Carly returns to the penthouse where
Sonny confronts her about her actions at the Deception photo shoot. He is upset that she promised to work with
Laura last night but has seemingly gone and done the opposite. He also does not want her work following
her into their home as it has these past two nights. Carly assures him that she
and Laura have reached new ground and have made a new truce to cooperate for
the good of the company. Sonny seems
unconvinced and moves to leave. She asks
him if they are fighting and he says that is what they are trying to
avoid. Sonny leaves with no word as to
where he is going while Carly watches, uncertainty clouding her face.
Carly calls Gia and
arranges to meet her at Jake’s. There
they discuss Carly’s plan to make Gia the new Face of Deception. Jason arrives and Carly makes her
introductions. She explains they
discussing business and Jason accuses her of lying. Gia leaves and Jason gets on Carly’s case about how she treated
Elizabeth earlier. She defends herself
and says Elizabeth has no business being a model and that she is doing it for
Laura and Lucky. He tells her to back
off. She tells him she is afraid for him
and not to fall in love with Elizabeth:
she will hurt him if he lets her.
Sonny visits the
studio where the photo shoot was held.
He enters just as Laura and Scotty are on the brink of an intimate
moment. Understanding dawns and he sees
the reason for Scotty’s earlier attempt to buy Deception from him. Sonny counters Scotty’s offer: he will buy
Laura out if she can no longer work with Carly and wants out of the
company. Laura says she will find a way
to work with Carly and Sonny leaves.
Jason escorts Carly
home and waits for Sonny to return. He
asks Sonny to get Carly to back off Liz.
Sonny says he will do what he can.
After Jason leaves, Carly explains what went on with Liz was business
and that he should stay out of it.
Sonny seems a bit jealous that Carly cares so much what happens in
Jason’s personal life. She tells him
that Jason is their best friend and that she will always care about who he is
with and Elizabeth is just not good enough and will only break his heart and go
back to Lucky after she’s used him.
Carly comes home
with a package delivered to her via the doorman. Carly assumes it was from Sonny but it was not. As she opens it, he tears it away from her
afraid of what might be inside. Sonny
warns her never to open anything unless Johnny opens it. Carly reads the card and it is from a French
perfume house congratulating her on the rebirth of Deception. After she leaves, Sonny finds a card from
Sorel among the pop pourri reading, “BOOM! Zander Smith doesn’t testify.”
Sonny summons Jason
and they discuss Sorel’s threat. Sonny
tells Alexis to get Sorel’s trial date moved up. Alexis says that will be very difficult since she’s not official
involved in the prosecution. She is
Zander’s lawyer. He tells her it is in
everyone’s best interest if the trial was moved up. She’ll do what she can she says.
Sonny asks Jason’s opinion on Zander’s safety, snapping at him after
Jason says Zander could be a liability on the stand. Jason promises Sonny to handle Zander’s protect.
Carly goes to Jake’s
in search of Jason. She wants to know
what’s the matter with her husband.
Jason refuses to get involved between Carly and Sonny. Carly presses the issue and Jason yells at
her. She guess that he is angry about
Liz and tells him he needs to stay clear of her. She will use him and spit him up when she is done with him.
Sonny tests Zander
on his readiness to take the stand and he fails. He looses his temper and snaps at Sonny. Sonny says Zander has no respect in him that
he has no patience and that he does not know his place.
Sonny is upset when
Carly comes home late. Carly demands
the truth from him when it is obvious he thought the package was a bomb. Carly guesses that Sorel has sent Sonny
another message. He evades and tells
her everything is under control and she is not to worry. He tells her he will handle things. She is not satisfied with his (non)
explanation. He assures her her life is
not in danger. Carly asks him not to
shut her out – she can handle anything as long as he lets her in. He insists she is not in danger.
Jason comes over
upset that Liz saw him fighting with Lucky after Lucky pulls a knife on
him. Sonny is preoccupied with Sorel
and the threat to his family – he wants Jason concentrating on business. He needs his head clear. Sonny leaves on business. Jason is worried about Sonny’s seemingly
irrational behaviour. His worries are
not unfounded when Sonny makes an unofficial visit to Sorel in prison. When Sorel taunts Sonny about his recent
present to Carly, Sonny looses it attacking Sorel through the cell bars.
It is time to make some
new arrangements. Zander is kidnapped
from Alexis’ apartment. She is upset
and wants to call the police. Sonny
dissuades her, insisting the police will make matters worse. She acquiesces. It is latter revealed that Zander was kidnapped by Jason – on
Sonny’s order. Emily arrives and they
both assure her Zander will be ok.
At the hospital,
Carly asks Bobbie why she is no good at the marriage thing. She thinks she is an afterthought to her own
husband - no matter where she turns, Alexis always seems to show up in the
middle of her marriage. Alexis is the
one he goes to for advice and he never listens to Carly’s advice on
anything. Bobbie says Alexis is his
lawyer and that she needs to trust Sonny.
Carly asks Sonny out
to dinner and he declines saying he is taking care of business. She returns home to find him there with
Alexis. She is upset that that was the
business he was talking about. She says
the penthouse is her home and she is not going upstairs so if they have more
business to discuss they can take it elsewhere. Alexis leaves. Carly asks
him what happened and he refuses to tell her.
She is upset that Alexis gets to know his business but she doesn’t. They argue about his relationship with his
attorney and Sonny is mad that she thinks he would betray her a month after he
married her before a priest. She knows
that he is lying and if it is not about him and Alexis then it is about them –
he can’t keep them safe. She asks him
how long it will be before her and Michael jump into a car and it explodes. He
yells at her, telling her to “shut up” and then leaves.
Sonny goes to visit
Zander and Jason in the safe house. He
tells Zander he is staying in hiding until the trial and that’s his final
decision. Alone he speaks with Jason about his fight with Carly. Jason agrees Sonny is right to protect Carly
from the truth. Sonny knows Carly is
afraid that he can’t protect her and he knowing that she is afraid makes him
crazy. Carly and him fight but never
like they did tonight. He says he feels
like he is loosing his mind again and he is worried that he can’t keep her
safe. He asks Jason to tell him if he
sees something wrong with him. He needs
Jason to back him. Jason tells him he
is all right and he will look out for him and Carly.
Sonny surprises
Carly at the office with a boquet of flowers and an apology. They discuss they fight they had and promise
to do better in the future. Sonny says
when he gets mad he may have to walk away and Carly says that’s fine – as long
as he always comes back to her.
They make plans to
meet in the park later but first Carly has to take care of Deception
business. Her plans of making Gia the
new Face of Deception are quickly falling apart when her secret add campaign
falls into Laura’s lap and Gia decides to pull out at the last minute.
In the park, Sonny
is playing with Michael in the sandbox.
He tells him he would like to teach him everything he knows – but only
the good stuff. Alexis arrives and wants to discuss Zander and the case against
Sorel with Sonny. They move away from
the sandbox and while there backs are turned, Michael disappears. They search frantically for the little boy
but Sonny thinks it is too late, Sorel already has his son and it’s his
fault. On the other side of the park,
AJ has found the wondering Mikey and tells him he is his daddy. A confused Michael tells him he already has
a daddy and AJ seems crushed to hear this.
He returns Mikey to Sonny who accuses him of taking him. AJ tells him he turned his back on Michael and
the toddler walked away. He accuses him
of negligence with his son but Sonny still believes AJ took him.
At home, Sonny
promises Michael that he will never let anyone hurt him – ever. Michael is sent up to bed with Leticia and
Carly comes home and asks Sonny how his afternoon was with Michael. Sonny avoids her questions and it is not
until Carly goes to say goodnight to her son that she finds out he met a
strange man in the park today. Sonny
admits it was AJ and Carly goes off in him for allowing AJ to get near their
son. Sonny promises it won’t happen
again but she doesn’t believe him. He
can’t promise that AJ will never get near Michael just like he can’t promise he
can keep them safe. Later she
apologizes to him for going off on him and says she realizes he’s under a lot
of pressure and stress. He denies it
but she knows it true and promises to help him as best she can.
The day of Sorel’s
trial appears and Roy reveals he has tracked Zander down to Sonny’s safe
house. Roy condemns Sonny for his
treatment of Alexis and his allowing her to worry like she is. Sonny is angry that Roy won’t stay out of
his business and demands recompense for the favour Roy owes him for saving his
life. He will allow Roy to rescue
Zander for Alexis and make sure he gets to the trial on time. Roy agrees and Zander makes it to court just
in time to testify and put Sorel away.
The ruse however
does not fool Alexis and she interrupts a private moment between Sonny and his
wife as they are preparing to leave for the Deception party. She slaps Sonny and when Carly calls her on
her presumptuous behaviour Sonny stops her and tries to makes nice with his
attorney. Carly is dumfounded by his behaviour
and they fight horribly. Carly leaves
for and attends the Deception party alone.
Surprisingly, Laura announces Gia as the new Face of Deception and
admits that Carly’s instincts were right all along. Carly’s victory is bittersweet however because she did it all to
make Sonny proud of her and he is not there to share in it with her.
Carly leaves the
Deception party early and encounters Sonny outside the club in the rain. She tells him she gives up and that
obviously she is not the wife for him -
all she wants to do is love him but he won’t let her in. She runs away and Sonny chases after
her. He tells her he sorry and that he
wants her. The go back to the penthouse
where they make love after a nice hot bath.
Sonny surprises Carly with the other %1 percent of Deception which makes
her an equal partner with Laura and her independent of Sonny. She tells him she wants to give him
something too – not as payback but because she wants to give him something
special: a baby. Sonny seems pleased to hear this and they
start trying to make their family larger.
The next day, Carly
and Laura discuss the mistakes they have both made regarding Deception and
their power struggle over it. Luara
admits Carly was right about Gia and that her ad campaign really is fabulous. Carly tells her they are equal partners now
and they have to start acting like it. The both agree and come to a new level
of understanding with one another.
Sorel is found
guilty of Dead Ted’s killing. Sonny
arranges to have a word alone with him and tells him his big mistake was his
going after his wife and her son while Carly overhears. He wants Sorel to remember his mistakes at
the moment of his death and realize things could have turned out differently if
he had let things alone.
Sonny overhears
Carly telling Michael he may have a little baby brother or sister soon. He is unhappy to hear this and tells Carly
she shouldn’t make Mikye believe in something that may not happen. She asks him point blank if he wants to have
another child with her and he says no.
She is hurt and angry over this and they argue over whether or not they
should have any more children. She
thinks the problem is her and that Sonny doesn’t want her to be the mother of
his child. He denies it but she leaves,
upset with nothing resolved between the two of them.
Carly asks Jason if
he thinks she is a good mother.
Absolutely he tells her with no hesitation. She says that Sonny doesn’t and he refutes that
emphatically. She wants to know why
Sonny doesn’t want another child with her.
Jason explains that Sonny is probably scared after all he has been
through and suggests she give him time to adjust to the idea. Carly says when she got pregnant the last
time, Sonny didn’t have to think – he wanted the baby right away with no
reservations. She thinks if she got
pregnant again it would be the same way.
Jason warns her against getting pregnant without discussing it with
Sonny, it will only make him angry in the end.
She invites him to Sonny’s birthday party later that evening and Jason
says he will definitely attend.
Sonny tells Mike
that Carly wants another baby but that he doesn’t want to. Mike says he should stop punishing himself
and take the opportunity to be happy – this is what he as always wanted, a
family of his own. Mike tells him he
would make a wonderful father and leaves.
Carly’s little
birthday party turns into a disaster when it is discovered that her present to
Sonny contains a bomb. Johnny rushes
Carly and Michael out of the penthouse, leaving Sonny alone with the deadly
package. Jason arrives to the party
late and helps Sonny diffuse the bomb.
Sonny orders Jason to take care of the remaining me in Sorel’s
organization. Jason says he will need
to disappear after the job is done.
Sonny agrees and says it cannot be helped.
Carly and Michael
return to the penthouse and are relieved to find Sonny safe and sound. After Mikey is upstairs getting ready for
bed, Carly confronts Sonny about the real reason he does not want to have a
baby: the dangers of his life and his
fear that he can’t protect them. Sonny
doesn’t deny it and says that if they cannot decide together to have a child
then they shouldn’t have one. Carly
reluctantly agrees and heads up to kiss Michael goodnight. When she comes back down, she is in a sexy
black nightgown and she does her best to seduce her husband – his birthday is
not over and she still wants to celebrate.
Sonny see through her ploy and tells her she is not getting pregnant and
that’s his final decision. They argue some more, and Sonny angrily stalks out
leaving Carly looking after him. [This
is the last scene where we see Sarah Brown’s portrayal of Carly.]
Carly disappears
taking Michael with her. While she is
away, Sonny offers Zander a job in the warehouse that Alexis opposes. She wants more for Zander than a life in the
business. The point is moot as Zander
disappears for parts unknown when he is lead to believe Emily does not love him
anymore.
It has been several
days since Carly has been gone and she comes back. She tells Sonny she left Michael in Niagra Falls with Leticia and
that she needed the time to think. She
has a plan that will fix everything.
She wants Sonny to quit the business and to leave with her and Michael. He tells her he loves her but this is the
life he leads and he is not giving it up for anything – even her. She can stay or she can go, it’s up to her
but he is not giving up his power and position.
Unhappy with Sonny’s
answer, Carly devises a plan to save her family herself. She wants to turn Sonny into the Feds and
she wants Roy to help her do it. At
first Roy is reluctant but he quickly agrees after she tells him about the
latest bomb threat and that her and Michael could have been killed. He brokers a deal with Ford whereby Sonny
enters the witness protection program in exchange for rolling over on all his
connections. While Sonny is
interrogating the man responsible for the bomb in his home, the FBI bursts in
and he is arrested. At the PCPD, they
offer him the deal but he refuses it.
Carly begs him to take the deal but he won’t hear of it. He wants out so he can uncover the mole in
his operation. He knows he was set up
and is hell bent of finding the person responsible.
AJ threatens to go
after sole custody of Michael again after Sonny’s latest arrest. Sonny promises he will see AJ in the jail
cell next to his before he would ever let him lay a hand on Michael.
After Carly
unsuccessfully tries to lay the blame at other feet, Sonny realizes the guilty
party is none other than his loving wife.
Sonny agrees to take the deal so he can get out of jail, even though he
has no intention of actually following through with it. Back at home, he makes love to his wife and
in the aftermath confesses he knows she is the one that turned him in. Carly denies it but he knows better and
tells her to pack all her things she is leaving tonight. He as Leticia pack Michael’s things and has
Johnny escort them out of the penthouse.
Carly dresses in her wedding dress trying to remind him of all they mean
to each other. She finally admits she
set him up but explains she was trying to save him and their family. Sonny does not care what her intentions were
and sees only her betrayal. He has
Johnny drag her out of the penthouse (in her wedding dress) and place her in a
cab.
Alexis comes over
and guesses that Carly was the one to turn Sonny into the FBI. He tells her Carly is gone and she’s not
coming back. A desperate Carly finds
Roy at the hospital and tells him everything went wrong at that Sonny knows the
truth. He tries to help but she leaves
saying she knows what she has to do.
She goes back to the penthouse but can’t get in as Sonny has already had
the locks changed. Inside, Sonny
listens as she pounds on the door, begging to be let in and that he forgive
her. She tells him that she loves and
that she did everything for him. He
still won’t let her in and it is Alexis who comes out of her own apartment to
stop Carly. She tells her Sonny is
facing major prison time and if he does go to jail, she has no one to blame but
herself.
Roy arrives at the
penthouse and Johnny tells him Sonny has been expecting him. Roy enters demanding to know where Carly
is. She has disappeared and no one has
seen or heard from her. He calls Roy on
his part of the set up and accuses him of knowing which side he is on. Once a rat always a rat. He says Hannah was nothing to him but Carly
was his wife. Roy should have stayed
out of it. Roy tells him Carly was terrified
and she asked Sonny to protect her.
Instead he refused and picked the business over her and the life of her
child. Once again, Roy demands to know
where Carly is and Sonny tells him she no longer exists. He doesn’t know where Carly is and he
doesn’t care.
Roy leaves and Sonny
is left alone with only his scotch to soothe him. He takes a gun out of his des drawer and aims it at the mirror by
the door. Carly appears there and asks
for his forgiveness, knowing he wants to grant it but doesn’t know how. She begs him to allow her to come back home,
to let him give in to his heart and forgive her so they can be happy
again. Sonny shoots her image in the
mirror and it shatters.
The next morning,
Alexis comes by to check up on him.
Johnny is nowhere to be seen and he is keeping the door open – for the
circulation he says. She wants to know
where Carly is and he doesn’t answer.
She asks what happened to the mirror and he tells her he didn’t like
it. Mike comes by wanting to check up
on Sonny as well. Sonny tells him
things are different since the last time he saw him. Taggert and Ford arrive angrily accusing Sonny of witness
tampering. The man he had tied to the
chair and was about to execute will not testify against him. Without his testimony, the case against
Sonny has disintegrated. The officers
leave and Mike wants to know where Carly is so they can celebrate. Sonny asks, “who?” making Mike repeat
“Carly.” Sonny tells him he should
leave now without offering up any explanation.
In the hallway, Alexis explains to Mike that Carly was the one to turn
Sonny into the FBI. Mike is incredulous
and worried about Carly.
Sonny sits alone in
the apartment and is reminded of Carly when he finds one of the ruby earrings
he gave her on the couch. Bobbie
arrives in search of her daughter and Sonny informs her that Carly is gone. She turned him into the Feds and if she
wants to know more about it, she should ask Roy. He’s the one who fixed everything. He tells her Roy wanted revenge on him and he used Carly to do
it. Bobbie wants to know where her
daughter is and Sonny tells her as far as he is concerned, Carly is as good as
dead.
AJ arrives wanting
to see his son. Sonny informs him that
Michael is gone, along with his mother and that if he wants to see Michael, he
will need to deal with her.
Sonny gets a call
from Jason but they end it abruptly when they realize the phone has been
tapped. Sonny leaves to continue the
conversation elsewhere on his cell phone.
At the Deception
offices, Sonny tells Laura that Carly is gone, that their marriage is over and
offers her Carly’s shares of the company for $1. At first Laura is reluctant to take him up on his offer but she
agrees when he makes it clear he will sell them to someone else for the same
amount.