This month is a crucial month in the lives of the Brady's as Roman tells Marlena he wants a divorce; the Curtis Reed Murder continues; Kate is well on the way to telling Lucas that Bill is his father; and The Possession storyline begins with John first meeting Gabe The Angel (John doesn't know Gabe is an angel until the end.)
Roman Tells Marlena He's Filing For Divorce.
Curtis Reed Trial Ends.
John First Meets Gabe The Angel
Roman tells Caroline he never wants to see Marlena again. Marlena tells Alan to leave and tells Sami she can't see him as he's too old. Sami orders her to get out but Marlena stands firm! Then Roman arrives and tells Marlena to leave while Sami looks smug (being the perfect individual she is how can we really expect her to tolerate being in the presence of imperfection?). Marlena refuses to leave. Roman agrees with Marlena that Sami can't see Alan as he's too old and Sami asks Marlena why she has to ruin everything. She rings Alan to tell him she can still see him but he says he doesn't want the hassle.
In the courthouse Lucas tells everyone that he killed Curtis, describing what he did and getting Bo and Carrie to corroborate what he's saying about the speeding ticket and the fact that he was looking for Curtis that night. Bo arrests Lucas.
The judge calls a mistrial, which Mickey explains isn't as good as a dismissal because with a mistrial you can be tried for the crime again. Essentially though Billie is free. On her way out Kate screams at Billie "This is all fault you little tramp!".
Everyone goes back to Carrie and Billie's for a surprise birthday party and a congratulations to Billie party. Bo can't understand why Billie isn't happier to be free. Alan starts talking to Carrie about the attack, saying it's obvious now it must have been Lucas. Carrie gets upset and freaks out when the lights go off for her birthday candles to be blown out. She tells Austin that the only way she's going to get over it is by going back and having their special weekend. Obviously Alan overhears their plans.
John turns up at Marlena's to see Belle. She's upset because Roman hates her and Sami despises her. Roman goes to wish happy birthday to Carrie and tells Sami to stop going on about Marlena, that they have to put the past behind them. She tries to get Alan back and they dance.
Abe and Roman question Lucas. Lucas tells his story of what happened the night of Curtis's death. They suggest they don't believe him and Lucas can't believe that after the weeks of being hassled by Bo, now they won't believe him. Victor won't let him sign a confession but Lucas says he'll sign it.
Everyone heads to Alice's party, but no-one knows why she's throwing it. Billie nearly doesn't go because she's worried that if Lucas retracts his statement she'll be back on trial, but Roman brings round the signed confession and says she's off the hook!
Kate doesn't go to the party because she's so upset about Lucas she had to be sedated. Marlena and John turn up at the same time so of course it looks like they arrived together which upsets Roman, Sami and Carrie.Alice tells everyone the party is a celebration of faith to help lift everyone's spirits. The speech makes Carrie decide she definitely wants to go back to the ski lodge to have her weekend with Austin. Sami's mad at Carrie for telling Marlena about Alan and tells Carrie to stay out of her life. Carrie worries about what trouble Sami could get into.
Billie wants to leave the party because reporters keep showing up to take photos of her and Bo together. Billie waits for Bo to go and get his motorcycle and sees Curtis standing them - well, it's more flashes of Curtis not really him standing there in the flesh.Laura thanks Austin for donating bone marrow to Abbie and he thanks her for helping get Billie off the hook. He asks her if she remembers what gender kids Kate had but she can't remember.
Roman makes a speech about Mom and Pop and loving couples trusting each other and lots of other things that make Marlena feel even more guilty and sad. Then Alice proposes a toast to Tony and Kristen's new marriage. Marlena wonders if Roman is thinking of them and goes to talk to him but he walks off and she goes off crying. She goes to talk to Sami to ask her to put her bitterness aside but Sami remains solid in her self-righteous self. She arranges to meet Alan after the party and makes Jamie say she'll be staying at her place.
The hallucination of Curtis tells Billie just because Lucas signed the confession it's not over yet. He tells her the answer to the murder is in Billie's head. She screams, he disappears, Bo comes and takes her back to the boat and he reminds her the murder charges are behind her. She can't remember how they got to the boat. He says she asked him to take her home and he instinctively brought her back to the boat. He gives her a necklace with her birthstone and that if she's afraid to touch it and she'll know he's there for her. Billie and Bo start to make love but things he says remind her of Curtis. She stops but then they keep going but then she thinks of Curtis again and screams "no".
Marlena persuades Roman they need to work together to help Sami. He agrees and says he'll think about what to do and walks off. Bill and Laura reunite and in her head she blames him for her catatonia - she blames him and Kate.Carrie worries about Sami heading for trouble. Sami's out with Alan and says to Jamie on the 'phone she will prove she can look after herself. She suggests to Alan they go somewhere a little quieter. Then she kisses him. Alan says he thinks they should take it slow and that he feels protective over her because he knows how much Carrie worries about her. Sami wonders how their conversations always come back round to Carrie and tells him she thinks he's more interested in Carrie than in her. Alan says they're just friends. He says to Sami there could be an 'us' and kisses her. He invites her back to his place and while she's getting her coat he says "Maybe I can't have you, Carrie, but I can have your sister". Back at the party Carrie shivers.
Laura and Bill dance while Alice and Jen watch happily. Alice notices Laura looks tense but Jen thinks she's just overwhelmed. Bill tells Laura how natural it feels. He says he remembers they had problems before, but that he waited years for her to come back and he knew that they'd be together sometime. She says she has to sit down.
Roman tells Marlena he 'phoned Jamie and Sami's fine and studying. He says maybe they could put into an agreement the finances and things with the kids. He tells her he's filing for divorce.
John goes to the park and sits on a park bench and disturbs a man sleeping there who says his name is Gabriel, or Gabe. They talk and John tells him how his life derailed and there are things about himself he doesn't know. Gabe wonders if he could help and maybe their meeting wasn't accidental. John says he senses his life's about to change. Gabe says he's right, and there may be trouble but not to worry, John, he won't be alone. John asks how he knows his name and turns around but Gabe has gone.
Laura goes to see Kate. Marlena waits in the rain for someone to come and fix her car. No-one comes then Roman arrives and says 'get in'. He leaves then comes back with her purse. Roman takes Marlena home from the party. He comes in and tells her he won't cite adultery as the reason for the divorce because of the publicity, that he'll cite irreconcilable differences. She's in her nightie and rushes off as Belle is crying. Roman comes in. Marlena dumps Belle in his arms while she goes off to get a bottle. She says Roman can still be a part of Belle's life just like she has been a part of Carrie's life. The 'phone goes and John leaves a message saying he'll be right over. So Roman leaves saying he's an intruder, it's John who has the right to be at Marlena's in the middle of the night, not him. When John arrives Marlena's in tears. She tells him what happened and he feels bad. He says he came over to talk about a lead on Stefano but they can do it another time. He leaves.
Billie can't make love to Bo because of the memories of Curtis. She feels she's remembering more of the night of the murder that's important to the case. She knows that Lucas' confession isn't for real. She says she can't let it go till she knows what it is. Bo says he still has questions about the night of the murder, like why she went to a drug dealer for heroin, but that he trusts what she's told him and is willing to let it go, so why can't she? She says she can't stay the night, she doesn't feel good and better go home.
Jen tells Bill about the court case and Laura telling everyone about Kate. Bill can't believe it's THE Kate. Bill realises all the details about Kate that Laura must know, which he never realized she knew. He and Jen talk about Jack and Bill tells her not to close her heart against love.
At Kate's place Laura confronts Kate with all the gory details - that Kate slept with Bill and had Lucas by him. Kate says Lucas doesn't know about Bill being his father and that she never wanted Laura to know. Laura tells Kate she'll make her pay. Kate says if she reveals the details of Bill's past it'll hurt Jen so Laura agrees to keep quiet. But she says she'll see Kate pay when Lucas goes to jail for life, and she'll make sure Bill pays too. Laura goes home and makes a snide comment about how Bill always does what he wants. Bill says we need to talk, Laura says not tonight I'm tired. She goes to bed but not before he kisses her goodnight and she looks MOST uncomfortable.
Vivian is annoyed that Laura isn't going to spill Kate's secrets. Bill wants to pick up where they left off - Laura asks "Back to what I had or back to what you had?" She confronts him about Kate. He asks for a chance to make her happy in the future. She says they must put their differences aside for the sake of the family and that she doesn't want him to have anything to do with Kate or Lucas. He says fine, he has no interest in Kate but what does Lucas matter? Laura says "Because he's your son".
Billie is still sure Lucas didn't kill Curtis. Bo goes to see him but he won't retract, and Kate can't make him either. On the stand he swears to having killed Curtis. The judge starts to sentence him when Billie begins to remember what happened that night. She goes on the stand. She tells how she was drugged by Curtis and when she came to he was arguing with Kate about something she was supposed to take care of. Then Kate left and Curtis was still alive and was saying he'd kill Kate if he didn't get what he wanted from her. Then Lucas was there and looking for Curtis saying he'd making him pay but Curtis was hiding so Lucas left saying he'd come back the next day with the cops. Then Curtis came out and was saying how he'd make Lucas pay. Then she blacked out and came to in the alley and saw Kate all bruised and pulling a gun out of her bag and was going toward the basement door. Then Kate saw something and screamed, and Billie saw Curtis lying on the ground dead. Everyone goes ooh ahh and Lucas says oh my goodness Moooom, you didn't kill him - I confessed because I thought you did. Victor wonders what Kate and Curtis were arguing about. The judge dismisses the charges against Lucas and the Kiriakis family leave happy.
Bo kind of wishes Billie hadn't said what she did because it lets Kate and Lucas off the hook and Billie can be tried again. The D.A.'s office decide to put her on trial again.
Lucas tells Kate that he promised himself that once he was free he'd find his father. Kate says she promised she'd never tell and he's done fine without him for 18 years. She begs him to leave it alone. He says o.k. but we know Lucas better than that. Victor and Kate toast to their future and their future child.
Ivan can't get Billie's testimony out of his head and they wonder what Kate reacted at during Billie's testimony.
Bo and Austin are with Billie and Bo admits that he now has another suspects in the murder case.Bo brings Marlena over to Billie's to convince her to do hypnosis to remember the rest of the night Curtis died but she says NO WAY. She doesn't want all the rest of her secrets coming out too. Bo's angry she'd throw away their life together like this and goes out to get some air. Billie goes to Bo and he's sad he couldn't save her. They hug and look at the stars. He says how in the Southern hemisphere they have different stars. She says she can't stand the thought of a future without him and decides to take a chance and have hypnosis.
Alan says Sami will have to get a fake I.D. so he can take her to frat parties. Carrie sees them together in the park and goes bananas because Roman has forbidden them to see each other. Alan says they're only talking and Sami runs off to see Jamie. Alan says to Carrie they should talk about the situation with Sami and they go off to have hot chocolate together. Jamie reluctantly says she'll help her get a fake I.D. Alan asks how serious things are between Carrie and Austin. She tells him how they're going to go back to the mountains to face her fears. She has a flash of memory of the night of the attack, but Austin turns up. Alan goes but keeps watching her and Austin.Multi-skilled lawyer Mickey organizes Roman and Marlena's divorce in his spare time from the murder trial. Roman's angry Marlena hasn't organized a lawyer yet and goes to confront her. She starts crying and says she doesn't want the divorce. He calms down a bit. He says he's sorry he made her cry, but they've got to resolve this once and for all. She calls an attorney. He leaves with many sorrowful looks.
Laura begs Bill not to reveal that he's Lucas's father because Jen is so happy to have her family back together. He says he won't.
Lucas wants to know who his father is but Kate tells him to leave it alone. He goes off to look through her files of course her assistant just lets him go through them all and finds a letter with the address of Copper Lantern Drive on it (Jen's address). He speeds off to her place where she, Laura and Bill are. He leaves a pen in the file room so the assistant brings it back, telling Kate what happened.Billie goes under hypnosis on the stand and reveals she had known Curtis for a long time. She won't say any more as she gets too upset so Marlena un-hypnotizes her. Pat Hamilton badgers Billie about how she knew Curtis and Billie snaps and says Curtis was her father.
Lucas asks Bill about the house and who lived in it and tells him he's looking for his dad. Bill doesn't tell Lucas he's his dad. Kate arrives and hauls Lucas off and Laura warns them not to tell him or she'll tell everyone what they did to her.On the stand Billie gives in and reveals the whole story - that Curtis was her father, that he molested her and that she was in porno movies to keep her drug habit going, drugs being the only escape from pain. Pat Hamilton sees the opportunity to pin a motive on her. Marlena tries to contact Kate, having realised the possible connection between Kate, Billie and Austin but Kate's off running after Lucas.
Pat Hamilton tries to get Billie to remember what happened on the night of the murder. She remembers voices arguing and someone saying Curtis would pay and deserved to die. She remembers someone saying "Checkmate" and a gun going off but she can't remember anyone else being there so she says "It must have been me - I must have murdered him".
Billie awakes in jail. Bo has been told he may not see her as Pat Hamilton feels he's prejudicing the investigations. Billie is sure he doesn't want to see her anyway. In the courtroom prior to sentencing she asks the judge to believe that Bo, Austin and Carrie didn't know she'd murdered Curtis.
Meanwhile Carrie goes to see Marlena to see if she can help Billie. John planted a bug at Kristen's place when he was there yesterday and he overhears Peter call Stefano saying "Things are going on in the courthouse which affect us Stefano". He tape records it and takes it to Roman. Marlena also goes to see Roman and says that saying "Checkmate" isn't language Billie would use and comes up with some neat psychological explanation of how Billie believes she murdered Curtis so has taken on the persona of the murderer and thinks she said "Checkmate". And Bo also arrives to say it must have been Stefano who murdered Curtis because only he would say "Checkmate". John and Bo go off to find Fred Harris to check out the story but Peter gets to Fred first and he's gone by the time John and Bo get there.
Kate goes off to the infertility clinic and Marlena tries to reach her through the day to tell her what's gone down in the courtroom but she can't get hold of her.
Marlena tries a last ditch effort to ask Roman if they one day might get back together. He says everyone keeps going on about forgiveness but that's not what it's about for him. He says that one day he may be able to forgive her and even understand why she did what she did, but he'll never be able to trust her again. He walks out.
Kate and Victor go to a fertility specialist. She's told the tests show she can't conceive the usual way as her fallopian tubes have been scarred from Lucas's birth but that they can try IVF. They're happy about this. She goes off to talk to Mr Caldwell to find out whether she and Victor are legally married. Vivian is hanging around posing as a frenchwoman to try to eavesdrop. All she finds out is that the lawyer keeps tapes of each session so she plans to steal the one of Kate's session. Kate wasn't legally divorced as Curtis never sent the divorce papers in and that's what they were arguing about the night of the murder.Victor meanwhile goes home and sees the newspaper and realizes about Billie and Austin being her kids. When she comes home he tells her he thinks her kids are alive and he thinks he knows where they are. Victor tells Kate about Billie and Austin. Kate refuses to believe they're her kids, Lucas refuses to believe they're her kids, Billie refuses to believe they're her kids, Austin isn't so sure they're her kids. Everyone else thinks they're her kids.
Jen and Peter make eyes at each other while she continues to look for information about Kate and Curtis's marriage. Jenn finds a document which proves Kate must be Austin's mother.
Marlena says Bo still loves Billie, Mickey says Bo still loves Billie, Austin says Bo still loves Billie, Carrie says Bo still loves Billie. Based on this information Billie is convinced Bo doesn't love her anymore.
She gives it to him and he goes to her place and she opens the door and he says "Mother". Carrie goes to Kate with the pin that Austin gave her which belonged to his mother. She leaves it with her, telling her only to go to Austin and Billie if she's prepared to be a mother to them because they have been hurt enough.
Billie is in jail remembering Curtis abusing her. Marlena goes to see her and suggests her mother might not have intentionally abandoned them but Billie said she needed a mother then, not now.Kate won't believe Austin until he remembers her singing "Mockingbird" to him. She checks his and Billie's birthdates and realizes they are her kids. She and Austin hug and cry. He asks her to go and see Billie but she doesn't think it's such a good idea because Billie hates her. Austin tells her Billie needs her and Kate goes to see Billie in jail.
John catches Abe up on where things are at with Stefano. Jenn asks Peter out on a date. Kristen decides to do up their house to look just like an old Southern house which was very famous but mysteriously disappeared through fire or the owner moving it. The house in the picture looks just like the picture she found of Maison Blanche. She tells Jenn but asks her not to tell Peter or Tony because it's going to be a surprise. Billie tells Kate to get out and won't believe she's their mother. Austin convinces her it's true and she says she does actually have something to say to her mother and tells her "I hate your guts". Kate tells her the story of how she looked for them and thought they were dead. Billie tells her that Curtis raped her and tells her it's all her fault. Kate asks Austin to leave and then Billie tells details of the molestation and being fed drugs and dropping out of school because of the humiliation. She tells her "It's your fault - Mother".
Alan tries to get Lucas to plot with him how to break up Austin and Carrie. Carrie comes along and her and Lucas have an argument about whether Austin and Billie are Kate's kids, Lucas still insisting they're just after Kate's money.
Billie won't accept Kate's reasons for thinking they were dead. Austin reminds her she also believed Curtis' lies when he came to town and asks her not to let him win by hating Kate. Billie says he's already won because Bo has left her. For the millionth time Austin tells her Bo is not allowed to see her and is off trying to clear her.
Kate leaves the jail upset and has a car accident, nearly hitting Bill who's on his way home. They talk, remembering their past together, and about Lucas. Kate says there's enough going on for Lucas and that maybe sometime in the future they can tell him he's Bill's son, but not now.
Billie tells Austin she never wants to see Kate again, and that Bo doesn't love her anymore.
Bo saves John after Peter's guard at the warehouse knocks him out. They put together a tape from when Stefano was questioned about Curtis's murder and trick Fred over the 'phone into thinking he's talking to Stefano. Fred says he won't tell about the night of the murder but doesn't give away the details of what happened. The voice tells him he can take off and go where he wants so Fred runs out of the warehouse and John and Bo grab him and take him to the police station.
Lucas refuses to believe Austin and Billie are Kate's kids, he and Austin yell at each other, Kate tries to make them be friends, they yell at each other.
The judge allows Kristen, Jenn, Carrie and Kate to give character references about Billie to the court. He then says he has to uphold the law and not be swayed by emotional testimony.Bo and John keep working on Fred. Bo finally comes into the courtroom and persuades the judge to let him put Billie on the stand again.
Laura tells Bill everything she remembers, how she followed him to Kate's and saw them making love. He says that it only happened because she'd started to drift away from him and that the night she remembers was the night he broke it off with Kate. She says she confronted Kate the next day and Kate said she was pregnant and after that she lost touch with reality more and more. Bill goes out and Vivian comes in, having heard enough to work out Bill and Kate had an affair, but no more.
Sami shows Alan her fake I.D. Marlena tries to talk to Sami but has no luck. Lucas swears revenge on Austin, with Alan prodding him along.
On the stand Bo presses Billie to remember the night of the murder, reminding her about hearing "Checkmate". Finally she remembers it was Stefano who said it, that he was threatening Curtis because Curtis had been blackmailing Kristen. Stefano told him to get out of town, they struggled and a gun went off, killing Curtis by accident. Bo brings Fred in who corroborates the story while Tony and Kristen listen in horror.
The judge drops all charges against Billie. She is happy but still wondering whether Bo wants her anymore, and in fact what all her friends think of her. Carrie decides to throw a surprise party to reassure her so she gets Austin to take Billie home the long way. On the way out he tells Kate to give Billie some space and some time.
Vivian seduces Mr Caldwell and takes him out to dinner so Ivan can find the tape of Kate's session with him. She bumps into Kate and Victor at dinner but manages to not let them see who she's there with. Kate asks Victor if he's sure he still loves her and wants to be with her after the embarrassment she's caused and he says yes.
