"Kendall is horrified that Greenlee punched Ethan, and demands to know why. Jack tries to restrain his daughter, but to no avail. Greenlee announces that when Ethan lied and said that Zach killed Edmund, he let the real killer go free. As Greenlee continues to flip out, Kendall is completely baffled. To this point, she believes that all of the theories Jack and Greenlee are now spouting can be traced right back to her mother's mad ramblings. Jack finally steps in, telling his daughter that she isn't making any sense. He runs down the scenario as it has played out so far - with Ethan saying that he saw Zach murder Edmund and how, including how Zach and Edmund struggled over the shovel. He asks for a confirmation - but Ethan hesitates to agree. Ethan smells a set up and denies part of Jack's account. Kendall is incensed that they are attacking Ethan yet again. Ethan says that they are playing "good cop, bad cop" to try to catch him in a lie. He knows that Greenlee doesn't like him and blames him for a lot of the problems Ryan has had. However, the only reason that he can fathom that Jack would be there is if he thought Ethan was lying as well. Jack finally fesses up. Kendall is angry that after all they have collectively been through, that Jack and Greenlee would show up and attack Ethan as they have, and turn against them based on the word of a confessed murderer. Before they can correct her, Kendall storms into the apartment - but Greenlee will not be dismissed. She follows her old friend in to confront her. Greenlee swears that they are trying to protect her - but Kendall isn't sure why. She believes Ethan to be a kind and generous man, and she wants to know why they would want to protect her from having love in her life. Greenlee informs Kendall that they heard what Lily had to say, while Kendall didn't. Kendall is flabbergasted that they would take the word of Lily, who had been so traumatized by the fire that she shut down, over the word of an upstanding young man.
Back outside, Ethan wants to know why, when he handed over a killer to the authorities, Jack seems willing to hand him right back. Jack says that he just wants the truth. Ethan said that the cops wanted the truth as well, and that is what he gave to them. Jack notes that Bianca and Kendall are both involved with him on different levels, and he considers them both to be his daughters. If he finds out that Ethan lied solely for the purpose of revenge, he will make sure Ethan never has any contact with his family again. Further, Jack tells him that he was a good DA for a long time and he knows when someone is lying. He isn't quite sure what Ethan is lying about just yet, but he will find out. Ethan tells him that Zach got to Erica, Erica ran to him - and now they are back where they have been before. He suggests that Jack stop in his pursuit if he wants to keep his position at Cambias. Hackles raised, Jack asks if Ethan is threatening him, and if he's sure he wants to play the game that way. Ethan calls it friendly advice and says that if he and Erica continue on this path, their beloved Kendall will be lost to them forever.
In the apartment, Kendall is trying to kick Greenlee out but Greenlee refuses. Kendall tells her that all of these theories have very little to do with Jack, Greenlee, or Zach - and have everything to do with Erica's Cambias phobias. She is amazed that with all the bad blood between them, Greenlee is so willing to blindly trust Erica. Greenlee admits that while she certainly doesn't trust Erica, she does think that she is right this time. She then asks if Kendall believes that Ethan is incapable of telling a lie to keep Zach locked up. Kendall believes he is capable, but knows that he isn't lying because he swore on his love for her that he was telling the truth. She even told him that she wouldn't judge him if he was lying, because she understood where he was coming from - but he confirmed that he was being truthful. She follows by saying that if Ryan said something, Greenlee would automatically believe it - but because it's Ethan, there is cause for suspicion. Then, Kendall announces that Greenlee proved one thing today: they are horrible as friends, but brilliant as enemies. She thinks they should stick to what they are good at, and demands that Greenlee get out of her house and her life.
Meanwhile, outside - Jack says that he will forget for the moment that Ethan threatened him and instead give him one more chance to tell the truth. Ethan reminds Jack that his father is sitting in jail - and then asks if Jack believes he would do that for fun. Jack doesn't think it would be for fun - but for revenge. He then says that the truth will come out because it always does. Just then, the apartment door opens and Greenlee marches out. She looks at Ethan with disgust reserved only for the Cambias men, and she and her father walk off.
When they are alone again, Ethan and Kendall retreat into the apartment. He worries that the masses are turning on him again, and that they won't let up until they unearth something they can use. Kendall reminds him that they called him a fraud when he really was a Cambias, and they thought he was the shooter when he was innocent. The masses have been wrong before, and it doesn't matter. What does is that she believes that he loves her and she believes in him. Ethan starts to protest, because some of the people are her family members that love her. She announces that she loves him, and puts an end to his doubts.
Ryan arrives at a door with a condemned sign posted on it. He forces the door open and looks upon the trashed interior. He reads the words from Braden's note aloud - "as it was in the beginning" - and then announces that he's home. The place is revealed to be Ryan's childhood home. He finds some old baseball cards on the floor - which immediately makes Ryan flash back to younger days. He and Braden were sitting on the floor with the cards when their mother stumbled by, drunk. Ryan asked his older brother why she had to be that way, and Braden insists Ryan knew why. Prophetically, their father arrived home at that moment. For something minor, their father was enraged. Braden tried to take full responsibility and fix it, but Patrick felt it was too little, too late. He orders his oldest son to get the belt, and as the memory continues to play, Ryan (in the present) tries to will his former self not to see, hear or notice the violence. He continues to kick around the apartment for a bit, and then hears an explosion of sorts from outside. He goes to stand behind the door just as it opens - and an arm is revealed holding a gun. In a flash, Ryan grabs the arm and flips the person attached around and has them pinned against the wall. He then realizes it's Aidan, and asks why he's there. Before he can get an answer, Tad walks through the door. Irritated that they have crashed in on his crusade, he waits for an explanation. They tell him that it's too personal for him, and that the more emotion involved, the greater the chance Ryan will make a mistake. They insist that Ryan is still running the show - they are just there for much needed backup, as they are not emotionally invested. Ryan believes that just means they don't care about what happens to his brother but they just feel they are better able to remain objective. With Edmund dead, they want to help put an end to Braden's reign of terror. Acquiescing, small talk ensues about the state of his boyhood home. Then, they ask why Ryan is there. He informs his backup team that the location is Braden's call - and that there is either a clue here, or his big brother will reveal himself there.
Ryan looks through some old boxes and discovers an old toy (a monkey with cymbals on its hands) that Braden gave him. It used to aggravate their father, but one day, after Ryan suffered a severe beating, Braden bequeathed it to him. Ryan sets it up and, as if to defy his father, finds the switch and turns it on. He enjoys it for a few moments as the cymbals clang together. Suddenly, it stops, smiles, and then a cloud bursts from the monkey and directly into Ryan's face, sending him reeling backwards.
Simone arrives at a hospital room with the curtain drawn around the bed. She tries to be stealthy and peek to see who is inside. Before she has a chance, someone yanks her in. It was Jonathan, and she blasts him for his rough treatment, considering he has a bodyguard. Jonathan says that he was just protecting himself in case it was Braden, since his oldest brother has given everyone in town the slip so far. Simone is doubtful and asks if he was going to try to maim Braden - or tell him exactly where their other brother was. She wants to know why it is that Jonathan chose to protect Braden instead of Ryan. With 4 little words - Braden wants you dead - a lot of things could have been avoided. Jonathan says that it's hard wired into him: the only way for the brothers to survive is to protect each other. Simone retorts that Jonathan is just as guilty of poisoning Greenlee as Braden is - because he gave his oldest brother access. She follows by saying that everyone knows Jonathan hates Greenlee. Jonathan protests simply by saying that Greenlee is his brother's wife. This is Simone's point exactly - Greenlee gets Ryan, and Jonathan gets jealous. She knows what it's like to be jealous of Greenlee, but her ways of payback are minor and benign. Jonathan, still not willing to accept any responsibility, lays all of the blame on Braden...and says that he earned the stab wound when he ratted Braden out. At this moment, Simone realizes that Jonathan is still jealous - and asks if he still wants Greenlee out of Ryan's life. Without waiting for an answer, she continues to berate him for choosing to protect Braden. Asking for a reason why again, Jonathan finally has a small breakthrough. He tells her that Braden took a lot of the beatings for both he and Ryan, and that he can't act like that never happened. He reminds Simone that Ryan did the same thing by taking the rap for Braden's rape charge. Simone notes that while Ryan got over it, she isn't sure that Jonathan will. Finally, Jonathan offers her a look inside his sick mind. He tells her that he had been seeing a therapist and he could offer up some insight as to why he's so angry and jealous, and why he needs to control women. He tells her that she can call him any name that she wants, but he will do everything in his power to make sure Ryan doesn't get hurt again. His tone creeps Simone out, and she hurriedly leaves.
Maria is completely incensed at Erica's suggestion that Edmund could walk. Additionally, she is surprised that Erica is filled with this much spite and yet, Jack is unaware. Erica wonders aloud if Maria's problem is that she can't accept that the man she betrayed lied to her. Maria wonders if Jack knows the real connection between Erica and Zach - that she threw herself at him in Vegas, but that Zach isn't into alcoholic has-beens. Erica, offended, says that her story is completely false - and Maria is amused. She reminds Erica that most of the things that she spews about Maria are lies, but that reality doesn't seem to stop her...and that's pathetic. Erica retorts that what is truly pathetic is that Maria blindly believes what Ethan says. She also thinks Maria's ego and her need to believe that a man would kill to be with her is just as sad. Just then, Brooke walks in - and not a minute too soon. Maria proceeds to recount all of the things that Erica said before Brooke's arrival - that Edmund could walk and lied to her, and that Zach was telling the truth when he said that Edmund took her back out of spite. Brooke, unwilling to reveal the truth that she knows, instead questions why, when a man has died, the only thing that Erica can think to do is torture his widow. Erica doesn't have the time to delve into the specifics as to the whys and hows, but says that Zach is facing a very long jail stay and that Ethan will do whatever it takes to keep him there. In classic Cambias style, Ethan plans to exact revenge on Zach for denying his son. As for Edmund, Erica believes that Maria pushed him over the edge by maintaining her connection with Zach. Erica says that she is only telling Maria the cold hard truth so that she can get over it more quickly. Once she does that (in Erica's estimation), Maria will be able to more easily find a sense of peace. Disgusted, Brooke announces that there is a special place in hell for Erica, and she and Maria take their leave.
Sam arrives at the jail to see the man who killed his father. Zach tries to get him to leave, because he doesn't think he belongs there. Sam isn't having any of it because he has plenty of things to say. Among them is the proclamation that Zach is pathetic because he had to kill a man to get a date, and that it was all for naught - because he would never let Zach near his mother again. Zach wants to make sure that Sam believes that his father is completely free of guilt and that Zach is evil incarnate. He also wants to make sure that Sam channels all of his anger and rage at him and not his mother. Sam tells Zach that he is a coward because he attacked his father in a weak moment. If it weren't for that, he believes that Zach would have been the victim - because Edmund had faced down worse before. They go back and forth for a few more minutes, rehashing their conversation to this point. Sam starts to leave, and Zach calls his attention back briefly. Sam pauses, and Zach tells him that he never wanted any of this to happen - and that he's sorry. Sam replies that he doesn't want anything from Zach. He just wants to be there when they inject him full of death. With a smirk, Sam takes his leave.
Brooke and Maria reconvene at the boathouse. Brooke admits that she wished she had arrived sooner so that she could have spared Maria some of Erica's comments. Maria says that the rumors about Edmund being able to walk again, or taking her back out of spite started with Zach. She fills Brooke in on Zach's confession that he had proof Edmund could walk and that he was responsible for trapping she and Zach in the shed at the casino. This being the first time Brooke has heard about it, she asks for more details. Maria tells her that Zach believed Edmund was trying to catch them doing something wrong by locking them in the shed together. She admits to kissing Zach, but follows by saying that she never slept with Zach - she never betrayed her marriage in that way. Even so, in the end it didn't make any difference because Edmund is still gone. Maria's recount of the story causes Brooke to flashback to the conversation that she had with Edmund shortly before his death - where he admitted that all he wanted to do was keep Maria around until he got Zach thrown in jail. After that, he didn't care where Maria went - as long as it wasn't in his house. Brooke also remembers telling Edmund that he had been revealing a lot of surprises lately - and Edmund told her that she didn't know much of the truth at all. Brooke tries to confirm one more time that Maria didn't cheat on Edmund. Maria feels Brooke shouldn't need to ask. Even though Zach tried everything he could to get her to abandon her marriage, and even though she believed him for a moment - in the end she chose Edmund. He was the man that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. At that admission, Brooke feels her conscience start to bog down on her, and she says that perhaps Zach told the truth.
Jack arrives home and is greeted by his fiancée. He fills her in on how their plan backfired and how Kendall was more invested in believing in Ethan than ever. Disheartened for only a moment, Erica then says that she has her own news to share. She reminds Jack that he was expecting a visitor. He stares at her blankly for a second, and then remembers that he had asked Maria to come by to review Edmund's will. Realizing the potential for a volatile situation, he voices his hope that Erica didn't say anything that she shouldn't have.
Greenlee arrives home and finds Jonathan on the couch waiting for her."
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