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From: tntmur@aol.com (Tntmur) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 3/27/98 (Late) Date: 6 Apr 1998 02:19:26 GMT Port Charles - Friday Updates - March 27th 1998 (posted and e-mail) We asked Lark to do the Friday update again, and she said she would, but then she ran out on us, leaving us to do two Friday updates, one of them, very, very late. We apologize for any inconvenience. Joe and Eve come down the stairs. Joe complains that Devlin can't just lock them out of the Lab and Eve points out that he just did. Joe thinks he should kick down the door, but Eve thinks there's a better way to retaliate. Karen comes running up. She can't find Burgess. (Presumably to complain about Devlin's treatment of interns who falsify research results.) Joe suggests they go to the board. Karens says they can't tell Alan they have two sets of books. Eve ruefully agrees that they have lost the moral high ground. They worry about Devlin finding the real records. Eve suggests a heist to get them back. In the funeral home Salvatore Mancusi walks up and slaps Matt, and accuses Matt of murdering his son. Matt says, "You tried to turn me into a killer. I would think you'd be proud, Pop." Mancusi wishes that it were Matt in that coffin and not Bobbie. Ellen comes in while he says this. Matt says angrily to his father, "If you wanted Bobby to die an old man you certainly picked the wrong career for him." The humorless Elder Mancusi says that Bobby was a good son, loyal to the family. Matt maintains that what Mancusi wants is blind obedience, and that's why he sent Bobby to kill him. "Don't think I've changed my mind," Mancusi threatens. Matt's mother pleads with him. "Please, Sal. He's all we have left," she whines. Mancusi says Matt is nothing to them. "When you turned against the family you put a knife through my heart, but I can live without a heart. When you killed Bobby you put a knife through my soul." "You never had a soul," Matt shoots back. Ellen interrupts and tells Matt that he's needed at the hospital. He asks her to please go. She says she's not leaving without him. Mancusi wants to know who the heck she is.. Ellen tells him she's Matt's supervisor, and that he has no idea what a remarkable Doctor he is. "Save the eulogy for his funeral," Mancusi tells her. He grabs Ellen by the arm, probably just to lead her out, but Matt is taking no chances and pulls a gun on him. Mancusi doesn't believe it. "You're going to shoot me? You, shoot your old man? Go ahead put a bullet in my chest. You killed your brother. Kill me." Karen and Joe and Eve are still having their indiscreet conversation by the stairs. Eve repeats that they should break into the lab and steal the notes. Joe thinks that would give them time to go to the board and get their lab privileges back. (Not without lying about why they were locked out in the first place.) Karen wants to know where Eve learned to pick a lock. "Charm school," Eve jokes. They rationalize some more about why they should do it and why it'll work and when they should do it. All the while Chris is sitting on the other side of the shrubbery drinking a cup of coffee, reading a medical chart and thinking of how to use the information pouring over the greenery. (Multi-tasking.) Lark is at Jake's apartment. He's just putting on his pants. She tells him he has an amazing body and he says he likes hers too. He says he has to go back to the hospital. He goes into the bedroom, to find the rest of his wardrobe. Her cell phone rings. (Still on call forwarding.) "Yeah," she says. It's Frank. He asks if she's okay. "No, warden the ankle chains are starting to blister." "Well, you can just chew off your little foot and hop your way to freedom," he suggests. He tells her he's pulling a double shift, and asks if she's coming in to do community service. Lark says she is and will take the bus over. They end the conversation just as Jake comes back in the room. She wants to go to the hospital. She loves it there. "Yeah," he comments. "All the cute Doctors." She says that one day she hopes to be a Doctor herself. "And a cute one," says Jake. He thinks she'll make a good doctor, and he's not as easy to impress as he once was. They kiss, and he asks if she want's a ride to the hospital. She'd rather get herself there and not have it around the hospital that they're going out. Matt is still holding a gun on his father. He asks why he shouldn't kill him. He's just a mad old dog and he should put him out of his misery. Mancusi tells him to go ahead and pull the trigger. Ellen urges Matt not to do it. Matt says this is between him and his father. "I've waited ten years to ask you this question. Why did you send Bobby after me that night? I swore I would never testify against the family." That night after the Dougherty hit, he told Bobby to follow Matt. Bobby saw him talking to the feds. Mancusi had to give the order. Matt says he didn't talk to the Feds that day but wishes he had. Mancusi is outraged. "You have the nerve to say that to me." "You're gonna talk about nerve to me? You kill people for your business and what's worse you think you have the god given right, don't you? It's time to get over yourself, Pop. You are no bigger and no better than anyone else. I became a Doctor so I could erase every little part of you that still lived inside of me." His father is unimpressed. "You think you're too good for us?" (What this "us" white man. Matt was not including his mother in his statements.) "Too high and mighty? You want to heal somebody, play God? Start with your brother. Bring Bobbie back from the dead, murderer." Some time has passed and Lark and Jake are both working at the hospital. She playfully sneaks up on him while he's reading a chart. She asks what he's doing and he offers to let her go along and look in on a patient with him. She loves that idea until she hears Frank's voice in the elevator that is just opening. She makes a quick excuse to Jake and leaves. Frank and his paramedic partner come over to Jake. Frank is a bit smudged. His partner explains that Frank pulled a kid out of a burning building. Jake listens to Frank's lungs, but Frank is fine. Jake asks Frank if he remembers that billboard he mentioned. The rest of it was up today, and it now says. "Murder is specific, but when Hospital's kill, it's General Homicide." It's an advertisement for a mystery novel. Frank says the Billboard worked, he's curious. Chris goes to Bennett in the Lab. Bennett is impatient and hostile but listens to what Chris has to say. In exchange for Devlin getting him the Quartermaine fellowship, Chris will help him find the real notes for the experiment. (In the interest of space we won't repeat all the snappy repartee, these two indulged in.) "You deliver what I want, and I'll get you what you need," says Chris. Matt is still holding a gun on his father. He says he did everything he could to avoid killing Bobby. He left everything behind, but his father wouldn't let it go. (More macho posturing by Matt and his Dad snipped. They go over the same arguments.) Pop finally says, "That's enough, shoot me or I'll snatch that gun our of your hands and blow your brains out." Matt still tries to win his point. "I killed Bobby, but you are responsible for your precious son's death. You have put him in that coffin." Mancusi isn't hearing him. He takes a few steps towards Matt. Matt shoots at his feet and two of Mancusi's goons come running in, guns drawn. Matt is still pointing his at his father. "What's it gonna be, Pop? Are we all gonna die together?" Again Angela Mancusi begs Sal to let him go. They continue with their tedious argument while the women object. Eventually Mancusi orders the goons to put away their guns. He won't kill Matt, he'll make him suffer in other ways. He tells Matt that he would never have found him if one of his buddies hadn't sent him a photograph. Matt doesn't believe it. Mancusi says "You don't give any loyalty, you don't get any." As he leads Angela out he tells Matt to say hello to Chris Ramsey, he never got a chance to thank him. They leave and Matt finally lowers the gun. Jake and Julie are at the nurses statio discussing a patient when Frank comes over. They compliment him on pulling little six year old Roger out of that fire. Frank asks if Julie's seen Lark. But she hasn't. He goes to call and see if Lark is still at home. "So," says Jake. "Lark's your foster kid?" "Bite your tongue," Julie says tartly, "Lark's not my anything." Julie lists all of Lark's sins. Jake says she sounds like a handful. Lark happens to walk through the Lobby right then. Julie calls to her. She turns around and Jake gets a good look at Lark alias Chloe. Eve waits impatiently for her partners in crime to show up outside the lab. Karen runs up, but Joe has been called away on a convenient emergency. Eve dismisses that. "Okay, fine, women are vastly superior with motor skills anyway." They'll do it without him. Karen's beeper goes off. She has an emergency too and Eve will have to do this all by herself. Karen leaves. Eve picks the lock. She goes into the darkened Lab and takes the notes out of the paper towel dispenser. Bennett comes in the door and switches on the light. "Mood lighting for larceny?" he asks. She tries to foist a story on him about retrieving her therapy notes. "I no longer find your lying entertaining," he tells her. He calls security to come and arrest her. Director: Andrew Lee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! 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