ATWT Recaps Week of April 25, 2005

Friday, April 29, 2005
You’d think it was Friday the 13th with all the spookiness in town. It was late in the evening in Oakdale, but Tom had a body to dig up and not a minute to waste at the foggy cemetary. Keith freaked out again and changed his mind about the whole thing because he just wants his sister to rest in peace. Once again, Lily soothed him back to sanity. Jack left his date with a shaky Carly to be at the big dig, while Carly downed her wine and chatted about courage with a typically clueless Rafi. Starting to panic, she reached out to a woman she mistakenly thought was Lily, then got stared at by a creepy guy with a slight resemblance to cowboy Les. Poor Carly — Rafi’s not equipped to handle this kind of meltdown, so she headed for the foggy cemetary, where they must specialize in quickie exhumations, because everyone was already gone. She stopped to apologize to Julia’s headstone before being spooked by a shovel-wielding groundskeeper and ending up falling in the grave. Jack showed up soon enough to rescue her, but her haunted feelings aren’t going away — they discussed the idea of her heading to Montana for a few days to clear her head.
On the foggy docks, Craig was being framed by Dusty and Paul. He was relieved when Margo showed up, but shouldn’t have been: Faux Wah explained that Craig made him smuggle cocaine in the Boulevard Jeans shipment from Singapore. “Okay, now we’re going to enter Mr. Wah’s Wonderland,” snapped Craig. But Margo even tasted the white powder to make sure it was real (we found out later it wasn’t, so nice touch). Detective Hughes claimed she had no choice but to arrest her brother. “You’re breaking my heart, Margo,” he said. “No Craig, you’re breaking mine,” she responded. Back at the Street Jeans office, Sierra was trying to keep an antsy Barbara from wigging out completely, but wasn’t doing a very good job. Babs even had a scary daydream about Craig seeking revenge. Luckily, the men returned soon after and announced that the plan had gone off without a hitch, as Craig worked on Margo in the police car. His appeals worked — she pulled over to the foggy shoulder of the road and let him go, but not before telling him, in some hearbreaking brother/sister scenes, that he could never return or contact anyone in Oakdale again. “Is there something I should say? Are we missing a moment here?” he asked. “I guess we missed it a long time ago,” she responded sadly.

The rest of the team was at Street Jeans headquarters when Margo arrived to report that the final phase of the plan was successful. “It’s done. He’s gone. I don’t expect this means anything to any one of you, but I hated every minute of it,” she said, although Sierra actually seemed a bit guilty, too. One question: Why, during all of the plotting sessions for this elaborate scheme to frame Craig for a crime he didn’t commit wouldn’t Dusty and Sierra say, “Hey, he did kill a couple of guys last year — maybe we could use that”? Maybe turning him in for an actual crime was too unseemly to them. Anyway, Craig is really resourceful &madash; having been left by Margo on the side of the road with his passport and the cash from her wallet, he was on a plane to Bangkok, flirting with a fellow passenger by the end of the episode. Guess who’s already there? Rosanna, looking very serious!

Back at the station (still long past office hours), Ben got busy on the autopsy and quickly reported that Julia died from anaphylactic shock, which prompted Keith to reveal that she was extremely allergic to bees. Ben doesn’t think it’s an accident — someone could have exposed her to “bee venom” or “bee pollen.” Keith immediately came up with an extended black-and-white scenario of the murder, in which Les showed up with a court order to take J.J., then injected Julia with bee venom or pollen. You know what all of this means? The coroner in charge of the first autopsy did a really lousy job. “I think we’re about to catch our killer,” Tom said to Lily, as Keith left to visit Julia’s foggy grave. “Soon it’s gonna be over. Soon we’re all gonna have peace,” he told his sister’s headstone, taking out a box of bee pollen. Spooky! Thursday, April 28, 2005
Lucinda was still trying to talk Lily into being suspicious of Keith because the phone found in the all-the-way house had blood, plus Julia and Keith’s fingerprints on it — but none belonging to cowboy Les. (It may just be us, but couldn’t Les have been wearing gloves?) Anyway, they bickered about Lucinda’s meddling, and Lily pointed out that her mother clearly needs a husband to keep her occupied (agreed!). At the station, Tom told Keith that they need to do another autopsy to determine whether Julia died because her airway became constricted by swelling of the throat. “If you go anywhere near my sister’s body, I swear to God I will destroy you,” Keith yelled. Tom deemed that reaction a tad extreme. Lily showed up for interrogation room support, and Keith explained that digging up her body would cause Julia more misery. Lily pointed out that Tom’s a good man and doesn’t go around exhuming people on his every whim. For J.J.’s sake, she said, he should allow it.
While Flawless Man (Mike) and Self-Flagellating Girl (Jennifer) were putting two and two together about the Katie’s romantic evening set-up over at the Lakeview, the Fix-It Vixen herself was at the gym convincing Henry that this was a good thing. Consider her powers restored: first, she wore him down with her declarations of love, then she brought up a woman named Rhonda that he’s mentioned in his sleep. (“Six weeks with a female contortionist. That’s a bit of heaven but it’s nowhere near what you had with Mike,” he quipped.) A few minutes of sweet flirtation later (“It would be really nice if I could tell Snickers that daddy’s coming home tonight,” she purred) and Henry was so convinced, he brought over a violinist to serenade Mike and Jen at the most absolutely inopportune moment, because Self-Flagellating Girl was still treating Flawless Man like kryptonite. Henry tried to reason with her, suggesting Mike was born on a white horse and subtly worried about what would happen with the Fix-It Vixen if Mike became a free agent. Jen assured Henry that Katie loves him, using Gone With The Wind as an example. Mike surprised Katie with a thanks for her efforts, but it didn’t help. His kindness just made her feel more guilty. That’s when Henry came home and forgave her for everything. “I know why you told Craig about the baby, and frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” he said, sweeping her into a kiss. Aww, Snickers doesn’t come from a broken home anymore.

Craig was busy tracking down the whereabouts of a shipload of goods that was due to arrive by boat from Singapore, along with the Malaysian sweatshop owner with whom he’s been working, while the unlikely team of Dusty, Sierra, Paul and Barbara plotted his (metaphorical) demise at the Street Jeans offices. We got a sketchy outline of the plan, and the next time we saw Dusty, he was meeting on the docs with Mr. Wah, the sweatshop owner, offering to pay “top dollar” for a favor. Sierra’s job was asking for Margo’s help, and she started by confessing to having Craig kidnapped to the monastery. Now she’s convinced there’s no soul left to save when it comes to him. She even said that Bryant would still be alive if he’d had a different father. (Now that is harsh — that weepy redhead she’s trying to help certainly had a hand in the boy’s death, as well). Since they can’t change him, Margo agreed to help Sierra by breaking the law, but once again, we weren’t privy to the details.

Babs was at Metro offering champagne and peace to a skeptical Craig. “I like champagne. I want to live past the toast,” he said switching their glasses because he assumed he was being drugged. Barbara called his bluff and took a sip, then started acting woozy — but she was pretending, and had anticipated that he would anticipate her move and switch the glasses. (We were reminded of the hilarious reasoning in The Princess Bride.) Meanwhile, Paul was meeting an actor, who was a little curious about what kind of gig he was auditioning for. “It’s more of a reality TV show only, you know, without the cameras,” said Paul cryptically, to which the uneasy actor responded, “I don’t know what my agent told you, but I don’t do porn.” Hired! The actor, a.k.a. Faux Wah, met Craig at Metro, where Paul and Barbara reveled in how well the plan is working. What plan? We were about to find out. Paul, a customs agent and a growling dog joined Dusty on the docks, where Craig was receiving his shipment from Faux Wah. Dusty reached into a crate and pulled out a bag that set the dog off. What’s inside? It looked like cocaine! Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Paul arrived at the Street Jeans office to find Jennifer, who pulled an all-nighter with Mike’s poster. Paul pledged his support for Jen, who was called away to Metro by a lawyer claiming to have an interest in buying Street Jeans. Too bad it was another of Craig’s tricks: he and his lawyer want a pre-natal DNA test, and if she’s carrying a little Montgomery, he’s suing for full custody. Margo happened upon this despicable scene and chewed out her brother for hounding Jen. Meanwhile, Barbara invited herself to Paul’s meeting with Dusty and Sierra to discuss the recent severance of WorldWide’s involvement with Street Jeans. After some eloquent appeals by Barbara to Sierra (based on the fact that they’re both mothers) and Paul to Dusty (strictly business), the partnership was back on. Dusty did insist on a liability clause in Jen’s contract, while Babs pressed for a Craig clause to keep him as far as possible from Jen (remember when Rosanna had a “Carly Clause” written into his contract?). To help, she presented an uneasy Sierra with a list of the crimes that Craig has committed but has never paid for (including murder?) and suggested they could capitalize on his vulnerability in those areas. But after Jen called Paul and told him about Craig’s latest attack, Paul realized a few lines on a legal document wasn’t quite enough, so he proposed that they get rid of Craig “for good.”
The Fix-It Vixen (Katie) guest-starred in today’s Adventures of Flawless Man and Self-Flagellating Girl (Mike and Jennifer), as Katie tried to convince Mike not to give up on Jen. His response was of the “thanks but no thanks” variety, so she turned to Original Vixen Lisa to set up a romantic surprise dinner at the Lakeview. “Darling, I have forgotten more scheming than you’ll ever learn,” responded Lisa when Katie unwisely worried that she wouldn’t be able to pull it off. And indeed, she easily lured Flawless Man and Self-Flagellating Girl to the candelit main dining room. What happens next is up to them. Katie giddily returned to Henry, having “proved” how much she loves him. Onward, Fix-It Vixen! Too bad he didn’t look completely convinced.
Les cornered Carly in the interrogation room and sadly for her, he was in the flesh this time (as opposed to just being a nightmare). Jack finally thought to open the door and flipped out, both for his wife’s safety and the fact that prisoners are apparently allowed to wander freely as long as they remain on the police station premises. He sent the criminal packing, and Carly swore she was fine. But by the time Jack returned, she had buckled under the pressure and fled. Tortured by memories of her attack at home, she knocked over her juice, then maniacally tried to blot out a stain on the rug before crumpling to the floor. Jack found her in this state, and she finally admitted that she’s not feeling so steady since Les’s attack. “I’m more scared than I’ve ever been and I feel like I’m falling apart,” she cried.

Lucinda walked in on Lily patching up Keith’s bandage and made her disapproval known with snarky comments and eye-rolling. Lily sent her patient off to put on one of Holden’s ruggedly attractive stableboy shirts and urged her mother to back off. But La Walsh was determined: once Keith left, she planted seeds of doubt, pointing out that Lily never actually saw Keith find the cell phone in the all-the-way house. It’s Lucinda’s opinion that Keith is setting up her daughter. At the station, Tom asked Keith for permission to exhume Julia’s body. Keith was having none of it. Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Mike’s gig as Flawless Man has totally been backfiring on him, especially when tangling with Self-Flagellating Girl (a.k.a. Jennifer), who was moving out for the same vague reasons involving “what’s best for him” that caused her to give him back his ring. She didn’t want him to feel like it’s his “obligation to fix [her] messes,” but little does she know that one of Flawless Man’s major powers is sensitivity. After talking about himself in the third person for a while, he admitted that he was scared: “why don’t we just be scared together?” Self-Flagellating Girl nearly melted under such intense persuasion, but ultimately realized that it was a choice between protecting her child and having a life with Mike. “I have to choose the path that will give my child a fighting chance,” she cried before running off. Sorry, Flawless Man — better luck next time. In other dysfunctional relationsip news, Katie finally ran into a conspicuously shirtless Henry, who spent the night at the gym. She was relieved to see him, but Henry’s still embracing his backbone and has decided not to come home. She tried to change his mind with some eloquent declarations of love and regret, but it didn’t work. “I think you love how much I love you,” he responded sadly, adding that he can’t bear to see her look at Mike the way he wished she’d look at him. “Making love with you was like icing on the cake,” she argued. “Yeah, I just started to want the cake,” he responded, then challenged her to look him in the eye and say she doesn’t love Mike. She couldn’t. Ouch. Henry wins today’s sympathy vote in this quadrangle, although Katie did swear that she wants to be with him in every possible way, and she’s determined to prove it…. Mike was all alone remembering his most romantic moments with Jennifer, musical montage-style when Katie interrupted the reverie to urge him to fight for his woman. Sheesh, talk about mixed messages from that one. As the song (something about “It’s not so bad, you’re only the best I ever had”) played on, Jen arrived at her office, where Mike’s Street Jeans poster triggered a memory of being in bed with him. She dissolved into tears, clutching the poster.

After learning from Jessica that Lily could move back to the top of the suspect list if Les is cleared as Julia’s killer, Lucinda thought better of her decision to hire the town’s best (and hottest, judging by today’s snazzy look) defense attorney to represent a random wifebeater. Jess pointed out that she can’t just turn on her client at La Walsh’s whim, and handed back her check, which looked like it was for $5 million!. Advantage, Jessica. Meanwhile, Les popped up in Carly’s nightmare as she slept on the couch (she has no bed, after all). She was relieved to wake up to Jack, and then made a somewhat preposterous promise to J.J. that Les will never bother them again. Jack was understandably concerned about the psychological repercussions for his wife, but she insisted she’s fine. Still, she looked a little shaky when she arrived at the station later to give the statement — especially when Les appeared in the interrogation room with her. Is he just a figment of her imagination again? Find out tomorrow.

Keith’s evidence against Les “wouldn’t stand up in a kangaroo court,” according to Tom. The D.A.’s immovability further frustrated Keith, who claimed that in these types of cases, “It’s a documented fact that the abuser is the one that killed them.” Lily tried to keep him calm, but Keith ended up busting a rib yelling at Tom (well, almost: his stitches burst). Lily took him home for some sexually-charged nursing care, which Lucinda walked in on. Back at the station, Tom asked Ben (hello again, Ben!) to review the coroner’s report on Julia’s death, and the doc noted that she could have died from airway constriction, not a blow to the head. This only means one thing, as Tom told Jack: it’s time to exhume the body! Awww, and Mother’s Day is still a week away. Monday, April 25, 2005
On the oh-so-busy Oakdale/Las Vegas flight, Jennifer returned Mike’s engagement ring. “So you’re breaking up with me because you love me?” Mike asked. Yep — and he finally took back the ring. Jennifer told him that she was not going home with him, either. She was going back to work (now that is devotion…or denial!). Not so fast Jennifer — Dusty packed up the Street Jeans office. Paul arrived and Dusty told him Street Jeans was officially out of business. “Hi, I’m back,” smiled Jennifer upon her arrival. “Welcome back, you’re fired,” replied Dusty. Jennifer informed them she is back for good and that Craig showed up and stopped the wedding. Dusty blasted Jen for leaving but told her he loved what she did at Street Jeans. Barbara found Paul at Metro and he told her to stay away from Jennifer and the baby, again.

Katie searched for Henry at the gym. Craig showed up and called Katie on her feelings for Mike. Craig blackmailed Katie — he’ll keep his mouth shut about her telling him about Jennifer’s baby and she has to “speak highly of Craig and his parenting skills.” Katie refused. Mike showed up at the gym and almost got in a fight with Craig. Katie kicked Craig out and Mike said he came by to thank her for trying to help stop Craig. Craig showed up at Street Jeans and tormented Jennifer. “Heck, you can even marry me…That’s a joke,” he said. Jennifer apparently didn’t think it was funny because she smashed the bottle of milk he left for her.

Carly was haunted by Les’ attack (you could tell because she didn’t have any makeup on and was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.) Carly later freaked when she learned Les could be released, but Jack vowed to protect her.

Keith and Lily’s first kiss was an intense one (or as intense as it can be having your first kiss in an examination room at the hospital!). “That was a great kiss…for me. How was it for you?” asked Keith. Jack’s phone call interrupted them and they took off for the police station. At the station, Les insisted he didn’t kill Julia. Jack was stunned when Jessica showed up as his attorney (thanks Lucinda!). Jack told Jessica she knows what it’s like to be victimized in her own house but she stood firm and refused to reveal who is paying her to defend him. Les insisted that Keith planted the phone. The test results came back and Les’ fingerprints weren’t on the phone so Les couldn’t be charged with Julia’s murder. Keith thought about taking JJ and running but Lily talked him out of it. Jessica witnessed a close moment between Lily and Keith and made a call to Lucinda.

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