Recap: Kristina is being carefully monitored by her medical team while Krystle and Blake anxiously look on. A few seconds later, Dr. Holland enters the room to break some bad news: Sarah has changed her mind about agreeing to donate Cathy's heart to Kristina. After Blake and Krystle are all, "Ack!", Krystle rushes off to attempt to change Sarah's mind. Sarah apologizes to Krystle for giving her and Blake false hope, and explains that she can't go through with pulling the plug on her daughter. Krystle says she totally gets that, but doesn't want to also lose her daughter in the process, and a distressed Sarah moans, "I can't doooo this. I can't!" Blake tells Dex that Sarah changed her mind about donating Cathy's heart - just as Krystle enters the room and tearfully acknowledges that she'd probably do the very same thing if she were in Sarah's shoes. Sarah is sitting on a bench and feeding the birds at a nearby park when Dex wanders over. He asks her if there's anything he can do, and she crisply says that she and Cathy will be fine. Dex gently asks her if her decision to not pull the plug on Cathy, who has zero hope of improvement, is truly what's best for her daughter and if it's what Boyd would want...then half-heartedly says he'll respect her decision if it's truly a firm one. Sarah responds by staring contemplatively into space. That evening, Neil calls Adam at ColbyCo and says he has something to show him, and Adam reacts by scrunching his face concernedly. Back at the Medical Center, Blake is working the phones to locate another donor heart while a distraught Krystle wonders aloud what in blazes they're going to do. Blake tells her they may have to face the fact that they could lose Kristina - just as Sarah interrupts, with Dex in tow, to explain that Dex helped her see things more clearly. She tells them that she signed the papers and that the doctors will transplant Cathy's heart into Kristina first thing in the morning. Krystle looks moved by the sudden good news, and clutches Sarah's hands while staring gratefully into her eyes. The following morning, Adam receives a package containing a knitted bootie with Adam embroidered on it...and accompanying the bootie is a note from Neil, telling him to consider this an incentive to agree to get in touch with him. Kristina and vegetative Cathy are both wheeled to the OR...and then we get a lot of superfluous footage of the surgical team performing the heart transplant. Blake and Krystle head over to the hospital chapel to express their fervent hope for a good outcome...and a few seconds later, Steven arrives at the hospital as they're praying. As the three exit the chapel, Dr. Holland emerges from the OR and reports that the surgery went as well as can be expected - but that there's always the possibility that Kristina's body might reject the heart. He grimly adds, "The battle against rejection starts now", then tells Blake and Krystle to do their best to chillax, and they react to the tentatively good news by hugging happily. Adam is in his office, staring at the baby bootie when Neil arrives to give him the matching bootie. He then hands Adam an envelop and directs him to open it...and Adam finds a photo of Baby Adam Carrington that was taken after he was kidnapped. Neil tells him that the real Adam died soon after the kidnapping, and the kidnappers subsequently panicked and neglected to send his rich family a ransom note. He adds that someone was "smart enough" to save the photo and the booties, despite the fact that the preserved photo and booties don't, in any way, prove that adult Adam Carrington is an imposter...while something as simple as a blood test might offer a far more reliable conclusion regarding his genetics. Adam decries this version of events as an insane hoax - but Neil assures him it's no hoax, and that he intends to get everything back that he lost when he was locked up in prison...even though no one held a gun to his head and forced him to commit murder by throwing Mark Jennings off the balcony of Alexis's penthouse. He then tells Adam that in exchange for keeping mum about him not being the real Adam Carrington, he wants him to be his investment counsellor and let him know about upcoming mergers, acquisitions and the like...and when Adam cries, "That's insider trading. It's illegal...I could go to prison!", Neil just kind of shrugs and tells him to be careful while he's breaking the law. He warns him not to call the police unless he wants to be found out for posing as Adam Carrington, then says they'll talk again...and refers to him as Mr. Torrence while exiting the office. The paediatric nurse reports to Krystle and Blake that Kristina's heartbeat is strong...and we see that Sarah is tearfully eavesdropping from the doorway. Adam meets up with Alexis at the Carlton Hotel dining patio. He apologizes for skipping a meeting with a Japanese minister, then fibs that Dana has been bugging him about wanting to see his baby photos 'cause she's curious about the kidnapping. Alexis gets a poutishly troubled look on her face as she recounts how the nanny took him into town in his baby carriage, then stupidly left him unattended while she went into a store. She recalls that he had been wearing blue booties with Adam embroidered on them...and Adam suddenly looks haunted, says he's late for something or other, and beats a hasty retreat. Leslie is driving to the pipeline trailer office for a job interview with Dex when she nearly collides with a truck while en route on the winding dirt road...and when she exits her VW convertible to give the driver the what for, we see that Clay is at the wheel. He haughtily informs her that he legally has the right of way and that she needs to back up, and she insists that he back up...and the two bicker back and forth about who should back up for whom until Leslie stomps back to her car while muttering, "What a jerk!" She then squeals around his truck and revs the car in a way that somehow causes her tires to defy the laws of physics and projectile squirt mud in Clay's face. While hovering over Kristina as she sleeps, Blake remarks to Krystle how much the tot has been through, and Krystle says she's soooooo lucky that their baby gets a new lease on life. Dex interviews Leslie, who apparently has an engineering degree, but no experience in the field. He tells her he's willing to sign her up as an Engineering Apprentice and assign her to one of his top guys - just as Clay (aka Mr. Top Guy) bursts in, grumbling about "the ditz" he just encountered on the road. Dex introduces him to his new assistant, and Leslie raises an eyebrow, then cheekily waves at her dismayed new boss. Alexis invites Dana to her ColbyCo office for tea and sandwiches. Dana waxes on, as she frequently seems to do, about how much she loooooves Adam, then notices Alexis rolling her eyes and remarks on how she doesn't look very convinced about her ability to be a good wife to the psycho-nut. Alexis chucklingly explains that it's every mother's baked-in belief that no woman is ever good enough for her son, and describes Adam as "a very complex young man" she's not going to learn about by looking at old photographs. Dana scrunches her face confusedly as Alexis recaps the way she followed Adam from Montana to Colorado and was no doubt joyful when she learned that he was actually a rich Carrington heir. Dana tells her she's deeply offended by the suggestion that she's a gold-digger, vows to not let her destroy her relationship with Adam, then gets up from the table to storm out of the office. Clay drops by Delta Rho to check in with Sammy Jo, and she assures him she's very happy living with Steven as they co-parent Danny. A few seconds later, Steven enters the room...and then Danny runs in to greet his dad and excitedly gabble about their upcoming camping adventure. Sammy Jo re-directs her attention to Clay to brusquely say goodbye, and he sadly shuffles out. Back at the Carlton Hotel, Dana is massaging Adam's shoulders, remarking on how tense he is. She suggests they get away for the weekend to relax from the current stress of their lives...and when he snappishly says he can't, she asks him if Alexis has successfully convinced him that she's not good enough to be his wife. Adam calls that a crazy notion, declares, "I loooooooove you so much", and assures her that whatever's troubling him has nothing to do with her. Dana says she might be able to help if he were willing to open up to her, but he's like, "Nope" and promptly leaves the bed. He makes a beeline over to the phone to call Dr. Edwards and tell him he's going to be jetting to Billings pronto, 'cause there's something important they need to discuss. The next day in Billings, Adam tells Dr. Edwards that something strange is going on - but that this strange thing isn't drug abuse or a nervous breakdown. He tells the old doctor that he neeeeeeeds to know who he really is...and when Dr. Edwards weakly retorts, "Adam Carrington..?", Adam asks him if he's truly 100% absolutely sure of that and cites his grandmother's deathbed confession. The doctor's like, "Mmm...no, I'm not sure of anything" - a contradiction to what I thought was a pretty convincing deathbed confession delivered by Grandma Torrence in the second episode of the third season: She tells her faux grandson that she's always loved him...but, unfortunately, she's committed grave sins against him and God and must now make her peace with both of them. Michael/Adam says he doesn't believe she's a sinner, so she confesses her grave sins: she stole him from a baby carriage in Denver twenty-five years ago, then brought him to Billings and pretended to everyone that he was her grandson. She wails, "You were the Carrington baby!" but he shushes her and tells her not to upset herself with that kind of talk. A bewildered Adam asks Dr. Edwards if he believes he's Blake's/Alexis's bio son, and Dr. Edwards slowly shakes his head no, to which Adam cries, "You were playing with my life, do you realize that?!" Dr. Edwards just kind of shrugs and says, "Sorry, Michael" while providing no reasonable explanation, aside from an extended brain fart, that could account for why Old Lady Torrence would confess on her deathbed that her grandson is, in fact, the kidnapped Carrington baby from decades ago. An incensed Adam rages, "Don't call me that! Don't you ever call me that again! You're a crazy old man and you're a liar!" and insists that he's Adam Carrington. Over in the pipeline trailer office, Clay emphasizes to Leslie that she can never hope to be "one of the boys" ... so then Leslie suggests they clear the air, specifically regarding "the stunt" involving their vehicles the other day, which calls for an apology. Naturally, each expects the other to apologize...and after a few seconds the two get all in each others' faces in that obnoxious TV tropey way that, under normal circumstances, would pre-empt a leap into the sack so they can frenetically express their uncontrollable desire for each other [spoiler: complications will soon arise with that when it remains inconclusive about whether or not Ben Carrington is Clay's bio dad]. Leslie calls Clay arrogant and pigheaded, to which he oinks in response...and she storms out of the office, but then returns a few seconds later to ask what time he wants her to report for work tomorrow [response: 7:30am]. Back at Delta Rho, Sammy Jo and Steven are "camping" with Danny, aka tucked into sleeping bags and lying under the stars, discussing how rewarding it continues to be to see their son so happy. Sammy Jo assures Steven that her marriage to Clay is for sure truly 100% over, and that she loooooves the three of them being a family. Steven wonders aloud if it's fair to her, shacking up with a man who can't provide the kind of physical loving she'd be getting from a hetero partner, and she clutches his hand and assures him that that's all the physical affection she needs. The two stare happily at each other before she gives him a cheek kiss and wishes him good night. Dana bursts into Adam's office and asks him where he's been all day, and he fibs and says he had to fly to Louisiana on business. Dana stares at him concernedly and asks him what's wrong, and he breezily tells her he's fine, then gives her the bum's rush out the door and promises to join her at home soon. After she leaves, he opens his cabinet and locks away documents, no doubt something related to the insider trading he's been [weakly] blackmailed into doing for Neil McVane. Later, Adam meets with Neil and hands over the insider trading documents. When he demands to have the Baby Adam photo and the negative, Neil replies, "All in good time" and points out that the two of them are going to be in business for awhile. Adam snarls, "Don't push it", and a unfazed Neil wanks him for being too smart to make violent threats, then exits the office. At the Northern California Medical Center, Blake and Krystle coo I love yous at each other when Sarah drops in to say goodbye and inform them that she's taking Cathy home for her funeral and burial. Blake says they'll never forget what she did for them, and Sarah says she's decided to cling to the silver lining of this tragedy: Cathy still lives on inside Kristina. She asks if she can look in on Kristina before she leaves, and Krystle's like, "Of course!" and offers to accompany her to the room next door. Sarah explains to Kristina that she's a friend of her parents...and when Kristina asks her why she's so tearful, Sarah assures her they're happy tears. She then kisses her fingers and places them atop Kristina's chest in a poignant gesture of love to her lost child. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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