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Sent:        12/20/96 4:25 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

UPDATE TAPE-JAM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CASSADINE
Stefan, in gorgeous striped shirt, says Bobbie should go see Luke.  He
then cries over the portrait.  When Alexis comes in, with no news of
Nikolas, they talk about the stupid feud.  She asks aobut Laura, and he
claims he hardly knew the woman.

When Bobbie returns, having been thrown out by a scenery-chewing Luke,
Alexis comforts her a bit.  Alexis thinks Stefan is upstairs, but
actually he is in the basement weeping at the portrait and having
flashbacks to Greece.  "How will I ever live without you?"  Eventually
he returns to the Great Hall (it can't be a simple Living Room!) and
comforts Bobbie, who is understandably upset that Luke claims she
murdered Laura.  "You're beginning to see what it means to be a Cassadine."

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SPENCER
Presents arrive from Wyndham's.  Laura had planned in advance.  Lucy is
there helping.  She and Luke hug.  Luke sends Sonny to see Mac about
arresting Stefan.  Luke and Lucky talk with Lucy about the ceremony,
which will not be in the church.  Lucy heads upstairs for a while, and
Bobbie lets herself in.  Luke tells her to leave.  She's a spy for the
Cassadines.  "Does he want to make sure that our tears are real, that our
grief is real, that our broken hearts are real?"  [This is especially
poignant right after seeing that Stefan's tears are real, his grief is
real, his broken heart IS real, as opposed to Luke's overacting.]  Bobbie
says she is Luke's sister.  He informs her "What I came to tell you last
night, you will never know." (Not till February sweeps, any way.)  Ruby
can't believe they're fighting, but Luke runs Bobbie off.  He starts to
tell Lucy how much he hates the house.  Lucky falls right in with this,
talking about leaving right after the funeral.  Poor Lucy.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SIDAR VICTIM
Brenda and Jax talk about Luke.  Then she tells him she can't leave all
this unresolved, that Jax should make a decision.  He asks how come she
can understand Luke, but can't see that the same thing happened to him
(and to Sonny, but he doesn't point that out.)  His face is the same, but
nothing else is.  Everything he's done since Mirander "died" has been
changed by that incident, and when the door opened and she was there,
he was all disoriented.  Brenda knows what she has to do, which is nothing.
That's the hardest thing of all.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN IDIOT, I MEAN A SCORPIO
Mac hears from the Rochester police that the explosion was an accident.
Alexis, meanwhile, goes to Katherine to see if Nikolas has been spotted.
Mac is annoyed that Katherine knows a Cassadine.  "Keep your distance."
She avers, to the interest of legions of Patch-and-Kayla fans, "I have
never even laid eyes on this evil uncle."  She leaves for the office.
Sonny drops in.  The end of the conversation is that Sonny should attempt
to keep Luke on a leash so the kids don't end up orphans.  Mac leaves,
but Miranda asks Sonny to stay for tea.  Actually, she wants him to take
her to the airport.

At the airport, we see Dr. Dorman meet a "patient" and he spots Sonny,
but Sonny doesn't really see him.  All the pins in Miranda's legs make
the metal detectors crazy, so she takes a long time.  Sonny asks why
she's leaving, and she says she needs more practice being dead.  Sonny
states that "Practice is how you get to Carnegie Hall.  Home you steal."
She leaves anyway.

Mac comes home and sees the note from Miranda.  He's all upset and storms
off to Jax and Brenda's to bluster and threaten and say it's their
fault.  Meanwhile, Katherine has also found the note, all crumpled up.
Obviously Mac takes Miranda more seriously than he takes Katherine.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN UPDATER
Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's really really annoying.