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From: rika1@mindspring.com (Rika) Subject: PC: Update, Tuesday, 10/14/97 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 03:26:58 GMT X-Server-Date: 19 Oct 1997 03:28:03 GMT PORT CHARLES UPDATE Tuesday, October 14, 1997 Today's episode is significant in that it is the first one whose credits list Lynn Latham as the head writer. Today's Storylines: ------------------- * Days of My Dad * As the World Wobbles * The Young and the Clueless * All My Nieces DAYS OF MY DAD -------------- Julie, Frank, and Bennett are outside the Scanlon home. In a continuation of Monday's episode, Bennett has laced up his tap shoes and he's doing his best to dazzle Julie with his fancy footwork. Of course, he explains, he recommended Frank for the Colson College job for benevolent reasons, and he kept silent about his role so it wouldn't seem like he was meddling. Julie, in a rare example of clear-headed thinking where her dad is concerned, points out that meddling is precisely what he was doing. Frank goes inside and Julie yells at Bennett for a while longer. He continues to claim that he just wanted to do a favor for someone she cared for. She accuses her dad of interfering; he insists that he simply wants what's best for Julie. She tells him that if he truly did, he wouldn't have come to Port Charles. (Julie, that should tell you something....) Daddy Dearest now rolls out the heavy artillery. It's probably mostly sincere, but you also get the sense that he's good at playing Julie like a violin, and that he has years of experience with this particular sonata. He wants to make sure she knows he loves her - he doesn't want to make "that mistake" twice in a lifetime. What mistake, she asks. The one he made with his son - he feels responsible for Buddy's death. Julie insists that he can't blame himself for Buddy's suicide; Bennett says that the signs were there, and he would have seen them if Buddy had been a patient, but he was too busy to notice what was going on with his son. He was always too busy for school plays or birthday parties; he only attended one of Buddy's Little League games, and only then because an operation was cancelled at the last minute. And at that game, Buddy dropped a fly ball and Bennett teased him about it. Julie explains that Buddy dropped it because he was so nervous about his dad's presence. Bennett figures (correctly, I'm sure) that if he'd gone more often, Buddy would have known he was there to support him, not to criticize. Julie reminds Bennett that you can't change the past (evidently she doesn't know about some of the Guza and Culliton storylines on GH); they all have regrets. She then offers the remarkably non-comforting observation, "But you loved him in your own way." Bennett even considered killing himself after Buddy died, but thoughts of Julie stopped him - he swore he'd never make the same mistakes with her he made with Buddy. (This shouldn't present a problem, as there are undoubtedly gazillions of entirely different mistakes he can make). This is the reason for his meddlesome tendencies, but he will do his best to mend his ways. "But please, don't expect miracles," he finishes, and they embrace as Frank watches them through the window, displeased. AS THE WORLD WOBBLES -------------------- Lucy is at the hospital talking to Gail on her cellular phone, explaining that Scott ran off. If Scott shows up, Lucy asks Gail to keep him from leaving - "tie him up.... better yet, just spank him." (I'd pay a lot of money to see that!) She finishes with Gail and then walks into Kevin's room. He is sleeping; Eve is adjusting Kevin's IV. Lucy snipes at Eve; Eve tells Lucy to be quiet because Kevin needs rest. Lucy tells Eve about Scott's latest problems and his disappearance. Kevin wakes up in time to hear this and asks, "Scott is missing?" Lucy and Eve begin to bicker about who woke Kevin up, but Kevin interrupts and asks for more information on Scott. Lucy explains that Scott had "another" episode; Kevin, who hadn't heard about the first one, asks for clarification. Lucy and Eve explain the situation, including Scott's threat to kill Dr. Devlin. Kevin nods and gets the LOD (which you may not appreciate in print, since it was all in the reading), "That *could* have been symptomatic." (Eve - or maybe Julie Pinson - bites her lip to keep from giggling). Lucy is worried that Devlin saw Scott in that state; Kevin points out that the more basic concern is that Scott is out there alone, and they don't know where. Meanwhile, Scott is on the road in Lucy's convertible, weaving from lane to lane, apparently having trouble seeing straight. The radio is blaring "Light My Fire." A police car comes up behind him, and Scott pulls over. Officer Rick (YAY!!!!!!!!), in a most-welcome crossover from GH, inspects the license and registration. He notes that the car is registered to Lucy Coe (right, Officer Rick, the lady with the noisy duck and the amazing evening dress, remember?); Scott explains that Lucy is his friend. Officer Rick asks Scott if he has been drinking, and Scott says he hasn't. Officer Rick tells him to get out of the car, and administers a field sobriety test. Officer Rick then asks Scott to take a breathalyzer test, but Scott refuses - "I am not myself tonight." Later, Eve's beeper goes off. While she answers the page, Lucy obsesses about Scott while Kevin tries to get her to calm down. Eve hands the phone to Lucy - it was Scott who beeped her. Scott explains to Lucy that "I'm in jail but I'm fine." Lucy repeats this, stunned; Kevin, overhearing, mutters wearily, "It never stops." Scott asks Lucy to come and bail him out; Lucy refuses to do so unless Scott agrees to have some tests run. THE YOUNG AND THE CLUELESS -------------------------- Karen peruses the personal files on the interns which fell out of Chris's locker at the end of Monday's episode. (QUICK QUESTION - How did Cooper have those files so he could plant them in Chris's locker? The police should have had all the files *except* for Julie's, which is probably somewhere at Chris's apartment. I suppose we could be charitable and assume they're duplicates Cooper had hidden somewhere.) Karen calls Chris a nasty name that I won't repeat here, but it questions the legitimacy of his birth. She shows the files to Matt, Joe, and Ellen as Chris protests that the files aren't his. Joe snipes back, "Right, Ramsey, then whose are they?" Matt flashes back to Cooper brandishing a gun while reading from the files during the hostage crisis, and for a moment your updater thinks Matt has solved the mystery and is about to inquire as to Cooper's whereabouts. But not even Matt is that smart - he's been drinking the Port Charles water for several months now. The assembled group concludes that Chris stole the files the night of the hostage crisis. Ellen just wants the game playing to stop. She takes the files (she must need some titillating reading material) and orders the interns back to work. Chris tries to defend himself again - how could he have gotten the files when Cooper was first in maximum security, and later in an institution that burned to the ground. (CLUE ALERT!!!!! HELLO???? Chris, how could ANYBODY have gotten the files? YOO HOO??? Oh, never mind, they're not paying attention.) Chris suggests that the files were planted in his locker - perhaps by Karen. Karen is furious - how dare Chris accuse her of something? (Gee, Karen, I don't know. WHERE would Chris have ever gotten the idea to make unfounded accusations against someone? Hmmm.... let me think.... the idea does have a familiar ring..... nope, just can't place it.) Chris points out that he's not stupid enough to put the files in his locker, which seems like a good point. Matt retorts that Chris's track record to date makes him the logical suspect. Karen threatens to make Chris's life "a living hell," and she follows up by telling him, "Chris, you read my file, so you know what kind of grief I can lay on you." (What is she threatening to do, torture him by stripping in front of him on a regular basis? I assume there's something *else* in her file.) With a nasty glare, she flounces out of the on-call room. With Karen gone, Joe takes over the Chris-bashing duty, while Matt makes a half-hearted attempt to referee. Eve arrives and observes, "You could cut the testosterone in this room with a knife." Joe explains to Eve about the files; she's amused to hear it. ALL MY NIECES ------------- Rex is busy planting a bug in a lamp in Jake's apartment when he hears Danielle talking to Jake outside the door. He quickly sits down and starts reading the paper. He greets them cheerily and tells the it's time to get to work. First, Jake wants Rex to show him the money. Rex hands him an envelope of cash. It's not the $40,000 Jake wanted, but he agrees that he can get started. Rex instructs Danielle to let Jake take some of her blood: "Let's find out just how close a match you are to Miss Serena Baldwin, your new daughter." Jake does as he's told; Rex goes into their bedroom and makes a call to his lawyer to tell him about Scott's DWI arrest. He hangs up and chortles, "And thank you, Scotty; this couldn't have worked out better even if I had planned it myself." ----------- by Rika, Tuesday updater