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From: bv143@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T.A. Murray) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 10/17/97 Date: 24 Oct 1997 04:16:25 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - October 17th 1997 (posted and e-mailed) PORT CHARLES - ANOTHER LATE UPDATE Scott and Eve are walking down the hospital corridor. Scott thought his test would be positive for drugs. He asks Eve what specific drug it was. She's says they'll need another test. She asks if he still thinks he was drugged. Of course, and he knows who did it. He gets on the elevator. She asks him where he's going. "To get some answers." In Jake's apartment Rex is delighted that of all the Doctor's in Port Charles Scott has picked Jake to do his blood test. With relish Rex imagines using the evidence in court. He pretends to be the plaintiff's attorney, questioning first Eve and then Jake. Jake is less than impressed with Rex' eccentric performance. Rex tells Jake to get on with the testing so they'll know what drug Scott is taking, and might as well get started on the DNA work while he's at it. "Do you want me to cook you dinner while I'm at it?" Jake asks sarcastically. Rex makes a comment about disgruntled employees. He tries to impress Jake with the wonderful wickedness of his evil plan. Rex leaves. Karen and Joe are outside the patient's room. Joe points out that the handwriting on the chart isn't his. Chris retorts that it's not his writing either. Karen says he could have disguised his handwriting. Chris tries to explain how he was paged to come to the room, but doesn't know by whom. Joe says he's lying. Chris is getting tired of their conspiracy theories. Cooper lurks around a nearby corner. Eve prevents Scott from leaving and they continue to discuss his problem. Eve wants to help him find the answers. She asks him to go over everything he ate. He mentions the fish sticks still being in question. She says certain things could throw the tests off including some over the counter medicines and poppy seeds. Scott sarcastically suggests that he and Serena were making muffins and she added too many poppy seeds. (Poppies, poppies, poppies.) She asks who would want to drug him. (Does she want that list alphabetical or chronological.) Scott thinks her friend Jake knows since he hangs around with the top suspects Rex and Danielle. Eve says Scott can't accuse Jake without evidence. (Why not? Everyone else does it.) Scott has a gut feeling and he's going to go with that. He gets on the elevator. Matt and Ellen are in the interns room. Ellen wants to know what Matt did to make Boardman angry. Matt says that Boardman is a narrow minded idiot, and he told him so. Ellen tells him that he's committing career suicide. (What's Boardman gonna do cut him from the surgical rotation twice.) Matt is unwilling to accept Boardman's judgement. What give's him the right to decide Matt's future? Ellen points out that Boardman is Chief Surgical Resident. Matt doesn't care. Ellen tells him he can't buck the system. (Silly thing to say.) He tells her not to bet on that because he's an expert at it. (We'll take a piece of that. 100 Internet credits say, Matt gets to perform surgery. Another fifty says he gets that Quartermaine fellowship.) He gives her a comprehensive lecture on the history of the fight for handicapped accessibility. Matt won't stop fighting. He's not done fighting by a long shot. Chris, Karen and Joe are still arguing in the hall with Cooper sniggering around the corner. Julie joins them and asks what's going on. Karen and Joe indulge in their conspiracy fantasy and tell her Chris altered the chart. Boardman interrupts. Joe tells him that Chris altered the chart. Chris starts to deny their allegations. Boardman tells him he'll have his turn. Joe goes into details about what he thinks happened, and Karen supports him. Boardman doesn't care who did what to whom, he wants them to stop arguing and get to Dr. Devlin's Farewell Address. (We pictured a large auditorium, a podium and a microphone, and refreshments afterwards. Imagine our disappointment when...) Karen and Joe, somehow much slower than Chris and Julie, arrive in the interns lounge just as Bennett is beginning his speech. It is an almost sincerely delivered speech about how wonderful it is to be a Doctor and what good Doctors they would all make. Julie is touched. Chris is touched. Karen and Joe are touched. Even Eve falls for it. (And later she'll be touched.) Jake "I don't need this hospital" Marshak wasn't even there. Scotty barges into Jake's apartment. He demands to know where Rex is. Jake doesn't know. Scott threatens Jake with prosecution for the dimwitted duos criminal escapades. Cut to Rex back at his own home listening to the conversation via his bug in the lamp. He congratulates himself on drugging Scott and fondly flashes back to putting funny stuff on Scott's envelopes. Gail is at the lighthouse looking after Serena. They are making invitations to a Halloween Party. They go over the invite to make sure it's correct and then decide to decorate them with stickers. Serena nixes the pumpkins because they're not scary enough. They settle on witches, ghosts, black cats and skeletons. Gail notices that they have no ENVELOPES. Serena says that there are ENVELOPES in her daddy's briefcase. Gail wonders if Scott wants her to use them and Serena insists that she and Daddy share everything. She begins sorting the ENVELOPES. Chris and Julie are in the hospital lobby on the sixth floor. Chris explains to Julie that he didn't change that chart and if he had he wouldn't have been stupid enough to get caught. He confesses that he feels he's being blamed for every bad thing that happens. Julie half-heartedly supports him, saying that she's keeping an open mind about his guilt. He asks how he's supposed to prove a negative. "If not you then who?" Julie asks. Chris is suddenly struck with new-writer-induced brilliance. "Wait a minute, I am an idiot." (That's not the brilliant part.) Julie doesn't get it yet, but comes along as Chris walks over to Joe and Karen (Mr. and Mrs. Self-righteous.) Joe and Karen reflexively start to snipe at Chris. They don't want to hear any more of his lies. Julie suggests that they hear him out. Chris speaks softly and reasonably, starting with an apology for yelling at them earlier. Their coming at him like that had made him angry. They ask what he expected them to do. "Exactly what you did," says Chris, starting to get to the point. "That was the whole point of it." Karen and Joe are starting to get his drift, but are still puzzled. Chris proposes that all three of them were set up by a third party. He wonders who will be the next victim. Joe finally believes Chris and wonders whose behind it. Behind it and them. Cooper directly in back of Joe, lurks at the water fountain. Matt is at the bottom of the stairwell. Boardman comes down the stairs, and hails Matt. Matt sarcastically asks if Boardman has changed his mind about cutting him from the surgical rotation. Boardman gives him his new assignment... clerical work. Matt is insulted. (Matt is angry. Matt is going to kick butt. Boardman should see if there's an opening at Mercy.) Bennett walks in to the intern's lounge. Eve is dressed in her favorite off-duty wear... a towel. She tells him she liked his speech though it was a little bit long-winded. He tells her that speech was just for her, and she doesn't quite buy that BS. He regards her as a colleague and a good Doctor. She says that means a lot coming from him and recalls the first time she heard him lecture. He comes on with the cheesy line, "I saw you and I felt like I was hit by a thunderbolt." He remembers the past fondly and wishes she did. He gives her a peck on the cheek that turns into a lip lock. Julie walks in at that moment and is hit by her own thunderbolt. Gail and Serena are still working on putting the stickers on the invitations. The ENVELOPES are lying around looking ominous. Gail suggests that Serena put the papers in the ENVELOPES. Serena folds up one sheet and puts it in the ENVELOPE. In slow- mo she raises it to her tongue in preparation to lick the ENVELOPE. Director - Andrew Lee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! ( |\ | ( !! * *!* !! | \ | !! *!* |~| !! | \| !! |~| | |"It's that twin thing."-Ryan Chamberlain"| | |_| twinsofevil@geocities.com*tntmur@aol.com|_| bv143@freenet.carleton.ca * ui220@freenet.victoria.bc.ca http://muppetlabs.com/~davidj/tnt/tnt.htm http://members.aol.com/tntmur/index.html http://members.aol.com/tntmur/port/chuckles.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
