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From: maclatch <maclatch@unbsj.ca>
Subject: PC: Update, 18 February 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:47:09 -0400

Port Charles
Wednesday, 18 February 1998

Kevin is at the police station talking to Rex.  He wants to know how
much time Lucy has left.  Rex baits him, trying to make him angry.
Kevin wants answers about why he has done to Lucy what he has (poisoned
her).  Rex enquires about how Lucy is doing.  Kevin says he is surprised
he's taking it out on her like this.  He's acting like a spoiled child.
Rex says he can't overlook the betrayal.  He poisoned her as the
ultimate test in loyalty.  He hoped she would pass.  He would have giver
her the antidote when she consummated the marriage.  Rex want to play
"the antidote, where's the antidote".  Rex's clue: " a captured soul
will lead the way".

"Matt Harmon" is in his hospital bed; Ellen is with him (no, not in the
bed!  just in the room).  Ellen wants to know who he really is.  He
tells her that he's a target.  The same person who put the bullet in his
back was responsible for the bomb.  He can't just walk away from these
people.  Ellen says she doesn't know him at all.  Matt says he is
telling her all this because either he trusts her or because she's
kicking up so much dust people are bound to notice him (just what he
doesn't want).

Chris uses a key to get into Matt's apartment.  He looks through some
papers, then the clothes hamper.  Finds a piece of paper (I assume a
receipt) from Liberty Bookstore, dated February 6th, when Matt was
away.  Chris wonders what Matt was doing in Philadelphia.

Kevin is still trying to find out how much time Lucy has.  Rex continues
to play with him, and Kevin leaves the interrogation room.  Scott and
Eve and Lucy enter the interrogation room anteroom and meet up with
Kevin.  Scott and Kevin argue, as Scott is riled up and wants to get
physical with Rex (basically, he wants to take Rex's head off).  Kevin
tries to be the voice of reason, saying that that would be stupid and
they have to deal with Rex on a mental level, rather than the physical.
Lucy thinks Rex had her outsmarted the whole time she thought she was
being so clever.  Kevin, though, thinks that Rex really wanted Lucy to
be for real.  Scott calls Karen.  She tells him that they've sent Lucy's
blood samples to various labs and people are working on it.

[Now, as a biologist, the next part really bugged me.  Karen gets off
the phone and Joe comes up to her and suggests that they take over one
of the research labs and get to work on trying to find out what Lucy has
been poisoned with.  Karen, being at least a little bright, suggests
that they get Jake the lab rat.  Now what bugs me is, regardless of how
much money Scott gives them, it would be impossible for untrained
toxicologists to even now how or where to start.  It defies belief that
these two would be able to do what real chemists couldn't.  Joe thinks
that others are going to use standard protocols which are too slow and
that they can "play some hunches".  Humph!  Don't they have patients to
look after?  What happened to their pediatric rotation?]

Scott still wants to go in and beat up Rex.  Kevin thinks that the clue
is a last chance effort of Rex's to connect with him.  He and Lucy agree
on the idea that Rex wants to somehow "belong", something that Lucy
could have made happen for him in PC if they had *really* been married.

Kevin goes back in with Rex.  He tells Rex they can't figure out the
clue.  With a little help, Kevin says, he'll bet Rex they'll be back in
an hour with an answer.  Rex suggests starting at the scene of the
crime.

Matt tells Ellen that when he was 16 he got caught in some stupid
circumstances.  He was running with the guys, which is what one did to
survive in his neighborhood.  He ended up in the wrong place at the
wrong time, doing something he shouldn't have.

Chris is at Matt's using Matt's computer to search the www.

Rex tells Kevin he likes to find the fun in everything.  This is fun.
He tells Kevin that if Lucy dies it will be Kevin's fault.  The same
result (Lucy's dying) will come about whether Kevin chooses not to play
or doesn't play well.  Rex tries to bait Kevin, telling him Lucy wasn't
playing all the time.  Some things a woman can't fake, such as shivers
in an embrace (Lucy's face during this from the observation anteroom, is
troubled, I think, that Kevin is being forced to listen to this).  Kevin
says that Rex hates Lucy because she betrayed him.  Rex denies this.
*He* was using *her*.  Rex finally loses his cool.

Lucy figures out the hint.  "The scene of the crime" is Rex's mansion.
Lucy married him but didn't sleep with him there.

Scott, Lucy and Eve are looking through books at the mansion.  Lucy has
some pain and needs to sit.  Scott again threatens Rex with bodily
harm.  Lucy spots a picture of Serena on Rex's desk and is surprised
that it is there.  Eve remembers that some cultures believe that taking
a picture "captures the soul". [This is obviously why Eve is with them,
as she hasn't said more than two sentences all day.] Scott takes the
picture apart and finds a clue about the US Congress.

Matt tells Ellen he didn't go to the authorities and report what he
say.  The unwritten rule was that you don't rat on your friends or
enemies.  He tried to get out of "the life" but failed.

Chris finds a site reporting about a mob trial bombing.

Matt got hit even after he told the guys he worked for that he wouldn't
say anything.  His life was in danger and he had to ask for help from
the cops.

Chris reading a Philadelphia paper on the net.

Matt agreed to testify for a new name and a new life.  Last week, he had
been called to testify for the last bad guy.  They sent a bomb which
killed two federal marshals.  They are still looking for him.  At this
point, the only person he can trust is Ellen.

Chris has figured out that Matt is a marked man in the witness
protection program.

The end.