ATWT Recaps Week of August 28, 2006
Friday, September 1, 2006
Tom and Margo, soaps’ most realistic parental unit, determined that cell phones weren’t working at Raven Lake which is why they hadn’t heard from Casey. Margo didn’t think that was much of an excuse because she’s suffering from premature “empty nest” syndrome, and she’s still worried about Louis being out there. (She had hilariously gone up to his room to “excavate” and found some moldy old plates under his bed and also some overdue college paperwork that her son had ignored.) “If he wasn’t up at Raven Lake right now, I’d chase him around the house with a stick,” said Mom, clearly missing her son. At least she’ll get to tell him that “Maddie is off the hook,” she reasoned. Tom promised to remind her how much she missed Casey tomorrow, when he’s already driving her nuts again. Cut to Casey, still presumably dead in the woods. Elsewhere at the camp, a screaming Gwen was dragged off by the slasher. She managed to fight off him/her, but ended up getting stabbed in the thigh. Will tracked her down by following the trail of flip-flops and shrieks, then saved her life by chasing off the slasher. “Please don’t leave me,” she begged, when it looked like he might continue his pursuit. “I could never leave you — don’t you know that?” he said, taking her into his arms. They made it to the relative safety of a gardener’s shed and Gwen noted that Maddie wouldn’t have attacked them, and besides, the slasher seemed bigger and stronger than their friend. “If it is Maddie, and I’m not saying it is, then she’s gone completely insane,” noted Will, somewhat unnecessarily. Gwen guessed that the killer was the guy with binoculars that Geneva saw (who we know was Louis). Will sweetly tended to his wife’s wounds and she said that she trusted him. “I never thought I’d hear that from you again,” he said, assuring her that he’d carry her all the way home if he needed to. All of his heroics prompted her to apologize for not defending him when he was the slasher suspect. Forgiveness was a given from Will, who declared his love and leaned in to kiss his wife.
The “in crowd” teens — now including third INTURN finalist Ian — took off on the bus, leaving a screaming Maddie behind with Ann’s body. But in the bus, they all argued about what to do next. Ian, who seems to be a bit of a vigilante, wanted to turn around and deal with psycho Maddie so that she couldn’t evade the cops. One of the other girls — Ada? — actually wondered whether Maddie’s even guilty, and pointed out that they were all too terrified to turn back. “I’m not scared of Maddie Coleman,” he creepily intoned. Maddie was a the lake by Alex’s body, reflecting in sepia-tones on Casey’s loving and supportive words from earlier in the day. Soon, she was sobbing. That’s when Ian, having been dropped off, showed up. He started by weirdly introducing himself, as she held up an oar to protect herself. He picked up his own oar and fingered it creepily as he talked about how close he was with Alex (Ironic! If you’ve been watching INTURN, that is). Finally, Ian announced his intention to avenge his friends’ deaths. She fled through the darkness and hid in a boathouse, while Louis lurked behind a tree nearby, still using his binoculars.
At the station, Henry, Jack and Dallas discussed Louis’s whereabouts. Henry sincerely thanked Dallas for his efforts to help Maddie. “I just wish I could have figured the whole thing out a little sooner,” said the cop, but Henry assured him that Louis would be found. Jack then asked about Maddie; Henry responded that Eve had taken their sister to stay with their other sister, Bernadette. Jack and Dallas wanted to track down the Coleman sisters in case they needed protection from Louis, so they asked Henry to call Maddie. He managed to get Eve on the phone, but there was a lot of static on the line. The siblings quickly determined that Maddie — who had told each of them that she was with the other — was missing; Jack quickly deduced that Maddie was wherever Casey is. At the Hughes house, Tom and Margo filled in Jessica on the whole Louis/Maddie situation, but Margo was still distracted by concerns about Casey and Maddie, who she called “the daughter I never had.” The women then discussed how it’s possible to suffer a sexual assault and “come out stronger on the other side.” Jessica then went to the station, where she assured a guilty Dallas that there was nothing more he could have done and called him her “favorite nephew. But don’t tell your brother.” So is he her sister Fiona’s kid or her brother Lamar’s? (Because Fiona has two boys, neither of whom was named Dallas.) Meanwhile, Tom and Margo told Jack and Henry where all the kids went. They were trying to figure out what to do when Dallas rushed in to say he’d just gotten a call that someone was killing kids at Raven Lake.
Maddie hid from a justice-minded, oar-swinging Ian, who got caught by the slasher before he could kill her. Maddie found his body seconds after running away from him. The dazed girl had gone back to apologize and pledge her love to Casey’s body when Louis finally decided to show his face. Though she tried to run, he caught up with Maddie, who accused him of being the slasher, but he insisted he didn’t kill anyone. But before he could name the real killer, Louis was stabbed in the back.
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