1979 (#13) - Nikki's interest in Greg and Nick's possessive jealousy

Despite all odds, things in the family between Casey, Nikki and Nick seem to be going well. Casey is happy to have their father back in the house and notes with pleasure the improvement of the man, who actually proves that he has changed. Nikki also notes that their father is no longer the angry man he used to be and soon a relationship is established between them that goes beyond the simple father-daughter relationship, a relationship of complicity and friendship. This faint balance in the Reed household, however, is not likely to last long and it doesn't take too much to break it up dramatically. It all starts when Nick notices that Nikki has returned home accompanied by Greg, who has recently stopped dating Casey. At first curious and then increasingly insistent questions about Nick, the girl answers more and more annoyed until she admits that she is dating the man she met at the clinic where Casey works. Casey confirms that she had met Greg a few months earlier and, after briefly dating him without a spark, introduced him to Nikki. Casey immediately notices that Nikki's relationship with their father had cooled as soon as he heard about her sister's flirtation with Greg. Nick, meanwhile, starts drinking again and his mood rapidly deteriorates. Casey once again glimpses their father's possessiveness and dangerousness when they were girls; Nick, on the other hand, feels all those old forbidden feelings reborn inside him, feeling that he can't hold back in any way: the only certainty inside his head is that no man, except him, could and should have touched his daughters.