Episode Twenty-six: The Odyssey
Starring Jack Deveraux, Part IX: Jack
Discovers There Are Two Jennifers.

Scene One: Somewhat of a repeat of the last scene of the previous show, Jack walks towards the door after hearing the car.

Outside is Jennifer, she walks up the walkway then stops, she flips her hair and looks inside her purse. Inside Jack looks away confused.

Jack looks over towards the living room. Jennifer walks in with a tray with coffee cups and a cup pot. Jack frowns trying to figure out what is going on. He does a double take, his mouth agape, pointing in confusion. He walks back to the window, and pulls back the curtain. However, no one is there.

Jennifer calls from the living room.

Jack walks over towards her in a daze.

Jack slowly walks in, pointing with his finger.

Jack looks at her still confused. Jennifer looks at him confused as well.

Scene Two: The scene continues.

Jack rubs his forehead. He gestures, is about to speak then stops.

Jennifer smiles slightly, still confused.

Takes her by the arm and leads her to the door.

Jack opens the door and they look outside.

No one is there.

Jack again touches his forehead, confused. Jennifer turns to him.

Jennifer walks inside. Jack rubs his forehead, confused and worried.

Jack immediately closes and locks the door.

Jack stops and is about to say something, thinking over the consequences of what Jennifer said.

Meanwhile, someone walks down the walkway and opens the backdoor, and then walks into the kitchen. It is the Jennifer whom Jack saw. Her cell rings and she answers. Jennifer tells the person on the other end not to worry, that she will "get what she came for and be back before anyone knows I was here."

Scene Three: Jack is freaking out over the fake Jennifer.

He runs over to the window again, and looks out. Jennifer has an odd expression as Jack babbles on.

Jack has a horrible thought and turns to Jennifer. She has her back turned to him, and continues to act strangely.

Jack stops in mid-sentence, and puts his hand to his for head, realizing how silly it sounds.

Jack again puts his hand to his head, and laughs nervously and slightly embarrassedly.

Jack flashes back to the island, just after he has rescued Jennifer from the ledge.

Jennifer puts her arm around his neck. They reach in and begin a passionate, heartfelt kiss. Jack holds her tightly. They continue to kiss, oblivious to the poor rain.

Back you the present.

Jack reaches over to kiss her forehead, but she walks off, as Jack tries.

Jack follows her into the living room. And sighs twice, putting his hand over his mouth. Jennifer picks up the tray, but stops in her tracks. Sensing something, Jack wonders what is wrong.

Jennifer turns to him, her voice concerned.

Jack realizes she is right, and looks concerned.

In the kitchen the other Jennifer picks up a large carving knife, and rather malevolently says, "Oh, I'm definitely going to need this!"

Back in the living room, Jack realizes they could be in trouble.

Jack's voice expresses his fears. Jennifer sits down too, or is she the fake Jennifer?

With a determination in his voice, he reaches over for Jennifer, and pulls her up.

Jennifer smiles weakly at him.

Back in the kitchen the other Jennifer picks up the knife, she continues to stare at the knife, saying it "oughta do the trick!"

Scene Four: Meanwhile at the hospital Bo and Billie, and Hope are waiting for the the results on the DNA tests on the strands of hair which was mysteriously sent to them. The guy doing the lab results cannot be located and goes missing for a time. Kate has arrived, after Bo and Billie go looking for the lab technicians, Kate lays into Hope about Shawn chasing after Belle, while Philip is MIA. They return unable to find the technician. Shortly afterwards the nurse returns with the technician, who allegedly had turned off his beeper. Hope is concerned about Shawn, and is upset when Bo seems more preoccupied with Billie and finding their daughter. Hope is leery, and thinks it is a di Mera set up. She goes off to help Shawn, Bo does not come with her.

Scene Five: Back at Jack and Jennifer's place.

Jennifer walks to the phone, picks it up and begins to punch in some numbers. Jack rushes over to her trying to stop her.

Jack hangs up and puts down the phone. Jennifer has a devilishly pleased smirk on her face. Jack has his hand on her shoulder, and is behind her, so he does not notice. After he hangs up he puts the other hand on her other shoulder.

Jack does another nervous laugh, and puts his hand to his forehead. Jennifer now looks normal, and turns toward Jack.

Jack smiles, trying to reassure her. Though it is obvious he is very concerned. Jack puts his hand to his forehead again, a sign of his nerves.

Jack still has his had to his forehead, obviously very upset, but trying to hide his concern from Jennifer.

Jack is frantic, trying to calm her and himself, not wanting to think of the possibilities. Maybe Jack's nervousness is because he is beginning to doubt that she is really Jennifer, and not wanting to believe this.

Jennifer tries to hid it, but she looks confused.

The statement is part question part question, Jack is hoping that she does because his concern is growing that this is not the real Jennifer. Jennifer looks even more worried. Then she tries to convince him; smiling, though it seems forced.

Jack sighs with relief, then puts his hand to his forehead. Somewhat ominous music is playing.

Jack slaps his cheeks several times.

Jennifer looks unsure and tries to hide it.

Back in the kitchen, the other Jennifer is looking almost transfixed at the knife. Then she stops and asks herself what was she thinking, Maggie has plenty of knives. Maggie wanted a pie server, and Jennifer, obviously, now, the *real* Jennifer says she does not have a pie server. Though she says she has a spatchula. She then takes out her cell and calls Maggie to ask if a spat chula. is okay.

Back in the living room, Jennifer picks up the tray. Jack nervously has his fingers by his mouth.

Jennifer stops.

jack puts his hands on her shoulder, he seems desperate hoping, but beginning to doubt it, that this is really Jennifer. FakeJennifer tries to hide the fact that she does not know what Jack is talking about.

Jack is nervously hopeful. The fake Jennifer is worried, because she apparently does not know what Jack is talking about. She turns to him.

The fake Jennifer leaves to go into the kitchen.

Meanwhile Jennifer leaves through the back door, just in time, because the fake Jennifer enters [I do not know how either Jennifer or fake Jennifer and Jack could not have heard each other they were only a few feet away from each other]. The fake Jennifer enters the kitchen, and angrily puts down the tray, muttering di Mera under her breath, wondering why he did not inform her about Jennifer's hair thing. She also worries that Jack may have seen Jennifer and that would have put in jeopardy Tony's plan to recapture Jack.

Back in the living room, Jack walks to the door, and nervously puts his hand to his mouth, confused and thinking over the situation. He looks out the window, and thinks back to seeing Jennifer outside.

She is outside and as she looks into her purse she flips her hair.

Jack returns to the present, looking very confused.

He walks away from the window.

Jack thinks some more and thinks back to earlier that night.

Jack then thinks back to another odd occurrence from earlier that evening.

JACK: Are you telling me, you called your grandmother?! Alice Horton?! To contact the ISA?!

JENNIFER: Yes, and anyone else (gesturing) that she can reach tonight.She and Agent Spector are like this (she puts her two fingers together)!

JACK: (Standing stupefied, furrowing his brows) Are you kidding me?

JENNIFER: No, I am not kidding you! They go way back, Jack. He adores her. And who better than Alice Horton to convince everyone of the truth.

JACK: (Pointing to himself) Me! That's who! I'm.... I need to be doing something!

JENNIFER: (Moving up close to him) You are, you are doing something! You're doing something! You're reuniting with your wife tonight!

Back in the present, Jack does a double take, and slightly shudders. Her massages the bridge between his eyes, utterly confused. He he shakes his head, as if shaking his thoughts, and starts walking back into the living room. Pointing towards the kitchen, about to say something. He does not, and puts is hand to his mouth in contemplation. He turns away, puts his hand to his head. Then shakes his head as if he is shaking off a thought.

Scene Six: Jennifer is outside, talking to Maggie [we do not seee or her her] on the cell. She tells her "mission accomplished" she found "a pie server and will be right over." She wonders if Abigail and her friend Chelsea had arrived. Maggie tells hey have not. She tells Maggie that she probably was not specific enough about where the party for Alice was to be [I thought it was too later much earlier to wake Abigail. Though it is the same night, even much later and a party is about to begin for Alice]. She tells Maggie that she will be there in a short while, she just needs to go inside and leave a note for Abigail.

Back inside the fake Abigail is talking on the cell too. She informs the person on the other end that Jennifer does something with her hair which Jack "adores" and she "has no idea what it is." She is rather furious about not being better informed. She wonders if the person on the other end knows. She angrily tells the person that she is "only as good as her intel!" "My suggestion is that *you* take action!" She tells the person; she adds, "or your mission *will be compromised*!"

Back in the living room, Jack is about to go into the dining room. He stops at the door and hesitates. He gestures thinking through what is going on.

Jack is completely worried, then he realizes something even more disturbing. He turns back towards the kitchen.

Jack runs to the door.

Jack unlocks the door and runs outside.

Meanwhile back in the kitchen, the fake Jennifer is just getting off the phone when she hears someone coming. She quickly runs into a closet. Jennifer comes from outside, and is getting a notepad and pencil when the phone rings. It is Maggie again. Apparently she needs a pie plate, Bonnie had broken her nice one. As she is looking, the fake Jennifer opens the door slightly and watches her. Jennifer flips her hair. The fake Jennifer is thrilled to see this. Jennifer hangs up and then writes the note for Abigail.

Back outside, Jack is wandering around, not sure what to do next. A dog barks.

Just then Jennifer has finished her note and walks by the window. She stops having seen something. She pulls back the curtain.

She looks away, and then does a double take.

Back outside, Jack is wandering around. He suddenly spots something.

Jack's eyes look back and forth. He calls out quietly and with uncertainty.

Just then Jennifer can be heard. Though which Jennifer.

Jack quickly turns around towards the house.

Scene Seven: Jack is standing transfixed as Jennifer slowly walks towards him, startled by his presence. For a few moments neither of them says anything. Jack is unsure if this his Jennifer or not. Jennifer looks truly surprised to see him -- though is it an act.

Jennifer stops a few feet away from him.

Jack does nothing, he tilts his head slightly, he still does not know if it is Jennifer or the fake. Jennifer seems overcome with emotion.

Then flips her hair. Jack watches, and exhales, believing this is proof she is the real Jennifer.

She walks up to him.

Jack steps towards her and starts caressing her hair.

Looking at each other overcome with great love.

Jack caresses her face. Jack lets out a deep sigh of relief. He runs his finger over her bottom lip. He exhales several times.

They hold each other tightly, each crying from joy of being together again.

Jack's head is resting next to her. He shakes his head.

Jennifer is crying. Jack lets go.

Jack kisses her passionately, and she responds.