As the World Turns just went completely bananas. So it turns out that Jade, Luke's confidante and, allegedly, his long-lost cousin, is really a con artist posing as Luke's real cousin, Theresa. This we saw coming: Lily refused to ask Jade to submit to a DNA test, despite the warnings of both Holden and her mother, Lucinda (Elizabeth Hubbard), both of whom suspected Jade was after Lily's money. Consequently, the audience was suspicious as well. Eventually, Lily learned the truth.
What's crazy is what happened next: Jade, tipped off that Lily was onto her, went to Luke, confessed everything, somehow won him over to her side, then convinced him to hop into bed with her, for the express purpose of being caught by Lily and Holden. It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm trying to follow Jade's reasoning here . . . OK. Holden knows that Luke is gay but would prefer that Luke be straight. By convincing Holden that Luke and Jade are lovers, Jade figures that she will convince Holden to convince Lily to let Jade stay. Yeah, I don't get it, either. Even the internal logic is faulty: across town, all the other teen stories are driven by parents who want to keep their kids from having sex with the other kids who for whatever contrived reason share a roof with them. It's also unclear what Luke gets out of this. Yeah, Jade's kind of blackmailing him, but she's also insisting that their bogus relationship provides him with an "alibi," which means that he can keep seeing Kevin (who doesn't want anything to do with him or his psycho Dad). The other choice, Jade says, is to stay in the closet forever. I can't do justice to how nutty this all is.
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