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From: Razzleberry <mrussell@arts.ucla.edu>
Subject: PC: Update for Friday, 2/6/98
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 13:40:28 -0800

Port Charles Update
Friday, February 6, 1998
Razz standing in for TnT

The Cop Shop, Eve tells Scott that her dreams of an ordered life flew
right out the window when she met him.  She agrees to help him break out
of the Port Charles jail.  She tells him of a drug that will mimic the
symptoms of a serious virus.  The cops will have to let him go to GH.
Karen will be waiting for him in ER.  There's one problem, the drug only
last for two hours, so they have to move quickly.  Scott and Eve share a
passionate kiss and Scott gets the pill, which Eve has had hidden in her
mouth.

At Lee and Gail's, Gail and Lee discuss Gail's plan to take Serena
"underground" so that Rex cannot get her.  Lee and Gail lament that this
must be done and that they will have to remain apart.  But they agree,
Lee must work on getting the custody decision reversed and that Scott is
counting on them to keep Serena safe.  Serena enters and wants to know
if they're going on a trip.  Yes, says Lee, she's going on a great
adventure with her grandmother.

Kevin, meanwhile, is driving through the bad traffic and the worse
weather in an effort to get to Lucy before she can marry Rex.  Kevin
calls Lucy and tells her not to marry Rex.  "Lucy, understand me, you
will never marry Rex Stanton."  Rex is standing in the room, so Lucy
feigns a wrong number and hangs up on Kevin.  Lucy asks Rex about
postponing the wedding and he agrees, but when Serena's name is
mentioned, Lucy decides to go ahead with the wedding.  "If Serena is
going to be here, then we're going to be married, now or never."  (Poor
Lucy, no one seems to have told her that Gail is planning to run away
with Serena or that Eve and Karen are going to try and break Scott out
of jail.)  In an effort to find something borrowed and something blue
for the wedding, Lucy puts a small blue bow in her hair and Rex gives
her a necklace that his mother always used to wear.  The something new
is covered by Lucy's horrible beige suit with the fake fur collar.
(Lucy, I assume the outfit indicates how you really feel about this
wedding.)  As they discuss the wedding and Serena, Lucy laments, "I just
hope this storm doesn't put an end to all my dreams coming true."  Lucy
is surely thinking of Kevin.

However, Kevin is still battling the traffic from hell (clearly the
circle where hell freezes over) and he's got to take a detour and the
long way around.  "Lucy, just hold out until I get there."

Also on the road are Gail and Serena.  Gail tells her that there are
people in Port Charles who don't want Serena to live with Grandma and
Grandpa, but instead with Uncle Rex.  Serena is more than happy to be
driving in the dark and in the snow if it means she's going away from
Rex.

Back at the Cop Shop, Scott is getting sick from the drug.  Eve calls
the guard and shows him that Scott is sick.  Eve comforts Scott, "Hang
in their baby, I'm about to bust you out."  Eve tells the guard that
Scott's symptoms surely indicate an infectious virus.  They have to get
him to GH, now.

At GH, Karen snaps at Julie; Karen is clearly waiting for Scott.  They
also talk about where Matt might be.

At another hospital, Matt is being told that with all the shrapnel and
debris from an explosion that large, he is lucky to be alive.  Matt asks
some guy in a suit about the other two men.  They're both dead.  Matt
tells the suit that "you people screwed up."  He doesn't know who
planted the bomb, but he's not going to let them get him killed.

On the road, Gail and Serena are stuck in the snow.  Gail calls and is
told that there is at least a three hour wait to get towed.  Gail tries
to call Lee, but he's gone.  Serena thinks to call Karen; Gail does.
She tells Karen that they need help right now, the car has died.  Karen
wonders where Eve is and decides she (Karen) is just going to have to
improvise.  (Poor Julie, is she covering for Matt, Karen and Eve?)

At the Dark Fortress, the Justice of the Peace has arrived to marry Lucy
and Rex.

On the road, Kevin is still fighting the storm to get to Lucy.

At that hospital, Matt is trying to get himself sprung.  "I am not
speaking to the ultimate decision makers anymore, I am outta here."

At the Cop Shop, Eve and Scott are waiting for the ambulance, but it's
stuck in traffic.  No one was prepared for this storm.

At the Dark Fortress, the Justice of the Peace is pronouncing Rex and
Lucy as husband and wife.  (Ummm... don't you need witnesses for this
sort of thing?  It's just Lucy, Rex and the Justice.)  Lucy looks like
she's going to be sick when the Justice tells Rex he can kiss the
bride.  As the Justice leaves, poor Kevin arrives in a moment of
excruciatingly bad timing.  Kevin to Lucy, "Tell me you didn't."
(Kevin, we're with you on this one.)

Back on the road, Gail and Karen are car-phoning as Karen tries to reach
Gail and Serena.  They spot each other as Karen's car goes off the icy
road.  (I think the lesson we have learned is that Karen is not good at
improvisation.)

The end