I know hot teenagers are all the rage right now, but is that really the fan base for OLTL?
Back to our adult story:
Bo and Nora return from their honeymoon, Todd and Tea have a moment, Todd and Kelly have an uncomfortable moment (please don't bring those two together!) and Blair and Eli have fun in a cabana at the country club. David walks by the pool in his very tiny, stars and stripes swim trunks and Dorian nearly has a heart attack. Tuc Watkins, oh no you didn't.
The story has been simmering all week, but now, the teenagers are in a lot of trouble—all because of a brief case stuffed with $50,000.
James Ford wants to get away from a life of crime at his father's chop shop in Ohio, so he steals the cash and comes to Llanview where he knows his older brother, Robert, "Ford" as he is called, works at LU, and is in the hospital recovering from a near-death bludgeoning.
James buries the cash at the quarry for "safe keeping" where Nate and Dani find it. They decide to give the money to Nate's mother so she can pay her mortgage before her house is foreclosed. He tells her he got the money from winning the lottery.
In the meantime, Starr has a chance meeting with James when she can't get her car started. He is on the run from a rough character named Bull, who has been hired by his father, to track him down and return the cash. James goes to the quarry to retrieve the cash and finds out it is gone. Starr tries to help James get the money to give to Bull, but they have an accident and wind up totalling her brand new SUV and now they have nothing with which to negotiate, and they have to walk.
Bull learns that Nate is the one who found the cash (thanks to Matthew, who has a grudge against Nate since he stole Dani away from him). Now, Nate is being held hostage by Bull for the $50,000. Dani convinces Todd to give her the money to give to Bull before something horrible happens to Nate. After realizing that Dani's father is rich, Bull raises his demand from $50,000 to $500,000. When Todd goes to the country club to deliver the cash, Bull and Nate are gone.
This isn't going to end well for someone.
Hannah's main agenda is getting closer to Cole and getting him away from Starr. She has concocted a story about Starr running off with James to a cabin in Maryland, and convinces Cole to drive there with her even though he is out of jail on bail. The cabin actually belongs to her grandfather. While Cole takes a nap, Hannah listens to his cellphone messages and learns that the police are looking for her; because, for some reason, Ford has identified her as his attacker. When Cole realizes she has taken the battery out of his cellphone, he starts asking a lot questions. She finally runs out of cover story and confesses everything, including that she lied about seeing Todd push Cole's mother down the stairs, which is why Cole beat up Todd in the first place and it landed him in jail.
Cole is furious that she has played him for a fool, but relieved when he finds out that she staged the whole scenario of Starr starting a new relationship with James. Cole wants to get back to Llanview as soon as possible, before anyone realizes he has left the state against the conditions of his bail.
But the big story is turning out to be, the mystery behind Ford's near-death experience. Earlier in the story, we see Ford reading a note he has just received and he acts as though it contains some kind of a threat. Shortly after that, he "remembers" his attacker and IDs Hannah. A day or so later, he re-reads the letter and we learn that it says he should be dead and that the attacker will come back and finish the job if he doesn't do exactly as he was told. Then he receives a phone call, and this time, Ford reacts angrily, saying that he put the blame on Hannah like he was told. Today, he receives a phone call and demands to know why he is being forced to blame Hannah when they both know it is a lie.
Dun,dun,daaaaa....... Stay tuned. Maybe we'll get a clue on Friday.
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