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All My Children this April:
Thursday, 1 April 2010Episode 9253David wakes up in the O.R. moments before the doctors are preparing to perform a completely unnecessary bypass thanks to a little chart-doctoring. After he bursts out of the O.R., Ryan realises how close this is to Kendall's recent mishap and wonders if the same person is responsible.
On their way to the island, both Zach and Kendall have fantasies about each other, yet cannot admit that they love each other. J.R. blames Adam's marriage to Krystal for Babe's frequent interference in his life now, and Adam again warns J.R. to stay away from his ex-wife.
Jamie lies to give Amanda an alibi when David accuses her, but wants answers later on. Amanda confesses that she honestly doesn't know if she's guilty.
Friday, 2 April 2010Episode 9254Lily meets Sam at their spot but is upset when she learns he's drinking and tries to call Reggie like she promised him. She and Sam argue, and Lily's control breaks when he starts yelling at her and calling her stupid.
Jonathan and Erin go to the tree lot for their Christmas tree, where Jonathan calls for Aidan to come join them. Stuart is initially surprised to see Jonathan there, but soon takes Jonathan on a search for the perfect tree.
Greg reveals the truth to Ryan about the night Kendall was implanted, and Ryan finally realises that Kendall truly was acting out of the goodness of her heart. Erin and Aidan discuss Christmas past, with Erin remembering how her father only ever gave her gifts while her brothers had to watch.
Tad and Di wonder why Greg is so interested in Kendall and the Martin family. Zach and Kendall enjoy their time together in the islands.
Monday, 5 April 2010Episode 9255Jonathan finds Lily huddled in her tree, reeling from her fight with Sam. He is able to coax her out of the tree, and the two talks about the kind of romantic future they want.
Aidan and Erin remain stuck in the tree lot and the two bonds over body searches and fallen trees. Kendall and Zach relax in the Caribbean, and Zach gets Kendall into the hammock for a little while.
J.R. pulls the rug out from under Babe when he turns from hot to cold in no time at all, and Babe accuses him of trying to get back at her for not sleeping with him.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010Episode 9256Lily panics while shopping in the mall and Jonathan offers to finish her shopping for her. Kendall and Zach try to convince the clerk that they want a divorce.
Erica is furious to find Babe at New Beginnings after she told Josh she wasn't welcome there. Zach tells Kendall that he doesn't want a divorce. Jonathan worries about the children waiting for Santa when Santa gets sick.
Ryan flies down to the island. Babe flips when she realises Jonathan is playing Santa and takes Little Adam off his lap while exposing him to the public as a murderer.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010Episode 9257Ryan shows up on the island to make sure that Kendall goes through with the divorce, and Zach surmises that Ryan is making sure the mother of his child is free just in case he decides that he wants her for himself.
J.R. rages at Jonathan in the mall, calling him a murderer, and turns his fury on Alfred, who assures J.R. he had no idea what Jonathan was doing. Jonathan flees from security, and J.R. offers $500 to whoever captures him.
Krystal's trucker friends continue their party, and easily beat Adam's guards when they show up. Krystal then invites them all to join the party. Babe tells J.R. she wants joint custody. Jamie tries to convince Amanda to seek help. Bianca shows up at Myrtle's, Miranda in her arms.
Thursday, 8 April 2010Episode 9258Adam is horrified to realise that Krystal has invited the Chandler board to the mansion to join in the festivities, and is horrified when she plays the video of their drunken nuptials.
Babe confesses to J.R. that she wants it all from him -- love, marriage, the whole package. But she's willing to settle for joint custody of their son. Aidan is concerned about Jonathan, but Erin brushes his concerns aside. Lily stops by and is touched to see that Jonathan didn't put any red on the tree.
Jamie asks for Tad's advice concerning handling Amanda and her blackouts. Josh listens in as Greg tells Erica he's always been in love with her. A mysterious person in a Santa suit gets close to Little Adam.
Friday, 9 April 2010Episode 9259J.R. and Babe continue to trade barbs, and J.R. goes downstairs to be with Adam. Babe is terrified when she realises that Little Adam is missing, and J.R. initially accuses her and Krystal of doing something with the boy.
Sam stops by the apartment to apologize to Lily, but she isn't interested in anything he has to say and asks Reggie to help her out. Sam tells her he is going to Los Angeles for the holiday season to see Maria, Maddie, Hayley, Mateo and Enzo.
Kendall is thrilled to find Bianca and Miranda waiting for her at her place and is pleased to see how much Miranda, who is now talking, has grown. Jonathan returns to the hotel room just as Aidan and Ryan knock over the Christmas tree in their fighting and immediately assumes he has done something bad.
Erica is touched when Jack shows her the new home he purchased for them, but tells him that what she really needs for Christmas is for him and Kendall to make up.
Monday, 12 April 2010Episode 9260J.R. and Babe show up at the Pine Cone to demand that Jonathan return Little Adam to them and Ryan tries to make them understand that J.R. and Babe both have numerous enemies who would hurt them. J.R. and Ryan set off to search the woods, and when Jonathan wants to join the search, Eric calls Aidan to go with them.
Jonathan suggests they go to the Church to search for the boy. Babe heads down to the station, where Amanda has just admitted to having more blackouts, and begs Amanda to return the boy to her, but Amanda swears she didn't take him.
Erica slips and admits to Kendall that she sent Ryan to the islands, and Kendall is furious. Alone with Bianca, Kendall admits that she left before the papers were filed. Adam tries to comfort a distraught Krystal.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010Episode 9261Bianca encourages Kendall to tell Zach how she truly feels, but before Kendall can say anything to Zach he delivers a copy of their divorce papers to her. Kendall goes for a drive and, after her car ends up in a ditch, winds up in the Church with Father Clarence.
J.R. and Babe both try to convince Amanda to give them back Little Adam, and when Babe sees Bianca, she shares her tale of woe with her former friend. Jonathan finds Little Adam at the church by Eagle Point ... the exact location Amanda suffered her earlier blackout.
Tad joins the search for Little Adam and uses his own history as Ray Gardner's son to reassure Ryan that he can be a good father. Krystal begins to believe Little Adam's disappearance is her and Babe's punishment for last year's disaster with Miranda.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010Episode 9262J.R. is bitten by the Christmas bug as he extends a holiday invitation to Opal, Palmer and David, but that invitation does not extend to Di, as he throws her Christmas gift in the fire.
Ryan and Kendall find themselves locked alone in the Church, and after both are reminded by their past, they agree to have the baby, although they do discuss giving him up for adoption when he is born.
Bianca shocks Zach by telling him that Kendall is in love with him, and suggests he do something to keep her if he truly loves her in return. Derek arrests Jonathan on kidnapping charges, and he charges Erin with fulfilling Lily's Christmas list.
Di shows up at an undisclosed location to wish Dixie a Merry Christmas.
Thursday, 15 April 2010Episode 9263Di begs Dixie to return to her family, but Dixie makes Di promise not to tell anyone she's alive. Tad and Julia discuss what Dixie and Noah would have wanted for them. Kendall comes by for Christmas morning with Erica, Jack, Reggie, Lily, Bianca and Miranda.
Everyone loves the gifts Lily got them, but after learning Jonathan was the purchaser, Erica drops the angel Lily gave her on the floor, where it shatters. Erin is horrified to learn that Jonathan spent the entire night in a chair at the police station handcuffed to a chair and never even saw a lawyer.
Jamie offers to help Ryan find the real kidnapper. Amanda crashes into the mansion and demands J.R. and Babe clear her name. Babe gives J.R. a special Christmas gift - a framed portrait of J.R. as an infant with Dixie - and he invites her to spend New Year's with him.
Janet plays out her numerous crimes against the citizens of Pine Valley with dolls as she makes plans for a horrible New Year.
Friday, 16 April 2010Episode 9264Erica demands answers from Bianca as to why she wants Zach and Kendall together, and tries to push her into a battle of Ryan v. Zach.
Janet tells Amanda how they'll get Jamie together and Amanda tells her mother this is something she has to do herself. Zach offers to buy Babe's Fusion shares from her to give to Kendall, but although Babe is sympathetic, she refuses to sell.
Jonathan claims to have spent the day that the baby was kidnapped with a woman in the park named Victoria and Erin brings in Aidan so that they can look for her.
Monday, 19 April 2010Episode 9265Zach correctly assumes that when Bianca asks him to stay away from Kendall it's because Erica told her to, and decides to make one last effort to rekindle his marriage.
Babe is unsettled after Janet approaches her to make sure she understands that nothing is going to hurt her baby, but when J.R. encounters Janet he goes through a list of her past crimes.
Amanda is confused when she overhears Josh bashing Erica to a reporter. Erica goes to see Greg to ask him for more information about his declaration of love, then has to answer questions from Jack. Kendall and Ryan see their 'son' for the first time at the clinic.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010Episode 9266Simone and Ethan attempt to convince Kendall to join them for New Year's but she refuses, citing work to do, but allows Zach to manipulate her into spending New Year's with him at the casino.
J.R. and Babe run into Jamie and Amanda at the New Year's Eve party and have words, which are closely watched by Janet, working in disguise as a male waiter. Aidan, Ryan and Erin finally manage to locate Victoria, who backs up Jonathan's story.
Kendall is shocked to learn that Zach has closed the casino to the public on New Year's Eve to be alone with her. Jonathan teaches Lily how to skate at the ice pond.
Ethan promises Simone that he will be there for her when she admits how worried she is that he will turn out to be a jerk. Aidan asks Erin to be his New Year's date.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010Episode 9267Janet drugs both Babe and Krystal. Krystal ends up popping out of the cake naked, and Babe winds up in a hotel room with Josh Madden.
Zach makes one last ditch effort to win Kendall and just when he believes he's failed, Kendall tells him how much she loves him, and the two kiss.
Ryan spends New Year's helping Julia study for the nurses' exam. Aidan and Erin's New Year starts with ice fishing and ends with a kiss
Thursday, 22 April 2010Episode 9268Julia suggests that she and Ryan get naked.
Babe lashes at Amanda for the New Year's trick. Kendall doesn't believe that her relationship with Zach will work. Tad and Di break into Dr. Madden's office and find an interesting video. Ethan proposes to Simone.
Friday, 23 April 2010Episode 9269Jamie agrees with Babe's belief that her mother and herself were drugged. Erica discovers that her interview was wrecked, as well as her former alcoholic past being exposed by The Exposer.
Di faces an interrogation from her boss, Dr. Greg Madden and is luckily saved by Tad. Kendall and Zach decide to keep their relationship a secret.
Monday, 26 April 2010Episode 9270J.R. kisses Kendall, but she pushes him away, telling him that she is in love with Zach. Babe asks Bianca if she should take Zach's offer of buying her Fusion stock, and offers to do it if that's what Bianca wants her to do.
Erica tells Janet that she must leave the warehouse. Amanda confronts Josh with what she overheard and asks him if he's trying to destroy Erica.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010Episode 9271J.R. and Babe decide that being together is too painful and agree to separate, but J.R. follows Babe when she leaves and the two end up in a passionate embrace.
Erica is furious with Josh after learning he did the Geraldo interview and fires him, but reconsiders after Josh guilt's her. Zach is confused when Kendall seems to want out of their relationship, but finally realises it's because she's worried the baby will come between them and kisses her passionately, which is witnessed by Ryan.
Tad walks in on an argument between Adam and Krystal and encourages Krystal to take the deal Adam is offering -- half of Chandler Enterprises. Someone pushes Di into the water in the icehouse.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010Episode 9272Erica remembers Greg leaning over her wearing a surgical mask, and he reminds her that he was the doctor who terminated her pregnancy years ago. Jonathan manages to save Di from the ice, and Krystal calls 911 while Tad uses CPR in an attempt to save Di's life.
J.R. and Babe make love in the shed. Kendall tells Ryan that she and Zach are back together, and then wonders if the time has come for her to tell the world about the two of them. Janet is more determined than ever to destroy anyone who has ever hurt Amanda.
Thursday, 29 April 2010Episode 9273Janet visits Jonathan in his room and tries to convince him that he's the one responsible for what happened to Di, but he maintains his innocence.
Julia heads to S.O.S. where, after sharing a hot salsa with a hunky bartender, she heads home for the night with David Hayward. Tad visits an ailing Di in the hospital, and he and J.R. listen to her incoherent ramblings about Dixie.
Kendall takes Zach with her to say goodbye to Bianca and Miranda, and Erica is furious to see them together, but is out-voted by the family, all of whom (except Reggie and Jackson, who abstain) want to give Kendall and Zach a chance.
Friday, 30 April 2010Episode 9274Julia visits Di and tells her how wonderful her previous night was, but when Di asks who she was with Julia sidesteps the question. Kendall is in the hospital after experiencing some spotting, but Greg assures her that she'll be fine.
Later he tells Zach that Kendall has to relax, and cannot have intercourse until she's out of the woods. Tad and Aidan discuss who they believe might have pushed Di and, after ruling out Jonathan, suspect Amanda.
Jamie, who overheard Amanda blaming Di for getting her kicked out of the mansion, tells Tad and Aidan that he'll look into Amanda. Greg fires Di
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