Scoops & Spoilers

• Vimal chickens out, taking back his accusations against former employer Clint.
  
  
• Clint gets away with his criminal acts, while his former flunky Vimal is left holding the bag.
  
  
• Nora drops a dime on Clint (for Eddie’s possible murder) to Matthew.
  
  
• Rex runs it (telling Bo about knowing Clint hijacked David’s wedding all along) by Gigi first.
  
  
• Instead of condemnation, Gigi bestows compassion on Rex, advising him to go immediately to Bo.
  
  
• Rex disappoints Bo with the reveal about knowing David was imprisoned by Clint all this time.
  
  
• Bo shuns Rex and all his belated offers of assistance at unearthing David.
  
  
• Rex goes crying to Gigi about Bo, and receives more uplifting advice to keep trying.
  
  
• Nora puts forward that Bo should head out there (Morocco) to pluck David from that hellhole.
  
  
• Cutter makes a note of a picture of David in ruins and in Dorian’s possession.
  
  
• Cutter’s observation opens the floodgates. Dorian cops to loving David, despite believing he dumped her.
  
  
• Cutter (the new Joe? David?) illustrates he’s not all bad when he’s nice to Dorian about her predicament.
  
  
• Joey reveals his hand, by hauling off and decking John for Kelly.
  
  
• John and Kelly realize they kinda dig what they started with each other.
  
  
• Again?! Kelly goes in for seconds—with Natalie’s man, John McBain.
  
  
• Roxy unloads when she gets a load of Kelly lounging in John’s bed.
  
  
• Roxy pleads Natalie’s case to John.
  
  
• John signs in as a visitor to St. Ann’s, so he can be okay again with Marty. Some self-recrimination is in order.
  
  
• After hearing about John and Natalie’s split, Marty feels happier than she’s ever been in a long time.
  
  
• Marty says something that piques John’s curiosity, when she says something about his son.
  
  
• Tess browbeats Ford into a quickie Las Vegas wedding.
  
  
• Langston and Brody arrive in Vegas after the fact. The dirty deed is done.
  
  
• Brody and Langston watch morosely as Tess struts out with a dejected Ford on her arm.
  
  
• Brody uses his cop credentials to try and put Ford and Tess into his custody.
  
  
• Brody makes sure Tess doesn’t get away, as he forces her and Ford to be under his custody for the trip back home.
  
  
• Viki, Clint and Dr. Levin prepare to take custody of Tess for another trip—to St. Ann’s.
  
  
• Sensing the trap, Tess evades St. Ann’s by saying that they have no power to commit her, only her newly wedded husband Ford does. And he wouldn’t dare.
  
  
• Viki updates Charlie about Jessica splitting into Tess.
  
  
• Viki and Charlie go over what Jessica could be going through, as related to her multiple-personality disorder.
  
  
• Ford expresses some misgiving about relying on Tess, when he is farther from Ryder than before.
  
  
• Tess reminds Ford that she’s seen to it that Ford will be Ryder’s dad soon, just cool your jets.
  
  
• Tess fools Natalie into handing over baby Ryder. Natalie was never alerted by anyone of Jessica’s split.
  
  
• Natalie begins to see her worst fear for Jessica coming true: Tess resurfaced.
  
  
• Viki sees a chance for Ford to make a huge sacrifice and lend a hand.
  
  
• Ford must sadly decline Viki’s request, pinning everything on Clint and Tess taking advantage.
  
  
• Starr and James finally get to tell each other what the other was thinking and did.
  
  
• Starr directs Dani to knock it off and come back, before it’s too late.
  
  
• Blair receives a little more detail on Tomas’s family tree.
  
  
• Todd bullies Inez into giving up the whereabouts of her son Nate and Dani.
  
  
• Todd goes about punishing Nate for trying to pop Dani’s cherry—but not before Tea storms in, curtailing the violence.
  
  
• Tea lays down the law against Todd. She’s appalled at how far he’s willing to go to stop Dani from losing her virginity. (Didn’t she get the memo about Starr and Cole?)
  
  
• Tea screams at Todd that she’s very close to ditching him for good.
  
  
• Todd pops a bolt. All unnecessary and mean-spirited. Téa raises a weary eyebrow.
  
  
• Now, Tomas acts like a concerned big brother to Téa, advocating she divorce Todd immediately.
  
  
• Todd unloads on Blair something awful.
  
  
• Starr whispers to Dani about James. Same thing with James and Nate.
  
  
• James recommends that Nate better go to Todd, hat in hand, make this right.
  
  
• Dorian puts Echo in an uncomfortable situation in having to face up to snaking Charlie out from under Viki.
  
  
• Echo goes to Viki, fully prepared to confess to sleeping with Charlie.
  
  
• Wendy Williams of the Wendy Williams talk show reappears as Phyllis Rose, host of the fictional Access Llanview show… to report on TV that Clint skated the law. This pleases viewer Nigel.
  
  
• Joey believes Clint has been hiding an awful lot from them.
  
  
• Aubrey presses Joey to keep an eye on Clint by becoming Clint’s tenants in the big mansion Asa left behind. She really only cares about living the high life.
  
  
• Next week: What’s going on at Rodi’s? Stay away if you value your life. Todd and John do not stay away but are in the middle of the firestorm… Todd says something startling – sure to drop jaws… Dorian fronts like she ain’t about David any more. She may go to extremes to back up her words… Dorian chews out Charlie… Téa and Cristian caution Blair against rushing full steam ahead with anything to do with Tomas… Joey illegally gets into Clint’s vault.

Tony Marino wrote:I wonder what the startling remark is that Todd makes. Can't wait to see Johnny get attacked by Joey.