EPISODE 1296 / 03.17.26

A sleek, glass-and-steel high-rise towers over the sidewalk. Yellow cabs weave through traffic, easing toward and pulling away from curbs at a frantic pace. Rosie Jimenez steps out of one, the wind tugging at her dark coat. She squints up at the building’s façade.

The noise and activity of Manhattan swirls all around her; she has only been to New York once, long ago, when her parents brought her and Sebastian to visit some relatives. But they lived in the Bronx, a world away from the chic NoMad neighborhood in which she now finds herself.

A doorman pulls open the door with a practiced, polite nod, and Rosie steps inside the building, relieved to be out of the whipping winds. She strides toward the front desk, where a mustached concierge sits.

“How can I help you, ma’am?” he asks, and she is even more relieved to recognize a hint of a Puerto Rican accent in his voice.

“Hi. I’m here to see Gia Vincent. I think she’s in PH–“

“Three,” the concierge finishes for her with a smile as he consults the log on the computer. “It doesn’t look like Ms. Vincent is expecting anyone.”

From our 20th anniversary in 2017:

Restauranteur Bill Fisher and his wife, Paula, raised four children in the scenic Northwest town of King’s Bay, Washington. Those children — Tim, Molly, Sarah, and Jason — grew up to have lives full of intrigue, passion, danger, heartbreak, and more. Since October 1997, Footprints has been telling the uninterrupted story of the Fisher family and their friends and foes… a story told in the vein of television’s great daytime dramas… a story with no end.