I try not to think too much on Sic from 2006. But I've always opinioned that SAM took advantage of RIC, not the other way around. What I remember (though it kinda of sickens me to do that), Alexis found out she had lung cancer, thought she was going to bite the dust, so she started being nasty to Sam and Ric to push them away. Sic started commiserating over the bad, bad loves in their lives (she, Jason; Ric, Alexis) and how they were being so mean to them when they did nothing to deserve it. Personally, I didn't see Sam deliberately set up to seduce Ric, not like she did with Lucky, but she certainly didn't seem to realize that her "closeness" with her stepdaddy was inappropriate and flat out gross. And she may have been drinking the night of the blackout, but she wasn't so drunk she didn't know what she was doing. Same with Ric. They both knew EXACTLY what they were doing; they just didn't care. And it's my guess that they thought no one would ever, ever find out.

I hate to do this, but I don't think Jason was a simply a con to Sam. Not at the beginning. I definitely think she manipulated him using whatever she had in her arsenal later on (like after she was shot and after Sic) but not at first. But there were certainly plot holes to re-write it later on, which they did after Amelia Joffee came to town. Remember those set of scenes at the PCPD after Jason was in custody for killing Alcazar? The dialogue regarding Sam between Jason/Amelia and Jason/Sonny were actually pretty brilliant uses of history on the part of Guza. What really had me rolling my eyes though was when they had Sam excuse that she married those 5 men for their money to take of Danny. Major WTF????? Re-writes in soaps in bound to happen, and I don't mind them as long as they makes sense. THAT one so did not make sense! It was just flat-out stupid.