Episode #137

Home with his family, Luis has his knickers twisted in a knot when he finds out that Martin's body has been removed from the hospital and sent to a mortuary for cremation. To make matters worse the hospital has no idea how, or to whom the body was released. A distraught Pilar insists that they have to find Martin's body so she can identify it and be sure it's really him. Pilar glances out of the window and sees Theresa talking to Ethan with that intense I have a confession to make look. In the yard Theresa tries to tell Ethan why she knows she is responsible for her fathers death, but before she can get the words out Pilar comes out to tell her that Martin's body has gone AWOL. Theresa nearly faints and Ethan catches her in his (manly) arms. Ethan goes inside the house to help Luis and Sheridan try to find which mortuary has the body and Pilar tells Theresa that she shouldn't blame herself for Martin's death. In fact, there is a chance that the dead man wasn't her father after all. Theresa realizes that if the man who died isn't her father, than her quest to get Ethan isn't behind her father's death. When Ethan returns he starts to talk to Theresa but is interrupted by a call from Gwen asking him to meet her for lunch. Before leaving, he asks Theresa what she was going to say about fate. Theresa says that fate is a funny thing, one minute you know what was meant to be, and the next minute everything changes. When Ethan leaves Theresa decides that if her father really isn't the dead man then she and Ethan are meant to be. At the coffeehouse, Chad and Whitney are talking. Chad says he doesn't think the people who raised and abandoned him where really his parents now that he has the mystery birth certificate. At first Whitney tries to help decipher the crossed out name on the certificate, but of course she and Chad end up arguing, about Eve when Chad calls Dr. Russell, Mommy Dearest. He tells Whitney about seeing Eve at Orville's last night looking for something, and that Eve wouldn't let him look around, so he's going. Whitney asks him to tell her what he finds. Eve tries to question Orville, but he is dead asleep. The hospitals social services representative Carol comes to speak to Eve and Eve gives her a song and dance about how found she's become over Orville. It seems as though Eve would like her to go beyond normal hospital procedure and see to it that Orville's house is protected from nasty vandalize. Carol trots of to do the sweet doctors bidding. After Carol is gone Orville gives Eve a round of applause for her role as the concerned physician. He's got her number, she doesn't want anyone going through his stuff to protect herself, not him. Eve's afraid of secrets leaking out. Orville tells her that he does have info on her in his apartment, but he's a little fuzzy on exactly where he put it. It's in a red envelope though he cheerfully informs her. When Eve asks him why he warned her to keep her daughters away from Chad Orville just repeats the warning and falls back asleep. Later Eve gets the keys to Orville's place from Carol and goes off on a red envelope seek and destroy mission. At the crematorium an anxious Henry calls up Julian. Julian tells Henry that it will all be taken care of if he just follows orders. Later Alistair decides that Henry's word that it's being done isn't good enough and insists his son go down and deal with it personally. Luis calls the crematorium and demands that nothing be done to his fathers body, they don't have the family's permission. Henry, now totally frantic, orders the cremator to do it immediately. Luis, Pilar, and Sheridan show up at the last minute. When Luis blast Henry and demands to know who authorized the cremation, Julian appears, and says "I authorized it!" Ethan meets up with Gwen and tells her that he and Sheridan were at the Lopez-Fitzgerald house giving their condolences. She asks Ethan if Theresa's boyfriend wasn't there. When Ethan says he wasn't Gwen launches into her same Theresa is in love with him, there is no boyfriend, tirade. (So what if she's right, she doesn't have to sound so smug about it). Gwen asks Ethan that if when she proves that Theresa is in love wit him, will he fire her? Ethan is a bit taken back by Gwen's request and reminds her that Theresa's position with his mother isn't just is important to Theresa, but that she uses the money to help her family. Gwen says that of course she'd want him to get her a new job at comparable pay, but that having Theresa around is bad for their relationship. Ethan gives in and tells Gwen that he will go along with her plan, but that now isn't the time to be grilling Theresa about a boyfriend since she is grieving for her father. Theresa meets Whitney at the coffeehouse and tells her the news about the dead man possibly not being her father, and this meaning that she won't have to stop loving Ethan. Whitney reminds her about Gwen. Theresa figures that even Gwen wouldn't be cold enough to grill her about a boyfriend at a time like this. Soon after Ethan and Gwen arrive and Gwen gives Theresa her condolences. When Theresa tells them that it might not be her father after all Gwen is delighted. She says that if it wasn't her father who died, then they could all go out and celebrate, and finally meet Theresa's boyfriend. An irritated Chad comes in and tells Whitney about how her mother got social services to sea Orville's apartment.