Over the past two weeks Llanview has come to terms with Jarred’s death.  Natalie is taking the loss very hard since they were only married less than 6 months; and Charlie is ready to hit the bottle again.  However, this past week at Jarred’s funeral the casket started to rock, and Natalie hoped it was her prayer being answered; instead Mitch Lawrence pops out of the casket and stuns all of Llanview in his distasteful display at a time when sorrow was running rapid.

Bo, Brody and John secure Lawrence who tells everyone he got off scott free for the death of Jarred, but found himself in cuffs for the deaths of two in Llanview once thought to be Jarred as the killer.

Following the debacle, everyone went to the grave site to inter Jarred, and his body was going to meet up with his casket at the grave.  Also, Nash was going to be re-interred after Mitch dug him up and brought him to California.

Dorian Lord is now Mayor

Vicki respectfully declined the mayor position she won because of her families recent tragedy; and the city council deemed Dorian Lord mayor.  As she was sworn in, she decided to go through with her promise to legalize all the gay marriages.  Upon doing the first one (her own), the attorney general of Pennsylvania came to shut her down.  Failing to abide by the Attorney General’s demand to cease and desist, Dorian legalized her own marriage and was immediately arrested.  The crowd cheered for her stance, and Fish was ordered to arrest her; resisting and willing to give up his badge, Dorian says to keep the badge on and arrest her.  This was her way of giving into the cause.

In jail she meets her former husband, Mitch Lawrence, who starts to work on her nerves and gets under her skin.

Stacy tells Schyler he is the father

In a turn of events, and hopes to shut up Schyler; Stacy’s friend tells him he is the father and not Rex.  Now he knows the truth, however the baby is actually Fish’s child; but the truth that it’s not Rex’s baby.  He could save the relationship of Rex and Gigi, but with his own feelings toward Gigi, he’s torn to do the right thing or keep the status quo.  We can only hope he will come clean, but either way, it looks like Gigi is falling for him and Rex may be thrown to the curb for someone elses baby.

Shaun who suffered a coma at the hands of his brother Greg, trying to help his brother by removing the bullet fragments, finally wakes up.  Most of the people in Llanview thought Shaun was dead or forever asleep, but somehow this hero makes it and wakes up alive and to the doctors surprise no real damage.  However, Rachel was getting a little hot and heavy with Greg as Shaun woke up back in Greg’s apartment.  This is going to cause some serious ripples in this family.

Blaire is OK from her fall from the window at La Boulie, but can’t remember anything a few minutes prior to her fall, specifically the info Tea gave Blaire about her having Todd Manning’s baby.  Rumor has it that Blaire will remember the news and tell Todd while she is in the hospital.

Bo and Nora pull a fast one on Matthew who was going to Seattle for his surgery.  They got him on their private jet and told him they would fly him to Seattle.  Instead, once airborne, tell Matthew they are not going to Seattle but London instead.  They got him a new school which he will be living in a boarding house; just so they can stop him from making a mistake with this surgery and give him more time to think.  Matthew is absolutely livid and no longer trusts his parents.

Natalie is awake now also but in a different light.  She found out her husband Jarred had done the stalking on Jessica with this creep he met in prison.  Natalie is blown away, but Jarred got a strange text and bolts from the house.  Natalie tells John McBain everything, and now they must find Jarred.  John and Natalie feel he is being controlled by someone more powerful, and Delphina just told Jessica and Brody that another death was about to happen… I have a feeling its Jarred since his contract was not renewed.

Desperate to defeat Vicki for the Mayoral seat, Dorian Lord has stooped to a new low.  Dorian recently found that Vicki had the support of the gay & lesbian population.  In order for her to take back those votes she wanted to show her support by having David Vickers/Buchanan play gay.  David refused, but right at that moment a knock came on her front door, it was a lesbian with outstanding credentials to be her new campaign manager.  Kim easily de-throwned David and quickly put a plan in motion to get Dorian the votes while also forcing her own agenda.  She set a press conference where she forced Dorian to marry gay and lesbian couples once she’s Mayor despite the current law of Pennsylvania.

At the conference she was being grilled by the press and the Gay and Lesbian Foundation members; so Dorian announced she was a lesbian and Kim was her fiance, and upon the election she will marry lesbians and gays.  This has really angered Kyle whose boyfriend was in on it; knowing that Dorian is not gay.  This scam freaked out Langston, and will probably haunt her in the end.

Todd showed up looking for his estranged wife Tea, being married for just 1 day; they had a fight that she was married to Ross still and Todd threw her out.  He was going to find her, maybe to talk it through.  Todd showed up at Dorian’s at the press conference knowing Tea would be hunting down Blair.

Inside Blair found out that Tea had a child with Todd and never told him.  That was this huge secret that Tea didn’t want let out and Blair threatened to march right up to Todd and tell him.  The two struggled and threw each other; Tea hit a wall but in an ironic twist of fate, Blair went out a window like she did to Tea years earlier.

Jarred is also under scrutiny, because the stalker happened to end up dead.  John and Brody had their suspicions of Jarred all along but once the body was found they called the last number on his cell and it rang to Jarred’s cell.  They found text messages between the two, e mails and money being wired into the stalker’s account.  Now the question is, was Jarred being blackmailed or was he still out for Jessica’s demise?

Todd and Tea finally make it to the alter, with what little family and friends show up to support it.  Blair comes fully loaded with Ross whom she hopes will ruin the wedding, she denies its because she still wants Todd, but its for her kids.  Before leaving for the wedding Dorian gave Ross a sizable check to Ross to give Blair what she needs, and let that wedding happen.  Ross takes the check and does exactly that, he takes Blair into a boat at the club house where the wedding was taking place, and locks her in the cabin, while driving out to the middle of the bay.  Blair realizes that the wedding is going to happen, thanks to Ross and there is nothing she can really do about it.

Gigi gets Schuyler a job at Roadies, and Kim is going to use that to drive a wedge in between Rex and Gigi in hopes he will run back to Stacy.  Stacy is pregnant but with Fish’s baby, since she lost Rex’s in miscarriage.

On Friday we left the Llanview police storming the warehouse of the drug lords.  Brody penetrated and safely got Star and Hope out of harms way, but receiving a possible fatal blow as he was speared with some angle iron.  Bo rushes in to his safety, shooting the drug lord and getting Brody out to the ambulance.  Inside, John was captured by Serge; they fought for a few minuets before John turned Serge’s own gun on him, killing him.

Meanwhile at the hospital, Shaun was still fighting for his life; he is rolled to surgery where his brother successfully removes the shrapnel but finds some more deeper in his brain.  The removal was very risky and more dangerous than the first piece; but he successfully removes it before Shaun flatlines.  We left them with his brother shocking his heart, then looking solem going to his family in the waiting room.  We don’t know what happened, did Shaun die or is Dr. Evans just shocked with how close he came to losing his brother?  We have to wait till tomorrow.

Downstairs in the ER, Brody is rushed in and Jessica stands at the window praying and pleading for his life… “Not again, I can’t lose another” she says.  Brody is losing a lot of blood, needs a lot of transfusions, but the ER doctors pull the angle iron out and he stabilizes, Jessica runs in and gets in garb to stand by his side.  It appears he will be OK.

Rex goes to the hospital with Stacy but gets no answers.  He wants to know when a paternity test can be performed.  The nurse says at the end of the first trimester. Rex wants to set up the test but is informed its up to Stacy who of course says no.  He wants to know the age of the baby but the nurse gets a call out.  At the end of 9 months when the baby is born, Stacy agreed to give him a paternity test.

Corruption has flooded Llanview for months, even years and today Star, Todd, Hope and Shaun will pay greatly for it; despite the fact they didn’t do anything but be a bi-standard.  In trying to save his daughter Star and grand daughter Hope, Todd runs to the Mayor asking him to protect his family by letting Cole slip, however he went right to the source of the whole problem.  The Mayor was the ring leader for all the drugs penetrating the school walls, and Cole exposed the entire operation.  The Mayor, who knew his freedom and political career are now at risk, puts a hit out for Cole; the hit goes wrong and the crooked cop paid as John intercepted the attack shooting him in the leg.

To remedy the problem, Serge, Cole’s drug boss runs to Mayor Lowell and asks to kidnap Star and Hope to get Cole.  The Mayor said no, but Serge said if he falls, the Mayor goes with him, so he eagerly agreed.  Serge goes to Dorians, where it was a fight for their lives, he brings three henchmen who try to overtake Todd.  Todd begs for his daughter and grand daughter but to no avail.  Shaun rushes to the rescue, shooting one of the henchmen, knocking out Serge and runs to avert the last thug trying for Hope.  Todd then starts to fight with Serge who regains conciousness, and realizes the man who Shaun shot was gone.  Serge took it to Todd bad, slamming a very large stone planter hard against his head.  Serge props Todd on the wall, and Star freaks out; watching her dad bleed from about ever crevice of his face.  Serge grabs Star and holds her hostage.  Meanwhile upstairs, Shaun knocks out the third thug, but before he can get Hope to safety, the man he shot downstairs, shoots Shaun right in the chest.  The thug grabs Hope, running downstairs to the others.  Just when Serge thinks he got everything, Shaun comes down holding them at gunpoint.  Serge shoots, nailing Shaun right in the neck.

Back at the debate between Lowell and Vicki, John rushes in to arrest the Mayor on national TV.  Mouth’s agape, the Mayor says this is all a mistake until Fish plays the tape of Lowell confessing his involvement and that Cole will die if he knows anything.  The crowd now floored, boo’d the Mayor as he was escorted out of the hall.  His career is done, but now John suspects Star and Hope are in trouble, and rushes to La Boulei

When John arrives he sees Shaun fighting for his life, laying in a large pool of his blood, across the foyer is Todd also fighting for his life; Star and Hope are nowhere to be found, and John tries to save Shaun.

Funny thing about the whole scenario, Todd and Dorian, Star and Hopes family take the news of Cole to the Mayor who was the cause of all this, and their actions actually harm their beloved family.  Nobody listened to Star and now her life is in grave trouble, unless the LPD can stop this before its too late.

Rex, Gigi and Stacy

This has been by far the most climatic plot of the whole show and really the main point of interest today.  Gigi told Rex she asked Stacy to get an abortion because she can’t live with the fact Stacy is possibly having his child, which would be Shane’s brother and cousin.  Rex was upset, but said that he had to be apart of this child’s life should it be his which would keep Stacy in their lives; but he swore he would never “be” with Stacy.  They fixed things but Gigi said “God help her, but she wished the baby ceased to exist.”

Back at Rex’s loft the paramedics run to Stacy’s aid as she lay on the floor in pain.  She begs them to save her baby, knowing it was the only leverage she had to keep Rex or be apart of his life.  The paramedics had some grim news to tell her, the baby was gone.  Stacy planned to use that baby to keep Rex, which really isn’t a good situation to put a child in, using a baby for your own personal gain.  She knows without that baby, she will not have Rex.  Stacy is so distraught she refuses to go to the hospital, and remains in the loft.  She’s looking at Rex’s picture and I’m pretty sure she will be conjuring up some way to lie about the pregnancy for a while.  She may even go get artificially inseminated to keep the pregnancy going, but upon a DNA paternity test it would prove to be not his.  Looks like Gigi got her wish, but I don’t think Stacy is done yet.  I think she will try to use Schuyler to break the two up, by pressuring him about his feeling for Gigi and making him act on it.  Though that could only get Schuyler hurt, Gigi and Rex really were meant to be together and anyone that steps in their way will fall.

Matthew

With the wedding over, Matthew will be meeting his parents in a preliminary hearing to determine his fate (to get the surgery or not).  Nora however is in some big trouble already, she loves Clint and Bo, but with this trial I feel she will get distracted.  I don’t see this marriage lasting because she will turn to Bo and show her true feelings for him with this trial.  I give this marriage a month tops!