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Subject:     GH Update, Tuesday, 2/4/97
Sent:        2/5/97 10:09 AM
From:        wendy.doucette@octel.com

     Update for Tuesday, 2/4/97

     Today's Show:  "Will *Somebody* Please FIRE the Police
                     Commissioner?"
                     [I won't even go into Mac's using public funds to
                     have an officer stakeout Tom, whose suspected
                     "crime" may be cheating on Felicia].

     Appearing:     Brenda, Jax
                    Miranda, Katherine, Nikolas, Stefan, Bobbie
                    Laura, Luke, Lucky, Leslie Lu, Leslie
                    Tom, Mac, Taggart, Sonny

     Today's Outstanding Performances:  Nikolas and Brenda

          Brenda wants to talk about Miranda again but Jax says he's
     too tired.  She asks why he gave Miranda a book of poetry on the
     day they divorced.  He asks why she had to go out of her way to
     deliver it to Miranda.  Miranda opens the book and reads Jax's
     dedication.  Stefan imagines Katherine in an evening gown on his
     couch.  [Since when did Katherine have such an *ample* bosom?]
     Whoops!  Katherine materializes into Bobbie, who's dressed all in
     black yet again.  Katherine comforts Nikolas about Laura.  Laura
     tries to get Mac to allow the Spencers to leave for Switzerland.
     Luke says Stefan will kill Leslie.  Mac says Luke is going with
     him, and Luke insists Stefan framed him.  Sonny and Lucky enter.

          <credits play>

          Sonny yells at Tom for being so stupid.  Leslie starts
     moaning.  Mac offers to help the Spencers by offering extra
     manpower.  [Why is Mac still trying to convince them, when, as a
     public servant sworn to upheld the law, he should be on the
     phone?]  Sonny says Mac is outnumbered and tells the gang to get
     their bags.
          Stefan tells Bobbie he's just confused from his visit to
     Laura's grave.  Bobbie recaps Alan hitting Dorman in court.  She
     thinks it's heroic; he thinks it's stupid.  Bobbie misses Luke
     and Stefan says none of that situation was her fault.  He scoffs
     when she says maybe someday Luke will see the other side of
     Stefan.
          Nikolas [who looks incredibly realistic when he cries and
     just melts your heartstrings] tells Katherine his uncle would go
     crazy if he saw Nikolas crying, since his uncle is emotionless.
     Katherine says it's rude of Nikolas's uncle not to even visit or
     call, and asks him to pass on that message.  Nikolas gives
     Katherine a book on tai chi.  Miranda bursts in on him kissing
     her goodbye.  Katherine makes the intros, and Nikolas leaves.
     Katherine wants the full scoop on the divorce.
          Brenda says she took Miranda the book because she wanted to
     tell Miranda to let Jax go.  Jax says he still has feelings for
     Miranda, but Brenda is his wife now.  What more does she want?
     Brenda can't get over not being told about Miranda while there
     was still time.
          Luke promises to come back, but Mac takes his word as
     worthless.  Mac is thinking it over, though, when the cops
     announce over loudspeakers that the house is surrounded.  It's
     Taggart, who wants to arrest Laura, too, for aiding and abetting.
      Mac is more surprised than anybody, but orders Sonny, Tom, and
     Luke handcuffed.  Leslie starts shaking again, and Mac orders an
     ambulance for her.
          Brenda says Jax hasn't cornered the market on pain.  The
     divorce paper changes nothing.  Jax is screaming now, wanting to
     know what more he can do.  Brenda says Miranda is the love of his
     life, and Jax will never love her as much as he does Miranda.
     Jax promises there'll be no more secrets and Brenda asks again if
     he slept with Miranda in Australia.
          Katherine asks Miranda if she and Jax slept together after
     signing their divorce papers and getting stranded.  Miranda says
     being in the motel with Jax and not going to bed with him was
     incredibly hard.  Katherine asks if the divorce was a mistake.
          Back at the castle, Stefan greets Nikolas nicely, and
     Nikolas acts like a jerk.  Stefan says he'd be Nikolas's friend
     if Nikolas gave him the chance.  Nikolas gives Stefan the message
     from Katherine, and Stefan says he'll visit her in the morning.
     Stefan asks if Nikolas left flowers at Laura's grave today.
     Nikolas says he has no trust left for Stefan, and appreciates
     Laura's honesty now.

          <ambulance rushes by>

          Stefan tries reason, and says Nikolas never knew where he
     stood with Laura.  Nikolas says Stefan never cared about Leslie
     Lu; he only wanted revenge on Luke.  Nikolas says he'll stay for
     Bobbie's sake.  Nikolas pulls rank as first-born son, and walks
     out on Stefan.
          Miranda says she was "nutty" before the accident, and not
     the great beauty she is now.
          Again, Jax says he did not sleep with Miranda.  He wants
     Brenda to end the self-torture.
          The men are led out in handcuffs.
          Mac apologizes to Laura, though I don't see why, and Lucky
     acts like a mini-Luke (i.e., jerky).  Laura says she must find
     Nikolas first to tell him the truth.  [If he forgives her, I will
     stop watching].  Lucky frets over Laura and she yells at him and
     sends him up to check on his baby.  [Oh, that's right, it's *her*
     baby.  You'd never know it, though, since only Lucky seems to
     take care of LL].  Laura does her usual thing, that's
     right--cries.
          Bobbie enters.  Stefan tells her he and Nikolas argued.
     Stefan is grateful to her for her support of Nikolas.
          In the paddy wagon, Luke defends Tom and says it was all an
     accident.
          Katherine fixates on her crystal tree pendant.
          Jax says Brenda may say something she can't take back.
     Brenda wants to play "what if," Jax refuses and says they should
     not let Sonny break them up.  Brenda says Jax is naive about
     Miranda's calculations, and Miranda used the explosion to tie Jax
     to her forever.  Brenda keeps screaming and Jax leaves for the
     unseen bedroom.  Brenda calls somebody.
          Miranda picks up the poetry book, and a picture falls out,
     but we can't see it.  She freaks out slightly.
          Katherine dreams Stefan is there, and she walks over to him
     at the window.  In a sudden return to reality, she falls to the
     floor and fingers his pendant.
          Stefan says he's going to the hospital (so he'll probably
     pick Katherine up when he gets there).
          Bobbie asks if Nikolas will escort her to the ceremony
     commemorating renovations to be done at GH in Laura and Leslie's
     names.  Nikolas says that, out of respect for his mother, he'll
     go.
          Miraculously granted teh power to communicate again, Leslie
     tells Laura not to cry.  She's BAAAAACK!

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