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From: maclatch <maclatch@unbsj.ca> Subject: PC: Update, Wednesday, 11 March 1998 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:44:17 -0400 PC, Update, Wednesday, 11 March 1998 Let me just say, that as a biologist, I find this whole "Karen and Jake" lab story totally unbelievable and it really boggles my mind that the writers write this garbage. It actually started with Lucy's antidote, and has gone downhill from there. If writers can handle something like Stone and Robin's HIV/AIDS (GH), and Bianca's anorexia (AMC) stories so well, how can they deal so badly with not only pharmaceutical research but also spinal cord injuries? Oh well, IOAS, but what a missed opportunity. **A day of 0% chances: for both Lark and Keith** Grace, Mike and Matt discuss Matt's situation. Mike offers to help Matt lay low. Grace wants to go with him. Matt doesn't think this is a good idea. Grace asks if she'll be safe _not_ going, as the Mancusis saw them together. Bobby Mancusi is on the phone outside Mike's. As soon as he gets a good shot, this chapter will be just about closed. Keith is in the lobby by the nurse's station. He is looking at a magazine with a runner on the cover. He gets upset and throws it. Karen walks by and picks it up. She offers to take him back to his room, but he's bored, which is why he's out here. He can't go home until rehab is over. He tells Karen he was the only one in the car who was hurt ÷ everyone else walked away. He keeps thinking: what if I'd taken another seat? Karen tells him that "what ifs" will eat you alive ÷ as she knows from past experience. Keith says his spinal cord is severed and there's a 0% chance that he'll walk again. Karen tells him that there is exciting work going on in spinal cord injuries; there are no guarantees, but there's hope. Frank and Julie are in their kitchen discussing Lark dropping the towel. Julie says that Lark has a thing for him. Frank thinks she is just testing her boundaries. It's just a crush. Julie says this is getting dangerous; it's not an ordinary crush, and if social services thinks something is wrong, Frank could face charges. Julie thinks that Frank should get her out of the house tonight. Frank is not ready to give up on her. Eve comes in from her shift. Julie tells her about the towel. Eve tired, but she is going to do one thing for them before going to bed. Eve walks over and opens the basement door, where Lark is lurking and eavesdropping. Lark proclaims again that the towel was an accident ÷ and that she doesn't like being talked about. Eve lets her know that no woman lets a man see her naked unless she wants it. Eve says she has made the same mistake ÷ but had the good sense to regret it. Lark challenges them to throw her out. Karen and Jake are in the lab. Their experiment is working out. Ready to move on to animal testing. Karen doesn't want to do the experiment on their cute little lab mice. Joe enters ÷ he's heard about this new pizza place and wants to try it out. They talk about the mice. Joe suggests that Jake give his friend who runs an all-night vet place a call ÷ see if he has any injured animals. Karen thanks him for his support of her work. Mike and Grace are being moved to a warehouse via large crates. Jerry, a friend of Mike's, is going to act as Matt's decoy. Grace gets in a crate. Matt is worried they will be sitting ducks in the crate. Mike replies that they are sitting ducks now. Matt gets in the other crate. Jake brings (from the vet's) two ferrets that fell from a third-storey window. One they are going to treat with their miracle drug, the other with standard meds. They need some minor surgery, and Joe volunteers. Lark is packing "to split". She thinks she has to because Frank is mad at her. Frank sits her down and says that he is not mad, rather disappointed. If anyone gets a hint that something is going on, she's headed back to the group home. Is that what she wants? She says no. Frank lays down the law. He won't put up with any more attempts to ruin his relationship with Julie, as Julie is very important to him. Lark is a great kid, but there is 0% chance that anything is going to happen between them. He leaves. Julie comes down. She tells Lark that she doesn't care if she doesn't respect herself (Julie), or even Frank. What she thinks Lark should give some thought to is respecting her own self. At the food warehouse, Mike opens Grace and Matt's crates to let them out. They go into the office. Mike gives them money, an address of a discrete boarding house, and the keys to a car out back ÷ all in case they have to make a quick get-away. Mike leaves and Matt tells Grace that he knows that the people trying to kill him won't hesitate to kill her as well. He is going to call the federal marshals for help. Grace wonders why he is calling ÷ he is not in the witness protection program, so why would they help? Matt replies that the federal marshals can use his help to get the person than killed two of their own. At the lab, the ferret injected with the miracle drug not only is having nerve regeneration, but muscle and blood vessel regeneration as well. Joe thinks (as do I!) that their work is unbelievable. The other ferret doesn't look so good. Eve and Lark are in the kitchen making fun of the Cleavers ÷ Julie and Frank. Eve tells her that she messed up, don't do it again. End of short sermon. Eve leaves and goes to the desk, reaches under, and picks up what looks like a baggie containing a few reefers. Julie walks in and says: that better not be what it looks like. Matt calls Harris the marshal. Tells him that there is a cop killer in town. He volunteers to act as bait. He's at 128 Wharf St., 2nd floor. Turns out Bobby Mancusi is listening in on the conversation. Harris says he is on his way, and gets ready to leave. Bobby comes in and kills him. He jokes that he should have been a cop ÷ he always gets his man. Grace wants to call Mike. Matt says no ÷ he wants to draw Bobby Mancusi out into the open.