From Soaps In Depth, Aug. 6, 2002
This week on All My Children, just as Brooke decides to quit worrying that Maria is alive, her worst fear is realized. Do Brooke and Edmund have a ghost of a chance?
Hayley Knows Best With the "Maria" sighting still fresh in her mind, Brooke takes Hayley into her confidence and explains her plight: She can't go through with the wedding to Edmund because she truly believes that his first wife didn't perish in that plane crash years ago. Trying to be the voice of reason, Hayley tells Brooke that there's no way Mateo's sister could be alive after all this time. Soon, Brooke begins to realize that her pal has a point. She's not being haunted by Maria, she decides. She's being haunted by Maria's memory..
Is Brooke Seeing Dead People? Confident that Maureen Gorman is not, in fact, Maria, Brooke decides that investigating the mystery woman is unnecessary. Her world is completely rocked, however, when the detective on the case reveals a devastating piece of info: He may already have found Edmund's "late" wife! With her future hanging in the balance, a determined Brooke decides to learn once and for all if Maureen Gorman is the presumed-dead Pine Valley beauty. After hightailing it back to Nevada, Ms. English heads to the hotel, where she accidentally collides into someone. When she looks up, she sees what could be a ghost. This time, however, it is not. Standing before her is a brunette with dark eyes and olive skin-a dead ringer for Maria!
What Will Happen Next? Could this actually be Maria? And if it is, will Brooke tell Edmund?? Whatever unfolds, ramifications are sure to be felt for years!!!