The Bold & The Beautiful
Nick remembers that Captain Kramer and his mother brought him gifts all the time. He wonders if he is having false memories. He wants to know why he was just remembering everything now. Nick is very angry at his mother and don’t understand why his mom would make the decision to do what she would do. Nick said that is why he was in a hurry to leave home. He was sixteen going on eighteen when he left. Taylor asked him why he went on the first ship out, Captain Kramers ship. Nick remembers that he stashed a gun away on the boat that Captain Kramer gave him and told him to use it when he wanted to be a pirate. Nick kept saying he didn’t understand. Taylor asked him if he ever visited his mother. Nick said that he sent money but he never visited her. When he was a boy, he used to collect bottles because he could get two cents on the return. He would find them in vacant lots, the parks, trash cans. When his mother seen it, she would tell him that they still had their pride, but then, she quit saying it. Taylor apologizes for the pain that he is feeling now. But he needs to use the knowledge that he has to change the future. Nick told Taylor that he was glad that she cared about him.
Taylor goes back to her house and records her notes on her recorder. Nick sits on the boat in the dark. Jackie comes on board. Jackie tells him that she had no luck with the clothing line. Nick goes inside. Nick starts to confront Jackie about the past.
Back at the office, Jackie and Stephanie are talking and Stephanie is telling Jack how bad of a mother she was. She calls Jackie a slut and Jackie starts to slap Stephanie but Stephanie caught her hand before it touched her.
Jackie blames Taylor for putting the blame on her. Nick asked her if she sold the pearls that he had bought her. Jackie tells him that she had too. She tries to talk her way out of the situation and she said that they should get back to the office. Nick asked her to tell him about Captain Kramer. She tells him that Captain Kramer was good to Nick and he needed a father figure in his life. Nick asked Jackie to tell him what really happened. Jackie told him that he wasn’t being fair.
Taylor continues to record her notes in the recorder. She makes a note that stated Jackie eventually started accepting money for sex from Captain Kramers friends. Stephanie over heard and said “Oh my God! Jackie was a hoar?”

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