Opal: All right. Let's see what else Madam Planchette has.

[Doorbell rings]

Opal: Oh, the devil. Now, that -- it's in reverse, though. That means that whatever you might interpret it as being, it's not so bad.

Janet: Trick or treat.
Dixie: Oh.
Tad: Trick.
Janet: I'll spread your number all over a telemarketers' convention. How about that?
Dixie: Oh, no. I think we should have gone for the treat.
Janet: What you got?
Tad: Oh, just your Halloween traditional fare -- eyeballs, guts, and of course brains.
Janet: Actually, I'm cutting back on body parts. Thank you, anyway. So, are the ghouls and goblins worn out yet?
Dixie: Not even close.
Janet: What's Opal supposed to be?
Tad: We're not sure. Either Norma Desmond or Madam Planchette, Mistress of the Occult and Tarot.
Dixie: She's doing reading for the kids, as you can see.
Tad: Eenie beanie chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak.
Opal: Silence, please. Your small talk is scrambling my spirit vibes.
Dixie: Right.
Tad: Your spirit vibes.
Opal: All right. Now, here. This is a Celtic Cross, Junior. And this card here is the magician. This represents your recent past, which I would interpret it to mean that you have arrived at an enchanted moment.
Dixie: Ooh.
Opal: That's what I would think. Yeah.

Junior: Opal?
Opal: Yeah?
Junior: Do things live in the woods?
Opal: You mean like, what, furry woodland creatures?
Junior: No, like ghosts and goblins and shadow people?
Dixie: Shadow people?
Amanda: Yeah. You see them out the corner of your eye.
Jamie: And when you turn around, they're not there.
Tad: Now, wait a minute. Are you guys talking about the elves that hide your car keys or steal socks from the dryer?
Opal: You know, as far as I'm concerned, no, there are no shadow people or goblins. But let's consult the cards and see what they have to say, huh? This card here is the moon. Could this tell us anything about --

Amanda: Should we tell the grownups what we saw?
Jamie: What you saw -- not.
Amanda: It was an old, gnarly witch. For real.
Jamie: No. There's no such things as witches. Except maybe in storybooks and Mrs. Wigger down the street.
Amanda: Witches and goblins and stuff come out at night, and especially Halloween night. And that witch could be outside waiting for us right now.
Petey: Come on, Mom. Tell us. Are the woods really filled with creeped-out -- just creeped out by people?
Opal: Well, now, honey, you're just going to have to give me a moment of silence --

Tad: It doesn't take a psychic to see that Junior is still freaked out by that Ray Gardner nightmare.
Dixie: Think that's why he's asking about the shadow people in the woods?
Tad: Yeah, it's got to be. Adam's got him completely convinced there's monsters everywhere. Now, I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned, the only monster in Junior's life is his father.

Liza: What did you say?
Adam: Uh -- nothing.
Liza: No, it wasn't nothing.
Adam: Well, you know how I feel about Colby. I misspoke.
Liza: No, I don't think you did. I think you told the truth the only way you know how, which is by accident.
Adam: Liza, don't make too much of this.
Liza: I was talking about Colby's stem cells, but you were talking about something different. You were talking about something huge.
Adam: Can we just drop that subject -- this subject? Colby's stem cells are intact. And God forbid, if she ever needs them, we should be grateful.
Liza: I was driving home from the lab, and I was thinking, "Why would Adam care, stand in the way of the transfer of her cells?"
Adam: Because the cells belong to Colby.
Liza: The cells were not to protect Colby. You were trying to protect yourself.
Adam: That's ridiculous.
Liza: Is that the truth? You knew that the lab would run the DNA. Test and it would prove that Colby isn't Jake's daughter, that Colby is your daughter.
Adam: Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, damn it! Colby is no part of Jake Martin. No, I am her father. Colby is ours. Our flesh and blood. Yours and mine.

Jake: Anybody ever comes between you and me, that's it, they're toast, right? You know what? Colby, I think we're boring your pal Hayley with all this baby talk.
Hayley: Oh, stop it. You two are beyond adorable. I'm just worried about Ryan. He's still not here.
Jake: He got hung up somewhere.
Hayley: He would have called. He would have left a message.
Jake: Gillian's late, too. Maybe she and Ryan -- ah. I'm sorry. I didn't realize things had gotten to this stage.
Hayley: What stage?
Jake: Oh, the stage when you're freaking out when the new man in your life is about five minutes late.
Hayley: First of all, he is not the new man in my life. He is my good friend, which is what I tried to tell Mateo tonight, sort of.
Jake: You saw him?
Hayley: He followed me to the boathouse.
Jake: Followed or stalked?
Hayley: No, he's just -- he's -- he's confused about Ryan and me, and he thinks that we're sleeping together.
Jake: Where did he get that idea?
Hayley: Well, he sort of declared the idea, and I didn't do anything to dispute it. And now I'm really worried, you know, because Ryan is out there somewhere and Mateo is out there, too, and I just -- I just -- I pray that nothing bad happens.

Hayley's voice: I didn't want to have this discussion with you now, here like this. But I'm not going to lie to you. I care about Ryan a lot. And it goes beyond friendship.

Mateo: Damn it!
Adrian: I take it that was something that was aimed at somebody in particular.
Mateo: Lavery.

Ryan: Gillian, just, please, pull the car over and let me drive. Stop the car, Gillian!
Gillian: No! No, I have to get to Jake before --

[Tires screech]

[Gillian screams]

[CRASH]

Liza: You're Colby's father. Is that the truth?
Adam: Yes. I made it happen. I had to because I love you. Liza, you'd cut me out of your life. You were going to have a child without me. You were going to have artificial insemination. But I knew that I could get you back. And I was right.
Liza: Jake was the donor. So you switched the samples? How did you manage that?
Adam: I bought the damn fertility clinic and switched samples with him. Liza, we deserved a second chance. After our child died, we earned the right to start over.
Liza: Start over with a lie?
Adam: I -- I ached to tell you the truth.
Liza: I guess you did. "Colby -- I am a father to Colby in more ways --" you did. How many times did you tell me that?
Adam: You have no idea what it cost me to keep that secret. Being elbowed aside by the fatuous Jake Martin the day Colby was born and watching him put his name on her birth certificate and taking -- claiming all of the rights and privileges that belong to me.
Liza: If it was so painful, why didn't you tell the truth?
Adam: I tried to. Several times I sounded you out.
Liza: Yes, you did.
Adam: I would say, "Wouldn't you like it if I were Colby's biological father?" And you know what you said every time? You said yes. It gave me the courage to think that maybe someday you'd understand what I did and thank me.
Liza: Thank you?
Adam: Yes. Liza, every dream we've had is true. It's coming true. We are husband and wife, we have a beautiful child, and we have a limitless horizon. And I did it. I gave us our daughter because I never for one minute lost sight of us. Liza, I am the one who is constant in all this. I never wavered in my love for you. I gave us Colby as a promise for the future. And the waiting has been hell. But it was worth it because I knew that when the truth came out, when you realized what I had done and why I had done it, then we could start the life that we both want -- that we all three want. Just the three of us.

Jake: You really think Matt's out-- really out to get Ryan?
Hayley: You know, the Mateo I fell in love with was so sweet and gentle. But he has done things -- he has done things that horrify me. I mean, deliberate acts of cruelty.
Jake: Have you ever hurt him on purpose?
Hayley: Tonight I did. I let him think that Ryan and I were sleeping together to pay him back for Raquel. I mean, how stupid is that?
Jake: Well, not stupid, just temporary regression. Matt's probably out cooling his heels somewhere, and Ryan and Gillian will show up any time.
Hayley: You really think?
Jake: Yeah. Ryan probably is hung up with some trick-or-treaters somewhere. No problem. I need to get over to Tad's before -- we need to get over to tad's before the candy runs out, right?
You want to come with? Hayley: Is this a mercy invite?
Jake: Not a mercy invite. It's Halloween.
Hayley: Oh, that's right. The day of the dead. What fun.
Jake: Come on. Are you coming?
Hayley: What do you think, Colby? All right, I'll come.
Jake: All right, all right. We'll leave a forwarding address here for Ryan and Gillian. Hayley, don't worry. Matt will come out of this all right.

Mateo: Listen, I just want to be alone, all right? Give me the keys.
Adrian: Friends don't let friends drive in a blind rage.
Mateo: Give me the damn keys!
Adrian: You step down off the dock, and I'll give you these back.
Mateo: Oh, my --
Adrian: Look, don't think about hitting me, all right? I'm your friend not your punching bag. Now, the last time I checked, you were on your way over to Hayley's with a fistful of flowers. I take it things didn't work out the way you planned.
Mateo: I show up, Lavery's buttoning up his shirt. Hayley comes down the stairs. She's in a nightgown, full seduction mode. I mean, if they didn't have sex, they were just about to.
Adrian: Maybe there's some other explanation.
Mateo: Yeah, like what, Ryan's being there for her?
Mateo: Listen, man, I know that Hayley cares about me. I do. But Lavery's doing a number on her, man. It's like she doesn't believe in us anymore. It's like she's scared to be around me.
Adrian: Mateo, maybe she needs to handle this one by herself.
Mateo: But she's not by herself. Lavery's all over her. He's coaching her.
Adrian: Take it from me -- and I had to learn this the hard way. Belinda left me. Not because I didn't love her, but because I didn't love her the way she needed me to. And maybe -- maybe -- the way you love Hayley isn't good enough for her right now.
Mateo: But Ryan is?
Adrian: Look, I'm not going to touch that, all right? All I know is you got problems and smashing pumpkins against the wall is not going to solve them.
Mateo: So what am I supposed to do, just sit on my hands while Lavery has access to my wife 24-7?
Adrian: Look, forget about Lavery. Get your mind on something else. I'm on my way over to Tad and Dixie's for a little Halloween celebration. Why don't you come and join us, man? Who knows? Maybe life will look a little brighter in the morning.
Mateo: My life's not going to get any better until Lavery's out of it -- forever
Ryan: Gilly.
Ryan: Gill--
Ryan: Gilly?
Ryan: There's gas, Gilly. There's gas. Gill-- Gillian --

Opal: Well, I want to tell you something, Junior. I once knew a guy that was so scary, he could scare the fuzz off of Bigfoot. This guy was 6'2" of pure, unmitigated evil. But that guy is dead and gone now. He's six feet under, and he can never hurt anybody ever again, ok?
Junior: Well, what about witches, you know, all that kind of stuff?
Opal: Well, I don't think you're going to find any witches around these parts, not even on Halloween.
Junior: I told you. You didn't see any witch in the woods tonight.
Amanda: Did so.
Jamie: No, you didn't. You were just being a scaredy cat.
Janet: Wait a minute. You kids were in the woods tonight?
Opal: What in blue blazes were you doing in the woods?
Dixie: Was Becca with you?
Amanda: We sort of ditched her. But we ran into Hayley.
Dixie: Wait a minute. I think you should back up and tell us the story from the beginning.
Amanda: Well, trick-or-treating was a real snooze. Nobody was giving out good candy. Jamie: Yeah,
the Hensons gave out pencils.
Junior: So we decided to look for the bottle cap guy.
Amanda: And while we were looking, I saw some ugly, old witch fly by on her broomstick.
Jamie: You didn't say anything about a broomstick.
Junior: Yeah, and there wasn't any witch.
Amanda: Was so.
Junior: Was not.
Amanda: Was so.
Junior: Was so.
Amanda: Was not.
Junior: Gotcha.
Tad: Becca? You want to tell us what happened tonight?
Becca: I'm really sorry. I have no idea how we got separated. And it's completely my fault. I'm really sorry.
Dixie: Oh, it's ok. Sounds like you were the victim of a kids' conspiracy.
Janet: Amanda, wait. Why aren't you wearing your costume?
Amanda: We took them off when we got to the boathouse.
Becca: Well, I went to the boathouse and the costume wasn't there.
Amanda: I'm sorry I lost my costume, Mommy. I'll pay for it out of my allowance.
Janet: No, no. We'll talk about that later. I want to hear more about this bottle cap man.
Dixie: Yeah, me, too.
Tad: Ditto.
Opal: Yeah.
Dixie: Junior, come here. Tell us what happened, ok?
Junior: Well, this is going to sound kind of freaky, but do you remember when I ran away?
Dixie: Honey, how could I forget?
Junior: Well, I found my way out of this -- out of the woods by this trail of bottle caps.
Dixie: I don't remember you mentioning anything about that.

Tad: That was a nice save, Ma, the way you answered Junior's question.
Dixie: Well, my goodness. I mean, life nowadays is scary enough as it is. You don't need any imaginary bogeyman.
Tad: Especially when you've got a father like Adam Chandler.

Liza: This lie that you forced on me, you think I should be happy, we should celebrate a year's worth of deception?
Adam: Liza, we deserve this happiness.
Liza: Built on the shoulders and the hearts of other people -- me and Jake and Ruth and Joe and my mother. You sat back while we lived out your master plan. Jake is Colby's father. It will rip his heart out. That should make me happy?
Adam: What about my heart? How do you feel about that?
Liza: Don't you admit that this is the most despicable thing?
Adam: All I did was force the inevitable. You and Colby are my destiny.
Liza: What about Jake's destiny? And Ruth and Joe and my mother? They fell in love with her, and you knew. You knew it would destroy them.
Adam: Oh, come on. They'll get over it. Jake will meet somebody. Let him start his own bloody family.
Liza: Colby is his family.
Adam: No, not from this moment on. No. This is the day I declare my independence. Jake has no more say in the matter. He doesn't call the shots. If I want to indulge Colby's sweet tooth or take her out after her bedtime, then that's my call. No more Jake.
Liza: Oh. You're enjoying this.
Adam: Yeah, I think I am because deep down in my heart I know that what I did was right for you and me and Colby.
Liza: And you get to decide that by yourself?
Adam: At the time, I had no choice. I know that this is a shock to you. Remember the dream that we shared? This is it. This is that dream. It has come to life -- the family we want, the life we want. Where is the crime in that?
Liza: You don't see?
Adam: No. What I see is I love you more than I've ever loved any other woman. And I have endured more because I knew that whatever I suffered at the hands of Jake Martin was temporary because heaven was close at hand. Liza, I'm not a perfect person. You know that. You've known that for a long time. But you have been the saving grace. Your love -- the saving grace in my life. I love you imperfectly, but madly and completely. And you love me, too. And it is out of that love, the love that we have for each other and for Colby, that I believe you'll forgive me. You do forgive me, don't you?

Liza: You know, Adam, there's no one like you. You're really a true original.
Adam: Oh, no, no, no. There are two of us. We both know what we want, and we both know how to make it happen.
Liza: True. I -- we set goals and have plowed over people, and I regret that I've done it. It's not what I want for Colby.
Adam: Honey, you're a mother now. Naturally you're more cautious.
Liza: Naturally you're more deceitful. How many times did you ponder this, think about it while you were in the office, all these lies that have brought you to this marvelous point?
Adam: Darling, you're not seeing the big picture.
Liza: No, I -- there's no picture. I was thinking about the future, and you were manipulating things in the past and the present so that they would be the way that you wanted. And the thing is you're not even sorry. You're actually -- you're actually happy. You think of yourself as a hero.
Adam: No, no. I just got us where we both wanted to go.
Liza: You can't justify all of this in the name of love. There are other people's feelings to consider. There's Jake and Ruth and Joe and my mother. Aren't their feelings worth considering?
Adam: Only after I've made things right for my wife and my daughter.
Liza: I believed you. I trusted you that you had changed, that -- you convinced me that you had accepted Jake as Colby's father. I believed that you were sincere. I didn't see any cracks.
Adam: Sweetheart, there are no cracks in my love for you. It's sullen and real. I have been true to you always.
Liza: No, you did this for you. You did this for your own selfish reasons. I took you back. And I loved you more each passing day. I believed that you had changed, that you had sacrificed your ego and your need to control things for tenderness and kindness. And I believed you. I believed the worst lie of all -- that you loved me.
Adam: My love for you is real, not a lie. I love you with all my heart.
Liza: Adam, you don't have a heart. You don't care about anybody but yourself.

Jamie: We weren't gone that long.
Becca: Well, just long enough to send me into vapor lock.
Junior: We didn't even get to meet the bottle cap man.
Dixie: Oh, thank heaven for small favors. Now, you guys apologize to Becca for scaring her half to death, huh?
Junior: Sorry, Becca.
Jamie: Sorry.
Amanda: Yeah, we're sorry.
Jamie: Sorry.
Becca: It's ok. It's ok. I'm just glad nothing happened.
Amanda: But what about that witch? She was really creepy.
Janet: Sweetheart, it's Halloween. I mean, there must have been dozens of kids dressed up as witches out there.
Amanda: It wasn't a kid.
Janet: Well, maybe it was some teenager trying to scare you to death.
Becca: Back in Pigeon Hollow, there was this guy, ok? He dressed up as Freddie Krueger every year and was jumping out of these bushes trying to scare us half to death.
Junior: Who's Freddie Krueger?
Tad: Never mind. I think we've had enough scares for one Halloween.
Janet: Wait till they start driving.
Tad: Or hit puberty.
Dixie: Or attend their first rave party.
Opal: Oh, yeah, that'll make witches seem tame by comparison.

Jake: Trick or treat, trick or treat.
Tad: Glad you could make it there, pal.
Opal: Oh, look. Well, Colby sure is just as cute as a little flower, huh?
Dixie: Come here, sweetie. My turn. Come here. Oh, what a happy Halloween. Your first Halloween.
Opal: , Yeah. Come here, cutey.
Dixie: Yeah, Martin family style.
Jake: Hey. Still worried about Ryan?
Hayley: And Mateo. I'm telling you I can't shake it.
Jake: Don't worry. I mean, they're both good guys. You give them a chance, you know, they might surprise you.

[Car approaches]

Mateo: Gillian? Hey. It's Matt. Hey, can you here me? Gill? Ok, Gill, listen. There's gas everywhere. I don't want to move you, but I got to move you, ok? Come on. Ok, ok. I left my phone in the car. Be right back.

[Ryan moans]

Jake: Hayley, kick back and enjoy. Come on. Gillian and Ryan will get here when they get here.
Hayley: You're right. I'm being a big pain in the rear end. Thanks for straightening me out.
Jake: Want some? Come on.
Hayley: In a minute. You know, I think I'm going to check my voice mail to see if Ryan called.
Jake: You -- you are -- you're hopeless.
Hayley: Oh, work on a cure.

Tad: If it isn't the late, great Adrian sword deigning to make an appearance.
Dixie: Hey, stranger. We don't see enough of you.
Opal: Well, I've got all three of my boys under one roof. That is just a rare treat.
Adrian: Opal, where's your costume at?
Opal: Oh, very funny. Tad: Mama was gypsy before gypsy was cool.
Opal: That's right. I'm a trendsetter.
Tad: What took you so long?
Adrian: Oh, I took a little shortcut though the woods on my way over here, ran into someone.
Amanda: The witch?
Adrian: Not quite. It was Mateo. We kind of hung out for a little while.
Dixie: Oh.

Hayley: Adrian -- I'm sorry. Will you excuse me for a second? Can I talk to you? Did you say you saw Mateo? How did he seem?
Adrian: Not good. A little edgy, angry.
Hayley: At me?
Adrian: You, but mostly Ryan. I tried to talk him down, but he was wound way too tight to hear me.
Hayley: This is what's really starting to freak me out. I mean, his temper is spinning out of control.
Adrian: Oh, I'd say he was out of control.
Hayley: You know, last time he and Ryan got into it, Mateo used his fists.
Adrian: Ah. I can say I've known several guys like him -- just a powder keg waiting for somebody to strike that match.
Hayley: Was he looking for Ryan?
Adrian: I couldn't say for sure. But if I were Ryan, I wouldn't show my face anywhere near Mateo, not in the mood that he's in.

Mateo's voice: Lavery's doing a number on her, man. It's like she doesn't believe in us anymore.
Adrian's voice: Forget about Lavery, man. Get your mind on something else. Who knows? Maybe life will look a little brighter in the morning.
Mateo's voice: My life won't be better till Lavery's out of it -- forever.

[Ryan coughs]

Jake: Can I pry her away from you?
Dixie: No way.
Jake: I know how much you wanted a baby girl of your own.
Dixie: I still dream about Bess.
Jake: Anytime you want a baby fix, Colby's available. No such thing as too much love, right? Hmm? Hmm?
Dixie: Your daddy is a very wise man. And you're a very lucky girl because you've got such a wonderful family who's going to love you forever.
Jake: I can't even remember what life was like before her. And I can't imagine what life would be without her.
Dixie: Thank goodness you won't ever have to.

Adam: Liza, my love for you is not a lie.
Liza: Everything you do is a lie. You don't do anything out of love. You impregnated me without my consent, Adam.
Adam: Yes. What's done is done. Colby is a reality. She's our greatest joy. Doesn't that count for something?
Liza: Junior's a reality. You had a child with Dixie without Brooke's knowledge. Brooke divorced you. Should I be any more understanding?
Adam: That's hardly the same kind of situation. I never cheated on you.
Liza: No, you cheated yourself. And Junior. And he has a father now -- Tad. He has this father who loves him just the way he is, a father who doesn't need a clone of himself to make him feel immortal. But that's what you wanted. You wanted someone for you, where you could rebuild the world to your specifics. And so you made a decision. You sowed a seed inside of me, and I carried your child for nine months. And I labored that child into the world. And I love that child, and I nurture that child. And it's your child. And you got everything you ever wanted, and you didn't have to love me. You used me the way you used Dixie -- to breed a child in your own image.
Adam: Liza, do your worst. I'll take your anger, even your rage. But don't you for one minute doubt that I love you.
Liza: Adam, what you did to me had nothing to do with love. You raped me.

Opal: Oh, hey, good one. Hey, look at him.
Dixie: Look at those droopy little eyelids.
Jake: Oh, yeah, I think it's time for the sandman, right? You're going to go off to your port-a-crib, sweet pea.
Dixie: Ok. Well, you know, make sure that you take her costume off.
Jake: I know the drill. Here we go. Oh, boy. That's right. You coming? Huh?

Janet: This is us leaving. We'll pick up your daddy on the way home.
Amanda: Ok.
Janet: What do you say?
Amanda: Thank you.
Janet: Thanks a lot. We had a great time.
Opal: You're on your way?
Janet: Yeah.
Opal: All right.
Janet: Bye-bye.
Tad: See you all later.
Jamie: Bye, Amanda.
Tad: Bye, Amanda.
Janet: We enjoyed celebrating with you. Are you afraid sweetheart? There's no Halloween witches out there. Not in the boathouse or the woods or anyplace in Pine Valley.
Amanda: I know what I saw.

Jake: So, what's the good word?
Hayley: There is no good word. I'm going to get out of here, too. There's no message on my machine, and Ryan and Gillian never made it to BJ.'S.

Ryan: Gilly. Gilly. Gas. Fire.
Mateo: Gillian's safe.
Ryan: Help me. Help me.
Ryan: Help.