From: slaury@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Susan Laury)
Subject: GH: Update Monday Nov. 9
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:13:37 GMT

GENERAL HOSPITAL -- MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 1992

I'm taking over Monday updates for Paul through Christmas. Let's hope it's
an exciting holiday season in Pine Valley. If I've missed anything, feel
free to add it.

Today's storylines were:

1) A Custody Battle in the Making
2) Let's Fulfill Those Vows
3) Secrets ...
4) Mountain Man Blues

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A CUSTODY BATTLE IN THE MAKING

Bobbie, Tony, Sean and Tiff are watching Cheryl's video-taped will.
She leaves everything to Lucas, except for any keepsakes Tiff wants.
Deciding what to do with Lucas is most difficult. (Note: most of the
pros and cons of awarding custody to one or the other that we've been
discussing were brought up in today's show. It was a surprising leap
forward in continuity for the writers.) She knows Tiff and Sean would
do a good job, but they are both busy with their careers and don't
want to have children. Since Bobbie and Tony raised Lucas first and 
Cheryl knows they still love him, she wants them to raise him.

Tiff is devastated (I thought she did a really good job during the
entire show today expressing all the emotions that she went through).
When Bobbie tries to go to her, Tiff tells her to leave her alone and
she and Sean leave to go home to Lucas. At home, Sean wants to talk
with Tiff about this. Tiff is hurt that Cheryl didn't leave Lucas to
them, but is sure that Bobbie won't keep Lucas (major denial here folks).
Sean isn't sure and wants to discuss this more. Tiff accuses him of
using this as an excuse to get rid of Lucas. She is also sure that 
Cheryl must have still been mentally unstable if she left Lucas to
Bobbie, since Cheryl hated Bobbie for trying to keep Lucas from her.
Eventually they make up but Sean is still very concerned about what 
is going to happen. He tries to see if Tiff could be happy if Bobbie 
and Tony do get custody.

Meanwhile, Bobbie and Tony are having a similar discussion. Tony is sure
that Tiff is going to fight to keep Lucas and Bobbie is turning back into
her old one-track-mind self. Tony is concerned that Bobbie will have
Lucas taken from her once again. Bobbie is also in denial. She sees
nothing odd about Cheryl leaving Lucas to them and thinks that it is
the best thing for him. And even if Tiff doesn't like it, she doesn't
have a choice. Bobbie really thinks that since she and Tiff are friends
(were, baby) it will make the whole thing easier. Tony isn't sure about
it and tries to tell her that maybe this much upheaval in Lucas' life
won't be good for him. But she doesn't listen.


LET'S FULFILL THOSE VOWS

Meanwhile, Scotty is with Dom. He's stressing about what is going to
happen with Lucas. She wants to try to take his mind off it and has
an old movie. Scotty doesn't want to watch any mushy love scenes (his
words) until he gets to live a few himself. Dom says that maybe they
can take care of that ... she doesn't want him to get bored with their
marriage. He's not bored. Eager is more like it, he says. She tells him
that the only thing missing from their marriage is the honeymoon night.
She disappears for a bit.

While she is gone, we are treated to some of Scotty's antics. He puts on
romantic music, and is dancing around while lighting candles. Evenutally,
Dom appears in a silk robe and negligee. They kiss, she loses her robe
(and all the while Scotty's in a turtleneck and slacks!) and they
retire to the bedroom. Some artsy shots of the robe on the floor, flowers,
etc. give us a clue of what's up in the other room.


SECRETS

Meanwhile, at the Quartermaine Mansion, the dinner party for the 
Kensington's is in full swing. Tracy wants Ned and Jenny to meet
the guests -- the Kensington family. Jack Kensington Jr. is surprised 
to see Jenny again. All the Q's are surprised that they know each 
other. Jenny explains that she was friends with the daughter, 
Betsy, back in Portland. They find out that Jack Jr. is planning 
to go into politics, just like his dad. When Jenny's mom Angela 
shows up she is visibly shaken to see the Kensington's there. She 
claims never to have met them, but tells them that Jenny always 
talked about them.

As everyone leaves for dinner, Jenny and Angela quickly talk. Jenny
is sure the Kensington's presence means that Tracy knows something. 
Angela reassures her that they were far too careful. Tracy can't
know. Tracy arrives to usher them into dinner. She is quite pleased 
with herself. Both Paul and EdQ are suspicious of what Tracy is up
to. Both confront her separately, but she claims that this is just
an innocent coincidence.

After everyone leaves, Ned corners Jenny. He is surprised that she never
mentioned knowing the Senator and his family. Is Jack Jr. the boy
who got her pregnant? She denies it. She only admits to having had
a crush on him, but says that she was only close to Betsy. <Hmmm ...
wonder what is going on here. It must be more than just the fact
that Jack Jr. got her pregnant. Why deny it if that is it?> Ned pushes
her to tell him who the boy was. She doesn't think it matters, but 
finally tells him that his last name was Young.


MOUNTAIN MAN BLUES

Felicia is still trapped at the cabin with Dr. Stalker, and is pretending
that she hasn't regained her memory. He has poured her some wine and
insists that she drink some. She takes a tiny sip to placate him, then
he goes out to get some wood. There's a storm brewing. She quickly dumps
the wine down the sink, rinses the glass and pours herself some more from
the bottle (he had drunk some of it, so I guess the bottle is okay), then
downs it. She looks outside and is depressed to see that he is still there.
She looks under the couch and goes through the box with the wedding dress
in it. (I don't know if she'd seen it before) She keeps looking at her
locket that has Max's picture in it.

Meanwhile, Mac is getting ready to go for Felicia. He is concerned about
the call she made to him, although the connection was bad, so he doesn't
really know what she said. He decided to call before going. The phone is
locked in the glove box of Ryan's truck. He hears it ringing -- through
the glove box, through the closed windows, when he is away from the truck
<even though she couldn't hear it through the cabinet when it was behind
the cans. Yeah, right>. He unhooks the antenna and throws it into the
woods. He somehow figures out that Felicia had used the phone (did he
loosen the antenna before?) and wonders who she called.

He returns to the cabin and fixes her a fajita dinner. He isn't eating,
which worries Felicia. However, she downs one and tells him that it is
delicious -- just like the fajitas at El Diablo. She realizes that she
may have given away that she has her memory back and tries to cover by
saying that Mac took her there when they were in Texas. Ryan asks her
about her returning memory, and she tells him that she remembers some
things, but that there are still large gaps. She claims that she has
tried to forget about the investigation Mac is doing while she is away.
It seems that today is Max's birthday and Felicia tries to pass off
her agitation at being disappointed at having to miss it.

Finally, Felicia claims that she is feeling queesy again and wants to go
to bed. Ryan makes her some chamomile tea and insists she drink it
before going to bed. She tells him that she will drink it in bed and 
retires to her room, where she quickly dumps it. She starts trying to 
figure out how to get away. When she tries the door it is locked. She
goes to the window and tries to get out that way, but they are also 
locked. Looks like she is trapped .....

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That's it for today. I'll be back next week.

Sus.
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"A day without denial is a day you've got to face."
	--Calvin (to Hobbes)