One Life to Live Recap for the Week of December 5 - December 9, 2005

RJ makes a surprise visit to Llanfare, where he meets Nash. Nash tells RJ that he’s watching the house, RJ vents about Antonio’s new girlfriend and wants to talk to Antonio. Nash is confused, thinking that Antonio is with Jess. To add fuel to the fire, Layla shows up. RJ figures out that Layla and Antonio were pretending to be in a relationship just to get Jamie back. Jess and Antonio are trying to get thru the night without Tess emerging. Jess tries to make Antonio see that he needs to acknowledge Tess as a person to understand the disease, Antonio doesn’t want to think of Tess as a real person – thinking that Jess will become less real to him if he accepts Tess. Antonio hears the bickering downstairs between Layla, Nash and RJ and goes down to check it out. Antonio and Layla try to keep up the charade but RJ calls them out on it. Nash sneaks up to see Jess. Van and Mike are waiting for any word that John and Nat are ok. Mike sees the EMT bringing out a body bag and demands to see who’s inside. Mike looks inside to see Hayes. Van calls Hugh to let him know that Hayes is dead. Rex shows up at the station, Marcie is there and she tells him about Nat going back to the prison. Hugh shows up to tell them about Hayes. Carlo holds Nat hostage, Nat chooses herself to be shot instead of either John or Cris. Carlo tells her that it doesn’t work like that and one of the men must die. Cris and John go after Haskell while Carlo tries to keep Nat from getting away. Cris takes out Haskell as John tackles Carlo. The gun goes off hitting Carlo in the shoulder. Arlen and a few other FBI agents arrive inside the prison, Arlen tells John that the whole prison is now secure. Carlo and Haskell are both taken away. Nat, John and Cris are brought outside to the medical teams that are standing by. Van gives Nat a few words of encouragement, thinking it’ll help her get thru the dilemma that lay ahead. Van calls Hugh to tell him the news about Statesville, Hugh relays that info to Marcie and Rex. Nat confronts Cris, asking him if he’s really her husband. Cris tells her that he really is Cristian Vega. Nat confronts John about knowing the truth about Cris, John admits that he knew from the beginning. Nat storms off exclaiming that she doesn’t want to see either of them again. . .

Matt catches Spencer with Bo, Matt thanks Spencer for saving his father’s life. Matt asks his dad to wake up so they can talk again. Bo wakes up, Matt is ecstatic that he has his dad back. Paige tells Spencer never to go see Bo alone, Spencer tells her to chill because he’s “not the murderer.” Matt goes to get Paige, Paige is elated that Bo is conscious. Paige tells him that John and Cris are all ok. Paige tells him that Spencer saved his life. John comes in to see Bo and fills him in on what happened after Bo was taken away. Bo gives John a few words of advise to deal with the whole Cris thing. Rex stops by to see Bo, someone informs him that Bo is dead. Matt finds Rex crying, Rex sees Bo and can’t believe he’s alive. Bo thanks Rex for everything he’s done. RJ threatens to call Social Services, Antonio is still trying to make believe that he and Layla are an item. RJ doesn’t want Jamie near Tess. Antonio reminds RJ that he’s got some federal drug charges to worry about instead of Jamie. RJ wants the charges dropped in exchange for keeping quite about Jess. Clint makes sure everything is ok before going out for a walk. RJ agrees to the deal. Hugh stops by Blair’s place to talk about the alternate coroner’s report. Blair thinks it’s a mistake and wants another report done. Hugh reveals that he intends to seek the death penalty. Blair begs him to reconsider. Hugh tells Blair that the neighbor saw Todd the night Margaret died and plans to testify, Hugh subpoena’s Dorian to testify. Dorian refuses to go up on the stand against Todd. Hugh leaves, Dorian admits that she hopes Todd gets the death penalty. Spencer stops by, Blair is starting to doubt Todd’s innocence. Blair wonders if Spencer is messing with her. Spencer says that he’s not playing around with her head, Blair apologizes for being so suspicious. Mike brings John into the hospital, Nat runs into Mike and starts to vent to him. Nat can’t believe that John and Cris lied to her, Marcie sees Mike and Nat getting closer. Nat thanks Mike for fixing her cut and leaves. Mike asks Marcie to have a drink, Marcie agrees to it. Hugh catches Mike and Marcie together.