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From: mtczajka@aol.com (MTCzajka)
Subject: PC:  Monday update for 7/21
Date: 24 Jul 1997 17:31:45 GMT

Eve is teasing a pouting Chris about how one couple gets engaged and
then other couples start to get ideas.  Meanwhile, Frank and Julie
are slow dancing to "I'll Be There" by the Jackson 5 (featuring
Michael with nose #1). Chris reminds Eve that he paid her $500 to
keep them apart.  Eve opines that his feelings for Julie are more
than self-interest - could it be love?  He tells her she is
incapable of real feelings for anyone.  Scene switches to Serena
asking Scott if he'll ever be in love again.  He evades the question
by talking about his love for his parents, and her, etc.  She
clarifies the type of love she means, which leads him to regret
teaching her how to speak.  He knocks on the door they are standing
next to and Karen answers.  She tells the two that Jagger is coming
to PC.  Serena wonders why Jagger doesn't live there.  Scott warns
Karen to answer since she's been on a love kick.  Serena tells Karen
that Scott is starting to love someone - Karen.  Karen and Scott
both smile. Karen tells Serena about moving to a new neighbourhood
and being scared, not knowing anyone, but that she made a best
friend on her first day of school. Serena asks if Karen will be her
best friend.  Scott leaves to get ice cream for his daughters.
Karen asks about Serena's statement about Scott liking her. "Loves",
 Serena corrects her, and also calls him "our" Dad.  Karen is
clearly pleased.  When Scott gets back with the ice cream, Serena
has fallen asleep. Karen and Scott hit the patio to not wake her up.
 Karen asks what it felt like when he first found out about her.  He
admits he was mad - that her Mom never told him and then just sent
him a letter about it.  He regrets not being there for her.  But he
can't change the past, he's there for her now. She's glad.

Frank and Julie rehash her reaction to Cooper being brought in.  She
tells him that she knows her friendship with Chris bothers him.  He
denies it and tells her he hates Chris.  She confesses that Chris
reminds her of her brother, Frank asks which one.  (Let me rant a
bit here - you want to keep your identity secret, fine, but why make
up all these other things, like a big family?)   He can't see any of
her brothers being like Chris.  She says sometimes things aren't
what they seem to be.  They start kissing and Eve interrupts them by
yelling that it's not the PC hotel.  As Aretha sings "Chain of
Fools", Franks asks Julie out on a real date, and she accepts.  Over
at the table, Chris is angry that Eve isn't doing more to break up
the coosome twosome. Eve says "[Dammit, Jim!]  I'm a doctor not a
hit man."  She leaves and outside smiles to herself that it's the
kind of night anything can happen.

Joe tells the Intern-Without-A-Life (Matt) to go home and get some
sleep. He leaves.  In another room, Dr. Tony Jones is checking on
Cooper while Grace looks on.  He's perplexed about what caused
Cooper to seize up.  Ellen arrives and tells Tony that she made the
decision not to give him seizure medicine. She explains that he
didn't seem to need it - that she thinks he was faking it. He asks
her if maybe her initial diagnosis was incorrect (somewhat snottily
for Tony - he sounded like Ellen talking to the interns).  Turns out
Matt didn't leave, he just moved to the couch.  Joe comes in and
comments about Tony taking down Ellen, who walks in as he says it.
He leaves suddenly for some test results.  Ellen admits that she
overheard him, but it doesn't bother her. IWAL (see above) assures
her that she did everything right.  They snipe back and forth a bit.
 Then Ellen opens up and admits that she lost objectivity with
Cooper and then didn't admit it.    Tony walks in and says he got
Cooper's test results back.  Tony says there's no sign of pathology,
but there might have been an adverse reaction to medication.  He
tells Ellen that he's taking her off the case and leaves.

Eve comes home with groceries.  Chris pops in to mention the money
again. She asks what he's going to do - tell the cops that he hired
her to lie and manipulate?  He threatens her with future distress,
she doesn't want him as an enemy.

While a song about "If I could, I'd make you understand" plays in
the background, there is a montage of scenes: Matt tries to comfort
Ellen, but she's bummed, Scott strokes the sleeping Serena's hair
then walks out to the patio and awkwardly does the same to a reading
Karen (very touching, it brought tears to my eyes), Joe - looking
sad to the point of tears - stares into space, Eve slaps a "Do not
touch" sticker on her filet mignon before looking out the window and
seeing Frank and Julie dancing on the back porch, Chris puts an
article with a picture of Julie and her Dad with the headline
"Another M.D. for the Devlins" in an envelope addressed to Frank
Scanlon, Julie and Frank dancing closer.

Marguerite

Marguerite.Czajka@ChicagoIL.NCR.COM