04-28-2017 (Friday) A Life Review

Monica asks Ned if he knows what he has done; Ned says, in fact, he does.  He hands the immigration officer a paper, an extension on Samira’s visa; she can legally stay in the country for six more months.  He tells the man, his services are no longer needed.  Everybody congratulates Ned on a job well done; Dillon takes Samira home.  Ned invites Kiki to join them and asks if Monica can come home, saying they need to get together with his mother and resolve Samira’s situation once and for all.  When they all get back to the mansion, they find that the painting is gone again; Monica thinks she knows who took it.  Tracy.

Tracy tells her dad goodbye; she says she is going to the land of sun and fun, and Samira is not even a blip on her radar, she tells him.  The less said about her the better, she says.  She is standing in the crypt and tells all of her family they should have treated her better; she brought roses for her mother and tells Alan she should have brought him crabgrass.  She continues saying she is the last one standing, despite all their criticism of her; she starts bragging about her accomplishments at ELQ and Alan’s plaque falls off the wall and clocks her on the head.  She falls to the floor, unconscious.  

A rough whispering voice tells Tracy to wake up; Scotty is there and he says, they were talking and her eyes just went “wing-ding.”  She insists she was home and is confused; Nathan comes out and says he is up.  Scotty drags her into the courtroom by the arm; she asks what she’s done.  Diane laughs and asks what she hasn’t done; Diane plays a video of the plaque hitting her on the head.  She tells Tracy she is dead, and reads from a book, that she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and “expired at 12”57 p.m.”  ‘Diane’ tells her she is there for a “review” where Scotty will be presenting the sum of her good deeds, and she will be presenting the bad; Tracy asks for another lawyer.  She says if the good doesn’t outweigh the bad, she’ll be reincarnated into another lifetime to do it all again… and mentions that Sky Chandler is considering adopting a baby.  The ‘judge’ walks into the room; it’s Sonny.  He lays a gun on the desk and proclaims court in session; Tracy says she isn’t ready, saying this is a mistake.  Then she says the judge hates her; Sonny plays an old video of a very young Tracy, telling a very young Sonny he is a stunning disappointment.  She brings up Brenda, trying somehow to extort money from him; he tells her Lois didn’t deserve what she did and she should watch her back.  She says that proves her point; he smiles.

Sonny says he could recuse himself, but the only other judge is Anthony Zacara; Tracy says Sonny will do.  Diane gives her opening statement and says Tracy is not capable of goodness and should be sent back; Scotty argues that she isn’t that bad, saying she’s “fine.”  They play another video; Tracy arguing with Alan, about Monica messing around with her son, then of her and Monica arguing, her shoving Monica, and more of her saying one nasty thing after another, and one of her mother saying she cannot trust her when she says such vicious things.  She says those are just words; Diane says they will move onto deeds.  Scotty stands up and says her romantic life should matter; he starts mentioning Tracy’s love interests, noting that she also dated himself.  Diane mentions the mob boss she married; Scotty then mentions Luke Spencer, saying that was true love.  Diane says it started out as a fraud; she plays a video of Luke talking to her, saying how much he loves her, and her standing coldly, the one of her telling Luke she is done being his fool, calling him a pathetic loser.  Tracy gets sad as she watches herself say she will walk away and never look back, telling Luke she was the best thing that ever happened to him.  

She argues that her children are proof that she’s done something; a video plays of her going into the labor under difficult circumstances.  But next, a very, very young Tracy, working for her brother, Alan, sits filing her nails; he gets mad at her over something that happened at dinner the night before and she screams at him, and likely messes up Moninca’s dinner party.  Another old video of her and Monica arguing, then her father telling her to pack her bags, suggesting she go to Maui with the other sharks… another of Ned telling her how much he hates her for the awful things she has done in his lifetime, and her apologizing to her mother for being such a disappointment.  Diane closes her computer and says that is not even the worst of it; another video plays on the large screen, of her talking to her father (a previous actor for Edward’s character) saying she would do anything to get her hands on the trust fund.  He tells her he is no longer her father and says he is taking her out of his Will; he starts to have a heart attack and asks her to get his medication.  She says she has to think about it, and begs him to tear up the new Will as Edward falls to the floor.  Tracy talks to the light now, pleading with it to send her back (as herself); she tells her father he wins, saying she knows he is there, pulling the strings.  She says Judge Sonny was a nice touch; she says all she ever wanted was to please him and to make him proud of her.  

Tracy wonders what might have been if she had one last chance; she wakes up and Alan’s plaque is somehow still up on the wall.  As everyone discusses where Tracy might have gone, Ned tells them not to write her off just yet; and just then, Tracy walks back into the room with the painting and tells them that she was going to take it, but has re-evaluated the situation.  She says she has realized that Samira needs the painting more than she does; she says she has to start somewhere, doing the right thing, so she is giving up the painting.  They all smile.

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