Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Ethan toasts to the union of the crane and Lopez-Fitzgerald family Julian looks on he is on the phone with Al and they talk about playing the tape and destroying both couples. Tabloid guy makes it over the wall and is still babbling about the fall of the Crane Empire. Guard�s talk about the "sleaze ball crasher" and to keep and good look out for him. Gwen is Poed that reporter isn�t there and says she wants to shove a copy of the letter in Ethan�s face they talk about the havoc they want to reek. Luis asks Sher what it�s like to have so much money and comments on how the party is outside in the dead of winter is like the spring. She asks him if her money bugs him. Grace and Sam approach Julian she gives him the tomato soup cake. He takes it and runs outside with it and calls it a damn awful thing and drops it on his foot. Ethan and Theresa say hi to the Bennetts. Before things get ugly Ivy stops it and says there should be no negativity. Theresa comments on how Grace is glowing. Gwen and Rebecca look on and Gwen says how much Sam and Ethan hate each other. They talk to Grace and Sam and Grace says how wonderful it was for the two of them to throw a party for them. Rebecca asks Sam about his first love. He and Ivy look uncomfortable. TC, Chad, Whit, And Eve talk about a black woman having a baby with Julian, Chad poses the scenario of the child coming along years later and calling Julian "daddy". Eve says that it can�t happen cause the baby died. Luis and Sher dance and they still talk about the money issue and he says he can�t give her what she deserves and she says that he gives her enough and he gives her love and she never owned anything like that. Rebecca presses Sam to tell them about his first love he says there�s nothing to tell. Grace says there is because Hank has told her that there was someone. Rebecca said that if she were Grace she�d pry it out of him. Rebecca says the reason he won�t tell is because he�s not over it. Sam says it�s ridiculous. Chad, Whit, TC and Eve are still talking about the baby. Eve says she was thinking about her patient and that was why she said what she said and the circumstances were similar. She excuses herself to go to the bathroom and approaches Julian. She tells him to leave Sher and Luis alone and she will do anything if they stop. Julian questions, "Anything?" Chad and Whitney dance he asks if she�s having fun and offers her a better time. Theresa tells Miguel he can go be with Charity if he wants, he says it�s okay. Eve and Julian again, she says she will do anything to help Sher and Luis. Tabloid guy looks on and asks who the babe is with Julian and wonders if it is another scandal in the making, but he says he doesn�t have the time for it now. Chad takes Whit up to Ethan�s room and Chad say that they could use some privacy. Whiney is POed and said he�s trying to get her the sleep with him. Eve and Julian are still fighting he says that he won�t stop it because he can�t. She calls him a coward and calls him up on what he did and she said that she loved him back than. TC looks on and wonders what Eve is doing with him. Security catches tabloid guy. Sher and Luis are gushing they kiss and a man looks on he picks up his phone and calls someone and asks them when they want him to strike (I�m assuming this is about the tape). Rebecca falls upon the tabloid guy getting kicked out he drops the paper and Rebecca sees it and is awestruck. Eve and Julian are still talking, he seems flattered that she loved him, he still says he won�t do anything. She�s POed and says that he wouldn�t even protect his baby boy. She turns to leave and bumps into TC. Pilar and Ivy are talking about what is going on with Rebecca and Grace and Sam come in and Grace says she has an announcement. Rebecca bails the tabloid guy out and directs him to Julian�s library. She goes to get Julian and Julian says he wants a piece from Rebecca. She tells him later, but she has someone that needs to see him. Chad and Whit are still talking. Whit is Poed and Chad says that�s not why he brought her up, he says it was to dance. He puts on some Dido (I Love her!) and they dance. Back to Sher and Luis and she and he are still talking about their love and they talk about going to the cottage (have they nothing else to talk about). TC is confronting Eve and says he lied to her and he figured it all out. Grace and Sam are accepting congrats from Ivy and Pilar and Grace comment son how he wants another son. Ivy looks upset. Rebecca looks on and says it looks like she ate a piece of bad fish and wonders what is wrong with her. Tabloid guy is in the library on the phone with his co-worker bragging. Julian is outside of the room and tabloid guy prepares himself by holding up a copy of the paper.

Timmy and Tabby arrive at the hotel that they booked online. Timmy says no one will find them there. Replay of yesterday of a lady cleaning a shower she tosses out bloody towels and says that they shower has to be spotless. A daughter talks to a father at the hotel and he yells at her and tells her to get over to the hotel before the guests check in, she says she is having bad feelings. He tells her to go anyway. Timmy and Tab are trying to get in. Tabby calls it a rathole. Timmy says that the guy that he booked the reservations with was nice and that he and his daughter were looking forward to him. Tabby says she can�t wait to take a shower. Tabby gets up to leave and Norma comes out and apologizes for making them wait. Timmy says that the guy said he was Norman and Tabby says Norma looks like a man. Timmy sees someone in the window at the main house and thought that Norma�s dad was asleep. Norma looks for the guest register and plays with a knife that was among other sharp weapons. She brings up the register and Tabby signs in. Norma puts her in a room next to the office. Timmy still talks bout the person in the window. Norma comments on how he must be up and how he rarely gets out these days. Tabby wishes him well and Norma says she will pass on the good wishes. They go into the room, Tabby says how small it is and Norma is insulted and Tabby cover s by saying it�s quaint. They go to the shower stall and Tabby comments on how clean it is. Norma has a flashback of killing someone psycho style. Norma tells her to keep the shower curtain on the inside because they have trouble with the drain. Norma leaves and Tabby calls her a strange one. Tabby still wonders why the whole scene is so familiar she says it will come to her tomorrow. Timmy asks her if she will take a shower and she comment so how wonderful Norma made it out to be. Outside Norma has a knife and decides to use an Ax instead.