Coming up on
Sunset Beach this November, 2009:
Monday, 2 November 2009 Episode 428When Melinda dodges Sara's attempts to get her to confess, Sara tells her that she was tempted to take her up on her offer, which leads Melinda to promise to tell Sara everything once she promises to help her with her book - in writing.
When Sara agrees to sign whatever Melinda's lawyer drafts, Melinda hugs her and feels the bulge of the transmitter. She pulls out the transmitter and dumps it into a cup of coffee. Then she confesses to everything, and gloats about how, once again, she won, and Sara lost.
After Melinda hobbles out, Casey arrives. Sara tells him that she blew it, and Casey pulls a tape recorder out of his pocket, which has Melinda confessing on it.
He tells Sara that he planted an extra microphone on the table - just in case. Casey tells Sara that she's finally free, and that she can do anything she wants with her life.
Tuesday 3 November 2009 Episode 429Ben figures that Maria fixed "huevos rancheros" for breakfast because Meg told her that they were his favorite. However, when he asks her, she tells him that she didn't know that they're his favorite.
As it was the night before their wedding, Meg leaves to spend the night at Hank and Joan's house. After she leaves, Ben calls Cedar Oaks to find out what their visiting hours are. Annie tells Maria about her concerns that she'll be hurt by memories that will be awakened by Ben and Meg's wedding.
When Annie tells Maria that she wants to be Maria's friend too, Maria says that Annie is a nice person, even though she tries to hide it. She realizes that she hit home when she told Annie that Annie is desperate to be loved, because Annie broke down in tears.
Wednesday 4 November 2009 Episode 430Thinking that it's ice cream, Jimmy takes the sperm sample out of the freezer. Virginia puts the sperm back in the freezer, and offers Jimmy some rice pudding instead.
When Michael tells Virginia that he and Vanessa are going to move in together, Virginia realises that she has to get her latest scheme in motion immediately. She asks Vanessa to get her a job with the caterer for Ben and Meg's wedding, deciding to drug Vanessa and use a turkey baster to impregnate her.
Thursday 5 November 2009 Episode 431In her room, Maria is haunted by the memory of seeing Ben and Meg together. When Tim arrives to visit her she tells him that she couldn't describe how she felt when she saw Ben's face for the first time.
Tim explains it away by telling her that the weird feeling may have been because Ben reminded her of the man she loved - whoever he was. Tim gives her a dress that looks like the one in her self-portrait, telling her that he'd be proud to attend the wedding with her in that dress, which makaes her ask why he's going to the wedding.
He responds that with a date like her, he wouldn't miss it for anything.
Monday 9 November 2009Episode 432Meg's wedding dress arrives, with a note saying that the lower part of the dress is torn. Meg panics when she sees the dress, but Maria fixes it.
Ben asks Annie if she recognizes the artist of the drawing, and she admits that Maria drew it. She claims that she brought the picture over because she thought that it would be an appropriate wedding present. Ben loses his temper and throws Annie out of the house.
Ben gives Meg her pearl necklace. Carmen arrives and tells Hank and Joan that she needs to see Meg immediately. Maria puts on the dress that Tim gave her and remembers that she was wearing a similar one when she was drowning.
At the moment Maria remembers drowning, Meg's necklace breaks. Hank, Joan and Carmen return to the house to find Ben and Meg picking up pearls. Carmen says that it is a sign that Meg and Ben's marriage isn't meant to be.
Tuesday 10 November 2009 Episode 433Not knowing why she is there, Maria arrives at the Marina. Her drowning memories become stronger when she sees the Mariah. Maria literally bumps into Quint.
When he blurts out that she's dead, she realises that he recognizes her. When she doesn't recognize him, Quint panics and tells her that he'll go get someone who can help her.
A worried Annie and Tim go to look for Maria. After Ben takes Carmen home she vows that Ben and Meg won't get married, and pulls a gun from a drawer. Hank goes to get the pearls restrung.
Meanwhile, Sara comforts her sister, telling her that she'll have the wedding of her dreams, and a marriage that will last her whole life.
Wednesday 11 November 2009 Episode 434Despite his insistence that Maria's alive, Ben doesn't believe Quint. However, eventually, Ben remembers how he had seen Maria recently and finally agrees to go along with Quint, insisting that he's going to marry Meg, no matter what.
Annie pays the orderly off, and he tells them that Maria's at the Marina. Vanessa gives Meg her something old - an antique handkerchief. Gabi gives her something new - a pearl bracelet to match her necklace.
Hank and Meg share a tender father/daughter moment, then it is Joan's turn to be alone with their daughter. Meg thanks her mother for giving her the courage to come to Sunset Beach in the first place.
Thursday 12 November 2009 Episode 435As Maria opens the door to the sanctuary, her heel breaks. Antonio begins the wedding. Maria decides that she can't go in without washing her hands first, so she heads to the restroom.
While she is there, Maria prays for Ben and Meg's marriage, and for her to remember her identity. She gets locked inside the restroom. Carmen objects to the marriage.
When Ricardo tries to get his mother to leave, she pulls the gun out of her purse. Ricardo disarms her, and it turns out that the gun isn't loaded. Ricardo takes Carmen home. Annie and Tim arrive. Francesca confesses to Cole that she is worried about what Bernie and Hillary will do when they find that she's the one who stole the jewels.
She also tells him that it may take longer than she thought to get the final jewels, because Phillip sold them to a Lance Hadjes, and she can't find Lance Hadjes anywhere.
Cole solves the problem by telling her that if they can find the rubies, they'll have Mr. Hadjes. AJ gives Olivia a ruby necklace.
Monday 16 November 2009 Episode 436Olivia refuses the necklace. Francesca confesses that the chanting still bothers her. They decide to approach Sydney, a fence they know, for information about the rubies.
Francesca draws a picture of the rubies, and Sydney gives them an address where they can find them. Cole tries to use the address that Sydney gave them to find Lance Hadjes.
While getting ready for the reception, Virginia fantasizes about being wealthy and successful and married to Michael while a pregnant Vanessa and poor Tyus are living in squalor. Tim interrupts the ceremony, saying that he didn't marry Meg, and neither will Ben. Before Tim can show Ben the picture of Maria and Annie, Ben decks him.
Bette finds the picture of Annie and Maria, and vows to find out why it was on the floor of the church. While standing on a bucket on a chair to get the window open, Maria falls and knocks herself out.
Ben and Meg say their vows and exchange their rings. Antonio pronounces them husband and wife. Maria finally gets out of the restroom, but everyone has left. Meg worries about Maria's whereabouts.
Tuesday 17 November 2009 Episode 437Amy and Brad send Emily a "Dear Jane" e-mail in Sean's name, then discuss e-mail in loud voices, giving Emily the idea of checking her e-mail. Emily reads the e-mail and leaves the Java Web.
Sean decides that anyone can make a mistake, and that he doesn't know when he'll find another woman as perfect for him as Emily is, so he leaves to find her and make up. In tears, Emily packs to leave.
A storm blew up, and Annie worries about Maria's state of mind, because she "died" during a similar storm. Casey and Sara toast Ben and Meg's marriage, and then Ben toasts his new wife. Meg throws the bouquet. Maria catches it.
Wednesday 18 November 2009 Episode 438Telling them that he hates Emily, Leo congratulated Brad and Amy on the job they did making her break up with Sean. He convinces Amy to show him the e-mail, which he folds up and put in his pants pocket. He tells Amy that he had lied when he said that he hated Emily and leaves.
Sean tells Emily that he doesn't want her to leave, but she leaves anyway. Leo shows Sean the "Dear Jane" letter that Amy and Brad sent to Emily.
Suddenly, everything that Emily said made sense, and Sean realizes that he has to find her. Emily tells Bette that she is leaving, so Bette asks what she did to drive her away.
When Bette realizes that this is about Sean and not her, she tries to talk Emily out of leaving and offers to drive Emily to the airport.
When Ben, Antonio and Ricardo approach her, Maria realizes that they recognize her and faints. Tyus recognizes Maria as a psychiatric patient at Cedar Oaks, and takes her into a private room to examine her.
Everyone who didn't know Maria before her disappearance realizes that "Dana" is Maria. Meg reprimands herself for not knowing that "Dana" was Maria, and Ben comforts her, reminding her that she'd never seen a photo of Maria. Tyus says that Maria asked to see Ben. Before Ben leaves to see Maria, he reassures Meg that he loves her.
Thursday 19 November 2009Episode 439While Emily is calling her father, Bette persuades the ticket agent to tell her that she couldn't get her on a flight. Emily refuses to leave the airport for fear of missing another flight to Connecticut.
Bette tells Emily that she isn't going to leave the airport without her, and so she convinces Emily to let her get a room at one of the hotels at the airport. Carmen arrives, saying that the signs were clear that she had to come there, and Ricardo and Antonio tell her that Maria's alive.
Maria, who hasn't regained her memory, apologizes to Ben for the awkwardness of their first meeting.
Monday 23 November 2009 Episode 440Sara suggests that maybe Maria has had her memory for a while and has been pretending to have amnesia, but Meg denies it, saying that Dana couldn't do anything like that. Sara then suggests that perhaps Maria could. Dr. Estrada says that Maria's condition may have been worsened by her unexpected contact with people from her past.
Just as Ben is about to tell Maria the truth, Dr. Estrada and Tyus enter the room. Ben leaves to check on Meg. Alone in the room together, Maria demands that Dr. Estrada tell her what's going on. Dr. Estrada says that no one can give her her memory back, she has to remember who she is on her own.
She offers to introduce her to other people who know her, in hopes that one of them will strike a familiar chord.
Tuesday 24 November 2009 Episode 441Cole begins working on the Lance Hadjes mystery. Sydney tells them that Lance Hadjes' last known address was in St. Etienne, France, but there are no Lance Hadjeses in St. Etienne, France.
Cole then realizes that Lance Hadjes is an alias.
When Leo arrives for dinner, he sees the map of France that Cole had been looking at, and remarks that St. Etienne is one of AJ's favorite places.
Later, while Cole is picking up Trey's blocks, he realizes that Lance Hadjes is an anagram for AJ Deschanel.
Olivia finds the picture of the Madonna and realizes that the ruby at the top of the crown was on the necklace that AJ tried to give her.
Wednesday 25 November 2009 Episode 442Olivia decides to bring Cole down by letting Caitlin find out that Cole has been planning to steal the rubies from AJ, so she invites Caitlin to join her for breakfast with AJ.
AJ becomes suspicious when Cole drops by to see him unannounced, asking if it is too late to mend their fences. Cole calls Sydney and asks if she could identify the rubies from a picture of them.
Despite her misgivings, she agrees. When Olivia gives AJ a gift, he says that he couldn't accept her gift if she wouldn't accept his.
He tells Caitlin that he had tried to give Olivia a small token, and Olivia says that it was hardly a small token.
Thursday 26 November 2009 Episode 443Tim tells Meg that he tried to tell her that he had found out about Maria, but when he came to tell Ben, Ben made him fall down the stairs, and when he tried to tell Meg, she told him that she wasn't interested in anything that Tim had to say.
Meg tries to explain to Tim that they never would have worked out because he has too much emotional baggage about growing up with alcoholic parents, and that he needs to learn that you can't lie and cheat your way into being loved.
He promises that he will never lie to or cheat her again. When he finds out that Annie told Maria that she was married to him, Ben tells her how she 'drowned' five years ago.
Monday 30 November 2009 Episode 444Sean decides to stop Emily from leaving Sunset Beach. Ben and Ricardo enter in another discussion about Maria. Meg talks to Joan about her life. Ricardo and Ben save Maria from the two thugs. Maria tells Ben "I love you" and Meg overhears them. Sara and Casey kiss.
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