"Smiling euphorically, Hayley left the bedroom and slowly walked out into the living room. After opening the blinds, she sat down on the sofa and squeezed a pillow. Slowly, Hayley rose from the sofa and walked over to a full-length mirror. Hayley unfastened the belt to her pink satin robe and gently tucked the pillow into her robe so that she could see what she might look like when she was pregnant.
Mateo returned home and chuckled upon seeing his slightly lumpy lover standing in the middle of the room. The couple shared a passionate kiss and joked that if they continued their romantic ways, they'd have "five kids by the time dinner comes." Max scurried into the room and asked why Hayley had suddenly gotten fat. Hayley blushed slightly and claimed that she was playing "hide the pillow."
Mateo walked his son toward the door so that he could take the boy to school. As they did that, Raquel phoned and asked Mateo if he could drop by the hospital. Mateo had made other plans, but he agreed to drop them when Raquel announced that she had a "serious problem."
While updating a patient's chart, David overheard two nurses chatting giddily about Jake. One of the two women sighed as she mentioned that the young doctor had asked her advice on a stuffed animal he was going to buy for his unborn daughter. David rolled his eyes and returned his attention to the medical chart before him. Before he had completely tuned them out, he overheard one of the nurses stating that Jake had gone to the baby's mother's house. The cardiologist's eyes suddenly lit up.
Upon seeing Mateo by her bedside, Raquel apologized for taking Mateo away from his work. Mateo admitted that he should be working at the new club, but he also felt an obligation to be there for Raquel. Mateo worried that the doctors had given Raquel some bad news. In actuality, she'd gotten good news. Raquel softly announced that she was going to be released from the hospital later in the day.
Raquel grimaced slightly as she struggled to shift her position in bed. Then she revealed the bad news. Raquel had finally been able to talk to her cousin, Angela, and ask her if she'd be able to take care of her after her release. Unfortunately, Angela had taken on a new job and was not allowed to take any time off of work.
Mateo suggested that Isabella assume nursing duties, but that idea was quickly tossed aside. "You know she's never liked me," said Raquel, pointing to a potentially awkward situation for both of them. Finally, Mateo concluded that the only option left was for him to step in and take care of her. While Raquel told Mateo that she did not want to impose upon him, it was apparently that she desperately wanted him by her side during her recuperation.
Raquel and Mateo's ideas of exactly how he'd be taking care of her were drastically different. Mateo told Raquel that he would speak to Ruth Martin and get the name of a top-notch home care nurse. Raquel's face fell when she realized that by taking care of her, Mateo meant that he would be taking care of finding someone to take care of her.
Dressed in a red skirt, blouse, and blazer, Opal nervously fidgeted in the hallway outside of the room where the board members of Cortlandt Enterprises were meeting. By her side, Adrian made every attempt to calm his mother's jangled nerves and even gave her the opportunity to turn around and head back home. Opal shook her head and explained that she was not going to retreat. The pair entered the room while Palmer was making a statement. He abruptly stopped mid-sentence and told Opal that the boardroom was not the place for her to air their dirty laundry.
Opal refused to budge and announced that as holder of half of Palmer's shares in the company, she wanted a seat on the board. Trevor, who was at the meeting representing Erica, made a motion that Opal be given a seat on the board. Adrian looked crossly at one of the other board members, Mort, and "convinced" him to second the motion. When put to a vote, Palmer was the only opposition. Trevor rose and smiled broadly as he welcomed Opal to the board.
Palmer muttered that Opal was not sophisticated enough to understand what they were discussing. Opal countered by explained that Adrian, who held a degree from MIT, was there to help her out. Palmer was not amused and continued with a proposal to buy another company. Adrian spoke up and noted that the acquisition was a weak attempt to gain entrance to an area of the market where Cortlandt Electronics was poorly lacking. Instead of pouring money into a misguided acquisition, Adrian suggested that the company focus its attention on the dreaded Y2K problem.
Palmer groused that they'd already looked into the problem and determined that all of their hardware and software issued in the past decade was Y2K ready. When asked about the software and hardware issued prior to that time, Palmer didn't really seem to care about the older computers that might not be able to handle the Y2K problem. Adrian announced that those computers were more than likely owned by "mom and pop" stores and small town power companies. While they might not be spending millions and millions of dollars, Adrian suggested that supplying those owners with upgrades and new equipment would give the company a very powerful publicity boost. Plus, he said, it would surely translate into additional sales.
Once again, the board took a vote on the proposal -- and again, Palmer was the only one to vote against the idea. After the meeting, Trevor again congratulated Opal on her new seat. He joked that he was glad he was filling in for Erica because he had enjoyed the fireworks. Palmer waited until Opal was alone before approaching her. He berated her for overstepping her authority and asked her to step down from the board. Opal shook her head and told Palmer that she was not out to get him.
Adrian appeared by his mother's side and asked for a few moments alone with Palmer. Opal agreed and left the room. Palmer took jabs at Adrian, asking if he was going to kidnap Palmer again. Like their previous one-on-one encounters, Adrian was upset with Palmer. This time, he blasted Palmer for trying to play mind games with Petey. He had overheard the conversation in which Palmer tried to convince Petey to ask Opal for weekly weekend visits instead of the court-ordered every other weekend. "If you mess with that boy's head," Adrian snarled, "I promise you that you won't be able to find yours."
Adam surmised from the chill in the air that Jake and Tad had dropped by to give Liza more reasons why she should not marry him. Tad claimed that they had "a larger issue." Tad told Adam that hew knew that Adam had had Barry Shire hire Adrian to retrieve some documents from an attorney's office. "I admit it," Adam replied. Tad and Jake were stunned by the admission of guilt. Adam explained that he'd hoped the secret operation would unearth something that he could use to run David out of town.
Tad interjected that Adrian had originally been hired to torch the attorney's office, to which Adam noted that if he wanted the building to be torched, it would already be in ashes. Adam also had an explanation for the two goons that had clunked Tad and Adrian. He said that the two men had to have been bounty hunters who had wanted to get their hands on the file so that they could demand a lot of money for it. Liza had been listening carefully to everything that Adam had to say. It was her turn to speak out. She was upset with Adam for not telling her what he had been up to.
Liza stunned the men in the room when she announced that she would have wanted to help out in the mission to get rid of David. Adam laughed as Liza scolded Tad and Jake for thinking that Adam was up to no good. She reminded them that she'd said that Adam had changed -- not that he'd become a saint. Liza told Tad that she'd decided to fire David from his WRCW position. To make the moment even better, David arrived at the condo to throw a monkey wrench of his own into the conversation.
Liza asked for a few moments alone with the doctor, but David told her that anything she could say to him could also be said in front of her friends. So she blurted out the announcement that David had been fired. David took it quite well but insinuated that Adam was behind the decision to terminate him. Liza told him that the decision was her own, and she blamed David's constant appearance on her doorstep as one of the reasons she'd decided to fire him. The scene was set for David to fire off the news that Adam was really the father of Liza's child, but before he could drop his bomb, his pager sounded.
David knew that he'd have to run, but he told Liza that he would tell her why he had dropped by at a later time. Liza rolled her eyes and under her breath commented that she wouldn't be the least bit upset if David never told her why he'd dropped by. David left just as Liza received a call confirming her mini getaway with Adam. Jake and Tad both voiced their opposition to the vacation because of the closeness of Liza's due date. After the brothers left, Adam told Liza that she had been "magnificent" in the way she'd handled herself.
At the club tentatively titled SOS, Janet looked over the books to make sure that all of the financing was in order. Her head buried in the books, Janet tried to start up a conversation with Hayley -- but her niece was off in another world. Janet smirked slightly and asked Hayley to reveal why she was so distant. Hayley couldn't hold back the good news any longer. In one fell swoop, she told Janet about Mateo and Raquel's off-but-now-on-again divorce and her clean bill of health.
Janet hugged Hayley and congratulated her on the good news. She warned Hayley that it might take a while before she actually conceived a child, but she joked that it didn't hurt to have a little fun along the way. Mateo appeared and immediately gave Hayley a kiss to thank her for all her hard work on the club. Janet cleared her throat so that the couple would remember that she was still there. With a wry smile, Janet announced that she'd been working hard, too, and wanted to know if she was entitled to a kiss.
Trevor arrived at the hospital to ask Raquel to sign some divorce papers. Raquel was stunned and claimed that she was too groggy from pain medicine to be able to sign the papers. She asked the attorney to leave the papers on her bedside table so that she could review and sign them later. Trevor agreed. Before leaving, he told her that she'd acted bravely when she had saved Mateo from the tumbling scaffolding -- and was equally brave for agreeing to end her marriage.
Back at the hospital, David was making his rounds when Tad suddenly appeared in front of him. David turned to walk in the other direction, but Jake was blocking his path. Tad wasted no time in telling David that he knew all about the file that had been stolen from the attorney's office -- well, almost all about it. The two men demanded that David tell them what he was hiding. David shrugged indifferently and stated that the only thing he remembered filing was an updated copy of his will.
In passing, Tad informed David that he wanted to know what he had on Adam before Liza and Adam made their walk down the aisle. David stuck to his story about the will and seemed unfazed by the news that Adam had taken Liza out of town. Tad and Jake didn't buy it, but David walked away before they could pressure him for more details. Jake and Tad both agreed that David had something on Adam -- something big.
In a country inn, Adam sat in bed next to Liza as she munched on crackers and cheese. "We're runaway lovers," Adam said as he grinned. "Nobody can find us. Nobody," he said. But back at the hospital, David placed a call to WRCW under the guise of needing Liza to sign some medical papers and learned that the couple had headed off to the Sleepy Hollow Inn. "You can run, but you can't hide," David sneered, "not from me.""
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