June 17, 2002 - Rafe postpones the wedding briefly but Livvie convinces him that it was their mock wedding that he remembers. Finally, she succeeds and they are officially married. Back at the cabin, Livvie makes her move on an uneasy Rafe. Alison denies she killed Kevin again, but Kates doesn't believe her. Kate decides to change Alison's plea from "Not guilty" to "Not guilty by reason of insanity." Alison resists, still claiming she did nothing to harm Kevin. Kate informs her the DNA analysis is conclusive. Kevin is dead. An upset Alison flees the Recovery Room. Kate moves to intercept her, but notices a shiny object at her feet...Rafe's pendant. She picks it up, wondering who it belongs to. Lucy and Ian walk into the lighthouse as Lucy excitedly calls for Doc. They immediately notice that Rebecca's portrait has been restored. Lucy interprets this as a good sign that Rebecca's curse has been lifted, and Kevin is on his way home. She decides to prepare herself for his return. Lucy returns to the livingroom dressed in Kevin's favorite dress. She makes plans to prepare a special evening for them when he arrives. Ian reminds her that Kevin will only want her...not these other preparations, if he gets home. Victor arrives then, sadly informing them that Kevin is dead--his ashes were found on the Barrington estate and positively identified as Kevin's. Lucy will not accept this, despite Victor and Ian's attempts to convince her. As the grief and loss slowly sink in, Lucy flees the lighthouse. As Rebecca disappears, a distraught Kevin ponders his future there alone. Rebecca's parting words...remember the power of belief...resonate in his mind. He tries not to panic about his predicament. Kevin talks aloud to Lucy...imploring her to find the candle and light it..."bring me back to you." Crying, Kevin tells Lucy not to give up on him--fight for him. Kevin looks for a way to keep Lucy near him. He conjures up a paper notepad and pen, which he prepares to use. Alison walks into the barn, now clear of all signs of the recent wedding. First, she is in doubt at what her ancestor might have done, but that soon gives way to anger at Rebecca. The White Candle responsibe for Kevin's disappearance is still where Rafe left it, unbeknownst to Alison. Alison picks up the gas can and starts dousing the barn with gasoline. "I hope you burn in hell," she says aloud to Rebecca. She strikes a match, ready to incinerate the building, but before she can toss it, Lucy appears and grabs her arm, thus ruining the chnce for the burning barn to light the candle and return Kevin. 

June 18, 2002 - Outside the lighthouse Karen sees Frank. They talk. "I hear the cops found Kevin's remains." Frank was happy to see Karen. No one is at the lighthouse. "Karen, I don't want you to be afraid of me. But when life and death is in your face like this now, I don't want us to be over." Frank is so sincere. "There is something you should know that might change your mind...I slept with him, Ricky." "You and Ricky?" Frank was shocked. "Do you have feelings for this guy?" "Look, I had to be sure that I wasn't the girl that you saw." "So, what does this mean?" Frank asks. "Is there anyway that you can look at me and forget about Ricky right now? Do we have a chance right now? If there is a chance, I will fight for us. You can't tell me that Ricky went through time for you." "No", Karen listens. "I am going back to the school, and if you show up, I will know. If not, then we will get on with our lives." Karen leaves. Frank then gets flashes of Karen in bed again. Wow, not again. Jamal is at the pizza place. "So, who is the lady?" he asks Ricky. "Karen", Ricky tells Jamal. "No way...I will not let you mess Frank and Karen up!" "Who died and made you Frank and Karen's keeper?" "It is not cool, Ricky, it is not cool that you try and work on someone else's lady." "Look, I just happened to be there when Frank went postal. And now that I got to know her, I like her, because he messed up with Karen I won't. So let me know now, are we going to rumble over this Karen thing. Look, I really believe that Karen and I can go the distance." The band comes up wanting Ricky to play with them tomorrow night. "Yeah! Wow! Tomorrow night is going to be the most exciting night of my life. And I want Karen to be there." Lucy walks in just as Alison is about to torch the barn. "Don't you dare!" Alison turns and sees Lucy. "What did you do, Alison? How did you kill my husband?" Lucy has so much hate in her eyes towards Alison. Tears fill Lucy's eyes as she lets Alison have it. Alison defends herself. "It was Rebecca...the candle." "So, Rebecca somehow burns the body and buries it on your property, is that it?" "It was because of the candle from the portrait." "Shut up! Shut up Alison! It wasn't that stupid candle. There is no special magical candle. I was a fool! Kevin is dead! Nothing, you hear me, nothing is going to bring him back to me!" Lucy is crying as she yells at Alison. "Lucy, I didn't do it." "Then who did? Who did? Who helped you? I will kill them!" "Believe me," Alison starts to cry. "What? I was a fool! You used me! I wanted to believe you that if we freed Rebecca. I lived day and night on that hope...all false hope! I would get him back. You blame everyone else...maybe, just maybe Livvie was right. You bewitched everyone in this town. You had everyone believe in your lies. You know what..." Lucy gets louder. "I don't believe anything anymore because of your lies. So tell me, Alison, do you have a spell in there to help yourself, because nobody else is going to save you." They are both crying now. "You have to believe." "No! Don't you say 'believe' to me." Lucy is still crying. "You know what you did? You've taken away my faith. I don't believe in magic anymore. I don't think that good things happen to good people because my belief is gone. Don't you see? 'Let's help Rebecca...we can get Kevin back'. Well, I got Kevin back, Alison. I got him back in a pile of ashes! That is what I got." The police arrive and escort Alison back to jail [apparently Lucy revoked the bond she had posted]. At the cabin the newlyweds made love. They awake. Livvie looks at her ring. "I can't believe we are married." Livvie is all smiles. "The first time is always amazing." Rafe looks at Livvie, "The first time? This wasn't the first time, at least according to you." "The first time as husband and wife was amazing for me, but it isn't great...not for you. Why Rafe?" It is not that I feel like I need to be somewhere. Do you know what I would give to not have a past? I have not had an easy life...there are things I can't tell you...everyone I ever trusted and loved...they always left me...and my dad died and I can't be in PC anymore. So I need to know...does your past mean more to you than our future? That would be a great wedding gift to me...we can make new memories, but can you do that, Rafe, can you leave it all behind?" "I am thinking about all those missing years...who I met along the way." Livvie looks sad. "Rafe, this is just the beginning for us. I will make you so happy you will feel like you aren't missing anything." "Well, maybe I should focus on what is in front of me...my beautiful, beautiful wife." Rafe dreams of waking up to Alison. "Who is this girl I keep remembering? Why do I think she needs me?" Lucy is so sad. "Doc, I sure tried . I thought you were lost or something. Trying to come home to me. They found your ashes. I can hardly breathe without you." Lucy can hardly speak she is crying so hard. "I just wish there was some kind of magic candle to bring you back." Lucy walks outside, closing the barn door. Focus on the candle Rafe left there, which had fallen under the table.

Superstition DVD #6  June 19 - 28, 2002
6/19, 6/20, 6/21, 6/24, 6/25, 6/26, 6/27, 6/28

June 19, 2002 - Karen is finishing her shift at the hospital when Ricky arrives with a present...a backstage pass to watch him perform with his new band. Karen is excited for him until she realizes the performance is tonight. She tells him she can't make it. Ricky quickly concludes that Frank is the reason. "Don't tell me you're actually taking Frank back?" Karen tells him she's thinking about it. "It's not that I don't get that you guys have a history, but that's past, right?...once upon a time...Frank has changed and I see him for what he is right now." Karen tells him that doesn't mean Ricky knows what she wants. Ricky debates that, reminding Karen of her desire for him during the last candle lighting with Frank. "Who were you looking at?" Ricky asks. "Don't do this," Karen responds. "There's something here, if you'd just let it happen," Ricky tells her. He begs her to celebrate with him tonight and deal with Frank tomorrow. Karen protests, but Ricky isn't listening. He races off, stating that he'll be back later to pick her up. "I can't be in two places at once," Karen moans. Ricky arrives back at the hospital later but Karen isn't there. A young nurse informs him Karen's shift ended over an hour ago, but if his name was Ricky, Karen had left him an envelope. Inside is the backstage pass he'd given her earlier. Aggrevated, Ricky tears it into pieces. "Big mistake, Karen, big mistake." Frank looks around at the bleachers of his old high school. "Seems like every time I need a touchdown, I come back here. Well, I need another one tonight, especially tonight." He remembers his last conversation with Karen at the lighthouse. "I love you, Karen...I just want another chance to show you...you've got to know how important tonight is to us. Right? You have to come." He remembers the two of them during their high school days. Suddenly, he comes back to reality and questions why Karen would even want him. Dark forces intrude as he again envisions Karen in that red teddy, but he quickly pushes them away. Hearing footsteps, he turns to see Karen standing there. Frank asks her if that means what he thinks it does. Karen tells him if he's better, really better...yes, she's willing to give it a try. He starts to embrace her, but she pulls back, telling him that they need to take things slow. Frank apologizes for hurting her. "I need you, Karen...I love you so much." Karen's only response is "I know," as they embrace. Kevin has just sketched a picture of Lucy. "Well, it's not perfect...but at least I can see you. Everyday is getting harder. Come on Collins...get it together. You're not losing your mind...at least not yet." He turns the sketch over and writes today's date on the back. Then he hangs it up on a nearby tree. "Lucy, can you hear me?" Kevin yells. "Please...because sitting here alone is not helping my frame of mind...it isn't helping at all. Oh, what the hell!" He snaps his fingers and a glass of wine appears. He takes a sip. "It helps a little...Lucy, you'd really like it here. This is your kind of universe. All you'd have to do is believe and everything you want could be yours. Every year, every month, every day..." He remember's it's Lucy's birthday, and hopes she got the gift her "dead" husband ordered for her months before. Kevin pulls the drawings he has made from the tree. He's still urging Lucy to believe. Suddenly doubtful "...but what if that's not enough...what if all the belief left in the world isn't enough, and I still can't get back? I can't spend an eternity looking at these!" He flings them into the mist. Then, having second thoughts, he tries to recover them. One is still missing, and as he frantically looks, he calls out to Lucy. "Believe". Lucy is on the phone at the lighthouse while Ian paces. She's making burial arrangements for Kevin. Ian tries to intercede but Lucy appears wired...staying busy seems to be her way of coping. Finally, Ian asks her to stop. She tells him she can't...she will go insane if she stops. "How could I possibly have been so wrong?" she asks, almost in tears. She says that finding Kevin's ashes still isn't sinking in...she can still feel Doc's presence. "How can he be gone when I still sense him, and still feel his presence?" she questions. The universe was supposed to protect her and the ones she loved. Lowering herself to the sofa, she tells Ian she feels a hollow nothingness. A sympathetic Ian, drawing on his memories of losing Eve, attempts to console her, saying everything will be alright. They embrace just as there's a knock at the door. Ian yells at the visitor to come in. The deliveryman misconstrues Ian and Lucy's relationship as he delivers a package for Lucy. Lucy goes off on the messenger. The gift is from Doc. The card says "The universe, like my love, lasts forever". Inside the package are star charts and pictures of a star with Lucy's name on it. "He gave me a sign that I shouldn't stop believing in the universe...he gave me a star," Lucy remarked with tears in her eyes. Later, Lucy steps out onto the balcony to look at her star and talk to Doc. For a brief instant, she seems to hear Doc call her name. "Doc, you are out there, aren't you?" Lucy asks him for a sign...the reluctantly walks back inside the lighthouse and closes the door. A gust of wind blows Kevin's drawing of Lucy onto the balcony. 

June 20, 2002 - You're all mine, and I do love you Rafe," Livvie tells her sleeping husband. When her cell phone rings, she get up to answer it. It's her distraught grandfather telling her about finding Kevin's ashes. Livvie fakes surprise as she talks to him. She tells Victor she needs time to deal with it on her own...she won't come home now. "It's working!" a jubilant Livvie exclaims after she gets off the phone. "Planting all those ashes will guarantee that Alison pays, and she'll be executed just like her crazy grandmother...and I will live happily ever after with Rafe." "What did you say?" Rafe asks. Rafe mistakes the sound of glee he heard in Livvie voice for sobs, and is immediately sympathetic. Livvie "admits" she was crying and tells him about the discovery of her father's ashes. Rafe asks if she wants to go home, but she assure him that her home is there with him. Again she reminds him that he agreed to go away with her. "No looking back," Rafe responds with a conviction he doesn't feel. His mood change prompts her to ask him what's wrong. Rafe admits that he's having flashes of a girl, and she's haunting him. Livvie asks him what the girl looks like. "Long blonde hair...blue eyes...she kinda looks like Alison...but sweet. Do I know anybody like that?" Livvie suddenly becomes agitated, telling Rafe how should she know...she hasn't been with him for the entire ten years that are missing. Rafe is now on the defensive as she rants continuously. "What more do you need?" Livvie yells. "This isn't about what I need!" Rafe yells back. Livvie opens the door and tells him to go, sobbing as she continues her tirade. Initially Rafe complies, but changes his mind halfway through the door. "I don't want out of this," he assures her. "I think I'm going to put my past in the past where it belongs," he tells a consoled Livvie. "And nobody or nothing's going to get in our way." A surprised Victor concludes his call with Livvie as Jamal and Jack greet him at the bridge. They express their condolences to him and Lucy. "I don't understand anything anymore," a sad and confused Victor responds. "My son got killed and his own daughter...she doesn't want to come home...why wouldn't she want to come home?" As Victor walks to the other side of the bridge, Jack and Jamal express surprise and doubt at Alison's part in this. "Something's not right," Jack says. "Do you want to hear what's not right...I'll tell you what's not right," Victor laments as he returns to the conversation. "I had two sons, two beautiful twin boys, and all that's left of either of them is ashes...nothing but ashes." "Both...both of your sons?" Jack asks him. Victor recounts Ryan's tragic story to Jack and Jamal...and how his own guilt had forced him to retain Ryan's ashes. Victor, now on the verge of tears, is consoled by the two young men. After he leaves, they formulate a theory. Jamal asks Jack why he inquired about Ryan's ashes. Jack thinks Livvie may have planted Ryan's ashes to frame Alison for Kevin's murder. Reluctantly Jamal agrees. They also conclude that Livvie likely covered her tracks with the ashes. Jack decides to confront Livvie, working on her fear of going crazy like some of her relatives, to get the truth from her. This time he will get it on tape. Jack then calls in a favor to get the location of Victor's call to Livvie. He heads off to confront his ex. A depressed Alison sits on her jail cell bed as Kate explains the plea she wants to make. "I know things look bad, Alison, but we still have a shot." "We don't have a shot, Kate, this is over." Kate tells her it isn't over...she's asking the judge to change the plea to "not guilty due to diminished capacity." All Alison needs to do is get up in court and tell the 'real' story of what happened when Kevin disappeared. "So...", Alison gets off the bed to face Kate "...I get up on the stand and I tell everyone the real story...only to convince everyone that I'm insane...not guilty...but crazy." Kate tells her it's a lot better than a conviction for murder one. "Right, so then what?" Ali asks. "Then you'd be sentenced to serve your time in a psychiatric institution." "For how long?" Kate informs her she would probably be out by the time she's 30 or 35...still time to lead a full life. Alison mulls this information, trying to understand what happened. "Are they sure Kevin is dead? I swear to you, Kate, I didn't kill him!...Isn't it ironic that the one thing that can save me is something that no one would ever believe." A sympathetic Kate responds, "that's just the kind of world we live in." Alison declares she doesn't know anything anymore. "I thought that Kevin was alive, but he's not...I thought that Rafe was coming back, but he isn't...but then I feel his presence so strongly sometimes that maybe he is...maybe I am crazy!" Crying now, Alison tells Kate that she is ultimately responsible for what happened to Kevin. She knows what she has to do. She will change her plea and accept the consequences. Alison now stands in the courtroom with Kate. The judge asks her for her plea. She recounts all the angry words from Livvie...Lucy... It's her fault. Alison stands. "Yes, I wish to change my plea to 'Guilty'. Guilty of murder, as charged." 

June 21, 2002 - Kevin is still searching for the sketch. "...it was Lucy...it's all I have...I can't lose that!" After searching some more, Kevin gives up. "It's gone...Lucy's gone," he dejectedly declares. Then a new determination washes over him as he picks up the sketch pad and pen to draw yet another picture of Lucy. If it disappears, he'll draw another one...he will not forget Lucy...the color of her eyes...she will know he is here. And she will find him. Lucy meets Ian outside the courtroom. Ian tries to persuade her to go home, but she insists on going into the courtroom. Jamal joins them and expresses his condolences to Lucy. Lucy wonders if Livvie will be there and asks Jamal if he's seen her. Jamal tells her "No" and adds "It's hard to say what Livvie's going to do anymore." Inside the courtroom, Kate is stunned by Alison's plea and asks for time to speak with her client. Just as Lucy, Ian, and Jamal enter the room, Alison tells the judge that time won't be necessary...she's pleading guilty to murder as charged. "Guilty?" a surprised Lucy whispers to Ian. "Where did that come from?" Ian responded. "She swore she wasn't...even after they found Kevin's ashes," Lucy replied. Jamal, dismayed, says aloud "Ali, what are you doing?" Kate is trying to understand Alison's logic, as Alison explains to her "If Rebecca killed Kevin, then I'm just as guilty as she is...I should pay." "With your life, Alison?...you've just given that judge permission to sentence you to death!" Kate argues. Alison tells Kate she's not asking her to stop it...she's asking Kate to let it go. Meanwhile, Lucy tells Ian she wants to hate Alison, but she can't. Jamal comes forward and pleads with his ex, unable to understand why she insists on being punished. Alison starts to cry, telling Jamal and Kate she's tired...tired of explaining to everyone. She doesn't want to subject Lucy or Victor to anymore pain from what happened. "He would still be here if it weren't for me," Alison cries. Livvie is still stressing the importance in leaving Port Charles to Rafe. Rafe assures her he's ready to go, and he will get those "things" out of his mind. She wants to leave now, but Rafe is reluctant. He tells her the car has been sounding funny and volunteers to get it checked out at the gas station while she finishes packing. She tells him she will be waiting to leave the minute he gets back. After he's gone, she fumes about Rafe not getting Alison out of his head. She hopes that Rafe will remember less and less of Alison once they're away from Port Charles. She then decides to create some "old" memories for her and Rafe with a new journal. She tints the pages with tea to stain them and then prepares to rewrite history, her history with Rafe. Spun from all the memories Alison shared with her, she works feverishly to compile the journal, adding in the additional "information" she'd given Rafe about their engagement and his disappearance. Finally satisfied that it was up-to-date, she closes the book and puts it in her purse. Hearing footsteps behind her, she calls out without turning around "Sweetheart, you're back...I'm almost ready to go." "I don't think so...sweetheart." Livvie recognizes Jack's voice and turns to face her ex. Alison insists on the guilty plea, and the judge then asks for an allocution--her statement describing how she carried out the murder. Alison takes the witness stand. She thanks Lucy for believing in her and the magic candle. She tells Lucy how much she loved and respected Kevin, and tearfully expresses another apology to his "widow". She then thanks Jamal for being the best friend she ever had. Dara interrupts, complaining to the judge that Alison is making a bid for sympathy. Alison continues to stall as she tells about setting up the candle shop just like her great-great-great-grandmother Rebecca had done. The judge finally intercedes, telling Alison to explain what she did to Dr. Collins. Ali once again hears all the angry voices accusing her of Kevin's murder. "Kevin came out to try and close the candleshop, and I was very angry. And he left to go get something out of his car...and when I came...when he came back, he had his back turned...and I thought that was my chance and...so I took out a knife and I stabbed him...and I stabbed him until I knew he was dead." Kate objects to the court, while Jamal yells "That's a lie!" Now trembling and crying, Lucy races out of the courtroom. Lucy steps out onto the balcony at the lighthouse. She clutches her stomach...then looks down at the piece of paper on the floor. "Where did this come from?" She picks it up and stares at it. Her face softens with serenity as she stares at the drawing Kevin has sent to her. Rafe walks into the barn and looks around. He walks over to the post where he remembered seeing the carved heart and realizes it's gone as he touches the spot. "My name and hers...was right here...unless I imagined it...just like I've been imagining..." He remembers Alison in the barn again as they made love. "You...but who are you? Why do these questions keep bringing me back here?" He shrugs it off, telling himself it doesn't matter now. "I have to say goodbye to this place and all the meaning it once held for me...it's time to move on." He picks up the backpack, and then notices the candle lying under the table. He lifts it up and studies it. Ian blocks Jamal as he attempts to move to Alison's side. Ian tells the judge that maybe they should put an end to this...Alison obviously wasn't well. Kate escorts her client to her seat and inquires about her. Alison appears breathless. Suddenly, Ali spots Rafe's pendant dangling from Kate's purse on the table. She picks it up, and in a daze places it around her neck. She tries to stand up, but collapses on the floor, unconscious, as Ian and Jamal race to her side. 

June 24, 2002 - Rafe holds the candle, looking at it. "What is it about this thing? Why can't I just let it go? There's something I have to do for her...this girl I keep seeing...But what is it?...I can feel it...tell me what it is?" Suddenly he sees Alison holding another candle...and then him holding Alison. "It's the candle...whatever I have to do for this girl, whoever she is, it has something to do with this...and if I do it, maybe I'll stop being haunted by her lovely face." He puts the candle in his knapsack. Rafe then prepares to say goodbye to the barn forever. "Just one last look before I move off to start my new married life with Livvie," Rafe says, as he recalls his new recent memories with his new wife. "I just wish that..." as he again flashes back on his time in the barn with Alison..."I wish I knew who you are...I wish I knew why I can't get you out of my mind...Livvie's right...it's all in the past, and it's time for me to move on to the future." He steps outside and shuts the door. "OK, I've got the candle, and I think I know what to do with it...Goodbye Port Charles..." Again he flashes on himself with Alison in the barn. "Goodbye, whoever you are," he remarks as he walks away. Lucy continues to stare at the sketch Kevin had done of her. She doesn't remember him doing it. She also wonders how it got outside. The telephone rings and she walks back in to answer it. Kate is calling to tell her about Alison. Grabbing her purse and still clutching the sketch, Lucy heads to the hospital. Jack moves toward Livvie. "What's the matter? Aren't you happy to see me?" "Get out!" Livvie yells. "Don't mind if I do," Jack responds, making himself comfortable on the sofa. "You know what, Livvie, I swore to myself I would never let you surprise me again...but you never cease to amaze me." "Not only don't I have any idea what you are talking about, I'm not interested," Livvie tells him. "No, neither am I...if you're going to stand here and deny it. Come on...make my day...tell me how you pulled it off?" "Pulled what off, Jack?" Livvie asks sarcastically. "That was brilliant...but it was also kinda sick...I guess from the kind of family you come from, crazy..." He's pushing her buttons now. Livvie angrily tells him to get out and opens the door for him to leave. Jack persists as he secretly turns on the tape player. "Do you know where they put insane people? Mental hospitals." The door slams shut as Livvie angrily confronts her ex. "Dazzle me...how did you manage to pass off your dead Uncle Ryan's ashes as Kevin's?" "I don't know what you're talking about," Livvie replies. Jack laughs. "If I had a buck for every time you said that, I'd be a millionaire," he goads her. Livvie asks him if he really thinks she's capable of doing something like that. He tells her he thinks she could as he continues to push her. He brings up Caleb's name. She yells that she destroyed Caleb. He tells her that now she has to destroy the evil Alison...she wants Ali to pay with her life for Kevin's "death"...just like Rachel. "Good for you, Jack. You know how to hurt me," Livvie responds. "Why are you doing this to me?" "If you had one ounce of decency in you," Jack replies, "you would admit what you have done so we could find out what really happened to your dad." "I know what happened to my father," Livvie insists, "he is dead, Jack, Alison murdered my father." Jack laughs again. "And buried his ashes in her grandmother's back yard...come on, start telling the truth!" Livvie looks beyond him and through the window spots Rafe returning. Her demeanor changes. "The truth is, I miss you," she says seductively, grabbing his jacket to pull him to her. A surprised Jack replies "What?" as Livvie unbuttons her blouse and removes it, crooning "I want you, as much as you want me." "Livvie, I don't know what you're thinking," Jack protests. "Please...please," Livvie pulls him closer just as Rafe enters. Then she yells "help me...rape...help me," before Rafe rushes forward to knock out Jack. The tape recorder lays beside him on the floor. Livvie grabs her blouse as Rafe asks her what happened. She is anxious to get out of there. "He tried to rape me," she tells him. "I'm going to call the police," Rafe replies. No, no. She doesn't want the police. She just wants to go...get away from there. Rafe picks up the tape recorder and asks what it is. Livvie takes it from him and destroys the tape. He asks her to calm down, but she pleads with him to get her out of there. They head out the door as a stunned Jack comes to and tries to figure out what happened. "OK Livvie, you can run but you can't hide," Jack says as he leaves the cabin. Alison is rushed into the emergency room. Karen meets Ian there. As Ian and other emergency room personnel work to save Alison, Karen meets Kate and Jamal outside. She's update them when she has more details, Karen assures them. Ian continues to work on his patient as Kate and Jamal watch from outside. Amanda Barrington enters the waiting area, and Jamal rushes over to meet her. At Amanda's shocked look, Jamal reassures her that Ali is still alive. Amanda is relieved, but still worried about her granddaughter. She allows Jamal to lead her back to the window where they all watch the doctors at work. As Alison appears to be stabilizing, Karen leaves to talk to her family and friends. Lucy rushes up and Karen appears. Karen tells them Ali is stable...they've brought down the intercranial pressure but the first few recovery hours are critical. She and Ian will continue to monitor Alison and she'll update them on any change. Even though Alison is stable, Amanda decides to call her parents. Jamal leaves to get in touch with Jack. Kate and Lucy are left standing there. "I don't get this," Lucy remarks, "one minute Alison is in the courtroom swearing she killed Kevin, and now she's in there." "Things can change awfully fast in this world," Kate responds. Kate then tells Lucy she feels guilty. Alison didn't kill Kevin. She plead guilty to spare Lucy and Victor the pain of a trial. Kate tells Lucy it was her (Kate's) fault. She pushed Alison to stop believing in magic. "I told her no more magic candles and no mysterious lovers", Kate tells Lucy. "I told her that her world of angels and sunshine had failed her, and that she had better wake up and start living in my world before it was too late," Kate laments. "So Alison lied," Lucy responds, relieved. Kate went on to explain the plea agreement she'd prepared for Alison, and how Alison had rejected it. "She had to do it her own way," Kate says just as Amanda and Jamal return. Amanda tells them that Alison was willful from the time she could speak. "Spunky," Jamal chimed in. Amanda then said she regretted all the time she spent fighting with her granddaughter...particularly over the man she loved, as she faces Jamal. She apologizes to him, telling him she hopes it isn't too late. Jamal tells her not to count Alison out. Suddenly a crisis arises in Alison's treatment room. Her blood pressure is dropping, and the intercranial pressure is still too high. Ian will have to go in to remove the pressure. Lucy decides to call home to check on Christina. She realizes she left the cellphone home. As she talks to Kate, she pulls out the sketch she found on the porch. She shows it to Kate. "Kevin did this." Kate acts surprised. Lucy tells Kate she isn't sure when Kevin did it. "You found this yesterday?" Kate inquires. "Just before I came over here," Lucy replies. Kate points out the date on the back of the sketch... June 19, 2002. It's dated after Kevin disappeared, both realize in amazement. 

June 25, 2002 - Lucy still stares at the sketch as Kate asks if she's sure it's one of Kevin's. Lucy is certain it is. Kate reminds Lucy that Kevin's remains were found. Jack joins them and gives Kate and Lucy his theory that the remains were Ryan's--not Kevin's, and that Livvie planted them. "Doc could really be out there somewhere," Lucy says, gaining a renewed sense of hope. "And Alison could still be cleared," Kate adds. They then tell Jack about Alison's condition. Ian and Karen arrive quickly with the information that Alison hasn't shown much brain activity. Alison may not recover. Visibly shaken, Kate steps away from the group. "Are you alright?" Ian asks her. He recognizes Kate's concern for her client. Kate blames herself for Alison's present condition, but Ian reassures her it isn't her fault. He suggests she continue fighting to clear Alison's name, irregardless of the outcome for Alison's health. Her determination renewed, Kate agrees to continue her fight to clear Alison. I can't believe that Alison pleaded guilty...", Jack laments to Lucy. Lucy explains why Alison accepted the blame. Jack tells Lucy she wouldn't even recognize Livvie anymore. Lucy asks Jack to help her find Livvie. She needs to get to the truth about the ashes, and she has to find Doc. Jack tells her that even if they find Livvie, he doesn't think she will admit to what she's done. "You find them, and leave the rest to me," a determined Lucy replies. Through the help of a credit card company Jack obtains the address of the motel Livvie checked into. Lucy prepares to call her stepdaughter, whom she's sure will fall for the bait. Jack asks Ian to go see Alison. Jack tells an unconscious Alison that he, Ian, Lucy, and Jamal won't stop fighting for her, even though he knows they're not who she needs. "I wish I could bring him back to you, Alison," Jack tells her, "because I know you'd hear Rafe." Karen steps off the elevator and literally bumps into Ricky. She apologizes for not making his concert. He asks if she's OK. They discuss Alison, and Karen opens up to him, expressing her frustration at losing Eve, then Kevin, and now Alison's precarious situation. A sympathetic Ricky holds her. "I'm a doctor, and I still don't understand...," Karen tells him, as they sit down in the patient lounge to talk. "But Alison could still make it, right...I guess all you can do is live your life because you never know what's going to happen," Ricky concludes. Karen discusses Alison's life first, then seems to veer towards her own. Both agree that life really is too short not to follow their own ambitions, instead of what is expected of them. As the couple bonds, Frank enters the area and sees them sitting together. He successfully fights yet another image that tries to enter his head. He steps out of view as Karen and Ricky part company, and hears Ricky tell Karen that if she ever needs to talk, just call him. After Ricky leaves, Frank intercepts Karen. He asks about Alison, then asks Karen to have dinner with him. There are some things he wants to talk about. Karen accepts the invitation. "She's a real beauty, isn't she?" James goads Ed as they stand in front of the screen between heaven and hell. "So pure...so unselfish....and look where it got her,"he continues. "She got there because of your interference," Ed responds. "I made an offer to your angelic son that he couldn't refuse...now that's perfectly within your precious rules," James defends himself. "You manipulated him with her pain," Ed reminds him. "Come on, Dad...the young lovers' demise was all their own doing," a gleeful James returns. "They will find their way back to each other, and that is a given," Ed responds with some degree of confidence. "Then you're a bigger fool than I thought...open your eyes, Edward...your son married the first woman he stumbled across...a woman he doesn't love...a woman who would steal a dead uncle's ashes to prove that the woman your son does love is a murderer...". He continues on about the follies that have ensued. "It looks as if she's dead, doesn't it?" "She's not dead yet, you old sot!" Ed responds, now quite vexed. "Just a matter of time, old man, just a matter of time...", James returns, confidently. Rafe and Livvie enter the motel room. "Do you want to tell me what the hell's going on?!" Rafe asks. Livvie immediately starts unpacking and putting things away. An agitated Rafe interrupts her unpacking and asks her to talk to him. "I don't want to talk about this right now," Livvie tells him. "You are going to talk about this right now...so tell me, what's going on, Livvie?" Livvie asks him to calm down. Rafe tells her they should have called the cops on Jack. He starts to make the call, but Livvie stops him. Rafe tells her he feels like they are on the run, and it just doesn't feel good to him. Defensively, Livvie asks how he could say that. "Why do you have to look behind?" she asks. "Because this doesn't make any sense!" Rafe is yelling now. He tells her if she loves him she should be honest with him. She turns this around, putting Rafe on the defensive again...he doesn't love her...he's sorry he married her...he still has that "other woman's" image in his head. "Being with you right now doesn't feel right," Rafe admits to her. Livvie turns on the tears again, but Rafe presses on. She tells him that looking back is hurting him. He tells her it hurts more not to know. She tells him she just wants to get on with their future. He tells her he doesn't understand why they have to leave the past behind to do that. She asks him if he has any idea what she's gone through and given up to be with him. He asks her to tell him; he wants to know. She tells him she's sacrificed her family and her friends to be with him. He tells her he never asked her to do that. She tells him it's too late. Both are yelling now. She starts to leave but he grabs her. He tells her she'll stay there until she tells him the truth. They aren't running anymore. Rafe threatens to go back to Port Charles to talk to some people there. Maybe then he'll get the answers he's been looking for. Livvie fights back, once again accusing him. For once Rafe holds his place. He's tired of her turning everything around to make it his fault. Livvie hits him, ranting and raving, as the phone rings. She calms herself to answer it. It's Lucy calling to tell her she has great news...Kevin is back. "What?" Livvie asks, stunned. Lucy asks Livvie to meet them at the hospital chapel. Livvie drops the phone and faints. 

June 26, 2002 - A frustrated Kevin tries once more to fight lonliness and the fear of insanity as he attempts to sketch another portrait of Lucy. "I will not lose my connection to you," he promises. He's developing a block on what she looks like. As he struggles to see and feel Lucy's presence, he drops the tablet. "I'm losing you, Lucy," he laments. He picks up the sketchbook again, saying "I can't give up...Rebecca said the only way to get through this is to keep alive what is in your heart...Oh Lucy, you are my heart...I will make you come alive...wonder what you'd be wearing here?" He guesses at Lucy's apparel, finally settling on shorts and one of those little t-shirts she likes to wear. "Wonder what they call those things...little t-shirts?" "They're called mini t-shirts," Lucy's voice answers his question. "Oh, my God! Lucy...is that really you?" he asks. "There's only one way to find out," Lucy responds. He races to her and holds her tightly, then stops to ask how she got there. She tells him it doesn't matter...she's there and she wants him to hold her and never let her go. They kiss passionately. He snaps his fingers for music and an amazed Lucy asks how he did that. He tells her she can have whatever her heart desires. She tells him she already has what her heart desires as they hold each other close. He informs her he's carved her name in a tree, and he's done so many sketches of her. She tells him to keep drawing her picture, but right now they should concentrate on each other. They kiss again as they dance to the music. Suddenly, he is standing there dancing by himself. Lucy is gone. A rejuvinated Kevin settles back to sketching Lucy again, determined to keep her with him. Lucy walks into the hospital chapel and sits down. "Doc, it's me. I don't know...maybe you can feel me here...I sure hope so, because I...I don't know where you are anymore..." She continues talking aloud to her husband, expressing her concern about his remains being found, and how she didn't want to believe it...how confused and turned upside down things are now. She tells him she wants to believe so badly those ashes aren't his. She continues talking to him about tricking his daughter in order to get to the truth. She has to find out the truth...for all of them. Rafe applies a washcloth to Livvie's forehead as she regains consciousness. He asks her what happened, and who was on the phone. Livvie tells him it was her step-mother, and that her father is alive. She gets up off the bed, telling him she has to go to the hospital. A confused Rafe tells her he thought Alison killed her father. Rafe volunteers to drive, but Livvie tells him "No"...he can't go with her. Rafe takes the keys, telling her she is in shock and shouldn't be driving. Besides, he wants to meet everyone. Panicked now, Livvie again tells him "No". She uses his uncertainty about their relationship during their fight as the excuse. He tells her he wants to be there for her, but she tells him she has to do this her way, alone. She needs to see her father because she has so much explaining to do about so many things, including the two of them. He still wants to drive her there and wait, but she successfully wrangles the keys and leaves him standing in front of their motel room. Frustrated, Rafe goes back into the room and remembers their fight. He tries hard to understand why Livvie is behaving as she is. Then he finds the fake journal and settles down to read it. "Doc, I feel you...I sense you here...I feel like you're holding me...it's the closest I've felt to you in so long..." Lucy smiles. "I wonder, Doc, can you feel me?" Lucy then asks for strength to do the right thing as she searches for the truth. "I need you," she again tells her husband. "Sleep well, Doc...I need to keep wishing on my beautiful star, and you need to wish me luck." She goes to the chapel door wondering what happened to Livvie. As she opens it, Livvie is standing there. Livvie asks where her father is. Lucy tells her that Kevin will meet them there, but first she and Livvie need to have a little chat. "Hey, James, maybe you should see this," Ed calls as he stands in front of the heavenly monitor. "Rafe is going back to the hospital...you didn't count on that now, did you?" "So...who's manipulating the situation now, then?" James answers, accusingly. "That's the natural course of true love," Ed replies to which James says "Stop it, you're making me sick." "You're going to lose, James. Those two still love each other...they're going to find each other, and then they will get to stay on earth with each other." "You've been watching too many Hallmark specials, Mr. Et...". "And you're nervous, Mr. James..." "On the contrary," James replies "Olivia's machinations will trump any happy storybood reunion...Master Caleb had good taste...the timing was just...just wrong, that's all." "Of course," Ed reminds him, "Livvie could come clean, couldn't she?" "When hell freezes," James replies. "Who would have thought that Rafe would fall into the clutches of such a deliciously evil young woman," James laughs. "Oh please, give me a break...we both know Livvie is out of control," Ed tells him. "You wish...eternal optimism is so self-defeating." James then offers Ed another side bet...Livvie has convinced herself that she is in love with Rafe. James bets Livvie will convince Rafe that he's in love with her. It's Ed's turn to laugh. "Never happen James...never happen." "Don't be so sure...never underestimate the power of a dark soul, especially when wrapped in a beautiful package," James tells his adversary. Ed tells James he knows nothing about love. "Love...what is love?" James asks sarcastically. "I know it can be used to manipulate better than power and money." "You may be able to manipulate Rafe's memory, but you can't make him fall in love with her. It doesn't work that way...in fact, it's bloody impossible!" Ed moves to leave the area. "Every heart can be corrupted, Edward...why not spice up the pot and wager on sin." "You are seriously underestimating my son...as long as Alison is still alive, so is our bet." "Well, given poor Alison's condition, that might not be too long...that means game saved and matching souls for the bad guys." "James, old man, we'll just see about that...we'll see...odds may be stacked against them now, but trust me...they'll find each other." "Why, because your net has a good heart?" James then asks. "I couldn't think of a better reason," Ed replies. "The purer the soul...the sweeter the conquest...I predict it will be his downfall," James tells him. Alison lies unconscious in her hospital bed, still hooked up to a ventilator while a nurse monitors her. "Such a sweet girl," the nurse says softly as she touches Alison's face. "I remember when you were a candy striper here...what a breath of fresh air...that's what you need, princess...you need a prince charming to kiss you awake." Later, as another nurse joins her in the room, one nurse notices Alison's hand moving slightly toward the pendant now around her neck. "Did you see that?" one nurse asks the other. "It's just reflex," the second responds. 

June 27, 2002 - Karen and Frank are having dinner at the Recovery Room as Ricky enters. He sees the two seated together but slips over to the bar to avoid them. Neither sees him, as Frank again thanks Karen for giving them another chance. Karen would like for them to be friends first. After Ricky gives the bartender his take-out order, he secretly watches the couple. Frank blames himself for everything that's gone wrong between them. He would like to make it up to her. He wants to take Karen hiking in Yosemite, a place she has always wanted to visit. He's arranged for some time off from work...if she's agreeable, she could get some time off from the hospital. He tells an uncertain Karen this is exactly what the two of them need. Karen admits to him she's been doing a lot of thinking...she doesn't want them to waste time anymore. As Ricky picks up his take-out order and leaves, the couple are still deeply involved in conversation. Rafe continues reading Livvie's fake journal in his motel room. "Okay, I shouldn't be doing this...I have no right to be reading Livvie's journal," he tells himself, "but she's hiding something...this might be the only way to find out the answers that I need." He resumes reading the many entries. "We had hot chocolate in the park today..." He pauses to consider, "I think I remember that...the park and the hot chocolate." Once he has finished reading all the entries, he realizes the only thing he's discovered is how much Livvie loves him. He will make this up to her, he decides, as he reaches for the telephone. An excited Livvie asks Lucy where her father is. Lucy tells her Colleen has taken him out for some tests. When they're finished, she'll bring him there. When Livvie asks what what happened to him, Lucy concocts a story about Kevin bumping his head and becoming disoriented. Lucy's bubbly enthusiasm is convincing. "This is so amazing," Livvie tells her. "It's unbelievable...I'm so excited...but it leaves me with so many questions though," Lucy responds. "Who cares about all that now...my father's alive!" Livvie exclaims. Lucy wonders aloud why there was so much evidence that Kevin had been killed. Alison didn't murder Kevin...maybe she and Livvie should discuss why Livvie made it appear that Alison killed her father. Livvie's smile quickly vanished. "I don't know what you're talking about...I didn't do anything to Alison," Livvie tells her step-mom. Lucy cajoles her, telling Livvie everyone understands why she would do this. Livvie begins to suspect Lucy has been talking to Jack, and tells her not to believe anything Jack says. Lucy then tells her that Kevin understands. "What did you tell him?" a worried Livvie exclaims. Lucy lies, telling her Kevin knows she planted the bloody sweater and the ashes to frame Alison. Livvie is now in tears, and on the verge of confessing, when Colleen enters the chapel. Colleen apologizes for interrupting, but then tells Livvie she hopes that finding Kevin's ashes brings her some closure. Livvie, realizing that Kevin isn't there after all, turns on Lucy. "You lying bitch!" she spits. "You lied to me...you told me my father was alive...how could you be so cruel!" "I don't believe Kevin is dead," Lucy explains to her, "but I can't find him while you go all over town planting false evidence against Alison." Livvie then accuses Lucy of sending Jack to her cabin to badger her into giving a "false" confession. Lucy tells Livvie that if she wants to get her father back, she simply must tell the truth. Livvie starts crying again. "My father is dead...Alison killed him, so why don't you just leave me alone and go after the person who did this to us." "Alison did not kill your father," Lucy exclaims. "Alison murdered him in cold blood and now she's going to pay," Livvie replies. "Maybe she already has," Lucy tells her and explains that Alison is on life support. Livvie still refuses to come clean with her step-mother. "I don't want to ever see you again. You're as dead to me as my father," Livvie tells her as she heads for the door. She shoves Jack (who was standing at the door) aside as she bolts out. Lucy tells Jack she's convinced Livvie framed Alison, but she believes Livvie is convinced Kevin is dead and that Alison killed him. Lucy is very confused by the whole situation. Alison is touching Rafe's pendant as she lies in the coma. Suddenly she finds herself in a bright white, misty area. "Where is this place...why am I here?" she asks. An ICU nurse unfastens Alison's pendant and lays it on the table beside her bed just as Jack enters the room. Jack promises Ali he'll make sure she doesn't take the rap for Kevin's disappearance. Even Lucy is back on her side. "Rafe...Rafe, are you here?" Alison wanders through the misty white fog looking for him. "I really hope so...I've missed you so much...everything has changed since you left. It's been so difficult...where am I? Wait a second...did I die? Is that why I'm here? Is this the only way that we can be together forever?" Jack picks up Alison's hand, asking her to squeeze his. He gets no response. "Fight, just fight," he implores. "We all love you," he tells her as he gets up to leave. "Rafe, I'm not going to give up on you...and I promise you that wherever I am and wherever you are, I'm going to find you because we belong together." Ricky is practicing the drums when Karen shows up. He's prepared for the worst but Karen tells him she and Frank broke up. Ricky is surprised and relieved. Karen tells Ricky she can't stop thinking about him, and they passionately kiss. Meanwhile, Frank sits alone at the Recovery Room. He picks up the Yosemite brochure and sets it ablaze with the help of a lit candle on the table. He holds the brochure as he watches it burn. Livvie slips into Alison's room and closes the blinds. "I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for you, but guess what...I don't feel anything for you. Look at you so weak...and helpless...it wouldn't take much to end this misery you're in." 

June 28, 2002 - Lucy is pitching pebbles into the water at the bridge when Ian walks up. He asks if she's okay...she tells him she's numb...she can't feel anything. He asks her how it went at the hospital. Lucy tells Ian Livvie believes with all her heart that her father is gone. "Do you believe Doc is gone?" she asks him. "Should I or should I not let go of Kevin?" Ian tells her he doesn't think she should make a decision at night. She tells him she's so tired of all the ups and downs, and she starts to cry. Ian tells her he's proud of her for hanging on as he hugs her. Ian recommends they leave, but Lucy wants to stay longer. He tells her he's going for a drive as Lucy resumes throwing pebbles in the water. At the motel, Rafe opens the door for the woman desk attendant to enter. He tells her it's embarrassing, but he needs a favor. His wife went to the hospital to see her father and took all the cash with her. They'd had a big fight, but he wants to make it up to her. He asks her to float him a twenty. At first she's reluctant, but he asks her to do it for love and she gives in. "The whole world is against me now...thanks to you," Livvie tells a comatose Alison. "You got what you deserved...you killed my father and now you're paying for it." She then tells Ali that if she wakes up, she will still lose. "Rafe and I are happily married." "Hello!" Livvie taunts her former friend, "I was expecting a bigger reaction to the news." She goes on to tell Ali that her poor angel doesn't remember a thing about her. Then Livvie confesses that she planted the bloody sweater and the ashes to frame Alison. "You were right about Rafe...he is just won-der-ful...umm...well anyway, I just want you to lie back, relax and don't worry your pretty little face about a thing, because I'm going to make the man happy for the rest of our lives." Kate watches as Rafe walks into the hospital chapel. He sits down and says "hello" to her. She recognizes him. He tells her he feels that he belongs there. She tells him the chapel is the place to be when you're not sure about something. She informs him she let her friend down, and he tells her he's sure it wasn't intentional. Kate decides to go talk to her grandmother as she leaves the room. Now alone in the chapel, Rafe pulls out the candle. "Don't know why I'm doing this...but it just feels right...just trust, Rafe...trust." Ian walks up to Eve's grave. "Ah, Lambert...probably wondering what I'm doing out here alone...I have no where else to go...no one else to talk to...I talk to Danny, you know...bless him, his conversation skills are a little amiss...and maybe that's a good thing...because I know the day will come when he asks me what happened to his mother...why I wasn't there to save her...I won't have an aswer for him...other than God made a mistake...He took someone who had so much to give to the world." Ian weeps as he continues to talk to his late wife. "I don't have the passion for life that you did...not anymore...and the day is...it goes by like a shadow on my heart...and the only joy I allow myself to feel...is when I'm sitting here with you." Kate stands in the bushes outside the fence silently weeping. Rafe inquires about Livvie at the desk and is told she went up to the ICU unit. Meanwhile, Livvie tells Alison she and Rafe are leaving tonight. "Happy atrophy...have a nice rest and a long life...if you can call it that." She exits the ICU area just before Rafe enters. Comparing the sinking pebbles to her doubts about Doc's return, Lucy is determined she won't give up. With renewed hope, she asks the sky for a sign. Two flashes of bright lightning answer her request. "Could I...maybe have another sign...something a little more specific," Lucy implores. She hears a rustle in the bushes. Still looking for more, she says aloud that maybe she isn't getting what they're trying to tell her. "Lucy..." She turns to see Kevin standing there. "It's me," Kevin tells her. "Doc...Oh my God!...it's you," Lucy exclaims as she joyfully embraces her husband. "You're home...you're home." They hold each other close and kiss. In the chapel, the candle that Rafe lit burns brightly. Livvie walks into the motel room calling for Rafe. "OK, Livvie...he couldn't have gone too far without some cash." She eases the panicky feeling that overcame her. Livvie discovers the journal and is feeling pleased that Rafe read it. "I'll bet any minute he'll walk through that door with a big bouquet of pink roses just for me." She pulls a nightie out of the suitcase as she awaits Rafe's return. As Rafe prepares to enter Ali's room, he is cut off by a nurse. He is told he can't enter until the nurses clean up. He describes his wife and asks if she's seen her. The nurse tells him she left a couple of minutes ago. Rafe leaves, but realizing he can't catch up with Livvie, returns to the room and leans to pick up a penny on the floor. The clean-up nurse backs into him as she comes out with the cart. As she moves away, Rafe yells "wait a minute...you...". He leans down to pick up the object. It's the pendant he lost several weeks before. He's overcome with flashbacks of Alison again. "Who's in that room?" he wonders. He opens the door. "Oh my God...it's her," he realizes as he walks up to the bed. "I know you...I know your face...and your lips...and your smile," as he gently touches her face. He leans over and softly kisses her lips. Alison's eyes open. "Rafe," she says. "You know me?" Rafe asks. "Rafe," she says again, starting to cry. He leans in and gives her a long lingering kiss this time...as the candle in the chapel continues to burn brightly.