"At the ice house, Vanessa received a phone call from Leo. He told her they needed to leave town, and he would meet her at the boathouse. There was nothing left for him in Pine Valley. Vanessa smiled approvingly as she agreed to meet him.
Vanessa confessed to Maggie that she had framed David. Maggie was surprised that Vanessa would do that to her own son. Vanessa justified her actions and told Maggie she was leaving her there. She promised someone would find Maggie eventually in the unheated ice house. Maggie, who was sitting in a wheelchair with her arms tied and her mouth taped, struggled to get free, to no avail.
Vanessa left the ice house to meet Leo at the boathouse. Maggie managed to get the tape off her mouth and screamed for help. She was afraid of freezing to death and asked Frankie to help her. She closed her eyes, hoping to rest for just a few minutes.
David checked his computer files to see if they had been tampered with. He found some unfamiliar files. As the police pounded on the door to David's cabin, David frantically tried to delete the files Proteus had copied to his computer. He realized they couldn't be deleted without a password.
Anna tried to help and told David to throw water on the computer. As David got a pitcher of water, the police and Detective Frye barged into the cabin with their guns drawn. A policeman checked the computer files and found those Proteus had left. David was arrested. He and his computer were taken to the police station.
At the police station, Anna tried to convince Derek Frye that Vanessa had framed David. David was still in denial that his mother was Proteus. Hayley and Mateo went to the police station to verify the files on David's computer matched the ones he had copied. They were the same. David was read his rights and taken to a cell.
Anna implored Mateo to tell the police that David had been framed. David told Anna to save her breath, as Mateo wouldn't help him. Mateo threatened David that Proteus would pay for what he had done. After David was locked in his cell, Mateo went to visit him.
Hayley and Mateo visited Chris Stamp at Pine Valley Hospital. Chris told them that he thought David had deliberately left a bullet fragment lodged by his spine so he wouldn't be able to walk. He was positive it was Proteus' MO to cripple his victims to cause suffering. Hayley disagreed with Chris's conclusion that David was Proteus and told him about the syringe that had been found with Vanessa's fingerprints. They didn't think Chris had objectivity about Proteus' identity. Chris didn't agree.
Chris's cell phone rang. Derek Fry told him David had been arrested, and they'd found the computer files that belonged to Proteus on David's computer. Chris expressed his frustration that Proteus was going down, and he couldn't be there to see it. He was stuck in the hospital. Hayley whispered to Mateo that she wasn't ready to count out Vanessa being Proteus.
After Hayley and Mateo left the hospital, Anna visited Chris Stamp in his hospital room and told him he had made a mistake. David was not Proteus. It was Vanessa. She implored him to have David released. Chris refused.
Vanessa, carrying her suitcase, jubilantly joined Leo at the boathouse. She was pleased that Leo wanted to leave town with her. She reminisced about the old times they'd spent together in Europe, running scams. Leo told her he wanted to pull one more scam before they left Pine Valley. Vanessa gleefully asked who it was. Leo told her she was the mark. Vanessa was stunned.
Leo told Vanessa he was not going anywhere with her. She told him to stop joking. Leo told Vanessa he knew she had tried to kill Greenlee and Jake and had left them in a sinking boat. He asked her how she could kill the woman he loved. He demanded the truth from Vanessa. Vanessa, in defiance, defended her behavior. Greenlee wasn't good enough for him, and she had been hurting Leo by flaunting her affection for Jake.
Vanessa, at last realizing that there was no use in covering up anymore, finally admitted to drugging Greenlee and Jake as well as killing Paolo and Larry. Leo didn't want to believe what he was hearing, even though he knew it was the truth. He was not ready to accept it until Vanessa reconfirmed she had done it all. He told Vanessa he had asked her to the boathouse so he could look her in the eye to tell her he couldn't stand her. Vanessa claimed that wasn't true and tried desperately to change his mind, telling him how much she loved him.
Leo replied that Vanessa didn't have a heart or soul and began to walk away from her. Vanessa implored him not to abandon her and told him to stop and turn around. As Leo turned around, he saw the pistol she was pointing at him. Leo challenged her to pull the trigger and walked slowly toward Vanessa. She warned him not to test her.
Bianca got into Greenlee's car as Greenlee and Jake were about to go to find Leo. She told them Leo's life was in danger. Greenlee told Bianca she would find Leo as Bianca got out of the car. As Greenlee was speeding all over Pine Valley, running red lights, looking for Leo, Jake told her to stop searching and go to the police station to report Vanessa's attack on them.
Greenlee suddenly saw Vanessa's car by the boathouse. They quietly parked the car and sneaked up to the boathouse. As they approached the entrance, they heard a gunshot."
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