Episode 1266

 

The End of an Era
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: February 15, 2026

Episode Theme song: "End of an Era" Dua Lipa

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Madeline finally confessed to Robbie that Bobby was his son with Kim
- Logan & Andy had sex
- Jeff was shocked to see Leah and Bryce appear in the storage room where he was being held hostage
- Frederick offered Andrew a job
- Stephanie learned that Cassie had a DNA test ran on Carter
- The social worker appeared to take Paige & Will's son into foster care
- Max revealed to Abby that he slept with Natasha
- Cory tried to get Robin back

The Dockside Storage Lockers

Jeff feels the blood drain from his face as he looks up at Bryce and Leah. His son and former wife just walked into the storage locker, where Jeff has been held hostage since the previous night when he was clubbed over the head. When he woke up, he was tied to the chair that he is currently in. He thought that he was going to be saved when he saw his family, but Leah just told him that he wasn't going anywhere until they heard him out.

"I…I don't think I understand," Jeff stutters back to her. "You're not here to help me? What the hell is going on?"

Bryce and Leah uneasily look at one another before Bryce returns his gaze to his father. You aren't going anywhere because we need you to hear us out," Bryce finally says something back to him. "You have to listen to us."

"Wait," Jeff stops him. "How did you two even know I was here?"

"We knew because it was us," Leah admits to him. "We are the ones that knocked you out and brought you here last night."

"What?" Jeff gasps back at them in horror. "Why the hell would you do this to me? Why would you kidnap me?"

"Because," Bryce locks eyes with him. "We need you to do something for us, and we thought this was the only way you'd hear us out."

"What the hell is this about? This is insane! You two kidnapped me! This is unbelievable!" Jeff shouts back at them. "What do you want from me? What the hell is this? Why would you go to this extreme?"

"Stop talking and we will tell you," Leah instructs him. "We will tell you everything."

 
 

The Sugarbowl

Cory picks up the two hot chocolates from that the barista passes him with a smile on his face. He moves to the back booth of the coffeehouse while a Kacey Musgraves song plays on the speakers. He sits across from Robin and passes her a hot chocolate and a pastry, which is in a bag.

"First we went for a walk in the cemetery and now you're getting me hot chocolate and a pastry," Robin chuckles back to him as she thinks about the day that they've spent together so far. "I feel like this is déjà vu."

Cory chuckles back to her. "It seems familiar, doesn't it?" he winks back to her. "That's because it is. You did this for me any years ago."

Robin arches her eyebrow back to him as she tries to think about when she would have taken Cory for a walk in the cemetery and then brought him to the Sugarbowl. "Your memory is better than mine," she admits to him. "When did we do this before?"

"It was one of our first dates," he admits to her with a grin on his face. "If you remember, I was married to Natasha, but we all thought she died when she drove her car off the bridge. I was mourning, and you happened to see me in the cemetery. You walked with me and then brought me here for a hot chocolate and donut; you were trying to make me feel better, which you did."

"Goodness, I hadn't thought about those times in ages," Robin shakes her head back to him. "We certainly have been through a lot together, haven't we?"

"We have," Cory nods back to her. "The reason I wanted to have today with you, Robin, is to show you that I still care about you and that I remember all of your times together, both good and the not so good."

"I appreciate the gesture," Robin smiles back to him. "And for the reminder that we have been through it all together."

***


At the window seat, Daisy sits with a latte in front of her. Her mind is racing over the fact that she asked Leah and Bryce to talk to their family about the idea of Felicia coming back to Twin Peaks; she knows that if Felicia does come back to town, then Frederick will help Dawn snap out of her catatonic state that she fell into after Tara brainwashed her. She just hopes that they can bring Felicia back because Daisy knows how upset Cheresa is.

As she takes a long sip of her latte, she can't help but wonder how Andrew is doing. She misses how close they were at one time, but he hasn't been able to forgive her for switching Tinah's paternity test results the previous year. She knows that she allowed her insecurities about losing Andrew get in the way of her judgement, but she can't go back and make a different decision now. Still, she wishes that there was something, anything, that she could do to make him forgive her, but the longer they go being apart, she feels like the chances of reuniting are slim to none.

She looks over when the door to the coffeehouse opens and she sees Andrew. She feels like heart moves into her throat as she gulps heavily as Andrew moves up to her.

"Daisy, hey," he says as he moves up to her. "I'm glad that I saw you. We…we need to talk," he tells her as Daisy wonders if this is the moment that she has been waiting for: is this the time that Andrew can finally forgive her?

The Lawson Estate; Abby, Ethan, Cheresa, & Georgina's Home

Abby pours herself a glass of water from the bar in the lavish living room of the manor that she lives in with Ethan, their daughter, and Cheresa. Her mind is racing over the fact that Max admitted to her that he slept with Natasha while he still dating Sophie. Abby can't believe that he slept with his girlfriend's mother, but she realizes that she can't tell anyone about this because Max doesn't want Sophie to find out as he told her that he and Natasha only slept together once.

"You look a million miles away," a voice calls out from behind Abby. She turns and sees Cheresa standing in the living room. "What's up?"

"Oh Cheresa," Abby sighs back to her. "I…I thought you were at the hospital."

"I took the day off," Cheresa tells her. "With Adam and Helen here, they wanted to go see Dawn, so I'm going to take them in a bit."

"How is Dawn? Any change?"

"No, I'm afraid not," Cheresa reveals to her. "I am hoping that seeing her parents might help her."

"It was a surprise that Adam and Helen showed up here unannounced," Abby chuckles. "But I understand why they'd want to be here for Dawn."

"Yea, me too," Cheresa tells her. "So, where were you just now? What were you thinking about?"

"Honestly, I'm sure it's nothing," Abby waves her hand in the air. "But Ethan and I, we had a misunderstand the other day and it's just weighting on me."

"Talk to him about it," Cheresa encourages her sister. "You two have a good thing going, don't let a small mishap become between you two. You two, you can work it out, I know you can."

"Thanks," Abby forces a smile on her face. "You're right, like always."

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

Shane and Natasha sit across from one another in the restaurant with some lunch in front of them. Natasha is thrilled that they have gotten closer again; for a while last year, they were estranged because Shane blamed her for bringing his father back into their lives, but over the Christmas holiday, they bonded and are closer than ever before.

"How is Sophie doing?" Shane asks her before he takes a bit of his cobb salad. He knows that Natasha's daughter went through a lot as she miscarried at the end of last year; since then, Sophie's moods have been all over the place.

"She has been rather cold to me lately," Natasha admits to him before she takes a spoon of her squash soup. "I am thinking she is still upset about the baby, but I am concerned that she is lashing out at me instead of accepting my support."

"She's young and grieving," Shane replies to her. "Give her some time, but I would say that it might be a good idea for her to talk to someone about it. A lot of people struggle with grief."

"That's not a bad idea," Natasha nods back to him. "I will mention that to Cory; I think it's best that he suggest that to her to prevent world war three from happening."

Shane chuckles back to her. "A mother's relationship with her daughter is always a little complicated, huh?"

"You can say that again," Natasha tells him. "Oh God."

"What?" he asks her with an arched eyebrow.

"I just noticed that Cassie is at the bar," Natasha rolls her eyes at the sight of her rival. "I wish that woman would turn around and leave when she knows you and I are somewhere. She is the last person I want to see."

"I actually want to talk to her about something," Shane admits to Natasha, who arches her eyebrow back to him.

"You do? What could you possibly have to say to that woman?"

"It's about Jacob and him not wanting to have another child," Shane tells Natasha, as he stands up from the table. "I'll be right back."

"Hang on, I'll come with you," Natasha follows him to the bar, where they approach Cassie.

"Cassie," Shane announces to her, causing Cassie to look up and sees Shane and Natasha.

"Oh goodie, the firing squad," Cassie quips. "What do I owe the pleasure?"

"It's about our son, Jacob," Natasha firmly tells her. "He admitted to us that you want to have another child with him but he isn't sure he wants another child."

"I guess conversations between a husband and wife are not confidential anymore," Cassie rolls her eyes back to them.

"Don't pressure him," Shane tells Cassie. "The last thing our son needs if for you to try to pressure him into doing something he doesn't want to do. So consider this a warning, Cassie. If we hear that you're pressing this issue, it won't end well."

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Stephanie swiftly moves down the corridor of the hospital carrying a bunch of patient files that she needs to be returned to the file room. Her mind is racing about the previous evenings events, however. She was out having dinner when she spotted Cassie and Jacob, who were having a romantic evening out. Frustrated, Stephanie returned to her office and ended up pulling Cassie's medical file. She was on the fence about pulling the file because she realizes that it is a breach of her medical ethics; however, once she was reading the file, she learned that Cassie had a paternity test completed while she was pregnant with Carter.

Stephanie realizes that Cassie must have had doubts about who the child's father was when she learned she was pregnant if she wanted to have the DNA test completed. Not only that, but she would have known the results before the DNA tests were run that Jacob asked for, and then the following test that Shane and Natasha ran in secret. What scares Stephanie to her core is that this means that Carter might not be Jacob's child after all; if that is the case, she knows that he would be devastated because he loves his little boy.

Now, she has no idea what she is going to do with the information. She doesn't have any solid proof that Cassie did anything wrong, but she also realizes that she can't keep this from Jacob, because he should know the truth.

She turns a corner and collides into another person! Her files scatter all over the floor. "Ooof," she groans in pain. "I'm so sorry!"

Jacob looks at Stephanie in surprise. "Steph? Hey, are you okay?"

"Jacob?" Stephanie looks at him just as she was about to bend down to pick up her files. "I'm…I'm so sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going."

"It's fine, are you okay?"

"I'm…I'm okay," she nods back to him. "Just a bruised ego."

"It's not like you to be so concentrated, what's up? What has you so deep in thought that you were watching where you were going?" Jacob asks her as Stephanie feels her heart skip a beat.

***

Will storms out of Paige's hospital room and feels beads of sweat forming on his forehead. He showed up to see the mother of his son to see how she is doing. He was relieved to hear that she is recovering from the c-section; he also tried to convince her to change her mind about giving the baby up for adoption. That didn't go over so well, and Will lost control when the social worker arrived for Paige to sign their son over into foster care.

He pulls out his phone out of his pocket and dials a number quickly. "It's me," he says into his phone. "Paige is about to sign over our son to the social worker; we…we need to get in front of a Judge ASAP. I … I have to plead my case that I don't want to lose my child. Please…please make this happen," he pleads with her lawyer, as he eagerly awaits for his response.

The Calimo Mansion

Robbie paces back and forth in the living room of the Calimo mansion. He and Madeline returned to the mansion late the previous night after an explosive conversation at the cabin, where Madeline admitted to him that she induced Kim's labour last year, gave birth to the baby, but lied and told Kim that she miscarried. In reality, Madeline was raising the child and ended up telling everyone that she and Robbie had a child from their one-night stand on New Year's Eve.

"This is the most outrageous story that I've ever heard," Robbie whispers to himself as he stops and looking into the flames of the fire in the fireplace. "Madeline stole my baby with Kim? Bobby is really my son with Kim? My God, if this is true, it…it changes everything."

"It is true," Madeline tells Robbie as she moves into the living room having heard the tail end of his private conversation with himself. Madeline, for the first time in weeks, feels like her normal self because she has told the truth; the voices that were haunting her have disappeared, and she feels like she is finally above water again. "I know it's hard to understand or even process, but I wasn't lying. I was telling you the truth last night at the cabin."

"I want to believe you," Robbie turns to face her. "But there's only one way for me to trust in this."

"And what is that?"

"I want a DNA test run," Robbie tells her quickly. "I need to confirm that Bobby is my son with Kim."

The Dockside Storage Lockers

"I'm listening," Jeff glares back at Leah and Bryce as he is waiting for them to explain why they kidnapped him. "What the hell made you want to knock me out and bring me here?"

"This has to do with Victoria," Bryce tells him quickly. "We…we still believe that she is the one that framed Leah for those missing funds."

"What?" Jeff asks in shock. "The investigation didn't prove anything of the sort!"

"Because she used my computer!" Leah shrieks back at him. "That woman did this, and we…we need your help to prove it."

"You brought me here to convince me to betray the woman I love?" Jeff asks with an uneasy chuckle. "You're crazy! You're both crazy!"

"We might be," Bryce looks at him. "But we aren't letting you go until you agree to help us. So, Dad, the choice is yours: Help us prove that Victoria framed Leah and we let you go, or you stay here indefinitely."

Next on One Day at a Time
- Leah and Bryce talk to the family about Felicia
- Will Stephanie tell Jacob the truth?
- Will Andrew forgive Daisy?

 
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