""I did what you told me to do," Barry argued. He told Adam that he'd had no idea that Tad and Adrian were related because they did not share the same last name or a "family resemblance." Terror crept into the attorney's heart when Adam asked him to contact two men by the names of Bruno and Rolf to handle the situation.
Inside the office of Leslie Coulson, Adrian and Tad's snooping mission took an unexpected turn. From behind, a voice bellowed, "Move one muscle, and you're dead men." The mysterious figure shoved a pointed object into Tad's back. Sensing no immediate danger, Tad looked over his shoulder and smirked. "What are you going to do?" he asked sassily, "Clean us to death?" The object that had been jammed into the small of his back was a handheld vacuum cleaner.
Upon seeing the intruders' faces, the woman immediately recognized Tad. Tad claimed that he and Adrian, who he referred to as a famous director named Adrian O. Stiletto, had broken into the office as part of a special investigation for The Cutting Edge. The maintenance woman, who went by the name Roberta, bought the lie and immediately enlisted the "famous director's" feedback on a screenplay she'd been writing. The two men had no other choice but to listen to portions of Roberta's manuscript; if they didn't, she said that she'd call security.
After hearing the very lengthy play, Adrian offered some suggestions on how to make the story flow better. Overjoyed with inspiration, Roberta dashed out of the office to do a rewrite. Tad and Adrian returned their attention to the folder that they, or rather Adrian, had been sent to retrieve. A gloved hand reached into the room through the slightly ajar door and turned out the lights. Two shadowy figures dashed into the room, clobbered Adrian and Tad, and just as quickly disappeared.
Adrian reached out a stranglehold on someone, but when he flicked on the lights, he realized that he'd accidentally grabbed Tad. The folder that they'd been reading was gone. Adrian told Tad that he was sure that Barry had sent the two thugs and blasted Tad for compromising the mission. Tad, however, decided that he had to go to Liza and tell her that Adam was up to his old tricks.
The first leg of their adventure took Brooke and Jack to the Comedy Closet. Jack practically drooled as he complimented Brooke on the way she'd looked on the motorcycle. On stage, a balding, slightly stocky man appeared and announced that the club was holding an open mike night. Brooke looked at the man and instantly recognized him as the faux Axel Green. Just as she leaned over to tell Jack that Axel Green was not the man's real name, Albert introduced himself to the crowd as Axel Green.
Brooke laughed hysterically, musing that he had to have changed his name. Brooke and Jack both took turns teasing one another about going on stage and delivering a few jokes. In the end, both agreed that they'd give it a try. After one audience member finished his routine, Jack rose from the table and shouted that Brooke wanted to be the next comic. Brooke's eyes widened slightly. She either hadn't thought that Jack would take their pact seriously or she just didn't think that it would be her turn so soon.
Axel recognized Brooke and told her that it was a great honor to have her in the club. Once on stage, Brooke flubbed a joke several times before finally getting on track. The joke consisted of a chicken -- which she inadvertently referred to as a duck on several occasions -- going to a library and asking the library for a "buck," the chicken's noise. The librarian asked the chicken why he wanted a book but gave him a book anyway. The joke repeated at least seven times, and each time the chicken added one more "buck" to his request. One heckler in the audience grew tired of the joke and started hassling Brooke.
Jack stormed the stage and rattled off a few put-downs at the heckler before taking the microphone and doing an impromptu comedy routine. "Who here has slept with Erica Kane?" Jack cracked. Nearly every hand in the audience flew into the air. Jack surveyed the hand-raisers, at one point chuckling, "Brooke English. Who knew?!"
Jack was a hit and received, in addition to loud applause from the audience, a bottle of cheap wine for being the best comic of the night. Jack asked Brooke to finish her joke, but he might have reconsidered the request if he had known the punch line. Apparently, the chicken wanted the books because he was reading them to a frog at a nearby pond. To every book the chicken picked out, the frog remarked, "Reddit."
Back at Chandler Mansion, Barry's hired henchmen handed Adam the folder they'd recovered from Leslie's office. Adam snatched the folder from Barry and rummaged through its contents to see exactly what David had been hiding. Sure enough, there was a letter inside addressed to Liza. In the letter, David told Liza that he would not be "silenced... in death." Adam crumpled up the paper as he read the lines where David revealed that Jake was not the father of Liza's baby. Barry urged Adam to tell Liza the truth once and for all. Adam knew that he had to tell the truth but said that he would only do so when he felt it was the right time.
David walked into the bar area and found his mother alone at a table, sipping brandy. Against his better judgment, he sat down at the table with Vanessa. Vanessa warned David that he had found himself a "very powerful enemy." Instead of being afraid, David laughed in the face of danger. It took Vanessa only a few moments to determine that David had to have something big on Adam.
Liza entered the bar from a side entrance and froze upon seeing the mother and son team. She took a deep breath and continued on her way across the bar toward her mother and Opal. There, Liza and Opal exchanged their thoughts and feelings about Vanessa Bennett. Neither trusted her, although Opal was more forward with her dislike. Liza mentioned that she was certain that Vanessa had alerted the media on the night of Erica's infamous breakdown at Pine Valley High.
Across the room, Vanessa sensed that she and David were being watched. She looked over and muttered to her son that they had an audience. David smiled, prompting his mother to ask if whatever it was he had on Adam had something to do with Liza. David said nothing and urged his mother to be on her way. David strolled across the room and took a seat with the three woman.
Marian and Opal called it a night as soon as David joined them, but Liza had to remain behind because she was going to meet Adam. Mistakenly assuming that she and her fiancé had tied the knot when he'd barged in on them, David asked Liza why she and Adam were not on their honeymoon. Liza curtly replied that they'd decided to get married at the chapel at Wildwind. David's lips formed a slight smile, and he asked Liza if she was sure that she wanted to get married in the chapel. After all, he said, Gillian and Ryan had gotten married there -- "and look at what happened [to them]."
Adam arrived a short while later. Liza moved across the bar to watch a new sports anchor's debut on WRCW's nighttime news. Meanwhile, Adam warned David about crossing him. David smiled and reminded Adam that he was the one with the upper hand. Adam rejoined Liza and asked her if he could surprise her with something in the morning.
Gillian and Ryan kissed for several minutes before Ryan pulled away and said that it wasn't right to be doing what they were doing. Gillian bowed her head and muttered that the thought of her affair with David had to still disgust him. Ryan shook his head and explained that he no longer thought about the affair. Tht gave Gillian hope, but her hopes wouldn't reap any rewards. Ryan explained that he didn't want to make love to Gillian without knowing what their future held.
"If I can't give you the future, then nothing else matters," he said softly, "I can't hurt you again." Gillian was crushed. She raced out of the room in tears. Downstairs, she put her head in her hands and sobbed quietly on the sofa. A few seconds later, a comforting hand rested on her shoulders. Gillian looked up and saw Jake smiling tenderly at her.
Gillian told her friend what had transpired in her bedroom. Ryan watched quietly from the top of the stairs, listening to every word that Gillian said. "I love Ryan so much," she sniffled, "I want to hold him until all the pain goes away." Ryan lowered his head and walked away.
Gillian returned to her room and found Ryan writing her a note. She asked him to finish the note so that she could have something to hold on to. The note offered Gillian an apology for what had happened and wished her a peaceful night's sleep. Gillian thanked Ryan for the note and kissed him gently on the cheek. Ryan left the room, but gently felt the area that Gillian had kissed."
- Soap Central