ATWT Recaps Week of Dec. 12, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
“Do you have any idea how happy I am?” Meg asked Dusty. (Apparently she somehow could tell he was happy to see her….) However, she confessed to being worried about what Jennifer staying in town will mean for her and Dusty — will he want to play Daddy? Dusty assured Meg, “I’m with you,” and gave her a gift: a necklace that Dusty said meant “I won’t abandon you.” Meg got a call from the hospital and had to go, so Dusty left Jen voicemail saying he would drop by to check on her.
Gwen and Will refused to leave Jennifer’s place unless Barbara let Gwen hold the baby. Gwen feared “Billy” wouldn’t understand the changes, and she couldn’t walk away without saying goodbye. Barbara handed Johnny over for some alone time, and Gwen cooed and cried over the tot. “You’re gonna get a new mom,” she sobbed. “Better than me; but she’ll never love you more than me.” Gwen give the child back to Bar-bar, and vowed never to forget him. Then she remembered the funeral for “John Dustin Kasnoff,” and realized that was her baby they put in the ground. Gwen couldn’t deal with going home to Billy’s stuff and took off alone.
BJ wanted to be alone with Katie “at home” (Mike and Katie’s place), but she said it didn’t feel right. BJ revealed that he had called Henry (yeah, right), who promised to come home at some point so she could have closure. BJ and Katie raised a toast of chocolate milk to “One door closing and another opening.” He suggested a fresh start — so he started burning Katie’s pictures of Mike, eventually cajoling her into burning some, too. Then BJ promised they’d “finish off” Henry. Meanwhile, Olga tried to inject Mike with a mysterious hypodermic needle (“Soon you sleep with fishes,” she cackled), but when Maddie arrived Mike awoke and Olga fled. Mike revealed that Katie was back in town with BJ, but Maddie still feared for Henry. Mike assured her he would investigate as soon as he got well. Olga returned to the wine cellar, where Henry massaged her shoulders and sweet-talked her, prompting her to kiss him! “Take woman!” she pronounced as she pounced on the prostrate Henry. He balked at the “damp and nasty” setting. When he suggested taking it upstairs, she opened the door, and he made a break for it.
Jen confronted Paul about his deception, and when he didn’t deny it she knew. “There was a reason,” he blustered, but Jen scoffed that it had better entail something as serious as death. Then she recalled that he tried to talk her into flying away without her son last night, and was sickened. Paul swore he didn’t switch babies, it was Craig — and Craig can’t be stopped by jail. Jen demanded to know how long he hid the truth from her, and figured out that he knew since August, when he confronted Craig over putting Rosanna in hospital. “How could you hate me that much?” she wailed. She didn’t fear Craig; this was all about “You and Craig; you and Rosanna,” she hissed. Paul tried to cover and let slip that “we” wanted to tell the truth, and Jen realized Emily knew, too. Paul insisted the little lie snowballed out of control and tried to apologize. Jennifer said he could never make up for what he cost her: She lost months of her son’s life, wound up a junkie and lost her mind. “I am still your brother,” he declared. “No, you’re not,” she countered, and walked out on him. Then a cop cuffed Paul to bring him to his arraignment (already?), but Will burst in and demanded to know why Paul did it. Will probably wanted to choke his brother, but was so flustered that he merely put his hands on Paul’s shoulders.
Casey got accepted to the University of Wisconsin, and was eager to go and put Gwen and her kid behind him. Margo was elated, and Casey was just interested in pledging a frat. She advised him to live in a dorm freshman year. A completely distraught Gwen arrived to tell Casey that “Billy” wasn’t their baby, so that’s why the paternity test was wrong. She’s not crazy, she insisted: “It just wasn’t our baby,” she sobbed. “Our baby’s dead.”
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