"Still at the mall, Ryan and Mateo split up with the hopes of tracking down Hayley. Their search was fruitless. Ryan told Mateo that Hayley could not have gotten far because he had driven her to the mall. Upset by Hayley's disappearance, Mateo lashed out at Ryan for his knack of always being around when Hayley needs a hand. "You slept with Raquel," Ryan snapped in return. Mateo shook his head and sighed deeply. He insisted that he had not slept with Raquel and demanded to know where Ryan had come up with such a ridiculous tale. When Ryan said that Raquel had told Hayley about the affair, Mateo threw his hands in the air. Instinctively he knew that Raquel had started the lie. Mateo moved to distance himself from the fallacy. He admitted that Raquel had tried to put the moves on him---but he insisted that nothing had happened because he'd pushed Raquel away. The reason, he said, was that he still loved Hayley.
Hayley returned to Trevor and Janet's and plopped herself down on the sofa. A tall bottle of clear liquid sat just a few inches away on the coffeetable. Hayley reached out in yearning for the bottle. Inexplicably, she broke into maniacal laughter. As she turned the bottle, the label revealed its cruel hoax: it was spring water not vodka. Hayley placed the bottle back on the table and wandered around the room in search of the Dillon family liquor cabinet. She carefully removed a bottle of whiskey and looked longingly at it. She shook her head to clear her thoughts and tried desperately to distract herself by watching television or reading magazines. Nothing could divert her attention. To make matters worse, she was haunted by Mateo and Raquel's voices. She recalled how Mateo had angrily told her that he and Raquel had slept together. That, of course, came long before Raquel claimed that she and Mateo had had an affair.
Dixie woke from her nap and looked around for Tad. As she sat up in bed, Tad jumped into the room wearing a fake handlebar moustache and a cape. Dubbed The Great Martini, Tad proceeded to do a mini magic show for his wife. Dixie was suitably amused and even offered to be a part of the act. Tad sat down on the bed next to Dixie and told her that he's not really as good a magician as she thinks. "I [wish I] could snap my fingers and make all your dreams come true," Tad said softly. Dixie smiled lasciviously and asked Tad if he had a magic wand in his pocket or if he was just happy to see her. The couple kissed gently, but their kiss was cut short by the sound of the doorbell. Tad hurried downstairs to answer the front door. Ruth and Jake filed into the house to check on Dixie. Ruth excused herself to run upstairs and see Dixie for herself. Meanwhile, Jake asked Tad how he and Dixie were getting along. Tad said that Dixie now understood that he'd loved their baby and that he did not want anything bad to happen to her. However, there was still the delicate issue of whether or not to try for another child down the road. Tad bowed his head and timidly told Jake that he'd already decided that he did not want to try again. The risk, Tad explained, was entirely too great.
Upstairs, Dixie told Ruth how she enjoys watching Tad with the boys. She laughed slightly and said that Tad appears to be going through a "second childhood." It was this relationship that made Dixie so intent upon trying to have another baby. "You suffered a terrible loss," Ruth said in an attempt to urge Dixie to put her plans on the back burner. "It's not realistic." Dixie explained that Dr. Clader had assured her that her health did not play a part in losing the baby. She agreed that adding an addition to the family was more of a fantasy than anything else, but Dixie didn't see any harm in dreaming. "I wanna tell the hostess at McKay's that [we're] a part of five," Dixie said in a tiny voice. The five, of course, would be Tad, Dixie, Junior, Jamie, and a new baby.
Meanwhile back downstairs, Jake was on his way out when Liza arrived at the front door toting Colby. Jake and Liza doted endlessly over "their" little girl as Tad looked on with a great deal of concern. Jake headed off for the hospital and Liza and Tad were cleared to discuss business. Before saying anything else, Liza asked Tad why he was dressed so ridiculously. Tad blushed ever so slightly and said that he was using the costume to cheer up Dixie. Liza cocked her head to one side and asked Tad if he really walked around the hospital in his magician get-up. Tad shook his head and informed Liza that Dixie was resting upstairs. Liza's eyes widened and she quickly began gathering her belongings. She told Tad that she would never have dropped by if she knew that Dixie was home from the hospital. Before Liza could scurry off, Dixie and Ruth entered the room. Tad tried telling Dixie that Liza had to be on her way, but Dixie begged Liza to stick around for a little while longer. Silently in the background, Ruth looked very worried. Liza carefully handed Colby over to Dixie and Dixie's heart melted immediately. When she called Colby "mommy's little angel," Tad flashed a look of concern. Dixie, though, was not mistaking Colby for her own child. Dixie sat down on the sofa and fondly recalled Junior's first step, his first word, and his first day of school. The trip down memory lane seemed to pain everyone but Dixie. Tad took a deep breath and told Dixie that Liza had to be going. Again Dixie refused to let Liza leave. Liza smiled warmly and explained that she and Colby had a lunch date with Adam. Liza did agreed to walk Dixie up to bed. When they left the room, Ruth assured Tad that it was perfectly natural for Dixie to be "drawn" to Colby because she needs something to fill the void in her life. Tad snapped that he and the boys should be enough to fill that void. Ruth understood why Tad was upset, but he said that Dixie was dealing with the loss of a dream.
In bed, Dixie gently stroked Colby's head. She looked at Liza and ordered her to spend as much time with Colby as possible. Tearfully, Dixie returned her attention to the baby. She apologized for not being able to give Colby a playmate.
Ryan arrived at Trevor and Janet's and rapped loudly on the front door. There was no response. Since Hayley's car was still in the driveway, Ryan had reason to suspect that Hayley was holed up inside. He peeked through the window and his worst fears came true. Hayley laid lifelessly on the floor. Ryan rammed himself against the door until it gave way. He raced to Hayley's side and gently shook her. There was no response. Ryan then carefully hoisted Hayley into the air and carried her off to the hospital.
At the hospital, Jake ordered Ryan to carry Hayley into an examining room. The first question Jake asked was whether or not Hayley had had anything to drink. Her breath did not reek of alcohol, but Jake was aware that Hayley was battling for keep her sobriety. All of Hayley's vital signs checked out normally and Jake determined that Hayley had not had anything to drink. He waved some smelling salts under Hayley's nose and Hayley quickly regained consciousness. Upon waking, Hayley gave Ryan an embrace.
Mateo phoned the Dillon home from the airport, but there was no answer. He left a message on the answering for Hayley. He then called SOS to see if anyone had seen Hayley at the club. He left strict orders for the person answering the phone to do whatever it takes to keep Hayley from leaving the club if and when she shows up.
"What do you want?" Alexandra grumbled upon seeing David. David smiled wryly and scolded Alex for giving him the "cold shoulder" treatment. Alex accused David of following her, but David said that that was not the case. "Everyone knows that the Widow Marick is shacked up at Wildwind," he sneered. Alex quickly closed the doors to the parlor so that David's loud voice would not echo through the house. Alex told the doctor that she was on her way out, but David said that he wanted to stick around and find out how well Edmund really knew his new sister-in-law. David mentioned that Alex was one of the top neurologists in the world---past tense. For some unknown reason she dropped out of sight and had not practiced medicine in some time. It seemed odd that she'd given up such a promising career. Alexandra tried to downplay her withdrawal from medicine. David, however, continued to probe for an explanation. He asked Alexandra if she'd made "a fatal error," a gentle way of implying that she'd killed a patient. Alex vehemently denied making any mistakes and said that it was not important to know why she'd stepped out of the limelight. David walked slowly towards Alexandra's belongings and plucked the book she'd taken from the hospital out of her purse. He demanded to know what Alex was doing with a neurology book---considering that she was no longer practicing medicine. Alex demanded that David unhand her book. David flipped to the inside cover and noticed a stamp that marked the book as the property of Pine Valley Hospital. Before long, David was scanning the book's index. He came across the entry he was looking for: Dr. Alexandra Devane. Alex pleaded with David to keep quiet about her medical career. David, however, turned a deaf ear and told Alex that he would do no such thing. He reminded Alex that not so long ago, he had asked her to help him out of a jam---and she refused. Whatever it was that David had asked of Alex, Alex felt that it was "despicable." David nodded understandingly and said that considering their rocky past, Alex must really be in a jam to ask him for help. Edmund strolled into the room and demanded to know why David was there."
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