Episode 256: Part II

Due to some last minute changes, the following episode is the continuation of Episode 256, which aired on Thursday. TWOO was in fact pre-empted on Friday and will be (again) on Monday. Happy New Year, everybody!!

Kim, Nancy & Barbara take the stage and offer thanks to everyone for watching. Barbara is touched when Gwen appears to sing a song in memory of Hal, and Lily soon joins her on stage for a duet. Throughout the night, Nancy appears to inform viewers of the latest donations and the progress to the financial goal of the night.

Barbara thanks Gwen for putting their animosity aside and Gwen is taken back when Barbara says it. "There is no hard feelings between us. What are you talking about?" Barbara silently smacks herself for speaking out and makes up some lie. After Gwen walks off, Will kindly tells his mother to back off of his wife or else. The akwardness is soon interrupted when both are called to the stage and share a touching memorial to Hal.

Andy laughs at Roxie's humorous attempt to make him feel sorry for her, but immediately shifts his attention to Emily when he sees her car pull in. Though Emily runs away from Andy and into the station, Susan appears and tells Andy to let her alone. After all, they need to work together to unmask John and Roxie as the sneaky scoundrels they are.

Holden thanks Lily for coming with him and Lily realizes what a total amotional basketcase she has been for the past month or two. Holden accepts Lily's apology. Meanwhile, Maddie notices Luke's been gone from his calling station for a while now and goes outside....only to see him turning up the bottle!

Lisa makes quite the appearance at the telethon...obviously a little intoxicated. Tom scolds his mother and talks of how this is so unlike her. Later, Roxie comes to Lisa for some guidance, but is quickly shooed away by Lisa, who has had enough and barges off to confront a nearby Grant.

Emma sees Grant enter with Dana and introduces herself. Dana can sense the tension between the two and excuses herself. Emma lets Grant have it for everything she can think of and when she's done, Lisa lets him have an earful, too. Later, Emma comes across an emotional Lisa and the two women make a pact that they'll start the new year off right by kicking Grant to the curb. After all, they've lived this long without a man...who needs one now?

As the clock strikes twelve, the donation ticker starts blinking due to the goal being reached, and as Barbara sings Auld Lang Synde, we see:

Holden and Lily dancing and kissing,

Maddie scolding Luke,

Bob, Kim, and Nancy toasting to the new year,

Gwen and Will vowing to never leave each other's side,

Susan and Andy watching an unsuspecting John and Roxie,

Emily ripping up a photo of her and Andy,

Grant and Dana leaving,

Tom and Margo calling Casey and Adam,

Mike looking at an old picture of him & Katie,

Henry looking at the same picture with a sleeping Katie beside him,

Emma and Lisa shaking hands in agreement to kick Grant to the curb,

Chris disappointedly watching his family from the sound room,

and lastly, we see Barbara and Will hugging beneath the background picture of Hal.