February 20, 2004

Act I
Carly wants Sam arrested so that Sonny'll have a reason to stick
around but Lucky doesn't have any grounds so she gets to leave.

Michael doesn't want to leave town but Jason says they have to do
what Sonny wants.

Nik tells Em he loves her too much to ever leave her.
She is afraid that none of this is real. She moves to get him a
cloth. He tells her about the fire/explosion and how he didn't want
to die because it would mean leaving her.

Luke runs into Skye on the docks and sings to her. She's suitably
unimpressed with his blues rendition.
She suggests that the only reason he did the whole Haunted Star thing
was to get close to her.

Sam returns to PH4 to tell Sonny how it went with Carly. He admits
he's baiting her and trying to get her to do something stupid in
public. My vote? Ought not to be that hard.

Carly is shrieking like a banshee when Courtney calls and tells her
that her family's on the way to the airport. She heads out with Lucky
and Lorenzo in hot pursuit.

Act II
Jason brings Michael to the airport. Michael is resistant and wants
to call Carly. Two cops show up with Carly and Lorenzo in hot
pursuit! Carly starts screaming but Jason wants her to not do that in
front of the kid.

Luke and Skye dance around what they mean to each other. Faith (all
dressed in black), shows up and asks if the three of them are on the
docks, who's watching their investment?

Nikolas tells Emily that he couldn't imagine dying because he has so
much of his life left to live with her by his side. shows up
to find them kissing. She embraces him in much the same way she did
when Stefan "returned from the dead" in November 2000. She even says
to Nik almost verbatim what she said to Stefan: "I knew you weren't
dead. Well done". They hug.

Act III
Sam and Jax meet up at Kelly's where she tells him she wants to pay
him back. He suspects she's doing this so as not to owe him anything.
He tells her that Sonny will break her like he does everyone else but
she thinks she's special and he would never ever ever do that to her.

Courtney tells her landlord at the loft that she wants to buy the
place.

Carly and Lorenzo leave the airport; there is no big confrontation.
Lucky goes to the plane to get Morgan and Leticia. Sonny tells Jason
that he was setting Carly up but it didn't work because her new
boyfriend is just too smart for him.

tells Nikolas thanks for putting Kristina in his will. She
then suggests he takes a shower. Alone with Emily, Emily thanks her
for being so patient and nice to her while she was a basket case.
tells her that there's no way she's a basket case -- a basket
case is someone who, in their fear and paranoia, blurts things they
have no right speaking aloud.

Act IV
Skye wants Faith out of The Haunted Star but Luke says he wants her
to stay. Faith leaves. Skye tells Luke she can't believe he wants
Faith around; she tells him to never kiss her again.

Jason shows up at Kelly's with a message for Jenn from Sonny.

Sonny explains to Michael that he and Carly are getting a divorce.
Michael apparently remembers the last one but Sonny tells him this
one'll stick. Sam shows up and says she thought his kids would be
gone by now.

Lorenzo tells Carly that Sonny wants her to play into his hands by
having him arrested in front of Michael. Carly can't see that Sonny
can think that far ahead to actually have a plan.

Helena sees Nikolas. Nik is surprised when she pulls him in for a one-
sided hug. She tells him she loves him so much. He doesn't appear to
return the sentiment.

Act V
Carly's lawyer quits after telling her that Jason said if she didn't,
she wouldn't have any other clients left.

Courtney and Jason run into each other outside Kelly's. They realize
that they have nothing to say to each other.

Michael tells it like it is, "Sam, you're not going to be coming
around here anymore, even though you're my dad's friend. And he's not
gonna marry you, either. 'Night" Sam tells Sonny that Michael is
obviously trying whatever he can to drive them apart; Sonny says that
actually she's just repeating what he said earlier.

Nikolas tells Helena he wants them to forge a new bond. Emily agrees
to go along, as does Helena.

Act VI

Courtney runs into Jax as she's moving out of her room. He suggests maybe he can help.

Helena asks Emily to break her engagement with Nikolas.

Lorenzo meets Jason on the docks and says he wants the custody battle over ASAP and it has to be settled between the two of them.

comes over to Carly's at Carly's request. Carly says her lawyer quit and she needs a new one. She doesn't ask for much, "You need to get me sole permanent custody of Michael and Morgan or else I will tell Sonny he's Kristina's father". Only a day after reassuring that she wouldn't do that.

Sonny fears that he may have given Sam the wrong impression: his association with her is separate from the rest of his life. Whispering, Sonny says he thinks it's a good idea that she doesn't come here; it upsets Michael. She tells him she doesn't want to be his dirty little secret and suggests it would be better if they just called it quits. He says maybe it would be.

Preview

Dillon tells Sage he'll always care about Georgie. She asks who he
wants to be with.

Sonny and Sam fight some more

Jason tells Lorenzo he doesn't want to work with him

Carly asks their first move; Alexis says she isn't gonna like it

Carly tells Lorenzo they can't see each other anymore