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From: bv143@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T.A. Murray) Subject: PC: Friday Update - December 5th 1997 Date: 8 Dec 1997 05:24:39 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update -December 5th 1997 (posted and e-mailed) PORT CHARLES - POET'S CORNER Today on Port Charles, Matt wrote Karen a rhyme Now we'll do the same, for one scene at a time Lucy and Kevin come out of the elevator on the sixth floor. Lucy tells Kevin she's jealous that he'll be there for Jury selection and she won't. (Yeah, Jury selection is so riveting.) Kevin's doing psychological profiles of prospective jurors. He insists that Lucy will be having more fun than he is. She'll get to be creative with the plan, and organize Serena's birthday party. Now they have to get to work. Whose first on her hit list? Lucy is going to talk to Alan Quartermaine and Kevin is going to talk to Ellen. Lucy worries that their friends may resent being used, but Kevin insists that they finish what they've started. They're about to kiss when someone passes by and they remember their supposed to be unhappy. Kevin and Lucy have a plot to ruin Rex It involves breaking up and lying and sex At Karen's place a party has been set up. She's being helped by her landlady and Julie. Rhonda arrives with Karen's wedding dress that she's altered for the Divorce Party. Rhonda disapproves of the party. Karen wants her mother and friends to support her through this difficult time. Julie pulls a pair of fishnet stockings out of her purse and gives them to Karen to go with the dress. Joe comes in. Since Karen is still in her bathrobe he asks if this is a pajama party. No. She takes her present from him. It's a little black book. But there's only one page and only one name, presumably his. A Party at Karen's, everyone's invited She's in her bathrobe and Joe is excited There's a knock on the door and Karen answers it. It's Matt, Grace, Chris and Eve. They're carrying presents. They chatter until Karen shushes them. She tells them she has something for all of them to wear. The girls go off to change and she gives the guys cummerbunds and bow ties. Scott comes in. Karen asks him about his trial the next day. The party is a welcome distraction. Karen says she knows this is strange to have a divorce party. Scott understands, when he got his divorce papers from Laura he put them in a bathtub poured tequila over them, worm and all, and set them on fire. Karen sympathizes with the worm. Scott asks what the father of the ex-bride does. She says he gets her back. She hands him a cummerbund. A divorce is a divorce, of course, of course And Karen will get a divorce of course That is of course unless the divorce is to be contestED Frank comes in. Karen tells him Julie is getting dressed. Since she is still in her bathrobe he wonders if she should do the same. She leaves. Eve approaches Scott. "Hi Sailor." He likes the special dress (pink, bridesmaid). She lightheartedly suggests that she wear it to his trial tomorrow. He thinks that's a good idea, it might take the Jury's mind off the trumped up charges against him. Eve thinks he'll rip the opposition's case apart. He thinks he could spend the rest of his life in jail. Scott's sure depressed about his upcoming trial But Eve's low cut pink dress gets him to smile At the Hospital Lucy approaches Alan, who is about to leave for the day. She asks if she can talk to him , "If you can make it fast," he tells her, and then smiles to himself, "What am I talking about." Lucy launches into her performance. She's already made sure that the hospital gossip, Amy, is within earshot. She tells Alan she might not be able to do the Nurses' Ball in June because her life has gotten so crazy. What with Scott and Serena, and Jax Cosmetics not doing well. (Presumably because Brenda can't finish a photo shoot to save her life.) Alan says she's been in tougher scrapes. She has, but now she's having problems with Kevin. Kevin thinks she's focusing too much on her great big problems. He won't listen to her and wants her to stop belly-achin'. Alan suggests that Kevin feels he's getting the short end of the stick, attentionwise. He suggest Lucy air her feelings to Kevin and that she not be hasty, because this could be a temporary problem. She doesn't know if she wants to stay with someone as self-centered as Kevin. She thinks they're finished. Amy, reading a chart upside down, is eating it up with a spoon. When Amy's around tell your story loud and clear and next thing you know it's known far and near Mary arrives at the party. She tells Joe and Frank that she doesn't think a divorce should be celebrated. Karen's a nice girl, but this is a travesty. The church would not approve. Joe points out that Karen isn't in the church. (This could present a problem later on, Joe.) Mary wants a drink to "wet her whistle". Her sons suggest that she will now have to go to confession and say ten thousand hail Marys. Mary suggests that she'll excommunicate both of them. The anti-bridal party enters to the sound of Here Comes The Bride played on a kazoo. Julie enters first in blue, Grace is next in Lavender. The Landlady is in a light yellow and Eve is in pink. Enter Karen in red, singing her own version of the song: "Now I'm divorced. I'm the ex-wife. I signed the papers to start a new life". Joe suggests that everybody sing, and there is a rousing repeat of the chorus. Jagger's divorced. He's the ex-spouse. He slept with Fran. Karen thinks he's a louse. Joe tells folks to gather round, because it's time for Karen to open her presents. Eve tells Chris that Karen has found a way to take the sting out of Divorce. Still stinging himself, Chris suggests that if the divorce weren't long distance Karen would be freaking. Eve is surprised at his bitterness and asks him what's going on. He shrugs off the question. Karen opens her gifts. Grace gets her a subscription to Cosmopolitan. Frank and Julie get her a monogramming kit. (And we thought he was going to steal the toaster.) Chris gives her a jewelry repair kit so she can turn her wedding ring into something else. Matt gives her a book, "The Tao of Divorce" She doesn't think she'll need to use it, and looks meaningfully at Joe. Karen reads the inscription aloud at Matt's request... Though your marriage was short may your Divorce be sweet Just don't use this book with the next guy you meet Ellen and Kevin come out of the elevator to give Amy another earful. Ellen tells Kevin that she thinks that the charges against Scott are ludicrous. Kevin says that the situation is tearing him and Lucy apart. Ellen asks why since they both support Scott. He says Lucy can't keep things in perspective. She's not the woman he fell in love with. She's argumentative and stubborn. Sounds like Lucy to Ellen. Kevin's serious, he thinks Lucy is losing it. Ellen correctly thinks that Kevin doesn't sound like himself either. He doesn't know how much longer he can put up with Lucy. They walk away. Amy is ecstatic to be in possession of gossip confirmed by two sources. Another nurse comes up and says it's been a quiet night. "Not on this station," says Amy. "Can I help it if good dish cosmically comes my way." She proceeds to spill the beans about Kevin and Lucy's break-up, and then asks the nurse not to spread it any further. Kevin lurks nearby, pleased that Amy has behaved according to expectations. (Guess that psychological profile ability does come in handy.) Ellen is not buying Kevin's masterful pitch Lucky for him Amy's a gullible snitch At the party Frank observes that Julie is having a good time despite Eve's presence. Julie admits that she forgot how much she disliked Eve what with the fun party hi-jinks. Frank says that's progress, but Julie doesn't think she and Eve can ever be friends. Eve, whose hearing isn't as keen as Amy's, tells Chris that Miss-goody-two-shoes can be fun when she wants to, but she so rarely wants to. "No one can be a goody-two-shoes being raised by Nicole and Bennett Devlin," Chris opines. "That apple can't fall that far from that twisted tree. Mark my words some day she's going to snap." Back at the patio doors Julie and Frank are looking out. Julie thinks it looks like snow. Which reminds Frank of Christmas, which reminds Julie that her parents aren't going to be good company for the holidays. Frank suggests she spend Christmas with him. They smooch. Chris, watching them from the coffee table, says his stomach is turning. (Sure it's not that funny-lookin' punch?) Eve glances back over her shoulder at the lovebirds, but wants to know what's really bothering Chris. Eve's wondering why Chris is in such a bad mood Because by Nicole he's been royally screwed Scott tells Karen he has to go. (There's only so much fun he can stand to have.) Joe asks if there's anything he can do. Scott asks them to come to Serena's Birthday party. Karen advises him to get some sleep. Scott leaves and runs into Jake outside. He's glad Jake's come and Jake's glad to be there. It was this or the electric chair. Scott doesn't know what he's talking about. Jake explains that he got a gun and was going to blow Rex away, but he couldn't. Scott says that killing Rex won't bring back Danielle. He wants to put Rex away and not have any of "us" pay for it. Jake wishes him good luck at the trial and goes inside. Scott says he'll need more than luck. Inside, Jake and Joe greet each other. Jake thanks him for hanging in there the night before. Joe says that Jake would have done the same thing for him. (Not a chance, Joe, but you're sweet to believe it.) Because that's what friends do for each other. Karen comes up and hugs Jake and thanks him for coming to the party. He says, no problem, "because that's what friends do for each other". (We suppose attending Karen's party is equivalent to averting a murder.) Joe thinks he and Jake are really good amigos Jake don't care long as Joe don't go where he goes Rex is sitting at the Port Charles Grille bar with his lawyer, Byron "When do I get to be in the credits?" Rollins. Rex's told him about Jake trying to shoot him. Byron advises him not say anything. Frequent violent incidents might convince a judge that Rex could not provide a safe environment for Serena. Byron's beeper goes off and he has to go take a phone call. Two hospital employees are sitting at a nearby table gossiping about Kevin and Lucy. "Lucy Coe is much too unstable for Dr. Collins," they think. Of course Dr. Collins has had his problems, but they don't know how he's stuck with Lucy this long. (Problems?! He had a full scale breakdown, and Lucy stuck by him. Gossiping wenches are just jealous of the luminous Lucy.) Rex is very interested to hear all this. Rex's attorney says that he shouldn't charge Jake Or the judge will catch on that Rex is a fake Back at Karen's apartment the party has wound down. She signs her divorce papers just as Joe comes out of the kitchen. She tells him. He asks how she feels. She says she'll be okay. She notices that it has begun to snow. She missed the snow while she was in San Francisco. She gets up and goes outside. She shivers at first but then delights in being out in the snow. Joe reminds her that she'll have six months of such weather. She doesn't care, it's beautiful. She slips, faints, staggers or something. In any case he has to catch her in his arms, which of course leads to a kiss. (Woo, 50,000 Hail Marys for you, Joey.) Karen is so happy to be back in the snow Cause she knows she can always keep warm with Joe Scott out by the Gazebo. He remembers his dear-never-quite- departed-enough wife's death. He looks up at the sky and says it's cold down here without her. Dom appears behind him dressed in her wedding gown. (The second wedding; not the Vegas hitching.) He can't see her... yet. He says that he needs help because he's gotten into a big mess. There's a trial tomorrow and he needs her strength. She has to stop them from taking Serena away from him. Dom says, "I'm here, I've always been here with you." The late Dominique has appeared dressed all in white She's come to help Scott in his custody fight Director - Jill Ackles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
