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00:00you know how are you here
00:18i'll tell you everything i can okay it's just i have to go get a doctor first
00:31i'll come right back
00:38i promise
00:48my mom said that my dad can see me and that he's always watching over me
01:02i bet that's true buddy so do you think my mom is watching over me too
01:09how much of that between me and your mom did you hear i mean i wasn't eavesdropping
01:21i didn't have to really but i saw the look on her face when she heard that
01:24you were with jordan the night of true shooting so i mean that said it all
01:48you know if you're looking for curtis he's at his house
01:51his house yeah it's not my home anymore
02:00god i hope that granny is still at the casino i mean what if she took off again
02:05sweetheart wherever your grandmother is we won't track her down she can't run from losing monica
02:12forever since we have some privacy there is something that i think you should know
02:24said no unbearing good news ever okay now that i am officially braced spit it out i had an affair with monica
02:43i'll stand
02:48house wins again
02:56deal me in
03:12you just said that man that room is your brother yes it is
03:30the second that he opened his eyes and he smiled it's jay but it's him but what about there's just no
03:37the man in that hospital room is nathan west you'll know it too as soon as you talk to him
03:46how's my brother alert and stable um are there any major injuries or
03:54he's sustained head trauma so we're treating him for a concussion and there's a scar on his chest
04:00likely from a previous gunshot wound that would make sense but there's no evidence of lasting trauma
04:08from that or the vehicle collision the patient is in excellent health thank you thank you anytime
04:16yeah thank you shall we
04:24your dad is watching over you i truly believe that but your mom buddy she's not gone she's she's in the
04:34hospital i bet she's dreaming about you though i think so absolutely and in her dreams you're probably
04:42riding common around all over the property like you just did we galloped excuse me did you just
04:49say galloped i thought cantering was the limit cantering is boring grandma yeah grandma give me
04:57the program no cantering is safer yeah and a complete snooze fest right buddy yeah i already know how to
05:04can't do that's why i'm learning how to gallop by the time mom wakes up i'll be a pro
05:14anna how are you
05:20i hear you have a clean bill of health but all i got doctor won't tell me anything
05:27sir what's what is happening right now we will tell you everything when when you tell us
05:34what's the last thing that you remember
05:39jordan was not the reason for the strain between your mother and me i mean i used to think that it
05:44was drew but so now i'm not so sure well drew was a factor honey everything that went down with him
05:52it only brought our problems to the surface
05:54but the problems already existed sometimes
06:03when when external forces add pressure to a relationship it could either bring you closer
06:07together or drives you further apart
06:12whatever happens between your mother and me just know this one thing will never change
06:17i will always love you no matter what and also i will always have
06:29respect for portia as your mother
06:33i'm really sorry honey whatever's going on with you and curtis please just leave me out of it
06:38i don't want trouble with either of you see that's the thing there is no trouble
06:46i owe you an apology
06:49for what i uh i laid the friction between me and my husband at your door and that wasn't fair
06:58and it just wasn't right the flaws in my relationship with curtis they were there from the very beginning
07:06eating away at us until they destroyed us
07:09what are you trying to say portia i'm saying that my marriage is over
07:20so
07:24dad your affair with monica is the stuff of family legend did you really think i didn't know
07:31i have my suspicions oh come on that's kind of story that makes the rounds
07:36fine allow me to shed some light on why no no no no no no no no no i am all set
07:44brooklyn i was a tennis pro at the club we were using different names at the time i didn't know
07:51who monica was and i certainly didn't think she was married to my uncle oh i beg you to stop please
07:57okay okay okay i all i'm trying to say is that i knew monica in a way that the rest of the family
08:05didn't no i got it dad i mean the word affair sort of gave that away i don't mean it that way
08:14i mean monica and i were able to get to know each other without the family politics
08:25dysfunction she was a remarkable dynamic insanely brilliant woman i can't help but think
08:37that i let her down yes
08:40you know if you leave now you'll be leaving a winner fyi you should never hit on 17. there's
08:55a 69 chance that if you do hit the next card the dealer picks it's gonna bust you you know what enjoy
09:02your game i'm gonna go find another table where the dealer is the only one who speaks and everyone
09:11else has thoughts they keep to themselves tracy please don't go
09:14you know you know what you're right this is my room
09:26and my private dealer so you should be the one to leave i will once i've said my piece
09:34oh goody more talking here why don't you take a break i'm sure you burned it thank you
09:44ned said you your son is worried about you well he must be pretty desperate if he reached
09:55out to you the woman who kept his grandson from him for years you know what you're absolutely right i did
10:05wronged by ned oh my goodness alert the media lois cerullo is admitting fault
10:20i like to think of it as a moment of reflection which is what happens when you lose someone important
10:27to you forgive me if i i don't want to reflect with you when you lose someone who is important to you
10:38it becomes crystal clear how short life is and you are afraid that you're gonna run out of time before
10:46you have a chance to make up for your mistakes and you know about mistakes don't you of course i do
10:52you because i made some whoppers and i am going to regret those mistakes for the rest of my life and
11:01all i could do is hope and pray that i have a chance to make up for them yeah well i wouldn't take those
11:06odds tracy i am terrified that you're about to make one of those mistakes right now as much as i cared for
11:16monica and i truly did i didn't show her nearly enough consideration those years that i went after
11:25aj aj had issues yes even monica knew that yes but i only compounded those issues by just relentlessly
11:36undermining and double-crossing him every chance he got being too hard on yourself
11:41dad i mean what you described is just life as a quarter me maybe but there's nothing more painful
11:52than seeing your child struggle
11:57monica suffered so much loss the deaths of all three of her children
12:02alan it's more than she should have had to bear i don't know how she did it i mean i know i
12:07couldn't have survived i think about you live mother leo i don't want the daily one-upsmanship to
12:21ever make me lose sight of all that i have to be thankful for so please allow me this moment
12:29go for it
12:37being your father is the most important thing in this world to me and i need you to know that i do
12:47i love you endlessly brooklyn i have always known that
12:54some homecoming
13:00everyone ran away
13:04i'm sorry pop the police visit probably ruined the celebratory mode
13:12don't be sorry son
13:15it's nice being home for the good times but it's even more important to be home
13:20from the not so good times well these are definitely the not so good times
13:29i don't know what i'm worried about
13:34you being a suspect in true shooting
13:39watching your family and your marriage fall apart in front of me
13:43trina is this a bad time uh it's a fine time is everything okay not really i'm sorry to hear
13:57that yeah it's about my parents well i mean you and my parents to be exact come on in
14:05well now that i'm here i don't know where to start my advice jump in anywhere i'm afraid that my parents are splitting up
14:20the last thing i remember
14:26is
14:26this is our fizz on shooting me
14:34no no no no no that's that's impossible
14:40how am i healed
14:41am i losing it did that not happen
14:50it happened
14:52yeah fizz on shot you
14:55um
14:57that was seven years ago
15:04here
15:04you know
15:09missing monica's funeral would be a whopper if there ever was one
15:14number one stop using that word
15:20second of all have i ever asked your opinion why would i start now well think about how it's gonna look
15:29then okay
15:31i mean at this
15:33at this point you are the de facto
15:36quarter main matriarch i mean don't you want to send a message to society that the family's gonna persevere
15:43society
15:45is going to be just fine trust me
15:50yeah but you won't be
15:52tracy you loved monica i did
15:55and anything i owed her i paid back tenfold the debt is paid
16:01it's not about debt
16:04i don't want to hear it
16:07monica does not need me to show up at her funeral and nor does anybody else
16:16uh hey james do you think you could fill up the oats that way we can feed the horses before you leave
16:20on it sweet
16:25is everything okay is it maxi
16:29she's stable okay then what's wrong oh god i don't even know how to say this without sounding completely insane
16:40there's a man who looks exactly like james's father who has been admitted to g8
16:47i thought he had he did there was a funeral and everything but somehow now nathan might be alive
17:00if that can't be right
17:03i know it's shocking
17:04well but it's 2025
17:09well what so so you you're i've been in a coma i just because it doesn't feel that way i don't feel
17:15weak i don't feel tired i don't feel like anything is wrong with me
17:18you don't want to hurt yourself
17:19don't get out of bed
17:21stay right
17:22look i'm fine what the hell is going on here you haven't been in a coma
17:30jay you were declared dead what everyone thought that you died there was a funeral
17:40and a gravesite and i've been visiting you there for the last seven years
17:46well i'm not dead like obviously and that's a miracle i don't know what it is it's definitely
17:54something we've got to figure it out
17:59wait wait wait
18:00what is it
18:03you're both shocked that i'm here so does that mean that
18:08does maxi not know i'm alive i feel like drew's shooting was the final straw and collapsing my
18:18marriage
18:20how's that and true he's had his tentacles in my life in every area of it i mean you know he's the
18:27reason on stella got arrested his manipulations led to trina and kai breaking up portia she lied to
18:34me for months because she was being blackmailed by drew and she didn't feel like she had a choice
18:41i don't think anyone could blame you if you felt like your only option was to take drew off the
18:49chessboard so to speak yeah well on paper very few people have more motive to see drew dead
18:59better than i do and the cops clearly know that so it sounds to me like your family is under attack
19:13why aren't you and portia coming together when you you have never needed each other more
19:19the last time that we spoke i said that the time we shared that was all that we were ever going to
19:33have right yeah i remember you said there was no future for us well i want you to know i've reconsidered
19:42i think you're underestimating the importance of saying goodbye
19:52monica's dead
19:55she won't care
19:58it's important for you
20:02oh wow right on time hello mother your minion here stalled until you could get here thank you lois
20:12the king
20:15i'm sorry for your loss
20:23i can't be yours
20:27brooklyn is on the boardwalk
20:33thank you
20:37why would you do that
20:42when nathan died james wasn't even born yet i mean he's heard about his father and he's seen him
20:49in pictures but he never actually met him and maxie she's not here maxie has to be here
20:57hey maxie needs to be here period but until she is we'll just take this one step at a time okay
21:04i mean first we'll we'll put our faith in the cops you know mac anna dante they'll figure out who this guy
21:12is and if it's nathan we'll deal with it i just don't want james to be hurt or scared or confused
21:22well the confused part is probably unavoidable but we'll make sure the rest is taken care of
21:31no one's hurting my man james how do they get hurt they're just oats
21:34you know what let's just back up a minute and uh i'm gonna go through the facts as we know them
21:45i'll take them because none of this is making any sense i know it doesn't it doesn't make sense but
21:50we'll figure this out jay okay okay so a motorist came across your wrecked vehicle last night on route
21:59415 and so they called 911 firefighters and paramedics got there extricated you from the car
22:06you were unresponsive at the time okay did i have any id on me or a cell phone so we ran the dna
22:13and your fingerprints what about the car are you getting info on the car yeah we got the number
22:18but it was listed as being destroyed so it supposedly it had gone through the crusher
22:24in mississippi in mississippi yeah of all places right so basically what you're telling me is that
22:31i just appeared out of nowhere and i'm missing seven years of my life that would appear to be the case
22:38well this is ridiculous where where is she who maxi i need to see maxi
22:49so detective falconeri came to my house questioning my dad about the night that
22:53true was shot putting together a timeline of his movements
22:59and curtis said that he was with me yeah and my mom was there to hear it all disclosure
23:06i just ran into your mother at the hospital and she made it clear that things were strained between
23:13she and your dad now i understand why i did talk to my dad about it and what he's saying he insisted
23:23that you are not an issue in my parents marriage but is that true though trina i respect your parents
23:32relationship and i haven't pursued your father in any way and he hasn't pursued me either
23:36i believe you i'm glad but unfortunately
23:45my mom doesn't seem to she and my dad are splitting and that can't happen
23:50trina i don't think that there's anything you can do about it your parents relationship is something
23:57that they have to navigate i don't think you understand this isn't me trying to keep my parents
24:04together because i need them to be a couple i'm trying to keep them out of prison
24:10you seem pretty adamant before that things couldn't go any further between us i know
24:16so what changed my marriage is over
24:25i haven't broken the news to trina yet but she's a smart cookie she sees the writing on the wall
24:33as your husband he's at the end of his rope just like i am and there's only so many times you can
24:41try to fix a relationship before you call it spoken like a true doctor i think that this could be a good
24:51thing but only if you're interested too what are you doing don't stand there go protect your daughter
25:04my daughter does not need protection and right now my main concern is you
25:11well i am right where i want to be i don't believe you
25:19as i just finished explaining to your ex
25:24i am under no obligation to attend to monica's funeral
25:28because she's deceased she won't care if i'm not there but you will
25:45can you believe that i had to go to three different vendors in order to find this there's
25:51cotton candy every five feet ma oh yeah but not the pink kind
25:56all anyone had is the blue you know and i know you don't like the blue it was always pink or bust
26:04so i i got this one it's small but i thought we could share help yourself
26:16as much as i hate to say it i don't trust my wife i hate saying that but it's true
26:22true and every time we we try to start fresh we hit another wall so two people can love each other
26:33i mean really love each other and still not be right for each other right and they can
26:42make promises to each other with full intentions of keeping them i believe that
26:47i don't believe that portia wanted this to happen i don't believe that she set out to lie
26:54whatever it is she did
27:01it's good that you both seem brave enough to acknowledge the reality of the situation
27:08yeah well neither one of us wants to keep going around in this circle where we have to constantly
27:15shore up lies
27:18it's no kind of marriage pop
27:19it's no way to live if we explore this you have to be sure that your marriage is over
27:31i'm not playing games with you isaiah
27:33i i appreciate that i just need some time to think about this okay whatever you need i don't
27:41want to pressure you i know but we don't even know what if anything this is but i do know that i love
27:52working here and i am not going to do anything to risk losing my job here
28:02i'm good thanks
28:08how's granny
28:08she is in a private card room playing blackjack and not winning she's grieving
28:22deeply
28:25it's hard for a woman like tracy to lose someone like monica
28:31you know i mean those two have been sparring with each other their whole lives
28:35it was like watching the greatest tennis match of all time gonna miss that we all will
28:47thank you for coming to look for granny
28:51no problem how did you know where to look lulu according to her tracy's bolted here before
28:58oh wow well that wouldn't have been my first choice you know the the leprechaun casino in atlantic
29:08city does not exactly scream quarter me well lulu said it was tracy and luke's go-to after he
29:15got banned from the strip i don't know apparently there was some kind of incident it had to be
29:20i'm so proud of you brooklyn you and lulu working together for your grandmother and for maxi
29:31i don't know how long it's gonna last but lulu and i both get right now that there are people that we
29:37both love who will need us i'm really sorry to hear about maxi i reached out i know you did i saw your
29:50texts i know you did i saw you read for scenes i don't need you or anybody else telling me
30:02what i want or where i should be you don't want to be a part of honoring monica i honored her plenty
30:13when she was alive then why abandon her now
30:20because i'm sick of it i went to a funeral for my father i went to a funeral for my mother i went to a
30:28funeral for my brother i went to two funerals for luke and let's not forget about gregory i am done
30:37burying people i love don't you think that you will regret it oh god i do not want to listen to
30:48yet another tribute to a life well lived i want monica back i want to be fighting with her i i don't
30:54want to be burying her but then oh gee we don't always get what we want do we so i will not
31:00sit in a room and listen
31:05to platitudes about a wonderful woman who should still be here she's not she's dead
31:13the end i am so sorry jay maxi she collapsed last month what happened we're not sure she lost
31:29consciousness she's in a hospital in boston her condition is uh stable but it's unchanged
31:37we are um we were you were expecting before did she have the baby did the baby okay yeah and the baby
31:54now is a wonderful adventurous little boy named after his father james malcolm
32:07west so if you're teaching me at a gallop will you teach me how to jump too
32:17uh at some point yeah some point soon right soon ready freddy yep let's go
32:27thanks for the lesson anytime you know what cody what sometimes i really wish you were my dad
32:37my parents are mixed up in this because they're trying to protect me right so i'm their motive for
32:46any choice they made when it came to drew so if they get stressed out and break up it gives the police
32:51even more motive to look in their direction trina i know you love your parents but it is not your
32:59responsibility to fix things for them but i can't just sit back and do nothing nothing is exactly what
33:06you need to do let the investigation run its course but what if it leads them to my mom and dad
33:12what if it leads them to you if the police determine that drew is the cause of your parents splitting up
33:19what's to stop them from deciding that you had motive to kill him too
33:23trust me you need to stay far far away from that shooting
33:27so that's it you and porsche are calling it quits
33:37i think we both want to
33:40but you don't think you can
33:43not while this investigation is ongoing pop look it's one thing for the cops to go sniffing around me
33:49but if they find out that porsche and i split because of drew i i just don't want her to become a suspect
33:58because you don't want her to go through that
34:03or because you think porsche could be guilty
34:09i completely understand i love my job too and i almost just came so close to losing it
34:16it's just the time that we shared together it was amazing i felt selfish but i wanted more
34:28i thought our time together was pretty amazing too
34:34so if we do this it has to be quiet not under the radar off the radar completely okay i'm serious no
34:45one can know no secrecy is a condition i got it good because i've been down this road before and
34:56things got complicated and i got hurt so whatever this is or becomes i am not signing up for that ever
35:06again did i ever tell you about the time someone tried to kill your father's ex-wife katherine bell
35:15didn't that happen multiple times it did but this time it was poison thanks i know it was when i
35:22realized i wasn't in kansas anymore or bensonhurst anyway she was poisoned and she fell down the stairs
35:32and they were all there alan monica ned aj jason even sweet lila and they were all accusing each
35:43other of being guilty but at the exact same time they were all working together to cover it up
35:51was granny in the mix i hadn't met tracy yet but you know her presence wound large anyway
36:00that's when i realized as loony as it was in their own twisted convoluted way
36:06that the quarter mains really do love each other so who poisoned katherine reginald the butler
36:17but that is beside the point my point is family is family ride or die and monica she
36:28she was at the heart of all of that if you look hard enough between the betrayal and the backstabbing and
36:37blackmailing
36:38there really is a lot of love there yeah there always is
36:56mother you have the right to deal with death any way you choose so if you want to do your
37:03morning here at the blackjack table i will stay with you and play blackjack for as long as you
37:09want but i will do it with a heavy heart i can live with that i know that if you don't go to monica's
37:18service and pay tribute to the woman whose house you lived in and who you've shared the majority of your
37:27life with if you don't tell people who monica was to you you will regret it
37:37and i don't want you to have regrets mother not about this not about anything
37:48i'll tell you what let's leave it up to the cards
37:51as anyone with an enormous life decision would i have 17. if i lose this hand i'll stay and if i win
38:08i'll i'll go with you deal do i have a choice no
38:15hit me
38:28on the next general hospital you got the letter i don't know if i'll ever be ready
38:34we're here to honor monica bard order me what are you all standing around for i'm going to my mother's
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