OLTL—8/12—This baby is John's—Now and Forever

Rumors are flying about Téa's brain tumor.  I still think it will turn out as I predicted and as others are also predicting:  Eli has either administered a drug that gave her a brain tumor – or – Dr. Evans is the mysterious accomplice and he is also in on it.

Somehow, I'm not seeing Greg as a bad guy, unless he did something horrible in his past and Eli is blackmailing him.  But Greg appears to be extremely straight laced and totally on the up-and-up.  One question that has NOT been answered:  How is it that Bobby Ford knows that Eli is Bennett Thompson?  None of that history has been revealed yet.

Here are today's highlights:

Todd shows up at Llanfair wanting sympathy from Viki.  Jessica shares her pregnancy news and Todd says, "Good for you."  Viki finally convinces Todd to go home and help Dani grieve and to share his grief with her; then leads him to the front door.

"Are you kicking me out?" "Yes, I am."

Danielle is crying her eyes out on the sofa when Nate shows up and dumps his problems on her, before he realizes what is going on with Téa.  Inez dumps her problems about Bobby, James and Nate's reaction that they are brothers, on Bo, but promises this will be the last time she talks about it.

Kelly and Rex figure out their next move and Rex decides to ask Natalie "on the down-low" to piece together the shredded papers that Kelly rescued from Eli's shredder.

Brody and Natalie spend most of the hour, arguing about her baby's daddy. John walks into Layla's apt. where Natalie and Brody are finishing their investigation and realizes that she has blabbed to Brody about the baby and is asking him not to say anything to anyone.  John wants to know why she told Brody, when she told him she wanted to keep it a secret, and she covers by saying she had to explain to Brody why she got sick while they were working.

John is suspicious that something isn't as it appears, but he can't put his finger on it.  He questions the two of them casually about the investigation.  He reveals to Natalie that it looks pretty telling that Eli Clarke is Bennett Thompson, but that there is nothing solid yet, so, that information is still confidential; but he plans to cover every aspect of the situation until he gets to the bottom of the truth.  They both look at each other, as though their secret is probably already showing on their faces.

When they are alone again, Brody begins to put pressure on Natalie to tell the whole truth, especially to Jessica.  Natalie ends the discussion by telling Brody, "this baby is John's — now and forever."

Kelly overhears Langston tell Starr that Bobby Ford had a blood test at the hospital—so she tells Jessica, there is a possibility he had sex with her after all.

So, now we are back where we started—Jessica doesn't know if Ford or Brody is the father of her baby, and Natalie doesn't know if John or Brody is the father or her baby.  In my opinion, this is a very irresponsible storyline on the part of the writers. This IS 2010. Those kinds of scenarios should NOT be happening to modern women who are no longer naive teenagers!  OK, I'm getting carried away—it's only a soap opera—it's only a soap opera.

Starr and Langston talk about the Ford brothers. Starr convinces Langston to accompany her to tell James to stay away from her.

Starr and Langston show up together, at the door of the bad boy brothers.

Dun, dun, da.....