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From: Justene Adamec <Justene@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: PC:  Update Tuesday, July 15, 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:45:03 -0700

We start the show with not one but two flashbacks!  I had to watch
them, so you have to read about them:  Flashback to Cooper holding
everyone hostage the first night. Then skip to (what, yesterday's show?)
where he says "nice to see you again, Dr. Devlin."  Chris interrupts her
and asks if she's ok.

Kevin and Lucy are toasting with nonalcoholic champagne. Scott has
finally left them alone but, oops there's the doorbell.  It's Karen and
they try to look happy to see her.

At the hospital, frank is continuing to hold Joe so he doesn't kill
Cooper.  It doesn't appear to be an easy task.

And then the credits.  I run for my morning coffee . . . oh I guess you
don't need to know that much detail.

Burgess sends Cooper off for a CAT scan, Matt asks Joe if he's ok, Joe
wanders off.

Chris, ever the sensitive sort, offers to get Frank, but Julie
declines.  Chris comforts her and then returns to the subject of Frank.
He says that he knows how she feels about Frank and apologizes for how
he spoke to Frank.  (Must be a reverse psychology thing going on here.)
Julie declines again.  Then she hints "I am not nice little Julie Morris
from the North side."  Chris, with dramatic emphasis, says "I know."

Lucy is concerned that Karen is there because something is wrong.  Karen
insists that it's an ordinary social visit but Lucy, ever perceptive,
isn't buying it.  Karen rambles on about Jagger not making a whole lot
of sense and not telling anyone that there's anything wrong.

Kevin is interrupted by a phone call from Burgess.  She tells him that
Cooper was admitted and he offers to come right over.

At the hospital, in Burgess' office next to the interns' lounge, Burgess
hangs up and there's a knock.  Matt comes in and tries to comfort her.
She tries to act like a supervisor.

Kevin leaves.  Lucy tells Karen that she is pregnant and the
conversation returns to Jagger.  Karen complains about his
unavailability.  Lucy picks up on an offhand comment about Joe and asks
about that relationship.  Karen says that she and Joe are good friends,
even soulmates.  (Ed. note -- that's a pretty loaded word for someone
that's supposed to be just a friend.)  Lucy points out that it is
difficult to walk that line between friends and more than friends with
an attractive man.  Karen confesses that Joe kissed her.  Lucy asks if
she was surprised.  Karen wasn't.  Gently, Lucy comments that if she
wasn't surprised, maybe Joe wasn't misinterpreting things.  (Well, true,
but afterwards Joe acted like a jerk and I can see we're moving toward a
Karen apology instead of a Joe apology.)

Frank and Joe Hardy, er Scanlon, are outside (an alley, the docks?) and
Frank is trying to find out what's wrong.  Joe narrows it down to
"everything."  Frank is perceptive enough to realize that Joe was upset
before he saw Cooper but he is unsuccessful at finding out what was
bothering him.  Joe  wants to throw it all away.  Frank, who calls it
the Joe scanlon Self Destruction Show, refuses to let Joe do this after
all that Frank has sacrificed to get Joe this far.  They hug and Frank
lightens the mood by telling Joe that if he kisses Frank, Frank will
deck him.

Finally, we're back to Chris and Julie and the end of that dramatic
pause.  Julie asks Chris "what do you know?"  Chrisdoesn't tell her what
he knows.  Instead he comments that the person that she lost was somehow
connected to Cooper.  Julie then tells him -- and us -- about her
brother.  He was older, the family golden boy. She adored him but her
brother had "feelings" that would have been considered a sign of
weakness in her family.  He tried to reach out to her but she didn't
notice because she was trying to be perfect like he was.  When she was
14, on a cold Chicago day where it was just getting dark at 4, she came
home to an empty house.  She knew something was wrong.  She looked for
her brother but found him in his room with a gun.  It was too late to
save him.  Chris' response is "Sorry.  I feel very proud that you chose
me to tell this to."  Julie comments "that's only chapter one."  Chris
says that she doesn't have to tell him now.  She comments on the fact
that he had another patient die.  He comments that it was easier the
second time around.

Burgess is brushing Matt off because she already has a mother,  Matt
continues to reach out to her for a few sentences and then gets angry
and gives up.  He returns to the interns' room, where Grace is reading.
He slams around a bit and Grace comments on how upset he is, then Kevin
shows up.

Kevin enters Burgess' office and she comments that she is afraid.

Frank and Joe are returning to the hospital and they see Chris with his
arm around Julie.  Before there's time for a scene, another patient is
brought in.

Lucy comments on how soulmates is a fine line to walk and still stay
friends.  Karen says she loves Jagger, she's married and she would never
cheat.  Lucy asks if she has told Jagger about Joe.  Karen says they
don't get to talk that much and they have their own problems to
discuss.  Lucy, still perceptive and still gentle, points out that Joe
may be one of those problems.