One Life to Live Update for Tuesday, 23-Aug-2005

Spencer goes to see Blair although he tells Dorian he wants to see Todd. She makes it clear to him that she encourages him to take Blair away from Todd.

Right then, Blair goes to Todd’s office, sneaks up on him and catches him on his “secret” call that he doesn’t want to tell her about.

Now that Jessica has turned back into Tess, she admits to Nash that as much as she doesn’t like it, she’s fallen in love with him.

Evangeline returns home and informs her sister that they found Natalie Vega and it looks like she may be ok. But Layla seems to know that Evangeline may have an “issue” with the fact that John has saved Natalie.

Right then, when Natalie is in her recovery room, she is ready to get it on with John.

Roxie goes to Rodi’s and tells everybody that Nattie has returned. She gets everybody all rowdy. She finds Rex and notices that he is sitting by himself and not in such great spirits. She wants to encourage him to have more drinks in order to celebrate Natalie’s return. But he tells her he’s good and she might want to watch the booze herself.

Antonio goes looking for Jessica and finds out she is nowhere to be found.

Nash tells Tess that he wants to proceed with caution. He admits that he loves her.

Spencer tells Dorian that she mistakenly thinks he is interested in Blair when he is dating her cousin. Dorian tells him she knows that Kelly kicked him to the curb and she tells him that she really wants Blair to get rid of Todd Manning. She assumes that since Blair is not there, he would want to leave. But he tells her he wants to talk to her. She tells him that she knows that Kelly was “framed” for leaking the information about Kevin’s company which caused him to lose all the money. She asks him if he might know who would have leaked that information. Right then, Starr runs out of her room after having a nightmare about Margaret. Dorian tells her that it was just a bad dream and she needn’t be afraid of Margaret. Right then, Spencer remembers the time when he found Todd in the alley and heard Todd talk about Margaret.

Right when Todd and Blair are in his office having a conversation, Margaret appears outside the door and spies upon them. She overhears Blair telling Todd that she wants to get him out of the office after he suffered his stab wound. He seems to realize she does not buy the story about the tire shears. But she tells him it does not matter the reason it happened. She also tells him she’s noticed that he’s hired more bodyguards and wonders why. He makes it clear that he wants to put going after Asa on the back burner. She asks him why. Margaret hears their conversation. And right when they are ready to go out the door, Margaret makes herself unseen.

Dorian tells Starr she just had a bad dream and her parents are just fine. But Starr somehow knows that they must go to the office to make sure they are ok. Dorian then tells her she must just go to her room right now. Spencer remarks to Dorian he’s observed that this Margaret woman seems to have Starr terrified. Dorian admits yes. And she admits that’s kind of unusual since Starr is usually fearless. Spencer then asks Dorian how much she knows about what happened when Margaret held Todd hostage. Dorian then remembers her “discussion” with Blair where Blair set her straight that Margaret raped Todd. Dorian changes the subject and asks Spencer if he wants some tea.

Layla tells Evangeline that although she may say she intends to let John go, she knows that her sister does not let anybody go.

Antonio goes to Rodi’s and informs Rex that he’s looked all over for Jessica and is afraid of her being gone. Rex tells Antonio that he knows all too well what it’s like to lose the woman you love.

Nash and Tess look like they are rekindling. And she tells him that they should just pick up and go to California. But right then, Roxie enters, assuming she is Jessica and talks about her twin sister being rescued. Tess does not know what to say to Roxie. And Nash obviously has questions about this, remembering hearing Tess tell him about her “twin sister” named Jessica who died.. Hearing that, Nash remarks that he thought that “Tess’s twin sister” died. But Roxie tells him that everybody thought she’d die but she’s ok. She assumes, obviously, that he is talking about Natalie. She invites them to join the party. Nash wants Tess to tell him what is going on. She tells him he must realize that Roxie is the town drunk and you cannot believe a word she says. He admits that there are so many things about Tess that he does not understand. She assures him that when the go to California, she will tell him everything. But he admits that he has real reservations about going to California.

Dorian encourages Spencer to expose Todd for the no good jerk he is. Right then, Todd and Blair enter. Todd asks Dorian what Spencer is doing there. Blair tells them Spencer is welcome there any time.

After finding out that Dorian will not take her to the Banner office in order to save her parents, Starr goes by herself. She walks through the dark hallway and into the office. And she is horrified to see Margaret.

Blair goes to check on Starr and discovers that she left from her room. Dorian and Specner inform Blair and Todd that Starr had a nightmare about Margaret. She wanted Dorian to go with her to the Banner. But she tells them that she “convinced” Starr that they were alright and there was no need to go to find them. But they all know what a willful young lady Starr is and how likely it was that she listened to Dorian telling her she needed to go back to bed. Todd tells Dorian she is an idiot and unfit to watch a house plant. Dorian protests that there was no way for Starr to sneak out the door and be unseen by both her and Spencer. But Spencer admits that there were times when they were distracted and she could have escaped unseen. Todd then gets on the phone. And they found out that Starr had a dream that Margaret killed her parents.

Starr finds herself locked in the office. She screams and pounds on the door and appears terrified of Margaret.

Dorian asks Spencer if he has any “plan” to take Blair away from Todd. Spencer then remembers what he heard about Todd impregnating Margaret. And he tells her that he believes that Todd will ruin his own marriage all by himself.

Right then, it looks like either Margaret disappeared from the Banner office, or Starr just imagined seeing her. There’s a guard who informs Starr that everything is ok. And right then, Todd and Blair get off the elevator to find their daughter. She tells them she swears that Margaret was right there. They don’t know whether to believe her, remember Blair having similar “delusions” about seeing Margaret, and Margaret is nowhere to be found. But Margaret is hiding, unseen again. And on the computer screen saver, she has written: “Margaret and Todd and Baby make three.”

Right then, we see that Renee Elise Goldsberry is an AWESOME SINGER, as well as an actress. SHe sings a song about realizing she cannot do nothing if somebody does not love her.