Stephanie tells Brooke to do right by Bridget.

At Brooke's house, Stephanie holds the antique gun as a disbelieving Brooke tells her to put the gun down. She reminds Stephanie that Nick is with Bridget now and wants a life with her. He wants the baby, Stephanie says, but Bridget would sooner end that pregnancy than lose another man to her mother. Brooke can't believe Bridget would do it, but Stephanie is sure she'd at least consider it. The gun has no serial number, Stephanie points out, so it's untraceable. She thinks this is Brooke's chance to make things right with Bridget, to trade a life for a life. Brooke can't believe that Stephanie wants to kill her. Actually, Stephanie says, the plan is for Brooke to kill herself! It may be extreme, but times like this call for thinking outside the box. She even brought two bullets in case Brooke misses the first time. As Stephanie loads the gun, Brooke tells her to get it out of there.

Stephanie reminds Brooke that she said she'd do anything for Bridget. And what's so valuable about her life anyway? she asks Brooke. Brooke says it's valuable to her; she can't believe Stephanie, as a mother, would ask her to do this. It's the only way to make Nick give up on her, Stephanie states. In fact, she thinks this would have been the decent thing for Brooke to do after Deacon. It will be quick and painless. But Bridget would blame herself once she finds out, Brooke argues. For a while, Stephanie concedes, but she's sure she, Nick and the baby would get Bridget to forgive herself in time. And besides, this is Brooke's chance to go out while she's still the object of every man's desire. She hands Brooke the gun. Brooke looks at it and wonders if maybe everyone would be better off. But what if there's really a hell? she asks. God will understand, Stephanie says. Brooke wonders if she should shoot herself in the head or the heart. Try the head, Stephanie suggests: it's easy to find. Brooke raises the gun...

Brooke points the gun at Stephanie.

...and points it at Stephanie! She threatens to call the police to get a criminally insane woman out of her house! Stephanie comments that Brooke's as selfish as ever and can't even make a sacrifice for her own daughter. In that case, Stephanie is willing to make it for her; she holds out her arms and tells Brooke to shoot her! Then, the police will lock Brooke away for life, and Bridget will still be safe with Nick. Brooke calls Stephanie insane. Stephanie tells her to be a mother and do it: she knows Brooke's wanted to do it for years. She moves toward Brooke, who stands there, hands shaking, and tells her to stay away. Every breath Brooke takes is a waste of oxygen, Stephanie taunts. She doesn't want to be in the same world as Brooke anymore, so she orders Brooke to pull that trigger. The women circle each other. Stephanie throws her arms out and closes her eyes. Brooke aims and pulls the trigger... and misses! "Oh my God! I'm as crazy as you!" a shaken Brooke cries out.

"You can't even shoot straight," a disappointed Stephanie laments. Brooke says she was tempted. Right now, though, she's more concerned about explaining the bullet hole in her door. Stephanie says that no one who knows Brooke will even notice. Brooke says that Stephanie really is crazy, with her fake heart attacks and suicide boxes; she's sure someone will put Stephanie away some day. But until then, Stephanie asks, what will they do about Bridget? The only thing Stephanie will do, Brooke says, is go home, take a pill and sleep this off. Stephanie refuses to do nothing, but Brooke is sure Nick and Bridget will find their way back to each other. If she's wrong, Stephanie retorts, a baby's blood will be on her hands. Brooke warns Stephanie to stay away, or she'll use this gun next time. Stephanie doesn't think Brooke has the guts, but she tells her to keep the gun anyway: she might need that other bullet someday, she tells Brooke as she leaves.

Dante gets a call from a friend.

On the beach, Dante continues to watch Bridget and Nick from his jeep, wondering when Bridget will tell Nick and get out of there. His cell phone rings; it's Taylor. She's looking for Bridget and hopes Dante has seem her. Dante asks why. Something happened, Taylor says, and it's not good. Dante tells her that he stayed with Bridget all night. Taylor guesses that Bridget told him about the pregnancy and is glad Bridget had someone she trusts to turn to. She was afraid that Bridget might make a rash decision and end the pregnancy. It's too late. Dante says. Taylor asks what he means and wonders if Bridget made an an appointment with a clinic. It's just too late, Dante says.

Taylor worries that Bridget has done something rash.

Taylor asks Dante how he could let Bridget make such a decision after just one sleepless night. It wasn't his decision, Dante tells her. Taylor hopes this isn't Bridget's way of getting back at Nick. Dante tells her that Bridget is committed to this, so there's no turning back now.

Nick can't believe what Bridget has done.

Bridget is on a cliff by the beach when Nick finds her. He stares at her; she tells him to stop, but he can't unless she tells him that she didn't... She says that they have no future, but he won't believe that. She tells him that she can't put her child through what she went through. She knows he tried to love her, and it's not his fault that he couldn't. Nick says that he DOES love her, but she reminds him that he admitted last night that he still loves her mother. So why would she want to have his child? Nick turns his back on Bridget and asks where she was when he called earlier. She says she was at the doctor's. To have an abortion? he asks. She tells him to go be with her mother; he can have a child with her. Nick asks if she aborted the child before or after his call. Bridget asks what difference it makes. He says that he wants to know when his child died! She tells him not to make this harder; she didn't do this to hurt him. He wants to know everything: was it a boy or a girl? She says she doesn't have to tell him anything. He replies that he has to account for every minute of his day because of her paranoia, but not only does she not tell him that she's pregnant, she aborts a child and takes that child's - HIS child's life. How can she have nothing to say? Now he knows what it's like to love someone you can't have, she tells him.

Nick can't believe that she killed their child to teach him a lesson. Bridget cries and says that he didn't want her. He says that's not true and demands to know why she did this. She tells him that she had a choice and made it, because she didn't know how to raise the child of a man who's in love with her mother. Nick insists that Brooke has nothing to do with this, but Bridget says that her mother has everything to do with this! She tells him to go be a father to her mother's children, who he loves, and to give them and her mother his name. After all, that's what he and her mom both want. Bridget then sits on the edge of a cliff, thinking: as a song plays in the background, she recalls good times shared with Nick: their first kiss at Big Bear, him giving her the star necklace, the two of them by the pool in the rain. She then remembers Stephanie and Dante warning her that Nick loves her mother, despite her insistence that it wasn't true. She then recalls saying how Nick never looks at her mother like he looks at her, but her thoughts drift to Nick lying in bed with Brooke and Hope, looking at Brooke. She starts to cry.