Episode 267
 
Under Your Thumb
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: January 11, 2015

Episode Theme song: "Turning Tables" Adele

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Bob and Felicia met in private, where he paid her as she agreed to help him carry out a part of his plan. Felicia, meanwhile, told Dominick that she thinks their marriage could work
- Leah and Jeff agreed to move Felicia out of the house in the New Year
- Kim revealed to Andy that she is having an affair. On Christmas Day, Andy wondered if the man she was sleeping with was Johnny
- Vinny showed up at the prison to confront Brett about the baby switch

Scene One - The Calimo Mansion

Bob sits in his office looking at some files for Roboto. The CEO of the company has decided to work from home today as he had many other things on his agenda other than corporate business. His mind is really on Felicia Robertson and the fact that he brought her back to Twin Peaks last fall in hopes of destroying Dominick's family. He knows that he has already succeeded in creating a rift between Leah and Dominick as Dominick was the one who kept Felicia hidden for so many years. That's not enough, Bob realizes to truly destroy his enemy. His plan with Felicia is the last step he needs to take to truly ruin Dominick; something so evil that he needs her help to make it a reality.

"If Felicia could go crazy on the family," Bob whispers to himself, slowly revealing his plan. "Then Leah may never forgive Dominick. Felicia could potentially put Paige in harm's way. Nothing would ever happen, of course, but the fear would be enough. Jeffrey would also lose his patience and that disaster of a relationship may even end as well. Not only would I get my revenge on Dominick, but I would also get revenge for Robbie for all the pain Leah and Jeff put him through."

Bob stands up and looks at his watch. If he wants his plan to go forward, he knows that he needs Felicia to start acting quicker. She has told him that everything is happening accordingly to their plan, but he feels like nothing is happening and he is tired of waiting for something to happen. Bob needs Felicia to start going crazy on the family, and now. The sooner he has removed Dominick from a problem in his life, the better Bob thinks to himself.

He walks back to his desk and picks up his telephone. He dials a number quickly and waits for an answer on the other side.

"Felicia, it's me," he says into the receiver. "Are you free to talk?"

At the Robertson house, Felicia looks over her shoulder. She is in her bedroom while Leah and Jeff are downstairs. "I only have a moment Bob, Leah is expecting me downstairs. Why would you call me here?"

"You know why," Bob replies to her in a stern voice. "We have a deal! It's time you start living up to your end of it."

"Don't remind me about our deal," she warns him back. "You got me out of the hospital and now I will help you. Trust me when I tell you that I'm working on things. It's just … these things cannot be rushed."

"You're testing my patience Felicia. Make this happen!"

"Don't worry," she says back. "And Bob, don't call here again. It's far too risky," Felicia says before she hangs up the phone.

Bob puts his phone down in anger. How dare Felicia hang up the phone on him; he's the only reason that she is out of the hospital. "She better not cross me, it would be a huge mistake," he whispers to himself.

Scene Two - Robertson Enterprises; Dominick's Office

Dominick types quickly into his laptop on large desk as he is far behind on work. He knows that lately his focus has been on his family as it has been put through the ringer in the last few months. He hopes that the Christmas holiday, however, was good for him and Leah, especially, as she seemingly warmed to him, as they have been at odds since she learned he was keeping Felicia in Switzerland all those years. He supposes he can't blame his daughter for being livid with him; she loves her mother and he did take the chance for them to be together away. He really does believe he was doing it for the best, however, with Felicia being unstable and for so many years getting worse.

He recalls seeing Felicia around Christmas as well and he was surprised by how well she was doing. It seems that being on her medication is really helping her. He wonders how long that will last; just a few short months ago, when he went to visit her she was a still in the mental hospital and seemingly incompetent. To add a complication to everything, Felicia told Dominick that she thinks their marriage could have the potential to work, if they both try.

For so many years, Dominick has thought of his wife as being dead. He never believed she would get better so he lead his life thinking she was gone. This meant, he moved on with Eva. Eva has told him that she isn't sure where their relationship is headed now that Felicia is alive; he thinks she is being silly, they are enjoying each other so they should continue to do so. Now that Felicia has admitted that she thinks their marriage could work, Dominick fears that his relationship with Eva may actually be in jeopardy.

"You look a million miles away," Eva observes to her lover as she walks into his office holding a paper bag.

Dominick looks up from his computer and smiles at the sight of her. "This is a surprise," he says to her. "What brings you by?"

Eva holds up the bag and grins back at him. "I brought you some coffee and a muffin. I know how crazy things have been for you lately; I didn't think you would have eaten before you left the house today."

Dominick stands up and walks over to her and hugs her. "You're so thoughtful. Thank you. You were right, I didn't have time to eat anything this morning."

"I know you have a lot on your plate Dominick, but you have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, okay?"

Dominick smiles as he rolls his eyes. "Yes, yes, I know. Can you join me while we have our muffins? Or do you have to get to the hospital right away?"

Eva walks over to a table in his office and sets the bag down. "I would love to have a muffin and coffee with you."

Dominick walks over to the table and sits with Eva. "This is nice," she says as she passes him a muffin. "It's been far too long since we've just had you and me time."

Dominick takes a swig of his coffee and looks at her wondering if he should tell her about Felicia right now. "You're right, it has. I was going to call you today, actually."

"You were?" Eva grins over at him as she finishes a bite of her muffin. "What's going on?"

Dominick sighs and looks at her. "I'm afraid it's not something you will want to hear. I spoke to Felicia," he reveals to her as her eyebrow arches.

"About your marriage, I'm assuming?" she asks him nervously.

Dominick nods at her. "About our marriage, yes."

"And? What did she say?"

"Well, just remember that this doesn't have to change anything between us," Dominick begins to tell her. "But she did say she believes our marriage could work."

Eva nods feeling her heart rip inside chest. She knew that it was only a matter of time before Felicia told Dominick that she wanted their marriage to work. She only wishes that she had trusted herself and not get in deeper with Dominick in the meantime.

"I see," she finally manages to say, as she continues to feel like her heart is in her throat.

"This doesn't have to change anything," Dominick tells her, hoping that she can believe him. "I haven't wanted to be married to her for a very long time."

"But you are married to her Dominick," Eva replies to him. "And whether you like it or not, this does change everything. It changes everything completely."

Scene Three - The State Penitentiary

Vinny sits at one of the visiting booths and waits for his brother to arrive. He takes a deep breath and tries to calm himself down; he isn't sure why he is so nervous by seeing his brother as he has visited him numerous times before. However, today he knows that what Brett may tell him could change everything for a lot of people. Vinny continues to be worried that Brett and Dave set something up that could potentially hurt him and his family. Everyone is still reeling from the effects of the baby switch of Andrew; Trenyce and Savannah's lives have been turned completely upside down and it was all Brett and Dave's doing.

Vinny looks up when he hears the door open and Brett emerges in an orange jump suit. His hands are behind his back in handcuffs and he slowly moves to the booth where Vinny is. Vinny waits for Brett to sit down across from him and looks at his brother for a moment. He doesn't see Brett often so he double checks the man in front of him because it's like he is looking into a mirror. He finally reaches out and picks up the telephone receiver.

"I wasn't expecting to see you again," Brett speaks first. "What brings you by this time?"

Vinny looks at his brother. "I need you to be honest with Brett. Please, I've never asked you for anything. But I'm asking you for honesty right now."

Brett arches his eyebrow. "What is it that you're looking for, exactly, Vinny?"

"What else have you and Dave set up to hurt me?"

"I don't follow what you're asking me Vinny. Dave is dead; I'm in jail," Brett states the obvious to his brother. "What else could we possibly do to you?"

"You two set up this baby switch!" Vinny replies sternly, without being too cold to his brother. He still, after all, needs the truth from Brett. "I want to know what else the two of you cooked up to hurt me. I'm not leaving here until I get the truth from you Brett."

Brett gulps through the plexi-glass. He isn't scared of his brother but he hasn't seen Vinny this upset in a very long time. It takes a lot to rattle Vinny, and right now he is clearly rattled.

"Tell me Brett, what else is coming for me?"

Brett shakes his head. "Nothing," he replies quickly. "Unless Dave did something on his own, there is nothing else waiting for you. I promise you that is the truth."

Vinny looks deep into his brother's eyes and tries to look for something to see if Brett is telling the truth. Maybe it's the fact that Brett has promised him, but Vinny believes his brother.

"Thank you for telling me that," Vinny says, calming down in his voice. "I do appreciate that Brett."

Brett nods back to him. "I wish I had known more about the baby switch so I could have prevented it. Despite everything that has happened Vinny, things went further than I ever wanted them too."

Vinny looks down at the table in front of him. "I always thought so, I mean that Dave was the real mastermind behind it all."

"I just never grew the balls to confront him," Brett says back. "And for what it's worth, I'm sorry for everything that has happened."

Vinny looks at and feels some water in the back of his eyes. "Yea, me too."

Scene Four - Roboto

Andy steps off the elevator and looks around the floor before moving down a hallway. He has come to Roboto today for a specific reason; he needs to find out information about Johnny to see if he is the man that Kim is having an affair with. He strongly suspects that this is true after seeing the two of them together at Christmas time. He knows that Kim didn't confirm the truth either, so he has to know. He wants to do everything he can to try to prevent Kim from any sort of pain, even though he realizes that she's created a mess for herself by cheating on Bob. If he can get Johnny to reveal the truth, maybe he can help his sister work through the best way to deal with the issue, although he suspects Kim telling Bob the truth would be the best.

He reaches an office, which the door is open and Johnny is sitting at the desk inside. He stops and watches Johnny work inside for a moment, realizing that if this is the man Kim is sleeping with, he can understand why his sister fell for him. He's a dashing young man that could probably woo anyone with his looks alone. Andy clears his throat and steps into the doorway. Johnny looks up from the paper work on his desk and looks at Andy, trying to place where he has seen him before.

"May I help you?" Johnny finally asks him, not able to remember where he saw Andy before.

"You don't remember me, do you?" Andy asks, trying to be as friendly as possible. "I'm Andy Spinnes. We met briefly on Christmas Day, you were working at the Calimo mansion."

Johnny nods his head putting the pieces back together slowly. "Right, and you are related to the Calimo's, how again?"

"Kim is my sister," he says slowly, trying to read Johnny to see if he gives anything up.

"Oh yes," Johnny replies quickly, not missing a beat. He knows he has to play it cool because Kim has made it known that no one can ever know about their affair. He will do anything Kim asks him because if it was up to him, they would still be sleeping together. He doesn't want that to end. "I remember now. What brings you to Roboto?"

Andy arches his eyebrow, surprised by how cool Johnny is playing it. "I'm just wondering how well you know my sister. Something is going on with her and she won't tell me what. I'm just trying to ask anyone that she may have confided in to see if I can help with anything."

Johnny quickly shakes his head. "I don't know her at all, really," he lies through his teeth. "I saw her a few times last summer when I was the pool boy at the mansion, but Mr. Calimo moved me here as an intern so now I barely see her at all. Unless she happens to be visiting her husband at the office."

Andy nods his head back to him and smiles. "Well, I thanks for your time Johnny. Can you do me a favor?" he asks him as Johnny nods his head back to him. "Please don't tell Kim that I was here. I want here to come to me with what is troubling her all on her own."

"Will do," Johnny replies to him as he starts to look at the paper work in front of him again. He waits until Andy has left the office before he looks up and runs his hand through his dark hair. He breathes a sigh of relief. "That was weird," he says to himself, hoping that he detracted Andy from wanting to fish for anything any further. He also wonders if he should alter Kim to what Andy is up too. He picks up his phone and prepares to send her a text, but then he puts his phone down. "She said to leave her alone, so that's what I will do," he whispers to himself, knowing that it's going to be difficult staying away from his lover.

Scene Five - The Calimo Mansion

Kim exits the large master washroom that is attached to the master bedroom of the house. She is wearing a light pink silk robe and she ties it tighter around her waist. She looks at the king size bed and sees her phone; she reaches for it and looks at the screen. A stop clock is going, counting down 5 minutes.

"Great, another two minutes," she whispers to herself as she tries to calm her heart rate down. She is late on her period; she is hoping that she is just running late and there's nothing else to this. She had to be sure, however, so she is taking a home pregnancy test. She has a few more minutes before she will get the results.

Her mind, however, is really on what it means if she is pregnant. She has been having sex with Johnny for months now, but recently she and Bob also had sex; if she is with a child, she has no idea who the father of the baby is.

She shakes her head in disbelief. "Stop thinking like that," she scolds herself. "If I am pregnant, the baby is Bob's. It has to be. There's no other explanation."

Before she can say anything else, the buzzer on her telephone starts going off. She picks it up and silences it. She stands up slowly and looks at her phone. She puts it back on the bed and then slowly walks into the washroom. She shuts the door and locks it behind her. The last thing she needs is for Bob, who is working from home, to come in and see what she is up too. She walks over to the counter top and picks up the pregnancy test. She looks at it and then covers her mouth in shock.

"I'm pregnant," she whispers to herself as a tear falls from her eye, scared to her very core about what this means.

Scene Six - The Robertson House; Jeff, Leah & Paige's Home

"Sorry I'm late," Felicia announces to Jeff and Leah as she enters the living room knowing that Bob's phone call to her kept her away from her family get together that Leah and Jeff have arranged for her. She looks around the room and doesn't happen to see Paige, which confuses her. She thought that the family was going to have lunch together today. "Where's Paige? I thought this was a family afternoon."

Leah looks over at Jeff with apprehension; he nods back to her quickly giving her the okay to proceed. "She's actually at a play date," Leah tells her mother. "I have some tea, would you like some?"

Felicia nods her head as she sits in an arm chair across from the sofa where Jeff and Leah are sitting. "We thought it would be best if the three of us had a conversation," Jeff reveals to Felicia as Leah passes her mother a cup of tea.

Felicia takes the tea cup from Leah. "Thank you. This sounds serious," she says before she takes a sip of her tea. "What kind of conversation did you want to have?"

"Jeff and I have been thinking," Leah begins to say as she leans towards her mother. Leah knows that she and Jeff agreed to have this talk with Felicia, but it doesn't mean that it is going to be easy. She is worried about how her mother will react to what they have to say to her. "About the living arrangements we currently have."

Felicia takes another sip of her tea. "Okay, do you think we need a bigger house? I know Paige is getting bigger, but really, this house seems fine. Especially if you guys get the basement redone. Or maybe add another wing over the garage."

"It's not the size of the house that we are concerned about," Leah says back to her. "We were thinking that maybe you could get your own place."

Felicia looks up at them in shock. They want her to move out? This can't be happening, especially not after the phone call she just had with Bob; he is pressuring her more and more to help carry out his plan. She can't possibly leave the house; it would ruin everything.

"You don't want me here anymore?" she quickly says back as she puts the tea cup down and she covers her mouth with her hand. Her lower lips starts to tremble and she stands up. "I can't believe this."

"Mom," Leah replies to her as she stands up and puts her hands on Felicia's shoulders.

"No, please don't touch me right now. I've been away from you for so many years and now that we are back, you want to get rid of me. I understand."

"Mom, I don't want to get rid of you. It's not like that at all," Leah pleads with her mother, trying to make her understand.

"Wait," Felicia says stopping and looking at Leah, who is clearly upset. "This wasn't your idea, was it Leah? No, it was Jeff's." Felicia stops and looks at Jeff, who stands up from the sofa. "This is because you don't like me! You never have. You don't want me and my daughter to reconnect!"

"Felicia," Jeff starts to stay before he is cut off.

"No! I won't listen to his garbage. You need to get over yourself Jeffrey. This is my daughter! And Paige is my Granddaughter! I've been robbed of enough time with them, don't you think? I… I can't deal with this right now!"

Felicia rushes out of the room. "Mom, wait," Leah calls to no avail as Felicia rushes back up the stairs. Leah looks at Jeff in shock. The last thing they were expecting was Felicia to attack Jeff for not liking her.

"Now what?" Leah asks Jeff, who looks confused as well.

"Maybe we give her some time?" Jeff replies. "I still think her own space would be good."

"I don't know Jeff," Leah says to him. "Part of what she said is right. We did just get her back. I know we want our lives back, but she is a part of our life."

"I don't want us to shut her out of our lives forever Leah."

Leah looks at him. "Then we should look at what we are asking of her before we all get hurt."

Leah walks out of the room leaving Jeff leaving alone and feeling like the biggest bad guy in the world.

Scene Seven - The Calimo Mansion

Bob sits in his armchair in his office taping a pen against a pad of paper. He knows that he has to do something to ensure that Felicia follows through with their plan. He has worked too hard to uncover Dominick's secret of keeping Felicia alive all these years for the rest of his plan not to go through. He knows that Felicia is a loose cannon if she is off her medication. Right now, she is on her pills and she is seemingly functioning well.

"Maybe that's what I have to do," he says to himself as he leans forward. He stands up and walks over to the bar and pours himself a brandy. He takes a swig of it before he sets it back down.

"I have to replace Felicia's medicaiton with sugar pills," he says as a devilish grin comes across her face. "Then she won't be in the right frame of mind and she will really go crazy on Dominick and everyone that gets in her way. This is perfect, absolutely perfect."

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