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Maxie gets even more stressed out when a reporter tells her during an interview that one of the magic wands in the Magic Milo act dropped out of the show. Lucy is watching the news and since Maxie isn’t answering her calls she sneaks out of the safe house again to go save the Nurses Ball.

Spencer meets with his Uncle Victor who tells him that they need to get enough evidence against Esme so that DA Scorpio will reopen the case against her. Victor doesn’t tell Spencer that he plans to kill Esme to ensure that she doesn’t raise baby Ace.

Sonny tells Anna and Valentin to wait until he can find another safe house for them and not to leave town because Victor could find them sooner and he could kill them. Sonny assures Anna that Victor will pay for killing Luke and he will not have any influence over Spencer.

Ava tells Esme that she will be watching her and if her memory does return she will pay for everything she has done to her. Carly and Nina call a truce for Willow’s sake since Willow needs to be free of stress since her bone marrow transplant is tomorrow. Carly can tell that Nina is having a hard time dealing with the reality of Sonny’s business and she tells her that if she can’t handle Sonny’s business it means the end of their relationship.

Lucy suggests to Maxie that Mac replace the magic wand dancer that dropped out of the show. Maxie refuses to let her step-father be one of the magic wands and rushes Lucy out of the Metro Court before anyone can recognize her but Maxie is unaware that one of Victor’s men has followed Felicia to the Metro Court and has recognized Lucy. The man tells Victor that he saw Lucy at the Metro Court and she left in a fancy car from a car service.

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Cameron says goodbye to his family after they surprise him with a special breakfast. Cameron considers not leaving because his family needs him but Elizabeth tells him it is time for him to pursue his dream. Cameron promises Jake and Aiden that he will come back home as often as possible. Cameron also tells his brothers that if they need him all they have to do is call him.

Josslyn tells Trina that she is dating someone, but she can’t tell her who the person is right now, but Trina figures out that the person is Dex.

Selina Wu gives Sonny a box of things that belonged to the man who tried to shoot him. Selina tells Sonny she was unable to find out the name of the man who shot at him but hopefully his things will give him a clue to the identity of the man.

Dex finds Deputy Mayor Ashby’s body in the harbor and Sonny calls the police. Jordan and Laura, arrive and Laura asks Sonny to go tell Valentin that Deputy Mayor Ashby is dead.

Drew is also at the safe house talking to Anna and Valentin. When Sonny arrives, everyone figures out Victor killed Deputy Mayor Ashby after she told him their plan to put him in jail.

Spencer and Esme take Ace to the doctor and Austin tells Esme and Spencer that the baby has colic and with medication to get rid of his gas he will be fine.

Spencer meets with his Uncle Victor because something needs to be done about Esme.

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This is a special episode dedicated to saying farewell to Epiphany Johnson whose portrayer Sonya Eddy died suddenly in December due to complications from surgery.

A woman arrives at the hospital chapel and tells Elizabeth and Finn that she is a nurse who was driving home from work and she hit a light pole which made her car catch fire. The woman explains that she was able to get out of the car and that is when she saw Epiphany. The nurse helped treat her injuries and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived. The woman explains that when she awakened at the hospital, she was told by the staff that Epiphany collapsed at the accident and died due to smoke inhalation affecting her pre-existing heart condition.

Epiphany’s friends gather at the hospital chapel for a celebration of her life. Anna’s grand-daughter Emma Drake returns to go to the memorial service and stops by the safe house to see Anna and explains to Anna that since her parents Noah and Robin couldn’t come to the service, she would come and attend the memorial service.

Everyone gathered at the hospital chapel shares memories of Epiphany, and the audience sees clips of Epiphany in scenes with each friend who is sharing a memory.

Diane, who is the executor of Epiphany’s will, tells Liesl that Epiphany wanted her to do something special for her memorial service. Once the memorial service was finished, Diane asks everyone to head over to the roof. Diane reads a note from Epiphany telling one to cry if they must but she would much rather go out with a bang. Liesl lights the fuse that starts the beautiful fireworks show.

Elizabeth gets a a call from Monica who was unable to be at the service because she was the keynote speaker at a medical conference. Monica tells Elizabeth that Diane brought her the letter Epiphany wrote for the ethics committee. In the letter Epiphany wrote that Elizabeth was a great nurse who cares deeply for people who need help and sometimes that can lead to making the wrong choice for the right reason. Epiphany continues her letter by saying that Elizabeth always takes responsibility for her actions and that is why she was going to recommend her for the head nurse position before she left for medical school at John’s Hopkins in the fall.

Monica tells Elizabeth that she intends to honor Epiphany’s last wish and recommend to the board that she be made head nurse. The audience hears Epiphany singing the song You’re Not Alone Anymore as the audience sees clips of her before the show ends with a picture of her and a moment of silence.

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Cameron encourages Esme to show people that she isn’t the person that she used to be. Cameron also tells Esme she has to accept help because she can’t raise Ace on her own. Cameron’s friends and family gather at Kelly’s to give Cameron a going away party before he goes to Stanford.

Deputy Mayor Ashby is afraid Victor will kill her when he takes her to the pier so she tells him that Anna, Lucy, and Valentin are alive and he she also tells him the necklace is fake and Victor has one more thing she wants her to do. Deputy Mayor Ashby calls Anna and tells her that she is leaving town. Victor promised Deputy Mayor Ashby he will help her get out of town, but he kills her.

Lucy decides to leave the safe house again because nobody but her can be the host of the Nurses Ball. Elizabeth is worried about Epiphany, so she calls her cell phone and is surprised when a state Trooper answers the phone and tells Elizabeth she has bad news about her friend. Elizabeth listens to the State Trooper and starts to cry.

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Anna and Valentin give Deputy Mayor Ashby the fake necklace to give to Victor and when she meets with Victor. She worries when he starts to examine the necklace closely.

Cameron tells Dex that if he hurts Jocelyn he will tell Sonny that he and Josslyn are a couple and Sonny will be very angry. Dex tells Cameron that he would never hurt Jocelyn because she means a lot to him.

Laura leaves Esme alone with baby Ace to prove that she trusts her and gives her some money in case of emergency. Esme decides to leave with the baby, but Cameron arrives and wonders if Esme is going somewhere.

Sonny suspects Salina Wu is the person targeting him, but she denies the allegation and promises to help him find out who wants him dead.

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Sasha decides to pay Gladys for being her conservator and Gladys feels guilty because Cody knows that she has been using Sasha’s money to gamble. Cody agrees to be one of Magic Milo’s magic wands for the Nurse’s Ball. Cody advises Sasha that before she puts Gladys on the payroll she should trust but verify.

Jordan advises Curtis that if he meant the wedding vows he said to Portia he should forgive her. The ethics committee decides to reinstate Elizabeth to her job because Finn and Terri persuaded the committee that Elizabeth helped Esme because she thought Nikolas might harm her.

Gregory tells Alexis he is sick but he doesn’t tell her what illness he has and makes her promise not to tell Chase or Finn.

Marshall tells Portia the results of his genetic counseling and she thinks he should contact the doctor who diagnosed him with schizophrenia and talk to him. Marshall calls Stella to see if his medical records are in her sister Irene’s papers.

Trina tells Spencer she understands why Esme and baby Ace are living with him in Kevin and Laura’s house but tells him to keep an eye on Esme in case she is faking her amnesia or her memory returns.

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Elizabeth waits anxiously for the decision from the ethics committee of the hospital as to whether or not she can keep her job.

Curtis advises Trina nor to let the fact that her mother kept a secret from her affect her relationship with her mother. Portia suggests to Curtis that they go to marriage counseling to work on fixing their marriage. Curtis tells Portia that he doesn’t know if their marriage can be fixed because he doesn’t trust her anymore.

Brook Lynn and Chase almost get back together but Chase gets angry with Brook Lynn again when she tells him that she signed a non-disclosure agreement with Linc that prevents her from talking about the sexual harassment she went through while Linc was her manager. Brook Lynn tells Chase she did it so he could go back to being a cop and he wouldn’t have to continue singing to get enough evidence to put Linc in jail. Chase thinks Brook Lynn only wanted to get the rights to her songs back, and she wasn’t doing it to help him. Chase tells Brook Lynn that if she really signed the agreement to help him, she would have told him about the agreement after she signed it instead of lying to him and telling him she agreed to write commercial jingles for Linc. Chase thinks Brook Lynn didn’t tell him that truth right away because she knew what she was doing, was wrong and he would be angry with her about it.

Gregory is angry with Alexis because she called Finn when he told her he didn’t want Finn or Chase to know what is going on with his life.

Esme and baby Ace move in with Laura after she turns down Spencer’s offer to pay for her to live in the room above Kelly’s while Ace live with Laura since the room isn’t big enough for her and the baby to live there together. Esme moves into Laura’s house with baby Ace.

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Lucy doesn’t want to stay in the safe house anymore because she wants to plan the Nurses Ball but Laura brings her a letter from Martin that calms her down a bit.

Nina talks to Phyllis and tells her she doesn’t know if she can accept the dangerous side of Sonny’s job. Sonny tells Carly about the shooting and tells her that he doesn’t want Avery or Donna coming to visit him until he figures out who is targeting him.

The doctor tells Victor that he agrees with Finn that his bedroom problem caused by the pathogen is irreversible, but he will write him a prescription for some pills that may help his problem. Deputy Mayor Ashby tells Victor that Robert has the necklace with the diamonds from the Ice princess in the PCPD evidence locker. Victor orders Deputy Mayor Ashby to steal the necklace and bring it to him.

Diane persuades Robert to drop the charges against Esme for the sake of baby Ace but tells him he can file the charges again if Esme’s memory should return. Josslyn worries when Dex shows admiration for Sonny when he tells her Sonny saved his life.

Victor is drinking at the Metro Court bar when Lucy appears at the Metro Court but Victor doesn’t see her because his back is turned.

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Alexis offers to drive Gregory to his appointment because she thinks he is drunk. Gregory insists he isn’t drunk and tells Alexis to leave his keys with the concierge because he is going to call a car. Gregory doesn’t want to tell Alexis what is wrong, but he tells Alexis that he never wants to see her again.

Liesl gets word from Dr. Randolph that she has been cleared to be her bone marrow donor but she has to wait until her anticoagulant medication gets out of her system before she can do the bone marrow transplant. Liesl tells everyone the news and she apologize to Willow for the delay.

Chase agrees to sing at the Nurse’s Ball.

Josslynn tells Cameron not to worry about her and just concentrate on doing his best when he goes to Stanford. Josslyn is happy that she and Cameron can be friends again.

Nina tells Sonny she worries that Willow may not be able to wait until Model’s medication is out of her system.

Trina talks to Esme and after her talk, she believes that Esme doesn’t have any memory of the person she used to be and the crimes she committed. Trina talks to Cameron, Josslynn and Spencer and they all decide that for the sake of baby Ace they must try to persuade Robert to drop the charges against Esme. Cameron, Josslynn and Trina go to meet Diane so they can go talk to Robert.

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