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From: bv143@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T.A. Murray) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 8/8/97 Date: 11 Aug 1997 03:27:22 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - August 8th 1997 (posted and e-mailed) PORT CHARLES - FACTS AND THEORIES Matt and Joe are having breakfast at the recovery room, and Matt makes it more appetizing by asking Joe if he believes an overdose of insulin can cause a seizure leading to a full arrest. Joe agrees that it could and asks if Matt is referring to one of his patients. Matt says no, and Joe catches on that he's talking about Cooper. He wants to know why Matt is interested in saving that creep's life. And Matt says that he's interested in helping Burgess. Joe says that he should ask Burgess about it then. Burgess walks in. New Fact: Matt's idol is Quincy. New Theory: Joe got lucky with his date last night. Scott and Kevin are both up early. Scott pours Kevin a cup of coffee. He tells him that Serena is sleeping peacefully. Scott then asks Kevin what he was implying the night before. Amazingly, Kevin knows what Scott is talking about, and tells him that it was only a feeling, a hunch. But Scott persists, he knows Kevin doesn't think it's over with the kidnappers. Kevin confirms this with a contrite look, and Scott says that he and Serena are outta there. No! Kevin says forcefully. New fact: Scott can make coffee. New Theory: Kevin using Mac Scorpio Private Investigation Techniques. Lucy tiptoes into Serena's room. The little girl is still asleep with her new stuffed tiger in her arms. Lucy pulls the coverlet more snugly over her. She reminisces about carrying Serena and how the baby was always kicking her, but she loved it. Then Scott took her away, but now they were together and no one would ever keep them apart. New Fact: The Tiger has supplanted Dirty Kitty in Serena's affections. New Theory: It's not just Scott, Rex will have to worry about. Danielle is sitting on the couch. Jake clomps into the room and sits down in the armchair to put on his socks and shoes. Danielle says mournfully, that her mother always used to tell her that everything would be better in the norning and usually it was, bu now it's morning and nothing is better. She tells Jake that she knows what they have to do. She wants him to call the police and turn her in. New Fact: Danielle's mother was an optimist. New Theory: Danielle's IQ doesn't even register on the scale. Jake is angry. Last night he found out that she was a kidnapper and this morning she wants him to turn her in? (This would seem to be a logical sequence of events, but not in Jake's book.) What's next? (Conjugal visits?). He gets up and pours himself a cup of coffee. She says that she's sorry that he had to find out these things from Rex, and he snaps at her that it would have been no better to find out from her. "That's not what I meant," she said. "I wanted to tell you myself... that's not what I meant." (We can't help it. She said it twice. The girl doesn't know what she means.) She's says that she's glad that despite his anger he still stood up for her in front of Rex. He says he's a chump. She says no he's not. Jake says, "You could've fooled me." (Newsflash - she did fool him.) Danielle says she proud of him for kicking Rex out. (Must have happened off-screen, we just remember the headlock Rex had on him.) But she's worried that Jake doesn't worry about himself so she has to. Rex isn't going to stop until he's ruined everything. "For better or for worse?" Jake asks, without relevance. Danielle ignores that and says Jake could lose everything including his internship. She insists he make the call. He tells her to call the F.B.I. herself if she's so set on it. New Fact: Danielle can make coffee New Theory: Writers cutting out every other line of Danielle/Jake scenes so they fit in the half hour format. Kevin tries to convince Scott not to leave town. "IF it's not over; IF the kidnappers had more than ransom on their minds; IF whoever did it isn't on the other side of the world right now; IF Stanton and Danielle showed up in town out of anything but coincidence, do you really think running away to Canada is going to stop anything." Scott misses the point of worst case scenario, and says "I'm not going to live in some little iffy world." He says he and Serena could disappear. People disappear all the time and live happily ever after. Like Luke and Laura, Kevin suggests, apparently unaware of what a sore spot they are with Scott... or maybe not. He asks if Scott wants that kind of life for Serena. Scott tells him to leave Luke and Laura out of this. "Fine," says Kevin and brings up the next point in his argument, "What do you think this would do to Lucy?" "She'll get over it," Scott says callously. Kevin shows a lot of restraint by not punching him. "You wouldn't even have Serena if it wasn't for Lucy. You never would have gotten her back if it wasn't for Lucy." Scott knows that. "We've been over and over and over this." "Sure," Kevin agrees, "You just don't give a damn. How many times does she have to lose?" "Do you know what you're asking," says Scott. "If I thought running away was the answer I'd be out on the tarmac fueling up your plane. Running away won't make Serena remember." Kevin adds that the big wide world is the biggest prison Scott will ever know. Stubborn Scott pounds on the table and says that he should have left town with Serena as soon as he got her back. Kevin uses one more argument. "Telling Serena that Lucy gave birth to her was a lifeline to Lucy, and you can't take that back now." "Got me there," says Scott, finally giving in. New Fact: Kevin, like his brother Ryan, has the gift of rhetoric. New Fact: Kevin knows how to fuel a plane. New Theory: Scotty incapable of following sentences which contain more than two clauses. "Let's just tell Burgess what Burgess needs to know," Ellen says referring to herself in the third person. Joe tries to cover up the conversation with a little out-of-character butt kissing. "We were discussing how much we were growing and learning under your inspired leadership." Burgess doesn't buy that for a splt second. She hints that he should leave, "If your through poisoning yourself with that power breakfast." (Looked like a bowl of oatmeal to us.) Joe willingly exits declaring that he wants to start rounds early and that he loves the smell of ether in the morning. Matt objects to Ellen sending Joe away, saying that Joe knows what the deal is and she didn't have to 86 him. Burgess wants to know what is going on, and Matt admits that they were discussing the Cooper case. Ellen is exasperated. His persistence might have served him well, but in this case it is officious, presumptuous and profoundly irritating. "And it's not even nine o'clock," Matt quips. She glares at him. "An internship is difficult enough. You have to choose your battles and make sure they are yours to fight." He continues to ignore her advice and direct orders. "Aren't you curious?" She insists that the review board will look into all the possibilites. Matt insists that the hospital will be trying to protect themselves, and maybe they're just a bunch of nice guys looking out for everyone, but maybe not. On the other hand, what does he know, he's just an intern. And maybe Cooper did this to himself." New Fact: Burgess not so bad with rhetoric herself. New Theory: Matt too dazzled by Ellen's beauty to listen to her. Karen arrives at her and Jagger's San Francisco apartment with a bouquet of flowers. No one is there. The place is a mess with an empty pizza box and soda cans on the table. "Hi, honey, I'm home," she says to the empty room. New Fact: Jagger's housekeeping skills have not improved. New Theory: Jagger must be up to something if he's not home at six in the morning. Matt spins his theory for Burgess. Cooper knows the contraindications of a seizure, he knows the results of an overdose of insulin. Burgess is reluctant to blame the victim for his affliction. Matt, says, yeah, but this is Greg Cooper. Ellen examines his theory, if true, how did Cooper get his hands on the insulin, how did he inject himself, and how would they prove it since they can't do it with a blood test. Matt thinks Cooper was very maipulative and crafty and had all the details planned out. He faked the first seizure. Ellen shakes her head. The Coopers attorney will argue that the second seizure was proof the first was real and of her malpractice. His theory isn't proof. He asks her if she wants to lose. "Assumptions," she begins, intending to finish the famous saying, but he interrupts her with, "Don't you care?" She retorts that he has got enough to worry about. He is defensive, saying this is the second shot of friendly advice she's given him, and would she care to clarify? No she wouldn't. And he says maybe he won't give her a choice. "That's a chair, not a throne," she shoots back. "Don't be late for rounds, Dr. Harmon." She leaves him and strides over to the bar where she orders a "morning thunder to go." New Fact: Recovery Room doing a brisk morning business. New Theory: Matt did it and he's just putting up a smokescreen. "Lucy went through every kind of hell while Serena was away. The stress couldn't have been good for her and it sure wasn't good for our baby," Kevin says continuing to press his argument. "Dammit," Scott says, because he knows that's true. Kevin says he wants to nail these people as much as Scott does. He asks Scott to give him time to find out what's going on. "If there's a chance Serena is in danger..." Scott begins. "Then I'll drive you to the airport myself," Kevin finishes. They go over to sit down. ( Kevin on the couch, Scotty in the armchair.) "Hear me out; if something we're going to happen to Serena why would the kidnappers have returned her." "They want something else," Scott concludes. "And maybe Serena knows what it is," Kevin theorizes. Scott agrees and thinks that maybe it would be a good idea if Kevin talked to Serena. Lucy comes in wearing some blue satin loungewear and a lacy white apron, looking domestic but still distinctly Lucy. She's holding a spatula and asks them if they know where the chocolate chips are, the ones she wasn't supposed to eat so... she and Kevin say together, "we put them in the back of the freezer." Having retrieved the memory, she turns her attention on the duplicitous duo. "What is going on?" "Nothing at all," Kevin says far too innocently. She isn't fooled. "I'm keeping my eye on both of you," she says, and then heads back to the kitchen. "You do that." Kevin says cheerfully. As soon as she's out of earshot, he says to Scott, "We're only keeping this from her right now, because she's fragile. As soon as she's stronger we'll tell her everything." "Fine," Scott says. Then he tells Kevin he's got to go out and take care of something, and he's leaving Serena with Kevin. Before Scott leaves, Kevin cautions him, that he doesn't want Lucy upset right now, and he knows Scott is worried about Danielle, but Lucy has grown quite attached to her. Nevertheless, Scott is hostile towards Danielle, and says, "Don't worry, I got plans for her later." New Fact: Scott not a good team player. New Theory: Lucy was making Chocolate Chip pancakes. Danielle tells Jake what her tentative plans were. "I was going to call the police or leave while you were sleeping." "I didn't sleep last night," Jake informs her. "Rex meant what he said," Danielle tells him. "If I even look at him wrong, he'll take it out on you. Turn me in," she insists. "And if I back you up, I think you'll be okay." Jake rejects this ingenious plan. "I said I won't turn you in, and I won't." He delcares. "But Rex said..." Danielle starts. "These are the threats of an insane man," Jake says, as if this made them less dangerous. "What's he gonna use for evidence?" Danielle neglects to mention the briefcase full of irrefutable evidence that Rex once showed her. "He'll make the proof against you, and he'll never leave a fingerprint." Jake is not convinced, "Rex can't do anything unless we let him." He tells her that Rex just has her running scared. She says she spent the night trying to blame Rex, but that really it was her own fault. How could she have been so stupid? (Too easy, we'll let it slide.) Jake asks where Rex came from. "Nowhere," says Danielle. He just showed up one day, saying that he was her Uncle. He brought flowers, took her to plays, bought her groceries and helped her pay her rent. He told her the Stanton's owed her and hadn't treated him well either. Her mother had just passed away when he showed up. Rex didn't care about her, but she hadn't realized that until she was in way too deep. Jake only has one question. Danielle grovels a little bit and says she'll do anything for him. "Why didn't you come to me?" "When?" she wondered aloud, "and say what? That I'd set it up from the beginning. I didn't want to lose you." She tells him she's already lost the way he used to look at her. He tells her to turn it around. "What are you going to do?" she asks him. "I'm going to make Rex sorry he ever met you." (Like, he's not now?) He puts his coat on. "Are you going to work?" she whines. He tells her that they have to make sure everything appears normal, and that she should unpack her things and get rid of the CDs and anything else Rex gave her. (Why particularly the CDs? Why not the fruitbasket?"). Jake tells her that there can't be any more lies. She has to tell him everything that Rex does or says. New Fact: Jake enjoys the forceful guy role. New Theory: Jake does not enjoy Rex's taste in music. Karen wanders around the apartment looking at photos of her and Jagger, sighing and looking forlorn. A key rattles in the lock and the door opens. A blonde woman comes in and looks surpised to see Karen there. "Hi, Karen," she says. New Fact: Jagger still looks like Antonio Sabato Jr. New Theory: Jagger thinks a blonde might be closer to his intellectual level. Matt confronts Burgess at the sixth floor nurses station. He asks her what she meant by her earlier statements. She says she thought she made herself clear. He says no, he wants to know what she meant by saying that his internship was too difficult, and hopes she wasn't alluding to his chair. She says that she meant his handicap. He objects to the term, and she says he can choose his euphemism, but the fact is that he's different. The intern program is an obstacle course and no one was going to put out a welcome mat.(or is that "Welcome, Matt") That whether he liked it or not there were different rules for him, and that others would consider him exceptional or novel and that was not a good thing. He starts to interrupt her but she won't allow it. "You'll know when I'm finished. I didn't get where I am by having my battles fought for me. So if you want to save somebody there is a vast array of patients at your disposal." She starts to walk away, and Matt, completely unable to understand the instruction mind your own business' calls after her. "I'm glad you're not a jerk. I've never known anyone so smart could be so wrong, but hey at least you're not a jerk." She glares at him and continues to walk away. New Fact: Matt can't tell when Burgess is finished. New Theory: Doctors neglecting patient care at GH. At the Lighthouse, Serena and Kevin are seated at the table involved in an art project. Serena holds up her painting of the vase of flowers on the table. "That is gorgeous," Kevin tells her. "Now yours," she says. "Promise not to laugh," he says. She promises. "Cross your heart?" She crosses her heart. He holds up his, which is not quite up to his usual artistic standards. "Doesn't look much like a still life with flowers, does it?" he says depreciatively. Serena tips her head and studies it. "Maybe." "But you wouldn't want to eat it, would you?" She laughs at his non-sequiter and then covers her mouth and says oops, for having broken her promise. "That's okay," he says, "I'll draw something else." "Like what?" she asks. "I'm better at drawing things I remember, like feelings." "You can't draw feelings," says Serena. "Sure you can," Kevin tells her, "If you start with something real. Like if I wanted to draw hate I'd start with broccoli." Serena grimaces and says she hates broccoli and Kevin says he hates broccoli. (PSA - Broccoli tastes good and is good for you. Brought to you by the broccoli growers of America.) "If you wanted to draw afraid," he tells her, "you might start by drawing a picture of the lady." "What lady?" says Serena. "The lady who took care of you when you were away." (That's no lady; that's Danielle.) Serena looks very displeased to have the subject brought up. New Fact: Serena hates broccoli. New Theory: Serena's going to be a tough nut to crack. Jake has left and Danielle is alone. She is moving things around the table, either unpacking or determining what things Rex gave her. A knock comes on the door, and she freezes, probably afraid it's Rex. "Who is it?" she calls. "Lucy." Relieved, yet still anxious, she opens the door. Danielle lets her in. Lucy notices her surly manner, and Danielle says she's not a morning person. She asks how Lucy is and Lucy says she's taking things one day at a time. She's there to apologize for Scott's behavior the day before. Danielle says she didn't mean to barge into their lives and that Scott was right to have questions. Lucy says that she has some of her own. New Fact: Danielle not a morning person. New Theory: Danielle would have made it to Mexico if she could pack faster. Rex walks into the recovery room. He tells the bartender that he had gotten a message to meet Lucy Coe here. "Uh, nope," says Scott from his corner table. "Your date's with me." Rex looks surprised. New Fact: When Lucy calls Rex (here boy) Stanton comes. New Theory: Scott is hard up for a date. Director Scott McKinsey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! 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