Episode 989
 
You Break Me Apart
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: November 06, 2023

Episode Theme song: "Good Girl" Charlotte Cardin


Previously on One Day at a Time
- Tara found Kim snooping in her room and confronted her
- Nicholas showed up on Melissa's doorstep and demanded answers about her relationship with Clayton
- Dale confessed to Helen that he tried to kill Dawn
- Cory's death stunned Robin, Natasha and Sophie
- Victoria and Eva were stunned when Bryce and Will arrived at the Calimo cabin
- Frederick told Abby to drop the restraining order that Dominick arranged

The Black House; Helen & Dawn's Home

Helen feels the blood drain from her face as another bolt of lightning flashes across the sky as the rainstorm continues to rage outside. She looks back at Dale, who just admitted to her that he did hit Dawn with his car as a part of his plan to get revenge for Mallory's death all those years ago. Helen can't believe that the man that she is engaged too has admitted to trying to kill her daughter.

"I…I can't believe this," Helen replies to him as she feels her hands start to shake. "You saw my daughter walking across the street, and you hit her with your car? How could you do that? How could you ask me to marry you only to try to kill my daughter?!"

Dale glares back at her with intent as another thunder boom is outside. "I never intended to run over Dawn," he whispers back to her. "I was planning to get back at you, Adam and Dawn but I was hoping to wait until after our wedding."

"Then why did you run over Dawn? Why did you try to kill my daughter?"

"Because," Dale moves closer to her. "She broke into my office and was looking around. She was trying to find proof that I was plotting revenge. She figured it out and I had to stop her! I couldn't let her ruin my plan."

"You're sick!" Helen cries back to him. "I can't believe that you've been using me this entire time!"

Dale chuckles back to her. "I have enjoyed our time together," he says. "But once I realized who you were, I knew I had to do this for Mallory. My beautiful baby girl is dead because of you and Adam!"

"Mallory kidnapped Dawn!" Helen reminds him. "Her death was an accident!"

"Bullshit," Dale yells back to her. "You and Adam, you killed my daughter…so you can call this an eye for eye!"

"I need you to get the hell out of my house!" Helen yells at him as he starts to laugh back at her. "We are over, Dale! And you, you're going to jail for this!"

The Young Estate; Boston; Melissa & Phil's Home

Melissa nervously chuckles back to Nicholas as they stand in the foyer of her mansion in Boston. Melissa looks back at her son, who just revealed that he knows that she and Clayton has been in contact. She knows that she can't tell him what she and Clayton have been working on because he would be furious with her; she has done all of this to ensure Nicholas stayed away from Andy.

"I'm waiting mother," Nicholas tells her quickly. "I need to know why you have been in contact with Clayton. What are you two up too?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Melissa lies to him as she moves into the living room of the mansion, where there is a huge fire raging in the fireplace.

"Mom, please don't do that," Nicholas follows her into the room. "I know that you and Clayton had a phone call a few days before my wedding day to Andy. And then, well, we all know what happened."

"You came to your senses and married Clayton instead of that drunk?" Melissa quips back to him.

"That's not funny," Nicholas tells her. "Now, I'm going to ask you one more time, what are you and Clayton up too?"

"And I told you…"

"If you don't tell me," Nicholas cuts her off and glares back at her. "Then I'm turning around, walking out of that door and you will never see me again! Do you understand me? Either you tell me the truth, or you will never see me again, the choice is yours, mother."

Raven's Meadow

Another loud crackle of thunder booms as the rain storm continues, while Frederick stands in the hallway of Raven's Meadow with a sly grin on his face as he looks at the screen on his telephone. He is reading a message that came through from Abby, whom he called earlier in the evening to demand that she drop the restraining order that Dominick had placed on him to ensure he stayed away from Felicia.

"Restraining order dropped," he reads to himself. "Don't threaten me again."

"Oh Abby," he chuckles to himself. "Little do you know that I can make your life a living hell," he says, thinking about how he knows that she was drugging her husband to ensure he didn't remember the events leading up to his interrupted wedding to Felicia. If he wanted too, he could tell the Robertson's that information and Abby's world would explode.

"But that's for another time," he whispers to himself. "Now that the restraining order has been dropped, I can focus on getting Felicia back. And, I can try to find Bryce, Will, Eva and Victoria. I know that they stole some of my files; I must get them back before they learn my secrets. I have to stop them."

He moves closer to the door that leads to Felicia's hospital room. He peers through the small window and can see Tyler sitting next to his mother. He gets a grin on his face when he realizes that this would be the perfect time to reveal the fact that the restraining order has been dropped.

"Good evening," he announces as he opens the door and Tyler and Felicia look back at him. "How is your visit going?"

Tyler looks back at Felicia before he stands up and crosses his arms over his shoulders. "What the hell are you doing in here? You aren't allowed to be anywhere near my mother."

Frederick chuckles as another thunderclap can be heard. "I guess you haven't been notified of the most recent changes," he tells him. "Abigail, who has Dominick's power of attorney, dropped the restraining order. And thus, I have taken over Felicia's full medical care."

Tyler feels his blood start to boil. "Abby did what? How could she do that without consulting the family first? No, I won't let you do anything to my mother!"

"I'm afraid that's not up to you," Frederick tells him. "She's under my care now and she is not ready to be discharged, but don't worry, I will take very good care of Felicia."

"You won't get away with this! Where is Bryce? Where is my mother's doctor?"

"Don't worry about Bryce," Frederick grins back to him. "And don't worry about Felicia; she's in my very capable hands now."

The Calimo Cabin

Will and Bryce are huddled around the fire in the Calimo cabin while, drying off from being caught in the rainstorm as they left Raven's Meadow and walked to the cabin, as they thought that this is where Eva and Victoria could be hiding out from Frederick. To their surprise, they found the women and are now trying to get warm from their journey.

"I…I still can't believe that I am looking into your eyes," Will admits to Eva as she passes him another towel to wrap around himself. For so long he thought that she was dead; the fact that she is alive, is a miracle to him. "You have no idea how much I missed you, Eva."

Eva smiles back to him. "To be honest, it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I even remembered everything that happened between us. After the accident, I had amnesia, I couldn't remember a thing."

"Accident?" Will asks her back. "It wasn't an accident! Brooke Lawson, she tried to kill you. I thought she had killed you! I was the one who found your body. How did you survive that?"

Eva shrugs back to him. "I don't know; I guess Frederick was able to save me because he wanted me to carry out his sick plan with Felicia. He made me pose as Barbara Mills to get Felicia back into his orbit. It was a sick and twisted plan."

"I guess none of that matters now," Will tells her as he grabs her hand. "I am just so glad to be with you again. I…I missed you Eva. And, I never stopped loving you."

***

Bryce moves into the kitchen and sees Victoria chopping some vegetables that she will prepare for dinner. Another lightning bolt flashes across the sky as he moves up to his wife.

"I am so relieved that we found you," Bryce says moving up to her. "You have no idea how scared I have been about what happened to you, Victoria."

"Is that so?" Victoria asks him quickly as she sets the knife down. "Because from where I stand, you are just as responsible for everything that has happened to me as Frederick is."

"Vic, come on," Bryce pleads with her. "I saved you from Frederick last year, remember? You know that I love you, you're my wife!"

Victoria glares back at him. "What I know, Bryce, is that you have been working with Frederick to create all of this chaos! You knew my mother was alive and didn't tell me; you knew that Frederick wanted to keep her being back a secret, to the point where my mother and I were held hostage in a padded cell at the hospital! You have no idea how scared I, we've, been! And you, you could have stopped this a long time ago! So, don't want in here and pretend that everything is okay between us, because nothing could be further from the truth!"

Robin's Townhouse

Antonio rushes up to the front door of Robin's townhouse as he doesn't want to get too wet from the rainstorm. He pauses before he knocks on the door as he gets a sly grin on his face, thinking about the fact that he found out that Cory's plane crashed while he was headed to Switzerland. According to the reports, no one survived the crash, which means Cory is dead. Antonio can't help but think that, now, he has a real chance with Robin because Cory is out of the picture. He finds himself knocking on the door. Shortly after, Robin opens the door and sees Antonio standing there.

"I know it's late, but I heard about Cory and had to come see you," Antonio explains to her. "Can I come in?"

Robin moves out of the way to let him in the townhouse. "How are you? And don't lie to me," Antonio tells her as Robin closes the door to the house.

"I'm…I don't know," she admits to him as she feels her eyes swell with water. "I can't believe that this is happening. I saw Cory earlier tonight before he left; he was still so full of life."

"It makes you realize how precious life is," Antonio replies to her. "You never know when your time is coming."

"It just doesn't seem fair," Robin tells him as a tear falls down her cheek. "Cory was still so young; he had so much life to live still."

"I know," Antonio pulls her closer into a hug. "That's why I came as soon as I heard. I figured you could use a shoulder."

"Thank you for being here," Robin gasps for some air. "I guess I didn't realize how much I needed a friend until you got here."

"I won't leave you," Antonio whispers back to her. "Not now, not ever."

The Sugarbowl

Cassie opens the door to the coffeehouse and scurries inside as she wants to get out of the pouring rain that is coming down heavily outside. She came to the coffeehouse to get a warm drink before she heads home to bed as the rain has given her a chill. While she waits for her latte, she can't help but wonder of a way that she will be able to stop Jacob from marrying Isabelle; she still can't believe that Natasha's dying wish is for her son to marry the young model.

As she grabs her drink, she can't help but see Sophie alone in the back booth of the coffeehouse. She arches her eyebrow at the sight of the younger woman, who has sunglasses on, despite it raining outside and being late in the evening.

"Sophie, is, uh, everything okay?" Cassie asks her as she moves up to the table and sits across from her. "Why are you wearing the sunglasses?"

"Nothing is okay right now," Sophie whispers back to her as she chokes on her words.

"What's happened?"

"You haven't heard?"

"No?" Cassie replies to her quickly. "Talk to me, Sophie. What happened? Is your mother?"

"No," Sophie takes her sunglasses off and looks back at Cassie. "It's my Dad…he's…he's dead," she says as her eyes flood with more water.

"Oh my God," Cassie gasps back to her. She stands up and scoots to the other side of the booth and wraps her arms around Sophie. "I am so sorry, Sophie."

Sophie starts to weep into Cassie's arms, who continues to hold her. "Let it out, Sophie. Let it all out, I won't let you go," Cassie tells her as she continues to hold the weeping woman, who is devastated by the loss of her father.

The Calimo Mansion

"I can't believe that Cory is gone," Jacob admits to Isabelle as they stand together in the living room of the Calimo mansion. Jacob is stunned that Sophie's father is dead when they have been thinking about how Natasha is dying; the fact that his younger sister might lose both parents in a relatively short time, is jarring for him to accept.

"I feel so bad for Sophie," Isabelle tells her fiancé. "How do you think she's holding up?"

"Not well," Jacob tells her. "He was leaving town to deal with her boarding school, so I suspect that she blames herself for what's happened."

Isabelle sighs back to him. "Jacob, maybe we should think about postponing our wedding," she tells him quickly. "With everything going on, maybe this isn't the best time for us to have a wedding?"

Jacob gulps back to her as he finds himself nodding to her. "I…I don't know what to say," he admits to her. "I…I just think we need some time to think about this, all of this."

"We are young and healthy," Isabelle reminds him. "What is the rush? I think it's best if we wait to get married."

The Lawson Estate; Greg, Kim & Cheresa's Home

"I told you," Kim tells Traci as they continue to stand in the maid's room of the Lawson Estate as another loud thunder bolt booms outside as the storm rages on. Kim gulps back to the maid, who caught her snooping around her room, where Kim found a wig that reminded her of Tara's hair. The entire reason Kim started looking around the bedroom is because she got a message from Greg indicating that Cheresa thought that Traci's mannerisms reminded her of Tara, the woman that kidnapped her last year. "I came into this room by accident. I didn't realize that it was your room."

"I don't believe you," Tara, who is still posing as Traci, replies to her quickly. "You gave yourself a way when you said that we were even since I was on your phone."

Kim glares back to her. "Then tell me, Traci, why were you on my phone? What, exactly were you looking for?"

Another flash of lightning blasts across the sky as Tara moves closer to her. "I think you're starting to ask too many questions," she whispers to her. "Way too many questions and you're also going through my things. I think it's time…"

"Time?" Kim asks her quickly. "Time for what?"

Tara chuckles back to her. "Time for you to figure this all out. What do you think is going on here Kimmy? Tell me, I want to know everything that you're thinking about."

The Black House; Helen & Dawn's Home

Dale chuckles back to Helen as he moves closer to her while another loud thunder bolt echoes throughout the house as the rainstorm continues to rage outside.

"You think I would allow myself to be caught?" he asks his fiancé as he moves closer to her. "You're a fool if you think that!"

"Simona is going to figure this out when she gets those test results back," Helen reminds him. "You are going to pay for this! You are going to pay for trying to kill my daughter."

"I will get away with this," Dale moves closer to her with a evil glint in his eye. "And you, you're not going anywhere. We are in this together, Helen, because we are engaged to be married."

"We are over!" Helen yells back to him.

"That's where you're wrong," Dale chuckles back to her. "Dead wrong."

Next on One Day at a Time
- What is Dale going to do to Helen?
- Will Jacob agree to postpone the wedding?
- Nicholas demands answers from Melissa

 
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