Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Thursday, August 15, 2002

PRE-RECAP COMMENTS FROM KAYDEE:

At the risk of sounding like an annoying tune you can't get out of your head, or adding to your already existent aggravation, or furthermore, evoking some bashing from those of you who may not agree with me..
I have to vent. The storylines have got to change! The Llanview P.D. are good for nothing, the civilians are better at solving crimes and reading into evidence and reading PEOPLE much better than the group of men and women that have been "certified" as crime fighters! Maybe the problem is that everyone in Llanview is connected, and instead of the objectivity required to maintain that delicate balance between business and personal relationship, the two have been intertwined and thus, the police department feel obligated to be nice and gentle to people they know that just happen to be suspects in a case. Enough, writers! Step out of your spaceships and back on to Earth soil, and give us viewers back the things that hooked us as viewers in the first place. Feel free to share your views on this matter with me. Send your comments to KaydeesHouse@aol.com.
There, I've vented. Let's go to the recap....

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND: THE FIGHT FOR GINGER-MARYANN!

Ross is sitting on the sand, staring out into the water. He sees Tea, in her Victoria's Secret bra and panties set, (or a two piece-bathing suit, you decide!), swimming in the beach. She smiles seductively at him, and waves him over to her. He drops his shirt and races into the water, swimming into her arms and sharing a passionate kiss with her...

(Oh, gag me, won't you!)

Let's take a look at what was really happening, hmm? Ross is sitting on the sand and gets up, telling himself that this can't be happening. He was referring to the fact that he's having visions of kissing Tea in the beach water. Subsequently, it means that he's developing more feelings for her than he initially realized.

Flash over to Tea. She's in the cave with Todd, shocked by his revelation that he can't stop remembering what happened between them. Tea asks him if that's true, then why did he deny what happened between them?
Todd tells her that she was all touchy-feely with Ross when he came back, and Todd was afraid that she was trying to make a fool of him.

"WHY would you think that, Todd?"

Todd does his Manning thing, getting antsy whenever he's put on the emotional hot seat, and tells her as he paces the cave floor that she had her hands all over Ross, and she knows that it makes him crazy to see her with other men, so..

Tea tells him that she can't...no, she WON'T, go through that insane Manning jealousy again. She'd lived through it once, and she'll pass this time around. If Todd can't let himself just BE with her, then nothing really did happen. Todd, uncomfortable with the silence that followed, again paces and brings up her flirtatious behavior with Ross. Tea says that Ross survived a risky boat trip, and he's trying to get them off the island now, so how is she supposed to act with him?

Todd asks her what about him? Is she just going to leave with "pretty boy" and leave him behind? Tea is angry, saying that once again, Todd nearly duped her. He was only saying all of those things to her because he is afraid that they're going to leave him behind! Todd doesn't tell her that she's misunderstanding him, instead, he tells her that she makes him work too hard. She takes too much energy...it was cute when they were together, but in reality? She's a big pain...

Tea angrily tells him that she can't wait to get back to her life...the one that excluded him. She was happy when she left him.

"Nah," Todd says, "you were bored and lonely."
Lonely, yes, she counters, but she was happy. And she WILL get back to her life. And if Todd wants to leave the island with her and Ross, he's going to have to work for the privilege, just as they are. Todd asks her how? She tosses a tangled mass of straw or shredded wood at him..

(Don't quote me on the materials, folks! I'm no nature survivor!)

"Make some rope, Manning!" she says.

"Yeah, that's me, Todd the Weaver," he quips. She tells him that he can do anything. He's owns a newspaper. He can make a computer stand up and spit raisins, and he can make her get involved with him again. He can do anything he sets his mind to do. She storms off and he grins victoriously.

Later, he's not feeling too much the victor as he sits on the sand and spins some rope. (Can you say, ‘Rumpelstiltskin'?)

He says aloud, as he looks at his first spun braid of rope, "You always got the best of me, Delgado. Every time.."

Tea, who had been watching Todd perform his task in shock, is even more surprised by his words. She runs around a tree and says, in that whining sob, "I can't do this again! I just can't!"

Todd hears her and calls out for her. He stands up and walks toward her, but winds up chasing her down the sand.....

RAE-RAY'S REVENGE!!

Asa sits smoking a cigar in his mansion. On the table in front of him, his laptop is open, colorfully displaying his broadcast of the Rae Cummings expose. At the top of the internet page, there is a heading that says:
"Gretel is a Fraud.com"

Asa is amused with his performance, and at that point, Renee walks in. She spots the display on the laptop and rips into Asa for making a DVD of the fiasco. Asa corrects her..It's not a DVD, it's the internet. He tells an appalled Renee all about how he started a website for people to see the story about the quack 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Renee tells him that he's just awful. What has Rae ever done to him?

Asa says that she's a quack, and she needs to be stopped. Why doesn't Renee kick Rae out of that free room she gave her at The Palace and then she'll have nothing, and she'll be forced to pay for that quack therapy she's been spreading around town. Renee says because Rae's a friend, and instead of Asa being so hard on her, why doesn't he try showing some compassion? Asa waves that suggestion off and Renee says fine, but be careful, Asa, you might live to regret it.

THE ATTORNEY, THE FUGITIVES, AND THE "QUACK"!

Lindsay and Allison hold their breath after hearing Rae tell a protesting Sam that she wants to get something, non-therapy related, out of her closet. She goes to the closet and fiddles with the doorknob. She curses the closet door for being stuck, saying that the damned door always swells in the summer, not realizing that there are two psychos on the other side of it pulling the door shut from the inside.

She gives up, and is satisfied that she managed to at least get one major item from her seized home...the recorded session between her and Asa Buchanan. She leaves under Sam's watchful eye, and Sam comes back inside to flip through a file and take it with him as HE leaves.

In the park, Rae is talking on her cell phone. She's telling someone that if they play their cards right, her idea will be a guaranteed best-seller. She hangs up and leaves the park. Flash back into the house...

The psychos emerge from the closet, wiping the sweat from their foreheads. Allison tells Loonsey that they just had a waaaaaay close call, and now they have to speed up their plans to escape to Canada. Lindsay agrees, and spots a photo of Nora and Troy. They are laughing and toasting the camera, and Lindsay holds up the photo for Allie to see. She asks Allison what she thinks Nora and Troy are laughing at, and Allison says, with a "You dumb blonde" look on her face..

"A joke, maybe?"

Lindsay says, "That's right, and the joke is me."

I don't want to bore you with the details of Lindsay's same old "Poor Me" tune, so I'll tell you the short version. Lindsay repeats her story of it's Nora and Troy's fault that I'm in jail. They set me up to ruin my life. Allison takes the photo from Lindsay and says that she doesn't have to look at the photo anymore.
"Let's just focus on our plans to get to the rustic North. I'm going to go to the basement and make sure that we don't leave any clues behind to alert the police to our presence here, and then we'll be on our way," Allie says.
She disappears and Lindsay stares at the photo once more before tearing it up.

Down in the basement, Allison finds an unconscious Roxy on the floor, far across the room from where she'd left her. She asks Roxy how did she wind up all the way over there? She's been a busy little bee, hasn't she?
Roxy comes to, and with terror in her eyes, she tells Allison that she knows that Viki Davidson is in the trunk. What did Allie do to her?

Back at Asa's, we find the old coot talking to a magazine editor. He asks the other party how much would it cost him to run an ad in their magazine  promoting his website. A few seconds into the conversation, he abruptly ends the conversation with the other party and without turning around, he asks,

"How did you get in here?" He turns around and faces Rae. She is more confident as she walks into the living room. He continues his digging, telling her that he thought he told Nigel to nail down the doggy door. Rae tells him that nothing he says, not even the website he created, bothers her anymore. She says that she realizes he's very clever, and that's why she knows he'll appreciate the clever plan she's come up with that will pay off all of her debts.

"A bake sale?" Asa quips. Rae's mouth turns up in a sardonic grin as she casually counters, "A tell-all book." Asa tells her not to waste her time, because all the details of her phony quack therapist life can be read for free on his website. Again, Rae grins, telling him that she's well aware of that, that's why she's writing a book about HIM. He chuckles, telling her that it will be her word against his. She saunters over to him, telling him that Asa forgot one important routine of hers that she practiced in her therapy sessions..she records all sessions. She waves the cassette in his face.

Well, folks, Asa secretly chokes, but you know the old coot will never show his weakness. He tells her that she can't use the tape, because it's protected under the doctor-patient confidentiality rule. Again, Rae smirks, telling him that as he has so brutally pointed out to the whole world, she's not a doctor, and therefore, that rule doesn't apply to her. He argues her that it does, and they go back and forth for a bit. Rae-Ray pulls out a mini cassette recorder and lets Asa stew in his own juices as his own confessions of previous money scams fill the air.

And Rae-Ray shows some signs of a comeback, folks! Just when it looked like Iron-Hand Buchanan had put her down for the count, Rae pops back up before the ten-count! DING!

LLANVIEW P.D.–NOT!!

In the front desk area of the precinct, Al nervously waits for Bo to call for him. As he waits, his guilt causes him to envision Bo calling him into the office and asking him why did he set the Rappaport fire. In this vision, Norman Bates, Jr. is babbling about how he didn't mean for anyone to get hurt, and Bo slaps handcuffs on him, charging him with arson and attempted murder....

AHHHHH...what a nice thought that would be.......

OKAY, SHOW'S OVER!! Back to reality, folks! What REALLY happened was that the sick, twisted little teen is called into the Commission-Not's office and given pretty much the Chateau Royale treatment. He is asked a couple of questions about what he remembers about the scene of the crime that night.

Al, who is acting jumpy, and strange and desperate to deflect the suspicion to someone else rambles on about not remembering anything except being anxious to get Jen out of danger. Bo pulls out the evidence bag that holds Natalie's keys and Al is more jumpy. He asks Bo if those are Natalie's and he says yes. He also tells Al that whoever dropped them there was careless and sloppy.

"W-what do you mean?" Al says. Bo tells him that the keys are covered in latent prints. Al freaks out, but tries to keep cool. He asks Bo, in the most calm voice he can muster, who the prints belong to. Bo says they haven't been identified yet. Now, Al pulls a fast one.

He jumps up and acts as if he's outraged that someone would set a fire that almost killed Jen and try to set up Natalie for it. He continues to say that if he ever gets his hands on the person who did that he'll....

Gabrielle walks in at that moment with a brown paper bag, and apologizes for interrupting. She tells Bo that she comes bearing food, and since she knows that he eats takeout when he's working, he can name each dish as he eats them. But he has to eat, roomie's orders. They smile, then Gabby turn to Al and asks how her son the hero is doing. Bo explains that he called Al down hoping that Al would have remembered something that would help the investigation of the Rappaport case.

Al injects his amateur police knowledge, ( even his little paranoid input is more efficient than the actual police department's!) and says to Bo that he thinks that maybe Jen wasn't the intended victim. After all, she hasn't been living there and it's a fluke that she was even there that night.

Bo says, okay, then who do you have in mind? Al says maybe Sam was the intended victim. Nah-ah. Sam doesn't have any enemies. Al tells Bo that Sam told Jen that it may have been a disgruntled ex-client.

Nah-ah..Sam hasn't lost any cases. Then Al says what about Todd Manning? Bo says what about Todd? Al talks quickly. Wasn't Todd angry with Sam for losing his wife? Bo asks a very flustered Gabby if that's true..and Gabby says, "I don't know." Al says to Gabby,

"I may be mistaken, but didn't you tell me that Todd was angry with Sam and planned to get back at him?"

Gabby gets out of the noose when Bo gets called out of the office to answer a call about the escapees. Gabrielle angrily slams her purse down and demands to know why Al just put her in the middle of a bold-faced lie. She NEVER told him that Todd was angry with Blair! Al says yes she did, and she says she most certainly did NOT. Bo returns before Al can say anything else and tells them that he'll keep an eye out for Todd, and he's not ruling out Allison Perkins. Al eagerly jumps on yet another deflection opportunity and tells Bo: "Yeah! That's right! Allison hated Nat enough to set her up!"

Bo further divulges confidential police info to this psycho by telling him that it's no coincidence that the fire was started on the same night the prison break took place. Al smiles that sick smile and gets away scot-free.

(Way to GO, Commish! You just gave away precinct procedures AND provided a scapegoat to the PERP! As if THAT would ever happen on Planet Earth!)

LOONVIEW TEEN BEAT: SUPERBROOM MINI-ME INITIATION–PT. 2!

Okaaay..let's step into The Superbroom Frat House!

Jen, still seeking revenge on her man and her competition, continues to play nice while her facial expressions continue to mirror the transformation in the "Thriller" video scene. Cris, feeling guiltier by the minute as he hears her "sweet" praises of him, keeps trying to confess to her about his near-hits with Natalie. Each time he tries to speak, she deliberately interrupts him by steering the blame for their problems on herself.

She was the jealous one, (YEP!) She was the one who treated him and Natalie so badly..(YEP!) and now with her mother being on the loose, and the upcoming ridicule she's sure to face by the media, everything is going to be hectic. Cris tries to assure her that everything will work out fine, and she goes on to say that she knows it will... Because she has him.

He'll never change on her, he'd never do anything to hurt her, he'd never betray her...

Again, Cris tries to confess, again she interrupts him. Then out of the blue, she pretends to have another attack of conscience about her treatment of Natalie and gets a "sudden" inspiration to invite Nat over to the loft..so she can be around "friends" in her own time of need.

Cris visibly squirms, and Al knocks on the door. Al bumbles in to tell them that he just came from talking with Bo and he assured him that they will definitely find the arsonist. Jen says thank you for the info. She'd invite Al to stay but...

"Yeah, I know. Quality time thing, I'm leaving."

Jen tells him that they are actually inviting Natalie over. Al is baffled. Natalie? Here? With BOTH of them? Cris tell Jen that he is supposed to go talk to his mom at the diner and he'll be back. Jen says sure, and rolls her eyes at his disappearing figure. Al, naturally wants the 411 on the Natalie deal. Well, at least for today, Dizzy Lizzy pretty much tells Al to mind his business, she knows what she's doing. And as they both share glasses of lemonade sitting at the bar...

Dizzy Jen Borden stares evilly out into space, plotting her next move...

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Recap written by Kimberley Barnett, © Copyright by Katherine Thurston & 2002.