Friday, December 14, 2007, Episode #5208

Taylor feels like her perfect moment with Jack was ruined.

Nick finds Taylor crying in their bedroom and asks what's wrong. "It's so stupid," she sighs, telling Nick about the perfect day she had with Jack before the storm blew in. Since the sun was shining, she decided to take Jack and his little tub outside to give him a bath. Everything seemed perfect as she watches Jack splash around. But when she went to rinse his hair, she noticed his hair was light blond, just like Brooke's! Nick reminds her that he's blond, and so are most babies. Taylor sobs that she knows that, but she still couldn't help being reminded of Brooke when she saw that hair. Her beautiful moment with her son was poisoned by Brooke, she weeps, and the feeling that she was being mocked made her wonder if she could have a normal moment with her baby like other mothers. "Why am I feeling this way?" she cries.

Nick reassures Taylor.

Suggesting that Jack wants his mommy, Nick puts the baby back in Taylor's arms and tells her to remember all the nights they'd sit in bed while she was pregnant, talking about their hopes and dreams for their child. Taylor sniffles that she remembers. Now it's time for their son to face the real world, Nick states, reminding Taylor that their job is to make this boy feel safe and loved. "This boy's a part of us," Nick tenderly asserts, "he's who we are, and we have to make sure that he knows he has a place with you and me." Taylor points out that the baby is starting to nurse; as Jack stops crying, Taylor smiles and tells Nick that he was right that the baby just wanted his mommy.

Donna comes by to see her dad.

Donna stops by the jail to see Stephen. Stephen is delighted to see his daughter, who brought a piece of cake from Storm's birthday party. Stephen laments that he completely forgot that today was Storm's birthday. Donna points out that he has a lot on his mind since his arrest, but Stephen moans that it takes a lousy father to forget his son's birthday. He muses about how Storm has so strongly stood by him, even after the way he abandoned the family years ago and forced Storm to become the man of a family at such a young age. "It was unfair," he reflects, recalling how he got a letter from Storm asking to come home back for some event when Storm was in high school. "Why weren't you there, Dad?" Donna asks.

Stephen sees Storm as his only hope.

Stephen explains that he thought he'd just disappoint everyone again by coming home, so he kept his distance. He frets that he didn't even have the guts to answer Storm's letter, and he regrets now that he made so many mistakes. Donna tells him to leave all that in the past, and she assures him that they'll all have plenty of chances to make up for lost time once Storm gets him out of jail. She promises that all the Logans will be together for Storm's next birthday. She then reminds her dad that Storm believes in him, just like she does, and that's why Storm is working his butt off to get Stephen free. "He's my only hope," Stephen tells Donna of her brother.

Brooke is nervous around her brother.

In Brooke's dimly lit living room, Storm sees the terror in Brooke's eyes and asks what's wrong. He glances at the photo in his high school yearbook and recalls that was the 1982 State Water Polo Championship. Just like their dad, he led the Van Nuys water polo team, so he had a class ring just like Stephen's. Brooke hesitantly tells her big brother that it's getting late. Storm feels like she's trying to kick him out and tells her that he can't leave until he answers the questions running through her head. Brooke plays dumb and tells Storm that she just wants to go upstairs, but he won't let her go up and lie awake wondering what kind of a fiend her brother is. He suggests that it's quite a coincidence that he and their dad went to the same high school, lettered in the same sport and has the same class ring. Brooke tells him that he doesn't owe her any explanations, but Storm tells her that he wants to explain. He reminds Brooke how she, their sisters and their mom were there to cheer him on when Van Nuys went all the way for the first time in twenty years and faced Pasadena. "The time before that, Dad's team won," Brooke recalls. Storm tells her that he got hooked on the sport after hearing their father's stories, and that's why he wanted to be the star goalkeeper, just like their dad. He even wrote Stephen a letter asking him to be there, and he looked up into the stands hoping to catch a glimpse of his dad and make his father proud of him. But Stephen didn't show up, and he didn't even bother to answer the letter. "Maybe it was just too much to ask," Storm ruminates.