found a shrine to herself in Chet's hotel room. Fearing that something horrible was about to happen, Amanda rushed to the Wexler estate's cottage, and saw Chet pointing a gun at Eve's head. Amanda and Ben provided a distraction, and Amanda tried to talk her uncle to giving himself up, but Chet refused. After releasing Eve, Chet tried to make a run for it, but the police shot him. As Chet lay dying at Cedars, he admitted to Amanda the only reason he was stalking Eve was to protect her failing marriage to Ben, and Chet told Amanda he loved her with his dying words. A grieved Amanda returned to playing with dolls, but Ben gave her the strength to put away the dolls, and Amanda became a capable businesswoman beside her "father", Alan. Amanda would later grant Ben a divorce, and Ben and Eve would remarry in a quiet ceremony, after which they decided to relocate to Paris, where Ben could focus on his painting; Ben left in November 1982, while Eve remained in Springfield for a few more months, to help Justin with his infant daughter, after Jackie's sudden death, before joining Ben in Paris in early 1983. While all of this was going on, Nola Reardon was also continuing in her pursuit of Kelly Nelson. To that end, Nola would get herself pregnant. First she gave Morgan birth control pills, in case she wanted to take Tim to bed, knowing that would get Morgan in trouble with Jennifer. She then kept plying Tim with alcohol, despite Ed, Sara and Kelly's best effort to keep Tim clean and sober. Then she set up Tim to see Morgan and Kelly kissing, and set Tim and Kelly against each other several times. Floyd kept being a nuisance to Nola's plan, telling Nola she loved her. But Nola had an idea to use Floyd, especially when her mother, Bea, tried to have Nola see that marrying Floyd might not be the worst thing. Twice Nola plied Kelly with alcohol and put him in her bed nude. Then she had sex with Floyd in another room in the boarding house, with Kelly and Floyd none the wiser, although one time in fall 1980, Bea and Kelly's visiting father nearly caught Nola in the act of setting this up. She got the ever increasingly suspicious Hillary away from Kelly, by telling Kelly that