Liz helps Vicki out of her wedding dress.
Jeff is about to open Peter Bradford's coffin when Roger shows up in the cemetery. Roger threatens to call the police, and Jeff asks if there's a law against opening your own coffin. He says he intends to find out if he came from the past. He pries the lid of the coffin open, and finds it empty.
Roger says it doesn't mean anything after 200 years. Jeff asks Roger to touch him to see if he's real. Roger says he's being irrational. He says the body could have been stolen. Jeff believes he is Peter Bradford, and Roger asks if he believes it, then Vicki will, too. Jeff says he's going to Collinwood to tell Vicki. Roger asks him not to. Jeff flips out and stumbles away.
Vicki packs up her wedding dress, and wonders why Roger hasn't come back. She says he must have found Jeff at the cemetery. Liz reminds her that he didn't want her to go. Vicki looks at the Collins family history, and wonders who the woman Eve was who returned it to her. She points out Trask's annotations to Liz, that she says were made in 1795. Liz suggests that she lie down to rest, and offers to check and see if Roger has returned.
Vicki reads about her hanging, and flashes back to 1795. Peter tells her he will always love her. He promises to travel through time to find her. Roger and Liz come in, and she asks where Jeff is. Roger says he left him in the cemetery. Vicki says she wants to see him. She says she must go to him.
Eve goes to Jeff's apartment looking for him. The door opens, but no one enters. She calls to Jeff saying she'll make it all right when Adam enters. She tells him not to touch her. Adam realizes this is who she has been cheating on him with. He asks her if she lied to him yesterday about loving him, and she admits that she did. She says she has always hated him, and can't stand him. Adam asks why she hates him. She calls him ugly, scarred, and pasted together. Adam grabs her and they struggle in the darkness of Jeff's apartment. She screams, and Adam stands up over her lifeless body.
Jeff returns home, seemingly back to normal. He takes a suitcase out and begins to pack. There's a knock at his door, and Vicki calls to him. He reluctantly lets her in. She asks him where he's going, and sees classified ads for New York. She asks what he's going to do, and he asks if she wants to track the ghost who breathes? He points out that he was always Peter Bradford to her anyway. He says he won't accept it, but realizes he has no choice. She says he also doesn't have a choice about her. He says he never wants to see her again, and she refuses to accept that. She says they can still get married tonight. He tells her not to make the impossible seem possible. He asks her how long he has before he has to go back to the grave. She says she doesn't care. He says he might leave with no warning. He tells her that he's not real. He tells her to go back to Collinwood.
He opens a closet door and closes it, disturbed by what he saw. Vicki opens the door and sees Eve's body lying on the floor, dead.
Our thoughts
John: It's always fun to see folks knock over tombstones as they run around the cemetery! Jeff was not the first nor do I expect he will be the last.
Christine: I couldn't understand why he was opening the coffin back up again. Just to make sure it was still empty? Or for the dramatic effect of slamming the lid down and running away willy-nilly?
John: Why does Jeff have brand new, unused shirts in his drawers? To make packing easier? I think the writers have worked themselves into a box with Jeff/Peter. With the realization of who he might truly be, why would that change his feelings about Vicki, or wanting to be with her. Particularly since he is now the man she always wanted to be with!
Christine: Yeah, what happened to the guy who was so determined to find Vicki that he traveled through time and death to reach her? Now he's upset about it. Right. Incidentally, I think the brand new shirts are a bachelor's trick. When you don't have any clean shirts, you just open up a new package.
John: I'm not going to miss Eve. But this should make for some interesting drama between Nicholas, Adam and Angelique. Not to mention Vicki and Jeff, who should have to notify the authorities about her body.
Christine: I was kind of hoping Adam would stick around to finish off Jeff too, though I suspect he left Eve's body in his closet so the murder could be pinned on him. I thought it was funny that Roger actually reached out and touched Jeff Clark's arm in the cemetery. What a touching moment.
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