Today's As the World Turns was just as much of a mess as yesterday's show. Luke & Noah went to Casey's place the morning after Reg's death with the pills that were in Reg's coat. They wanted to give them to Casey's mom, Margo, who is the Chief of Detectives, and tell her about seeing Reg outside with Elwood just before he died.
Margo wasn't home, but Luke & Noah got quite an eyeful as they walked in on Casey scrambling to put on his clothes after waking up hung over and naked on his living room floor with Jade. Luke & Noah filled them in on Reg's death and what they suspected about Elwood. Casey immediately came up with a plan to catch Elwood and told the gang to leave it up to him. Yeah, because why involve the police when you can enlist an ex-con with a stellar track record for screwing things up? Maybe they were still so awed by seeing him naked that they'd have agreed to anything.
Casey's genius plan turned out to be to ask Elwood to meet him in a park and make it seem like he wanted to buy drugs so that they could catch him dealing. He told Luke & Noah at first to make sure the police were there, but oddly enough that seemed to be totally dropped as a plot point, since the cops never showed up and Casey didn't seem to expect them once he was there. That's even worse writing that usual!
Elwood met Casey, but not surprisingly he guessed that Luke & Noah were somehow involved in this and turned to walk away. That's when Casey went with plan B and slipped the bag of pills that Noah & Luke had given him into Elwood's backpack.
Once he met with Luke & Noah and told them what he'd done, they set off to tell Margo what they'd seen between Elwood and Reg (which, really, wasn't anything conclusive) and she arranged to have him brought in for questioning.
Noah, Mr. "I Can't Lie to the Dean for you Luke, even though you lied to the U.S. Government for me!", went along with all of this. What does consistent writing and characterization matter when the Plot of the Moment is at stake, after all? I will say that Jake Silbermann managed to convey with facial expressions and body language that Noah was very uncomfortable with the plot, so that was something. But realistically, if Noah couldn't lie for Luke about a student election, why is he agreeing to lie to the police and, essentially, frame a man who may actually be innocent? It makes no sense.
Anyway, Noah & Luke were left looking on in surprise when Margo searched Elwood's backpack and didn't find any sign of the pills. Way to lose the only evidence you had, guys. Thus, the 'drama' continues.
I think if we as an audience have to sit through this crappy storyline, we should get to see Casey naked, too. It's only fair!
Meanwhile, over on One Life to Live, I'm still loving every minute of the writing and today Chris Evans' cute, openly gay brother Scott was back as Officer Oliver Fish, his recurring character. There aren't any other openly LGBT actors currently working in Daytime that I'm aware of, so I was very glad to see Scott back on the show. I think it's the first time we've seen him since his brother discussed his sexuality in an interview.
Oh, by the way, my guy Adam Lambert was sent through to the Top 36 on American Idol last night. Luckily, he was one of the first people to get the good news, so I didn't have to wait in suspense for the whole two hour show.
If I understand what's happening next, the top 36 will be divided into three groups and each group will be the focus in turn for the next three weeks. Adam's group isn't up next week, so it'll be at least two weeks until he's performing again, maybe three.
I'm excited to see what he does next.
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