From: morgan@math.psu.edu (Ilene Morgan)
Subject: SB:  Update for Tuesday, Jan. 5
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:40:20 GMT

Next-to-last Tuesday update (sob)...

Gina and Lionel celebrate the fact that the wedding is over--maybe not just the
way they expected, but at least it's legal.  Lionel wonders how Gina will like
being a grandmother.  Meanwhile, Ted and Lilly are a bit nervous and awkward.
They decide to unpack.  Lilly goes into the bathroom to change into something
more comfortable.  While in the bathroom, she calls Gina for some moral
support.  After Lilly hangs up, Gina expresses her concern to Lionel that
Ted and Lilly haven't consummatred their marriage yet.  Lionel tells her
there's nothing to worry about, unless Lilly is anything like her mother.
Gina runs in the other room to pack.

Lilly comes out of the bathroom wearing a casuall nightie.  We hear both of
them wondering why they're so awkward.  It's not as if either is a virgin.
Lilly suggests breakfast, which both see as an ideal stalling tactic.  Gina
calls back and asks "how things are coming".  Lilly tells her the status of
things.  "They're having breakfast instead of each other", Gina tells Lionel.
She tells him to call a cab.

After breakfast, Ted and Lilly comment that they can have fun doing simple
things like eating breakfast because they're best friends.  When Ted comments,
"Who needs sex to have a good time?", the conversation stops short.  Then
they decide to take a nap.  They lie separately, but pretty soon they
exchange glances and Ted tentatively kisses Lilly.  They get used to it and
start embracing.  Just then, Gina and Lionel burst in, Gina shouting:  "Have
no fear, the honeymoon helpers are here!"  Ted and Lilly sit bolt upright.

Lisa walks into her apartment; she claims to Rafe that she had decided on the
spur of the moment to go visit her mother.  Rafe tells her that Lilly and Ted
have just gotten married, despite his efforts.  Lisa asks Rafe why he tried
to stop the wedding if that's what Lilly wanted.  Rafe tells her that, once
Rafe married Lisa, Lilly could no longer get what she really wanted.  So why
didn't you stop the wedding, Lisa asks.  Because Lilly loves Ted now, Rafe
replies.  Lisa wonders if he's telling her all this just to hurt her.  Rafe
asks her to be honest with him for once.  She says she's willing to answer
anything.  He asks her if there was ever really a baby.  She tries to evade
the question, but when he asks her poing blank for a yes or no answer, she
doesn't answer.  He storms out; she calls Rich and asks him to come over.
When Rich gets there, he assures Lisa that he didn't tell Rafe anything.
He wonders why she's so upset; all they wanted to do was split up Rafe and
Lilly, and it worked.  Lisa tells him she wants her marriage to work and
she asks for his help.  He starts to come on to her.  She asks him what he's
doing.  He tells her it's payback time for all the things that Lisa has
wanted that Rich has helped her get.  Now he's going to get what he wants--
her.  She resists but he overpowers her.

BJ is reluctant to dredge up memories about her experiences with Frank for
Warren, who is trying to write the script for the movie about her.  They're
frustrated by the looming deadline.  BJ says she'll try harder, but she still
has trouble getting started.  Warren tells her not to let Frank have such
a hold on her; she needs to put him in his proper place.  He tries to convince
her that it will be better for her in the long run if she can come to grips
with her experiences and move on, but BJ wonders if she's ready or able
to do that.  After all, Frank's abuse has shaped her whole life.  Then she
becomes angry because it seems that the script is more important to Warren
than she is.  She storms out.

Warren is extremely ornery with some of the workers at the newspaper.  Sawyer
comes by looking for BJ and Warren bites his head off.  Warren tells him
that he and BJ had a fight--it was his fault, he was trying to meet a
deadline for the movie script and he pushed her too hard.  Sawyer offers to
help, but Warren tells him it's between BJ, Warren, and Frank.  Frank's dead,
Sawyer points out.  Warren tells him that, in some sick way, Frank is still
around because of the hold he still has on BJ.  Warren is frustrated because
he feels like he's dealing with a ghost--if Frank were alive, he'd know what
to do.  The problem is that, like most abuse victims, BJ feels responsible
for her abuse--not intellectually, but emotionally.  Warren worried that BJ
will never be able to give herself to anyone, including him, until she works
through it.

BJ and Rafe see each other at a restaurant (maybe the Windsurfer).  They're
both pretty miserable.  Rafe congratulates her on her upcoming wedding and
tells her how lucky Warren in.  BJ wonders if she's marriage material.
Rafe tells her that the two most important things in a relationship are love
and honesty--all other things will fall into place.  BJ wonders if that is
enough; she feels like Frank is a shadow over her that will never go away.
A girl named Jamie comes by; she and BJ seem to know each other.  Jamie is
Miss Teen USA and is using her scholarship to go to SBU.  She's looking
forward to studying journalism with Prof. Lockridge.  BJ tells her he won't
be teaching this semester, he'll be taking time off to write a TV-movie about
her.  Jamie tells her she's glad her story had a happy ending.  She followed
BJ's story in the newspapers.  She was impressed by how well BJ handled all of
the pressure--first the abuse, then the murder charges.  Jamie takes off to
go register for classes and they wish each other well.  Rafe goes off to
call Lisa.  Sawyer comes by and tells BJ he saw Warren at the newspaper.  She
says she knows she's being difficult, but she feels like things are moving too
fast and she can't handle it.  Sawyer asks if she's told Warren that and
she says she hasn't, she doesn't want to burden him.  Sawyer advises her to
open up to Warren--everyting will be OK as long as Warren knows how much she
loves him.  Encourages, BJ leaves.

Back at Rafe and Lisa's, Rich lets Lisa answer the phone.  She pretends to be
talking to her friend Cindy and Rafe wonders what's going on.  After she
hangs up, Rich picks up where he left off.  As they struggle, Rafe comes
to the door.  He hears the commotion and kicks the door in.

BJ goes back to the newspaper office and apologizes; so does Warren.  He's
sorry he puahed her, since she can't forget what Frank did to her
overnight.  But she can't let it run her life either, she says.  She needs
to exorcise her ghosts, they won't just go away.  She wants Warren, and
she knows that what Frank did to her is causing a problem, so she'll work
through it in order that she can love Warren in every way.  Warren tells
BJ he has called Donna and convinced her that it will be easier for them
to meet the deadline if they work in Hollywood, so the studio is going to put
them up for two weeks [I'm pretty sure they said Hollywood, though the
previews say Laguna.].  BJ is excited.

Till next time--Ilene
Organization: Junior, IM - H&SS Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA