It looks like Wednesday, October 10 was the last day we saw Colonel Winston Mayer on the streets of Oakdale wreaking any havoc amongst any of its citizens.
Before Daddie Dearest finally got hauled off to the slammer on Wednesday, he figured he had to do one more act “out of love” for Noah. And good heavens, this guy sets one foot on the set and ALREADY I’m creeped out. He snuck into Luke's hospital room and tried to tamper with his IV. The nurse caught him the first time but apparently he thought he could try again. Luke wakes up slightly and sees him in the room holding a needle... as soon as he starts to do anything Lily catches him and tries to stop him, then he even tries to hurt her. And I know he would have done that too if he had the chance.. but then our resident superhero Dusty saves the day and jumps Winston from behind, punching him, telling Lily to leave, and stopping him from doing anymore damage to our already hurt Luke. Not bad for someone who was just shot in the chest and almost bled to death, huh? This is it for Daddie, his goose is now cooked. We find out from Bob that what he tried to put in Luke's IV was a sedative that would have caused him to possibly stop breathing. Later on Luke wakes up fully and with a little help is reminded of what happened. And sadly later on he can't feel his legs or toes. It looks like he's been paralyzed from the waist down.
And Noah yesterday… wow. What a major blow. Not only does he know his dad tried to kill Luke, but at the Oakdale police station Margo tells him that his dear ol’ dad also killed his mother Cheri Love (a.k.a. Charlene Wilson). Not only was he led to believe that she was dead for this long, but she was actually alive all this time up until he killed her. Finally when Win arrives at the station after being confronted at the hospital, he sees Noah and Noah obviously confronts him about what he’s done. Can you believe that Winston had the gall to defend what he did?! All “I didn’t want you knowing your mother was a whore!” Then when Luke is brought up, Noah asked what did he ever do to him, and that all he did was care for him. Then we get the third degree from Win talking about how WRONG and IMMORAL it was for them to like each other that way. And you bet your life I was cheering Noah on when he told off the handcuffed Colonel saying “I don’t think people who commit murder get to decide what’s immoral!” Oh, and Winston… ever heard of the phrase “You have the right to remain silent?” Moron. But you got to feel bad for Noah. He feels he’s got no one, and even though Dusty tried to tell him he’s not responsible for anything he feels as such anyway. He couldn’t even go into Luke’s hospital room. And today it looks like he’ll be hitting the bottle. Just sad.
For the most part I’ve mentioned all the good parts about this up until now, but I do have to say one thing that disappoints me about what’s happening with this storyline is what it’s doing to Holden and Lily’s relationship. I really don’t like how the powers that be are writing Holden. On numerous occasions since last Friday when he became more involved in it, I’ve gotten so frustrated with how he’s practically blaming Lily for this whole mess. And it just makes me wish I could reach into the television and slap him around a couple of times. It’s interesting, since like I mentioned previously she stayed out of the Cheri murder investigation per his request. And Dusty also told her to stay out of it. When Lily came across Dear Ol’ Daddie at Fairwinds, she had no clue yet that he was a murderer. If you didn’t know of his recent crime spree, you wouldn’t either. You’d still be creeped out by his presence, but you wouldn’t know that. She probably thought that he was just some old-fashioned, traditional and stuffy guy who’s a big homophobe, has issues with Noah, and is fearful that being with someone out like Luke would wind up giving him a case of “the gay.” And she could even relate to him a little since just last year she had her own issues and worries when Luke came out. Of course she wasn‘t psycho, but she was a bit freaked. She didn’t find out that Winston shot anyone until after he, Luke, and Noah left for their trip when Dusty stumbled up to the Snyder farm and said who shot him. I can understand his being upset over her being secretive of her addiction to the diet pills and hiding them, and giving Jade all that money without talking to him first (even though that was HER money to begin with), but to have the attitude that it’s her fault that all of this happened, and not even hugging her or holding her hand at Al’s Diner or at the hospital when she’s in such a vulnerable state is just inexcusable. I mean seriously, he can’t hug her or hold her hand for ten seconds?! And I know if I were Lily, by now I would have told him where he can get off and to grow up. Holden, your son is paralyzed after a deranged psycho hurt him. You know Lily wouldn’t do anything intentionally to hurt her children. Put all that petty mess aside for a little while and be there for your wife and sort the other stuff out later. Seriously. Your son is in the hospital. Suck it up for a bit and stop acting like a six-year-old child. As my senior language arts teacher Ms. Angert always liked to say, “Get the underwear out from being wedged so far in your crack!”
This may be the last time I get to bash Colonel Winston Mayer, so I would just like to again congratulate Daniel Hugh-Kelly on what a good job he did at this role. It's been the longest since I've hated a fictional character this much. Really it has. The others did a good job as well. I always think that Grayson McCouch is a pretty good actor when he's not fainting. Van and Jake did a great job too. Both characters were in such heartbreaking scenarios, and I felt for them so much, so I know they did their jobs well.
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