After Luis leaves, Fancy admits to Theresa that she was eavesdropping on their conversation about the Cranes. Fancy defends her grandpa Alistair, because he has always been nice to her. It’s established that Fancy is the only person Alistair likes. This will presumably end up having something to do with how Fancy is the only person in Rome who doesn’t have much of a reason for being there.
Beth is “outside,” dressed up as a nun. EvilMonk comes up to her and yanks her chain a little bit about how he hasn’t seen her in church lately, but then he reveals that he is Alistair. Beth is delighted, squeals “Daddy!”, and tries to give him a big hug. He keeps her at arm’s length and rather unconvincingly claims that he’s there to help her.
Father-daughter reunion.
Once again, Miguel and Siren are making out at their photo shoot, and the photographer is gushing again about their amazing sexual chemistry. Suddenly the photographer is nauseated by the stench of rotten fish and rushes out of the room. Everybody takes five, and Siren sees her opportunity to eat grab a snack.
Miguel and Kay are having a sappy nostalgic conversation when Gorton interrupts them, all pissed off that somebody stole all his bait fish. Just then Siren comes in and lets out a huge burp. Kay looks like she might be onto her.
Theresa and Fancy act all girly together in the hotel suite, trying on clothes and looking at fashion sketches. Oh yeah, I forgot that Fancy actually works for Theresa, since Theresa is the acting head of Crane Industries and Fancy is, er, a designer for “Crane Couture.” Fancy updates Theresa about her near-fatal encounter with Beth.
It bugs me a little that Theresa is all best friends with Fancy now. From day one of this show, Theresa was best friends with Whitney, and I liked how they stuck with that for years, even with them both having their own storylines. Usually, people on soaps don’t really have friends, or if they do, they rapidly forget about it when it’s not convenient. Which is what Theresa has done now. I mean, everyone knows that Whitney is missing and in some kind of danger in the catacombs, and the only one who even bothers to mention her is Chad. Lame.
Luis runs into Noah in the restaurant, and Noah punches him. “That’s for jumping into bed with my girl the minute I turned my back!” Yay! More punching, please!
Bring on the punching!
Alistair tells Beth that he wants everyone to think he’s in a coma so he can carry out his plan in secret. He also tells her that he’s the one who rigged it so Luis would come to Rome. Beth is not happy to hear this, since Luis being in Rome is dangerous for her. Alistair says that he trusts her to be able to keep Luis distracted without actually getting caught. Then he talks to himself inside his head, and lets us know that he really doesn’t give a damn about what happens to Beth – he’s just using her. Out loud, he tells Beth that when he gets the chalice, it will give him enough power to rule the world.
Cue Whitney and her VR headset. She seems nervous. Why? Am I missing something? What can actually happen to you when you are standing alone in a room, wearing a stupid headset? Clearly, I’m not up-to-date on the technology. And you would think I would be, because I was watching Days a few years ago when they did this EXACT SAME STORYLINE. It was John Black in the headset, and no, he wasn’t looking for a chalice – I think he was looking for Marlena. But it was the same thing – it might have even been the same headset! I guess it isn’t plagiarism when you’re ripping off yourself. (Same headwriter, James E. Reilly.)
Here’s Whitney in the headset:
Whitney wearing the headset.
And here’s what we see when she’s wearing it:
The magical Whitney inside of the headset.
I don’t know if that means she can see herself walking around, or what. You would think it would be a view of what she’s actually looking at. Anyway, in headset world, she presses on some secret wall, and just like that, she’s in the Pope’s private chambers.
Ethan and Chad dash into the restaurant and break up the fight between Noah and Luis. Noah says that Luis slept with Fancy, but Luis denies it. Noah and Chad leave, and then Luis tells Ethan again that he did not sleep with Fancy, and he would never betray Sheridan like that. Ethan believes him.
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Comments (6)
Wow, I haven't watched any soap opera in years but it's amazing how much they don't change. Most of this stuff could be taken from any soap and you wouldn't know the difference. Except for the cheesy but "attractive" actors.
You know, the first thing I always do when my head gets slammed into a wall and bleeds is crawl into bed with a shirtless guy. Wouldn't want to see a doctor or go to a hospital.
The large pillar trick and the virtual reality scenes- talk about big budget production. I hope they had enough left over to pay the actors (and I use that term loosely).
Good recap, Amanda. I'm grateful you're watching this craptastic show rather than me!
1 of 6 | Posted by zevonia
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Posted on June 5, 2006 11:28 AM
I haven't watched this show since the whole Tabitha/Timmy debacle, and I have to say, it's good to see that nothing has changed. I don't know if I could actually bring myself to watch an entire episode of this crap, but I loved the recap. I might have to make this part of my weekly TvGasm routine.
2 of 6 | Posted by Pie
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Posted on June 5, 2006 11:47 AM
Remember when soaps used to actually be an industry? And they had BUDGETS? *sigh*
Love the recaps!
3 of 6 | Posted by mandymax
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Posted on June 5, 2006 1:11 PM
Most low-budget soap ever
4 of 6 | Posted by tikilights
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Posted on June 5, 2006 3:40 PM
All the fans knew Alistair was the evil monk. What a complete let down. It could of been so many other interesting characters and stories. I'm a huge fan, but this show blows now!
I'm very surprised this show got renewed another year.
I only watch this show for Beth, and making fun of the monkey faced 'actress' that plays Theresa.
KH
5 of 6 | Posted by KatiesHole
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Posted on June 5, 2006 3:53 PM
6 of 6 | Posted by Ubiquitous
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Posted on June 6, 2006 5:18 AM