- Sam's sobriety is tested after he recalls his tortured past; Reese makes Tom a miserable married man; Veronica and the Burtons have a showdown; and Nick's inheritance sends one woman packing as another settles into his apartment.
- Sam's sobriety is tested after he recalls his tortured past, and Reese makes Tom a miserable married man. Meanwhile, Veronica and the Burtons have a showdown that results in a dog of a deal. While Nick's inheritance sends one woman packing, another settles into his apartment, and Lane helps out a friend in need.—NatZee
- Reese (sweetheart Shannon Sturges) is no longer going to be Miss Goody Two-Shoes. She ascertains the legal status of her sham marriage to con artist extraordinaire Tom Massick to be null and void, and that it is Peyton that is indeed married to him. Grand larceny it might be, but she is going to take care of this herself. Asserting that she doesn't intend to press criminal charges, she plans to enjoy every moment of her sweet revenge. Peyton (foxy redhead Jamie Luner) is exasperated at not having found that codisil after searching high and low. Tom smirks that now that Nick is worthless, as he has always been in his opinion, there is no need for Peyton to move in with him, and they joke callously about a future together right under Reese's nose. She comes home from work just as the two of them get cuddlesome on the sofa. Reese, now wise to them, pretends not to notice. She is cooking Tom a surprise dinner. The main ingredient being a tin of dog food. Which she garnishes with an abundance of salt to the extreme. And Tom has to eat up or risk getting kicked out like what happened to an alleged friend of Reese's hubby for being an ingrate not appreciating a home-cooked meal. Sonny Lee (Rebecca Chambers) is composing a fake Dear John letter to Martin, intended for Nick's eyes. She phones him, and fakes being too remorseful to remove Martin's belongings from the hotel room. Of course, he volunteers. She sets up her little ruse where he is sure to find the note, and flushes the ashes of the codisil down the toilet. Cassie laments her faltering relationship with Sam, while Dean finds out that Sam's wife, whom he was divorcing, has died. Veronica is going on a long journey and is shopping for traveling gear, oblivious that the private investigator hired by Edward is looking over her shoulder. Eleanor is fuming (mostly to her little lapdog Stella) about her family jewels having to be used as the bait in the trap when paste copies could equally well have snared the harlot, but Edward doesn't want Veronica to get just a mere slap-on-the-wrist $2,000 fine - he longs for the traitor to serve jailtime. Marshall Davis, the PI, phones to inform that Veronica is at the traveling agency, finding it hard to choose between Rio de Janeiro and Switzerland, and old Edward just knows which one she'd choose. Eleanor fears that the 'two-bit little tart' would soon be lying on a tropical beach where there is no extradition treaty, wearing nothing but a thong bikini and Edward's mother's ruby ring. Nick is talking to Deke on the phone, he'd handle the funeral. Meanwhile, a 'compassionate' document-searching Peyton insists on coming along to the hotel room to help Nick box up his father's belongings. Lane, researching an article on waitressing, finds a melancholic Sam at the bar, staring into the Scotch drink the recovering alcoholic ordered. He confesses responsibility for his wife's death. Nick finds the phoney letter, and Peyton finds burnt-out remains of the codisil on the bathroom floor. Sam reveals to Cassie that his former policewoman wife Anita was on the take, and that he blew the whistle on her, and she was recently slain in a fight with an inmate in Juliet jail. Further 'marital woes' for Tom as he discovers all his white underpants dyed pink by Reese's 'haphazard handling' of the laundry, but it could, of course, be just their little secret. And now she's burning breakfast. Reese doesn't really have a vindictive bone in her body and is torturing him in childishly immature ways. Sonny relates to Nick 'how she sent Martin the letter that caused his heart attack' and convinces him that his first love still loves him. Tom laments the hardships he's had to endure to Peyton who, inwardly fuming, figures out that the letter was just a ploy by Sonny Lee. Causing Peyton to realize that her adversary is not to be underestimated. Tom reckons she is not in Peyton's league. Not as dumb as she looks, Peyton concedes, "She is good, but I'm better." Sam, feeling better, receives a $100 note in the mail, the word 'Guilty' daubed on it. Edward is informed that Veronica is at the bank, he smiles triumphantly at Eleanor, "My dear, the game is afoot!" and he sets the wheels in motion to have her grabbed, "She tried stealing my valuables, got her hand caught in the cookie jar!", but as should have been expected, the fly little fox (Beth Toussaint in a short mini-dress and high heels, showing off her long legs) is one step ahead of the old goat as usual. When she is forced to open the safety deposit, despite her protests, in police presence, it contains a Pandora's box of all Edward's recent evildoings, including (1) her tell-all diary of past events, (2) a copy of the golden-handshake Second Chances cheque she received from Edward, (3) a copy of the cheque he paid out to Rita Winsler, and (4) the shell casing of the blank fired at Edward during the faked assassination attempt. Not forgetting (5) a document linking Edward to the torching of the riverboat. Lieutenant Wheeler is thrilled to have all of these incriminating goodies in his lap and warns everybody not to leave town. Eleanor secures the jewels and will take them to First National, her own safety deposit box. Jim, a lawyer, came to tell Nick and Sonny Lee that although he inherits $40 million in assets, but what with the IRS, two outstanding lawsuits and more, the liabilities almost exceed that, and that he'd be lucky to clear $25,000. Nick is surprised to find out just exactly how much his upstanding father lived by the edge. Sonny Lee just sighs that nothing from Martin's side surprises her anymore. Nick doesn't really feel any loss, all he really wants is Sonny Lee, but she, the gold-digger, of course has other ideas now. Outside the bank, Veronica waylays Eleanor, "Stay away from me, you reprobate!" but she has kidnapped little Stella, and wants the family jewels in exchange. Peyton gleefully observes her rival sneaking off to 'attend to an emergency back home', and is told, with a smirk, that she can have Nick. Sam receives another bank note similarly scrawled upon, along with a note saying that he is the one that should have died in Juliet. Nick phones Sonny Lee, but has to hear that she has checked out. Peyton congratulates her accomplice 'Jim' who is not a lawyer at all, in fact, the only bar he could pass, is a closed one. She saunters off. Tom, a 'liberated man' is cooking his own meal. Reese is 'dismayed', she sobs that he'd never have married her sober. But he is about to prove her wrong. They'd have a real wedding to prove his love for her. Reese grins to herself. A furious Edward has revenge fantasies re Veronica, only to have to discover, as a bereft Eleanor, holding little Stella, tells him that he'd have to pour himself another drink... An elegant white limo is driving Veronica to the airport. She smiles at her loot, the ruby ring she is wearing. Sam tells Dean somebody's out to kill him. Robert Webber is inquiring about Sam at the riverboat where Cassie has just performed. Peyton brings Nick the news that Jim was just a hired actor and that he might not be as poor as he thinks. She tells him he could always phone Sonny Lee and pretend that he has won the lottery, and she'd bet Sonny Lee would be back in record time. Nick questions her about her own sincerity, and Peyton gamely responds that he has about an equal chance to be rich or poor. She is a gambler, she'd take her chances either way. To which Nick responds asking her when she is moving in with him.
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