"Amanda's performance in the school play was better than a sunny spring day---even if she was playing the part of a cloud! While Tim and Amanda went into the kitchen to round up some goodies, Trevor told Janet that he had had his doubts about whether or not they could perform their parental roles and not have their one-time feelings dogging them. The doorbell rang unexpectedly. Trevor sauntered to the door and found Axel beaming on the other side. He opened the door and was promptly embraced by the actor. Albert than ran across the room to Janet and gave her a big hug. Albert babbled that he had to cut his Los Angeles trip short because he "couldn't live without" Janet. Janet was totally baffled by what was going on around her and things were about to get even more bizarre! Tim and Amanda returned from their food excursion and were overjoyed to see Axel. Amanda, still in her cloud costume, asked Axel if he'd like to see her portrayal of a cloud. She and Axel then pseudo-waltzed around the livingroom! Janet grabbed Axel by the arm and told him that she wanted to speak to him. Seeing that things might get hairy, Tim stepped in to create a diversion. Amanda sat next to her mother and told her that she likes Axel much better without "the roadkill rug." Finally Janet had seen enough. She stormed the front door and told Axel that she wanted to speak to him immediately. Outside, Janet warned Albert that the lines between acting and real life were blurring and that he could get himself in trouble for pretending to be another person. Janet, of course, was an expert on the subject. Trevor opened the door and told the pair that he had a "big surprise" for both of them.
Mateo's visions continued. He could see Brooke... then he saw something in her hand. It was a gun. Just beyond Brooke's outreached arm stood an unknown stranger. Mateo squinted and was able to see that the man was Jim. Suddenly the placid dream world crumbled as Mateo once again began twisting violently in bed. "No! Not this way!" he screamed as he suddenly sat up in bed. Mateo had pulled out of the coma, but his emergence back into the real world was far from tranquil. Mateo could remember little about the visions he had, but he somehow knew that Brooke was in trouble. Jake and Allie suggested that Mateo be taken to the hospital so that he could be thoroughly examined by a neurologist. Hayley wasn't too keen on sending Mateo to the hospital, but she knew it was for the best. Allie left the room to phone the hospital. Mateo looked around and was unable to tell where he was. Hayley told him that they'd been spending time at Chandler Mansion and that Adam had been taking good care of them both. Unaware that he'd been in a coma, Mateo was upset that he'd ruined Valentine's Day. Hayley took his hand and broke the news that he hadn't been out for a few hours---he'd been "out of it" for nearly two months. After the ambulance arrived and Mateo was taken downstairs, Hayley sat alone in the bedroom for a few minutes. She knelt down and thanked God for bringing Mateo back to her. She knew that she'd never be able to say "thank you" enough, so she vowed to say it one final time. "I will never take for granted another day with the man I love," she sobbed.
The water continued to rise and now Edmund was forced to tilt is head back in order to keep his mouth above water. Dimitri was unable to free Edmund. When he resurfaced, Edmund again insisted that Dimitri save himself. Dimitri wasn't going to leave without his brother. On his second dive, he managed to pull free the final bar to which Edmund had been chained. The escape was now literally a race against time. Dimitri led the way up the pipe. Edmund followed, but his weakened condition and numb hand made it impossible to grasp the pipe. He tumbled backwards and fell back into the seawater. Dimitri dove into the water and searched around the blackness for his brother. After several agonizing minutes, Dimitri grasped his brother's midsection and pulled him above water. In a macabre bit of irony, the very water that had nearly taken their lives was now about to save them. Dimitri and Edmund floated on the surface of the water and were now closer to the escape hatch than ever before. Dimitri positioned himself underneath Edmund and pushed him into the duct. Then, using Sam and Maddie's names as forms of encouragement, urged Edmund to carry on and reach freedom. Tad, still searching for a way down to the beach, heard an undecipherable mumbling coming from a manhole-like opening in the ground. Underneath the ground, Dimitri tried to push the cover off, but he wasn't strong enough to budge the heavy steel cover. Tad stepped in to provide another hand. With much effort, the cover was moved aside and Edmund and Dimitri had reached safety. Edmund demanded that he be allowed to go back to Pine Valley and rescue Brooke, but Tad and Dimitri insisted that he be taken to the hospital. Tad lugged the weakened Edmund back to his car. Meanwhile, Dimitri phoned his voice mail service and learned that Brooke had left him a message. In the message, she told Dimitri that she's laid a trap for Jim. "I have to stop him," she said determinedly. "If something goes wrong, please tell Aunt Phoebe, Jamie, and Laura that I love them." Dimitri hung up the phone and sighed. "What have you gotten yourself into?" he asked aloud.
Brooke was horrified that she might be too late to rescue Edmund and Dimitri. Again, she asked Jim what he'd done to her two friends. "I must have misplaced them," Jim chuckled. Finally---an admittance of guilt. Brooke instantly knew that Dimitri had been the one that caused the bruises on Jim's face. Jim smiled and informed Brooke that he she "pulled this little stunt" a few days earlier, she might have been able to save Dimitri's life. Brooke knew that Dimitri and Edmund were being kept prisoner somewhere near the beach. Jim nodded, but he wouldn't divulge any more information. He took delight in telling Brooke that her friends had drowned. Brooke wondered if Jim was pulling another of his schemes and considered that Edmund and Dimitri might not really be dead. Jim cleared everything up for her. He asked Brooke if she's ever seen a fetal pig stored in formaldehyde. When she nodded, he told her that Edmund and Dimitri would probably be looking that way in a matter of minutes. "You should rot in hell," Brooke snarled. "How elegant," Jim mocked. He told Brooke that her million dollar house and fancy clothes don't hide the fact that underneath she is "trash just like Laura and her mother." "All broads are the same," Jim muttered. He then stated that "at least hookers know who they are," a comment that was meant to imply that Laura somehow believed that she was no longer the same little girl that had lived in the SRO. "Your misogyny is shining through," Brooke growled. Now Brooke had somehow lived up to Jim's expectations. He noted that her statement was much better than, "you slime. Go to hell." Jim, however, had heard the slime reference many times, most noticeably with a woman named Terry. Brooke's head moved back and forth slightly as she tried to figure out if she knew Terry. Jim ended her questioning, but explaining that Terry was Laura's mother. Terry Kirk was a "weak nonentity," by Jim's accounts. In addition, Jim called Terry "a slut [who] couldn't get her clothes off fast enough." Then came the thunderous explosion of the bomb being dropped. "For being so weak," Jim laughed, "[Terry] sure had a hard head." For years Laura had been haunted by the memory of being responsible for her mother's death. For years she'd been wrong. Jim happened upon the small trash fire that Laura had started in the basement of the SRO. He added an accelerant so that the fire would spread---and eventually hide the fact that he'd beaten Laura's mother to death. The ensuing blaze blossomed to four alarms. Brooke couldn't believe that Laura had been living with the guilt for so long. "There's a sucker born every minute," Jim cackled. Brooke picked up the phone so that she could report the "insidious disease" to the police. Jim bent down and yanked the phone cord from the wall. Jim turned to walk away. Brooke told him that he couldn't leave, but Jim saw otherwise. He told Brooke that he had siphoned off thousands of dollars from Tempo and squirreled the money away in Swiss bank accounts. And if Brooke were to try to hunt him down? Well, Jim grinned, accidents have a way of happening. Jim proposed a series of family photographs featuring Laura and Jamie. Jim sneered demonically as he told Brooke how cute Jamie would look in a naked pictorial. Jim again turned and walked towards the door. He knew that Brooke wouldn't shoot him in the back because "good guys don't shoot bad guys in the back." He waved his hand and assured Brooke that they'd be in touch. He announced that he'd send her a postcard---from Pigeon Hollow. That was the final blow. Brooke pulled back and released the trigger. A single shot hit Jim in the back. He fell forward, his face pressing up against the front door. He turned and looked Brooke in the eye. "You bitch," he growled as he took a few steps towards her. Again, Brooke fired. Jim fell to the ground, but the fight wasn't out of him yet. Brooke fired two more shots before Jim came to rest on the floor of the gallery. Brooke gasped. Her hands twitching nervously, Brooke reached down to check for a pulse. Without warning, Jim's hand grabbed hold of her!"
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