Doctor’s Orders
Soap Opera Digest: David has a new mission in his life: to track down Dixie’s daughter. Tell us about that.
Vincent Irizarry: David confronts Dixie with his theory that Kate is alive. She doesn’t give David any specifics at all. She barely acknowledges that he’s accurate in his guess that the baby is alive, but he gleans from the conversation they have that Kate is alive. She never gives any details, doesn’t explain how it happened, but she does say that she needs to take responsibility for her part in it and David’s feeling is, “What are you talking about? You’re the victim here, what part could you have possibly had?” But she doesn’t go into detail, so he’s kind of working in the dark with that. But David is determined to do whatever it takes to help her get her baby back.Digest: To that end, he pays a visit to Dr. Madden.
Irizarry: That’s right. David goes to Dr. Madden and threatens him and medicates him, as he has done with others. Greg is basically willing to take the truth to his death. He doesn’t tell David anything. And then just when David thinks he’s about to get Greg to spill the truth, somebody comes in and breaks it up and David basically has to bring him back from the threshold of death.Digest: David’s really flying solo here — and these days, he seems to be becoming more isolated in general. No one has his back.
Irizarry: That’s a part of the character that, to be honest with you, I’m having a hard time with. Probably because I’ve always had somebody that my character can confide in, someone who has been able to see through all the garbage in David to something better and who can appreciate him, whether it was Anna or Dixie or Erica. There were always people there, but right now, it’s not like that. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to be near him and he’s just getting into everybody’s business. Nobody is appreciative of him even when he does something good. David even has a daughter who doesn’t appreciate him. She says some of the most vile things to him! She tells him what a horrible human being he is, but he lost his license because he was trying to protect her when she stole the baby and lived the life of a janitor for a year to help her cover her tracks. It’s like, “Wait a minute, I sacrificed for her and she’s telling me I’m a horrible person!” She never wants to see him again, thinks he’s a loser and a terrible human being. It’s like, when did she become the picture of virtue?Digest: I’ve also noticed, with Erica turning to Tad throughout this whole drama with discovering that Josh is her son, that there was a time she would have gone to David as a confidant.
Irizarry: True. I don’t really understand that, myself.Digest: While we’re nitpicking, what happened with David and Julia?
Irizarry: I know! I had some nice scenes with her for a time and it looked like there might be a possibility there with them. And now, the way they write her character toward David, she hates him! It’s like, when did that happen? When did she come to think of him as such a vile human being? I don’t know why they took it in that direction. Digest: He must have really done her wrong off-camera.
Irizarry: I guess so! So, while I don’t know everything that’s going on with the character, I do know that he is determined to be the one to help get Kate back for Dixie. And he tells everyone in town that that’s what he’s going to do: “I’m going to get the baby back for her so that she’ll love me again.”Digest: That does sound like classic David.
Irizarry: David is sincerely driven to find Kate right now. He definitely has an ulterior motive; because of his true love for Dixie, he’s hoping that finding Kate for her and helping her complete her life and repairing the damage she’s suffered through the years will make her more drawn to David. And that all makes sense; his motive makes sense. But at the same time, he feels, and for good reason, that she has suffered dramatically over the last four years. And just as her family now feels that she has abandoned them, she felt abandoned by them before she left. That’s why she felt she couldn’t trust them to be there. She felt like they all wanted her to be there for them always and she needed someone to be there for her. David was the first person who she could rely on to be there for her and to help her during that difficult time [before she left town]. She wanted to have this baby.Digest: And that was good enough for David, even though other people disapproved.
Irizarry: That’s right. She didn’t want to terminate the pregnancy even though she might have ended up sacrificing her life, which would have been a huge loss for David, but he wanted to respect her wishes and her desires. So, I can say this: David is very hopeful that he and Dixie can get closer to each other again and there is a belief in his heart that that is possible.
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