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    JANUARY      1999    

    4TH      THROUGH        8TH    

John finds Carly hiding at Jack's. Camille turns down Brad's marriage proposal. A drunken Andy gets into a brawl at the Oasis Club. Stranded at Jack's house by a blizzard, John helps Carly deliver a baby boy a few minutes before midnight. Nobody believes a pregnant Emily when she claims David is stalking her
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    11TH      THROUGH        15TH    

After Lucinda has Eddie evicted, he secretly moves in with Georgia at Lucinda's pool house. Paternity tests show John is the father of baby Joey, a.k.a Parker Joe Dixon. Carly uses her $50 million trust fund to buy Fairwinds from James. Lucinda blurts out to James that David is dead. Eddie is hired as a bouncer at the Oasis.
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    18TH      THROUGH        22ND    

Brad sneaks into John's office and learns about John's close relationship with Judge Manning. Nikki's "Dear John" letter to Andy makes him start drinking, and an unconscious Andy and Molly have to be rescued from a gas leak in their apartment. Eddie carries Georgia away from the Oasis when her turn at "Talent Night" turns raucous. A new judge awards temporary custody to Carly. At a meeting with John, Kim, and Margo, Molly comes clean about Andy's drinking.
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    25TH      THROUGH        29TH    

Andy goes back to AA after his family and Molly stage an intervention. James receives a gun and note sent by a mystery man revealing that Holden killed David. After tests reveal the fingerprints on the gun to be Holden's, and the blood to be David's, James plots revenge by rigging scaffolding in Lucinda's stables. Camille has reconstructive surgery on her breast, and Gary's assault on her apartment forces Denise to move in with Ben. Brad continues to flirt with Carly and advises her to stop trying to break up Jack and Julia.
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    FEBRUARY      1999    

    1ST      THROUGH        5TH    

James' plan to kill Holden goes awry and he puts Lucinda's life in jeopardy. He then lets Georgia blame herself for the accident. Gary finds out where Denise is staying from Camille and goes there to attack her. Kim warned Andy about Molly.
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    8TH      THROUGH        12TH    

Brad learns of Carly's plot to separate Jack and Julia in New York and he pulls a switcheroo. Later, Carly finds Julia in the ladies room suffering withdrawal and notices when she drops a pill. She takes the pill for analysis. Back in Oakdale, Carly goes for a shovel to clear the ice from the side walk, leaving Parker in the car. John comes by and accuses her of neglect. Georgia thinks that Lucinda's accident is her fault. James had a specialist flown in to treat Lucinda. Katie learns the truth about how her father died. Hope is diagnosed with FAS.
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    15TH      THROUGH        19TH    

Georgia is devastated when Eddie breaks their day to be with Katie. Jack proposes to Julia while Carly wondered if she should tell Jack about Julia's addiction. Ben and Camille try to find their way back to each other but too many things get in the way. Gary finds out the truth about Margo and visits her home. He terrifies Katie before Margo and Eddie arrive. John served Carly with papers for permanent custody of Parker. Lily is watching when Lucinda moves.
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    22ND      THROUGH        26TH    

Lucinda suffers a stroke right after she comes out of her coma. Julia has a new psychiatrist, Reid Hamilton, and he gives her another prescription for the pills. Molly comes fact to face with Reid. Molly has dinner at the Hughes home with all the family. John asks Andy to be Parker's godfather. Eddie is offered the job of running the Oasis. Camille and Denise have words. Later, Sara Ruth tells Denise about Camille's cancer.
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    MARCH      1999    

    1ST      THROUGH        5TH    

Eddie makes his choice and tells Katie that he wants to be with Georgia. Emily has labor pains while still held captive in her lonely cell. It is discovered that Reid is David. Lucinda struggles to speak and let her family know what happened in the stables. Jack sees Julia take more pills and confronts her about it. Bob discovers that Chris was expelled from school for cheating. Parker is dropped while in the changing room and AJ says Carly did it.
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    8TH      THROUGH        12TH    

The trial for custody of Parker begins. John has a secret to hide. Denise recalls giving birth. Camille plans a romantic evening for her and Ben in the hopes of getting him back. Holden decides to go to the police and confess killing David.
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    15TH      THROUGH        19TH    

Carly tried to use the proposal from Brad to make Jack jealous. Reid confesses to James that he is David. James confessed to being behind Lucinda's accident. Lucinda recovered and begged James to run before the police arrived. A talk with Adam was all Margo needed to be convinced to give Tom another chance. Julia searches Reid's office for pills. Katie tried to make Georgia think that she is sleeping with Eddie and her plan worked. Lily took Lucinda to a rehab center in Florida. When James hears sirens, Reid convinces him that Lucinda turned him in. He then saves his father.
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    22ND      THROUGH        26TH    

Jack and Julia set a wedding date. Carly intends to come between them before they marry. Molly and Andy go public with their relationship. Tom and Margo argue over Emily.
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    29TH      THROUGH        APRIL        2ND    

Emily is arrested for murder but after betraying her mother's trust again, she escapes. Tom decides to defend Emily; he argues with Margo about that. Later, Tom finds Emily in NY but Hal convinces Margo to tell him where Tom is; the police get there before Emily has a chance to turn herself in. Ben and Denise go to the ballet where during intermission, she runs into a doctor who was once her customer. Eddie remembers his mother on the anniversary of her death. Brad "kidnaps" Carly and takes her on a romantic trip to San Francisco but wound up spending time with an old girlfriend instead of Carly.
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    APRIL      1999    

    5TH      THROUGH        9TH    

Tom and Emily are returned to Oakdale. Emily is arrested and Tom shows attitude. When he doesn't cooperate, he is arrested and thrown into jail also. He learns that it was Margo who told the police where to find him in New York. Molly wants to deal with her unresolved feelings for David so she turns to Reid. After Molly interviews Emily live for WOAK, she is desperate to see the body. She and Holden go to the grave and dig up "David." Brad makes Carly jealous. Ben and Denise begin searching for her child
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    12TH      THROUGH        16TH    

Rita discovers that Reid has a passport with a different picture on it; Reid then slept with her to keep her quiet. He then put doubts in Julia's mind about Jack and Carly. Brad learned about the changed paternity test and flew to the Caribbean to warn Carly. Eddie and Georgia flew to Chicago and with Georgia's help, Eddie got into Alec's office. Sarah Ruth led a protest at Eddie's club. Margo went on a date while Tom moved Emily into his hotel room.
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    19TH      THROUGH        23RD    

After Denise urges him to tell Holden the truth, Ben does. Holden knows that Lily would never betray him. He figures out that it was David and he switched babies. Emma urged him to tell Lily but he can't bring himself to do so. Even though Jack urged her to drop Reid, Julia decided to keep him on as his therapist. Brad threatens to tell Hal about Parker so Carly agreed to marry him. Although she was threatened that she would never find her baby, Denise did the right thing and testified against Gary. Margo was called to testify against Emily after finding new evidence.
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    26TH      THROUGH        30TH    

Holden confesses to Jack that he killed David. He later calls Julia and lets her know that Jack is on the way to see her. Julia panics and runs to Reid; they spend the night together at the lake. Molly doesn't know what to do about the feelings she has for Reid. Julia discovers that Reid has a child. Denise and Andy run into each other and this reawakens memories for the two of them. Emily's trial ends; she then goes into labor and has her baby just as the verdict comes in.
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    MAY      1999    

    3RD      THROUGH        7TH    

Kim is chosen as a bone marrow match for Hope but before it can be done, there is a bomb threat to the hospital. Reid overhears Jack and Holden talking about digging up the body; he gets there ahead of them and digs it up himself. Later Reid burns the body. Chris claims that a car belongs to a friend of his and after he hot-wires it, he takes Georgia for a joy ride. Denise admits to Ben that she did drink until she learned she was pregnant; she also admits that Andy is her baby's father which helps Ben to figure out that Hope is her baby. Camille begged Brad not to marry Carly.
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    10TH      THROUGH        14TH    

Julia calls off her wedding to Jack and leaves her engagement ring on Jack's porch when she sees Jack and Carly together. Adam decides to change his last name to Munson. Carly finally gives in and marries Brad to stop him from revealing the secret of Parker's paternity. Denise cradles her daughter Hope on the eve of her bone marrow transplant and tells Lily about having given up a baby for adoption. Rita terrorizes Julia at Reid's house.
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    17TH      THROUGH        21ST    

Reid has Rita committed to a psychiatric hospital after discovering she was the one who drugged Julia. Eddie is fired after confronting Alec with the fact that he funded Eddie's scholarship and holds photos of Deena. A jailed Emily fakes hearing voices and is taken to the same psychiatric hospital as Rita. Julia heads for her mother's house in San Francisco with Reid after spying Carly wearing her old engagement ring. After Lily takes out a restraining order, Denise confesses that Hope is her daughter, not Lily's.
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    24TH      THROUGH        28TH    

DNA results confirm Hope is Denise's biological daughter. Molly follows Reid to San Francisco and has flashbacks of David while kissing Reid. Jack, on the trail of Julia, hitches a ride with Carly on her private jet, but gets the brush-off from Julia's mother Charlotte. Andy surprises Molly in her hotel room.
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    31ST      THROUGH        JUNE        4TH    

Jack and Julia finally get a chance to talk, but their reconciliation is halted by the arrival of Reid and Carly. Holden and Lily are forced to hire another lawyer after Jessica informs them she's agreed to take Denise's case. Lily is horrified when Denise admits she sold her baby. An upset Carly runs into Jack's car but keeps the other driver's identity secret from Brad. Eddie advises Georgia to accept the offer to study drama in London.
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    JUNE      1999    

    7TH      THROUGH        11TH    

Lily refuses to use Denise's confession to bolster their custody case. Margo agrees to help after Hal orders Jack to stop investigating Reid. On his birthday, Eddie kisses Georgia and tells her he loves her. Denise signs the papers relinquishing her parental rights but Lily feels guilty and rips them up. Julia discovers Reid's lies when she applies for Melinda's passport.
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    14TH      THROUGH        18TH    

Jack and Julia both go to the church on the day they were to be married. They don't run into each other, but they think about each other. Jack goes with Ben and Julia goes with Reid. They later both go to the hospital but again don't see each other. Jack continues investigating Reid and gets into a fight with him and is arrested and suspended. Carly bails him out. Rita escapes from Spring Lake. Chris comforts Katie after Eddie dumps her. Eddie finds out about his mom's high school reunion and wants to go but Alec won't give him the night off. Alec throws a party to launch his new magazine and Molly starts asking him questions for In Your Face. To get her off his back, he tells Molly that he bought the show and he will take it nationwide. Molly gets excited and forgets about the interview. He offers Margo a job as his publicist. Adam decides to go to Hal's. Lily learns that Alec wants Worldwide. Delores comes back to town asking Carly for help with the IRS. Carly agrees to help if she can convince Brad to divorce her. It doesn't work but Carly lets Delores stay in the house. Denise and Lily bond over Hope and Denise says that she will let Lily and Holden adopt her. Emily recognizes Rita's private nurse as the nurse that she saw when David held her captive. The hospital thinks she's crazy and the nurse is gone and no one can track her down. Rita attacks Julia. Molly and Reid almost make love. Molly is disappointed that they don't and when she goes home, Andy wonders what is wrong with her.
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    21ST      THROUGH        25TH    

Julia and Andy get a proposal. Brad makes a deal with Carly: spend one night with her as husband and wife and she'll give him a divorce. Molly devotes an entire "In Your Face" to Andy. Lily and Holden go on TV and plead for their daughter's life; the most unlikely person hears and answers.
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    28TH      THROUGH        JULY        2ND    

Tom found Nurse Fletcher working for Vicky and Jake McKinnon. Margo is skeptical that Emily killed her captor in self-defense even after Nurse Fletcher revealed the cell where David (Reid) had Emily held prisoner. Emily went to prison when Reid (David) said she was mentally fit for sentencing. Brad spent the evening with Rosanna when Carly and Jack got locked in a wine cellar. Hal and Barbara freed Carly and Jack, who almost made love. Carly decided to stick with Brad when Molly warned she could lose Parker if she dumps him. Holden rescued Lily after Gary lured her to a building slated for demolition by lying that her baby (Melinda) was there.
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    JULY      1999    

    5TH      THROUGH        9TH    

Jack was angry Carly lied that she was going to divorce Brad. Carly and Brad made love after he admitted his feelings for her. Carly was stunned Jack returned and said he loves her. Carly couldn't ask Brad for a divorce after learning he is planning a second wedding for them. Holden failed to keep Lily from seeing Rita's letter, which contained a torn photo of Melinda. Rita has the half of the photo that shows Reid (David). Lily and Holden were upset Rita disappeared from the mental hospital by the time they arrived.
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    12TH      THROUGH        16TH    

Georgia gave Alec 30 days to reveal he is Eddie's father. Eddie attacked a shocked Alec after warning him to stay out of his life. Jake is determined not to let Alec take over The City Times. Molly did not notice Rita's body when she ordered Reid (David) to tell Andy there is nothing between them. Reid (David) did tell Andy that Molly has no interest in him. Andy and Denise rushed Hope to the hospital when she had a seizure. Ben later praised Denise for saving Hope's life. Chris and Katie were arrested for trespassing after Bob caught them skinny dipping in Lucinda's pool.
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    19TH      THROUGH        23RD    

Emily set her sights on Tom again as soon as she was released from jail after winning her appeal. Tom agreed to help Emily with Baby Danny. Molly set out to get proof of her suspicion that Reid (David) is somehow involved in the disappearance of Lily and Holden's baby. After Molly saw Melinda, Reid (David) distracted her from calling the cops by saying he loves her. Reid (David) vowed to stop Molly after learning she took Melinda's pacifier. Julia learned Reid (David) is planning their wedding.
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    26TH      THROUGH        30TH    

Brad kept mum that he knows Carly and Jack slept together. After learning Jack slept with Carly, Julia decided she is meant to be with Reid (David). Brad received his divorce payoff from Carly, then he shocked everyone at Barbara and Hal's engagement party with the news that Hal, not John, is Parker's father. Jennifer, who returned from camp, is worried about her mom, Barbara. Brad handed Parker over to a stunned Hal. Molly returned Melinda's pacifier after learning Julia already had a DNA test done on the child with the (supposed) result that she is not Lily and Holden's daughter.
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    AUGUST      1999    

    2ND      THROUGH        6TH    

Julia returned Reid's (David) engagement ring after she caught him and Molly making love in his office. While they were at it, Molly realized Reid is really David. Molly agreed to flee to Canada with David and Melinda just as the latest DNA test proved Melinda is Holden and Lily's child. After Julia said Reid (David) has a baby, Holden called Molly and begged her to bring Melinda to him and Lily. John warned Andy he is going to make Molly pay for switching Parker's paternity test results for Carly. After John had Carly arrested for fraud, someone anonymously paid her bail.
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    9TH      THROUGH        13TH    

Holden and Lily tailed Reid (David) to Canada. Molly kept Reid (David) busy in the shower after seeing Holden, who broke into their hotel room and took Melinda. Reid (David) tried to stop Lily and Holden from getting away with Melinda, until Molly threatened to reveal that Reid is David. Lily decided to drop the charges against Reid (David) after he handed Melinda over to her and Holden, who are unaware that Reid is David. Molly told Reid (David) that she made him give up Melinda because she loves him.
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    16TH      THROUGH        20TH    

Lily welcomed Lucinda home, but worried that she is still unable to speak or walk, so she had John examine Lucinda. John caught on that Lucinda is only pretending she can't walk or talk, but agreed to keep mum when Lucinda said she plans to use Molly to find out what Reid (David) is up to. Andy went to see Molly, who was arrested despite her claim she went with Reid (David) in order to get Melinda back to Lily and Holden. Jack paid Carly's bail after she tried to bribe a cop to release Molly.
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    23RD      THROUGH        27TH    

Margo, who is attracted to Alec, was upset when Hal wondered if she can be objective in her undercover effort to get the goods on Alec. Margo heard Alec threaten Gary, then warned that he could end up missing or dead, like the other men pictured in an old photo with them. Reporter Julie tailed Jake when he headed for the docks after reading a note in which Margo told Hal about Alec's meeting with Gary. Julie and Jake later found Gary's body. Ben urged Denise to follow though on her desire to get Hope back, while Lily insisted on working something out with Denise. Jake saw the supposedly paralyzed Lucinda walking around Bay City.
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    30TH      THROUGH        SEPTEMBER        3RD    

Hal and Barbara's wedding night is interrupted by news of Gary's murder. Denise reveals she wants custody of Hope, and Lily eventually determines she must give Hope back to her real mother. Eddie accepts Alec's offer to be his junior partner, despite Margo's misgivings. Reid surprises Molly when he returns to Oakdale, and knocks Lily unconscious in Faith and Hope's nursery. Lucinda and Jake team up to stop Molly from stealing the evidence Lucinda has gathered on the Reid/David connection.
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    SEPTEMBER      1999    

    6TH      THROUGH        10TH    

Against Margo's advice, Eddie signs the contracts to work for Alec. Denise thwarts Reid's attempt to kidnap Faith, but is rushed to the hospital with a head injury. An injured Reid is captured at the docks thanks to Jake. Reid revels in confirming to everyone that he's really David, and Molly finally realizes he doesn't love her. Holden corners Reid in his hospital room.
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    13TH      THROUGH        17TH    

Holden, Lily and Molly each have it out with Reid. The Hughes family holds a birthday dinner for Nancy. Holden receives a letter from his daughter Abigail's adoptive parents, the Williams. Alec fires Margo from her PR job and later, she and Tom get close when he comes over to light the pilot light on her furnace. Molly parlays her front-page story about her life with David into a job at the City Times.
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    20TH      THROUGH        24TH    

Margo learns from Alec that Emily is now working alongside Tom at the Argus. Jack's furious when his surveillance of Alec's hitman is interrupted by Carly, but he later tells her he could never hate her and kisses her. Carly accepts Barbara's offer of $1000 a month to get a decent job and take Parker with her-- he reminds Barbara too much of the pain of losing Johnny. Tom finally deduces that Margo is working undercover investigating Alec. Andy decides to take an assignment in L.A. to get away from Molly.
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    27TH      THROUGH        OCTOBER        1ST    

Nancy is robbed and rendered unconscious by Lee, one of Chris' friends from New York, causing Bob to order Chris to move out. After confessing about Barbara's plan to pay her $1000 a month, Carly takes Jack up on his challenge to tell no lies until Christmas--if she wins, he agrees to give her a second chance. Georgia confirms Margo's suspicions that Alec is Eddie's father. Alec lures Margo to an airport hangar where his hitman is waiting, but Eddie gets in the way and takes a bullet. Lucinda fires Molly while Jake is out of the office.
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    OCTOBER      1999    

    4TH      THROUGH        8TH    

When Margo confronts him at the hospital, Alec doesn't deny being Eddie's father. Carly keeps Carter's briefcase of money for herself. Eddie eventually wakes up from his heart surgery, but not before being visited by Deena, who's unsuccessful in getting her son to come with her. After Eddie reveals that Margo is investigating him, Alec tracks down a now-suspended Margo to the balcony of her hotel room and confronts her. Jake, infuriated by Lucinda's pre-emptive publishing of his story on Alec, walks out and informs Lucinda she can have his job.
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    11TH      THROUGH        15TH    

Margo refuses to act on the self-incriminating evidence Alec gives her, and the two make love. When Carly shows him the hit man's briefcase of money that she kept, Jack protects her from being arrested by an avenging John. Kim and Bob learn Chris has dropped out of Oakdale University. Denise and Camille both apply for the position of John's research assistant, but it's Camille who ends up getting the job. Molly has a disastrous birthday meeting with Abigail's adoptive mother, who refuses to let her meet her daughter, but later ends up kissing Chris.
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    18TH      THROUGH        22ND    

Chris and Molly make love twice but when Andy returns to Oakdale, they are determined not to see each other again. Jake and Julia survive the boat explosion and later ferret from Lucinda the fact that Alec is Eddie's son. Emma's birthday dinner turns tense when Jack brings Carly. Alec's plan to whisk Margo away to Barcelona is derailed when Hal arrives to arrest him for Carter's murder. After listening in on her adoptive mother's phone call, Abigail shows up at Molly's apartment.
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    25TH      THROUGH        29TH    

Abigail tries to contact her birth mother Molly, then finds Molly's column talking about having a one-night stand. Eddie feels betrayed by Georgia and Margo when he finally learns Alec is his father, and Alec plots revenge against Jake and Tom for Eddie's bitterness. Barbara rushes Parker to the hospital when he develops a fever, but it turns out to be just an ear infection. At Tom's behest, Margo is jailed by Jessica (newly-appointed D.A.) for contempt after she refuses to testify before the grand jury about Alec. When Tom goes to Alec's cabin to confront him about abducting Casey, Alec hits Tom in the head with a rock and throws his body into the water.
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    NOVEMBER      1999    

    1ST      THROUGH        5TH    

With Eddie watching, Alec "rescues" Tom from the water and performs CPR on him, then later tries to pull the plug on Tom's ventilator. With Tom in a coma fighting hypothermia, his family rallies around him, including Margo. Alec realizes Margo is onto him and drugs her. Carly's forced to accept Emma's offer to live at the farmhouse after her hotel room is condemned. Lucinda arranges for Vicky to fly into Oakdale on her private jet, but Jake panics when he arrives at the airport and finds out the flight is late.
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    8TH      THROUGH        12TH    

As Tom is coming out of his coma, Margo awakens from her drugged state to find she is in bed next to a dead Alec. Distraught over his wife Vicky's death in a plane crash and his subsequently learning of her bodyguard's collusion with Alec, Jake heads to London to be with Vicky's two boys. Chris bonds with Abigail, who he knows as "Daisy," but later expresses regrets to Molly when they fall into bed again. Margo is arrested when her fingerprints are found on the gun, but Tom stops her from making a plea bargain. Abigail returns to Oakdale with her mother in tow and is introduced to Holden and Molly.
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    15TH      THROUGH        19TH    

Camille saves John's life when he suffers a severe allergic reaction. Katie senses opportunity when she realizes Chris and Molly are having an affair. Holden allows Molly to fill in as news anchor when the regular anchor quits, and later agrees to take over running WOAK from a harried Lily and Kim. Margo is hypnotized but refuses to allow herself to remember the night Alec drugged her, and later has a vision of a blood-soaked Alec in her bedroom. Chris and Abigail finally meet again.
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    22ND      THROUGH        26TH    

Carly celebrates when she gets a million dollar reward because of tracking down Alec's hitman Robert Carter. Margo keeps seeing Alec's ghost and wonders what he's trying to tell her when he shows her to dig in the soil of a pot of flowers that John sent her. Jake and Julia become trapped in Alec's warehouse and discover the body of the bartender from Chicago. Denise accepts Holden's offer of a job at the TV station. The Hughes, Snyders and Munsons hold Thanksgiving celebrations for their extended families.
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    29TH      THROUGH        DECEMBER        3RD    

Holden arranges for Abigail to live with him when her parents announce they're moving to Saudi Arabia. Margo confirms she and Alec were lovers after Emily gives Tom the letter she wrote from her cell. Tormented by visions of his wife in bed with Alec, Tom agrees to Margo's suggestion to turn her case over to Cass. Unbeknownst to one another, Barbara and Carly each make plans to design a fashion line, with Carly hiring Jennifer to be one of her models. Vicky's bodyguard taunts Jake before accidentally falling to his death, and Jake later wonders if Vicky is alive.
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    DECEMBER      1999    

    6TH      THROUGH        10TH    

Denise tells Andy that Hope is her daughter. Emily arranges for Jessica to find out about the love letter Margo wrote to Alec, and later, as Margo testifies, she sees Alec's ghost in the courtroom and remembers something. Katie takes photos of Chris and Molly getting out of the shower, though Molly surprised Chris in the shower because she believed the love letter he wrote was for her. Over John's objections, Camille agrees to be Carly's model at the fashion show. In court Cass accuses Eddie of killing Alec, noting he was the sole heir to Alec's $25million fortune and at one time was in love with Margo.
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    13TH      THROUGH        17TH    

Chris finds out that "Daisy" is really Abigail, Molly's daughter, and later tries to break things off. Margo remembers there was another woman in the room, and Tom finds evidence that points to Emily, but the judge refuses to grant a delay and the jury comes back with its verdict. Denise and Ben reconcile and plan a winter wedding. With prodding from Hal and Jennifer, Barbara reluctantly agrees to merge fashion shows with Carly. Eddie and Georgia agree they need to leave Oakdale, but Eddie first reconciles with Margo and tells her he knows she didn't kill Alec.
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    20TH      THROUGH        24TH    

Margo is convicted of second-degree murder and Tom redoubles his efforts to find more evidence, infuriating Emily when he has the police search her house. Jake buys jewelry for Vicki and later gives Julia an alibi when she is revealed to be one of the buyers of the scarf that was on the hotel surveillance tape. Julia and Lucinda's scarves are confiscated as evidence but Susan is unable to find hers and accuses Emily of killing Alec. Jack tells Carly he has a surprise waiting for her if she can keep up their bet till after the holiday. Hal arranges for Tom, Casey and Adam to sleep over in Margo's cell so they can celebrate Christmas morning together.
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    27TH      THROUGH        31ST    

Jack asks Carly to marry him; she happily says yes. A mysterious man spies on Carly. Tom and Margo try to figure out who could have murdered Alec. Margo has a memory and finds new evidence in the case, but the judge will not accept the new evidence and reopen her case. Later, Georgia is revealed as the murderer. Ben and Denise make plans to adopt Hope, forcing Denise to admit that Andy is Hope's father. They decide not to tell Andy...for now. Molly finds out about Chris and Abigail when she spots them sharing a New Year's Eve kiss.
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