Episode 1106
 

It's Drowning Me Out
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: October 16, 2024

Episode Theme song: "River" Mylie Cyrus

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Robin refused to help Gordy break up Cory & Penny
- Dominick dumped Abby after her affair with Ethan was exposed by Paige at their wedding
- Ethan agreed to help Leah with the missing funds at Robertson Enterprises
- Cheresa and Chantel kissed after she admitted she was having more dreams of Olly
- Lukas told Sergio he kissed Donovan
- Eva and Will made love
- Natasha told Cassie to keep Max away from Sophie, unaware he asked her daughter out on a date

Twin Peaks Executive Hotel

Dominick steps off the elevator at the luxurious hotel that is in Twin Peaks and he starts to walk down the long hallway. His mind is racing over the fact that the previous day at his wedding to Abby, Paige revealed that Abby and Ethan had slept together weeks earlier. He can't believe that he was so close to marrying a woman that was betraying him, with his grandson, of all people.

"I don't even know why I'm here today," he whispers to himself as he moves down the hallway, getting closer to a hotel room door. "I made my choice loud and clear to everyone; I wanted to marry Abby, and pushed anyone who told me otherwise, away."

He pauses when he gets to a suite and takes a deep breath. He is about to knock on the door when he hears laughter coming from inside the room. He moves his head closer to the door, where he can hear Eva's voice inside.

"Oh Will, come back to bed," she calls out to her lover. "I need you to make love to me all morning."

Dominick moves away from the door, startled by what he just heard. He had arrived to see Eva today, not sure of what he was going to say to her, but now, he can tell that she has moved on with Will.

"I don't know what I was thinking," he sighs to himself. "Of course, she has moved on. Of course, she has."

The Lawson Estate; Cheresa's Home

"Thanks for letting me come back here," Chantel tells Cheresa, who is pouring two glasses of white wine at the bar, as she sits on sofa. Chantel has been suffering from dreams of giving birth to Olly, only when Bryce takes the baby away from her, he isn't crying. She hasn't been able to stop thinking about what this could mean, but she hasn't been able to think about much else.

"Of course," Cheresa turns around and brings Chantel a glass of the wine. "Here, this might calm you down."

"Thanks," Chantel takes a sip of it while Cheresa sits next to her. "And about yesterday, I'm sorry."

Cheresa sets her glass of wine down on the table and looks back at Chantel as she recalls how they admitted that they thought one another were beautiful and then they kissed. Cheresa hasn't been able to think about anything other than the kiss, but she knows that she is still in a long-distance relationship with Dawn.

"No, I should apologize to you," Cheresa looks back at her. "I am the one in a relationship, not you."

"Have you spoken to Dawn about the kiss?"

"No, I haven't," Cheresa admits to her. "I'm not sure I will."

"Why not?" Chantel asks her quickly.

"Becaues, I liked it," Cheresa admits to her. "And I haven't been able to stop thinking about."

"Really?" Chantel locks eyes with her. "I am in the same boat, Cheresa. It was really great."

They look into one another's eyes again before Chantel leans in and kisses her again. Their lips part for a moment before Cheresa kisses her again, this time with more passion. Chantel starts to unbutton Cheresa's blouse before they look at one another again.

"Are you sure?" Chantel asks Cheresa who nods back to her before she takes off her blouse and then kisses Chantel again, this time crawling on top of her new-found lover.

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"That was some wedding yesterday," Penny tells Cory as they sit across from one another in the restaurant as she recalls the interrupted wedding.

"If you're going to be in Twin Peaks for a while, you better get used to wedding's not always working out the way you think," Cory chuckles back to her. "We've had some doozies in this city."

"Really? Like what has happened?" a curious Penny asks him.

"Where do I begin?" Cory replies to her. "At one wedding, a chandelier fell on top of Natasha, and she was in the hospital for weeks after; at another wedding, Natasha wanted to stop her brother from getting married, so she thought if she scared them with a gun, she could get through to him, only Sophie replaced the blanks with real bullets and Natasha shot Kim."

"My God," Penny gasps back to her. "You weren't lying about things getting crazy around here!"

"But don't worry, the next wedding, I'm sure it will go off smoothly."

"From your lips to God's ears," she chuckles back to him.

At the bar, Gordy turns and sees Penny and Cory having a good time together and he starts to feel his blood boil. He still can't believe that she left him for Cory.

"I will get you back Penny," he whispers to himself. "Even if it's the last thing I do."

***


At another table, Lukas and Donovan are sitting across from one another with lunches in front of them. While they are still estranged, Donovan agreed to meet with Lukas because the previous day, Lukas informed him about the dreams that Chantel has been having about Olly. Together, Lukas hopes that they can try to figure out why, after all this time, Chantel is dreaming about their little boy.

Donovan takes a bite of his cheeseburger before he looks back at Lukas. "Have you heard from Chantel since you saw her on the pier?"

"Nope," Lukas replies to him as he takes a bit of his French fries. "But that's not a bad thing. It could mean that her dreams have stopped?"

"I mean, yea, maybe?" Donovan nods back to him. "I'd love nothing more than to know she isn't hung up on our son."

"I still think this stems from the fact that she saw Olly at the hospital the night of the masquerade ball," Lukas tells him. "She hadn't seen or heard from Olly in all these years; it might just be a trigger for her, you know?"

"I think that too," Donovan admits to him. "I am just grateful that our adoption was finalized all those years ago. It scares me to think that, maybe, she is having second thoughts or something."

Lukas reaches over and grabs Donovan's hand and squeezes it. "Don't worry, no one is going to take our little boy from us, Donovan. We are his parents, and we always will be."

Donovan smiles back at him and then looks at their hands touching. While he hasn't admitted it, Donovan knows that Lukas does have a soft side, and it is his best side, in his opinion.

At the entry way of the restaurant, Sergio stands frozen at the sight of Donovan holding hands with Lukas. He gulps heavily and feels his heart move into his throat before he turns around and rushes away.

***

At the table in the far back corner of the restaurant, a nervous Sophie sits across from Max as they are currently engaged in their first date. Sophie can't believe that Max, finally, asked her out; the last time she admitted that she had feelings for him, he revealed that they could just be friends, which lead to Sophie getting drunk, and then she was shot in Maui. That all seems like a lifetime ago now, however.

"You're quiet, are you having a good time?" Max asks her as he takes a sip of his beer and looks back at his date.

"I am," Sophie nods to him. "Sorry, I, I guess I am just nervous."

"You don't need to be nervous, it's just me," he winks back at her. "Besides, I am the one with the beautiful woman, I should be nervous."

Sophie feels her cheeks flush at this compliment. "You're too sweet," she giggles back to him. "And for the record, I am having a wonderful time. I always do when I'm with you."

"Right back at ya," he winks at her. "I think this could be the start of a great thing, Sophie."

"Me too," she purses her lips back to him.

Roboto

Cassie steps off the elevator at Roboto and makes a beeline towards the main office. She is there on a mission today, and it is something that she never thought that she would be doing, but she must see Natasha because it is serious for both of them. She opens the door to the office and sees her rival sitting behind the desk.

"We need to talk," she announces as she slams the door behind herself and moves towards the sofa where she drops her purse.

"Cassie," Natasha stands up from behind her desk and crosses her arms over her chest. "In case you have forgotten, this is a place of business; you can't just barge into my office and demand that we speak."

"It is about Max and Sophie," Cassie rolls her eyes back to her. "You … you were right."

"I beg your pardon?" Natasha gets a sly grin on her face. "I was, right?"

"Yes," Cassie hisses back at her. "Our children, they shouldn't be together. We can agree on that."

"I think hell just froze over," Natasha chuckles to her. "But I'm glad that you are on the same page as me, Cassie. Because my daughter doesn't need to be anywhere near your son."

"The question becomes, how are we are going to keep them apart Natasha? What can we do to ensure our children stay as far away from each other as possible?" Cassie asks her rival as they lock eyes.

The Victors Mansion; Frederick's Lair

"Part of me is sorry that I missed the wedding," Frederick chuckles as he pours two scotches at the bar in the Victors mansion before he turns and passes on to Bryce, who just filled him in on the interrupted wedding the previous day. "Seeing Dominick learn that he can't satisfy his wife would have brought me great joy."

Bryce uneasily chuckles back to him before he takes a sip of it. "You and Dominick, you really hate one another, don't you?"

"That man has been a thorn in my side for decades," Frederick admits to him. "He hates that Felicia and I have a connection, Bryce. That's why it is so important for you to marry us before we can reveal that we are alive."

"I know," Bryce sighs back to him. "I…I just feel torn between all of this. Dominick, Leah, Tyler….they are my family too. They would not approve of this, I know they wouldn't."

"It's time you realize that I am the only one that really cares about you Bryce," Frederick sternly tells him. "I have raised you to carry on the family name the way I want you too, Bryce. You are the younger version of me."

"I know that's what you believe."

"The next time you come here, you will marry Felicia and I, and that's final," Frederick looks back at him with intent.

Robertson Enterprises

"Have you heard from Ethan today?" Jeff asks Leah as he moves into her office at Robertson Enterprises. He can't help but think about the previous day when Paige revealed to everyone that Ethan slept with Abby; this information caused her wedding to Dominick to be cancelled. Leah and Jeff both know that Dominick was gutted to learn that his grandson slept with his fiancé; they have no idea how their family will ever get back on track now.

"No," Leah looks up at him quickly. "But I am expecting too."

"Really? Why? I would have thought that after yesterday, he would hide out for a while," Jeff says back to her. "It can't be easy telling everyone that you slept with a woman about to marry your grandfather."

"I warned him about getting involved with Abby," Leah sighs back to him. "I wish he would have listened to me."

"Abby has a lot of appeal," Jeff tells her. "I can see why Ethan was drawn too her, especially after the truth about his connection to Paige came out and they had to get an annulment."

"This family has been put through one disaster after another."

"You're talking about the missing funds from Robertson Enterprises, aren't you?" Jeff asks her.

"How could I not be?" Leah admits to him. "I still think Victoria is setting me up, I just have to prove it. And that's actually why I am expecting to hear from Ethan today; he agreed to be my legal representation."

"Do you think it will get to that point?"

"I have no idea," Leah locks eyes with Jeff. "But I will be ready if it does get to that point. And maybe by helping me, it will put Ethan back on the right track in his life."

One Day House

Paige slowly moves towards Ethan's office, which is located on the second floor of the One Day House. He has been renting the office since he set up his practice in Twin Peaks; he still prefers to be an independent lawyer instead of working for one of the larger legal firms. Paige isn't even sure if she should be there, but after she exposed Ethan's affair with Abby at the wedding, she wanted to see how he was doing.

She knocks on the office door and waits to hear a faint 'come in', before she opens the door and sees Ethan sitting behind his desk.

"I know I am probably the last person you want to see today," she says as she moves into the office, and Ethan stands up from his chair. "But I wanted to see how you're doing. I know yesterday must have been hard."

"It was one of the worst days of my life," Ethan admits to her. "I know that Dominick needed to know the truth, but it was horrible seeing his reaction to finding out about me and Abby."

"I feel awful about this," Paige tells him. "I really felt like I was between a rock and a hard place."

"You only did what you thought was right. Do you know what happened with Dominick and Abby when they spoke?"

"I have no idea," she replies to him. "But I can't imagine that they have a relationship left. It's one thing for someone to cheat, but the lying about it for months is what hurts the most."

"Yea, doing the right thing isn't always a good feeling."

"Hey, I know it was hard for you to tell the truth, but you did do the right thing. Dominick, he will get over this, he will forgive you one day."

"You really think so?" Ethan asks her.

"He is a very loving man," Paige tells him. "He's hurt now, but you're his family. He will find a way to forgive you. But I do have some advice for you."

"What's that?" Ethan nervously asks her.

"Stay as far away from Abby as possible," she tells him quickly. "You will not make amends with your family if you're still drawn to Abby. She is a poison; you have to stay away from Abby, Ethan. Tell me you can do that?"

Dominick's Townhouse

Dominick moves to the bar in the living room of his townhouse and pours himself a gin and tonic. He takes a sip of it as his mind races about realizing that Eva is sleeping with Will again. He doesn't know the full reason as to why he wanted to see her today, but he has to realize that she has moved on with her life.

"Oh, you're back," Abby's voice says from behind Dominick, who turns to face her. "Where did you go? I…I was hoping that we could talk this morning."

"Talk?" Dominick chuckles back to her. "What the hell do you want to talk about now?"

"Us," Abby says as she moves closer to him. "I didn't like how we left things at the church yesterday."

"There is no us, Abigail," Dominick spits back at her. "I told you yesterday that we are over, and I mean it. We have nothing left to say to one another."

"I love you Dominick, that hasn't changed," Abby pleads with him. "I made a mistake, I know that, please, please tell me that you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

"I want you to do something for me," Dominick looks at her with intent.

"What? I'll do anything."

"Pack your bags and get the hell out of my house," Dominick glares at her. "I never want to see you here again! We are over, Abigail! How's that for your talk?"

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- Andrew visits Daisy in jail

 
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