In their apartment, both Sami and Lucas discuss Will over lunch. Sami tells Lucas that Will doesn’t fight or argue with them now, even when they are punishing him, and that’s not like him at all. Lucas tells her that they should just go ahead and give him his space. Maybe they are smothering him. When he is ready, he’ll let them know. Sami agrees. She says they tried everything else and it’s not working so they might as well give him time.

When Will does come out of his room, Lucas stands and asks him if he still doesn’t mind changing his last name to Horton. Will doesn’t wait, telling him he really doesn’t care one way or the other. Kate is an evil bitch anyway and it makes him sick to his stomach every time he even says her last name so why not change it? All she knows is how to hurt people and be selfish. If that is her deal, whatever, Will says. He then sits and starts eating his lunch as Sami and Lucas look at each other.

After a few moments of silence, Lucas grabs his jacket and says he’s on his way over to City Hall to get the name change underway. He kisses Sami and wishes Will a good day, to which Will just shakes his hand slightly and continues eating his lunch. They look at each other again as Lucas takes off and Sami turns to watch Will finish his lunch in silence. He then stops and wipes his mouth, wanting to ask his mother a question. Sami sits down next to him and takes his hand.

He just wanted to know what made her move on from what happened to her. She pauses and says that after the trial and what she perceived as betrayal from Carrie, she was so filled with hate and rage that anger is what made her move on. She never really dealt with the trauma of what happened but blamed others for it, which was so wrong. She tells him that if she would have dealt with it, she wouldn’t have wasted all those years hating herself and her family and hiding her pain. Will then says he hopes he doesn’t handle it like that. Then he catches what he just said and looks at Sami, who is staring at him.

She then places her hand on his wrist and asks him if there is something he needs to tell her. Will looks away, trying to think of someway to cover up what he doesn’t want her to know. He says there is nothing he has to say and that he just remembered he has something to finish before he forgets. A worried Sami watches as he goes back to his room.

-Meanwhile, on the Salem Pier, Lucas bumps into Kate, who is sitting at the dock making business calls. She ends one of her calls when she sees him and stops him, apologizing for the fight. Lucas says she should. He also says that she won’t get the same from him. The respect a child should have for their mother left a long time ago when she did her umpteenth dirty rotten trick to expose Sami and hurt him and Will. Kate says that she only wants to see what type of woman Sami is.

All Lucas sees is that Kate will hurt anyone, even her family, to prove how right she is. That is sick, he tells her. Kate says that she loves her children and will do anything for them. Lucas says all she cares about is being perfect. And with her past, she should really give that a rest. Kate is silent. Lucas walks over to her and tells her that he will always respect her for giving birth to him and raising him but, that if she can’t grow up and stop acting like a two-year-old where Sami is concerned, then she doesn’t need to come around them anymore. He reaffirms that he and Will are changing their last names, which Kate accepts if that is what they want.

Kate then says that if she had a dollar for every time he said he was going to push her out of his life to which Lucas responds that he can show her better than he can tell her and walks off, as Kate looks on. Kate then sits back down, taking out her handkerchief and wiping tears away from eyes, as she looks out into the river in front of her, thinking of her mistakes.

-At Steve's therapy session, he walks in with Kayla by his side. Barbara is there and greets them both, to which Steve says that he hopes this isn’t another episode of Check The Psycho. He lays down on the couch as Kayla asks the doctor how things will be set up Barbara tells her that she knows they can’t discuss that but tells her to have faith. Kayla shakes her head in agreement and walks over to Steve, kissing him on the cheek before she leaves. As she walks out, they get down to business as Barbara puts Steve under hypnosis. Once he is under, Steve once again remembers his torture at the hands of mysterious strangers, who he can’t make out. The strangers are surrounding him, getting ready to inject him with syringes....

He starts to get violent the deeper he goes into he memories, which causes Barbara to quickly bring him back out. Once he has come out of hypnosis, he asks if he hurt her, to which she replies no. She is sensing that he is trying to go deeper but that he keeps stopping himself because subconsciously, he is scared of what he may find out. She tells him not to worry and that they are now starting to make some real progress. Steve is glad and sits up on the couch, thanking her for all her help.

But, he says, he doesn’t know what is going to happen when he finally does remember everything.......and that is what scares him the most.

-At the bar, Jack tells Billie that she must go and talk to James. She is reluctant at first but, after Jack tells her how important this is, she agrees, and starts walking very sexy down to where he is sitting. She tells him her name is Dena. He thinks she looks familiar but he doesn't catch on to her true identity. She can see that he is clearly drunk but that he is also despondent at the death of his family. Billie’s heart goes out to him but she also realizes that he may hold the key to what has been happening in Salem for all these months....and what may have happened to his family as well.

James sees her and says if she wants a one night stand, he has neither the stamina nor the patience. She flirts with him, saying that she can make it worth his wile. He says that only one lady did that and now she’s dead.....thanks to him. So are his beautiful children. They never had a chance to live, he says, and now they’ll never graduate from college, have families, or grow old with the people they fell in love with.

And it’s all his fault, he says, as he sips on his whisky, fighting back tears.

James then gets up and walks to the bathroom, without even saying a word to Billie. She walks back over to Jack, who tells her that they must be convincing in a setting like that. That’s why the bartender is asking so many questions. After they notice people staring at them, Jack insists that they dance to prove that they belong. Billie silently agrees and they go to the dance floor and start slowly dancing to the music.

Both of them then start looking lovingly into each other’s eyes. They can’t deny the sexual tension between each of them and can’t seem to take their gaze off of the other. Everyone seems to have vanished as Jack and Billie are locked in the moment. Just as they both move in to kiss the other, Jack realizes that his jacket is caught on Billie’s blouse and now they are trying to pry themselves apart from each other as everyone wonders what two nutcases just walked into their bar.

-Nicole is at her and Eric's suite. While sitting at her desk, she gets a phone call from Nico, telling her that everything has been arranged. She starts at Titan tomorrow and CPS will be over to work out the adoption with anytime now as well. Nico tells her that Victor has CPS agents on his payroll. After she thanks Nico and hangs up, she excuses herself and goes out into the hallway, where she meets with the CPS agent. When the agent asks her where her husband is, Nicole tells her that she is adopting the baby alone and, if anyone has a problem with that, take it up with Victor Kiriakis. She then signs the papers and walks back into the suite, telling the CPS agent to handle the rest, leaving the CPS agent confused and very worried.

Back in the suite, Nicole pours some Brandi and makes a toast, to making HER dream come true and to finally having the life she always dreamed of as the screen then fades out on her flashing a devilish smile.

On the Next Salem Lives...

Eric to Nicole: What the hell did you do?

Frankie to Greta: I'm not sure how to answer that questions.

James to Jack (with Billie): Something strange is going on here.

Belle to Philip: You will never have Claire. Never.

Kate: Oh my...

Steve (turns around on the pier): What the hell?