Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Greetings, all!

My birthday was Friday, and my gift was to come out of last week's alien abduction alive. I turned another year older, and now, four days into my new age, I am stuck watching the Superbroom invade Loonview, Natalie suffer through more torment, and SuperMoral Madmom Vega wreak havoc yet again. UGH! Sorry, folks, post-birthday life crisis. Let's go to the recap....

SUPERBROOM LANDS IN THE ER:

Superbroom the First, that is! Troy and his clan happily accept Dr. Wolek's praises and his toast to Troy for being the recipient of the grant.
Lindsay steps up and announces that she, too, has a contribution to make.

She steps forward with a large painting, that neither of us viewers could make out, and tells the tale of a doomed woman who was duped and betrayed by the man that she loved. The story goes on to describe a dark event, something about the woman gasping for air, and in the end, Lindsay announces that she named the painting "Joanna".

Troy is so disturbed by the mention of Joanna's name that he breaks the bottle of champagne that he's holding with his bare hand, and said hand is cut up pretty badly. Nora panics at the sight of the blood and tries to tend to it, but Troy snaps at her and tells her that he can take of it. He walks away, and Emily assures Nora that she'll follow Troy, just get rid of that woman!

Nora assures Emily that she'll take care of Loonsey, and after the MacIvers disappear, Nora stops Larry from dealing with Loonsey, telling him that she wants to do the honors. She calls Claire over to send the guests away. After a mini protest, Claire clears the room, and the fight is on! Nora tells Lindsay that she's going to pay for what she did.

Lindsay pretends to be innocent of all wrongdoing, but Nora isn't buying the trash. She tells Lindsay that this event was planned for Troy, and Lindsay just had to ruin it. She accuses Loonsey of being so jealous of Troy's success and happiness with Nora that she'd do anything to cause a scene.

I won't waste time going through the age-old argument that these two ladies always seem to have..

Nora accuses Lindsay of blaming everyone else for her actions, Lindsay pulling the blame card...You made me lose time with my daughter, Troy betrayed me..yada yada.

Okay, now Nora says that she knows who Joanna is...we go to commercial and return to hear Nora tell Lindsay that Joanna is really her. Lindsay laughs in Nora's face and says she's wrong, as usual, but she'd love to do her the honor of telling her who Joanna really is...

Flash over to the medical supplies room, where Troy is acting more like his late, deranged twin rather than himself. He is furious, and he barks at his little sister:

"HOW does Lindsay know about Joanna? Think back, Emily. Did you tell anyone about Joanna?"

Emily indignantly tells her brother that she made him a promise to keep Joanna a secret, and had she slipped, she'd have told Troy a long time ago.
Then how does Lindsay know about his dead wife? Troy wants to know.

Emily tells him that she doesn't know, but he should get his hand looked at. Troy, panicked, tells Emily that there's no time for that, he has to get back to Nora before Loonsey spills the beans. They race back to Nora, just in time to hear Lindsay tell her that she'll tell Nora who Joanna is.

Troy interrupts her, telling her to get lost, no one is interested in hearing what she has to say. After a brief argument, Loonsey goes about her business, planting the seed of doubt in Nora's mind.

LOONVIEW TEEN BEAT: SUPERBROOM WEDDING BELLS!!

In the Palace Bar, Cris and Natalie are trying hard to deal with their unexplored love for each other, in addition to Jen's motor-mouth buzzing in their ears a thousand words a minute.

Unaware that Mini-Witch is playing them like a fiddle, they struggle to keep their feelings and the truth of their relationship to themselves. Snottifer, (for you, Mansion Residents!), revels in their torment and adds fuel to the fire by telling Natalie how sorry she is for her previous behavior towards Natalie. Natalie tries to wave it off, but Jen is relentless.

"No, really, Natalie. I wish there were something I could do to make it up to you. Oh, wait! There IS something I can do! You're my best friend, will you be my maid-of-honor?"

OH PUHLEEEEEEEEEEZE!! Will someone SLAP the black magic out of this demented chick??

(AAARRRGH!!)

Naturally, Nat's first response was to decline the invitation. Cris also tried to kill the suggestion, but Jennifer rambles on. Natalie is her best and only friend, it would mean so much to her to have Natalie stand by her side as she pledges to love Cristian and be faithful to him until death do them part...

(I am so sick of looking for new names to call this Spawn!)

The knife in Natalie's heart is twisting deeper into the gaping hole, and Jen keeps grinding...

Finally, Natalie agrees to do it, and Jen excuses herself. Cris promises to get Natalie out of the obligation and Natalie tells him it doesn't matter. She appreciates all that he's done to protect her, but it's not his job to do that anymore. Now he has to protect Jen and his baby....

Flash over to the dining room, we find Bo and Gabby happily engrossed in a conversation where Gabby is trying to recruit Bo to be her male model for her Style Column. Bo happily declines, and their happiness is short-lived with the arrival of the Superbroom Mini-Me. She requests a moment of Gabrielle's time. Bo excuses himself and Jen tells Gabby that she wants to talk to her about Al.

Well, folks, prepare for some claw-honing, because the catfight is on! Jen initially starts off with a sweet tone of voice. She tells Gabby that Al is beginning to stalk her and she's getting a little creeped-out. Gabby angrily defends her son, saying that Al wouldn't be stalking Jen if she weren't sending him mixed signals.

What happened next brought me back to the 80's. I had a flashback of myself at fifteen years old watching the premiere of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. When Jen's "sweet", (notice the quotation marks, people), face turned instantly evil, I saw Michael Jackson turning into the Werewolf.

She flipped the script on Gabrielle, telling her that Al refuses to believe that Jen wants nothing to do with him. She's told him a million times, but he never listens.

Gabrielle continues to defend Al. She tells Jen that if she didn't keep running to Al every time she had a problem with Cristian, maybe Al wouldn't feel she had feelings for him. Jen tells her that if she doesn't keep Al away from her, preferably in another state until after her wedding, she's going to spill the beans to Gabby's new commish boyfriend that her precious son is an arsonist.

If Gabby were a smart cookie, she would have replied with a smug grin and told Little Miss I'm so Tough that Bo already suspects Al, but has no evidence to jail him.

BUT.....

Gary Tomlin is writing this script, so we're stuck with Gabby falling for the threat and Jen walking away with a smug grin on her face. Bo returns to find his once-happy lover very shaken up.

GANNON-VEGA-REYNOLDS: FAMILY CIRCUS:

A zoo would better describe the shenanigans of this looney group!
Where do I begin?? Okay, let's start with Antonio and Liz.

Antonio is ripping into Liz, accusing her of playing mind games with him and Keri. She tells him not to be ridiculous. She spends a very long time trying to convince the enraged detective that she was just as surprised as he was to find out that he was Keri's fiancé.

Antonio is suspicious of her now. He tells her that he needs to know if the baby Keri is carrying is his. She tells him that it isn't. He probes deeper, using police investigative tactics. He tells her that her husband is dead, so how can that be? She tells him that she was already pregnant when she slept with him. He is not letting his guard down. He reminds her that the night they spent together, she told him everything about herself. She didn't hold back. She reminds him that he returned the favor.

"Then how come you forgot to mention the most important, most relevant thing going on in your life?"

She stammers for a mini-second, then recovers quickly and tells him that she met him at a time when everything hit her at once. She suddenly found herself alone, possibly about to become a single mom. Antonio reminds her that she already did the single mom thing. She tells him that she was a lot younger then. He tells her that he dreads what this is going to do to Keri. Liz panics. What does he mean? He can't tell Keri what happened between them. Antonio is shocked by what Liz is suggesting. Is she implying that Antonio should lie to Keri? She tells him yes. If he doesn't keep their secret, Keri will be lost to him for good.

Antonio tells her that he can NOT lie to Keri, she'll know that something is wrong. Liz says, in a very loud voice,
"I'm warning you, Antonio! You will lose Keri for good if you don;t do what I say!"

"Mrs. Reynolds! Are you threatening my son?"

They both turn around to see Mama Bear Vega, breathing the dangerous vapors a raging bull, standing in the doorway. (I think that Carlotta's been practicing on the Superbroom! She is everywhere in a flash!)

Antonio shoos his mom away, and they get into another debate about whether or not to tell Keri. The voices are loud and angry, and now it's Keri who arrives, demanding to know why they're screaming at each other!

A little earlier, RJ overhears Liz asking Keri to borrow Antonio for a few minutes to thank him for supporting Keri's decision to do this wonderful thing for her. RJ confronts Keri about this "wonderful" thing, and Keri reluctantly confesses that she's pregnant with Liz's child.

RJ FREAKS!! Huh?? WHAT! How could Liz be so inconsiderate to ask her to do such a thing? Keri is furious with RJ's attack on her mom, and she goes to bat for Liz.

Is it me, or does Keri always seem to refer to her mom in more of a descriptive form than as a daughter who loves her mother very much? She always says: "My mother this, my mother that.."

Anyway, she adamantly tells RJ that she volunteered to be the surrogate. Things had to be done immediately and she was the only one available. Carlotta comes by and overhears the conversation. RJ dares to ask Carlotta's opinion and is shocked to hear that she agrees with him. SOOOO....

Keri lets them both have it. It was her decision, it's been done, and if they don't like it, TOUGH! She tells them that she's going to find her fiancé before she has to wind up explaining what is going on between her and their parents. She storms off and finds her mother and her lover screaming at each other at the top of their lungs.

THE MANNINGS: ESCAPE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND TO SEE THE LOVE BOAT SAIL!

Blair is calling out to her child to come down so they can talk. Starr humorously asks her mom what has she done now? Blair tells her that the talk is not about her.

Starr sits and listens as Blair reminds her of the promise she made to Starr about not getting involved with another man since Todd left. Starr says she remembers. Blair asks permission to break that oath. Starr tells her that she promised!

Blair says that she knows, that's why she wanted to talk to Starr. Starr immediately assumes that Blair is asking to renege because Todd is back. Blair sadly tells her daughter that Todd isn't coming back, and Starr sulks. Why did Todd have to go and mess everything up? They were a perfect family! And why did he go away? If he really loved her, he would have made an effort to come and see her.

Blair assures her child that Todd is most definitely thinking about her, and he certainly loves Starr verrrry much. (KUDOS TO YOU, BLAIR!!)

Then Starr brightens with happiness, realizing that Blair is referring to a new guy and she asks Blair if she has a boyfriend. The doorbell rings before Blair can reply, and Starr bumbles over to the door before Blair can stop her. Her bright smile drops as she opens the door to see Sam.

Sam has arrived with a babysitter, to take Blair out on a date.

Flash over to a makeshift hospital room, we find a groggy Todd coming out of his long state of unconsciousness. He is dazed, and the nurse in his room in his room immediately summons the doctor. The doctor tells him that he washed up on a shore unconscious, and someone found him and brought him to the hospital.

"Where?" Todd asks.
"In Guam."
"GUAM!" Todd exclaims between fuzzy visions.

The doctor tells him that he was severely malnourished and dangerously dehydrated. Todd says, "OKAAY...Is there anything else wrong with me?
Then I'm going home.

The doc says all of his physical tests are normal. Todd says, "Good, then I'm leaving."

"Not until we run some more tests. What's your name?"

Todd fumbles for a little bit, struggling to think, then he concedes defeat, telling his doctor that he has no idea. The doctor tells him that he has something that might help him jog his memory.

Todd stares at the doctor's retreating figure, impatiently listening as the doctor tells him that he was holding on to this particular object very tightly, even in his unconsciousness. He returns, with the mended photo of Blair and the children, and his eyes seem to light up with recognition.

Gosh, writing this was painful! Thanks for sticking it out with me, folks! Feel free to vent with me at: KaydeesHouse@aol.com.

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