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From: tntmur@aol.com (Tntmur) Subject: PC: Friday Update - 4/10/98 Date: 04 May 1998 05:53:02 GMT Port Charles - Friday Update - April 10th 1998 (posted and e-mail) PORT CHARLES - FELICIA'S INVESTIGATION - PART I (This month we've asked Felicia to help us out with our updates, by doing a little investigating. Here's her report, and if you'd like to see it as a web page, complete with pictures and sounds go to http://members.aol.com/ninOtchka/felicia.htm.) On the request of my new clients I did a preliminary investigation of Bennett Devlin's murder. I started by tracing the events leading up to the murder, and gathered evidence by talking to witnesses and watching my magic television that shows me what's going on in PC. I've decided to keep my findings from the police because... because I promised I would and that's that. I'm a single mother of two, I run my business, the Outback, with Mac, my partner, and since he's becoming Police Commissioner, I'm left with all the work as usual. Not to mention the other P.I. cases I have going on, but don't usually mention. In any case, I could only devote myself to observing what happened on Friday's, starting with... Friday April 10th 1998 Rex Stanton was in a dingy disgusting prison cell. His lawyer came into the room and told him that the D.A. wants to discuss a plea bargain. But Rex only wanted to talk about the book, General Homicide. The lawyer had read some of it, but didn't like it. Rex, on the other hand, enjoyed the book, because of the "macabre killings and salacious goings on". The lawyer tried to get Rex back on the subject of a plea bargain, but instead Rex asked about Lucy. Lawyer Byron told him that Lucy had broken his computer code. Rex didn't seem shocked, but thought it was time to give Lucy the "very special present" he'd been saving for her. (I'm starting here because Lucy told me Rex might be a good suspect. Now on the surface that might seem a little nutty, but Ryan used to be able to do things from prison, like murder people, with no one the wiser. So the above events show that Rex has read the book that the murder method was taken from. ) In the hospital lounge Dr. Ellen Burgess asked Mary Scanlon about donating Frank's organs if he died. Mary said that Frank would have wanted that. Dr. Joe Scanlon overheard their conversation. (What a hot head. Reminds me of Mac.) Then he accused Ellen of being a ghoul. He shouted that Frank isn't dead yet. Mary told Joe that she'd rather be dead herself than making these kinds of decisions about her child, but donating his organs is what Frank would have wanted. (Oh, boy, can I ever relate to this!) Joe looked a little sorry. (Ellen and Mary aren't really suspects but, as later events show, Joe threatens Devlin a lot.) In the Lab Dr. Devlin told Chris Ramsey that the research is going too slowly. Devlin told him they should use bigger animals... like humans. (Sheesh, insert evil laughter here) Chris told him that they're a long way from human experimentation. Bennett suggested that they give the drug to terminally ill patients and then do autopsies. Chris was shocked. Devlin told him there are precedents and Chris listed a few medical atrocities as examples of precedents. "Neither General Hospital nor the American public is ready for human experimentation no matter how close they are to dying." Bennett gave his opinion that this was Eve's fault. Chris scoffed at that. Then Devlin said he wanted Eve stopped. He pulled out a little bag of white powder and gave it Chris. It was cocaine and Devlin wanted Chris to plant it on Eve. Chris was angry that he even suggested it. Devlin thought Chris would do anything for the Quartermaine residency. Chris flatly refused to do it. (This Chris guy is a good suspect, but you'd think that if he balked at planting drugs, he wouldn't commit murder, but you never know.) At the sixth floor nurses' station Eve, with Scotty Baldwin, told Jake Marshak that she was going to see the board about the sexual harassment suit against Bennett Devlin. Scott was confident they'd win. Jake asked if they'd seen Frank. Frank wasn't doing any better. Jake told them he thought it was his fault for sleeping with Lark. Scotty disagreed. Jake asked about Lark, but no one had seen her. Eve said she thought Lark would show up to clear him of the statutory rape charges. Jake was worried about Lark. (Eve's a great suspect, though Scotty's not bad either.) In the Lighthouse Lucy was talking on the phone. She was angry about something going on at Jack's cosmetics and told them to just get the job done. Kevin came in with a special delivery letter. It was the annulment papers from Rex. Lucy was kind of pleased until she read Rex's reason for the action. Rex claimed it was her inability to have sexual intercourse. (Ha! If it were an Olympic event she'd have twelve gold medals.) Lucy worried that everyone would think that about her. Kevin assured her that no one would think that. He would attest that she's not frigid. Lucy still wasn't happy, and of course went running right out to see her soon to be annulled husband, Rex Stanton, and give him a piece of her mind. (Lucy isn't a suspect. I know I've thought some pretty nasty things about her, but she hasn't got a good motive, and she's just not the type. Still I'll put her down on the maybe list. Kevin we'll get to later.) Devlin was in the lab, fooling around with some test tube when his daughter Julie came in. She told him that Frank wasn't doing good. Devlin told her that he'd done everything he could. She suggested a pacemaker. He let her know that was out of the question because Frank wouldn't survive another operation. Bennett said he was sorry he couldn't do more. Then she went back to be with Frank. The medical student, Devlin's assistant, told Devlin that the test tube he prepared had too large a dose, big enough for 160 pound rat. Devlin thanked him for catching the error and then sent him off on errand. Devlin started talking to himself. "Well, Frank, we're just going to have to think of this as your contribution to the scientific process." Devlin walked into Frank Scanlon's hospital room. Mary and Julie were hovering over the patient. Mary asked if there's anything new and he claimed he was dropping by to see how Frank was doing. Devlin went back outside and asked the nurse to let him know when the family wasn't present. At the prison, Lucy sat down across from Rex. She thanked him for the annulment. She was glad to be rid of him. Rex wanted to know why she keeps coming to see him. They sparred for a little while as she tried to convince him that she's beaten him in every way. He asked if the grounds for annulment bothered her. She said they didn't because no one would believe them. Then he asked her to tell Kevin how much he enjoyed his book. Lucy tried to deny Kevin wrote it, but Rex wasn't fooled. He went on saying how much he admired the way the victims we're disposed of. Lucy was angry and told him that Kevin had pegged his character, a raging lunatic. Rex's witty comeback was, "take's one to know one." Rex told Lucy she should take a good hard look at Kevin and read the book again. (Yeah, maybe we should take a good hard look at Kevin. We all know he can suddenly start doing things, that people wouldn't think he could, but he sure can.) At the Nurses' station again, Matt asked Joe how Frank was doing. No change. Matt asked Joe how he was. Joe snapped that he was fine. Joe flew off the handle upset that everyone was acting like Frank was already dead. Eve came up and asked about Frank and Joe bit her head off too. He snarled and went off to work. Matt asked why Eve was there and she told him she had to meet with the board. Devlin came up behind her and asked if she'd like him to accompany her to the boardroom. While she was telling him to get lost, Devlin slipped the packet of cocaine into her purse. After she left, he went to the phone and made an anonymous report to the police. (What a pig. If I were Eve I'd be tempted to kill him.) The nurse entered Frank's room and tried to shoo out Mary and Julie so she could give Frank a sponge bath. Mary asked the nurse to let her do it. Julie left to get a cup of coffee. Mary talked to Frank about how long it was since she'd given him a bath, and how she used to sing to him. She begins singing to him and cleaning his hand with the washcloth. Outside the room Bennett asked the nurse if the family was still in there. She told him that the mother was still in there giving Frank a sponge bath. Devlin sighed impatiently as the nurse walked away. Lucy came into the lighthouse and immediately started ranting about Rex knowing Kevin wrote the book and she was sure he would use it against them. Kevin told her not to worry about it, because Rex probably read it in the paper. The news had been leaked to the press. Eve stopped her car, with police lights flashing behind her. She fretted over whether or not she'd done anything wrong. The cop comes up and asks to see her license and registration. She looks for it and finds the little packet of cocaine. She wondered, "What the hell is this?" Joe dragged Karen over to the lounge where Julie and Jake were waiting. Joe told them he'd though of a way to save Frank. He suggested they give Frank the nerve regeneration drug they've been working on. Julie also thought it might be a good idea. But Jake and Karen nixed the idea. The drug was too experimental, they hadn't been having good results lately, and it would be unethical. Joe gave in and admits they can't endanger the dying Frank that way. (Well, this reduces the motives of the lab rats. If they think the drug might not work they shouldn't be as ready to kill Devlin for stealing it.) Bennett opened the door to Frank's room. Mary was still there. She thanked him again for helping her son. He apologized for not being able to do more. She left and he finally got his chance. He injected Frank's IV with the drug. "This is going to be our little secret," he told Frank. What he didn't know was that Lark was hiding in the closet and saw the whole thing. (Two more suspects Frank and Lark. We'll see.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX * !! 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