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Together, ALL MY CHILDREN's Leo and Greenlee are great, but apart, Josh Duhamel and Rebecca Budig are even better. Their characters' breakup was a three-act play--the fight, the fallout and the farewell--and these two made it look easy.

   It was all in their eyes. Greenlee's face grew tighter and paler as she heard Leo's ex-wife, Katerina, rattle off his laundry list of misdeeds. "Did he tell you he'd never been in love before he met you?" she hissed. Greenlee's heart-breaking stare said it all, as Budig's red-rimmed eyes filled with tears that slowly spilled down her face. Leo later countered by saying he had changed, but Greenlee wouldn't hear it. Duhamel's eyes grew as large as his anger, but he could not change her mind.

   The aftermath was brilliantly written, staged and portrayed. Like injured fighters, they both retreated to their respective corners to regroup. Leo was more proactive, first banging on Greenlee's door, and then crumpling in front of it. Thanks to clever camera angles, he looked uncharacteristically small and defeated. Greenlee didn't hear Leo of course. She was guzzling champagne on the terrace Both characters turned to drink and bitterness, spewing cynical lines to family and friends. Leo cornered an unsympathetic Vanessa at the bar: "Was I like Attila the Hun in my past life? Is that why I get you for a mother in this one?" Meanwhile, Greenlee teetered on the edge of the balcony, but she wasn't about to kill herself. That would be "jumping because of Buf No.1 and Bug No.2 (Leo and Roger)," she declared defiantly. Greens officially hit rock bottom when the fashion maven donned a terry cloth robe and later said a firm goodbye to Leo.

   Leo and Greenlee are still meant for each other. We know this from the way these skilled actors say all the words their characters don't mean, and the physical pain they convey when the other does nothing more than walk into a room. There's a lot of pain on-screen, but watching these two is just pure pleasure.