worry in you, Jim. Safety of your ship.

KIRK: What would you do in my place?

MITCHELL: Probably just what Mister Spock is thinking now. Kill me while you can.

DEHNER: Stop it, Gary!

MITCHELL: I also know we’re orbiting Delta Vega, Jim. I can’t let you force me down there. I may not want to leave this ship, not yet. I may want another place. I’m not sure yet just what kind of a world I can use.

DEHNER: Use?

MITCHELL: I don’t understand it all yet, but if I keep growing, getting stronger, why, the things I could do, like– like maybe a god could do.

KIRK: I want him unconscious for a while.

MITCHELL: You fools! Soon I’ll squash you like insects.

KIRK: Energize.

KIRK: Can you do it, Lee?

KELSO: Maybe, if we can bypass the fuel bins without blowing ourselves up.

KIRK: Take him.

DEHNER: There’s not a soul on this planet but us?

KIRK: Nobody but us chickens, Doctor.

ALDEN: I think I’ve got the 203-R set, Lee.

KELSO: Good, Alden. Transport it up with you, will you?

ALDEN: Okay.

KIRK: The fuel bins, Lee. Could they be detonated from here?

KELSO: A destruct switch? I guess I could wire one up right there.

KIRK: Do it.

SPOCK: He’s regaining consciousness.

KIRK: Doctor Piper. I want only one medical officer here at any one time. The other will monitor him on the dispensary screen.

DEHNER: I’d like to stay now… try to talk to him.

MITCHELL: My friend James Kirk. Remember those rodent things on Dimorus? The poisoned darts they threw? I took one meant for you.

KIRK: And almost died. I remember.

MITCHELL: So why be afraid of me now?

KIRK: You’ve been testing your ability to take over the Enterprise. In the transporter room, you said something about us seeming like insects by comparison, squashing us if we got in your way.

MITCHELL: I was drugged then.

KIRK: Yes. In the Sickbay, you said if you were in my place, you’d kill a mutant like yourself.

MITCHELL: Why don’t you kill me then? Mister Spock is right, and you’re a fool if you can’t see it.

DEHNER: You don’t mean that, Gary.

MITCHELL: Man cannot survive if a race of true espers is born. In time you’ll understand that.

KIRK: Gary. Gary, don’t!

MITCHELL: Jim.

KIRK: His eyes went back to normal.

SPOCK: Fighting the force field drained his strength, for a while at least. He could be handled now.

MITCHELL: I’ll just keep getting stronger. You know that, don’t you.

SCOTT: It fits like a glove, Captain.

SCOTT: Oh, did Mister Spock get the phaser rifle we sent down?

KIRK: I didn’t order an– Affirmative. Landing party out.

SPOCK: He tried to get through the force field again. His eyes changed back faster. He didn’t become as weak.

KIRK: Doctor Dehner feels he isn’t that dangerous. What makes you right and a trained psychiatrist wrong?

SPOCK: Because she feels. I don’t. All I know is logic. In my opinion we’ll be lucky if we can repair this ship and get away in time.

KELSO: Direct to the power bins. From here you could blow up this whole valley.

KIRK: If Mitchell gets out, at your discretion, Lee, if sitting here, you think you’re the last chance, I want you to hit that button.

KIRK: Captain’s log, Star date 1313.3. Note commendations on Lieutenant Kelso and the engineering staff. In orbit above us, the engines of the Enterprise are almost fully regenerated. Balance of the landing party is being transported back up. Mitchell, whatever he’s become, keeps changing, growing stronger by the minute.

DEHNER: He’s been like that for hours now.

KIRK: Have Doctor Piper meet us in the control room with Kelso. We’ll all transport up together.

SPOCK: If he should try to stop us…

KIRK: Kelso will be on the destruct button until the last minute. I think he knows that.

DEHNER: I’m staying behind with him.

KELSO: Fission chamber three checks out. The station seems to be running fine.

SCOTT: You’re a talented thief, Kelso. Everything you sent up seems to be fitting in place.

KELSO: I’m kind of proud of the job we’ve done. We’re going to be ready to transport up–

KIRK: You’re leaving with the ship, Doctor.

DEHNER: He is not evil.

KIRK: I gave you an order, Doctor.

MITCHELL: You should have killed me while you could, James. Command and compassion is a fool’s mixture.

PIPER: It hit me, too, whatever it was. Kelso is dead, strangled. At least Spock’s alive.

KIRK: Doctor Dehner?

PIPER: She went with Mitchell.

KIRK: Don’t give him a pill until after I’m gone. It’s my fault Mitchell got as far as he did. Did you see their direction?

PIPER: Yes, there was some morning light. They were headed across the valley, to the left of the pointed peaks. There’s flatlands beyond.

KIRK: When Mister Spock recovers, you’ll both transport up immediately to the Enterprise.

PIPER: But Captain–

KIRK: If you have not received a signal from me within twelve hours, you’ll proceed at maximum warp to the nearest Earth base with my recommendation that this entire planet be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation. No protest on this, Mark. That’s an order.

DEHNER: It would take almost a miracle to survive here.

MITCHELL: Then I shall make one. Behold. You’ll soon share this feeling, Elizabeth. To be like God, to have the power to make the world anything you want it to be.

DEHNER: What’s wrong?

MITCHELL: A visitor. A very foolish man. You’ll enjoy being a god, Elizabeth. Blasphemy? No. Let there be food. Kaferian apples. Whenever we visited that planet, I always favored these. Can you hear me, James? You cannot see me. I’m not there. You follow the right path, James. You’ll come to me soon.

DEHNER: I can see him in my mind, too.

MITCHELL: Go to him, Elizabeth, talk to him. Now that you’re changing, I want you to see just how unimportant they are.

DEHNER: Yes, it just took a little longer for it to happen to me.

KIRK: You must help me… Before it goes too far.

DEHNER: What he’s doing is right for him and me.

KIRK: And for humanity? You’re still human…

DEHNER: No, I–

KIRK: At least partly, you are, or you wouldn’t be here talking to me.

DEHNER: Earth is really unimportant. Before long, we’ll be where it would have taken mankind millions of years of learning to reach.

KIRK: What will Mitchell learn in getting there? Will he know what to do with his power? Will he acquire the wisdom?

DEHNER: Please go back while you still can.

KIRK: Did you hear him joke about compassion? Above all else, a god needs compassion. Mitchell! Elizabeth.

DEHNER: What do you know about gods?

KIRK: Then let’s talk about humans, about our frailties. As powerful as he gets, he’ll have all that inside him.

DEHNER: Go back.

KIRK: You were a psychiatrist once. You know the ugly, savage things we all keep buried, that none of us dare expose. But he’ll dare. Who’s to stop him? He doesn’t need to care. Be a psychiatrist for one minute longer. What do you see happening to him? What’s your prognosis, Doctor?

DEHNER: He’s coming.

KIRK: Then watch him. Hang on to being a human for one minute longer.

MITCHELL: I’m disappointed in you, Elizabeth. I’ve been contemplating the death of an old friend. He deserves a decent burial, at least.

DEHNER: Stop it, Gary.

MITCHELL: Morals are for men, not gods.

KIRK: A god, but still driven by human frailty. Do you like what you see?

MITCHELL: Time to pray, Captain. Pray to me.

KIRK: To you? Not to both of you?

MITCHELL: Pray that you die easily.

KIRK: There’ll only be one of you in the end. One jealous god.  If all this makes a god, or is it making you something else?

MITCHELL: Your last chance, Kirk.

KIRK: Do you like what you see? Absolute power corrupting absolutely.

DEHNER: Hurry. You haven’t much time.

KIRK: Gary, forgive me.

MITCHELL: For a moment, James, but your moment is fading.

DEHNER: I’m sorry. You can’t know what it’s like to be almost a god.

KIRK: Enterprise from Captain Kirk, come in.

KIRK: Captain’s log, Star date 1313.8. Add to official losses, Doctor Elizabeth Dehner. Be it noted she gave her life in performance of her duty. Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell, same notation. I want his service record to end that way. He didn’t ask for what happened to him.

SPOCK: I felt for him, too.

KIRK: I believe there’s some hope for you after all, Mister Spock.

 

LOS ANGELES - SEPTEMBER 22: Gary Lockwood as Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell and Sally Kellerman as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in the STAR TREK episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Season 1, Episode 3. Original air date, September 22, 1966. Image is a frame grab. (Photo by CBS)

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LOS ANGELES - SEPTEMBER 15: Robert Walker Jr. as Charlie Evans and William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the STAR TREK episode, "Charlie X." Season 1, episode, 2. Original air date September 15, 1966. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS)

KIRK: Captain’s Log, star date 1533.6. Now maneuvering to come alongside cargo vessel Antares. Its Captain and First officer are beaming over to us with an unusual passenger.

KIRK: All right, Chief, begin materialization. Captain Ramart, I’m Captain Kirk.

RAMART: This is my navigator Tom Nellis.

KIRK: How do you do?

NELLIS: How do you do?

RAMART: And this is our young castaway Charlie, Charlie Evans. His dossier.

KIRK: Mister Evans. We’ve heard a great deal about you. Welcome aboard.

RAMART: Wonderful boy, Charlie. Its been an honor having him aboard.

NELLIS: Why, it’s been a great pleasure. The things that he’s learned in the last

RAMART: Absolutely. To think this boy spent practically his whole life alone on that planet. Everyone killed; just a few microtapes to learn from.

CHARLIE: How many humans like me on this ship?

RAMART: Like a whole city in space, Charlie. Over four hundred in the crew of a starship, aren’t there, Captain?

KIRK: Four hundred and twenty eight, to be exact. Is there anything we can do for you, Captain? Medical supplies, provisions?

CHARLIE: Hundreds. All human, like me. That’s exciting. Is that the right word?

NELLIS: That’s perfect. It’s the exact word.

RAMART: You see, we’d like to keep Charlie with us, but with his closest living relatives on Colony Five and your vessel going that way, why–

CHARLIE: I’d like to see your ship now. All of it. The people and everything.

KIRK: You keep interrupting, Mister Evans. That’s considered wrong.

CHARLIE: I’m sorry.

KIRK: We have a large supply of entertainment tapes, gentlemen.

RAMART: No, we’ve a tight schedule to make, Captain. Just twenty of us, we’re making out fine.

KIRK: This must be a space first. A transport ship that doesn’t need anything?

RAMART: Nothing.

KIRK: Not even Saurian brandy?

RAMART: We’re fine, thank you. Pleasant journey, Captain.

KIRK: Thank you.  Yeoman Rand, this is Charles Evans. Show him to his quarters and drop his records off at Doctor McCoy’s office, if you will?

RAND: Yes, sir. Come with me, please.

CHARLIE: Are you a girl? Is that a girl?

KIRK: That’s a girl.

KIRK: Captain’s Log, star date 1533.7. We have taken aboard an unusual passenger for transport to Colony Alpha Five: Charles Evans, the sole survivor of a transport crash fourteen years ago. The child, alone from age three, has not only survived, but has grown to intelligent, healthy adolescence.

MCCOY: Tell me….The ship’s supply of food concentrates couldn’t have lasted fourteen years.

CHARLIE: After that I found other things to eat, just growing around.

MCCOY: And you learned to talk by just listening to the ship’s tapes?

CHARLIE: The memory banks still worked. They talked to me, and I talked back.

MCCOY: You’re four-oh.

CHARLIE: Four?

MCCOY: Four-oh. One hundred percent. Sound of wind and limb.

CHARLIE: That, that Captain. Kirk?

MCCOY: Yeah.

CHARLIE: Why does he call me Mister Evans?

MCCOY: Because that’s your name.

CHARLIE: He’s not.. well, he isn’t like Captain Ramart.

MCCOY: Well, no. Captain Kirk is one of a kind, Charlie.

CHARLIE: Do you like me?

MCCOY: Why not?

CHARLIE: Some… the other ship…. they didn’t like me. I tried. I’m trying to make people like me. I want them to like me.

MCCOY: Most seventeen year olds do. Come on, let’s go. I’ll show you to your quarters.

CREWMAN 1: Hey, I’ll put the equipment away. See you in the rec room, huh?

CREWMAN 2: You got a deal, friend.

CREWMAN 1: All right. Hello.

CHARLIE: I brought you a present.

RAND: Oh, thank you. I really appreciate it, but– but I have to go. I’m on duty.

CHARLIE: Do you like that kind?

RAND: Yes, I… it’s my favorite. Where did you get it? They don’t have any in the ship’s stores.

CHARLIE: It’s a present.

RAND: I know, but where did…? Gee, I’m late, Charlie. I really have to go.

CHARLIE: Can’t you stay and talk a little while?

RAND: Look, I’m off duty at fourteen hundred. Why don’t you join me in recreation room six, Deck Three.

CHARLIE: You got a deal, friend.

RAND: Charlie!

CHARLIE: I thought… Don’t be angry. I didn’t– I wanted–

RAND: Charlie, you– you– you just don’t go around slapping girls on the– It’s okay, but er, just don’t do it again.

CHARLIE: Don’t be angry.

RAND: Look, why don’t you tell Captain Kirk or Doctor McCoy what you did. They’ll explain it to you. Okay?

CHARLIE: I will.

RAND: Okay.

MCCOY: But tell me, what reason would he have to lie if there are Thasians?

SPOCK: That is a very intriguing question. Scanners show no disturbances in this quadrant, Captain.

KIRK: Good. Doctor McCoy, Mister Spock is working out–

UHURA: Excuse me, Captain. Status report.

KIRK: Thank you. He’s working out a training program for Charlie Evans. Earth history, his own background, that sort of thing. I’d like you to give him the necessary medical orientation on the problems of, um, er, adolescence.

MCCOY: Well, don’t you think it’d be better for a strong father image like you? He already looks up to you.

KIRK: The job is yours, Bones. Flattery will get you nowhere.

SPOCK: Doctor, didn’t the boy make any reference at all to Thasians?

KIRK: Do you believe the legend, Mister Spock, that Thasians still exist on that planet in some form?

SPOCK: Charlie’s very existence proves in fact there must be some intelligent form of life on Thasus. He could not possibly have survived alone. The ship’s food concentrates would have been exhausted in a year or so.

MCCOY: By which time he would have been eating fruits, vegetables.

SPOCK: Probes of Thasus indicate very little edible plant life.

MCCOY: And probes have been known to be wrong, Spock.

MCCOY: Doctor, are you speaking scientifically or emotionally?

KIRK: Gentlemen, the fact is the boy is here, and he’s alive, and he needs our help.

MCCOY: And he needs a guide, and he needs a father image, Jim.

KIRK: Hmm. I’ll depend on your astute abilities to supply him with that, or find him one.

UHURA: I’m sorry. I did it again, didn’t I.

UHURA: Oh, on the starship Enterprise There’s someone who’s in Satan’s guise Whose devil ears and devil eyes Could rip your heart from you. At first, his look could hypnotize And then his touch would barbarize His alien love could victimize And rip your heart from you. And that’s why female astronauts, Oh, very female astronauts Wait terrified and overwrought To find what he will do. Oh, girls in space, be wary, be wary, be wary, Girls in space, be wary. We know not what he’ll do.

RAND: One more time!

UHURA: Now from a planet out in space, there comes a lad, not commonplace. A-seeking out his first embrace. He’s saving it for you. Oh, Charlie’s our new darling, our darling, our darling. Charlie’s our new darling. We know not what he’ll do.

CHARLIE: Want to see something? Turn them over.

RAND: Well, how did you do that?

CHARLIE: Oh, I can do a lot of card tricks. One of the men on the Antares showed me.

RAND: I don’t believe this!

KIRK: On Earth today, it’s Thanksgiving. If the crew has to eat synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey. Charlie.

CHARLIE: Captain? I’m supposed to ask you something. Why shouldn’t I…? I don’t know how to explain it….

KIRK: Say it right out, Charlie. That usually works.

CHARLIE: Well, in the corridor I saw– When Janice– when Yeoman Rand was… I did that to her. She didn’t like it. She said you’d explain it to me.

KIRK: Me. I see. Well, um, er… there are things you can do with a lady, er… Charlie, that you– er… There’s no right way to hit a woman. I mean, man to man is one thing, but, er… man and woman, er… it’s, er… it’s– er… Well, it’s– er… another thing. Do you understand?

CHARLIE: I don’t know.

UHURA: Captain Kirk.

KIRK: Excuse me. Kirk here.

UHURA: Captain Ramart of the Antares is on D channel.

KIRK: I’m on my way to the Bridge now.

CHARLIE: Can I come with you?

KIRK: I don’t think so, Charlie.

CHARLIE: I won’t get in the way.

KIRK: Okay.

UHURA: Can you boost your power, Antares. We’re barely reading your transmission.

RAMART: We’re at full output, Enterprise. I must speak to Captain Kirk.

KIRK: Kirk here, Captain Ramart.

RAMART: Captain, we’re just barely in range. I’ve got to warn…

KIRK: Re-establish contact.

UHURA: They’re not transmitting.

KIRK: Keep trying.

CHARLIE: It wasn’t very well constructed.

KIRK: Sweep the area of the Antares transmission with our probe scanners, Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Affirmative, Captain.

KIRK: You think something happened to the Antares, Charlie?

CHARLIE: I don’t know.

SPOCK: Picking up some debris on our scanners, Captain.

KIRK: What about the Antares?

SPOCK: The debris is what’s left of the Antares.

CHEF: Captain Kirk from ship’s Galley.

KIRK: Kirk here.

CHEF: Sir, I put meat loaf in the ovens. There’s turkeys in there now. Real turkeys.

KIRK: Chief, have you been

KIRK: Captain’s Log, star date 1535.8. UESPA headquarters notified of the mysterious loss of science probe vessel Antares.

SPOCK: Your mind is not on the game, Captain. Check. The Antares?

KIRK: A survey ship with twenty men aboard lost. No reason. Obviously, Captain Ramart was not aware of any trouble. I can’t figure it.

SPOCK: My own concern is more immediate. The boy.

KIRK: I can usually follow you, Mister Spock, but this time…?

SPOCK: He seemed to know what happened to the Antares before we did.

KIRK: I’d call it a pretty long reach for evidence, Mister Spock. Come in, Charlie.

SPOCK: And again, check.

KIRK: Checkmate.

SPOCK: Your illogical approach to chess does have its advantages on occasion, Captain.

KIRK: I prefer to call it inspired.

SPOCK: As you wish. At any rate, the game is yours.

KIRK: You play chess, Charlie?

CHARLIE: Oh, I– I watched them play on the Antares. Can I try?

KIRK: I place you in the hands of our chess master.

SPOCK: The principles of three-dimensional chess are basically mathematic, Charlie. You put the white here and the black on the secondary level.

CHARLIE: I know what it is. Let’s play.

SPOCK: Very well. That was a mistake, Charlie.

CHARLIE: No, it wasn’t.

SPOCK: Checkmate.

CHARLIE: No, it isn’t.

SPOCK: If you’ll excuse me.

RAND: Oh, Charlie. I was looking for you. I’d like you to meet Tina Lawton, Yeoman Third Class. Charlie Evans.

TINA: Hello, Charlie.

RAND: I thought you might enjoy meeting someone your own age.

CHARLIE: Can I talk to you, alone…?

RAND: Charlie, Tina’s–

TINA: Excuse me. I must be wanted somewhere.

RAND: That was– that was rude and completely uncalled-for.

CHARLIE: But I don’t need her. I want to talk to you.

RAND: That’s no excuse. You’d better learn that right now. You have to live with people, Charlie. You’re not alone anymore.

CHARLIE: But she’s not as– She doesn’t– She’s not the same. Not like you. She’s– she’s just a girl. You’re– you smell like a girl. All the other girls on the ship they– they look just like Tina. You’re the only one who looks like you. You can understand, can’t you? You know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the whole universe I’d give it to you. When I see you, I feel like I’m hungry all over. Hungry. Do you know how that feels?

KIRK: What?

RAND: I wasn’t sure I should, er, talk to you about this.

KIRK: Charlie’s a seventeen-year-old boy.

RAND: Exactly, and he’s–

KIRK: I talked to him about the swat.

RAND: It’s not that. Captain, I’ve seen the look before, and if something isn’t done, sooner or later I’m going to have to hurt him. Tell him to leave me alone, and that wouldn’t be good for him right now. You see, I’m his first crush, his first love, and his first–

KIRK: Yes, Yeoman, I’ll talk to him. I’ll look into it.

RAND: Thank you, sir.

KIRK: Come in, Charlie. Er, Charlie… Charlie, do you know anything about this chess piece? Did you notice anything peculiar in them when we were using them this afternoon?

CHARLIE: No, sir. Is that all?

KIRK: Er, no. No, no. Sit down. Charlie, being seventeen is more than how many years you’ve lived. It’s a whole other thing. Doctor McCoy could probably explain the biological conditions. Well, let’s– let’s use a specific… Yeoman Rand is a woman.

CHARLIE: Oh, I won’t hit her like that anymore.

KIRK: No, there’s more to it than that.

CHARLIE: Everything I do or say is wrong. I’m in the way, I don’t know the rules, and when I learn something and try to do it, suddenly I’m wrong!

KIRK: Now wait, wait….

CHARLIE: I don’t know what I am, or what I’m supposed to be, or even who. I don’t know why I hurt so much inside all the time.

KIRK: You’ll live, believe me. There’s nothing wrong with you that hasn’t gone wrong with every other human male since the model first came up.

CHARLIE: What if you care for someone? What do you do?

KIRK: You go slow. You be gentle. I mean, it’s not a one-way street, you know, how you feel, and that’s all. It’s how the girl feels, too. Don’t press, Charlie. If the girl feels anything for you at all, you’ll know it. Do you understand?

CHARLIE: You don’t think Janice– You– She could love me!

KIRK: She’s not the girl, Charlie. The years are wrong, for one thing, and there are other things.

CHARLIE: She can.

KIRK: No, Charlie.

CHARLIE: She is.

KIRK: No.

CHARLIE: But if I did what you said? If I was gentle…

KIRK: Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have, and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.

CHARLIE: Then what am I going to do?

KIRK: Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.

CHARLIE: You don’t.

KIRK: Everybody, Charlie. Me, too.

CHARLIE: I’m trying, but I don’t know how.

KIRK: Kirk here.

UHURA: You asked to be notified when we were to make our course adjustments, sir.

KIRK: Ask Mister Spock to see to it. Charlie, come on with me.

KIRK: You’ve got to slap the floor to absorb the energy when you fall. Go ahead, try it. Like everything else, it takes practice, Charlie. Try again. Good. That’s much better. Here, now I’ll show you a shoulder roll. Try that.

CHARLIE: I don’t want to do that.

KIRK: Well, it makes it hard to teach you–

CHARLIE: I don’t want to do that.

KIRK: All right, Charlie. Lesson’s over for today.

CHARLIE: You were going to teach me how to fight.

KIRK: You have to learn to protect yourself in a fall before I do that. It’s more than teaching you to defend yourself. Charlie, I want you to learn. Charlie? Hey, Sam, let me borrow you for a couple easy throws, all right?

SAM: Right.

KIRK: Watch this, Charlie. That wasn’t so bad, was it? Now I’ll throw him. Here we go, Sam.

CHARLIE: That looks hard.

SAM: Oh.

KIRK: Come on, Charlie. Try it. Attaboy. Let’s go.

CHARLIE: Oh!

KIRK: That wasn’t so bad, was it?

CHARLIE: Don’t laugh at me.

KIRK: Cool off.

CHARLIE: Don’t laugh at me!

KIRK: Charlie.

CHARLIE: He shouldn’t have done that. It’s not nice to laugh at people.

KIRK: What happened to him, Charlie?

CHARLIE: He’s gone.

KIRK: That’s no answer.

CHARLIE: He’s gone! I didn’t mean to do that. He made me do it! He laughed at me.

CREWMAN: Bridge.

KIRK: Kirk here. Two men from security, on the double.

CREWMAN: Affirmative.

CHARLIE: What are you going to do to me?

KIRK: I’m confining you to quarters. I want you to stay there.

CHARLIE: I won’t let them hurt me. I’ll make them go away, too.

KIRK: They won’t hurt you, Charlie. They’ll take you to your quarters, Charlie. Go with them.

CHARLIE: No!

KIRK: Go to your quarters.

CHARLIE: He was going to hurt me.

KIRK: Go to your quarters or I’ll pick you up and carry you there.

CHARLIE: I won’t let you.

KIRK: That’s your choice, Charlie.

CHARLIE: I won’t let them hurt me.

KIRK: They won’t hurt you.

UHURA: Captain Kirk.

KIRK: Kirk here.

UHURA: Security reports that all phaser weapons have disappeared. Shall I repeat, Captain?

KIRK: No, I heard you. Have Doctor McCoy and Mister Spock meet me in the Briefing room.

SPOCK: Thasians have been referred to in our records as having the power to transmute objects or render substances invisible. It has generally been regarded as legend, but Charlie does seems to possess this same power.

KIRK: What are chances that Charlie’s not an Earthling, that he’s a Thasian?

MCCOY: No, I don’t think so… not unless they’re exactly like Earthlings. The development of his fingers and toes exactly matches the present development of mans on Earth.

SPOCK: Agreed.

KIRK: Well, whatever he is, we have some idea of the power he has. I know what I saw him do in the gymnasium.

MCCOY: Considering the effect a normal adolescent has on a home… Charlie, with the power he has–

KIRK: Short-tempered, because he doesn’t understand. He needs, he wants. Nothing happens fast enough.

SPOCK: The probability is he’s responsible for the destruction of the Antares, which would indicate a total disregard for human life.

KIRK: He doesn’t understand what life is. He’s a boy.

MCCOY: Well, what do we do with this boy, Jim? How do we keep him caged up?

KIRK: It goes even further than that, Doctor. We can’t take him with us to Earth Colony Five. Can you imagine what he’d do in an open, normal environment? I’ve talked with him, listened. He’s a boy in a man’s body, trying to be an adult with the adolescence in him getting in the way.

SPOCK: And with a weapon in him which could destroy you or anyone, anywhere on this ship.

MCCOY: Well, for the moment he’s stopped. You’re an authority he respects, Jim.

SPOCK: Agreed. The struggle must remain between you and him. Should any of us interfere…

CHARLIE: You wanted to ask me something, he said.

KIRK: Are you responsible for what happened to the Antares, Charlie?

CHARLIE: Why?

KIRK: Answer me.

CHARLIE: Yes. There was a warped baffle-plate on the shield of their energy pile. I made it go away. It would’ve blown up anyway. Well, they weren’t nice to me! They wanted to get rid of me. They don’t now.

KIRK: What about us, Charlie?

CHARLIE: I don’t know.

SPOCK: We’re in the hands of an adolescent.

KIRK: Lieutenant, raise Colony Five. I want to speak directly to the governor.

UHURA: Yes, sir.

KIRK: Navigator, lay a course away from Colony Five. Buy me some time.

NAVIGATOR: Yes, sir.

KIRK: Spock, get the doctor up here on the double. How bad is it?

UHURA: I think it’s all right, sir. Sir, there’s no reason for that panel to cross-circuit like that. I checked it over myself not fifteen minutes ago.

NAVIGATOR: Captain! I can’t feed any course co-ordinates into the panel, sir. It rejects the course change.

PILOT: Helm doesn’t respond either, sir.

KIRK: Mister Spock, you getting any readings on your instruments?

SPOCK: Yes, sir. There’s a Tyger, tyger, burning bright in the forest of the night.

KIRK: Mister Spock.

SPOCK: I’m trying to– Saturn rings around my head, down a road that’s Martian red.

CHARLIE: You’re trying to change course, Captain. You can’t do that. I want to get to Colony Five as soon as we can.

KIRK: Release the transmitter.

CHARLIE: You don’t need all that subspace chatter.

MCCOY: What’s going on here? Spock calls me to the Bridge and goes into some kind of poetry.

KIRK: See to her, Doctor.

SPOCK: Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered, weak and weary.

CHARLIE: Very nice, Mister Ears. Oh, I can make him do anything, whirl around, laugh, anything.

KIRK: That’s enough, Charlie.

CHARLIE: Don’t you think he’s funny? I think he’s funny.

KIRK: Leave my crew alone.

SPOCK: Jim, he’ll soon reach a point where he won’t back down.

KIRK: I know.

TINA: Charlie, what’s wrong?

CHARLIE: I have something for you. Pink is your favorite, isn’t it?

RAND: You don’t walk into a room without knocking.

CHARLIE: Don’t ever lock your door on me again, Janice. I love you.

RAND: I’ll lock it when I please. What is it you want, anyway?

CHARLIE: You. I only want to be nice to you. I can give you anything. Just, just tell me.

RAND: I want you to get out.

CHARLIE: But I only want to be nice to you.

RAND: Get out, Charlie.

KIRK: Spock.

RAND: I can’t make it any plainer than that.

CHARLIE: I love you.

RAND: You don’t know what the word means.

CHARLIE: Then show me.

RAND: No! Charlie!

CHARLIE: Why did she do that? I loved her, but she wasn’t nice at all. What you did wasn’t nice either, but I still need you, Captain. The Enterprise isn’t quite like the Antares. Running the Antares was easy. You have to be nice. All right?

KIRK: Mister Spock?

SPOCK: My legs. They’re broken.

KIRK: Let him go, too, Charlie.

CHARLIE: Why?

KIRK: Because I’m telling you to. Because you need me to run the ship, and I need him.

CHARLIE: If you try to hurt me again, I’ll make a lot of people go away.

KIRK: And what about Yeoman Janice? Is she dead? Gone? Destroyed?

CHARLIE: I won’t tell you. Growing up isn’t so much. I’m not a man, and I can do anything! You can’t.

SPOCK: I’ll activate the force field myself. You can return to your section.

CHARLIE: He had a mean look. I had to freeze him. I like happy looks. Aren’t you coming in?

CHARLIE: That wasn’t nice. You’ll be sorry. You wait, you’ll see, you’ll be sorry you did that. You will.  No. No laughing!

UHURA: Captain Kirk, my instruments show we’re receiving a message on subspace frequency three, ship-to-ship. I can’t hear it, sir.

KIRK: Are you creating that message, Charlie, or you’re blocking one that’s coming in.

CHARLIE: It’s my game, Captain. You have to find out. Like you said, that’s how the game’s played. You can have it now. I’ve locked on course for Colony Five again.

KIRK: I’ve waited long enough. I’m going to take him on.

MCCOY: You don’t have any special immunity. Not anymore. Pushed far enough, he’d send you off to oblivion, too.

KIRK: Mister Spock?

SPOCK: Out of the question.

KIRK: Wait a minute. Does Charlie…? Now, wait, Spock, has he done away with anybody since he took over?

SPOCK: Not so far as we know.

KIRK: Maybe he can’t. Could be he’s overreached himself. It’s a big ship. He’s taken full control. If we could tax his power, turn on every device on the ship, every circuit, every light, all of it, and while he’s fighting that… if I could distract him, maybe you could tranquilize him, keep him under until we reach Colony Five.

MCCOY: Risky, Jim.

KIRK: If we don’t try, Doctor, he’ll get rid of us anyway. There’s no choice, gentlemen, none at all.

CHARLIE: I can make you all go away anytime I want to.

KIRK: Get out of my chair, Charlie, and get out of it now.

CHARLIE: I’ve got your ship, Captain.

KIRK: Maybe, Charlie, but I don’t think you can handle any more. I think you’ve reached your limit and can’t take on one more thing, but you’re going to have to.

CHARLIE: I could’ve sent you away before, but I didn’t.

KIRK: You’re going to have to take me on.

CHARLIE: Don’t make me do it now.

KIRK: You’ve got my ship, and I want it back. I want my crew back, whole, if I have to break your neck to do it!

CHARLIE: Don’t push me. Sorry. I’m sorry, but… Stop it. I said stop it!

SPOCK: Captain, the navigation console is clear now. The ship is answering the helm.

UHURA: Sir, something off our starboard bow. The message says they’re from Thasus.

CHARLIE: Oh.

RAND: Captain, how did I…?

KIRK: It’s all right, Yeoman.

SPOCK: Sensors show there something’s there, Captain. Deflectors indicate no solid substance.

CHARLIE: No! Oh, no, please, don’t let them take me. I can’t live with them anymore. You’re my friends. You said you were my friends, remember? When I came aboard! Please, I want to go home. Take me home.

THASIAN: I have taken my form from centuries ago, so that I may communicate with you. We did not realize until too late that the boy had gone, and we are saddened that his escape cost the lives of the first ship. We could not help them, but we have returned your people and your ship to you. Everything is as it was.

CHARLIE: I won’t do it again. Please, I’ll be good. I won’t ever do it again. I’m sorry about the Antares. I’m sorry! When I came aboard! Please, I want to go with you. Help me!

KIRK: The boy belongs with his own kind.

THASIAN: That would be impossible.

KIRK: With training, we can teach him to live in our society. If he can be taught not to use his power…

THASIAN: We gave him the power so he could live. He will use it, always, and he would destroy you and your kind, or you would be forced to destroy him to save yourselves.

KIRK: Is there nothing you can do?

THASIAN: We offer him life, and we will take care of him. Come, Charles.

CHARLIE: Oh, please, don’t let them take me. I can’t even touch them! Janice, they can’t feel. Not like you! They don’t love! Please, I want to stay.

UHURA: Charlie’s back on board the Thasian ship, sir. They signal they’re leaving.

KIRK: It’s all right, Yeoman. It’s all over now.

 

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THIS STILL NEEDS EXTENSIVE EDITING!

Now, would I miss Victor’s welcome home dinner? Well, of course Alex is invited. I’m going to be back in plenty of time. I’m just in Chicago for a brief visit with Sarah. Oh, listen, be sure, I remind Cook to prepare all of Victor’s favorites. Okay. All right, Jess, and I’ll see you later. Bye bye. Oh, my God. Mom.

Uh, wha ha. What are you doing here? Well, um, you were out, so the doorman let me in. Oh. Great. I I wish I knew you were coming. Well, I’m sorry to surprise you, sweetie, but I suppose that makes us even, since you’ve been hiding something from me. I think it’s about time you came clean, don’t you?

I don’t mean to push, love, but this floor is murder on my knee. Get up.

Get up! What are you doing? This is a joke, right? Did that come out of a cereal box? It’d be pretty expensive cereal, Chloe. No, this is a real ring. This is a real proposal. Can we just skip to the part where you throw your arms around me and tell me you’ve never been happier? No. Not yet. Not until you convince me this has nothing to to do with Gwen.

Natty! Come on, open the door. I want to say goodbye before I leave for my honeymoon. It’s your best friend.

Don’t open the door. I’m not going away.

You’re proposing to Sloane. Yes, it seemed like the right thing to do. I mean, we are having a child together. Ah, there’s the mother of my child, ej. Sorry, did I startle you? No, no, I’m, I’m fine. You are obviously deep and full. What’s in your mind, Eric,

so you won’t say anything to anyone? Your secret’s safe with me.

Eric, you’re back. Am I interrupting?

Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

So, I have to get to the office, Eric. So nice seeing you, and, and Sloan, we will talk soon. Absolutely, thank you so much for stopping by. Well, before Belinda leaves… I don’t know, somebody tell me what this little secret that you guys were discussing. Oh, that? No, that was nothing. Oh, well great, then you can share.

Eric, I, Sloan, um, there’s no point, just tell him the truth.

I’m thinking about Eric. Well, I saw him this morning at the square when I had breakfast with Chloe, and we got to see the very lovely engagement ring that he picked out for Sloan. Apparently he’s going to propose. Oh. That must have been a surprise. Well, it makes sense. They’re going to have a baby together.

What is it that you want me to come clean about? Oh, honey, come on. I’ve been waiting for you to open up about this for a while, ever since Bonnie told me. Oh, Bonnie. I know you swore to secrecy, but, Sarah, it’s not like you to keep things from me. Especially big news like this.

Were you ever going to tell me that you were involved with Rex again?

I mean, did you think I was never going to find out?

Yeah. Lesson learned, Mom. Not keeping anything from you.

Why would you think this is about Gwen? Well, when I left this morning, you were reading that article about her wedding. She married that douchebag. So what? But you don’t think that’s the reason I proposed to you, do you? No, darling. I just ran into Gwen and I, I wished her the very best and I meant it. Okay, even if that’s true, this is…

Really fast. We’ve only been together for three months. Three wonderful months, though. During which I’ve fallen deeply in love with you, Chloe. So much so, I don’t care if When Mary’s Dimitri or Sarah goes back to Rex. Whoa Wait, Sarah and Rex are back together. Where’d you hear that? Oh, Maggie told me, yeah.

I went over to the house to see her and she mentioned that she was headed to Chicago to visit Sarah and Sarah was back with Rex. Okay, was that before or after you got that ring? Come on, look, you might be able to convince me that this proposal is not something to do with Gwen, but Sarah, that’s a different story.

Gwenny! God, well it took you long enough, why aren’t you going to let me in? No, I’m not decent. Here, tell me something I don’t know. Natty, you haven’t said a word! I haven’t! I haven’t! Oh my God.

Matty, this place is an absolute pigsty. Why do you think I didn’t want to let you in? When is the last time you had housekeeping in? Well, I told them to stop coming. Since you abandoned me, I have nobody to keep it clean for. Excuse me, I may not live here anymore, but I would never ever abandon you. I’m just going to be gone a few weeks.

Plus, I had to come back to get one last hug from my bestie Matty Cakes. Oh, I’m so grateful to you for telling Dimitri that I wanted to visit Iceland. I always wish you were coming with us. You don’t mean that. I did say almost. Honestly though, I do hope that one day the three of us can be great friends.

What was that? What was what? That noise from the loo. I didn’t hear anything. You liar. You’re hiding somebody in there, aren’t you? And I know exactly who it is.

Chloe, I swear to you. This has nothing to do with Sarah. And yet you were just talking to Maggie about her. I was talking to Maggie about Victor. She wants me to make amends with him. The Sarah stuff, it’s just a sidebar. And I told Maggie, I’m glad Sarah’s moved on. Because I’ve moved on too. And putting a ring on my finger isn’t just proving that to all the women that you’ve loved before?

That’d be a pretty lousy thing for me to do to you, wouldn’t it? I know, but I don’t even think that it’s conscious, Xander. And you have to admit, all of this is… Oh, it’s really sudden. And I have a hard time believing that it doesn’t have anything to do with Sarah. Alright. Forget what

I said. This… Has everything to do with Sarah.

You’re a grown woman. I don’t expect you to tell me every little detail of your life. But getting back together with Rex, it’s not exactly little. Well, I know you’re not Rex’s biggest fan, but That’s true. I hate that he cheated on you, and more than once. You know, I get this feeling, I don’t know what it is, but there’s something you’re not telling me.

I mean, how can we have a decent conversation when you’re holding a bag of groceries? Please, would you just put them down so we can sit? And you can tell me how serious this is with Rex.

Oh, it’s that serious.

Melinda’s right, there’s no point in trying to hide this any longer. The truth is, the truth is that a Sloan should not have met with that judge behind my back. I came here planning to blow your girlfriend out of the water, but we hashed it out and decided that no one else has to know. Except, now you do, of course.

A judge? Uh, Sloane bent the rules, but she did it for her brother. And, uh, she was trying to get Colin’s sentence reduced, which I understand, but meeting alone with the judge without the opposing counsel present, in this case, is me, um, is a big no no in legal circles. But, uh, Sloane has so much to look forward to with the two of you expecting, so I am willing to look the other way.

So, that’s what you two were discussing? Mm hmm. Oh God, you’re not angry, are you? Oh, no, no, of course not. Seems like we both owe you a ton of thanks for keeping this from getting out.

So, Eric is going to marry the woman who’s carrying his child? Well, I mean, just say yes first. She will, of course she’ll say yes. And of course, Eric is the kind of man who wants to do the right thing by buying her a ring. And no, EJ. I am not upset. Not even a little. And you want to know why? Well, it is.

Because I am not invested in Eric’s life. I am invested in ours. I’m invested in us. And I love you. And you are the father of my child. And you are the man that I want to be with. Hmm. How much? Sorry? Do you want to be with me enough to say yes? If I ask you to marry me right now.

Thank you, Melinda, for being so understanding about all this. Of course. Sorry if our little mystery caught you off guard. Oh, no. It’s all good. Okay, then. I, I really should get going. Yes. I mean, walk you out. Oh

my God, you totally saved me. Look, I don’t want to ruin your life, Sloane. I, like I said, I feel like we’re becoming friends. And friends… Have each other’s back. So Eric won’t be hearing from me that he’s also the father of Nicole’s baby. You have my word on that. Eric’s right. I totally owe you. Who knows?

Maybe I’ll need a favor in return one day.

Marry you. Why do you seem so surprised to be the first time I’ve lost? Yeah, because the last time around you had this spur of the moment idea to, um, oh wait, how did you put it? Oh yes, to upstage Stefan and Gabby. And now I tell you that Eric’s gonna propose to Sloane. Hmm. So you think this is a spur of the moment reaction to that?

Understandable. Understandable. Give me a moment.

Oh, is that what I think it is?

I’ve been holding on to this for quite some time, waiting for the right moment to give it to you. And that moment is now, next to you.

Me? With what you just said. It’s all true for me as well. I’m invested in us and our life together. And I love you too, Nicole. You are the mother of my child. And you are, without question, the one I want to be with forever. And it seems like you feel the same way about me. Or did I misunderstand?

Now I know why you didn’t want me to come in here. And it has nothing to do with this room being a mess.

You can come out now, Mr. Perry. Mr. Perry? Mm, that guy that you were sexting with yesterday. Remember I saw your phone, I saw his initials MP, as in Matthew not the actor from Friends. Perry?

I want to meet the man that my Matty here is so enamored by.

He’s not coming out, Gwenny. What? Why not? What’s the big deal?

Mattie? You look positively ashen. What’s going on?

This proposal, it is about Sarah and Gwen. Just not in the way you think. I’m listening. Gwen married this Euro trash tosser who tried to blow up the world. And Sarah’s now back with some arrogant jerk who can’t stop cheating on her. But what do these two very different women have in common? Bad taste in men?

They’re happy. And I don’t begrudge them that. One bit. Because I want to be happy. And I want you to be happy. I think we can be together. But we’re already happy together. I want to commit to you, Chloe. I want to commit to more than just shacking up in this cramped apartment paying rent month to month.

And not because I’m trying to compete with those two or prove anything to anyone. This is about what I want to share with you. Let me think about it. We could have our own house, big kitchen, fireplace, lovely yard for the kitties to run around in. Kitties?

You’re pregnant. You’re very pregnant. Sarah, why didn’t you tell me? Did you think I wouldn’t be happy for you? No, no, it’s not that. This is not about Rex. I mean, it’s one thing not to tell me that the two of you are dating again, but to lie about a pregnancy all this time? I didn’t lie. You did. By omission.

Every time we talked on the phone since you moved here. And from the looks of it, you conceived right after you left Salem. Before.

Before? Yeah. Remember that one time with Rex back home right around Valentine’s Day? Well, that’s even more baffling. Sarah, what possible reason could you have to hide this from me all this time?

Wait. What? Wait a minute. That baby. It’s not Rex’s, is it? What? What are you talking about? Rex isn’t the only person you slept with before you left Salem. That’s why you didn’t tell me you were pregnant. Because that baby you’re carrying is Sanders.

You think that the babies… No, I don’t want to hear anymore because it’s not helpful for me to hear that. Sarah. What? You can’t even look me in the eye and we both know why.

It’s true. Help

me.

It’s true.

The baby is Xander’s.

But you can never tell him.

I had to. I had no idea that you wanted to be a father. Of course I do. Sooner the better. Don’t want to be one of these old geezers who has to lug his oxygen tank to his kid’s kindergarten class. I think you have a long time before you’d have to worry about that, but over the past few months we’ve talked about everything and you never mentioned that you wanted children.

Well, you know I helped raise little Mackenzie. Who turned out to be Rachel. Right, but, you know, the point is, despite that, I was a good dad. And I miss it. I mean, every time I hear you on the phone with Parker, I can’t help but imagine what it might be like for us.

Wow. Really? I want a child of my own. Children of my own someday. But not of just anyone. With you. That’s what I’m proposing. That’s what. I’m proposing. Not just a marriage. A life. Family. I love you, Chloe. I have fallen madly in love with you. Can’t imagine my life without you in it.

Corny. Please. MP is not coming out because he doesn’t want you to see him. Why not?

Because he’s a married man. His wife doesn’t know about us. Yes, I went there again. I know it’s wrong. I couldn’t stop myself. I am mad for him. He’s mad for me? Oh God, I’m a terrible person. No, you are not. I am! I’m a monster! Look, look, look at me. If this man is mad for you, then obviously his marriage isn’t working.

And then that would mean that you were his marriage ending, assuming that it does. I guess you have a point. Matty, you are one of the best people that I know. You are so loving, you’re so loyal. I don’t care what anybody else says, and neither should you. If this man makes you happy, that is the only thing that matters, because you deserve happiness.

God knows that I’ve waited long enough for happiness and now I finally have it. Oh, um, gosh, what’s the time? Oh dear, I ought to get back to Dimitri and finish packing.

I’m gonna miss you so much. I’m gonna miss you more. Oh. Alright then, come on, give us a big hug.

Say bye to Mr. Perry for me.

Oh, God. Matthew and Matty. You don’t even need to change the monograms on the towels.

Oh, dear. Adorable.

Oh, that was close. How are you not dying inside? Did you hear what she said? About the towels. No! About us! Yes, I did. I did. And she’s absolutely right, Leo. You do deserve happiness.

How am I going to get through the next few weeks without you? Funny you should ask. Go check your email.

No freaking way.

You bought that ring for me? And you’ve just held on to it? Mm hmm. As I said, I knew the perfect moment would come along. Oh my God! Is this for real? Well, you weren’t crazy about my last attempt, so, uh, I wanted to get it right this time.

I knew you were underwhelmed by my last proposal and wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice. So, when we found out you were able to carry to town, I went out and bought this ring.

You said you wanted a real proposal, the traditional kind. So, here I am. I can tell I got one part right. You didn’t see it coming.

You may be surprised, my love, but I’ve been counting the minutes until I could put this ring on your finger.

I want us to be one when our child is born. You said you’d get married when you were asked by a man who was as deeply in love with you as you were with him.

You look at him.

You’ve told me how you feel, and I’ve done the same. And now? Now, what?

Well, I guess there’s only one thing left to say.

There’s only one thing left to say. Will you marry me?

Will you marry me?

Should I have worn a tux? Damn it, I knew it, I knew it, I should have worn a tux. I’m so sorry, I just didn’t… Think through it all, you know, I

Yes, yes, I say yes

AJ you don’t have to do the whole bended knee thing We’ve been there, done that. And our history makes it all the more important to acknowledge the significance of this moment What are the odds we’d end up here? Together and happy and so very, very blessed.

Kind of a miracle, isn’t it? The universe is giving us another chance to get things right. With a child. Our child. And

I want to celebrate that, Nicole. Announce our love and commitment to each other and our child to the world.

Please, allow me to do that by letting me place this ring on your finger.

She’s got this.

Oh, hey there, Miss Ryszczek. I just read about your wedding. Congrats. Wow, how heartfelt. Thank you. Your husband’s got an interesting track record. Dmitri is a wonderful man. If he’s as wonderful as you are, I look forward to trying you jointly for the crimes you’ll inevitably commit. Just so much more efficient that way.

You know, I’m so sorry to disappoint you, but not even you can spoil my day, Miss Trask. You see, in just a few short hours, I’m headed to Iceland. Jetting off to the trip of a lifetime. Toodles.

You got me a plane ticket? To Iceland? Keep scrolling. Your hotel reservation’s in there too. But this is… The same place that I’m staying with Gwen, yes, but don’t worry, you’re an entirely different wing. But Iceland is such a small country, aren’t there more sheep than people? I’m sure you can look that up on the way there.

Dimitri, please, I cannot crash your honeymoon.

I’m sorry, Leo. I can’t stay and talk you into this, but I think we both know that you’re coming. So, pack a sweater. It does get cold there at night, but in case you do forget… I’m sure we can rely on body heat.

You have to forgive me. I, I didn’t expect to come home to a crazed Scotsman waving an engagement ring around. Well, I wouldn’t have to wave it around if you just give me your hand so I can slip it on your finger. I’m sorry, but it feels like just yesterday we were roomies and hanging up pictures and divvying up chores and now we’re…

We’re talking about marriage and babies? Come on. We’ve been more than roomies for a while now. I mean, things have been going so well, I just can’t help but think that fate had a hand in it. Fate? You were not looking for me. And I wasn’t looking for you. Somehow the stars aligned and look at us now. Here we are.

Maybe the most unlikely couple ever. We wouldn’t have ever gotten together under normal circumstances. That’s what makes me think maybe it’s meant to be. Because against all the odds, we work. Right? I mean, it works. And not because we’re trying to impress each other or beat people that we’re not. Just, we’ve just been our authentic selves.

We found love. I mean, maybe that’s the best way to find it.

No artifice. No illusion.

Just the real thing.

Well, that felt like a

yes to me.

I’m afraid it’s not.

You are not going to tell Xander about the baby? Not even after it’s born? No, I’m not. And you think he’s never going to find out about his own child? Don’t you remember this is what you did with Eric? And it ended in disaster! This is different. Wow. Xander is a criminal. He kidnapped Bonnie and Susan and that led to Susan’s death and do not tell me that that was Ava’s fault because Xander is just as responsible.

He knows that. He feels awful about that. But he’s still the same person, Mom. He’s still an amoral, untrustworthy, dangerous person. It’s why I divorced him. He will never… Change. But now there is a baby to

consider. Exactly. It doesn’t matter what he promises. Because it’s always just a matter of time before he ends up in some, some dark scheme. Like kidnapping, or, or blackmail, or whatever. And…

Look, it’s one thing to lie to me, to hurt me, to break my heart.

This is an innocent child at risk, Mom. My child! Honey, I, I understand. I really do.

But this child, this child, is as much Sanders as it is your worst. And he deserves to know.

Absolutely not. Because if he knows, then he will insist on being a part of this child’s life, and that can never happen. So… Please, Mom. Please say that you will not tell him.

So it’s a no? Really? Uh, hear me out. Xander, that proposal was beautiful and sincere, but… I think I need time, and honestly, I think you need some time too to figure out your feelings about Sarah moving forward. Darling, you can have all the time you need. But I’m telling you right now, I don’t need time to figure out my feelings about Sarah or anyone else.

Still, I think it’s the wise thing to do. You are very wise. I can’t imagine a single thing that would change my mind about

you. You know I’m right. Letting Xander be a part of this baby’s life is a huge mistake. I know that you care about him. But mom, this is about your grandchild’s safety.

I worry about you. Me? Why? Cause this plan of yours basically means that you can never come back to Salem. So when am I going to see you?

You can come here anytime. And this is what you want? To live in Chicago.

And I’ll make it work. With a pretend boyfriend? Then I assume he’s pretend.

Max and I are just friends. And how does he feel about all of this?

Rex is amazing.

He, he understands that I have to do this my way and he has promised to keep my secret. Which I noticed you haven’t yet. Yes, I spoke to Sander before I left. And I told him that you had gotten back together with Rex. He lose his mind. Quite the contrary. He was very happy for you.

It seems as if he’s finally moved on. With Chloe.

Oh, I know. Bonnie told me.

You know, it’s not gonna matter. If Xander finds out about this baby, all bets are off.

So, um, I’m not gonna be the one to tell him.

That should be you.

Dimitri! Darling, Dimitri! Ah, there you are, my love. Where have you been? I thought you’d be packing for our honeymoon. That won’t take long, and then we will be on our way to paradise. Oh, gosh, just the two of us. I absolutely can’t wait.

Fair warning. Yeah. You are in for more sex than you can possibly imagine.

That sounds like my kind of trip.

It’s a first class ticket, and the hotel does have a champagne bubble bath. No, but Gwenny says I’m one of the best people she knows. I’ve got to do the right thing, the unselfish thing. I must delete this email and forget that DVL ever sent it.

I may not be a good person.

But at least I’m predictable.

Oh, I, uh, I completely forgot something. I can assure you, you did not. I mean, this.

Allow me.

Eric.

So, that’s a yes?

Yes. That is a yes.

E. J. DiMera, I would be so very honored to be your wife.

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American actor DeForest Kelley (1920 - 1999) as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy and American actress Jeanne Bal (1928 - 1996) as Nancy Crater appear in a scene from 'The Man Trap,' the premiere episode of 'Star Trek,' which aired on September 8, 1966. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive )

KIRK: Captain’s log, Stardate 1513.1. Our position, orbiting planet M-113. On board the Enterprise, Mister Spock temporarily in command. On the planet the ruins of an ancient and long-dead civilisation. Ship’s surgeon McCoy and myself are now beaming down to the planet’s surface. Our mission, routine medical examination of archaeologist Robert Crater and his wife Nancy. Routine but for the fact that Nancy Crater is that one woman in Doctor McCoy’s past.

KIRK: Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend, she usually expects something like that.

MCCOY: Is that how you get girls to like you, by bribing them? There doesn’t seem to be anybody around, does there?

KIRK: They’ll be along. You rushed us down ten minutes early.

KIRK: Professor Crater? Professor? Mrs. Crater? Nervous, Dr. McCoy?

MCCOY: Yeah, a little bit, I guess. You see, we walked out of each other’s lives ten years ago. She married Crater, and for all I know she may have forgotten me completely. Of all the bonehead ideas, Jim, how’d I let myself in for things like this?

NANCY: Leonard!

MCCOY: Nancy.

NANCY: Hello.

MCCOY: It’s good to see you.

NANCY: Let me look at you.

MCCOY: You haven’t aged a day. Oh, this is Captain Jim Kirk of the Enterprise.

KIRK: Mrs. Crater. I’ve heard a great deal about you.

NANCY: All good, I hope.

MCCOY: And Crewman Darnell.

DARNELL: How do you do, ma’am?

KIRK: Something wrong, Darnell?

DARNELL: Excuse me, sir, but, ma’am, if I didn’t know better I would swear you were someone I left behind on Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet. It’s funny, you’re exactly like a girl that–

MCCOY: A little less mouth, Darnell.

DARNELL: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. I mean, I know it’s impossible, of course.

KIRK: Why don’t you step outside, Darnell?

DARNELL: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

KIRK: Maybe I’ll step outside, too.

NANCY: What? And let Plum examine me all alone?

KIRK: Plum?

MCCOY: Plum.

NANCY: A nickname I gave Leonard when we were very young.

MCCOY: I’ll, er, I’ll wait for the professor and I’ll catch you both at once.

NANCY: I’d better go get Bob. Every time he starts digging he forgets time, sleep, food, everything. Be back in a minute.

BLONDE NANCY: It’s quite warm here, isn’t it?

Kirk: Captain’s log, additional entry. Since our mission was routine, we had beamed down to the planet without suspicion. We were unaware each member of the landing party was seeing a different woman, a different Nancy Crater.

KIRK: Professor Crater, I’m Captain Kirk. This is–

CRATER: The heroic Captain and the intrepid doctor cross interstellar space to preserve our health. Your sense of duty is overwhelming. Now will you please go back where you came from and tell whoever issues your orders to leave me and my wife alone. We need salt against the heat. Aside from that, we’re doing very well, thank you.

MCCOY: I’m pleased you’re doing well, but I’m required to confirm that fact.

CRATER: Doubtless the good surgeon will enjoy prodding and poking us with his arcane machinery. Go away, we don’t want you.

MCCOY: What you want is unimportant right now. What you will get is required by the book.

KIRK: Quote: All research personnel on alien planets are required to have their health certified by a starship surgeon at one-year intervals.” Like it or not, Professor, as commander of the starship, I’m required–

CRATER: To show your gold braid to everyone. You love it, don’t you?

KIRK: He’s all yours, Plum. Doctor McCoy.

MCCOY: Sit down and breathe deeply, please.

CRATER: Did I hear you call him Doctor McCoy?

MCCOY: You did.

CRATER: McCoy. I’ve heard Nancy speak of a Doctor McCoy.

MCCOY: That’s me. Didn’t she mention I was here?

CRATER: You’ve seen Nancy?

KIRK: She went out to get you.

CRATER: You’ve seen her too? You were with the good Doctor?

KIRK: Yes. Why?

CRATER: Nothing. It’s just that it gives me pleasure to know that she’s gotten to see an old friend and has a chance for some company. It’s different for me, I enjoy solitude. But for a woman. You understand, of course?

MCCOY: Well, it certainly hasn’t aged her. She looks exactly as I knew her twelve years ago. Amazing, Jim. Like a girl of twenty five.

CRATER: Sorry. I’m sorry, Captain, sit down. I seem to have forgotten my manners.

KIRK: Quite all right.

MCCOY: I’m not joking, Jim. She hasn’t aged a day. She doesn’t have a grey hair on her head.

KIRK: She’s got some grey, Bones. Excuse me, Professor, she’s a handsome woman, yes, but hardly twenty five.

CRATER: You’ve seen my wife with the eyes of your past attachment, Doctor. I’m sure when Nancy lets– when you see her again, she’ll be a believable age.

MCCOY: Well, at any rate, she doesn’t look a day over thirty.

CRATER: Genuine affection. I’m glad you still feel it for her. Leonard, isn’t it? She’s a fine woman.

MCCOY: Open your mouth.

CRATER: Why, I thought the machine–

MCCOY: The machine is capable of almost anything, but I’ll still put my trust in a healthy set of tonsils. Now, open your mouth.

KIRK: McCoy.

MCCOY: Dead, Jim. Strange. A red mottling all over his face.

KIRK: What happened?

CRATER: What do you suppose happened, Captain? You beam down a crewman who doesn’t know better than to eat an untested plant.

KIRK: I’ve just lost a crewman, Mrs. Crater. I want to know what happened.

NANCY: Well, I, I–

MCCOY: Take it easy, Nancy. Just tell us what you know.

NANCY: I was just… I couldn’t find Bob, and I was coming back. I crossed to your crewman. I wanted him to know I wasn’t offended by the things he’d said back there. You remember…. Then I, I noticed he had a Borgia plant in his hand. Before I could say anything, he, he’d taken a bite from it. He fell, his face all twisted, and– Leonard, you’re looking at me like you don’t believe me.

MCCOY: No, no, no, no, it’s not that. It’s something entirely different. Jim, I suppose we could complete these examinations later.

CRATER: We don’t need an examination.  You can see that. Perhaps you’d better take your man and–

KIRK: We’re well aware of our next duties, Professor. We’ll complete your examinations tomorrow. Transporter room.

CREWMAN: Transporter room, Captain.

KIRK: Lock onto us. Three beaming up.

SCOTT: Locked onto you, Captain.

NANCY: Salt. You did ask them about more salt tablets?

CRATER: I’ll take care of the provisioning, Nancy.

SPOCK: Miss Uhura, your last sub-space log contained an error in the frequencies column.

UHURA: Mister Spock, sometimes I think if I hear that word, “frequency” once more, I’ll cry.

SPOCK: Cry?

UHURA: I was just trying to start a conversation.

SPOCK: Well, since it is illogical for a communications officer to resent the word, “frequency,” I have no answer.

UHURA: No, you have an answer. I’m an illogical woman who’s beginning to feel too much a part of that communications console. Why don’t you tell me I’m an attractive young lady, or ask me if I’ve ever been in love? Tell me how your planet Vulcan looks on a lazy evening when the moon is full.

SPOCK: Vulcan has no moon, Miss Uhura.

UHURA: I’m not surprised, Mister Spock.

CREWMAN: Transporter room to Bridge. Landing party returning. They report one death.

SPOCK: Bridge acknowledging.

UHURA: I don’t believe it.

SPOCK: Explain.

UHURA: You explain. That means that somebody is dead and you just sit there. It could be Captain Kirk. He’s the closest thing you have to a friend.

SPOCK: Lieutenant, my demonstration of concern will not change what happened. The transporter room is very well-manned and they will call if they need my assistance.

MCCOY: She called it a Borgia plant.

KIRK: Something new to me.

SPOCK: Bridge to Dispensary.

KIRK: Go ahead, Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Borgia plant listed in library record tapes as carbon group three vegetation similar to Earth nightshade family. Alkaloid poison. Chemical structure common to Class M planets. About the strange mottling on his facial skin surface…there is no reference to this symptom.

MCCOY: Hmm. Well, then, this man wasn’t poisoned.

KIRK: Stand by, Mister Spock. She said she saw him eat the plant.

MCCOY: She’s mistaken. I know alkaloid poison– what to look for. There’s not a trace of it in his body.

KIRK: There were bits of the plant in his mouth.

MCCOY: Jim, don’t tell me my business. He could not have swallowed any. My instruments would have picked up any trace of it whatsoever.

KIRK: Then what kills a healthy man–

MCCOY: I’ll tell you something else. This man shouldn’t be dead. I can’t find anything wrong with him. According to all the tests he should just get up and walk away from here. I don’t know. I’ll have the tests double-checked. My eyes may be tricking me. I swear, Jim, when I first saw her she looked just as I’d known her ten years ago. Granted, for a moment I may have been looking at her through a romantic haze…

KIRK: How your lost love affects your vision, Doctor, doesn’t interest me. I’ve lost a man. I want to know what killed him.

MCCOY: Yes, sir.

Kirk: Captain’s log, Stardate 1513.4. In orbit around planet M-113. One crewman, member of the landing party, dead by violence. Cause unknown, but we are certain the cause of death was not poison.

UHURA: Message, Captain. Starship base on Caran 4 requesting explanation of our delay here, sir. Space Commander Dominguez says we have supplies he urgently needs.

Kirk: Tell Jose he’ll get his chili peppers when we get there. Tell him they’re prime Mexican reds. I handpicked them myself, but he won’t die if he goes a few more days without them. Got it?

UHURA: Got it, Captain.

KIRK: Well?

SPOCK: No mistake in our record tapes. Borgia plant. Its sole deadly property is alkaloid poison.

KIRK: And Professor Crater and wife?

SPOCK: Check out perfectly. They arrived here nearly five years ago. Visited by various vessels, made fairly heavy shipments out, of artefacts and reports. However, there has been a marked drop in shipments during the last year.

MCCOY: Dispensary to Captain.

KIRK: Kirk here.

MCCOY: We found something.

KIRK: What is it?

MCCOY: I’d rather not put it on the speaker.

SPOCK: Fascinating.

MCCOY: So improbable we almost didn’t check it.

KIRK: What?

SPOCK: Sodium chloride. Not a trace of it.

MCCOY: This man has no salt in his body at all.

KIRK: Can you explain that, Doctor?

MCCOY: I can’t, except that what we normally carry in our bodies is gone from his.

SPOCK: He would die almost instantly.

KIRK: How? There isn’t a mark on his body.

MCCOY: Except the red rings on his face.

KIRK: You called that skin mottling.

MCCOY: I thought it was, sir. Another error on my part.

KIRK: I’m not counting them, Bones. Are you in the mood for an apology?

MCCOY: Oh, forget it. I probably was mooning over her. I should have been thinking about my job.

KIRK: Perhaps you were. Both Nancy and Crater went out of their way to mention one item they needed.

MCCOY: Salt tablets.

KIRK: Mister Spock, outfit a landing party. We’re beaming down with some questions.

CRATER: One might think that you had more important duties than harassing people, Captain.

KIRK: I have, Professor. Believe me, I have. Where is Mrs. Crater? I want to talk to her, too.

CRATER: Captain, you can’t just beam down here and bully us, and interfere with our work.

KIRK: Mrs. Crater. I won’t ask again.

CRATER: Possibly at the other diggings. We don’t keep military logs.

KIRK: Green, find her.

GREEN: Yes, sir.

KIRK: Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Standing by.

KIRK: Sturgeon, transport a sample of the plant to Mister Spock. We’ll check if it’s actually the Borgia plant or something we don’t understand. You got that, Mister Spock?

SPOCK: Complete analysis.

CRATER: Captain, considering the inescapable fact that you are a trespasser on my planet…

KIRK: Your complaint is noted, sir. Look, something we don’t understand killed one of my men. It could prove to be a danger to you and Mrs. Crater, too.

CRATER: We’ve been here for almost five years. If there were anything hostile here we would know about it, wouldn’t we?

KIRK: Bones, tell the professor what the autopsy revealed.

MCCOY: Our crewman died of salt depletion. Sudden, total loss of it. Medically impossible by any standards.

KIRK: And by coincidence, both you and Mrs. Crater requested salt tablets.

CRATER: And your esteemed physician cannot explain our need for salt tablets?

KIRK: We’re all aware of the need for salt on a hot and arid planet like this, Professor, but it’s a mystery, and I don’t like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I’ve got a beauty right now.

CRATER: Nancy and I started with twenty five pounds. This is what we have left. Now, what is so mysterious about that?

MCCOY: Salt.

KIRK: One of the missions of the Enterprise is to protect human life in places like this. I’m going to have to ask you and Mrs. Crater to stay aboard my ship until we find out what killed that crewman.

CRATER: But you can’t do that.

KIRK: But I can, Professor.

CRATER: It’ll interfere with our work.

KIRK: How? You’ve been here five years. Will a couple of days make a difference? Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Spock here.

KIRK: Arrange quarters for Professor and Mrs. Crater. Did you get the plant analysis?

SPOCK: It is the Borgia variety, Captain. Could not have caused Darnell’s death.

MCCOY: Jim, he’s run off.

CRATER: Nancy! You! Salt! I’ve got salt! Smell it! Smell it, Nancy!

KIRK: Professor Crater! Professor Crater!

MCCOY: Professor Crater!

KIRK: Professor Crater! Professor! Professor!

MCCOY: Jim! Jim, it’s Sturgeon. He’s dead.

KIRK: We’d better locate Crewman Green. Green! Green! Crewman Green, report! Green!

MCCOY: Crewman Green, report! Green! Green, where are you? Could it be Crater? He came this way.

KIRK: I don’t know. Green! Did you see this?

GREEN: Yes, sir. Sturgeon was dead when I found him. I was circling to find whatever it was.

MCCOY: Same red rings on his face. Have you seen Nancy? Mrs. Crater?

GREEN: No, sir. I checked all through the ruins.

MCCOY: I’m worried about her, Jim. She’s not at the quarters, she’s not at the diggings. She could be in trouble. Nancy!

KIRK: Crater!

MCCOY: Nancy, it’s Leonard!

KIRK: We’re beaming aboard the ship, Doctor.

MCCOY: You can’t leave her!

KIRK: We can’t search this whole planet on foot.

MCCOY: Jim!

KIRK: You could learn something from Mister Spock, Doctor. Stop thinking with your glands. We’ve equipment aboard the Enterprise that could pinpoint a match lit anywhere on this planet, or the heat of a body. Transporter room, Kirk speaking. Three to beam up.

KIRK: Kirk to Bridge.

SPOCK: Spock here.

KIRK: Break out the surface search equipment. I want co-ordinates on two people.

SPOCK: Acknowledged.

KIRK: There’s a body down there. Sturgeon.

TRANSPORTER OPERATOR: We’ll bring him home, sir.

KIRK: You could use some sleep, Bones.

MCCOY: All right, Jim.

KIRK: Bridge.

RAND: Oh, Green, what went on down there? Who do you think you are?

SPOCK: Something odd, Captain. You said two people.

KIRK: Professor and Nancy Crater.

SPOCK: We get a reading on only one person… probably Crater. He’s circling as if searching for something.

KIRK: Expand search radius.

SPOCK: Yes, sir.

RAND: Why don’t you go chase an asteroid?

REDSHIRT: Hey, Janice, is that for me?

RAND: Don’t you wish it was?

BLUESHIRT: How about that?

REDSHIRT: Yeah, how’d you like to have her as your personal yeoman?

RAND: Where are you, Sulu?

SULU: In here feeding the weepers, Janice.

RAND: I’ve got your tray.

SULU: May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless your planet.

RAND: Thank you. Hello, Beauregard. How are you today, darling?

SULU: Her name’s Gertrude.

RAND: No, it’s a he plant. A girl can tell.

SULU: Why do people have to call inanimate objects she, like, “She’s a fast ship.”

RAND: He is not an inanimate object. He’s so animate he makes me nervous. In fact, I keep expecting one of these plants of yours to grab me.

SULU: Hello, Green.

RAND: He’s not talking today. You been nipping Saurian brandy or something?

SULU: Take it easy. Calm down. Very sensitive.

RAND: He’s the real spook. Suppose he’s going space happy or something?

UHURA: The door to my quarters still rattles when it opens. Would you stop by and see if you can do something about it? Thanks, Bobby. Crewman, do I know you?

CREWMAN: In a way, ma’am. You were just thinking of someone like me. I’m guessing of course, but you do look a little lonely.

UHURA: I see. So naturally, when I’m lonely I think of you.

CREWMAN: Ina cuvanea mwanamke turee.

UHURA: Una kafeeri Hur. You’re Swahili?

KIRK: Lieutenant Uhura to the Bridge. Lieutenant Uhura to the Bridge.

RAND: I’d better get this tray back. Bye, Beauregard.

SULU: Wait a minute, I’ll walk along.

KIRK: Lieutenant Uhura, report to the Bridge.

UHURA: Lieutenant Uhura. On my way, sir.

MCCOY: McCoy to Bridge. Captain there?

KIRK: Kirk here. Nothing to report, Doctor. We haven’t located Mrs. Crater. What’s the matter, can’t you sleep?

MCCOY: Nope.

KIRK: Try taking one of those red pills you gave me last week. You’ll sleep.

SPOCK: The simple fact is unless there’s something seriously wrong with the ship’s equipment, there’s only one person within a one hundred mile circle.

KIRK: All right. We’ll triangulate on him. We’ll let Professor Crater explain what happened to his wife. Remember my instructions, Lieutenant. Keep a tight fix on us. If we let out a yell, I want an armed party down there before the echo dies.

UHURA: Yes, Captain.

MCCOY: Nancy. Well, come in. come in. I’ve been worried sick about you. I wonder why Jim didn’t tell me he found you.

NANCY: I’m so happy to see you, Leonard. The others, they– I, I don’t relate to them as much as you. You have such strong memories of me.

MCCOY: Well…

NANCY: You do care, don’t you, Leonard? It makes me feel so, so safe.

MCCOY: Nancy, er…

NANCY: My husband? I like your feelings better. Much stronger. But you’re tired, You need to rest.

MCCOY: You’re as bad as Jim Kirk. He’s been telling me to take these.

NANCY: I think you should. I’ll get you some water.

RAND: Look at his face!

SULU: Bridge. Sulu. Trouble on Deck Nine, Section Two. We need a medical team.

KIRK: Captain’s log, Stardate 1513.8. I am now certain that the violent death of my crewmen was caused by some strange life-form.

MCCOY: I was so worried. Your husband acting strange, crewmen dying…

NANCY: You’re so tired, darling. Just rest now.

UHURA: Medical department alert. Doctors and medics acknowledge.

NANCY: It’s nothing, dear. It’s nothing. You just sleep. Nancy will take care of everything.

UHURA: Dr. McCoy to the Bridge. Dr. McCoy to the Bridge. Dr. McCoy to the Bridge.

KIRK: Captain’s log, additional. Armed and able-bodied crewmen are not attacked and slaughtered this easily. Apparently, the killer can immobilize them as it approaches perhaps with some hypnotic or paralysing power. The answer lies with Professor Crater.

KIRK: Professor Crater.

CRATER: Go away! We don’t want you here.

KIRK: We? Where’s your wife, Professor? We’re concerned about her.

CRATER: I’m armed. Go away.

KIRK: Where’s your wife, Professor?

CRATER: She’s no concern of yours.

KIRK: We’re worried about her safety, aren’t you? Professor, you’re a reasonable man, let me– Kirk here.

SULU: Casualty, Captain. Barnhart was found dead on Deck Nine. Same symptoms.

SPOCK: Spock cutting in, Captain. Something here, through the arches to your left.

KIRK: Stand by, Mister Sulu. Spock has something.

SPOCK: Green.

KIRK: He beamed up to the ship with us.

SPOCK: Or something did.

KIRK: Enterprise from Kirk.

SULU: Bridge. Sulu.

KIRK: You have an intruder aboard. Could be masquerading as Crewman Green. General quarters, security condition three.

SULU: GQ security three, sir.

SULU: General quarters three. Intruder alert. GQ three. Intruder alert. General quarters three. Intruder alert. GQ three. Intruder alert.

UHURA: Reporting GQ three secure, Captain. Do you require assistance there?

SPOCK: Crater knows the creature. If we could take him alive…

KIRK: Negative, Lieutenant, but keep locked in on us. Kirk out. Let’s get him.

CRATER: We don’t want you here! We’re happy alone! I’ll kill to stay alone. You hear that, Kirk? Or you’ll have to kill me. I don’t care either way.

SPOCK: Obviously, taking him alive is going to be difficult.

KIRK: Set your phaser on one quarter. I’ll leave mine on stun.

SPOCK: Why risk your life for his?

KIRK: He’s not trying to kill us, he’s trying to frighten us, and he’s doing a pretty good job.

SULU: GQ three now secured except for Decks Five, Seven, and Ten. Come in, please.

UHURA: He’s not in supply and maintenance.

SULU: Go to Engineering now. Run through file photos of the crewmen there.

UHURA: Check.

SECURITY: Deck Five reporting. Crewman Green is not in his quarters. No one has seen him

SULU: Keep in mind if you find him, he’s not Crewman Green. The Captain reports Crewman Green is dead.

RAND: And he, or rather it, followed me. I thought there was something twitchy about him.

SULU: He– whatever, was probably your crewman, too, Lieutenant.

UHURA: He must have been it. You know, I would have remembered a crewman like him.

MCCOY: The creature leading you a merry chase, Mister Sulu?

SULU: The creature?

MCCOY: Or whatever it is that’s killing the crewmen. Perhaps I can help. Fill me in.

KIRK: Set.

SPOCK: Acknowledged. Crater!

KIRK: Your wife, Professor. Where is she? Your wife, Professor. Where is she?

CRATER: She was the last of her kind.

KIRK: The last of her kind?

CRATER: The last of its kind. Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon or buffalo. Ooh! I feel strange.

KIRK: Just stunned. You’ll be able to think in a minute.

SPOCK: The Earth buffalo. What about it?

CRATER: Once there were millions of them… prairies black with them. One herd covered three whole states, and when they moved they were like thunder.

SPOCK: And now they’re gone. Is that what you mean?

CRATER: Like the creatures here. Once there were millions of them. Now there’s one left. Nancy understood.

SPOCK: Always in the past tense.

KIRK: Where’s your wife? Where is she now?

CRATER: Dead. Buried up on the hill. It killed her.

KIRK: When?

CRATER: Oh, a year, or was it two?

KIRK: Kirk to Enterprise.

SULU: Bridge to Captain. Sulu here.

KIRK: It’s definite, Mister Sulu. The intruder can assume any shape. Crewmen, you, myself, anyone. Do you understand?

SULU: Affirmative, Captain.

KIRK: Go to GQ four.

SULU: General quarters four, Captain.

CRATER: The creature was trying to survive. It has that right, doesn’t it?

KIRK: Kirk to transporter room. Three to beam up.

CRATER: They needed salt to stay alive. There was no more salt. It’s the last one. The buffalo. There is no difference.

KIRK: There’s one, Professor. Your creature is killing my people.

KIRK: Captain’s log, continuing. The Enterprise has been invaded by a creature capable of assuming any form, and with the capacity to paralyse and draw the life from any one of us.

SULU: Deck Five, Section Three. Deck Five, Section Three. Report.

SECURITY: Security 3 A here. 3 B in sight.

UHURA: Negative, Captain. I’ve checked every face on this vessel. It was not a crewman I saw.

KIRK: Yeoman Rand, how long was this Green with you?

RAND: As long as he… it thought it could get to the salt on my tray, sir.

KIRK: Mister Spock?

SPOCK: Supplies of salt have been set out as bait at all decks and engineering levels, Captain. However, no one or nothing has approached them as yet.

KIRK: Dr. McCoy?

MCCOY: Yes?

KIRK: Medical department report, Doctor.

MCCOY: Oh. Well, we could offer it salt without tricks. There’s no reason for it to attack us.

SPOCK: Your attitude is laudable, Doctor, but your reasoning is reckless.

CRATER: The creature is not dangerous when fed.

MCCOY: No, it’s simply trying to survive by using its natural ability to take other forms.

CRATER: The way the chameleon uses its protective colouring, an ability retained no doubt from its primitive state, the way we have retained our incisor teeth. They were once fangs. Certain of our muscles were designed for chase. It uses its ability the way we would use our muscles and teeth if necessary, to stay alive.

MCCOY: And like us, it’s an intelligent animal. There’s no need to hunt it down.

SPOCK: A very interesting hypothesis, Doctor. Briefing room.

SULU: All the halls sealed off. All weapons accounted for and locked away. Security four in effect on every level. Still no lead on intruder.

KIRK: Thank you, Lieutenant. Continue the search. Crater, we don’t know who or what we’re looking for. We need your help, and now.

CRATER: I demanded, I even begged that you get off my planet.

KIRK: Can you recognise this thing When you see it? Professor, I’ll forego charges up to this point but this creature’s aboard my ship and I’ll have it, or I’ll have your skin, or both. Now where is it?

CRATER: I loved Nancy very much. Few women like my Nancy. She lives in my dreams. She walks and sings in them.

KIRK: And it becomes Nancy for you.

CRATER: Not because of tricks. It doesn’t trick me. It needs love as much as it needs salt. When it killed Nancy, I almost destroyed it, but– it isn’t just a beast. It is intelligent and the last of its kind.

KIRK: You bleed too much, Crater. You’re too pure and noble. Are you saving the last of its kind, or has this become Crater’s private heaven, here on this planet? This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave. It isn’t a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call, and you win all the arguments.

CRATER: You don’t understand.

KIRK: Have you learned to see this thing in whatever form it becomes?

CRATER: Yes.

KIRK: Are you going to help us find it?

CRATER: Sorry, I can’t.

SPOCK: Recommend we use truth serum, Captain.

KIRK: Doctor?

MCCOY: Well, I resist using it, but in this case the professor will give us the truth.

KIRK: Take him.

SPOCK: I’ll accompany you, Doctor.

MCCOY: Oh, yes. Of course.

CREWMAN: Captain Kirk to dispensary. Captain Kirk to dispensary.

SPOCK: It wasn’t McCoy. It was the creature. It hit me. Crater grabbed my phaser. I wondered about McCoy. Doubt had crossed my mind.

RAND: Captain. Professor Crater.

KIRK: Dead. But it had you, too.

SPOCK: Fortunately, my ancestors spawned in another ocean than yours did. My blood cells are quite different.

NANCY: Leonard. Leonard, wake up. Please help me. Help me, Leonard. They’re trying to kill me. Don’t let them kill me!

MCCOY: Easy, easy. Nobody’s going to–

NANCY: But you must help me!

KIRK: Move aside, Bones.

MCCOY: What’s going on here, Jim?

KIRK: She’s not Nancy, Bones.

MCCOY: Are you insane?

KIRK: It killed four crewmen. Now Crater.

MCCOY: It?

KIRK: The creature. It kills. It needs salt to live. Bones, move aside.

MCCOY: No!

KIRK: My guess is she needs more. You want it, Nancy? Come and get it.

MCCOY: You’re frightening her, Jim.

KIRK: Not fright. Hunger. Look at her.

NANCY: Leonard, if you love me, make him go away.

KIRK: Come on. You want this, Nancy? Come on Nancy. Come and get it. Come and get it. Here it is.

NANCY: Leonard, help me.

MCCOY: Stop it, Jim!

KIRK: McCoy, get out of the way!

MCCOY: Are you out of your mind?

KIRK: Get out of the way.

SPOCK: It’s killing the Captain. Shoot it, Doctor, quickly!

MCCOY: No! No!

SPOCK: It’s killing the captain! Shoot, quick!

MCCOY: I won’t shoot Nancy.

SPOCK: This is not Nancy. If she were Nancy, could she take this?

MCCOY: Stop it! Stop it, Spock! Stop it!

SPOCK: Is that Nancy, Doctor?

MCCOY: No. No!

NANCY: Leonard. Leonard, no. Leonard, please.

MCCOY: Lord, forgive me.

KIRK: I’m sorry, Bones.

SULU: Ready to leave orbit, Captain.

SPOCK: Something wrong, Captain?

KIRK: I was thinking about the buffalo, Mister Spock. Warp one, Mister Sulu.

SULU: Warp one, sir. Leaving orbit.

 

The M-113 Creature attacks Captain James T. Kirk, played by Canadian actor William Shatner, in a scene from 'The Man Trap,' the premiere episode of 'Star Trek,' which aired on September 8, 1966. The monster is alternately known as the Salt Creature or the Salt Vampire. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive)

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Star Trek: The Cage Transcript

 

"The Cage" Star Trek first pilot with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

SPOCK: Check the circuit.

TYLER: All operating, sir.

SPOCK: It can’t be the screen, then. Definitely something out there, Captain, headed this way.

TYLER: It could be these meteorites.

NUMBER ONE: No, it’s something else. There’s still something out there.

TYLER: It’s coming at the speed of light, collision course. The meteorite beam has not deflected it, Captain.

NUMBER ONE: Evasive maneuvers, sir?

PIKE: Steady as we go.

GARISON: It’s a radio wave, sir. We’re passing through an old-style distress signal.

PIKE: They were keyed to cause interference and attract attention this way.

GARISON: A ship in trouble making a forced landing, sir. That’s it. No other message.

TYLER: I have a fix. It comes from the Talos star group.

NUMBER ONE: We’ve no ships or Earth colonies that far out.

SPOCK: Their call letters check with a survey expedition. SS Columbia. It disappeared in that region approximately eighteen years ago.

TYLER: It would take that long for a radio beam to travel from there to here.

SPOCK: Records show the Talos group has never been explored. Solar system similar to Earth, eleven planets. Number four seems to be Class M, oxygen atmosphere.

NUMBER ONE: Then they could still be alive, even after eighteen years.

PIKE: If they survived the crash.

SPOCK: We aren’t going to go, to be certain?

PIKE: Not without any indication of survivors, no. Continue to the Vega Colony and take care of our own sick and injured first. You have the helm. Maintain present course.

NUMBER ONE: Yes, sir.

BOYCE: Boyce here.

PIKE: Drop by my cabin, Doctor. What’s that? I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with me.

BOYCE: I understand we picked up a distress signal.

PIKE: That’s right. Unless we get anything more positive on it, it seems to me the condition of our own crew takes precedent. I’d like to log the ship’s doctor’s opinion, too.

BOYCE: Oh, I concur with yours, definitely.

PIKE: Good. I’m glad you do, because we’re going to stop first at the Vega Colony and replace anybody who needs hospitalization and also– What the devil are you putting in there, ice?

BOYCE: Who wants a warm martini?

PIKE: What makes you think I need one?

BOYCE: Sometimes a man’ll tell his bartender things he’ll never tell his doctor. What’s been on your mind, Chris, the fight on Rigel Seven?

PIKE: Shouldn’t it be? My own yeoman and two others dead, seven injured.

BOYCE: Was there anything you personally could have done to prevent it?

PIKE: Oh, I should have smelled trouble when I saw the swords and the armor. Instead of that, I let myself get trapped in that deserted fortress and attacked by one of their warriors.

BOYCE: Chris, you set standards for yourself no one could meet. You treat everyone on board like a human being except yourself, and now you’re tired and you–

PIKE: You bet I’m tired. You bet. I’m tired of being responsible for two hundred and three lives. I’m tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn’t, and who’s going on the landing party and who doesn’t, and who lives and who dies. Boy, I’ve had it, Phil.

BOYCE: To the point of finally taking my advice, a rest leave?

PIKE: To the point of considering resigning.

BOYCE: And do what?

PIKE: Well, for one thing, go home. Nice little town with fifty miles of parkland around it. Remember I told you I had two horses, and we used to take some food and ride out all day.

BOYCE: Ah, that sounds exciting. Ride out with a picnic lunch every day.

PIKE: I said that’s one place I might go. I might go into business on Regulus or on the Orion colony.

BOYCE: You, an Orion trader, dealing in green animal women, slaves?

PIKE: The point is this isn’t the only life available. There’s a whole galaxy of things to choose from.

BOYCE: Not for you. A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on, and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

PIKE: Now you’re beginning to talk like a doctor, bartender.

BOYCE: Take your choice. We both get the same two kinds of customers. The living and the dying.

SPOCK: Mister Spock here. We’re intercepting a follow-up message, sir. There are crash survivors on Talos.

GARISON: Eleven survivors from crash. Gravity and oxygen within limits. Food and water obtainable, but unless. The message faded at that point, sir.

PIKE: Address intercraft.

TYLER: System open.

PIKE: This is the captain. Our destination is the Talos star group. Our time warp, factor seven.

TYLER: Course computed and on the screen.

NUMBER ONE: All decks have acknowledged, sir.

PIKE : Engage.

TYLER: On course, sir.

PIKE: Yeoman.

COLT: Yes, sir.

PIKE: I thought I told you that when I’m on the bridge–

COLT: But you wanted the reports by oh five hundred. It’s oh five hundred now, sir.

PIKE: Oh, I see. Thank you.

NUMBER ONE: She’s replacing your former yeoman, sir.

PIKE: She does a good job, all right. It’s just that I can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge. No offense, Lieutenant. You’re different, of course.

TYLER: We’ve settled into orbit, sir.

GEOLOGIST: Geological lab report complete, Captain.

SPOCK: Preliminary lab survey ready, sir.

PIKE: Spectography?

GEOLOGIST: Our reading shows an oxygen nitrogen atmosphere, sir, heavy with inert elements but well within safety limits.

PIKE: Gravity?

GEOLOGIST: Zero point nine of Earth.

TYLER: Captain? Reflections, sir, from the planet’s surface. As I read it, they polarize out as rounded metal bits. Could be parts of a spaceship hull.

PIKE: Prep a landing party of six. You feel up to it?

SPOCK: Yes, sir.

TYLER: Yes, sir.

PIKE: Sorry, Number One. With little information on this planet, we’ll have to leave the ship’s most experienced officer here covering us.

NUMBER ONE: Of course, sir.

PIKE: There’s no indication of problems down there, but let’s not take chances.

PITCAIRN: Yes, sir. There’s a canyon to the left. We can set you there completely unobserved.

GARISON: Sir.

OLD MAN: They’re men. They’re humans.

PIKE: Captain Christopher Pike, United Space Ship Enterprise.

HASKINS: Doctor Theodore Haskins, American Continent lnstitute.

SURVIVOR: Is Earth all right?

PIKE: The same old Earth, and you’ll see it very soon.

TYLER: And you won’t believe how fast you can get back. Well, the time barrier’s been broken. Our new ships can…

HASKINS: This is Vina. Her parents are dead. She was born almost as we crashed.

PIKE: Enterprise.

NUMBER ONE: Landing party, come in.

PIKE: We’ll begin transporting the survivors and their effects up to you very shortly.

NUMBER ONE: Quarters are being prepared, sir. Have I permission to send out scouting and scientific parties now?

PIKE: That’s affirmative on the

VINA: You appear to be healthy and intelligent, Captain. A prime specimen.

NUMBER ONE: I didn’t get that last message, Captain.

PIKE: Er, affirmative on request. Landing party out.

HASKINS: You must forgive her choice of words, Captain. She’s lived her whole life with a collection of aging scientists.

BOYCE: If they can spare you a moment, I’d like to make my medical report.

VINA: I think it’s time to show the Captain our secret.

BOYCE: Their health is excellent. Almost too good.

HASKINS: There’s a reason for our condition, but we’ve had some doubt if Earth is ready to learn the secret. Let the girl show you. We’ll accept your judgment.

VINA: You’re tired, but don’t worry. You’ll feel much better soon. Don’t you see it? Here and here.

PIKE: I don’t understand.

VINA: You will. You’re a perfect choice.

TYLER: Captain!

SPOCK: Spock here.

ONE: Landing party, come in.

SPOCK: There is no survivors’ encampment, Number One. This is all some sort of trap. We’ve lost the Captain. Do you read?

PIKE: Can you hear me? My name is Christopher Pike, commander of the space vehicle Enterprise from a stellar group at the other end of this galaxy. Our intentions are peaceful. Can you understand me?

TALOSIAN: It appears, Magistrate, that the intelligence of the specimen is shockingly limited.

MAGISTRATE: This is no surprise, since his vessel was baited here so easily with a simulated message. As you can read in its thoughts, it is only now beginning to suspect that the survivors and encampment were a simple illusion we placed in their minds.

PIKE: You’re not speaking, yet I can hear you.

MAGISTRATE: You will note the confusion as it reads our thought transmissions.

PIKE: All right then, telepathy. You can read my mind. I can read yours. Now, unless you want my ship to consider capturing me an unfriendly act…

MAGISTRATE: You now see the primitive fear threat reaction. The specimen is about to boast of his strength, the weaponry of his vessel, and so on. Next, frustrated into a need to display physical prowess, the creature will throw himself against the transparency.

PIKE: If you were in here, wouldn’t you test the strength of these walls, too? There’s a way out of any cage, and I’ll find it.

MAGISTRATE: Despite its frustration, the creature appears more adaptable than our specimens from other planets. We can soon begin the experiment.

SPOCK: The inhabitants of this planet must live deep underground, and probably manufacture food and other needs down there. Our tests indicate the planet surface, without considerably more vegetation or some animals, simply too barren to support life.

NUMBER ONE: So we just thought we saw survivors there, Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Exactly. An illusion placed in our minds by this planet’s inhabitants.

BOYCE: It was a perfect illusion. They had us seeing just what we wanted to see, human beings who’d survived with dignity and bravery, everything entirely logical, right down to the building of the camp, the tattered clothing, everything. Now let’s be sure we understand the danger of this. The inhabitants of this planet can read our minds. They can create illusions out of a person’s own thoughts, memories, and experiences, even out of a person’s own desires. Illusions just as real and solid as this table top and just as impossible to ignore.

NUMBER ONE: Any estimate what they might want one of us for?

SPOCK: They may simply be studying the Captain, to find out how Earth people are put together. Or it could be something more.

TYLER: Then why aren’t we doing anything? That entry may have stood up against hand lasers, but we can transmit the ship’s power against it. Enough to blast half a continent.

SPOCK: Look. Brains three times the size of ours. If we start buzzing about down there, we’re liable to find their mental power is so great they could reach out and swat this ship as though it were a fly.

TYLER: It’s Captain Pike they’ve got. He needs help, and he probably needs it fast.

NUMBER ONE: Engineering deck will rig to transmit ship’s power. We’ll try blasting through that metal.

TALOSIAN: Thousands of us are already probing the creature’s thoughts, Magistrate. We find excellent memory capacity.

MAGISTRATE: I read most strongly a recent death struggle in which it fought to protect its life. We will begin with this, giving the specimen something more interesting to protect.

VINA: Come on, we must hide ourselves. Come, come. Hurry. It’s deserted. There’ll be weapons and perhaps food.

PIKE: This is Rigel Seven.

VINA: Please, we must hide ourselves.

PIKE: I was in a cage, a cell, in some kind of a zoo. I must still be there.

VINA: Come on.

PIKE: They’ve reached into my mind and taken the memory of somewhere I’ve been.

VINA: The killer!

PIKE: It’s starting just as it happened two weeks ago. Except for you.

PIKE: Longer hair, different dress, but it is you, the one the survivors called Vina. Or rather the image of Vina. But why you again? Why didn’t they create a different girl?

VINA: Quick. If you attack while it’s not looking…

PIKE: But it’s only a dream.

VINA: You have to kill him as you did here before.

PIKE: You can tell my jailers I won’t go along with it. I’m not an animal performing for its supper.

VINA: It doesn’t matter what you call this, you’ll feel it. That’s what matters. You’ll feel every moment of whatever happens to you. Please, don’t you know what he’ll do to us?

PIKE: Why would an illusion be frightened?

VINA: Because that’s the way you imagined me.

PIKE: Who are you? You act as if this were really you.

VINA: Careful.

VINA: It’s over.

PIKE: Why are you here?

VINA: To please you.

PIKE: Are you real?

VINA: As real as you wish.

PIKE: No, no. No, that’s not an answer. I’ve never met you before, never even imagined you.

VINA: Perhaps they made me out of dreams you’ve forgotten.

PIKE: What, and dress you in the same metal fabric they wear?

VINA: I have to wear something, don’t I? I can wear whatever you wish, be anything you wish.

PIKE: So they can see how their specimen performs? They want to see how I react, is that it?

VINA: Don’t you have a dream, something you’ve always wanted very badly?

PIKE: Or do they do more than just watch me? Do they feel with me, too?

VINA: You can have whatever dream you want. I can become anything, any woman you’ve ever imagined. You can have anything you want in the whole universe. Let me please you.

PIKE: Yes. Yes, you can please me. You can tell me about them. Is there any way I can keep them from probing my mind, from using my thoughts against me? Does that frighten you? Does that mean there is a way?

VINA: You’re a fool.

PIKE: Since you’re not real, there’s not much point in continuing this conversation, is there?

NUMBER ONE: All circuits engaged, Mister Spock.

SPOCK: Standing by, Number One.

NUMBER ONE: Take cover.

SPOCK: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

NUMBER ONE: Increase to full power! Can you give us any more?

SPOCK: Our circuits are beginning to heat. We’ll have to cease power.

NUMBER ONE: Disengage. The top of that knoll should have been sheared off the first second.

BOYCE: Maybe it was. It’s what I tried to explain in the briefing room. Their power of illusion is so great, we can’t be sure of anything we do, anything we see.

VINA: Perhaps if you asked me some questions, I could answer.

PIKE: How far can they control my mind?

VINA: If I tell you, then will you pick some dream you’ve had and let me live it with you?

PIKE: Perhaps.

VINA: They can’t actually make you do anything you don’t want to do.

PIKE: But they try to trick me with their illusions.

VINA: And, they can punish you when you’re not co-operative. You’ll find out about that.

PIKE: Did they ever live on the surface of this planet? Why did they go underground?

VINA: War, thousands of centuries ago.

PIKE: That’s why it’s so barren up there?

VINA; The planet’s only now becoming able to support life again.

PIKE: So the Talosians who came underground found life limited here and they concentrated on developing their mental power.

VINA: But they found it’s a trap. Like a narcotic. Because when dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit, living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought record.

PIKE: Or sit probing minds of zoo specimens like me.

VINA: You’re better than a theatre to them. They create the illusion for you, they watch you react, feel your emotions. They have a whole collection of specimens, descendants of life brought back long ago from all over this part of the galaxy.

PIKE: Which means they had to have more than one of each animal.

VINA: Please.

PIKE: They’ll need a pair of humans, too. Where do they get intend to get the Earth woman?

VINA: You said that if I answered questions…

PIKE: But that was a bargain with something that didn’t exist. You said you weren’t real, remember?

VINA: I’m a woman as real and as human as you are. We’re like Adam and Eve. If we– Don’t. Please don’t punish me!

MAGISTRATE: The vial contains a nourishing protein complex.

PIKE: Is the keeper actually communicating with one of his animals?

MAGISTRATE: If the form and the color is not appealing, it can appear as any food you wish to visualize.

PIKE: And if I prefer–

MAGISTRATE: To starve? You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment. From a fable you once heard in childhood. You will now consume the nourishment.

PIKE: Why not just put irresistible hunger in my mind? Because you can’t, can you? You do have limitations, don’t you?

MAGISTRATE: If you continue to disobey, from deeper in your mind, there are things even more unpleasant.

PIKE: That’s very interesting.

MAGISTRATE: Now to the female.

PIKE: You were startled. Weren’t you reading my mind then?

MAGISTRATE: As you’ve conjectured, an Earth vessel did crash on our planet, but with only a single survivor.

PIKE: No, let’s stay on the first subject. All I wanted for that moment was to get my hands around your neck.

MAGISTRATE: We repaired the survivor’s injuries and found the species interesting.

PIKE: Do primitive thoughts put up a block you can’t read through?

MAGISTRATE: It became necessary to attract a mate.

PIKE: All right, all right, let’s talk about the girl. You seem to be going out of your way to make her attractive, to make me feel protective.

MAGISTRATE: This is necessary in order to perpetuate the species.

PIKE: It seems more important to you now that I begin to accept her and like her.

MAGISTRATE: We wish our specimens to be happy in their new life.

PIKE: Assuming that’s a lie, why would you want me attracted to her? So I’ll feel love in a husband-wife relationship? That would be necessary only if you intend to build a family group or perhaps a whole human community.

MAGISTRATE: With the female now properly conditioned…

PIKE: You mean properly punished! I’m the one who’s not co-operating! Why don’t you punish me?

MAGISTRATE: First, an emotion of protectiveness. Now one of sympathy. Excellent.

VINA: You want some coffee, dear? I left the thermos hooked to my saddle.

PIKE: Tango! You old devil, you. I’m sorry I don’t have any sugar. Well, they think of everything, don’t they?

VINA: Hey, your coffee. Is it good to be home?

PIKE: They read our minds very well. Home, anything else I want, if I co-operate, is that it?

VINA: Have you forgotten my headaches, darling? I get them when you talk strangely like this.

PIKE: Look, I’m sorry they punish you, but we can’t let them–

VINA: My, it turned out to be a lovely day, didn’t it?

PIKE: It’s funny. It’s about twenty four hours ago I was telling the ship’s doctor how much I wanted something else not very different from what we have here. An escape from reality. Life with no frustrations. No responsibilities. Now that I have it, I understand the doctor’s answer.

VINA: I hope you’re hungry. These little white sandwiches are your mother’s recipe for chicken tuna.

PIKE: You either live life, bruises, skinned knees and all, or you turn your back on it and start dying. The doctor’s going to be happy about one part, at least. He said I needed a rest.

VINA: This is a lovely place to rest.

PIKE: I used to ride through here when I was a kid. It’s not as pretty as some of the parkland around the big cities, but. That’s Mojave. That’s where I was born.

VINA: Is that supposed to be news to your wife? You’re home. You can even stay if you want. Wouldn’t it be nice showing your children where you once played?

PIKE: These headaches, they’ll be hereditary you know. Would you wish them on a child or a whole group of children?

VINA: Foolish.

PIKE: Is it? Look, first they made me protect you and then feel sympathy for you. Now we have these familiar surroundings and a comfortable husband-wife relationship. They don’t need all this for just passion. What they’re after is respect and mutual dependence.

VINA: They say in the olden days all this was a desert. Blowing sand and cactus.

PIKE: But we’re not here, neither of us. We’re in a menagerie, a cage!

VINA: No.

PIKE; I can’t help either one of us if you won’t give me a chance. Now, you told me once they used illusions as a narcotic. They couldn’t repair the machines left by their ancestors. Is that why they want us, to build a colony of slaves?

VINA: Stop it. Don’t you care what they’ll do to us?

PIKE: Back in my cage, it seemed for a couple of minutes that our keeper couldn’t read my thoughts. Do emotions like hate, keeping hate in your mind, does that block off our mind from them?

VINA: Yes. They can’t read through primitive emotions. But you can’t keep it up for long enough. I’ve tried. They keep at you and at you year after year, tricking and punishing, and they won. They own me. I know you must hate me for that.

PIKE: Oh, no. I don’t hate you. I can guess what it was like.

VINA: But that’s not enough. Don’t you see? They read my thoughts, my feelings, my dreams of what would be a perfect man. That’s why they picked you. I can’t help but love you and they expect you to feel the same way.

PIKE: If they can read my mind, then they know I’m attracted to you.

PIKE: I was from the very first moment I saw you in the survivor’s camp.

TALOSIAN: A curious species. They have fantasies they hide even from themselves.

VINA: I’m beginning to see why none of this has worked for you. You’ve been home, and fighting as on Rigel. That’s not new to you, either. A person’s strongest dreams are about what he can’t do. Yes, a ship’s captain, always having to be so formal, so decent and honest and proper. You must wonder what it would be like to forget all that.

OFFICER: Nice place you have here, Mister Pike.

PIKE: Vina?

ORION: Glistening green. Almost like secret dreams a bored ship captain might have.

OFFICER: Funny how they are on this planet. They actually like being taken advantage of. Suppose you had all of space to choose from, and this was only one small sample.

ORION: Wouldn’t you say it was worth a man’s soul?

SPOCK: We’ve located a magnetic field that seems to come from their underground generator.

GARISON: Could that be an illusion too?

NUMBER ONE: Now, you all know the situation. We’re hoping to transport down inside the Talosian community.

SPOCK: If our measurements and readings are an illusion also, one could find oneself materialized inside solid rock.

NUMBER ONE: Nothing will be said if any volunteer wants to back out.

SPOCK: The women!

NUMBER ONE: Captain! Captain.

VINA: No! Let me finish!

NUMBER ONE: But we were a party of six.

COLT: We were the only ones transported.

VINA: It’s not fair. You don’t need them.

PIKE: They don’t work.

NUMBER ONE: They were fully charged when we left. It’s dead. I can’t make a signal. What is it?

PIKE: Don’t say anything. I’m filling my mind with a picture of beating their huge, misshapen heads to pulp, thoughts so primitive they black out everything else. I’m filling my mind with hate.

VINA: How long can you block your thoughts? A few minutes, an hour? How can that help?

COLT: Leave him alone.

VINA: He doesn’t need you. He’s already picked me.

COLT: Picked her? For what? I don’t understand.

VINA: Now, there’s a fine choice for intelligent offspring.

COLT: Offspring, as in children?

NUMBER ONE: Offspring as in he’s Adam, is that it?

VINA: You’re no better choice. They’d have more luck crossing him with a computer.

NUMBER ONE: Well, shall we do a little time computation? There was a Vina listed on that expedition as an adult crewman. Now, adding eighteen years to your age then…

VINA: It’s not fair. I did what you asked.

MAGISTRATE: Since you resist the present specimen, you now have a selection.

PIKE: I’ll break out of this zoo somehow and get to you. Is your blood red like ours? I’m going to find out.

MAGISTRATE: Each of the two new specimens has qualities in her favor. The female you call Number One has the superior mind and would produce highly intelligent children. Although she seems to lack emotion, this is largely a pretense. She has often has fantasies involving you.

PIKE: All I want to do is get my hands on you. Can you read these thoughts? Images of hate, killing?

MAGISTRATE: The other new arrival has considered you unreachable but now is realizing this has changed. The factors in her favor are youth and strength, plus unusually strong female drives.

PIKE: You’ll find my thoughts more interesting. Thoughts so primitive you can’t understand. Emotions so ugly.

MAGISTRATE: Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination.

NUMBER ONE: Captain.

PIKE: No. No, don’t help me. I have to concentrate. They can’t read through hate.

SPOCK: Address intercraft.

GARISON: Open, sir.

SPOCK: This is the acting captain speaking. We have no choice now but to consider the safety of this vessel and the remainder of the crew. We’re leaving. All decks prepare for hyperdrive. Time warp factor.

TYLER: Mister Spock, the ship’s controls have gone dead.

SPOCK: Engine room!

GARISON: Open.

SPOCK: Mister Spock here. Switch to rockets. We’re blasting out.

PITCAIRN: All systems are out, bridge. We’ve got nothing.

TYLER: There’s nothing. Every system aboard is fading out.

PIKE: Now you hold still, or I’ll break your neck.

VINA: Don’t hurt them. They don’t mean to be evil.

PIKE: I’ve had some samples of how good they are. You stop this illusion, or I’ll twist your head off. All right, now you try one more illusion, you try anything at all, and I’ll break your neck.

MAGISTRATE: Your ship. Release me or we’ll destroy it.

SPOCK: Nothing. But for the batteries we’d lose gravitation and oxygen.

TYLER: The computers! I can’t shut it off. It’s running through our library. Tapes, micro-records, everything. It doesn’t make sense.

SPOCK: Could be we’ve waited too long. It’s collecting all the information stored in this fly. They’ve decided to swat us.

VINA: He’s not bluffing, Captain. With illusion they can make your crew work the wrong controls or push any button it takes to destroy your ship.

PIKE: I’m going to gamble you’re too intelligent to kill for no reason at all. On the other hand, I’ve got a reason. I’m willing to bet you’ve created an illusion this laser is empty. I think it just blasted a hole in that window and you’re keep us from seeing it. You want me to test my theory out on your head?

COLT: Captain.

PIKE: Make contact, Number One.

NUMBER ONE: They kept us from seeing this, too. We cut through and never knew it. Captain.

MAGISTRATE: As you see, your attempt to escape accomplished nothing.

PIKE: I want to contact our ship.

MAGISTRATE: You are now on the surface where we wished you to be. With the female of your choice, you will now begin carefully guided lives.

PIKE: And start by burying you?

MAGISTRATE: That is your choice. To help you reclaim the planet’s surface, our zoological gardens will furnish a variety of plant life.

PIKE: Look, I’ll make a deal with you. You and your life for the lives of these two Earth women.

MAGISTRATE: Since our lifespan is many times yours, we have time to evolve you into a society trained to serve as artisans, technicians…

PIKE: Do you understand what I’m saying? You give me proof that our ship is all right, send these two back, and I’ll stay with Vina.

NUMBER ONE: It’s wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves.

MAGISTRATE: Is this a deception? Do you intend to destroy yourselves?

VINA: What is that?

PIKE: The weapon is building up an overload. A force chamber explosion. You still have time to get underground. Well, go on! Just to show you how primitive humans are, Talosian, you go with her.

VINA: If, if you all think it’s this important, then I can’t go either. I suppose if they have one human being, they might try again.

PIKE: Wait.

TALOSIAN: Their method of storing records is crude and consumed much time. Are you prepared to assimilate it?

MAGISTRATE: We had not believed this possible. The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity. Even when it’s pleasant and benevolent, you prefer death. This makes you too violent and dangerous a species for our needs.

VINA: He means that they can’t use you. You’re free to go back to the ship.

PIKE: And that’s it? No apologies? You captured one of us, threatened all of us.

TALOSIAN: Your unsuitability has condemned the Talosian race to eventual death. Is this not sufficient?

MAGISTRATE: No other specimen has shown your adaptability. You were our last hope.

PIKE: But wouldn’t some form of trade, mutual co-operation?

MAGISTRATE: Your race would learn our power of illusion and destroy itself too.

NUMBER ONE: Captain, we have transporter control now.

PIKE: Let’s get back to the ship.

VINA: I can’t. I can’t go with you.

PITCAIRN: Sir, it just came on. We can’t shut the power off.

SPOCK: Mister Spock here.

TYLER: All power has come on, Mister Spock. The helm is answering to control.

GARISON: The captain?

VINA: You see why I can’t go with you.

MAGISTRATE: This is the female’s true appearance.

VINA: They found me in the wreckage, dying. A lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together.

MAGISTRATE: It was necessary to convince you her desire to stay is an honest one.

PIKE: You’ll give her back her illusion of beauty?

MAGISTRATE: And more.

MAGISTRATE: She has an illusion and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant.

PITCAIRN: Mister Spock, the system is coming on again.

COLT: What’s happened to Vina?

NUMBER ONE: Isn’t she coming with us?

PIKE: No. No, and I agreed with her reasons.

BOYCE: Hold on a minute.

PIKE: Oh, I feel fine, just fine.

BOYCE: You look a hundred percent better.

PIKE: You recommended a rest, a change of pace, didn’t you? I’ve even been home. Does that make you happy?

PIKE: Yeoman.

COLT: Yes, sir.

PIKE: I thought I told you that when I’m on the bridge, I– Oh. Oh yes. The reports. Thank you.

COLT: Sir, I was wondering. Just curious. Who would have been Eve?

NUMBER ONE: Yeoman! You’ve delivered your report.

COLT: Yes, ma’am. Yes, sir.

TYLER: Eve, sir? Yes, sir.

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PIKE: As in all ship’s doctors are dirty old men. What are we running here, a cadet ship, Number One? Are we ready or not?

NUMBER ONE: All decks show ready, sir.

PIKE: Engage.

 

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