Scoops & Spoilers
Previews for the week of 02-May-2011
by Carol Banks Weber

• Tea spends some quality time with her just-roused-from-the-dead husband, Todd. So do the rest of his clan.
  
  
• Tea probes Todd as to just how much he can recall of that night he was shot at.
  
  
• Todd is immediately on Tomas for the shot that caused the coma. He tells Tea, Blair, and Shaun what he remembers.
  
  
• Blair and Tomas are about to have sex when—ringa-ling ding!—Todd’s back from the dead.
  
  
• Tomas has the presence of mind to immediately sneak a conference with Calmar.
  
  
• Tomas denies what Todd is saying he did.
  
  
• Tea and Blair can’t seem to agree on the Tomas situation.
  
  
• Natalie informs John that they matched Tomas’ fingerprints to the syringe Dani picked up off the floor near Todd.
  
  
• John jumps on a lead against Tomas. And soon, Tomas is in handcuffs, being led away.
  
  
• Tea jumps in to defend Tomas in a growing case against him. She makes sure her brother has proper counsel while John’s picking him over.
  
  
• When no one’s looking, Todd buzzes or is buzzed by someone mysterious. (Not the first time, either.)
  
  
• John gives Tomas the third degree about his classified CIA status, which turns Tea’s world upside down.
  
  
• Tea begins to get very suspicious that all is not what it seems.
  
  
• The Jack bullying story gets to Todd, who summons his boy for a discussion.
  
  
• What Todd has to say about the bullying flabbergasts Jack.
  
  
• Todd straightens Jack out about the bullying—on the painful lesson of being raised by a bully, Peter the abuser.
  
  
• Rex and Gigi make things right with Dr. Buhari, starting with returning the session tape Gigi stole.
  
  
• Rex confesses to siccing two tough guys to rough up Jack a little for Shane, while in therapy with Dr. Buhari.
  
  
• Shane discloses that the bullying hasn’t suddenly stopped cold turkey. It’s continued unabated.
  
  
• Rex has a tough time keeping a lid on his wrath.
  
  
• Jack and Shane, and their families, end up in the same vicinity together. Imagine the fun.
  
  
• Nobody expected Todd to do what he does next during the Shane and Jack run-in. Todd genuinely tells Shane how sorry he is that Jack put him through the torture and it will NEVER happen again. Then, Todd forces Jack to do what Blair couldn’t, really mean it when he says he’s sorry.
  
  
• Jack swears up and down that he’s been a good boy about leaving Shane alone. The bullying Shane’s going through now is not Jack’s doing.
  
  
• Rex and Gigi, and Todd and Blair try to let the matter rest and leave the rest to God.
  
  
• Natalie pays attention to only the introduction of Marty’s session with her therapist—on tape. Initially, she thought it was Shane’s session.
  
  
• Natalie only gets to the part where Marty describes her next plan of attack on dismantling John and her relationship. Then,
  Gigi and Rex enter the scene and badger her to stop tape.
  
  
• When Natalie says the session tape isn’t about Shane, Gigi and Rex say it doesn’t matter, hand it over, it isn’t right.
  
  
• Natalie hands over this session tape to Rex, who will return it to Dr. Buhari.
  
  
• Marty tries to put the moves on John on their date, and even slobbers her lips all over him. But John has other ideas, namely to get to the bottom of Marty’s real agenda.
  
  
• Marty gets riled up, hollering at John about his fancying unworthy Kelly and/or Natalie and rebuffing her.
  
  
• Marty comes very close to giving herself away when she is about to tell John that she is willing to give it her all to restore his joy since she cost him and Natalie their baby.
  
  
• When next Marty meets Natalie on the street, the talk gets a little more nasty and delusional. Like, Marty actually makes known to Nat that she’s with John now.
  
  
• Natalie has a chance to absorb a puzzling bit of dialogue that makes her want to hit play on Marty’s therapy session—till the end.
  
  
• After Natalie has to endure Marty and John, and Marty chortling about reuniting with her love, Natalie is even more hot to trot about that session tape.
  
  
• In her mind, Natalie’s already putting together a means to sneak into the therapist’s office and abscond with that damned
  session tape.
  
  
• Ford and Tess are at each other’s throats. She hates his guts.
  
  
• Ford is at his mom Inez’s place, trying to love on his baby boy Ryder, but he must relinquish custody to Aubrey and Joey. Like, now.
  
  
• Tess feels for Ford’s plight with his son, but then Ford commits the ultimate act of betrayal by giving her up for sale to hold onto Ryder.
  
  
• Ford stalls at giving up his baby boy by appealing to Joey and Aubrey to have mercy in exchange for forcing Tess to go to St. Ann’s.
  
  
• Tess gives Ford the business.
  
  
• Inez comes across something that recoils her.
  
  
• Deep down inside, Jessica tries valiantly to power her way through the alter(s).
  
  
• Tess splits on the relinquishing custody downer, so nobody can find her.
  
  
• Tess throws herself on Cutter’s mercy. Is he who she marries next?
  
  
• Ford makes preparations to finally throw Tess into St. Ann’s for treatment. Oh yeah? Tess counters that she’s got that fixed, she
  married Cutter.
  
  
• Brody becomes aware of Tess’s sudden AWOL status, and becomes nervous for what’s next.
  
  
• He should be. Tess takes up with another man, makes it legal, and a new alter surfaces.
  
  
• Tess blows Brody’s, and Ford’s minds by legally wedding Cutter, who sees his opportunity to rake in the cash all by his lonesome.
  
  
• Brody tracks Tess down, then apprehends her.
  
  
• Ford and Brody promise Tess that she will not have her way, if they can help it.
  
  
• Kelly apprises John on what transpired during Ryder’s custody hearing.
  
  
• Dorian works on Cutter but good to get the goods.
  
  
• Viki finally gets to hear what’s on that tape Dorian made, the one Niki blew off.
  
  
• Clint delivers his dire diagnosis for Bo. It’s fatal.
  
  
• Nora soothes Bo’s frazzled nerves after going back and forth on how to feel about Clint.
  
  
• Echo puts Clint on the spot about that tape.
  
  
• Echo shakes in her shoes, because Viki has possession of that dreaded tape and is headed to Charlie with it.
  
  
• Viki plays the tape for Charlie, who is livid.
  
  
• Charlie has a little chat with Echo. It gets deep.
  
  
• Viki worries aloud to Dorian about Echo seeking retaliation.
  
  
• Destiny wards off WVL’s Blanca Morales with a few pointed words.
  
  
• Matthew indicts himself as Eddie Ford’s executioner to his good friend Destiny.
  
  
• Deanna fills James and Starr in on her choice to remain in town, backing it up with her motive.
  
  
• James and Starr make a point to hash out Deanna’s deal.
  
  
• Starr continues to find Deanna’s insertion daunting for her and James.
  
  
• Todd says he’s willing to deal with Deanna for Starr, but she says no thanks.
  
  
• Starr fills Dani in on the Deanna drama.
  
  
• Starr and Dani hook up with their boyfriends, when James pipes up with the next thing they should do: have Deanna live at Nate’s. None of the girls are down with that.
  
  
• Next week: Todd and Tomas circle one another, like prize fighters… Tess splits again, into a new alter entirely as Jessica suffers in a way she’s never suffered before… Watch out, Brody, you’re about to get clobbered… Natalie’s eyes are opened to the lengths Marty went to drive a wedge between her and John. Yes, Natalie learns Marty fixed the DNA results… Natalie goes about trying to give John the heads-up about Marty but in entirely the wrong way. She should do a face-to-face… John commits the biggest blunder of his life: he blows off Natalie’s phone message trying to warn him about Marty… Marty races against time to shut Natalie up… Marty goes after Kelly, wounding her. It’s a bloodbath!… John intervenes with a wounded Kelly, doing all he can to just make her not hemorrhage further… When Natalie tries to have it out with Marty, she goes flying, injuring herself almost fatally… John then comes across (his) Natalie laid out cold… The next target of Marty’s is gonna be Natalie and John’s baby boy, Liam… Echo wants to rain destruction down on Viki and Dorian for what they did to her.
  

Thanks for the spoilers, Chris. Looks like some great things coming up. Can't wait to see the Todd stuff play out though I'm really not looking forward to the 13th.

NO interest whatsoever in the Tess/Jess/daddy switch crap - UGH! Ill contine FFing that storyline.

I despise Gex more and more each day. I wish Todd had sent someone to give Rex a taste of his own medicine after what he did to the Mannings. Rex is such a total idiot!!!! He seems to have forgotten what he did to Jack when he let the Mannings mourn Sam. Until Rex pays for what he did and gets karma, he'll never be anything more than a body-feeding scum-sucker - worthless and annoying.