Jack Abbott dabbled in the fine art of matchmaking when he arranged a meeting between Colleen Carlton and Raul Guittierez as part of a plan to help his sister, Traci Connelly, keep her daughter on the straight and narrow path during Ms. Carlton's stay in Genoa City.

Abbott was concerned too that Steve Connelly had been cheating on his sister.

"I thought he was a decent guy. But to betray my sister and Colleen like this is going to devastate Colleen," Abbott groaned.

Unaware her step-daddy had been poking around in another woman's underwear, Carlton was anxious to get away from sleepy Genoa City and back to New York. Hanging with diabetic boys wasn't her idea of having a good time. She was however overly excited to be in the same room with a real live Jabot Cosmetics Glow Worm.

During the arranged meeting at the Newman coffee shop, Carlton was surprised when Guittierez said that he knew her name. "How do you know my name?," Carlton asked.

"You look like a Colleen," was Guittierez's reply.

The brief meeting never amounted to much but was comical. Carlton and Guittierez noted their connection to Billy Abbott and while Abbott is seemingly decades older than Carlton, Guittierez asked her about Abbott's Manhattan, NY., days of which Carlton had little knowledge.

But Carlton did know all about Guittierez's near death experience which, thanks to his public service messages on the Glow Worm website about the warning signs of Diabetes, had helped one of her classmates.

Carlton flashed her eyelashes. "You're one the good guys."

Meantime, Ashley Carlton was reminding her sister that she is now married to Brad Carlton. The same man Traci Connelly was once hitched to. And, while her niece/step-daughter appears to be happy for the moment, Mrs. Carlton suggested she be told her step-daddy is a slime.

Mrs. Connelly was leery of telling her daughter something the kid didn't need to know and knew "she's going to be devastated when she hears" and then made the decision to tell not how Mr. Connelly had betrayed her but rather "how Steve has betrayed us."

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Mac Browning confessed to thinking often about her step-father, Ralph Hunnicutt. She told Billy Abbott that her mother got remarried when she was 7 and that her step-daddy seemed nice at first but she felt that he was waiting for her to grow up.

"Are you sure about this?" Abbott asked in disbelief.

"I thought I was paranoid but I'm sure," Browning replied pointing out that Hunnicutt would hold her hand a little too long and rub her back and shoulders. "When I started wearing a bra it seemed like he wanted to unhook the clasp," she added.

After alerting her mother, Browning said Amanda Hunnicutt brushed it off and she tried to avoid the man but one night while her mother was away Browning found Mr. Hunnicutt in her room.

"He told me how he missed being close to    me. I could smell the alcohol on his breath when he tried to kiss me and I could feel his ... it was obvious what was going to happen. He was unbuttoning my shirt when we heard the front door open," Browning said but made no mention that she took any action to fight the man off.

Claiming to have gone to her mother again, Browning said she was not believed and told to stop lying.

"I decided right then I had to leave and I did," Browning said proudly remembering the day she hit the street and became a runaway.

Raul Guittierez and Rianna Miner were happy to learn that a congressional committee was holding hearings on Diabetes. The news reminded Guittierez that he had recently come close to death during a diabetic spell of his own.

Guittierez thanked Dr. Olivia Winters for saving his life but the good doctor knew better than take all the credit.

"Friends are so important in staying well," Winters said with reference to Billy Abbott and Mac Browning who had diagnosed Guittierez after surfing the Internet.

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Dr. Roland Kimbrough was experiencing a moral dilemma. "Medicine has become a choice between patient care and the mighty dollar," he said after turning down an offer from an HMO which would have made it possible for him to buy a home.

Instead, Kimbrough would continue living in an old run down apartment where he and his family had lived since med school. With a new baby on the way things were getting tough for the good doctor.

Sensing Lawson Medical was up to no good, Dr. Olivia Winters began poking her nose into Kimbrough's business.

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Alex Perez accused Malcolm Winters of "acting mysterious again" and began to understand why.

"She [Olivia Winters] warned me about Malcolm. Handsome outside. Faults inside. I didn't see them until it was too late," Perez moaned.

Then, in the same breath, Perez concluded. "I know Malcolm is a good person."

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Phyllis Summers warned Malcolm Winters he should get to know Alex Perez better before marrying the woman but Winters was more concerned about her past prom experience. How could he find out if Perez ever attended a prom? Was it true she had the chance but didn't because she had no dress to wear?

Saying she can find out anything, Summers picked up the phone, called the high school where Perez attended school and was told no - Perez didn't go to the prom!

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Goofy Nick Newman sought his father's approval for helping ex con Larry Warton get a job at Jabot Cosmetics and getting placed on probation for a second time.

"You've done your good deed," the great Victor Newman praised as his boy went on to say that plans for expanding the coffee shop chain had been curtailed. With his wife still a nervous wreck, young Newman explained his need to stay in town to keep an eye on her.

In order to accomplish his goal, Nick Newman asked his daddy to play "the heavy" by giving him extra work duties at Newman Enterprises. Surely, if he's on the job 24/7 it would make keeping watch over his wife that much easier.

"You are doing exactly the right thing, Nicholas. You need to protect your family," Victor Newman beamed.

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Still claiming to run one of the busiest law firms in Genoa City, attorney Michael Baldwin gave his secretary the rest of the day off just in the nick of time. Moments later dizzy Izzy Brana walked through the door.

"What are you doing here? Were you followed?" Baldwin asked the evil woman.

"My guard is outside a boutique a few doors away. He thinks I'm trying on clothes," the empty bank account Brana replied as Baldwin explained their plan to trick detective Paul Williams was destined to fail unless Baldwin could make it appear that threats from Brana's former husband were real.

Scheduled to dine with Williams mother later that evening, Brana left just as confused as when she arrived and didn't see Phyllis Summers lurking near the elevator.

Meantime, detective Williams had announced Brana's case had been moved to top priority causing his two female office workers to exchange looks of displeasure.

Before calling it a day, Williams received Nikki Newman who was concerned that her effort to get ex con Larry Warton off the hook and onto probation for his part in the Matt Clark conspiracy was the right thing to do. Feeling compelled, Williams volunteered that he had recently swapped spit with a new client he didn't know from Eve. Mrs. Newman assured Williams it was okay to cross the professional line so long as the client liked it.

Right on cue, Brana made her presence in the office known. Mrs. Newman recognized the woman from a social BBQ the two had attended and after exchanging pleasantries requested Williams walk her to the door.

"You watch out for that woman," Mrs. Newman warned as she slipped into the darkened hall.

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After having sex in his office, Jack Abbott and Phyllis Summers discussed the Glow website.

There was some disagreement over whether noticeable sexual tension among the Glow Worms created more "hits".

Summers agreed with webmaster Sean Bridges that it did and let it be known that Bridges was an "old pal" from New York. She had hopes too that Jill Abbott would catch Bridges in her web so that she would "have something to keep Jill in line."

Jill Abbott was also concerned about web site "hits" but during a discussion with Bridges in her office, Bridges was more concerned about where their relationship was going.

"I feel like a teenager trying to figure out where my boyfriend's head is," Abbott lamented pointing out she hadn't seen the boy toy for weeks.

"I'm amazed at how much we are in synch," Bridges replied.

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Walnut Grove Academy student Brittany Hodges wanted to be a Glow Worm again and demanded classmates Mac Browning and Billy Abbott make it happen.

"I loved being a star. Glow by Jabot is the coolest thing that's happening here this summer. I want to be part of it," said Hodges.

Browning and Abbott were worried Hodges would cause another scene and ruin the summer campaign.

"We've heard what you have to say. Don't hold you breath," Abbott snorted making Browning feel warm and fuzzy as she sensed that at last Abbott was over the tramp. But later at their secret hideaway where candles were glowing, Abbott blew it when he told Browning, "I think we should give her another chance."

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After an encounter with the evil Matt Clark, Nick Newman was worried about his moronic wife, Sharon.

"I'm a strong person," she whimpered. "You're the strongest person I know," he assured her.

As Mr. Newman left the coffee shop through one door, Jabot Cosmetics employee Larry 'Wartman' Warton entered through another and walked up to Mrs. Newman.

"I didn't expect to see you here!," Mrs. Newman yelped.

Reaching into a pink bag, Warton pulled out gifts for the Newman children he had purchased with his first paycheck. Colored pencils and paints for Cassie Newman and washable markers for Noah Newman. The gifts were Warton's way of thanking the Newman's for putting in a good word with the cops who didn't press charges against him for conspiring with Clark.

"I should have taken him out myself so he couldn't hurt you like he did," Warton said.

As Warton walked away Mrs. Newman noticed a man wearing a black leather jacket near the jukebox. As she had for days, Mrs. Newman thought Matt Clark was still alive.