In the ultimate betrayal, Trevor blackmailed Ric into giving him the waterfront properties. In the meantime, Claudia was stepping up to put Trevor in the ground.

When Michael and Morgan returned from the arcade with a mobile for the baby's crib, Jax and Carly found themselves with the daunting task of telling the boys the baby was no more. Michael immediately (and some would say rightly so) tried to take the blame on himself. Surprisingly, Jax was able to ease the boy's guilt without heaping it on Sonny's doorstep, though I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised by that. Jax has always been the epitome of grace and understanding – one of those near-perfect, nice guys women just don't appreciate.

While Kate was trying to prepare for a conference call over her new magazine, which I guess is now going to be sister publication to Couture, Sonny felt like he was being blown off. He pressed her to talk about why she was running and she continually repeated she was happy about his truce with the big, bad Zs, but she had a magazine to launch. I was struck by just how insecure Sonny really is in these scenes. Is it really that hard for him to believe Kate has a business to run? I guess it is given the previous women in his life.

Ric got an earful of truth from Trevor about Marianna and his past, and it was really, really good to see Rick Hearst given material he could shine with. Ric has worked so hard in the past few weeks to reinvent himself and put his past pain behind him, and I felt the same devastation the character did as his father destroyed every bit of it. In the end, he signed the deeds to the waterfront property over to the man to protect Marianna. He then had to go tell his brother.

Sonny continued in an 'it's all about me' way, chiding Ric for giving into his hate for him and not understanding in the least the choices he had to make. This is all just days after Ric saved Carly's life. How soon Sonny forgets such things.