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Next week on One Life to Live, Todd makes Marty and ofer and Roxy offers Rex a friend...

• Todd to Marty: Leave Llanview with me!

• Natalie Melissa Archer, pictured) makes a discovery.

• Carlo gets revenge on Cristian.

• Roxy offers Rex a shoulder to lean on.

Discuss these happenings and more on our One Life to Live forum!

After Labor Day next week, here's what goes down on One Life to Live...

• Tina and Roxy have a lot in common when they met for the first time.

• Cristian (David Fumero) disappears.

• Marcie sees Michael and Layla together, and grows jealous.

• Gigi and Rex prepare to tell Shane the truth.

According to the latest Suds Reports, Jacqueline Hendy has been cast as Vanessa on One Life to Live. 

The actress will play A. Martinez's wife, while both characters will play into Langston's story.

Chime in on our One Life to Live forum about the casting of Jacqueline Hendy.

One Life to Live writer Ron Carlivati wants to remind viewers that Marty has no memory of the gang rape involving Todd.

Moreover, the scribe insists that the curious relationship between the two couldn't happen under any other circumstance. He elaborated to Soap Opera Digest:

Digest: What do you say to viewers who cringe at the idea of a friendship or something more between these two?
Carlivati: I'm not quite understanding the resistance to exploring their relationship if she didn't know. I think I would want to hear more about it. Some of that is a reaction to just hearing Todd and Marty in the same sentence or seeing them in the first day or the week of the story. I'd be curious to know if they feel that way now.

She doesn't know who he is.... I have yet to meet someone who didn't think the rape story was the one of the best stories that One Life to Live ever did, but if I said, "Hey, I have an idea. Let's have three guys hold down Starr and rape her, what would everyone's reaction be?" They'd say, "No, I don't want to see that."

That doesn't mean that we don't sometimes tell stories that aren't sometimes difficult to watch or shocking. They always have consequences, but I think you can't be afraid to tell a story if it's a good story.

We know, we know: One Life to Live's Colin MacIver died in May of 2001. Dude was pushed down the stairs.

So, the question remains: how can Ty Treadway (pictured) be coming back to the show? In a dream sequence, of course.

On October 1 and 2, One Life to Live fans will be treated to an apprance by Colin appear as a game show host through the mind of Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier). The name of the show? "So You Think You Can Be Shane Morasco's Father!"

We're so there!

Numerous One Life To Live viewers are unsure how to react to the story line that has Todd cozying up to amnesiac Marty, the woman he raped?

"I understand the initial impulse," Head Writer Ron Carlivati told Soap Opera Digest. "The goal is to more to take these two characters who have an unbelievable, dark history with each other and explore where we could go if they didn't have that obstacle — the rape — between them."

It's touchy territory. Do you think One Life to Live should go there?

Attention, One Life to Live fans: this is a look at next week's story lines and developments...

• Tess finds out what Todd is hiding - and why.

• Todd and Tina come face to face.

• Bo visits Lindsay in jail.

• Blair and Todd square off at Sam's custody hearing.

... Rex finally finds out the secret Gigi has been keeping from him for the past 10 years.

Referring to this one One Life to Live story line, Red's portrayer John-Paul Lavoisier said:

"She says, 'I can't let you leave without knowing this: Shane is your son."

Here are a few notes on One Life to Live casting over the next few weeks. We've got actors - and dogs! - covered...

• Scott Evans returns as Oliver Fish on September 2 when John McBain enlists the rookie cop's aid in identifying Todd Manning's mystery woman. Evans was last seen early this year when he joined the Cherryvale PD, which allowed Officer Talia Sahid to remain in Llanview.

• Todd Manning receives a new bodyguard (portrayed by Shawn T. Andrew) on August 25.

• Expect Tallulah Bean, the female Shit-zu that portrays the canine David Vickers, to continue to appear on screen through at least October.

There are a few interesting developments next week on One Life to Live. They are...

• Todd blackmails Starr's doctor.

• Clint makes Jared (John Brotherton, pictured) an offer.

• Gigi is shocked when she finds Rex in bed with Emma.

• Michael and Marcie arrive at a painful decision.