Episode 711
 
Walk Through Fire
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: June 20, 2021

Episode Theme song: "Closer to You" Adam Lambert

Previously on One Day at a Time
- The Calimo's were horrified when Dominick crashed their launch for their serum by announcing Robertson Enterprises beat them to the shelves with their own product
- Victoria saw Vinny emerge from a secret passageway. Vinny seemingly covered
- Adam admitted to Robin that Helen was the reason he was delayed in Paris
- Brooke was served with divorce papers
- Lukas told Donovan that their nightmare was over as Simona dropped the rape charges and he gave Craig ten million dollars

Robertson Enterprises; Dominick's Office

"Dominick, where are you?" a furious Natasha asks as she opens the door to the main office of Robertson Enterprises as she is trying to find the owner of her rival company. She is still trying to figure out how he was able to release a carbon copy of Roboto's serum "Youth" at the previous day's launch. She is furious with him and wants answers as to how he was able to accomplish this. She won't rest until she has found him and made him explain the full story.

She looks around the office but doesn't see him anywhere. "You won't get away with this," she whispers to herself. "I will track you down and I will find out how the hell you did this."

She looks around the office just to ensure he's not there but doesn't see him. "Fine, you're not here," she says to herself. "Next stop, your townhouse. You will give me answers, Dominick."

Roboto

Cassie slowly pours herself a brandy and takes a sip of it. While it's still early in the morning, she feels like she needs something to calm her nerves as the previous night went better than she even expected; at the launch for Youth, Dominick arrived and announced that Robertson Enterprises had beaten Roboto to the punch by releasing an almost identical product. Of course, Natasha, Kim and Robbie were stunned by the announcement, and Natasha accused Cassie of being behind it. Cassie was able to cover her tracks, and even had Robbie on her side, which is good because no one can know what she is up too.

"Thank God for that," she whispers to herself as she takes another sip of the brandy. "Had Robbie not backed me, things could have gotten ugly."

She turns and slowly walks to the desk in the office. She opens the laptop and starts to type into the address bar the address of the Roboto bank. "I have to continue with this plan," she whispers to herself. "The launch was only the start of my plan. I will make sure Roboto, and Robertson Enterprises, will pay for everything they have ever done to me. I will have the last laugh," she says to herself as a wicked smile creeps across her face.

The Victors Mansion; Vinny & Victoria's Home

Victoria slowly opens the door to the study of the mansion that she is living in with Vinny and closes the door behind her. She looks around and sees that the room is empty and so she breathes a sigh of relief. She hasn't been able to stop thinking about how the previous day she walked into the study and she saw Vinny just appear in the room; he had claimed that he was in the washroom before when she walked by but something in her gut is telling her that something else is going on. She can't place it, it is just a feeling she has.

"He told me that all of the secret passages had been closed off," she whispers to herself as she moves to the large bookshelf where Vinny was standing the previous day. "I don't know why he would lie to me, but I could have sworn I saw something close…"

She starts looking on the books and various items on the large bookshelf but she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary. She sighs when she realizes that it could be like finding a needle in the haystack. "If there is a passage, any one of these books could open the damn door," she tells herself. "It could take me days, weeks maybe to find it; if it's even still here."

She shakes her head. "Maybe I was wrong," she tells herself. "Maybe he was telling the truth? I just have this bad feeling."

At the doorway, Vinny opens the door and sees Victoria studying the bookshelf. He arches his eyebrow wondering what she is doing. Could she have seen him come out of the passage the previous day?

"I will have to keep my eye on you, Victoria," he says as he glares through the doorway towards his girlfriend. "No one can know the truth about Daisy and Brett."

Robertson Enterprises; The Studio

"So you had no idea that your father was planning this secret attack against Roboto?" Shane asks Robin as they stand in the studio going over the new found marketing shots for Youthful. Dominick has already requested that they rework the ads so they can do a relaunch of Youthful in a few weeks; Shane, however, is just surprised by how this has all taken shape so quickly. No one on the team was really given a heads up about this, likely to keep it a surprise to the Roboto gang.

"I knew that he was working on something special but I had no idea it was this," Robin looks back over at him. "Adam and I were at the launch last night and we were stunned to hear his announcement."

"I am sure Natasha was horrified," Shane tells her. "I know she has been working hard on this. The fact that Jacob is also here must make her blood boil."

"Kim and Robbie also didn't look very pleased," Robin uneasily nods back to him. "But, I guess that is business life?"

"So, you were with Adam? Does that mean things are going well between you two again?" Shane asks her, almost hoping that there is trouble between them again. He wants her to be happy but at the same time he can't help but wish that she was single so they could be together.

"Things are good," Robin tells him. "Although, he did confess something to me last night."

Shane arches his eyebrow back to her. "What is that?"

"The reason he was late to the Eiffel Tower in Paris," she moves closer to him. "Is because Helen arrived at his hotel and professed her love for him."

"What? Whoa, that seems intense."

"Yea, that's what I thought," Robin tells him. "He reassured me that he told her that he was in love with me and that they could only be friends …"

"But you're still feeling insecure?" Shane asks her as he moves closer to her. "You have to trust him that he loves you, Robin."

"I know," Robin shakes her head back to him. "It's just, I know the history he has with Helen. That won't go away."

"It never will," he agrees with her. "Is that something you can live with?"

"I am going to have too," she uneasily tells him.

"Come here," Shane pulls her into a hug. "Adam loves you, he won't let his ex-wife come between you two. You have to believe that."

"I'm trying Shane, I really am," Robin says as they continue to hold one another. At the doorway to the studio, Helen appears and sees Shane and Robin in each other's arms. She arches her eyebrow wondering what is going on between the two of as this isn't he first time she's seen them this close to each other.

Twin Peaks Executive Hotel

Greg shakes his head in disbelief at the news he is reading on his IPad about the Roboto launch that happened the night before. He can't believe that Dominick was able to release a copycat product before Roboto; he can't help but wonder how Kim is handling this today, as he knows that she has been working so hard on the serum. He moves to his phone and starts to send her a text message but he is interrupted by a knock on his hotel room door. He sets his phone down and moves over to the door and sees Brooke standing on the other side of it.

"Brooke, what are you doing here this morning? I wasn't expecting you," Greg admits to his wife as she moves into the hotel room.

"I know but after last night, did you really think I would stay away?" she asks him as she puts her hand on her hips.

"Are you talking about the Roboto launch? I was just reading about it…"'

"I was there," Brooke cuts him off. "I was at the launch."

"Okay? I'm not sure where this is going, Brooke," Greg admits to her.

"I was served with your damn divorce papers," Brooke huffs back to him. "I know that you said we were over, Greg, but I had hoped…"

"I have told you time and time again, Brooke, that we are never getting back together. You had to know that the divorce was coming. Do you really want to stay with someone who doesn't want you?"

"I wanted a chance to save our marriage!" Brooke cries to him. "We have been through so much together, Greg. Please, please don't throw this away."

"You threw it away when you slept with Robbie Calimo," Greg sternly tells her. "We can't go back from that."

"You haven't even tried!"

"I've moved on, okay?" Greg snaps at her. "Yea, that's right, you're not the only one who has been getting their bit elsewhere."

"What?" Brooke gasps back at him in surprise. "Who is she? Who are you sleeping with?"

"Kim Calimo," Greg reveals to her. "I've been sleeping with Kim."

The Richardson Estate; Meggan, Lukas & Donovan's Home

"I was thinking we could go to the Pampa Grill for breakfast and have mimosas," Lukas announces to Donovan as he moves into the living room of the lavish estate that he shares with his husband and his sister, Meggan. Lukas is still on cloud nine from the previous day; he went to see Craig to give him the certified cheque for ten million dollars so he would drop the rape charges. When Craig called Simona to drop the charges, she wanted to see him before she would agree to drop the charges. When Simona arrived at Craig's they were able convince her that Craig's memory had fully returned and he was mistaken about what happened. To his joy, Simona agreed to drop the charges and Lukas then paid Craig off, telling him he never wanted to see him again. He just wants to celebrate the fact that this nightmare is over and they finally move on from this nightmare.

"You want to celebrate, huh?" Donovan uneasily asks his husband, turning to face him as he takes a sip of his coffee.

"Well yea, don't you? We can finally put this entire ordeal behind us Donovan, we can get back to our lives," Lukas moves closer to him. "Isn't that what you want?"

Donovan sighs back to him. "I am glad that things have worked out the way they have."

"But? Just tell me what you're thinking, it's clear that something is going on with you," Lukas tells his husband, wondering what is up with him.

"It doesn't change the fact that you slept with Craig, Lukas," Donovan admits to him. "You still cheated on me. And, you paid someone ten million dollars to make this go away. I don't know…I don't think I'm really in the mood to celebrate right now."

"I know I made some mistakes," Lukas comes up to his husband. "But, I want to try to make it up to you, Donovan. If you will give me the chance?"

Donovan pulls away from his touch. "I just need time to figure out what has happened and where we can go from here, can you please give me that?"

"I don't have a choice, do I?" Lukas asks him as Donovan shakes his head no. "Just know that I did all of this for you, for us, Donovan. I want us to put our lives back together, I just need you to give me that chance."

The Pampa Grill

"So, that's it, you're really going to leave town?" Andy looks over to Craig, who takes a sip of his bloody Mary. Andy and Craig are having breakfast together and he has just revealed that he is leaving town shortly because he feels like there is nothing left for him in Twin Peaks. Craig has his money, now he can go out and live the life he has always wanted too.

"Yea, my flight is in a couple of hours," Craig nods back to him. "Once we are done here, I'll head straight there. I packed my apartment up and I'm ready to go."

"Wow, I can't believe this. It feels like the end of an era," Andy tells him. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too, I'll miss this city, but after everything that's happened lately, I do feel like this is for the best."

"It's a small town, so I get that you would want some space from Lukas and Donovan," Andy agrees with him. "Just don't let them stop you from living your live."

Craig chuckles back to him. "Thanks to Lukas, I'll finally be able to start living the kind of life I've only ever dreamed about."

"Take care of yourself, okay Craig?"

"I will," Craig smiles back to him. "And you and Nicholas, come visit me anytime. My door is always open for my friends."

The Sugarbowl

Brad moves over to the coffee bar with his coffee so he can put some cream and sugar into his beverage. He has a rather busy day planned as he is hoping that he and Meggan can escape out to the Victors mansion so he can continue his investigation into Vinny to see if there's a chance that Daisy is, still, somehow alive. He knows that it is likely a long shot now but if he can do something to help Trenyce, he will do it. As he stirs his coffee, he can't help but think about the night that he and Trenyce shared together recently; while they agreed that it shouldn't happen again, he hasn't been able to stop thinking about it.

"You son of a bitch," a voice calls out from behind Brad. He pauses and then turns to see a fuming Chris looking at him. "You have a lot of nerve, you know that?"

Brad uneasily gulps back to him. "I do? I'm not sure what I've done to you Chris?"

"You know damn well what you did," Chris moves closer to him, gritting his teeth together. Chris has been replaying the words between Dawn and Trenyce over and over again in his head from the launch party where Dawn confessed to Trenyce that Cheresa saw her and Brad having sex the night before Brooke's trial. This explains why Cheresa has been so cold him and Trenyce since and even why Trenyce hasn't been able to forgive him for the restraining order he filed against Dawn.

"No, I don't, please enlighten me," Brad asks him, not thinking that Chris would know the truth because he and Trenyce agreed to not talk about it with anyone.

"You slept with Trenyce," Chris sternly tells him, as Brad looks back in surprise that someone else found out about their affair. "Yea, I found out about that. You're a dog!"

Brad uneasily chuckles back to him. "Trenyce and I had a moment, yea, but that's over now. I'll tell you something though, she loved every minute with me. She hadn't been…"

"You shut your face," Chris yells back to him. "Don't you dare go there!"

"Go where? To the truth? Trenyce loved it, I could tell she did."

"You bastard," Chris yells before he punches Brad in the face. The other people in the coffeehouse gasp out loud as Brad puts his hand to his nose and feels blood dripping out.

"You asshole," Brad yells back at him before he punches Chris in the stomach.

Chris falls back and tries to catch his breath quickly. He slowly stands up and moves back closer to Brad and is about to punch him when he hears a call from the door.

"Stop it! Stop it right now!" Cheresa yells as she rushes up to her brother and father and moves in between them. "What the hell is wrong with you two? Stop this fighting right now!"

Brad and Chris look at one another and then back to Cheresa. "Yea, sorry Cheresa, you're right, he's not worth my time," Chris spits back to Brad. He looks at his daughter. "I really am sorry."

"Just get out of here," Cheresa rolls her eyes back to her father, who uneasily nods back to her before he leaves. Cheresa turns her attention to Brad. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"He started it!"

"I don't care, grow up Brad," Cheresa yells at him before she rushes out of the coffeehouse, leaving Brad alone to tend to his bleeding nose.

Tyler's Townhouse

Natasha storms up to the front door of Tyler's house, still desperately looking for Dominick. She went to his office at Robertson Enterprises and then his townhouse, but he wasn't at either location. She decided to come to see if he is hiding at Tyler's house, because she was running out of options as to where he could be. And, Natasha is not going to give up until she has confronted him about the copycat product that Robertson launched.

"Dominick, are you in there?" she yells as she starts pounding on the front door. "Dominick? I'm not leaving here until you face me!"

"What the hell is going on?" Tyler asks in surprise as he opens the door, only wearing a towel as he was in the shower when Natasha starting banging on the door. "Natasha? My father isn't here. I'm here alone."

"I need to see Dominick," Natasha tells him as she moves into the living room, not even noticing that Tyler isn't dressed yet. "Do you know where he is?"

"No," Tyler slams the door closed. "He doesn't give me his schedule every day."

"Well, I need to see him," she barks back to him. "He has some explaining to do!"

"I know you're upset, but my father isn't here."

"I just…" Natasha bites her lips as she feels her eyes start to swell with water. "Everything is a mess now and I have no idea how I'm going to fix it. My company is in shambles this morning, my husband is sleeping with my ex-sister in-law, my son is sleeping with Dominick's granddaughter … why is everything so wrong in the world right now?"

Tyler slowly moves closer to her and sits next to her on the sofa. "I'm sorry, do you want me to get you a drink or something?"

Natasha looks back at him as a tear falls down her cheek. She suddenly realizes that he's not even dressed but she can't help but notice his muscular chest. "I'm sorry, I just barged in here and didn't even realize that you're not dressed."

"It's fine, you needed someone, we all do sometimes."

"Thanks Tyler," Natasha uneasily tells him.

"Now, are you sure you don't need a drink?"

"I need…" she looks at him with lust in her eyes before she runs her fingers over his chest. He looks back at her in surprise. She leans in and kisses him passionately, and he responds. They part lips surprised at first that they kissed but Natasha looks at him with lust in her eyes. "I need you."

"It's been so long for me," he whispers as his lips find her neck, unable to deny that he wants to get laid.

"Make love to me Tyler," she moans out in pleasure as she removes the towel from his waist and finds his growing member. "God, make love to me."

Next on One Day at a Time
- Jacob confronts Paige
- Robbie learns a secret
- Dawn confesses to Cheresa

 
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