Secretary Nielsen is in panic the second she can't find Gabriella, and runs through the alleys calling her 'Executive Director'. She turns to Ryan to tell her where he last saw a woman fitting Gabriella's description before she's off again.

Gabriella poses her question about their past to Troy, who doesn't get a chance to answer when Secretary Nielsen interrupts them while panting and crying, worrying that she'd lost Gabriella.

Once she collects herself, she says her greetings to Troy, as she remembers him from the hospital. But Gabriella never takes her eyes off him as she says proudly

'I found him. I recognized him first, Troy Bolton'.

Secretary Nielsen explains the situation to Troy in his front yard.

According to her, the car accident caused brain damage, enough for Gabriella to lose not only her memories but also her reading and writing skills, directional skills, and her number skills.

Because of that, Secretary Nielsen has been hiding her until she gets better, because she knows that all chances of succession would be lost if Sharpay were to find out. She openly admits to Troy that she thinks Sharpay had a hand in Chairman Montez's death, and that she needs his cooperation to help Gabriella recover her memories so she can regain her rightful place.

She's in for a shock then, when Troy asks coldly

'Why is it me? Asked Troy

Gabriella stutters for a bit and replies

'You're the only person I loved and believed'

This gets a sneer from Troy.

He saunters up to Gabriella and pulls her hands away from her face, forcing her to look at him.

'You found the wrong person, lady. You and I, we are not related at all. People who loved each other? Who, us? Because we took a picture together, does it make us a couple?' Troy said coldly

However, seconds later Ryan comes wandering into the yard, Troy pulls Gabriella close to hide her face from Ryan's gaze. He keeps a protective hold her until Ryan grows disinterested enough to leave, and lets her go the second he's gone.

Gabriella is not blind to his cold treatment, and assures him that if he's ashamed of how she's become, all he needs to do is wait and help her so she can remember everything faster.

Troy isn't having it, and coldly tells her that the accident must have been damaged her ability to think properly.

'It's not something like love,' he presses.

'We just knew each other for a short time, long ago'

When he tries to leave she stops him,

'My heart knew it,' she says as she places a hand over her chest

'My heart remembers you'.

Troy wrenches himself away, again and manages to leave this time. He walks and stops and turns his head around but just walks away.

Gabriella blames herself for his treatment and starts to break down in Troy's yard crying and hitting her head. Secretary Nielsen tries to calm her down by lying that they found the wrong person, but Gabriella knows what she feels. She remembers him.

Again Troy seems to doubt his actions as he's about to drive away,.

Ryan sees Gabriella and Secretary Nielsen leaving Troy's house, he realizes it's the missing heir of the company group. He doesn't have any plans on keeping that information to himself since the first person he calls is Zeke, but due to a meeting, he ignores the call.

Sharpay sits at the head of the table in the board room while a resort project in Hawaii is discussed, though she grows impertinent when she sees that Gabriella is still in charge of the project and wants her removed as a manager and the project demolished.

She makes intentions to dismiss Gabriella from her position clear to Zeke, though he brings her back down to reality by reminding her that it'll be impossible, or it is possible.

Secretary Nielsen takes Gabriella home, though she stays outside for a while to think about the harsh words Troy told her and calls them lies. Ryan has followed the two home and takes a picture of Gabriella from his car, but Zeke ignores his call again.

Gabriella's room is decked out like an elementary school, with multiplication tables and alphabet posters covering the walls. While she is studying there is a knock on the door Gabriella thinks it Secretary Nielsen so she doesn't turn around but it is Jason he arrives with a smile and a bouquet of roses he sees her name and Troy's name together on the wall facing her.

Jason says that he has a lot of things to say to her, but only when she's recovered.

'When you get the power to resist everything I say, I will tell you then. With nothing left over, nothing hiding'

They both look at Troy's name as she asks him if she'll ever be fully recovered, and Jason assures her that he'll make it happen.

Troy meets up with the sobbing glasses man, who hands over the USB file with his company's stolen information. Despite his cries Troy tries to comfort him in a way by reminding him that he did it for his dying wife and children.

But the man worries that he'll be punished by heaven, something which intrigues Troy and gets him to open up a bit.

'Do you think that a heaven which gives punishment exists? You think God exists? I think something like a God or heaven doesn't exist. If there is a God, I don't think he would allow the world to be like this'. Troy says seriously

Before he leaves, he makes sure to tell the man that if he ever hears news that Troy Bolton was struck down by lightning, then he'll know that God exists.

A call from an old doctor colleague sends Troy to the hospital, where he looks disinterested and bored as he shows x-rays of the epidural hematoma that's been growing in his brain since the accident.

The doctor says that 80% it will be a successful surgery.

'I'm mostly a man with bad luck. By common sense, I wouldn't be in that 20%, right? Troy says

Gabriella keeps up with her studies later that night, and writes in a rudimentary diary about her meeting with Troy Bolton, only to cry she writes that he keeps lying.

Similarly, Sharpay reads a picture diary Keegan made, where he talks about how his mom never has time to play with him anymore and how he misses his sister Gabriella.

When she asks him why he misses Gabriella since she never really liked him, Keegan replies adorably

'Even then, she is my sister'

'Mom, do you miss Gabriella?'

'I do I really do' replied Sharpay

Sharpay is more worried about the danger Gabriella's return would pose to both of them.

As she holds her son close, she thinks to herself that she'll do everything in her power to stop Gabriella from coming back.

Troy returns home later that night to find a note Gabriella left him with her phone number and Chad drinking in the yard. He greets Troy with a

'Where did you go? Did you take advantage of the weak and vulnerable' which makes the mood iffy.

Chad informs him that he donated all the money Troy made from scheming people to the high school kid who came around yesterday.

Troy tries to control his anger asking why he did it.

'What I did was right' he said

'Selling your body was enough. Because I know that the money came when you sold our soul. How could I use that money? If you were me, would you use that money?'

Troy finally loses it and punches Chad, only to have a look of regret and surprise at his own actions passes over his face, making that one action heartbreaking. Chad doesn't seem surprised, and continues talking as if nothing happened as he informs Troy he's leaving.

Chad thinks leaving Troy will bring him back.

Zeke arrives at work the next day in an incredibly questionable vest to find Ryan causing a racket in the lobby, insisting that he has to see him. Once they're in private Ryan hints that he has no money, and automatically Zeke starts to give him some.

But Ryan has higher aims, and wants an apartment instead. He uses the video he shot of Gabriella to soften Zeke up, aptly nothing that Zeke and Sharpay would be over if she were to reappear.

Secretary Zara reports to Sharpay that the board members are upset about a report Gabriella made while she was in the company, something that's further explained when Jason confronts her directly about it. The report details the amount of mistrust Gabriella had in her employees, and Sharpay dug it up specifically to drag Gabriella's nae through the mud.

However, Jason informs her that the report belonged to Chairman Montez, and that Gabriella had thrown it away the second she saw it. Sharpay knew she was losing and she uses her sex appeal on Jason by getter closer and close to him as she tells him why she's allowing him to work at the company.

'Although I know you will betray me some day, why do you think I kept you here? It's because you are smart and hot.'

But Jason is uncomfortable

Sharpay makes sure to bring up his dad before she reminds him of his place, and hers.

'I am a person you can't even look up to because I am they company's owner. Address me correctly'.

Troy wakes up in the morning to have a nightmare; he's recollecting Gabriella's scolding and the moments leading up to their car accident.

Meanwhile, Gabriella takes pictures and tries to name the thing she sees, having trouble with all except her own name and Troy's.

Ryan waits until Secretary Nielsen is gone before approaching the gate, and gets Gabriella to open the door for by lying that Troy sent him. Ryan tells her that Troy instructed him to bring her to him, and Gabriella lights up like a kid on Christmas morning. Ryan remarks that this is going a lot easier than he thought.

She rushes inside to change her clothes, grinning the whole time.

While Ryan waits he flashbacks to the conversation with Zeke

(Flashback)

Ryan had preyed on Zeke's instinct to protect Sharpay by offering to make it so that Gabriella could never return to the company.

(End of Flashback)

Sharpay doesn't know about the plan as Zeke updates her on the state of affairs with the board members, and how they'll have a tough time getting the loyal ones to turn against Gabriella.

'It was never easy to Sharpay Evans,' she says

'To the smallest detail. But I always succeeded like a miracle. How far will I be able to go? To be in this position, how far can Sharpay Evans go?'

Gabriella smiles in Ryan's car, and even Ryan is a little uneasy at how happy she is to meet someone he has no intentions to actually take her to. When she says her and Troy love each other, Ryan is offended because he's belief is that Troy is uglier than him. Gabriella's quick to give him an honest reply,

'He is more handsome than you, mister'

He offers her something to drink, which she takes readily.

Secretary Nielsen goes to Troy's house based off a note Gabriella let saying that someone was taking her to him. She breaks down the second Troy tells her he knows nothing about it, but Troy quickly realizes that Ryan would be behind this.

Ryan keeps driving and looks at Gabriella and smirks she passed out from the drink he gave her. He turned his cell phone off to avoid Troy's calls, though luckily Secretary Nielsen set up a tracker on her phone to Gabriella's. Troy snatches the phone and runs to his car.

Ryan goes to a rest to fill up the car and to piss he left the passed out Gabriella in his car, which give Troy enough time to catch up.

In the parking lot, Troy desperately foes from car to car as he searches for Gabriella. By the time his calling her Ryan is already back in the care, and takes her phone from her before answers the phone.

Troy turns around just in time to see their car pass, his gaze is determined and focused as he pulls up next to Ryan, and when that doesn't work to deter him off the road, Troy pulls ahead of him and screeches to a halt. Ryan has no choice but to slam on the breaks.

Gabriella stirs awake with all the commotion, and only looks expectantly happy to see Troy rush from his own car to hers as he all but files to her rescue.