Episode 1216

 

Moving Through My Fears
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: September 12, 2025

Episode Theme song: "bye" Ariana Grande

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Clayton suggested to Lukas that they leave Twin Peaks together
- Andrew admitted to Daisy that he wanted to be a father to Albertinah. Chris, meanwhile, moved out of the house he shares with Trenyce
- Dawn put flowers at Chantel's car but acted as if she didn't know who did when Cheresa told her about it
- Cassie, seemingly, learned a secret about Stephanie
- Penny told Cory she was going back to her farm
- Abby visited Max and Olly
- Bryce agreed to help Leah get Felicia away from Frederick
- Paige told her family about the baby

Twin Peaks General Hospital

Paige breathes a sigh of relief as she leaves the hospital room that she was in. She just had a late afternoon doctors appointment to ensure that things are progressing along with her pregnancy, which they are. She also learned that she only has a short window left to decide if she wants to continue with the pregnancy, which has been wrestling with since she knows that Will is still in love with Eva. In fact, she saw him kissing Eva earlier in the morning.

As she walks towards the elevators, she happens to see Will standing at the nurse's station, looking at some patient files. She finds herself moving towards him as he looks up and sees her.

"Paige, hi," he smiles to her. "You're here for a check-up, I am assuming?"

"Yea, everything is fine," she replies to him quickly. "My OBGYN told me I only have a few more weeks to decide if I want the baby or not."

Will looks back at her in surprise. "Were you thinking of ending this pregnancy, Paige?"

"To be perfectly honest, yes," she tells him. "You have no idea how difficult this has been on me, knowing that I got pregnant by a man that is still head over heels in love with another woman."

"But…"

"You were kissing Eva earlier today," Paige cuts him off. "I saw you in the park, Will, so don't stand there and try to tell me otherwise."

"I wasn't going to," Will says. "It's just…I guess we haven't talked about the baby at all."

"It's not your decision to make," Paige explains to him. "This is my body, it's my choice."

"That's fair, but the baby is also mine," Will tells her. "I should have a say in what happens, don't you think? I mean, you didn't get pregnant on your own."

"No, I didn't, but I have been alone since I found out," she stands tall to him. "I mean, my family has been great, but it is still me and this baby."

"Your family? You told them about the baby?"

"Of course, I did," Paige tells him. "And they, unlike you, support me in whatever decision I make regarding my child. If you'll excuse me, I need to get going."

Will watches Paige walk away from him and he sighs heavily. "If you think I'm going to let you decide what happens to my baby, you're wrong."

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"I saw Dominick earlier and told him that you were going to help us," Leah explains to Bryce as they sit across from one another in the restaurant with some wine in front of them. Leah had seen her father earlier in the day and she told him that Bryce was going to help them get Felicia away from Frederick; they believe that if Felicia was free from Frederick, she would realize that she doesn't want to be married to him.

Bryce looks back at her and hopes that he is doing the right thing by helping his family with Felicia. For years now, he has been helping Frederick carry out some of his plans, but after asking him about Felicia's wellbeing, and seeing Fredericks' reaction, he decided that it would be worth seeing what is, truly, going on with his grandmother.

"We have to keep this between us," Bryce whispers back to her. "If Frederick suspects that I have anything to do with this…"

"He won't," Leah stops him quickly. "None of us have a relationship with that monster; your secret, it is safe with us."

"Okay, so what is the next step?"

"Eva actually asked Dominick if she could help us," Leah reveals to him. "Dominick is against the idea, but I actually think she could be critical in this."

"Okay? So, we will enlist Eva's help, but that still doesn't answer my question: what are we going to do?"

"I'm going to tell you," Leah tells him with a grin on her face. "This is, exactly, how we are going to save my mother from that madman."

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

Cheresa moves towards the bedroom that she shares with Dawn. Since they reunited, Dawn has, since, moved in with her since the Lawson estate has more than enough rooms for the two of them, Abby, Ethan, and baby Georgina. They, even, still have a room set up for Greg, for when he visits his daughter's.

Earlier, Cheresa and Dawn had lunch together at the Pink Flamingo, and Cheresa admitted to Dawn that someone went to the national park and left flowers by Chantel's car, which they thought was odd. When they came home, Dawn told Cheresa that she was tired, and she was going to have a nap.

It's been about two hours, and Cheresa is, now, concerned about Dawn, as the nap shouldn't have taken that long. She can only imagine that this entire ordeal has been weighting down Dawn a lot; not only are they trying to figure out if Chantel was murdered, but Dawn has also been receiving threatening text messages. At first, they thought that, maybe, the texts were coming from Chantel, who might have been upset with Cheresa's decision to reunite with Dawn, but the last message came in after Simona thought that Chantel was dead. Dawn, still, had a theory that, perhaps, Chantel was still alive, but it is a wild theory. All of this, Cheresa knows that her girlfriend might be exhausted.

"Dawn?" she asks as she opens the door to their bedroom. The large kitchen blows in the wind, which causes concern for Cheresa. She moves to the window and closes it before she looks at the bed. "Dawn?"

Cheresa freezes, however, when she realizes that the bed is empty. "Dawn?" she asks again as she moves closer to the bed. "The window? Did you leave the mansion without me knowing?" she asks herself with an arched eyebrow. "What is going on with you, Dawn?"

The Tower's; Floor Ten; Andrew & Daisy's Home

"How do you think that you will go about navigating Chris and Trenyce now that they know the truth is out about Albertinah?" Daisy asks Andrew as she moves back to the sofa in their condo with a bottle of red wine and two glasses. She wants to hear how Andrew plans to handle the fact that he is now a father; she is still rattled that the truth came out because she had changed the last DNA test results to show that Chris was the father. The fact is, Daisy was worried that she would lose Andrew if the truth came out.

"I am not sure Chris wants anything more to do with me," Andrew sighs back to her as she opens the bottle of wine and pours two glasses. "He was cold to me in the hospital."

"He is probably still wondering what happened with that DNA test that said he was the father."

"It must have been a hospital error," Andrew says before he takes a sip of the wine. "I honestly think we as a family need to come together, and I think I have a way for us to do just that."

Daisy arches his eyebrow back to him. "What is this idea?" she asks him quickly. "What do you have planned?"

Andrew smiles back to her. "Well, it involves you and me," he admits to her. "The fact is, we are engaged Daisy. And what happens when people get engaged?"

"We plan a wedding?"

Andrew chuckles to her. "Before that, we can have an engagement party," Andrew tells her. "I think we should throw ourselves a party to celebrate our love and show that we can overcome any obstacles. What do you think? Let's have a party and show Chris and Trey that despite everything that has happened, we are still in love and moving on with our lives?"

The Sugarbowl

Trenyce opens the door to the coffeehouse and moves inside. She is rattled by the fact that when she got home from the office, she realized that Chris had moved out of the house that she lives in with their children. She was going to get a drink, but she realized that she needs to have a clear head to decide what her next move is going to do. After she orders her latte, she sees Chris sitting in the back booth by himself.

After getting her drink, she moves to the booth and sits across from him. "Well, hello," she tells him. "What's funny is that I said that exact same thing when I got home from work, only the house was empty."

Chris takes a sip of his coffee before he looks back at her. "I don't know what you want me to say."

"You moved out without even talking to me?" Trenyce asks him with hurt in her voice. "Does our relationship mean that little to you?"

"I don't know what you want me to say," Chris says again to her. "Albertinah is not my daughter; your affair with Andrew is, once again, coming back to haunt us," he tells her. "I…I need time to work through this."

"Please come home," Trenyce pleads with him. "We can work through this together, that's what marriages are all about, Chris. We need to solve for this together; besides Tinah and BJ, they will miss you."

"I can't come home right now," Chris sighs back to her as they lock eyes with one another. "I need time, Trey, and I need you to respect that. After everything you've done, this is the least that you can do."

The Tower's; The Penthouse; Cory & Penny's Home

"I…I don't think I heard you correctly," Cory admits to Penny as they continue to stand in the living room of the penthouse facing one another. Penny just emerged from her bedroom and admitted to Cory that she understands that he is in love with Robin and as such, she is going to move back to her farm. "You want to go back to the farm?"

"I do," Penny nods back to him quickly. "The truth is, I ended my engagement to Gordy because I fell in love with you, Cory. For you to stand there and tell me that you want to be with Robin, I…I can't stay here. It wouldn't be fair to me, you, or Robin."

"But, Penny," Cory moves closer to her. "You can't see; how are you going to get around your farm without your vision?"

Penny shakes her head back to him. "You don't need to worry about me, Cory. I am a strong woman, I can handle this."

"I think this is a huge mistake," Cory admits to her. "I was on the farm for months, I know how much work it takes to run the farm. I…I don't want you to be there alone when you can't see; you won't be able to handle it."

"I can see," Penny shocks Cory as he looks back at her in surprise. "I got my vision back, Cory. So, as you can see, there is absolutely nothing stopping me from leaving Twin Peaks."

The Cascade Apartments; Cassie, Jacob, & Carter's Home

"Those tacos were delicious," Cassie tells Jacob as she comes out of the kitchen from the small apartment that she lives in with Jacob and their son, Carter. Jacob had returned home from the Pink Flamingo with tacos, which they just finished.

"Of course," Jacob chuckles back to her. "It was a nice treat from making some food here. And I happened to see a friend while I was waiting for the order."

"Ah, who did you run into?" Cassie asks him quickly as they sit next to one another on the sofa.

"Stephanie," Jacob reveals to her as Cassie looks back at him quickly. "We had a good chat; she's becoming a good friend, it's nice. I…I feel like I don't have many friends."

"As long as that all it is," Cassie replies to him.

"What does that mean?"

"It means, you're gorgeous," Cassie chuckles to him. "I'm sure Stephanie, as a warm-blooded woman, has taken notice to that."

"She might have," Jacob nods back to her. "But like I told you, we are only friends, and it will stay that way."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I'm in love with you," Jacob smiles at her as he leans in and kisses her passionately. "Maybe I should prove that to you?"

"I thought you'd never ask…" Cassie purrs to him as she crawls onto his lap and they start to make love.

The Towers; Floor Three; Clayton's Condo

"Wait, are you serious?" a stunned Lukas asks Clayton as they sit next to one another on the sofa in the condo that Clayton was living in with Madeline before she moved into the Calimo mansion. Clayton just admitted to him that he felt uninspired by living in Twin Peaks and suggested that they leave town together. "You want to leave Twin Peaks?"

"I've been thinking about it for a while," Clayton admits to him. "You know, I don't have many friends here because of all the drama that unfolded between me, Nicholas, and Andy; I've never had a great career here either, so what is keeping me here?"

"Your sister?" Lukas asks him quickly. "And word on the street is that Madeline just had a baby? So, your nephew too?"

"The same could be said for you," Clayton chuckles to him. "You have Meggan, Logan, and your Dad here, but you also said you feel like an outsider."

"Well that is true," Lukas nods back to him. "And losing Olly, a break would be nice. The separation could help me heal."

"You don't think that Max will let you see Olly?"

"Not at first," Lukas admits to him. "I think some time away from one another will help with the transition; if Donovan and I are there every other day, the confusion for Olly will linger and last longer."

"That's fair," Clayton looks back at him. "So, then, I'm going to ask you again: Will you leave town with me? Let's leave Twin Peaks and start life somewhere new?"

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

"Hey, I'm home," Abby announces to Ethan as she moves into the living room from the foyer of the Lawson estate. She puts her purse down on the armchair and looks over at Ethan, who is looking out of the large windows, deep in thought. "I had a good meeting with Max; he agreed to tell Sonny that we are his parents tomorrow. He thinks that the two of us should be together when we tell him the truth."

"That's great," Ethan turns to her to face her. "So, does that mean you're going to spend more time at home now with our daughter?"

"I hope you don't feel like I'm neglecting you or Georgina," Abby says as he moves up to her and wraps her arms around his waits before she kisses him quickly. "I've been trying to navigate all of this to the best of my ability."

"I know you have, but you're missing out on a lot of moments Abby," Ethan tells her. "I was with Georgina earlier and she smiled and laughed when I was playing peek a boo with her."

"Really?" Abby asks him in surprise. "She's…she's never done that with me before?"

"Because you haven't been around," Ethan scolds her quickly. "You were so focused on the trial and now with getting Sonny back, it does feel like Georgina is taking a backseat."

"What do you want me to do? Ignore the fact that my son is alive?"

"No, of course not," Ethan replies to her quickly. "But it's like I told you before, you have to start putting this family first too. Max has Sonny, that's not going to change, but unless you step up, I might have to rethink staying her with our daughter."

"What are you saying?" Abby asks him in shock.

"I'm saying, you have to step up and be a mother to our daughter," Ethan warns her. "Because I won't let her be raised by someone who wants to be a half-time mother, so the choice is yours."

Next on One Day at a Time
- Andrew spends time with Tinah
- Abby and Ethan have a heart to heart
- Where is Dawn?

 
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