The BEST episodes of Sunset Beach season 2
Every episode of Sunset Beach season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sunset Beach season 2!
Sunset Beach was a short-running American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. It aired in over 70 countries around the world. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another 11 times. The show also received 22 nominations for various other awards.
#1 - Episode 176
Season 2 - Episode 176 - Aired 9/11/1998
Annie takes a drink to Gregory, dropping three Viagra into the glass. He tells her that he knows that she's plying him with alcohol in hopes that he'll drag her off to the bedroom. Gregory sends the drink back. The bartender takes the drink and, since he hates to see good liquor go to waste, he drinks it. Gregory walks in while the bartender is coming on to Annie. He watches Annie fend off the bartender, and tells her that he thinks it was all an elaborate setup to make him jealous. Annie realizes that the bartender drank Gregory's drink, which proves that the drug works. During their therapy session, Dr. Estrada is called from the room. Maria decides that she needs something more to help her. She picks up her purse and leaves the room.
#2 - Episode 161
Season 2 - Episode 161 - Aired 8/21/1998
When Virginia pulls up Vanessa's sleeve preparing to tell them that she made Vanessa think she had a disease that she didn't have, Vanessa says that she is still sensitive from the skin culture that Tyus took to test his cure. Virginia realizes that if he's using Vanessa's skin to test his cure, he is doing lots of work for nothing. She leaves to stop him before he wastes any more time, but doesn't tell Michael and Vanessa the truth. Without telling him that she made Vanessa think that she has Martin's Syndrome, Virginia tries to convince Tyus not to use Vanessa's sample by telling him that he might not be able to get what he needs from it. Tyus surprises Virginia with his declaration that he got all of the diseased cells he needs from Vanessa. She is shocked to realize that Vanessa really does have Martin's Syndrome.
#3 - Episode 162
Season 2 - Episode 162 - Aired 8/24/1998
Gregory pressures Annie to change her mind about the resort. When AJ and Olivia point out that Gregory wants to control her, just like he controlled Olivia, Gregory tells Annie that he controls her stock, because she signed the control of her stock away in the prenuptial agreement. Annie realizes that Gregory just married her for her stock. Olivia tells Gregory that Annie only married him to keep her stock, and he replies that he knew that all along. When Annie leaves in tears, Gregory tries to stop Olivia from going after her, telling her that she's hurt Annie enough. Olivia spits that it's fine with him if people get hurt -- as long as he's the one doing the hurting. Olivia tells Annie that she has been where Annie was now and apologizes for the pain Annie is going through. Then she has a good laugh when she realizes that Annie really did think that Gregory loves her.
#4 - Episode 163
Season 2 - Episode 163 - Aired 8/25/1998
Gregory tells Caitlin that he married Annie to protect his interests in the Liberty Corporation. He goes on to say, to Caitlin's chagrin, that he really cares about Annie and he thinks that they are well suited for one another. Annie tells Charles that she knows that he told Gregory about the codicil to Del's will and demanded a divorce from Gregory -- today. Charles throws Annie's words about her success back at her. He informs her that the codicil says that they have to stay married for a year, or Olivia gets the stock. When Annie says that Gregory used her to get her stock, Charles points out that he could have gotten her stock without marrying her, so he must care about her. She thinks Gregory only pities her, and declares that she'd rather die than have Gregory's pity. Bette lets Gregory have it for his treatment of her niece.
#5 - Episode 164
Season 2 - Episode 164 - Aired 8/26/1998
Standing on the ledge, about to jump, Annie confesses to Gregory that she fell in love with him. She goes on to say that her discovery that he doesn't love her gave her no reason to go on living. Gregory protests that he really does care about her. She responds that if he cared about her he wouldn't have made her go through everything she went through to marry him. He says it was fascinating to watch her; she's one of the most exciting women he's ever known. Annie says that if Gregory really cares about her, he'll tear up the prenuptial agreement. Gregory agrees to rip up the prenuptial agreement and reaches to help her off of the ledge, but she slips and falls.
#6 - Episode 165
Season 2 - Episode 165 - Aired 8/27/1998
Tyus recreates the cure that he invented before the earthquake. Tyus gives the injection to Michael, who regains consciousness and proposes to Vanessa. Tyus and Vanessa return in time to hear Vanessa accept Michael's proposal. Meg and Ben happily tells Hank and Joan that they are getting married as soon as they can book a church. Meg says that they've decided to get married at St. Joseph's, even though that's where Ben and Maria got married. Casey asks Meg if it makes her uncomfortable to get married in the same place as Ben and Maria. She insists that if she were afraid to face Ben's past, she wouldn't be able to go anywhere in Sunset Beach. Meg asks Sara to be her maid of honor, while Ben asks Casey to be his best man.
#7 - Episode 166
Season 2 - Episode 166 - Aired 8/28/1998
Ben walks into Maria's room and introduces himself to a patient in a catatonic state whom Tim had conveniently put in there. When she doesn't respond, he leaves. Meanwhile, Maria worked on her picture of Ben in another room of the hospital. Ben tells Meg that her friend is sleeping, and they leave. Tim is in the process of moving the catatonic patient out of Maria's room when Maria returns and asks what he was doing. He claims that she wandered into her room and that he was helping her back out. Annie hides behind the desk and listens as Tim and Maria bring the patient out of the room.
#8 - Episode 167
Season 2 - Episode 167 - Aired 8/31/1998
Annie sees Maria and faints. Tim claims that Annie is hypoglycemic, and tells Maria that once Annie has a chocolate bar, she'll be fine. He carries Annie from Maria's room. Tim tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Annie that seeing Maria was just a dream. He finally admits that it was real, telling Annie that Maria doesn't remember the last five years, due to an accident that she was in several weeks ago. Tim explains that he didn't say anything to Maria about knowing who she is because he is afraid that the news would be too much for her. Annie realizes that Tim is going to use Maria to break up Ben and Meg. Tim offers to sell his Liberty Corporation stock to her in exchange for her silence. Francesca tells Cole that Phillip set him up to take the fall if anything happened during a robbery in Germany, and that the evidence still exists, so if he doesn't help her, she'll use it. Cole pretends to be unimpressed by her threats, but Francesca points out that he has a family to protect. Cole tells Caitlin to take Trey and go to San Diego without him. Olivia gushes that he's a very good friend, but AJ insists that he had hoped that they were more than friends. She tells him that she'll be more easily able to be more than friends with him if he promises not to ever talk about her baby again.
#9 - Episode 168
Season 2 - Episode 168 - Aired 9/1/1998
AJ is pleased to hear that Cole won't leave Sunset Beach. Francesca wants Cole to become a thief again. Amy learns about Sean's secret. Meg wants Maria/Dana to meet Antonio and attend her wedding. Annie and Tim try to prevent Maria from meeting Ben.
#10 - Episode 169
Season 2 - Episode 169 - Aired 9/2/1998
When she sees the damaged painting, Ben tells Bette that Maria intentionally didn't paint her face on the portrait, because she felt that what was most important was on the inside, and that she painted herself in the swing because the swing was soothing to her. Bette suggests that Ben have the painting repaired and give it to Carmen. Later, Ben brings a man from a gallery to give an estimate on repairing the portrait. Meg persuades Maria to go to St. Joseph's with her. Maria is overwhelmed by the wedding chapel. When Meg goes to meet with Antonio, Maria stays in the chapel, because it makes her feel warm and safe. However, later, she has an episode of some sort.
#11 - Episode 170
Season 2 - Episode 170 - Aired 9/3/1998
Maria bolts before Meg and Antonio get into the chapel. When she catches up to her on the beach, where she's been on the swings, Meg sees that Maria's safe, and Maria apologizes for bolting. She promises that she will attend Meg's wedding. Ben remembers Maria telling him that she loves him for the first time while pushing her in the swing on the beach. Antonio writes about his dreams in his journal. He says that he has no idea who the woman is or why she makes him feel this way. He says that it's strange, yet, at the same time, it's familiar. Antonio has another, more explicit, dream about the woman. Francesca tells him that the one job she wants him to do is that night. Francesca asks Cole to cause a distraction while she robs the safe, but then she has trouble opening the safe. When Cole comes into the room, she throws herself at him.
#12 - Episode 171
Season 2 - Episode 171 - Aired 9/4/1998
Melinda accuses Casey and Sara of trying to kill her. When Casey and Sara try to tell the truth, Melinda plays on the special prosecutor's sympathy. Melinda offers Sara a deal, suggesting that she rewrite her book to make Bob Blythe out to be the bad guy, and turn it into a book about how she and Sara bonded while facing adversity. As a result of Melinda's one condition - that Sara has to break up with Casey, because Casey will never go along with this plan, Sara refuses to go along with Melinda's plan. When Sara asks how Melinda could have survived the shark attack, Casey chalks it up to professional courtesy - one shark to another.
#13 - Episode 172
Season 2 - Episode 172 - Aired 9/7/1998
Bette has to interview Bob Blythe, the Congressman who still keeps on interrupting Sara's life. When Bette mentions her, Bob tells her that he never got to know Sara closer, so he decides to visit her. Ricardo wants Gabi to stay at his place for the night, but Gabi wants to take things slow. Olivia thinks that Cole stole jewels again, so he decides to let her search him. Although she doesn't find anything, she tells him that she is going to try to make him look bad in her daughter's eyes. Antonio goes to bed, and in the same moment, Francesca sneaks into the room, looking at a statue she and her deceased husband Phillip stole.
#14 - Episode 173
Season 2 - Episode 173 - Aired 9/8/1998
Casey comes to ask Ricardo for help with their Melinda problem. In response to Casey's request, Ricardo brings documents to him at Surf Central. Bob tells Sara that he has come to save her from Melinda's false accusations. He says that the key is to continue denying that they had ever been intimate. Sara insists that what she and Bob had is over. He insists that it isn't, and kisses her. Just then, Casey walks in. Fortunately, Casey stays long enough to overhear Sara ask Bob to stop kissing her. He defends Sara from Bob's advances. Casey says that maybe they can beat Melinda at her own game. Francesca takes one of the pictures of the statue, leaves the others on Antonio's desk, and climbs out the window. Francesca opens her evening bag and finds that it's Bette's bag, and Bette has hers. Francesca tells Cole that she brought home the wrong bag, so he tells her that he'll switch the bags back. Cole sneaks into Olivia's house to switch the evening bags, and Olivia catches him - with the emeralds in her hands.
#15 - Episode 174
Season 2 - Episode 174 - Aired 9/9/1998
Tim tells Annie that just telling Maria who she really is won't mean anything to her. She needs a big confrontation to make her memory come back and make it stick - just the sort of confrontation that Ben and Meg's wedding will provide. After he convinces her that his plan won't hurt Maria, Annie agrees to go along with it, in the interest of ensuring that Maria ends up with Ben. The doctor tells AJ that they've bought another six months before they'll need Cole. After thinking that Cole sent Caitlin away so that he could go back to his old ways, Olivia realizes that he was blackmailed into helping Francesca. Olivia gives the emeralds to Cole and tells him that if she ever catches him in a lie again, she'll have his head on a platter. When she asks him the nature of his relationship with Francesca, he tells her that she was his first love. Olivia asks if he still loves Francesca, and he says that he loves Caitlin now, and that's all that matters.
#16 - Episode 175
Season 2 - Episode 175 - Aired 9/10/1998
When the repaired painting of Maria is returned, Ben explains his plan to give the painting to Carmen. Meg tells Joan that she's never seen a picture of Maria except for the portrait, because she's never wanted Maria to be that real. Maria has difficulty on a drawing of Meg, which makes her wonder why it was so easy to draw the picture of Ben when she'd only seen a picture of him once, and it's so difficult to draw a picture of Meg, whom she knows so well. Ben arrives to visit Maria. Annie tells Gregory that she knows that he has a 500 share advantage over Ben and AJ together. Gregory doesn't remember Tim's shares of the Liberty Corporation at first, until Annie reminds him, and she also reminds him that whoever controls those shares could control the Liberty Corporation in the event that Ben and AJ side together against Gregory. Then she tells him that *she* controls Tim's shares. Annie bets Gregory that she can resist his charms longer than he can resist hers. The stakes are Tim's shares against Annie's. In order to give her a head start on the bet, Annie decides to slip Gregory some Viagra.
#17 - Episode 160
Season 2 - Episode 160 - Aired 8/20/1998
Casey and Sara are relieved when Ben and Meg arrive, but Sara confesses that she isn't ready to go back to Sunset Beach yet. Casey assures Sara that the reporters have gone on to something new, and the scandal is over. He promises that whatever happened, she isn't going to face it alone. Someone develops the film and recognizes Sara as the woman who had an affair with Congressman Blythe. Just as they arrive, Casey and Sara are accosted by reporters asking about the pictures of them. Sara isn't pleased when Casey declares there isn't a romantic relationship between them.
#18 - Episode 177
Season 2 - Episode 177 - Aired 9/15/1998
Meg confronts Annie and Tim about saying that Maria is still alive, but Annie changes her sentence and says that Maria is still alive in the memory of everyone she ever knew. She also says that Meg will ever live up to Maria. Ben is certain that the woman he saw is Maria, but too many people are in the way, and by the time Ben gets to the swings, Maria is gone. Maria stands under the pier, staring at the water. When a passing surfer encourages her to go into the water, she bolts. Ben arrives with the painting while Carmen, Antonio and Ricardo are arguing about Carmen's feelings about Maria. Carmen accepts the painting gratefully, but Ricardo is convinced that the painting will increase Carmen's obsession with Maria. Olivia says that she never believed that Cole and Francesca are having an affair, because Cole would never cheat on Caitlin so blatantly, and certainly not with Francesca's type of woman. After Olivia leaves, Francesca asked Cole why he didn't tell her that he had slept with Olivia. Annie arrives to meet Olivia, after getting a phone call from Olivia asking her to meet her. Antonio sees the pictures on his desk and notices that the picture of the Madonna is gone. He realizes that Francesca took it.
#19 - Episode 178
Season 2 - Episode 178 - Aired 9/16/1998
Olivia directs Annie to plan and execute the destruction of Caitlin and Cole's marriage, because once Caitlin has lost Cole, she'll be more than happy to let Olivia help raise Trey. When Olivia asks her how many people know that Trey isn't Caitlin's biological child, Annie says that Sean helped her with the baby switch, but that both Sean and Caitlin think that Trey's biological mother is an unmarried teenager. Emily tells Bette that she just got into UCLA, and then she asks if she can stay with Bette on a semi-permanent basis. Bette is overjoyed, but her joy is somewhat diminished when Emily said that she can't leave now, just when things are starting to go somewhere with Sean. Amy overhears Emily telling Bette about Sean rapping, and saying that Sean would kill her if she knew that she told Bette.
#20 - Episode 179
Season 2 - Episode 179 - Aired 9/17/1998
When Olivia decided that she needs Francesca's help to get Cole out of Caitlin and Trey's life, but that Francesca can't know that she's helping Olivia, she told Bette that she needs to contact Francesca because she dropped an earring at the party. Bette told Olivia that Francesca's staying at St. Joseph's, which, Bette suggested, may be more temptation than Antonio can handle, because apparently Antonio and Cole both have a history with Francesca. Caitlin told Olivia that she was glad to be home, especially since Trey doesn't have the bond with Elaine that he has with Olivia. Caitlin told Olivia that Trey makes up for the babies that they both lost.
#21 - Episode 180
Season 2 - Episode 180 - Aired 9/18/1998
Virginia introduced herself as Dr. Higgins, but the nurse didn't believe her, and called for another nurse to help her remove Virginia. They told her that Dr. Higgins is 63, so Virginia said that she's had extensive plastic surgery, which the two nurses bought. Virginia got a password for the computer, but couldn't find Tyus's name in the database until one of the nurses gave her the correct access code. Virginia stole Tyus's sperm sample. Fearing that someone she once knew would turn up, Tim tried to keep Maria from going to Meg's bridal shower. He told her that it would be unfair to Meg, because all that Meg would think about would be her. As she said that the best thing she could do for Meg would be to not go to the shower, Dr. Estrada arrives and asked why.
#22 - Episode 181
Season 2 - Episode 181 - Aired 9/21/1998
Caitlin is worried when she realizes that Francesca is still in town. Bette accidentally tells Caitlin that Cole was at the same party that Francesca attended. Meg has a bridal shower, where Tim successfully manages to get rid of Carmen before Maria enters. Maria has difficulty while being in the apartment without realizing why. Annie slips a drug in Gregory's drink in order to make love, but a minor incident might change things.
#23 - Episode 182
Season 2 - Episode 182 - Aired 9/22/1998
On his way back up to his hotel room, Gregory, who just drank the drug that Annie slipped to him, gets trapped in a stalled elevator with Olivia. Annie dressed in a teddy, puts more of the drug in the water pitcher, just in case. AJ comes by to pick up a file, and drinks some of the drugged water while Annie gets the file for him. After AJ left, Annie calls the front desk and found out that Gregory was trapped in the elevator with a woman, but not the identity of the woman. Feeling the effects of the drug, Gregory comes on to Olivia. Annie calls a doctor and found out that men who take the drug cannot resist the charms of any women they encounter while under its influence.
#24 - Episode 183
Season 2 - Episode 183 - Aired 9/23/1998
When Ben asked what "Dana" was doing in their bed, Meg explained that she hadn't been feeling well, so Meg sent her upstairs to take a nap. When Tim arrived, Ben answered the door, telling him that he had a lot of explaining to do. At first, Tim thought that Ben had found out about Maria, but when Ben went on to remind Tim that he asked him to stay out of their lives, Tim responded that he was there to pick up Maria. Ben got called in to work. Just as Ben left, Maria came downstairs, ready to leave. Meg told Maria that she wanted her to stay there for the night. Tim objected, saying that Dr. Estrada won't agree to Maria staying over, but Meg explained that she had already cleared it with Dr. Estrada.
#25 - Episode 184
Season 2 - Episode 184 - Aired 9/24/1998
Sara told Casey that she felt bad because of how hard this has been, not just on Hank and Joan, but on Casey, as well. Melinda called and Sara agreed to meet her at the Java Web. Casey and Sara shared a tender moment while hooking up her wire, but she pulled away. Bette overheard Amy's insult and threatened to make slanderous accusations about Amy in her column if she doesn't leave Emily alone. After Amy and Brad left, Sean told Emily that after being raised by liars like Gregory and Olivia, he doesn't know if he can ever trust her again. Bette promised Emily to help her make it up to Sean.