Daytime Divas Recap: Ted’s Killer is Revealed + Maxine Makes a Shocking Decision

Mo asks Maxine for a favor.

Mo is being considered for a role on Vance’s new sitcom, but she needs Maxine to approve and make some changes in her contract to do so.

Maxine agrees but makes Mo promise she will ease up on the jokes, especially the jokes about Maxine’s v*gina.

She agrees.

Shawn later warns her against giving Mo permission to do the show because he thinks it will give Mo an even bigger ego. Maxine says she knows how to deal with Mo.

In the dressing room, Maxine tells the ladies that since they got the DTA, they need to keep doing what’s been working for them. She later gets a subpoena requesting phone records from 2006, but tells the ladies that the envelope contains gift cards to Bed, Bath & Beyond from Oprah.

Mo is having trouble getting the part.

Jason calls Mo and tells her chemistry with Vance isn’t good. Mo asks if Maxine has anything to do with her not getting the part, but when Jason tries to explain it wasn’t Maxine, Mo hangs up the phone in anger.

“I am going to f*cking explode!” – Mo

Maxine calls William and tells him that the investigation is getting close to finding out the truth. Nina overhears her.

Later, Shawn also gets a subpoena requesting his phone records.

Nina asks Shawn what he’s going to do about the subpoena and reminds him that Maxine may not be powerful enough to protect him.

Shawn admits he was so drunk the night of Ted’s death that he doesn’t even recall what actually happened.

Tandy meets with Kibby to read over her script from her new show with Vance. Kibby struggles to help her learn it and tells Tan she isn’t ready for the business.

Maxine calls the deputy mayor and tells her to get the police to leave her and Shawn alone. The mayor tells Maxine her nephew wants to ge tinto the business, and Maxine promises an internship. The mayor tells the detective to back off the investigation.

Maxine cals Jason to find out why Mo didn’t get the role on Vance’s show. He sends her the video of Mo’’s audition. She bombed and couldn’t even read the script.

After Nina’s stalker scare at work, all employees must now walk through a metal detector. It’s revealed that Heather carries a gun in her purse.

The other ladies are shocked and they discuss the topic on the show.

Heather defends her right to be armed, while the others think owning a gun is never the answer.

Tandy gets angry when Kibby shows up to her audition and accuses her of trying to sabotage her career.

Maxine and Mo go over the script for Vance’s show, and Maxine gives her tips on following the script.

Kibby confronts Vance and threatens to tell the media about how he abused her when she was a child if he hires Tandy. He agrees not to hire her.

Shawn tells Nina that the subpoena was rescinded and Nina questions how Maxine was able to make it happen. She also tells Shawn that it’s suspicious to her that Maxine is doing so much to stop the investigation. To her, it just seems like Maxine has something to hide.

Later, Maxine meets with Anna at her new job and questions why Maxine fired her from the Lunch Hour. Anna tells Nina she has proof that Maxine murdered Ted.

Kibby gets more coke from her dealer. And does another line after he leaves her place.

Heather’s admittance of owning a gun is causing problems for her kids. When she goes to their new school, she is told she can’t come in because she owns a gun. She is told that her kids will be kicked out of the school if she returns with a gun in her purse.

Mo walks in on Kibby rearranging her dressing room, and talks to her about Vance. She warns Mo about working with him, and Mo notes that she’s sniffling a lot.

When Mo asks her if she’s getting a cold, Kibby tells her she needs to leave so she can get back to her cleaning.

Maxine meets with Vance and urges him to consider hiring Mo to be his wife on his new show.

Nina confronts Maxine and tells her that Anna told her that she murdered Ted. Maxine says Anna’s information is bogus but Nina reminds her she’s a journalist and she believes Anna is on to something.

Maxine warns her that she will find out dirt on Nina if she moves forward.

Kibby takes some pills and drinks some alcohol when Ramona tells her Vance is coming on the show.

On air, Kibby taunts Vance about his troubled marriage. Tandy ends up being a surprise guest and Kibby freaks out on air after she learns Tandy got the part.

Maxine tries to confront Kibby but is interrupted when the Jason confirms that Vance’s new show will be filmed in LA. This creates a problem for Mo since The Lunch Hours tapes in New York.

She calls Maxine out for being behind the news but Maxine is trying to get to Kibby to find out what’s causing her erratic behavior.

Heather discovers a No Guns Allowed sign and goes to Maxine to complain. Seconds later, Kibby reappears with Heather’s gun and aims it at Vance.

She tells him he won’t hurt Tandy and Ramona comes behind her and tackles her to the ground. The gun accidentally goes off. Mo’s bag is shot and Maxine tells the staff to tell the press that a prop gun accidentally went off.

Later, Heather tells Maxine she was groomed by Vance and he made his move on her when she was legal. She also says this is why she got on drugs.

Maxine tells Kibby she will handle it and she needs to get off drugs.

Nina and Shawn go through all of the research Anna has on Ted’s murder and discover that there is nothing that absolutely determines Maxine did it.

Shawn is starting to think William may be the killer. Nina tells him she will keep digging.

Maxine tells the network executive Jason about Vance’s past and she tells him she wants him fired. Jason tells her he’s not going to fire Vance but he wants Kibby out.

Maxine puts her on leave and tells her to get sober.

Ashley Graham is the guest co-host amid Kibby’s time away.

Shawn talks to William and asks him what happened the night Ted died. William says it was accident and Shawn believes him. However, he does warn William not to hurt Maxine.

Maxine catches up with Nina’s husband Andrew and asks him what Nina is hiding. After she promises to donate a large sum of money to his campaign, he tells her Nina stole her Pulitzer award.

Nina goes to see Anna again and listens to the tape of Ted and Maxine arguing. Nina steals the tape when Anna gets up to make her superior some coffee.

While doing a photo shoot for the show, Tandy tells Mo that Kibby moved in with Vance when she was young. Mo also notices how close Vance has already gotten to Tandy.

Nina tells Shawn about the tape and tells him that she thinks she heard William’s voice.

When Maxine confronts Kibby’s mother about Vance, she tells Maxine that she needs to mind her business.

Mo gets the bright idea to expose Vance during a stand up segment on the show. She tells viewers that Vance is a predator and Kibby is a victim he also introduced to drugs.

Not too long after, social media blows up in defense of Vance and Mo is fired from the sitcom.

Anna comes to the studio to confront Nina for stealing the tape, and Nina tells her she is getting the tape scrubbed for clarification.

Anna tells Maxine that she is doing the story with Nina, and Maxine later tells Nina she knows about the Pulitzer. Nina tells her she will drop the story if Maxine just comes clean with Shawn about who killed Ted.

Maxine advises Kibby to reach out to Vance’s other victims and she makes a PSA with another one of his victims. The video goes viral on social media.

Nina comes to Maxine and tells her she realizes Shawn is the one who killed Ted.

Maxine tells her that Shawn was high on drugs and really drunk that night. He got into a shouting match with Ted and threw him on the floor. Ted’s head hit the floor and he died instantly.

William came by to help Maxine clean up the place and get Shawn out of there. She said they were just friends at the time.

Nina apologizes and says she will get Anna to back off.

Nina calls Anna and tells her that the tape was accidentally destroyed during the scrubbing. Anna now has to halt the story.

Jason calls a meeting with Maxine and Kibby and takes Kibby off of suspension. Maxine urges him to give her a %10 raise and require her to go to rehab. Lance’s sitcom is cancelled as a result of the backlash.

Brad comes around.

Heather attends Ella’s school pageant but is shocked to see Brad show up.

He’s elated to see Ella on stage and even calls her his daughter. This touches Heather.

Anna discovers the truth.

Anna figures out that Shawn killed Ted and calls Detective Stagliano to give him an update as a panicked Nina looks on.

Maxine and Nina try to talk Anna out of moving forward with the story and they end up making a deal to protect Shawn.

The deal is Maxine must go on air and admit to accidentally killing Ted in self defense.

Nina will also admit to stealing her Pulitzer.

Maxine makes her confession on air and she is arrested during the show.

As Maxine is being taken away, Nina tells Anna that Shawn must never learn the truth but she discovers him listening to the tape when she gets to her dressing room.

 

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