Episode 1228

 

Don't Walk the Line
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: October 26, 2025

Episode Theme song: "Midnight Ride" Orville Peck

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Sophie was horrified to realize that Meggan took alcohol to the cabin
- Daisy admitted to a stunned Andrew, Trenyce, and Chris that she switched the DNA test results
- Cheresa continued to be worried about Dawn
- Robin asked Cory what Penny meant when she said that she was with Cory one last time
- Shane and Natasha remained at odds over her bringing Louie into their lives
- Max asked Donovan to visit Olly to help him with the adjustment period of finding out that he and Abby were his biological parents
- Paige wondered what to do about her pregnancy


The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

Most of the guests at Andrew and Daisy's engagement party have departed the restaurant as the drama unfolding between the Davenport's continues in the middle of the restaurant. Daisy just admitted to Chris, Andrew, and Trenyce that she switched the DNA test results; the test showed that Chris, not Andrew, was Albertinah's father. At the time, Daisy believed that she would lose Andrew if he was revealed to be the little girl's father as she thought he and Trenyce might reconnect.

"You bitch," Chris hisses at his former wife. "Are you happy now? You've completed turned this family upside down!"

"Chris, please," Trenyce pleads with her husband. "I know we are all upset, but we don't have to call names. We…we are all in shock."

"I'm so sorry," Daisy lets another tear fall down from her cheek. "I…I know what I did was wrong…I…I just wanted this family to be normal again. And, Andrew, I didn't want to lose you. Please…please tell me that you understand that?"

"Understand?" Andrew gasps back to her. "You purposely kept me away from my daughter, Daisy! Do you have any idea the pain and heartache you've caused by all of this? Do you?"

"I do!" Daisy pleads with him. "Please just let me explain?" she asks as she moves closer to him.

"Get away from me!" Andrew snaps at her. "I…I need to get out of here!"

"Andrew! Andrew, wait!" Daisy pleads with him as Andrew rushes out of the restaurant.

"Let him go," Trenyce stops her Aunt from leaving. "You and I, we need to talk, and you're not leaving here until we get a few things straight."

Twin Peaks Executive Hotel

Will moves into the lobby of the hotel feeling exhausted. He just got off a shift at the hospital, and he wants noting more than to head up to his room, take a shower, and fall asleep.

As he moves towards the elevator's, he can't help but overhear a conversation between the two front desk clerks.

"Are you sure that Ms. McCloud checked out?" the younger woman asks the older one. "She was on a month-to-month rental."

"Yes, I'm sure," she responds to her co-worker. "She said she had to leave town and didn't know when she'd be back."

"Interesting, I guess she had business to take of."

Will continues to move towards the elevators. "Eva left town? I wonder where she went?" he whispers to himself. "And once again, just when I thought we might have a chance of being together, she takes off."

He runs his hand through his hair as the elevator doors open. "Why is it, Eva, we can never get it right?"

The Claus Home; Leah, Jeff, & Paige's Home

Jeff opens the door to the house that he shares with Leah and Paige and moves inside. He drops his bag down on the ground and then hangs up his jacket. He, then, moves into the living room and sees Leah about to make herself a nightcap. He watches her for a moment and knows that they are further apart than ever before; it is a large part of the reason that he has been sleeping with Victoria.

"There you are," Leah turns to him with a smile on her face. "I'm just having a nightcap, would you like one?"

"Sure, that sounds nice," Jeff replies to her. "How did it go with your family?"

She passes him his scotch as she knows that she missed a lot of events with Jeff lately because she was helping Dominick get Felicia away from Frederick. "My mother is with my father and away from Frederick," she tells him. "So, we are in a good place. How was the engagement party?"

"It is a long story," Jeff admits to her. "Victoria and I mostly talked to Tyler about our upcoming launch; we are all excited by it."

"I wish you weren't working with that barracuda," Leah hisses back to him. "I still think she's the one that made it look like I stole that damn money from my family's company! I have nothing nice to say about her!"

"She's…she's actually a great employee, I couldn't have done this without her…"

"Are you defending her?" Leah gasps back to him. "Ugh, don't start that with me, Jeff. Not tonight."

"See, this is why we haven't been together in months, Leah," Jeff sighs back to her. "You're pissed that I'm working at the company, with Victoria, and you're not."

"How dare you!"

"I'm not interrupting, am I?" Paige asks her parents as she moves into the living room.

"Oh darling," Leah looks over at her. "No, of course not, your father and I, we were just having a nightcap. What's…what's going on with you?"

"I…I was trying to sleep," Paige looks back at them. "And I realized what I want to do with my baby," she says as she puts her hand on her stomach.

"What?" Jeff asks his daughter. "What decision have you made?"

"I'm…" Paige slowly replies to them. "I'm going to give my baby up for adoption. After everything that happened with Will, I can't raise this child, so…so I think this is what's best."

Jeff and Leah look at one another in surprise before they move over to Paige and embrace her, as she starts to weep in their arms.

The Cascade Apartments

Abby steps off the small elevator at the Cascade apartments and moves towards Max's front door. She was at home with Ethan when she got a message from Max saying that Donovan had agreed to talk to Olly, who is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that Max and Abby are his biological parents. Since Ethan had gone to bed, Abby decided to come over to ensure Olly has a good visit with Donovan.

"Hey, I got here as soon as I could," Abby says as she moves into the apartment and sees Max and Donovan standing next to one another. "I…I didn't miss the visit, did I?"

"Nah, we just got here ourselves," Max replies to her.

"Donovan, thank you, thank you for agreeing to see Olly," Abby moves up to him.

Donovan uneasily nods back to her. "This has been torture, but the fact is, I will do anything for that little boy," Donovan tells them. "And thanks for calling him Olly."

"We've made the mistake of calling him Sonny and he gets more confused," Max nervously chuckles. "So, we are getting better at just calling him Olly."

"It's late, do you think he's still awake?" Abby asks Max who nods back to her.

"He hasn't been sleeping well, I'll go see if he's awake," Max informs them.

While Max is out of the room, there's an awkward silence between Donovan and Abby as they uneasily look at one another. Then, Max returns with Olly next to him.

"Daddy!" the little boy excited announces seeing Donovan and rushing over to him.

"Hey you," Donovan smiles as they embrace one another. "How have you been?"

"I miss you and Papa! I want to go back to the mansion!"

"I…I know you do," Donovan replies to him as he carries him to the sofa and sits with him. "That's why I'm here, I wanted to talk to you; I want you to try to understand what's happened, okay?"

"I want another hug first!" Olly tells Donovan, as they embrace again, and Donovan feels his heart melt in his chest, holding the boy he believed was his son for years.

The Calimo Cabin

Sophie paces back and forth in the living room of the Calimo cabin as her mind races over the fact that Meggan brought her own alcohol to the cabin. Now that she is thinking about it, it makes sense that Meggan brought alcohol, but the thought of Meggan getting drunk has left Sophie feeling very uneasy.

"The reason I wanted to come here is to tell Logan that I am carrying his child," Sophie whispers to herself. "But every time I went to tell him, he was drinking, sometimes with Meggan."

She pauses when she looks over to the bar and sees the open bottle of wine that Meggan is drinking from. She knows that Meggan went for a bubble bath with her glass of wine, so she could easily get rid of the alcohol if she wanted too.

"She wouldn't be able to drink if there was no wine here," she whispers to herself. "And then, if Logan is able to make it here, I could tell him about the baby, without worrying about him drinking with his mother."

She moves to the bar and picks up the bottle of wine. She, then, moves towards the kitchen and moves to the sink. Just as she is about to pour the wine down the drain, Meggan appears behind her, fresh from the bath, wrapped in a fluffy robe.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Meggan asks her as Sophie turns and gulps heavily.

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Shane sits behind his desk at the hospital and is looking at some client files. He knows that it is late and he should be at home, but he finds himself avoiding the mansion right now because he and Natasha are still at odds because he can't believe that she arranged for Louie to come to Twin Peaks, which resulted in Shane getting arrested.

He looks up, however, when his office door opens and he sees his fiance standing there. "You're still here," Natasha says as she moves into the office. "I wasn't sure, and thought, we could head home together?"

"We were at the party earlier," Shane reminds her. "And I told you, Natasha, that I need some time to figure out what I wanted with my future. You showing up here, unannounced, is the opposite of that."

"It is snowing outside, you know that I hate driving in the snow," Natasha sighs back to him. "I just thought we could go home together. I…I guess I was wrong."

"I guess there's no easy way to say this," Shane tells her quickly. "But I want a separation, Natasha. I think having some clear time away from one another will be good for us, for both of us."

Natasha feels her eyes swell with water. "I…I see," she tells him. "Look, I don't want you to feel like you have to leave the mansion, Shane. There's plenty of rooms that you can stay there and we can be separated. I mean, Robbie and Kim are divorced and they still live in the mansion."

"I'll take you up on that because I don't want to find my own place, at least not until I know where we stand."

"Shane," Natasha turns to face him. "I love you, I really do. And I am so sorry that I went to Detroit but I can't undo that now. I…I just hope that one day you're able to forgive me."

The Tower's; The Penthouse; Cory's Home

"I'm glad we came home when we did," Cory chuckles to Robin as he passes her a glass of red wine that he just poured from the bar in the living room of his penthouse. They had been at the Pink Flamingo when Chris asked Daisy if she switched the DNA test results; right before this happened, Robin had asked Cory what Penny meant when she said that she was glad that she and Cory had one more night together. Cory told Robin that they should come home to talk, instead of being at the restaurant. "It seemed like things were reaching a boiling point."

"It was intense," Robin agrees with him as she accepts the wine. "And it will give us a chance to finish our conversation."

Cory arches his eyebrow back to her. "You'll have to remind me of what we were talking about."

Robin uneasily chuckles back to him. "Do I really?" she asks him as she takes a sip of his drink. "I told you that when I came to say goodbye to Penny, she told me that she was glad you two had one more night together. When I asked her about it, she claimed that she meant the date night that you two had, but I felt like it was more. So, I'm asking you, Cory, what did Penny mean?"

"I mean, it is true," Cory looks back at her. "I did take Penny for dinner. She told me that she was felt cooped up in the house and wanted to go out, so I did."

"So that's all she meant? Was your dinner out?"

Cory gulps back to her before he takes another sip of his wine. "There is more and I should have told you sooner."

Robin looks back at him in surprise. "Tell me, Cory."

"When we got home, Penny and I, we made love," he admits to her. "I'm sorry that it happened, and I know I should have told you sooner. But…that's what happened. That's the truth."

Robin feels the blood drain from her face having heard his admission, and she doesn't know what she is going do with the information she just learned.

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

Cheresa opens the front door to the large mansion that she lives in. She left the engagement party because things were escalating and she wanted to give her parents some privacy as they deal with the fallout of Daisy changing the DNA test results. Part of the reason that Cheresa wanted to come home is because she was worried about Dawn as well, as she knows that her girlfriend has been acting oddly lately.

She sets her purse down in the foyer but grabs her phone from it first. She dials a number and places the phone to her ear. "Daisy, it's me, Cheresa," she says as she leaves a voicemail. "I know you're busy tonight, but I wanted to talk to you about your theory that something happened to Dawn while she was at the prison. If you…if you could call me back, please, it's important that I figure this out before something happens."

She hangs up the phone and sighs heavily. "I have to figure out what is going on with you, Dawn," she whispers to herself.

Suddenly, a large vase is dropped over Cheresa's head! Cheresa's body crumbles to the ground and Dawn stands over her girlfriend as a wicked smile creeps across her face.

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"I…I know what I did was wrong, Trenyce, and I'm sorry, but I am exhausted," Daisy looks back at her niece as they continue to face one another in the middle of the Pink Flamingo. "Can we talk about this another time?"

Trenyce slaps Daisy hard across the face and glares back at her Aunt. "How dare you do this! How dare you play with my family's lives! You…you will not stand there and play the victim, Daisy, not this time!"

Daisy holds her cheek and looks back at Trenyce with tears in her eyes. "I'm…I'm sorry…" she replies to her. "I…"

"Shut up!" Trenyce yells at her. "Whatever relationship you think we had, it's over Daisy. You…you mean nothing to me! Moving forward, you stay the hell away from me and my family, or so help me God, I won't be responsible for my actions!"

Next on One Day at a Time
- Madeline continues to act oddly with Robbie
- Dominick and Eva try to calm Felicia's nerves
- Nicholas shares his plans with Andy

 
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