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From: yarnot@babbage.ecs.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH:  Update Oct. 27
Date: 28 Oct 1994 05:25:51 GMT

There are a lot of plotlines moving along today. Probably the events of
this episode will reverberate for the next few months.

INCINERATOR/CHARLES ST. NEIGHBORHOOD

Edward and Jack are discussing the condition of Justus.  Edward is appalled,
and Jack is delighted, in a quietly wolfish sort of way.  Edward asks if Jack
had anything to do with it.  Jack denies it but says the timing is
"precipitous" [I assume both he and the writers mean "fortuitous."  This is
nowhere near as annoying as Kevin's misuse of "lie/lay" the other day
as Jack is just an ordinary scheming businessman, not Mr. Perfect Intellectual.
I have a friend who used to teach high school English, and he would tell his
students "to 'lay down' means to commit an obscene act with a feather pillow."
I gather none of the writers were ever in this class.  But I digress.]
Edward says the beating of Justus is too much like his father.  Jack licks
his proverbial chops.  Ned comes in, and after a little nastybanter, announces
that ELQ will be looking for a new site for the incinerator.

Jack hits the roof.  There's good money [Jack jack?] riding on the Charles
Street neighborhood.  He may just turn ex-Councilman Blake loose.  From some
feeling of loyalty to Jack, so far Blake has not told who bribed him, but the
Qs can hardly use the extra publicity on top of the Bradley investigation.
Ned turns to Edward and delivers the LINE OF THE DAY: "And YOU gave me grief
about DAMIAN!"  Jack finishes with "The Charles Street site is the only site
for the incinerator, and Justus Ward be damned!"

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Luke is unconscious against a wall while
Bobbie, on 24-hr-duty and still fairly fresh, asks him how he manages.  An old
trick he learned in Afghanistan.  MaryMae comes in, and she and Luke go in
to look at Justus.  They discuss the possibility of giving up, but MaryMae
is going to stick with it, and Luke will back it.  A man delivers subpoenas
for them both to testify to the Grand Jury in the Bradley Ward murder.
[Theresa, oh legal chick.  This is how it's always done in films and TV.
However, the few we've had in my family (for jury duty, and one for a
traffic court (my daughter was the *victim*!!)) came by mail. Does it
usually happen this way?]

Edward goes to the hospital to see MaryMae to plead for Justus' safety,
which is probably in danger if they continue to fight the Charles Street
project.  MM will not retreat, nossir.  She tells Edward about the subpoena,
and what she will talk about, unless he wants her to tell more?  He does not.
Before Edward leaves, he has a long look at Justus through the ICU window.

Luke, meanwhile, sees Damian struggling with his walker down the hall (I
thought he'd been kicked out of the hospital by now?) and gives him a
bit of a hard time.  Luke tells Damian about Justus.  D. would like to join
J's campaign, a switch Luke has a hard time accepting.  "How do we know
you're not a Quartermaine mole?"  Damian tells Luke that he, Damian, is
no friend of the Quartermaines.  Eerie foreshadowing music.

FRISCO, THE FATHER OF THE YEAR
Felicia is sewing at the Outback and Mac makes the mistake of commenting.
[Look, you guys, don't *talk* to Felicia, can't you see she's pregnant?
And the worst case of hormones *I* have ever seen, and I was and am pretty
good at this myself!]  She snaps at him.  She is creating a worm costume
for Maxie, who was not thrilled with the possibilities of being a store-
bought Power Ranger.  "Mommy, I just want to be a worm."  Kevin comes into
the outback and recognizes this as a function of Maxie's hormones.  [I am
assuming that next year, when Soap Rapid Aging Syndrome has struck, Maxie
and Lucky will be the teen love interests, and with luck, Mophead Morez
(oh, thank you, Theresa!) will be long gone!)   Felicia intercepts and
properly interprets ("be vewy vewy quiet.  She's cwazy!") That Look between
Kevin and Mac and vacates to look for more soap or was it silk or was it
thread?

Mac asks Kevin if he'd like to speculate and Kevin says "I can do that."
He, Kevin, figures Felicia is upset at being a single mother of two, and
she's overcompensating by being Supermom but at the same time she's resentful
of Frisco, whose strength does not seem to be in the "being there department."
Later, when Sean and Lucy have come in [today it was real difficult to write
a beginning-to-end-of-each-thread update, so sue me!] Felicia asks to borrow
Lucy's last-year pumpkin enormously-pregnant Hallowe'en costume.  Lucy
interprets this as a lovely sisterly bestfriendly gesture, instead of
the desperation this-bloody-worm-is-hard-enough! move it really is.

Sean talks about Katybell with Mac and Felicia and finally learns something
about her past.  Tony comes in, Filly leaves.  Mac says, about F., "Kevin
votes for displaced anxiety and I tend to agree."  "No", says Tony, "maybe
she just can't find a worm costume."  But Tony thinks yes, therapy might work,
he is trying it to deal with his relationship with Bobbie.  One of the Jones
boys is trying, what about the other one?

A LUCY HERE, A LUCY THERE
Damian is visiting ComaKaty.  "I should have stopped you before you
got involved with the Quartermaines."  Lucy comes in.  Why?  "What the
Hell are you doing here?"  Can't she just be interested in KatyBell's
welfare?  No, the duet: ComaKaty "you came here to gloat."  Damian, a
beat late, but he's getting it, "you came here to gloat."  They talk
about ComaKaty's "instinct for survival" and who couldda done her
in?  Mac Scorpio?  (what a theory!  I was impressed!)  Luke Spencer?
Lucy says the backup line of the day to Damian:  "You only have one
friend in the world, who incidentally isn't speaking to you."
The duet chimes "GET OUT!"

Lucy does, with an evil grin.  She's stopped by Stalwart Sean,
and let me tell you if he ever dared show his face in my vicinity,
I would have my lawyer on his case so fast GH would still be spinning
4 weeks later!  Having apparently given up on the Lila theory, Sean
now subjects Lucy to the third degree.  This spins Lucy off into
fantasies of how she would LIKE to kill KatyBell.  One: smothering
KB in money.  Two: Poor CinderKaty is reduced to dusting the
chandeliers while Lucy admires her jewels.  Lucy takes pity on
Whiny CinderKaty and agrees to give her a diamond... but she throws
it out the window on the umpty-thousandth floor.  CinderKaty,
of course, leaps to her death right after it.  For some reason,
this fantasy makes Lucy smile, which Sean regards as suspicious.
So, when she says she has no motive to kill Katherine, he asks,
"What about Deception?"  It's an intelligent question, which
no one expects from Sean, so Lucy looks appalled.  He tags along to
the Outback, where Kevin tidily disposes of him and he (see above)
decides to look for Frisco, a job he might be able to handle.

Lucy, having had the joys of sisterhood with Felicia, sits with Kevin.
For once, she has the rules.  Kevin starts by apologizing.  [As well
he should!]  He grits his teeth, metaphorically squares his shoulders,
and tells Lucy about Grace.  This is why he came to PC: he thought if
he could cure Ryan, he could cure himself.  Lucy doesn't pretend
this doesn't matter.  It does.  While Kevin is dealing with this, there's
"not mych for us."  He says he has a black heart, and she thinks not.
Kevin walks her upstairs [is this Dominique's old apartment?  The place they
nearly burned down the other day?]

TEASERS:
1.  Knowing about the baby should be Frisco's choice to make.  On the other
hand, Felicia would be devastated (yet again) if he once more flaked out
on her.  Sean will try to locate him.
2.  Kevin is dreaming about trying to rescue Grace... or wait, is it
Ryan??
3. MaryMae sits with Justus, after telling Luke most of what Edward said.
She begins to sing.  And Justus comes to, telling her he's OK.

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