OLTL—Thursday–10/14—Eli names his price.

Todd and Blair have hi-tech FBI people set up and ready to record incoming calls from Eli; but no one can figure out WHY he hasn't called yet.  Blair thinks that is a very bad sign, but Todd says Eli is only making them sweat.  The longer he waits, the more they'll be willing to pay.

Natalie still hasn't told anyone, what Greg said about Téa.  She starts to tell Nora at the police station and then gets interrupted by Bo.  McBain and Price have found Starr's car abandoned, so Bo asks Natalie to go out to the car and gather all the evidence she can find.

When she gets there, she starts to tell John about Greg, but he gets interrupted by a phone call, and needs to leave.  He asks her what she was going to say, but she says it can wait.  Natalie gets a lot of blood evidence out of the car and one mysterious thread out of the trunk.

FINALLY, after John leaves, Natalie tells Price about Greg and he tells her he thought he had a lead also, and had gone to Cherryvale clinic; but did not see the female patient, because he got a call that Greg was awake, so he left.

Natalie runs down the facts to Price:  "Something is just not right here.  We know that Eli and Greg are in this together somehow.  Eli ends up at the same hospice where Téa died.  Then he tries to kill Greg who, it turns out, is treating a woman at Cherryvale.  Then Eli goes on the run with two girls and a toddler, and they wind up at the same clinic?"

"It's not like he could go to a hospital in Llanview."

"True, but do you really think it's a coincidence that they ended up in
Cherryvale, or do you think there is a connection to the patient Greg was
treating?"

Natalie says they HAVE to check it out.  At the Cherryvale clinic, they find out the female patient "disappeared" last night and then her private nurse quit this morning, taking all the patient's records with her.  Natalie shows the orderly Téa's photo, but he says he doesn't recognize her.

Starr wakes up and she and Hope are locked in a room that looks like someone's attic.  Starr remembers Hannah coming to the Cherryvale clinic, but not how they got to the attic.  [Flashback:  Hannah hit her over the head.]

Dani wakes up in an abandoned warehouse, somewhere in PA.  Téa is locked in a room there also, but neither of them know it.  Eli calls Todd.  Todd wants to talk to Starr.  Now Eli knows Starr didn't make it home yet, so this will help in his negotiations.  Eli demands to talk to Blair.  Blair asks to talk to Starr.  Eli puts Dani on the phone and she blurts out that Starr and Hope got away.

Everybody just looks at each other and Eli loses it.  He tells Dani, "Bad move."  In the next room, Téa is climbing on chairs and tables to try to get to a very high window, but she is too weak and she falls.  Dani hears the noise and wants to know, what was that, and who is in there.

Eli tells her it is Starr.  He orders Dani to tell Blair that she is fine and Starr is fine and everyone is fine.  Todd takes the phone back and Eli names his price:  $50 million.

After Eli's call, the FBI tell Todd and Blair they don't know how Eli did it, BUT, somehow he was able route his call through several international stations in different parts of the world, and also had apparently planted devices locally that would interfere with the signal.  They are not going to be able to trace the call.  Blair goes ballistic.  They tell her the best they can do is try to analyze the background noise and see if that gives them any clues.

Eli screams at Dani for not following the script.  Dani refuses to back down and demands to know about the noise she heard coming the next room.  Eli says, "What noise?  I didn't hear anything."

Dani pleads with Eli to let her see Starr and he just laughs at her and says, "I'm in charge.  Me, that's it."  When he walks away from her, Dani starts yelling "Starr, Starr.  Can you hear me?  I'm okay."  Téa is on her knees praying to God for help, to find her way home. When she hears Dani's voice, she can hardly believe what she is hearing.

Eli goes into Téa's room and she says to him, "Daniella's here, I just heard her voice." Eli just looks at her like — Poor Tea, now I'm going to have to kill you. [Oh, no!]

Starr looks around the attic until she finds a baseball bat and is just about to bust the door down, when Hannah Bananas opens the door and they stare at each other.

Natalie leaves Cherryvale to pursue a hunch she doesn't share with Price.  She shows up at Todd's, saying that her Uncle Bo asked her to pick up something; then she goes directly into the living room.  She is hoping to take Tea's urn without anyone knowing, but for some reason, Todd decides to check on her and catches her in the act.  She is definitely startled by him and then he says, "Hey, what the hell are you doing?!?"

Dun, dun, da.....