"At the Valley Inn, Kendall and Ethan are seated at a table and toasting champagne when they are interrupted by JR. He asks what the special occasion is as he joins them. They reply that they are celebrating the charges against Ethan being dropped and Zach's arrest. JR is impressed, calling Ethan the king, but insists that he is gaining his own ground in the revenge department...having put Babe, Jamie, Tad and David behind the wrecking ball. Kendall notices Babe, Jamie and Tad happily laughing at another table and jokes that they don't look very miserable. JR becomes quiet as he watches them intensely. He is annoyed at their happiness and starts to insult them individually. Kendall tries to change the subject by focusing the attention back to their celebration, but Ethan agrees that Babe and the rest of them don't deserve to be happy after what they did to Bianca. Kendall then teases JR to beware of scorned ex-lovers, because you are more likely to be killed by someone you know than by a stranger. He then excuses himself to walk over to Babe, Jamie and Tad's table and throw a few insults their way before leaving the room. Jamie lunges after him, but Tad stops him. A little while later, Babe is in the bathroom and JR enters and locks the door. They exchange a few insults before JR starts to make innuendos about choices. Catching the drift, Babe asks him if he wants her to make a choice between her son and Jamie. He replies that she said it, not him and leaves the room. Back at the table, Tad warns Jamie that he can't let his temper control him when it comes to JR because he'll just use it against Babe when it comes to visitation with her son. He advises him that he can stick it to JR more easily by letting him see them happy together. Across the room, Kendall admits to Ethan that she is worried about his hatred for his father. He is amused by her concern, considering her past with Erica. Kendall tells him that this is why she is an expert in this situation and that hating a parent is like drinking a slow-acting poison...he'll be the one who dies. Later, JR joins them again and Ethan offers him a job with Chandler Enterprises. He agrees, with the stipulation that if Ethan ever hurts Kendall, he will steal her from him. Ethan assures him that it will never happen. Babe returns to her table and Jamie notices that something is wrong. She tells him that she just misses her son. Tad tells them to be patient and smart and not expect tomorrow to be any better...for now. As they get up to leave, Babe stays behind, saying that she has to take care of something. When they are gone, she looks over at JR, who gets up from the other table and gives her a dirty look before walking away. Kendall again voices her concern about Ethan's spite toward his father. He tells her not to worry and he wants her to always be there to pull him past the dark side of Cambias that Zach keeps warning him about. He goes on to tell her that he wants her in his life for many years to come because he loves her. Kendall is surprised by his words.
Standing in Jack's doorway, Erica refuses to let Aidan in to see Lily and tells him that he broke her heart. Aidan assures her that he isn't there to upset Lily. As he walks past her into the apartment, he tells Erica that she doesn't have a choice after what she pulled. Erica is confused, saying that all she did was try to help Lily. Aidan replies that she put her in the line of fire by telling a room full of people that Lily witnessed Edmund's murder. Erica states that Opal and Myrtle are hardly a threat and when Aidan mentions Brooke being a reporter, she assures him that even Brooke wouldn't exploit Lily for a cover story. She goes on to accuse Aidan and Anita of being the insensitive ones who have gotten Lily into this whole mess in the first place. Aidan voices his concern for Lily's safety, but Erica is convinced that she is safe since Zach has been arrested. Aidan reminds her that the murder isn't solved until all of the facts have been obtained and asks again if he could talk to Lily about what she saw that night. Just then, Lily walks into the room. She notices Aidan is there, but walks past him into the kitchen area to make some popcorn. Aidan tries a few times to start a conversation with her, but she says nothing. Worried that he will make her more upset, Erica tries unsuccessfully to kick Aidan out. When he asks Lily if she can spare some time for him because he really needs her help, she tells him that she is off of the case. Elated that Lily actually answered his question, Erica once again tries to get Aidan to leave before he pushes her too far. He ignores Erica, pulls out his cell phone and calls Lily's cell phone. She walks into the living room and answers it. He tells her that it's Aidan and she says that she recognizes his voice. He asks her to help him with a mystery and she asks if she has read it before. He tells her no and that it's the Mystery of the Burning Stables. She hesitates and tells him that he has sixty seconds and starts to count. He asks for a little more time and she gives him 240 seconds. He first tells her that he knows that she feels bad about what happened with him and Anita. She states that they broke up and he is no longer her boyfriend. He says that he still wants to be friends. She asks him if that is his question and he tells her no, that he needs to know if she saw the man in the wheelchair come into the stables the night of the fire. She hesitates and then says yes. Aidan asks her what she saw. She starts to state the number of objects that she saw while she was in the hayloft. He encourages her to go further and tell him if she remembers seeing who hit the man in the wheelchair. Lily has a flashback of seeing Edmund get out of his chair to fix the overturned heater and being hit in the head. When Aidan asks her if she saw someone hit the man in the wheelchair, she says no. He asks her if she is sure and she says yes and then tells him that his 240 seconds are up. She hangs up the phone and walks out of the room, taking her popcorn with her. Once she is gone, Erica is relieved that she didn't actually witness the murder and graciously thanks Aidan for helping to pull Lily out of her shell. Aidan doesn't look convinced with Lily's answer, but keeps it to himself as Erica escorts him to the door. After he is gone, Erica is touched when Lily comes back into the room and offers to share her popcorn with her.
Zach says nothing as Maria questions him in his cell. She remembers him warning her to keep Edmund away from him or it would get ugly. She asks him if that was a threat or a warning because she also remembers him telling her that he would stay away from her as long as Edmund was alive. Emotionally, she pleads with him to tell her that he didn't try to get to her over her husband's dead body. Zach tells Maria that the answers aren't important now that Edmund is dead. She replies that they are important to her and he tells her that it won't change anything. He goes on to say that it won't bring her husband back or ease her mind to know what was going on in his head when he bashed Edmund's brains out with that shovel. Appalled, Maria asks him if he is even human. He tells her that he knows what this is really about. If he killed Edmund to save himself from being discovered, then it would be more bearable to her than if he killed him to be with her. He then asks her what he should do now and how bad does he have to be for her to forgive herself. Unable to take his words anymore, she screams at him to shut up. He goes on to say he did it because shooting Ryan left him spineless and he is a coward and that she can go home with a clear conscience that it wasn't because of her...since that is what she needs to hear. He asks her if they are finished and she yells at him that they are not. She says that she never expected him to turn on her and treat someone he loves with such cold contempt. She goes on to say that she believed him. He fires back that they are where they are now because she believed Edmund, not him. Upset, she screams that she doesn't know what's worse, his lies or that he believes them. He asks her about the lies that she is telling herself. She interrupts by stating that she loved her husband and asks him what it was that they actually shared in the desert. She thought that he would never harm Edmund because it would hurt her and she was a fool to believe him. He tells her that they should end it at that...he is a coward and she is a fool. She walks away in shock.
As someone knocks on Jonathan's door, he begs Ryan to hide next door because he thinks it could be Braden. Ignoring him, Ryan answers it and it is Greenlee, who has come to confront Ryan with what happened. She tells him that she knows that they are not thrilled with each other right now and starts to suggest that they have it out when he interrupts her with a big embrace. She gives Jonathan a confused look and asks Ryan what happened. Ryan orders Jonathan to tell Greenlee the truth. He admits to her that it is his fault that she was poisoned. She asks Ryan if he confessed, but Jonathan quickly adds that it was actually their brother, Braden, who did it and he should have stopped him. Greenlee immediately dismisses his words as another lie. She goes on to say how convenient it is for Jonathan to put the blame on someone who has been missing for five years and that it smells fishy. Ryan agrees and states that either Jonathan is delusional or a pathological liar. Greenlee believes that he is both. Jonathan pleads for them to hear him out and Ryan gives him the chance, but wants to know the whole truth. Ryan shows Greenlee the letter that is supposedly from Braden. She asks him if it is his handwriting and he says that it is possible, but it could have been forged. Ryan asks Jonathan if he is supposed to believe that Braden would take all this time to stalk him and try to kill him over the jealousy that he inherited the Cambias fortune. Jonathan says yes and that Braden also felt that Ryan turned his back on him before he skipped town. Greenlee quickly interrupts that Ryan put his neck on the line for Braden. He replies that Braden is messed up. They ask him why he didn't warn them, if he knew that Braden was in town and what was going on in his head. Jonathan answers that he knew Braden had problems, but that he didn't know about the rape and thought that he could stop Braden without Ryan getting hurt. Ryan asks about getting shot. Jonathan tells him that he found Braden that night just after he got off the first shot and tackled him before he could fire another one. He goes on to tell them that when Braden's plan to kill Ryan backfired, he found another way to make Ryan pay by poisoning Greenlee, the person who meant the most to him. Ryan wants to know why he would go so far as to frame Ethan and Kendall for the shooting and poisoning, knowing that they were in danger and sending the police in the wrong direction. He doesn't answer. Greenlee asks if the "B" written in his address book referred to Braden. He confirmed that it did. Greenlee then admits to Ryan that she had looked through the stuff that he had left at Maggie's to obtain this information. Jonathan tells them that he handled it all wrong and that he was trying to buy time. He goes on to say that his only defense is that he was trying to stick by Braden and help pull him through this, just like Ryan has been doing with him these past few weeks. Greenlee then asks him how Braden got close enough to slip her the drugs. Jonathan reluctantly admits that he allowed Braden to meet him a few times at Fusion and their loft. Hearing this angers Ryan even further. He asks him why he would let Braden into their home, knowing he had it out for them. Jonathan replies that Braden assured him that he was o.k. with everything and Jonathan wanted to believe it and that he wasn't like their father. Greenlee tells Ryan that the only proof they have of this accusation is Jonathan's word and the note. Jonathan tells them there is something else and pulls out a scrapbook that has newspaper clippings of all the events that have happened to Ryan in the recent past. There are personal captions written above the articles and Ryan admits that the handwriting does look like Braden's. Ryan leaves with Greenlee, taking the scrapbook and ordering Jonathan to stay put. Jonathan sits down with a worried look on his face.
Greenlee and Ryan arrive at the police station and give Derek the scrapbook, asking him to run it for Braden's fingerprints. Confused, Derek asks them if he is back in town and what this is all about. As Maria walks into the room, she hears them tell Derek that Braden might be responsible for the shooting and poisoning. Derek agrees to run the scrapbook for prints and leaves to do so. Maria walks up to them and asks if she heard them right because Zach had just admitted to the same crimes. They confirm that there is a possibility that Zach is innocent. After a while, Derek walks back into the room with the scrapbook in an evidence bag and confirms that Braden's fingerprints are all over it, as well as the note. Ryan, Greenlee and Maria are standing there as Derek escorts Zach into the room. He asks what this is all about. Ryan and Greenlee tell him that he is not responsible for their shooting and poisoning and ask him why he lied. Before he can answer, Maria asks if he lied about killing Edmund."
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