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From: Marina Wolf <fullsun@sonic.net>
Subject: GH: UPDATE Monday 6/15
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:24:57 -0800

GH Update Monday 6/15

--  Theatre in NYC

Jax and Brenda walk into a theatre. It is empty. Brenda is confused why
there are no other people there and Jax plays along. Just as they are
about to leave, Jax yells out �table for 2�. All of a sudden the curtain
rises to reveal a romantic dinner for two on stage. Jax tells Brenda:
�dinner and the theatre, you said you liked that sort of thing.� Brenda
stares at him in amazement. Jax takes her hand and they walk onto the
stage together toward their table.

--PCPD -  Stefan�s cell

Taggert  is antagonizing Stefan in his cell. Stefan tells him to stop
trying to crack him with his comic book tactics and to tell him what he
wants. Taggert replies that he wants to know the rest of what happened
to Katherine. He says that Stefan gave the police a �gentlemanly�
account of the night�s events, but Taggert thinks that something is
missing....Stefan�s reply is that Katherine leaned against the railing,
that�s all - it shouldn�t have been the end of anything. He tells
Taggert that if it sounds inconclusive, that�s why. Taggert retorts:
�and nobody, not a soul, can back you up.� Taggert then starts banging
his nightstick against the cell bars, making lots of noise. Taggert says
he�s having a problem believing that at such a large gathering, no one
saw them together in those last minutes. Stefan just stares at him. Then
Taggert begins speculating that maybe Stefan made a point of having  no
witnesses. Stefan continues to stare at him blankly. Taggert finally
leaves him, saying that he will get the information out of Nikolas.

--Spencer house

Laura and Nik are sitting on the sofa, talking, while Lulu is playing
nearby. Laura wonders why the police were questioning Nikolas about
Katherine. He replies that everyone was being questioned, but he was the
one who found Katherine first after she fell. Laura tells him that it
must be difficult for him, but Nik says he wants to help, to let the
police know that Stefan would never hurt Katherine and help arrest the
person who is responsible for her death. Laura wonders why her name
would have to come up. Nik�s response is that she knows very well why -
Stefan�s feelings for her.  Laura, a bit flustered at this statement,
asks him if he is talking about the closeness her and Stefan had in
Greece, because she already explained that to him.... Nik interjects
that Stefan dressed Katherine in her gown, gave Katherine her ring. He
had a portrait of her hidden in the house, a trunk full of her things...
Laura replies that these were Cassidine things - family heirlooms -  it
is obvious that is why Stefan kept them. Nik doesn�t agree. Laura asks
him: �What are you suggesting? You think that your uncle is in love with
me?� She goes on about how Stefan blames her for everything , has
ridiculed and insulted her.   Nik comes back at her with: �You can love
someone and hate them at the same time...but what I think isn�t the
point - it�s how it seemed to Katherine at the time. Stefan and
Katherine were fighting on the parapet before she fell.� Then he asks
Laura if they were fighting about her. Laura�s reply is that Nikolas
can�t tell the police that;  that he doesn�t know what they were
fighting about. Nik is getting angry now and tells Laura that she would
let Stefan hang from the highest tree, rather than let the truth come
out, because she knows that Luke would be asking her the same questions
he is now. Nik tells her that Luke is the one person she will always
protect. Laura looks at Nik, knowing he is right.

-- Luke�s office at the Club

Bobbie is railing at Luke for endangering Lucas�s life by letting him be
anywhere near Tony. Luke tries to reassure her that Lucas wasn�t out of
his sight for a second, but her reply is that Carly only looked away for
a minute and then Michael was gone. Luke tries to explain to Bobbie that
Tony did not want to kidnap Lucas, he just wanted to see him. Bobbie is
really upset now and demands to know how he can know Tony better than
her, after she spent 8 years living and working with him. She  asks him
angrily, what if he had been wrong and Lucas was kidnapped by Tony -
would he have lied about it  and said that he was dead, since it worked
on her once before... Luke looks at her, guilt visible on his face. He
tells her he needs help figuring out the groveling factor. Bobbie goes
on about how lying to her about Carly was unforgivable, but that this
was worse because it doesn�t make any sense. Luke pours himself a drink
[a brandy??]. Bobbie shows Luke a photo of his family [taken shortly
after Lulu was born] and asks him if he recognizes the people in the
photograph. She says: �They used to be your family. You used to care
about them. Me too.� Luke looks at the photo, then puts it face down on
his desk. Bobbie tells him that they were the kids who didn�t have
anyone; that he made it his job to protect her and she goes on to say
that , as wrong as it was, she knew that is what he was doing when he
told her that her daughter had died. As she is talking Luke turns away
from Bobbie. Bobbie is getting more upset and she tells him that this
[Tony seeing Lucas] had only two possible outcomes, either she could
have lost her son forever or Luk�s actions would have forced her to
banish him from her home and wash her hands of him forever. She ponders
his motivations - is that what he had in mind  --- the last dance at
Luke�s big self-destruct party. He would have then succeeded at being
rejected by everyone but the dog. Luke tells Bobbie that she should save
the insight things for her patients. He says: � As long as I�ve known
you, you and Laura have been tugging at my shirttails, pulling me back
from the point of no return..well, if I�ve finally reached that point,
do yourself a favor and cut me loose, let me go, say good-bye.� Luke
then takes another drink.

-- At the park, by the fountain

Liz is standing by the fountain, waiting for Mr. Murty to show up. Lucky
is hiding in the bushes with a baseball bat. As Liz sits down on one of
the benches, Lucky is surprised in the bushes by a cop. Then, a car
alarm goes off in the distance, startling Liz. She looks into the
distance and sees a hazy Mr. Murty coming toward her. Her mind goes back
to the night she was raped - it�s as if she is reliving it again. The
cop decides to haul Lucky off to the police station, because maybe if
they do it enough his parents will step and take responsibility for him.
As he is getting dragged away by the cop, he yells to Elizabeth to get
out of the park, but she doesn�t hear him. Murty asks her why she asked
to meet him,  that it�s not really about the final. While he is talking
to her, her mind is going back to the night she was raped - she doesn�t
hear anything he is saying.  She just stares at him, fear and panic in
her eyes.  The only thing she can manage to say is: �I can�t do this�
and then runs into the bushes looking for Lucky, wondering where he
could be.  She then runs out of the park, leaving Mr. Murty standing
there, confused.

 -- PCPD

A cop is leading Lucky into the station to talk with Taggert. Taggert
tells Lucky to sit down, but Lucky demands that he send someone to check
on Liz in the park. Taggert wonders what Liz and the baseball bat could
have in common and Lucky is furious at this point. He yells that she is
out there alone and that he told her he would protect her. Taggert tells
him again to sit down and when Lucky tries to get up to leave the other
cop forces him back into the chair. Taggert insists that he can keep him
at the station. Lucky is seething and distraught over what could be
happening to Liz in the park.

-- Hardy house

Liz makes it home, hurriedly opens the door, gets inside, locks the door
and runs to the safety of the sofa, rolling up in a ball. She lays down,
breathing heavily. She is still visibly afraid after facing Murty alone.

-- Spencer house

Laura tells Nik that  he doesn�t understand her relationship with Luke.
He retorts that this is an understatement, but not important. Laura
thinks that  maybe it is important for him to understand, since it is
hard enough on her that Lucky is questioning Luke and Laura�s
relationship. Laura tells Nik that he hasn�t even had the chance to know
her husband. She does realize that Luke has treated him �abominably� and
she says she won�t make excuses for him. Nik�s retort is of course she
will, she has.. Laura then looks up apologetically at Nik. Nik
continues: �Sometime I think I feel about this house the same way Lucky
thinks of my house back  in Greece - that you are a prisoner here. If
you want to tell me about Luke, then maybe you should.�  Laura explains
to Nik that Luke knows her and understands her - the good and the bad -
but that she always lets the bad surprise him. She tells him that Luke
is not a selfless person, but that he always thinks of her first,
because he never thought that he would have a family, a wife and kids,
so he never takes them for granted.  She goes on to say that that one
night, 20 years ago,  was just one night and she doesn�t punish him for
it, doesn�t throw it back in his face. She admits that she wasn�t
blameless and that Luke knows this too, but would never say it, even in
his own defense.  She admits that  he did hurt her, but he was sorry and
she forgave him, because she knew that she loved him anyway and she
wanted them to move on with their lives. At this point Nik is visibly
upset, tears welling up in his eyes. Laura asks him is he understands
what she is saying and he replies that the only crimes that are
unforgiven are the crimes of the Cassidines and that�s him. That is why
he is the �other� child and they are her real family. Laura looks at Nik
in shock. Nik continues: �If I can accept it, why can�t you? I mean,
that�s what you  have been saying all along about Luke.� The phone
rings, interrupting them. It is the PCPD telling her that Lucky was
picked up in the park and that she needs to come get him. She asks Nik
to stay with Lulu until she returns. Nik is a bit peeved at her request
and replies: �which one of your boys are the police entertaining
today?�  Laura tells him that she doesn�t consider their conversation to
be over. Nik agrees to stay with Lulu and as Laura is leaving, Nik says:
�go, go be with your �family�.�  The hurt Nik feels is written all over
his face, but it is not apparent if Laura realizes how much this really
hurts him . She rushes out the door to bail out Lucky.

--Theatre in NYC

Jax and Brenda are sitting at their table, dinner has just finished.
Brenda looks as if she is a  million miles away and Jax asks her what
she is thinking about. She tells him that she is remembering back to
when she was little girl, how she was so self-conscious and she always
thought that it was because there was something really wrong with her.
She admits that she now knows it was because her dad was so disapproving
of her and having a gorgeous sister didn�t help. She really opens up to
him, admitting that she would almost feel physical pain if someone
looked at her. She felt that she had no skin, was totally exposed. So
she would �borrow� someone else�s skin - like a character from a movie
or play or from a book. She tells Jax how she would sit in her room and
memorize monologues and shine a flashlight on herself like a spotlight
and she would practice and practice. When she felt like she had the
character down, she should take her downstairs with her to breakfast or
to school or to her father�s study - that way everyone would be looking
at the character and not at her. She could stay safe and invisible this
way. Jax just smiles at her.

-- PCPD

Lucky is now handcuffed to a chair, the look on his face is one fear and
dread. It is obvious that he is worrying about Liz and the fact that he
isn�t there to protect her from Murty, like he said he would. Lucky
comes out of his daze when Taggert tells him that he sent a unit to the
park to check on Liz and she wasn�t there. Now the look on his face is
even more scared and really worried that Murty has done something to
Liz. At this point, Laura walks in, sees Lucky handcuffed to the chair
and questions Taggert about it. Taggert asks her snidely whether she was
dead or in Switzerland this whole time. Laura ignores Taggert�s remark
and tells him to release Lucky. Taggert tells her that it will cost
$100  since Lucky wasn�t very cooperative and they issued him a
citation. Laura agrees to pay and Taggert takes the handcuffs off of
Lucky, telling Laura that she should consider investing in a pair to
keep Lucky at home. Laura gives Taggert a nasty stare at this remark and
then Lucky jumps up to leave. As Laura tries to stop him,  Lucky tells
her that Liz may be in trouble; that unlike her, Liz wants to punish the
guy who raped her. Lucky says this within earshot of Taggert and the
other officers and Laura looks at them, clearly embarrassed.

--Luke�s office

Luke is telling Bobbie that she won�t need a restraining order to keep
him away from her and Lucas.  Bobbie replies that he doesn�t have to
never darken her door.. Luke gives Bobbie a half-smile and she asks him
who is doing this to him, Laura? Luke says that Laura isn�t to blame.
Bobbie is visibly worried about Luke now and  wants to know why he is
acting this way, trying to drive her out of his life, as if he is trying
to erase himself from his own life as well...Luke interrupts her saying
that she always said that he and Laura didn�t belong together; Bobbie
concedes that after all of this time, she might have been wrong. Luke
asks her: �but what if you weren�t? What if all of this time, it�s just
been the quiet before the storm? And now the storm has hit. Maybe it
would be been better to lose her then? Clean...�  Bobbie replies that
now, two children later , it is a moot point. She tells him not to
drink, as she removes the bottle of liquor from his desk. Bobbie leaves
and Luke picks up the photo of his family and stares at it.

-- Hardy house

The doorbell rings, startling Liz who is still lying on the sofa. She is
panicking, thinking that it may be Murty  or ?? Lucky calls to her
through the closed door. She hears his voice and runs to open the door.
Lucky takes her into his arms, telling her he is sorry [for not being
there], asking her if she is alright. Liz asks what happened to him, as
he caresses her face. He tells her that, in the park while he was hiding
in the bushes, a cop mistook him for a mugger and he didn�t have time to
think. Lucky asks her what Murty said to her and if he hurt her. Liz
replies: �No..I don�t know..I don�t think so..� They walk over to the
sofa and sit down. Liz continues: �There was this noise in my head, like
a big wave breaking, and I can�t even tell you..what he told me. It was
like someone took me and threw me backwards into that night - and I did
what I couldn�t do then - I ran...before I could find anything out. I�m
such a coward!� Liz gets up from the sofa and starts walking away from
Lucky, upset with herself.  Lucky tells her: � I�m glad you ran..� Liz
turns to look at him. Lucky continues: � Elizabeth, if anything had
happened to you...anything...I...� He takes her into his arms, as tears
stream down his face and he holds her, saying: � I�m sorry...�

--Luke�s office

Luke is asleep in a chair [from too much drink?]. Laura walks in, waking
him up. He asks her in a groggy voice if she has business there. She
tells him about Lucky getting picked up by the cops in the park, that he
had a baseball bat and the cops thought he was going to use it. Luke
replies that there are plenty of people around who need a head
bashing..  Laura asks him if he thinks he is funny. He is flustered and
yells: �What do you want me to do? Lay down laws that he won�t listen
to? Assert authority that I don�t have anymore? Maybe I should just hurt
him - in a way he won�t recover...seemed to work with you?� Laura looks
at Luke, confused. She tells him she doesn�t understand his what is
happening between them.  She does understand the fact that Lucky�s faith
was shaken, his image of them tarnished, but she can�t understand why it
is affecting them, since they knew about it already - lived through it,
recovered from it, put it behind them , loved each other in spite of it
-  why does it make a difference now??  Luke looks at Laura, distraught,
asking her why she loves him. Laura can plainly see that he is  drunk
and tells him she doesn�t want to talk to him when he is in this state.
She then asks him if she has ever given him any doubt that she loves
him, does he want her to believe that there is something wrong with the
way she loves him? Luke lets out a wail and Laura tells him that he is
punishing her - for forgiving him and she thinks that is the most unfair
thing of all. Luke looks at her, shrugs his shoulders and takes another
drink. Laura tells him to call her when he is sober and she walks out of
his office, Luke looking sadly at her.

--Theatre in NYC

Jax takes Brenda�s hand and walks her to the center of the stage. She is
now standing under a spotlight and Jax asks her to do one of the
speeches she had memorized as a child. She tells him she can�t remember
any, that it has been years, but Jax knows that she hasn�t really
forgotten them - he wants to meet the lonely little girl that he keeps
hearing about - she agrees to do one, as long as Jax promises not to
watch her.  She starts telling a story about a woman [she tells it in
the  first person] who is going to leave her home, take a bus or a plane
and ends up in a house by the ocean. Brenda stops, saying that is all
she can remember, but Jax presses her to tell him why this woman wants
to leave and what does the woman think will happen?  She continues the
story, telling  him that no one will miss her, for days probably, and it
won�t matter because she�ll be all alone in the house on the beach and
she�ll be free of everything - disappointment - and years will pass and
she won�t even notice. There will be no pain to mark the time, only the
books that she will read and the characters will be her only
acquaintances. The woman�s hair will have turned white and she will have
lines on her face. The townspeople won�t notice that she has become an
old woman. Brenda touches her face and tears are welling up in Jax�s
eyes. Brenda continues, saying that one day the woman will wake up and
won�t even remember why she left, won�t remember if she took a bus or a
plane - she�ll wake up and believe that she has always been there and
that will be the day [Brenda starts crying] when she�ll walk out onto
the sand and  step into the water and the waves will just boil around
her, the water will be warm and they�ll carry her  and she�ll leave
again and this time it will be forever. As soon as she finishes her
�performance�, she starts laughing and Jax applauds.

--Spencer house

Lucky walks in the door, finding Nikolas playing with Lulu. He walks
over  to her and picks her up, asking how she is and telling her that he
has missed her. Nikolas tells him that Laura just left and that it
sounded like it had something to do with him.  Lucky, still holding Lulu
in his arms, replies that he saw and tells Lulu that mommy had to pay
for his bad behavior. Putting Lulu down, he walks over to the table,
takes money out of his pocked and put it on the table, telling Nikolas
that he thought he would pay her back. Then Lucky asks Nik if he has
moved into his room yet. Nik tells him that he doesn�t want to fight
with him. Lucky thinks Nik is paranoid and goes on about how, since
Stefan could be in prison for a long time, Nik may need a new place to
live. Nik retorts that it is because of Luke that Stefan is even in
jail. Lucky pretends to be surprised: � Really? My dad framed your
uncle? Oh!� Then he reverts back to his usual self and tells him: �You
don�t see me arguing , do you?� Lucky tells Nik that his Sherlock Holmes
routine is in vain, because charges don�t stick to Luke. Nikolas then
starts in on Lucky about Laura, wondering why Lucky is upset with Laura
when it is Luke who raped her.  Lucky wonders why Nikolas cares. Nik
responds by saying: �...you�re the one she picked, you�re the one she
made room for in her life, [Lucky is giving him a steely glare at this
point] but because she�s not in excruciating pain, you want to hurt her,
is that it..?� Just then Laura walks in the door. Lucky hands her the
money and walks out the door without a word. He stands out on the porch
for a bit, taking in Nikolas� words. Laura tells Nik that he can come
back anytime he wants to visit Lulu or her. She has been trying to
please everyone and it hasn�t worked, so she decides she is going to
please herself now.

-- Theatre in NYC

Brenda is still sitting on stage and Jax tells her she is in the wrong
career. He tells her that she impressed him and she tells him that he
impresses her every hour of every day. Jax then snaps his fingers and
music starts to play. Jax walks toward the stage, pulls Brenda toward
him and they begin to dance all around the stage.

-- Spencer house

The doorbell rings, Laura goes to answer it. Liz is at the door, but
Laura doesn�t know who she is. Laura asks her if she is looking for
Lucky, she shakes her head and then tells her that she wouldn�t say that
Lucky is everything to her, even though it might be true; he is smart
and generous and respectful and gentle and honest, etc. and that is how
she knows that Laura is all of these things too. Laura asks Liz inside
and Liz tells Laura that they have something in common - her last name
and Laura�s maiden name. Laura realizes who is standing before her and
then Liz tells her that they have more than a last name in common. Laura
reaches out to Liz and hugs her.
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Liz tells Laura that she needed to be with someone she wouldn�t have to
explain to and that she has been thinking about her a lot. Laura admits
that she has been thinking about Liz too.  Laura tells Liz that Lucky
talks about her in a  way he has never talked about anyone before. Liz
tells her that she couldn�t have survived without him.  Laura tells her
that Lucky was very worried about her. Liz than tells Laura: �Sometimes
I scare myself. I get so angry I could make someone bleed, I really
could -- but then something will happen and...� Laura asks her if
something happened tonight. Liz admits that something happened that took
her back into the night she was raped, hard and fast  and she could
barely breathe. She asks Laura: � Has that ever happened to you?� Laura
looks at Liz with tears in her eyes and reaches out to hug Liz again.

-- PCPD Stefan�s cell

Stefan is lying down reading when Luke shows up. Luke asks him how he
got Laura to hate him and Stefan replies that Laura doesn�t hate him -
she never has.  Luke smiles at Stefan and walks out without a word.
Stefan is left standing with a satisfied smile on his face.

--Theatre in NYC

Brenda and Jax are still dancing, then they start to kiss and continue
kissing, until Brenda breaks away, telling Jax that he better watch out,
they are in a public place. Jax replies that there isn�t any public
there. Then Jax tells Brenda that they need a line to bring down the
curtain.
 Jax: �To be..�
 Brenda: �...or not to be..�
 Jax: �...horizontal.�
 The curtain goes down and laughter erupts behind the curtain.

the end