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From: bv143@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T.A. Murray) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 1/9/98 Date: 13 Jan 1998 02:17:42 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - January 9th 1998 (posted and e-mailed) Lucy enters her hotel room and finds Scott. Only half-joking he accuses her of being a traitor. Lucy asks what he's doing there, since Rex might see him. (Hmm... Scott's not wearing an elaborate disguise. It must just be some sort of kinky Lucy/Kevin thing.) She asks him not to call her a traitor and says she hated testifying against him. He says she should since her testimony and specifically the photograph could send him to prison. She had to convince Rex she was on his side. She believes she's close to getting the necessary incriminating evidence against Rex. There's a locked box in his house with a lot of passports that could prove he was in the Cayman Islands. She tells him her idea of the photo shoot with Eve as the model to distract Rex while she gets the passports. Scott says it better work and that he's going home to work on the appeal, because it looks like he'll need it. At the Scanlon's Eve, Joe, Julie and Frank are all gathered in the living room. Joe tells them that this isn't the first time Lark's mother Suzanne has been committed. They all commiserate over Lark's difficult life. Frank asks how they'd feel about him becoming Lark's foster parent. The enthusiasm is underwhelming. Julie asks a couple of questions. Will Frank have time with two jobs. He's giving up his day job as a teacher. Will he be able to get approved? He's already been through the approval process because he thought of doing this before. Frank asks for Eve's opinion. She thinks he has no idea what he's getting into. He takes that as a collective no'. Reluctantly they all agree to support his decision, but Eve warns him, "before you make her a part of the family, pat her down for weapons." In the hospital lounge Matt gives Winston and Ellen an update on their mother's condition. Dr. Monica Quartermaine is doing the surgery and he's assisting. Her condition is stable but she's had to heart attacks and there's a slight possibility that she won't survive the bypass. Winston thanks him and Matt leaves. Winston is stunned the mother that's always seemed so strong could be going through this. Ellen wonders if she shouldn't make peace with her mother and tell her about Sam's death. Winston doesn't think Ellen should lay that on her right before surgery. It could give her another heart attack if they argue. Ellen implies that it may be her last chance to make peace because Alice might not make it through surgery. Lucy has called Rex over to her apartment. He asks if she has news about the Trial. She doesn't. Though she thought it was going rather well. Until her past perjury conviction was brought up, Rex points out. Lucy waves that off and says she can't wait to see Scott get what he deserves. Rex can't wait to celebrate and moves in on Lucy for a kiss. Lucy moves away from him. She says first they have to concentrate on business. She thinks his stress reduction pills are wonderful and has come up with a brilliant advertising campaign to market them. She tells him she's picked Eve Lambert as the model. Rex says that she's roused his interest. Perhaps he should attend the photo shoot. She readily agrees to that. He suggests they contemplate a project of their own for the night. She insists that she has to focus on work, every minute of that night, and starts to lead him towards the door. "All work and no play..." he starts to say and then kisses her. She extricates herself and finishes the sentence, "makes Lucy a rich woman." She says he has to leave because he's such a distraction. She finally manages to get him out the door. It is the next morning and Julie and Frank are asleep in his bed. The alarm goes off and Julie wakes up to turn it off. She tells Frank they have to get up and he objects that he doesn't have to be at the Juvenile Center for an hour and she doesn't have to be to work yet. He kisses her. She says it won't be easy from now on to find time together. She doesn't think that Lark should know they're sleeping together. It might send her the wrong message. Frank thinks that therefore they should take advantage of every opportunity and kisses her again. Lucy pulls Eve away from the Nurses' Station. She reiterates her model/photo shoot idea for Eve. She asks Eve to take Tuesday off to do it. Eve objects that she's an intern and has to work on Tuesday. Lucy suggests Eve ditch her schedule. She needs Eve to distract Rex so she can get into his house and steal the necessary incriminating evidence. Eve gives in. This could be fun. Lucy trots off to the elevator. Eve goes back to the Nurses' Station. She asks Chris, who is doing some paperwork, if he can do her a big favor. "What, Miss Owe-Me- Lots?" She tells him Lucy wants her to do a photo shoot. He laughs and says that's just what the world needs another Doctor/Model. "I can just see the Playboy Spread now; The Women of General Hospital. Oh yeah, it's on." Eve calls him a big pig, and asks him to cover for her on Tuesday. At first he refuses, but she says she really needs the money and he rolls right over and agrees. She promises to give him her first born child. "Don't threaten me or I'll change my mind," he retorts and leaves. Ellen goes into Alice's room. Her mother angrily demands to know why she's there. Ellen thought she'd like company. Alice says she can live without it and has for a lot of years. Ellen says they've had their problems. Just one, Alice insists, and Ellen married him. Never mind all the years she spent sending her to the best schools. Ellen breaks in to say she appreciated everything Alice did. Alice thinks she had a funny way of showing it; throwing away a scholarship to put that man through law school. She wants to know if he put Ellen through Medical school after he graduated. Ellen has to admit he didn't. Alice, half-angry, half gleeful guesses that Ellen's husband left her. Ellen is about to tell her the truth when the orderly comes to take her to surgery. Ellen angrily suggests that he's welcome to take her. Frank walks into the Juvenile Center Cafeteria, where Lark is sulking. He tells her that he has news about her mother. She thinks that means they're going to release her, but Frank says no, they're just optimistic about treating her. She's angry at him for butting in. They'd been doing fine. He points out that ending up in the emergency room twice is not fine. He tells her that he wants to be her foster parent. He feels obligated to get her out of this mess. She can go home with him or wait for better foster parents to come along. She asks if she'll be allowed to see her mother. Of course she will. She says it's a lousy idea. He says "okay", and starts to leave. She tells him to wait, that she didn't say she wouldn't do it, just that it was a lousy idea. (Well, give her credit, she's warning him.) Serena, Gail and the Social Worker show up at the firehouse. Scott gives Serena a hug. Serena heard at school that the trial's over and wants to know if she can come home now. He tells her that a part of the trial isn't over yet. She is disappointed and wants to know when they'll be back together. He promises they'll be together soon. But Serena is scared that she'll have to go and live with Rex. Scotty promises her that will never happen, and hugs her tightly. Lark and Frank arrive at the Scanlon home. "Home, Sweet Home, be it ever so humble," he tells her. She'll have her own room, because Julie volunteered the spare bedroom in the basement. Frank's beeper goes off. He tells Lark he has to go because it's an emergency. That's cool with her. He tells her that there's food in the fridge and that Julie, Eve or Joe should be home soon. She thanks him and tells him that it feels really good to have a home. He leaves. She peeks out the window to make sure he's left. She looks around the room until she spots the curtain rod. She gets up on the couch and takes the knob off one end of the rod. She reaches down and takes several hand-rolled cigarettes, probably marijuana, out of her white sock and places them in the rod. She peeks out the window again and then sits down on the couch looking very satisfied. Grace, dressed in scrubs, brings new of the operation to Winston and Ellen. They were almost done with the operation, the grafting is complete, but.... she's still on the bypass machine. Ellen seems to have an inkling of what that means, but she says for Winston's benefit that they can't get his mother's heart restarted. Winston is upset, Ellen looks as if she feels guilty that her argument with Alice may have caused this. Lucy and Rex are having dinner in her hotel room. She brings the dessert to the table, Chocolate Mousse. She warns him that she has to get right back to work after they've eaten. Rex says that he admires her and that they're more alike than she imagines. Both of them have the ability to subordinate everything for their goals. She admits he may be right, though she's not sure where she learned it. She asks where he did. He tells her that in his family there was no such things as freedom. His brother decided everything; what he would do an study, who he would meet. They were wealthy and envied, but he envied everyone else. She asks if he never tried to disobey. Of course, but the consequences were always horrific. In High School, he had been in love, puppy love, with a girl of a different social upbringing. His brother forbade him to see her. And when he defied him, his brother sent her a letter, posing as himself saying he no longer loved her, but loved another. His brother then showed him the letter and had him institutionalized. (Somehow we think Rex is leaving out some huge chunks. Avery's side of the story must be very different.) He spent a year in a mental ward and there learned the discipline of concentration. Lucy looks quite stricken. He apologizes for making her sad. He tells her that it happened so long ago that it's almost as if it happened to someone else. He says he'll be running along and let her get back to work. He'll be at the photo shoot on Tuesday. They wish each other a good night and he apologizes again for bringing up the "sordid details of his past". She closes the door and looks perplexed. Katherine Bell, doing a brief crossover from GH, calls Scott. She asks if she's calling at a bad time. Scott, munching on his daily apple, asks what he can do for her. She tells him that she's been to Serenity recently. (Two months ago) and that she's been thinking of Dominique a lot. She's ashamed she let so much time go by without meeting her sister's child. (Seven months) He says that Katherine should meet Serena. She says she'd like that and asks how the trial is going. Not good. He says she must know Rex Stanton. What does she remember about him? Katherine says that she was just a little girl then, but that Rex was a scary man and her mother wouldn't leave her alone in the same room with the man. Scott tells her that he needs her help, when can they meet? (Aargh... Mac investigated Rex and never bothered to question Katherine? Scott should get his money back... er... if Mac weren't currently being kidnaped.) Director - Jill Ackles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! 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