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November 8, 2007 AMC “She stole my baby.” I ask you, how is Kendall supposed to come back from this? Will doctors find a brain tumor similar to Yawnathan’s? I am being totally serious: when a main character does the unforgivable, the next step is either jail or medical treatment if they’re going to return to Pine Valley society (except for cases where the protagonist did society a favor, e.g., Tad/Greg Madden). Both Erica and Palmer (among others) have spent time in the clink and lost not one notch of their elite social standing. It’s just harder to figure out what the eventual consequences will be when the person in question has two small children. My goodness, is there a new Derek Frye in town? Hawaii evidently can work miracles. Will Derek 3.0 have more chemistry with KWAK? Poor Jack. He’s on the verge of an all night sexathon with Erica and he gets a call from Aidan, telling him his daughter’s been arrested for kidnapping Erica’s…um, daughter’s son. What a downer – literally! It’s going to take more than Viagra to get this relationship back on track. Did you notice how Jack cleverly forgot to tell Erica precisely why he was called away? That’s going to cost him! So RichieWes really does have leukemia. Ryan, quick as a wink, figured out that meant he had nothing to lose. (He got his second clue when RichieWes appeared to kill the plane’s only pilot.) NICE! They’re putting the name of the song/artist being used on the screen. No more searching the Internet, writing to ABC.com, or asking friends in the know about “what was that song played during…” Kudos! Greenlee and Kendall are telling the police two very different stories about what happened that evening. Erica and Zach would likely be able to figure out who’s telling the truth, but they’re not about to share that information. Jack’s pretty darn sure, too, and he’s none too please with Erica. The problem is that he thinks she’s more involved than she actually is. The “commitment papers” that were “signed” by long-absent Mary also aroused his suspicions, rightfully so. Where was Amanda while JR and Babe were doing the nasty on the yacht? Walking the plank? Talk about “The Gift of the Magi!” Zach’s plan and Kendall’s plan backfired on each other. What to do now? ALUMNI NEWS According to the Daily News (Nov. 5), Justin (ex-Jamie) Breuning has been cast as the lead in NBC’s Knight Rider telemovie, playing the son of (oddly enough) Michael Knight, the lead character in the original 1980s series. If successful, it might become a series. In a weird “six degrees of separation” sort of thing, not only is the character named Michael Knight, just like the actor who plays Tad, Jamie’s father on AMC, there’s another quirky connection. The original Knight Rider starred David Hasselhoff, who was the second husband of Catherine (Lindsay, OLTL) Hickland. Hickland’s third husband? Why, none other than Michael Knight! (They’ve since broken up, but were a happy couple for a number of years.) Talk about your coinkidinks! (And congrats to Breuning, who landed this gig in a relatively short amount of time after moving to L.A. – ask anyone else who’s gone west to seek prime time fortune, it doesn’t always work out that way.) GH Jason never gets a break. It’s pouring, his long hair is soaked and getting in his eyes, there’s no canopy on his speedboat, but look – there’s a bomb! Set to go off! Talk about a rough ride! The Ditzy Don is hiding in plain sight in the ballroom, but as the only men who would recognize him – Johnny, Trevor and Sonny – are conveniently elsewhere, he’s safe for now. Sam shot him an odd look, and as she was asking Emily if the weirdo in the corner was on the guest list, he disappeared. Did he recognize her from Everyday Heroes? What a fine nurse that Elizabeth is – a guy falls out of a closet with an ice pick in his back and she doesn’t even check his vitals. Report her to The Piphster! Coop is sneaking around Wyndemere in a rather suspicious manner. Could Carly be right about him? Remember, he was a nogoodnik when he blew into town as part of Jerry’s merry band of mercenaries. In a moment of true idiocy, Lulu convinced Nadine to put on her ugly and very obvious key necklace. She might as well have drawn a target symbol on the girl. Sneaking out of the room was yet another moronic move, along with her idea to lure out the Ditzy Don by using herself as bait. Who is vandalizing the boats of Spoon Island and the Wyndemere generator? Who is shooting at Jax, Jerry and Sam? Not-so-dead (yet smoldering in his white tie, as predicted) Sonny seems to be the only one having a good time at the party and no one even knows. Well, except for Kate – and now Trevor. I think Spinelli sort of charmed the Ditzy Don by dubbing him the Demented Denizen of Darkness! He actually let Nadine and The Jackal flee, unscathed. Sweet! LINE OF THE WEEK: “So why did he and Psycho Pop come here? The dancing? The hors d’ouvres?” Luke, you slay me! It’s going to be difficult for Sonny to smoke out the Ditzy Don while he’s elsewhere on the island with a slightly dazed Carly. Dazed but certainly not confused: the more Anthony talked, the more clues he gave away to his identity. She’s on to him. If all Patrick has to operate with is some fishing line and hooks, how exactly does he plan to do a blood transfusion? How on earth did Tracy get to the party? For that matter, how did Jason? I thought his speedboat was blown to smithereens. Did the writers go on strike early? They must have, because the idea that Tracy hung out in a fertilizer shed for an hour and a half until the storm let up is plain wacko. Speaking of wacko, if Lulu tries to put herself in harm’s way one more time, I’m going to lose it. I am beginning to understand why many people have come to find that character so annoying. Well, as the Ball continues to snail along in “real time,” I guess there will be even more about this next time…see you then!
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