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From: rika@netcom.com (Melissa Martin)
Subject: GH: Update, Wednesday 8/28/96
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:36:05 GMT

                        GENERAL HOSPITAL UPDATE
                       Wednesday, August 28, 1996

Today's storylines:
  * Timoria or not Ti Moria, that is the question
  * It's a hard knock life
  * Has Kevin ever seen 'Aladdin'?

TIMORIA OR NOT TI MORIA, THAT IS THE QUESTION
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Laura and Keesha see each other at the hospital.  They arrange to
meet at Kelly's that afternoon to discuss Charles St. Foundation
business.  Bobbie sees Laura, who explains that she wants to
volunteer for the bone marrow donor registry.  They discuss Stefan,
and Bobbie wonders why Stefan picked now to contact Laura.  Laura
figures Luke would say that Stefan was awaiting the right
opportunity.  Laura tells Bobbie about the Lucky/Nikolas fight, and
Bobbie (after a tactless remark or two) sympathizes with Laura's
position square in the middle of the Spencer/Cassadine hostilities.
Laura remarks that perhaps she is a fool to trust any Cassadine, but
she always thought Stefan was better than the others.  Bobbie, based
on her vast experience with Stefan, advises Laura not to be so quick
to change her mind, and tells Laura about her talk with Stefan.
Later, Laura and Bobbie discuss the situation with Bobbie's search
for her own daughter.  Bobbie is worried about the possible impact
of it on Tony, especially when things are "rocky" now - due to his
unresolved feelings about BJ.  Bobbie is wondering about adopting
a little girl - it would be good for her, Lucas would like having
a little sister, and Tony needs someone to protect and care for.
She hasn't mentioned it to Tony yet.

Stefan, meanwhile, has dropped in at the Charles Street Foundation
and finds Keesha there.  He admires the Ward family reputation and
the work of the Foundation, and he offers a large donation, on the
condition that his identity remain anonymous.  If she agrees, there
will be more where that came from.  The check is written on an
account with a name in Greek letters (Tau, Iota, Mu, Omega, Rho,
Iota, Alpha, if I recall my Greek letters, which more or less spells
"TIMORIA".)  Why *this* particular cause, asks Keesha.  Stefan
claims that the connection to the Ward name is the reason.  Keesha
accepts the donation, agreeing to keep it anonymous.

Keesha arrives at Kelly's before Laura, and sees Luke.  She gushes
about the large anonymous donation, and then is foolish enough to
leave her purse on Luke's table and go into the back.  He rifles
through her purse till he finds the check, copies down information
from it, and sticks the check back in her purse before she returns.

IT'S A HARD KNOCK LIFE
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Carly is studying anatomy - in a book, all you with minds in the
gutter! - at Kelly's.  Tony comes in and sees her, and invites
her to join him for breakfast.  Luke walks in, finds them there,
feels it necessary to make a few mildly snotty remarks, and then
goes to talk to Ruby.  Carly decides to leave - she is afraid of
Luke's wrath.  She once overheard him tell Bobbie that he didn't
trust her.  She doesn't want to cause trouble for Tony, so she
leaves for class.  Tony asks Luke if he has "something against
Carly."  Luke sidesteps the question, remarking that he doesn't
trust hardly anyone (an understatement to say the least).  Tony
describes Carly as a sensitive underdog who's been knocked around
a lot by life.  He just wants to help her.  He begins to talk about
the empty space left by BJ's death.  Luke asks if Bobbie knows he
is having problems - he says he doesn't want to drag her down when
she has been able to move on to some degree.  He leaves after
asking Luke to give Carly a break.

Carly, back at the hospital, is assigned a patient to monitor by
Bobbie.  She is to complete a mock chart on the patient's care.
Later, when she tells Bobbie how much she likes her assigned
patient, she is subjected to a gratuitous lecture on the need to
care for everyone, not just favorites.  Still later, Bobbie harshly
criticizes Carly for failing to note her patient's noon medication,
as Tony overhears.

HAS KEVIN EVERY SEEN 'ALADDIN'?
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Kevin is adding new features to his painting - water coming over the
door at the end of the hall, and jasmine blossoms floating in the
water in the hallway - while the videotape of his twin study
interview plays in the background.  When the tape ends, the brush
slips through his fingers to the floor, and he stares, looking
haunted, at the painting.

Lucy, meanwhile, is continuing her quest for evidence of Kevin's
innocence - this time by visiting Tom.  She explains her role as
psychic investigator in the stalker case.  Tom advises her to stay
out of it - she is suggesting a dangerous mind game.  Lucy plows
ahead anyway, explaining that she can approach it from a different
angle "because I have inside - " (she stops herself from saying
"inside information") - "because I am a psychic."  She asks Tom
for a psychological profile of the stalker.  Why didn't she go to
Kevin, asks Tom, figuring it is because Kevin would also tell her
to stay out of it.  Lucy, fighting back tears, insists that she
can't stay out because "I have to prove that he didn't - I know
that he didn't."  Lucy tries to backpedal from this remark, getting
more and more upset.  Tom sees her distress and listens as she
describes a dream she has supposedly had - and she describes Kevin's
dream to him.

Tom explains that he can't interpret the dream, because only the
dreamer can do that.  He can offer some common symbolism.  The
house could represent the facade the dreamer presents to the
world - the dreamer may want to emerge in a new form, via the
hallway, into the bright light that shines on the dark subconscious
overshadowed by too much conscious knowledge.  Water generally
represents a woman - dripping could mean a constant irritant, either
in the present or the past.  He doesn't have any ideas about the
significance of jasmine scent - he suggests that she sniff some
when awake and see if it brings up anything.  Great idea, she
says - Jacks Cosmetics is starting up a jasmine fragrance.  Tom
says maybe the dream is about her work life, in that case.  Lucy
thanks him for his help and leaves.

Kevin, meanwhile, is still working on the painting.  He flashes
back to his dream vision, and for the first time we see the door
at the end of the hallway open.  A blonde woman, her face obscured
by the backlighting, emerges from the room dressed in a peignoir.

Some time later, Audrey arrives at the lighthouse, apparently at
Kevin's invitation.  He stops and stares at her for a moment,
explaining that he was "taken with the scent" she's wearing.
Jasmine, anyone?  Audrey isn't sure what the scent is, and they
discuss moments of forgetfulness.  Kevin remarks that he sometimes
finds himself in the hospital parking lot with no memory of leaving
the house.  (Sorry, poor Kevin, but there's a lot worse things than
leaving the house that you don't remember right now).  Kevin
invited her over to give her a sketch of Steve that he once did
"during a staff meeting".  Audrey, touched by the gift, tells Kevin
that Steve thought a great deal of him.  The feeling was mutual,
Kevin assures her - in fact, Steve's presence was comforting,
"paternal, in his way."  They discuss Tom's feelings about this
subject, and then Kevin thanks Audrey for her kindness to him,
despite the bad associations to Ryan she must feel.  Audrey insists
that "You're an entirely different person from your brother."
Kevin's weak smile suggests that he has doubts on this subject.

Lucy returns to the lighthouse to find Kevin, VCR manual in hand,
fiddling with his remote control.  Lucy, after telling him how much
she loves him, claims she went to a bookstore and read about dream
interpretation.  Kevin teases her about making yet another attempt
to diagnose his subconscious.  She reviews one aspect of the
symbolism - the dripping water representing a woman, and constant
irritation - and asks if he is irritated with her.  He embraces her,
assuring her that is not the case.  He thinks that, if the water is
a woman, it could be tied to his feeling that the dream is connected
to Felicia, but none of it is triggering anything for him.

Then Lucy claims to be moving to an unrelated topic.  She sprays
on some perfume and asks her "manly man" to sniff it and give an
opinion.  "It's nice - what is it?"  he asks, noncommital.  She
tells him that it is jasmine.  Kevin recognizes what she is trying
to do and calls her on it, but he goes along with her plan.  The
scent doesn't conjure up anything for him.  Lucy suggests that
maybe there are aspects of the dream that he doesn't remember.
At this suggestion, Kevin, who has good-naturedly been tolerating
her psychoanalysis attempts up to this point, becomes defensive and
angry, insisting that it is a dream, not a memory.  Besides, he
snaps, Lucy isn't a shrink - "You're not even the Amazing
Kreskin."  (Pretty clearly, Lucy got just a bit too close to the
truth.)  He angrily returns his attention to the VCR manual, and
Lucy asks if she can see the progress on his painting.  His mood
changes completely - he is pleased for her to see it.  He asks her
how she feels about it.

Before she can answer, he gets a phone call in answer to one he
apparently placed about his VCR.  Kevin, irritated at a question
asked by the technician, rolls his eyes and answers, "Yes, I DO
know how to operate it.  I'm a doctor."  He says he will bring the
VCR in for repair, and then he hangs up.  Lucy asks what is wrong,
takes the remote control from him, and fixes the problem (the
remote was set to operate the TV and not the VCR.  Happens to my
husband all the time).  Kevin is a bit defensive, pointing out the
high percentage of people who can't program their VCR's, but
overall he takes it pretty well.  Lucy runs to the office for a
meeting, after again telling a bemused Kevin that she loves him and
kissing him enthusiastically, much to his amusement (that was
probably the last megawatt Kevin smile we're going to see for a
long time).  After she leaves, Kevin sniffs the bottle of jasmine
perfume, and this time it seems to trigger something.

Later, Kevin is focused on his painting again.  He calls Mac,
leaving a message on Mac's machine asking asking him to stop by as
soon as he can to see Kevin's latest painting.

Tom is in his office, listening to a tape from a session with a
patient.  He remembers Filly's remark that his voice is different
when he is in a session, and this triggers an idea.  He discovers
that the tape of one of his supposed phone calls to Filly is a
perfect match to excerpts from a tape from one of his sessions
with a patient, and he calls Mac to let him know of his discovery.
Like Kevin, he gets Mac's answering machine.

Lucy, back in her office, is looking at potential ad copy:  "He
will always remember you wore Jacks Jasmine."  (And for those who
didn't know it before, this sequence also removes all doubt that
the flowers in the hallway in Kevin's painting are jasmine flowers).
Lucy is troubled and distracted.  Her assistant, Don, comes in with
some pictures from Brenda's photo shoot for review.  Lucy says this
isn't a good time.  Don also wants to go over the updates to the
computer system with her.  She wants to do this right away, telling
him, "I really think that you might have fixed everything."  (Ah,
if only it were so simple).

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by Rika, 1/2 of the Wednesday Update Team