OLTL Recaps Week of April 25, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Well, if this Friday’s episode is any indication, Antonio can kiss goodbye any chance of raising Jamie. RJ blew a gasket at the hospital (understandably) at Antonio and Jessica when he learned that Jessica had been in his apartment with Jamie when the fire broke out. “Thank you Jessica. You made the custody hearing a cakewalk,” RJ said. Antonio headed to the chapel in hopes of finding some serenity while Jessica tried to figure out what was wrong with her head. Poor girl. She had had a three-day blackout and was on the verge of a meltdown when she grabbed her doctor and said, “this doesn’t happen to ordinary people.” You are right with that Jess.
John tried to convince Natalie he didn’t have romantic feelings toward her but did confess to feeling weird the time he saw her with Ron Walsh. That admission only gave Natalie hope. (John should consider tuning into Oprah from time to time, he’d learn not to do this stuff.) John headed over to Evangeline’s for a little loving and promptly dozed off. There he dreamt he was saving a woman, but when he found her she kept switching between Natalie and Evangeline, if that’s not foreshadowing, nothing is.
Natalie gave Michael a big ‘ol punch in the face for having told his brother John about her lingering feelings. “John has Natalie and I have you,” she said bitterly.
Jessica told Riley in no uncertain terms that it was OVER between them. A heartbroken Riley headed over to his dad and Nora’s house, because he blames the breakup on his father. (We agree, it’s never good when your father is trying to pin a murder on your girlfriend.) Those newlyweds were having their own troubles. Nora confronted Daniel on those mysterious phone calls and he got quite QUITE testy when he realized she’d been checking up on him. He was able to sort of convince her that the top secret calls had been from the Governor about Daniel replacing Kevin as the Lt. Gov. Nora sort of bought it, but still there was obvious doubt and worry on her face when he left. Well, Nora dear, you have reason for concern. Daniel headed off to a mysterious cabin far far away where he met someone, whose face we didn’t see. “We have to be careful. People will recognize us.”
Rex promised to protect Jessica from harm and from jail, kind of heroic for the once self-centered guy.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Lots of special family moments between fathers and sons, cousins and brothers. Oh where oh where to begin?
Let’s start with Michael and John. Try as Michael might to stay out of his big brother’s love life, he just can’t help himself. He managed to convince John to talk to Natalie and also offered his two cents on who John should be with. Michael was on the Evangeline team. John took his advice and headed over to Viki’s house, where Natalie was dreaming of John while sipping wine. Natalie opened the door and in her most sex kitten way welcomed him in. John tried to convince her there was nothing romantic going on between them, but lost some ground in that debate when she started kissing him and he did nothing to get away.
Poor Evangeline, of course, is clueless as to what’s going on with John and Natalie. She paid a visit to John’s office hoping for some cheer as she’d just had a disastrous meeting with RJ, who wasn’t about to play nice with Antonio regarding little Jamie’s custody. But, of course, John wasn’t there. (See above paragraph.) Michael was and he cryptically told Evangeline to “talk to John” and then told her he thought she was the best thing that had ever happened to his brother. Aww. Sweet. Right?
Duke and Kevin and Adriana and Kelly were all having dinner. The guys at the diner and gals at The Palace. And they sweetly bonded about their love lives, and the youngers urged the olders to consider getting back together. Kevin shocked this recapper (that’s the person writing this) when he asked his son, “So have you done it?” Duke was a little shocked too, but it turns out Kevin was asking if he’d dropped the L word. (Translation for those baby boomers and greatest generation people reading this, has he said “I love you” to Adriana.)
Then guys joined the gals for dessert. Much flirtation happened over the coffee, while it appeared Kevin and Kelly made plans to take a little out of town trip. Adriana and Duke smiled happily.
Now the Llanview residents who are not smiling at all are Blair and Todd, frankly they are looking pretty darn miserable. Todd is still harboring THE SECRET while Blair is just afraid something really bad is about to happen. Or as Blair so poetically said, “Waiting for the world to crash down.” Then there’s the fact that Todd keeps threatening to “Take them out,” them being Asa and Margaret. Blair was reminiscing about the days “when we were really happy.” When exactly was that? We can’t remember.
Of course, we’re most intrigued by the scenes of a woman rubbing her stomach in a DR’s office. Got sonogram results. Learned she’s having a son. Who could that be? Could it be….. Margaret!!!!! Todd and Blair are obviously in for a summer of FUN!
Whatever one’s feelings are toward Jessica, you’ve got to feel a little sorry about what happened to her today. Poor thing came to (as Tess) in RJ’s apartment surrounded by smoke and fire. Tess wanted to run away and leave little Jamie to, well, fend for herself. Tess actually said to the toddler (heard by not seen) to lie on the floor. However, while trying to run, Jessica began to fight with Tess to take dominance (is that the right terminology? well, today it is). Jessica won (though barely) only to look around and think “what fresh hell is this.” She went into good girl Jessica mode and saved Jamie. Then right in the Nick (sorry that’s B&B) right in the nick of time, Antonio showed up and got them to the hospital. Clearly whatever Jessica’s comes up with as an excuse, it’s not going to look that good in RJ’s eyes. And what kind of story could Jessica come up with anyway? SHE WASN’T EVEN THERE…Don’t you hate it when that happens?
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
A teary Marcie begged John to find the Killing Club killer. “I inspired these murders,” she sobbed. An uncharacteristically sweet John assured her they were doing all they could to find the murderer and urged her to try to let it go.
Meanwhile, said murderer, with brand new unisex gloves, was seen loading a crossbow (where’d he/she get that?) and aiming at one of the headshots on his wall in this very VERY creepy black brick dungeon.
Natalie, clearly unable to let her obsession with John go, cornered poor Michael again at the diner. She remained convinced John and Evangeline were history and that John was now hers. Not so fast, Michael insisted. Not so fast. “If he wanted to be with you, he’d be with you.” These stinging words did nothing to burst Natalie’s balloon as she ordered John a cheeseburger with fries. Later, Michael popped in to John’s office while he was eating the aforementioned cheeseburger and informed his big brother that Natalie was still in love with him.
A somewhat calmer Marcie ran into Michael at the diner and caught him looking sort of cozy with Natalie. A crestfallen Marcie assumed there was something going on between Michael and Natalie (little did she know how completely wrong she was). Michael cleared up the confusion and Marcie was visibly relieved though got a little weepy when they started talking about the murders.
Evangeline was doing her lawyer stuff and met with Antonio to discuss the case. Rex showed up and the two tried to convince him to testify against RJ. “I wouldn’t trust him with a goldfish,” Rex snarled. However, unless Rex would get something out of it, he wasn’t about to do the right thing. Yet, if Antonio and Evangeline could get Jen out of trouble, then he’d think about testifying.
Shortly after the guys left the office, Evangeline’s real guy dropped by to make nice. After a very awkward conversation, the two began to kiss and make up. In the next scene the two were on the couch, we’re not too sure what happened but somewhat glad we didn’t have to see it. Suffice it to say, all is now well with JoVan, something that Natalie clearly won’t be happy about.
Daniel and Nora continued their role as Llanview’s Bickersons. Nora kept at Daniel about his obsession with Jen-as-Killer. Daniel hit below the designer belt when he reminded Nora that her take on people wasn’t always on the money, er, remember Troy McIver. Ouch. Nora went up to help Matthew with homework when Daniel made another mysterious call. Nora caught him and Daniel did some fancy dodging and said he was talking to (make that fighting with) his son Riley. Daniel then stormed out, as usual. Poor Nora couldn’t help herself and decided to make a new stepmother call to Riley only to learn two quite distressing bits of information. 1. Riley had NOT just been talking to his father. 2. Riley had only spoken to Daniel once during the honeymoon, and is was not that time Nora had overheard Daniel being mushy on the phone in Paris.
Tess put into action her plan to ruin Antonio’s chances for a happy family life with Jessica and Jamie. She arrived all bouncy at RJ’s ready to pick up Jamie to meet daddy at the diner. But not before she did some sleuthing. She put the little girl to bed and began searching RJ’s apartment for incriminating evidence. She left a lit cigarette in an ash tray (ever notice all bad girls smoke?) while she climbed on a chair to reach what appeared to be a very interesting box of stuff. However, she was wearing heels and, well, fell off the chair, hit her head and was out like a light. The super long cigarette, however, was not out and had started a fire in the apartment. Meanwhile, little Jamie is calling out for Jessica. Someone call 911 AND child services right away.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
All was not well with the new Mr. and Mrs. Colson. Nora and Daniel had fight # 58 about his mysterious phone calls, and he stormed out to cause problems at the police precinct (but Bo wasn’t there). Nora gave in to her temptation to dial *69, but she got that blasted recording, “the number you have dialed is …” Nora met Evangeline for a “Why are men so weird” lunch and both deduced that their relationships were not going so well. Nora suggested Evangeline tell John how she felt, as that had worked so well with Daniel. Um, no. Daniel arrived with a bouquet of flowers for Nora but that clearly didn’t work as she left them on the table.
Both Evangeline and John were in very grumpy moods following their disastrous trip to her family. Natalie picked up on John’s state of mind right away and did her best to find out what had gone wrong. He wasn’t sharing. She then batted her baby blues and reminded him “I’m there for you.” Evangeline kept her mind off boyfriend troubles as she had to run interference between the battling RJ and Antonio.
Kelly went over to the Viki camp when she quit her job at the University out of loyalty to her mother-in-law. This did not sit well with Dorian, especially when Kelly then asked Viki for a job. Dorian announced that she was the new woman in the Governor’s life. A laughing out loud Viki called Dorian’s bluff and accused her of flirting with the Gov just to make David jealous. David didn’t take the bite and countered with news that “her girls” were starting to turn on her. David 1; Dorian 0.
Ginger, Tess’ new friend, just couldn’t understand why Tess was so obsessed with Jessica’s relationship with Antonio. Tess proceeded with her plot against Antonio alone. To that end, Tess left a goopy Jessica-style message on Antonio’s cell saying that she was ready to pick up Jamie. 
Monday, April 25, 2005
The Palace restaurant became a virtual Buchanan versus Lord battleground. Todd had the place bugged and was flitting around from table to table stirring up trouble. Big sis Viki (who predicted he’d end up like Citizen Kane) urged him to go home and be with his family. Renee, still sporting that attractive Louise Brooks hairdo, said frankly “you and Blair are not the only people who have suffered.” Poor Viki hardly had a moment to eat a meal. Dorian sat herself down and began begging for Viki’s help in breaking up Adriana and Duke. Viki came out far the more desirable female relative by saying these kids were growing up and for Dorian to please leave them alone. Dorian physically left the building after Viki hit a nerve hinting that Dorian was only acting this way because she was really just missing David. That may be true for the moment, but, we’re making a prediction here — Dorian will be quite upset when she learns Adriana offered to help Duke and Buchanan Enterprises (that’s B.E. in Duke talk) by setting up a charity group of young women. And Dorian will find this out because Todd’s surveillance guy got that bit of conversation on tape as well as Renee’s frantic phone calls to track down some missing “papers” no doubt in some way connected to Asa.
John suffered through his own remake of Guess Who’s Coming to ..the Funeral as he got the third degree from Evangeline’s well meaning uncle Clay. Uncle Clay went on and on about how fabulous his niece (or as the family calls her ‘Cookie’, because though she once baked lousy cookies, she was determined to sell every one of them) is. Uncle Clay also shared the family’s goals for Evangeline — either “marry the President or be the President.” Okay, then. Evangeline, who wasn’t winning any points for bringing home the non-smiling detective had to deal with her mother comparing John’s inability to open up to that of another key man in Cookie er Evangeline’s life, her father. John failed at seducing Evangeline in her old bedroom (clearly every man’s fantasy) but succeeded at finding her old yearbook and read out loud all her achievements, including most likely to succeed. Adding more tension to the room was the photo of Evangeline and that rising politico Barack Obama, the real guy. Apparently Evangeline met him through her former beau (and family fave) Dennis. No points for John there. Evangeline and John said some awkward goodbyes to mom and uncle Clay, packed up the car, and headed back to Llanview. John perfected his surly stare while Evangeline tried to make apologies for her family’s behavior. Any chance for a heart-to-heart conversation came to a complete stop when John TURNED ON THE RADIO.
John may not do much talking but he was the main topic of conversation when Natalie cornered his brother Michael at the coffee shop. She tried to make comparisons to her relationship with John to Michael’s with Marcie. That didn’t work, so she started to badger Michael with questions and wild statements about John including her knowledge (though clearly unconfirmed) that John didn’t love Evangeline. Then the topic of Caitlin came up (John’s deceased girlfriend) and Michael told Natalie that the bricks in the wall around John had more than just the name “Caitlin” on them. (Nice image, right.) Natalie pushed for more information but Michael made it clear those details were in the vault.
Then, in the park, Tess is waiting for new friend Ginger to return with a six pack when she’s unpleasantly surprised by Antonio and his daughter Jamie. Tess, who can’t bear Antonio, is constantly at war (in her head) with Jessica, who loves him. Thanks to RJ and Jamie and the custody battle, Tess came up with brilliant way to break up Jessica and Antonio. Read carefully: RJ knows that Jessica is seeing a therapist and may mention that tidbit at the custody hearing. Antonio knows he can’t do anything involving Jamie that RJ may interpret as irresponsible. Tess is well aware of this delicate situation. So Tess (pretending to be nice Jessica) offers to pick up Jamie for her next visitation with papi. A worried Antonio doesn’t want to hurt Jessica’s feelings but doesn’t think that’s the greatest idea because Jessica isn’t seeming “herself.” Isn’t Antonio a great detective? However “Jessica” insists and Tess’ eyes sparkle at the prospect of the damage she can do to Antonio’s custody battle and how that will write the final chapter to the Saga of Jessica and Antonio.
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