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08/20/2004



"Babe arrives at the fund-raiser, looking for JR. An attendant, who hasn't seen him, offers her a glass of champagne. She declines, saying that she is pregnant. Bianca overhears and confronts her. Babe tells her that she isn't really pregnant, but wants to go someplace where they can have more privacy before she gives up all of the details.

Across the room, Jack and Erica have met up. Jack, calling her his good luck charm, wants to try his hand at some gambling. Erica is momentarily game until she sees Bianca looking upset. She starts to ditch Jack in an effort to try to rescue her daughter, but Jack refuses to let her go. He tells her that Bianca is strong and will be fine without her for a while. In an attempt to appease her, he gives her a diamond bracelet. It has the mantra "One day at a time" on it, to remind her to take her recovery slowly.

In the courtyard, as Ryan and Greenlee are locked in a series of passionate kisses, Kendall and Bobby look on from behind the bushes. The newlyweds consider what the kiss could mean in terms of their contract to keep everything platonic. They decide that they want to discuss it when they have more time and when they can focus on just the two of them. To stop them from going any further, Ryan makes up the excuse that he needs to check on security. Greenlee reluctantly lets him leave, grabs the remnants of her surprise and heads back inside.

Kendall is still of the mindset that there is a chance she can break them up. Bobby doesn't agree, because Ryan and Greenlee look tighter than ever. According to Kendall, however, there is always one more option - but in this case, they need to work fast.

A short time later, Kendall corners Ryan and demands that he talk to her. He's not interested but she threatens to "light a fire" under Ethan or Zach, or maybe do a strip tease that will mess up the fund-raiser. Ryan thinks that she wouldn't do such a thing to her sister, but can't take the chance. He follows her to a private room so they can talk.

Back inside, Greenlee runs into Erica. Erica tells her that she promises to heal all of the wounds that she caused Jackson. She also wants to have a friendly truce, for Jackson's sake. Greenlee is agreeable until Erica follows it with some advice: she tells Greenlee to be careful, because all she has done is set herself up for a world of hurt.

The gloves are off and Greenlee is done being friendly. She wants to know what Erica knows. She ends up answering her own question: Kendall is out to hurt her. Before Erica can confirm, Bobby interrupts them. He makes a bit of small talk with Erica before asking if he can borrow Greenlee. Erica insists on borrowing Bobby first and drags him off to the side.

Erica tells Bobby that she has noticed him getting close with both Kendall and Greenlee. Knowing how explosive that combination can be, Erica warns him that he would be sorry if her hurt her daughter or Jackson's daughter. Bobby tells her not to worry because he is back with Anita.

Leaving Erica and going back to Greenlee, Bobby hears Greenlee immediately say that he was wrong about Ryan. Greenlee confesses that while Ryan hasn't said the words, she is positive that he loves her. Bobby is skeptical, but lets it go for the moment. He says that there is something she needs to see. She is concerned about missing Ryan, but Bobby assures her that she won't. He whisks her away to a private room with a TV.

Erica returns to Jack in a tizzy about everything that has happened - Kendall dragging Ryan off, Bobby running off with Greenlee. She insists that she must do something to save everyone. Jackson tells her that they can handle themselves just as Bianca can - and he promises her the best night of her life, if she will let him. She agrees, and they go out to the courtyard. Underneath the white lights strung overhead, they dance. Jack tells her that he loves her, and they seal it with a kiss.

Zach catches Maria snooping around in his office, just before she opens a cabinet behind his desk where he has all the pictures of Pine Valley's main players tacked up. Momentarily stunned at being caught, Maria recovers and tells Zach that she was looking for something - anything - to tell her why he is really in Pine Valley. Although Zach insists that he has told her the truth, Maria thinks he was simply feeding her a line to get her off the trail.

Zach refuses to involve her in what is going on with him. Maria tells him she has an offer for him in a suggestive way. He calls her on it - but she denies that she would offer herself as part of a trade. She says she wants to prove something about him - and he finishes her sentiment: if she finds something that tells her once and for all that he is evil, she can finally let him go.

Zach tells her that while it is true that he wants to be with her, he will not do so simply as payment for traded information. He also will not be with her if she doesn't want the same things as him anymore. He can't believe that she could so easily forget how they felt about each other in the desert, and how their life was together. Maria insists that she was a different person then, but Zach counters and says that she had a different name but the same fire.

Not able to deal, Maria takes her leave. In the hallway, as she attempts to get herself together, an employee approaches her. Maria is informed that her husband wants her to meet him in room 313 in the back part of the hotel. She takes a few additional moments and then heads to the room.

When she arrives, there is no answer to the knock on the door or to calling out his name. She tries the door to find it unlocked. She is taken aback when the door opens to the interior awash in candlelight. She takes a seat and flashes back to another memory with Zach. In it, Zach presents her with the keys to a house he bought for her - and the room in which he does so is clearly the inspiration for room 313.

Zach enters the room soon after and shakes her from her reverie by asking her what she thinks. In his hand, he holds a replica of the keys given in that other lifetime.

In a private room, Babe tells Bianca that she asked David to test a sample of the orange juice JR gave her. Lab tests confirmed her suspicions that JR was secretly feeding her birth control pills. She says that she is 90% sure that JR is as guilty as everyone says, but that she really wants to catch him in a lie so that she can hear it from his own mouth. Shocked, Bianca reminds her that both she and Jamie almost died - what other proof is needed? Bianca tells Babe that, though she hates to say it, she is scared of JR and she thinks Babe should be too.

Thinking back, Babe relates the story of how lost she was, and how she was close to jumping off the pier in San Francisco when JR found her. She says that JR gave her hope - and that he is the only man who has ever loved her without wanting something in return. She gave him the only thing she had to give - her heart. Because of all they had been through, she confesses that JR still has her heart. She goes on to tell her that if it turns out that JR has been trying to get rid of her, that girl he saved would die.

Bianca promises that she won't die - and that she will be there every step of the way to make sure of it. Crying, Babe tells her that she doesn't think that Bianca will be there for her - but she will be there for (Mira)Bess.

Babe says that once she catches JR in the lie, she will be able to kick him to the curb easily. When all is said and done, Babe promises that she will be a better friend to Bianca - one that she really deserves. She promises that she will right all wrongs, and truly give back to her.

After reaching their destination, Kendall commends Ryan on a job well done with regard to the "performance" in the courtyard with Greenlee. Although he tries to convince her otherwise, she laughs off the possibility of him having a legitimate relationship with Greenlee. She tells him that she believes that the kiss was really about all of their pent-up sexual frustration. Ryan is adamant that he plans on taking his relationship with Greenlee to the next level, and making it as real as any other.

Kendall says that they can never have anything real because he and Greenlee are best friends, and the most that they can hope for is that friendship with a side of sex. Ryan, however, is solid in his feelings. He confesses that he truly loves Greenlee.

Kendall calls him a fraud but Ryan doesn't care. He tells her that she can believe what she wants and he will leave her to do so - alone. He tries to leave the room but he finds that the door is locked. He asks Kendall to let him out, but she refuses to do so until she is done with him.

Meanwhile, Bobby tells Greenlee that he saw Ryan and Kendall take off together and he thought that she might like to see what they are up to. He sends a signal to Kendall via cell phone so that she knows to take it to the next level. He brings up the images from the hidden camera on the screen, but there is no audio.

In the room, Kendall pretends to feel faint, and tells Ryan that she hadn't slept or eaten in a while because she had been working so hard on one of the projects at work. She starts to fall and grabs on to Ryan. He helps her over to the couch and as he does, she pulls him down into a liplock.

Greenlee and Bobby witness this for a moment, and then Bobby turns off the TV and tells Greenlee that she doesn't need to see anymore. She is visibly upset because she really believed Ryan when he said that he was over Kendall. She thought that he was starting to fall in love with her, and viewed the kiss in the courtyard earlier that night as proof.

Ryan breaks away from Kendall's clutches and tells her off. She still doesn't get it and rants on about how he could never be happy with her. He needs the excitement that only she can provide. Security (which is what Greenlee would supply) is not an adequate equivalent of love.

Ryan, visibly furious, threatens to call security. Kendall tells him to calm down and that she will let him out. She tells him that he is blind if he thinks that Greenlee truly loves him and tells him that if he follows her, she will prove it to him. Ryan wants no part of it, but Kendall challenges him.

Bobby comforts Greenlee as she cries in his arms. He tells her it will be okay, and that she will get through it - but she just wants him to take the pain away. As a solution, he kisses her."

- Soap Central