Episode 1309

 

Can Touch My Heart
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: June 28, 2026

Episode Theme song: "I Still Believe" Mariah Carey

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Robbie pleaded with Kim to find out if Tyler knew the truth about Bobby
- Cheresa was arrested for killing Tara
- Robin got a mysterious package from Melissa
- Frederick shocked Latrice, Andrew, & Daisy by revealing that Latrice is Daisy's daughter!
- Ethan saw a close moment between Max & Abby
- Victoria told Bryce that she would marry Jeff no matter what
- Eva and Dominick sparred over the Victoria/Leah feud

The Riverbench Winery; Santa Barbara

The words come out of Frederick's mouth but Daisy just feels like the room is starting to spin. She keeps hearing his words in slow motion but she is having a difficult time understanding what her father is telling her. The previous night, she, along with Latrice and Andrew, were shocked when Frederick showed up at the winery. He claimed that it was time everyone knew the truth about Latrice, so they pressed him for details. Frederick just revealed that Latrice is Daisy's daughter, something that Daisy doesn't understand.

"I…I don't feel so well," Daisy admits to everyone as Andrew moves up to her and puts his arm around her neck.

"Are you okay?" Andrew asks her out of concern as he moves her to the sofa where they sit next to one another.

"I tried to warn you that what I had to say was shocking," Frederick explains to everyone as he moves to the bar and pours a glass of water. He takes the water over to Daisy, who takes a sip of it.

"I…I don't understand," Latrice finally says something. "Daisy…she's my…mother? How is that possible? How is any of this possible?"

"That's what I'd like to know," Daisy looks back at her father. "What the hell are you saying, Frederick?"

 
 

Robin's Townhouse

There's a thick tension in the living room of Robin's townhouse as moments earlier, a package was delivered to her. When she looked at whom the package was from, it was revealed to be from her mother, Melissa. Both Robin and Cory know that Melissa has never supported their relationship, and in the past, she has gone to great lengths to keep them apart. With their wedding coming up soon, they are now left wondering what Melissa could have possible have sent them.

"You know," Cory finally breaks the silence in the room. "You don't have to open the parcel. We could just pretend your mother never sent you anything."

"Do you really think that she is trying to stop the wedding?" Robin asks him in concern. "She's not back in town, so I am not sure that is her motive."

"What is her motive, then?" Cory shrugs his shoulders back to her. "You know that she has never wanted us to be together, and we are together, finally, Robin. I'm…I'm scared that this is another tactic to keep us apart."

Robin sighs back to him. "I know you're right," she tells him. "She has been against you and me being together and she did everything in her power to split up Nicholas and Andy."

"And she succeeded in that," Cory reminds her. "Andy and Nicholas have broken up, and now, Andy is drinking again."

"I am curious about what is in here though," Robin looks back at the package. "I'm..I'm going to open it. And then we can see what my mother wants."

"Okay, I will trust your judgement."

Robin opens the package and gasps back to Cory. "It's…it's a card," Robin tells him as she opens the envelope. "To my dearest daughter, congratulations on your wedding. I hope it's everything you ever dreamt of. Your darling mother, xx"

"Wow," Cory shakes his head in disbelief. "Melissa wishing us well? Has hell frozen over?"

Robin chuckles as she stands up from the sofa and hugs her fiance. "See, that proves it, we are really going to be husband and wife this time, Cory. Not even my mother can stop us from being together."

Dominick's Townhouse

Felicia moves up to the bar in the living room of Dominick's townhouse and pours herself a cup of tea. She takes a sip of it as she wonders where Frederick could have disappeared too; she knows that the longer he is away, the less likely chance there is that he will sign the divorce papers that Ethan drew up for her, and the thing she wants most in the world is for her marriage to be over once and for all.

"I am pretty confident I know what you're thinking about," a voice calls from behind her. Felicia turns around and sees Dominick coming into the living room. "Frederick and his whereabouts?"

"You know me so well," Felicia purses her lips back to her former husband. "I am worried that this is a way for him to stale the divorce proceedings."

"I am pretty sure that there is a legal loophole that we can get from Ethan," Dominick suggests to her. "If someone wants out of a marriage, the other person can't hold them hostage."

"I never thought of that," Felicia admits to him. "See, this is why I need you in my life, Dominick. You always know the right thing to say to make me feel better."

"And I'm not going anywhere," Dominick pulls her into a hug. "I will always be in your corner, Felicia."

At the entrance way of the living room, Eva gulps heavily at the sight of Dominick holding Felicia. She can't help but wonder if Felicia will, once again, come between her and Dominick now that they are in a good place in their relationship, especially once her divorce from Frederick is finalized.

The Tower's; Floor Eight; Victoria & Jeff's Condo

Victoria sits on the sofa in her condo that she lives in with Jeff with her phone screen open. She is looking at the calendar app and is counting days. While she is doing that, she thinks about her conversation with Bryce earlier in the day, when he told her that being with his father was a mistake. Deep down, she doesn't care what Bryce, or anyone, thinks about her relationship with Jeff because she is in love with him. Neither she, or Jeff, planned for their relationship to happen, but she can't deny that she hasn't felt this good about a man in a very long time, if ever. She won't allow Bryce, or Leah, to come between them.

She arches her eyebrow when she looks at the calendar again. "Well, that confirms it. I should have had my period three days ago," she whispers to herself. "I am not usually late."

She puts her hand on her stomach for a moment and thinks back to the many times she and Jeff have had sex over the last few months. She gasps to herself. "Could it be that I'm pregnant?" she asks herself. "Could I actually be having Jeff's baby?"

Robertson Enterprises

"This is a sight for sore eyes," Bryce chuckles as he moves into Leah's office at Robertson Enterprises and sees his mother behind her desk. After months of being out of the company, Tyler rehired his sister after Victoria was fired for admitting to framing Leah for the missing funds. In Bryce's mind, seeing his mother back at the family company is a full circle moment. "You are back where you belong."

"That I am," Leah smiles back to him as she stands up and gives her son a quick hug. "I couldn't have done this without your help, Bryce."

"I know kidnapping Jeff was extreme," Bryce chuckles back to her. "But it worked; he got Victoria to admit what she did, and now, she is without a job."

"She is exactly where she belongs."

"I ran into her earlier," Bryce reveals to her as Leah arches her eyebrow back to him. "She told me that no one will stop her from marrying Jeff."

"She told me the same thing," Leah shakes her head back to him. "I don't know what we can do to stop the wedding."

"There's nothing you can do to stop the wedding," Jeff announces as he moves into the office, having overheard the conversation. He hates that his former wife and son are plotting to break up and Victoria up. He wants to marry Victoria more than anything else in the world, so he just wishes that they would be supportive. "Victoria and I will be married and that is final."

"Dad, we didn't see you come in," Bryce gulps back to him.

"That's obvious," Jeff uneasily smiles back to him. "You two need to drop this before it gets out of hand. And Leah, you should look in the mirror about how you're conducting yourself. Not only are you against my wedding to Victoria, but you're against Ethan marrying Abby. This is becoming normal for you!"

Leah shakes her head back to him in shock. "I..I just want what is best for my family, surely you can understand that!"

"Understand this, stay out of my relationship," Jeff warns her. "Or you will not have a relationship with me moving forward. I hope I've made myself clear?"

The Lawson Estate; Cheresa, Abby, Ethan, & Georgina's Home

Dawn paces back and forth in the living room of the Lawson estate as her mind is racing over the fact that Simona found a black garbage bag in Cheresa's bedroom; inside the bag, there were black clothing and a baseball bat, all of which had blood on them. Simona ran a test and confirmed that it was Tara's blood, so Cheresa was arrested for her murder. Dawn, however, knows that her girlfriend couldn't have murdered Tara; she knows Cheresa well enough to know that she couldn't have taken another life.

"I wish Greg would hurry up with the phone call to the police," Dawn finally says something as she looks at Chris, Trenyce, Adam, and Helen, all of whom are still at the mansion. "We need to know what we can do to help Cheresa."

"I am sure that once Simona has the opportunity to question Cheresa, she will realize that this is all a big mistake," Trenyce tells Dawn. "We all know that Cheresa isn't capable of murder."

"We can agree on that," Adam nods to the group. "But the fact is, the black garbage bag being found in Cheresa's room is not looking good."

"Who could have put that bag in Cheresa's room?" Helen asks next. "I mean, we've been staying here for weeks, and I didn't get the impression that anyone broke into the mansion?"

"We will have to figure that piece out," Chris chimes in. "We have to prove that my girl is innocent in all of this."

Before anyone can say anything else, Greg returns to the room with a grim look on his face. "Greg, what….what did the police say?" Dawn asks him quickly.

"Not much," he sighs back to Dawn. "Just that Simona was questioning Cheresa, and because the charges are murder, she likely won't get bail."

"No, this is insane!" Dawn shrieks back to everyone as Helen moves up to her and puts her arm around her daughter. "Cheresa just helped me come back, so I have to do the same for her. I…I have to prove that Cheresa didn't kill Tara!"

Twin Peaks Police Station

Cheresa sits in a chair across from Simona in the detective's office at the police station. She is still handcuffed and she can feel her wrists becoming sore from the metal digging into her. She still has no idea how the black garbage bag with the bloody contents ended up in her bedroom, but she knows that someone must be setting her up for the murder.

"You and Tara had a long, heated history, isn't that correct?" Simona asks her as she looks up from the note pad that she is making notes on.

"Yes, everyone knows that," Cheresa looks back at the detective. "You know that Tara kidnapped me and held me hostage for weeks. And you know that Tara brainwashed Dawn last year; she is the reason that Dawn was acting crazy."

"Would it be fair to say that you wanted Tara removed from your life?"

"That doesn't mean that I killed her!" Cheresa shrieks back to her. "Simona, you and I, we worked so well on trying to help Dawn last year, do you really think that I killed Tara?"

"What I know, Cheresa, is that a woman is dead, and you had motive, opportunity, and there was evidence found in your bedroom," Simona reminds her. "I have to follow the evidence."

"This is all wrong," Cheresa protests to her. "I…I can't explain how the contents of the black garbage bag ended up in my room, but I didn't kill Tara!"

"But you did want her out of your life?"

"Yes!" Cheresa says back to her. "Of course, I did! I hated that woman for all the hell she caused!"

"That's what I thought," Simona purses her lips together as Cheresa groans, realizing that she just dug herself in deeper. "My next question is…"

"No," Cheresa cuts her off as they lock eyes with one another. "I'm not answering another question until I have a lawyer present."

The One Day House; Second Level Offices

Ethan sits behind his desk in his office as he looks over some of his pending cases that he has. His mind, however, is struggling to focus on his cases because he saw Max and Abby at the coffeehouse earlier in the day. They appeared to be in a heated conversation, which included them grabbing hands at one point. He has no idea what they were talking about, but he can't help but recall how Max was cold to him at Dawn's homecoming party. He can't place it, but he senses that something is going on with his fiance and the father of her oldest son.

"I hope I'm not interrupting," Abby announces as she opens the door to his office and moves inside. Ethan looks up and is pleased to see her because he can try to get to the bottom of what he witnessed. "We need to talk."

"Yes, I think we do," Ethan stands up and moves up to her to greet her. "I think we need to get everything out on the table, once and for all."

Abby arches her eyebrow. "What are you talking about? I am honest with you, about everything, Ethan."

"Alright," Ethan nods back to her. "Well, then, tell me, what were you and Max talking about earlier at the coffeehouse?"

"Me and Max?" Abby asks him in surprise.

"That's right," Ethan nods back to her. "I saw you two in the booth talking and it looked intense."

"Oh," Abby gulps back to him. "Well, uh, for starters, Olly had a difficult morning. Max was filling me in on that. And then I got news. Which is why I'm here too."

"News? What kind of news?" Ethan asks her, believing her story about Olly.

"It's…it's Cheresa," Abby tells him quickly. "She's been arrested for murder. Oh Ethan, I'm so worried about my sister."

"Murder? Cheresa?" Ethan shakes his head in shock. "There's no way she killed anyone."

"I know that, you know that, but we have to make the police realize that," Abby explains to him. "That's where you come in; can you, would you help Cheresa? Could you be her lawyer?"

"Of course," Ethan smiles back to her, suddenly feeling bad that he was doubting Abby's trust. "I'll do anything I can to help Cheresa."

Tyler's Townhouse

Kim sits on the sofa of the home she lives in with Tyler with a cup of coffee in her hand. She is trying to figure out a way to discover if Tyler knew the truth about Bobby, the way Madeline suggested to her. She knows that Tyler will not just tell her the truth, so she has to figure out a way to learn the truth because she realizes that if Tyler knew the truth, and kept it from her, it would change their relationship, and marriage, forever.

"You look a million miles away," Tyler chuckles as he moves into the living room with a white towel wrapped around his waist as he just finished his shower. His toned chest still has some beads of water on it, allowing him to glisten in the light. "What are you thinking about?"

Kim gulps back to him knowing that she has to lie to him, which she hates. "I was thinking about Bobby," she admits to him. "I hate that I just got my son back and I can't be with him. Robbie made a suggestion."

"What did Robbie suggest?" Tyler asks her almost afraid to know.

"That we move into the Calimo mansion," Kim stuns him. "That way, I could be close to my son at all times."

"Do you really think that us moving into the mansion is the best idea? You know my history with Robbie," Tyler sits next to her.

"Can't we just put that aside right now?" Kim asks him quickly. "I want to be with Bobby more than anything else in the world."

"How about I think about it?" Tyler asks her as she nods back to him. "In the meantime, I could use my wife," he says as he moves up and tries to kiss her but she pushes away. "Kim? Is…is everything okay?"

"I…I just think I'm coming down with something," she lies again. "I don't want to get you sick if I am getting a bug."

"Okay, that's fair," Tyler stands up. "I do love you, Kim. Never forget that."

"I'll try," she purses her lips together, still wondering how she can find out the truth about Tyler.

The Riverbench Winery; Santa Barbara

Frederick takes another sip of his scotch as he feels himself getting heated from all the questions coming from Andrew, Latrice, and Daisy. He can understand, however, why they are all in shock by his revelation that Latrice is Daisy's daughter. He just has to ensure he has time to explain how this all came about.

"Please start talking," Daisy presses her father. "How is this even possible?"

"I'd like to know the same thing," Latrice gulps as she looks at Daisy. She studies the woman for a moment to see if she can see anything that resembles herself; if she does, she believes that she could make sense of what Frederick has told her.

"Like I said, it is a long story," Frederick finally says something back to them. "But it is the truth. Latrice is your daughter, Daisy. You're a mother…you have a beautiful daughter."

The words hit Daisy like a ton of bricks again. She feels her head spinning as she looks at Frederick and then over at Latrice. Then it happens. Daisy's body collapses under and she faints to the ground!

"Daisy!" Andrew rushes over to her as he rolls her over and sees that she is unconscious. "Daisy! Can you hear me? Daisy?!"

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