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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.)

Director - Anthony Morina

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