Episode #: 10525
Tape Date: 2/12/07
Air Date: 3/13/07
Director: Roger W. Inman

Summary: Sami turns to Nick for help…Chelsea prepares to leave town for good…EJ is up to his usual evil antics…and our favorite pyromaniac strikes again, this time endangering Hope and the baby. Also of note, Baby Brady’s name (Ciara Alice) is finally mentioned on air.

At Willow’s…
Jed takes the check to her place as he promised and hides it under the mattress. But EJ shows up, asking who he is and why he is there. Jed explains that he is Willow’s brother and is doing her a favor. EJ lies, telling him he is the manager and he isn’t allowed there and tells him to leave…he will lock up. After Jed leaves, EJ snoops around and finds the check under the mattress. Before he leaves, he burns it and flushes it down the toilet.

At Billie’s…
Sami shows up to see Nick. She asks for his help, wanting him to fake a paternity test. Nick doesn’t want to help her and questions her, but she swears that Lucas is the father. She gives him the run around and he doesn’t want to go along with it, fearing he could lose his job if anyone found out. She begs for his help and eventually falls to pieces and starts crying. He finally gives in, telling her that he will get her a blank report but that is all he will do…she can do the rest. He says he can get it in the morning, but she wants him to go do it right now. He explains that he has to wait there for Chelsea, so Sami says she will stay and wait. Just as he is going to leave, he opens the door to find Lucas there, asking where she has been and what is going on. Nick says he has to run an errand and leaves as Sami explains to Lucas that she was just upset. Lucas wants to know the truth, but she says she can’t explain what she is feeling. He urges her to talk to a professional, saying her mother can find someone for her. He wants her to go home with her, but she says she has to stay there and wait for Chelsea and that she will be home soon. Nick returns later with the form and she thanks him for his help, saying she will never forget it. As she leaves, she runs into EJ in the hallway and hides the form behind her back. He starts harassing her and she gets upset and faints as EJ calls out for Lucas. Later, they are both with her as she comes to. She claims that she is okay, she just hadn’t eaten today and got a little light headed. She had dropped her purse and sees the form on the floor. EJ offers to help, but she tells him to just leave. After he is gone, she gathers her things as she and Lucas go into their apartment. EJ watches from his doorway, smiling.

At the Brady House…
Hope is with the baby (who finally has a name…other than ‘doodlebug’). She calls her Ciara Alice and explains that Ciara was the queen of something or other and that Alice is the queen of the Horton clan…she is sure that she will do both of them proud. She puts her down for a nap as Chelsea arrives outside, hoping that Bo will talk to her. She figures that her dad doesn’t want to see her…no one loves her and she is just going to leave town. But before she goes, she sits down on the stoop to write him a goodbye letter. Willow is lurking in the bushes and listens as Chelsea reads the note back to herself. In her letter, she apologizes to Bo and Hope for all the problems she has caused them and hopes that she can make it up to them someday. She slips the note under the door, says a goodbye and leaves. After she is gone, Willow sneaks up and looks inside. As she is breaking in, the phone rings inside and Hope answers as Willow rushes off. It is Bo calling to ask Hope if she has seen Chelsea, to which she says no and he tells her that she may be coming by. After they finish, Hope takes Ciara upstairs to change her. Willow comes back to the door and as she tries again, HER cell phone rings. She rushes off again to answer it and it is EJ, asking what she is doing. After she gets off the phone, she goes back and breaks in and snoops around the living room. She hears Hope upstairs and hides as Hope comes down for the diaper bag. After she goes back up, Willow lights a candle and begins snooping around. Later, we see her with a handful of jewelry and she drops it. She sits the candle down to gather it up and the curtains burst into flames. She panics and runs out the door, but stops long enough to leave Chelsea’s hairbrush behind, saying she knew it would come in handy. Later, we see Hope rush outside with Ciara and calling 911. Her next call is to Bo, telling him about the fire and assuring him that they are fine. He says he will be right home.

Meanwhile at the Garage…
Chelsea goes back there looking for Abby and/or Max, hoping she can spend the night there. She runs into Jed who offers to help her out. She is quite rude to him, assuring him she can take care of herself. He breaks in for her and then leaves. She goes in and makes a place to sleep when her cell phone rings, it is Bo calling trying to find her.

Bo meets with Billie…
As she asks him for his help with Chelsea. She explains how she hurt Chelsea but before she finishes, Bo pieces it together and figures out that Billie slept with Nick. She explains about getting drunk and how it was just a stupid mistake. She says that Nick really cares for Chelsea and tells him about Chelsea finding out and getting upset. She fears what Chelsea may do. She says she has no money and no where to go. She asks Bo to reach out to Chelsea, maybe he can talk sense into her. Abby calls and tells Billie that she talked to Chelsea and that she was going to Bo’s. (This is when Bo called Hope to see if Chelsea had been there yet). When he finds out she hasn’t been there, he calls Chelsea asking where she is. He tells her that he loves her and offers to come and get her and they can talk…she can go home with him. He also tells her that he called Hope and she agrees that Bo should give her a break. He asks where she is, but she won’t tell him…and starts crying that everyone just lies to her and she is going to go somewhere away from everyone. She hears Billie in the background and gets upset. But Bo begs her to come to his house. But she tells him that the bus is there and hangs up on him. Bo offers to go with Billie to look for her.

Bo had gotten the call from Hope as he and Billie are now there and the fire is out. Willow goes back to her place and stashes the jewelry in the fridge and goes to get the check and discovers it is not there. Nick is at Billie’s holding Chelsea’s picture regretting all he has done…as Chelsea (all alone at the garage) covers up, crying. Back at the Brady’s, Hope asks who could have done this to them…who would want to hurt them as Bo says “good question”…the camera pans over as we see the brush on the floor…and the previews show…

Billie (to Hope): It’s me…I am the reason Chelsea ran away…I had a one night stand with Nick…

Chelsea: I never want to see Nick Fallon’s lying face again…

Philip (to Kate): I have to face it mom…I failed Claire…I failed myself…

Shawn (in a house?): Is anybody here?...as some guy with a gun asks, Who the hell are you?...

And the credits roll…
Laney