The setting: when we pick up in 2000, Blair is Mrs. Max Buchanan and she and Max are at a Cincinnati, Ohio bar called the Black Dawn. Blair is trying to get Max to leave before he sees that Jessica Buchanan, Will Rappaport and Cristian Vega (who are currently on the run from the cops) are in the bar as well. On their way out to the parking lot, Max has second thoughts and tries to go back into the club. Blair is helpless in trying to stop him. Suddenly, Max is knocked out by a mysterious assailant. Blair rushes to his aid, kneeling down on the ground beside him.

Blair: Max, Max! Max! You all right?
Max: (completely unconscious)

Blair finally looks up and sees Todd, holding a metal trash can lid and smiling at her. This is the first time they've seen each other in two years.

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Blair: What are you doing here, Todd?? Are you stalking me?
Todd: What the hell did you do to your hair?
Blair: (touching her hair) I cut it. What did you do to yours? What are you doing here?
Todd: Well, I got really bored so I came to Cincinnati for a beer. And then I walk into this place and everybody from Llanview is there. What's wrong with you people, can't you just leave me alone?
Blair: I had no idea that you were even here. And Starr's not here either. She's -- she's at camp. It's just Max and me.
Todd: (looking at Max's unconscious body) Looks like it's just you now.
Blair: (making a face at Todd) Where's Tea?
Todd: You don't need to know.
Blair: What'd you do to her, Todd?
Todd: I cut her up into little pieces and I keep her in my freezer. (pause) Well, maybe.
Blair: What are you going to do to me? Hurt me?

Todd looks away from her and says nothing.

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Todd: (quietly) You really think that I would hurt you?
Blair: Excuse me, but you just clobbered Max here!
Todd: I was try -- you had trouble keeping him out of the club. Seems like your famous seduction routine has lost its punch. I was trying to help you out.
Blair: (rising to her feet) You could've killed him!
Todd: Oh, relax. I didn't hit him hard enough to kill him.
Blair: Well, he just had brain surgery last year.
Todd: Really, they put one in?
Blair: You know, you're lucky he's still breathing. Let's just hope he comes out of this in his right mind.
Todd: How would you be able to tell?
Blair: Oh, come on, it's not funny! You shouldn't have hit him.
Todd: I was being a samaratin!
Blair: Oh, I'm supposed to be believe that you did all this as a favor to me!
Todd: (with surprising emphasis) Yeah! You're Blair. You're -- you're the mother of my child.

Todd and Blair share a look and a moment or two passes where they don't say anything. Todd quickly rushes ahead, filling the silence.

Todd: ...Who you should be home with now taking care of instead of parading around Cincinnati --
Blair: Oh, instead of you disappearing from her life!

Todd, stung by this, turns to go back into the club.

Todd: Oh, hey, I'll talk to you soon.
Blair: Wait, wait, Todd...wait. Okay, okay, okay...if you're serious about saying that you want to help me, you can help me keep Max out of the club because I don't want him to see Jessica.
Todd: How come you don't want Max near Jessica?
Blair: Because Max and Asa have it in for Jessica's boyfriend Will Rappaport. And Jessica and Cristian Vega are helping Will because they're all on the run from the cops.
Todd: You're kidding. (pause) I don't want anything to do with this.
Blair: No, Max would turn them in, Todd!
Todd: Well, that's what you get for marrying a Buchanan.
Blair: Would you just stop it a minute? Just help me, please. Help me get Max in a cab. I'll make up some story for what happened to Max. Please.
Todd: I think I'll leave well enough alone.
Blair: Oh, you call this -- (gesturing to Max, still slumped on the ground) -- leaving well enough alone?
Todd: Jessica's going to sing, and I don't want to miss that.

With that, Todd turns and walks back into the club.

Blair: Todd! God!

Blair, seething with exasperation, turns to Max and tries to get him to wake up.

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