Episode 936
 
Something Takes a Hold
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: May 10, 2023

Episode Theme song: "Solar Power" Lorde

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Lukas overheard Donovan tell Jasper he would make him pay
- Meggan, Jeff & Leah took files on Leah's missing child from Santa Barbara
- Adam thought Dale looked familiar
- Abby walked in on Frederick knocking Dominick out after he stopped the doctor from marrying Felicia
- Antonio saw Robin and was smitten by her
- Isabelle told Max she wasn't looking for anything serious but he kissed her anyways

The Victors Mansion; Frederick's Lair

Abby looks at Dominick with worry on her face as her husband is laying on the ground unconscious, dealing with a blow to the head caused by Frederick, who hit his rival over the head with a candle stick as they were fighting after Dominick stopped Frederick's wedding to Felicia with the news that Eva is alive and was posing as Barbara.

"What the hell did you do to my husband?" Abby glares at Frederick as she looks up in horror. "Do you always go around knocking people unconscious?"

"When it suites me, absolutely," Frederick tells her. "And you, young lady, should be thanking me."

"Thanking you?" Abby shrieks back at him. "My husband is laying on the ground, and you want me to thank you?"

"You have no idea what you walked in on."

"Then start telling me!"

"Your husband," Frederick moves over to the bar that he pours himself a drink of scotch. "He stopped my wedding to Felicia this evening."

"So you used your candle stick as a weapon?" Abby asks him still in shock.

"He uncovered some information about me," Frederick informs her. "Barbara Mills is not alive; Felicia was not seeing her former friend. Well, she was but not in the way that anyone suspected."

"What the hell does that mean?" Abby asks him. "What did you do?"

"Your husband's wife," Frederick turns and looks at her with intent. "Eva is alive and she was pretending to be Barbara."

Abby feels the blood drain her face at the news that Eva is alive. "What? Eva…is…alive? How is this possible? And what does that mean for me and my marriage?"

Frederick chuckles to her. "I thought you'd never ask."

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"You are glowing, do you realize that?" Cory smiles over to Robin as they sit across from one another in the restaurant with a light lunch in front of them. Cory is so pleased that his former wife is looking so good at this stage in her pregnancy; after everything they went through when they were married with their child, Cory is grateful that Robin is doing so well.

Robin chuckles back to him. "You're too sweet to me," she replies to him before she takes a bite of her Ahi Tuna. "I feel like a beached whale most day."

Cory shakes his head back to her in disbelief. "Nah, you're stunning as usual."

"You really think so?"

"Of course," Cory nods back to her. "When Natasha was pregnant with Sophie, I was very attracted to her. I don't know, there's something about a woman pregnant that is very attractive to me."

"Well, I appreciate the compliment. I am looking forward to having this baby and going back to my normal body."

"You still have a few months to go, do you think you will make it?"

"I have to," Robin smiles as she puts her hand on her stomach. "I will do anything to make sure my baby will be healthy when he or she comes out."

"That's why you're a great mother," Cory winks back to her.

At the bar, Antonio turns around and sees Robin and Cory smiling and laughing at each other. He can't stop looking at Robin, thinking that she is a beautiful woman. He just hopes that there is nothing romantic going on between her and Cory, because he would like nothing more than to have her on his arm at all times.

"I have to get to know you," he whispers to himself. "I have too."

***

Further down the bar, Cassie sits alone with a martini in front of her as she thinks about her next step with Jacob. She knows that they have been growing closer but Max had indicated to her that he saw Jacob and Isabelle flirting with one another; she recalls how she told Isabelle to stay away from Jacob but she has no idea if she needs to worry about him, especially since Shane and Natasha are clearly against her relationship with him.

"You look a million miles away," a voice calls out to her which causes Cassie to turn and see an attractive man standing next to her. "Can I sit and maybe you can get whatever is on mind off your chest?"

"Uh, sure?" Cassie replies to him. "I normally don't make a habit of talking to strangers."

"I am Ethan Alexander," he smiles back to her. "Now we aren't strangers."

Cassie chuckles back to him. "Nice to meet you Ethan, I am Cassie Nova."

"And what is a beautiful woman like you doing sitting here by yourself?"

She continues to chuckle back to him. "I guess I am contemplating my current personal life."

"Ah, men problems," Ethan chuckles. "Don't we all have problems when it comes to the opposite sex?"

"You do?" Cassie asks him quickly. "I'm sure your problem is deciding which girl you are taking home at the end of the night."

"That's sweet of you to say," Ethan winks back to her. "I suspect you and I could be become good friends."

Cassie arches her eyebrow. "Why don't you buy me another martini and we can see if that happens or not."

Roboto

"I have set up the viewing meeting of the prints we took with Robbie and Natasha for tomorrow morning," Max tells Isabelle as he drops some files down on the main desk in the main office of Roboto. He looks over at the model, whom he just had a date with recently and they shared a kiss, despite her telling him that she doesn't want anything serious because she has interest in another guy. He knows that it is Jacob but he is hoping that he can convince her to not be around him anymore.

"Oh that is fantastic," Isabelle nods back to him. "I hope that they like the pictures. I mean, I don't mind taking more but I thought this shoot went very well."

"They are pictures of you, they will love them," Max winks to her as he moves closer to her, unaware that Jacob has arrived at the door. He stops and watches the interaction, wondering what is going to happen.

Isabelle giggles back to him. "You are so sweet," she looks back into his eyes. "I told you that I don't want anything serious, Max."

"I know," he nods back to her. "But I haven't been able to stop thinking about our kiss, Isabelle."

She licks her lips back to him. "I have thought about it too, if I'm honest."

Max nods and leans in and kisses her again. "Then I am glad that we are on the same page, at least about this."

At the door, Jacob takes a deep breath as he realizes that he has a feeling of jealousy seeing them kiss.

"Cassie and I are growing closer so why do I care about Isabelle kissing Max?' he asks himself as he thinks about some of their closer moments recently. "Ugh, why are women so confusing?"

The Black House; Helen & Dawn's Home

"I am glad that we have the house to ourselves," Helen looks over at Dale as they are huddled together on the sofa. She and her new beau are having another enjoyable date with one another and she couldn't be happier that they are growing closer.

"So am I," Dale grins back at her. "It has been so nice having this time to truly get to know each other, since we only got physical in Mexico."

Helen giggles back to him. "I'm not complaining about the physical part," she winks back to him. "For too long I was living in the shadow of my former relationship. I needed to meet you in more ways than one."

Dale chuckles. "I guess that means I'm doing a good job?"

"It's more than that," Helen looks back at him. "I feel like we have a connection deeper than just sex."

Dale licks his lips. "I couldn't agree more," he tells her. "Not that I'm complaining about the sex."

"Neither am I," Helen purrs back to him. "In fact, we should probably take advantage of the empty house, don't you?"

Dale pulls Helen onto his lap and kisses her passionately. "I thought you'd never ask," he says as lust feels his eyes.

Adam's Townhouse

Adam moves up to the bar in his living room and pours himself a glass of red wine. He takes a sip of it while he thinks about the last time he saw Helen and she admitted to him that she and Dale were growing closer. He hasn't been able to place it, but he knows that he told Dawn that he thought Dale looked familiar.

He takes a long sip of his wine as he tries to think about where he might have seen Dale before. "I can't place it," he whispers to himself. "But if I know Dale, maybe I could give Helen some pointers about him. I am happy for her I just don't want her to get hurt."

He takes another sip of his wine while he continues to rack his brain. Suddenly, however, he feels the blood drain from his face. "My God," he whispers to himself. "It can't be…it can't be that Dale!"

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

"Man, I had missed Logan," Jeff says as he moves up to Meggan in her bedroom of the large house that she lives in with her brother and his husband. "I hadn't seen him since I was back from Santa Barbara."

"I know," Meggan smiles back to him. "You should have seen him earlier in his tuxedo at Frederick's wedding."

Jeff chuckles back to her. "Why am I not surprised that a wedding in this town got interrupted?"

"Right?" Meggan shakes her head back to him. "I'm glad you're here though," she says as she moves up to him. "I've missed you too."

"Oh yea?" Jeff asks her as he licks his lips. "I could make it up to you?"

"I was hoping you'd say that?" she replies to him as she leans in and kisses him on the lips. Before he can kiss her back fully, he looks over her shoulder and sees the box of files that they brought home from Santa Barbara.

"Was it something I said?" Meggan pulls back when she didn't feel the passion from her lover.

"No, I just saw those file we got from Frederick's secret study," he admits to her. "I'm kind of dying to know about my child."

"Well, why don't we look and then we can spend the rest of the night in bed?"

"I love the way you think," he chuckles back to her as he moves up to the box and opens it. He pulls out a file while Meggan grabs another one. Jeff quickly scans it and looks back at Meggan. "I think…I think I found something."

"What? Already?" Meggan asks him in surprise as she moves over to him. "What does it say?"

"It has Leah's name with a the words written 'baby boy' next to it," he shows her. "I think that means Leah and I have a son. We had a boy."

***

Meanwhile in the study, Lukas paces back and forth as he thinks about everything that has happened lately. First, he saw Donovan walking, which was a surprise to him because he thought that his husband was still confined to his wheel chair. Then, Jasper quit without warning and Donovan revealed to him that it was because their former nanny had sexually assaulted him. Lukas never thought that his previous lover was going to be a predator so he when confronted Jasper, he was further shocked to learn that Jasper was claiming innocence but vowed to plead guilty anyways.

Then, he came home and over heard Jasper and Donovan talking and he heard his husband vow to make Jasper pay for everything he had done. He has no idea what is going on between Jasper and Donovan, but he knows that he has to figure it out.

"Could Donovan, somehow, know about my affair with Jasper?" Lukas asks himself as he runs his hands through his hair. "That would explain everything about Donovan's actions lately. I still don't believe that Jasper sexually assaulted Donovan so it would make sense that Donovan is out for revenge."

Lukas sighs heavily back to him. "I guess I have to confront Donovan about this. I have to get to the truth."

The Victor's Mansion; Frederick's Lair

Abby quickly moves over to the bar of the Victors mansion and pours herself a scotch, which she quickly takes a sip of. She just learned about Frederick's plan to use Eva to pretend to be Barbara to get Felicia back in his life. She can't believe that this is happening; she feels like her head is spinning with all of the information that she just got.

"So," she looks back at Frederick before she looks down on the ground, where her husband is still unconscious. "What is going to happen now? How is this going to impact my life? My marriage? My God, Eva is alive!"

Frederick gets a devilish grin on his face as he moves to a desk in the room. He opens the drawer and pulls out a bottle of pills.

"You will have to give him these," Frederick tells her. "It will make him believe that everything that happened tonight was a dream."

"I…I don't understand," Abby shakes her head back to him.

"If Dominick remembers everything that happened here tonight, he will realize that Eva is alive and that your marriage is illegal. So, you will give him these drugs or you can kiss your current life goodbye."

Next on One Day at a Time
- Will Abby drug Dominick?
- Frederick takes action against Eva and Victoria
- Andy and Nicholas share news of their engagement

 
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