- Sonny Lee has a tie to Nick's family; Dean and Sam find common ground; Rita (Jocelyn Seagrave) tells Edward who was behind the photos while Reese gets a nasty piece of mail, and Peyton's latest scam backfires.
- Sonny Lee declares her tie to Nick's family - which Tom and Peyton instantly try to sever; while Lane and Cassie set out to unite their feuding beaus. Rita tells Edward the "truth" about who was behind the photos. Meanwhile, Reese gets a nasty piece of mail; Peyton's latest scam backfires, and the Burton marriage crumbles again.—NatZee
- Nick is still enthralled with Sonny Lee (the woman whose husband Nick killed in self-defense), but after exchanging pleasantries, she drops the bomb that she is about to marry his father, Nick realizes that while he was sent away to the navy, she was more than taken care of by his father. And Nick is perturbed to find out Daddy is here as well. The letter with the incriminating Polaroid snapshot that would expose Peyton's role in arranging the sham marriage, still lies waiting for Reese (Shannon Sturges) but keeps missing its intended target as the roommates go about their daily business, Lane returning a sweater that lands on top of it, and Peyton (foxy redhead Jamie Luner) picking it up and causing the potentially harmful item to drop to the floor as she casually strolls out and finds cute couple Reese and Tom, with whom she flirts behind Reese's turned back by opening her zebra-stripe patterned gown. Old Edward has a hard time keeping the press at bay. He is insistent that the photograph is a clever forgery (which it of course is, but since a picture doesn't lie....) And he is adamant that he is not going to resign. He brings in a private detective to locate Rita Winsler. Aboard the riverboat, the foursome meeting for a dinner date is Nick with his girlfriend Peyton and former flame Sonny Lee and his Dad, Martin, but Martin is a difficult old guy who makes a fuss about his steak not being cooked rare and he is very abrupt in his manner. Sonny Lee requests of Peyton to show her to the ladies' room. She does not hide that she thinks lowly of Peyton., suggesting that perhaps Nick didn't want it known that he is from a wealthy family because he didn't want to attract common lowlife gold-diggers. Peyton thinks no less better of Sonny Lee and the daggers are drawn. Martin is quite smitten with Peyton and thinks she is the drawing card that lured Nick to rustic Savannah, but Nick, fed up with his overbearing Dad, reveals that it wasn't about who he wanted to be with, but about who he longed to be away from. Cassie is thrilled about an upcoming double date this Friday (she, Lane, and their boyfriends) and finds the mislaid letter and puts it up against the refrigerator with one of those fridge magnets. Peyton finds Nick in a gloomy mood, "I can't believe Sonny Lee is about to marry my father, and she virtuously points out the importance of family, stating that she wished her own father at least cared about her, but it is all in the name of self-interest, target Nick must feature prominently in the will. She devises a plan and Tom must pull his part of the load. Tom sets up Sonny Lee with the key to his room which she could use for an encounter with Nick, and Peyton points out the conversing couple to a jealous Martin. Lane gleefully confronts Eleanor re her successfully reestablished journalism career. "Hark the herald's angels sing" she smirks, but then her old nose is rubbed in the headline 'Southern Senator In Sordid Sex Scandal' and she storms away before a victorious Lane. Edward pays Rita $20,000 to tell him who framed him and she fingers Eleanor. Tom rifles through Reese's stuff and finds a bank statement. Having designs on obtaining a joint account, he phones the bank, and arranges to retrieve a signature card. Peyton answers the phone, it's Joel Littman, Reese's insurance advisor. She writes down his number on the nearest convenient piece of paper, the back of the envelope up against the refrigerator door, and hands it to Reese. Edward confronts Eleanor, who is buying up all the shameful copies in town to hide them from the world (shredding them a la Fawn Hall), but he thinks she is behind it, and he wants a divorce. Peyton and Tom synchronize watches to arrange it so that Martin would walk in on Tom and Sonny Lee together, and the two of them get all steamed up as usual and have to go upstairs to do something about that, but not before Tom puts the envelope on the counter. Tom is too busy to sit in on Reese's appointment, but Tom squeezes it in when he learns that Littman is also Reese's investment advisor. Reese does lift a little eyebrow when Tom suddenly makes time for this. Rita leaves town, says goodbye to Veronica, much loot was had, she will buy video equipment and set up a similar sting operation in Washington. Nick learns from the bartender that Sonny Lee is in Tom's room. Sonny Lee tells Nick that she realized this past five years that despite how well Martin took care of her, she longs for Nick. Martin, strolling outside with Peyton (clad in a shiny patent leather coat), is much taken with her 'family values', but inside the riverboat, he learns about Sonny Lee's whereabouts, and while Peyton (now minus the coat, in a short, creamy dress) pretends to be holding him back, he barges down the door. He lashes out at Nick, and Nick, in turn, hits him hard. The upshot being that Martin tells Peyton he sure as hell hopes it is true love between her and his son, for Nick is cut out of the will now and forever. Peyton stands there stunned. An upset Edward gets Veronica out of her apartment, ostensibly to fetch him chicken soup, but he has figured out it was her who betrayed him, and in her absence, easily locates the hidden camera. Reese discovers that Joel has left his reading glasses behind, and now she phones him, and again has the envelope in her hands, which she finally opens, bemused by the letter, until she spots the girl on the photograph posing as her. "Peyton!"
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