Episode 918
 
It's Making Me Blue
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: March 19, 2023

Episode Theme song: "Breaking Up Slowly" Lana Del Rey

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Frederick agreed to a DNA test with Leah to prove that they are father/daughter
- Andy told Melissa to stay out of his relationship with Nicholas
- Helen and Dale had sex in Mexico
- Adam dumped Robin after he learned Shane fathered her baby
- Trenyce learned she was pregnant
- Natasha stole one of Carter's pacifier's
- Max and Jacob flirted with Isabelle

The Victors Estate; Frederick's Lair

Eva stands in the foyer of the large mansion and peers into the living room where she can see Frederick looking into the large fireplace, clearly lost in his thoughts as he stares at the flames. She sighs to herself wondering how much longer she will have to pretend to be Barbara for him; she knows that he is desperate to have Felicia back in his life and that's why she has to wear the mask to make herself look like Felicia's old friend. He believes that Barbara would be the one to convince Felicia to give him another chance.

"I need this to happen quickly because then Dr. Frederick will help me get my memories back," she whispers to herself. "And that's what I want more than anything else in the world."

She turns and slowly starts to walk up the stairs. Just as Eva enters her bedroom, the front door of the mansion opens and Dominick moves inside the foyer. He looks around, but just misses seeing Eva at the stop of the stairs, before he makes a beeline for the living room.

"Good you're here, we have to talk," he announces as Frederick turns around to face his old rival.

"Dominick!" Frederick grins back to him. "We haven't officially had the chance to get reacquainted since I've been back. How the hell are you, old boy?"

"I'm not here to make nice," Dominick spits back to him. "I'm here to give you a warning."

"Oh, okay. By all means, then."

"Now that you're back," Dominick grits his teeth back to him. "You will stay away from Felicia, do you understand me? You leave her the hell alone! She's been through enough and doesn't need any more stress by you coming back."

Frederick chuckles back to him. "I can't help but wonder something," he arches his eyebrow back to Dominick. "How does your new, younger, wife feel about you still being so protective of Felicia? Maybe you should focus your attention on her, not Felicia."

"I'm not going to tell you again, Freddy," Dominick glares back to him. "You stay away from Felicia, or else."

Adam's Townhouse

"Oh Dad, I am so sorry to hear this," Dawn pulls Adam into a hug and holds him tightly for a moment. Adam just revealed to his daughter that Robin is pregnant again and Shane is the father of the child. Once he learned the truth, he told Robin that they couldn't see one another anymore because he can't deal with the fact that she is, once again, having a child with Shane.

"Thanks kiddo," Adam forces a smile on his face as they exit their embrace. "It was difficult to hear Robin tell me but I guess all good things come to an end, right?"

"That doesn't mean that this is going to be easy for you," Dawn replies to him quickly. "You and Robin, you've been through a lot together."

"I guess I should have taken that as a sign," Adam admits back to his daughter. "Love and relationships, they shouldn't always be so hard, you know? Look at you and Cheresa."

Dawn chuckles back to him. "Cheresa and I have been through our own share of hard times, but those usually make couples stronger."

Adam nervously nods back to her. "Well, there's only one thing left for me to do," he tells her. "And that is to put this chapter of my life to rest. I have to move on from Robin all this drama."

Dawn gets a sly grin on her face. "Maybe it's time for another chapter too? Like you and Mom getting back together?"

Adam chuckles. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves, okay? The last thing I want to do is jump into another relationship when I haven't properly mourned this one with Robin."

"Just don't wait too long," Dawn encourages him. "You know Mom won't be single forever."

The Sugarbowl

Helen opens the door to the coffeehouse and scurries inside as she is seeking another coffee this morning. She hopes to head over to the florist after this to pick up some roses for Barbara's gravesite. Since Felicia told her that she saw Barbara, Helen has been thinking about her mother lately and wants to go see her.

As she grabs her coffee, she moves to the coffee bar and adds some cream and sugar. She puts a lid on her cup and is about to move when she sees someone sitting alone at the window seat. The back of the man's head is covered with dark hair and he is wearing a suit jacket. For a moment, she wonders if it is Dale, the man she slept with in Cancun.

"It can't be," she whispers to herself as she moves closer to him. "Dale isn't in Twin Peaks."

She moves closer to the man and gasps when she realizes that it is Dale Cunningham, much to her surprise. She never believed she would see him again and yet, here he is in front of her. "Dale? Is that you?"

Dale turns and gets a grin on his face when he sees his lover from Mexico. "Helen? What are you doing here?"

Helen giggles back to him. "I live here," she explains to him. "Twin Peaks has been my home for years. What are you doing here?"

"Work, believe it or not," Dale explains to her. "I'm a lawyer and have a case that I am working on here."

"Wow, what a small world. How long will you be in town?"

Dale flashes his smile to Helen. "Why? Are you interested in getting together? Maybe for dinner or a drink?"

Helen nods back to him. "I'd like that very much."

"Good, then it's a date."

Roboto

Jacob looks around the small studio and realizes that some of the large cans of paint need to be moved so they are not in the middle of the space. The company is having another photo shoot with Isabelle and Max coming up, so Jacob is trying to get organized before the shoot happens.

He moves over and tries to pick up the can of blue paint. He doesn't realize, however, that the lid isn't very secure and the paint spills on this shirt.

"Gah!" he yells out in frustration as he puts the can back down and goes to get some paper towel. He starts dabbing his shirt but he realizes it's no use. "Great, I ruined my shirt."

He takes off the ruined shirt and realizes that there's a mess on the floor as well. "This is not what I needed today."

Just then, Isabelle moves into the studio. She stops when she sees the mess and a shirtless Jacob standing in the room. For a quick moment, she admires his toned, muscular chest with a slight lick of her lips.

"What happened in here?" she asks with a giggle, seeing the mess that Jacob has made in the studio.

"Don't ask," Jacob shakes his head back to her. "Can you help me clean this up?"

"Of course," she nods back to him. "Although, the blue freckles on your chest are pretty cute."

Jacob looks down and realizes he has some blue paint splattered on his chest too. "I'm going to have to go home and shower once I clean this place up. I can't believe I made such a mess."

"Don't worry about it," she winks back to him. "I certainly don't mind the view."

Jacob blushes as they start to clean up the paint from the floor. At the door, Max arches his eyebrow having heard the flirtation between the two of them unfold. He hopes that he won't have to compete Jacob for another girls affections because he was hoping to have a good time on his date with Isabelle.

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"After our last meeting, I wasn't sure that I would get to see you before I left town," Melissa takes a sip of her cosmopolitan martini as she sits across from Nicholas at the restaurant. She knows that she told her son that she still doesn't think he and Andy are a good match together; the trouble arose when Andy overheard her and warned her to stay out of their relationship.

"You're still my mother after all," Nicholas looks back at her. "I didn't want you to leave town without saying goodbye, at least. Did you get a chance to see Robin while you've been in town?"

"No," Melissa admits to him. "She has ignored my calls. I can't say that I blame her."

"Well, I won't ignore your calls," Nicholas replies to her. "But I will tell you something and I need you to hear me."

"Oh boy, is this a lecture?" she asks as she takes another sip of her drink.

"What Andy told you the other night," Nicholas says back to her. "About butting out of our relationship, he's right. You have no place to tell me, or Andy, anything about how we feel for one another and anything about your relationship. Do you understand me, Mom? You have to mind your own business."

Melissa smirks back to him. "How did I know that you were going to take his side?"

"This isn't about taking sides," Nicholas replies to her. "It's about you understand boundaries and learning to follow them. Do you think you can do that, Mom? Because if not, I'm not sure how much more of a relationship we will have."

***

At another table, Shane and Natasha sit across from one another with a bottle of chilled rose wine and two wine glasses in front of them.

"You made this seem important, I hope everything is okay?" Shane asks his ex-wife before he takes a sip of the rose.

"Cassie Nova is toying with Jacob, I don't think anything is okay right now," she admits to him before she takes a sip of her wine. "But I am hoping that we can put an end to that."

Shane arches his eyebrow back to her wondering what she is suggesting. "What do you mean? What do you want to do to ensure Cassie stays away from Jacob?"

Natasha grabs her purse and pulls out the pacifier that she stole from Cassie's apartment the other day. She holds it up to Shane and gets a sly grin on her face. "This is one of Carter's pacifier's," she reveals to him. "I think we should, secretly, run another DNA test. I want to know, for sure, that Cassie didn't tamper with that first DNA test."

Shane looks back at her in surprise. "You think she might still be lying about Jacob being Carter's father?"

Natasha shrugs back to him. "There's only one way to find out," she replies to him. "What do you say, Shane? Help me run this DNA test? Let's see if our son is really Carter's father?"

The Richardson Estate; Meggan, Lukas, Donovan, Logan & Olly's Home

"I, uh, I really have no idea what to say," a stunned Lukas looks back at his husband, who just told him that the reason Jasper stopped working for them as Olly's nanny is because he sexually assaulted Donovan. For all the months that Jasper has worked for them, he never thought that he would have sexually assaulted anyone, let alone Donovan. "You have proof that Jasper sexually assaulted you?"

Donovan looks back at him as he tries to keep his composure. He knows that this is all a part of his plan to get revenge on Lukas and Jasper for their affair and so, he has to carry on his plan.

"I do," Donovan replies to him. "I have a video on my phone; it was one of the times he was rubbing my legs for me."

"I don't understand any of this," Lukas runs his hand over his face. "Why didn't you tell me before? This seems so unlike Jasper."

"You're defending Jasper over me?" Donovan asks him in surprise. "I'm your husband, are you saying you don't believe me?"

Lukas looks back at him and bends down to look at Donovan's face, as he is still sitting in his wheelchair. "Of course I believe you," he tells Donovan. "I just can't believe it. This is a lot to take in."

"That's why Jasper quit," Donovan replies to him. "Because I forced his hand."

"What are you going to do?" Lukas asks him next.

"What anyone in my position would do," Donovan smirks back to him. "I'm going to make Jasper pay for what he did to me. I'm going to make sure Jasper suffers the way I have."

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"A mid-day lunch with the woman I love, I could get used to this," Chris smiles over to Trenyce as they sit across from one another in the restaurant. It isn't often that he can leave work and join Trenyce for lunch, so he is excited that she made the offer today.

Trenyce chuckles back to him. "I wanted to see you because I have actually have some news," she reveals to him, which peaks his curiosity.

"News? Good news I hope?"

Trenyce nods back to him as she recalls how she took a pregnancy test earlier in the day and it came back positive; at first, she was concerned because she slept with Andrew and Chris close together, but she realized that it is impossible for Andrew to be the father because they were only together once, where as she and Chris have a very active sex life.

"I hope you will think it is good news," she looks back at her fiancé. "I am just not sure."

Behind a large plant, Andrew freezes when he hears Trenyce's voice. He was just finishing his own lunch at the bar and was heading to the washroom when he heard her voice; he wonders what her good news is too. He finds himself waiting to hear what she has to say before continuing on to the washroom.

"Well, don't keep me waiting," Chris smirks back to her. "What's up?"

"I'm going to have a baby," Trenyce stuns him. Behind the plant, Andrew feels the blood drain from his face as he immediately thinks about the night of the gala when he and they ended up in bed together. "You and I are going to be parents."

Andrew, then, feels his blood boil. He knows damn well that Trenyce could be pregnant with his child but she clearly just told Chris he was the father. He races off to the washroom, wondering what to do next.

"I can't believe this," Chris admits to her. "Are you sure?"

"Yea, I'm sure," Trenyce smiles back to him. "How do you feel Chris? Are you excited to be a father?"

Chris moves around the table and bends down on his knee to look Trenyce in the eyes. He kisses her passionately before he smiles back to her. "You've made me the happiness man in the world, Trey. I can't believe this is happening but I am so happy. A baby! We are having a baby!"

Trenyce laughs back to him as they hug. "Yes, a baby. We are having a child," she says as she closes her eyes and hopes that Chris is the father of her baby. There can be no other option, she realizes.

The Park

Adam slowly walks down the pathway in the park as he is trying to clear his head from his talk with Dawn earlier in the day. He knows that he has to move beyond Robin but it will also be difficult for him because he and Robin have been through so much together.

He freezes when he sees Robin stand up from the bench that overlooks the river. Robin turns and sees Adam standing there so she slowly walks towards him.

"Nice day for a walk, huh?" she says as she approaches him.

"Feels like spring is finally here," Adam nods back to him. "How are you feeling? How's the baby?"

"We are both okay," Robin tells him. "Appreciate you asking considering everything that has happened."

"Look, Robin," Adam looks back at her. "I don't want anything bad to happen to you or the baby. It's just…"

"I get it," Robin uneasily nods back to him. "You can't be the one to deal with this again. I am so sorry that things turned out this way."

"So am I," Adam tells her. "And, I'm sorry for losing my temper the other day. I wish you nothing but the best."

Robin feels her eyes swell with water. "I know, thanks Adam. I am sorry again for hurting you."

"Be well, okay?" Adam replies before he walks off from Robin. He moves quickly as he is trying to not let her see how upset he is over what has happened.

Robin, meanwhile, lets a single tear fall down her cheek. "It's over, it really is over."

The Victors Mansion; Frederick's Lair

Frederick pours himself a scotch from the bar in the living room of the Victors mansion as he tries to calm his nerves over Dominick's visit earlier in the day. He takes a sip and hopes that his plan works and that Felicia will be back in his life sooner than later.

"You don't scare me Dominick," he whispers to himself. "And if you think you're threats scare me, you're dead wrong."

"I am sorry that I am showing up unannounced again," a voice calls out from the entry way of the living room. "But I needed to see you."

Frederick turns and sees Leah standing in the living room. He sighs a little at the sight of his daughter knowing that she has been pressing him for details on her paternity and her long lost child that she had when she was in Santa Barbara.

"If this is about your paternity, I'll have you know I've submitted a DNA sample to Madeline Wilkins at the hospital already," Frederick replies to her quickly. "We should have the results back shortly."

"I heard, thank you for doing that," Leah tells him. "I hope you understand why I need the answers that I do."

"Of course," Frederick forces a smile on his face. "But like I told you, I already know the truth Leah. You are my daughter."

"There's something else," Leah moves closer to him. "I need to know about my child; the one that I had in Santa Barbara. Where are they? Was it a boy or a girl? Please Frederick, I am begging you. Tell me about my child!"

Frederick takes a swig of his scotch. "One thing at a time, okay? Let's deal with your paternity and then we can discuss your child."

"Please…"

"Not another word," he cuts her off. "Not until you know that I am your father. Then, you'll know that everything I tell you is the truth, my darling daughter."

Next on One Day at a Time
- Robbie makes a decision
- Melissa leaves town
- Paige supports Leah

 
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