"Babe and JR sit on the sofa at Chandler Mansion with her giving him a hard stare. "What?" JR demands. Babe snaps that they're just sitting there when his brother could be dying. An upset JR tells her that's all he can think about but there's nothing they could do if they were there. As he prances around the room making a great show of concern for Jamie's well being, Reggie runs in and grabs JR by the neck and begins beating the crap out of him. Derek arrives and breaks up the fight. JR wants Reggie arrested for assault. Expecting his command to be followed, JR leaves saying he has things to take care of. Derek sends the other officer to the car so he can talk with Reggie. He tries to convince Reggie to back off and stop trying to get himself locked up. Derek promises he'll handle it. "Like you're handling it now?" Reggie retorts. For him, poking around and asking questions is not enough. Derek reminds him that patience and determination can be great weapons. He says Reggie should know that just by looking around him. Reggie seems to take the message to heart.
Tad, Brooke, and Krystal sit worried in the hospital waiting area hoping for word of Jamie's condition. Just as they decide it's been too long, Joe comes in. He tells them Jamie made it through the surgery. "And?" they all exclaim voices still full of worry. "And he's expected to make a full recovery," Joe gladly tells them. On hearing the good news, Tad hugs Krystal so hard she jokes that he's about to crack a rib. Brooke wants to see her son. Before she goes in, Joe warns her he doesn't look the greatest. Brooke tells Joe that it doesn't matter if he's green and sprouting tubes he will still look great to her because she knows he's going to be okay. Tad stands outside the door as Brooke visits a still unconscious Jamie. As he turns from the door to face the hallway, Tad sees JR approaching with Babe following closely behind. JR tells Tad he wants to put this behind them, that he is willing to forget about the drugging and accusations. Tad says he's not willing to forget, and neither is Jamie. JR wants to hear that from Jamie. Tad threatens to throw JR out. Before leaving JR says he'll call Jamie when he's feeling better. Babe tells JR she needs to stay and talk with her Mom. JR tells her to meet him by the vending machines when she's done. With JR gone, a shaking and crying Babe apologizes to Tad for Jamie getting stabbed. Tad tells her it's not her fault, but Babe still feels guilty for Jamie almost getting killed.
After Babe leaves to meet up with JR, Tad and Krystal stand chatting in front of Jamie's room. Brook comes out and breaks down sobbing in Tad's arms. She says she's happy. She knows her son is going to be okay and doesn't understand why she's cracking up now when she stood so strong through the surgery and the visit. Tad and Krystal assure her it's just because of all the stress she's been through. Krystal suggests some liquid would help. "What, more water?" Brooke asks with something of a smile breaking through. No, what Krystal had in mind was a nip of what Dr. Joe keeps hidden in his office. They leave to get Brooke calmed down but end up going for coffee instead of brandy.
Reggie, Danielle, and Derek show up at the hospital where Babe has met JR in the vending area. JR wants to know why Reggie is not in jail. Derek tells him when he got there JR was giving as good as he got. JR says he will press charges without Derek's help. Derek tells him it will be his word against Reggie's. JR says it will be his word and Babe's. Reggie uses his brain for a change and says he didn't really mean to hurt JR. He was just upset about Jamie. Babe says she thinks they should let it go. Reggie thanks Derek for the break before Derek leaves to track down Dr. Joe. Derek tells him if he uses his fists instead of his head again, he will bust him just like anyone else. Danielle asks what's up with Reggie and her dad. Reggie tells her he's still trying to figure it out himself.
Maggie sees the exchange and comes unglued on Babe for playing the dutiful wife to a man who drugged her and framed her brother for the crime, almost getting him killed in the process. Maggie screams in Babe's face for Babe to tell her how she's going to stand up for JR. "I can't," an upset Babe tells Maggie, "I can't tell you anything."
With Jamie's door unguarded, JR walks in and stands looking down at his unconscious brother. JR tells him he never wanted him in jail or hurt like this. He tells Jamie everything is the fault of his slut of a wife. JR says Babe knew he was his brother when she slept with him. He says she was just trying to keep him on the hook by saying he might be the daddy when she found out she was pregnant because Jamie was her backup plan. JR says Babe was using reverse psychology all along. "She's not fit to raise Bess," JR says, "That's why I had to drug her." He vows to Jamie he will get Babe out of their lives and they will be okay. Just as JR finishes uttering his vow, Babe walks in and finds him in Jamie's room. He wants to know what she is doing there. She tells him she was just looking for him and reminds him that Tad did not want him in Jamie's room. He tells Babe that Jamie is his brother and he loves him no matter what Tad thinks. To JR, that gives him the right to be there.
Aidan surprises Ryan at the Fusion offices. He tells him he's met Ethan and that they're "practically brothers" now. When he bumped into him at the Pine Cone, Aidan invited Ethan over for beers. Ethan told him the whole story of why he's in Pine Valley and how he is going after the Cambias fortune. Ryan asks when he got back and if he's checked into Zach's past. Aidan tells him he's only been back a couple of days and has been keeping a low profile. Aidan has checked up on Zach and it appears he did not exist for the first half of his life. No one seems to know anything about Zach's early life. Ryan asks about women as sometimes a woman knows more and is more willing to spill it. Aidan tells him the only female he's found in Zach's past is Maria from her days as Maureen Gorman. Relieved to hear Aidan knows about Maria/Maureen's past with Zach, Ryan comments that it's interesting, "A woman who can't remember her past with a man who is trying to hide his." Aidan asks if Edmund knows about Zach and Maria. Ryan confirms he does. "So, you think what Zach's up to might be murder?" Ryan asks. He says Edmund thinks that's Zach's ulterior motive and that the murder might be his own (Edmund's). Together they decide the event at Zach's casino to raise money for the Miranda Montgomery Center might be where he plans to commit the murder. That would make more sense as to why he's trying to bring everyone together than that he wants to raise money for a cause he only learned of recently. This realization causes Ryan to want to cancel the fundraiser. Aidan talks him out of it though as this might be just what they need to flush out Zach. Aidan will put together a security plan and keep a close eye. He says he won't let any planned harm come to fruition. Satisfied Aidan can handle security, Ryan asks what he thinks of his "new best friend," referring to Ethan. Aidan tells him he will know soon. After their chummy gathering, Aidan sent a beer bottle with a full set of fingerprints on it away for analysis.
Kendall tells Ethan the background of the Cambias men, how Michael was jealous of Alex Jr. And how Michael could never stand up to Alex Jr.'s greatness dead or alive. Ethan appreciates the information but doesn't understand why she's helping him. Kendall explains that she knows where he is and that she knows the way out because of her adoption and later discovery that Erica was her biological mother. Kendall empathizes with Ethan because she's been there. She says as a child she always knew she had a connection somewhere outside her family but did not know she was adopted until she heard her parents trying to figure out the dog's age. She heard them say they got the dog at the same time they got her. Then she knew. After that, her imagination got her through many long days and nights. She always dreamed she was born in a castle and invented all kinds of fabulous reasons why her parents gave her up for adoption. Ethan still doesn't understand why she wants him to stay. "Fusion and Enchantment," Kendall tells him. Ethan tells her he's bought a few rounds of drinks for friends who helped him but he's not going to be giving away a few companies. That's okay with Kendall. She just wants to run them. She vows to Ethan that she won't lose again to Ryan and Greenlee. She tells Ethan that with her he can win. Without her, Ryan will grind him into dust no matter whose blood flows through his veins. Ethan agrees to stay. Thrilled that she's talked him out of going back to London, Kendall wants to show him the town. More than once she asks him to escort her to the Miranda Montgomery Center fundraiser tomorrow where he can rub shoulders with Pine Valley's movers and shakers. "You mean you're not them?" Ethan remarks. No matter how she tries to convince him, Ethan refuses her invitation. He says he has other plans and will not tell her what they are.
Over a cup of the dredge called coffee at the hospital, Tad tells Krystal he never thought he'd feel that again. She asks what he means. He tells her he never thought a woman would be able to tell him what he was feeling before he could put words to it. She downplays her role telling him it's just because she's a momma and understands what it's like for your child to be in danger. Still, it is obvious Tad's feelings for Krystal are growing as they continue bonding while sipping their coffee.
Someone mysteriously stacks a group of four-by-six black and white photos of Pine Valley's elite ending with a color five-by-seven of Michael Cambias on top."
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