""Did you just call her Anna?" Ryan asked with a crooked glare. Edmund and Anna exchanged nervous glances before Anna spoke up with an explanation for Edmund's outburst. As Alex, Anna explained that Edmund had been doing some research on her sister, Anna, and niece, Robin. Edmund nodded and claimed that looking at Anna's photos for so many hours must have somehow slipped her name into his subconscious. An awkward silenced followed before Anna again brought up mention of Ryan and Gillian's wedding. Some happy, though tentative, wedding chattered ensued. A little while later, Bart stormed into the turret and angrily asked to speak to Edmund in private. The two men stepped outside, where Bart lashed out at Edmund for not providing adequate safety for Alex. Gillian exited the turret and asked Edmund and Bart if Alex was in some sort of danger. Edmund dismissed Bart to the main house and tackled Gillian's questions. He told the princess that Bart had been hired to look out for Alex following her bout with her mystery illness. Gillian remarked that Alex had been acting "weird" lately, behavior that Edmund attributed to "residual effects" of her illness. Edmund and Gillian stepped back inside the turret for more conversation with Ryan and "Alex." Gillian offered to walk "Alex" back to the main house, but Edmund assured her that he and "Alex" would find their way back on their own. Gillian and Ryan exited the turret, but just outside they discussed the strange way Edmund and Alex were behaving. Gillian had bought Edmund's explanation that Alex was still suffering some lingering effects of her illness. Ryan, however, remained dubious of what he'd been spoon-fed by Edmund and "Alex." Back inside, Edmund praised Anna's performance, noting that she'd played the part of her sister "perfectly." Suddenly, Anna realized that Ryan and Gillian could return to the main house before Edmund and catch Alex off guard. Edmund nodded his head and raced off. AS he ran down the pathway, Bart stepped out of the shadows with a frown firmly planted on his face. Bart stormed into the turret and expressed an urgent need for Anna to leave Wildwind at once. Anna wasn't too thrilled by the idea of leaving to once again live in seclusion. She argued that she'd survived death for a reason and wanted to make the best of things. "I believe that I have a destiny and I want to follow it," Anan replied. "Whatever it is."
Edmund easily managed to beat Ryan and Gillian back to the main house because the couple decided to take a moonlit walk through the apple orchard. Edmund filled Alex in on what had happened at the turret and actually seemed rather amused by everything that had happened. Alex, however, wasn't as easily amused. She warned Edmund that her sister's recovery could be compromised by her need to constantly lie and pretend to be someone that she's not. Nevertheless, Alex thanked Edmund for being "such a good friend" to Anna. Both admitted that they'd be very sad when it came time for Anna to leave. Edmund quickly scurried out a back entrance so that he could return to the turret. Ryan and Gillian entered the main house and found Alex reading in a far corner of the parlor. Gillian immediately noticed that Alex had changed. Alex quickly explained away her new clothing and focused on talk of Ryan and Gillian's wedding. She gushed on and on about how Dimitri had told her about their first wedding and how Gillian had originally been slated to marry Scott Chandler. Ryan squinted his eyes and marveled at how quickly Alex's memory had returned; previously in the turret she hadn't even recalled that he and Gillian had been married before. Alex continued on, apologizing for the way Bart had treated them. In her attempt to cover for what had happened, she unwittingly misspoke, telling Ryan and Gillian that it must have been a shock for them to enter the turret and find a "strange man" holding a gun at them. Ryan waited until after Alex left the room before bringing up Alex's mistake to Gillian. Ryan reminded Gillian that it was Bart and Alex who had walked in on them - not the other way around. Ryan couldn't help but worry that something wasn't quite right and told his bride-to-be that he was concerned about her safety. Gillian was sure that everything was okay and scrapped Ryan's plan for them to spend the night before their wedding together. Gillian reminded Ryan that seeing the bride before the wedding day was bad luck. Ryan smiled and explained that that was an American superstition - and Gillian was Hungarian. Gillian nodded her head in agreement and related some Hungarian wedding customs to Ryan, which included the bride having to sweep a floor to show that she's a good housekeeper and a post-wedding dance where people wanting to dance with the bride have to offer livestock to the family. Ryan grinned devilishly and told Gillian that he could wait to show her an American post-wedding tradition, as he moved in to kiss Gillian.
Back at the turret, Edmund interrupted Bart and Anna's private chat. Bart pulled Edmund aside and warned him that if anything happened to Anna he was "a dead man." After Bart left, Anna started to exhibit some signs of cabin fever. She asked aloud if there were any places where she could go just to get out of her prison. Edmund nodded his head and asked Anna to follow him. The pair ended up at the Marick mausoleum. It was hardly the romantic even Ryan and Gillian had shared, but it was one of the few places Edmund knew of where Anna's safety could be guaranteed. After their visit was over, the pair headed back to the turret. As they walked away, a figured emerged from the shadows.
"This is outrageous!" David shouted as Derek read him his rights. "Your little joyride is over," Tad sneered. David demanded to know the charges against him. Derek promptly replied that David was being taken into custody because he had allegedly administered a controlled substance to a bunch of unwilling partygoers. Tad looked toward David and quoted David's allegations that Leslie had been the one to spike the punch. After all, David had gotten her on tape stealing Libidozone from his office. David nodded his head feverishly up and down. "The camera doesn't lie," Tad sassed as he held up the videotape footage of the party shot by WRCW. Derek explained that the tape showed David in one frame hovering around the punchbowl and in another frame it showed him fishing a flask out of the same punchbowl. David insisted that his flask had contained scotch. "Prohibition is over," David snapped as he tried to bolster his claim that he hadn't been carrying Libidozone in his flask. The doctor looked to Dixie and begged her not to believe the outlandish allegations being bandied about. Tad then revealed that Leslie had been found and that she was being held at Pine Valley Hospital for treatment - under the watchful eye of an armed guard. Tad also mused that Leslie's room was on the ground floor so that a fall from her window wouldn't do too much damage. David argued that no jury would convict him on the testimony of a mad woman and a sketchy videotape. Gordon stepped from a crowd of partygoers and looked David coldly in the eye. David growled that Gordon and Leslie were in cahoots and that nothing Gordon says should be believed. He went as far as to say that Tad had tracked down Gordon and paid him off to testify against him. The police hauled David away. Vanessa pleaded with Palmer to do something to intervene. Palmer stepped forward and asked the police to not make such a spectacle at a public gathering. Derek explained that he and his men were only doing their jobs. Vanessa chased after her son and handed him the phone number of one of Palmer's attorneys. Dixie watched on in horror, perhaps as though everything that was happening was some sort of bizarre out-of-body experience. Tad walked up to his wife and asked her if she was going to be okay. "I'm just about anything but okay," Dixie replied. Dixie showed flashes of anger as she asked Tad why he couldn't wait another night before calling the police. Tad explained that he was afraid delaying the process would give David a chance to find a way to again wiggle his way out of trouble. Gordon approached Dixie and told her all about what he and David had done during the Libidozone research. His tale included David's tainting of Erica's cola, the debacle aboard the Fidelity and the falsified toxicology reports from all of the partygoers who'd been "poisoned." Dixie was stunned. She demanded to see the tape Tad had claimed showed evidence of David's guilt. Tad cued up the tape and played portions of it for Dixie. Dixie's lips quivered as she saw David fishing a flask out of the punchbowl. She instructed Tad to stop the tape; she had seen enough. A waiter walked over to Dixie and handed her the awards plaque inscribed with her and David's names. "I think someone should take this home," the waited said. Dixie took the plaque and ran her fingers over the inscribing. Tad tried to comfort his wife, but Dixie pulled away and demanded that she be left alone.
Derek put David in a holding cell at the police station and told him that he'd be arraigned in the morning. Derek offered to give David a chance to make a phone call, but David said that he wanted to be left alone. Leo entered a short time lately and softly called out his brother's name. Leo apologized profusely for being the one responsible for everything that had happened. David angrily replied that he didn't care what happened to him - he just wanted some assurance that Dixie would not walk out on him. "My life means nothing without Dixie," David exclaimed on the verge of tears."
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