As The World Turns

Ep. #11698 (46x223)

Air date: Feb 20, 2002

.James impersonates a doctor and asks for a patients chart. Simon gets Katie an IOU for an adventure for her birthday and reluctantly reveals that Dahlia kissed him. Katie confronts Dahlia, who casually confesses to the crime and tries to explain her mistake. Meanwhile, Jack promises Margo that he wont be gone longer than a week, leaving Margo alone with all the phony Stenbeck bounty hunters. Simon asks Margo to do a background check on Dahlia, but Margo refuses and recruits Simon to work for the police. Jack forces Lucinda to help the police department field the calls for her reward money. He informs Lucinda and Lily why he is going to France. He then gets Lily to agree to allow Mitzi to stay at Roses for the time being. Jack goes home and is shocked to find Julia waiting for him, having baked cookies. At the police station, Abi is charged with second degree murder and let out on bail. Adam tries to lift her spirits by agreeing to go over what she remembers to help her piece together what happened the night of the murder. She recalls that the other person in the room was wearing boots and they decide to recreate the events at Nicks apartment, unaware that the person in the boots has been listening in. John overhears Paul on the phone with Wills school and secretly calls Barbara to come help her family. When Paul returns with a newly suspended Will and finds Barbara there, he yells at her for what she is doing to her family. Barbara decides to fight back to Paul, but her better self appears and warns her to stay away from her children.