Althea angrily confronts John over his tactics with Nick, and John goads her into admitting that she once considered Nick the villain in their marriage. Emma reassures Billy that Carolee still loves him even though she's giving all of her attention to baby Stephanie. Later, Emma asks Billy if he'd like to live with her, just the two of them. Billy wonders if Steve will adopt him, as he intends to do with Stephanie. Maggie admits to John that she saw Frank in the clinic and fears that she just invented him as a way to punish Matt. John draws a parallel between the trouble of Matt and Maggie's marriage and the problems Nick and Althea had in theirs. Then he manipulates Maggie into telling him that Nick once accused Althea of being a failure as a wife, a mother, and as a woman. After her session with John, Maggie phones George Cadman at police headquarters.
—Skip Eastport