Episode 1177

 

Damned for Eternity
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: May 21, 2025

Episode Theme song: "This Hell" Rina Sawayama

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Will admitted to Paige that he came face to face with Eva and it brought up some old feelings for him
- Will told Dominick that Felicia is alive
- Shane confronted Natasha about where she went on her business trip, knowing that she went to Detroit
- Tyler asked Clayton if he had heard from Madeline
- Albertinah's DNA test proved that Chris is her father
- Andy and Nicholas agreed to get married

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

Andy and Nicholas sit at a table in the far back corner of the restaurant with their dinner plates empty and pushed to the side of the table. They are huddled close together looking at Andy's phone screen, which has different wedding options for flowers on the screen. After the truth about Clayton was revealed, they all agreed to still move on with their lives, which means that the men want to get married, which they are thrilled about. The last thing that they wanted to have happen was let the truth about Clayton actually being a Wilkins come between them - again.

"I don't know," Nicholas sighs back to him. "There are so many options, Andy. How are we going to choose?"

Andy chuckles back to him. "I have no idea," he admits to him. "I guess we have to hammer down a theme and that might make it easier?"

"I suppose that is a good point," Nicholas replies to him. "Honestly, I don't think it matters what kind of flowers we have, I am just so happy and grateful that we are going to be married. After everything we have been through, I think we deserve this."

Andy leans in and kisses Nicholas on the lips. "I couldn't agree more," he smiles back to him. "For once, I don't feel like there is a dark cloud hanging over us, Nicholas. Nothing, and no one, will stop us from being husbands this time."

The Tower's; Floor Three; Madeline's Condo

Clayton moves to the small bar that is in the living room of Madeline's condo and pours himself a gin and tonic. He is staying at the condo while Madeline is out of town because he has always had a spare key and he doesn't think that she would mind. As he takes a sip of his drink, he can't help but running into Tyler earlier at the Pink Flamingo; Tyler asked him if he had heard from his sister, and he told Tyler that he hadn't. Clayton does think that it is odd that Madeline has, seemingly, disappeared. He has no idea what would have caused his sister to just leave town without word, especially after she saved Kim from the car accident in the snowstorm weeks earlier.

"Something isn't adding up here," Clayton whispers to himself as he moves to the small mantel and picks up a picture of Madeline and Reese from years earlier. "Why would you leave town and not tell anyone until after the fact? What happened the night of the storm that caused you rush away?"

He sets the picture back down and takes another sip of his gin and tonic. He sets his glass down before he moves to grab his phone. He finds himself dialing Madeline's number.

"Voicemail," he whispers as he hears the voice recording. "Hey Maddie, it's Clayton…I'm just checking on you and hope that all is okay. Please give me a call and so we can connect, okay?"

He hangs up the phone with a loud sigh. "I hope you talk to me Madeline," he tells himself. "Because I sense that something is wrong, very wrong."

Robertson Enterprises

Tyler sits on the sofa in the main office of Robertson Enterprises, still nursing the scotch that he poured earlier. He made the drink after he reviewed the most recent security report that indicates that all the evidence, still, points to Leah being the one that moved the money from the offshore account months earlier. He knows that his sister will not like the latest developments because she has it in her mind that Victoria is the mastermind behind the missing funds, but without proof, there is little that Tyler can do.

His mind, however, is on Madeline and the fact that she left town without any reasoning to anyone. He met with Clayton earlier, randomly, and asked him if he had heard from Madeline. When Clayton said no, the wheels in Tyler's head started to turn, wondering what could have set Madeline off that made her leave town. She was hellbent on breaking up Kim and Robbie's marriage, and had enlisted his help to do so. Because Tyler realized that he still has feelings for Kim, he agreed to help her. Soon, she was telling him that she had a way to break them up, so it doesn't make sense to Tyler that she just left town after the snowstorm.

"You are in a car accident with Kim, and you saved her life," Tyler takes a sip of his drink. "And then you disappear. Something doesn't add up here, why would you leave town? You could have used that hero card to your favor with Robbie," he tells himself. "So what happened Madeline that forced you to leave?"

He looks at his phone and can see that he has no new messages, emails, or phone calls, meaning that Madeline still has reached out to him. "And you're clearly off the grid," he puts his phone back down. "You have replied to any of my messages, but I need to know what happened. I need to know if you still want Robbie back, because I sure as hell want Kim back."

"How can I find you?" he asks himself before he takes another sip of his drink. "Maybe I should hire a PI to find you?" he suggests as he arches his eyebrow. "Would someone else track you down and help me understand what the hell happened?"

The Calimo Mansion

"Are you going to answer me, Nat?" Shane asks his fiancé as they stand in the foyer of the Calimo mansion. Natasha just returned home from her business trip, which Shane knows is a lie because of what Sophie told him, and he asked her where she went. He knows that she went to Detroit, his home town, and he wants to know why she went there. He needs her to understand that his past needs to stay there - in the past. "Where was this business trip?"

"I just met with some possible new vendors for some of Roboto's products," Natasha explains to him as she moves into the living room and makes a beeline for the bar. "I'd love a drink, a hot bath, and to go to bed. It's been a long day."

"I see," Shane follows her into the living room and sees her pour a glass of red wine. "These vendors, did they happen to be in Detroit?"

Natasha looks up at him in surprise. "Detroit? Why would ask me that?"

"Oh God," Shane groans back to her. "Just save it, Natasha! I know, I know that you went to Detroit! Sophie told me as she found out through the pilot's schedule at Roboto. So, tell me, why did you go to my hometown? What were you looking for? And why the hell are you lying to me about it?

The Sugarbowl

"Let me get this straight," a stunned Paige looks back at Will as they continue to sit across from one another in the back booth of the coffeehouse. Paige and Will saw one another at the hospital earlier, where Cheresa confirmed that Paige is pregnant; they came to the coffeehouse to talk, but Will just revealed that he recently saw Eva and it brought up a lot of old feelings for him. Paige knew that Will was struggling to get over his feelings for Eva, but she didn't expect him to see her, once, and have a set back like this. "You see Eva and suddenly you realize all these feelings still exist? So, our time together has meant, what? Nothing at all?"

"No, it's not like that," Will shakes his head back to her quickly. "While I did see Eva, and it did bring up a lot for me, it also made me realize that we are in very different places right now," he explains to her, remembering how after he and Eva had sex, she, still, admitted to wanting to be with Dominick. Frustrated that Eva used him, again, Will threw her out and ended up telling Dominick that Felicia is alive and well.

"Isn't that great," Paige rolls her eyes back to him. "I don't know Will, this seems like what you were warning me about from the beginning. And, it seems like this is the exact same thing that you went through with Madeline after you believed Eva was dead."

"What are you saying?" Will asks her quickly.

"I'm saying, you are so invested in Eva that you really can't be with anyone else because all of us other women, me, Madeline, we can never live up to your precious Eva, even though she is married to my grandfather!"

"I don't want this to come between us," Will tells her. "Like I said, it made me realize that Eva and I, we are in different places right now, Paige."

Paige chuckles back to him. "Until when? Eva and Dominick get into a fight? Or, God forbid, breakup? Then what? What would happen if Eva walked in that door right now and told you she wanted to be with you?" Paige asks him as Will gulps heavily. "Yea, exactly. I'm getting out of here, see you around Will."

"Paige, wait…" Will says as Paige rushes out of the coffeehouse, leaving him alone.

Outside, Paige leans up against the bricks of the coffeehouse and sighs heavily. "He can't know about this baby, not now, not ever."

Dominick's Townhouse

"How are Abby and the baby?" Eva asks Dominick, who moves back into the living room of the townhouse that he shares with Eva. They had been talking earlier when Dominick got a call from Leah informing him that Abby was at the hospital as went into labour. Eva understood why Dominick rushed away, but she felt like she was about to get to the bottom of what was troubling him.

"She ended up having a c-section but both are fine," Dominick replies to her as he moves to make himself a drink. "Abby is still sleeping, but Ethan and Leah are there. I came home because there is nothing else I could do tonight."

"And the baby?"

"She healthy," Dominick turns to her with a smile on his face. "I have a great granddaughter."

"Congratulations," Eva comes up to him and hugs him. "You must be over the moon."

"I am just glad everyone is healthy," Dominick nods back to her. "That's all that matters."

"I couldn't agree more," Eva says back to him. "Now that we know everything is fine on that front, maybe we can finish our conversation from earlier?" she asks him, as they lock eyes. "You were about to tell me what was on your mind."

Dominick arches his eyebrow back to her as he recalls Will telling him that Felicia is alive; he has no idea if it is true, or how he would prove it, but it if is correct, he knows that his family will rejoice and celebrate her return.

"I…I had an interesting visitor earlier," Dominick starts to tell her. "Will stopped by."

Eva gulps heavily as she wonders if Will, who was furious with her for telling him that she wanted to stay with Dominick after they made love, revealed the fact that they had sex with one another. "Oh he was? That is curious. What did he want?"

"He laid something on me that I am struggling to understand," Dominick continues to tell her. "He told me that Felicia is alive."

"What?" Eva gasps in shock, stunned that Will actually told Dominick the truth about his former wife being alive and well. "He actually said that?"

"He did," Dominick nods back to her. "You're close to Will, Eva. Is this true? Is my ex-wife, the mother of my children, alive? Is Felicia still breathing the same air we are?"

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Daisy opens the door to the cafeteria and immediately sees Andrew sitting in the corner with a cup of coffee in front of him. Moments earlier, they, along with Trenyce and Chris, learned that Chris, not Andrew, is Albertinah's biological father. Devastated that he lost Albertinah, and Sonny, in the same evening, Andrew rushed out of the room, which caused Daisy to rush after him.

"Hey, can I sit with you?" Daisy asks him as she approaches him, and he nods back to her. "How are you feeling?"

Andrew shrugs back to her. "I…I don't know," he whispers back to her. "I don't know how I can be upset about losing something that I never had."

Daisy reaches over and grabs his hand. "It's more than just the idea of losing Albertinah," Daisy replies to him quickly. "You also found out Sonny isn't your child tonight; all these years of thinking that you lost a child that wasn't yours, it has to be hitting you hard, Andrew. The fact that you, then, found out that Tinah is Chris', it's just a double blow."

Andrew shakes his head as he feels his eyes swell with water. "You know what's funny?" he begins to tell her. "When Abby told me she was pregnant, I wasn't ready to be a father. I told her that may times, to the point where I suggested she end the pregnancy," he admits to her. "But overtime, and in mourning Sonny, I learned to love him and wish he was still around. And the same thing is happening with Tinah; when Antonio suggested that I was the father, I wanted the truth, and now that the truth is here, it hurts, it hurts like hell."

Daisy moves around pulls him into a hug. "I'm sorry Andrew," she holds him as he weeps into her arms. "I know this isn't what you wanted, but everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is a sign that Chris and Trenyce can repair their fractured family and you and I, we can try to move forward too?"

Andrew looks up from her chest and smiles back at her. "You know what? You always find the positives in situations," he tells her. "Thank you for being here for me."

"I wouldn't be anywhere else," she smiles back to him, as she thinks about how she switched the paternity test to show that Chris was the father of Albertinah. Inside her head, she tells herself that she wouldn't lose Andrew, and now, she knows that she has ensured that she and Andrew will be together - forever. "You'll always have me Andrew, always."

Next on One Day at a Time

- Kim confides in Tyler
- Robbie is served
- Shane and Natasha continued to spar

 
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