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From: "Lisa Spodak" <lisa@clark.net>
Subject: PC:  Update Tuesday 6/16/98
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:02:57 -0400

Port Charles Update
Tuesday, June 16, 1998

Garcia has caught Eve and Scott dropping her bracelet into the harbor.  They
deny it, but he says he's going to dredge the harbor.  He also takes them to
the station for some questioning.

Lucy is scared because she's found a noose and a pair of gloves in Kevin's
car.  He doesn't know where they came from and wants to call the police.
Lucy doesn't want to--she's scared because when they called about the clown
suit, it ended up implicating Kevin.  He points out that she was all for
full disclosure when it was information that had to do with Eve.  Lucy says
that was relevant and this isn't.  They decide they need to try and find
Karen since she's supposed to be the next victim, killed by hanging.  They
can't find her at the hospital when Kevin has her paged.

Joe is also looking for Karen.  She walks up saying she should play hard to
get more often.  She was at a Nurses Ball (does it bother *anyone* but me
that there's no apostrophe in Nurses Ball??) rehearsal.  Joe tells her there
is a special board meeting to question Ellen about her relationship with
Matt.  They wonder what this will do to the race for the Quartermaine and
say they wouldn't be surprised at all if Chris took the pictures since he
seems to be the only one left in the running for the Quartermaine.  Karen
asks Joe about a Nurses Ball t-shirt he's carrying--he says it's for Neil.
He asks Karen if she called Neil's dad and she says she did and it was a
mistake.  Joe can't understand how a father can just ignore his sick son.
Karen is looking thoughtful/worried.  (This is what I've come to think of as
the Eureka! scene ;) )  She asks how long ago Joe and Courtney dated.  He
asks what she's really asking.  Karen tells Joe that Neil overheard his dad
saying that Neil wasn't his son.  "... and I know that you guys were really
serious and everything."  "And Neil is six years old," Joe adds.  "Kind of
makes you wonder, doesn't it?" asks Karen.  (Yes, yes it does.  Duh.)

Garcia is asking Eve bunches of questions about her bracelet and what she
and Scott were doing at the harbor.  All she'll say is "No comment."  He
asks if Devlin threatened to expose her past as a prostitute.  "No comment."
He also tells Scott he could be disbarred for withholding evidence.  When he
asks Scott if an ex-hooker is worth that, Scott calls him a "career
screw-up."  Finally Scott insists "You charge me, you charge her, you charge
*somebody* or we're out of here."  Garcia wonders aloud if maybe they both
worked together to kill Devlin.

Kevin and Lucy find Karen at the hospital and tell her about the noose and
gloves.  Karen looks a little freaked when she realizes they thought she
might already be dead when they couldn't find her.

Joe goes to leave the t-shirt for Neil.  He's asleep, but Courtney is there.
Joe asks her if there were any complications in her pregnancy with Neil.
She asks what this has to do with leukemia and Joe says he just wants a
complete history.  She says Neil was two months early--and that Joe is
asking some odd questions.  Joe says he knows and Courtney realizes that
he's trying to figure out if he is Neil's father.  "Am I?" he asks.  "No,"
she answers.  They broke up before Neil was conceived, she says.  Joe says
Neil's real father is missing out.

Kevin and Lucy run into Scott and Eve at the elevator.  Eve wonders why Lucy
had to try to ruin Scott along with her and Lucy insists she didn't give the
police Scott's name.  Scott tells her how they used to shoot squealers in
the belly and let them crawl around until they died.  Kevin points out that
Scott *did* withhold evidence and Lucy says she just wants the murders to
end.  Eve says she didn't kill anyone and knows this is just part of Lucy's
plan "to become number one in Scott's life."  Lucy says she can't believe
Eve is "playing" Scott so well and says she knows Eve killed some people and
is trying to frame Kevin.  She and Kevin tell Eve and Scott about the noose.
Scott realizes that that means Karen is the next target.

Karen finds Joe in Neil's room and asks him if he talked to Courtney.  He
says she said Neil wasn't his.  Karen asks if Joe thought he was... and they
both admit they weren't sure.  Joe says that now that he knows Neil isn't
his, he's kind of disappointed.  He says he used to think he was never ready
to have a child, but was surprised that he was ready to be Neil's father.
Karen says his kids are going to be lucky.  And that whether or not Neil's
his son, Joe has helped him--by being his friend.

Courtney gives Neil his Nurses Ball shirt and puts it on him.  Neil says
"Joe's the bomb!"  Neil says Joe's the kind of guy he wishes his dad was.

Joe and Scott are arguing with Karen about her safety.  She refuses to move
in with either of them.  Scott says he's going to talk to Mac about having
some cops watch her and Joe says he's gonna stick so close to her that
she'll think she has two shadows.  She says she'll be fine--one of the
benefits of being a cop's wife was learning how to defend herself.

Kevin has called Garcia and is saying he's wracked his brain trying to
figure out who could hate him so much they'd be trying to frame him.  Lucy
admits he did the right thing by calling.  She goes upstairs to wait for him
to relax a bit and come up to bed.  Kevin has another visit from Ryan in the
mirror.  Ryan mocks him... "The family that kills together stays together."
Kevin says he's sick of Ryan and goes to throw something at the mirror.
Ryan asks if violence is his answer to everything.  He insists that he has
been teaching Kevin well, and tells him not to break another mirror--he has
no idea where Ryan would be forced to turn.

Scott tells Eve that Garcia left a message for him saying they found the
bracelet.  "We're going to prison," he says resignedly (is that a word??).
"We're going to be eating chipped beef on toast for the rest of our lives."

The End.

:)
Lisa
lisa@clark.net