Episode 1230

 

It was at the Wrong Time
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: November 03, 2025

Episode Theme song: "don't wanna break up again" Ariana Grande

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Meggan caught Sophie about to pour her wine down the drain
- Daisy heard the voicemail that Cheresa left for her claiming she was worried about Dawn. Cheresa, meanwhile, was tied to a chair in the Lawson storage unit
- Madeline told Robbie to stay out of her medical life
- Stephanie told Jacob to stand up to Cassie

The Dockside Storage Lockers

The light from the small window inside the Lawson storage locker creates a small glow in the unit as it is bright outside from the heavy snow fall that is happening. Inside the locker room, Cheresa remains tied to a chair in the middle of the room.

Slowly, her eyes start to open and she feels her head pounding. She has a horrible headache. Soon, she sits up straight and looks around, quickly realizing where she is, and that she is tied to a chair. She has no idea what happened or how she ended up there.

She goes to speak, but realizes that she has a mouth gag in her mouth. She tries to scream but it is muffled because of the gag.

Suddenly, the door to the locker room opens. Cheresa's eyes open wider when she sees Dawn. She gets excited thinking that her girlfriend will save her. Dawn, meanwhile, slowly walks towards Cheresa.

"Good morning," Dawn says with a smile on her face. She arrives at the chair and slowly pulls the mouth gag down.

"Dawn, thank God," Cheresa looks at her with worry. "Someone…someone kidnapped me! You have to help me get out of here before they get back! We might not have a lot of time! Dawn…please! What are you waiting for?"

Dawn starts to chuckle back at her. "You…you want me to help you get out of the chair?" Dawn asks her as Cheresa rapidly nods back to her. "Why would I help you get out of that chair, when I'm the one that put you there?" Dawn asks her as Cheresa freezes and looks back at Dawn in horror.

The Cascade Apartments

Jacob sighs heavily as he reads the text message from Stephanie, asking him to get Cassie under control, as she is upset that Cassie kissed him at the engagement party when she knew that Stephanie was watching. Jacob hates that he feels like he is being put between his friend and his wife; he wishes that Cassie would understand that he is just friends with Stephanie and nothing else is going on.

"You're looking at the screen with far too much intent," Cassie tells him as she moves into the living room and passes him a cup of coffee. "What are you reading?"

"A text from Stephanie," Jacob reveals to her as Cassie rolls her eyes to him. "She is upset that you kissed me last night when you knew she saw us. She wants you to stop playing these games…"

"I am not playing games!" Cassie hisses back to him. "That woman is getting on my every last nerve!"

"Cassie, babe, look at me," Jacob puts his hand on his wife's leg. "You're my wife, I love you, nothing is going to change that."

Cassie smiles back to him before she leans in and kisses him on the lips. "I love to hear that, Jacob, I really do."

"Good, do you believe me?"

"Of course, I do."

"Then I'm going to say this one final time, Stephanie and I, we are just friends," Jacob looks into her eyes. "And that is something you have to get used too, because I will not let you dictate to me whom I can and can't be friends with. So, please, enough with these games you're playing, because you're going to lose more than the game if you keep this up."

The Sugarbowl

"This is somesnow storm, huh?" Kim tells Tyler as they sit next to one another at the window seat of the coffeehouse, with two coffees and some pastries in front of them. They had been at the engagement party together the previous night, and when they woke up this morning, they felt too lazy to make breakfast, so they found themselves at the local coffee shop.

"You know," Tyler looks back at his fiancé. "Weather like this never feels good to me. It brings back so many memories of…"

"The ice storm?" Kim finishes his sentence as they lock eyes with one another, knowing that during the ice storm a Robertson Enterprises semi-truck smashed into Kim's vehicle which left their son, Blake, braindead. "I can't help but think about it too."

Tyler smiles back to her. "Have I told you how much that I am glad that we have reconnected, Kim? We…we've been to hell and back together, and that's part of why this feels so good."

Kim leans over and kisses him softly on the lips. "I couldn't agree more," she winks back to him once their lips part ways. "And that's why I agreed to be your wife."

Behind them, Robbie approaches them with a coffee in his hand. "I…I'm sorry for interrupting," he announces as Kim and Tyler turn and look at her former husband. "Tyler, Kim told me the good news, congratulations."

"Thanks man," Tyler smiles back to him, knowing that it must be salt in the wound to Robbie knowing that he is marrying Kim. "Kim has made me the happiest man in the world."

"She told me last night at the party," Robbie tells him. "I am…I am in a very good place right now with Bobby being in my life, so I can only ask the same for Kim. But…if you hurt her, you will answer to me."

"Don't worry about that," Tyler grins ack at him. "I have no intention of hurting the woman I love. I did hear that you have a son now, so congratulations to you."

"Yea, thanks," Robbie uneasily nods back to him. "He's the best thing in the world. I'm…well, never mind."

"No, what is it, Robbie?" Kim asks him in concern. "Is something wrong with baby Bobby?"

"Nah, he's fine," Robbie shakes his head back to her. "It's his mother that I'm worried about. Something is going on with Madeline, and I, for the life of me, can't figure it out, but I have too, for my son's sake," he reveals to her as Kim and Tyler uneasily look at one another, wondering what could be going on with Madeline.

The Calimo Cabin

Sophie slowly walks down the stairs of the Calimo cabin, wrapping her robe around her waist tighter as she does. She stops at the base of the stairs and looks out of the window; more heavy snow is falling from the sky, which means the chances of her getting a cell phone signal are slim to none. She sighs because she had hoped that Meggan's text message to Logan would have gone through and he would have been able to come to the cabin. She still wants to tell him that she is pregnant with his child, especially since what happened the previous night.

She thought Meggan had taken a glass of wine to a bubble bath, so Sophie took the chance to dump the rest of the wine down the drain as she didn't want Meggan drinking. However, Meggan stopped her, and took the bottle from her. Sophie got rattled and went to bed, but she knows that she will have to explain herself to Meggan this morning.

"Well, good morning," Meggan announces as she comes out of the kitchen with a coffee in her hand. "There is bacon, eggs, and coffee in the kitchen if you'd like some."

"Thanks, I am hungry," Sophie looks back at her.

"And there is Irish Cream for the coffee, if you wish, I'm having some in mine," Meggan reveals to her as Sophie looks back at her in surprise.

"You never stop drinking, do you?" she asks her in a huff. "You know, that's part of the reason why I was going to dump that wine last night; you…you drink way too much!"

"Don't you dare start with me, little girl," Meggan looks back at her before she takes a sip of her drink. "You, you mind your business, do understand me? And if I ever, ever, see you threaten my liquor supplies again, this little trip of ours, it won't end well."

"You're threatening me now?"

"I'm warning you," Meggan glares back at her. "You mess with my booze, and you mess with me, and that is not something you want to do."

The Davenport House; Trenyce, BJ, & Tinah's Home


Daisy sits in her car holding her phone. She was up all night waiting to hear back from Cheresa, who had left her a voicemail expressing concern about Dawn. Daisy had told Cheresa that she thought something might have happened while Dawn was visiting the prison for her report that she was working on the hospital.

She called Cheresa back, but she still hasn't heard back from her, which is unlike Cheresa. She knows that if Cheresa was truly worried about Dawn, she would have called Daisy back immediately.

So, this morning she drove to Trenyce's house and she has been waiting about 10 minutes now trying to gain the courage to go and knock on the front door. Memories of the previous night at her engagement party to Andrew are haunting her, where Chris asked her if she switched the DNA test results to show that Tinah was his, not Andrew's, child. Daisy admitted the truth, which caused Andrew to rush out and Trenyce slapped her.

"But if Cheresa needs us, Trenyce needs to know," Daisy whispers to herself. "She'll understand that this is more than just our fractured relationship; she has too."

Daisy opens the car door and rushes to the front door, desperate to get out of the heavy snow fall. She rings the doorbell.

Trenyce opens the door and glares back at her Aunt. "What the hell do you want?"

"It's about Cheresa," Daisy replies to her. "Please Trey, let me in, your daughter…she might need us."

The Dockside Storage Units

Cheresa looks at Dawn in horror as she just admitted that she was the one that kidnapped her and tied her up in the chair in the locker room. Cheresa's mind tries to figure out why Dawn is doing this.

"You…you did this?" Cheresa's lower lips quivers in fear. "Why? Dawn why did you do this to me?"

Dawn chuckles back to her. "God, has anyone told you that you're noisy? Does it matter? I did it! Okay! I did it!"

"Yes, it matters!" Cheresa yells back at her. "We love one another! Why…why would you do this? Tell me, Dawn! I demand to know! I demand to know what the hell is going on here!?"

Next on One Day at a Time
- Nicholas and Jarrod's dinner begins
- Sophie and Meggan continue to clash at the cabin
- Will Trenyce help Daisy find Cheresa before it's too late?

 
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