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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday August 7
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:09:10 GMT

GH UPDATE THURSDAY AUGUST 7
In which the Nice Kitty Disappoints Your Fearless Updater

Flashback Count: 1

1. IN WHICH WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

Mac comes in looking for Robin.  The phone rings, and it's an
overworked Dara, who for some reason is looking for Brenda. [Is this
not a job for the police, not the DA?] She wants to know why Jax is in
Florida.  Robin, sadly, comes in.  Mac says Dara can practice singing in
the Outback and hangs up.  Robin tells Mac she is going to Paris "if
that's OK with you."  [WHAT???  SINCE WHEN, IN THE LAST THREE-FOUR YEARS,
HAS ROBIN ASKED MAC'S PERMISSION FOR ANYTHING??]  He asks her about Jason.
She says "After all we've been through, in the end we were like
strangers."  She cries.

Robin has the flashback-of-the-day, to the shooting.  It all ended right
there.  She's still worried about Brenda and Sonny.  The doorbell rings.
It's Dara, who didn't like getting hung up on.  Robin leaves.  Dara wants
to find Brenda, Sonny, Jax, and a story, and she wants Mac's help.  Mac
wants more help with the shooting in his house.  Dara says "Our murder
suspect has excaped."  Someone get this gal a vocabulary coach and teach her
how to pronounce "escape", eh?  Garcia and Taggart have been in her
office all day.  [Maybe she should stop stocking doughnuts?]

2. BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

Alan is talking to the charge nurse, Gwen, about Jason, on the phone.
Monica comes in.  Alan asks about Emily, who is with Alice Dalton.
[Another missed opportunity, with another great character.]  "Good," he
says, "Then we're all where we're supposed to be."  They argue.  She
claims to have been protecting him by not telling him. He sees it, as
does Your Fearless Updater, as buying into Ned's need for control.  He's
angry she confided in Ned.

Robin comes in to say goodbye, and tells them she's broken up with
Jason.  She leaves, and Alan asks Monica to tell Jason he'll come in.
Monica wants to see Jason with Alan.

Mike goes to see Jason.  Jason tells him Sonny fired him, and about Robin.
Mike advised Jason to say a proper goodbye to Robin.  Jason starts to get up.
Monica and Alan come in.  Alan will sign his release.

Robin goes to the bridge.

3. OFFICER V SHOWS SHE HAS HER FINGER ON THE PULSE

Jax and Androwski come into a seedy bar.  He pulls out all the stops on his
Aussie accent.  She flirts with the bartender.  Said bartender says, to
impress her, that he "was the first person I know to be into Nine Inch
Nails."  V. shows her knowledge of the scene by commenting: "You see
that?  And I bet you were also the first person on your block to have
long hair!"  Jax hustles her away.  They see an origami bird so they turn
around.  Now the bartender is suspicious.  V. claims they're trying to
score weed.  The barkeep, logically enough, thinks they're cops.  They
discuss rat farming, while Jax looks for information, but knocks over a
chest.  The bartender grabs V.'s arm, as he's suspicious.  Jax gives him
$50 for "weed" and looks in a book (??? Why?  WE don't know!) while the
barkeep is in the back room.  Eventually they leave, without the $50,
without rats, without weed, but with whatever info Jax found in that
convenient book.  ["I am a bad guy, and I am staying at Mysterious Key!"]

4.  IN WHICH A "FLORIDA PANTHER" DISAPPOINTS YOUR FEARLESS UPDATER

Sonny and Brenda are terrorized by a cougar from another movie.  [Oh,
wasn't I supposed to notice that?]  Sonny throws a burning branch and
they run.  The cat disappoints YFU by not seeing them as "prey" since
they're running, and eating them, putting us out of our misery.  Rats.

The Tin Man is also disappointed.  He would have enjoyed seeing the
cougar tear that girl to pieces.  Rivera says No, it was wrong.  They
would have died too fast.

Brenda and Sonny head toward the beach.  Sonny reassures her: "don't
worry, it's only an owl."  [Nature Boy!]  Brenda, natch, falls into a
hole.  [My notes read "FAKE FAKE FAKE!"] She gets, omighod, a LEECH and
screams and wiggles and has hysterics.  For some reason, the Tin Man
finds them.  He takes them back to Rivera, who says "You die."
[Promises, promises.]
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