 Just when Jen tells Colin to make love as proof, Sami overhears them; Brandon calls her, so Jack now overhears both girls are in the Salem Inn. Home alone, Bo and Hope toy with balloons; he gives her a night in a Salem Inn suite as birthday present, she has another Welch-scare. Welch removes proof of his presence on the island; just then Shawn and Belle frolic past the boathouse in the snow, he hides with a gun, but is knocked unconscious with a wood-log by Shawn, unknowingly; when he wakes up the kids are leaving, lacking dry matches. Victor rushes out, no longer bent on pre-marital sex, Nicole fears he may have found the check in her glove; in Dotcom, Brandon slowly drags the truth out of his unfaithful sister. Colin senses it feels wrong, and questions Jen s proclaimed love, but ends up believing her fake kisses, they jump in bed- while she dreams of Jack, he lives his dream; when Jack arrives, Sami pretends cowardly Jen has already left. Bo barges in at Colin, who gets him out but meanwhile Jen has dressed and refuses to follow him to Ireland with Abby. Nicole nor Sami is amused to hear Brandon invited both of them hoping for a Christmas reconciliation; Colin orders Sami to come right away, then to lure Jack to Lookout point; Brandon has nicked the check and reads amount and Colin s name. Jen calls Jack in tears but invents an informant appointment.