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From: bv143@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T.A. Murray) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 10/24/97 Date: 27 Oct 1997 03:49:08 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - October 24th 1997 (posted and e-mailed) PORT CHARLES - WARNING SIGNS On the floor of the empty firehouse, Scott, Karen and Serena are having a picnic. Scott and Serena are telling a spooky story, each taking a line. Scott ends it with a mysterious knock that is echoed at the front door. The girls cry out in mock terror. It's only Kevin and Lucy who have used the secret knock Scott specified. Kevin thinks it's a great place. (It's not the Lighthouse, that's great enough for him.) Scott offers them some "bug juice and weenies". Serena reminds him that he promised to do the show with Karen and her. Scott is reluctant, but Kevin and Lucy agree that they'd like to see some live entertainment. The Baldwin's go off to get ready. Lucy wonders why Scott wants to live in an old firehouse instead of with them. Kevin likes it and Scott is a grown man with two daughters. Lucy sees the logic but she will miss Serena. (Warning Karen: Adulterers are in the room with you! That's right Lucy has slept with more husbands than you can shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time. And Daddy dearest can't cast any stones either. Perhaps you should lecture them on their moral short- comings.) Eve and Chris lounge on his couch, enjoying their martinis. "Luxury isn't lethal, is it?" she asks him. She says he's a real pal for putting her up after Karen refused. She never thought she'd say it but "Thank you, Dr. Ramsey." "This isn't free," he informs her. She says she has no money. That not what he had in mind, he tells her. (Warning Chris: Don't take the rent in cash.) Julie is confronted by Greg Cooper in the on call room. What's he doing there, she wants to know. (That's good, Julie. Maybe the psychopathic killer has a legitimate reason for being there. It's better to check first.) Eve was having trouble scraping together lunch money he tells her. He just wanted to help. "I thought you were dead," she tells Greg. "Alive and kicking," he informs her before he lunges at her. Cooper has his arm around Julie's neck as she begs him not to hurt her. He wouldn't hurt her he says but he can't trust her. He takes out a hypodermic needle and injects her. (Warning Julie: Cooper really hates "The Sound of Music.") Karen, Serena and Scott are getting ready for the "show." Lucy and Kevin, left momentarily unsupervised are kissing on the picnic blanket. "Are you guys ready?" Serena shouts from upstairs. Kevin turns on the CD player and the show begins. Karen slides down the pole. (The reunion passes unremarked.) Serena follows. They lip synch to "If You Want to be My Lover" and dance. Scott slides down the pole to join them, wearing sunglasses and dancing poorly. Everybody joins in. (Warning Scott: Spice Girls may be more detrimental in a custody case than drugs.") Chris suggests that there should be a quid pro quo. "I scratch your back..." Eve finishes "And I rip yours to shreds." Chris has something tamer in mind. He'd like dinner. She happily gets up to order out, but he wants a hearty home-cooked meal. "I don't cook," she informs him. "I'm sure you can whip up something tasty," he says. She laughs, "For a moment I thought you were serious." He points out the kitchen to her. As she reluctantly gets up to fix the meal, he snaps his fingers. "Remote," he says. She picks it up and seems to be considering other things she might do with it, but she does hand it to him. "Thank you," he says as she leaves the room. (Warning Eve: Chris is a channel surfer.) Matt shows Jake the information he got on functioning in the O.R. effectively. Jake asks where he got the information. "Off the Internet," Matt tells him. Jake wonders when Matt sleeps. (So do we.) Jake thinks Dr. Quartermaine will be impressed. Matt hopes so and thanks Jake for his support. (Warning Jake: Tomorrow Matt may consider this as interference.) Cooper puts a toe tag on Julie who is lying unconscious on a gurney covered with a sheet. He pulls the sheet up over her head. He puts on his (super-special-Clark-Kent-no-one-will-ever-recognize-me) glasses and wheels Julie out into the hall. A security guard stops him as he rounds the corner and asks for his I.D.. He goes away to check on it. (Warning Security Guard: If Cooper offers you a raspberry cream, take it.) At the firehouse the "show" is over. (Imagine our relief.) They are sitting around making S'mores. Serena asks Lucy if they will still be best friends even though she won't be living at the lighthouse. "Of course," Lucy tells her. Serena describes all the fun stuff they'll do like building and decorating a house for Barbie. Lucy thinks a Jacuzzi and sky lights would be a good idea. On that note, Kevin thinks it's time to say goodnight. Serena protests and Lucy is sad, but she says she'll give Sigmund Serena's regards and bring him over whenever she can. They go out the front door and Kevin tells Lucy that she's not losing Serena. Lucy knows, but that's not how it feels. Kevin is sure that she'll be seeing more of Serena than she does of him and no doubt Scott will give her a key. Lucy wants them to be like a family. Kevin's not sure he wants Scott in his family. He reminds Lucy that Love has nothing to do with location. They kiss. (Warning Scott: If Lucy and Karen have keys, you and Eve won't have much privacy.) Ellen is about ready to go off duty. She sees Matt in the sixth floor lounge and wonders why he hasn't gone home. He's preparing for his meeting with Dr. Q.. He'd like her to play Devil's Advocate for him if she's not too tired. She says he's not the only over-achiever around. (Warning Ellen: Matt's not just an over-achiever, he's an energy sucking vampire.) After dinner Chris tells Eve she can leave the dishes until morning. "Oh, thank you, Kind Master." Chris offers to show her the bedroom. No way, she's taking the couch. He wants to share the bed. "Not with you in it," she tells him. He thinks she'll change her mind when she's lying on the fold out bed. "Not if it was a bed of nails," she declares. She goes over and sits on the smaller couch. He follows and stands behind her. He tells her a story about a medical student who slept with a married surgeon. She wised up, broke it off and repaid her debt to the Doctor. But her secret came out and she ended up broke, homeless and without friends. So what is the moral of the story. That Chris is a lousy storyteller, Eve guesses. No, the moral Chris has in mind is, "What good are ethics. You can't eat them. They don't pay the rent and they certainly don't keep you warm on a cold night." (That's right... "Have you ever tried spreading ideals on a cracker?") (Warning Chris and Eve: Witty banter can lead to Soap Opera Digest awards.) The security guard comes back with Cooper's fake I.D.. Cooper asks if there was a problem. The guard says his I.D. is out of date. Cooper should take care of that. The guard leaves and Cooper drops the I.D. in question. Audrey picks it up and hands it back to him. She almost recognizes him, but of course his brilliant disguise protects him. He wheels the unconscious Julie away. (Warning Audrey: You don't need another hole in the head.) It's the next morning and Jake and Karen come into the on-call room. Ellen and Matt are at the table. Ellen realizes they've pulled an all-nighter. Jake asks Matt when his meeting with Dr. Quartermaine is. "About seventeen minutes and thirty two seconds," Matt tells him. Chris and Eve come in. He's telling her a bad joke, which nobody laughs at. Karen purposely takes the last cup of coffee just as Eve comes over to the coffee-maker. She smirks that Eve will have to make a new pot. Ellen asks if anyone has seen Dr. Morris. She's not late is she? "She is for the triple bypass she asked to observe," Ellen tells them. Then she has a sudden outburst. She wants to know when this group of interns is going to learn the meaning of the word promptness. (When hell freezes over?). She storms out of the room. The interns look guilty. (Warning Matt: Ellen's not a morning person.) Cooper sits beside the bed where he has the unconscious Julie handcuffed. He's playing with a plastic (we hope) skeleton arm. The macabre room has jars of pickled organs on the tables, and anatomical posters on the wall. Julie starts to wake up. "She lives," says Cooper. "Where am I?" Julie asks. "In the basement level of Casa de Cooper," he tells her. This was the site of his high school science experiments, though the school didn't condone them. Julie asks if this is his parent's house. He confirms that it is, but that they were so broken up over his death that they've gone a six-month cruise. So they won't be disturbed. No one knows that he's alive. She says she won't tell if he let's her go. He says she won't tell, because he's not going to let her go. (Warning Greg: You've been watching too many Vincent Price movies.) Outside Alan's office (uh...Conference room, something like that) Ellen offers to speak for Matt again. He refuses. He has to show he's capable of functioning in and out of the O.R.. He thanks her for pulling the all-nighter with him. The thanks she wants is for him to make Boardman eat every word. She starts to open the door for him, but he wants to do even that for himself. (Warning Alan: Time to take a pill.) Serena and Scott are showing Gail around the firehouse. Serena offers to teach Gail how to slide down the pole. Scott suggests that Gail doesn't have the right shoes. Gail promises to wear sneakers next time. Scott tells her he's thinking of turning one room into an office, because he'll be practicing law again. Gail knows Lee will be thrilled to hear that. Serena leaves the room to go drink the last of her yoo-hoo. Scott's also going to install a full security system to keep unwanted people out. Speaking of unwanted people, there is a knock at the door. Scott thinks it's Lucy, but it's Agent Conklin and his friend. He invites them in and offers them donuts. He asks if they've found Serena's kidnappers yet. They tell him that he's under arrest for the federal crime of kidnaping. Gail says it must be a mistake. Scott asks who he supposed to have kidnaped. "Your daughter," they tell him. (Not possible, unless they mean Karen. Scott has always had full custody of Serena. Maybe they mean fraud for faking the kidnaping.) (Warning Gail: You're going to have to watch Serena the rest of the day.) 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