Liz laughs at Jason's "proposal," proposal, yeah right. He had come right out and said, "We're going to get married." Then she says she'd rather die than marry him, she detests him. Can't be too good on the old ego, there Jason, can it? But what do you expect? Then he gets angry and tries to guilt trip her, you hate the man who bailed you out 18 years ago? You better believe it! She doesn't want to remember anything about that horrible night, and here he is to remind her of it every minute of the day! He goes over that night in graphic detail, how she killed Paul, really laying it on heavy and this disgusts me no end, as we know [spoiler]the jerk was lying through his teeth since Paul was not dead and he knew it![/spoiler]
He feels there is no doubt but that she'd have gone to prison, but I'm not so sure. First, she was a Collins. We've seen how Roger was able to avoid prison by use of that name and all that goes with it. Second, she did it because [spoiler]Paul was fixing to walk out the door with her and Carolyn's possessions[/spoiler] and third, it was an accident. Ok, so she'd have to prove that. Since there were no witnesses, ho would corroberate her story? Jason walked in after the deed was done. If he testified against her, it would be her word (a Collins) against his (an itinerant fisherman).
I believe Jason bluffs a lot. What's in it for him to blow the whistle on her? Say he does what he threatens to do, goes to the cops and tells them what Liz did 18 years ago. What's in it for him? Roger and Carolyn would boot his butt out the door of Collinwood so fast his head would spin and he'd have nothing but the dubious satisfaction that he'd sent a woman to prison. No, it's much better for him that he continue to milk her for all he can get. He prooves that when she goes to the phone to actually call the sheriff and he hangs it up on her. No, it's not in his best interest for this to become known.
Then he plays his trump card--Carolyn. What will Carolyn think about what you did? He'll call her in and let Liz 'fess up. Will she understand? Or will she hate her mother? This is what Liz has feared for 18 years, and now it's about to come to pass. Gak I hate Jason! I can feel the torment this poor woman is going through thanks to him, and my heart aches for her. I want to kill him!
Then he goes in to set Carolyn up for the talk with her mother. Though she has told Vicki she loathes Jason, she was polite to him in this scene. I was surprised to see her even being civil to him.
The talk between Liz and Carolyn was so frustrating to me, poor Liz hadn't really been able to plan what she would say to Carolyn and it all came out horribly. Liz loved Paul but he didn't love her, he was a terrible husband and lousy father, he never held or kissed Carolyn, he was a cruel man. Carolyn, though she has never seen daddy, has a great desire for his love and to hear negative things about him is devastating to her. She wants to believe he is a good man and cares about her though all the evidence points to the opposite, the fact that he has never come home to see her in 18 years should tell her he doesn't even care that he had a daughter.
Then dear old Jason and his lies! First he ascertains that Liz wasn't able to tell Carolyn the whole story because Carolyn ran out of the drawing room. Then she asks him if her father had ever spoken of her and what he says contradicts what Liz said. Poor Carolyn. She wanted so badly to believe her father loved her that she swallows Jason's story (though she loathes him). Of course my question here is if Paul loved Carolyn why wasn't he at home with her? Hmmm???
Later in the drawing room Liz knows she has no choice but to accept Jason's marriage proposal but she begs for time. Oh yeah, he'll give her time since there are a few legalities to work out but not much!
Did I mention I loathe him? I can't agree with Robin that she ought to go to bed with him, no it would be like bedding with a snake, a pig, since that's what he is. I'd be sick at the very thought!
Alondra
