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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday Feb 15
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:50:18 GMT

JASON COMES "HOME"

Edward and Lila are in the Q's living room, nervous because Jason is coming
home.  Alan and Monica and Jason come in.  Lila beams: "Welcome home!" He
looks puzzled and shakes her hand and she introduces herself, and says Cook
is fixing all his favorite foods, and leaves to see how it's coming along.
Jason says he wonders what his favorite foods are.  He wonders who
Reginald is.  Edward tries to cheer him up and Jason glares him off.  AJ
comes in and tells Jason about the gym.  Jason announces, loudly, that he
is tired of being treated like a 6-yr-old.  AJ and Monica leave.  Alan
offers to give Jason the house tour, but instead Jason wants to go outside.
Alone.  [Alan deserved the award.  His heartbreak in this scene is palpable.]

Alan calls Ned.  Ned wants to know how it's going and Alan tells him it's not
good.  "Jason wasn't in this room five minutes before he cleared the room
and then left himself."  So Ned comes to help out.  Alan: "Talk to him,
will you, Ned?  Just try to persuade him to give us a chance, or at the
very least show him where his room is so he doesn't get lost."  Alan
leaves and Ned taps on the window.  Jason comes in.  Ned gives him
directions to his room.  If it has lots of books and cleats in the
closet, it's the right one, but if it's pink with a canopy bed, it's
Emily's.  They discuss Emily. Ned asks Jason to be nice to Lila and
Emily.  AJ returns to try again and offers to take Jason to the club to
hear Ned sing.

BRENDA, JAX, NED, AND LOIS

Lois comes up to Ned and hugs him: she always likes days he's home.  They
kiss.  Brenda comes in.  "This is your idea of loving and supporting
me?"  Ned says, around Lois' lips: "I didn't know it was a 24-hour job."
They're happy she appears to be getting over Sonny.  Brenda says: "I
think that Jax is totally. . . insane."  She starts to debrief, but Ned
wants her to skip over all the interesting stuff and only tell about Jax's
fixation with Ned's wife, but fortunately, this is the time Alan calls
and Ned leaves so Brenda can really dish the dirt with Lois.  Lois also
warns Brenda to treat Jason like a total stranger.  But back to Jax: Lois
doesn't believe he's serious.  He's just being outrageous.  Besides,
isn't it nice that Brenda is getting a new interest?  Only then Brenda
says she hopes Sonny will be jealous.

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH

Lucy tells Kevin: "You'll love it."  Nope, Kevin is not thrilled with
Luke's hare-brained scheme.  Mac comes in.  Kevin is serious, he does NOT
want to spend another eternity in pantyhose.  [Yep, 5 minutes, eternity,
I agree.]  Lucy says they can shop at the spa.  Lucy will buy their lingerie.
Kevin points out they won't do well in aerobics class, or a whirlpool, or
the sauna.  They will skip all that.

The three go shopping, which is exhausting.  Then the men model for Lucy
to "I feel pretty."  [Mac's red cowgirl outfit complete with hat was
quite fetching, I thought.]  Then it's time to shave.  Lucy comes in with
Deception products for them, and wants to supervise, but is thrown out.

THE CONCERT

At LUKE'S, Keesha, who has been drinking the PC water, is bubbling to
Justus about how great it is that Jason is out of the hospital.  Jax
comes in looking for Brenda, and Mike steers him to the bar and chats him
up a bit till Brenda comes in, and of course she gets a table.  Sonny and
Lily come in.  [I think the reason that we can't get a feel for where
this SIDAR story is going is that the Powers That Be don't know, either.
The strong feelings on both sides (on all 48 sides, or however many) that
have been voiced in RATSA must be giving them pause.  They seem to be
looking for a consensus, and diddling the characters around till they get
one, but the diddling is just confusing the issue and muddying the water,
till NO ONE knows what they want!  Except that I don't think there are
going to be any sudden conversions, and this is rapidly becoming a
religious war.  IOAS, folks.  Not the stuff death threats are made of.
But the reason it seems so rudderless is, I think, that it is.  The
storyline last summer was a BIG mistake, and I think when they first
realized it, they were going to erase it and put Sonny and Brenda back
together, but they'd screwed them over so badly it wasn't sitting well
with about 50% of the folks.  TPTB don't know where this story is going
either.  No wonder it's so confusing!]  ANYWAY.  Sonny and Lily and Jax
and Brenda exchange polite pleasantries.  They go to their tables.  Sonny
gets snippy with Mike.  Felicia and Tom come in.  She has a bit of a cold
from the roof adventure, and they order hot toddies.  AJ & Jason arrive.
Justus introduces himself to Jason, and Brenda comes over and introduces
herself.  Back at the table, Lois struts by and tries to point out her
love for Eddie to Jax, but he is doing his thing.

Ned sings "The Lyin' King."  Edward even enjoys it, though he'd not admit
it.  Ned starts a ballad "These Are the Times" and Keesha, who has had
more of the PC water since sitting down, starts to cling to Jason and
hang all over him till he explodes.  AJ gets involved, and Jason leaves.
Sonny goes out to talk to him, gets him a cab, tells him where he lives
and gives him money.  When Sonny goes back into the club he tells Lily
that "it's kind of nice having someone ELSE throwing furniture around."
She tells him he should be nice to AJ, too.  They kiss, upsetting Brenda.
Alan tries to talk Jason into going home with him, is rebuffed and goes
back to commiserate with Edward.  Brenda asks Jax how he likes the
concert, and he thinks "that fellow who slammed out of here earlier had
the right idea."  [Grrrrrrr!]  When the song is over, and Ned asks
for requests, Jax asks Lois to "Fly to Australia with me" (so much for
Brenda's plans to make Sonny jealous.)
--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book, the
        Booklist Boy, the IRS Guy, the Tycoon, and Sunbunny.
        Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
jyarnot@netcom.com                 Putting the fun in "dysfunctional."