Jump to content

OLTL: Two additional returns


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 58
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Members

As 2003 was nearing its end, Llanview was being terrorized by the “Music Box Killer.” When a decoded message was located at Troy’s former apartment, the authorities began to wonder if he was the culprit, despite his being in incarcerated. After a visit from Nora, Troy escaped prison. Dismayed that people were assuming that he was the killer, he later cornered Nora in an attempt to convince her that he wasn't the slayer. Before the authorities could close in on him, he bolted the scene. He next came face to face with Lindsay at her gallery. With rumors swirling that he was the MBK, Lindsay was so unnerved by his presence that she pulled a gun on him. Troy, though, managed to get weapon from her, and in turn held she, Jessica and Natalie Buchanan hostage at the gallery. Natalie, however, managed to send a message to Detective John McBain—who arrived in time to rescue them, and arrest Troy. Losing all hope, as the authorities badgered him, Troy confessed to being the killer, despite the fact that he wasn't.

As Troy was being carted back to prison, also along for the ride was Todd Manning, who too headed for Statesville. As the van carried them to Statesville, Starr and Matthew (in an ploy to help Todd escape) staged a S.O.S. scene on the side of the road where the vehicle was rounding. The kids succeeded in getting the van to stop, and thwarting the police's attention as Matthew played sick. With Troy being a doctor, the officers summoned him for help. In the meantime, Starr attempted to free Todd. Things, however, went awry when the police discovered that Matthew was faking his sickness. In the next moment, Troy grabbed the officers gun in one hand and Matthew in the other, and proceeded to escape.

Troy took Matthew to an abandoned fishing cabin in the woods. Not wanting to scare the child any more, Troy attempted to explain to Matthew why he had to do what he did and allowed him to contact a frantic Nora to reassure her that he was alright. During the conversation, Nora and Bo tried to negotiate with Troy for their sons safe return, to no avail. That evening, though, Matthew managed to escape after convincing Troy to get some sleep. Ron Walsh found Matthew walking along the road and took him to the police station, much to Bo and Nora's relief. Matthew recalled to the authorities Troy's whereabouts, while telling them that he didn't believe that Troy was the killer. As he sat in prison, it is eventually determined that he was innocent and that the real assailant had been merely setting him up to look guilty. The guards, meanwhile, arrived in time to stop Troy from committing suicide. Subsequently, Troy was sentenced to time at St. Ann's.

http://llanviewlabyrinth.webs.com/notoriouslyremembered/1990_2009/remembered_troymciver.html

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I don't mind Troy returning I suppose, perhaps we'll get some Troy/Lindsay scenes? But I just LOVE Hannah. I never realized or thought about the fact that both Hannah and Cole were in the jail together...

At this point the returns seem to make sense, as they are all tied to each other and people currently left on the show who may have unfinished business.

HOWEVER- I think Troy, Allison, and Hannah should all be in St. Anne's. It's conceivable that they concoct a plan to escape and "rescue" their "loved ones" from Statesville - Allison going after Mitch, Hannah going after Cole, and Troy going after Lindsay(although that's a stretch). That just leaves Greg as a return who is in jail - perhaps Destiny will be visiting him at that point and he's just caught up in it all?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • I know some of y'all really like Brooke Kerr, and so I've tried to give her a shot, despite her frequent flat line readings and distracted "did I leave the front door unlocked?" facial expressions. But lord, she is so bad at playing a tough-talking badass that I was actually rooting for Brad today to spill the beans to Drew. 
    • Googling does tend to ruin it.  For those of us who were teens in the late 1970s and early 1980s, you can't imagine how much fun it was to watch the show in the afternoons.  (It came on right after school.)  There weren't any "spoilers" at the time.  We would always try to anticipate how each crime and each mystery would be resolved, and we were ALWAYS wrong, because the stories are filled with so many weird twists and turns.   The head writer (Henry Slesar) and his dialogue writer (Steve Lehrman) invariably toss genuine clues directly into your face in the most unlikely ways, but then they provide a host of "red herrings" to completely confuse you and send you off on the wrong path.  Once the story reaches its conclusion, all you can think is Why didn't I figure that out weeks ago?  lol
    • Does the vault have the original scene and not the short flashback?
    • I appreciate that you are using AI with the knowledge of it's limitations. Some posters take everything it produces as fact.
    • And of course Mama Ru herself appeared on All My Children.
    • The Saturday 8pm slot usually had the lowest rating of the NBC 4 sitcom lineup for some reason. NBC let Saturday night fizzle, They used 9.30 pm to launch 227 and Amen, both of which moved to earlier in the evening but they  kept Empty Nest following GG for several seasons.  Empty Nest should have moved to 8pm with their strongest new sitcom at 9.30, anticipating that GG would eventually falter. Instead they left them there and stretching the sitcom pool too thinly on other nights. When Grand talk over at 9.30 Thurs maybe Night Court and Wings could have been used on Saturday.
    • @Maxim Great to see your mini-reviews again. There are a number of clips on Youtube of Janice's slow mental breakdown, especially as we go into January 1980. Christine Jones is just superb. She played the hell out of that role. Something which isn't referenced as much later on is how Mitch pushed Janice's doubts and mental instability for his own ends...until suddenly he didn't want to anymore (I guess he caught on with the audience and the show became wary). I don't want to post a bunch of clips, but this one has a very good confrontation between Rachel and Janice.

      Please register in order to view this content

      This has a good scene around 7 minutes in where you can see Janice struggling internally with her need to identify herself so much by the men around her, all of which helps lead to her crackup.  
    • It really made Oscar the Doorman seem like an imbecile.   I think the show's unusual format & subject manner is what makes EON often seem less "dated" and "old-fashioned" than other shows from that time period.  It never attempted to be especially "trendy" or "modern" -- and its film noir style is pretty timeless.  
    • Dallas, Dynasty, Knots and Falcon Crest all had good runs but by 85 they had seen better days. I think they were a victim of the format. After several seasons seeing the same characters front and center viewers were bored. What was once fascinating grew predictable. JR, Alexis etc had to be front and center and after a while their schemes and shtick grew repetitive. JR remarrying Sue Ellen, Alexis constantly trying to get he better of Blake etc Unlike daytime, there wasn't the flexibility to bring in other stories and characters and maybe let the likes JR go backburner. That same mentality also invaded daytime with characters like  Sonny and Victor still peddling the same stuff after decades. I guess the same could be said for MSW eg every week Jessica encounters a crime and solves it,but I think viewers come to that format with a different mindset.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy