Agreed, the need for silence is overwhelming and it's much bigger than just forcing them to close the deal.

I'm usually a TV snob, but when I was zonked out on chemo for weeks at a time, I suddenly became addicted to this show on the Soap network and I was pretty damn impressed with it.  As opposed to 90210 (either version) this seemed to me to be the only teen soap to go as HARDCORE as an adult soap.