Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Thursday, May 23, 2002

THE RETURN OF THE LAS VEGAS FUNNY FARM MEMBERS!

On the plane home, a rattled flight attendant scurries through the plane, promising to have the passengers' drinks served soon. She apologizes for the delay, and says:

"Sorry, folks, but we have our hands full with...(Roxy's raucous cackling resounds over the loudspeaker), Laughing Girl." Both the flight attendant and Natalie share the same bilious look on their faces. Natalie quietly says that the flight attendant has no idea just how much she feels her pain.

As if on cue to further annoy Natalie, Roxy comes bumbling into Natalie's section of the plane. She stops at Natalie's seat, and stands over her, waving a rather gaudy, over-sized diamond ring in Natalie's face and demanding to know how long it's going to take Natalie to congratulate her mother on her nuptials. Natalie disgustedly tells Roxy to..well buzz off in so many words, but we all know Roxy, she's going to infiltrate herself where she sees fit. She squeezes her way past Natalie into the empty seat beside her and starts babbling about all of the riches and benefits she has accumulated as the new Mrs. Holden.

Natalie tells her that she's living in a dream world if she thinks that her marriage is going to last. As a matter of fact, how did that wedding come about anyway? Did Roxy hypnotize Max and slip him a mickey? Roxy angrily turns to Nat and tells her that she's mean and nasty. Natalie's heard all that before, and as she's come so accustomed to doing, she ignores Roxy's statement and continues on.

Roxy tells her that she should be happy for her mother, and Natalie quickly reminds her that she's not her mother. Oh, yeah? Roxy says, you lived in my house, I gave you food and shelter..Life with me wasn't so bad.

Natalie can't believe that Roxy believes her own garb, and she spits out that Roxy was never a good mother to her, Jessica, or Rex. As always, the sound of Rex's name rattles Roxanne. Roxanne forcefully tells Natalie that Rex was well taken care of. Natalie says:

"Yeah, because I took care of him. I made sure he had clothes and food, and I was practically a baby myself."

"Yeah, well, you were old enough, and someone had to teach you some responsibility." Natalie is reminded once again that Roxy is hopeless, and she tries once again to find a sliver of humanity in Roxy. In a tone that's almost pleading, she says,

"Don't you ever even think about him? That sweet child who did nothing but give you much undeserved love?" Roxy tries to hide her guilt by blowing Natalie off with more insults.

"Yeah, well how could anyone raise a kid with you around? You were like a dark cloud, always putting a damper on things. Nothing was ever good enough for you. Even now. I got married, and do you congratulate me? Noooo, you just spit out dark stuff."

Natalie tells her that she got married under false pretenses and Roxy points a gaudy finger at her telling her that Max married her because he wanted to. She gets in to insulting Natalie again, only this time, Cristian is walking by and stops to eject Roxy from her unauthorized position and
demands that she gets the hell out of there and go back to first-class with Max. He wants to talk to Natalie, alone, NOW.

Now, Roxy goes on another path of irritation toward Natalie. She starts making implications that Cris and Natalie are closer than close, and both of the teens are angry and annoyed by the rambunctious woman's idiocy.
They tell her to buzz off and take a hike to first class to enjoy her fifteen minutes of fame as Mrs. Holden while she still can.

LLANFAIR'S NEW ARRIVAL: LOOK WHAT THE STORK DROPPED OFF!

Rex is surfing the mansion in search of a bathroom. He opens a door that is a closet, then he opens another door and gets an ear-piercing scream from Jessica. He jumps, startled, then apologizes for the intrusion. Jessica apologizes as well, saying that she's not used to people just barging into her room. He explains that he was looking for a bathroom, then teases her, asking her if she's never seen a guy in a towel before. She laughs that off, saying that she grew up with two brothers, so a towel-clad male is nothing new to her.

They become involved in a conversation that explores both their backgrounds. Jessica asks him what his Aunt Careen is like, and he says,

"You saw what she's like, you met her."
Jess tells him that she only met her for a few minutes, not long enough to make an appropriate assessment. Rex gives in and says that Careen was okay. He tells her the details of how he slept on pull-out couches and basements, and Jessie's heart goes out to him. He comments on how great it must have been for Jessie to grow up in Llanfair.  Jessica says that she couldn't give him a fair reply to that question because she doesn't have any other scenario to compare her life to.

She asks Rex about what Natalie was like as a child. Rex tells her that what he remembers about Nat was that she was always nice to him. It's hard to believe that now she has all that money...well, I guess the important thing is that she's happy. Jessica concurs. Rex asks Jessica what Natalie is like now, and Jessica tells him that she can't answer that because her history with Natalie is complicated.

Later, after Jessica hints that he's got to leave because she's going out on a date, the ice is broken between them as Rex says,

"So I take it I'm getting kicked out of my big sister's room?" Jessica smiles and says, "Yeah, you're getting kicked out of your big sister's room."

Rex smiles and turns to leave, only to see Natalie coming through the door.

KERI/ANTONIO: PRIVATE PARADISE

Antonio leads a blindfolded Keri through a resort. The whole time he's guiding her, she's commenting on all of the papers she has waiting for her at home to grade. Antonio tells her that the papers can wait, and Keri
feebly protests. Soon, Antonio removes the blindfold, and she's wonderfully surprised by the sight of a hot tub set in the center of romantic accessories. (Let me clarify, people, I don't want your heads to be filled with naughty ideas..)

Candlelight, towels, and champagne. (That's all. What were YOU thinking?)

Keri is giving a choice: Go home and grade papers, or spend some time with Antonio? Keri tosses her bag aside in response to his ultimatum. She opts for the latter, obviously, and the two share a wonderful private getaway. She thanks him for the surprise and says that she always dreamed of buying a house that has a hot tub.
Antonio says teasingly that all she has to do is put it on a credit card with a high credit limit. Keri tells him playfully not to joke about her credit card problem. He laughs with her, and she becomes serious for a moment.

She tells him that they both know how Carlotta got a hold of that bill. Antonio says that he had a hunch, but refused to act on it. Keri says she already did. Antonio is shocked by that revelation. She tells him of how she confronted RJ and told him to keep his nasty little tricks out of her relationship. She also tells him that she canceled RJ's birthday party, and Antonio teases,

"Aww, and I was so looking forward to it."

Keri kisses him, telling him that she's grateful for how great he's been with letting her handle things her own way, and for being so great a defender when he thought she was in debt. Later, when their interlude is coming to a close, he tells her that he has one surprise left.

She reaches for a towel and spots a travel magazine beneath the pile. She says: "Oh, look. I got some poor person's magazine all wet." Antonio says, "A travel magazine. Look at that beach."

"It's Mikanos," Keri says, matter-of-factly. Antonio is pleasantly surprised that she is familiar with the beach, but he's just as quickly disappointed when she spins a tale of a horrific experience at the beach back in her college days and ends the tale with, "If I never see that beach again, it won't be soon enough for me."

Realizing by the disappointed look in his eyes that she stuck a big fat foot in her mouth, she guiltily says,
"Oh, no! Antonio, was that your other surprise? You wanted to take me to Mikanos? We can still go. It will be different if we're going."

Antonio tells her that he won't let her settle for less than the best when they go, and if Mikanos brings back bad memories, then they'll go somewhere else. No matter where they go, it will be paradise.

A CHILD'S INQUIRING MIND WANTS TO KNOW!

After hearing Troy confess his feelings for her to her son, Nora walks straight in to Matthew's excited revelation that Dr. Troy loves her, and does she love him? Nora is awkward with the child's directness, and she tells him that who she loves is him, then takes him up in her arms and threatens to tickle him till he begs for mercy.

Well, he does, very quickly, and reposes his question. She pauses for a moment, then tells Matt that she and Troy are good friends. Matthew is so not buying that cop-out reply and he asks her if friends kiss the way that she and Dr. Troy were kissing. Dr. Troy told him that grown-up friends kiss that way to tell each other that they like each other.

Troy guiltily looks at Nora, and Nora tells Matthew that his question is a good one that deserves an answer. So she tells Matthew again that she and Troy are good friends, and if he doesn't scoot upstairs, he's going to miss Maryann for his sleep-over. Matthew scurries away, and Troy apologizes for taking the initiative with Matthew. He explains that he tried to set him off, but Matthew had him cornered. Nora says that Matthew is really good at doing that, and Troy did nothing wrong. She explains that she didn't tell Matthew the truth about her feelings because she doesn't think Matthew can handle too many new situations at once. Troy understands, and takes Nora's hint to leave because she has to get her son off to his sleep-over and she has a client to see. They share a kiss before parting ways.

PSYCHO MEETS THE SUPERBROOM!

Lindsay is folding laundry alongside Allison in the prison laundry room, and she steals a glance behind her, noticing that Tilly is studying her with a dog-at-the-dinner-table look in her eyes. Lindsay whispers to Allison that Tilly is the woman who tried to strangle her.

"So?" Allison says, giving a brief, disinterested look behind them at the huge lady. Lindsay asks Allison if she can work with her for awhile, and Allison says, nope, she flies solo. (Talk about your pun!)

She walks away from Lindsay and Tilly zooms in for the kill. She tosses Lindsay into a laundry cart and the other prisoners join in to throw dirty laundry on top of her. Allison returns and screams at the top of her lungs for the noisy rioters to get the hell out of her way. She has something that belongs to her in the cart. Tilly looks at Allison and asks her who she thinks she is.

Allison confidently replies that she's Allison Perkins. Tilly backs off with genuine fear in her eyes, and Allison helps Lindsay out of the cart, asking her if she's okay. Lindsay says she is, and our favorite guard arrives to find out what the commotion was all about.

Allison says that Tilly thought that Lindsay needed to clean up her act, so she threw her in the laundry cart. The guard, (darnit, what is her NAME?), tells the prisoners that they know the rules. Get back to work or spend their day in their cells. As for Hefty Tilly, she's got a date with solitary. Tilly protests as she's carried away. Lindsay is curious as to why Tilly is afraid of Allison, then she figures it out.

Allison has been there before, and she must know her away around the jail. Allison walks away and Lindsay heads toward the door, only to walk smack into a face-to-face with Nora!

"STARR'S" TREK: THE WRATH OF TODD!

Well, folks, yesterday's mystery person in the Manning home turned out to be Sam. He stands in the doorway and watches as Blair maniacally tosses Todd's belongings around. She breaks down, saying that she doesn't love Todd, then senses Sam's presence and turns around to snap,

"What do you want?" Sam tells her, as he enters the room cautiously, (he was trying to avoid becoming the recipient of a flying object), that he's there to check in on her and to discuss what happens next for her. They have to prepare their next strategy. They need to work out visitation for Todd with Starr.

Blair is still angry and just rawly hurt, so she responds by taking off her wedding ring and tossing it across the room. Sam tells her that she needs to hold on to the ring just in case it comes up in a hearing. He starts to advise her on the legalities of custody, and when he tells her things that paint Todd as a person who has parental rights, she flips.

"You mean that lousy, poor excuse of a creation has rights?" she shouts. Sam tells her that she has an airtight case against Todd, but she still has to go through the motions of the system. He tells Blair that she has to come to grips with the fact that when you have children with someone, you're eternally connected. (Speaking from personal experience, are we, counselor?)

Blair is not accepting that. She'll find a way. Sam then tells her that although it may not seem that way now, she'll get over the pain she's feeling. He leaves after telling her that he'll hold on to the wedding ring for safekeeping.

Later, as she is stuffing Todd's things into a Hefty bag, (the trash bag company, not Tilly.), she is haunted by Todd's diabolical taunting in her mind.

You think you're going to get over me, Blair? Fat chance. You'll never stop loving me, and you can't make it without me. Everyone thinks you're crazy for loving me, so just accept it. You can't make it without me, Blair...

Then a continual, demonic laugh resounds in the air, and she shouts out that she's going to prove to him that she indeed can make it without him. To prove it, she fishes out a hot little red dress and heads over to the Break Bar, ready for action.

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