Daily Updates

Subject:     update for August 3/98
Date:        8/7/98 11:06 AM
From:        AHarvey@milsystems.com

[Upater's Note: Hey! All you Canadians out there! Hope you watched this
episode on our holiday Monday because it was a great one!]

LUCKY AND LIZ MISHAP
This begins with Liz going into the closet again as happened on Friday,
and finding the ski mask again. She relives the rape, and becomes short
of breath and terrified. She runs out of the closet and starts looking
around the room frightened. She feels a hand on her shoulder and turns
around, putting the knife in the person. Lucky has a stunned look on his
face and Liz's face looks even
more afraid that before. Lucky crumples to the ground, and Liz kneels
beside him. She touches his wound as he flinches, and he says he's
alright.

Murty comes in the room and asks what's going on. Liz jumps up and
points the knife at him, telling him not to move. He tells Liz that she
doesn't want to hurt him. Her repsonse: "It's all I think about." Murty
says he's going to call 9-1-1 to get help for Lucky but Liz tells him,
no, that will just bring the cops which is what he wants. She turns and
asks Lucky what Bobbie's number is, and
he tells her he's alright again. She asks again, and a door opens.
"RICHARD??" Murty calls. Richard answers that it is his and Murty tells
him to get his medical bag and his first aid kit. Liz asks what he's
doing but Murty says he's a doctor, and to let him help. Richard comes
in and stops in mid sentence as he surveys the scene. Murty asks Richard
to help Lucky and Richard asks what's going on. Richard asks if this is
the student that he told him about to which Liz says "You told him?" in
disbelief, thinking he told Richard about the rape. Murty said he did.
Liz tells him how disgusting he is, and that he's not going to get away
with what he did. Murty seems really confused and asks Liz what he did.
Liz tells him plain and simple: "You raped me."

She starts telling about the night in detail. How she didn't want to go
to the dance and went to  the park. How he grabbed her from behind. How
he ruined her new dress. Throughout this entire monologue, Murty doesn't
say a word to Liz. [Still haven't figured out why he didn't defend
himself.] At the end of her speech, he tells her he's "sorry." She can't
believe he would think an apology would
cut it. He tells her he didn't do it, but she tells him to stop denying
it. At this point, Lucky, who is being cleaned up by Richard, sees a
picture of Richard and Murty together. He puts two and two together but
doesn't say anything. Richard says that it's impossible for Murty to
have raped Liz. She asks him if he can believe what his friend is like
now. She tells Murty she just found the ski mask he wore in the closet.
Richard points out that a lot of people have ski masks, in fact, he
thinks that the one in the closet is actually hi. She tells him about
the soap he uses that makes her want to vomit. Lucky tells her that it's
probably not possible and she looks at him in shock. He tells her that
Murty and Richard aren't just friends. She looks at him still confused
to which he says "Elizabeth, they're a COUPLE." Murty pipes in at this
point and says "I'm gay." to which Liz looks uterlly shocked.

She asks him about his wife. She asks why his wife is so afraid of him
then. She knows about the domestic violence call -- her and Lucky
investigated it but his wife wouldn't talk. Murty then  tells her that
they got married right out of high school, and as she can see, he had a
lot to learn about himself still at that point. They were getting
separated when they bought the house together,
but they needed both equities in order to get the house. She moved in
with a boyfriend, and he thinks it was a good thing that he partially
owned the house, because it allowed him to help get the  guy evicted for
what he did to her. She pressed charges against the GUY and he was
convicted. The guy is now serving an 8 year sentence. They can call her
if they want to verify it.

Richard says that it is impossible for Murty to have raped Liz because
he was with him all night. Murty chaperoned the Vtine's day dance and
then Richard picked him up. They went to a gay function after that with
some friends. Again, they can check their alibis if it would help.

Liz falters, and Lucky takes the opportunity to tell him to put down the
knife. He tells her a few more times and finally she does put the knife
down. Richard says that Lucky needs stitches so to get to a hospital.
Murty asks if he can do it and Richard says he can, so he sews Lucky up.

Liz apologizes to Murty for her accusations, and he tells her that he
failed her. She reminds him that she got a passing grade and he says
that's not what he meant. He realized something was wrong with her. She
was usually spunky but then suddenly she changed. She stopped handing in
assignments, she failed her midterm. She failed her final. He thought
that she knew his secret. He thought she was afraid of homosexuals and
that's why she seemed so terrified to be in the same room as him. He
feels so bad about letting her down. She tells him that she's the one
who should feel guilty. She just accused him of raping her and she could
have killed him. Lucky says he's guilty too, and  Richard points out
that none of them are as guilty as they're feeling. They just all made
mistakes.

Liz asks if Murty passed her to buy her silence. He says he may have
done it unconciously, but  that isn't what he intended on. She asks why
he told her grandmother she had a crush on him, and  he said he did it
as a cover up.

Richard says he'll drive them home, but Liz says they'll get home on
their own. She already caused them enough trouble for one night. Murty
says it's no problem, and he and Richard go to get the keys to the car.
Liz apologizes again to Lucky who says it was an accident. She then
realizes that they're back to square one -- they still don't know who
the rapist is. Liz is afraid that now she'll
never get any closure.

BOBBIE'S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Bobbie walks out onto the terrace of her house and she finds Jerry and
Lucas [ever so cute in a little tuxedo] out there and the place all
decorated for her surprise party. Lucas gives her a  gift and she thinks
it's an ashtray. He says it's not an ashtray, and she thanks him for the
gift. Jerry then tells her that she has many more gifts and he got them
with Lucas's help. She says  that's great but maybe Lucas should have
asked her what she wanted? She opens the first one and it's a new waffle
maker. Jerry tells her it's because Lucas loves waffles. They sit down
to eat and  Bobbie makes a hint to Lucas that it's his bedtime. He jumps
up and says "Ok mom, goodnight. Goodnight Jerry." and does a secret
handshake with Jerry. Bobbie laughs and looks on in awe. She asks Lucas
who stole her son that hates going to bed. He says that Jerry and him
made a deal and leaves to go to bed.

Jerry gives Bobbie her final gift - a gold necklace. They start dancing
and he tells her that  he's a partient man and will wait for her. He
doesn't expect anything from her. They continue to  dance and he tells
her to count to 3. She starts counting, and when she's done, she looks
around. Jerry is gone. She smiles to herself.

TONY AND THE STRIPPER
Tony is sitting in his room and there is a knock at the door. A
prostitute is at his door. She  asks him what he wants and he gives her
a wad of money and asks him how much that will get him. She says the'll
be fine. He tells her it's his ex-wife's birthday. He continues to talk
about  Bobbie the whole time, and he tells her she was a prostitute. She
begins to impersonate Bobbie and
Tony tells her she got the wrong idea. She tells him she thought he
wanted her to impersonate Bobbie because he hasn't shut up about her
since she got there. He tells her about BJ and how he feels like he's on
a downward spiral and there's a hole in his heart he can't fill. She
tells  him she knows he kidnapped Michael -- she does read the papers.
He asks her if she knows what he
misses most about being married. She says she knows -- the cuddling, the
hugging, the closeness. He says that's exactly it. He asks if she'll do
that and she says no problem. They lie down on the bed all cuddled up
together to go to sleep.

HELENA THE HORRIBLE
On the stand, Helena is questioned about the Cassidine fortune. When
asked how much it is worth, she says she wouldn't know about those
things because she is a woman. Basically, Dara wants an estimate. Is it
in the millions? Helena says that's a safe bet. Dara asks who's money it
is. Helena tells her it's Nikolas's. Dara asks what will happen when
Nikolas is of age to get the
money. Helena tells her that basically, Stefan could be poor. She thinks
Nikolas would probably provide for him being the kind person that he is,
but if he doesn't, the reality is Stefan will be broke. Helena is then
asked if Stefan ever told his mother that he loved Katherine. She says
he never said anything about his love for Katherine to her. Alexis
begins to question Helena and
asks who would be in charge of the Cassidine fortune if Stefan should be
convicted. Helena admits that she would be in charge. Alexis asks if
Stefan has ever confided in her and Helena doesn't say anything,
implying that he hasn't. This completely neutralizes Helena's testimony.
The judge then calls it a day after Helena is off the witness stand.

Outside the court, Helena runs into Laura. Laura tells her she better
watch out, because she's not the little innocently helpless girl she was
when she was kidnapped. She also tells her to stay away from her son
because she knows about the doctored photos Helena showed him.

Alexis approaches Laura and tells her she shouldn't be there. Laura
tells her it would look worse if she wasn't there to support her son.
Alexis points out that Dara is counting on her being there because she
will try to show that Stefan is in love with Laura. Laura tells Alexis
to just do her job and walks away. Alexis looks dumbfounded.

THE END!
--Amanda, the other Monday updater