Rex caught Stacy red handed with the blood for Shane in a store closet for people’s fur coats.  Rex completely lost it with Stacy, saying that he never wanted to see her again, he never hated anyone more than he hated her right now, then Stacy grabbed the blood.  Rex tried to negotiate with her and tell her why this will never work, basically because it’s based on lies.  Stacy then asks Rex to sleep with her and she will give him the blood.

Rex tries to get out of it, saying it means nothing and makes her no better than a tramp.  Stacy surrenders and gives Rex the blood, before completely breaking down on the floor.  Stacy now has more things coming to destroy both Rex and Gigi, the next step is saying she’s pregnant.  She could be from the one time fling at Ultra Violet, but I can’t see them making Rex have two kids, one with each sister.  I think she will fool them all the way.

Matthew Buchannan is suing his parents to be emmancipated.  Being upset with their decision to not allow the surgery that could get him walking again, Matthew needs to be emmancipated so he can accept the surgery himself.  One idea is to get him married for a speedy judgement, and Destiny is lining up to do it for him. Tea is on the case and this will get ugly.

Blaire and John signed the divorce papers and are officially not a couple anymore, but will John get Marty the way he wanted?  Marty has some serious issues to work though and I feel things won’t be the same between them.  He may have given up the best thing in his life for something he once had.

Rex followed Stacy from the hospital and caught her red handed with the blood.  Stacy tries to lie her way out of it, when Rex shuts her up.  He said he’s never been so disgusted and hated anyone more than he her right now.  He accused her of breaking up the family and using Shane’s life to do so.  He said he always loved Gigi and that what they had was based on lies and never existed.  She is still dillusional thinking this is OK, Rex should still love her for what she’s done.  Rex had the blood unfortunately, Stacy snatched it back and is now trying to force him to sleep with her one more time.  It will be an interesting Monday for sure.

Tea runs into Todd and Blaire having sex in the cabana house and freaks out.  She says she never wants to see, hear or know of Todd again.  She allows Todd to explain himself, but still hits the road after his explanation, which Todd follows suit.  Todd goes to his house where he expects to find Tea, only to find Shawn and he isn’t telling Todd where Tea is; instead Marty come over and confronts Todd saying he is still ruining his life and Todd asks if she still loves him.  Todd is completely caught in this vicious love triangle of all these women he’s destroyed, however none can give him up.  Meanwhile, at the shooting range Tea is trying to shoot a picture of Manning when John McBain walks in.  He gives her some tips on how to shoot the picture.  Tea proceeds to tell John about what she walked in on, and John gets pissed; however he shouldn’t because he made it very clear he wants to be with Marty.  John after the practice shows up at Dorians and is about to talk to Blaire.

Destiny is angry her brother is leaving town and runs to Matthew’s side.  They decide to go get a burger and fries at the Buenos Dios where they run into Shawn, Matthews Sister and Destiny’s brother.  He says he’s going to stay in Llanview to be around his family, but I feel he is going to try to steal Shawn’s girlfriend (Matthew’s sister) and that is the ONLY reason.

Rex and Gigi realize they need to get those stem cells back from Stacy to be together and most importantly to protect the only viable cells they have left if Shane ever relapses.  They told Shane the ugly truth of what happened, and asked if he would play sick so they can tell Stacy he relapsed so they can get the stem cells back; Shane eagerly agreed.  The plan took action yesterday as Rex stayed over Gigi’s, Rex told Stacy that he was not feeling good and was going to stay with Shane.  Stacy shows up unannounced the next day to find Rex and Shane rough housing, but they do a good job of fixing the blunder in the plan.  Stacy however brings a thermometer, and takes his temp which comes out normal; but Shane plays it up saying he wants to throw up and goes upstairs to rest.  Stacy demands they take him to the ER to get checked, but without Rex and Gigi having a doctor to play along this would foil the whole plan.  Right before they walk out the door, Gigi returns home with Michael, who was updated on what happened and willing to play along; upset that he was foiled and Shane’s life was in jeopardy.  They all go to the hospital where Michael tells Rex, Gigi, Shane and Stacy that Shane has relapsed and need Stacy to donate more stem cells.  What happens next, should bring an end to this fiasco; but a scorned Stacy will seek some terrible revenge.

Trying to make Todd jealous, Blaire brings in a cabana boy and makes out with him after his swimming lessons with the boys.  Todd tells Blaire he is over her, so she says well thank goodness so if I’m naked that won’t bother you and strips down.  Todd can’t take it and makes love to her in the cabana room.  Meanwhile outside Tea comes back for Todd and hears him screaming in the Cabana.  She opens the door to see what was wrong only to see him making love to Blaire.  This is not going to sit well.

Jessica finally confronts Star and Cole, begging for their forgiveness and apologizing for her actions.  Star said she was angry at first but realized that it wasn’t her that did such a deed, and forgave her in full, Cole gave some advice that he learned from rehab “live for the day” and in doing so he said Jessica was not to blame for his drug addiction and use, and that she shouldn’t keep living in the past over this, instead look to today and tomorrow.

Right now in Llanview the main focus is Shane; his life is in danger from the unfoiling of the plot that Stacy pulled on Rex and Gigi.  Rex now knows what Stacy did to break him and Gigi up, and he knows that Roxy knows about the plot and aided in it.  However, the last bag of stem cells that Roxy had is missing, and time is of the essence to get them back.  We all know Stacy is a flake, so there is a good chance she did not properly store the stem cells.  Rex has devised a plan to get them back, but Shane will have to play along.  He is going to tell Stacy that Shane has relapsed and follow her to the stem cells.  However, they will have to tell Shane (everything) that Stacy did to them.

I have a feeling this will work, but with Rex not telling Gigi he slept with Stacy, this will come out once Rex gets the stem cells back as Stacy tries to hurt Gigi in one last ditch effort.  Will it work, and keep the two apart?  We’ll see.  But Schyler is starting to fall for Gigi, so if it’s done between Rex and Gigi because he slept with Stacy, it may be time for Schyler or Gigi will have two guys fighting for her love.

On another note, the Manning situation is growing volatile.  Todd’s plan to have Blaire be the bad guy and keep Star and Cole from marrying fell through.  He reluctantly allowed the two to marry, because he knew Cole was going to prision.  Just before they were pronounced,  John McBain runs in with good news, Cole isn’t going to jail, but what he has to do in lieu of prision won’t be much better.  The wedding breaks up for a moment, and Cole asks Star if she still wants to marry him, she said yes, but not now…  So we will see what becomes of them.

Dorian is still trying to fix the fences she tore down with Langston and Marco, she desperately needs the support of Vicki and Charlie, Mo and the bodyguard or the deal is off for Marco.  The dinner is set for 7pm and nobody is returning her call.  Will this be salvaged or will Langston lose Marco forever?  In my personal opinion, I would look to see Marco moving out and living at Dorians.

The talk recently has been on two major charecter’s: The Mannings and Rex and Gigi.

Last week, Stacy seduces Rex and he tells her that she is the one he wants, and they proceed to make love on the floor of his club.  Shortly after Rex starts to realize he may have made a mistake on impulse.  Stacy goes to gloat to Gigi at Rodies.  Meanwhile, Gigi who just got done spilling her guts to Natalie about why she lied to Rex, is on her way to confront Rex and finally tell him the truth.  Gigi lays it out flat, exactly what Stacy did to her and how she was going to let their son die if she didn’t get Rex.  Rex was floored and now realized he made a terrible mistake with Stacy.  Stacy however comes in and sees the two of them together.

Rex says to Gigi get out, he’s done with her making it seem very convincing; Stacy is overwhelmed.  Once Gigi leaves, its back to status quo as normal with Stacy and Rex, until she goes to kiss him, Rex turns his head and sends her out the door.  Gigi goes back to Rodies devastated and tells Schyler the whole thing.  Finally at home Gigi is sitting on the stairs when Rex comes to the door.  She opens it and says I can’t take any more, I already know how you feel, when Rex pipes up and says “no you don’t” before laying a huge passionate kiss on Gigi.

I think Rex realizes that Gigi does not know who the doner to Shane is, and since Stacy does he has to play the cards to ensure Shane’s life.  I think he will tell Gigi this and they will work together.  However, Stacy is vindictive and will use the fact they slept together to hurt Gigi; which may end their relationship all together.  I can say that Rex will not go back with Stacy.

On the other side of town Natalie dropped the charges against Kyle Lewis, to get the name of Shane’s doner.  He is reluctant and says he will only do what he promised Roxie, that is to keep the doner quiet.  So Natalie and Jarred blackmale him a bit.  Finally he takes him to see the doner at the hospital as asked.  That’s where we leave it.

Roxie is being threatened by the nurse at the long term care facility, who took the only bag left of Rex’s dad who donated the blood, that Roxie was keeping in her salon.  The nurse knows she tried to kill Rex’s dad and threatens to turn her in.

Cole was busted for drugs and was sentenced to 2 years in prison.  He goes to Star only to see she got the baby back, determined to keep her he proposes to her when her dad sees the proposal.  He gives them a full OK.  Back at his place he freaks out to Tea and threatens Cole’s life, she was taping the whole thing.  Todd leaves back to Dorian’s where he hopes his plan works; Blaire who is more sensible will not sign the paperwork and he will look like the good guy, until Tea runs in with the tape.  Star then threatens her dad to sign the papers or she will have nothing to do with him and leave.  Todd signs, and everyone is upset and shocked.  There will be a wedding very soon.

The theme is Lover’s Reunite, there is a work in progress to get Cole out of jail, but use him as bait for the drug infestation.  That will really P.O. Todd.  Gigi and Rex I think will get back together, but don’t be surprised if Stacy gets pregnant or uses the “sex” to try to destroy Gigi.

It signals the end for Marcie and Michael, Marcie gave the baby back to Star realizing she was meant to be the mother of Hope but was so very thankful for her kindness to allow her to adopt her baby.  Michael got a great position in a Seattle based hospital that will give them all they wanted, their time in Llanview is done.  Before they go, Michael comes back to an empty hotel room they called home looking for Marcie, who was in the restroom, on the table was a pregnancy test… Marcie emerges showing Michael she’s pregnant!

Now that Star has the baby back she couldn’t wait to tell Cole, who was at the docks clearing his head.  She didn’t hear from him and couldn’t understand why.  Cole however was in a bit of trouble, his old drug dealer showed up and gave him a bag of prescriptions for free to get him hooked again; Cole went to throw them in the lake when he was busted by a cop.  Since the cop ran him through the system, it became an immediate parole violation.. he was in front of a judge getting 2 year jail sentence with parole after 1 year with good behavior; that’s what was going on and Star didn’t know it.  Cole goes to her after the court hearing to tell Star the bad news, only to see her with Hope and find out he is now the father… problem is he won’t see her till she’s 2.  Its going through the grapevine that Cole will propose to Star.

Stacy is starting to dig her claws into Rex, breaking the bond with him and Gigi even more, including tearing Shane away from his mom.  Gigi will get her answer she is looking for, but when she tells Rex, Rex sticks to Stacy despite her lies and what she did to him, Gigi and Shane.  Its even possible he will sleep with Stacy.  I really hoped this would end and go back to normal, I mean she went to 1964 for him a few months ago.  Its a disgusting plot and one I hoped would end soon, but if Rex does go on that path with Stacy, then his character is one I would certainly dislike.

Jessica gets to bury Chole, her real baby, in the same spot she was before being exhumed.  Hopefully she will be able to heal from this and Brody will be by her side the entire way… I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets pregnant really soon with Brody’s child.

Dorian went nuts when Ray Montez left to help his daughter back in Columbia.  She tells Marco’s parents at his graduation party that Marco and Langston slept together.  That infuriates Marco’s parents who forbid him to see or have contact with Langston or Dorian again.  Immediately after she kicks Mo and his wife out saying she undid the paperwork and La Boulie is now her’s again; Mo vows to fight, and she fires the body guard.  Langston is furious at Dorian and threw her in the pool.  It was a mess that ended up with Dorian all wet, beautiful.

If you like nut jobs, they are bringing Bo’s old girlfriend back as well!

There wasn’t much going on today, but some significant things took place.  For one, Star and Cole did the hardest thing in the world; despite the fact they just learned Hope was alive, and just got reunited with her, Star signed the adoption papers making her legally Marcie’s.  She was very hesitant about giving up the baby but she remembered how Marcie helped her get through the loss and that she promised her the baby and followed through with her promise.  I know from inside sources that Marcie and Michael’s character are being written off the show.  With her and her husband now having that baby they never could get and they are renewing their vows, the story line ends for her.  Look to see her character gone in the next few weeks.

Jessica is a wreck over the hurt she caused everyone with Tess and Bess taking the baby, she is blaming herself for the death of her daughter and is going through a great breakdown.  She doesn’t see it yet but Brody is her knight in shining armor.  He came to her room to comfort her, but Jessica demanded he leave.  He refused, walked over to his blonde angel and grabbed her, with tears in his eyes confessed she helped him in the same situation she is in now with Shane, and that he loves her unlike he ever has for any other woman.  He personally said he will be there every step of the way through this horrible mess for Jessica, and nobody, not even Jessica will stop him.

Downstairs, Charlie comes to Vicki who is very worried outside on the terrace blaming herself for what happened to Jessica.  He talks her out of that thinking, stating he did it himself with Jarred, and look what happened… Then he proposed to her, completely wiping away the sadness as she gracefully accepted his proposal.

Clint and Nora agree to a speedy wedding in hopes it will revive some happiness in the family after Matthew’s accident, Cole’s betrayal, Jessica’s illness and the baby going back to the rightful parents.  However, I feel there will be someone left at the alter and it won’t be Nora.

Bo is desperate to get John back as senior detective.  He did a beautiful job with the serial murder terrorizing Llanview.  He is meant to be a cop!  I think we will see John soon divorce or annul the marriage to Blaire, and hook up with his one true love Marty.  He will go back to the force as its in his blood.  That’s my take on that.

We can’t forget Todd and Blaire.  I am starting to see a new kinder, and understanding Todd.  Star has made amends with her father, and Blaire even stated something to that effect.  With Star going through that horrible ordeal, I see Todd being her pilar of strength, and Blaire and Todd going back for another round, more than likely making Dorian very upset.

Jessica who turned into Bess and took Chloe “Hope” and fled to Nash’s parents house so that nobody would take the baby from her.  Her boyfriend Brody was smart enough to figure out she fled here and followed her, calling the Llanview police as he went.  The entire Buchannan clan went to help her and retrieve the baby from Jessica.  There, Vicki went upstairs pretending to be her alter ego similar to Bess to try to trick her into letting Jessica out and to give the baby up.  She succeeded but not before Bess found out it was Vicki all along.  It was the love and understanding of her mom, that brought Jessica back.

Meanwhile, Cole and Star found out that their baby is alive and are awaiting the Buchannan’s to come back with her.  She is devistated that her cousin lost her baby and holds no grudge for taking Hope.  She is in shock however to find out that she has seen and held her baby through these few months and never knew it.  I think Star is having second thoughts about giving up the baby to Marcie.

The Gigi and Rex fiasco will hopefully be coming to an end.  Schyler came to Gigi and told her he thinks Stacy didn’t save Shane’s life, meaning if he’s right, she doesn’t have to lie to Rex anymore.  They went to get the results of her blood back from the lab, but Kyle saw them and quickly changed the results to look like she was a match.  Schyler isn’t so sure still and goes to get the blood in his refrigerator and get another test done at another lab.  When Gigi and him, get back to his room, he finds the blood missing.

Gigi and Schyler go to Rex’s place to grab Stacy’s toothbrush, thinking nobody was home.  They enter to find Rex and Stacy in bed, but they didn’t sleep together.  A fight breaks out between Rex and Schyler from the lies Stacy told Rex about him.  Gigi and Stacy go at it throwing fists.  Rex kicks Gigi out and demands his key back.  Schyler upset thinking they didn’t get the DNA evidence they need, was surprised that Gigi has a lock of her hair she pulled from Stacy in the brawl.  We now must wait and see what will happen here.  The plot really is disgusting, how anyone would use a sick child to destroy a family when they need each other the most, for sexual personal gain especially from a fellow family member.

Its been a while since I last updated this column.  There has been a lot going on, some of it really digusted me, that’s the reason I stopped.  So lets get you caught up.

Buchannan’s

Natalie and Jarred found out Chloe is not Jessica’s but Star and Coles; a secret they were going to take to their grave.  Until Star and Cole took some of the hair in for DNA testing to find out why their baby died.  The lab tech recognized what was going on, and tried to blackmale Jarred and Natalie, wanting $100,000.00 or he was going to tell Star and Cole, ruining Jessica’s life.  At the bachelor party Jarred overheard that the body of Hope, Star’s baby was going to be exhumed, so he told Natalie.  The realized that tomorrow was their wedding and tomorrow everyone would know the truth behind the baby, so they eloped so their wedding would not get interrupted.

Jessica had an idea Chloe was not her’s and she turned into Bess at the hospital which led her to take off with the baby and never return to Llanview.  However in the car Tess came back and is trying to subdue Bess into letting Jessica deal with the problem and return the baby.  Right now there is an APB on the car and Jessica to have a safe return.  Brody who fell head over heals for Jessica is going to find her. (To see how Jessica found out about Chloe see Manning)

Manning

The story of Todd never dies, there were a bunch of murders in Llanview all of which were tied to Todd in some way, so he was prime suspect.  Those deaths were Marty’s nurse who died before the testimony she was to give about Todd’s plans to steal Hope.  There was Brody’s army friend who died in the bed next to Marty, making her a suspect.  Blaire was stabbed multiple times but survived and shortly after Talia was killed at Dorian’s house trying to round up John who was accused of the murders.

Antonio was so upset over Talia, he knew John was the only one who could find the killer and let him lose.  John grabbed Marty and took off to Buffalo, despite the fact he is married to Blaire to help her keep her kids, she was in the hospital and well guarded.  In Buffalo, John runs into Todd’s cousin who raped Marty back with Todd.  He was in a mental institute.  He found out that the nurse was helping manipulate the murders, and planned to finish the job.  He then drugs John and leaves him in his padded room, and drugs Tea, Blaire and Todd taking them to the fraternity Alpha Delta Kappa, where Marty was raped and where Todd once belonged.  He tied up Todd and the girls and asked who would kill Todd.  Tea decided to and tried to kill his cousin instead.  He takes Blaire and Tea to the basement of the fraternity house, breaks the gas main and locks them in to die.  His girlfriend the nurse finds that Todd grand daughter Hope is alive and snatches her, bringing her to Todd.  He then finds out and is ellated she is alive.  His cousin decides to try to kill Todd himself after he breaks the news, and starts to slice Todd’s neck but not before John arrives and kills his cousin.

Everyone gets out OK, Todd and Marty with Hope.  They take her to the hospital where Jessica sees Chloe (Hope) and snatches her.  Its there that she puts two and two together that everyone knows its not her baby and takes off.

John stays behind to find Tea and Blaire.  He finds them in the basement half dead.  He gets Blaire out and the nurse overhears that her boyfriend is dead.  She goes to the basement and while John is taking Tea out, she lights a match causing a huge explosion.  John and Blair are OK, however, Tea was in bad shape.

After surgery Todd meets with Blair and realizes he has a second chance and he can’t wait to tell Star and Cole about Hope.  Tea makes it through surgery and was expected to make a full recovery.

Bossom

Shane finds out he has Leukema.  He needs stem cells to fight the cancer, so Roxy goes to Rex’s dad’s invalid care facility and finds he’s a perfect match.  Roxy doesn’t want anyone to know he’s alive and when they can’t find another match, she would have no choice.  However, Stacy over hears Roxy and follows her where she learns the whole story.  Stacy’s main goal is to get Rex and she finds out a way to do so.  She threatens to tell everyone about Rex’s dad to Roxy unless she plays along which Roxy does.

Stacy goes and tells Gigi that she is a perfect match, but won’t help Shane unless she gives up Rex.  Gigi willing to do what ever it takes for her son, relentlessly does just that.  She stages an affair with Brody who knows the whole story splitting Rex and Gigi up.  Stacy then goes with her plan to take her cell bag and switch it with Rex’s dad’s.  It works and Shane comes around.

Roxy knows Gigi is being blackmailed and told her, the stem cells are in, tell Rex the truth about Stacy since there is nothing that can be done now to take them back.  Gigi starts to tell Rex and Shane gets sick.  It wasn’t bad but Stacy drills it into Gigi its an omen for breaking her promise so Gigi shuts her mouth.

Rex totally turns on Gigi, and Stacy tells Shane once he’s better that his mom slept with Brody.  This makes Shane furious, turns him against his mom and he moves in with Rex, making Stacy mad.

It turns out though, Schyler was a long time lover of Stacy and wants her back.  He knows she’s up to something but doesn’t know what.  He finds Stacy throwing a bag of something away in the bio hazzard bin in her room.  When she leaves he retreives it realizing it’s Stacy’s stem cells.

Schyler tries to tell Rex but Rex wouldn’t listen.  So now he’s off to tell Gigi what he knows.  Things are getting worse for Stacy, the man she stole 20,000.00 from in Vegas is knocking at her door threatening her, Shane and Rex.  He meets Rex one on one and tells him the story of what happened, but Rex refuses to believe it.  Meanwhile, Schyler is telling Gigi what he knows.

Things are going to come to an end with this disgusting plot and I hope Rex and Gigi find their way back together.

Cole and Marty

Cole entered rehab and managed with Star’s help to detox himself and stay clean.  He and Star decide to exhume the body of their baby to find out what’s wrong.  They are actually coming together like a couple again.

Meanwhile, while locked in the room with Todd, Todd makes her remember all the details of her rape, while making her remember all the good the came since.  She fully recovered from her memory loss and is super happy that she remembers Cole, who is happy his mom is back!

It has not been a good year so far for the children of One Life To Live.  Just in the last few days three of the children had life altering incidents take place however they are coming to show us how strong they really are.

Shane Bossom:  Returning home to get his inhaler with his mom Gigi; almost get into a head on collision with Cole who was returning from the school dance with Matthew who was driving under the influence of narcotics.  Luckily Gigi was able to swerve and miss Cole and Matthew crashing into a tree.  Shane and Gigi both sustained minor cuts and bruises, but Shane went into an asthma attack and was taken to the hospital.  While at the hospital they took their standard tests and sent them both home.  Those tests would later show that Shane has Leukemia.  Scared to death, he is taking the strength of Rex and Gigi and looks to fight this terrible disease.

Meanwhile, Rex and Gigi had Stacy and Roxy tested to be a potential bone marrow match in case Shane would need it.  Stacy over hears Roxy talk about Rex’s dad and follows her to his dad’s hospital room.  Do you think this nasty young lady would do the right thing?  No, she waits till Roxy leaves then goes in to see who Rex’s dad is.

If you think that is bad, Stacy actually is a perfect match for Shane; and she uses that to get what she wants.  A romp in the hay with Rex, and according to sources, Rex will sleep with her to get his son better.  What a horrible thing to do to someone, use their son’s life as a means to get what you want.

Matthew Buchannan:  Matthew was in the car with Cole when the accident happened.  He was already humiliated in front of his classmates, and now ends the night in a life threatening accident.  He was thrown 25 feet out of the car, but is alive.  He goes to the hospital to find out he is permanently paralyzed.  Nora and Bo try to get his hopes high for a recovery but Matthew blames himself for this and is rapidly falling into a depression.  The good thing is, the vertebra was compressed hurting the spinal cord, but it was not broken or severed; which could mean he may walk again.

Cole Thornhart:  Cole was driving the car and managed to get away with minor damage.  He knows about Matthew and is destroyed he hurt his friend.  Nora laced into him giving Cole a taste of reality.  She told him that Matthew looked up to him, and this is how he repaid him.  She also found out it was Cole that smoked the J and allowed Matthew to take the fall for him.  Nora has recently told Cole she will be prosecuting him and Cole was placed under arrest.

Star Manning:  If she hasn’t suffered enough, she has just cost Skyler his job teaching, her dad was arrested for the attempted murder of Blair, her mom Blair is lying in a hospital bed in a medically induced coma; and the doctors won’t update her of her mom’s status.  Then she finds out from Marcie that her baby didn’t die from RH disease.  Now she is wondering what is really going on.  This girl has endured more than any other character these last few months and has proven to be more mature than anyone on the show.  

Brody got out of St. Ann’s and moves into Roxy’s hotel.  She puts him up in the same room where his friend Wes was killed.  Jessica goes with him, and they kiss.  They both agree to be friends, but you can tell in their faces this is not what they want.

Natalie and Jarred put two and two together, realizing Bess went to the hospital and swapped babies.  They know Jessica’s baby that they all fell in love with is really Star’s baby, and now they are contemplating telling someone about it.  They know the truth will destroy Jessica and their family, but its torture for poor Star (Natalie’s niece) that is mourning her baby Hope.  Its a decision nobody would want to have to make.