I’m up to October 12, 1998.
*As of 10/07, Lisa Brown as Nola is no longer in the ending credits. Such a sad way to boot a veteran character. They also added Vicky Spaulding, with a new actress’s name - Victoria Platt. We haven’t seen her yet, I wonder why the first actress was replaced.
Harley/Phillip try to lure Annie to their place with Frank/Teri watching on a stakeout. Teri sees a blonde woman and assumes it’s Annie, so she pins her to the ground and arrests her. The lady tries to mace her. Teri brings her up to Harley’s and come to find out it’s Reva. What a way to introduce Reva and Teri to each other haha. They both assumed each other were Annie, given they’re both blonde. They’re both catty to each other. They all talk about how the Stalker is targeting mothers who aren’t treating their children the way they think they should, which given Annie’s past obsession with children, makes sense. Reva gives Teri her history with Annie and Teri says Annie is a very interesting person to study. Teri then recruits Reva to help them find her.
While Ross is at the hospital with Dinah, Blake asks Ben to help her get her kids back. He takes her to the Bauer house where Abby is watching them. Against Abby’s wishes that the kids stay there, Ben and Blake bully her and force the kids out, which was honestly very off-putting to watch. Abby rushes to the hospital to tell Ross, and he isn’t happy. Back at her house, Blake is having second thoughts and doesn’t want to run and take the kids away from Ross like Fletcher did to Holly with Meg. Ross then enters the house and Blake comes clean and says she couldn’t go through with it because she can’t be as cruel as him. While Ross/Ben are outside arguing, she makes a call to someone and asks them to come over and help her. Ross/Ben walk back inside and realize Blake and the kids are all gone. They head to Holly’s house to see Ken and ask if he helped Blake, but Ken stays silent outside of telling them they’ve both treated Blake terribly. While Ross talks to Ken, Ben goes downstairs where Ken stays and finds a bottle of the Hydroflux poison that was used on Harley. He also finds a newspaper with the Nursery Rhyme Stalker headline.
Holly is discharged from the hospital now, after being sedated in bed for a while, but Rick questions whether she’s mentally strong enough to leave. Michelle shows up and talks to Holly alone, and then helps her leave the hospital by distracting Rick. Holly gets home and finds Ben/Ross there with Ken and drills into them all. Ben announces he found the poison and that Ken may be the Stalker and has put Blake in danger! Ken denies it and says the poison is used to help his plants grow. Holly defends Ken too, saying he was with her the entire time. Rick and Holly’s doctor shows up and wants to admit her into the psychiatric ward, but Holly begs them not to so she can find Blake. They finally agree and leave, and Ken privately reminds Holly he wasn’t with her when Harley was given the apple, but Holly says they’re family and need to stick together. We then see a cutaway scene to the boys playing somewhere with a tape recorder playing the “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” song. Come to find out, Blake got Hart to take her to a hotel and she wants to run to California with the boys to stay with Roger/Amanda. Hart tries to convince her not to and it works. He takes her back home and as Ross walks in the door, she’s there waiting for him. They talk, but he’s adamant about living apart. As Ben gets to his hotel room, he sees a bottle of whisky and a note that says to relax and enjoy, and she’ll be there soon, signed by Blake. We then see the assumed Stalker watching him from the hallway with the creepy Nursery Rhyme music playing. I’m really enjoying this storyline (the Stalker, not the never-ending Ben/Blake/Ross saga haha). Ben drinks the whisky and it starts to impact him to the point where he falls unconscious in the shower. The Stalker, in black gloves, plugs the shower drain and then takes the whisky, glass and note (but leaves a new note) and leaves his hotel room. Blake then shows up to his room, finds the new Queen of Hearts nursery rhyme note about Ben needing to pay, and then sees water coming out of his bathroom door. She sees him in the tub, water up to his face and drowning, but she can’t get her wheelchair through the door LOL. Not wanting Ben to die, we have a miracle and Blake fights to get out of her wheelchair and walks to him and pulls him out of the water. She performs CPR and he starts to breathe and wakes up. They both realize she walked and celebrate by hugging and Ben kisses her.
Beth shows up at the hospital to apologize to Matt again and asks if she can help explain to Vanessa what happened, but Matt says it’s best not to worry about it. She later runs into Vanessa and brings it up. Vanessa very coolly, like a boss, tells her she’s not worried about Beth but it’s obvious she is attracted to unavailable men. Vanessa says that Ben is obsessed with Blake, Philip is engaged to Harley, Matt is very happy married to Vanessa, so the next time she feels the need to get tipsy or find a shoulder to cry on, she should call her mother instead. Later, Harley overhears Beth talking to Matt about Vanessa’s reaction and confronts her privately about stealing yet another man.
Later, Hart is grieving at home with Cassie, blaming himself for killing his baby. Cassie tries to comfort him by asking if he would want to have a baby with her, which makes him angry, thinking they can replace his dead baby so quickly (he still doesn’t know she’s pregnant). They finally reconcile and he says he’d like a baby, but later and not now. Meanwhile, Dinah’s blood pressure spikes and she goes unconscious. They get it under control and Dinah wakes up, but it freaked everyone out and Vanessa takes her blood pressure meds to calm her. Bill and Dinah notice and get concerned, thinking her disease is coming back, but Vanessa assures them her disease isn’t back and it’s just to help bring her blood pressure down. Hart/Cassie then leave for the night, which Dinah watches, so she takes Vanessa’s pills in hopes to set off her monitors again so Hart would come back all night with her (so dumb). Sean stops by with balloons and gifts to make her feel better (they had recently been getting chummy in a frenemy sort of way). Dinah starts to crash out and goes unconscious while he’s there. Vanessa shows up and gets worried and tells Dinah how much she really loves her and wants her to live (because Dinah keeps talking about wanting to die since she has nothing to live for, but with her inner dialogue, we know she’s manipulating everyone). As Dinah talks about wanting to die, Hart shows up and overhears it and panics. He stays by her side and she reminisces about their good days, but the pills she took make her more sick because she took too many. Dr. Sedgwick tells the family she doesn’t know how to help Dinah and she may not make it. Hart tries to get Dinah to open her eyes and says they can get married, if only she opens her eyes. The priest shows up to help the family through impending death, but Hart begs him to marry them. Bill breaks in and says there’s no way he’s letting them get married because he put her in this situation. Vanessa breaks them up, Dinah finally wakes up and Hart gets the priest to marry them all alone and they are announced husband and wife. This is so dumb of Hart. I get he’s heartbroken and feeling guilty, but this is a stretch. Cassie overhears Ross thanking Hart about it, and Cassie is confused as to why he would do it and walks away. She later sees Dinah’s condition and Hart talking to her and tells him she understands now why he felt he needed to marry her. Later, Vanessa realizes she can’t find her blood pressure pills, and Bill finds them under Dinah’s bed and realizes she’s been taking the pills. She convinces him not to say anything.
Blake takes Ben to the hospital to get checked and Ross is there and realizes she can walk. She tells him everything that happened at Ben’s and he seems conflicted, but has to continue focusing on Dinah. The doctors say Ben was poisoned with Hydroflux which is what the Stalker used to poison Harley, and what Ken had in his basement for his plants.
Marah comes home from school and shocks Reva/Josh with a note she found in her locker - “Miss you, Love Annie”. Reva calls Teri to come by and look at the note, and they agree to put their differences aside and work together. Later at the station, Teri and Frank go over her notes from Reva’s interview and she comments that Josh and Reva are so in love, still after all this time. Frank asks if she’s jealous and wants someone in her life and she says yes. Frank then says any guy would be lucky to date her, and she asks if that includes him (uh oh). She then gets more flirty and in his face and they end up kissing - FRANK! I can’t believe good boy Frank is willing to cheat on Eleni. Teri tells him she knew he wanted that kiss from the day they met and he admits she’s very desirable. She tells him she was actually married before (not just engaged), but her ex-husband cheated on her and it hurt her badly. Frank then leaves a little stunned by what happened.
After the Ben incident, Teri and Frank start to think it might be Ken again. They go back to Harley and Phillip and show her a picture of Ken. She says she recognizes him because he ran her off the road and started following her a few days ago (all off screen). Teri/Frank leave to go find Ken, and Phillip leaves to grab them dinner. Ken knocks on Harley’s door and forces himself in. She’s scared and while trying to protect herself, Ken says he’s been watching her for a while now. He then says he’s been wanting to hire her to find the stalker so people don’t think it’s him and lock him up again. She’s able to call Phillip secretly so he can hear them talking and he comes to rescue her with Frank/Teri, but while waiting on them to get there, Ken convinces Harley he isn’t the stalker. But when they arrive, Ken gets spooked and grabs a knife and takes Harley hostage. Phillip and Harley get Frank and Teri to lower their guns, but Teri calls for backup. Harley tries to convince everyone he isn’t the stalker and he’s just scared now. It’s working and Ken is about to let her go, but Teri all of a sudden shoots her gun towards him and he frees Harley. They take him to jail while Frank privately tears into Teri for putting Harley and herself in danger. Later at the police station, Teri gets a call in front of Frank - we don’t hear anything, but Teri said it was Annie. Annie tells her she isn’t the stalker and Teri tells Frank she’s calling from Teri’s house, so now Annie knows where she lives!
Cassie, Reva and Sean are all arguing about her situation with Hart and Dinah and how he married her. Hart shows up wanting to talk to Cassie, which annoys Sean, but Reva gets him to calm down. Hart gets a little heated and tries to pull Cassie away to chat, but Sean grabs him and pins him against the wall and says he’s an idiot for trying to manhandle a woman that’s pregnant! Hart asks if it’s true, and Cassie says yes, but it’s Sean’s baby! Oh brother. Reva/Sean reluctantly go along with it and Hart eventually punches Sean. Cassie then breaks up with Hart, telling him she can’t be with a married man. He goes to Dinah and tells her Cassie is pregnant with Sean’s baby and Dinah gets happy while Vanessa seems suspicious. After Hart leaves, Dinah accidentally slips that her baby wasn’t Hart’s and Vanessa gets upset and realizes Dinah hasn’t changed a bit. Dinah said she had to do whatever she could to get Hart back and Vanessa tells her she has to end the marriage.
Sean later tells Reva the reason he went along with Cassie’s lie is because he’s still in love with Reva, just as Josh walks in and hears what he said! He confronts Sean and Sean tells him the truth about how he feels, but that nothing sexual happened on the island. Josh starts to get upset, but Reva interjects and sets him straight. Reva said Sean is the reason she was able to survive the island and made it home. Sean continues to say he has no intention of coming between Josh/Reva, but he just needs to be honest with how he feels. Sean leaves and Reva lays into Josh. They eventually see eye to eye and reconcile.
Drew decides to call her new club Millennium (LOL, how original for late 1998). As Jesse/Drew are getting ready for their first night, Michelle shows up and announces she’s moving into a new apartment with Jesse, which pisses off Drew. Michelle tells Drew she plans to spend a lot of time at the club, which irritates her again. Mick shows up and creeps Michelle out as she leaves. Mick then offers Drew coke, but freaks out and says she’s lost people to drugs and she warns him to never bring that in her club again. A few days later, before their opening night, Selena delivers food from the diner and runs into Mick. He says they’re in dire need of a hostess and Selena said she’d do it for a little extra cash. She tells him she needs money because she’s hired someone to find her daughter. Drew walks in and gets angry that Selena is there and they start screaming at each other, with Drew continuing to call her a hooker. Selena leaves and Mick tells Drew about Selena’s search for her daughter, which makes Drew soften a bit. Drew later offers Selena the job and they agree to put their differences aside for now.
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