One Life to Live Recap for Wednesday, January 26, 2005

LLANVIEW PD BLUE MEETS LAW & ORDER: THE DNA QUEST!

Evangeline comes bustling into the station and finds John. She’s hurling questions a mile a minute, while John sits calmly. What’s wrong? Is it the case? You didn’t sound urgent on the phone, but…what’s going on? John smoothly ushers her into his office and says what’s going on is wonton soup, mushrooms, chow mein, and something he can’t identify. So this is about dinner? Yep, dinner with a rule. She must fall on demand to be fed, and she cannot talk about the damned case or any of its affiliates. Can you handle that, counselor? She’s about to babble again, but John stops her with a kiss. She pulls away breathlessly from the kiss, and says, “Yes, I can handle that.” They enjoy a peaceful playful dinner, and he makes a teasing comment about her name. She explains that her unusually formal name belonged to her great-grandmother. Evangeline’s mom passed it down to her because she felt she was honoring an amazing woman of strength, who managed to accomplish a major feat for a black woman of her time…she owned a business.

John asks her what nickname did the children in her past give her. He shares that he was nicknamed “Mack”, and she playfully refuses to share the information on her nickname. He just as playfully remarks, “Ah….a woman with secrets! A mystery…I like that!” Evangeline gives him a subtly troubled look. Later, he tries to get the nickname out of her, and she still refuses. He bets that he can kiss the information out of her. Again, he lays a whopper on her, and she emerges breathlessly and whispers the name in his ear. She jokingly threatens to kill him if he spreads the word.

THE GOLDEN CHILD!

Nigel floats into the family room of Asa’s mansion, saying that he thought he heard…..MR. BUCHANAN! He says excitedly at the sight of Kevin and Ace/James. Kevin tells the baby that everything was waiting his return…his toys, his milk, and Nigel. Nigel says he never imagined Kevin and Ace being home so soon. He assumes everything went well, then? (hasn’t anyone ever taught Nigel how to break up the word “assume”?)

Kevin dismissively replies that all that matters is that Ace…I mean, James…(the baby, darn it! I’m tired of trying to keep up with a million names!)…is home. Nigel hurries off to prepare the nursery and Kevin turns to…THE BABY and assures him that despite what people believe, Kevin’s career is NOT the most important thing to him. THE BABY changed that for him. He made Kevin want to be someone that THE BABY could be proud of.

(Okay, people, it’s time to play my trademark game called... “Is it me, or…?” Is it me, or should Kevin, if he was playing with a full deck, be someone he himself, and his REAL SON, be proud of?)

Kevin continues to tell THE BABY that he can help Kevin make up for the mistakes he’s made with Duke.

(Is it me, or shouldn’t KEVIN be making up for the mistakes he made with Duke….WITH DUKE???)

He vows to do things differently from now on, and to make sure that no one ever comes between them again. It’s going to be a new beginning.

(Is it me, or….shouldn’t he want to have that “new beginning” with DUKE???).

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: THE SEARCH FOR TODD!

Blair and Kelly are sitting at a table in The Palace, having a drink. Kelly says that she doesn’t understand why Margaret would kidnap Todd. Blair says, puhleeze, it’s no big mystery, especially to Blair. Looney Mags has been obsessed with Todd ever since the day she laid eyes on him. Blair goes on to say that Todd once tried to convince her that therapy had cured Mags, but Blair had her doubts the whole time.

Kelly ruefully tells her cousin that Blair once told her not to beat up on herself, and now she’s returning the favor. There’s no way that any of what happened to Todd is Blair’s fault.

Blair sighs, and admits that she doesn’t know what she’s going to do. What that woman must be doing to Todd….Kelly says that she just hopes Todd isn’t…..Blair screams out: DON’T SAY THAT! He’s fine, he’s alive! I can feel it. And if I know Todd, and I DO know Todd, he’s probably making Margaret Cochran sorry she ever met him! WEEELLLL….. Blair’s partly right. Let’s head over to the Bat Cave and see what’s going on over there.