"Free from the loony bin and the police, JR charges into Tad's house and tells them he's taking his baby back. Krystal, David, and Tad line up. If he's getting to Bess, he's got to go through all of them. Jamie hands Bess to Bianca and takes his place in line with the men as Krystal moves to stand beside Bianca, who is holding Bess protectively against her chest. JR brushes past the men telling them they can't stop him from seeing his daughter. Bianca adamantly tells JR, "I can and I will! You'll take this baby over my dead body!" Just as Bianca makes her claim, the front door opens. Babe is back. Babe starts to talk. David cuts her off. He tells everyone Babe has an announcement that will change all their lives. David and Krystal promise to be there for her. Everyone except JR says the same without knowing what the announcement will be. Taking a deep breath, Babe tells them she has decided she needs to stay with JR. "There will be no divorce and no separation. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make our marriage work," Babe announces. JR screams, "No!" He tells her, "Our marriage could not be more over if it had blown up in my car." David and Krystal try to talk Babe out of this decision, as does Bianca. Jamie pulls Babe outside. He tells her, "I listened to that noise and now I want the truth." "It's what I have to do, just for now," Babe tells him. Jamie knows there's something else going on. He wants to know what it is. "Trust me and I swear we will fix it together," Jamie vows. Babe says she wants to trust him, but now she just has to let him down. "I'm staying with JR," Babe tells Jamie, "See. I let you down." Bess has had a long day. Babe thinks it's time to get her home and to bed. Obviously hurting, Babe goes back inside. As she takes Bess from Bianca, she tells her she knows it makes no sense right now but promises a happy ending "for all of us."
Krystal starts to leave Tad's house. He asks if she's running to the rescue or from him. He can't imagine what David could say to drive Krystal away from him. David follows Krystal out the door saying it's a time when parents need to be together. Tad comments that the next sound they hear will be his head exploding. Tad, Jamie, and Bianca sit around Tad's living room trying to figure out what was different about Babe when she got back. None of them can figure out what it is, but Jamie observes that whatever it is, it is big enough to turn her world upside down.
Anita encourages Maria to take some time off and go on a trip with her husband. She says it might give her new perspective. Maria wants to know what she needs a new perspective on. "Zach Slater for starters," Anita replies. Maria wants to know if Edmund told her. No, it was Aidan. Maria has built her world around Edmund but admits she loved Zach with her whole heart. It couldn't last because her memory came back, but before that Zach was her whole world. Anita observes there are two different Zachs. Maria confesses she didn't know the slick businessman side of Zach. Anita tells her she thinks she met Maria's Zach when they played poker for candy. "He told me to stay in the game. He helped me," Anita says. Maria confirms that's her Zach. Aidan arrives and interrupts their conversation. Aidan is suspicious of Zach. Anita trusts Aidan's instincts and asks Maria to do the same. Confused, Maria says she doesn't seem to know much of anything any more but thanks Aidan for always being good to her and her family. Maria goes about her hospital duties. Anita tells Aidan that Maria is wrong about one thing - she's not through with Zach.
Looking at pictures of them when they were children, Zach relives memories of himself and Michael from their youth. Then, looking at a newspaper clipping of where Michael was arrested for rape, Zach utters, "It should have been me. I should have been charged with murder." Zach remembers when he wanted to get out from under his father's suffocating presence. Michael argued with him telling him he couldn't give it all up. He remembers how Michael helped him "die" and disappear. Zach continues looking at pictures. Michael's ghost shows up and asks him, "How cool was that crash?" Glad to have a chance to talk with his brother in any form, Zach asks the ghost if their father gave him hell. Michael jokes around about it but tells him, "Yes. A mediocre live child could never measure up to a golden dead one." Zach asks if he hurt someone to take his pain away. Michael tells him not to buy the press. Bianca wanted to have his baby. Michael goes on about what a good father he would have been if she hadn't died in that crash. Zach reminds him she has a name, Miranda. Zach asks him about what Bianca says. Michael says the town made her do it. That's how Pine Valley works according to him. The town sentenced him to death and left him rotting in a garbage heap. Michael fuels Zach's determination by telling him that if he'd been around maybe they wouldn't have gotten away with it. Zach tells his brother he never should have left him - "first our father, then this whole town . . ." Maria's knock at the door derails Zach's conversation.
Babe puts Bess in her crib and tells JR she thinks she should sleep in the nursery with her tonight. JR objects. Babe teases that he must want her in bed with him then. "Don't you think it's a little soon?" Babe flirts with her angry husband. JR spits out the words, "Don't make me sick." He says he knows she doesn't really want the marriage. In his mind that leaves only one thing. He asks her how much money she wants. Babe tells him she wants just what she's got because "What I feel for you is huge and it's not going away." With anger eating at him, JR leaves the room. She's found the one way to drive him crazy. With JR gone, Babe remembers holding Ace. Bess is gone to dreamland when Krystal and David enter. They ask if she's gone crazy and really is back in love with JR. Babe bubbles about buying time and it being the only thing she could think of on the way home. "Home from where?" David and Krystal ask simultaneously. "My beautiful baby boy," Babe tells them with a dreamy look in her eyes. They think she's been to the chapel, which she has but that's not what she means. Babe tells them she talked to her son and she doesn't need the chapel to do it any more. Babe tells her parents, "He's alive." She tells them she held him and fed him a bottle, and he's as beautiful as the day he was born.
JR runs to the library and calls someone to help him find his dad. Liza strolls in and observes JR has misplaced his father. JR accuses Liza of working with David to harm Adam. Liza tells JR she's not the one who rips babies from a parent's arms. That's a Chandler thing, and she only married into it. JR asks Liza what she thinks Babe really wants and why she's staying there. Liza tells him she probably wants her daughter and reminds JR, "You know the old saying. If you can't beat them, stay married to them.""
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