Max couldn�t love Megan enough while Gabrielle still in the picture.

Witness the traumatic shooting of Viki shocked Megan so much that her personality suddenly split. Instantly, Megan believed she was her soap opera alter-ego, the free-spirited Ruby Bright and ran off to Atlantic City. There, as Ruby, she met and painted the town red with none other than former Llanview scalawag Marco Dane! In the meantime, Clint followed behind Megan and in the end brought her back home.

Gabrielle, riddled with guilt by the news of Alicia�s death, sneaked into the neonatal unit to see baby Garrick Grande. As she looked on, suddenly the baby�s cardiac monitor went flat; Garrick was dead! Thinking fast, Gabrielle made a difficult decision. Gabrielle knew that his son�s death, coming on the heels of Alicia�s, would destroy Michael�so she switched Brenda McGillis� healthy baby boy with Alicia�s. Michael grew closer to Gabrielle, who felt terrible pangs of guilt over her deception. Michael proposed to an accepting Gabrielle, who bolted from the ceremony mere moments before she was slated to say �I do.�