Lila feels torn. She doesn't want to betray the Corys, they've been
very good to her. But even more, she doesn't want anything to happen to
Jasmine again.
Cass chats with Ms. Allen for a while. When she decides she's had
enough of him, she asks security to escort him away. Before security
can take him away, Cass makes a run for Mr. Stark's office, with Ms.
Allen and the security guard close behind. Cass gets to the office just
as Joe takes a look at Mr. Stark, and Cass sees him, too. As they stare
at him, Mr. Stark says that perhaps now they understand why he avoided
making public appearances.
In the park in Lassiter, Jake is disappointed that the hand on his
shoulder belongs to Marley, not Vicky. She tells Jake she was worried
about him and followed him to make sure he was OK. Jake does some
thinking and decides Vicky might be hiding out somewhere in Marley's
house. He tells her he is going to search her place for Vicky.
Vicky tries to pick the lock with the nail she found, but it breaks
eventually. She keeps herself calm and continues working with the
broken nail. At last she's successful, and she slides the gate open.
She rushes up the basement stairs, but the door at the top is also
locked. She starts hitting it with a length of pipe.
Marley tries to talk Jake out of going to her house. Jake asks what
she's hiding. Of course, she tells him she's not hiding anything. He
asks her to give him the keys to her house, but she refuses. He says
he'll have to kick the door down then, and he leaves.
Ms. Allen apologizes to Mr. Stark for letting Cass and Joe in his
office. He says it's probably time that their curiosity was satisfied.
We see his face... it is scarred and deformed. Cass and Joe are
speechless at first, but then carry on with their business as though
nothing unusual happened. They ask about Donna's disappearance at the
ball, Jasmine's kidnapping, and what Lila was doing there today.
Rachel tells Lila about a trust fund she wants to set up for Jasmine's
education. Lila is to be the custodian of the trust until Jasmine turns
21. Lila is touched that Rachel would do that. Rachel gets a phone
call and moves to a more private phone. Lila considers listening in.
Vicky opens the other door and gets out of the basement. However,
before she's able to leave the house, she's stopped by Cindy.
Mr. Stark denies that Lila was there at Lumina today. He also denies
knowing Zak, but says apparently Zak knows about Lumina's work. Lila
wanted to use the powers of her mind to find her baby, and it looks like
she was successful. Mr. Stark also claims Matt acted on his own. He
says Lumina does not practice mind control. Cass asks him to explain
about "Beyond Imagination", published 200 years ago. Stark says,
obviously, this book was not written by him... he's not 200 years old.
Stark asks them to leave, which they do. He then tells Ms. Allen to get
him Zak... immediately.
Vicky tries to leave, but Cindy physically restrains her. She accuses
Vicky of trying to kill Grant, the man she loves. Vicky tells her she
didn't shoot Grant, and that Marley wasn't hiding her there, she had her
kept prisoner in the basement. Cindy's taken aback, but acts like she
doesn't believe Vicky and wants the two of them to go downstairs to
check out her story together. Vicky doesn't want to go anywhere near
that cell again, but Cindy forces her. Jake gets to the front door and
tries to open it. Cindy sees the cell, pushes Vicky back in and locks
the gate. Marley tries to stop Jake, but he's determined, so she gives
him the key and he goes inside.
Mr. Stark chastises Zak for telling Cass about the book. Zak asks how
things went with Lila. Mr. Stark says she was reluctant to accept her
assignment at first, but she did. Zak says she'll only do it to protect
her baby.
Lila decides not to listen in on another phone, but tries to listen at
the door instead. She doesn't learn much, only that Rachel is meeting
someone tomorrow. Rachel leaves to go check on the twins, and Lila
starts looking through the Cory papers Rachel left behind. When Rachel
comes back, she catches Lila snooping.
Jake and Marley didn't expect to find Cindy. Surprise, she says. Then
she mentions that Marley is full of surprises. Vicky tries picking the
lock again, but she's discouraged. She's excited when she hears Jake's
voice on the intercom. Cindy says she's there looking for Vicky because
Vicky shot Grant. Marley makes a big show of defending her sister.
When Cindy calls Vicky a lying slut, Marley slaps her. Jake gets
between them and tells Cindy that the next time she wants to see a lying
slut, she should look in the mirror. After some more angry words, Jake
orders Cindy to leave and not come back. Cindy tells him she doesn't
have to come back; she searched the whole house and Vicky wasn't there.
Jake suspects that he is not getting the true story from Cindy.
Rachel lectures Lila for snooping. Lila is very apologetic. Rachel
makes it clear that she's happy Lila is a part of her family, but that
there are certain lines you do not cross. When Rachel leaves, Cass
enters and asks Lila why she went to Lumina. Lila denies going there,
so Cass tells her that he saw Jordan Stark. He tells her what Stark
looks like, and can tell from her reaction that she's never seen him.
Cass tries to make her understand that if anything is wrong, she can
come to him for help, but she denies that anything is wrong. When Cass
leaves, she calls Stark and tells him there's going to be a new division
at Cory Publishing.
Cindy doesn't change her story and finally leaves, to Vicky's dismay.
Marley asks Jake if he still wants to search the house, but he says
there's no need to do that now. He apologizes to Marley for the
accusations he made earlier. Marley tells Jake she'd like to help take
care of him and the boys. Vicky freaks out when she hears this. Jake
tells Marley that would be good, and hugs her.
Lila tries to get out of spying for Stark. He doesn't force her to
co-operate, but scares her into thinking it over.
Jake leaves and Cindy returns. She's furious. She tells Marley that
Vicky was escaping, but that she locked her up again. Marley writes her
a cheque as a bonus. She also tells Cindy to keep quiet about Vicky, or
she'll turn her in for shooting Grant. Cindy realizes that Marley is
crazier than she thought. She leaves again and Marley goes to the
basement. She adds a chain to the gate to ensure Vicky doesn't get out
again. She tells Vicky that the only thing she accomplished was to make
her angry. Vicky says she doesn't care. She taunts Marley about Jake,
how he'll never stop looking for her. Marley angrily tells her that the
police are about to find more "evidence" implicating Vicky in Grant's
shooting, so even if she escapes, she'll go to jail. She'll never have
Jake back.
Jake tells Joe he wants to set up a tip line and reward to help find
Vicky. However, Joe has bad news for Jake. Forensics just found a
bloody fingerprint in Vicky's car... it's Grant's blood, and Vicky's
fingerprint.