Dario carries bags, full of
the ‘counterfeit bags’ through the park; his sister runs into him. Gabi questions what he did for Blanca to
bolt so quickly; he says she just decided he wasn’t the right guy for her,
claiming she didn’t give him a reason.
He asks about her and Chad; she tells him that she gave JJ another
chance and Chad is no longer an issue.
Dario keeps asking if she still has feelings for Chad; she says no,
because she doesn’t work with him anymore.
She has decided to franchise, expand her business with more than one
client; he says it’s probably a good thing anyway, given their family’s history
with the DeMiras. She bumps his arm and
knocks the bag to the ground; she assumes the purse is a Christmas gift for
her. Dario cannot bring himself to tell
her otherwise; she hugs him and suggests she just take it now.
Abby
stares at a picture of he and Chad, and remembers the day he took it, sitting
on the bench in the park. She lays the
picture down and picks one of Thomas’ stuffed animals. Hope’s new “protector” stands over her
shoulder while she visits with her parents, Doug and Julie. She introduces herself to them as ‘Chili’
and promises no one will lay a hand on their little girl, though she admits
Hope can pretty well handle herself.
After they leave, Hope makes a Christmas ornament; she suggest Hattie
make one too. Hattie asks why; Hope
says to hang on her tree when she gets out as a free woman. She tells her that she got word Roman is
going to look into her case; Hattie gets up and hugs her, then gets nervous at
the thought of seeing “Mr. Roman.” When
they get home, Doug and Julie talk about how they hate to see their girl locked
up in that place; Doug says at least she has some friends, even a scary one
like Chili. They decide they want to
put Christmas lights up on the outside of the house; Julie goes up to the attic
to look for them. Abigail hears her and
climbs out of the window; Julie sees the window open and closes and locks
it. Doug hears Abby as she lands on the
ground; he steps out the door and sees the little stuffed lamb. He brings it in and asks Julie if she knows
how it could have ended up there; she says maybe it was on the sill when she
closed the window.
Rafe finds Dr. Kline
and brings him into the police station, where he shakes hands with Chad (who
had come in to talk to Shaun about the case against Hope). Chad asks why his father’s physician has
been brought into this; he verifies that Steffano had diabetes, which should
have denied him the insurance policy he tried to obtain just weeks before his
death. Rafe points out, the doctor
committed fraud for Steffano. Chad
insists the doctor tell him exactly what the state of his father’s health was
at the time of his death; he said Steffano forced him to lie on those
documents, but was still denied the policy.
He says Steffano knew he was very close to death at the time of his
murder. The doctor tells Chad that his
father actually had colon cancer; he was dying and he knew it. Rafe understands now; suicide by cop, he
says.
Chad sits in the park,
contemplating his father’s death; Gabi happens by. He tells her that his dad was not the man he thought he was; he
set Hope up, knowing he was going to do.
Gabi takes his hand. Nicole
wakes up, crying, from a dream of Daniel; she apologizes to Deimos but says she
can’t pretend she doesn’t miss Daniel.
Deimos hugs her and says it’s all right. He asks her to tell him about this dream. She explains to Deimos how Chloe offered to
be a surrogate for her and Daniel; how they tried, and failed to get the
fertilized egg to take. She says they
wanted to try again, but never got another chance because Daniel died. She says having a part of Daniel would have
meant everything to her; Deimos thanks her for opening up to him about
this. She thanks him for
understanding. He suggests maybe Daniel
is appearing in her dreams “more than normal” because of Chloe’s baby. He suggests that maybe Chloe lied to them
about the pregnancy not taking; and maybe this is Nicole’s child (but Daniel
has been dead for almost a year, hasn’t he?). Nicole says the timing is off; it couldn’t be.
Dario is on the docks, passing the purses
off to the buyer; he cuts one open and pulls out a microchip – he says one
purse is missing (the one he gave Gabi)… Dario promises to get it back. He hears something bump the boxes after the
buyer leaves; it’s Abigail. He asks how
it’s possible that she is alive, and asks if Chad knows; she says he can’t
know. He pulls out his phone, but she
says if he calls Chad, she will call the cops and tell them what she just saw;
she doesn’t know what it was, exactly, but says it looked pretty damn
illegal. Dario puts his phone
down. Omg… a man calls Deimos to tell
him, “he’s tied up and ready for you, just like we discussed.” He has Philip, tied to a chair, with a gag
in his mouth, and injects him with something.
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