EPISODE 1321 / 11.11.26

Across town, Natalie Bishop enters the visitors’ area at the prison. The room is institutional and impersonal, a sharp contrast to the warmth she has just left behind at her niece’s wedding. A guard gestures toward the tables and booths.

Sonja Kahele is already waiting behind the partition. She is dressed in prison-issued clothing, her hands folded on the table. When she sees Natalie, she straightens. For a moment, there’s something almost like relief in her expression.

Natalie takes the seat across from her. She looks at Sonja through the glass, trying to gauge her mood.

“You came,” Sonja says into the receiver as soon as Natalie picks up her end.

“Of course I came.”

“I wasn’t sure you would.”

“I’m the one who’s been trying to get in touch with you, Sonja. I’m your friend.”

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.