- The newlywed Massicks plan to annul, until family and friends persuade them to give marriage a shot. Lane's new job sends her after a sex-scandal story. Meanwhile, Peyton tricks Nick into getting a roommate, along with a new place.
- The newlywed Massicks plan to annul, until family and friends persuade them to give marriage a shot; Lane's new job sends her after a sex-scandal story involving Sen. Burton. Meanwhile, Peyton tricks Nick into getting a roommate, along with a new place; Rita helps Lane verify the charges against Edward, and Wheeler plays cupid for Sam.—NatZee
- Waking up with a hangover, a disheveled Reese comes to with Tom patting her tousled blonde head, and filling it with the notion that they got married. There is the ring on her finger, and a poxy snapshot, seen from behind, of her getting married. "We didn't celebrate without protection, did we?" Fortunately not, but Reese quietly freaks out, but what's done is done. Only way out is an annulment. Tom protests that he loves her dearly, but she insists. When she ever again gets married, she intends to be stone cold sober. All right then, if that's the way she wants it, he would not stand in her way. Then quietly mutters to himself, "And if you believe that, I've got a little bridge for sale." Emma Smallwood, the old lady at the chapel, sends the forgotten snapshot on to the 'nice couple'. Rita reports that the police aren't taking any action against Edward Burton; providing board to a woman in exchange for sex is considered bartering in the state of Georgia, unethical, but not illegal. Asked if she was at least convincing, Rita responds "I cried enough tears to fill two boxes of Kleenex." Nick chides Veronica for not having checked the state laws before letting them go through all that trouble, but no matter, getting it reported to the police was only a first step, an arrest isn't essential, "Tell your sob story to the press." Eleanor controls the Savannah Dispatch, but they have their eyes set on a tabloid rag, the Savannah Weekly, and fancy that, so does Lane, preparing for a job-hunting interview, just as Reese comes home early with the news that she got hitched. Peyton (wickedly-foxy Jamie Luner) thinks it's sweet, but she would, wouldn't she? Peyton points out to Reese that she only did in her drunken state what her subconscious longed for her to do all along, and that she should tnink twice before having it undone. "I thought about it, and I'm calling my attorney." Bright girl! Dean wants Sam to continue being Lane's AA sponsor, but Sam fears word will leak about him being a recovering alcoholic, and as Wheeler calls him into his office, thinks he is being cautioned, but the lieutenant only wants to set him up with his daughter Cassie. Nick learns of 'the wedding', but after all, Peyton, with her peaches-and-cream compexion, is a first prize like no other, but he does let it slip that he wouldn't ever get married without a trial run first. Peyton suggests to Tom that if he wants to come across as a paragon of virtue and stop the annulment, maybe a snow job on Reese's roommates? Peyton intends shacking up with Nick, and when Tom cautions her that Nick might discover her to be incompatible, she confidently assures him that, in the beauty pageant of life, she is Miss Congeniality, she would go out of her way during the six months or so, not to make him complain. But live with him in that dingy room? When the editor of the Savannah Dispatch hears that Eleanor herself fired Lane, it rather serves as an acid test of character, and she lands the plum assignment right up her street, reporting on Edward's alleged misconduct at Second Chances. Suspiciously, Peyton pays for the mysterious content of a brown paper bag, "Is it dead?" Lawyers did fast work, Tom signs the annulment documents, but easily cons Reese by giving her one last kiss as Mrs. Massick and mailing without a stamp. Turns out Peyton's plan hinges on a dead cockroach, but the yucky evidence is not enough to convince him to leave his crummy dump of an apartment. Tom gives a convincingly pathetic performance to Cassie re his devotion to Reese, and Reese is touched when she relays the info. Lane's investigation is greatly aided by the doctored photograph she gets from Dean, and she hooks up with 'witness' Rita Winsler, and then confronts the lion in his own den. For once, old Edward is actually innocent, but photographs don't lie... He is (understandably) irate, and chases her off, but his secretary longs to come clean about what she saw that day, not knowing that it was a set-up. Sam gets kidded at the police station about his date with the lieutenant's daughter. Wheeler arranges the date at a movie theater screening 'Casablanca', but Cassie goes "the last guy I'm interested in meeting, some joker my father's picked out." The secretary comes forward to Lane, recounting that Rita's clothes were a mess, and she was in tears. The editor greenlights the story. Peyton says they've tried enough carrots with Reese, now she's bringing in the stick. Phones Edward. Invites him to a get-together. He is immediately suspicious, she is his 'recently acquired' daughter after all. "If you want to borrow money, the answer is no!" She just explains she is thinking about the future, because there might just be grandchildren soon, and he huffily assumes she might be pregnant. But no, she's not even married yet, not like Reese. Old Edward wants to blow a gasket. Peyton cunningly knows that Reese would never do what her hotheaded gruff father orders her to do. In exchange for this favor, Peyton wants just a little help from Tom, and he breaks into Nick's apartment, trashing the place while she lured Nick off with a key to the VIP room of the Du Valle hotel for romantic escapades of the naughtiest kind. Apartment-hunting looms after the break-in. Tom shares the loot he got from fencing Nick's stuff with her. "We are awful!" she rightly exclaims. Sam pretends to have a cold to wangle his way out of the blind date, and Cassie eagerly lets him off the hook. Cassie is overjoyed about her freedom. 'Burton Accused Of Sexual Impropriety' blares the headlines. Eleanor slaps him. Veronica slaps him. Reese comes to confront him as well, and he tears into her for having married Tom, only to earn a third slap. Not his day! Tom is amused by the article, this will ruin Edward's political career (and doing Edward in was Tom's objective from Day One) and things go even more nicely for Tom when Reese views the returned letter as a sign not to go ahead with the planned disbanding of the marriage. The ring is on her finger again. Tom kisses her, safely ensconced in wedded bliss to an heiress. Nick found an apartment carrying Peyton's approval, and they 'christen' it immediately. The projector broke at the movie theater, and Cassie meets Sam accidentally, latching on to each other's identities eventually. "Lord find me a rock, I am so busted!", play it again Sam! The two hit it off. Peyton, 'desperately'' looking for a new place of residence now that Tom is moving in with Reese, is invited to move in with Nick. "I can't think of a better roommate than my lover. Peyton celebrates with Tom. Then two things go wrong for the victorious duo. Sonny Lee, an old flame of Nick, reappears, and they kiss passionately. And the letter awaits Reese...
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