Niki Smith murdered Johnny Dee.

Bo and agent Alex Olanov of the Federal Anti-crime Bureau, searched for Sarah, who had been kidnapped by Carlo. Megan and Jake engineered a plan for Jake to get close to Charlotte Hesser, Carlo�s daughter, in the hope that she might have information about Sarah�s whereabouts.

Megan and Jake staged a public breakup, but managed to sneak away to Viki�s mountain cabin, where they shared a symbolic wedding ceremony. After spending the night together, they returned to Llanview. When Carlo realized that Jake was only using his daughter, he forced Jake to marry Charlotte, while making threats on Megan and Andie�s lives.

When Charlotte developed hysterical blindness following a car accident, Jake decided that he couldn�t ask her for a divorce. Megan buried her pain by hooking up with an old boyfriend, movie director Hunter Guthrie, who came to Llanview to film a movie.

Alex discovered that Bo�s wife had been kidnapped by the very agency that sent Alex to find her! Bo confronted the head of the FAB, Fred Porter, and learned that in exchange for protection from prosecution, Carlo promised to inform the FAB on worldwide drug-trafficking activities.

While Sarah was spirited away by her captors, her plane crashed in a severe storm. The Buchanan�s were convinced that Carlo was responsible for Sarah�s inadvertent death.