Recap by Jill

ONE LIFE TO LIVE RECAP FOR THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2001
 
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Jessica and Natalie

Jess gets stuck in the woods somewhere near the university in her sports car with a flat tire.  Her cell phone battery is dead and she has no clue how to change a flat.  She gets out the manual and the tools, but hasn’t got a clue.  Natalie comes by and Jess is happy to see her.  She recognizes her as the girl who found her wallet in the parking lot of the Break Bar and is glad she came along when she did.  She asked if Natalie has a cell phone she can borrow, but Natalie tells her she still uses phones with wires.  It is obvious that Natalie doesn’t have the monetary advantages that Jessica does.  She tells Jess she was just walking by taking a shortcut to the campus and Jess asks her if she would call road service for her when she gets to a phone.  Natalie tells her that she knows how to change a flat tire and Jess is surprised and very grateful.  Jess is spooked out in the woods…she says she feels eyes watching her, like that old movie where the trees had eyes.  Someone is actually watching, but we don’t know who it is.  Natalie changes the tire and when she stands up, Jessica notices that Natalie’s shirt is ruined, stained with grease.  She feels terrible that she is the cause of Natalie’s shirt being ruined, and Jessica offers to buy her a new one.  Natalie turns her down, saying the stains will come out and Jess just wants to do something to pay her back.  Natalie tells Jess that she didn’t change her tire to get anything from her.  Jess asks Natalie if she is going to Kortney Kale’s concert that night and Natalie asks if it’s free.  Jessica says she thinks so and they agree that they will both go.  Jessica offers her a ride and Natalie says she wants to walk…so Jess gets in her car to leave and it appears someone is still watching her from behind the trees.

The judge, Hank and Bo

The three are talking in the courtroom and Bo feels that Nora has suffered enough at Colin’s hands.  He wants Nora to go free and let this be the end of it.  Hank agrees but the judge doesn’t.  She feels that it was very convenient that Nora just regained her memory and although she believes Nora’s story, she feels that Nora still killed a man and did it purposely and she should be charged.  The judge tells Bo that he is blinded by his feelings and he says his feelings have nothing to do with it.  Sam walks in and wonders if they are going to charge Nora and the judge tells him to mind his own business and go home before he goes back to jail for contempt.  Then she tells Bo and Hank that Nora deliberately pushed a man down the stairs and questions them wanting to excuse that.  Bo says that Nora is not guilty…the judge says Nora still killed Colin.  Bo tells her that it’s his and Hanks fault for putting Colin back on the street.  He tells the judge that they had an airtight case against Colin and that Hank made a deal with him and they had to put him back on the street.  Hank confirms what Bo is saying.  Bo says that’s why Nora is in the predicament she’s in.  Bo tells the judge that if Nora has to pay for what she did, then he’s turning in his badge.  The judge makes some kind of decision and Bo and Hank walk out of the courtroom wondering who is going to tell Nora what’s happening.

Sam, Jen, Will and Cris

Jen wants Sam to go home, but he won’t leave until he finds out what’s going to be with Nora.  Will and Cris walk away and Cris apologizes to Will for thinking that Lindsay killed Colin.  Will accepts his apology.  Cris wonders why Lindsay confessed when she didn’t kill Colin.  Jen apologizes to Sam for thinking that he could have killed Colin and he apologizes to her for thinking she did it.  Sam says he’ll forgive her if she forgives him…and they hug.  Jen, Will, Cris and Sam are together again and Sam wonders why Lindsay confessed, too.  Jen says that she and Will threatened her and said that if she loved them, she’d do the right thing.  Jen and Will never told Sam that they blackmailed Lindsay with what they know about her kidnapping and drugging Nora.  Sam says now it’s all over, at least for his family. 

Jen thanks Cris for standing by her.  They agree to go to the Kortney Kale concert that night and to try and put their lives back in order.

Jen and Will are talking and Will says some things don’t add up.  He wonders about the boots found at his place and Jen tells him she put them there.  She tells him that after she saw Lindsay and Sam bury the body, she found the muddy boots and hid them at Will’s house, thinking that no one would find them and accuse Will.  Will asked her why she didn’t tell him and Jen said that she was always instructed by Lindsay not to talk about the murder at all.

Lindsay and Nora

Lindsay goes after Nora with a vengeance.  At first, Lindsay thanks Nora for saving Sam, but then she decides to let it all hang out and go for Nora’s throat.  She tells Nora that she has nothing to say to her…then says, “Maybe I do.”  She tells Nora that she’s going to pay for what she did and that she doesn’t believe for a minute that Nora just got her memory back of Colin’s murder.  Lindsay is furious and tells Nora that she has to pay for what she did to Sam and his children.  She said that Sam came so close to going to prison.  Nora asks her if she’d be happy to see her in prison and Lindsay says she would be very happy to see that.  Lindsay tells her that she believes she knew all along that she killed Colin and she deliberately destroyed her on the stand, knowing she was innocent.  Nora admitted that she believed Lindsay did it and even though all the facts didn’t fit, she made them fit.  Lindsay is furious that Nora publicly humiliated her in front of everyone, including her children.  She said that Nora bared every one of her LITTLE secrets and crimes….Nora said, “LITTLE?”  Lindsay called her a pathetic criminal. 

Nora asks her why she confessed and Lindsay tells a whopper of a lie.  She says that she did it to save Sam…that she knew he didn’t do it and she did it so her children would have their father.  She said she knew that Sam was the better person and the better parent, so he should be with the kids and that’s why she made the sacrifice.  Of course, Nora wasn’t buying that and asked Lindsay, “You’re only interested in saving yourself.  How did confessing to Colin’s murder save you, Lindsay?”  Again, Lindsay says her children needed their father.  Nora agreed that Sam was the better person.  Lindsay tells Nora that her family will never be the same after what she did and Nora agrees that it’s true.  She said it was way too convenient that Nora’s memories just happened to come back at the same time Roseanne showed up to confirm the story.  Lindsay asks Nora, “If I had been convicted and sent to prison, and then you remembered what happened, would you have come forward or let me rot in prison?”  Lindsay answers herself…she knows Nora would leave her in prison.  Nora is shocked that Lindsay would say that.  She asks Lindsay, “If Bo never found out about the tests that you switched, would you have come forward?”  Lindsay won’t answer that…she just starts ranting at Nora that it was her fault that her wedding to Bo was ruined and her fault that Lindsay lost her baby.  Lindsay tells her that now she’s as rotten as everyone else and Nora asks, “As rotten as you?”  Lindsay says that Nora has outdone her.  She brings up the fact that Colin saved her from the train wreck and brought her back to health and made her walk again.  She tells Nora that she was the love of Colin’s life.  Nora says that she knows what Colin did for her, but he snapped and he wasn’t the same at the end.  Nora says she’s sorry for what she put everyone through and that no one deserves to be murdered.  Nora says she doesn’t need Lindsay’s forgiveness.  Lindsay says that she won’t forgive her and that after the judge gets through throwing the book at her, prison is going to be the least of her worries.  She tells Nora that she is going to suffer, that everywhere she goes, people will look at her as a murderer and that she is going to lose the respect of everyone.  She tells Nora that what she did was unforgivable and that no one will forgive her.  She says that Sam won’t put up with what she did to him and his children and that he will never forgive her.  At that moment, Sam walks in.

Gabrielle, Al and Kortney

Gabrielle is at the mansion when Al and Kortney come in.  Al introduces his old friend Kortney to his mother and they tell Gabby that for some reason, RJ pulled the plug on her performance that night at the Break Bar.  They came to see if Asa could use some of his clout to get Kortney another gig.  Gabby tells them that Asa is not around, but maybe she can use her name to get something done.  She makes a call and tells them that Kortney will be performing that night at the country club.  Kortney is very excited and thanks Gabby.  Al and Gabby are alone and she asks him his thoughts about Kortney.  She likes Kortney and thinks she’s a beautiful girl, but Al tells her that they are just friends.  Gabby asks him if there is anyone else in his life and he suggests that maybe there is.  Gabby asks if it’s Jessica and Al says they are just friends and have been since they were kids.  She wants him to be happy and to be careful whom he gives his heart to.  He asks her if she is happy and she says she is…that she loves Asa.  Al says that she likes Asa and she tells him not to worry about she and Asa…that she is deliriously happy.  He mentioned the age difference between Gabby and Asa and she tells him that she used to care about things like that, but when you get older those things aren’t as important.  She tells him that when she was younger, she wanted all the passion and candlelight and dancing and then she realized that wasn’t real.  She says that Al was her casualty for all she did that she’s sorry for.  She said that prison has no romance or candlelight or dancing.  She tells him that she lives for him now and that she doesn’t want him making the same mistakes she did.  Al tells her that Max made her make those mistakes and she says that she did it and that he shouldn’t concern himself with Max.  He tells her that he’s glad everything worked out for her and after Al leaves, Gabby tells herself that everything hasn’t worked out yet, but it’s going to very soon.  

Roseanne and Antonio

At the police station, Antonio is very angry at Roseanne’s deceit.  She is crying the whole time and she tells him she did it because she loves him.  She didn’t tell him what she did and her involvement with Colin because she feared he would hate her.  He said he doesn’t hate her and tells her that he’s not perfect and she shouldn’t have thought that he wouldn’t be able to forgive a mistake.  He says she should have told him the whole story and she says she didn’t want to lose him.  She didn’t want him to know that she slept with Colin and that RJ blackmailed her into working for him and that she used the money from RJ to keep Colin quiet.  She tells him that she couldn’t survive in prison and she couldn’t survive without him.  She tells him about going to Senora Lena for the love potions, which he thinks is ridiculous, but she tells him that magic does work.  She then admits that it wouldn’t have worked for them because she now realizes that he never loved her in the first place and wasn’t going to love her now.  He told her that he was always honest with her – that he said someday he might be able to love her.  She knows that he’s right, and that she didn’t listen to him.  She reminds him about the pictures they took in the photo booth and that she wishes they could be like that.  She says she knows it will never work for them and there’s only one thing to do.  She says that she has burned all her bridges and it’s time for her to leave.  She’s going to leave town right after she serves he sentence.  He asks if she means for good and she says yes, that she wants to go somewhere that she can be someone else.  He tells her she needs to be herself.  She says that she lost herself in all the bad things that she’s done and doesn’t even know who she is any more.   He tells her that he will never forgot the times they had together and she tells him that’s why he’s so special.  He says that he’s going to recommend that she not be prosecuted….that she’s been through enough.  She tells him that had he not come to her motel room, she was going to run away, but walking away feels so much better.  She gets up, says good-bye, kisses him and rubs his back, then leaves the police station. 

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Recap written by Jill Berry, 
copyright by Katherine Thurston, 
and , 2001