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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Games Update, Thursday June 13
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:45:50 GMT

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: The Update for Thursday June 13

1. JACKS' HIT (careful how you say that!) IN ALASKA.
        Jax and Brenda are at the folks' house.  Jax tells Brender not to
worry about Lady Jane, she just gets the urge to be maternal every 5 or 10
years.  "She's sizing you up"... Brenda worries that she won't measure
up, and sure enough, here come the senior Jackses, who couldn't find
hiking boots small enough for Brenda.  So, instead, they'll play the game
John Jacks invented, a "Jaxopoly"-type game he's wickedly named Jacks'
Hit.  The idea of the game is to start as they did and make even more money.
They choose their tokens:  Jax takes the dogsled, John the oil rig since
Jerry isn't there to fight him for it, Jane the horse (she breeds
thoroughbreds).  Brenda is going to settle for whatever's left till Lady
Jane challenges her, so Brenda takes the yacht (a beautiful piece!)  Jax
tells his folks about Brender winning Kronos back for them.  Jane wants
to know where they will live.  Brenda hadn't really thought of living
anywhere but Port Charles (except in seedy hideouts with Sonny on the
run, of course!)
        John is worried.  What sort of city would have Mac Scorpio as
their police commissioner?  (Good question!)  Jax says Mac has changed
(how would he know?) and John returns: "People don't change, they just
swell up."  Brenda and Lady Jane come back with the tea, which Brenda has
managed to spill on herself.  [I was reading about Ozark mothers-in-law
and "Scripture Cake", a recipe they would give the new bride full of
Biblical allusions, thereby testing both their scripture knowledge and
their cooking skills.  Brenda's lucky Lady Jane didn't know about THAT!]
Jane lets Brenda fix Jax' tea:  "You know how he takes it."  Jax signals
Brender till she gets it right.  Meanwhile, back at the board game (as
opposed to the in-law game) Brenda is putting up shopping malls, and she
gets sent to permit hell... but the cage is in John's study where he was
weighing hailstones.  (Oh, these wacky millionaires!)  He takes Brenda on
a house tour while Jane frets that Brenda is "awfully thin."  She's
probably got an eating disease like most models.  Besides, Jane is angry
at not being told about the wedding.  But as she talks to her son, she
recalls John meeting her parents for the first time, and begins to thaw
toward Brenda.  "She does have a lovely smile."
        Brenda has used all the shopping mall tokens, so Jax puts down his
wedding ring for one.  Brenda makes her final move, and YES! She's
bankrupted Lady Jane, who says she's tough as nails (a compliment.)
Brenda puts the ring back on Jax: "I protected it with all I was worth."
She hopes the Jacks' will visit Port Charles because (a water flashback)
she would like Ruby to meet them (!?!)  She's ready to go home.  Jax is a
bit worried about being able to go FORWARD in Port Charles.  He doesn't
say the name "Sonny" but it hangs there.  Brenda says things won't be the
same in Port Charles.
        As they are leaving, Jane gives Brenda the yacht.

2.  VARIOUS GAMES AROUND TOWN
        Felicia and Mac and Tom are discussing the stalker at Kelly's
(they are at Kelly's, that is, we don't know where the stalker is.)
Carly is sitting at the counter, probably eavesdropping, and some guy
(Reggie 3?) is working the counter.  (Ruby has help?  Since when?)
Turns out the van that brought the toxic flowers was rented by none other
than ... Felicia!  Mac wants a list of Filly's former clients.  The
investment firm looks promising, these people are all computer-literate,
especially when compared to the folks of Port Charles.
        Robin bops in and dashes behind the counter to get some food.
Carly takes her plate away from her.  "Look, Missy, I happen to live
here, and I've never seen a help yourself sign." (Interesting when you
think of her little dip in the till the other day!)  Robin is offended.
Then Mac comes over and introduces them, to Carly's chagrin.  She somehow
doesn't seem too comfortable around cops.
        Robin goes to the boxcar to see Jason and hears shots.  Turns out
it's Jason practicing shooting.  He says he's real good on the "safety
stuff" and wants to know if he did this before.  No, she says, she
doesn't think the Quartermaines have a shooting range.  Jason utters
the LINE OF THE DAY: "That's probably a good safety precaution right
there."  They talk.  He thinks it's nice that Robin worries about him.
They talk about Sonny a little bit, and Robin leaves to go see Sonny.

3.  GRIEF GAMES AT THE PENTHOUSE
        Sonny is looking at the picture of Lily.  He hears the lullabye.
Jason comes in with food and Sonny wants him to get rid of the piano.
Jason asks about the rest of the furniture, the ceilings, the walls, the
doorknobs.  He tells a little about himself when people kept poking at
him, and he leaves.
        Sonny can't stand it any more, and throws the piano bench,
hurting his hand.  Then he picks up a poker and starts in on the piano.
(He knocks the wedding picture off on the first whack, which was a
surprise.)  He's well and truly into it when Robin comes running in.  At
first Sonny looks like she's next for the poker, but then he sits and
lets Robin fix his hand.  "They're just things.  I know they have
memories attached to them but then that goes away and they're just things
again."  Robin echoes back the good advice Sonny gave her when Stone died.

4.  FLIRTATIOUS GAMES AT JAKES
        Jake asks Mike: "Old enough for you?" and Mike looks confused.
She's talking about the Scotch.  Mike claims she doesn't look voting age,
either [YEAH, right!].  He does a Scotch survey one day a week. It's
part of his duties.  Oh, yes, she knows who he is, the bartender at
LUKE'S.  "I don't recognize the busted lip, though."  "Ran into a
doorknob."  He says he mistook which way the door was swinging.  [I'm not
so sure, Mike!]  "OK, purvey your wretched wares."  "Honey, my wares
ain't so wretched, even with the lights up.  Goodness!  What came over me?
Must be those Paul Newman eyes!"  Mike looks amused and amazed, and mutters
"DAMN fine Scotch!" into his glass.
        They continue the flirtation.  Mike thinks she could do better
than Jake's, which is kind of a dive, maybe she should work at LUKE'S.
(With the invisible Babe.)  Then they trade names and he finds out SHE is
Jake, so he takes his foot out of his mouth so he can stumble home.
She gives him her phone number.
        Tom and Felicia come in.  There's some inane talk about money and
they play pool.  Filly hustles him.  She's upset because she's getting
stared at so they go home to see if there's a horizontal spot they
haven't "baptised" yet.  [Honestly, these two are even worse than Mac and
Katherine!]  Time for the Updater Rant of the Week.  Felicia is so
worried about being watched, but she won't close the blinds, but parades
around in a towel or a short thing with the blinds open.  It's a simple
doohicky on the side, twist it and the blinds close.  Makes it a lot
harder to lurk, which Tom does for a while before coming in and joining
the floor show.  [*ick*]
        Jason comes into Jake's.  Carly is there, and she attempts the
Mae West "is that a gun, or are you happy to see me?"  Having already had
one little skirmish with a cop (Mac) she really wonders if Jason is a
policeman.  He plays along, maybe so, maybe not.  She's intrigued.  Jake
comes and takes the plate, calling "Morgan" by name, so Carly knows a
little more.  They go upstairs.
--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Mother of the Bride, member of SESIDAR

        Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
jyarnot@netcom.com                 Putting the fun in "dysfunctional."