I’m up to September 15, 1998.
Phillip finds Harley and rushes her to the hospital, while a mysterious person is still watching from a telescope. Rick tells Phillip that someone injected the poison in the apple which was a herbicide, but not enough to kill her, just hurt her. Harley wakes up and keeps telling them it’s her client, Don Minyard, but Phillip admits he made that guy up and wanted to get her business started with money so she would move into a better office/house. When Jenna and Teri arrive, they think about the nursery rhyme and Harley assumes it’s Beth. Phillip privately tells Frank it might be Annie since she’s emailing Alan now, and Frank then tells Teri. Teri goes to Alan Spaulding and questions him about Beth’s whereabouts, but also asks about Annie. She tells Alan she knows about Annie emailing him, how she knows she tried to kill Harley before, and questions his motives behind still wanting to be involved with her. Before leaving, she finds a book of nursery rhymes in his study, leading Teri to believe Beth is involved. Alan claims Beth reads Lizzie nursery rhymes before bed and it means nothing, but Teri warns him that people can reach their limits and Beth has reached hers. The next morning, Harley receives a letter allegedly from Beth that says sorry for doing what she did, but there’s nothing she won’t do to protect her child, so let this be a warning!
Ross helps Holly move back into her house now that Blake is back home and they don’t need a full-time babysitter. As they enter her house, Holly notices things have moved around and finds a half-eaten apple (hmm), so she’s afraid there’s an intruder. It happens to be her brother, Ken! He said he’s sane now and has been in SF for two weeks. Ross calls the hospital and confirms he was released and didn’t escape. Holly decides to let him stay in the basement, where we see him potting soil/herbs/flowers/etc, which was filmed in a creepy way, leading us to believe he might be the one who poisoned Harley (the herbs, the apple he was eating, etc).
Jesse plays more poker and ends up losing everything and can’t take Michelle on her fancy date anymore. The guy he loses to, Mick, who is secretly working with Drew to make Jesse lose his money, winds up being the guy who has Ben/Blake’s videotape! He’s the mystery man who lured Ben/Blake to the docks and he knows all about their story from the news. He taunts them both and lets them bid on the tape, best offer gets it. He wants at least $50K which they both scoff at and he leaves. Blake/Ben vow to bring each other down from there and they leave. Back at home, Blake tells Holly what’s happening and they try to figure out how to come up with the money, which Ken overhears. Later Ken admits to Holly what he heard and tries to talk her into stop drinking and get a hold of her life, and she then pours out her liquor bottles in the sink.
Ben goes to the docks to meet Mick with the money, but Mick has been beaten up and says a man jumped him and stole the tape. We then see Ken go to Blake’s house and he gives her the tape. He tells her what he did, including threatening to kill Mick if he didn’t give over the tape. He comes across pretty insane/unstable though, but she’s overjoyed and says he’s saved her life. Ross shows up first and then Ben, who starts demanding that she give him the tape. Ken walks in and Ben immediately accuses him of beating up Mick and having the tape, since he matches the description Mick gave him. Blake/Ross both say it would be impossible for Blake to have been at the docks since she’s in a wheelchair, but Meta, overhearing the conversation while babysitting the boys, confronts Blake alone and asks why she’s lying about being at the docks since she took her there. Blake begs her not to say anything, but Meta seems unsure. Later, Ben comes back and as Blake tells him she’s going to testify against him in court, he slowly bends down to kiss her as she keeps talking and they kiss for a long time.
Holly gets another letter from Fletcher telling her that Meg is doing well, but that makes her spiral and she wants to take a drink. She calls Ross to help and he takes her home, where dead flowers have been delivered with a ‘Roses are Red..’ note that says she should be dead and Meg is better off without her, signed by the Don Minyard name! Frank comes by to investigate and they realize that Harley got her note on Daisy’s birthday and Holly got hers on Meg’s first day of school.
Beth comes back home and Harley and Phillip confront her about poisoning Harley. She admits to writing that one letter, but says she had nothing to do with a nursery rhyme or poisoned apples and thinks it’s all ridiculous. She’s taken to the police station for questioning, but Ben shows up and takes her out of there and back to his place where they have casual sex to get their minds off things. The next day, Beth tells Phillip that any love she ever had for him evaporated when he accused her of poisoning Harley, and she’s moving on. Phillip apologizes to her and says he’ll always have love for her and they hug and agree to be friends.
Alan and Lizzie open a package that was delivered and inside is a doll wearing a wedding dress. They find a card that says it’s from Annie, and Alan realizes the doll is wearing the wedding dress Annie was wearing on their wedding day. Lizzie then tells Phillip and Harley about the doll. They notice a tag on the doll that says it’s handmade right there in SF and they suspect Annie may be back in town. Phillip now thinks Annie has done everything and not Beth. Harley goes to the dollmaker’s house and she confirms it was a custom doll ordered there in person by a lady with long brown hair and glasses.
Cassie is starting to have dizzy spells so Sean takes her to the hospital. Rick runs tests and tells her she’s pregnant! She’s not overly excited, because she’ll be having a baby at the same time as Dinah now. She runs into Hart/Dinah during Lamaze classes and it upsets her knowing she’ll never have Hart’s full attention. She lashes out on Hart and doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant. Reva calls from her vacation and Cassie tells her the truth and Reva advises her to tell him and to push on finalizing the paternity test with Dinah’s baby.
Dinah invites Vanessa to lunch and apologizes to her about the way she’s behaved (blah), and they agree not to talk about Hart or her relationships and only focus on her baby. Vanessa then invites her to babysit or play with Maureen anytime so she can get experience having a baby. Later, in the park, Vanessa runs into Cassie and realizes she’s pregnant. Cassie denies it, but ultimately comes clean and begs Vanessa not to tell anyone, especially Hart or Dinah.
Jesse ends up taking Michelle on the fancy date and will figure out how to pay for it later. Michelle had such a wonderful time and tells Dahlia about it the next day, but Dahlia is sad because she isn’t seeing much of Marcus anymore since he’s busy touring on the road. She starts to think maybe he’s seeing someone else. David shows up and introduces himself to Dahlia, and she starts asking him for help in figuring out what’s going on with Marcus. Elsewhere, Drew tells Jesse she bought a bar and wants to make it a nightclub, but he doesn’t think it’s a good idea. He later goes to the diner and asks Buzz for money. Buzz is suspicious but gives him the money and Jesse promises to pay him back. As Jesse is about to pay back the loan shark, Mick jumps him from behind and steals the money. Selena thinks Drew is involved, so she goes to Drew’s new bar and threatens her to leave Jesse/Michelle alone. I will say, Drew finally has come alive to me when she’s opposite Selena. Both actresses are more interesting and expressive together, when fighting each other, so I’m here for that.
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