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From: mtczajka@aol.com (MTCzajka)
Subject: PC: update Monday 4/13
Date: 13 Apr 1998 23:07:28 GMT

Kevin is yelling at a guy on the phone - he's upset about the leak that he's
the author of General Homicide.  His publisher calls about doing publicity,
Kevin tells him to go ahead and set it up.  The phone rings again and Kevin
unplugs it.  A reporter comes over to interview Kevin.  He wants to know
about a man with a brother who was a serial killer writing a book about a
serial killer.  He also wants to know about the thinly disguised characters
in the book - Kevin won't discuss it.  He asks Lucy about the comparison
between her and Nancy Cole.  Lucy appreciates Nancy's good points and
ignores the bad.  The reporter also asks about the affair between the book
version of Kevin and the book version of Eve.  Lucy tells him that Kevin has
a good imagination.

Eve in a Î64.5 - Î68 era red convertible Mustang (I knew there was a reason
I liked her - it's like mine!!) shoves the coke that was planted in her under
the
seat while pretending to look for her registration.  The cop asks her to step
out of the car.  Later, Eve is with Scott and she tells him the cop asks for
her
phone number.  She didn't give it to him.  She tells him about the planted
drugs.
She flushed them at a gas station on the way home.  Which was a good move,
since cops were at Frank's with a search warrant.  Scott opines that Devlin
would not give up easily, but he may make a mistake since he's getting
desperate.

Devlin sneaks the syringe he used for Frank into the disposal thing.  His
intern
aid comes in and questions him about missing serum.  Devlin testily tells him
he dropped a vial of it while injecting an animal.  The aid leaves and Devlin
orders more blood tests on Frank.

Karen tries to get Joe to go home and rest.  He gets very bitchy, she is under-
standing and he backs off.  Mary comes up with Audrey and they reminisce
about Frank as a child.  Audrey leaves, and Devlin, the very soul of
sensitivity,
comes up and asks Mary for permission to see the autopsy report on Frank, if
he should happen to die.  For some odd reason, this request upsets Joe.

Lark apologizes to Franks for being the cause of his coma.  She realizes that
he only tried to help her and asks for a second chance.  Joe comes in rather
loudly, giving Lark a chance to hide.  Joe tearfully reminds Frank of their
childhood - a time when Frank pretended that he wouldn't wake up.  Little
Joe got scared, then little Frank opened his eyes and laughed at him.  Joe
wants him to do that again and he does!  Well, not the laughing part but his
eyes open.  Later, Julie, Karen, and Mary have joined them.  Frank's first
question is about the state of Lark.  He's glad she's okay - and they tell him
she ran away.

Grace tells Matt that Joe has awakened.  He wants to celebrate Joe and also
Grace's birthday which is tomorrow.  She says she stopped celebrating getting
older at 21 (which is a little sad).  She agrees to go out with him.

Devlin hears about Frank and wants to be kept apprised of his condition.  Eve
and Scott come up and Scott shoves a bag of white powder in Devlin's pocket.
Devlin says he should have coke there - Scott reveals it's sugar.  He tells him
that Eve found the real thing and flushed it.  Scott threatens him and Devlin
walks.  The reporter comes up and starts asking them about the book.  The
reporter tells them Kevin wrote the book - they're surprised.  They head to
Kevin's and discuss their alter egos in the book (Scott angrily yells that he's
not some hot-headed, loud-mouthed, apple eating attorney as he bites an
apple - his "character" gets baked in an oven with an apple in his mouth, Lucy
points out that she's not some self-centered glamour don't - then hesitates as
she thinks about it, Eve thinks her character, the witty, sexy, wisecracking
intern
with men at her feet).  They start arguing and Kevin reminds them that it's
just a book.  The phone rings - the orders for the book have tripled.  Kevin
isn't happy - he thinks it's just because the author is the brother of a serial
killer.

Devlin goes in to see Frank and refuses to take credit for Frank's recovery.
This
doesn't arouse the suspicions that it should.  He tells Frank and Julie that he
wants to be the only one to oversee his recovery.  He leaves the room and Mary
thanks Devlin and he once again refuses credit.  Joe apologizes for being nasty
to him, and Devlin is very humble - again not arousing suspicions.  Later,
Devlin
is confronted by the reporter and he refuses to comment.    He walks away and
is taunted by Chris about his lousy drug-planting skills.  Chris tells him that
the
serum has made the rats *very* aggressive and if he markets it to humans, he'll
have WWIII on his hands.

Marguerite

Marguerite.Czajka@ChicagoIL.NCR.COM