I hit May 1993 and you can definitely tell it was sweeps. Everything came together.
Buzz gets caught by Mallet at the airport as he tries to disguise himself as a woman and gets interrogated in a hotel room while still in the dress. (Marion foreshadowing lol?) Frank/Eleni get married and she immediately goes into labor afterwards, and while Eleni is giving birth Harley learns Buzz is her father. AM watches the wedding sadly from the Journal terrace-Blake drops by sad Ross won't propose with some wine. AM briefly commiserates and sends her back to Ross saying he won't be the guy she goes to for revenge. (In my binge AM had a similar scene with Harley where she kisses him when she's still crushed about Josh and he says he won't be used to get over someone else.)
Nadine's web of lies all come crashing down at once-Baby Peter is revealed to be Bridget's kid and that she knew who Buzz was all along. While everything is hitting the fan with the lies but before Bridget is fully revealed as Peter's mom, she takes off with Peter and has David watch him as she tries to explore her options. It quickly gets reported as a kidnapping and Billy makes a plea on TV with Roger giving him airtime while Hart watches while neither know Peter is Hart's. Bridget eventually returns with Peter and Vanessa susses out that Bridget is Peter's mom and Van bonds with Bridget as she shares about her past with Dinah. Bridget clearly wants to keep Peter and move in with Ed, but Ed is in a bad place and inadvertently dissuades Bridget without knowing about Peter.
Eve has her full freakout. First she drugged Mindy at the fashion show and Mindy gets in a serious accident with Little Bill in the car. Then as Mindy recovers, Eve comes and knocks her out. Nick arrives and she drugs him too. Nick manages to call Ed who arrives as Eve flees as it all sinks in what she's done, and she plans to jump off the lighthouse. Ed eventually talks her down and takes her to a mental hospital after we learn just how bad things got in Cambre. Nick sympathizes with Eve but Mindy is not quite there yet haha. Somehow Nick/Mindy look to be on the verge of reconciling and it's really pretty amazing that Mindy would forgive Nick for all the terrible things he believed about her that Eve told him. Crazy Eve was kind of fun so it's a bit of a bummer how deep her trauma is to bring it on-I admittedly would not have minded a little longer psychological torture of the various Mindy recasts (both Ann Hamilton and Barbara Crampton play Mindy as this is happening).
Finally there is a whole lot of Hart/Julie/Dylan with Bridget getting her heart broken by Hart again who is fixated on Julie. It is remarkable how everyone is in love with someone bland in this story and Bridget is on the outside. (Bridget has a really great scene with Kat where she breaks down about hiding the pregnancy because she was ashamed when Kat is mad she didn't trust her and they make up. I want David/Bridget/Kat on my screen any day over Hart/Julie/Dylan.)
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