In response to Marshall's call, Bonnie rushes to meet Marshall at Al's Diner, where he asks Bonnie's advice about having a Halloween party at the Shelter for Sarah. As Marshall and Bonnie happily plan the party, Jessica arrives outside the window and observes Marshall and Bonnie having a pleasant conversation. Jessica tells Tom Hughes that she has just lost her appetite. Tom tries to talk Jessica into being reasonable, but Jessica storms off.

In their home, Jack and Carly are so thrilled to have agreed on Henry as their baby sitter that they tumble into bed. There they are interrupted by a call from Alison at the hospital, telling them about Mike's accident.

At Metro, Molly has discovered the handwritten medical records for Craig's new baby, and she confronts Craig, observing as well that Annabel Fettle does not appear to be a legitimate adoption agent. When Molly states, "This adoption stinks to high heaven," Craig responds that everything is legal. However, he then asks Molly to download a medical form and copy the handwritten information onto it. Molly, refusing, tells Craig that his adoption plan is sure to fail. Their phone rings with news about Mike from the hospital, and both Craig and Molly leave for the hospital.

At Fairwinds, Lucy and Aaron admire baby Cabot, then Aaron begins telling Lucy how much he likes his new job. When Lucy questions him about his exact duties, Aaron describes various chores to her, omitting his involvement with the bookmaking aspect of the business. When Rosanna comes into the room the telephone rings, and she rushes off to the hospital to see about Mike, leaving Lucy and Aaron to baby sit. The teenagers are nervous, even before Cabot starts to wail. The only thing they find that will calm the baby is an off-key duet of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," which instantly puts Cabot back to sleep.

At Oakdale Memorial Hospital, the nurse tells Chris and Alison that Mike is being prepared for surgery by Ben Harris, a brain surgeon, because there might be neurological damage. When Alison confesses to Chris that she feels responsible for Mike's accident, Chris responds that "the animal" who mowed Mike down and left him bleeding in the middle of the road is the one who should be worried. Margo comes up and berates Chris for leaving Katie's bedside, but Alison overhears and steps in to take responsibility for Chris' absence.

At Mike's bedside, Katie confesses to Mike that she is responsible for the accident and beg his forgiveness. Mike answers, "I remember, I remember," just as Margo opens the curtains. Katie tells Mike to go ahead and tell Margo what happened, but instead of telling Margo that Katie's car hit him, he tells Margo how he told Katie that he loved her, then Katie told him that she wished he were dead instead of Simon. Katie tries to tell Mike about the accident, but Mike interrupts her, telling her that he knows that if she meant what she said before, she wouldn't be there with him right then. When Katie again insists on having time alone with Mike, he tells her what a wonderful friend she is, and she loses her nerve and doesn't tell him. Dr. Ben insists that Katie leave so that he can give Mike a sedative, and Margo insists that Carly, who has just arrived at the hospital, take the ill Katie back to Margo's house. Katie rushes out of the hospital crying, "I'm never going to be okay again! I have to get out of here." When they arrive at Margo's, Katie asks Carly how she got Jack to forgive her when she made a huge mistake. Carly advises her that she must tell Mike the truth and ask him to forgive her. Jack arrives at the hospital to question Mike just before he goes in to surgery, but Mike can't answer any questions about the hit and run driver. Rosanna arrives to see Mike, but Dr. Ben tells her that Mike can have no more visitors. Next come Molly and Craig. When Molly starts to go in to see Mike, Rosanna flatly tells her, "You can't." Molly bristles and snaps at Rosanna, "You don't know what's going on in there....You barely know what's going on in your family." Craig tries to look innocent.

Katie tells Henry what happened explaining she hit Mike with Margo's car but didn't remember it until she got home and Chris told her what happened. Henry said she can't tell anyone it would be there secret and Katie wanted to know how they were going to hide the damage from Margo since she will need her car back. Katie decides to call Aaron to help her out of this jam with the car. Aaron tells Katie he can fix Margo's car first thing in the morning. Margo shows up to visit Katie and tells them she needs her car back first thing. However she then tells Katie if she needs it that bad then Margo will drive Casey's car until Katie gets her own car fixed. Katie almost tells Margo what happened but Henry stopped her.

Molly and Rosanna have it out at the hospital with a battle of words. Rosanna tells molly how everyone leaves her and that is why she has a long line of ex's. Molly tells her how her store bought baby probably won't be there long but then sort of drops it. Rosanna then explains Curly hasn't called her because of her baby and that is what Curly and Rosanna have a bond now. Rosanna leaves and Dusty shows up to comfort Molly and she talks about how the twins don't know her and how Donna and Marley want her to leave and she feels she has no one anymore and Dusty assures her he is there. Dusty tells Molly to go for custody of Bridget and Michelle. Dusty tells Molly Jake would be happy if she had the twins. Dusty tells her to fight for them. Rosanna now at home, said she is the luckiest person in the world and wants to know if the records came, and they did.

Emily and Alison talk about how Margo blew up and Emily tells her Margo will come around. Alison explains how she loves Chris and didn't care about anything else except Chris and didn't want him to get in trouble over her. Alison admits to loving and trusting Chris and Emily warns Alison to be careful and maybe she could find classes or something interesting her. Chris tells Alison they need to slow down and they should cool off for a while.

Hal tells Jack he has a lead on a bookie named Waldo who hangs out a Yo's and wants Jack to work on it telling him he can put Margo on the Mike case.

Unsuspecting Aaron has repaired Margo's car for Katie. Henry encourages Katie to stay silent and guilty Katie says going to jail couldn't be worse than how she feels. At the hospital, Mike is informed he won't be up and around for some time. Bitter, he tells Katie he'd like to punish the guy who ran him down. Katie tries to tell Mike the truth, but he mistakes this as pity and asks her not to visit him again. Craig freaks out when he hears that Lucy will be out all night after the dance. He and Lucy have an argument about it and he forbids it. Later, Craig calls Dusty to have Aaron kept preoccupied all night so he can't keep his plans with Lucy. Mitzi tries to discourage Rose from selling the shop. Meanwhile, Barbara lets Dusty know that Rose is selling her shop. He visits Rose and they have a bittersweet farewell as a camera records their goodbye kiss. At Yo's, Waldo enters as Jack watches. The bartender makes Jack for a cop and warns Waldo. Aaron leaves. Hal knows Aaron was in on the gambling racket. Jack tries to get to Aaron first. Aaron reports back to Dusty. Paul returns from Paris to an icy Jennifer who wonders if he's really planning to marry Rose. He insists that he loves Rose but she wants to know why he has to leave the country. He says it is because of Barbara. Jennifer believes that Rose is still into Dusty. Paul visits Rose with a present, his way of saying marry me. Rose evades whether she has seen Dusty. They plan a romantic baby-making rendezvous at Paul's. Mitzi is hurt Rose is leaving. Later, Barbara shows Paul the photos of Dusty and Rose kissing.