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From: tntmur@aol.com (Tntmur) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 7/11 Date: 13 Jul 1997 21:49:57 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - July 11th 1997 (posted and e-mailed) Introducing the Port Charles drinking game. We'll be putting what you need to drink to after each scene, but there are a couple of standard rules for the whole show. 1) Every time someone says the name "Cooper" take a drink. 2) Whenever anyone drinks a swallow of anything, you take a drink. 3)Two drinks for any commercials about "feminine products". Mike sits alone in his darkened bar drinking coffee. (One drink!) Matt comes in and turns on the lights. Mike asks him how his room is and, now that they've added floors and walls, it's fine. Matt points out that the bar would make more money if it were open. Mike says he wants to finish the painting. They chat about how good Mike's cheeseburgers will be, and Matt asks him what's wrong. Mike asks him if he's clairvoyant, being unused to people drawing obvious conclusions from simple behavior patterns. Mary comes in. Mike hops off the bar. Mary greets Matt, claiming that he's a card shark. Matt asks when the next Poker Game is. Matt, being a discreet guy, leaves Mike and Mary alone. A subdued Mike greets Mary, who demands that he tell her what's going on. The Scanlon poker game is mentioned - One drink At the ER desk Karen calls Jagger, at a number he left, but he isn't there. Nurse Grace informs Matt and Dr. Burgess that Greg Cooper, hostage taker, has entered a plea of "not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity". Matt remembers the night Cooper held a gun on them. Dr. Burgess rants "what kind of law is that?", that he could get off. (It's called due process. Lynch mobs haven't been approved yet, and the guy has to plead something, and it ain't gonna be "I'm guilty, shoot me where I stand". It's only a plea, not a verdict. Chill.) Karen calls Jagger - One drink Jagger calls Karen - Two drinks Jagger and Karen actually speak to each other - Three drinks Nurse Grace: Angel of Exposition - One drink Cooper flashback - Two drinks Burgess tirade - One drink Julie is confronted by Frank in the interns room. He's asking her why she lied. You begin to wonder what crucial scene you missed on Thursday. She says she didn't want to, and is about to tell Frank about her brother, when Cooper appears behind Frank. He urges Julie to tell the truth. Julie has a nightmare - Two drinks Cooper lifts a gun and points it at the back of Frank's head. Frank is oblivious as Julie tries frantically to warn him. (One sip for each bounce.) "The gun, the gun, the gun," she moans. We then see her asleep on the interns' couch. Chris comes in and wakes her up. Shaking, she tries to dash off to work. He stops her. She tells him that she has a recurring nightmare. She tells him that she dreamt Cooper was going to shoot Frank. And....? Chris doesn't see the scary part yet. He knows there's something more to it. Julie says she just want to put Cooper behind her. Chris pretends to be sensitive - Three drinks Burgess rants some more about Cooper belonging in prison and being sane enough to plot out his crime. Grace thinks that he is definitely a psychopath. "So we should let him go, or send him to a cushy mental hospital?" Ellen froths. (Even though no one has suggested that, and that "mental hospital" that Kevin was mistakenly confined to didn't look like any country club, unlike the prison rich-kid Greg Cooper, would probably be sent to.) Reasonable Matt, says punishing Cooper won't bring back Faulk. (And then we got it. Ellen is upset that Faulk was killed leaving her to deal with the misfit Doctors from hell. No wonder she wants Cooper to fry.) She points out that if Cooper is executed he'll never kill anyone again. (FYI: New York only has the death penalty in cases of Cop-killing. Cooper could not possibly be sentenced to death, unless he works a little harder at it.) Burgess tirade - One drink Joe comes into the ER, totally unaware of the Cooper discussion, dressed in a dirty tank top. Karen asks him why he's there, and he says he's just been playing basketball, and one of the guys he was playing with has a mother who has an apartment for rent that he thinks Karen might want. Karen whines some about having to live with her mother, and offers to buy Joe a take out dinner to thank him for finding her a place of her own. (As if he had no ulterior motive.) A Scanlon brother mentions participating in a sport - one drink Mary asks Mike if he's holding a grudge because she got him arrested by passing the funny money. He says no, so she asks what his phone message backing out of their date was all about. She tells him that she isn't expecting hearts and flowers from this relationship, just a few good laughs. Mike tries to correct her misapprehension. He just wanted to give her the opportunity to turn down a date with his unworthy self. She shakes her head ruefully, and says she's "done it again". Mike wears blue jeans - One drink Mary asks Mike if he isn't Irish. He doesn't get the connection. She tells him he's using "Irish Logic", and implies that he is similar to her departed husband. (Being of Irish descent, we frankly don't know what she was on about.) He says, yes he's half Irish, (Other half is Greek) but that has nothing to do with his thinking. She asks if it's because she's discovered he is Sonny's father. He asks if that bothers her, considering Sonny's line of work. She says no that she's not going to judge him because of what his son does. He tells her that it's what he's done that worries him. Finally he gets to the point and tells her that they're not going to give him a liquor license because they looked up his police record, which is some four pages long. She says she doesn't care about his rap sheet, he makes her laugh and she likes him, and that's a good enough reason in her book to let him serve beer. Then she rants about the Liquor licensing board having no right to deny him a license. (Hey, if they don't want to give a known-criminal a liquor license, that seems like one of the better reasons.) Mike laughs at her. Mary has a tirade - Two drinks Sonny is mentioned - One drink Chris continues to analyze the jittery Julie. (We see a future here. This guy would make a cracking good psychiatrist. Kevin should take him under his wing; give him that ethics concept.) Julie tells him that she used to have bad dreams about guns all the time, but they went away and didn't come back until after the hostage situation. Chris says that it's understandable. He then deduces that the dream she just had was about the person she mentioned to him that she lost. She doesn't want to get into specifics. Frank walks in and says "excuse me", but he wants to talk to Julie. Chris snaps at him and says he's interrupting a private conversation. Chris pretends to be sensitive - Three drinks Chris and/or Frank indulge in male chest pounding - One drink Karen's new landlady, Alice, shows her the studio apartment. It's nice. Has a fireplace, a claw-foot bathtub, some old fashioned molding on the wall. (That's right, during Karen scenes we notice the decor.) She compliments the amount of natural light, and says she'll take it, and will Alice take a check, and does she need references. Alice says she knows Karen is okay because the Scanlon's said so. (She might want to re-examine her standards. Passing marked bills, helping criminals to get liquor licenses, threatening to beat people up, illegal gambling; reliable those Scanlons.) Alice recalls Karen's name and deduces that she is Rhonda's daughter. Karen tells her that she's married now, and her husband might move in soon. Alice says that's fine with her, but the place is small, (Especially for three people. Where will they keep Joe?) and has no bedroom. Karen mentions she's married - One drink Alice leaves and meets Joe in the hallway. Joe hands her a casserole dish, and says she left it at the last poker game. Alice thanks him for bringing her such a nice tenant. He then opens the door and walks into Karen's new place. She greets him happily and he gives her a bottle of wine. (In a brown paper bag of course - Chateau Ripple?) Karen shows him the place and takes him out on the Terrace which she thinks is enchanting. She's says the phone is already hooked up and that she has a one year lease, so she is definitely staying in town. The Scanlon poker game is mentioned - One drink Someone doesn't knock before entering a private dwelling - One drink Someone brings a bottle of wine - Two drinks Mike and Mary consider his problem. He can't open without the license or he'll never make any money. He doesn't want to sell because he doesn't want Matt to be back on the streets. (Humph, forget that. That boy can take care of himself.) Mary begins to rant again about how they're nothing but numbers to these government bureaucrats. (Mary missed her calling. The IRA could have used her.) Finally she comes up with a practical idea and suggests, that she could become Mike's partner, and she could get the Liquor license. They agree, settling on a 99/1 split. Mary has a tirade - Two drinks Frank says he's sorry for interrupting. Julie says she'll be around for awhile. Frank says okay, and then threatens to beat the hell out of Chris if he ever speaks to him in that tone of voice again. He leaves and Julie chides Chris for snapping at Frank. (Yeah, Chris was rude and out of line, but threatening to beat him up is definitely overreacting.) Julie wants to know how Chris can be so sensitive one minute and such a jerk the next. It scares her and reminds her of another person she knows. (Probably talking about her father, but Frank could also fit this description. Maybe Julie should start to sense a pattern here.) She walks out. Frank acts like a Neanderthal - Three drinks On Karen's terrace Joe and Karen eat pizza and drink wine. (They drink, you drink.) Karen says everything is peaceful and perfect in her new place. She leans towards Joe. And Joey correctly takes this as a cue to swap spit. First Kiss - Three drinks Julie catches up to Frank in the hospital hallway. She apologizes for Chris' behavior. Frank brushes it off, still sourly contemplating assault and battery. Matt speeds over to them, eager to share the news of Cooper's plea. Frank says, he'll never get away with it. Burgess interrupts to tell them that there are two victims of a car accident coming in. She instructs Julie to go and prep the first one. Julie runs over to do that. She looks at the patient and sees Cooper. She freaks. Dr. Matt Harmon: Angel of Exposition - One drink Don't forget all the mentions of Cooper - One drink each Director: Anthony Morina Kevin and Lucy aren't on at all - Chug the glass Disclaimer - Alcoholic beverages can be hazardous to your health. This game can be played with soft drinks, juices, water or castor oil, but it's more fun our way. WARNING: Playing this game can delay your Update one day. Credit to the folks on GH RATSA for coming up with the idea of a drinking game. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! ( |\ | ( !! * *!* !! | \ | !! *!* |~| !! | \| !! |~| | |"It's that twin thing."-Ryan Chamberlain"| | |_| tntmur@aol.com |_| bv143@freenet.carleton.ca * ui220@freenet.victoria.bc.ca http://muppetlabs.com/~davidj/tnt/tnt.htm http://members.aol.com/tntmur/index.html http://members.aol.com/tntmur/port/chuckles.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
