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Cruz is going on to describe the character of Channing in the way Channing has seen himself according to his own diary. His only and great wish has been always to please his father. He did not mind his three broken ribs for the sake of the proud look of his father. He was swimming on the top of his success and fame. But he had not much time to enjoy it as one of his guests was going to kill him this day. The reason for this has been that Channing had threatened a lot of people to expose them at the party and he invited them one by one and was telling to them what he knew about them and in which way he was going to expose them to the reporters and the whole audience. He knew very well about all the weaknesses of his victims.
CC stops him saying that he is stating that Channing has provoked his killer. Cruz says that this is not what he said but one could very well take it like this. From all this he did not know anything as he was too busy to arrange everything for the party. Channing was intelligent, good looking and talented and many felt drawn to him very much others loved him. But in truth he has been a total other person. The truth was that he was a vicious, embittered and lonesome young man who has seen in every friend a rival and in every opposition his foe. A person who had to win so desperately that he did not have the time to enjoy his victories. CC says that he was not like this otherwise he would have noticed this. Cruz tells him that he could not see it as he was playing for him the perfect son. CC says that he has loved him. Cruz says, yes as long as he has done what he wanted and was not failing. CC says that this is not true. Cruz replies that this might be as he says but it was the way Channing has seen it.
Brandon comes in with a medal. He has found it in the room of Channing. CC is shocked to see it in the hands of Brandon. He has told him not to go into this room. Brandon says that it was open. CC uses the situation to express his displeasure on what Cruz was telling about his son. He allows Brandon to keep it for a while and asks Cruz in a demanding voice to go on to come quickly to an end.
Brick drives with his car to Santa Barbara to see Dr. Renfro. In his mind he is having the missing baby in the morgue. He tells himself if Dr. Renfro is not able to tell him where the baby has gone he has been the last time a doctor.
Dr. Renfro is ready to leave his SB office. Everything is prepared for him when he gets informed that Wallace is at the door and wants to talk to him. He says he should tell him that he is having no time but the next moment Brick steps into his office and forces him to phone to the morgue. Dr. Renfro confirms to him that the baby is really missing and he will go at once to LA to see what has happened. Brick tells him that he will go with him. Renfro says he will meet him in two hours at the airport and meanwhile he has to go home and fetch some things. Brick agrees.
Renfro phones at once to Jack Lee to inform him. Lee says he should hold on his program to go to Boston and forget Wallace. He will take care for him. Jack Lee then turns to his men giving them the order to kill Wallace but in a way that it looks like an accident.
Cruz goes on in rolling up the fateful day. Channing was not satisfied with his success in sport he wanted to show his father what more he is able to do. And what more joy he could give to his father by blowing up his foes the Lockridges. He wanted to destroy them in such a way that they would have to leave Santa Barbara. Another person he wanted to hurt was Mason. The half-brothers were hating each other. Channing did not leave out any chance to put Mason into a bad light at his father and to hurt Mason. When he notices that Mason showed interest in Santana he started an affair with her only to take her away from Mason. He also found out a dark plan from Mason and his mother Pamela which would have brought much damage to him and his father. But he was not prepared about visitors from his past. There was Lindsay Smith an old love from him and Peter Flint. Both very unpleasant for him. Then his mother came and then there was a man from whom even CC did not know that he was his foe. A man who was obsessed from the thought to destroy CC's life. Marcello makes in his wheelchair a remark of his disapproval to Cruz's way in introducing him.
Cruz asks all to follow him now to the office where everybody is going to play again what he was doing on this day. He will play the role of Channing as Channing has written down everything into his diary. And nobody will have the chance to lie as Channing has written down all about his meetings.
Brandon is sitting on the chair in the office and plays already the boss and business man. He opens the drawer and finds the pistol. He finds it great and takes it in his hands. Rosa comes just in and asks him shocked to put down the pistol while getting more shocked on seeing that it is loaded. She asks him never to take it into his hand again and Brandon promises it to her.
One of Lee's men phones to Brick and tells him that Dr. Renfro wants to meet him at a certain hall as he is having it so urgent. He will go from there together with him to the airport. Brick agrees.
Augusta asks Warren whom he thinks to be the killer. Warren says he does not know it might be Dr. Armonti but he really can't say it. Lionel adds that in no case it has been one of the Lockridges. He starts to talk to Augusta but she is in no mood to listen to him.
Sophia goes aside with CC and tries to comfort him about the things he just had to hear about Channing. But on mentioning that Channing tried to protect her from Lionel CC is getting again at once distant to her by telling her that he does no more want to hear this name.
Ted tells to Eden and Kelly that he feels strange by thinking the murderer is among them. Eden finds that they always have been among them why should they feel strange. Ted asks Eden whom she suspects. She says that she thinks it is Marcello. Kelly says she also thinks so. He tried already to kill their father so why not Channing. Ted says that one thing he knows is that it is not Mason. He was living now with him together and knows that he is able to put persons under pressure but not able to kill.
Cruz is thinking that now since he has started it he has to go on with it. He can't step back. Eden finds Cruz and gives him some support by telling him how wonderful he was and kissing him. Cruz tells her but he only has started.
Marcello asks Sophia what is going on with her. She asks him if he has killed Channing. He wanted to flee and even to commit suicide. If he was it he should confront the truth as she can't bear this uncertainty any longer. Marcello holds in for a moment and says she is right he should do this. Sophia is shocked. She asks him why. He says that she knows that he was having a good reason to do so. She starts shouting that Channing also has been her son. How could he do such a thing to her? Cruz comes and asks them to come to the meeting as they want to start.
Cruz goes on in narrating Channing's life on this particular day. How he loved this office the place where daily so many millions were shifted to and fro and how he was treating this office as his father. So this was the place he liked and to which room he asked his victims to come. They came one by one. His first guest was Lionel Lockridge. Cruz asks Lionel to come forward and tell what has happened on this day. (Lionel's narration is shown in a way of a blurred movie to the viewer.) He sees himself together with Channing and how he tells him that he will charge him in the presence of all the reporters for the murder on his mother he has committed out of jealousy. He was reading in the diary of his mother and found out that he was together with her on the last day. He also took away the ring Sophia once has given to him with her initials. Cruz reads out the last sentence on Lionel in which he tells how much joy he was having in succeeding to intimidate Lionel. Lionel tells Cruz that he actually no more wanted to be reminded on this situation. Getting irritated he asks him why he is doing all this.
CC interrupts them displeased with Cruz that he was putting up the situation in such a way that Lionel appears as the victim of Channing. The only thing what makes him upset is that Channing never told him about.
Cruz tells CC that he did not want to hide it any longer. He wanted to tell it to the whole audience in the evening but he got no chance in doing so. There was somebody else who knew about the affair of Lionel and Sophia and this was Warren. He reads out from Channing's diary that Channing knew that he will have to get Warren into arrest. (A blurred film of Warren's version follows). Channing told him that he will tell to all the people that he has stolen a very valuable coin collection from this house when being their guest. He will hand him over to the police and will tell that Lionel has asked him to steal the coins and he also will get arrested. Warren told him that his father has nothing to do with this and why he wants to ruin his life.
Cruz says that with this the subject Lockridge has come to an end. Channing has written in his diary that he should have been thankful for Warren in having given to him the possibility of giving with the arrest a wonderful present to his father. Augusta is shocked on hearing this. Warren mentions that on this day Channing was full of hate. Cruz summarises the Lockridge matter. Both were having a motive and both got the chance to kill Channing as they have been at the party. They also got to hear from whom Channing got the ring for which he had only the chance to wear it for a few hours.
Brick is waiting at the appointed place getting nervous that Dr. Renfro has not come. The two men come from the backside and pull him to the ground. One is keeping him while the other one is forcing him to drink from a bottle full of practically pure alcohol.
Cruz continues telling that it seems that Channing was holding all the cards in his hands. But it turned out that also he had to hide something and that some people let their silence pay very much. $ 2.500 per week. CC asks Cruz if he wants to say that Channing was blackmailed? Cruz tells Lindsay to tell what he has to tell to it. Lindsay says that it was Peter Flint's idea and it was foolish to follow his advice. He did it not for the money but because he felt hurt. He was not invited but he came through the tunnel. Channing threatened him with the revolver that he is going to kill him. He will do it in the tunnel where nobody will hear anything and his corpse will get rotten and nobody will find him. Lindsay begged for his live and Channing let him run but asked him no more to show up his face again.
CC wanted to know from Lindsay the reason for blackmailing Channing but Mason quickly comes Cruz to help by telling him that he has noticed that he is calling his suspected persons alphabetically if he does not want to go on now with the M's like Mason or Marcello. Cruz says yes, he is right why not start with him now. He also was having such a meeting with Channing. If he has seen the ring. Mason says, yes he was wearing the ring from Lionel. He asked him about the ring but he only told him that it's nothing of concern to him. He pointed out all about his plans he was having with Pamela and that he is not a real Capwell. He only wanted to hurt him at this meeting. Cruz finds that he must have been very angry with him on this day. Mason continues in his straight and open way saying that he hated him. He never has hated a person so much as Channing on this day but he has not killed him. He says that they don't believe him. But he really has not killed him. The reason for not having killed him was because of his strong self control but the murder is having his full approval in what he has done. CC rushes against Mason while shouting that he never wants to hear such at thing again in his house otherwise he is going to kill him with he bare hands. Some people including Cruz jumps between them and Cruz tells Mason that it is enough now.
The two man start to carry the fully drunken Brick to his car. They talk to each others about what they are going to do now. They want to put him into the car and then he will drive and fall down the cliffs. The police will put into their statistic that he was driving dead himself because of being drunk.
Cruz asks Warren what was happening then on this day. Augusta tells Warren that they are not at the court he need not to make any declaration. Warren tells that he went at home and took along the pistol of his father. Cruz asks him for what he was taking with him along this pistol. Warren truthfully states for killing him. Lionel's mouth escapes a warning shout with the meaning Warren should not have told this but Warren turns around saying he should let him go on talking. He continues that he was standing before the door and released the safety catch of his pistol. He entered then the room. He could not see him at once but then he was shocked in finding him shot up lying on the floor. He still was living and when he bend down to him he could hear him saying. "Ferra Ma". He then started to run. How he came home he no more can remember. Cruz wants to know if he can remember if Channing still was wearing the ring. Warren says that he did not wear the ring as far as he remembers.
Cruz asks Lionel if he knows the meaning of "Ferra Ma". Lionel says that the word is known to him. Cruz says that he also came back. What he has done then. Lionel tells that when nobody was able to see him he took his chance and went up to Channing's room. He wanted to search for the proofs of his affair with Sophia and that Sophia was with him on his boat on her last day. Channing told him that all was written in the diaries of Sophia. So he wanted to destroy the proofs. CC gets upset on hearing that Lionel has been in the room of his beloved son. If he would have known this he would have thrown him out. Lionel says that it is funny that he is telling this because he and Philip were coming in and looking through the room while he was hiding himself behind the curtain. They went out and locked the door behind them so that he was locked up for several hours. CC irritated says that he will not get any alibi from him. He was searching several times through the room and he was not there he certainly was on the way to the office if he can proof that he was locked up. Lionel says he hopes so.
Cruz says that for the time being it is enough. He asks Lionel to go with him out for a while he would like to talk to him.
Sophia tells Marcello that she is getting mixed up thoughts in her mind she starts to remember something. She don't know if it happens to her or to somebody else. Marcello asks her what it is which she can remember. She says it is a strange feeling which she can't explain it has something to do with her family.
Cruz comes in and tells Sophia that she has been here in disguise as Dominic. He wants to put some questions to her. Marcello gets upset and shouts to Cruz why she should remember again on her worst moment in her life. She has come back only to tell Channing that she is still alive but he was already dead and this was what she never could overcome. Therefore her break down and the treatment later. Cruz coolly states that now she is healthy again.
He asks Sophia if she can describe to them what she was feeling on that day. Sophia falls in a kind of trance trying to remember what happened. She sees Lionel in the mirror saying it was Lionel, Lionel has killed him but then the face changed to Marcello and she starts shouting Marcello, Marcello. All of a sudden she can remember that she was sending a note to Lionel, no she sent to him the ring he was wearing the ring. Oh she can see now Marcello in the mirror. It was Marcello.
Marcello who is standing on her side and who is holding her shoulders quickly continues by telling that she is seeing true. It was he she is seeing in the mirror. It was he who has killed her son. He has hoped that she will keep it for herself her whole life.
A strong and relieved reaction was filling the room. Kelly says that can't be. Augusta states that from now on they will have to fear nobody. Mason says relieved to Lindsay that they are lucky. If he does not think this also. Mason takes a deep gulp from his glass. Eden says that she knew that she could count on her instincts. CC rushes towards Marcello and asks him why he has killed him. Marcello replies because he knew that Channing was meaning so much to him and he thought the best way to hurt him would be in killing his beloved son. Eden tells him that he was jealous. Marcello says yes, he was jealous. His parents have been killed but Channing was having at least a father. Yes, it is true he is Channing's murderer and turning to Cruz he says that he is right he has looked through him. After he shot dead Channing he was hiding himself close to the office room and then he saw how Dominic was entering the room with another young man. He tried to hinder her to go in but when he reached the place he knew that she has seen more than she ever would be able to bear. He knew that she was in need of quick help and therefore he brought her to a Sanatorium to get a good treatment.
Sophia stands on Marcello's side not listening to him but filled up with old memories and biting into her black gloves while sobbing.
Mason congratulates Cruz telling him that he would not have made it better than he. Augusta asks Cruz if he is going to arrest Dr. Armonti now at once. Lionel was sitting in prison for weeks and he was innocent.
Lionel is going up and down outside thinking over the note and the ring. Sophia has hidden the bloody note into Warren's dinner jacket but from where did she have this note? She also was hiding the ring in their house. But from where did she have it? Who was taking it from Channing's finger?
Cruz turns to Augusta calming her down by saying that Marcello will get arrested she has not to worry about. But now he wants all to sit down and remain very silent. Marcello rushes to Cruz begging him to stop as he knows about Sophia's condition by treating her for 16 years already. Cruz asks him to go aside he will do nothing to her. Eden wonders what Cruz still wants from Sophia. Cruz asks Sophia again what she feels.
Sophia is getting more and more driven away by the old memories. She is getting absorbed by the past no more being in the present. She sees herself coming out of the tunnel as Dominic and rushing to the big desk. She starts to replay the whole situation unconscious about what she is doing.
Lionel was going on in his research. When Warren came and saw Channing by then Channing still was alive but the ring has gone. Somebody must have taken it. And Warren heard that Channing said "Ferra Ma". And there is only one person who knew beside him the word Ferra Ma.
Sophia takes a paper and writes down. "Come at once to the office". She sees herself as Dominic going out and giving this note to a maid asking to pass it on to Lionel. She all of a sudden is getting aware of what she has noted down. She can't believe it. The same words and shouts "Oh, god what have I done".
Augusta asks Warren what there is going on. Warren tells her that he also does not know. Augusta asks Cruz what he is doing and CC also wants to know what is going on. Cruz only asks them with a demanding and low voice they should please remain quiet.
Sophia goes on in her way to remember the happenings. She figures out that the note she was sending to Lionel was reaching Channing. How could this happen. She told to the maid that she should give it Lionel because she wanted to frighten first Lionel before she wanted to tell her son that she is still alive. Lionel wanted to kill her. He should no more get this chance. She wanted and could no more bear this terror from Lionel. She has lost her consciousness because of him because he wanted to kill her. She starts crying on thinking of the terror she has gone through because of Lionel. Therefore she was sending this note. She was sitting down in the chair and started to wait for him. She takes the pistol out of the drawer and holds it in her hand.
Cruz asks Lionel to come in. Lionel goes before the desk and says "Sophia". Sophia presses the button on the revolver. Bang! Lionel breaks down to the floor.