wed — dec 29, 2010

nick and phyllis run into each other at crimson lights.  the conversation is first about their daughters because of how good of parents they are: phyllis had summer sleep over at a friend’s; nick left faith with the nanny.  nick tells phyllis that sharon got out of town to “clear her head.”  phyllis tells nick that sharon is looking for skye in hawaii.  phyllis asks nick if he’s upset about her article writing since she’s going to keep the kids out of it.  nick says he supports her trying to bury adam 100%: “if sharon ends up being collateral damage, it’s her own fault.”

"how could she clear her head? it's completely empty!"

sharon goes on a volcano hike and runs into skye.  “i’m taking you back to genoa city.”  sharon thinks skye is willing to go back and tell everyone that adam is innocent.  skye makes some sarcastic comment about catching the next flight.  sharon: “fine, i’ll just take a picture to prove i found you.”  skye reaches for the camera and slips into the volcano.  sharon grabs her hand and tells her she can’t die.  but she eventually does fall.  and die, presumably.  luckily sharon doesn’t take skye’s glove with her or anything.  and local law enforcement doesn’t really buy her story: “unless you want me to investigate you for fraud, i suggest you catch the next flight back to wisconsin.”

"i don't want to die!"

daisy wants to raise the baby and thinks daniel would be a wonderful father.  daniel isn’t interested.  partly because he hates kids (he divorced amber because she adopted), partly because she drugged and raped him, and partly because she kidnapped and tortured his friends.  “i’m not that person anymore, daniel!”  then daniel starts listing the precedents for terminating her parental rights.

"if you want to cooperate, we can forget the whole court order."

kevin finds out that jana changed her testimony so that daisy would give kevin the baby.  and he’s pissed.  he confronts daisy about manipulating someone whose head is “messed up.”  he tells daisy that he wants nothing to do with the kid and that he’ll do everything in his power to get that kid far away from daisy.  “if the kid doesn’t know she’s a bad seed, maybe she won’t be.”  if daisy thinks she can manipulate him or anyone else she’s got another thing coming.  “you think you know me — nice, sweet kevin, right?”

"you don't know a thing about me!"

also, kevin tells jana that he’s just going to watch a movie for new years eve.

mon – dec 27 2010

“because i owe it to my readers . . .”

daisy wants to raise her baby with daniel.  it’s true that daniel is only the father because he was drugged and raped by daisy.  it’s also true that daisy is awaiting trial on kidnapping charges.  however, she thinks that once daniel sees those innocent baby eyes, his feelings will change and he’ll want nothing more than to raise the child as his own.  but daniel is one step ahead: he’s already contacted an adoption agency.  “ding dong.”  the adoption agent is already at daniel’s apartment with an important public service announcement:

you know, you can drop a newborn baby off at any fire-station or hospital and they’ll take it, no questions asked.

is that true?

yes.

 

mon — dec 20, 2010

nikki’s earned her 60-day chip.  i don’t know if it counts her time in rehab or not.  but i don’t think it’s been 60 real days, which means it certainly hasn’t been 60 soap opera days.  i mean, a lot of the time it seems like one soap opera day spans 2-4 episodes.  but then other times it’s almost like real time.  for instance, the seasons generally match the seasons in north america; the harvest festival, thanksgiving, valentines, christmas — they all occur the same as the real world.  sometimes when they say last year, they mean one real year ago.  other times when they say last year, it was something i watched in may.  it’s really confusing, but i like it better that way.  deacon and nikki are at crimson lights.  deacon: “you look good… you look like you feel good.”  he mentions that he might be getting his chip soon and says, “it’d be kind of nice if you were there.”  “i’d love to be there.”  “well, it’s not exactly a date, but…”  then he reminds her that they should date, because dating is “not actually one of the 12 steps.”

"6 months -- no dating and definitely no falling into bed together."

nick is at the ranch with diane, one of his father’s ex-wives.  diane is the one who had the robot kid with jack abbott.  it’s funny that her and nick are making it.  but there’s something else funny i just noticed.  so nick is named after his mother nikki, and victoria is named after her father victor.  i mean, neither of these is as funny as michael baldwin and lauren fenmore naming their child fenmore baldwin, but not much is.  there’s some headlights at the ranch.  nick gets up.  it’s victor.  diane sneaks out the back.  victor comes in and knows nick’s been there with someone.  they start talking about all the stuff that’s been happening.  nick tells victor that adam’s been going around town accusing victor of sneaking skye out of town and setting up adam for murder, which is exactly what happened, even though sharon, adam, and us viewers are the only ones that know that.

speaking of adam, he and sharon got video surveillance from the freight elevator of skye hiding behind an umbrella.  sharon thinks he’s basically exonerated, but adam wants to find skye alive.  adam has a new lawyer, leslie michaels.  she’s a shark just like vance abrams, her associate.  she’s also my new favorite character.  i hope she’s on the show forever.  she just got back from the district attorney’s office and tells adam, “in terms of staying out of prison, you just need to provide reasonable doubt.”

"i can't image him pushing forward with a case this weak."

meanwhile jack and phyllis traced adam’s path to the train station and found skye’s bloody clothes, her shoes and her bag in a dumpster.  phyllis wants to call billy, jack wants to call the police.  “what’s more important to you — putting adam away or getting your scoop?”  they end up at the police station and phyllis starts pressuring ronan.  “what are you gonna do?”  “my job.”  “arrest adam?”  “no comment.”  phyllis is disappointed but jack thinks ronan was “doing cartwheels” in his mind.

ronan brings adam in for questioning.

"if you wanna tell me what really happened that night, i'm all ears."

notice that adam’s on the phone.  he just told sharon he’s at the police station.  “did you call leslie?”  “she’s on her way.”  but that can’t possibly be true, since 5 minutes later she’s in the background at glow-worm, still looking at a menu.

i guess she’s not too concerned that adam is at the station.  but she should be concerned.  because ronan is reading adam his rights.

"you're under arrest for the murder of skye lockhart newman. you have the right to remain silent. anything you say...."

meanwhile, nikki gives victor a christmas tree: “now at least it doesn’t look like ebenezer scrooge lives here.”  but this is just some foreshadowing for the christmas carol episode coming up sometime this week.  stay tuned.

wed – dec 8 2010

billy is going to grab a shower . . . or maybe not. uh oh.  victoria is preggers . . . or at least she has morning-sickness.  but is it gonna be billy’s?
(probably, is my guess.)

scrambled eggs for daisy.  the father: “nice, just like a spa.”  but the prison food was leading to higher levels of toxicity in the fetus.  thank god they have her on an “organic” diet now.

phyllis shows billy her idea for a cover photo that’ll take down sharon.  “there gonna be a lot of blowback because of this.”  but . . . they didnt even show the cover.  maybe they’re
saving it for later.  i mean, it’s on the way to the printer (meaning they can print from a mobile computer to the printer in the office.  amazing, just like those commercials i’ve seen.)

now we’re at a christmas tree lot.  and there’s a payphone? i thought payphones were extinct.  the payphone is used to call the division of child protective services; reporting on chloe for forcing her daughter be in christmas-related fashion photos.

a second telephone booth?  what is going on?  but the ganster/alternative-energy-consultant uses his cellphone instead.

 

back to billy and victoria:

“i’m not pregnant.  i have a bug.”
“are you sure?”
“i got my . . .”
“i see.”

you can’t say period on tv?