Liveblogging "As The World Turns": "So. This Is Where The Party Is"

Can Luke convince Noah to take him back again? Or will the arrival of Dr. Reid force the end of Nuke forever?  Join us for the fun at 2 PM EST!

2:05 PM EST: We open with Holden agreeing to have dinner with Lily, Lucinda, Gabriel, and those two small children who don't get enough screen time to have names.

Luke is at the hospital with Reid justifying his spending time with Noah, because they are friends. Reid wants to know what he and Luke are. Luke is a deer caught in the headlights, and Reid is a Hummer H2 on a collision course.

Lily is contemplating seducing Holden and parenting Gabriel, because she has such good luck with her other boyfriends and children like the drug dealer and the alcoholic.

2:13 PM EST: Lucinda continues her patented form of parenting - checkbook. Gabriel might respond as well to it as Lily has.

I'm falling for Gabriel just a bit - he told Faith that she's a brat.

Luke follows Reid into the doctor's lockerroom at the hospital to watch him undress and pour his heart out. He keeps trying to define their relationship, which must be his version of reciting baseball stats.

Then he attempts to bribe Reid with dinner at his parents' home, which seems like he's getting ahead of the relationship just a little. Reid then enumerates his numerous socialization issues like Rain Man, and Luke sees something shiny and walks out.

Meanwhile, Noah arrives at the Lilypad unannounced, ostensibly to reclaim his Slayer tape from Luke's bedroom. Lily fears his contract with the show is up, and asks if he's saying goodbye.

2:28 PM EST: Lily tries to tell Noah that he and Luke belong together, despite crazy Italian mobster father-in-laws, murderous dads, and exploding fireworks. Noah does his best to play dumb, about why he's not jumping on Luke's bed anymore.

Up in Luke's bedroom, beside the ugly bedspread, Noah's new vision falls on a Sear's Portrait Studio shot of him and Luke. He picks it up just as the Pretty Princess Luke steps silently into the room. I guess Noah's heightened hearing left when his vision returned.

Faith and Gabriel continue sniping at each other like only two people who are about to have  inappropriate sexual tension can. 

Molly and Sexually Obsessed Old Guy have resorted to locked doors and firearms. Yet their relationship is still healthier than Meg and Paul's.

2:42 PM EST: Lucinda is nice to Carly, which instantly makes her suspicious. It would terrify me.

Jack is in the dining room with Gabriel, trying to determine an attempted murder weapon. Gabriel refuses to say lead pipe, so he rolls again.

Luke stands really close to Noah so he can see how cute his hair looks, and they fight over custody of his family. "You take them!" "No, they love you more." Just as they have a kissing flashback to a time when Luke's hair was a mess, Reid finds his way to Luke's bedroom door, which is much faster than Noah ever found it.

Meanwhile Molly gets disarmed, but I wouldn't worry, they don't have guns go off mysteriously except for Friday cliffhangers.

Lily cries in Holden's general direction, about he's the only man for her, and those seven other husbands (including Damien twice!) meant nothing. He falls for it and they lock lips. 

2:49 PM EST: Luke looks so guilty, Noah could have seen it last week. Reid offers to leave as soon as someone feeds him, which is what happens with strays.

As Luke trips over Reid's tongue, Noah reminds them that he wasn't invited anyhow, and shows himself out. 

Things are getting too ugly to joke about with Molly, but fortunately Holden pried Lily off his face long enough to check his messages, and runs off to rescue Molly without his armed, police officer brother who is standing ten feet away.

2:55 PM EST: Reid taunts Luke about finding him in his bedroom with Noah, where they had "doubtless made love countless times." He massively overestimates the show's producers.

Luke asks his why he refuses to be a nice human being and spend time with his family. Reid says he chooses not to be nice. He obviously thinks this would turn Luke on like it always does, and looks a little hurt when it doesn't. He vows to think up a better zinger for the next time, because he was sure with a big family party downstairs it was the perfect for him and Luke to get busy.

Holden dashes into the locked restaurant to rescue Molly, but the farm boy is unable to overpower the Old Sexually Frustrated Dude.

Preview Time: No Nuke, LuRe, or NoRe for that matter, but we do see the gun go off.