On a dark and stormy night at the Chandler mansion, Zach and Kendall separately pointed guns at Adam. Tad entered and saw someone with gun in hand. David entered and pointed his own gun. Aidan, Krystal and Opal convened outside and heard a gunshot. Adam fell to the floor. Jesse approached with two other cops and called in to headquarters that he had a body in the living room that had been shot. Ryan found Kendall and tried to whisk her away, telling her that Ian is alive and needs her. They hurried off. Aidan creeped into the house, saw some blood and headed upstairs. A mystery woman in heels saw the same blood and fled. Jesse heard someone on the terrace and when he saw the person trying to leave, he shot at them, assuming it was the killer fleeing the scene. Jesse was aghast to discover that he had accidentally shot Tad in the head.

Jesse called for an ambulance. Scott, Opal and Krystal were horrified to see Adam's body. Opal and Krystal went onto the terrace and both women became nearly hysterical when they saw Tad bleeding on the ground. "Dad! Dad!" bellowed JR as he entered the living room. Scott broke the news that Adam was dead. JR accused Scott of being responsible, then tore off in search of Little Adam. Upstairs, Aidan questioned Little A about where Emma had gone. JR burst into the nursery and threw his arms around his son. He grabbed Aidan and told him, and an entering Colby, that Annie had kidnapped Emma and killed Adam. Aidan left via the open window and Jesse tore after him, leaving Krystal and Opal to apply pressure to Tad's wound. JR told Jesse that Annie is who shot Adam. Jesse decided to search the tunnels. JR was upset to see Tad being wheeled out. Opal blamed him for the shooting. Jesse asked JR what Tad was doing with "this" (a gun). Zach continued to lurk nearby but was spotted and apprehended by a cop.... Colby wept and called out for her daddy. JR remained convinced that Annie was responsible. Scott wasn't so sure; Zach was his suspect of choice. Zach told the police that he shot Adam because Adam killed his son. "Your son isn't dead, Zach," Jesse told him. Zach was thrilled and wanted to leave, but Jesse restrained him and continued to interrogate him. Jesse didn't buy Zach's account of how the crime had occurred. In the parlor, meanwhile, Scott pointed out that everybody present, save for Colby, had a motive to kill Adam. Krystal thought that Zach was obviously guilty. JR speculated that Krystal was responsible. Krystal countered that JR might have shot Adam, upsetting Colby. JR also pointed a finger at David; Krystal defended him. JR divulged that the gun he'd been holding was David's. Little Adam blurted out that David had been at the house that night there to see Adam, no less.

At the hospital, Ryan told Kendall that Zach killed Adam, while David informed Gayle that Adam was dead and asked her to tell the cops that they (he and Gayle) had been together all night. Gayle told David that in return, she wanted to spend the night with him for real. He kissed her and assured her, "Soon." Angie explained to Kendall how they had been able to revive Ian. Kendall was overjoyed. Angie gave much credit to Jake for performing a miracle. When Ryan and Kendall reconvened and she heard that someone with a gunshot wound was hospital-bound (really Tad), she panicked that Adam may be alive and could tell the cops that he'd seen her at the manse with a gun. Ryan vowed that that wouldn't happen.... Tad arrived at the hospital and Jake and Angie went to work to revive him. Ryan heard one of the cops talking and realized that Emma had been kidnapped.... Kendall explained to Ian why she and Zach had sought vengeance against Adam. Ryan entered and told her that Adam was dead, explaining that Tad was the person who'd been wounded. He also told Kendall that Annie had taken Emma.... The doctor set to perform Tad's surgery warned Jake and David that the surgery to remove Tad's bullet could change his personality permanently.... Erica was surprised to see that Kendall was at Ian's side. She noted that she'd gotten calls earlier because neither Kendall nor Zach could be located. Kendall fibbed that she'd gone to the roof for some air. For her part, Erica claimed that she'd been taking a hot bath. Kendall told Erica that Adam was dead. From Erica's calm reaction, Kendall deduced that she already knew.... Angie and Jake tried to reassure Opal that Tad would make it through surgery.

Aidan returned to the basement looking for Annie, who wasn't there. Annie's passport, however, still was.

Determined to find Emma, Ryan punched out a cop who tried to block his entrance to the Chandler manse.... A secret door in the mansion went undetected by a detective.... Jesse told Zach that he would wait patiently for Zach to tell him the truth....