Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Tuesday, May 7, 2002

COLIN RETURNS!!

SIKE!! Well, I'm not really siking you, folks. I'll explain. After ending his meeting with Sam, Troy enters Nora's place and likes what he sees. She's dressed in this really snazzy black outfit and her hair looks great. He approaches her to kiss her, but she puts up a halting hand and warns him to stay away because she smells...like liniment oil.

Troy assures her that he likes the smell of liniment. They exchange some playful words, then share a passionate that serves as the prelude to making love. As the passion rises, Troy stops briefly to tell her that he can't wait any longer, he wants to make love to her right now. After a very brief silence, Nora agrees. He asks her if she's sure, and she says yes.

Weeeell, the mood in the living room is one thing, but the bedroom reality turns out to be quite another. About a good two minutes of...(well, let's say kissing, shall we?), Nora stops him. She can't go through with it, she's not ready. Confused, (and probably a bit flustered at the moment), Troy tries to get to the real reason why she backed out.

He points out all of the possibilities that could have been a factor: Sam's visit? No..Is it about Troy sleeping with Lindsay? A more emphatic "no".

(Ahh, thar goes the light bulb, maties!)

It's Colin! Nora remains silent, but Troy presses for an answer. He asks her, no, more like, tells her, that she still sees Colin when she looks at him. (Umm, DUHH????)

She sadly tells him that as much as she hates it, she does. Troy angrily says that he is NOT his brother! Nora says that she knows he's not Colin. Troy says,

"Yeah, but you can't see past my face when we're doing anything other than
having dinner, or roller-blading, or whatever. Just as long as he doesn't touch her. (I certainly can't blame her for that. How creepy would YOU feel?)

She sadly nods her head, reminding Troy that Colin tried to rape her, and when she looks up into Troy's face when they were about to make love, it brought all of those memories.

Troy shouts that he and Colin are identical twins, and there's nothing he can do about that. Nora, wracked with torment, says she knows...

Troy asks her what he can do to help her get past her obstacle, and Nora says she doesn't know. Troy says that he can understand that she's not ready, and unlike his brother, he can accept that.  But in case Nora hasn't realized it yet, Troy is falling in love with her. Again, unlike his brother, he's in love, not obsessed. He can take no for an answer, even though he may not like it very much. He shocks and saddens Nora as he tells her that he's going to say good-bye.

She tells him that she said "she didn't know", she didn't ask him to leave. He says that he knows, but it's best if they end it before they both get hurt. She asks him if they can step back a little, and start over. Maybe date?
He emphatically declines that offer. He can't be just her friend, and he doesn't just want to date her, he wants to be with her, and unlike Colin, he's not willing to wait around for something that may never happen, nor will he force it to happen. He just can't do it. Nora tearfully asks him what's wrong with her. Why is it everyone she touches gets hurt?

(Well, let's see...Your first husband was a stuffed shirt, your second husband was a self-righteous, unrealistically super-moral saint who set standards that even an angel couldn't meet, and your latest partner was never able to shut his mouth long enough to be there for you. I'm sorry, WHO'S responsible for their pain?)

Troy tells her that he knows she didn't mean to hurt him, but the fact that she sees Colin and not who he is, does hurt. He painfully strokes her cheek and says,

"We could have had something wonderful. I guess now we'll never know."

(Well, we at least have to be thankful that he didn't call her "Scarlet". That would have the perfect ending to his Rhett Butler exit, but Colin would have definitely ruled!)

1, 2, 3–FIGHT!

Well, people, "Madmom" Vega just gets downright nasty in this round! She and Antonio face-off after she so smugly spills the beans on Keri's alleged debt. Her son refuses to believe her word, so she pulls out the letter that has been burning a hole in her...everything ever since the day she snooped into it.

Antonio asks her where she got the letter from. Carlotta explains that she asked Keri for a copy of Antonio's award-winning term paper, and Keri must have accidentally slipped the letter into the envelope. Antonio questions the sincerity of her desire to read his paper, and further accuses her of, well in a nutshell, being nosy and reading the envelope. She defends herself, saying that the letter was already open and unmarked, and she had no idea what it was.

Antonio tells her that she should give it back to Keri. Carlotta says,
"What? And let her know that I've seen it?"

(Uh, YEAH! You were Miss Billie Jean Bad-[Bleep] when you were throwing her business all over the diner. Too chicken to face Keri now, Miss Morality?)

"Yes. You shouldn't have read her personal mail, Mámi," Antonio scolds her.

(Oh my god, THANK YOU! SOMEBODY had to say that to her face!)

He goes on to tell her that Keri is very responsible, and there has to be a mistake. Carlotta tells him that she's going a frivolous spending spree all over town while she is carrying such a financial load. Antonio quite annoyed with his mom's meddling, (as are us rather infuriated viewers), angrily snaps,

"How do you know how much Keri is spending?"

She spins the tale of how she ran into Keri with Rae in the Silver Moon Boutique. Keri was practically buying out the store. Antonio says that maybe she was trying stuff on. Carlotta says, she was buying. Just look at the dress she was wearing today, for example.

Then she makes a list of everything else that had been putting her girdle in a bunch since she hacked into Keri's PERSONAL letter. The lavish party plans, the giggly attitude she had when she told of her college Vegas trip, the fact that she wants to go buy a table instead of accepting one from the diner.
Antonio, (and this one cracked me up, folks!), tells the madwoman that the table was too big for Keri's office. It didn't fit! What was Keri supposed to do, move the walls? (LOL, LOL, LOL)

He further tells his mom that everyone has some sort of credit card debt. The Vegas themselves have been in money trouble. She says not because they were spending frivolously. They either had the money, or they did without.
Anyway, the conversation between mother and son continues like this for a while longer and Antonio wraps un the repetition with a simple, (and I'm paraphrasing here),

"It's not your business, it's ours, and I'm sure there's an explanation for this."
"Has she given you one?" Through clenched teeth, Antonio replies, "Not yet."

"When do you think you'll get one? At the honeymoon? Or at the altar?" She spits out. At the risk of paraphrasing once again, he reiterates his previous instructions: Mind your business, leave it to us.

Carlotta starts hurling more insults about Keri to Antonio, only to have to shut up quickly because Keri walks in right then. (COWARD!)
Keri excitedly tells Antonio that all of her plans are going perfectly, and she can't wait until they share their special night together.

Antonio darts an icy, warning glare in his mother's direction and turns to Keri and very sweetly asks her if she's sure that she wants to spring for Chez Pierre's? It seems a little pricey for a weeknight. Keri says that's the point of the whole plan. When Antonio questions her again about the price of things, she becomes a little disappointed and tells him that she's never had a money problem in her life, and Carlotta nearly chokes.

Keri tells Antonio that she saved some money on the side, and that he doesn't have to worry about anything, he just has to show up and enjoy. She kisses him and scurries off.  Antonio glares at his mother and tells him not another word.

In an earlier meeting with her father, Keri happily tells her father that everything was going with such precision. Her relationship with Antonio, his birthday, and the extra money she received from the advance of her book. He impishly tells her dad that she feels like a mischievous child for not telling Antonio about the advance. He might think she robbed a bank or something from the way she's spending money.

"Speaking of being robbed," Keri says, "Do you know that the credit card still hasn't returned my calls? How many calls do I have to make, or letters do I have to write to get them to make some progress?"
RJ, with that all-too-familiar look of pure, unadulterated Scheme in his evil eyes, innocently offers her some pacifying responses to keep the conversation away from him. He tells her not to worry, it's just bureaucratic red tape. Then he steers the conversation to her day at the Vegas.

Did she find the table she wanted at the diner? Keri tells him it was too big for the office. Then she tells RJ that she got the feeling that she offended Carlotta by not accepting the table. RJ, naturally, probes as discreetly as he can to fish out any information on the progress of his plot. Although what Keri offered wasn't very much, RJ smugly laps it up, realizing that Carlotta is stepping into every little trap he's laid out.

"LOONEY"VIEW TEEN BEAT: THE PSYCHOS' COLLECTOR'S EDITION!!

Just when you thought this handful of a town couldn't get ANY LOONIER...
Enter Psycho-stalker Al "Hyde" Holden. He creeps around quietly and peeps in on people from behind hidden corners, peepholes, and walls. Let's cautiously follow this nutcase and see what he's up to...

Cris and Keri stand in the University student lounge, discussing his and Jen's plans to fly to Vegas, and what effect that will have on his work for her class.
Keri tells him that she cannot officially give them permission to skip class for the trip, but she understands and accepts their need to get away after all that's happened. She tells him that attendance is not mandatory in her class, but handing in papers and passing exams are.

(Where was this rule when WE were kids, eh?)

He promises Keri that neither he nor Jen will fall short in their work, and she bids him farewell and a fun trip. She warns him not to do what she and her friends did in Vegas when they went. She advises to decide how much they're willing to gamble away and stick with that amount. Don't get stranded out there. Cris promises to take her advice.

Flash over to the opposite corner of the lounge, where Natalie sits sadly in a chair staring painfully at a picture of a young Rex. Her mind is haunted with the sounds of her childhood, where she's pleading as a young child with her aunt to take her away from Roxy as well, but being flatly shunned. Her eyes fill with tears, and she whispers out loud that she misses him so much. She also says to the photo that she loves him and always has, but she could never let Roxy catch on to that. She starts to cry, and at that point Cris approaches her.

After what seemed to be a long game of pulling teeth, Cris was finally able to get the whole story on what had caused Natalie's anguish, and who Rex was.
Cris listens as Natalie tells him about how Rex was rescued by Aunt Coreen, and how Natalie was left behind to suffer Roxy's wrath. She tells him that even back then, she was never wanted by anyone.

"That's not true, Natalie," Cris says reassuringly. Natalie is not so easily persuaded by Cris' words. Cris, feeling her pain, embraces her and tells her that everything will work out. Neither of them are aware that a pair of psychotic eyes are watching them, and as Al observes the scene, he grows maniacally angrier by the minute.

"I knew it!" Al says to himself, "I knew I was right about him!" A few moments pass, and Natalie makes a joke to Cris about how she must look a fright, and she excuses herself to freshen up. As Natalie disappears, Jen arrives. She slips right into Cris' lap and they share a kiss, much to Mr. Hyde's fury. Al heads over to intervene, but he's stopped dead in his tracks by the untimely arrival of his parents.

Max and Gabby tell their son that they need to speak with him. He tries to brush them off, shifting his gaze from Cris and Jen and back to his parents quickly as he tells them that he has an economics class that he absolutely must get to, and he's late, so whatever they have to discuss must wait.

Max and Gabby aren't giving in. Max tells him that what they have to say won't take but a few minutes, and Al forces himself to control his anxiety and oblige his parents. He hurriedly listens as max announces that he's purchased Kevin Buchanan's former home. Al sarcastically congratulates him, (while hawk-eyeing Cris and Jen), then asks what does that have to with him.

Max tells him that he wants Al to move in with him. Now Al gives his father more undivided attention. He accuses his father of buying the house and offering him a place in it as a means of trying to make up for refusing to allow him to rent the loft down the hall from Cris and Jen. Gabby tells Al to think of it as a peace offering. Max jumps on that cover wagon and says that he wants to spend more time with Al, and he also doesn't want to be traipsing around that big house alone, so it's the perfect arrangement.

At that point, Al spots Jen and Cris preparing to leave, and he hastily agrees to move in with his dad, hoping that his parents will go away. He starts to leave just as Max comments on how easy that went. Al nods and rushes off, but Max grabs him by the arm, saying,

"That was too easy. What's going on?" Al goes off on a tangent of indignance, saying that he agreed to move in with his dad and what he gets in return is suspicion. Gabrielle somehow manages to quell the impending fireworks by telling Max that maybe having his parents hanging around the college dorm is a bit rattling to a college student. Max gives in, and they leave. Al rushes out after the couple, but bumps into Natalie instead.

He tells Natalie that he knows she and Cris are seeing each other behind Jen's back. Natalie, in a tone that openly implies that Al is an insane lunatic, tells him that he's out of his mind and he needs to get over himself. Al says that he saw the two of them earlier and he knows Cris' history. It's just Vega's M-O
to play two ladies at the same time. He will not let Cris hurt Jen. Natalie is completely annoyed with his ranting at this point and she shouts,

"Cris won't hurt her because he loves her! And you need to get out of their way and move on with your life." She starts to leave, but Al grabs her by the arm and tells her that Cris doesn't love Jen, and he's going to tell Jen what he saw. Now where is she?

Natalie nastily tells him that he can forget finding the couple, because they're off to Las Vegas...together. (Get the point, Norman Bates?)

Al rushes off, and Natalie shakes her head in disgust. As she prepares to leave, she runs into Max. She tries to brush Max off, but he tells her insistently that he has to find his son. Where is his economics class? Natalie tells the shocked man that the class doesn't meet today. Max realizes that his son's previous odd behavior was indeed the prelude to a suspicious act.
He asks Natalie if she's seen him, and she says she just saw him. She relates the details of Al's behavior during their meeting and tells Max how he rushed off to save Jen.

When Max asks her if she knows where he went, Natalie says that her guess is he's following Jen and Cris to Vegas.

Flash over to the airport, where Jen and Cris excitedly anticipate the trip ahead. Just as they are about to board the plane, Al comes rushing over to play Sir Gallant. Cris angrily asks him what the hell he's doing there, and Al blurts out to Jen that she can't leave with Cris. Cris tells him to get away from Jen, and Al barks at Cris to let Jen speak for herself. Jen tells him that she doesn't want to hear anything that he has to say. She and Cris are back together and he needs to accept that. Cris abrasively tells him to go get a life that has nothing to do with his and Jen's. Al still tries to get a word in edgewise, but they shun him and continue to board their plane. Al screams out,

"WAIT!" but no one is listening. He rushes back to the ticket counter and immediately tries to buy a ticket for the next flight out to Vegas.

(Does anyone else think that Al is really Lindsay's kid?)


ALEX OLANOV: PSYCHO WITHOUT A CAUSE:

After escaping the flight to Alaska, she sashays into the airport, babbling about how she must have been out of her mind to get on a flight to Alaska in the first place. Clearly it was her destiny to be in Llanview. It was fate that made Todd bring her here in the first place. That's why the airline was over booked, and that's why they gave her the money to give up her seat.

All that happened so that she could be in Llanview with her true love. Now all she had to do was call her soul mate and fill him in on the plan.
(Jeez! Does this batty chick actually BELIEVE her own psycho-garb?)

She places a call from her cell phone, but her intended target is not around. Does that stop her? No way! She'll just land on the doorstep like any stray dog.

Well, I guess you're all wondering who the misfortunate sap is. Well, let's go to the videotape...

In her tacky way, she gaudily bumbles across town and juggles her baggage right into....(Drum roll, or horror music, please....)

Bo's apartment complex!! My gosh, what a twisted puppy! Gabrielle opens the door and she asks her what she's doing there. Gabby, horrified, replies,

"I live here! What are you doing here? You're supposed to be on a plane to Alaska!"

Alex, with her plastic smile and that annoyingly screeching, monotonous voice, tells her nonchalantly that she changed her mind and came back. Gabby says, for what? Alex says: For Bo!

Well, folks, Gabrielle frantically tries to divert this ticking time bomb back to the airport, but it was only when Bo returns to find her in his apartment and tramples on her illusion that she leaves. Rest assured that Alex Off-Way-Off is not through with Llanview yet!

AND NOW, THE CLINCHER OF TODAY'S EPISODE......

SAM RAPPAPORT: COUNSELOR, P.I.–THE FACE-OFF!!

Blair asks Sam what's wrong, and Sam tells her that they have to talk, because there's something she needs to know. Blair's heart is in her throat as she dares to ask Sam what he means. He tells her that he's tracked down Nellie Cameron, and Blair asks him quickly if she is going to help make the adoption legal. Sam is just about to tell Blair the truth when Todd comes racing in and asks what's going on. Blair tells Todd that Sam has tracked down Nellie and there's a problem.

Glaring at Sam, Todd shoos Blair away with some story about a social worker who's in the recovery room demanding to ask only Blair a heap of questions...(and she FELL for it!) When she was gone, Sam callously warns Todd that he just told his last lie to Blair.

Todd tells him to mind his own business, and Sam counters that Todd made it his business when he put Sam in the position to lie to the court. Todd indifferently tells Sam to get over it. Besides, everything is fine now, so drop it.

"Everything is fine?" Sam says in disbelief, "How can you even say that with a straight face? Everything is not fine, it's far from it. Blair still thinks that Nellie is Jack's birth mother."

Todd tells Sam that he hopes Sam has a better memory span when he's looking over one of his big "yoo-hah" legal cases. Has Sam tried using Gingko Baloba?

Todd tells Sam that he had to tell Blair that Nellie was the birth mother, because she would have freaked out if she knew that someone as cuckoo as Alex was Jack's mom. Sam said, "So you say. The only problem is, that's another one of your lies. You didn't make up Nellie as the birth mother for Blair's protection, you did it for your own protection. We both know that Alex is no more Jack's mother than Nellie is. Blair is Jack's mother!"

Todd tells Sam that he can forget about Gingko Baloba and go straight for electroshock therapy, because he's completely lost his mind. How can Jack be Blair's son? That baby died in Mexico.

"So you say," Sam says, "Yet, you're the only one saw that happen. Neither Blair nor Paloma saw it."

"Well, things happen sometimes.." Todd says.
"Especially when you're involved," Sam replies quickly.
"You give me way too much credit," Todd says.

Sam further tells him that it must have been really convenient for him that the body was "accidentally" cremated before anyone got a chance to see it. Todd tells him that accidents happen..especially in Mexico.

"Maybe so," Sam says, "but that body wasn't cremated because the baby didn't DIE! That baby is Jack."

"And this is based on what, exactly?"

"For starters, Alex Olanov was a bone marrow match for your daughter. I wasn't it Llanview at the time, but when I heard about that, things began to fall into place quickly. She also saved Jack, and for one person to be a perfect match for two people of the same family to which they're not related is impossible. Unless...the two people were full-blooded siblings."

Nervous, but damned determined not to relinquish the vise-grip on his lie, Todd maniacally starts to pace the room and bumble to Sam,

"Cats and dogs both have four paws, and if you had your way with point of views, you'd say that cats were dogs." then he looks away to conceal his panic from Sam.

Sam continues on with his evidence. He also spoke with Paloma, who told him that the baby was alive at birth, and she saw the baby herself, in Llanview, with the Mannings. She says that you gave the baby back to Blair."

"Oh, please," Todd says, "Paloma can't speak English, and she can understand even less...."

Sam doesn't entertain that statement with a response. Instead, he flips the script, asking Todd where exactly Jack was between the time that Todd announced his "death" and the time that Todd miraculously reappeared with him?

Todd says he was with his birth mother. Sam is furious now.

"What did you do, Todd? Sell the baby? Give him away? How could you look Blair in the eyes and tell her that her baby, her newborn baby, was dead? How could you put the woman you proclaim to love through that horrible pain? You thought that your father was a monster? What kind of monster are you? I thought I knew all of the depths that you could sink to, Todd, but this is even too low for you!"

Todd's gaze becomes dangerously dark and cold as he hears Sam call him a monster, and he tells Sam that he is not a monster...he just did what he had to do. Sam is baffled!

"You had to tell Blair that her baby died? Why? Why would you have to say that he died?" When Todd remains silent, the answer hits Sam in the head like a ton of bricks...

"Because you thought Jack was Max Holden's son!"

Todd confesses. There was NO WAY he was going to raise Max's kid. Sam tells him that all he did was made an even bigger mess of things, Todd tells him that he tried to make it up to her. As soon as he found out the truth, he got the baby back for Blair. Sam tells him that he has to tell Blair the truth, she has a right to know. If he doesn't, Sam will.

Todd tells him that if he opens his mouth to Blair about Jack's...(maternity? Ha ha!), He'll kill him. They argue back and forth and Blair walks in, asking them what's going on. Sam demands that Todd tell her the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...or HE will!
Tune in tomorrow, folks, as we bring our coverage to an end. Will Todd reveal the truth? Or will Sam? Will Al make the plane? Will Alex find her man? Only psychos know the answer to that question in advance, but we here at WKAYDEE-TV will be there to bring the scoop to you live and up close. 

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