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08/25/2004



"Tad and Krystal sat in the courtyard of the Chandler mansion. Krystal had fixed a dinner for them but neither had much appetite. Krystal said if JR turns out to be as bad as it looks like he may, Babe will be devastated. Tad said it would be Armageddon all around. He told her the prosecutor won't press charges against JR for drugging Babe. Krystal said it was ok for Tad to be relieved that JR won't go to jail. Tad said there has to be some accountability for what JR has done though. Krystal told him that JR knows that Tad knows what he's done and that means something. Tad didn't think so and said he couldn't reach JR anymore. He sadly told her that JR was the last piece of Dixie he had and now it was gone. Tad said JR wants Bess and will fight to get her. Krystal said JR better get used to disappointment because he'll never get the baby. Tad wondered if there was something he should know. Krystal just went on talking about why JR couldn't just admit he didn't love Babe anymore; Babe would've signed the divorce papers. Tad said the Chandlers enjoyed a good custody battle, that was what it was all about for them. Krystal said it was all about love for Babe, and that Babe had just been trying to do her best for the man she loved. "Is it so terrible to lie to spare the ones we love?" Krystal asked. Tad started to ask a question but David strolled in. He snidely informed Tad that Jamie had gone AWOL from the hospital. Tad said he knew where Jamie probably was and kissed Krystal goodbye. After Tad left David said to Krystal that when the truth comes out about Bess Tad won't have anything to do with her. Krystal said she knew that. David said when Babe finds out the truth about JR part of her will die, but she'll still tell the truth about Bess. Krystal said yes, the secret was too big and so is Babe's heart. She wished there was something she could do to keep Bianca and the rest of the town from turning against Babe. "Babe will lose her man, her baby and every friend she ever had" Krystal said sadly. David thought maybe she would decide not to tell but Krystal said "She'll tell, she's Babe." David offered to take Krystal out for a drink but she refused, saying she needed to stay there and keep an eye on the nanny because she didn't trust her. David asked if Babe ever talked about the little boy she lost, and if so he said he'd like to hear about it. Krystal told him that Babe says she has a picture of him in her mind and wished Babe could print it out so she could see it too. She told David about the chapel by the river that Babe was helping to renovate in her baby's memory. She offered to take David there to say a prayer sometime. David reached out to Krystal and held her hand as he told her that he would take care of Babe and her when the truth about Bess comes out. Krystal said it was "gonna get real bad" and David replied "I know. You can count on me." Krystal looked in his eyes and said "I'm beginning to think I can."

JR and Adam stood speechless at the door looking at Babe and Bianca in bed together. Babe looked at JR in horror and said it wasn't what it seemed. She asked to speak alone with her husband but he refused and said that now he "had a handle on your connection to Bianca." He ranted on about how he thought she was going after his brother and how she really had him fooled. Babe kept trying to calm him down and get him alone but JR would have none of it. Adam started to leave but JR stopped him and said he wanted a witness. Then he told Babe they had nothing to talk about and it was over between them. Bianca tried to tell JR it wasn't a long term affair but JR just started yelling at Babe, going over her infidelity with Jamie and how she lied about Paul Kramer. He said he would've done anything for her and Babe piped in "I wanted to do anything for you!!!." JR screamed "More lies!" They heard Jamie calling out for Babe in the hallway and JR opened the door, inviting Jamie and Maggie in. They came in and stood in shock at the scene before them. Maggie shook her head as Bianca said "Maggie, it's not what it looks like!." Maggie ran out as JR told Jamie to take a good look at the woman who has led him around like a dog. Jamie looked back and forth at the two women and said "The two of you?? How long?" JR kept snarking and making horrible, nasty remarks. Jamie told Babe he would have done anything for her. JR said she pitted the two brothers against each other. Babe told JR he had forgiven her for all that, couldn't he forgive her again. JR snarled "Forgive you?" and then asked Adam for his phone. Adam handed it over and JR took a picture of Babe and Bianca in bed, then said "I married you again to make sure I was Bess's legal father and so you couldn't take her." Babe whimpered "You married me because you loved me!." JR said as cruelly as he could "I married you because I hate you!." Adam tried to get JR to leave now that they had a picture but Jamie stopped them. He turned to Babe and asked how she could do this to them and then apologized to JR for how he had behaved. JR told him it wasn't his fault it was all Babe's doing. JR said he had done everything he had to in order to protect Bess. Jamie said "Everything you've done has been for Bess?" JR remarked that if he had known about Babe and Bianca things would've been easier. He admitted to drugging Babe at SOS and then putting birth control pills in her juice. Babe was reduced to tears. JR gleefully said the judge would take one look at the picture and Babe would lose all custody of Bess. Bianca got angry and said "So, a lesbian wouldn't be a good mother?" JR just smiled. Bianca asked "How did you turn into such a bastard?" They argued and JR insisted that no judge would let a lesbian have custody. Jamie finally told Bianca to forget JR, that he turned bad a long time ago. JR stepped back and asked "Now you're turning on me again? I don't get it!" Babe calmly said "No JR, what you don't get is this!" and she and Bianca pulled down the bed covers to reveal themselves fully clothed. JR growled "Check you out, you're not the dumb little tramp I thought you were!" Babe sadly told JR that she believed in him, even when everyone was telling her different. "Look at you now! You're pitiful!" she told him. JR asked if she loved him when she slept with Jamie or when she lied about the annulment. He slung nasty remarks at Babe and said she latched onto him like a leech. Bianca said she had no idea there was so much hate in him. JR said that it would be He said/She said in court but that he had a picture for the judge. Tad walked in and stood by Jamie's side. Babe told JR "I know I'll miss what we could've had but I'll have this reminder of what you became. Smile for the camera!" and pointed to a camera mounted near the ceiling. Bianca told them there was a copy in Slater's office and that he helped them and was a witness for them. She rewound the tape and played it for them. The tape showed Bianca and Babe in the room fully dressed. Babe told the camera that Zach was helping them and that she was hoping to prove that JR loved her as much as she loved him. But if he was watching this it probably meant he was as bad as everyone said and in that case he could "Rot in hell!." Bianca stepped forward and said she and Babe didn't have a sexual relationship and that she was just helping her friend find the truth. She said she hoped JR was a decent man and deserved to have Babe and Bess in his life. The tape showed them getting in bed with their clothes on and then Bianca fast forwarded it to when Adam and JR walked in, saying "You know the rest!." Tad turned to JR and asked "How long is this going to go on? Your vendetta against Babe has to stop now. If you don't love her, get a divorce, ask for shared custody while you still can. You can still be the kind of man your mother would be proud of!." JR just glared at Tad with disgust as Babe cried. JR snarled at Tad "You mean nothing to me. You're as dead to me as my mother. The baby is mine and I'll do whatever it takes to keep her." Babe stepped forward and said, "That's not your call. We don't have to step foot in a courtroom. I can put the baby exactly where she belongs and I'm gonna do it right now."

At the casino Reggie and Danielle waited for Jamie and Maggie to find Babe. Erica walked in and saw Reggie. She walked up to him and asked where Lily was, since he was supposed to be watching her. Reggie said Lily was with Myrtle and he was here with Jamie. Danielle started gushing over Erica who took it in stride. Erica said Jack would be upset to find Reggie at the casino when he was supposed to be with Lily. She said that Jack trusted him and that trust was a gift. Reggie felt guilty and said he got caught up in Jamie needing his help. Erica told Reggie he has a strong adult heart and hoped he would let it work with his strong adult head. Reggie and Erica bonded, and she told him how much she cares about him. Reggie admitted that he was really hurt when his idea of a family got trashed. He wondered if it could be salvaged from the garbage and Erica said she'd see what she could do. Reggie and Danielle went out to the gazebo after getting Erica to agree not to tell Jack he was there. In the gazebo he told Danielle he needed to go check on Lily. Danielle said he was a pretty good brother and friend and they started kissing. Maggie accidentally interrupted them. She was visibly upset and they asked where Jamie was."

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