Friday, July 1, 2005
It was a rough day for Viki. First Rex put his foot in his mouth and told her that Natalie's probably been kidnapped by the Killing Club Murderer. She clutched her heart, well you can just imagine how Kevin (who was there) and Rex felt. Kevin kept Viki from running to the police station — he went instead — which left Viki at home to bond with Rex. Viki tried to encourage Rex to think before acting. "Thinking isn't exactly my bag," Rex admitted. And Viki, in her wonderful Viki way, suggested that be something he could work on. Todd broke up that tender moment with an update on Jessica. "What's wrong with Jessica," Viki exclaimed.

Jessica, it seems, was afraid to go to sleep because she's worried that Tess might come out and do something bad. Todd tried to convince her that getting in touch with Antonio wasn't such a good idea, but agreed to bring him a note from her. After Todd left, Tess played a round of Let's Make A Deal with Jessica. If she would let Tess out for a while, Tess, in return, would tell Jessica all about the terrible, awful thing that happened when she was little, the thing that caused Tess to appear in the first place. We're intrigued.

Bo and John continued their search for Natalie and Evangeline. They found where the gals had been held earlier, but only found Natalie's little black dress and a note for Marcie. When Marcie saw the note she eventually remembered that it was in reference to the horrible death her killing club friends (way back in high school) had imagined for the cheerleaders they hated. Wonder what that death might have been? Read on.

At the end of the episode, the killer had dressed Evangeline and Natalie up in cheerleader outfits and had them tied to basketball poles about to be burned at the stake.

Thursday, June 30, 2005
Dorian stopped Kelly and Kevin from going any further (they were kissing A LOT on the staircase.) "You should not even be kissing him," Dorian scolded her niece. Lots of screaming ensued, lots of it. "We are trying to start over here," Kevin exclaimed. Kelly stormed off to the country club for a cocktail where she conveniently ran into Spencer. (Thanks to Aunt Dorian.) Outside of the club, David and Kevin formed a pact to find out exactly why Spencer was in Llanview, however the two men agreed that this new arrangement didn't mean they would be pals.

John, really crazed now, and Bo continued their search for Evangeline and Natalie. Marcie got an interesting bit of information from the KILLER, a photocopy of some old journal pages that go back to her high school days. A terrified Marcie ran to Bo and John with info that the killer was using information from the original killing club journals. Bo and John begged a frazzled Marcie to remember what the plan had been to kill the cheerleaders.

Meanwhile the two gals planned their escape. Natalie broke the window, using Evangeline's $300 shoe, but then the killer grabbed her. Natalie pulled away, with the help of Evangeline's well-aimed other shoe, but twisted her ankle. Then the masked killer entered.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Kevin brought Viki home to Llanfair and filled her in on Evangeline going missing and John McBain getting all intense over it — the kind of thing that happened when you looooved someone, he observed...as Kelly walked in with flowers! "This is nice. Really," Viki sighed...and not at Kevin and Kelly's hovering over her but at their twinkling! A mortified Kelly tried to play it off. Being nice to your ex does not equal twinkling! But when Dorian walked in, her appalled "Good Heavens!" only proved Viki right. Rather than face more questions, Kelly hightailed it out of there and after brushing off Dorian's warning of "Your days of making my girls' lives miserable are over," Kevin followed suit. Viki tried to calm her on-and-off rival. "Dorian sit down," she commanded, as the two made small talk about their girls and Spencer being David's brother. Still, Kelly's potential "dreadful mistake" wasn't far from Dorian's mind. Meanwhile, Kevin popped up at the Carriage House o' Loooove to see if Kelly really WAS twinkling at him at the Woman of the Year banquet. Pshaw. Nah. No big thang. But then Kevin started feeling her up and nuzzling her. Woo! "Does Spencer kiss you like I do?" he wondered. "I don't know. He hasn't kissed me yet," she admitted. "Good." And the two smooched passionately.

On the heels of Tess' frantic call, Ginger arrived to Sister Act Central, but it was Jessica who took the visit. No dummy, the Spice Girl wanted to know what was going on! "I need help," Jess-pretending to-be-Tess implored. Sage countered, "I DO know that you're not Tess." The jig was up. Jess admitted to Paprika that she had DID. Huh? A split personality. Oh. Well, Parsley admitted she liked the Tess personality better and refused to help out Jess, who was intent on destroying her fun side. "If you turn your back on us, we'll both be lost," Jessica warned. "This is your problem and I can't solve it for you," Coriander said, breezing out of St. Ann's. See ya! And a victorious Tess taunted Jess as she dissolved into sobs. "I'm not going anywhere. Don't you get that Princess?"

Over at the LPD, Nora busted Bo's chops for not giving enough attention to Vangie's disappearance. Say what? And John gave out orders to his guys as Rex burst in, asking, "Have you heard anything from Natalie?" Uh, no, since she was waking up on a hay ride...er...in a basement, in Evangeline's arms. The girlfriends ...er ... enemies tried to figure out what they were doing there. Still annoyed at Bo, Nora stood in the squad room, claiming, "For all we know Evangeline Williamson could be dead by now!" as Mama Lisa walked in and gasped. Way to go, Nora! Ignoring John's growl, Rex told him that Natty was REALLY missing. And as she and Evangeline concluded that the Killer had nabbed them both to get to John, Nat copped to the fake letter and Rex's dumb plan helping the whole thing along. After a few moments of Evangeline railing at her and Natalie feeling guilty, they went back to worrying and Natalie had a bizarrely timed freak out. "Don't make me slap you," Evangeline warned and they laughed at the absurdity of it. Vangie decided to shelve the blame since the Killer probably would've snagged them without Nat's "brilliant brother's brilliant plan." Then, Nat went to the awkward "I'm sorry that I'm the reason you broke up with John" Place and Van countered by saying that John was the reason. Unhappy with Nora's assurances, Aunt Viv (Lisa) went off to find Cookie (Evangeline) herself and John questioned Hayes, who had an airtight alibi but a visible layer o' sleaze. Bo and Rex angsted over Nat being missing, too, and then Bo told Nora, warning her that if she busted his chops again, "I'm going to have that policewoman toss you out on your ass." Awkwardness done, Natalie and Evangeline turned into a Mutual Admiration Society. "So, we're in this together?" Van wondered. "Not going anywhere without you," Nat assured. Awww! And the two girlfriends...er...allies...stared up as if an escape was on the ceiling...

Tuesday, June 28, 2005
At St. Ann's, Jessica pleaded with one of the nuns not to let her out, even if she asked. In a dream, Jessica asked Tess to reveal the secret that created her. But Tess offered a deal: the information in exchange for being let out. "I'll try not to kill anybody," she pouted. Jessica woke up as Tess and stole a cell phone from the nun who came to check on her. Tess placed a call to Ginger to break her out of the institution. Meanwhile, at the hospital, Viki let it slip to Antonio that Jessica had checked herself in to a mystery location to get help. Viki explained that Jessica didn't want their help, but had confided her location in Todd.

Rex spilled to John about his plan with Natalie to stage her kidnapping. John hoped that nothing bad happened at the Woman of the Year Gala in his absence. Rex overheard RJ make a shady business deal with Jackie McNaughton because RJ needed funds to win the custody battle over Jamie. When Bo confronted Rex about the kidnapping hoax, Rex revealed that Natalie didn't show for their scam and was now really missing.

Todd and Blair relieved Ginger from her babysitting duties. After some prodding, Blair finally conceded to Todd that she didn't press charges against Asa in exchange for him getting rid of Margaret — she couldn't go on without her husband.

At the Woman of the Year awards, Nora announced Evangeline as the winner, but the honoree was nowhere to be found. Kevin found a copy of Evangeline's speech and a picture of Natalie while Roxy discovered Evangeline's phone and bag and announced that she saw Evangeline, who was "fall-down drunk," leave the bash with a man. Michael assured Marcie that Evangeline's disappearance was unrelated to her book — Evangeline probably had a fight with John and left (How lame would that have been?!). Spencer agreed to put in a good word to get Dorian reinstated at the hospital and announced his intention to stay in Llanview. Kevin and Kelly sparred over their dates to the gala. "There you two are," Dorian snarked when spotting Kevin and Kelly with Spencer. Roxy made an acceptance speech in Evangeline's absence announcing her "platitude" for the award. Hayes attended the gala, providing himself an alibi. Meanwhile, Evangeline awoke trapped in a basement with an unconscious Natalie and a copy of The Killing Club.

Monday, June 27, 2005
At the Palace's bar, Lindsay and Marcie commiserated over Jen's death and Lindsay offered the girl a deal: Lindsay would try and forgive Daniel if Marcie stopped blaming herself for the KCK's actions. Lindsay went on to assure a disbelieving Rex he'd fall in love again and Marcie smacked down her creepazoid agent Hayes for suggesting she write a sequel. In the ballroom, Dorian and Kelly giggled over Spencer like schoolgirls, demanding an introduction from an antsy David — who quickly dragged Spencer away to talking about lancing boils. Mmm, boils! In their absence, Dorian gave her niece props for landing the "very tall doctor," who, on the VERY plus side, wasn't a Buchanan. David asserted that he intended to tell the Cramers about Spencer "at your funeral" but then Dorian came up and demanded the boys 'fess up. David claimed a vague acquaintance and avoided Dorian's attempts to get the truth out of him as Kelly and Spencer flirted prettily. David wound up dragging his bro off again and the two talked about Something Vague that David owed Spencer for. Ooo. "Nobody can find out that we're brothers, " David pleaded by the potted plants...right by the microphone. Oops. "David's brother? You sure can pick 'em," Kevin snarked at Kelly...while both Kelly and Dorian were mystified at David denying this handsome, charming, family tie.

At the LPD, Asa denied any ties with Carlo or Blair's kidnapping. Yeah, right, Pa, thought Bo. Carlo admitted he was "repaying a debt" for Asa, but when Bo asked "straight shooter" Renee what was up, she refused to narc on her cantankerous hubbie's deal with Hesser. Still, there was that matter of Asa kidnapping Blair, right? Meanwhile, in Argentina, Duke and Adriana realized Asa and Carlo were up to no good and Adriana sassed Carlo's cranky henchmen like a good Cramer Woman! Nora tracked down representatives from the Wingding Clinic where Blair had been held and they admitted that an Asa Buchahan had checked her in...but they pointed to Carlo! Ooo! Below the border, Duke pulled a MacGyver and used a mousetrap, Adriana's bra, and a bullet to set a trap for Carlo's men (her trick of getting her bra off without taking off her shirt was WAY cooler). Asa received a reprieve, although Renee warned him "we're not speaking" and he offered Blair a tantalizing deal when she threatened, "I'm going to crucify you." If Blair forgot the kidnapping, Asa would get rid of Margaret Cochran — since Todd's way would, no doubt, land him in jail. Blair wasn't going to consider it until she heard Bo warning Todd that his 'tude could land him in lock-up. Blair suddenly claimed, "It was Carlo! I remember now!" Asa went down to see Carlo,boasting "I've got all the cards." And the man he'd double-crossed just smiled. "I think one of them might have fallen out of the deck. An ace," he warned.

John opened up one of those snazzy newsprint cut-out covered envelopes as Rex watched, revealing a highlighted excerpt from the Killing Club and a picture of Natalie. As a dismayed Evangeline tried to ignore Mama Williamson's passive-aggressive John-bashing and blatant bid to join the Kevin Buchanan Fan Club, John dropped the pic of Nat and hightailed it to the docks...where he stripped off his jacket but left his gun and badge on and dove into the water to look for her (tsk, tsk!). Resurfacing, he heard a noise or two and yanked out his waterlogged sidearm, coming upon a hidden...Rex! Back in the ballroom, The Fresh Prince's Aunt Vivian...er...Lisa... continued to praise Kevin and Nora arrived to the banquet late, getting the evening update from Evangeline. Whew, maybe they were saved from the Woman of the Year banquet curse. "Good luck, Cookie," chuckled Kevin, picking up on Aunt Viv's nickname. "Thank you Cupcake," countered Evangeline, rolling her eyes good-naturedly. Mmm, baked goods! She and Nora went backstage to prep for her award...while, on the docks, Rex played dumb as John questioned him about Natalie's whereabouts. Not finding Rex's clueless evasion as cute as the recapper does, John pressured him until he caved and admitted, "She's not in any danger! The whole thing was a fake!" But it was far from fake when, behind the curtain at the Palace, someone with black gloves chloroformed Evangeline...