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Sunset Beach in October, 2009:
Thursday, 1 October 2009 Episode 411AJ is pleased to hear that Cole won't leave Sunset Beach. Francesca wants Cole to become a thief again. Amy learns Sean's secret. Meg wants Maria/Dana to meet Antonio and attend her wedding. Annie and Tim try to prevent Maria from meeting Ben.
Monday, 5 October 2009 Episode 412When she sees the damaged painting, Ben tells Bette that Maria intentionally didn't paint her face on the portrait, because she felt that what was most important was on the inside, and that she painted herself in the swing because the swing was soothing to her.
Bette suggests that Ben have the painting repaired and give it to Carmen. Later, Ben brings a man from a gallery to give an estimate on repairing the portrait.
Meg persuades Maria to go to St. Joseph's with her. Maria is overwhelmed by the wedding chapel. When Meg goes to meet Antonio, Maria stays in the chapel, because it makes her feel warm and safe. However, later, she has an episode of some sort.
Tuesday 6 October 2009 Episode 413Maria bolts before Meg and Antonio get into the chapel. When she catches up to her on the beach, where she's been on the swings, Meg sees that Maria's safe, and Maria apologizes for bolting. She promises that she will attend Meg's wedding.
Ben remembers Maria telling him that she loves him for the first time while pushing her in the swing on the beach.
Antonio writes about his dreams in his journal. He says that he has no idea who the woman is or why she makes him feel this way. He says that it's strange, yet, at the same time, it's familiar. Antonio has another, more explicit, dream about the woman.
Francesca tells him that the one job she wants him to do has to be tonight. Francesca asks Cole to cause a distraction while she robs the safe, but then she has trouble opening the safe. When Cole comes into the room, she throws herself at him.
Wednesday 7 October 2009 Episode 414Melinda accuses Casey and Sara of trying to kill her. When Casey and Sara try to tell the truth, Melinda plays on the special prosecutor's sympathy. Melinda offers Sara a deal, suggesting that she rewrite her book to make Bob Blythe out to be the bad guy, and turn it into a book about how she and Sara bonded while facing adversity. As a result of Melinda's one condition - that Sara has to break up with Casey, because he will never go along with this plan, Sara refuses to go along with Melinda's plan. When Sara asks how Melinda could have survived the shark attack, Casey chalks it up to professional courtesy - one shark to another.
Thursday 8 October 2009 Episode 415Bette has to interview Bob Blythe, the Congressman who still keeps on interrupting Sara's life. When Bette mentions her, Bob tells her that he never got to know Sara better, so he decides to visit her. Ricardo wants Gabi to stay at his place for the night, but Gabi wants to take things slow.
Olivia thinks that Cole stole jewels again, so he decides to let her search him. Although she doesn't find anything, she tells him that she is going to try to make him look bad in her daughter's eyes.
Antonio goes to bed, and in the same moment, Francesca sneaks into the room, looking at a statue she and her deceased husband Phillip stole.
Monday 12 October 2009 Episode 416Casey comes to ask Ricardo for help with their Melinda problem. In response to Casey's request, Ricardo brings documents to him at Surf Central. Bob tells Sara that he has come to save her from Melinda's false accusations. He says that the key is to continue denying that they had ever been intimate.
Sara insists that what she and Bob had is over. He insists that it isn't, and kisses her. Just then, Casey walks in. Fortunately, Casey stays long enough to overhear Sara ask Bob to stop kissing her. He defends Sara from Bob's advances. Casey says that maybe they can beat Melinda at her own game.
Francesca takes one of the pictures of the statue, leaves the others on Antonio's desk, and climbs out the window. Francesca opens her evening bag and finds that it's Bette's bag, and Bette has hers. Francesca tells Cole that she brought home the wrong bag, so he tells her that he'll switch the bags back.
Cole sneaks into Olivia's house to switch the evening bags, and Olivia catches him - with the emeralds in her hands.
Tuesday 13 October 2009 Episode 417Tim tells Annie that just telling Maria who she really is won't mean anything to her. She needs a big confrontation to make her memory come back and make it stick - just the sort of confrontation that Ben and Meg's wedding will provide.
After he convinces her that his plan won't hurt Maria, Annie agrees to go along with it, in the interest of ensuring that Maria ends up with Ben. The doctor tells AJ that they've bought another six months before they'll need Cole. After thinking that Cole sent Caitlin away so that he could go back to his old ways, Olivia realises that he was blackmailed into helping Francesca.
Olivia gives the emeralds to Cole and tells him that if she ever catches him in a lie again, she'll have his head on a platter. When she asks him the nature of his relationship with Francesca, he tells her that she was his first love. Olivia asks if he still loves Francesca, and he says that he loves Caitlin now, and that's all that matters.
Wednesday 14 October 2009 Episode 418When the repaired painting of Maria is returned, Ben explains his plan to give the painting to Carmen. Meg tells Joan that she's never seen a picture of Maria except for the portrait, because she's never wanted Maria to be that real.
Maria has difficulty on a drawing of Meg, which makes her wonder why it was so easy to draw the picture of Ben when she'd only seen a picture of him once, and it's so difficult to draw a picture of Meg, whom she knows so well. Ben arrives to visit Maria.
Annie tells Gregory that she knows that he has a 500 share advantage over Ben and AJ together. Gregory doesn't remember Tim's shares in the Liberty Corporation at first, until Annie reminds him, and she also reminds him that whoever controls those shares could control the Liberty Corporation in the event that Ben and AJ side together against Gregory. Then she tells him that she controls Tim's shares.
Annie bets Gregory that she can resist his charms longer than he can resist hers. The stakes are Tim's shares against Annie's. In order to give her a head start on the bet, Annie decides to slip Gregory some Viagra.
Thursday 15 October 2009 Episode 419Annie takes a drink to Gregory, dropping three Viagra into the glass. He tells her that he knows that she's plying him with alcohol in hopes that he'll drag her off to the bedroom. Gregory sends the drink back. The bartender takes the drink and, since he hates to see good liquor go to waste, he drinks it.
Gregory walks in while the bartender is coming on to Annie. He watches Annie fend off the bartender, and tells her that he thinks it was all an elaborate setup to make him jealous. Annie realises that the bartender drank Gregory's drink, which proves that the drug works.
During their therapy session, Dr. Estrada is called from the room. Maria decides that she needs something more to help her. She picks up her purse and leaves the room.
Monday 19 October 2009 Episode 420Meg confronts Annie and Tim about saying that Maria is still alive, but Annie says what she meant was that Maria is still alive in the memory of everyone she ever knew. She also says that Meg will never live up to Maria.
Ben is certain that the woman he saw is Maria, but too many people are in the way, and by the time Ben gets to the swings, Maria is gone. Maria stands under the pier, staring at the water. When a passing surfer encourages her to go into the water, she bolts.
Ben arrives with the painting while Carmen, Antonio and Ricardo are arguing about Carmen's feelings about Maria. Carmen accepts the painting gratefully, but Ricardo is convinced that the painting will increase Carmen's obsession with Maria.
Olivia says that she never believed that Cole and Francesca are having an affair, because Cole would never cheat on Caitlin so blatantly, and certainly not with Francesca's type of woman.
After Olivia leaves, Francesca asks Cole why he didn't tell her that he had slept with Olivia. Annie arrives to meet Olivia, after getting a phone call from Olivia asking her to meet her. Antonio sees the pictures on his desk and notices that the picture of the Madonna is gone. He realises that Francesca took it.
Tuesday 20 October 2009 Episode 421Olivia directs Annie to plan and execute the destruction of Caitlin and Cole's marriage, because once Caitlin has lost Cole, she'll be more than happy to let Olivia help raise Trey.
When Olivia asks her how many people know that Trey isn't Caitlin's biological child, Annie says that Sean helped her with the baby switch, but that both Sean and Caitlin think that Trey's biological mother is an unmarried teenager.
Emily tells Bette that she just got into UCLA, and then she asks if she can stay with Bette on a semi-permanent basis. Bette is overjoyed, but her joy is somewhat diminished when Emily says that she can't leave now, just when things are starting to go somewhere with Sean.
Amy overhears Emily telling Bette about Sean rapping, and saying that Sean would kill her if she knew that she told Bette.
Wednesday 21 October 2009 Episode 422When Olivia decides that she needs Francesca's help to get Cole out of Caitlin and Trey's life, but that Francesca can't know that she's helping Olivia, she tells Bette that she needs to contact Francesca because she dropped an earring at the party.
Bette tells Olivia that Francesca's staying at St. Joseph's, which, Bette suggested, may be more temptation than Antonio can handle, because apparently Antonio and Cole both have a history with Francesca.
Caitlin tells Olivia that she was glad to be home, especially since Trey doesn't have the bond with Elaine that he has with Olivia. Caitlin tells Olivia that Trey makes up for the babies that they both lost.
Thursday 22 October 2009 Episode 423Virginia introduces herself as Dr. Higgins, but the nurse doesn't believe her, and calls for another nurse to help her remove Virginia. They tell her that Dr. Higgins is 63, so Virginia says that she's had extensive plastic surgery, which the two nurses buy.
Virginia gets a password for the computer, but can't find Tyus's name in the database until one of the nurses gives her the correct access code. Virginia steals Tyus's sperm sample.
Fearing that someone she once knew will turn up; Tim tries to keep Maria from going to Meg's bridal shower. He tells her that it would be unfair to Meg, because all that Meg will think about is her. As she says that the best thing she can do for Meg will be to not go to the shower, Dr. Estrada arrives and asks why.
Monday 26 October 2009 Episode 424Gregory and Olivia end up in an elevator together, and Annie is worried because she gave Gregory a love potion. Ben almost meets up with Maria.
Tuesday 27 October 2009 Episode 425On his way back up to his hotel room, Gregory gets trapped in a stalled elevator with Olivia. Annie dressed in a teddy, puts more of the drug in the water pitcher, just in case.
AJ comes by to pick up a file, and drinks some of the drugged water while Annie gets the file for him. After AJ leaves, Annie calls the front desk and finds out that Gregory is trapped in the elevator with a woman, but not the identity of the woman.
Feeling the effects of the drug, Gregory comes on to Olivia. Annie calls a doctor and finds out that men who take the drug cannot resist the charms of any women they encounter while under its influence.
Wednesday 28 October 2009 Episode 426When Ben asks what "Dana" was doing in their bed, Meg explains that she hadn't been feeling well, so Meg sent her upstairs to take a nap. When Tim arrives, Ben answers the door, telling him that he had a lot of explaining to do.
At first, Tim thinks that Ben has found out about Maria, but when Ben goes on to remind Tim that he asked him to stay out of their lives, Tim responds that he was there to pick up Maria. Ben gets called in to work.
Just as Ben leaves, Maria comes downstairs, ready to leave. Meg tells Maria that she wants her to stay there for the night. Tim objects, saying that Dr. Estrada won't agree to Maria staying over, but Meg explains that she had already cleared it with Dr. Estrada.
Thursday 29 October 2009 Episode 427Sara tells Casey that she feels bad because this has been hard, not just on Hank and Joan, but on Casey, as well. Melinda calls and Sara agrees to meet her at the Java Web. Casey and Sara share a tender moment while hooking up her wire, but she pulls away.
Bette overhears Amy's insult and threatens to make slanderous accusations about Amy in her column if she doesn't leave Emily alone.
After Amy and Brad leave, Sean tells Emily that after being raised by liars like Gregory and Olivia, he doesn't know if he can ever trust her again. Bette promises Emily to help her make it up to Sean.
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