Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Thursday, June 6, 2002

THE HOLDENS: Married With Children...Pt. 2:

After her dramatic faint yesterday, Max stands over Roxanne's unconscious body. Believing that the faint was a ploy, he starts to tell her that she's kept the act up long enough, she can get up now. Okay, Roxy, you're starting to look like a fool.

Okay, let's play a game, shall we? He sits on her body, horsey-style and plays "Pat-A-Cake" on her face. After she still doesn't respond a few seconds into the game, he realizes that she's not joking. He gets up and groans,

"Ugh..not on my floor!" then he proceeds to place a call to 911. He requests an ambulance, but just before he provides his address, he has a flashback of an argument between him and Roxy, in which Roxy is reminding him that she has papers giving her legal rights to stay in his life. He'll never be rid of her..NEVER!

He tells the 911 operator that he doesn't need an ambulance after all, and hangs up. He smiles sheepishly at the sprawled-out body on his floor and heads into the bedroom. A few minutes later, he returns, frustrated with his conscience for not permitting him to let the biker-babe die. He angrily slams a yellow pages down on the desk and looks up the number to a doctor. Roxy comes to, choking out a weak, "Maxie?"

"Oh, great," he grumbles, flipping through the pages. She looks up at him and is appalled when he stops on a section in the phone book and says,

"AH! Here it is! The free clinic!"
"Free clinic?" Roxy says indignantly.
"Well, you didn't really think I'm gonna spend money on you, did you?"

Before Roxy can return the sarcastic quip, the party on the other end of Max's dialed call answers. He requests a doctor, telling the party, "No, we will not be able to come in! Do you make house calls? My address is....(a very loong pause...) 8 Mill Road. No, the treatment is not for me. It's for...
(another loooooong pause, and a huge gulp of Maalox Cherry)...my wife."

While Roxanne smiles, Max's face contorts with the look of a child who just swallowed a healthy dose of castor oil and brussel sprouts.
Later, Troy arrives and is surprised to find Max answering the door to his call. He tells Max that the free clinic is open to the indigent, (meaning, people who actually CAN'T afford medical care?). He was told that the patient was named Roxanne Balsam.

(Is it me, folks? Or does Dr. Troy have ESP? I certainly don't remember Max giving the operator a name for the patient during his phone call!)

Max tells him that he's at the right house, but don't ask. Troy slowly agrees, and continues inside to hear Roxy's husky revelation of..

"It's Roxy Holden, doc." Again, Max hints at the doctor not to ask, just treat. Troy confirms with Roxy that her file says she has severe hypoglycemia, she concurs. He asks her if she's been following her special diet instructions, and she says, hesitantly, "Umm..yeah, sure."

Troy spots the plate of doughnuts and the bottle, (or bottles), of champagne on the coffee table and says in annoyance,

"Yeah, sure. Okay, Roxanne, here's the deal. You have severe hypoglycemia, and doughnuts and champagne do nothing but increase your sugar level. If you don't follow the diet instructions you were given, you will die. Now, I'm going to give you something to regulate your blood sugar level, but the rest is up to you."

He leaves after giving her an injection, and telling her that it's a good thing Max made the call. He probably saved her life. When Max returns from shutting the door, he faces a very sheepish grin on Roxanne's face. His indigestion flares up again and he's careful to sit in a chair that's far opposite her location. She tries to encourage him to come over to her. He flatly declines the invitation, and tells her to tell him what she wants from where she is.

She tells him to confess that he cares about her. He stays silent for awhile, then tells her that she's out of her mind. (No argument from me!)She tells him that he can deny it all he wants but he wouldn't have called the doctor if he didn't care.
Max bursts her bubble by telling her that he would have done it for anyone, so don't go feeling all special. She continues on, telling him that he needs to admit it..come on, Maxie..come on....

She belts out some annoying, husky giggles, and Max joins her, mocking the wideness of her grin. He walks over to her, and she's getting excited as she thinks that Max is softening up. He sits on the couch and picks up the plate of doughnuts, saying,
"Want a doughnut?"

THE HAUNTED MANSION: Day Two:

In our continuing coverage of our special "PSYCHO SIGHTINGS" story,
we bring you now live to Llanfair Mansion, where Psycho Number One, Niki Smith, is cooking up a new evil scheme in the library, and WKAYDEE-TV is the first to bring you the story....

The call Niki placed yesterday was to Bo. Bo arrives and Niki explains, in her best "frightened Viki" voice, that Ben is out of control. She tells him about the "letter", her conversation with Ben, and his subsequent furious exit to go after Allison. She is careful to emphasize Ben's choking threat.
Bo asks her to repeat what Ben said, then asks her if Ben actually said that he was going to choke Allison. Naturally, Niki says that he did.

Bo promises to go by the prison to check things out, and Niki pleads with him not to, because she's "afraid" of Ben's reaction. Bo says, okay, just show him the letter. Niki panics, and quickly tells him that she burned it.
Bo asks her why she would do that. She publishes a newspaper, she knows the drill. The letter is evidence, and without it, he can't prove whether or not Allison really sent it. Niki says that she doesn't know what got into her. All she can say is that she was so upset by the letter, that her first reaction was to toss it in the flames. (In the summer? Really?)

Bo finds her behavior strange, (ya THINK?), but he moves on to showing concern for her rattled state. He starts interrogating her on how things are between her and Ben, and Niki zooms in for the kill...

Ben is not the man she married. The "temper tantrums", the distant attitude, the excessive time away from home between his two jobs...yada, yada, yada...

Bo tells her some ways that she can make the marriage work. You can't just give up. Niki counters, "Well, you did! Didn't you just ‘give up' on Nora?" (And every other woman in your life with your higher-than-The-Almighty-Himself moral standards?)

Bo tells her that his situation with Nora is a whole different situation. Nora slept with another man, and they have a child together. Niki says that she can't take it anymore, she wants a divorce. Besides, she doesn't love him anymore.

Bo is shocked, asking her if she's sure that there's no hope for her marriage. She says she is. He asks her if she has told him yet, she says no.

"What! Why not?" Bo says. Because, Niki says, she's afraid of his reaction for one thing, and what will she do? Who will she turn to? Bo takes the bait...She can turn to him. (SUCKER!!)

Niki tells him she's so grateful. Thank you, Bo!! And then she does it, folks! She plants a great, big kiss on an unsuspecting Bo!

PSYCHOS, PSYCHOS, EVERYWHERE!!

Lindsay and Ben face each other for a few minutes. Lindsay, believing that Ben is there to give her bad news about her children, she delves into a series of panicked rants, only to have Ben cut her short by saying that wasn't there to visit her.

"Oh," she says quietly, "then why are you here?"
He's come to see Allison, to warn her to stop threatening his wife. Lindsay says, Allison threatened Viki? Yes, so where is she? Lindsay tells him that she went to an art class, and Ben says:

"They let her go to art class? That must have been where she made the letter."
"Probably," Lindsay says, "but to tell you the truth, Ben, I haven't seen Allison here with any letters."
"So? Maybe she hid it from you," Ben says, angrily.
Lindsay points around the cramped cell and asks him to show her how that is possible. Ben waves away her question and tells Lindsay to point him in the direction of the art class. Lindsay asks him what's in it for her? What!

She doesn't want to spend the next 28 years, what's he gonna do for her?
Ben asks her matter-of-factly what she wants from him. She says she doesn't know, but there's got to be something he can do. Ben tries to appeal to her human side. (Good luck on that journey, doc!)

Does Lindsay feel that Viki deserves to be tortured by Allison? Lindsay tells him that Viki is no fan of hers, besides, Viki gets to be with her kids.
Ben says that Lindsay has a point, but does she want to sit back and watch Viki die? Loonsey softens and says that she doesn't. He asks her if she can remember Allison saying anything about Viki or him. Lindsay says she only mentioned some guy named "Dave" and his demented wife. Ben confesses that he is Dave, and briefly satisfies Lindsay's nosiness about how that came to be.

Later, the guard, (a different one) returns to say that her shift is up and Ben has to leave right then. He pleads with Lindsay to call him if she hears anything. Allison returns from her art class and Lindsay brings up the tunnels again, much to Allison's frustration. Leave her alone about the tunnels. She already told Lindsay that she has no desire to escape. There's nothing on the outside for her. Lindsay says, "Okay. Oooh! I forgot to tell you...You had a visitor. Dave."

PSYCHO TEENS ON THE LOOSE AT LLANVIEW U!!

Cris manages to break his beloved's psycho grip from his friend's arm while psycho Holden, Jr. watches from a cowardly corner. Cris rips into Jen, asking her what she's doing to Natalie.

"What am I doing to her? What about what she's doing to me? To us?"
Cris looks at her and asks her what she's talking about. Weeeelll, folks! The jealousy could not be contained by Jen. It all came out today! Jen let it all come out.

Natalie is after him. She always needs a hug from him...or a kiss. She always burdens him with her problems. Jen continues to say that she saw the two of them in the student library, after she asked Natalie to stay away from Cris...

"You what?" Cris asked, "When did you do that?"
"At the quarry," Jen replied. Cris said that he thought everything was cool between the girls, but Jen sarcastically replies that obviously, he's mistaken. Cris tells Jen that he thinks she's exaggerating things just a bit, and Natalie is his friend. Jen says, "Even if she bothers me? Stay away from Cris, Natalie!" Cris says, "Whoa. Don't I get a say in this?"

Jen took that blow hard, and she says that she'll just leave. She storms away, but Cris stays behind with Natalie. He apologizes for Jen then asks her why she didn't tell him about what transpired between him and Jen. Natalie says that Jen may be right. Cris says that she's not. Natalie is his friend, and one he cares about. She's going through a rough time and he wants to help her through it. Besides, nobody has the right to tell him who he can or cannot be friends with....not even Jen.

Over in the corner, Psycho Pal Al quietly slips off to follow Jen. He finds her crying over a library computer, and he conveniently slips into a nearby chair and plays the understanding friend. He speaks supportive words of her while discreetly sharpening the other edge of his sword to shred Cris in her eyes.

Jen tells him that she was wrong to say the things she said to Cris, and she's going to apologize. For what? Al says, for being honest? For saying what she felt? If that's what she feels, Cris should understand...

(So much for overnight stalker rehabilitation, eh?)

THE MACIVER ADVENTURES..AND NORA:

Emily and Troy continue their talk about how happy she is for him. It's clear that he's crazy about Nora, and he deserves to be happy again, considering what happened with Joanna. Troy tells her that the important thing is that he is falling in love with Nora, and that's all that matters.

A knock on his loft door reveals Nora playing the Chinese take-out Goodwill Santa Claus. She's carrying a huge tray of Chinese food varieties, and explains that Keri had to cut dinner short because of an untimely phone call, and she thought that Troy and Emily would enjoy some food. She turns to leave, but they convince her to join them. Nora teases that she would love to stay, so Emily can fill her in on any of Troy's past "fast cars and hot women" adventures. Just the period from puberty and beyond. She doesn't notice the discomfort on Troy's face, an emotion that grows stronger as Emily jokingly entertains Nora's seemingly teasing quest for info.

A few seconds into their meal, Troy receives the phone call to duty at the Holdens, and Emily voices her disappointment as Troy tells her that he can't take her on the tour he promised of the University. Nora volunteers to play tour guide, and although Troy tries to dissuade her from taking on the task, he is outnumbered. Nora excuses herself to freshen up, and Emily confronts her brother on what is upsetting him. He tells her that Nora doesn't know about Joanna yet, so keep her mouth shut. (He wasn't that nasty about it, folks. I'm just abbreviating here.)

Emily assures her that she'll keep his secret, and they part ways.

Later, Troy returns to his loft, and he has a flashback about his past. He's standing in what appears to be a hotel room, staring ominously at himself in a wall mirror. A woman's voice calls out to him from another room...

"Troy, is that you?" He pauses before answering, and the voice calls out to him twice more. Finally, he says, "Yes, it's me."
The woman calls for him to come to her, and he says, "I'm coming. I'm coming, Joanna."

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