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Sent:        11/5/96 8:05 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

HALLOWE'EN UPDATE

Maxie's birthday.  One little mention on the phone so we could get on with
the Real Business, tying up the Lucy-Kevin story that was going to last a
while, so we can again and again and again set up for the Infernal Triangle.

IT'S OVER!, Part 1.
Dara announces to all that it's time to move Kevin back to prison, now
that he's all better.  Lucy can't believe it.  She tells Dara that she,
Dara, is not being human, how sane is that?  Alexis will attempt to get a
restraining order, involving charging Dara, but she will also need to
charge Tom and Felicia with burglary to get to Dara.  Is this OK?
Felicia is willing, and Mac volunteers to resign his office.  Alexis,
commenting "to think I felt SORRY for Dr. Collins," goes off to talk to a
judge.  Lucy is grateful to Felicia and Mac, and then Don comes in, all
upset because of all the cancellations of Brenda's dates.  (So Katherine
had an ulterior motive, not that we're surprised.)  Lucy races off to fix
this.

Dara talks to Justus at Luke's, where Justus (also persona non grata, I
thought) has gotten her a lunch.  She talks about the case, about getting
charged with second degree burglary and tampering with evidence, which
she can disprove, but it might ruin the case.  (and her career...)
Justus suggests she quit and work for private industry.  She doesn't like
to make judgements, likes to leave it to the judge and jury.  However,
she had defended a stalker who turned around and killed his victim.

At GH, Felicia is on the phone to Maxie.  Mac comes up, Dara has called
him.  Dara, Lucy, and Alexis come up.  Dara wants to offer a plea
bargain.  Kevin will have community service and supervised psychological
counselling (unlike, say, what O.J. had).  Lucy asks what changed her
mind.  Dara says "*I* did."  Katherine comes up to talk to Mac.

IT'S OVER!, Part 2.
Gail asks Kevin if he's going to fake catatonia again?  "You knew?"
He really needed to get out of the prison.  He likens sanity to a helium
balloon.  Violence can force your hand open and you lose it.  But there's
an in-between spot, where you tease yourself, almost letting it go.  This
is what he did when the memories started coming back.  Gail says it was
important that he made a choice to survive.  It was about time.  Kevin
tells her he still has a long way to go.  Gail reminds him that Lucy
loves him, but Kevin denies that Lucy loves the Kevin in that bed.

A WRENCH IN THE WORKS, Part 1.

At the Quartermaine's, Ned and Justus are talking about getting rid of Jax,
and Brenda overhears.  "And here I thought we were all getting along so
well."  Justus tries to explain, but she's sick of hearing "it's just
business."  She has the schedule for the wedding.  Lila comes in and
suggests throwing a monkey wrench into Katherine's plans.  Brenda would
LOVE to, she had considered getting married in her underwear.  Lila
thinks that it's too cold in November, but how about having the wedding
at the Quartermaine's?  It's much more personal than the Versaille room.
Brenda shows her pictures of her first great-grandchild.

Emily (she's ALIVE!!  She's also grown, and she's filled out!) comes in:
"If I flunk out of school and wind up in some low-paying, dead-end job,
can I keep my room here?  Oh, hi Brenda."  "Geometry test?" sympathises
Brenda.  "American history!  I could not remember a thing!"  Lila points
out that Brenda would like to talk to Emily.  Brenda asks her to be a
bridesmaid.  "Why, did somebody quit?"  Emily panics.  Lila goes off to
get ready, saying to Emily on the way out: "you're going to make a sweet
little bridesmaid."  Emily mutters to Brenda: "Puppies are sweet and
little, cough drops are sweet and little, why to *I* have to be sweet and
little?"  Brenda assures her she'll be gorgeous, though perhaps not all
at once.  When Brenda was 13, she should have been outlawed.  In fact,
she still gets nervous.

A WRENCH IN THE WORKS, Part 2.

John, with Jax and Katherine, is trying on the tux.  She says (Ominous
Knell of Doom in the background) "There will be no bad luck."  Jax and
Katherine leave, and the phone rings.  John, accompanied by spooky music,
says "there's nothing to be done about it now."

Jane comes in, calls John the Don Juan of the Tundra.  Then, talking to
Jax, she mentions that they honeymooned before the marriage in a sleeping
bag on the beach.  He looks horrified.  (One's parents don't do things
like that.  Well, maybe once, to produce oneself, but not as a habit.)
She insists it was truly romantic.  "I'll skip over the part that worries
you." (Line of the Day.)  Later she informs him that "Wild horses
couldn't have dragged this out of me if you weren't already married!"

A WRENCH IN THE WORKS, Part 3.

Sonny is talking to Jason and is certain that the goon was sent by Jax.
Jason doubts it, thinking it's too high risk.  Sonny knows he must be on
the right trail, but he needs to go to Australia.  Jason knows how.  They
go to the Quartermaine's.

Ned meets them and Sonny and Ned talk about getting rid of Jax.  Ned
develops scruples: "It wouldn't involve murder, would it?"  Brenda
overhears.  Brenda confronts Sonny: "Breaking into my home and throwing
punches at my husband wasn't enough for you, now you're trying to get Ned
to go in on some plot against him?"  [WHY is Brenda still friends with
Ned?  He ruined her life with Sonny, and now he's trying to do the same
to Jax.] Sonny answers: "The man isn't welcome on the ELQ board, I don't
think that's any secret."  "Oh, and you are?"  Brenda asks if she should
check for snipers before the ceremony.  Jason and Ned take this
opportunity to make their escape to "go see Lila."  Brenda asks Sonny
what Jax ever did to him.  She tells him he's not welcome at the wedding.
Sonny insists he's only ever wanted her to be happy.

Jason and Sonny plan to get Sonny to Australia.  Sonny will go alone,
while Jason goes to Robin.

Brenda tells Jax about the change in the place for the wedding, and he
tells her they're going on a pre-honeymoon.