"At the beach, Mateo talks to Proteus on his cell phone. Hayley listens quietly. Proteus, in Enchantment's warehouse, tells Mateo "You want my responsibility-you want it all." Mateo questions Proteus, "Are you saying I know you?" He is trying to find out as much as he can about Proteus by asking many questions. He questions why Proteus has chosen him. Proteus tells Mateo to be in the park by the pay phone at 7 pm for her phone call. She will tell him then who he is to kill to prove his loyalty. Proteus tells him that he has been watched and that his wife has been also. How content and happy Hayley was. She had a wonderful husband and a beautiful baby. While Mateo keeps Proteus talking, Hayley quickly writes a question on a napkin and gives it to Mateo to ask Proteus. Proteus allows Mateo to ask one more question before the call is ended. "How does a woman like you get so good at reading men?" Mateo asks. Vanessa is speechless. She regains her composure quickly telling him to continue playing his little game of trying to discover Proteus' identity. Follow my orders, she demands. I do the thinking. She then ends the call.
Mateo looks in amazement at Hayley telling her she is a genius. How did she know Proteus is a woman? Hayley explained her theory: Proteus sounds like a jealous woman when she commented on Hayley's marriage and baby and men don't talk that way. Mateo senses Hayley's concern. He asks what's wrong and she replies, Proteus is going to use you to eliminate the enemy and then eliminate you."
Vanessa paces in the warehouse after she ends her cell phone call to Mateo trying to keep her composure, assuring herself that all her problems will be solved tonight. Larry enters the warehouse. Vanessa greets him warmly telling him he is going to be busy this evening but until then he is all hers. After that, she will miss him. Their lovemaking completed, Larry leaves to warm up the limo for Vanessa. She powders her face, commenting, "Oh, Larry, I won't really miss you that much."
Mateo tells Hayley to go home and promises her he will be careful. He assures Hayley he will be home soon. They embrace holding each other tightly not wanting to let go of each other. Mateo leaves to go to the park to wait for Proteus' phone call. He sits by the pay phone waiting for the phone to ring at 7 pm.
Leo recovers from his blunder with Rudolph Lacey, apologizing to him and Greenlee for making a spectacle of himself. He had taken too many pain pills. As he and Val leave Greenlee's condo, Mr. Lacey tells Greenlee he won't do business with irresponsible children but he might reconsider the ad campaign with only Erica.
Leo is feeling hopeless that he lost the Lacey account for Greenlee. Leo tells Greenlee he thinks he is messing up his life with her because of the pattern set by Vanessa when he was growing up in Europe. Vanessa would set up her scam and have everything in place until she would do something stupid. They would then run scared from that city to another to start over setting up a new scam. He comments on how empty Vanessa's life is and it would take a lot to fill it up. As Greenlee comforts Leo she promises to fill up his life. Leo smiles and then feeling the effect of the pain pills, falls asleep on the couch in Greenlee's arms. Greenlee vows she won't let Vanessa influence their lives. She leaves the condo, going to the Valley Inn to confront Vanessa. She pounds on Vanessa's door. When Vanessa opens the door, Greenlee pushes her way into the room, demanding that Vanessa talk to her now. Vanessa tells her she has plans and can't spare the time to talk. Greenlee insists she change her plans.
In the courtroom at Erica's trial, Kendall is waiting for cross-examination by Chris Stamp. He approaches her and then turns to stare at Ryan Lavery who is seated in the gallery oblivious to the court. The judge repeatedly calls him by name to get his attention. Chris doesn't hear him until after the judge has shouted at him several times. Chris suddenly turns to Kendall and asks her if she remembered she swore to tell the truth, the whole truth. She says she is telling the truth but Chris is not convinced. You hate your mother enough to lie just to nail her to the wall he accuses her. All you care about is ruining her. Isn't that the truth he challenges her. Kendall protests that isn't so.
Chris recaps Kendall's childhood and how well the Harts provided for her. He demands from Kendall a response to his question, "What has Erica Kane done to you for you to hate her so?" Jackson objects vehemently to the line of questioning. Kendall is ordered to answer the question. But Chris continues asking Kendall if she thinks Erica is cunning and stupid. Kendall doesn't understand where he is going with this line of questioning. Would Erica who runs a mult-million dollar cosmetics business be stupid enough to give Kendall a check made out to cash? Chris is now in Kendall's face shouting at her "Where were you when Mary Francis Stone was murdered?" Kendall is frazzled but quickly regains control and exclaims, Erica kills for fun, you kill for profit. Am I right, Mr. Stamp? Chris turns to look at Ryan sitting in the gallery. Ryan is stunned.
Chris turns back to Kendall and shouts at Kendall," Why would Erica confide in you about killing Mary Francis. Why would she tell you the biggest secret of her life?" He ends his cross-examination without Kendall's response.
Jackson, attempting to point out Erica's guilt to the jury, redirects by asking Kendall to say again the items Erica asked her to do for her and did Erica tell her she killed Mary Francis. Kendall replied Erica did tell her she killed Frankie. She then is excused, her testimony finished. She quickly leaves the courtroom and sits in the lobby, taking several deep breaths to calm herself. She tells herself over and over again, "It was worth it."
Summation to the jury begins with Jackson compelling the jury to find Erica guilty. Frankie's only crime was falling in love with Erica's daughter and Erica wouldn't accept that he tells the jury.
Mary Francis was a con artist who wanted to get as much as she could, argues Chris in his summation. As he describes Frankie's character as a wandering, promiscuous, drug-using liar, Bianca becomes upset with what she is hearing and leaves the courtroom. Erica sadly looks at her as she leaves, frustrated she can't comfort her. The only crime Erica is guilty of, Chris continues, is loving her daughter beyond all reason.
The judge sends the jury to the deliberation room.
Bianca knocks on Greenlee's door. Leo, awaken from his nap, lets her in. She tells him of the trial and the summation by Chris who painted Frankie in a bad light. Leo gives her a hug in comfort. He notices the book of Shakespeare that Frankie had given her, which Bianca has brought with her. She opens it looking puzzled. She notices one of the pages has been cut out of the book.
Kendall storms into Ryan's room at the Pine Cone Motel slamming the door. "You ditched me," she shouts. Ryan, reading a book on his bed, replies that Chris was finished at the trial so he left. They snipe at each other. I tell you one private thing and you blurt it out in court shouts Ryan. Kendall equally shouts back I didn't realize Chris' killing of your father was private information. Ryan demanded that Kendall leave immediately telling her she is a spoiled brat because your mother didn't love you. Kendall angrily leaves, slamming the door.
Ryan tries to get back to reading his book. Kendall returns, again slamming the door, bringing with her the unopened package Ryan had thrown away in the garbage can in her room. He told her he didn't want it. She is curious why. His mother, he replies, died a while ago and the nursing home is sending him what was left behind. Ryan shouts at Kendall to leave him alone and go away. Kendall snorts back that she will gladly leave when Erica's head is in the guillotine. She leaves slamming the door once again.
Ryan, once more, picks up his book, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe. He becomes frustrated and throws it at the wall. He gazes at the package and decides to open it and begins to look at the contents. He takes out a picture frame with a photo of him and his brother when they were children. He pulls out the photo and discovers a second picture behind it. He stares at the photo."
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