Coming up on
Sunset Beach this March 2011:
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Episode 704
Tim sees Derek and Tess kissing in the grotto and learns of their plan. At EOD, Tim's watch alarm goes off and Derek comes looking for him.
Meanwhile at Ben's house, Meg confronts Maria with Ben's flippant behaviour since his return from Seattle. Maria thinks Meg is still in love with Ben, but Meg claims she's here because she thinks Ben needs help. Maria orders Meg to get out.
Annie is determined to get a lock of Olivia's hair for Mrs. Moreau's potion. She enlists Amy's help, threatening to tell Sean everything if Amy reneges.
Annie overhears Olivia complaining to Tobias that she's unable to sleep. Annie offers to bring in a masseur she's seen in an infomercial whose techniques are guaranteed to put the client into a state of deep sleep.
Unsuspecting Tobias agrees to present the idea to Olivia as his own. When the masseur arrives Olivia orders him out.
At the Shock Wave, Sean encounters Emily and learns her date with Brad fell apart. Sean assumes Brad is to blame and jumps on him when he arrives at the restaurant.
Emily breaks up the quarrel and absolves Brad of any wrong-doing.
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Episode 705Tim's watch alarm goes off and Derek catches him. Tim tries to get away but Derek pummels him, knocking him out. He says Tim is going to die.
Later, in pain, Tim still tries to weasel out of the situation offering to help Derek/Tess. Derek demands to know if Tim is working with anyone. Tim denies it and Derek begins to strangle him.
Tim manages to grab a rock and pummels Derek in the neck. Tim escapes into the fog.
At the same time, Meg and Maria have it out and Meg manages to paint a doubtful picture re: Ben's conflict. Meg tells Maria that Ben kissed her. Maria says she will make Meg pay if she learns that Meg is lying.
Olivia sees the good looking masseur and agrees to the massage. Later, Tobias is curious why Annie's doing this for Olivia and Annie covers.
Bruno's massage has worked and Annie tiptoes into Olivia's room to cut a locket of hair from the sleeping Olivia for Mrs. Moreau.
Unbeknownst to Annie, Tobias is watching. Michael begs Casey to help with his proposal to Vanessa. But Casey's hands are tied because he's going on his second "first" date with Sara.
Sara happily tells Michael that she and Casey will help him.
Thursday 3 March 2011
Episode 706
Tim makes a narrow escape from Derek, only to run into him again as Derek impersonates a police officer. Tim's sunk.
Annie manages to get a snip of Olivia's hair but Olivia wakes at that moment and Annie's nearly caught. Caitlin and Olivia start to argue, and Annie escapes.
Unfortunately for her, Mrs. Moreau refuses to make the potion just now, because the stars are not in alignment.
Caitlin's given the bad news by Jude: Cole just can't be found. Caitlin knows Olivia has to be behind it all.
Michael's special "ballroom under the stars" is nearly busted by the arrival of Sunset Beach's Finest, but Casey buys Michael some time. Then, one by one, others in Sunset Beach arrive at the park, drawn in by the magical romance of it all.
Annie dances with Jude. Meg imagines herself back with Ben. And at the end of it all, a butler brings a jeweler's box out to Michael on a velvet pillow.
In front of everyone, Michael gets down on one knee and asks Vanessa: will she marry him?
Monday 7 March 2011
Episode 707
Derek and Tess take Tim to the power plant. Derek gives Tess the gun and leaves so that he can temporarily appease Maria.
Alone with Tess, Tim dives over a railing and into the water vat below. Tess thinks he's dead.
Meanwhile, Derek covers with Maria by giving her Tess' jeweled watch. Carmen calls and Maria has to go home to Benjy.
Derek returns to the power plant and finds Tess standing by Tim's body, floating in the water tank.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Episode 708Derek is about to shoot Tim just as Tim bursts out of the water and pulls Derek into the vat, holding his head under water.
Tim escapes into the main power plant. Tess tells Derek that Tim will go to Meg's to warn her.
Meanwhile, Meg has returned home to Surf Central, followed by Sara and Casey, who are concerned for her and want her to spend the evening with them.
A blackout strikes Surf Central and other parts of Sunset Beach and the house is plunged into darkness.
Casey and Sara leave to pick up take-out; Meg's alone and is thinking of Ben when Tim arrives.
Tim manages to get inside, and is heading for the kitchen when, all of a sudden, Derek appears behind him in the darkness, using a metal cable as a garrote.
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Episode 709
Their hands full with a large and hungry crowd at the Shock Wave, Hank and Joan wonder why Tim never showed up for work.
Carmen consults her Tarot cards for answers to Maria's concerns about "Ben". Ricardo ducks into hiding when his brother and Gabi enter the rectory.
Derek chokes the life out of Tim as Meg finally hears the sounds of the scuffle out in her living room. Narrowly escaping from Surf Central, Derek hastily fills Tess in on the night's events.
A dejected Sean explains to Amy why he's sure he isn't good enough for any girl, let alone her or Emily. Declaring her love, Amy vows to wait for Sean until he's ready to return her feelings.
Maria comes to the rectory to ask her brother for advice. Tess tries to lure the Cummings sisters out of the house by claiming that their swamped parents need help at the Shock Wave.
Antonio encourages Maria to ask her husband about Meg's accusations. Derek returns to Surf Central to retrieve the body he hid in the aptly named dead man's chest.
Ricardo manages to jump back into bed just before his wife and Antonio return to the loft.
Thursday 10 March 2011
Episode 710
Derek is forced to stuff Tim back into the chest when Meg returns to the living room. Irked to see "Ben" in Surf Central, Meg orders him to leave.
Ricardo asks Gabi if dancing with his brother reminded her of the intimate times she shared with Antonio.
Caitlin again gives her mother the cold shoulder when Olivia repeats her assertion that she had nothing to do with Cole's disappearance.
Derek claims he chased off an intruder, then manages to convince Meg to vacate the premises.
At the Shock Wave, Sara reminds Joan they can never depend on Tim to show up when he's needed. Annie returns to Mrs. Moreau's place and presses the witch woman to brew up the potion she requires.
Using the lock of Olivia's hair, Mrs. Moreau concocts an elixir designed to make Annie's victim fall off the wagon for good. Tess timidly agrees to help Derek move Tim's body.
After hearing Meg's tale, Hank and Casey decide to have a chat with "Ben". Mrs. Moreau warns Annie that her scheme could backfire if she doesn't handle the potion with care.
Monday 14 March 2011
Episode 711Jude's interruption prevents Annie from spiking Olivia's glass of water. Tobias again plays confidante for Caitlin as she continues to castigate her mother for Cole's recurring troubles.
Derek assures an unnerved Tess that Tim's apparent "movement" was due simply to the onset of rigor mortis.
At Surf Central, Casey explains to Maria how "Ben" reported a break-in to the police. When Maria demands to know why her husband was on the premises in the first place, Hank reluctantly reveals how "Ben" declared his love for Meg.
Bette kicks herself for mooning over A.J. when it's painfully obvious he only has eyes for Olivia.
While Tess distracts the foreman of the construction crew, Derek dumps Tim's body into the wet cement being poured at the base of the new monument.
Annie is touched by a kind gesture from Jude. A. J. returns with news about his son. Maria comes upon "Ben" embracing Tess.
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Episode 712When Maria catches Derek and Tess in an embrace, Derek says that Tess had been attacked on the beach, but Maria doesn't believe him. She asks Derek why he went to Surf Central. Derek decides to kill Meg.
Meanwhile, Meg decides to figure out what's going on with Derek. Casey tells Meg that he and Sara are back together.
When AJ tells Caitlin his theory about how Cole disappeared, she wonders if AJ's giving up. When Olivia tries make amends to Caitlin, she forgives her.
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Episode 713While exercising Ricardo's legs, Michael is surprised to see how much stronger his patient's calf muscles have become.
Gabi and Antonio are flustered when a new officer at the precinct house assumes they are a couple. A suspicious Maria continues to give "Ben" the cold shoulder.
Meanwhile, Tess grows increasingly jumpy as she hears Tim's voice whispering accusations at her from every corner of the room.
Ricardo convinces Michael he's not even close to walking again. Later, Ricardo tells his physical therapist how Gabi insisted on taking out a million dollar insurance policy on his life.
After her scream brings Maria, Derek and Benjy on the run, Tess claims she just had a bad dream.
Later, out of Maria's earshot, Derek orders a trembling Tess to pull herself together or else.
Ricardo has a hairstylist give him a cut which closely resembles Antonio's. Afterwards, Ricardo dons the clerical clothes and collar he stole from the rectory. Maria confronts "Ben" with the accusations hurled by Meg.
Thursday 17 March 2011
Episode 714
Derek tells Maria that Meg is in love with him.
Tess still hears Tim's voice. Derek tells her to go to the Shock Wave and ask for Tim. While she's arguing with Sara, Tim walks in.
Ricardo is nearly caught by Antonio wearing the priest outfit he stole, but gets away with it by hiding under the covers.
Sara tells Emily she is glad to have her on staff. Emily says she really doesn't know how to use the software on the computer that is part of her job. Sara says that it's ok - that she will help her.
Meg shows up and asks Emily if she can talk to her sister for a few minutes. Emily says sure. Meg asks if Sara can hold the down the store for her.
Monday 21 March 2011
Episode 715
Gabi tells a worried Carmen that she'll do everything she can to make sure that Antonio and Ricardo remain as close as they always were in childhood.
Tess stares in horror as Tim suddenly materializes in the Shock Wave and orders her to confess her crime. Watching Tess writhe and moan, a startled Sara and Casey wonder what on earth could have possessed the nanny.
Sean bumps into Emily at the shop while looking for a birthday gift for his mother.
Ricardo manages to prevent his brother from viewing the video. Meg informs a puzzled "Ben" that his recent declaration of love secretly thrilled her.
Sean entreats Emily to believe that he still loves her and always will.
Dressed as a priest, Ricardo heads to the airport and stashes the video in a locker, then makes sure that a custodian sees "Father Antonio" with the gym bag.
Carmen explains to a shaken Gabi how her Tarot cards reveal deep sorrow - even death - just ahead.
Tess returns to the construction site and again meets up with a jeering Tim.
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Episode 716As Emily begins to warm up to a delighted Sean, Brad interrupts and an argument erupts between the two young men.
Jude blasts Annie over the phone after she fails to report for work on her first scheduled day at the Liberty Corporation. Olivia again blunders in when A.J. tries to mend fences with Bette.
Casey and Sara spot a familiar looking priest at the airport and call out to "Antonio". Anxious to avoid being recognized, Ricardo ducks out of sight but is soon accosted by a troubled stranger who begs the "priest" to hear his confession.
Meanwhile, Antonio demands to know why Gabi was preparing to confide in his mother when she wouldn't open up to him.
Pressed by Amy for help gaining all of Sean's love, Mrs. Moreau warns the rattled girl she'll never win a decent man's heart because she's not a pure and gentle soul like Emily.
Gabi informs Antonio that her marital problems are none of his business.
Annie spikes Olivia's water carafe during a board meeting at the Liberty Corporation.
Brad warns Amy that Sean and Emily are on the verge of a reconciliation.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Episode 717After Olivia drinks the spiked water, Annie waits hopefully for a sign that the witch woman's potion is beginning to take its toll.
Caitlin admits to Jude how terrified she is that she will never see Cole again.
Brad and Amy put their heads together again in an effort to figure out a way to keep Sean and Emily from reconciling.
Outraged when Olivia displays no interest in a nearby bottle of champagne, Annie marches back to Mrs. Moreau's place to demand a refund.
Sean asks a fuming Bette to step outside for a private chat. Spotting a golden opportunity to make her move, Amy slips into the shop for an eye-opening chat with Emily.
A.J. is annoyed to watch Olivia getting kittenish with Tobias as he prepares to pick an executrix for Gregory's estate.
Sean convinces Bette that he does genuinely love her daughter. Mrs. Moreau informs Annie that the potion requires at least an hour to kick in.
Sean returns to the shop but is baffled when Emily icily orders him to go away and never come back.
Thursday 24 March 2011
Episode 718
Mrs. Moreau gives Annie a potent demonstration of her potion's power. Meanwhile, a panicking Olivia fights off her growing desire to take a long slug from the bottle of champagne.
Bette explains to an exasperated Jude why it would be foolish to expect an honest day's work from her notoriously slothful niece.
"Ben" reminds Maria about the second honeymoon which had to be postponed.
Later, Antonio reluctantly lets his sister know how he found Meg and "Ben" in close conversation earlier that day.
Olivia heads for home but finds the liquor cabinet there even harder to resist than the champagne bottle she left behind at the media center.
Sensing victory just ahead, Annie pours herself a glass of vodka and sips it slowly in front of a salivating Olivia. Bette shakily assures A.J. she knows they can only be friends.
"Ben" pays another call on Meg, while Sara is surprised to hear some news from Antonio.
Monday 28 March 2011
Episode 719Joan tells Sara and Casey that she is worried about Tim. She and Hank say that they went to Tim's room. The manager of the motel let them into his room, and he wasn't there, but all of his things were.
Sara says that she blames Tess for Tim's disappearance because saw Tess and Tim together plotting something, and perhaps their relationship's gone bad and Tess has done something to him.
Hank, Casey and Joan agree that Sara's suspicions seem reasonable.
Maria arrives, asking them to get Meg to leave "Ben" alone. The Cummingses suggest that Maria should talk to "Ben" about it.
Casey takes Maria aside to ask if she can trust what "Ben" said to her and if she thinks that "Ben" has been acting strangely lately.
She accuses him of siding with the Cummingses against her, not allowing him to defend himself.
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Episode 720When Benjy leaves her after saving her from Tim, Tess realizes that she can't let anyone separate her from him.
Later, Tess tells Derek that she's been seeing Tim's ghost and that Benjy saved her from it, because she concentrated on her love for their son.
She tells Derek that she can't wait until they kill Maria so that she can tell her that Benjy isn't Maria's son.
When Derek asks why she's so eager to kill Maria when she is so sorry that Tim died, Tess explains that Maria has something that belongs to Tess.
He tells her that Maria agreed to go away with him, and that Meg won't be a problem either.
Carmen tells Maria that she has to open the box, but she's unable to tell her daughter what box she means.
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Episode 721
In her dreams, Gregory appears to Olivia, telling her that as much as she might want to give up drinking, she can't, so she might just as well give in.
She fights the urge again, telling herself that she has to fight for Trey's sake, especially since Tobias has hinted that he is going to make her the executrix of the estate.
When Gregory tells her that her drinking ended their love, she says that the end of their love caused her to start drinking. However, she then sees all of her other past loves, each telling her that her drinking ruined their relationships.
When she awakes, she still hears them taunting her in her head.
Annie and Jude make love in his office, but her memories of what she's done to Olivia stop her from going home with Jude when he asks her to.
He accuses her of sleeping with him to make him forget the money she owes the Liberty Corporation.
Thursday 31 March 2011
Episode 722When someone knocks on his door, Jude hopes that Annie has decided to come to him after all, but it's Caitlin, who has come to thank him for all he's done for her.
She also asks him to come to Olivia's birthday party. Jude is surprised by the invitation, because he is now a family friend, as well as because he helps keep her relationship with Olivia a civil one.
Jude agrees to attend the party. She also compliments him on his business acumen.
After she leaves, Jude goes back to thinking of Annie. When Annie returns to the Richards house, she sees that a vodka bottle is missing from the bar.
Olivia has taken the bottle upstairs with her, but pours it out rather than drinking it. When she returns downstairs, Annie asks if she's seen the bottle, and a completely sober Olivia tells her that it broke.
The pair then argue once again about Gregory's estate.
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