Episode 986
 
Drowning in this Silence
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: October 22, 2022

Episode Theme song: "Easy On Me" Adele

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Nicholas told Clayton that he is married to him in name only and wondered how he could get the upper hand
- Ethan broke up a fight between Paige and Abby
- Chris and Trenyce supported Cheresa after Dawn's accident
- Cory left for Switzerland to deal with Sophie's boarding school
- Jacob told Cassie to accept the fact that he was going to marry Isabelle
- Victoria worried about telling Eva about Dominick's affair
- Frederick realized that Bryce and Will were missing and might find his secret office in Raven's Meadow

Robin's Townhouse

Robin breathes a sigh of relief when she listens to the baby monitor and can hear both Oscar and Dominique fast asleep upstairs in her home. She is relieved because Oscar was rather fussy earlier in the evening, so she thought, maybe, he could have a difficult time falling asleep.

"Now I can enjoy the rest of the evening and try to relax," she whispers to herself as she can hear thunder outside. She moves to the window and looks outside, seeing some rain start to fall down from the sky. "A thunderstorm in October? I guess that beats snow."

She moves to the bar and pours herself a glass of wine as she thinks about Cory; she hopes that his trip to Switzerland goes quickly and smoothly. She wants him to come home as quickly as possible so she can inform him that she told Antonio that they can just be friends and he can't kiss her anymore; hopefully that will be enough for Cory to agree for them to continue on with rebuilding their relationship.

"After all these years, it is amazing to think that Cory and I could be happy again," she tells herself as takes a sip of her wine. "I never thought have believed this a few years ago but it feels good. It feels right."

She reaches for her phone, which is resting on the coffee table when it starts to ring. She hopes that it isn't bad news about Dominick, who is still in the hospital following his stroke. She is praying that her father makes a recovery, even though the doctors have noted that he may never come out of his coma.

She arches her eyebrow when she sees Shane's name on the screen. "Shane, hi," she says as she picks up her phone. "If you're calling about Oscar, he is fast asleep."

"I'm not calling about our son," Shane tells her as he stands in the living room of the Calimo mansion. "Robin, I'm calling about Cory. I need you to come to the Calimo mansion as soon as possible. Something…something has happened."

"What happened?" Robin sits up in the sofa, concerned about what has happened.

"Can you get your nanny to watch the kids and get here? I will fill you in once you get here."

"I'm on my way," Robin replies to him quickly, wondering what could have happened.

The Young Mansion; Nicholas & Clayton's Home

Nicholas slowly walks down the stairs and moves into the living room of the large mansion that he is living in with Clayton. He breathes a sigh of relief when he sees that Clayton has gone out for a little while. He can't help but remember how, earlier, Clayton was trying to convince him to have sex; the last thing Nicholas wants to do is to sleep with Clayton. He is only married to him because Clayton blackmailed him into the marriage; had Nicholas refused, Clayton would have bankrupted both Andy and Madeline due to a clause that he has in Olivia and Preston's will.

"Now that I have some time alone, I have to figure out how the hell I am going to get out of this mess," he whispers to himself. "There must be something that I can do to stop Clayton from hurting everyone that I care about."

He turns around arches his eyebrow when he realizes that Clayton left his phone on the coffee table, which isn't like Clayton. Usually, he always has his phone with him. Nicholas moves to the phone and unlocks it as he has seen Clayton use his passcode many times.

He starts looking through Clayton's recent messages, but he doesn't see anything of interest. He switches to the phone log and looks at recent phone calls. Nicholas gasps when he sees the name, "Melissa Young".

"He called my mother; this was a few days before my wedding to Andy," he tells himself as he puts the phone. "Alright mother, what the hell have you done this time?"

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

Andy sits at a table with some sparkling water and crab cakes in front of him. He has his phone in his other hand and he is looking at the screen. He has the Grindr app on his screen and is wondering if he should be download it back to his phone. He knows that he still cares about Nicholas, but he is wondering if this is the way to start to get over him. He knows that he could easily find another date, or something, but he isn't sure if he should proceed or not.

"Grindr, huh?" Clayton says as he comes up to Andy's table and glances down at the screen. "Someone is eager to find a new man!"

"What do you want, Clayton?" Andy huffs back him as he turns his phone off.

"I just came to get a nightcap and saw you over here, I thought I'd say hi," Clayton replies to him. "Looks like I'm not the only thirsty one."

"Whether or not I'm on a dating app isn't really any of your business!"

"Dating app?" Clayton chuckles back to him. "I wouldn't call Grindr a dating app, but you do you hun. Look, I say go for it. Your last guy is happily married to me, so there's nothing holding you back from going out and find a new d…."

"Thanks for your advice," Andy cuts him off. "Like I said, this is none of your business."

"Your right, it's not," Clayton stands up from the table. "But if you're holding out for Nicholas to come back to you, you'll be waiting a very long time, so go for it Andy. Get yourself a new man."

***

Ethan sits at another table with a double gin and soda in front of him. He takes a sip of it as he recalls how he was with Abby earlier and Paige arrived. The women started to bicker about Abby and Dominick's marriage and Dominick's current medical issues; Paige went too far, and Abby slapped her hard across the face. That's when Ethan intervened and broke up the fight. Once Paige had left, he and Abby came to the bar to get a drink to calm their nerves. Ethan just hopes that he can convince Abby to not use violence to when dealing with Paige.

"Ethan," a voice calls out at the base of his table, causing the young lawyer to look up and see Greg standing in front of him. "I've been meaning to find you to talk to you."

Ethan arches his eyebrow as Greg sits across from him. "Mr. Lawson, what is this about?"

Greg uneasily chuckles back to him as thunder booms outside. "Abigail and I had a long talk just a few days before husband suffered a stroke," he reveals to him. "I know about you kissing my daughter."

Ethan gulps back to him as he thinks about the various times he and Abby have shared kisses. He hadn't realized that Abby told her father about it.

"Don't worry," Greg looks back at him. "Abby didn't tell me; I actually saw you two kissing in the park. What the hell is wrong with you? She is a married woman!"

"I know, I know," Ethan defends himself. "It just…it just happened. But don't worry, it won't happen again."

"Your damn straight it won't happen again," Greg replies to him as Abby comes closer to the table as she was using the restroom. "You need to stay away from my daughter, Ethan. She has enough going on in her life without you being there to further complicate things. Do I make myself clear?"

Nervous about the man sitting across from him, Ethan nods back to the doctor. "Yes, sir. I understand completely."

***

Cassie continues to sit at the bar with a martini in front of her. She was just with Jacob and she pleaded with him to not marry Isabelle; he, however, told her that he would honor his mother's last wish and marry the young model. Cassie, now, is trying to think of a way to stop this wedding from happening.

She turns her shoulder and happens to see Isabelle moving up to the bar. She arches her eyebrow as she thought she and Jacob were leaving together. "I thought you left with the father of my son?" Cassie asks her as Isabelle reaches the bar.

"We are leaving," Isabelle nervously tells her. "Jacob had to use the restroom before we left, so I came back in here to wait for him."

"Good, I'm glad you did," Cassie replies to her. "It's gives us a chance to, uh, talk. We need to get a few things straight."

"Cassie, I know that you're upset by how everything has unfolded, but I am not the bad guy here, okay?" Isabelle tells her quickly. "Do I have feelings for Jacob? Yes, I am just following my heart."

"I don't know what Natasha is trying to prove with this dying wish, but I will stop this wedding from happening. I don't know if you know about me, but I am capable of almost anything," Cassie warns her as Isabelle gulps.

"Don't you dare threaten me," Isabelle glares back at her. "You don't know who, or whose family, you're dealing with."

Cassie smirks back to her as Jacob approaches the women and another loud thunder boom can be heard. "Is everything okay here?" Jacob asks as he puts his arm around Isabelle's waist.

She looks back at her fiancé and smiles. "Everything is fine," she tells him. "Cassie and I were just getting somethings straight, right Cassie?"

"Right," Cassie nods back to them.

"Good, let's go," Jacob looks at Isabelle. "And Cassie, remember what I said; please accept this, because we will be married. And there's nothing you can do to stop that."

After the young couple leave the restaurant, Cassie takes a healthy sip of her martini. "We'll see about that," she says to herself. "We will see about that."

Twin Peaks Genera Hospital

"You guys don't have to be here," Cheresa tells Chris and Trenyce as she exits Dawn's hospital room and sees her biological parents standing in the hallway. Cheresa knows that Chris and Trenyce have been at the hospital, almost the entire time, since Dawn was admitted following her hit and run. Cheresa also realizes, however, that Chris and Trenyce are newlyweds but also that Trenyce is very pregnant; the last thing Cheresa wants is for her mother to overdo it while she is so late in her pregnancy.

"Of course, we should be here," Chris comes up to his daughter. "We don't want you to go through this alone. What is the latest with Dawn?"

Cheresa sighs back to them. "She's still in her medically induced coma," she reveals to them. "Greg told me that this is for the best because her body needs time to heal but…I just hate that she's sleeping; I want her to wake up more than anything in the world."

"I trust that Greg knows what he is talking about," Trenyce tells her daughter. "We have to believe that this is for the best for Dawn. Once she has had time to rest and heal, they will wake her up. This is a good thing?"

"I am trying to tell myself that," Cheresa replies to her. "It's just hard."

"I know it is baby girl," Chris pulls her into a hug. "We are here for you, okay? Anything that you need, we are here for you."

"Just hold me," Cheresa sobs into his arms while Trenyce puts her arm around the two of them. "I just need you guys right now, more than I've ever needed you before."

The Calimo Cabin

"You look a million miles away," Eva notes to Victoria, who is starring into the flames of the fire that is raging in the fireplace in the living room of the Calimo cabin. As she moves closer to her daughter, the window light up as a large lightening bolt flashes the sky outside. "Is it the fire or the storm that has your mind pre-occupied."

Victoria turns and forces a smile on her face as she looks at her mother. "I guess I was lost in thought."

"Anything you want to share?"

Victoria uneasily shrugs back to her. "I guess I am just wondering about our futures, you know? We have been hiding here for a few weeks now; I wonder how long we will have to stay here before it would be safe for us to go home. And, what is waiting for us at home?"

"I'd hope our husband's are waiting for us?" Eva chuckles back to her. "Do you think that they won't be happy to see us?"

"I don't know," Victoria admits to her. "Everyone has believed you were dead for close over a year Mom; Dominick, his life has carried on. And as for Bryce, I still can't believe that he was helping Frederick when all Frederick has done is try to hurt me and you. How could my husband do that?"

"You know what I think?" Eva comes up to her and puts her arm around her. "I think all we need to do is continue to read these files that we took from Raven's Meadow; once we have some information on Frederick, we will be able to return to our lives, whatever that looks like. No matter what happens, I have faith that it will all work out Victoria. We will live the rest of our lives in Twin Peaks and not in fear about what Frederick will or won't do to us. In fact, if we get the right information, we could send him to jail for a very long time."

"God, I hope you're right," Victoria replies to her. "He has tried to kill me more than once, so I need him to pay for that. We just have to make that happen."

"How about I pour us some wine and we go through more of these files together?"

"Sure," Victoria nods back to her. "That sounds like a good plan."

Raven's Meadow

Frederick opens a door that leads him into the secret office that is within the walls of Raven's Meadow. While Victoria, Eva, Bryce and Will found the office by using the venting system, Frederick has always known the proper way to get to the office as he created it years ago. This is the place where he has always left his most private files because they hold some of his deepest secrets.

"I can already tell that Victoria and Eva were here, if not Bryce and Will as well," he mumbles to himself as he can see the cover of the vent on the ground. He moves over and picks up the cover and looks up at the vent. "I'm going to have to get stronger bolts to keep these damn doors on."

He looks around the office and arches his eyebrow. "Damn it," he whispers as he looks around. "Boxes of my files are missing; whoever took them might learn what I've been desperate to keep hidden for decades. I have to find them; I have to find Victoria, Eva, Bryce and Will and stop them from reading those damn files! But where would they have gone? And are they together?"

"Damn it Bryce! Why are you doing this? You know I could destroy you!" Frederick says in frustration. "And how the hell am I going to track you down?"

The Calimo Mansion

"I got here as soon as I could," Robin announces as she opens the door to Natasha's bedroom at the Calimo mansion and moves inside. "Rosario told me to come to Natasha's bedroom."

"Yes, we got news that we wanted to share with you and Sophie at the same time," Shane explains as he stands up from the chair next to Natasha's bed, as Sophie moves closer to her mother's bed as another loud clap of thunder can be hear outside in the storming sky.

"What is it? What is going on?" Sophie asks her mother. "I was at Dad's when you called me and told me to come here?"

"And I had to call my nanny to come over, and it is pretty late for her to get this phone call," Robin explains to them.

"I am sorry," Natasha slowly tells them. "But I … I think I can only say this once."

"You're scaring me," Sophie tells her mother. "What is this all about?"

Natasha covers her mouth as tears form in her eyes, causing Shane to take charge. "As you know, Cory went to Switzerland tonight," he begins to explain to the women. "He used the Calimo private jet to go."

"Yes, he said he should be back tomorrow or the day after," Robin replies to him.

"Apparently there was some issues with the jet because of this storm," Shane continues to tell them as another loud thunder boom can be heard outside. "And the plane…it crashed."

Sophie cries out in shock. "No! No! Dad's plane crashed? Is it okay?"

"We just got word," Natasha tells them as a tear falls down her cheek. "The police said that no one survived."

Robin feels the blood drain from her face as Sophie starts to weep uncontrollably. "What are you saying, exactly?" she asks.

"Cory…he's dead," Natasha tells them as the three women start to sob together, thinking that they will never see Cory again.

Next on One Day at a Time
- Tara and Kim have a confrontation
- New of Cory's death spreads
- Jeff asks Meggan a question

 
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