Kelly is angry with Joe for walking out on her father. Joe defends himself by stating that C.C.'s offer to give them the wedding feels like charity and that C.C. wants to control him. Kelly turns to Cruz for a talk and he makes her realize that although Joe is proud, he's also a wonderful guy.

Cruz and Eden have fun when he chops the desk, but Amanda Lockridge's diary is nowhere to be found. They're looking at pictures of the captain's logbook when Kelly stops by to talk to Cruz about Joe, and Eden is amused when Cruz mentions not having a woman who appreciates him like that. Later, when Gina comes home with groceries to surprise C.C. with dinner, Eden says he went out with Liz Peale. Refusing to be discouraged, Gina assures Eden that she always manages to make things work out somehow.

Warren is being questioned by Mason about the coins and learns about Summer's return to town. When Mason gets a call about Lionel departing hastily from a moving train in a hail of gunfire, Warren is worried and warns Mason that his father is innocent. Later, Mason celebrates the news about Lionel with Veronica. He senses her discomfort, but she blames it on the murder at La Mesa.

Peter gets told by his doctor that he has an aneurism. Realizing that he only has a short time to live, a distraught Peter blames Kelly for everything and tells himself that he needs her. He pays a visit to Mason at the Presidential Suite and asks him for money to leave Santa Barbara. Mason turns him down. Furious, Peter watches Mason from behind the two-way mirror and overhears him warning Veronica that Peter is a weak and evil man. His obsession gets the better of him when Mason calls Kelly to set up a meeting. When Kelly arrives, a worried Mason tells her to stop working at La Mesa until the killer is found. She refuses.

At the State Street Bar, Summer tells Gina how sorry she feels for the girl in the pictures. Gina encourages Summer to talk to Warren, but the conversation turns to Gina's interest in C.C. and Summer hoping that Gina gets what she wants. When Warren finds Summer, he tells her he's sorry about what happened to her (i.e. the rape). She tells him that she's in therapy, which is the most important thing to her right now, but he assures her that she doesn't have to protect him from Mason and that he's going to wait for her since she thinks it's too soon for them to be together. Later, he brings her to the Presidential Suite for her meeting with Mason. When Mason gets a call that Lionel was picked up, both he and Warren rush off to the police station. But they just find Charlie Stubs, the bum who stole Lionel's identification and jacket. Warren attacks the bum thinking he killed Lionel, but the bum reveals that he found Lionel by the railroad tracks last night.

Meanwhile, Kelly and Summer head for the State Street Bar as Peter watches from behind the two-way mirror. He follows them, hiding his face behind a newspaper, and watches the two women from a nearby table. Summer gets into an argument with Kelly by asking her not to incriminate Warren. After Kelly takes off, Peter is too late to stop her and starts to hallucinate that Summer is Kelly! He approaches her on the pretext that Warren has been in an accident and offers to drive her to the hospital. Summer agrees and they have just left when Warren shows up at the bar looking for her. Once inside the car, Peter shows Summer a white carnation...