ATWT Recaps Week of Feb. 13, 2006
Friday, February 17, 2006
“Paul doesn’t feel dead to me,” confided Jennifer to Barbara at Paul’s mausoleum, but Babs (who should know better in these situations) convinced her otherwise. At Java, Dusty interrupted Meg’s meeting with the psychic; after he ran off Madame Lacoste with some serious threats, he began a harsh verbal smackdown on Meg. She tried to stand her ground as he yelled at her for torturing Jennifer, but Dusty’s a weakness: she eventually confessed that Paul’s alive, but that only made him angrier. Calling her pathetic, Dusty assumed that she had paid the psychic just to mess with Jen’s mind.
“I think somewhere between shooting him and shoving him off the cliff, the fire went out,” argued Henry after realizing that Emily thinks that Paul still loves her. They proceeded to have their usual repetitive but amusing argument about how she should just let the Paul thing drop for her own good. They then split up, and Em happened up on the tail end of Meg and Dusty’s argument at Java. After getting a curt “none of your business” response to her query from Dusty, she hit a lucky break: Meg had left her sweater behind. Inside was the Wagon Wheel matchbook that had Paul’s message.
Madame Lacoste called Paul, who instantly worried about Meg and rang up Java asking if anyone had seen a beautiful woman with long brown hair and “very dark, unsettling eyes,” presumably eliciting an eye-roll from the clerk on the other end of the phone. Seriously, it’s not exactly subtle. He learned that she had left Java, and worried that Meg might be leading Dusty to the motel. He was about to leave when a distraught Meg showed up and broke down about how she’d been treated. “I came close to ratting you out, but I didn’t,” she sniffed. (Actually, she did rat him out; she’s lucky Dusty didn’t believe her.) Paul gave her a drink and a blanket, then tried to soothe her. “Dusty Donovan never deserved you,” he cooed. Obviously the next step was a kiss — which a just-arrived Emily spied through the sliding glass door, sending her instantly into “mmm-mmm”-level hysterics.
Dusty found Jen at the mausoleum and told her that Meg had been setting her up, then gently offered to do whatever it takes to help her grieve for her brother.
Will told Gwen that he wants to get out of town as soon as possible, and they had a sort of “I love you” “No, I love you more” kind of conversation during which he eventually convinced her to flee if he gets caught or they get separated. Meanwhile, Maddie tried to keep Casey from blabbing to Margo about Will and Gwen. He finally backed down and covered to Margo, but made it clear that he’s mostly worried about what could happen to Maddie if she gets caught helping the fugitives. No matter — Margo got a tip and showed up at Metro anyway. As she entered with a back-up cop, she spoke really loudly, all “I wonder where they could be” like you do when you’re playing hide-and-seek with a 4-year-old — which, as it turns out, is the about Will’s skill level when it comes to hiding. (She found him crouching under a table.) Margo was grilling him for about a minute before Gwen popped out of her hiding place and was promptly arrested. So much for the plan.
Luckily, Casey had come around and agreed to help Maddie clear Gwen’s name. They went to the Lakeview, where Casey turned on his gorgeous grandson charm, getting a surprisingly disloyal Lisa to admit that she was suspicious about Barbara having something to do with the theft that got Gwen fired. She eventually revealed that there’s a nannycam in Barbara’s suite, because Jen caught one of her babysitters bringing boys to the room. So Jennifer has had such frequent needs for babysitters that she’s already fired one? Gwen would never have left that kid alone so often! Anyway, Casey and Maddie decided that they would have to sneak into Barbara’s room to get that tape, so Maddie asked Henry for a favor: distract Babs for a half hour. “Anything but that,” he replied.
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