Langston and Ford at Capricorn—boring
Starr and Todd arguing—boring
Blair sings at Capricorn—boring
Moving on to a more interesting story:
Dorian tells Viki about her chance encounter with Clint and seeing him with half of the heart necklace. Even though Viki tells Dorian, she is not jumping to any conclusions and wants to wait for the DNA results, the story gives her plenty to think about. She heads straight for Clint's office. Clint is admiring a counterfeit key card he had made to access Llanview Hospital. Viki enters the office and asks, "Clint, what are you up to?"
She tells Clint that Dorian just told her something very interesting and she wants to hear his side of the story; and then adds, "And, it had better be good."
Clint expresses surprise that Viki would listen to anything Dorian had to say. She replies, she found this particular story a little difficult to ignore. "Ah," he says, "Well then, this should be good. Let's hear Dorian's latest who ha."
Viki: "Well apparently, she ran into you at the hospital and you had with you, a particular necklace—a half heart on a chain; which happens to be the mate to the one that Echo has and the exact same one that she left with Rex when he was a baby.
Clint produces the necklace and holds it up. "This one?"
"Wow, yes."
"Alright, what's wrong?"
"I didn't want to believe it, but she's right. Dorian's right. You gave Echo this necklace all those years ago. She kept half and she left half with her son. He's your son, isn't he."
"If I'm Rex's father, it's news to me."
"Then why do you have this necklace?"
"I told you. When Echo blew into town, I had my people do some pre-emptive investigating, just like you did. And my private investigators hit pay dirt when they found out she hired two con men in New Mexico to send Rex on this wild goose chase. And that is what led me to that necklace. Because Rex placed it on the grave of that woman."
"Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"I had no idea what it meant to him."
"And you never suspected that Echo went to all this trouble because she was hiding something? The fact that she's Rex's mother?"
"I suppose I should have, but I didn't think it was connected to me."
"So, you did NOT give her the necklace?"
"Why would I? Meeting Echo was the worst mistake I ever made in my life and I have the feeling, before long, poor Charlie is going to be saying much the same thing.
Viki isn't really buying Clint's story completely. She asks him, "If Echo forged the letters, why would she copy them out of a book written by one of your ancestors?"
"Who knows how Echo's mind works. Viki, she was infatuated with me—with all of the Buchanans. She wanted to BE a Buchanan. So maybe forging the letters was her way of keep it in the family."
"Are you sure that she did this?"
"Do you think that I did?"
Viki shrugs.
"Come on, what makes more sense? That I'm lying to you or that Dorian got into your head with one of those nutty conspiracy theories of hers?"
"What are you going to do with the necklace?"
"You keep it, by all means. I never want to see the damn thing again."
Viki leaves and Clint takes a meeting with one of his tech employee's—the one who created the fake key card. Clint tells him he has a big job for him to do and if he is successful, it could lead to a very big promotion. Clint wants him to break into the files of the DNA lab and, of course, change the results of Rex's paternity.
Echo drops in on Chuckles. He tells her she cannot keep dropping over like this and she says she really needs to talk to him—alone. He takes her outside to be sure no one hears whatever she needs to say.
She tells him she thinks about him a lot and that maybe she made a mistake leaving Atlantic City. What if she had kept Rex? Maybe she and Charlie would have stayed together and made a life together and maybe it would have been good. She asks him if he ever thinks about that.
They are interrupted by Viki's return. She says she is just leaving and so Viki says she has something she can take with her. She gives her the half-heart necklace. Viki tells Echo Clint's story about the private investigators, etc., then takes Charlie by his leash and drags him into the house with her.
She tells Charlie about talking to Clint and that she asked him every possible questions she could think of and he had an answer for everything—just like Echo. Poor naive Charlie asks, "Do you think they're lying." "Sweetheart, of course they're lying." Viki will get to the bottom of it soon.
After Brody leaves Marty's, she begins talking to Cole's picture and is trying to decide what she needs to do next. She calls John and asks him to come over. It didn't turn out the way we thought it might. She merely apologized to John for the way she talked to Natalie, and asks for his forgiveness.
Natalie talks to Brody and he explains to her what he said to Marty and that he thinks he scared her into leaving them alone. Natalie is like, are you kidding me? Marty is not afraid of anything because she has nothing left to live for. She blames ME for her son going to prison and the only thing she cares about is revenge.
Marty is at home when the doorbell rings. It is Todd. He hands Marty the papers he asked Starr to sign, which he told her were in regard to Hope's Trust Fund. But it turns out they are a court order to keep Marty away from Hope!
Clint's tech guy enters the DNA lab. He is at the computer looking up Rex Balsom's records when someone else enters the lab and turns on the lights. In the morning, Clint keeps calling him to find out what is going on since he didn't hear anything at all.
Natalie goes to the lab and she is handed her results by a lab tech. She goes out into the hall and opens the envelope.
Jessica and Brody are together at Llanfair when her test results are delivered. They kiss, and say they love each other and she opens the envelope.
Clint is the last one in the group to show up at Rex's apartment where everyone is assembled. It looks like a gathering from an Agatha Cristie novel, just before the investigator reveals the murderer!! Rex opens the envelope to his DNA results.
Dun, dun, da.....
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