Gus continues criticising Caroline for having left his daughter to favour her love stories with rich men, just what she is doing with Lionel. Alice goes back to live in the Lockridge residence. Eden bumps into Cruz in the hospital where he had come to see Danny. She entrusts her mother that a high school friend organised a meeting with her brother for the Christmas Eve dinner party on the 1st January. C.C. and Ted give themselves a day off and go fishing. Ted announces to his father that he would like to work with the horses. C.C. finds this idea ridiculous and refuses to help him. Ted reminds him that it he not there to do everything that his father expects from him. He gets an appointment in the Abernathy stables. C.C. coughs non-stop for the morning and seems ill. Gina is worried that nobody is present at the holiday meal which she organised.