At the Marick Mausoleum, Ryan and Greenlee got dressed and left. Ryan was uneasy about Gillian having seen him and Greenlee together, but Greenlee laughingly told him she'd protect him from all ghosts, including that of his ex-wife!
A frantic Liza was on the phone to Marian, explaining the urgency of retrieving Adam's letter to Jake. As Liza put down the phone, Adam appeared and asked who was on the phone. Liza covered, saying it was the pilot of their private jet. Adam couldn't wait for what he called their "second honeymoon" in Monaco. He was basking in what he thought was Liza's forgiveness and readily told Liza how he had escaped from the safe room. Liza was shocked to learn he had been in and out of there since before Christmas!
Gillian returned to the Crystal Ball, the image of Ryan and Greenlee still burned into her brain. She told Jake she will become his wife. "I've grown up a lot," she told him, carefully choosing her words. "And I want something real." As they rejoiced together, Marian interrupted and dragged Gillian away. She explained the importance of the fateful letter, and Gillian rushed off to Jake to try to recover it. This she did by taking Jake to an upstairs room, with Champagne and desserts for a private celebration. She managed to get some dessert on Jake's sleeve and whisked the jacket off him, saying she would get one of the maids to clean it. Outside the door, she took the letter from Jake's jacket and handed it to a jubilant Marian.
Meanwhile, David was on his way to the hospital accompanied by Erica. She was indignantly demanding that David have Alex arrested for trying to kill him. David explained his plan is to find out what Alex's problem is, and that she won't get away with anything. "She made a lethal mistake tonight, as she will soon discover," he said ominously. Alex was never violent when he knew her in London, he told Erica, and he was determined to find out what her problem was. Then he questioned why Erica was with him, and why she had returned to the Crystal Ball after their earlier disagreement. Erica waffled and explained that she felt she had to be at the Crystal Ball, because of Dimitri. "And Maria," David reminded her.
As they sat in the car, halted by a traffic accident, the subject of their speculations, Alex, was at the Marick Mausoleum, sharing her thoughts with Dimitri. "My darling, I'm coming apart," she gently whispered. "I'm so alone here, I need your arms around me to make me feel safe." She sadly leaned her head against his name carved in the stone. "You knew the real me, and you loved me in spite of everything." In the ballroom, Leo flirted with Becca, but she blatantly ignored him and begged Ryan to dance with her. Greenlee approached Leo, and he taunted her that "Handsome" had left her side. He bragged that he can get any woman, and Greenlee challenged him: "Make Miss Virgin Tyree fall for you, then dump her!" Watching as Becca was now dancing with Scott, she added, "She's having too much fun! Fix it, before I hurl!" Leo agreed to take up the challenge.
Hayley and Mateo found their way to each other's arms and shared a kiss and then a dance. But Mateo was interrupted by Stella, who asked him to go and see Maddie upstairs.
Ryan escorted Eugenia back to her table after they danced, and Eugenia again told him how fond she is of him. Ryan glanced beyond Eugenia, where Jake was making weird moves to make Gillian laugh. "There'll never be another Duchess Eugenia," he told Eugenia when she told him he would one day find another "Grandmama-in-law."
Adam was in a rush to leave right away, but Liza was in no hurry, even when Adam mentioned his letter to Jake. "The whole Martin clan will be pounding on our door the minute he reads the letter telling him he's not Colby's father," declared Adam. "I want to be here for Jake to reassure him that he will still be a part of Colby's life," Liza replied.
But Adam sees a future with just him, Liza and Colby. He poured some Champagne to toast his family. He told Liza how desperate he was to get out of the safe room, how he longed for her. Liza said she felt badly about locking Adam in the safe room, but, "At the time I felt it was the right thing to do," she commented blandly. "We're together now, and we can go on from here," he said happily. Taking Liza's hands, he sat her on the bed. Adam told her that he loved her so much, more than any other woman, and that he could forgive her anything. "No more lies, no more deceptions." Liza echoed the words. But she was still worried about Jake's reaction to the news. "Oh, he's a Martin, he'll recover, that's what they do," Adam replied. "Mom will bake him an apple pie and he'll go shoot some hoops."
Liza, stalling until she heard from Marian, suggested Adam run bath for her, and she'd join him in a few minutes. After he left, the phone rang and Marian triumphantly told Liza she had the letter. Liza told her to bring it immediately. Then she cut the phone line, hurriedly went through Adam's jacket, removing his cellphone and wallet, and then removed his passport from a dresser drawer. Marian arrived with the letter. Liza quickly scrawled a note for Adam on the envelope. "Be sure to give it to him," she told a bewildered Marian. Liza explained she had hired a private jet and was leaving Adam, and made a hurried exit to get Colby.
Adam emerged from the bathroom in his robe, "Where's Liza?" he asked in horror as he saw Marian, happily waving the envelope at him. "Liza wanted me to give you this, and the important thing is that Jake never read it," she told him gleefully. He grabbed the envelope and read in horror the words, "If you tell Jake that he is not Colby's father, you will never see me or Colby again!" He frantically yelled for Liza, then checked his jacket and the drawer where his passport had been. Back at the Crystal Ball, Jack and Brooke admitted to each other that their dates were fictitious, while Joe reported to Edmund that Ruth and Tad were beating the Cortlandts at poker! Edmund gathered everyone around and announced that the invitation ornaments were to be placed on the Tree of Humanity on the center of the ballroom. As people did so, he said, "We want to think of the people who have touched our lives, for good or for bad.""
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