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From: rika1@mindspring.com (Rika) Subject: PC: Update, Thursday, 3/19/98 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:55:53 GMT X-Server-Date: 21 Mar 1998 16:56:52 GMT PORT CHARLES UPDATE Thursday, March 19, 1998 TODAY'S STORYLINES: ------------------ * My Brother's Keeper * My Father's Keeper * My Fellow Intern's Brother's Foster Child's Keeper MY BROTHER'S KEEPER ------------------- Matt, Chris, Grace, and Bobby are in Matt's motel-room hideout (which has seen as much traffic as Grand Central Station; next they'll be printing the room number in the PC Herald). Matt and Chris have guns pointed at Bobby, who tells Matt that he has a choice. Bobby can kill Ellen and Alice, or he can kill Matt; it's Matt's chance to be a hero. Matt suggests that maybe he'll kill Bobby instead, but Bobby is prepared for that - if the guy holding Ellen and Alice doesn't hear from Bobby soon, he'll kill the women. Bobby is holding quite a grudge - for ten years in prison, he promised himself that he'd see Matt dead when he got out. Finally, Matt lowers his gun and tells Bobby, "Call your flunky." He does, and Bobby and Flunky agree to meet "wharfside." Before Bobby leaves, Matt demands to know the details of the trade; Bobby tells him he'll learn what he needs to know "in good time." After Bobby leaves, Matt, Chris, and Grace are alone in the motel room. Chris and Grace are both upset, but Matt tells them that he doesn't have time to coddle them - he has to figure out a way to save Ellen and Alice (while I understand his point, "coddle" seems like a rather strong word considering what's going on). Chris wants to call the police, and Grace agrees, but Matt stops him, fearing that involving the police would lead to Ellen and Alice's deaths. Matt asks Chris how Bobby found him. Chris explains that he thought Bobby was a marshal; he overheard Ellen saying where Matt was, and he led Bobby to him. He whines that he was only trying to help; Matt sardonically replies, "You give new meaning to that phrase, 'With friends like these, who needs enemies?'" (Oh, Matt, if you only knew how true that really is....) There is a knock at the door - it's Scott. Scott, surprised to see Chris and Grace, asks, "What is this, a farewell party? I thought you wanted things kept quiet." (Like I said earlier, Scott, this room is starting to resemble Grand Central Station.) Scott asks if Matt is ready to go to the plane, and Matt explains about the kidnapping and Bobby's offer to trade Ellen and Alice for Matt. "Do you trust him?" asks Scott; Matt replies, "As much as you trust Rex Stanton." Scott, having apparently not read the script for the first part of the scene, asks about calling the police; Matt repeats his earlier response. Scott offers to go to Ellen's place and try to rescue her. When he arrives there, he finds Alice tied to a chair. He unties her, and she explains that Ellen is gone. Alice begged them to take her as a hostage instead of Ellen; however, Mancusi knew that Ellen was important to Matt. Remembering that Scott got Serena back after her kidnapping, she hysterically begs Scott to help her find Ellen (actually, Alice, you might want to call Kevin, since *he* was the one who figured out where Serena was). Scott calls Matt to give him the bad news; Matt is still waiting to hear from Bobby. The phone call from Bobby finally comes. Matt hangs up and tells Chris and Grace that "the switch" will happen at Consolidated Warehouse. Matt insists that he's going alone. He asks Grace to call Scott and tell him the layout of the warehouse, so that Scott can meet Matt there. She leaves. After she is gone, Matt turns to Chris and tells him, "You're a dead man if Bobby gets away with killing me. You're a witness, Chris." Chris insists that he's just an innocent bystander (yeah, right, as if the words "Chris Ramsey" and "innocent" would ever be found in the same sentence unless the word "not" also appeared). Matt insists that Chris owes him, since he was the one who brought Bobby there. He needs Chris to drive him to Wharfside. Chris protests - Matt told Grace they were meeting Bobby at Consolidated. Matt explains that he did that to protect Grace. And as for Scott, Matt thinks Scott might mess things up trying to help in such a tricky situation. Chris keeps trying to find a way out for himself - Bobby said for Matt to go alone, and if Chris arrives it might put Ellen in danger. Matt reminds Chris that Ellen already *is* in danger. Chris points out that this sort of thing isn't his usual line of work (true, he's more into mailing photos to mobsters, making sneaky phone calls, sending e-mails, and so on). Matt assures Chris that he'll be just fine as long as he does precisely what Matt tells him to do. Matt knows Bobby - he knows how he thinks. That is their advantage - Bobby doesn't know how Matt thinks anymore. MY FATHER'S KEEPER ------------------ Lucy and Kevin arrive at GH to find an agitated Victor struggling with two orderlies. Victor is disoriented: thinking Kevin is still a small child, he orders him not to wander off into the woods alone. Kevin tries to convince Victor that he is an adult now, but Victor simply gets more upset until Kevin promises not to go off into the woods. Kevin calms Victor down somewhat, and they sit down. Jake walks by and sees Kevin with Victor; he asks Lucy what is going on, and she gives him a brief recap of Victor's disappearance and his subsequent reappearance at GH. Jake goes over to see if he can help, but when Kevin asks Victor if he remembers Jake, Victor's sole response is, "I don't like blue" (Jake is wearing pale blue scrubs). Kevin takes Jake aside and tells him that he wants a blood test run on Victor. He thinks an enzyme imbalance may have caused Victor's porphyria to flare up; that would mean that he hasn't been taking his medication. Jake offers to try to draw the blood. Jake talks to Victor, and then tries to take Victor's arm to lead him to an examination room; however, Victor becomes frightened and shoves Jake away. Jake goes sprawling on the floor; Lucy helps him up while Kevin tries to calm Victor down. Kevin apologizes to Jake, who appears to have a sore elbow and not much else wrong; Jake assures Kevin that some of the kids in Pediatrics have done more damage. Kevin decides he will have to try to draw Victor's blood himself; Jake volunteers to set up a room for him. Meanwhile, Lucy goes over to talk to Victor. She asks if he remembers her; he responds, "You're Monk's friend." Victor, in the best show of gallantry he can muster in his disoriented state, brushes off the sofa next to him so that Lucy can sit beside him. They sit down; Victor seems calmer now. Kevin tells Victor that he needs to draw some blood, and asks, "Do you know what that is?" Victor replies, with a hint of a smile, "I told you - don't ask dumb questions." Kevin asks if Victor will go with him so they can draw the blood; Victor wants to make sure his point was clear: "Only if you promise - no more dumb questions." Smiling, Kevin promises to do his best. He helps Victor to his feet, and then has to catch Victor when he starts to collapse. With Kevin and Lucy's help, Victor heads off to get the blood drawn. Later, Kevin and Lucy arrive home. Kevin is worried about Victor, and feels guilty for missing the signs of trouble. Lucy tries to assure Kevin that it's not his fault, but Kevin insists that he should have noticed the changes in Victor, since the effects of stopping the medication would have shown up gradually. Lucy reminds him that he is Victor's son, not his doctor; Kevin continues to blame himself, remarking that he's not particularly good at being either one. Lucy continues to try to reassure Kevin until he tells her to stop making excuses for him. All he's done for Victor for months is to "pop in whenever it suited me." Lucy reminds him that he's spent the past few months saving Serena, Scott, and Lucy herself; he wasn't ignoring Victor on purpose. Kevin isn't so sure - maybe he got tired of straining to get through to Victor. Maybe he decided it was easier to stick him in a home and visit him now and then - just like when he put him in the convent in France. Later, Kevin (wearing silk pajamas) comes into the Lighthouse den from the deck, rubbing his hands to try to warm them. He sits down on the sofa, a pensive look on his face. Lucy, dressed in a bathrobe (and wearing her engagement ring on her right hand for some reason) comes down to check on Kevin. She asks how Victor is doing; Kevin has recently talked to a nurse who said that Victor was still sleeping. Lucy asks if Kevin is coming back to bed; when it becomes clear that he's not, Lucy sits down beside him. Kevin had been thinking about his first few months in Europe with his father. He didn't understand why Ryan wasn't with them; he was so lonely that he cried himself to sleep every night. Lucy asks if Victor knew how Kevin felt. He did - Victor's response was that crying was for babies. Lucy finds that response pretty harsh for a little child (Kevin was four years old at the time). Kevin explains that that's what the real Victor is like - a "brutally precise man." Kevin doesn't even recognize the fragile man that his father has become. Kevin mentions how little time alone he and Lucy have had lately, with everything that has been going on. Lucy points out that there is time now - they need to make wedding plans, and to get started making babies. Kevin has another idea for "expanding our family" - he wants Victor to live with them at the Lighthouse. MY FELLOW INTERN'S BROTHER'S FOSTER CHILD'S KEEPER -------------------------------------------------- Lark (aka Chloe) approaches Jake, asking if he's ready for their cup-of-coffee date. He asks if they can delay for an hour so that he can make sure that Victor is okay. As he walks off, Julie comes up to Lark and offers her a ride home. Lark claims that she has another hour to work; Julie explains that she doesn't have time, because she has to be back at the hospital soon to cover another shift. Lark says she'll take the bus, but Julie reminds her that she's not allowed out alone after dark. Lark pulls out that tired old teenage whine: "Stop treating me like a child!", and Julie pulls out the equally tired parental response: "Then stop acting like one." Lark gets snotty, and Julie out-snots her by snapping, "If you think I enjoy being a baby sitter to a bratty adolescent, you are out of your mind." Julie promised Frank she'd take Lark home, and that's exactly what she's going to do. She orders Lark to head for the car. Lark, realizing that she's not going to win this one, stalks off. Julie and the Larkster arrive home; Julie then heads back to the hospital (I see, so leaving Lark at home alone constitutes supervision? I'm sure the juvenile court people would be soooo impressed.....) Lark's civil attitude should have been Julie's first clue that she is up to something, but it goes unnoticed. As soon as Julie is gone, Lark calls Jake. She claims to have returned to campus to turn in a paper, but she'll meet him in the hospital lobby in 1/2 hour. She makes a "Do Not Disturb" sign and attaches it to her bedroom door; then she leaves the house. At GH, "Chloe" lurks in the background while Julie and Jake discuss a child's chart. Julie heads off to visit the child, and then Lark approaches Jake, who is working in the lab. He tells her about his nerve regeneration research; Lark either feigns or genuinely feels interest in his work, and suggests that they discuss it more over a cup of coffee. ------------ by Rika, Thursday updater
