Danny surprises Chris in the jazz lounge. He’s meeting Mike, she’s meeting Lauren. Hey, let’s all sit together. However, the Baldwins enter feuding. Lauren’s not sitting next to ‘him’, not here OR at the wedding!
Jack’s on the phone with Diane. No, he knew nothing about the story Victor published. Cane might be motivated to retaliate. He ends the call when Jill ‘graces him with her presence’.
Adam and Chelsea are thrilled that their expose is gaining a lot of traction. When the ‘man of the hour’ drops by his office, Adam asks how he likes the story.
Jill’s heart is just fine; if Jack’s plan was a mother son reunion, it was a big fat failure. Billy was upset she went straight to see Cane – she hasn’t been able to reach Billy since he left the train earlier.
Journalism at its finest, Adam praises himself. Is Cane there to make a comment? No comment it is. Are you just gonna stare at us or say something? You seem to be enjoying yourself, Cane announces that he’s suing the hell out of Nemwan Media.
Billy has reason to be upset with you, Jack points out – you yanked Chancellor away from him; exposing him to Victor’s ‘ridicule’. Jill stands by her decision. Jack knows how she feels – he and Billy are on rocky grounds too.
Adam’s not surprised. Cane has to, not suing for defamation would be an admission of guilt. You had no idea how Collin acquired the chateau? Chelsea asks. No, Cane didn’t. Reminding that she was once a con artist, he just wants his father to have the benefit of the doubt everyone gave Chelsea. Did you do any fact checking or have any proof? Or are you blindly following your father’s orders?
After Chris sits a furious Mike down at the bar, Danny leads an even more angry Lauren off to a nearby table. Watching as Mike gulps back a drink, she’d ordered for Lauren, Chris explains that she needs him and Lauren at her wedding, together and in love – how are we gonna fix this?
Yes, Chris knows what it’s like to work for Victor – but she never ended up in a South American prison and she knows what it’s like to want to help people – but you can’t save the world.
My husband’s first loyalty is to Victor – what am I supposed to do with that? Lauren fumes. Danny knows ho much Mike loves her. She worries all the time when he works for Victor – is today the day he doesn’t come home to me? It sounds to Danny like Mike was trying to do the right thing. Taking her hand across the table, Danny asks Lauren to remember all the reasons she loves Mike.
Family is everything, Jack agrees – it’s the tie that binds. And sometimes chokes, Jill quips – she has no idea how to break through to her son. Now, let’s discuss the reason you summoned me to town – Cane.
With the story going viral, Adam expects Cane (and Amanda) will soon be busy fending off long-lost relatives of Madam DeLeon who’ll start coming out of the woodwork. Cane’s not worried – YOU should worry about what I’M about to unleash. He has an exclusive story for Chelsea – this one will have a very different outcome.