Palace Hotel - Blair and Max, Sam and Asa

In the restaurant, Blair tells Max about her forthcoming date with Sam in his suite. He replies that she always had a thing for older guys and she would date a troll if he was Bo's lawyer. Blair informs him that Drew slipped and told her that Georgie was pregnant. She needs to confirm the information by getting the autopsy report. That may be why she has a date, but it also because Sam Rappaport has sexy smile lines, she explains. She reads the note from Sam and announces to Max that Mr. Rappaport wants to know what is taking her so long.

Meanwhile, upstairs in Sam's room, Sam accepts the champagne and caviar and with a smile hands the waiter a tip and a note for Blair. Asa arrives and asks if it is anyone he knows. Sam tells him it is not Nora. Asa says that he has an itch he can't scratch regarding the case. Someone has been using the lodge. Fire logs were replaced. Sheets were changed. At first he thought it might be Joey using the lodge as a love nest. Asa is sure that since Georgie asked Bo to meet her inside the lodge, she must have had a key. The night she was killed might not have been the only night she was there. Maybe Georgie and the man who killed her were the ones changing the sheets. Sam replies that the police went over the lodge and did not find anything. Asa pulls out a ring box. It is empty, but it has a picture of a gold man's ring on the front. Asa thinks it might be a gift Georgie gave the killer. Sam does not think Asa should have with held this information, but Asa says that Delgado is hellbent on pinning the murder on Bo and he would only twist the evidence. Sam informs Asa he is no longer Bo's lawyer and if he believes the ring box has to do with the murder, he has to tell Nora. Asa is amazed to find out that Nora fired Sam and tells him they should have left their excess baggage at the airport.

Downstairs, Max and Blair continue their conversation and Max tells her that he and she are the same. They look for opportunities and gain the advantage, no matter who they hurt.

Buchanan Enterprises- Rachel and Drew

A figure prowls through the darkness until he comes to Asa's office. He turns on the light and lifts a file from the desk. It is Georgie's autopsy. He turns the light back off and sees Rachel and tells her it is just him. Each asks why the other came. Rachel is trying to track down her mother. Drew admits to breaking in to get the autopsy because the police ordered him away from the case. He can't let Del railroad him. Rachel still insists that Bo had an affair with Georgie. She cites the flowers, calls and the entries in the diary. Drew replies that she does not know for a fact Bo sent the flowers or made the phone calls and people write lies in their diaries all the time. They agree to look at the autopsy together.

At the first sight of Georgie beaten and dead, Rachel gasps. The autopsy says the cause of death was a severe trauma to the head caused by a lethal blow from a blunt wooden instrument. Wood was found among the shattered pieces of Georgie's skull. Drew asks if there is any evidence cited. Subject's hand was opened to reveal...she sees a picture of a decorative snap and that Drew has one just like it missing on his motorcycle jacket. She does not tell Drew. He asks why she stopped. Rachel says it is just the image of Georgie's hand being broken open. She says that the subject also had a bruise on her cheek consistent with blow from a hand wearing...a ring (a heavy gold ring). She looks at the ring on Drew's hand and tells him just to go. He asks her if she will tell anyone about his breaking into Buchanan Enterprises, but she just repeats he should go. ( The ring on Drew's finger matches the picture on the ring box Asa showed Sam).

Bo's cell- Nora, Bo and Del

Bo still insists that Sam should head up the defense team. Nora thinks it is too complicated, but Bo has researched Sam's record and he notes that Sam won a case almost exactly the same as this in Chicago. Nora is familiar with the case. Bo is sure Sam can help them prove that he is not the murderer. Bo knows that if the situation was reversed he would call on every friend to save Nora, but right now none of their friends fits the bill. Hank will have to prosecute. Clint and Viki helping them will just make it look like the Buchanans are using their clout. Sam, on the other hand, is a world class attorney and they need his expertise.

Del shows up and says it is a good thing his attorney is present. He has questions about the autopsy report. He asks Bo what rings he owns other than his wedding ring. Bo replies that he only has his wedding ring. Del informs him that Georgie was struck in the face with a gold ring with a crest on it. He also asks about the snap and Bo says there are snaps like that on his motorcycle jacket, but the jacket is brand new and all the snaps are still on it. Nora is becoming very angry at all the circumstantial evidence. She calls Del an arrogant, pompous, self serving jerk. Del tells both of them that he has heard that his sister is joining the defense team. Bo is lucky because Téa is the best.

After Del leaves, Nora states that she would like to smack him. They can't trust Téa or any other member of her family. Bo agrees that Del wants to nail him and that Todd is his biggest cheerleader. But he has a totally different perspective on why Téa is the perfect candidate to defend him. They would score major Public Relations points. Téa is the sister of the lead investigator and the wife of the publisher of the Sun. Sam is smart enough to know the value of that. As for Bo, he believes that it is wise to keep his friends close and enemies closer.

St. James Cemetery- Todd and Andrew

Todd stands by Georgie's grave. He says, "I'm sorry. I didn't know about the baby but if I did...I'm sorry". Andrew over hears and Todd tells him he can go back inside, everyone is safe out here (in the graveyard). Andrew asks if Todd is having a crisis of conscience. Maybe he realizes if he smears Bo in the Sun, he will be smearing Georgie too. Maybe he will have the decency not to print the scoop regarding the pregnancy. Todd reminds Andrew that "you gave up the franchise on decency when you boffed my wife. You are not a decent man. A decent man would stand up for the oppressed. You are a cog in the Buchanan wheel, a brick in the Buchanan stone wall".

Andrew says that Todd shouldn't condemn Bo without the facts. Todd looks at him and asks what about him, what about Todd Manning. Andrew replies that although Todd is not his favorite person, he would like to think he would judge him innocent until proven guilty. Todd fires back that that is crap and that Andrew in fact led the charge when Todd was suspected of raping Barbara Graham. Andrew admits he was wrong. He tells Todd why not put that in his next headline. Todd replies that he does not have a column for hypocritical clergy. As far as he is concerned, all the facts are in and Bo is guilty. Andrew says that will sell a lot of papers. Todd feels that "someone has to stand up for Georgie and her unborn baby. Someone has to let the residents of Llanview know that Georgie's killer will pay. Someone has to ask the tough questions". Andrew wants to know why Todd, "someone who has made a career out of standing apart from the human race", is so worked up about this girl. What does Georgie Phillips death have mean to Todd?

"No, No, the question is what does Georgie's death mean to you. You and the Buchanans are contented to let this girl and her baby just lie here forgotten", Todd counters. Andrew says she is not forgotten. She had a proper burial and she has a beautiful head stone. Todd asks who paid for it. Andrew says it was an anonymous donor. "I know you won't speak out. You are scared the Buchanans will hit you where it hurts- the collection plates every Sunday. All the high and mighty get big funerals and prayers". Andrew agrees that Georgie and her unborn child deserve prayers and asks Todd to join him. Andrew kneels down, but Todd continues to stand. Andrew prays for God to grant peace to Georgie and the baby taken so violently from them and to give them the comfort they were not given on earth. As he gets up to tell Todd to go home to his wife and child who deserve love and comfort too, he realizes that Todd is gone.

Palace Hotel- Sam, Asa, Blair, and Nora

Blair arrives and Asa tells her to lay off his son in that rag of a newspaper she writes for. He is not blind to Sam's attraction for his ex wife. Blair says she just calls them as she sees them. Asa tells her it is anything or anyone for a lousy buck and storms out.

Sam asks her if Asa is right about her. Blair says that she just tried to convince Max and now him that she did not come about the story. Sam replies that Asa is just worried about his child and just wait until her daughter Starr is a teenager. He has a boy and girl of that age himself. Sam says he is divorced and he and his ex wife tried to work it out for the kids and just made a bigger mess of it. Blair replies she is glad her first marriage did not involve children. She was married before Todd, Sam asks. "Oh yeah, to Asa", she grins. "Whoa! This town gets more and more interesting". "A lot more with you in it", Blair says softly.

Penthouse- Téa, Nora and Todd

Téa is wondering where Todd is when the doorbell rings and she opens the door expecting to see her husband. But it is Nora. She tells Téa that she and Sam eat, breath and sleep this case and they expect the same of her. Nora does not trust Todd nor does she trust that Téa wouldn't share pillow talk with him. No worry about that, Téa mumbles. Anyway, short of moving out of Todd's home, what can she do? Nora expects her to do precisely that as a condition of joining the defense team. She says to think of it as a temporary work related separation, like a out of town case, except she could have some contact with Todd. All Nora is trying to do is minimize the risk of having Téa aboard. Téa replies no deal. She will continue to live in the Penthouse and the fact that Nora is there at all says that Bo wants her on his team. Nora informs her that she has a line item veto. Téa replies that she is as aware as Nora of client attorney privilege and the client is the first priority in a case. Nora tells her if she divulges any information about Todd, she will have her disbarred for life. Nora leaves and Téa says sarcastically, "Drop by any time". She goes upstairs wondering where Todd is. Todd quietly comes through the door and says "Delgado", but she does not hear him. He looks very upset and shaken. He is holding his father's lighter, staring at the flame. He picks up the phone and dials Sam.

Palace Hotel-Sam, Asa, Nora, Blair, Max

Sam answers and Todd reminds him of an incident involving the lighter and a dumpster at school. He was 14 and afraid to call his dad and Sam rescued him. Sam asks if he wants him to come over and at first he says yes, and then he mumbles somehting about Sam coming to wash behind his ears and tuck him in, then says "forget it", still looking at the glowng flame.

Blair asks if it was Todd and Sam says it was. Blair tells Sam that Todd trusts him and that Sam is the only Bo supporter her ex husband did not trash. They certainly have a unique relationship. Even when Sam turned the tables on Todd and created doubt about Todd's connection to Georgie, he did not slam Sam in print. Sam replies he was just doing his job. He was Todd's football coach in Chicago. Blair says that it is hard to picture Todd as a little boy, but sometimes when Starr is sleeping, she gets a glimpse of what he must have been like. Sam tells Blair that even then Todd had a rage inside which he channeled into football. Blair jokes that maybe Todd should go back to playing. Sam explains that Todd was great on the field. He always had bruises, he thought from the game, but it was from home Sam wished he had noticed it sooner. Blair admits that Todd had been hurt very badly and she hurt him some more. He was also the great love of her life, emphasis on was. Sam says that his ex wife was not the great love of his life, she was second choice. He goes off to call his kids but comes back in time to find Blair rummaging through his briefcase.

Sam tells her he no longer represents Bo, so she won't find the autopsy report in the briefcase. "If what you said before about not wanting a story is a lie, you are free to go", Sam says. Blair does not deny it, but says it is not the only reason she came. They start comparing profiles, ages of children, astrological signs etc and before they know it they are about to kiss when Nora knocks on the door and she is shocked to see Blair and Sam together.

Downstairs at the restaurant, Asa tells Max that he figures Blair got what she wanted. She knows how to watch out for her own. Her kid will never go hungry. Max gets the hint and says that Asa was right about a man providing for his family. He agrees to be his bloodhound on the condition that Asa will back any venture Max chooses and that Asa will be a silent partner. Asa has his own conditions. He wants a contract specifying Max is his consultant and he wants Max to be the first face Blair sees every morning and the last one she sees every night. Max reluctantly agrees, but gives Asa his first taste of advance information. He tells him Georgie was pregnant and that Todd knew. As soon as Blair gets the autopsy from Sam, Todd will go to press with the news and all hell will set loose for Bo.

Penthouse- Todd and Téa

Téa comes out of the shower and finds Todd downstairs. They both want to know where the other has been. Téa tells him that she has not known where to find him, certainly not here at the Penthouse. Todd tells her quietly that a husband should be around more for his wife. But he is curious where she has been. She replies that she has been talking to Sam, Nora and Bo. He perks up. Did she find out anything he could use? Téa says this is not why she met with them. Téa offered to defend Bo. Todd can't believe it.

St. James Cemetery- Drew

There is a white rose in the dirt covering Georgie's grave. Drew sees it and kneels sobbing, "WHY, WHY, WHY". Then he throws himself face forward and pounds the ground, despite his bad arm.