I’m up to March 02, 1999.
*On this Valentine's Day, we mourn the loss of Hart Jessup. So sad.
Rick calls Cassie back to the hospital and tells her Hart’s condition has turned for the worse as the bullet is moving closer to his heart. Cassie has to talk to Hart and get his permission to operate. Hart tells the ominous white light nurse that he’s not going to die and then later tells Cassie he wants to have the surgery. She brings him RJ so they can have bonding time before his surgery. They also talk about how he needs to hurry and get better because they have a wedding to plan.
Annie uses her one phone call in jail to Ben and reminds him that he has Lewis Oil to lose if he doesn’t help her. Ben leaves Blake with Ross to take care of the twins and heads to the station. He finds out that Alan is upset with Annie and no longer supporting her, so Ben leaves, telling Annie that without Alan’s backing, he has no reason to help Annie. She stops him though and says she can convince Alan to come back, so she calls Alan and leaves him a voicemail where she’s sobbing and apologizing, which Ben thought was a good performance. Meanwhile, Alan confides in Phillip that he doesn’t know how to kick this bad habit in needing Annie. Phillip pleads with him to stop fighting with the Lewis family and just make peace. David finds the lady that Alan paid off/bribed to steal the real Teri’s body from the spa and bring her to SF, and who also destroyed all the medical files on Teri. He secretly taped her confession and Josh/Reva will use this information to get Alan to give up on Annie and his Lewis Oil takeover. Unfortunately, Alan succumbs to Annie’s pleas in jail and decides to continue supporting her.
Blake and Ross reminisce about their past and they are friendly to each other. Josh then calls the house and tells them they found Holly and she’s safe, which makes them happy. They have a tender goodbye as Ross leaves. Blake laters sees Holly, who is in a padded cell on suicide watch. Very sad scenes here with Blake trying to convince Holly that her life will get better and it’s worth living. Holly doesn’t think it’s possible that anyone will forgive her and she wants to die. Blake then lets the twins wave at Holly before they go, and it seems like it might give Holly some hope. Blake later asks Ross to be Holly’s lawyer since she trusts him. Ben is miffed by this, thinking he’ll be better, but Blake doesn’t think it’s a good idea and he concedes.
Vanessa is still staying quiet on Dinah’s whereabouts, so Billy comes in and thinks he’s the only one who can get her to open up. @P.J. !!! He tells her he understands why she’s doing this and he would do the same for any of his three kids. He then tries to convince her to fight for her marriage (while also saying he can’t believe he’s asking her to go back to the guy he lost her to). It seems to work and Vanessa is ready to post bail and go home to Matt. Meanwhile, Beth is with Matt asking about his thoughts on his marriage. He won’t start divorce papers until she’s out of jail, but Beth keeps pushing him back towards her if that’s really what he wants. He then grabs Beth and kisses her, in an attempt to get her to believe his marriage is over. She says that while they both may be attracted to each other, he’s still in love with Vanessa and needs to focus on that. If the marriage does eventually end later, he can kiss her again. Beth leaves and later, Vanessa comes home and is happy to see Matt and Maureen there, but they quickly get into a tiff when Vanessa hears that Beth was there. Matt gets a little upset with Billy’s support in the moment, but they eventually apologize to each other. They take a night to sleep on whether they want to be together, and they decide to meet at the Towers the next day at 8, and if they both show up, then they have their answer. The next morning, Matt arrives at the Towers with his computer, with a plan to reconnect with Vanessa the same way they did in the chat rooms back in 1997 (so cute!). Lillian shows up to Vanessa’s house and they talk about her situation like old friends, with Lillian giving her good advice. Vanessa says she plans to meet Matt that night and is very excited about it, which makes Lillian happy.
At Spaulding, the lady that David found has arrived, panicked and looking for Alan. Vicky talks to her and realizes that David tricked her by pretending to be a Spaulding employee. He had taken Vicky’s ID card at their last date, which ended in a little tiff. Vicky then calls David, pretending to apologize and wants to have another date at the Towers that night. They later have their date, dance and kiss. He invites her to his room at the boarding house and she gets him to grab a bottle of wine downstairs while she snoops around. She finds her ID card and later allows them both to make out in their underwear in bed, but then abruptly stops before they go all the way and says she has to leave room for more surprises. He’s confused and she leaves, telling herself that was just the beginning.
At the Towers, Matt is waiting on Vanessa and starts to think she isn’t coming. He calls Spaulding looking for her, but starts to think she never planned to meet him and their marriage is actually over. He leaves and heads to Spaulding, while Vanessa arrives shortly after. She’s excited and grabs a special table for them while she waits for him. Matt gets to Spaulding and finds Beth and tells her Vanessa doesn’t want to be with him anymore. Ok, this whole things is frustrating because the timeline is off. Matt is at the Towers all day waiting, while Vanessa is at work, and then Vicky arrives at 8pm to meet with David and Matt has already left well before 8pm which is the time he was supposed to meet Vanessa. Anyway, Vanessa is surprised Matt isn’t showing up, while Matt tells Beth he’s off to have several drinks. Vanessa gives up and walks out, just as Matt enters again from the other door, just missing each other. Vanessa calls Lillian from the lobby and tells her it’s over and she needs someone to talk to. Vanessa walks back through the restaurant to leave, missing the fact that Matt is sitting at the bar. Beth then shows up to talk to Matt and he gets drunk and starts to hit on another woman until Beth is able to stop him. Meanwhile, Lillian convinces Vanessa that he must be in trouble because there’s no way he wouldn’t show up or call. As Lillian calls the hospital, a laughing and drunk Matt and Beth walk through the door, with Matt hanging all over Beth. OH if looks could kill, both Vanessa and Lillian look very unhappy and annoyed. Vanessa lays into them and Beth yaps back, so Lillian forces Beth to leave with her so Vanessa/Matt can talk. Outside, Lillian tells Beth that Vanessa was waiting for him, so Beth now realizes what happened. OH, come to find out, I guess Matt meant 8am for breakfast and not 8pm for dinner. Man, Matt literally stayed at the Towers for 13 hours waiting haha. Beth goes back inside to tell them about the time misunderstanding, but she overhears Vanessa calling her a bitch and they get into it more. Matt has to stop them yelling at each other and he tells Vanessa to go home. She leaves and Beth never tells Matt the truth, and Matt then kisses Beth. He wants more and she resists a bit, but finally gives in and they start taking each other’s clothes off. Just as they’re about to go for it, she stops and says she can’t do this knowing the truth. Beth finally tells him the truth and he feels bad and questions why she wouldn’t have told him. Beth cries and Matt leaves to find Vanessa and Maureen.
Hart goes into surgery and his family/friends are there waiting. We see him in dream sequences in a boxing ring, sweaty and shirtless, going back between Cassie and the bright light nurse. He keeps telling the nurse he’s not following her and he needs to be there for Cassie. Things go south in surgery, and Cassie keeps pushing him to fight and he keeps punching the boxing bag, but he’s getting tired. The nurse tells him it’s ok to stop because she’ll take care of him, but Cassie yells at her to shut up. Sadly, after surgery, Rick tells Cassie and Blake that he went too long without blood to the brain and likely will wake up a different person and never be the same. In the boxing ring, he’s getting really weak and Cassie holds him and they say they love each other, and Hart says he’ll be waiting for her when it’s her time. Hart then flatlines and Cassie cries over him (3/01). I can’t believe Hart is dead. Damn, Dinah! Cassie walks out of the room and tells everyone he died and Blake breaks down when she sees his body. Blake later says she called Roger and plans to call Bridget so she and Dylan can tell Peter his father is dead. At least we got a mention of this and they didn’t just completely ignore Peter/Bridget. Cassie later tells Tammy at the farm that Hart is dead, with their family watching and supporting. Cassie tells Blake that Hart didn’t want a funeral and that his ashes should be spread around the farm land.
Carmen assumes Michelle and Rick called the FBI on their family, so she has the family attorney grill Michelle. Danny tries to defuse the situation and convince them Michelle would never do that. Carmen tells Danny she’ll finally accept Michelle if she puts her through one final loyalty test. She wants to give Michelle information that could hurt the family and wait and see if she’ll rat them out, but Danny says there is no way he’s doing that. He continues to tell Carmen that he believes Michelle and that Mick attacked her. Meanwhile, Michelle sees an older lady that owes the family money and can’t pay, so she gives her money to help her out. She talks to the lady and understands now all about the Santos business and how they make people owe them for protecting them. Ray overhears them talking about Michelle giving her money and later tells Danny about it in front of Michelle, which makes Danny suspicious/angry. He pushes her for more information, but Ray tries to calm him down and she eventually plays on his emotions by flirting with him and kissing him. They almost have sex, but Danny stops it thinking she’s still not overly into it.
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