Barbara asks James just what the hell he thinks he's doing and tries to bring Lucinda back to conciousness. James taunts Barbara that the longer Lucinda stays knocked out, the more time he has to work on getting Worldwide. Barbara protests and tells James that she's through with his games.

Maddie inadvertantly runs into Heath at Java. He apologizes for slapping her and tells Maddie that he's working on his drinking. Maddie laments that she never imagined the boy she grew up with would one day, slap her while he was drunk. Heath breaks under pressure and begs Maddie for forgiveness, asking what one thing he can do to make Maddie forgive him.

Susan joyfully presents new to Hal that the blood clot has grown smaller and injects his I.V. with the experimental drug one more time. Hal later confides in her that he's sacred he might die. They also talk about Emily and how they both worried while she was with Paul that she might go crazy.

Roxie and Lisa meet Tom in the hotel lobby and discover that Nadine's totebag was mysteriously empty. Later, Roxie checks her mail and finds a letter that says "Life would be better without you in it. Prepare to die". Meanwhile, we see Nadine go into a flashback of spotting Tom and hiding the posion she had kept in her totebag.