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From: rika1@mindspring.com (Rika) Subject: PC: Update, Thursday, 3/12/98 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:08:44 GMT X-Server-Date: 14 Mar 1998 21:09:06 GMT PORT CHARLES UPDATE Thursday, March 12, 1998 I'll warn you up front that there was very little about today's episode that didn't get on my nerves. This is, thus, going to be a very curmudgeonly update. TODAY'S STORYLINES: ------------------ * Waiting for Godot - I Mean, Harris * Mrs. Rex Stanton's Garage Sale * Handcuffs Become Her WAITING FOR GODOT - I MEAN, HARRIS ---------------------------------- Matt is waiting for Marshal Harris (it'll be a long wait, bub). Grace hopes Harris doesn't agree to the plan. Matt argues with her - he put a lot of thought into the plan. (Yeah, must have been at least five minutes. Why bother with the big secret getaway if he was just going to blow his cover?) Matt thinks Grace should leave town till it's over. She refuses to go. Matt wants to convince Bobby Mancusi that he's tired of running; then Bobby will show up, and Marshal Harris will arrest Bobby. Grace asks the $64,000 question - what if something goes wrong? Matt (who evidently lives in the same alternate reality as Lucy Coe) assures Grace that he and the marshals won't let that happen. Grace retorts: "Like they did in Philadelphia?" Matt has no answer for that. Grace begs Matt to go back into hiding. He refuses. He'd have to give up medicine, because now they know he's a doctor, and a surgeon in a wheelchair is too conspicuous. He is sick of hiding, and he won't do it anymore. But, Grace reminds him, Bobby Mancusi WILL come after him. Matt assures her he won't be alone - Harris will back him up. Meanwhile, Harris lies dead on his office floor. Bobby Mancusi kneels beside the body, pulling Harris's ID card and badge out of his pocket. Grace returns from a foraging expedition with an odd selection of canned fruits and veggies she found in the warehouse. She also has a makeshift tablecloth and a small candle, which she uses to set a table. (I suppose they're using the punch line from that old joke, "Assume a can opener.") Then she leaves Ellen a message asking her to tell Audrey that Grace won't be in today. A little later, they're still waiting for the Marshal Who Will Never Arrive. Matt talks about his childhood - he was a 'homebody.' Grace asks about his family, and Matt explains that he can't talk about it - he protects the people he cares about by keeping quiet. They hear a loud noise out in the warehouse. We see Bobbie Mancusi, checking out the warehouse. He kicks open the office door and finds that Grace and Matt aren't there. Noticing smoke from an obviously recently- extinguished candle, he continues his search. Meanwhile, Matt and Grace cower in the elevator. MRS. REX STANTON'S GARAGE SALE ------------------------------ Lucy and Scott are at the Lighthouse; Lucy reads an article about Jacks Cosmetics' problems in the Port Charles Herald. Scott tries to calm her down, but she hates being referred to as "Mrs. Rex Stanton," as happens repeatedly in the news story. After all, who would really marry Rex, who is a "freak of nature", she asks. (Well, Lucy, YOU did....) She asks Scott how soon he can get her marriage annulled. Scott figures it won't take long, since the marriage wasn't consummated, right??? Lucy punches him for even asking the question. She asks if Serena has seen the newspaper articles about Lucy's troubles; Scott assures her that he doesn't want Serena reminded of Rex. Lucy remarks that she has one reminder she loves. She goes to her purse and pulls out the emerald engagement ring Rex gave her. She asks Scott if she can keep it. Scott's look suggests that the answer is probably 'no.' Lucy tells him she's keeping it anyway - Rex can pry it off her cold, dead hand if he wants it. Scott tells her that he can keep anything she wants as long as she stays Mrs. Rex Stanton. Lucy is grossed out by the idea at first, but then she hugs Scott, excited, and tells him how brilliant he is. Oh oh. When we rejoin them, Lucy is wearing a leopard-print dress and a "big-hair" do. She models for Scott, who tells her she's up to no good. He asks where Kevin is; Lucy explains that he's visiting Victor. "How convenient," mutters Scott. Lucy insists that Kevin will approve of her plan to stay married to Rex, in order to get her hands on Rex's money; Scott, not being a total idiot, doesn't believe that for a second. Besides, Lucy continues, if Kevin gets mad, she'll claim the idea was Scott's. (Oh, yeah, THAT will really help.) Scott doesn't mind Lucy draining Rex's assets. She exuberantly considers where they should start stealing first. (A couple of days ago, didn't Lucy remark that the reason she's having these problems at Jacks is because of her greed? She has a very short memory.) We see Lucy next through the viewer of a camcorder, at Rex's house. Movers are carrying the furniture away while Lucy talks to Rex, taunting him with the impending sale of his treasures. (Yeah, Lucy, poke the devil repeatedly with a stick. REEEALLY smart move.) Lucy and Scott take turns taping each other (Scott asks Rex if he's met "Big Louie" yet). Lucy closes by telling Rex she's selling the emerald ring, which she is waves at the camera (she is wearing it on her right hand). Scott ends the videotape with a succinct message: "Rot in hell, Stanton." Lucy admires the emerald on her hand, and Scott remarks that she'll get a good price for it. But Lucy is keeping the ring - it's the biggest emerald she's ever seen. (Golly, won't Kevin be pleased that his fiance is wearing his ring on one hand and Rex's ring on the other? What pleasant memories THAT will conjure up!) Lucy arrives home exulting about "community property laws." Scott wonders why Rex wanted Serena's money when he had lots of his own. Lucy says it's because Rex is a "greedy glutton" (pot, meet kettle), but she goes on to remark that Rex genuinely believed he deserved the Stanton money. Scott wonders where Rex's money is hidden; he figures it's in offshore accounts. He has people looking into it, and as long as Lucy stays Mrs. Rex Stanton, she's entitled to all of it. Lucy is thrilled, and she announces, just as Kevin walks up behind her, "Well, then forget the annulment, counselor! I intend to stay Mrs. Rex Stanton!" Scott signals Lucy to be quiet, but it's too late. Kevin asks, "Anybody want to tell me what's going on?" (Trust me, Kevin, you don't want to know.) HANDCUFFS BECOME HER -------------------- Julie has just caught Lark with a baggie containing joints (thus proving that it *is* 'Lark, like in the cigarette,' as she told Scott). Lark claims she is "holding it for a friend." Julie grabs Lark's arm, yelling, "What kind of idiot do you think I am?" Lark responds, "Don't ask questions you don't want answered." (As annoying as Lark is, gotta give her credit for one thing - she gets off some decent one-liners where Julie is concerned.) They snarl and hiss at one another for a while, until Frank arrives and breaks it up. Julie tells Frank about the marijuana, and Lark begs for another chance. Frank takes away the drugs and sends Lark off to school. Julie (in a show of good judgement) insists that Lark is out of control; she needs an environment with more structure and discipline than they can give her in the Scanlon home (Amen!). Frank defends Lark - she had to learn to manipulate in order to deal with a physically abusive mother. Julie's response: "I am developing more and more sympathy for the mother!" Frank doesn't think that means they should send Lark back to the juvenile center - he knew the job would be hard when he took it. Julie didn't know it would be this hard; she stomps off. At the hospital, Karen breezes cheerily up to the nurses' station. Julie asks her about her good mood, and Karen tells her about the success of their research (yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Karen and Jake the Ferret Rescuers, who apparently lack any knowledge of proper experimental control despite their inexplicable brilliance in neuropharmaceutical research). Karen feels she *has* to do this research (you do, Karen - the script says so); she hopes she can help people like Keith, the teenage spinal injury patient. Julie tells Karen about Lark's recent exploits and Frank's apparent susceptibility to Lark's manipulation. Karen pleads for some understanding for Lark, based on her own troubled teen years. (Yeah, there ARE some similarities - Lark does drugs, and she recently stripped for Frank. Maybe she'd like to meet Jagger.) Karen also asks Julie to go easy on Frank, who simply seems to be taking his commitment to Lark seriously. Julie is fed up - she just wants Lark out of the house. (Don't we all.....) Poor little misunderstood Lark has arrived home from school with that greasy guy friend she used to try to make Frank jealous the day before. His Greasiness wants to fool around; she tells him no. He is confused by her mixed signals the other day. In response, Lark rants about Julie for a while. (How this explains why she was tongue- wrestling with the guy one second and shoving him away the next isn't clear, but he seems to understand.) He pulls a joint out of his backpack; Lark, beaming, leads him out to her "smoking room" - the porch (which explains how she's hidden her habit for this long, since I am *sure* that somebody who lives in this house would recognize the smell of marijuana smoke). When Frank arrives home, he finds two policement putting handcuffs on Lark and Greasy Boy. Lark claims that "Julie narc'd on me," but the police explain that Frank's next-door neighbor reported Lark. Frank tells the police to take them away, despite Lark's pleas. He angrily slams out of the house after the cops. ------------------------ by Rika, Thursday updater
