Daily Updates

From: "Linda N." <n042066@erols.com>
Subject: PC:Update for Wed, Aug. 13, 1997
Date: 16 Aug 1997 01:15:19 GMT

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted...house-buying is a very
time-consuming process!

Today's featured players:  Karen, Gail, Mary, Joe, Grace, Frank, Julie,
Mike

THIS MARRIAGE NEEDS A TOE-TAG
Karen has spent the time since her return to PC holed up in her apartment
pigging out on junkfood.  She is trying to figure out how to put on a good
face when she goes back to work.  She's not certain she can be convincing.
She puts in a "long distance call from San Francisco" (from in front of her
own refrigerator) to the hospital, leaving a message for Dr. Burgess to
assure her she'll back on time.  She hears the door open, throws the phone
into the fridge, and hides behind the kitchen counter.  Gail enters (she
has borrowed the keys from the landlady) bearing a "casserole surprise."
She's surprised to find Karen hiding in the kitchen.  In a charming
combination of grandmotherly concern and professional demeanor, Gail draws
out of Karen the whole story of the disaster in SF.  Karen asks her to be
her grandmother rather than her psychiatrist and keep this private; she
doesn't want it to be public knowledge.  Gail warns about keeping
secrets...Karen knows from personal experience that can be disastrous.
Karen doesn't want her mother to know...she's always been down on Jagger.
Gail encourages Karen to reach out to people, but in the meantime promises
confidentiality, if not objectivity.  [IMHO, their scenes together were
excellent]

IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES GRACE HAVE IDEAS ABOUT WHO JOE SHOULD REALLY BE
SEEING?
Mary and Joe are at the hospital, with Mary doing her motherly best to find
out what's bugging him.  Grace comes up and says it's either lack of sleep
or the fairer sex.  "Hmph," muses Joe, "you call that fair?"  Mary wonders
what is in the water at home; Frank seems to be suffering from the same
problem.

Later, during a break at the Recovery Room, Mary and Grace are chatting
over a cup of coffee.  Joe is at the bar and orders breakfast from the new
temp bartender, Wally, who recognizes him from a picture at the bar.
Unfortunately, Wally also recognizes Karen from her former career at
Sonny's Paradise Lounge.  Mike overhears this just as Joe is ready to go
for Wally's neck and diffuses the situation, sending Wally to the kitchen
to make the breakfast.  Mike tells Joe he knows that Sonny gave Karen some
bad advice when she was "just a kid," but she's overcome it and has made
something of her life...and wishes others could follow her example.  Joe
marvels at how well she's handled everything, including Cooper cluing the
other interns in on her past.  Mike and Joe agree that she's terrific.

Mike goes to flirt with Mary and they banter more about the recent poker
match.  Mike offers to walk Mary back to the hospital.  She wants to know
what he was talking w/Joe about, but Mike says there are some things
mothers cannot fix.  But Mary says, that doesn't mean they don't still want
to try.

Meanwhile, Grace has been observing Joe from the table.  Methinks she would
be more than willing to provide a consoling shoulder.

[I'm really liking the Grace character and are so glad to see TPTB giving
her some lines and part of the storyline.  KEEP IT UP!  Also, while the
young interns are mostly interesting -note that I'm not complaining at all
about Jake and Danielle missing from today's lineup :=)) -- I wish they
would do more with showing us the developing relationship between Mike and
Mary.  Let us see them actually go out together.]

HEY FRANK, DON'T DISS MY MAN JEEVES
Frank and Julie are trying to work through their problems.  Frank is still
Mr. Rigid (oops, sorry, not like THAT), but does try to explain to her that
he trusted her, confided in her things he'd never said before to anyone
else, and feels betrayed and foolish.  He now finds himself questioning
everything she says, including the story about her brother's demise.
Julie, while still going overboard in her apologies, begins to get some
backbone and defend her choices.  She explains that no one knows what it's
like to be Julie Devlin.  She didn't take out an ad announcing how much her
father's net work was or "go online to discuss" her brother's death
[thought that was a cute line], but that's because no one would understand
that there are things about her life that are difficult.  Frank says he
would have tried to understand and now he doesn't know what to think.
Julie tells him to think about THIS and lays a kiss on him that could make
the nickname above apropo.  She then calls him on the carpet for never once
considering what things are like from her point of view...and he looks like
he's seriously considering that she might have a good point there.

AN EPIPHANY (is that how you spell it?) CAN BE MESSY
Today's show ended in what I thought was a very classy scene.  Karen has
just said goodbye to Gail when the phone rings.  She lets the machine get
it.  It's Joe.  He tells her he's has just had an epiphany, but don't
worry, no one was hurt and he cleaned up after himself.  Actually he just
called to tell her he's her friend and that he hopes everything went well
in SF and that Jagger is a very lucky guy.  Karen curls up on the couch,
clutching a pillow, as Joe wishes her well and goodbye.  ..............fade
out.................
--
Linda N.
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