Rae: Tad.
Tad: Oh, hey, sweetheart.
Are you ok?
Rae: Yeah, I'm ok.
You brought my sunglasses,
didn't you?
Tad: Yeah.
Rae: And is the press --
are they outside?
Tad: Now, listen,
you're very lucky.
The stringers went back
to the newsroom hours ago
or home to bed.
Rae: Ok, ok, ok.
Tad: Take it easy, all right?
Rae: Ok, yeah.
Tad: Listen, Adrian,
I'm sorry about last night.
I tried to get Judge Kenelly out
of bed, and he told me to --
well, I don't think I'll go
into what he told me to do.
Rae: Listen, I do appreciate
what you're doing.
It really wasn't so bad.
Adrian: Yeah, well,
speak for yourself.
Dixie: Tad?
Tad: Yeah?
Dixie: I got your message.
What's going on?
Tad: Uh -- hi, guys.
How are you?
Listen, why don't you stand over
here with your uncle.
Honey, come here.
Dixie: What?
Tad: What are the boys doing
here?
Dixie: What do you mean,
what are they doing here?
I was on my way to school,
I checked my voice mail,
I got your message saying
to meet you here.
I thought something happened.
I mean, what was I supposed
to do?
You weren't even home this
morning when I woke up.
Tad: I know. It's my fault.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
It's about me.
It's about Adrian and Rae.
They were both just arraigned,
but I'll tell you about it
later.
Dixie: Oh, ok.
I guess I should get the kids
out of here before they find
out, huh?
Junior: So you were arrested
and spent the night in jail?
Adrian: Uh -- yeah.
Dixie: Great.
Too late.
Jamie: But you're still
coming to my class today, right?
Adrian: Yeah, this afternoon,
remember?
Mrs. Miller's social studies
class.
I'll be there.
Jamie: Uncle Adrian's talking
to my class for black history
month.
Derek: Wow.
What a paragon.
Dixie: Ok, kids,
let's let Adrian do
his business, all right?
Jamie: Hey, wait till
my class hears uncle Adrian got
arrested.
Just like Dr. Martin Luther
King.
Adrian: Well -- come here,
guys.
Listen, things aren't always
what they seem, ok?
People get arrested for all
sorts of reasons.
That's what happened
to Dr. King.
The police didn't understand
what he was really all about,
and out of fear, they arrested
him.
And unfortunately that sort
of thing still happens to this
day.
Derek: What?
Are you comparing a sit-in
to a break-in?
Hayley: Thanks, Winifred.
Mateo: Here you go.
Thank you.
Winifred: You're welcome.
Hayley: Are you sure?
It's not too late.
We can be out that door
and halfway down the driveway
by the time he gets downstairs.
Mateo: Will you stop it.
I want to go right now.
Now, don't temp me, all right?
We have to get it over with.
We have to tell him,
but your dad's going to freak.
A fire's going to come out
of his ears.
Hayley: Let him blow.
We're here as a courtesy,
anyway.
We're not here to ask
his permission.
Mateo: Right.
Hayley: Just let him hear it
from us before he hears it
from somebody else or reads it
in "The Bulletin."
Mateo: Right, right, right.
Liza: Hi.
Mateo: Hi.
Hayley: Hi, Liza.
Liza: I didn't know you guys
were here.
Hayley: Yeah, here to see
Dad.
Mateo: Yeah, yeah,
Winifred went to get him.
Liza: Oh.
Well, I was on my way
to the kitchen.
I'll give you guys privacy.
Hayley and Mateo: No, no, no.
Hayley: Stay, stay.
You should be in on this, too.
Mateo: Yeah, yeah.
We have some news.
Liza: Yeah?
Mateo: Yeah.
Liza: Well, if the smiles
are any indication, must be
really spectacular news.
Hayley: It is. It is.
Liza: Good.
Adam: Hayley.
You wanted to see me.
Hello, Mateo.
Hayley: Hi.
Dad, you want to sit down?
Adam: No, not really.
Has everyone had breakfast?
Winifred could bring in some
coffee and croissants.
Hayley: Oh, no, no,
we can't stay, Dad.
We just came to tell you that --
Adam: Tell me what?
Mateo: We're getting married.
Adam: That's wonderful news.
I hope you'll both be very
happy.
Ryan: Gillian, you've got
your whole life -- your whole
life to raise a family
of your own.
Why take part in a scheme
to take a little girl
from her mother?
Gillian: Because --
we're doing this because it's
the best thing to do for Colby.
Jake always does what's best
for Colby.
That's why he deserves to be
her father.
Ryan: He is her father.
Gillian: I mean, to be
her full-time father.
He wants to be with her all
the time.
That's what I want, too.
Ryan: If you're so sure that
what you're saying is right,
then why aren't you happy?
Gillian: I am.
Gillian: Why are you always
so good to me?
Jake: Because I know that
you love me,
no matter what your dreams tell
you.
Gillian: But what
if you found out something about
me and you stopped loving me?
Jake: What could possibly
do that?
Gillian's voice:
"On the night of my car
accident, I learned that Colby's
Adam chandler's biological
daughter.
Adam knew this all along.
Liza found out just after I did.
They can explain how this
horrible thing is true.
Liza was destroyed by the news
and asked me not to tell you.
I agreed because we both know
that you are the best father
for Colby."
Gillian: Please,
please, please let Jake
understand and forgive me, God.
Please --
Jake: Morning prayers?
Didn't mean to scare you.
Gillian: No, no, I was --
I spilled some juice.
I was just wiping it off.
Jake: Feeling all right?
Gillian: I'm fine. I'm fine.
I'm the last person you need
to worry about.
Jake: I'll always worry about
you.
I love you.
Gillian: You do? Still?
Jake: Yeah. I do.
Gillian: Oh, Jake.
You're too good to be true.
Jake: Gillian, I will always
love you.
I told you that.
Gillian: I didn't know what to expect
Jake: What,
me to fall out of love
with you overnight?
Gillian: No, but I let
you sleep
all night on the couch.
Jake: You think because you let me sleep
on the couch, I'm just going
to quit our relationship just
like that?
Hey.
No, look, I got up at,
like, 3:00 In the morning,
went and crashed at -- there's
guest room next to Colby's room.
Gillian: You went upstairs?
Jake: No, I didn't.
I staggered upstairs.
Hey, lighten up.
Lighten up.
Gillian?
Gillian: I'm just being
silly.
Jake: Look, ok, from now on,
when I wake up in the morning,
whether you wake me up or not,
I don't care.
I love you more and more,
not less.
Gillian: I'm just having
the jitters.
Grandmama said that my emotions
would be all over the place.
Jake: Well, I'll let
you in on a little secret.
I'm a little nervous myself.
Gillian: Are you really?
Jake: Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't like being in front
of large groups of people.
The worst was this paper I had
to deliver at a conference last
year.
Oh, I won't even get into it.
You thought your weather girl
audition was bad?
I had an audition for
the medical news spot.
It was horrible. Horrible.
Gillian: The one David's
doing now?
Jake: Yes.
I gladly conceded it to him.
I don't know.
I'm afraid that I'm going
to forget things to say or I'm
going to say things that
I should forget.
I'm hoping everybody's going
to be looking at you.
Gillian: Well, I'm going
to be looking at my handsome
groom.
You're going to be fine.
Jake: I know I'll be fine.
And you'll be fine.
And I don't want you to think
that I'm nervous about us
getting married.
It's everything else.
It's all the fuss of getting
married.
Why don't we make a pact?
From now on, prewedding jitters
will be
banished.
Gillian: How did I get
so lucky to have such a man like
you?
Jake: No, I was
the lucky one.
Jake: I have to shower
and shave because I'm going
to go to Myrtle's.
Look like a human for a change.
Gillian: Yeah, that's right.
We have the prewedding party
at Myrtle's.
Listen, can I just meet
you there?
I have a little shopping to do.
Jake: All right.
I got to come back and pick up
Colby.
I let her sleep.
I told Stella to let her sleep.
Gillian: Ok.
Well, I can get her if you want
to --
Jake: No, I want to come back
and get her.
Gillian: Ok.
Jake: And relax.
I know it makes you nervous.
It makes me nervous,
too, but this is it.
This is the home stretch.
Tomorrow, it'll all be over.
Gillian: I hope so.
Jake: I'll see you soon.
You're so sweet.
Bye.
Gillian: Bye.
Gillian: Where is it?
Gillian: He didn't read it.
Eugenia's voice: It is not
a coincidence.
It's fate.
The fates are conspiring to keep
Liza's secret and to help
you preserve your husband's
happiness -- and your own
happiness.
Gillian: Maybe Grandmama's
right.
He didn't read it.
He didn't find out the truth,
so maybe I wasn't supposed
to tell him.
Maybe he wasn't supposed
to know.
Derek: Dr. King practiced
nonviolent, civil disobedience
as a form of social protest.
Adrian: Even if he had
to break a few laws, which is
what I was doing last night.
Jamie: Yeah.
Why were you arrested?
Dixie: Ok, guys, why don't
we just get back to school, ok?
Adrian: No, no, no.
Actually, Jamie, you asked
a very fair question,
and I think I should answer it.
There are people out there who
exploit women by stealing
their babies.
Jamie: No kidding.
Junior: Yeah, no kidding.
Rae: Actually, it happened
to me.
I had my baby stolen from me
a long time ago.
She was taken across state lines
and sold to another family.
Your Uncle Adrian is trying
to help me find her right now
and to put a stop to the people
who do this kind of thing.
Derek: Look, Dr. Cummings,
it's a shame what happened
to you and I'm glad you're
getting help finding your baby,
but I would love to shut down
operations like those myself.
In fact, I get paid to do so.
Tad: Ok, ok.
Why don't we just calm down,
all right?
Or maybe you both should do
Mrs. Miller's social studies
class.
Turn it into a debate.
Derek: You know, I would like
that, Tad.
Man: Dr. Rae?
Dr. Rae, how about a statement?
Rae: No.
Reporter: Is it true that
you were arrested last night
for breaking and entering?
Ooh, the spy who came
in from the cold.
That's a pretty big gun you got
as a sidekick, doc.
What exactly were you after?
Adam: I don't understand.
Did I miss the punch line?
Hayley: You are
the punch line.
Mateo: Yeah.
Hayley: Well, actually,
I think we are the punch line.
Mateo: I think the joke's
on us.
Hayley: Yeah.
Adam: Well, you're delirious.
Should I be worried?
Liza: No, I think they're
happy.
Adam: Well, I'm happy
for them.
Hayley: There you go again.
What's with the Stuart
impersonation, Dad?
Adam: I can't be happy
for my own daughter?
Hayley: Well --
Mateo: You're really ok
with this?
Adam: Yes, of course I am.
Why shouldn't I be?
You're Hayley's choice.
You've turned into a fine young
man.
Mateo: Wait a minute.
Two weeks ago you were kicking
me out of her hospital room.
I was banned from this house
over the summer.
What are you talking about?
Adam: All right, but the past
is past.
You two have decided to start
over again.
Well, there's no reason
you and I can't do the same
thing.
Mateo: All right.
Hayley: Is this for real?
Adam: Liza married me
and made me a better man.
Because of her,
I'm a better husband.
Because of you,
I'm a better father.
Hayley: Because of me?
I get it.
This is part of Tad's new show,
right?
Where are the cameras?
Liza: There aren't
any cameras.
He's just playing strictly
for me.
You see, Jake is suing me
for full custody.
Hayley: I know. I heard.
Mateo: Yeah, I'm really sorry
about that.
I know how tough custody battles
can be.
Liza: Yeah. Thank you.
It is because I thought time
might help some of it,
and it hasn't.
Jake is really pushing it,
so Adam has agreed to help me
fight the custody battle,
and that has required some
extreme measures.
Hayley: How extreme?
Liza: Well, we're tabling
the divorce right now.
And we're staying together
for now.
Adam: We want to the judge
to see a stable family
environment right here
for Colby.
Hayley: With you as father
of the year.
Liza, are you crazy?
Adam: She's come to me for help.
Hayley: That's kind of a cruel joke here.
Adam: Well, you're hardly
an unbiased source on
the matter.
You're still bitter about
the way your grew up.
Hayley: We're not talking
about me.
And besides, I had a father.
Adam: Yes, yes, I'm very
grateful to Harry Vaughan
for helping to raise you.
Hayley: He was a better
parent than my own mother.
Liza: Sometimes it's not just
biology.
Adam: But I'm still
your father.
And I would love to have had
the opportunity to have raised
and to have provided
for you and to love you.
Mateo, you can understand this.
Mateo: Yeah, I understand it.
I don't think anybody's
disputing anything you're
saying -- or I don't think
Hayley is.
Hayley: No, I'm not, and I'm
not blaming you, and I'm not
trying to make you feel sorry
for me here.
You know, my father,
Harry, did the best he could,
you know, especially considering
who his partner was.
Adam: It kills me that
you had to grow up in that house
with that drunken mother
of yours.
Hayley: Ok.
Please, Dad.
I don't want to talk about me
or Arlene, really.
Mateo: Yeah.
You know what?
We came here, we said what
we had to say.
Let's just go, ok?
Adam: Please, wait.
Just wait, please.
Hayley, you're wrong.
This is about you and me
and Junior and Skye
and all of the precious moments
that I missed when you were
children.
I'll never get that time back.
Hayley: And so you're trying
to make up for it with Colby?
Adam: No, I'm not trying
to make up for it.
I just want to try to get it
right this time.
Hayley: But she's not
your child, Dad.
She's Jake's daughter.
The position of father has
already been filled.
Jake: Myrtle!
Myrtle: Hi, Jake.
Jake: Wow.
The place looks beautiful.
You up all night?
Myrtle: No.
First thing this morning.
But you look as if you were.
Big night at the hospital?
Jake: Oh, no, no, no.
Big night on the sofa.
I slept on the sofa at Wildwind.
Myrtle: Aha -- couldn't pull
yourself away.
Jake: Yeah, something like
that.
Wow.
Something smells heavenly.
What is it?
Myrtle: Well, that is
my chicken paprikash and my beef
goulash.
Jake: Wow. Myrtle.
Myrtle: Yes, I'm trying
to make Hungarian dishes
for Gillian.
Jake: Oh, she's going to love
that, really, and especially
since Eugenia's back
in Budapest.
Myrtle: Oh, will she be back
in time?
Jake: Eugenia -- yeah.
She's going to make it a quick
trip.
But I hope she comes back soon.
I think Gillian's really missing
her.
Myrtle: Oh, well, she may.
You know, she's like a mother
to her.
And a girl needs a mother
at a time like this.
Jake: Myrtle, I'm --
I'm concerned that I'm putting
too much pressure on Gillian.
Myrtle: Oh?
Jake: Yeah, with moving
the wedding up, and I'm worried
about her.
I think she's got a lot to think
about with the wedding
and the custody battle,
and she really hasn't been out
of the hospital that long.
Myrtle: Well, is she shaky?
Jake: Yeah.
This morning, she was upset
about me sleeping on the sofa,
about making me sleep
on the sofa, and she thought
that I was going to end
the relationship over it, and --
Myrtle: Oh.
Jake: She said it was nerves.
Myrtle: But -- Jake,
Jake, it could be more than
that, you know.
Jake: Like what?
Myrtle: Well, Gillian
and Ryan had such
a back-and-forth marriage.
She might just be a little
afraid of being hurt again.
[Knock on door]
Ryan: Gillian.
Gillian: I had to see you.
Ryan: Come in.
Gillian: I didn't like how
we left things at the boathouse.
Ryan: No, neither did I.
Gillian: I left you thinking
that I was unsure of how I was
feeling or what I was doing.
Ryan: Well, aren't you?
Gillian: No, you were right.
I wasn't sure, and --
Ryan: Gillian --
Gillian: But now I know.
I know who I'm supposed to be
with.
Jake: I'd never hurt Gillian.
I want the marriage to work.
Myrtle: Well, of course
you do.
Jake: Well, then she should
just trust that.
Myrtle: Well, I think
she wants to, darling,
but you have to remember that
Gillian's had a lifetime
of loneliness and
disappointment, and this
roller coaster marriage
with Ryan is simply a repetition
of everything she's known all
her life.
Jake: All that's going
to change.
She's going to be my wife,
Myrtle.
She's not going to be lonely.
She's not going to be scared.
It's going to be the fairy tale
princess with a happy ending.
She's going to be cherished
and adored by everyone.
Myrtle: You are a good man,
Jake.
Jake: Thank you.
Myrtle: And I hope
you'll have the world
on a cloud, both of you.
Jake: Thank you, Myrtle.
I already feel like
I'm up there.
Gillian: It's Jake.
I'm supposed to be with Jake.
Ryan: Give it some more
thought.
Gillian: You know,
sometimes the answers are right
in front of your eyes.
You are my past.
Jake is my future.
Ryan: You couldn't possibly
know that for sure, Gillian.
Gillian: Yes, I can. I can.
I'm going to marry Jake.
Ryan: But there is no such
thing as a sure thing, Gillian.
You can't tell the future.
Gillian: I had a sign.
Ryan: You had a what?
Gillian: I got proof.
I got proof that I'm supposed
to be with Jake more than once.
I mean, you'd probably call it
a coincidence.
Ryan: You're making
a decision that could change
the rest of your life based
on a coincidence?
Gillian: Ryan, you can make
fun of it all you want, but I'm
going to marry Jake.
Ryan: We're talking
about your life, Gillian,
your happiness.
Gillian: That's right.
It's my life, my happiness,
so let me decide what's right
for me.
Ryan: How can you say what's
right for you is to turn
your back on us?
We're not through, Gillian.
Stop running away from
the truth.
Gillian: That is your truth,
not mine.
Ryan: Really?
Well, I think you're still
in love with me.
I asked you how you can marry
another man when we still make
each other feel the way that
we do, and you avoid
the question.
Well, this time I need
you to answer me.
Are you still in love with me?
Ryan: Tell me you don't feel
this.
Mateo: Boy, look at the time.
We should be going.
Adam: I was with Colby when
she was born, Hayley, and I've
been with her nearly every day
since.
As far as I'm concerned,
she's my daughter, and
I couldn't love her more.
Hayley: That's lovely.
But your paternal feelings don't
override Jake's rights.
Now, if he were a lousy father,
that would be one thing.
But he's not.
He's a wonderful father.
Adam: Why are you taking
his side?
Hayley: He's her biological
father!
Liza: He's trying to take
Colby away from her biological
mother.
Hayley: Which is why I don't
understand why you would use
Adam as the weapon.
It's because of Adam that you're
in this position in
the first place.
Adam: Why are you saying that
to her?
Adam: I've made some
mistakes.
Hayley: The list is endless.
Adam: Liza has forgiven me.
Why can't you?
Hayley: I'm ready.
Mateo: Let's go.
Adam: You're walking out
on me when I need your support
the most?
Hayley: Oh.
I see what this is all about.
You're counting on me not to say
anything negative about you.
Am I right?
Liza: Hayley, Leslie Coulson
is going to do everything
she can to discredit Adam
as a parent.
We pretty much think that she's
going to put you on the stand
and she's going to ask
you questions about what kind
of father he was.
Adam: If she does,
Hayley, what will you say?
Derek: Hey, hey,
stop flashing those flashes
in here!
Rae: I have nothing to say.
Adrian: Look, one more shot
with that camera, and I'm going
to take that --
Tad: Wait, wait.
All right, just relax, ok?
Just take it easy.
Fellows, can you give him some
room, please?
What the hell are you trying
to do, get arrested again?
Reporter: Tad, what's
your role in all of this?
I mean, why was your brother
and the doctor breaking
into a prominent attorney's
office?
Tad: No, no, no.
I've got no comment, all right?
Would you knock it --
what is your problem?
Adrian: Oh, yeah.
Way to go there, Cool Hand Luke.
Lyle: Excuse me.
I'm Attorney Wedgewood.
I'll make a statement.
Rae: What the hell is this
about?
Tad: All right, don't panic.
Rae: What is he doing here?
Tad: Take it easy.
Try not to let him get to you,
ok?
Rae: Well, he's getting
to me, ok?
He's here to gloat, and you know
it.
My picture is going to be
smeared across every tabloid
paper in this country, and I'm
never going to find my daughter.
You know that.
Dixie: Don't say that.
Don't even think that.
Adrian: All right, guys.
Heads up.
Lyle: Doctor?
I've taken care of your reporter
situation, and I can assure that
there will be no coverage
of your arrest.
Rae: Really?
Well, isn't that generous
of you.
I'm about to be arraigned.
You going to have a little talk
with the judge, as well?
Lyle: Well, I can arrange
to have the charges against
you and your accomplice
completely dismissed
on one condition.
Tad: What's the condition?
Lyle: Well, actually,
it hinges on you, Mr. Martin.
Tad: Go on.
Lyle: Well, simply put,
if you and the doctor go away,
the charges against
her and her accomplice go away
as well.
See, I don't like being
a target.
If you'll abandon this sting
operation of yours, it'll all
end right here.
There will be no more
videotaping, no more contact,
and no more harassment of any
kind.
Deal?
Tad: Well, it's not like
we have a choice, is it?
Deal.
Lyle: Wise decision,
Mr. Martin.
Nice doing business with you.
Lieutenant, can I speak to you?
Derek: Sure.
Dixie: Everything all right?
Adrian: Yeah,
everything's fine.
Tad arranged to have all
the charges dropped.
Rae: Yeah.
Adrian: Thanks.
Rae: Yeah, thanks.
You know, now we're just going
to back off when we know that
he's up to his eyeballs in baby
brokering.
Look, I don't mean to sound
ungrateful.
I really don't.
I know you did this to protect
me.
Tad: Don't mention it.
Look, why don't we get all
of the paperwork taken care
of and I'll drive you both home.
Rae: Yeah, good.
Can you give me just a minute,
please?
Adrian: I got to take care
of this.
I'll be right back.
Rae: Mr. Wedgewood,
since you know I'm the one that
broke into your office,
I have a question about
something I saw there.
Lyle: We're not supposed
to speak of this again.
Rae: Do you know who Fannie
Battle is?
Please.
Lyle: Please stay out
of this.
For the last time, back off.
Rae: I can't.
I have to know.
Lyle: You've been warned,
Dr. Cummings.
You've been warned.
Adrian: Hey, Lt. Frye says
that we're free to go.
Rae, you ok?
Rae: Yeah.
Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
Listen, Adrian --
Adrian: Yeah?
Rae: I'm sorry I got
you arrested last night.
I know you were only trying
to help me.
Adrian: That's all right.
We got a lead, right?
Rae: Yeah, a name.
Now, if I only knew who she was
or where she was, huh?
Do me a favor.
Would you tell Tad that I'm
going to take a cab home,
all right?
Adrian: All right.
Rae: Thanks again.
Adam: Well, Hayley,
can we depend on you to help us?
Hayley: I would be under
oath.
I'd be expected to tell
the truth.
Adam: Define "the truth."
Hayley: The truth is
the truth.
You know, it needs no
definition.
It is what is it.
Liza: It would be helpful
to know what you were going
to say when Leslie Coulson
questions you.
Hayley: I know that, Liza.
I'm just not --
I'm not ready to get into this
discussion right now.
Adam: Fine.
Fine.
Just say you'll help us --
Mateo: Adam, come on.
I mean, she said she doesn't
want to get into it right now.
You know, we came over here just
to share our news with you,
to tell you we're getting
married.
Adam: A child's future
is at stake here.
Mateo: But it doesn't hinge
on this conversation.
Liza: You're right.
He's right.
They came over here to share
that they're getting married,
Adam.
Adam: I don't want to talk
about their getting married.
I want to talk about why my own
flesh and blood won't support us
when we need her the most.
Hayley: That's not fair.
Liza: Hayley, please,
don't take it that way.
Adam, you're not helping.
Barry: Hello, all. The door was unlocked, so I let
myself in.
Am I interrupting
a family meeting or --
Jake: Myrtle, I have
to shower and shave.
I got to get back to Wildwind
and pick up Colby before
the guests arrive.
Myrtle: Oh, Colby.
Is she going to join us?
Jake: Oh, yeah, yeah.
She wouldn't miss it.
Myrtle: Jake, you know,
I am so proud of you.
I remember when you first came
back to Pine Valley,
pulling that terrible the wreck
of a boat.
And you didn't know what
you wanted.
You didn't know whether
you wanted medicine or to be
a doctor like your dad.
Jake: I didn't really know
pretty much anything at that
point.
I did know I didn't want to be
called Joey anymore.
Myrtle: Well, you're not
confused now, that's for sure.
Jake: No, I'm not.
I have a little beacon
in the form of a little sweet,
drooling girl.
I'm a father, and somehow
my little girl helps me find
my place in this world,
better than any leaky boat ever
could.
Myrtle: Yeah, being a parent
must be a magical feeling.
Jake: I love it.
How come you never had kids,
Myrtle?
I think you'd be fabulous
mother.
Myrtle: Oh --
well, timing is everything,
you know?
And you've got to remember
I was -- I was a Carny girl
and I was moving from town
to town.
And, well, you can't expect
a child to pull up stakes every
three days.
No, no, a child --
a child needs good,
strong roots, you know,
like the kind that you are going
to give -- you and Gillian --
are going to give Colby.
Jake: Well, it's too bad.
I think you would have made
a wonderful parent.
Myrtle: Thank you.
Well, you know, sometimes
in life you've got to make hard
choices.
And I did.
I guess it wasn't meant to be
for me.
Gillian: Ryan, please.
Ryan: Please what?
Please stop asking you these
questions?
You can't avoid them
for the rest of your life,
Gillian.
Gillian: You avoided them.
You knew I loved you.
I told you I loved you,
but you pushed me away
all the time.
Ryan: I was an idiot.
I'm sorry.
It was my fault.
Gillian: No.
It wasn't your fault, and you're
not an idiot.
You just are what you are.
Ryan: My God, Gillian.
I'm so sorry.
When you look at me, all you see
is the man that hurt you.
Gillian: No, it's not true.
Ryan: If I could --
I could just change that,
take it all back, somehow make
you forget all that --
Gillian: You can't.
And I glad you can't
because I want to remember
the good times and the bad
times.
You've made me who I am.
I've grown up because of you,
and I know what kind of a man
I want in my life because
of you.
It's Jake that I'm going
to marry.
Ryan: If you truly love Jake
the way that you loved me,
then I'll be happy for you.
I will.
But if you're settling for him
because you're afraid --
Gillian: I am not settling
for him, and I'm not afraid
of anything.
Ryan: Well, then you have
nothing to be this defensive
about
unless what I'm saying to you is
true.
Adam: Barry, this isn't
a good time.
Hayley: We're leaving.
Liza: Hayley, please don't
leave like this.
Adam: I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to ignore
you like that -
of course I'm interested
in your wedding.
I want to help you plan it,
pay for it.
Mateo: No, no, no, no, no.
We're going to do this
ourselves.
Hayley: Our own way.
Adam: All right, fine. Fine.
Will you at least let me walk
you down the aisle?
There will be an aisle?
Hayley: Yes, there will be
an aisle.
And, yes, you can walk me down
it.
You are my father, after all.
Liza: She sounded really
thrilled, didn't she?
I'm going to walk them
to their car.
Barry: What's going on?
Why haven't you called me about
the custody hearing?
It's only a few days off.
You don't even have a game plan.
Adam: I don't need a plan.
Barry: Stuart?
Adam: No, I am not Stuart.
And I'm not worried about this
stupid custody hearing.
I am Colby's father.
When that comes out, it's over.
All I have to worry about is
the best way to reveal
my paternity.
Barry: So you do have a plan.
Adam: Of course I do.
I'm not worried about getting
Colby back.
The trick is to get Liza along
with her.
Barry: Now, don't take
your eye off the ball quite yet.
Jake Martin and his attorney are
putting up one hell of a fight.
Adam: Are they really?
Well, the harder they work
to take Colby away from
her mother, the closer I am
to getting exactly what I want.
Tad: You're all set.
Adrian: Cool.
Tad: Where's Rae?
Adrian: She headed out.
She said she'd take a cab.
Dixie: Guys, why don't
you run out to the car and wait
for me there, ok?
I'll be out in a second.
Jamie: You're still coming
to my class, right?
Adrian: Oh, yeah.
You bet.
Listen, you want to give me
a lift to the car?
I need to make a few stops
before I make
my guest appearance.
Tad: You bet.
Adrian: Come on, guys.
Let's go.
Let's blow this pop stand.
Tad: Guys --
Jamie and Junior: Don't break
anything.
Dixie: Rae seemed really
upset.
Tad: Yeah, especially now
that she knows Wedgewood's
her man.
Dixie: I was a little
surprised that you accepted that
deal so quickly.
I can understand in
the situation why you did it,
but it didn't really seem like
you, Tad.
Tad: Sure, it did.
I lied.
Dixie: Ah.
Myrtle: Darling, I would not
have asked Adrian to help
you if I had known he was going
to get you into all these
shenanigans.
Rae: No, no, no.
Myrtle, it's not his fault.
He followed me to the office.
I did this.
Myrtle: Darling,
Wedgewood -- he's dangerous.
He's connected with
the underworld.
Rae: You know what?
I don't care.
I needed answers.
And you know what?
I got a lead.
Myrtle: Oh, did you?
Did you?
Rae: Yes, I found
his planner.
In 1999 and in it was
my husband's name, Daniel.
And under it was my name
and then another name --
Fannie Battle.
You know what, Myrtle?
I don't know.
You think maybe that could be
my daughter?
Myrtle: Oh, well, now, I --
I wouldn't jump
to conclusions -- quick ones --
if I were you.
Rae: Ok.
Myrtle: What are you going
to do?
Rae: I think I'm going
to take a long hot bath.
And then I'm going to start
my search for Fannie Battle,
Myrtle.
Ok.
Myrtle: Hello.
Operator,
I want a listing for Illinois.
Elsah, Illinois.
The name is Fannie Battle.
Gillian: You are so full
of yourself.
I don't want to love Jake
the way I loved you.
That doesn't mean that I love
him any less.
Ryan: What we had was
a once-in-a-lifetime kind
of love, Gillian.
Passion.
Do you remember?
That kind of love --
Gillian: It burns out as fast
as it comes.
I want something that'll last.
I want Jake, Ryan.
Accept that and leave me alone.
Ryan: Is that really what
you want?
Gillian: Yes, it is.
Good-bye, Ryan.
Ryan: Gillian --
[Ryan grabs Gillian and they kiss]