From: pboren@rand.org (Pat Boren)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: SB: update for Monday Dec 21
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:20:34 GMT
Organization: RAND

Best line goes to Minx, as usual.  Situation:  wanting to keep
Gina quiet through an important dinner:

	"Lionel, bring out the muzzle!"

OK, let's see.  Lots of stuff.  The best is the story I'll summarize
last, so skip ahead for the good stuff.

Warren and BJ dress for dinner.  Warren is nervous -- they'll be
dining at Minx' with the publisher, Nelson Norris, who may do Warren's
book.  Off they go.

Lionel and Gina are with Minx.  Gina can't wait to meet Nelson so she
can share her own idea for a coffee table book (hence, the muzzle
phrase).  Minx warns her to not say a word during the dinner or Minx
will pluck out each of Gina's eyebrows out one hair at a time.

Nelson arrives, and he can't wait to meet BJ rather than Warren.
In walks those two, and Nelson kisses BJ's hand upon being introduced.
After dinner, Lionel takes Gina away from the rest because she keeps
trying to bring up her book idea (Minx warns her again about her
eyebrows).  BJ asks about Nelson's plan for publishing Warren's book,
and it basically comes down to extortion:  Nelson wants to do BJ's
story as well; in fact, it's a condition for publishing Warren's.
BJ is shocked and says "No!"  Warren calmly replies he thinks Nelson
is right.  Later, BJ tells off Nelson alone that she won't do it.
After he leaves and she's cooling off, Warren yells at her that she
made a stupid mistake, even if she did it for him.

CC enters the house while stumbling with lots of wrapped packages,
and as he struggles Angela walks in and exclaims, "I'm exhausted."
CC laughs, Angela seems happy.  He asks her about Ted, is Ted really
out of her system, she says "yes" rather genuinely, and they smooch.

Ted watches Lilly get dooded up with gaga eyes, and Lilly asks him
what's wrong.  You are just beautiful, he says, and asks why she won't
make love to him.  She tells him she wants to wait until they're
married, and he understands even if he minds ("of course I mind!").
He then asks insecurely if that's the real reason or does she not
find him attractive anymore.  She assures him that yes, he still
makes her sizzle when he kisses her.  And with Elaine awaiting them
for caroling, off they go (right, Lilly will carol in a cocktail
dress and hair piled on top of her head -- she looked great and
very sophisticated).

They go downstairs and see CC and Angela having a drink.  Everyone
is very nice to each other, and there are no weird looks between
Ted and Angela -- they seem content with their respective partners.
All four have a drink (Rosa's hot buttered rum), and CC presents Ted
and Lilly with their Xmas present to open now.  It's a wooden mailbox
that says "3449" on it.  CC says that's the number of where their
new house will be built, 3449 Thunderhill Trail (remember that for
trivia time).  There's more, CC tells the astounded couple, look
inside the mailbox.  Ted pulls out a deed to all the land around
the dig site, which includes the land for their home.  Ted & Lilly
are so pleased and touched by CC.

Later Lilly and CC have a short and sweet conversation by the tree.
He tells her about the ornaments he and Sophia collected, pointing
out one they got in Salzburg.  She comments "You still care about her,"
and he says yes, he always will.  CC pays Lilly a compliment and
mentions she's good for Ted.  CC and Lilly smile and, with Ted and
Angela, they toast to a "new, big clean slate, and happiness for us all."

Ted and Lilly forgo caroling and talk up in his room about Angela
being good for CC because CC has mellowed out, accepted Lilly, etc.
Phone rings and it's Lisa, telling Ted that Rafe has had an accident
and is in the hospital.  Ted tells Lilly, both look concerned.

* * * Good stuff alert:  Kelly & McCabe * * *

Connor opens the door to a dark old mansion with furniture covered
up--they're at his home in a nice Chicago suburb.  He had phoned
ahead to get the electricity and phone turned on, but only Ma Bell
did her job.  Kelly thought he was from the poor side of town and
asks where his mother is.  Connor says he'll light a fire.

Connor then phones a local hospital to speak with a doctor that
knew Ken (or one of Ken's wives).  Not there.  Kelly asks again
about visiting Connor's mother, when can she meet her, and Connor
changes the subject back to Ken.  At some point, Kelly searches
desk drawers for candles to light, and Connor takes a key from one
and hides it under a lamp (so Kelly can't get in the desk).

Kelly asks Connor to sit and talk to her, and explain about his
family, how he ended up with a mansion on the good side of town.
He goes back to talking about Ken.  She finally asks him what's
up, why he changed when he walked in the house, why he's suddenly
different.  He gets angry and says he hasn't changed, it's just
he's a private person, and he gets up to go for a walk without
her.  He tells her she's safe there.

Kelly feels uneasy and, with nothing to do, phones the hospital and
asks for the doctor.  Surprise, there is no doctor by that name on
staff.  She ponders a bit, then goes right to the lamp and takes the
key from beneath it and opens the desk.  She finds a bible there and a
newpaper obituary for Connor's dad.  So-and-so McCabe dies and leaves
his wife, Esther Mae McCabe, and his children ____ -- the paper was
torn off.  "How odd," she says suspiciously.  Kelly then phones
information and gets a number for Esther Mae McCabe and calls the
woman.  The woman tells her she must have the wrong woman because she
has no son named Connor!  "Who are you, McCabe?!" says Kelly.

Connor, meanwhile, shows up at a cemetery and wipes the snow off
a stone (couldn't read it).

Pat
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	Patricia Boren
	pboren@rand.org