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Subject:     Re: UPDATE, Tues., 12/10/96
Sent:        12/11/96 2:21 PM
From:        wendy.doucette@octel.com

     UPDATE, TUESDAY, 12/10/96

     Today's Show:  "KA-BOOM!," or, "Who's Playing Whom?"

     Appearing:  Brenda, Jax, Miranda
     Bobbie, Felicia
     Stefan
     Katherine, Nikolas
     Mac, Lucky, Luke

     Also appearing:  Sonny, Jason, Gina, Mike

          At her house, Brenda paces in front of the fireplace waiting
     for Jax to come home.
          At the "beach," Miranda flashes back to the conversation she
     and Jax had at dinner earlier.  Jax arrives, by coincidence, and
     puts his overcoat around her because she's cold.
          At the brownstone, Bobbie, packed, takes a last look around.
     [With pictures on the mantel, fresh flowers all over and a fire
     in the fireplace, she hardly seems to be moving out].  Felicia
     comes in and hears Bobbie on the phone asking about her husband.
     Felicia naturally thinks it's Tony and that Bobbie and he have
     gotten back together.
          In a replay from yesterday, Laura enters the "castle?" in
     Rochester.  If you remember, Stefan had wanted to give Laura back
     her mother as a wedding gift (and Laura thinks this is *sweet*?)
     Anyway, she's in the building and 20 seconds later, a massive
     explosion blows the doors off the building.

          <opening credits>

          Stefan tries to get up but a second explosion knocks him
     down.  He gets on the car phone and screams for an ambulance.
          Felicia makes things worse by saying what a joke marrying
     Stefan would be.  Bobbie says she told no one because she didn't
     want to have to deal with their pessimism.  Bobbie says she is
     absolutely NOT rebounding, and divorced a cheating husband in
     favor of a lover.  Of all people, Felicia should understand
     spontaneity.  [WHAT is going on with Felicia's hair?]
          Jax and Miranda walk on the beach.  Miranda says she is
     overwhelmed by her feelings.  [Ok; an epidemic.  WHAT is going on
     with Miranda's hair today?]  Miranda and Jax each say they go to
     the beach when they need to think about each other.  Jack has
     another diatribe on feelings, how much he loved her, etc.
     Miranda says Jax knew she was dead, so he moved on.  She knew he
     was alive, so she held on.  She knows what she has to do.  Does
     he?
          Brenda, still pacing, calls Lois and gets her machine.
     [COULD they not allow the viewers to hear even a voice
     conversation with Lois if we never get to see her?]  Brenda tells
     Lois's machine about seeing Miranda's letters and that she knows
     Miranda wants Jax, the *first* women he loved enough to marry.
          At Luke's, Sonny insults Mike when he asks Sonny what it
     means that Brenda's hanging around again.  Sonny tells Mike to
     watch Nikolas.  Luke blows in (pretending to be drunk?) and
     orders scotch.  He sees Katherine and Nikolas together.
          Jax has no answer and Miranda says things are all wrong now.
     They're not 19 anymore, and he should go home to his wife.  She
     leaves and he stays on the beach.
          Luke says he can't keep the Cassadines out of his life.
     Katherine says Nikolas is just a kid and Luke should leave him
     alone.
          Mac and Lucky arrive at the explosion.  They were called by
     the PCPD who got a call that Laura was involved in a fire.
     Stefan is hysterical but trying to control it.  Overcome by
     guilt, he tells Lucky that Laura was in the fire.  Lucky draws on
     the acting skill he developed *last* year when Laura was caught
     in the Ward House fire, and goes crazy.

          <and the ambulance goes by...>

          Mac restrains Lucky, who says that this is a trick and that
     all of the Cassadines are killers.  The cop says there were two
     female bodies inside, but no survivors.  Stefan explains that
     Leslie had been in a sanitarium in Greece all these years.  He'd
     brought her to Rochester a few months ago.  Lucky wants Luke.  He
     and Mac leave.  [Strange, in this age of cell phones not to use
     one.]  Lucky vows to kill Stefan if Laura is dead.  Stefan
     absolutely had no idea about any of this.
          Nikolas says Luke has no right to insult him.  Katherine
     wants Nikolas to rise above it and wants to know if he's using
     her to bother Luke.  Nikolas says he's a resident of PC and has
     the right to go anywhere.  Katherine defends him more, which
     makes things worse.  Luke calls Nikolas one of Katherine's toys.
     Katherine, not wanting to watch Nikolas play Luke's stupid games,
     leaves.  Nikolas tries to follow, but Luke grabs his arm and says
     he's going to lay down the house rules.
          Jax comes home, and, wiped out, doesn't want to get into a
     big conversation with Brenda.  She probes for details of what
     went on, and wants to know when Miranda is leaving.
          At Mac's, Miranda is already there when Katherine walks in.
     Miranda says she made a fool out of herself trying to seduce Jax.
     It was like nothing had ever happened and she wanted him back, but
     she ran out because she no longer had any right to him.  Katherine
     says Miranda should go for it, and Miranda says she's being unfair
     to everyone.
          Felicia is still hanging around at Bobbie's.  They hug, but
     then Felicia says Bobbie should talk to Tom about the stress
     she's been under.  Bobbie is mildly insulted.
          Luke tells Nikolas that there are no kids allowed at Luke's,
     when...out of the Time Portal, Lucky and Mac appear.  Lucky comes
     in like a wildman, and tries to attack Nikolas.  Lucky tells Luke
     about Laura, and Luke goes crazy.  Nikolas runs out.  Luke rushes
     off, too, saying he has to do something ALONE.
          Katherine says Brenda has gone after a married man before.
     Why shouldn't Miranda?  Mac enters and tells Katherine about
     Laura.  The explosion brought back too many memories for him.  He
     goes upstairs to be alone.  Miranda and Katherine touch hands.
     [When is the big hug coming between these two gal-pals?]  Miranda
     pulls out a passport and looks at it, but *we* know she's going
     nowhere.
          Jax says the subject of Miranda's leaving never came up.
     Brenda is trying to not be jealous, but she is.  She loves him
     and feels like her future is tied to his past--a past she can't
     share.
          The fire is out, but Stefan is still standing there.  The
     cop says there are no survivors.  Stefan says he's ok [and the
     cop lets him drive himself home in that condition!]  Stefan lets
     loose and sobs, collapsing on the hood of his car.
          Bobbie asks Felicia to give her a moment alone before
     leaving.  Felicia asks Bobbie not to divorce "them all."  Bobbie
     says she *will* be happy.
          Luke appears on Bobbie's doorstep.  In a red-herring double
     entendre, she says, "You already know, don't you?"

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