Friday Update
September 28, 2001

PREVIOUSLY ON ALL MY CHILDREN

Distraught at being snubbed by Chris, Erica drives home, obsessing and driving erratically, railing about the opposite sex, but stopping in mid-sentence to look at her pretty face in the rear- view mirror: "MEN! I hate them all! That Chris Stamp -- he knows NOTHING about me!"

At SOS, Laura grouses to Leo about the Enchantment poster featuring Greenlee: "She's everywhere, and now with this ad she's going to be on buses and billboards!" She glares at Greenlee and squeezes hard on a hankie (or some such thing).

Mateo opens Rosa's purse and finds a large, full bag of marijuana (really, it pretty much took up the entire purse).

SOS

Mateo escorts Rosa to the back room, slamming and locking the door as she complains about him being a big freakazoid. He shows her the pot and indicates it was in her purse. She denies knowledge of it and he jabs his finger at her as he yells at her not to lie to him. She swears on Hector's grave that it's NOT hers.

An anxious Hayley grabs Edmund and asks if her disappearing husband has reappeared yet. Edmund reassures her that Mateo and Rosa are in the back room. She asks if she's missing something. Edmund says he learned long ago to keep his nose out of the Santos Family dysfunctions. She notes that Mateo was a WRECK at the christening. Edmund suggests it's just new-father jitters, but she doesn't buy it.

Meanwhile, Greenlee (standing with Jake) tells Leo that he should know her well enough by now to know she didn't appreciate Erica's little announcement about her and the campaign. Leo scoffs that she LOVED it. Greenlee: "I was humiliated." Jake tells Leo to let it go and go be with his wife. Leo yells at him to NOT tell him where he should be. He says Laura is taking her meds. He looks around, but doesn't see her. He and Jake both look VERY worried and fan out to look for her, leaving Greenlee standing there. Greenlee to the air: "Oh, PLEASE! Are you two serious? Taking her meds, my eye!" She trots off to the Ladies Room.

In the Ladies Room, Laura, secreted in a stall, looks maniacally at the ripped-up poster that's all over the floor and in the pristine (but the water is not rippling one iota) toilet. This is a MAJOR leap, folks -- not only are the showing a toilet up close and personal, but there is actually TOILET PAPER in a dispenser next to it! Laura kneels down and picks up the rest of the poster from the floor, rips it up and tosses the rest into the toilet, which she then flushes with a triumphant flourish. Unfortunately, SOS' plumbing leaves something to be desired (but the toilet is pretty classy for a bar) and the paper lazily floats in a circle. [At this point, I must stop to offer some sage, time-worn advice to Laura. Ripping up the picture of Greenlee is a good start, but BEFORE flushing, you should really take a massive dump on it -- really, you'll feel MUCH better. Nothing shows contempt more effectively than shitting on someone]. Laura stares in horror at Greenlee's face floating ineffectually around in the toilet.

Greenlee enters the bathroom and calls Laura's name. Laura doesn't answer, so Greenlee bends down and looks under the stall door, noting the HIDEOUS short white ankle socks and red sandals, not to mention the flow of toilet water on the floor. Greenlee straightens and cunningly asks if Laura needs help. Laura looks haunted, hunted and trapped.

Greenlee sardonically asks if Laura is okay. Laura pants and ignores her, then quickly kneels once again and gingerly (not to mention disgusted), starts to retrieve the contents of the toilet [guess it's just as well she didn't take my shit-on-it advice]. Greenlee raises her eyebrows, trying to imagine what Laura might be doing in there. Laura yells that she's fine as she plunks the sodden bits of poster into her purse. Thrilled at this new, if revolting, turn of events, Greenlee oh-so-innocently says: "Gee, should I get Leo?" The stall door whips open and Laura glares at her, snapping that she's FINE. Greenlee looks down at Laura's feet, making a puzzled, but disgusted face as she notes the water dripping from Laura's purse [LOL!], not to mention the hideous sock/shoe combo. With a grim smile, Greenlee says: "Gosh, what happened to your bag?" Laura looks at her bag and, thinking quickly, haughtily says: "My bottled water exploded." [BWAHAHHAAAAAA!!!] Laura says it was no big deal, it was basically just leaking and got all over everything. Greenlee says it must have been a BIG bottle of water and insists on seeing it. Laura: "Hey, back off, BITCH! All right, do you hear me? Just BACK OFF!" Greenlee gets a tiny, amused grin and shrugs with a slight chuckle.

VALLEY ROAD

The mysterious girl that Erica hit with her car is lying in the road. Erica, not particularly in a hurry, walks over and asks if she's okay. The girl looks a mix of Bianca, Greenlee, Mia and Leelee Sobieski, with long black hair and dressed in jeans, a t-shirt and light jacket. She asks Erica if she LOOKS all right. She starts to sit up, rubbing her right thigh and gasping in pain. I notice that the girl picked just the right place to land, given that there is a big sign that says REST STOP right behind her. [I guess she was just following directions in reverse (i.e., stop -- rest).] Erica calmly walks over to lean on her car and uses her cell phone to call Jack. She complains that a girl THREW herself in front of her CAR! The girl, still holding her painful leg/hip, incredulously asks if Erica is for real -- she HIT her with her CAR! Erica: "I don't know. I really don't know. She IS making an awful lot of odd faces, though." Girl: "You just HIT me with your CAR. You want SMILES?" Erica tells Jack she is on Valley Road, just a mile past the lake [that's a hell of a long way around to drive home from SOS). She says she didn't do something (call 911 or an ambulance, presumably) and doesn't think it's necessary. [And we thought LAURA was being a bitch!] She tells him to hurry and hangs up. The girl points out that most people call 911 in this kind of situation -- why did Erica call some high-end specialist? Erica says she DIDN'T call a doctor -- she called her LAWYER. Girl: "Are you for REAL?" Erica calmly says: "Yes, I am. But YOU'RE not, and we both know it." The girl stares at her.

The girl can't believe Erica thinks she's faking. Then she recognizes Erica, who is standing against her car rubbing her cold, sleeveless arms. Erica rolls her eyes. No stranger to the tabloids, the girl says: "You stabbed your husband with a letter- opener!" [Score one for the girl] Erica: "Oh, now, just a MINUTE here!" Woman: "Of all the people to get mowed down by, I have to get a PSYCHOPATH?" Erica takes offense at this. She insists the girl was standing on the side of the road and waited to see what kind of car Erica was driving [what kind of car IS it, a Jaguar?] before jumping out in front of it. The girl insists she was just crossing the street when Erica came driving in a Looney Tunes manner. Erica points out that it's a deserted stretch of road, not a STREET, and there's nothing TO cross to. Mere seconds after being called by Erica, Jack screeches up. He jumps out and tells Erica he called an ambulance, then rushes to kneel by the girl and asks what was injured. Erica points to her car and says it was the HOOD that was injured when the girl JUMPED on it. Jack asks if the girl is cold and she says yes. He goes to get a blanket, guessing that she's in shock, but Erica stops him, insisting the girl is a con- artist and that this was a complete setup: "Jack, I GRAZED her at the most! I'm telling you, you should've seen the acrobatics she -- she did to handle this! I mean, a Russian judge would've given her a 10!" Jack can't believe what he's hearing. She insists this is NOT her fault! Jack: "No, of course not -- it never IS!" He goes to get a blanket from his car as sirens loom. Erica glares at the girl for a moment, then rushes to tell the police what happened. Jack stops her, though, instructing her to say NOTHING. He emphatically tells her to keep her mouth SHUT! She insists the girl is a con-artist. Jack begs her to not say anything, even if that IS true. Jack puts a blanket around her. Erica stares. The emergency personnel, unlike Jack, don't seem to be in any hurry to get to the girl, since we've heard them arrive, but haven't seen anyone yet.

SOS

A police officer walks in and asks Chris about a woman who was involved in an accident and had been at SOS earlier. Bianca overhears him say it was Erica Kane and that she was already at the hospital. Bianca runs out, not stopping to hear any more details. Chris tells the officer that that was Erica's daughter and sarcastically says he handled THAT really well! He tells the officer that Erica was NOT drinking and drags him out to get a lift to the hospital.

Leo pesters a waitress until she tells him that Laura is in the bathroom. Jake walks up and Leo notes that Laura has been in the bathroom for a long time. Leo looks suspicious and asks Jake whom Laura went to see at the hospital earlier. Jake looks blandly around, then sits, but doesn't say anything for a while, letting Leo talk. Jake asks if Laura told Leo anything. Leo says no, but Greenlee did, acting like she was just talking, but he could tell she really wanted him to know about it and that Laura probably DIDN'T want him to know. Jake apologizes for Greenlee's behavior, saying she had NO RIGHT telling him. Leo gets even more suspicious and wants to know if something is wrong. Jake says he can't tell him. Leo blows up, but Jake sits fast, saying Laura told him not to tell Leo and he has to honor her wishes.

In the back room, Mateo hands Rosa a hankie and apologizes for yelling at her. He asks about where her purse has been during the christening and since. She had left it in the pew with her shawl during the Godmother part of the christening and then on the bar when she first came into SOS. She wonders if Marcus and/or his friends have anything to do with it, since they have been calling her names, etc., ever since Marcus tried to rape her, which doesn't make sense, BTW, since HE was the bad guy. She guesses that Mateo knows something, but he refuses to say anything about it. He tells her not to tell ANYONE about it, including Isabella and ESPECIALLY not Hayley. On cue, Hayley tries to get into the room, discovers it's locked and calls his name. Mateo and Rosa back into the desk, with Rosa holding the pot (which takes up more than half of what must be a gallon-sized Ziploc) behind her back. She and Mateo look guilty as hell as Hayley, having unlocked the door, walks in. She demands to know what's going on.

Mateo says they were talking about a surprise for the baby. Hayley, still ticked off at Mateo, crosses her arms and says that, since the baby is only a couple of hundred hours hold, maybe he should let HER see the surprise for him. Rosa agrees and tells Hayley to close her eyes. She does so and Rosa puts the pot back into her purse and runs out of the room. Hayley opens her eyes at the slamming of the door and asks if she was being duped [aren't you used to that by now?]. She says Mateo is a liar and his sister is a liar. She says he's been acting like a maniac ever since THEIR SON'S christening where he actually TOOK A PHONE CALL! Contrite, Mateo says he can explain. Isabella chooses that moment to burst in and tell them to hustle back into the main room where Edmund is waiting to make a toast. Hayley tells him it's NOT over and they return to the bar at large.

Hayley is laughing loudly at whatever it was Edmund has said during his toast until that point. Then he gives the usual sappy toast. Rosa, trying to be inconspicuous, drops her "family" smile, turns and runs out. Ryan notices. Leo walks up to the bar and once again asks Jake why Laura went to the hospital. Jake says Laura isn't even his patient -- he's covering for David until he gets back. Leo insists on an answer. Jake, totally hypocritical, says: "Do you know what doctor/patient confidentiality is?" Leo demands an answer. He says she's been acting weird lately, then qualifies the description as "REALLY WEIRD and different". Jake asks if Leo thinks Laura should see someone ... professionally. Leo says Jake examined her -- what does HE think?

Meanwhile, back in the Ladies Room, Greenlee patronizingly says: "Ooo--kaaay, Laura. If it doesn't bother YOU that your purse is leaking, sure doesn't bother me." Laura: "Why are you talking to me like that?" Greenlee: "Like what?" Greenlee says she just came looking for her to apologize. Laura points out that that is twice in one night -- were EITHER of them for real? Greenlee saunters over to a stall and languidly puts her arm up on the door -- if it were a chaise lounge, she's be lying on it purring. She says she's sorry if she spilled the beans at the park about Laura being at the hospital -- just assumed she would have told Leo about it. Laura tells her not to ASSUME anything. Greenlee keeps twisting the knife, saying it was SO important, and she just KNOWS Laura and Leo talk about EVERYTHING. With narrowed eyes, Laura asks if she's through. Greenlee suggest switching topics and apologizes for Erica's unveiling of the new Enchantment campaign. She had NO idea Erica was going to do that. Laura guesses that the campaign WAS Greenlee's idea, though. Greenlee agrees, and says it's a killer campaign -- she just didn't know Erica was going to use her face. Greenlee leans in confidentially and says: "But you have to admit it was a pretty nice picture of me, huh? I mean, even Leo couldn't stop looking at it." Laura goes for a withering tone, but it doesn't have much punch behind it as she says: "What a PATHETIC campaign idea! What, don't let go after you've been dumped? You're going to sell, what, 10 bottles of perfume after that idea?" Greenlee gives Laura a sizing-up look, quite confident that Laura is a total loser. She walks over to the mirror to touch up her makeup and says she knows Leo told Laura about the talk he had with her. She knows he told Laura all about driving her to the same spot where they had had hot sex in the car. She's quite aware of how Leo feels about her -- he really gave it to her. Laura says she deserved it. Greenlee: "Yeah. He told me REAL love isn't about SEX. He must REALLY love you, Laura." Laura slaps her hard across the face (proving that she does have at least a little punch behind her facade). In true soap fashion, Greenlee leaves her head in the slapped-to-the-right position way longer than necessary, then slowly turns her head back to Laura, rubbing her jaw and eyeing Laura with not quite a grin, seeming to be pretty excited about finally REALLY getting into it.

PV HOSPITAL

The injured girl is rushed into the Emergency entrance where Joe rushes to treat her. Joe introduces himself as Dr. Martin. The girl introduces herself as "And I'm fine, no thanks to her!" Erica: "HEY!" Jack tries to shush Erica. The EMTs tell Joe that there are no broken bones, lacerations or head trauma, but it's possible there is a hip bruise and maybe a turned ankle. Erica: "THERE, does that sound like somebody who --" Jack: "Shh!" Erica: "Has just been hit by a fast-moving car?" Jack continues to try in vain to stop her. Girl: "You know this PSYCHO, Dr. Martin? Do you know that she drives like a stock car racer on drugs?" Joe: "Erica, did you or did you not hit this young woman with your car?" Erica: "She hit ME! Joe: "She hit your car with her hip?" Jack threatens to carry her out of there for her own good. Bianca rushes in and is relieved when Erica hugs her and tells her she's fine. Bianca tells her the police were looking for her. Chris enters with the officers and says they want to talk to Erica to file an accident report and get some facts straight. Chris leans over to her and tells her not to be antagonistic. One of the officers asks if she had been at the bar, SOS, and engaged in some sort of altercation with a man. For once Erica turns to Jack for some actual advice before speaking. The other officer says they have eye-witnesses that Erica was involved in a volatile exchange with Chris and was in no condition to drive ANYWHERE. He asks Erica if that's true. Chris keeps mum as he and Erica look at each other. He straightens raises one eyebrow in a vaguely challenging, but mostly unreadable manner. The girl watches the two of them with a slight look of smug satisfaction.

Erica tells the officer that the eye-witness account was WARPED. Jack tries to shut her up, but she's back in Erica mode and insists she will not be misjudged by this. Erica says she had an argument with a DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE, but that doesn't mean she wasn't perfectly capable of operating a car! They ask if she had had anything to drink. Girl: "She was DRIVING like she did!" Erica: "I don't DRINK. I am FAMOUS for not drinking, thank you very much!" Bianca walks over to glare at the girl. Jack tells the officers that Ms. Kane doesn't drink and will be happy to submit to a breathalyzer test. Not only does Erica agree, but she says she'll probably BREAK that breathalyzer thing, her breath is so clean! Chris interjects that he didn't say she was drinking, he said she was EMOTIONAL. Erica: "You TOLD them I was EMOTIONAL?" He says she IS. She protests that it doesn't mean she suddenly can't drive. The girl says that Erica EMOTIONALLY almost drove her off the side of the road. Erica tells the officers and Chris to stop being so OBTUSE!! SHE is the victim here! She once again calls the girl a con-artist and says they are all falling for the oldest trick in the book. Jack asks her if he has to put surgical tape over her mouth to shut her up. Bianca asks the girl if she's hurt. Joe says he thinks she's okay, but he has to run some tests [I take it this means he did a complete exam right there in the hallway in front of everyone in between watching Erica spar with everyone]. The girl insists she's okay, but he asks her to humor him and they finally go into an exam room.

Bianca tries to get the straight scoop about what happened. Erica explains that the girl must be an acrobat and that she has to be TRAINED for what she did. People do it all the time to EXTORT money from people. Bianca thinks Erica is exaggerating and excuses herself to see what she can find out about the girl. She simply walks in on the exam and no one stops her. One of the cops grabs Erica and she whips around, snapping at him not to EVER touch her again, adding that he's a GORILLA! Jack also pulls the cop off. The cop, with attitude, tells her she is coming down to the station house with them. Erica: "I am NOT! Jack?" Jack: "Oh NOW you want to listen to me?" She says he's her LAWYER. He says he's NOT her lawyer -- he's told her at least 10 times to shut up and she refused to listen, and now the cop is so mad at her he wants to take her to the station. Besides, he starts tomorrow as D.A. She needs to get another lawyer. The cop: "Maybe she'll be your first INDICTMENT!" Jack tells him to shut up. Erica can't believe Jack isn't going to do anything to stop them. Chris finally steps in (with Jack protesting) and says: "Look, you have no probable cause except that this lady's attitude is bugging you. You can't force her to go with you, so why don't you just -- just back off right now, ok?" Erica looks at him and smiles in grateful admiration of his heroic intervention.

Joe and Bianca come out of the exam room and Bianca asks if he really thinks the girl will be okay. Joe thinks she'll be fine, but he wants to keep her overnight for observation [who's planning to pay for all this?] Bianca asks why he's keeping her if he thinks she's perfectly okay. He says that she doesn't have any family and nowhere to go and she shouldn't be alone tonight. Bianca asks if she's a runaway. Joe says no, she's not a minor, but she doesn't want to talk about where she comes from. She won't give Joe her name [then how does he know she's not a minor?], but he thinks the intake nurse will get it out of her. He's beeped and leaves. In the background, Jack is earnestly talking to Erica, who appears to be grudgingly listening. Bianca walks to the exam room and stares in the window at the girl, who is sitting on the bed worriedly hugging her knees. Bianca walks in and the girl asks if she wants to finish what her mother started. Bianca stares. The girl looks miserable.

SOS

In the Ladies Room, Greenlee notes that Laura is kind of on edge. Is it the meds she's taking, or is she just a colossal bi-- Laura (who towers over Greenlee) confidently tells Greenlee that she (Laura) may not be all that Greenlee is sexually, but she is EVERYTHING Leo wants and needs and Greenlee will NOT enchant him back to her! Greenlee: "Speaking of that, have you seen the copy, because Erica's going to want--" Laura yells at her to STAY OUT OF HER WAY! Greenlee steps face-to-neck and glares at Laura with a grim, determined face and says: "You really want to go nine round with me, Transplant Girl?" Laura narrows her eyes, falters slightly, then turns and storms out. Greenlee goes back to the mirror to check out the slap-point. Satisfied there is no lasting external impression, she smiles smugly to herself and clops out.

At the bar, Jake explains to Leo that transplant patients can go through a kind of depression and even though they're getting better and they're thriving, the shock of the trauma they've been through can catch up with them. Leo says she's not depressed -- over- anxious maybe, but not depressed. Jake says she needs stability. Leo effusively says he's giving her that. Jake accusingly says that Greenlee tells him almost every day that she and Leo get together and have it out -- is that any kind of stability for Laura? Laura, all smiles and effervescence, walks up to Leo and says she's ready to go. [I notice she's hugging the purse to the front of her dress -- will get have a wet spot?] In answer to his query, she says she was in the Ladies Room just getting away from the party for a little while, but she's fine. She blinks a lot. They say goodnight to Jake.

Greenlee walks up to Jake [BTW, I LOVE that black dress she's wearing]. Jake blasts her for telling Leo about Laura's visit to the E.R. She says he thinks she's doing this to win back Leo, but he's wrong. He says he's NOT wrong -- she's up to her old games again [Old? When did she ever stop?] She looks hurt and perplexed.

Outside, Rosa sits on a bench. Ryan comes out and asks if she's okay. He introduces himself. She says she knows who she is and that she is sorry about his wife. He says he saw her face when Edmund was making his toast. She says Edmund was married to her sister, Maria, who also passed away. Ryan knows -- he also knows she's had a really rough summer. He says he bets he knows what she's thinking. She doubts it. Ryan: "You're thinking that there's -- there's a whole world full of people out there who have no idea who you are, where you've been, what you've gone through. And you're thinking you want to go there and you want to reinvent yourself." Rosa whispers: "And never look back." Ryan: "Doesn't work that way, Rosa. It always catches up to you." Rosa: "What?" Ryan: "Your past, who you are. Always." Rosa looks bummed. So does Ryan. They both stare glumly into nothing.

Ryan tells her how lucky she is to have a big family and a room full of people who love her. Rosa: "I have a big family. They're always looking for new recruits. Do you want to come inside with me?" He takes a raincheck. She says a raincheck means she'll see him again. He says he has nowhere else to go and disappears into the night. Rosa keeps brooding on the bench.

Inside, Mateo asks Isabella where Rosa is. She says she's outside talking to Rosa. Mateo freaks. Isabella goes to check on Rosa. Mateo sucks on some fruit and Hayley walks up, asking what the surprise is --is he going to show her. He doesn't even turn around, just chows down on cantaloupe, distractedly saying that if he showed her, it wouldn't be a surprise, right? Hayley: "Oh, I see. You're going to do the silent Latin thing? That's fine. It won't last." Mateo: "Mm-hmm." Hayley: "Mm-hmm." She saunters away with a wifely little pissed-off smile. Edmund notices the tension and Mateo's demeanor. He walks over and asks Mateo what's going on. Mateo takes him to the back room to explain. Hayley watches suspiciously. Mateo locks the door to the room and asks Edmund if he can trust him. Edmund answers affirmatively. Mateo shows him the box that had arrived at the chapel with all the money in it and tells him about the phone calls. He says they want him to cooperate with them and run drugs through SOS and that if he doesn't cooperate, they will target his family. What should he do? Edmund looks like he's vaguely wondering if there is anymore clean underwear in his drawer at home.

L&L'S CONDO

Leo is in bed, dressed in pajama bottoms only. Laura hops in, wearing a tshirt and flowered pants. She starts petting him, but he pulls away. He wants to know why she went to see Jake at the hospital tonight and what she talked about with him. If she can't tell him the truth, then there's no point in them being married. Laura looks worried in a calculating-yet-nothing's-wrong sort of way.

PV HOSPITAL

Chris vouches for Ms. Kane, saying she's not going anywhere, she wasn't drinking, and she hasn't done anything wrong. It was an accident. The police say they may call with more questions, but dociley leave. Jack sys they know where they can find HIM. Erica bats her eyes at her new hero and thanks him. Erica: "Oh, JACK, and you too!" Jack: "Oh, no, no, not me. No, no, no, this is all about HIM tonight. HE's your White Knight du jour." He stalks off. Erica: "Jack, are you leaving?" Jack pauses to look sideways at Chris, who stands there with pursed lips and says: "OH, yeah." He stomps out. Chris walks over to Erica and says: "Well, I, uh, guess you're stuck with me again. Want to make out?" Erica stares at him, momentarily aghast, then smiles at him and turns away, blushing.

In the girl's room, Bianca says her mother didn't TRY to kill her and as long as the girl stops being such a brat, she won't either. She also says that, for what it's worth, she doesn't buy the acrobat story. The girl asks if she's on her side. Bianca: "I'm on the side of LOGIC. That doesn't always include my mother. But I do know that she wasn't trying to hurt you, ok?" The girl emphatically states that she wasn't trying to throw herself in front of the car. Having established their positions, Bianca introduces herself. The girl is stubbornly silent. Bianca smiles and says this is the part where the girl tells her what HER name is. The girl grudgingly rolls her eyes and admits to being named Mary Frances. MF: "But if you CALL me that, I will run you over with your mother's hotrod!" She wants to be called Frankie, not that it matters. Bianca asks why not. Frankie: "Because I am OUT of here. She looks Bianca up and down and saucily adds: "Bianca-la." She says this with a flirty smile and gets out of bed. Bianca smiles back, also flirting. [I think her pupils dilated.]

SOS

Greenlee insists she's NOT chasing after Leo -- LAURA is losing it. Greenlee tells him that Laura was standing in the Ladies Room with a dripping purse. Jake: "Oh, my gosh! You know how unappealing 'desperate' looks on you?" Greenlee: "'Desperate'? She HIT me!" Jake drolly says: "Unprovoked, I'm sure, Greenlee." She says Laura SLAPPED her in the face -- shouldn't Leo know that the woman he married is LOSING IT? Jake asks if she doesn't know how STUPID she looks! Jake: "I mean, come on, you told me, 'I'm 100% over Leo.' Now look at you! You're challenging Laura in public! You're CORNERING her in a BATHROOM and you're questioning her sanity because her PURSE is wet!" Doesn't she see that she's demeaning and degrading herself -- give Laura a fricking rest, PLEASE! Greenlee stares at him angrily, then gets up and stomps off to the Ladies Room again.

In the Ladies Room, Greenlee snatches some Kleenex and huffs starting to settle in for a crying snit, but, like a dog spotting a squirrel, is distracted by something she sees on the floor at the bottom of the stall. Why it's a soggy photo of a piece of her own face! Greenlee: "Holy moley, Leo. You have no idea what you're sleeping next to tonight, do you?" She actually seems a little concerned for his welfare.

L&L CONDO

Laura tells Leo not to say things like that. She went to Jake today because she wanted to get a clean bill of health, for THEM. She wants to MARRY him again. Leo looks at her like she's crazy and possibly armed. She says it was beautiful the first time, but she was in a wheelchair and she wants to do it again the RIGHT way. With a somewhat nasty edge, she says: "I want the WHOLE WORLD to know how HAPPY we are!" She snuggles against him and says: "We can renew our vows the way they should've been said, in front of EVERYONE we know!" Her eyes narrow as she snaps out the "EVERYONE" part. Leo's eyes pop WIDE open and he looks as if she's just told him that there are scorpions in the bed, but it's okay because she's asked them to be bridesmaids. I notice she appears to be wearing shoes to bed.

PINE CONE MOTEL

Ryan enters his sad, lonely little room and notices that the photo is missing from the trash, even though the room hasn't been cleaned. He remembers Chris' reaction to the photo and shakes his head. Ryan: "What the hell does he want with a picture of my parents?"

SOS

Edmund fingers the pot stash and says he's not surprised SOS is being targeted. He fills Mateo in on his Tempo story and the kingpin named Proteus. Edmund: "He's never been caught. He has cartels in South America, Europe, and, for some GOD-KNOWS reason, the East Coast; Pine Valley is now ground zero." Mateo: "What? Wait a minute, why do they call him Proteus?" Edmund: "It's a Greek mythology character. He can change his appearance at will." Mateo: "Meaning what?" Edmund: "Meaning he could be anyone." Mateo is thinking so hard his eyebrows jut.

PV HOSPITAL

Erica can't keep the grin off her face as she tells Chris she has no intention of making out with him. He pretends to be crushed, but smiles widely. She thanks him for getting the police to leave her alone. He does understand, doesn't he? She's done NOTHING WRONG! Chris: "Except mow down a chick with an attitude the size of PA." Erica says "that chick" is truly trying to scam her out of millions! She turns and looks worriedly toward Frankie's room.

In Frankie's room, Bianca strides over to Frankie's side and says she can't even stand up by herself. Frankie pushes her away and says she'll LEAN. She's got it covered -- she's just bruised, but she can walk. Erica has come over to watch through the door window just as Frankie goes back into flirt-mode. She looks Bianca up and down again, clearly approving of the curves, kisses her own fingers, then puts them on Bianca's mouth, saying: "But you're sweet to care, Bianca-la." She gives Bianca a truly intimate look, then walks past her. Bianca looks slightly confused. Erica swings the door open and glares at Frankie face-to-face. Frankie, with a semi- secret smile, rolls her eyes at Erica's look and limps away. Erica stares after her in consternation, then whips her head around to stare apprehensively/appraisingly at Bianca, who seems unsure of how to react to what just happened.

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Frankie, on her hands and knees, roots around in the bushes under the Rest Stop sign on Valley Road. Bianca walks up holding a duffle bag and says: "You looking for this?"

With Laura standing outside the door listening, Leo asks David: "Is it possible for someone to go crazy after a heart transplant?"

At Enchantment, Chris says to Erica: "YOU'RE asking me for a favor? Got to say I LIKE it!"

Mateo gets a revelation: "It's Stamp!" Edmund juts his lips out, pondering and sighing.

Robin "can't WAIT to see Erica's ongoing reaction to Frankie and Bianca-la" Coutellier