Episode 944
 
Our Love is on the Borderline
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: June 07, 2023

Episode Theme song: "Happily Unhappy" Toni Braxton

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Andrew saw Antonio take Daisy to start her job as a hooker
- Cheresa and Dawn saw Andrew gambling again
- Bryce told Donovan that he was worried about Victoria
- Dale admitted to Helen that he is Mallory's father but he wanted to prove to her that he didn't know her connection to his daughter
- Traci told Greg to make a move on Kim, but he saw her with Robbie
- Madeline ended things with Will
- Antonio asked Robin to dinner
- After seeing Jacob with Cassie, Isabelle asked Max out on a date. Shane, meanwhile, tried to seduce Cassie but she rejected him

The Feathered Lounge

Above the Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino, there is a private lounge called the Feathered Lounge that patrons can rent out when they want exclusive events. The lounge has a very classic feel to it, with a dark wooden bar and large brown leather arm chairs that are placed in front of a large fire place. There are a few windows that look down upon the casino, where there are people gambling and having a great time.

Near the fireplace, there is a small table that has some candles on it and a bouquet of red roses. A bottle of sparkling water and a glass of red wine are also set up.

"I didn't even know this place existed until now," Robin says as she looks around the room in amazement, in awe at the space that she is in. "When you said that you wanted to have dinner, I thought you meant downstairs at the Pink Flamingo."

Antonio chuckles back to her. "I wanted to have you all to myself, so I've had the chef prepare your favorites; the food will be here shortly. And, in the meantime, we can enjoy the music, some sparkling water and each other's company."

Robin moves over to the table and smells the roses. "These are lovely."

"Not nearly as lovely as you," Antonio replies to her quickly. "I hope you have noticed how taken I am with you."

Robin chuckles back to him. "You haven't exactly been subtle but I am flattered, Antonio. It's just … my life is a little complicated right now," she tells him as she puts her hand on her growing stomach.

"You mean because you're pregnant?" Antonio asks her as she nods back to him. "That is just temporary. Eventually, you will not be carrying that child. But, while you are, we can get to know one another. I am not asking you to not have had a life before you met me, I'm just asking that I can be a part of your life now."

Robin looks back at him as she takes a sip of her water. "You are a fascinating man, Antonio. I will give you that. I just can't make any promises about what our future will hold."

"I can accept that," he nods back to her. "As long as I can have the chance to wine and dine you."

Robin chuckles back to her. "I suppose that wouldn't hurt."

"Great, come on, let's eat," Antonio takes her hand and guides her over to the table where they sit across from each other.

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Madeline moves up to the nurses station and puts some patient files down on the desk that she needs the nurse to file away for her. As she does, she can't help but remember earlier in the day when she told Will that she needed to take a break from him because she continued to feel like she is competing with a ghost because she, once again, overheard him having a dream when he called out to Eva. She just hopes that she can take the time to get her head on straight because she felt like she was suffocating before.

"Hey, I didn't realize you were working with me tonight," Will says as he moves up to the
Nurses station and sees his former lover. "Having a good shift?"

"So far," Madeline nods back to him. "How about you?"

"Mr. Johnson put up a fuss taking his medication but what else is new?" Will chuckles back to her. "Otherwise, it's been pretty uneventful."

"That's not a bad thing considering our line of work."

Will chuckles. "Very true," he tells her. "Look, I know we are at work but I haven't been able to stop thinking about our conversation earlier, Maddie. Please tell me you've changed your mind about breaking up? We can get through this, together."

"I'm sorry but I haven't changed my mind," Madeline quickly tells him. "I need some time and I need you to give that to me, okay?"

"Okay," Will gulps back to her. "Do you know how much time?"

"I don't know," she shakes her head back to him. "But I will know when I feel better about this situation. It might be tomorrow, it might be a week from now…it might be never. I can't say that right now."

"Right," Will nods back to her. "Well, I guess I won't wait around for you then. Glad we cleared that up."

Before Madeline can respond, Will storms off from the nurses station, leaving her to have a heavy sigh.

The Black House; Helen & Dawn's Home

"I…I don't understand," Helen shakes her head back to Dale as they stand across from one another in the living room of the house that she lives in. Dale just admitted to her that he is, in fact, Mallory Cunningham's father, but he didn't realize Helen's connection to his deceased child until after they were already involved. Then, Dale told her that he could prove that he never knew about the connection. "How can you prove to me that you didn't know that Mallory had kidnapped Dawn and died in my back yard?"

Dale runs his hands through his hair as he takes a deep breath. "I mean, I suppose I can't actually prove that to you. But I can give you a gesture to show you how much you have meant to me."

"Dale, I don't want any sort of gesture, I just want the truth."

"The truth?" he forces a smile on his face before he looks back into her eyes. "The truth is, after my daughter died, just out of those walls," he points to the back of her house. "I was devastated. I lost the only good thing I had in my life. I was depressed, I wasn't living anymore. Within a few months, May was cheating on me because I had shut down on my wife! My life was a mess, Helen! I lost my daughter and my wife in a 6 month span!"

"I'm so sorry, Dale," Helen feels water fill in her eyes listening to his story.

"It wasn't until recently," he continues to explain to her. "That I started to feel like I was alive again; that I was living again."

"When was that?" Helen asks him.

"In Cancun, when I met you," Dale looks back at her. "You have changed me, Helen. You have made me realize that I can't stay living in that depressive state. And that's why, I have this gesture for you. To prove to you how much you mean to me."

"What are you talking about?"

Helen's eyes open wider in surprise as Dale falls down onto one knee and pulls out a ring box from his pocket. He opens the box, revealing a large diamond ring inside. "Marry me Helen? Let me show you how've you changed my life for the rest of our lives?"

The Pier

Greg walks down the pier trying to clear his head. He has a million things racing in his mind after the events of the last few days. He recalls how he seemingly caught Traci looking around in the Lawson estate again; she indicated that she was looking for a book to read, which he understood. The following day, Traci was very pleasant and suggested that he pursue Kim; his maid told him that Kim might be waiting for Greg to make a move on her, so they could take their friendship to the next level. He took Traci's advice to heart and went to Roboto to talk to Kim; when he got there, however, he saw her talking to Robbie, and he admitted that he loved Kim. Based on body language and their conversation, Greg suspected that Kim was about to admit that she still loved Robbie too, so he left. Now, he is left wondering what his future with Kim really holds. He is okay being her friend but he would like nothing more than to be in a relationship with her because he has had feelings for her for many years.

"Greg," Kim's voice calls out from behind him, causing him to freeze as he knows exactly is behind him. "Hey, did you hear me calling you?"

"Sorry, I guess I didn't," he looks over at her as she comes up next to him. "I was lost in thoughts."

"Oh? What were you thinking about?"

Greg uneasily chuckles back to him. "You really want to know?"

"Of course," Kim smiles back to him. "We are friends, Greg. I want to know what's up with you."

"Well, if I'm honest, I stopped by Roboto the other day to talk to you," he reveals to her as he stops and looks at her. "And you were having a conversation with Robbie that seemed…I don't know, intense."

Kim arches her eyebrow. "Oh, I didn't see you? Why didn't you come in?"

"Robbie just said he loved you," Greg tells her. "I didn't want to interrupt so I left. But, I left thinking that you said you loved him too."

Kim gulps back to him. "Nothing can be further from the truth," she says back to him. "I told Robbie that we were over and reminded him of that. A part of me will always love Robbie, but I want to be free. I can't be with him after he killed my child, or played a part in that. I hope you know that."

"So it was a goodbye?"

"I guess so," Kim nods back to him. "Robbie doesn't even work there anymore, so I won't be seeing him that often, Greg. Robbie and I are over, for good."

"I don't know why I needed to hear that but I guess I did," he smiles back to her.
"I'm sorry that you felt uncomfortable," Kim tells him. "Come on, let's go grab some lunch at the Pink Flamingo? My treat."

"I'd like that."

***

"I don't know how you are staying so calm," Bryce tells Donovan as they sit on a bench further up on the pier with some coffees in their hands. Bryce went to Donovan's mansion earlier to let him know that he is worried about Victoria, whom he hasn't heard from in a few days. Donovan has encouraged his brother in law to be patient as Victoria hasn't been away long enough to get the police involved; Bryce wishes he could be as reserved as Donovan has been.

"I am worried about Vic too," Donovan says before he takes a sip of his coffee. "I am just trying to be positive about the situation; I am hoping that she comes home before we have to escalate to the police."

"Yea, I hope so too," Bryce nods back to him. "I just keep thinking that something bad has happened. We've been through so much together, I just get this feeling in my stomach when something isn't right."

Before Donovan can reply, Tyler comes up behind them. "Donovan, Bryce, hi," he announces, causing the two to turn around and see Tyler.

"Hey Tyler, how's it going?" Donovan asks him quickly.

Tyler shrugs his shoulders. "I've been better, to be honest," he says moving to the other side of the bench. "When I saw you two together, I had to come over and talk to you."

Bryce arches his eyebrow back to him as he knows he hasn't had that many encounters with Tyler before. "Really? You had to talk to us? What's up?"

"You're a doctor, right?" Tyler as Bryce, who nods back to him. "I thought so. I…I might need your help with something. It's about my mother, Felicia, she's…she's had a long history of mental illness and I think that she's unstable again."

"I see," Bryce uneasily replies to him.

"My father and I, we spoke about admitting Felicia to Raven's Meadow, but we need to ensure a specific doctor doesn't treat her."

Bryce arches his eyebrow back to him. "Which doctor? And why don't you want him or her to treat your mother?"

"Frederick Richardson," Tyler quickly says Bryce gulps hearing that name. "And, it's a long story, but needless to say he's obsessed with her. So, what do you think, Bryce? Do you think you could help my mother?"

Bryce uneasily looks back at him and wonders what he should do; he knows that if Frederick found out that he was helping Felicia, all hell could break loose. He can't help but think back to the last thing Frederick told him: that he knows that Bryce switched Abby's baby and gave him to Donovan and Lukas to raise. If that ever was revealed, his life would be over as he knew it.

"I…I will think about it," Bryce finds himself saying back to him.

"Great thanks, but don't take too long, okay? My mother needs help and she needs it now."

The Davenport House; Trenyce & Chris' Home

"These plans for your wedding look incredible," Cheresa tells her mother as they sit at the kitchen table, with various wedding ideas scattered across the surface. "It is making me want to plan more with Dawn about our own wedding."

Trenyce chuckles back to her. "I will be the proudest mother the day you and Dawn finally decide to get married," she tells her daughter. "Do you like that pink dress on the tablet screen?"

"I do, the cut is very interesting."

"Do you think that you could wear it?" Trenyce gets a sly grin on her face. "While standing next to me at the altar?"

Cheresa looks back at her in surprise. "Are you asking me to stand up for you?"

"I am," Trenyce chuckles back to her. "Is that a bad thing?"

"Not at all," Cheresa replies to her quickly. "I just assumed you'd ask Daisy, that's all. But yea, I'd be honored to stand up for you, Mom."

Trenyce leans over and hugs her daughter while getting tears in her eyes. "Thank you baby," she whispers to her. "There were so many years, I never thought moments like this would happen; I am so glad that we found you and we have you in our lives."

"Me too," Cheresa wipes her eyes dry. "Oh boy, here we go with the tears."

Trenyce chuckles again. "I know, I can blame the pregnancy!"

"This family stuff is emotional," she tells her mother. "Speaking of, do you think Andrew will come to the wedding?"

Trenyce sighs back to her heavily. "I don't know," she tells her. "I have expressed my concern with his involvement with that damn blackjack table at the casino, but he doesn't seem to listen to me."

"Dawn and I saw him there again yesterday," Cheresa reveals to her mother. "So, I am on the same page as you, I am worried that he's getting in over his head. I just don't know what will happen when he's drowning."

"We will have to be there for him," Trenyce nods back to her. "And I'll tell you what, I'll talk to him again. I won't give up on him, not now, not ever."

The River Rock Casino

Andrew slowly moves through the hallway on the fourth level of the hotel that is attached to the casino. His mind is racing about how earlier he saw Antonio taking Daisy to the back wall of the casino, where there were multiple women all glammed up. He has no idea what Daisy was doing with the women, but he is intrigued to say the least because normally Daisy isn't dressed that well. He knows that she always looks good, but she rarely puts on a dress, high heels and with a full face of makeup.

He reaches her suite door and knocks on it quickly. He waits for her to open the door, which seemingly takes a few minutes. Eventually, the door opens, and Daisy sees Andrew standing in the hallway.

"Andrew? What are you doing here?" she asks with heavy eyes.

"Can I come in?" he asks her as she moves to let him in her suite. He immediately sees a bottle of vodka open on the small table and her bed is unkept. "What happened in here? Did you have a party?" he chuckles back to her.

Daisy closes her eyes as she recalls how she started drinking once she had her gentlemen caller in her room. She needed to feel a tad numb in order to have sex with him, which she did. Once it was over, he left her a wad of cash and he left. Now, she is just trying to regain her composure.

"Something like that," she replies to him. "Why, you want to have a drink with me?"

"I don't think that's a good idea," he winks back to her. "It looks like you've enough."

"You're probably right," Daisy laughs to him. "But I like this feeling, you know? It helps me…it helps me escape."

"Why do you need an escape?" Andrew asks her quickly. "What are you running from?"

"It's not important," Daisy waves her hand back to him.

"If it's any consolation, I am also trying to escape something myself," he reveals to her. "So, never feel like you are alone, okay?"

"Thanks Andrew," Daisy forces a smile on her face ."I guess we all have our own ways of coping, right?"

"Exactly," he nods to her. "You know what? One more drink wouldn't hurt, right? I'll pour?"

"Yes please," Daisy chuckles back to him as she moves over to the sofa and falls into it. Andrew comes back around with a vodka for her, but he sets it on the table when he sees that Daisy has fallen asleep.

"What are you running from Daisy," he whispers to himself. "And what happened in this room tonight?"

***

Meanwhile, downstairs in the Pink Flamingo restaurant, Max and Isabelle sit across from one another in the restaurant with a bottle of wine on the table and some crab cakes.

"I can't tell you how happy I was to hear from you to go on this date," Max chuckles back to her before he takes a bite of his crab cake that he has in his hand. He knows that earlier he got a call from the young model asking him to go out on another date with him. He wasn't sure that she would be interested in another date so soon because she had indicated to him that she didn't want anything serious because she had an attraction to someone else. Max is smart enough to know that her attraction is to Jacob because he saw them flirting with each other, but he also knows that Jacob has been growing closer to Cassie.

Isabelle slowly takes a sip of her wine while she thinks about how she saw Jacob give Cassie a kiss on her cheek the previous day, which is why she asked Max out on the date. She hasn't been able to get the image of Jacob out of her mind, however. She realizes that she does like Jacob but if he is moving on with Cassie, she doesn't want to dwell on it.

"I guess I didn't want to have a drink alone tonight," she finally replies to him. "And we did have a nice time on our last date, at least I thought."

Max chuckles. "I'm pretty sure you know that I had a good time," he winks back to her. "Based on those kisses we shared."

Isabelle blushes back to him. "Yea, I guess you did make it clear, didn't you?"

"I know that you said you wanted to go slow but I am enjoying our time together, Isabelle."

Isabelle looks back at Max and, for a split second, thinks that she sees Jacob sitting across from her with a dashing smile on his face. She, then, comes back to reality and sees Max across from her. "Yea, me too Max. Me too."

The Calimo Mansion

"Sorry that I am here so late, but I had to see you," Shane explains to Natasha as they move into the living room of the Calimo mansion. After Shane met with Cassie earlier in the evening, he knew that he had to come and see his ex-wife to give her the latest update on their plan to keep Cassie away from Jacob.

"It's alright," Natasha replies to him. "I suspected that this had something to do with our plan for you to seduce Cassie?"

Shane nervously chuckles back to her. "You know me so well," he tells her quickly. "But yes, it does. I had Cassie over to my place tonight."

"And? How did it go? Did you sleep with the barracuda?"

Shane gulps before he looks into Natasha's eyes. "I kissed her," he reveals to her. "And it lasted a moment but as soon as I tried to take it further, she stopped me and told me she had no interest in me anymore."

"Damn, I'm sorry to hear that," Natasha shakes her head back to him in surprise. "I guess she really does have feelings for Jacob?"

"I don't know Nat," Shane shrugs back to her. "She might? She has been obsessed with him for a while now. I…I just don't know what we are going to do now that she has rejected me."

Natasha arches her eyebrow back to him. "Don't worry about that," she says as a sly grin comes across her face. "I have a new idea, but I will need your help with it Shane. If we are going to execute this, you're going to have to stand behind me all the way."

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