Episode 1235

 

If Your Love is in Trouble
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: November 09, 2025

Episode Theme song: "Margaret" Lana Del Rey

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Logan arrived at the cabin but couldn't find Meggan or Sophie. Meggan, meanwhile, found an unconscious Sophie in the blizzard
- Trenyce and Daisy arrived at the storage locker before Dawn could kill Cheresa
- Madeline told Tyler that nothing is at it seems
- Cassie shocked Stephanie by revealing she knows that she was born a man: Stefan!
- Ethan and Abby squabbled over her connection to Max and Olly
- Victoria and Jeff continued their affair

The Calimo Mansion

"You're not making any sense," Tyler sighs back to Madeline as they continue to have a discussion in baby Bobby's nursery at the Calimo mansion. The snowstorm continues outside, which they can hear the wind up against the window. Tyler had arrived at the mansion to check on his friend because Robbie had indicated that he was worried about her; since he has been there, Madeline has admitted that she is struggling with something, which hasn't made much sense to Tyler since she has everything that she ever wanted: namely, Robbie and their child. Madeline even mentioned that she might have postpartum, but she just said that nothing is as it seems. "You're living in this mansion with Robbie and your child; what doesn't appear as it seems, Madeline? What is going on with you?"

Madeline feels her heart racing in her chest. She peers into he crib and sees Bobby still fast asleep. When she looks back at Tyler she forces a smile on her face.

"I do need to tell someone," she whispers back to him. "I need to tell someone what I did."

"You can talk to me, you know you can," Tyler replies to her. "We have been friends for a long time now, if there's something that I can help you with, I'm here."

"You have to promise me Tyler," Madeline locks eyes with him. "If I tell you, no one can ever know. I mean that, this is a secret that you will have to take to your grave."

Tyler arches his eyebrow back to her. "I promise, of course," Tyler doesn't hesitate to respond. "Tell me, Madeline. What has happened?"

"Okay," she breathes out heavily. "I'll tell you everything, but brace yourself, Tyler, because what I'm about to tell you, it will rock your world."

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

Robbie sits at the bar with a beer in front of him. He was working late at Roboto when he decided to get a drink before he went back to the mansion. He was hoping that by the time he was done his beer the snow would have subsided and the drive would be easier. As he takes a sip of his beer, he can't help but wonder how Madeline is doing. She had admitted to him that she might be suffering with postpartum; if this is the case, he hopes that she takes his advice and gets medical help.

"Looks like we had the same idea about a nightcap," Kim says to her former husband as she moves up to the bar and sits next to him before she orders a drink for herself.

"I was at the office but I didn't want to drive in this blizzard," he admits to her. "I'm hoping it calms down by the time I leave."

"I thought the same thing," Kim tells him. "Weather like this, it just brings up bad memories for me."

"I can imagine," Robbie nods. "You know, the mansion, it's not the same since you moved out."

Kim chuckles to him. "I thought I should move into with my fiancé after Tyler and I got engaged," she tells him. "But that house, it will always mean a lot to me. I've spent so many years there."

"It will always be your home."

"Thanks for saying so," Kim takes a sip of her negroni. "But now, it is Madeline and Bobby's home too."

Robbie sighs back to her before he takes a sip of his beer. "You're still worried about Madeline, aren't you?"

"I am," he admits to her. "I just hope I can get through to her about seeking a medical professional."

"Me too," Kim says back to him. "Whatever you have to do to support her, you have to do that, Robbie. She has to know that you're there for her; don't let go through this alone."

"I won't, thanks Kim."

***

At a table near the back of the restaurant, Abby and Ethan sit across from one another, just finishing a late dinner together. They thought it would be nice for them to get out of the Lawson estate and spend some time together, since Abby has been spending more time with Max and Olly the last few weeks.

"It was that the nanny could stay later to be with Georgina," Abby tells her lover before she picks up her wine and takes a sip of it. "It had been far too long since you and I had some time together."

Ethan huffs back to her. "Yea, it has," he puts his fork down as he just finished his porkchop. "Mostly because you're always with Max and Olly."

"Do we have to talk about that tonight?" Abby asks him quickly, knowing that the topic has become a sore point for them. "You know why I have been spending a lot of time with Max and Olly."

"You've said it only a million times," Ethan continues to defend himself to her. "I just wish you'd see things from my perspective."

"I do," Abby says back to him. "I know you want me home more to be with you and our daughter. I'm…I'm just trying to find the balance. My son, my beautiful baby boy, he's alive, and in an ideal situation, I would have won custody of him, but that didn't happen, so I'm just trying to navigate these waters the best I can."

"I realize that this is new and confusing," Ethan tells her. "But the fact is, I continue to feel like you are putting Olly ahead of Georgina and me. And…I don't know how much more I can take."

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

"I'm saying," Ethan locks eyes with her. "That I think it's time you choose: Me and Georgina, or Max and Olly? Which family do you want? Because I don't think you can have both."

Robertson Enterprises

"You know, I think we have put almost all the finishing touches on the launch party," Victoria smiles to Jeff as they sit next to one another on the sofa in her office at Robertson Enterprises. They've had another late working night since they are thin close to finishing the planning of the luxurious bath line that they have been collaborating on for months now.

"It feels good to be almost done, doesn't it?" Jeff looks over at her. "The next thing will be to see the reaction post launch."

"I can't imagine that this won't be a huge success," Victoria purses her lips together. "We have thought of everything, Jeff. We really have made a great time."

"I couldn't agree more," Jeff licks his lips back to her.

Meanwhile, the elevators open in the foyer and Leah emerges. She came to see what is taking Jeff so long to get home; she knows that he has been working long hours on the line with Victoria, which makes her blood boil. She still believes that Victoria is the reason that she got fired from the company; she just wishes that she had proof that Victoria was behind the missing funds, but until then, she has to settle for being on the sidelines. What's more troubling is that she and Jeff have grown very distant with one another, and she can't help but wonder if Victoria is also behind that.

Jeff and Victoria continue to look into one another's eyes and Jeff leans forward to kiss her, but Leah knocks on the door, stopping them. "What the hell is going on in here?" Leah asks as she moves into the office.

"Leah," Jeff looks back at her. "We were just, uh, working on the launch. We think we have thought of everything to make the party a huge hit."

"Great," Leah forces a smile on her face. "Does that mean that you're coming home now? I…I was getting worried."

"Yea, Vic, I think we are done for the night?" Jeff asks her as Victoria stands up from the sofa.

"That we are," Victoria replies to him as they lock eyes with one, secretly wishing they were still alone. "Have a good night you two."

Jeff moves up to Leah and they leave the office together, leaving Victoria alone. She runs her hands through hair and closes her eyes. "That was close…too close," she whispers to herself, knowing that Leah would have lost her mind had she seen her and Jeff kissing, or worse.

Twin Peaks General Hospital

"How do you think Jacob would feel to know that you were born a man? That you were born Stefan Clarke?" Cassie asks Stephanie as they face one another in Stephanie's office at the hospital. Cassie arrived at the office to tell Stephanie to leave Jacob alone; Stephanie refused to back down in her friendship with Jacob, however, and that is when Cassie just revealed that she knows Stephanie's secret.

"You…You have no idea what you're talking about!" Stephanie tires to keep her composure back to Cassie. "You can't go around spreading these rumors and lies."

Cassie chuckles back to her quickly. "Like I told you, it was a simple search on you; and I just put the pieces together, Stefan."

"My name is Stephanie," she tells Cassie quickly. "Don't you ever forget that."

"Listen," Cassie looks back at her. "I don't care that you're a transgendered woman; I am happy that you are living your authentic self, Stephanie, I really am. I'm just suggesting that you think about Jacob and how he would feel about this. I am not saying that he wouldn't be your friend, but if you had any romantic feelings for him, well, he won't be interested. Trust me, he very much loves me…a real woman."

"I am a real woman," Stephanie hisses back to her. "You don't give Jacob enough credit. Now, I'm going to tell you one more time, get the hell out of my office, before I through you out!"

The Calimo Cabin

Logan rushes down the stairs from the Calimo cabin in a panic. When he arrived at the cabin, he didn't see Meggan or Sophie, which he thought was odd. He did, however, see an empty bottle of wine, which he knows his mother drank. He just checked the entire property, and didn't see either woman, so he knows that they must have left the cabin. Considering the heavy snowfall, he is concerned that something might have happened to one, or both, women, so he is desperate to try to find them.

"I am pretty sure I remember Sophie telling me there's a snow mobile in the shed," he whispers as he puts his parka on and then rushes out the door into the snow. "I have to find them before it's too late!"

Meanwhile, on the grounds, Meggan tries to roll an unconscious Sophie over. When she finally does, she sees the blood oozing out of Sophie's cut.

"Sophie! Can you hear me? Sophie?" Meggan cries as the snow continues to fall down the two women. Meggan's eyes open wider in horror when she realizes that Sophie's lips are blue, from the cold. "No, Sophie! You have to stay with me! You have to stay with me!"

She takes off her jacket and puts it around Sophie, hoping to give her more warmth, but instantly, Meggan starts to shiver from the cold.

"Can somebody hear me? Can anyone hear me? I need help!" Meggan cries out into the isolated air.

Suddenly, Meggan turns around when she hears a noise. She stands up when she sees a snow mobile coming towards her and she starts waving her hands in the air.

"Over here! Over here!" Meggan cries as the snow mobile gets closer to her. "Logan, thank God!"

Logan hops off the snow mobile and rushes over to Sophie. "What happened?"

"I don't know," Meggan admits to him. "But she's cold, we have to get her back to the cabin now!"

"Use my phone and try to call 9-1-1 while I lift her on to the snow mobile," Logan instructs his mother, who lifts Sophie from the ground.

"Please go through," Meggan pleads as she has the phone to her year. "Yes, I'm at the Calimo cabin and there's been a horrible accident, please send an ambulance quickly!"

The Dockside Storage Lockers

"I guess this means that I'll kill three women tonight instead of one," Dawn gleefully announces to Trenyce and Daisy as she points the gun at them. The two women just busted into the Lawson storage locker right as Dawn was about to kill Cheresa; Daisy had, seemingly, figured out that Tara brainwashed Dawn during her prison visits, which explains her odd behaviour. Trenyce, then, used the Find my Friends app to track down Dawn and Cheresa.

"You can't do this," Daisy replies to her. "You can't possibly kill all three of us and think that you're going to get away with it!"

"Just watch me," Dawn says as she points the gun at Daisy. "The question is, which one of you do I kill first?"

"Ahhhh!" Trenyce screams as she jumps into Dawn and tackles her to the ground. The two women start to fight, which causes Dawn to lose control of the gun. Daisy rushes over and grabs it and points it Dawn.

"It's over Dawn!" Daisy yells at her as the women stop fighting with each other. "You're not going to hurt anyone, not ever again!"

Dawn continues to attack Trenyce, and crawls on top of her. She starts banging Trenyce's head into the ground, until she loses consciousness! Daisy, meanwhile, finds some rope and rushes over to Dawn. She manages to tie her hands up behind her back.

"This madness is over!" Daisy yells at Dawn, who spits at her. "Trenyce! My God, Trey, can you hear me?"

"I hope I killed her!" Dawn chuckles back to her. "You three, you deserve everything that will come to you."

"Daisy, call the police," Cheresa tells her from the chair. "Please, call for help!"

The Calimo Mansion

"Okay, I'm listening," Tyler tells Madeline with intent. "What is this secret? And how will it rock my world?"

"What you have to understand is that I saw an opportunity and I jumped at it," Madeline cryptically tells him. "I…I didn't think about the repercussions, I just did what I thought was right at the time."

"What are you talking about, Madeline?"

"Last winter, the night of the car accident with Kim," Madeline tries to remain calm as she tells him her story. "I…I pulled Kim from her car and took her to the Calimo cabin."

"I know all of that," Tyler tells her. "You saved her life, but her baby, it didn't make it; she miscarried."

"Only she didn't," Madeline reveals to him. "That's what I'm trying to tell you, Tyler."

"What do you mean she didn't miscarry? Kim didn't have her baby, Madeline."

"I know," Madeline replies to her. "Because I have Kim's baby. You see, I took Kim's baby; I told Kim that she miscarried but the truth is, I delivered her baby, told her that she miscarried, and have been raising him as my own ever since," she reveals to Tyler, who feels the blood drain from his face. "I am raising Kim's son."

Next on One Day at a Time
" Will Meggan & Sophie be okay?
" How will Tyler react to Madeline's secret?
" Robin has a heart to heart with Cory

 
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