It had been three days since Jackie went missing. The first place Hyde had gone was her mother's, but all he found was a note from Pam. "Darling, gone on vacay- be back... sometime." Hyde had shaken his head and had his friends fanned out with walkie-talkies, trying to find her. But, nothing...

Angie walked into the Foreman's kitchen, where Kitty was trying to coax Hyde to eat.

"But, Steven... you love my Sweedish Pancakes..." she pleaded. "You have to keep your strength up..."

"Not hungry." he muttered.

"Tang?" she offered.

Hyde shook his head.

"Steven..." Angie sighed.

She'd been scared to admit any possible culpability in this. Though, she'd even gone to Kenny's apartment to end things or at least find out the truth- and, as she feared, he wasn't there. She swallowed, taking a deep breath, and let it out slowly before sitting down next to him, placing gentle hands on his arm.

"Steven... I am so, so sorry..." she said, blinking back tears. "It's all my fault..."

Hyde turned slowly towards her. "What did you just say?"

"Remember a couple of weeks ago, when the store opened, and that guy was coming onto Jackie in the store?"

Hyde narrowed his eyes at her. "Yes..." he said, his tone suspicious and almost dangerous.

Angie backed up a bit. "Well... you see..." she began, "I paid him to do that."

"You what?" Hyde yelled, hopping up.

Angie flinched. "I was mad at you!" she blurted. "So... I got one of my looser exes to flirt with Jackie at the store opening. I knew she'd be there, and I figured either you two would have a fight, or you'd get into a fight and fall off Daddy's 'good boy' list." she admitted, looking down at her hands on the table. "I'm sorry, all right? I really, really am... but that's all I paid him for, I swear! I had changed my mind before he got there, but it was too late by then!"

Hyde ran a hand over his face, clearly trying to contain his anger. Laurie, Eric and Kitty watched the scene, wide-eyed.

"And, then, I went to his apartment the next day, to tell him not to do anything else. He said he would need more money for that, because he found her interesting, so I paid him another three hundred, honest!" Angie sobbed. "I guess it wasn't enough..."

"You don't hit your sister, you can't hit your sister..." Hyde was muttering to himself, though loudly enough everyone in the room heard.

Angie's head dropped into her hands, sobbing pitifully, but Kitty walked over, snapping her fingers in front of her eyes.

"Oh, can the pity party!" she snapped. "Who is this man, and where is he now?" Kitty demanded.

"His... his name is Kenny Beauman..." Angie snuffled, startled. "But, I don't know where he is; I went to his apartment and he... he had cleared out..."

"And, you're just now telling everyone?" Kitty demanded.

"I was scared!"

Kitty slapped the girl across the face, hard, shocking everyone. "What? She's not my sister..."

"Okay, I'm gonna go get mom a little yellow pill..." Eric said, leading her out of the room.

"Yes, yes and some schnapps, Eric..." Kitty was saying as he lead her out of the room.

Laurie was laughing. "Damn... that was awesome... Go Mom!"

Hyde grabbed Angie by the shoulders, lifting her out of her chair, and she went limp.

"Stop that; I'm not gonna hit you." Hyde said. "Really, really want to... but I won't. You need to come with me to the police department, tell them what you told me..."

"But, Steven-"

"Now."