as kate continues to be forced between herself and connie, sometimes losing control for several hours at the time, she begins seeing ewen as her official therapist. ewen suggests that he hypnotize her, in order to find out why "connie" was created. as connie emerges, she reveals that she was created to protect kate from sonny's hold and that he's almost gotten them killed one, and that he's on the verge of having it happen again. she also confesses to planting a gun in kate's office in order to send sonny to jail for murdering cole thornhart (van hughes) and hope manning-thornhart.