OLTL—8/2—Wow--I Didn't See That Coming!!

Just the highlights today.

John McBain answers the call from Boston and talks to an associate of Glenn from the Hall of Records, who informs him that Glenn has just died from a heart attack!!  What?!?!?  (I wasn't expecting THAT at all! Those kind of surprises make it all worth it.)

Kelly is convinced that either Eli is Bennett Thompson or he KNOWS Bennett Thompson. BUT, the big glitch turns out to be that Eli was back in Llanview—so, does he have an accomplice or how else did he murder Glenn?

Cole tries to call Hannah at St. Ann's, but is told she does not have phone privileges, "... and besides, she's meeting with her attorney right now." He finally listens to Starr's voice messages and rushes home, where she tells him about Téa.

Jack goes back home to get dressed for Todd's wedding and to try to convince Blair not to marry Eli. When she turns her back to take a phone call, he starts unpacking her bag. He tries to talk her out of leaving, but she is still hopelessly blinded by her diamond, so she can't see a thing past her hand.

Finally, Kelly shows up, and when she finds out Blair is flying to Vegas to marry Eli, she says, "No Blair, you can't marry Eli." (But you already know it isn't going to be that straight forward. Blair will interpret her "concern" for something else—probably jealousy.)

Natalie is sitting in the parking lot of the Planned Parenthood Clinic with Gigi, trying to decide what to do about the baby of unknown daddy. So, we are shown several fantasy scenes of what might happen if everybody finds out that the baby daddy is really Brody. None of the alternative endings goes well.

Returning to the Eli and Hannah scene from yesterday where he pulls out a gun:  Since he can't really shoot her in the hospital, he has decided to force her to take an overdose of pills, otherwise he will force Cole to take the pills instead, and then throw him in the Llantano River. Of course, she takes the pills. (Oh yeah, did I mention this is a soap opera.)

Todd and Dani are in the living room waiting for Téa, and Dani is looking at Todd's photo album where she sees her mother marrying the previous actor who played Todd--Roger Howarth. (For me, it is always cool when the show does that kind of thing instead of trying to pretend it never happened.)

Dani asks Todd if he misses his old face!!!!! Todd says, "Are you kidding? Look at me." (Personally, I think St. John is a breath of fresh air compared to Howarth, who I thought was a boring, one-dimensional actor, but that's my opinion.  A lot of fans tuned in JUST to see him.)

In the final scene today, Téa appears to be hallucinating and says to Todd, "We can't get married, because YOU are not Todd Manning." (Either the brain tumor is affecting her memory and she only remembers how he used to look—OR—"this" Todd is much too nice to be the "real" Todd and she is just kidding around; but she definitely didn't look good. I'm sure we are on our way to the hospital—posthaste.)

Tomorrow, tomorrow.....