1510
Kharif: The Pasha, Eden and Michael are awaiting any kind of reaction from the
Sheikh. CC soon arrived in Kharif, he meets his contact to discuss a plan for
him of how to get into the Palace, where Eden is. At the same time, Cruz
escapes from the Sheikh's Palace and finds his way to the town bar. CC arrives
at the Palace. The Pasha just received a message from the Sheikh, who stopped
the negotiations. Eden is afraid the Sheikh stopped the negotiations, because
he had nothing to bargain with. She believes something happened to Cruz. CC
interferes, he wants to visit the Sheikh. Meanwhile Cruz found out that Eden
is in danger. He finds a way back to the Pasha's Palace. Nikki is having a
bad day. She still wasn't able to find a sponsor and is about to be deported.
She is afraid she won't see Michael again, who had left town all of a sudden,
with no explanation, and has not yet come back. Lionel is being pressured by
the secret buyer of the paintings. Time is running, and he has to take action.
He plans to get into the mansion to inspect the paintings. Gina and Phyllis
take action too. The plan is to switch the forgery with the real painting in
CC's living room. The original, as they believe, has being taken out of the
mansion by Phyllis in a laundry bag.
1511
Robert Barr shows up at Kelly's to give her at present and wishing her a happy
birthday. Only minutes later, Craig shows up at the mansion, knowing that
Robert is there too. Kelly is seemingly under pressure, by the constant
attention she is getting from Craig as well as from Robert, but she wants to
be left alone to make a decision. She makes this clear to both and asks them
to leave. But Craig won't give up that easy. He arranges for Kelly to come
to the Golf Club, under false pretense, in order to finally tell her that he
really loves her. Lionel's plan to inspect the paintings failed, he got
locked up in CC's wine cellar, by the servant who believed she heard rats.
Meanwhile Augusta is worried about Lionel. She hasn't heard from him all night.
Something was doomed to go wrong. She is pretending everything is O.K. to
Laken, who has become suspicious of her mother and father, who have been
acting very strangely for a while. Gina meet with an art dealer to sell the
painting she switched with a fake at the Capwell mansion, but the deal did
not come to an end. Augusta could not wait to find out what happened to
Lionel, so she went over to the mansion, wanting to find out whether Lionel
was seen or not. She used the study to make a call, where she recognized a
gift laying to the table from Lionel. She opened it. Inside was a letter once,
a long time ago, written by Sophia to Lionel, saying that she always loved CC.
Lionel gave it to CC in the wooden box as a gift. Augusta was outraged, she
rushed home, where it came to an argument between the two.
1512
Happy Ending in Kharif: Eden, Cruz, CC, Michael, Sheila and the Pasha are
celebrating their freedom and the triumph over the Sheikh's defeat. Later on
the Pasha, unhappily saying good-bye, paid great respect to all of whom he
learned so much from. During CC's absence, Mason who is temporarily in
charge of Capwell Enterprises and CC private dealings, decided to offer
Steven Slade a sum of $1 million, if he takes back all accusations made
against CC. Quinn is getting ready for his first appearance as Robert Barr,
while his reporter friend Debra taped a conversations, in order for Quinn to
practice his brother's accent and voice. Laken who is obviously getting very
close to Amado, persuades him to take acting classes with her.
1513
CC was furious at first, when he heard about the deal Mason offered Steven
Slade, but later on realized that the idea was the only solution to the
problem, although CC claims not to have destroyed the film. Kelly took
Cassandra's advice that it'll do her well to leave town for a few days.
Later on, Robert Barr turned out to be the captain of the private jet. He
pursuades her to have dinner with him, and than takes her to NY. They arrived
somewhere in Argentina, went to a hotel, where they had dinner and got
surprised as Craig shows up. Julia agreed to participate to model for an
event to raise funds for the victims of the recent Santa Barbara fire.
Cruz had a strange encounter after his decision to return the talisman to
the Mexican tribe. Already expected there, the leader of the tribe took the
talisman from Cruz and said: "It's all over now". Then he left the scene.
1514
Lionel's and Augusta's new plan worked out. Agusta managed to make CC offer
Lionel a job as his art consultant. With this job, they believe to have
better control over CC's art collection. At the same time CC gave one of his
painting to an auction. Later that night after unveiling the paintings Gina
recognized the painting as the one she switched with the original at the
mansion. She panics, believing that the museum certainly will find out that
it is not an original. Mason decided, much to Julia's regret, to work for
his father again.
1515
Laken is seeking help from her father for being a sponsor for Nikki, who is
about to be deported if she doesn't find a sponsor. Lionel has to turn her
down, since he is unable to act as a one, with the limited finances he has
at the moment. An art dealer from the Art Museum went to the Capwell Mansion
to express his gratitude once again to CC, who sponsored the painting. He met
Lionel, who is astonished that the painting is real, whereas Lionel was sure
that CC is in possession of the fakes, of course without his knowledge.
At the same time, Gina and her mother showed up. To everybody's surprise the
art dealer recognized Gina, who was smartly trying to change the subject.
Lionel is sure the painting is a fake, but where is real one? Gina was
shaken by the fact, that the truth about her switching the painting will come
out. But for some reason the she believes the art museum recognizes the fake
as the real painting. She wonders how much Lionel knows about the paintings
and wants to find out. CC was trying hard to make up with Sophia, when they
coincidentally met at the Golf Club, but Sophia does not want to discuss
anything to do with the movie with him. They get into an argument. CC gets up
and leaves.
1516
Mason moved back to his office. Cassandra agreed to his offer to work for him
as an assistant. Quinn has problems coping with his past. While he grew up
with careless stepparents away from his twin brother Robert, Robert lived a
happier life with his birth parents. He wants to become Robert, not just for
the money as his partner and mistress Flame believes, he also intends to
finally meet his real parents, much to Debra's regret. Debra believes the
situation is getting out of hand and doesn't think Quinn is perfect in his
appearance yet, but later on he convinces her of otherwise. He dresses,
talks, moves and looks exactly like Robert. Julia is very proud of Mason,
who for the first time really manages his private and business life, without
any problems, and tells him so. Mason decides to go on a business trip to
Hong Kong and is happy to hear that Julia would like to travel with him.
After leaving Argentina in the Capwell's private jet, during upcoming bad
weather, Robert loses control over the machine and has to land somewhere in
the middle of nowhere and a lot of snow. Kelly, Craig and Robert will have
to stay overnight and find help the next day. Laken decided to stop her
acting classes, because she can't afford it anymore. She tells Steven,
who offered her free classes, because he believes in her abilities. She is
happy. Amato believes Steven wants more than just being nice, but Laken makes
him understand otherwise.
1517
Eden tries to match-make between Sophia and CC. She arranges a dinner at the
Golf Club with CC, Cruz and a young woman, knowing that Sophia had a dinner
date at the same place, because she turned down Eden's invitation to join her
earlier. It came to a major confrontation between Sophia and CC at the Golf
Club. CC sent champagne over to Sophia's table, she was angry, walked over
to CC's table and threw a glass of champagne in his face. Augusta obviously
amused, watched the scene, but her mood soon changed when Lionel told her
that the paintings that he examined turned out to be fakes. Now he has a
difficulty to overcome: Who stole the real paintings? Michael meets Nikki for
the first time he's back. They are happy seeing each other again. Michael
soon finds out that Nikki will be deported tomorrow, if she doesn't find a
sponsor. He tracks down Eden & Cruz, and Eden is willing to become her
sponsor, if Nikki agrees. Later on Michael proposes marriage to Nikki and
she accepts. Gina went back to the tunnel. The door to the room where the
paintings were stored was wide open, although she locked it after taking the
goods. She knew somebody was there and suspects Lionel, who is been asking
too many questions. Cruz and Ric have an argue about Ric's new job, he
simply doesn't want to tell anything, not to push his luck. Cruz pretends to
be the big wise brother, but Ric doesn't like his attitude, and walks off.
1518
Cruz went to Ric to apologize for always pretending to be the big brother. Ric
told him he does understand, but Cruz has to learn to trust him. He says he is
doing the right thing and eventually he will tell about his new job. Lionel and
Sophia are both having problems with their ex-husband and ex-wife. They get
together and appreciate the kind of friendship they have, Lionel took the
moment to confess to Sophia that, the letter Sophia once send so long ago to
Lionel, saying she only loves CC, Lionel gave to CC as a present. Sophia was
astonished and she confessed that she meant to make him jealous by saying she
only loves CC.
1519
Annie, who recently after her escape appeared at The Lair, is still running
away from the police. She decides to leave Bunny, not to get him into any
trouble hiding her. She writes him a note. Bunny who shortly after read the
message is shocked and tries to find her. Michael, Nikki, Amato and Laken are
off to celebrate the good news about Nikki and Michael's wedding plans. The
evening turned into a disaster, when Amato, over a jealous rage, picks a fight,
defending his sister. Mason and Julia just returned from a business trip. To
their amazement they found that Cassie, who is now working as Mason's
Assistant, completely scheduled and managed their private as well as their
business life, much to Julia's dislike and Mason's amazement. Debra has
difficulties controlling Quinn. He wants to have it all, the sooner the
better. Debra accuses him of being cocky and reminds him that of the hundreds
of millions of dollars that are at stake, if they are not careful enough.
But Quinn is being very sure of himself and proves to her that he can fool
anybody into believing he is Robert Barr. Robert, Kelly and Craig have been
jailed in a faraway place somewhere in Argentina. They knock down a guard
at the prison and manage to escape. They manage to get on a train, where
Kelly begins to drift away, remembering the past and all happenings with
Robert.