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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

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