From: dwicks@nova.gmi.edu (Donna Wicks)
Subject: AMC: Tuesday Update - Finally!
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:31:56 GMT

    Thanks to Margaret and Mary for the last two weeks emergency
updates. I think I got this vcr thing figured out now!

Our storylines for Tuesday ...

Story A: No More Mr. Nice Guy (Jack)
Story B: My Three Mamas (Ted/Tad)
Story C: Mama's Little Girl (Erica)


Story A
    As the show opens, Jack, being the manly man that he is,
is trying to manhandle some weights. Tom tells him to chill
out and Jack bites Tom's head off.
    Tom lectures him on the value of using equipment
properly and avoiding lawsuits. Jack, ever the lawyer,
offers to sign a release form. Tom is not buying Jack's act.
He tells Jack to go take a shower.
   As Tom leaves, Jack spots a woman, looking vaguely
familiar and wearing an orange/red coat, leaving the health
club. He sprints across the room and stops her.
   Oh, but it's not our accident lady/Jack's heroine. It's
just Sandy Hoover who comes in to work out every morning and
hey, why doesn't Jack stop by sometime. Jack, very
disappointed that she isn't his dream woman, is noncommital.
  He bumps into Tom again, only to complain about how he
hates the person he is now. Tired of always being in
control.
   After his shower, dressed in his best lawyer suit, he
apologizes to Tom for his earlier behavior. He moans and
groans about the good old days and also about how lonely his
saintly life is. Then he excuses himself to meet with
Palmer.
   His meeting with Palmer is not a happy one. Palmer fires
Jack (excuse me, didn't Dixie hire him?) who only puts up a
small fight. He says it isn't his fault Dixie lost the court
battle - it's Adam's. But hey if Palmer wants some new
lawyer to take a crack at, Jack by no means will stand in
the way.
   Last we see of Jack, he is in a travel agency looking at
a poster of a vulptous young thing on a beach in Rio. Jack
recalls the woman he almost ran over again. He tells the
agent he wants a first-class, ONE-WAY, ticket to Rio.

Story B
  The show opens with Ted/Tad asleep on the couch in the
waiting area of the hospital. In a dream he hears a small
boy calling out not to be left behind. When he wakes up, he
hears Opal's voice saying she never menat to lose him.
   Gloria comes by and expresses interest in Ted's welfare.
They talk about his mother and she recommends he talk with
her friend, the patient advocate. Just as she is about to
give him Dixie's name, he says he has to run for his hourly
visit with Nola.
   In Nola's room, she can tell something is up. He tells
her he had the dream again, but this time when he woke up he
heard a woman's voice. Nola tries to brush it off as being
his concern about her. Ted says "No Mama, I think this is
real."
  Later, Nola suggests that this woman might be one of the
accomplices to Ted's abduction and that she didn't really
care for him as Ted seems to think. A nurse comes in to tell
Ted he has overstayed his welcome. He smooth talks his way
out of leaving by telling the nurse she looks like Ingrid
Bergman (classic Tad). The nurse ends up offering to get
some fruit for Nola and coffee for Ted.
   Gloria comes in and congratulates him on his fine con. He
asks her what she knows about conning someone. Seh tells him
he would be surprised.
   Next, Nola's lawyer Michael shows up. He wants to talk
with Ted. They leave. Nola tries to talk Gloria into showing
Ted around PV, but Glo says no she is engaged. Ah, but she
has a friend who is available (I wonder what Brian would
think of that!).
   Out in the hall, Michael is talking about his concerns
over the will and Nola's wishes. Ted tells him he doesn't
have to be so diplomatic - Michael should just admit he
doesn't think Ted is Nola's son.


Story C
   As the show begins, Dim shows up at the Courtland's. He
asks Opal to let him in - he needs to talk to her about
Erica.
  Over at Oak Haven, Mona is talking with the doctor (BTW,
isn't that the guy who played Jack on Ryan's Hope? Boy has
he aged). She can't understand Erica's unresponsiveness. The
doctor leaves to finish his rounds but tells Mona he would
like her to attend a meeting with several other doctors
later.
   Meanwhile, Erica is dreaming about dancing and kissing
Dim.
   Back at Courtland's, Dim tells Opal he and Erica were
engaged before everything happened. She doesn't buy it at
first but comes to believe him later. However, she will not
sneak in to see Erica for him. Before he leaves, Dim tries
to give Opal a present for the baby. Palmer comes down the
stairs and tells him to get the hell out and take his
bribe/present with him.
   Words are exchanged between Palmer and Dim. Dim tells
them he has changed. Palmer doesn't buy it. Opal looks
unsure, but tells him to leave.
   After he goes Opal says she thinks he might be telling
the truth, she has an instinct. She says she has to follow
her instinct this time because last time she didn't bad
things happened to Tad.
  She goes into what a terrible mother she was and how she
has changed so maybe Dim has. And for the sake of her being
a good mother to Peter, she needs to go see Erica. Palmer is
very confused by how her mothering needs relate to all this
(and frankly so was I - just a way to have Opal think about
Tad, me thinks).
   Meanwhile at Oak Haven, Mona is giving E a pep talk about
her being a fighter. She also is treating E like a little
girl and keeps referring to her as mommmy's little girl.
Mona leaves E's room and runs into Dim in the hallway. As
Mona is giving him grief for coming back when he said he
would stay away, we see E turning her head toward the
voices. Then she says "Mother, I want ... I want ..."
   Back at the Courtland mansion, Opal is telling the baby
she has to go help her friend out. She talks to him about
the importance of friends and tells him about what her
grand-daddy told her: "There are two kinds of people you can
count on in this world - your friends and all the others who
don't count at all." She holds the little darling. (Ed.
Note: Did anyone see the article in this week's TV Guide
about casting of babies in TV shows. There was a sentence in
there that just made me laugh - regulations say you can't
use a baby until he/she is 15 days old. Why the distinction?
I could see something like six weeks because of the immunity
system, but two weeks seems pretty arbitrary to me. Maybe
some of you parents out there can clue me in on this 15-day
threshhold thing.)
   Later, Opal shows up and runs into Dim. She tells him she
is not here for him but for Erica. She goes in to see E and
talks to her as E was responding. She tells her all about
her new baby and how she can't wait for E to see him.
Finally, she holds a picture of the little one up for E to
see.
   E still does not respond so Opal pulls out a picture of
Dim for E to see. E starts to reach for the picture.

That's it for this Tuesday ....

Donna "finally figured that vcr thing out this week" Wicks
dwicks@nova.gmi.edu