After Greenlee was sentenced to life in prison, David entered the courtroom. "I'm back," said David to Greens, "for you." Ryan told David to stay away from Greenlee. The judge demanded answers. David said that he was prepared to tell her everything. David took the stand and said that he was sorry about everything that had happened to her and to Zach. David copped to having tried to set up Ryan to take the fall for his faux demise. "I would rather lose my own freedom than watch you lose yours," David told an incensed Greens. Ryan and Jesse and Jack had outbursts against David. David explained how he had faked his death with the aid of an herb that slowed down his heart rate to an undetectable level.

At home, Kendall wept over Zach. Bianca tried to comfort her sister. Bianca got word about David and relayed the news to Kendall.

Krystal rushed out of the courtroom to tell Marissa that her father is alive. A furious Marissa was hell-bent on going to see him immediately. She burst into the courtroom and smacked David, who was still on the stand, across the face. She read David the riot act for forcing her to have mourned another father. David admitted that he had attended his own funeral and that he had watched her with AJ. She told David that he was dead to her and stalked out, trailed by Krystal. "Enjoying yourselves?" David smirked at the mourners. He told them that he had seen all of them toasting his demise, decrying them all as hypocrites. Ryan snapped that he should have killed David when he had the chance. Flashbacks showed what had happened in the confrontation between Ryan and David at the hotel room that Ryan had subsequently blocked out, in which David decked Ryan with a book, then dosed Ryan with a drug to erase his memory. David testified to having heard Greens in the morgue, saying good-bye to him, and that he had paid off the coroner. Greens spat that if it hadn't been for his sick plan, she and Ryan would never have gotten back together. "You created your own nightmare," she said. David insisted that he had only wanted Lavery to suffer, not her. David described his reaction to learning that it had been Greens who was arrested and how Nick Pearson had not properly done his bidding. Ryan jumped up and blasted David for fancying himself the hero of the whole situation. Kendall and Bianca entered the courtroom. "You," hissed Kendall, who made it clear that she blamed David for Zach's demise. The judge nullified the verdict and told Greens that she was free to go. Jesse arrested David for, among other things, conspiracy and tampering with evidence. Krystal congratulated Jack on his victory.