From: susanm@an.hp.com (Susan Margulies)
Subject: AMC: Thursday Update 11/19
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:21:02 GMT

AMC Update, Thursday November 19th

I have tried posting this via email 2x with no luck, so here goes
my third try from my newsreader!

My apologies in advance - I don't seem to be remembering the 
Destiny on the Danube plot in its rightful order.  But I think 
I have all the major events, just all jumbled up!

Featuring:
		Case Crackers
		starring Tink, Chompers, & Marjie

		Rant 'n Ravers  
		(was Destiny on the Danube, but I think we are 
		definitely back in the studio, folks!)
		starring Jack, Dimitri, Max, Angelique, Hellcat,
		Erica, and Edmund

		News Breakers
		starring Joe, Ruth, Brooke, and Mona

Case Crackers
-------------
At the trucking company, Charlie has brought coffee in a lame
attempt to suck up to Marjie, the woman who has all the records of
shipments, etc.  Hayley, being the infinitely superior detective of
the duo, has tracked Charlie down and begins to tear into him for
the umpteenth time about reducing her role in their partnership to
babysitter of "that decrepit out-of-tune piano!"  Furthermore, she
is not interested in vacuuming "DUST BUNNIES" (Lurk alert, Lurk
alert!) out from under his desk while he gets all the action.  When
Marjie returns, Charlie starts to schmooze her, but Hayley leaps in
with a wild story about how she is a maid at WildWind, Charlie is
her brother, and she is there to try to talk some sense into one of
their truckers who has been obsessed with her ever since he made a
pick-up at WildWind back around September 15th!  Marjie bites and
confirms that a pick-up *was* made at Wildwind on 9/15; but she will
have to dig deeper for the name of the trucker.  Charlie jumps in
with a confession that they aren't brother and sister, but actually
PIs hired by Angelique Marrick to find her soon-to-be-ex-corpse-in-law,
Hugo.  

The woman is a bit hesitant about giving out anymore info, but goes
to find the records of who ordered the pick-up and where the cargo
went.  Charlie and Hayley get psyched about cracking the case wide
open, but Charlie is still trying to send Hayley back to the office
to do mundane work.  Charlie - "Your part in this agency is
receptionist, so why don't you go back to the office and recept?!"
Good old Tinkerbell (go, Hayley!) refuses to leave now and let Charlie 
take all the credit!  When Marjie returns, the news is grim - all the
records seem to have disappeared for that particular shipment!
Charlie suggests they check the payroll to see who the driver could
have been.  Marjie comes up with the name Jim Schmidlap (Hayley -
"Schmidlap slipped your mind??????" :]) and remembers him bragging
all about Wildwind after the pickup.  Charlie and Hayley are anxious
to talk to the guy, but unfortunately he left the trucking business.
Seems his rich aunt died and he came into a sum of money.  (Oh Aunt
HELLCAT...)  Furthermore, he moved and since he was no longer an
employee, they didn't bother to track him.  (OK, maybe I don't know
the first thing about it, but if the company doesn't keep track of
him how can they send him his tax info at the end of the year???)
Hayley and Charlie smell a Marrick bribe in action, and set their
sights on finding their guy Schmidlap.

News Breakers
-------------
At the hospital, Brooke and Joe discuss whether or not Mona can
handle the news.  Joe decides to call Hungary for an update on the
situation - they will only tell Mona if nothing is improved.  All
the circuits to Hungary are busy (how con*ven*ient!), so they will
try back later.  Ruth arrives to take part in the pow-wow.  Brooke
goes through more feelings of guilt about Edmund, about bringing him
into Jamie's life, about not being able to reach him, ad nauseum.
Ruth realizes this may not be the best time, but wants to invite
Brooke and Jamie over for Thanksgiving Dinner (like Brooke wouldn't
have dinner with Aunt Pheebs?).  She is planning to have Opal and
Palmer, too.  (Can Dix, Junior, Brian, Gloria, and Stuart be far
behind??  I would have thought this the PERFECT moment for a Tad
return, but alas we know too much from spoilers to expect him so
soon!)  When they finally get through to Hungary, Dimitri is pretty
annoyed that Joe is taking up his waiting-for-Edmund-to-call time.
(Hey, Dim - now that you have a phone, why not spring for call
waiting??).  Dimitri insists Mona should not be told about the
situation, but Jack - fed up with the control freak - grabs the
phone and tells Joe that Dimitri blew it with Edmund big-time.  He
has pushed Edmund so far to the edge that for all they know it may
already be too late for Erica.  Joe and Brooke break the news to
Mona, who insists that she knows her daughter.  When backed into a
corner, she always fights back, and Erica will find a way to come
out on top!

Rant n' Ravers
--------------
At the castle, Dimitri and crew are gathered together around the old
phone as Dim tells Edmund he will never give him one penny of
Marrick money for Erica's return.  Edmund tries to clarify his
position - reminding Dimitri that his refusal means never seeing
Erica again as long as he lives.  Jack is completely freaking out in
the background while this goes on, as is Erica.  Edmund decides to
let E&D have a little tete a tete.  Erica begs Dimitri to help her,
but when he asks where Edmund is keeping her, she is kind of at a
loss.  She begins to say "wine cellar," but Edmund is quick to gag
her before the beans are spilled.  The brothers remind each other
that neither of them will ever get what they want (Marrick money / 
Erica's return).  While Dimitri is willing to make a deal AFTER
Erica is back safe and sound, Edmund refuses to take him at his word
(big surprise there, eh?).   Having reached that impasse, the negotiations 
appear to be over.

Jack immediately jumps all over Dimitri, accusing him of wanting
Erica dead!  Dimitri informs Jack that Erica is none of Jack's
business (do you guys think Dim has figured out that Jack is bopping
his soon-to-be-ex yet?) and that he is only after her safe return.
Seems his legal counsel Max suggests they get Erica back first and
then negotiate.  Jack and Dimitri scream at each other for awhile
until Angelique stops them.  She pretty much rips both of them -
Jack for always wildly attacking Dimitri and Dimitri for building up
Edmund's hopes and then snatching the corpse from underneath his
nose.  Angel reveals that HELLCAT heard him making a call to have
the body moved!  Dimitri denies this vehemently.  Angel and Jack
both remind Dimitri that he is responsible for Edmund's mental snap
and anything he does in his state.   

At some point in all of this, HELLCAT appears, having been lurking 
outside the doorway just like she used to do at Wildwind!  She has 
come to help, but no one is very pleased to see her.  Dimitri forces 
Helga to tell everyone she made up the phone call story.  Helga
swears her loyalty to Hugo for the millionth time and tries to
convince everyone that she just couldn't see Edmund cheated like
this.  When no one seems to buy her concern for Edmund, Helga tries
a new tact, admitting that she just wanted everyone else to hate Dimitri 
as much as she does for ruining Angelique's life!  Dimitri orders her 
off the property and storms off!  Jack and Angelique beg Helga to just
go home, she's done enough damage.  Helga throws a pity party, begging
forgiveness and reminding her daughter how alone she is.  When they
tell her to go home, she gets that glazed-over look, and wonders
where home is *now*.  Certainly not Wildwind.

In the wine cellar, Edmund is rather depressed at this shocking turn
of events, but not too depressed to let Erica know exactly how much
Marrick money she is worth - ZIP!  Erica insists that she means
everything to Dimitri, that she is his whole life, that he would
rather die than be without her, ad nauseum.  Edmund is sorry he ever
believed that in the first place!  He again reminds Erica what a
liar Dimwit is - sleeping with both her and Angel, promising to
stick to his marriage, promising DNA testing.  Erica praises
Dimitri's integrity and honor (I don't know, at this point I think
I'd be shmoozing Edmund and calling Dimitri whatever Edmund wanted
me to!!!!), and decides to let Edmund know exactly how much his
claims are worth.  "Half of nothing is still nothing," reveals
Erica.  Edmund can't believe that Hugo died with nothing - his
estate is worth a fortune today.  Erica informs Edmund that all Hugo
ever left were debts, that Dimitri covered for his Dad and rebuilt
the Marrick fortune from dirt.  Edmund thinks Erica is quite the
fool for believing that load of hooey.

Erica reminds Edmund that even if there is an estate to claim, and
even if he is a Marrick heir, as long as this nonsense continues - 
"You're facing 25 years to life in prison with a burly cellmate named
BUBBA!"  (I have *no* idea how Lucci said this line with a straight
face; how many times do you think they had to shoot that scene?)
She basically tells Edmund to grow up and deal with stuff - so what
if he had a bad childhood; lots of people do but you don't see them
kidnapping people because of it!  Erica describes her own rotten
father and tries to make Edmund see that he isn't the only one who
has ever suffered, just the only one who went completely bonkers
over it later in life!  Meanwhile, Edmund begins to hear Brooke's
voice begging him not to go away as Erica goes on and on and on.
Edmund holds his head painfully and screams his infamous, "Shut up,
just shut the hell up!"   

Erica calmly tries to convince Edmund that this kidnapping was a big
mistake from the start and that it just isn't going his way, so
maybe he should let her go.  Edmund looks like he's kicking the idea
around, but Erica goes overboard again talking about how much
she means to Dimitri despite his refusal to capitulate to Edmund's
demands.  Edmund suddenly realizes that Dimitri is totally bluffing
and gets psyched again.  He gags Erica and takes off, promising that
Dimitri's nightmare is only beginning.  Left alone, the industrious
Ms. Kane breaks some wine bottles, picks up a sharp piece of glass
and begins to cut the ropes that are binding her to the chair.

Back at the ranch, Dimitri is wandering around outside.  He hears a
noise nearby, and comes within inches of discovering Edmund when
Angelique appears.  While Edmund listens, Angelique tells Dimitri
how sorry she is that she ever believed him capable of moving the
body.  She believes that Edmund stole the body.  Dimitri doesn't
blame her for not believing in him after all the lies he told her.
He asks about her friendship with Edmund, and Angelique reveals that
the man she knew as Edmund is dead; they can never be close again.
Having heard that, Edmund returns to the cellar.  He arrives just in
time to trap a newly freed Erica.  "Going some place?" he asks.
Think he'll buy, "I just wanted to get some wine" ?
["Thirsty" cliffhanger]

Inside the castle, Jack and Hellcat are having a little chat.  Jack
is pissed beyond words that Helga pushed Edmund to think that
Dimitri stole the body without any proof!  Helga starts to kiss up
to Jack - saying how she appreciates him being there for Angelique
and how Dimitri was unworthy of Angelique's love, but not Jackson!
Jack observes, "Ah, a new angle..."  He tells her in no uncertain
terms that if he had his way, she'd be on her way back to Pine
Valley... "in a crate!!!!!"  OOOH!  Baggage-compartment slapped!
With that, Jack goes to find Dim and Angel, leaving Helga alone to
check on the travel itinerary of the corpse.  She turns off the tape
recorder attached to the phone and calls mystery trucker.  She asks
if the body made it to the right place.  She is pleased that Hugo is
resting "where he belongs" and that Erica and Dimitri are "about to
get their just desserts!"  
["Dessert" cliffhanger]

Outside the castle, Angelique and Dimitri are bonding over the
realization that she does believe in him now, and they share a hug.
Jack walks outside, and says, "I *HOPE* I'm not interrupting
anything!"  
["OOPS" cliffhanger]


And with my apologies to Dave, I have an unanswered question:
What happens when somebody at Eurowildwind (AKA Watsell)
wants a nice bottle of wine these days?

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Whew!  Sorry I am so confused; I watched the show between 1 and 2
AM!  Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Susan M.


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