Thursday, November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving from Soap Opera Digest and Weekly! Check back for your recaps on Monday.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Annie was able to share a brief visit with Emma, but couldn't bring her home until there was DNA proof Emma was her child. Ryan took Annie back to his place so they could anxiously wait on the test results together... Across the way, Kendall was distressed when the Valley Inn banned her family from celebrating Thanksgiving there. She really wanted a nice Turkey Day for Spike (and herself, especially since things didn't go exactly as planned with Greenlee last year). Zach vowed to give her a "perfect Thanksgiving." Later, Kendall freaked out when she thought Spike swallowed a button. She frantically called Ryan and Annie over, who assured her the little tyke was okay. After sharing a sweet moment with Ryan, Kendall was perturbed when he left her to be with Annie once Emma's DNA test results came in.

Erica planned on returning home to Jack, but she was shocked when he delivered all of her things from their home to the hotel. "At least now you have a different outfit for every course of the Thanksgiving dinner!" quipped Zach, when he arrived to see the mayhem. Zach advised Erica to put aside her anger on Thanksgiving for Spike's sake. After Zach left, Erica informed the hotel she would not be moving out. In fact, she now needed extra rooms for her things... Meanwhile, over at the Miranda Center, Jack ran into Brooke and invited her to spend Thanksgiving with him... At the hospital, Jeff and Josh shared a nice father/son moment and Josh agreed to spend Thanksgiving with his dad. Later, Josh vowed he would wait as long as it took to get Babe back.

Adam was all smiles when we walked into JR's room and found Colby asleep by his bed. "Seeing my two children like this, I know we can get through anything," he said once the kids woke up. Babe arrived, and JR told his pops he wanted to speak to his wife alone. Babe poured her heart out to her husband, but in response, JR just poured a cup of water on her (literally!) and told the "worthless whore" to stay out. He screamed further obscenities at her, loud enough for Jeff, Josh, Adam, Colby and pretty much the rest of the hospital to hear. Adam warned Babe that if she loved JR, she'd stay away from him. Back in his hospital room, JR tore Babe out of a family photo and then looked up, surprised to see Josh standing before him.

Once the results of Emma's DNA test were in, Annie and Ryan rushed to the hospital. As the episode ended, Jeff held the final results in his hands... Back at Kendall's place, David arrived claiming to already know the results of the test. He took great pleasure in getting under Kendall's skin, then dropped the bomb: "Ryan is the father of Annie's little girl."

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A knock on the door from Jack interrupted Jeff and Erica's passionate buss. Jack was upset when he discovered that Jeff was in his wife's room and despite Erica's efforts to get him to converse with her he turned on his heel to leave. Their bickering escalated and Jack stormed off. Erica returned to her room and informed Jeff, "I have to go home."

In front of Adam, Dixie concealed her true reason for stopping by the mansion. Krystal got Adam to give her and Dixie some alone time. Dixie then asked Krystal point-blank if the baby she's carrying is Tad's. Krystal strongly denied it and urged Dix not to listen to David.

Tad went to the Roadside Bar in search of a fight. Jamie and Julia entered and stopped Tad from his chosen method of anger management. Tad reluctantly returned home with Jamie and Julia in tow and told them how good it had felt to have come thisclose to killing David. Tad emphasized to Julia that his hands aren't clean even though he didn't do in Hayward. Before leaving with Julia, Jamie thanked Tad for helping him get his relationship with her back on track.

Jack found Sean at the Roadside Bar trying to get alcohol. He read his nephew the riot act.

In JR's hospital room, David set about torturing JR, who chose to insult Babe instead of playing nice with his hostile father-in-law and tried to attack him physically. Colby's arrival thwarted David's revenge; he bolted. JR assured Colby that neither the demise of his marriage nor his accident were her fault. JR told his teary sister that he still loved her.

When Babe spied Josh on the Chandler property she told him to leave. Instead of going, he pulled her into a hug. Babe stressed to Josh that she had every intention of getting back together with JR, if he would have her. Josh remained determined. Josh hid when Adam came outside. After Adam and Babe's brief chat, Babe rejoined Josh and sent him away, but their continued connection was obvious.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Bianca met up with Jack at home to discuss Thanksgiving. Jack broke the news that Erica likely wouldn't spend the holiday with the family. Binks was appalled.... Lily questioned Jack about why Erica moved out. Jack apologized to Lily for his role in her break-up with Jonathan...

Erica was by JR's bedside when he woke up in the hospital and gloated about how he couldn't hurt her family anymore. She commanded JR to take responsibility for his cruel actions towards her loved ones. La Kane was upset when Jeff intervened and dragged her back to the Valley Inn. Binks walked in just as Jeff was voicing his renewed feelings for Erica. Jeff excused himself and Binks told Erica in no uncertain terms that it was time for her to move back in with her husband. Erica refused, disappointing Bianca.... Jeff returned to check on Erica, who filled him in on the reason Bianca came by. Jeff swept Erica into another kiss as Jack prepared to enter Erica's suite.

Zach brought a Pilgrim-outfitted Spike to visit Kendall at Fusion. She reported to Zach that she had gone over the edge, citing as evidence that she had blocked Babe's attempt to quit Fusion. Bianca arrived to enlist Kendall's help in getting the whole family together for Thanksgiving. Zach predicted that the holiday would be a disaster as per usual.

Adam and Krystal exchanged threats over custody of their unborn child. Krystal was about to reveal that the baby was biologically Tad's but Babe stopped her by changing the subject to her own refusal to give up rights to Little Adam. She beseeched Adam and Krystal to talk to each other reasonably. Adam agreed to back off and he and Krystal embraced.

Dixie reeled from David's revelation that Krystal is pregnant by Tad. "Tad has a baby and you don't," Hayward smirked. Tad entered and attacked David. Dix stopped Tad from beating his nemesis to death. Tad calmed down and apologized to Dix for frightening her and implored her to tell him what David had said to her before Tad arrived. Dix evaded, begging Tad to forget about David.

JR writhed in pain. David arrived and in a sinister tone offered to help take care of him. David began to administer a presumably painful "remedy".

Josh came to the mansion and gazed at Babe; she met his glance.... Dixie arrived to see Krystal and said it was about her baby.

2005 recaps