Recap by Kaydee B.

One Life to Live Recap for Thursday, March 28, 2002

LOONSEY’S TUNES: DÉJÁ VU!!

In continuation of yesterday’s St. Ann’s “GOOD DOC, BAD COP” routine, Bo and Troy enter Lindsay’s room with the preparing to inject her. She puts up a fight, with her “Little Lindsay” façade, saying that she is terrified of shots. Troy calmly assures her that she’s not the only one that doesn’t like shots, but it will only hurt for a second. She struggles against the restraints of both Troy and Bo, saying again that she’s afraid of needles. The men realize that their plan is working, and they cling to the opportunity to get results before it slips away on the Superbroom. Troy brings the needle closer to Lindsay and she shouts,

 “Wait! I don’t want to be brain dead!” (Although she did her damnedest to stay in her 7-year-old persona, Troy and Bo put smiles on their faces that clearly say…. GOTCHA! Again).

Bo puts his face directly in Lindsay’s and tells her that he’s not buying her regression act, and he never did. She’s no more seven years old than he is. She feebly tries to hold on to one last attempt to authenticate her psychosis, saying I am scared of needles. He tells her that her stay at St. Ann’s is over. She asks him where she’s going, he happily tells her jail. He’s going to get a get a judge to write up an order of transfer, where she will be taken to a holding cell. Although it will in no way be as pretty or as nice as her current surroundings, she may as well get used to it. She’ll be spending a lot of time there.

“Nice working with you, doctor,” he tells Troy before leaving. Troy and Lindsay are left alone, and she glares at him. “You tricked me,” she accuses. “Either that or I healed you,” he cleverly counters, “You’ve miraculously recovered, and I didn’t even have to give you an injection.”

“You were going to inject me with something that would have left me brain dead,” she accuses him further, and he’s disgusted with the remark. After everything she’s done, does she really think that there’s anyone left who’ll give a damn about what happens to her? (OUUCH! THAT ONE HURT!)  Lindsay calls him a monster and lunges at him.

They struggle, and to Lindsay’s horror, she accidentally injects Troy with the syringe!

(Looks like déjà vu all over again! What’s with this lady and syringes?)

Terrified and on the verge of tears, she repeatedly and fearfully apologizes. Troy is a wee bit affected by the scared look in her eyes and he impatiently tells her to relax. There was nothing in the syringe except normal saline solution. WHAT! Lindsay says in angry shock. Troy angrily repeats, “IT’S HARMLESS!”

“You mean, I was never in any danger?” Troy says, “You were just in danger of getting caught in your own lies.” Lindsay starts to preach to him. She tells him that he’s worse than Colin ever was, and he’s going to pay for that someday. She won’t even have to worry about extracting revenge; Nora will do it for her. She tells a very bored Troy that Nora’s going to do him in, she’s sure of it. Troy, in a very calm, smooth, and collected manner, tells Lindsay, that if that should happen, Lindsay will hear about it in prison. Then, he packs his bag and heads for the door, saying, “enjoy your stay” before he runs into Bo talking to the same Mother Superior who’d hassled them about Lindsay earlier.

Bo, who’s just finished filling her in on the details of Lindsay’s “regression”, advises her that Lindsay is no longer a patient, but a prisoner. The nun tells him that Lindsay ought to be ashamed of herself. Troy sarcastically says, “Yeah, that’s putting it mildly.”

Bo again, tells the nun that she has to be extremely careful of Lindsay. If Lindsay needs anything at all, make sure the police escort is there to help the Sister attend to Lindsay. The nun thanks the commissioner and he and Troy are left alone to discuss the next step.

Bo thanks Troy for all of his help, and Troy says he just wishes he had a better option. Bo tells him getting the truth out of Lindsay requires only one option…You have to play sick and dirty like she does.

 LOONVIEW TEEN BEAT: THE STING!!

Seth grows angrier and more desperate as he listens to the Psycho Pals celebrating their victory. He tells himself that he has to convince Jessica that the two of them are working together, but if he himself can’t believe it, then how3 will he be able to convince Jessica of it?

He hears as the two women bragging about how Jessica is playing right into their hands by signing the check over to “Green Hills Sanatorium”, because, Allison tells Roxy, they are Green Hills Sanatorium.

Allison explains in detail what the DBA approval means for them, and Roxy’s happiness is cut short by a sudden attack of suspicion. Wait a minute, Roxy says, what insurance does she have that Allison isn’t going to take the money and run? (So much for honor among thieves, eh?) Allison assures her that she took extra care to make sure that Roxy benefited from the phony corporation as well. She made Roxy a subsidiary, which means that she has access to the funds as well. Roxy is still skeptical, and she threatens harm to Allison if Allison tries to double-cross her. Allison tells her to relax. She has no intention of betraying Roxy. If it weren’t for Roxy’s hypoglycemia, they wouldn’t have gotten this far. At that point Jessica calls and says that she’s at Roxy’s place, where is she? Roxy nearly blabs where she is, but Allison stops her. Jessica tells Roxy that if she isn’t there in 15 minutes, Jess is going to come get her. They run out the door to meet her.

Seth comes out of the closet and immediately starts searching for some proof that he can show Jessie that connects Allison to Roxanne. He finds the file with Allison’s licensing information and races out to stop Jessie from making the biggest mistake of her life.

Back at Roxy’s, “mother and daughter” sit on the couch and discuss Roxy’s trip to the center. Roxy’s anxiety to cut to the money chase is prominent, and it’s making Jessica edgy. Every time Jessie makes a comment about how Roxy is going to get better if she sticks to the center’s rules, Roxy obliges her with a brief, patronizing reply, then steers the conversation right back to the check. After quite a bit of that, Jessica becomes suspicious, and tells Roxy that she’s going to take Roxy to the clinic personally. Roxy adamantly refuses her offer, then tries to disguise the panic with a sweet,

  “You’re young, Jessie. You need to go enjoy the night with some handsome fella you can dance with.” Jessica’s not budging. Instead she says that she’ll help Roxy pack her bags. Roxy tells her that she doesn’t have a lot of bags, and it won’t take her long at all. Jessica tells her that she would prefer to see her mother off, so she’ll just hold on to the check until then. Allison watches the worried look on Roxy’s face from outside the window, and she whispers aloud,

“What’s that worried look for, Roxanne? What are you screwing up now?”

At that point, Seth grabs her by the back of the neck, and barges into Roxy’s place, with his captive in tow, just in time to stop Jessica from giving Roxy the check.

NORA/SAM: COUNSELORS, APPROACH THE BENCH!

Sam is packing some things in a duffel bag when his doorbell rings. It’s Nora, and he coldly asks her what she’s doing there. She sadly tells him that she came by to find out how Jen is doing. With everything that is going on with Lindsay, Nora says, Jen must be having a hard time. Sam affirms that, telling Nora matter-of-factly that anyone would be having a hard time with something like that. But Jen has a lot going on in her life now, and she has a wedding to plan for. Everyone’s lives don’t revolve around Lindsay.

(Cheap shot, counselor!)

Nora firmly defends herself, saying that neither does her life revolve solely around Lindsay. Sam cuts her off, (again) telling her that he doesn’t want to talk about Lindsay with her, and frankly, Sam hammers, he doesn’t have time to shoot the breeze with Nora when all she really came for is his help with sticking it to Lindsay. Nora, deeply hurt by that accusation, angrily tells Sam that she came to see how he’s doing, because she hates the way things are between them. She was hoping that Sam having some time to himself would make him see things differently.  Sam tells her that it didn’t, and by the way, he’s gathering her stuff. Would she like him to call her when they’re ready?

Nora, after a long silence, sadly nods her head. She turns away and starts to leave. Before she does, she tells Sam that she loves him. She leaves and Sam closes the door behind her, walking over to the window to stare at her disappearing figure in his own pain.

The court is in recess. He resumes his project of packing away Nora’s things, and his phone rings. He decides to let the machine take the call, and he hears a frantic Blair, begging for his help because she and Todd are in family court, fighting to keep Starr.

LOONSEY’S TUNES: THE GREAT ESCAPE: NOT!:

Troy and Bo go their separate ways and Lindsay immediately plans her escape. She heads out the door but is stopped by a Divine Intervention. The nun who had come to her defense against Bo! She tells Lindsay that she prays that God will help her find a way to forgive Lindsay for what she did. Lindsay tells the sister that she truly apologizes for any hurt she caused, but she must understand that Lindsay was hurt as well; and by all of the people she’d ever loved. The nun replies that she understands, but Lindsay’s actions were inexcusable. With that, she tells the assigned police officer that they need to evacuate Lindsay in order to give the room to the next patient, and then she walks away.

Just as the officer takes a resistant Lindsay’s arm, Sandy arrives and Lindsay starts to scream that they’re trying to take her away. Sandy tells the officer to let Lindsay go, and a struggle between the three of them ensues, ultimately allowing Lindsay the chance to escape. She manages to dodge the officer by ducking into a utility closet. Inside, she quickly searches for something that will help her escape unnoticed. Wouldn’t you know it? POOF! A nun’s habit drops right into her lap! She dresses in the outfit and camouflages herself in the crowd.

THE MANNINGS : COURT IS IN SESSION!

Todd and Blair stand in the lobby outside of the courtroom, indulged in an argument over Todd’s nonchalance about the seriousness of the charges brought against them. Todd, confident in the fact that he’s paid off the judge who’s in charge of the case, he tells Blair to stop worrying already. Blair paces the floor, telling Todd that she’s not relaxed, something could still go wrong. Todd asks her what could go wrong? The judge has an offshore account, for pete’s sake, who has an offshore account if they’re not crooked? She has an offshore account because she uses it for things like that.

Blair asks Todd if he said she? He says yeah, she. He tells Blair the judge’s name, an Elizabeth something, and Blair says, if that’s the case, then why does the name “Arthur Howard Lee” appears on the board as the assigned judge. Todd realizes that he made a boo-boo, and he watches as the social worker walks past them into the courtroom. His mind starts to buzzing with a plot of Manning-style damage control. Blair reads his radar and demands to know what he’s planning. He tells her to sit tight and watch him. She has no intention of doing that, not when there’s so much at stake. She disappears to the ladies’ room and places a call to Sam.

In the courtroom, Todd sashays over to the social worker and plants several flattering compliments on her apparel, her eye color, whatever. She stares blankly at him, (I actually thought I was watching Lilith Crane in action for a moment), and tells him to get to the point. He tells her that he’d like to know if there’s something he can give her that will make this whole case go away. I’m not going to mince words, folks, he tried to bribe the social worker! Tisk, tisk.  

Well, that one didn’t go over too well. She advises him to get a lawyer, a really good one, she might add. Okay, Todd concedes defeat, and his wife returns just in time to see the judge walk in and begin the case. Todd asks her where she’s been; she says the ladies’ room. He comments that she was gone for a long time, but she escapes having to respond when the bailiff calls for order.

Judge Lee and the social go back and forth discussing the charges brought against the Mannings, and Todd’s big mouth irritates the judge. After a whole lot of scolding and legal talk from the judge, he deems the Manning household an unfit environment for Starr. He mandates physical custody to foster care, much to their panic, and delivers another painful blow. If there are any other children in the Manning home, they are to be removed as well. Blair tries to defend herself as a mom, but the judge isn’t biting. Just when Lilith Crane was preparing to leave the courtroom and grab the Manning off springs, enter Super Sam I Am, defender of the universe..(Well, the Mannings’ universe, anyway), and tells the judge that he has a whole slew of evidence to overturn the removal judgment. Todd protests against Sam, but Blair and the judge both shut him up. Sam was brilliant, folks! He actually found many things that made the Mannings’ look like the Cleavers…well, almost.

When Sam was finished, despite the bantering of the social worker, the judgment had been changed to mandated in-home supervision. Court recessed. Todd refused to just say thank you, he told Sam that all he did was get them involved in a 3-ring-circus. Blair shut him up again, but Sam said that Todd was allowed that puck shot in exchange for his previous behavior toward Blair. Blair excuses him, but Todd didn’t. Sam waved him off, saying that he suggests that Todd and Blair end their squabbling as of that minute, and they’d better get Jack’s adoption legalized, because they were going to be under the gun by the Dept. of Social Services, and they could lose everything.

LOONSEY’S TUNES: THE DOC, THE LAWYER, & FUGITIVE!!

Troy hands a check to another nun. (you know, the cute little old lady with the REALLY bad sense of hearing and the bad case of senility! She cracks me up!) He thanks her for tending to his patients while he was away. She cracks some joke and walks away. Troy turns to gather his things and turns to leave. Instead he stares right into Nora’s face.

They share a brief but awkward silence, then Nora says she didn’t know he’d be there. He tells her that he was just there tending to some business, Nora asks him if it was “Lindsay” business and he nods. The conversation steers toward the circumstances that became such a discombobulated mess, and Nora admits that she’s still confused. Troy asks her about what? She tells him that she’s grateful to him for the results that he’s achieved, but…

He tells her that he has figured out what her problem is. She’s happy that he brought Lindsay to justice, but she wishes it had been Sam who did. She doesn’t confirm or deny that, but Troy is annoyed. He tells her that he knows he has feelings for her, and maybe he was fooling himself, but he thought he saw that she had feelings for him also. She remains silent, and he walks away in agitation. She shakes herself out of her days and asks the same senile sister whom Troy had been talking to if she could direct Nora to Lindsay’s room.

The nun becomes upset, starts to babble something incoherent, and she rushes off. Nora, is confused, but catches another nun racing by. She quickly asks the nun if she can help her find Lindsay, but the nun blurts out that she can’t help Nora without ever looking back. Nora instantly goes on alert and figures out that the nun is really Lindsay in disguise. She races through the cloud of black and white after the one habit that she thought she was talking to. She snatches the head covering off of the nun’s head, but it’s not Lindsay. Nora apologizes profusely and spots another nun also passing by her in a hurry. This time she hits pay dirt. Give it up, Loonsey! The jig is up!

Tune in tomorrow folks! The Superbroom Nun and the Fiery Defense Attorney face off!

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