Port Charles

On New Year's Eve, an amorous Rex invites himself into Lucy's hotel room and overstays his welcome as Kevin hides in the bathroom. When Rex goes into the bathroom, Kevin hides out on the ledge. Rex snoops through Lucy's medicine cabinet and swipes some of her pills. Scott and Eve share a New Year's kiss but Scott abruptly calls a halt to any further passion. Later, Dominique's spirit visits both Serena and Scott in their dreams to say good-bye and Dominique encourages Scott to get on with his life. After basking in the afterglow of making love, Julie tells Frank she wants to keep their affair secret. However, her plans are ruined when Eve catches her coming out of Frank's bedroom half-dressed.

Following the blast, the jarred inhabitants of the Recovery Room shakily begin assessing the damage and are relieved to discover that no one seems seriously injured. Meanwhile, out in the parking lot, a vehicle fills with flames in the wake of the bombing. Jamal panics to find a groggy Alison lying beneath the overturned pinball table but Mary assures the young man that his girlfriend has only suffered some cuts and bruises. Fearing the worst when Joe reports that Dr. Thornheart's car is on fire, Lucy hesitantly reveals to Kevin how she spotted Ian and Eve talking outside the Recovery Room just seconds before the explosion. Jack offers to take a grateful Livvie to visit her grandmother. Unwilling to believe Lucy's tale, Kevin rushes to the hospital to search for his wife. Livvie explains to a confused Estelle why Rachel had to go away for some badly needed ""rest"". Later, Livvie watches admiringly as Jack easily manages to soothe her grandmother. Joe tells a horrified Kevin that two bad

Livvie proclaims Caleb dead and explains away her evil deeds as a way to get close to him and destroy him. Everyone seems skeptical until Lucy enters, saying Livvie saved her life and helped her fake her death. Caleb's youthful body turns into an old man and everyone's free from the steel walls Caleb used to trap them. A rapidly aging Karen lies to Frank that she has a ""bug"" and leaves with Chris. The men bury Caleb's body in the woods, and when the sun rises, everyone's in awe at the sight of the miracle. With Caleb destroyed, Ed gives Rafe a new mission- reunite all the couples Caleb broke up by Christmas Eve.

Rafe denies to Alison causing the mysterious light and she plans to help him get a second chance at life. Rafe remembers the deal he made to return to Ali by giving up his powers. Frank and Karen bring two victims of a crash caused by the light to the hospital. Jack offers to help Casey, a spunky young woman, who crashed her bike. Amy, the blind woman Casey ran into, is treated by Eve and Ian, and they offer her a place to stay. Kevin and Lucy's passion is interrupted by the arrival of a mystery woman who knows Kevin. Victor and Frank discover scorched land where the light touched and a mysterious watch.

Staring at the portrait of her ancestor, a confused Alison wonders how Rebecca miraculously appeared just in time to save her from the onrushing train. As her thoughts turn to Rafe, Alison weeps to think she'll never see her beloved angel again. Ian returns to the hospital to pick up Eve and finds the staff in tears. As Frank consoles Lucy, Kevin gently breaks some terrible news to Ian. Meanwhile, up in heaven, Eve takes a seat in the fifth chair and tells the others how a car accident sent her careening off the road. Afterwards, Amy explains to a grateful Eve why she chose in the end to spare Ian's life. Left alone with his wife's body, Ian finally breaks down. Out in the waiting room, Lucy cries to think of Danny losing his mother at such a tender age. As a beaming Amy reveals that she's regained her sight, Casey happily confides how she found love the second time around and Rafe thanks Paige for saving Alison's life. Up in the Barringtons' attic, Alison unwraps the special candles R

Lucy and Kevin joyously reunite and she fills him in on Ali's condition. Victor, Serena and Christina soon join them. Kevin wants to call Livvie, but Victor and Lucy dissuade him. After learning Rafe went to the hospital, Livvie races over there to stop him from running into Alison. At the hospital, Ali awakens after Rafe kisses her and they continue kissing. Alison thinks she died, but Rafe reassures her that she's alive- only he doesn't know who she is. Ian, Jack and Jamal enter and are stunned by Ali's medical progress. Ian declares Alison miracously cured and phones Lucy and learns Kevin's alive. Rafe, meanwhile, claims he has amnesia. Alison tries to help him remember, but he tells her he's married. Livvie then enters and announces she's Rafe's new bride! Elsewhere, an ominous shadowy figure enters Port Charles.

Frank admits to Karen he fathered Livvie's unborn child, but Livvie claims Frank raped her. Later, Karen overhears Livvie try to blackmail Frank with her phony rape story and blasts her for lying and defends Frank. On the train, Rafe tells Alison she saved his soul and, thus, allowed him to be human again. The two celebrate their reunion by making love. Jack lies unconscious as a mysterious woman with a rag doll stands over him humming. When he wakes up, Jack realizes the woman has been following him, but she remains silent. After he passes out from the pain of his injured leg, she goes to him with a sharpened knife.

Before her wedding, Alison looks at Rafe's mother's pic, then says she can't marry Rafe. She explains his mother was her father's mistress, meaning they might be siblings. Rafe thinks Caleb's setting them up and tells her Caleb bit Elizabeth. Ali's devastated to learn her mother's a vampire and Rafe may be her brother. Rafe asks a doubtful Ali to believe in him. He comforts her and they begin to make love. Tess climbs out of the water but falls in trying to rescue Livvie. Submerged, Tess grabs Livvie and they twirl until they merge into one, then the hybrid Livvie/Tess emerges. Sensing she's in trouble, Caleb cries out for ""Olivia,"" which Elizabeth hears. Caleb asks Elizabeth to marry him. Lucy tries to stop the impromptu wedding to no avail. Later, Caleb makes love to Elizabeth but thinks of Livvie, whose spirit appears to him, asking him to find her. Caleb goes to Livvie on the docks and says he won't hurt her but she says she's Tess not Livvie. He realizes they've merged back into o

After the explosion, Ian, Jamal, Jack and Casey go underground to help the injured. Ian, Jamal and Casey help an unconscious Lucy, but Casey gets a vision of Lucy in a coffin. Casey is later confused when Lucy comes to. Rafe, who survived the blast, checks on an unconscious Caleb but Jack refuses to help him. Jack later tries to kill Caleb but Alison and Rafe stop him. Livvie goes to Joshua, fearing something happened to Caleb, and he says Caleb died. Joshua realizes she's now a vampire and is protected by Caleb's ring but he convinces her to leave with him. Caleb reluctantly take Rafe's hand to pull him to safety.