StandoutScene:
Zach Says "I Love You"
Soaps In Depth - December 20, 2006

If there’s ever a course offered in the way soaps should be, the scene in which ALL MY CHILDREN’s Zach stood by his wife’s hospital bed and told her how he really feels could be page one in the textbook. Days before, we listened as the casino owner waxed poetic – in his own way – about how his neurotic missus had somehow enchanted him. Then at the hospital he conveyed his longing through only a few lines spoken to the unconscious woman. “Hey, Kendall. There’s something I’ve got to tell you. This wasn’t supposed to happen,” he said, sighing. “When I walk into a room, I always make sure I know where the exits are, you now? I always make sure there’s a way out. And there is no way out this time. I have fallen in love with you, Kendall.” His kiss to her forehead at the end of the scene left us craving the future moment when Mrs. Slater (hopefully) reciprocates.