SARAH TAYLOR'S APARTMENT

"What's going on?" Matt asks, gliding inside the apartment as soon as Sarah pulls open the door. "Is Victoria okay?"

"She's fine. She's taking a nap right now. What makes you think she isn't?"

"The way you sounded on the phone," he says, as if regaining his breath now that he knows his daughter is fine. "You made it sound like something had happened--"

"Something did happen," Sarah says. She closes the door and leans against it, hands clasped on the doorknob behind her. "Just not something with Victoria."

" ... which means it's something with Brent and/or Molly, right?"

"Correct." She suddenly sounds weary. "Brent woke up."

"Oh, that's great. That's--that's terrific," Matt says, wondering if he sounds as though he's trying too hard to sound enthusiastic.

"Yeah, it is," she sighs. "Or it should be."

"Should be?"

"He woke up at kind of a bad time."

Matt's expression requests an explanation.

"He woke up as I was arguing with Jason," Sarah explains.

"Arguing with Jason? Why?"

"About Molly ... Of course, about Molly."

"So what? He got mad?"

"It wasn't just that," she says. "The reason Jason and I were fighting--Molly told him something that made him a little angry with me."

Matt folds his arms in front of him. His face says clearly that he isn't going to take any of Sarah's twisting of the truth. "What'd you do?"

"Nothing!" she cries, throwing her palms out in front of her.

"Nothing?"

"Yeah ... Pretty much. I just--She was milling around the damn hospital all day long, wringing her hands and crying and getting in the way."

"Probably because she was worried about Brent!"

"Yeah, but she's so damn melodramatic about it," Sarah spits. "So I asked someone to keep an eye out for her and not let her into the room."

Matt's arms fly open in outrage. "What? Who'd you get to do that?"

"Someone I know through work. A--He's a security guard."

"You hired a security guard to keep Molly away from Brent?" Matt repeats, hardly believing the words. "Are you nuts?"

"I was worried about Brent! I wanted him to be okay and I thought that if she was there--"

"That's bull!" Matt shouts. "You know it as well as I do. This was just a big, jealous stunt, wasn't it? You--God, you make me sick!"

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