DAYS: SARAH GIVES THE BABY BACK

Sarah’s plan to keep “Mickey” for herself hits a snag when the pair is about to board a train in Paris and comes face to face with Kristen. “Oh, my God! It’s so traumatic,” recounts Linsey Godfrey, whose Sarah refuses to give Kristen her baby. “It’s brutal. The process of Sarah standing there, holding Mickey, crying, and telling Kristen why she can’t give her up. She keeps saying, ‘I can’t. I can’t do this.’ ”

- XJ JOHNSON

Never Can Say Good-bye: Sarah (Godfrey, l.) reluctantly returns Rachel to Kristen (Stacy Haiduk).

Kristen, in turn, makes a tearful plea for her baby, but Sarah won’t budge, insisting that she would be a better mother to this child. “She lays into Kristen about all the reasons Kristen doesn’t deserve to have this child. She’s like, ‘You’re a murderess. You’ve been in and out of prison. You’ve killed people. You’ve almost killed people. You’ve done horrific things.’ So there is that thing of, ‘You should be in jail. You shouldn’t be a mom.’ ”