Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 1992 00:17:55 -0500 
From: Jennifer Allyson Turner <jt3j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GH: Is That Radioactive Dandruff Or Is Your Painting Flaking? 

WARNING: NOT FOR THE HUMOR-IMPAIRED

IS THAT RADIOACTIVE DANDRUFF OR IS YOUR PAINTING FLAKING?
subtitled: "Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish!"

A few weeks after the art show, Holly starts getting mysterious phone
calls from a woman with a suspiciously fake English accent.  At first,
they have whispered conversations with lots of code words (like figgy
pudding, kidney pie, fish-n-chips) in case they're overheard. 
Eventually, they decide that this is too risky (and they don't really
understand what they're talking about anyway) so they decide to meet
at... you guessed it...  THE WATERFRONT.

Holly pretends to jog down to the waterfront (of course, she never
breaks a sweat) and lo and behold, her contact is Juicy Lucy.  Of
course, neither knows the other because they're only known by their code
names (Cleveland and the Catwoman).  They discuss plans to get rid of
the paintings.  Holly thinks it's best if she fences the paintings since
has so much experience doing it.

But unbeknownst to everyone, Lucy is a front for Constance, who's a
front for CESAR FAISON, whose partner is none other than HARLAN BARRETT
who is seeking revenge against Bill (and everyone else in Port Charles)
for destroying the cartel, trying to kill him, and breaking his little
girl's heart.  He got Holly involved knowing that she's Vile's MAIN
SQUEEZE.

Of course, Faison and HB are just silent partners and not even Constance
really knows who she's working for.

Holly's delighted to (FINALLY!) be back to work again and starts looking
immediately to try to find buyers for the art.

Meanwhile, we see Faison (who's living out at Windemere with HB) going
down to a dungeon periodically, smoking those vile cigars, and taunting
someone (who we only see in shadows), saying things like: You will
suffer forever for taking the woman I love away from me.  You will never
be free.  You are damned to forever live in a hell of your own making!!!
 Faison laughs maniacally, blows smoke in the face of THE SHADOW, grins
evilly, then leaves.

Meanwhile, no one has a clue what's going on until one day, the
Quartermaine's notice that the oil on their painting is FLAKING OFF!!!
(not in big chunks, but in subtle little flakes)  Seems the cartel
thought the paint they were buying was A#1 acrylic even though they only
payed $8.95/case.

Of course, they immediately think that Atkins is back and that Jason is
ONCE AGAIN, stealing from them.  He protests his innocence and runs to
Karen for support, who tells Ruby, who notices the THE SAME THING IS
HAPPENING TO HER PAINTING!!!  Of course, Ruby being the only smart
person in Port Charles deduces what happened when Dom relates that NO
WAY!!  The same thing is happening to her.  They immediately go to Sean,
who tries to pooh-pooh the idea saying there was absolutely no way this
could have happened.  Connie provided A#1, impeccable security.  I mean,
those guards might have LOOKED like drug-dealing, alcoholic,
painting-swapping hoodlums just released from a psychiatric institution,
but they had REALLY GOOD recommendations from the Jeromes.

Meanwhile, Bile notices that his painting is flaking and becomes
convinced that it isn't the real thing.  Holly tries to persuade him
that the painting is real, it's just REALLY old.  For once, Bile doesn't
buy it and decides to take the painting to an art dealer to be
authenticated.  Holly convinces him to wait until the next day. 
Meanwhile, desperate not to get caught, Holly goes to the place where
the paintings are stored until sale and replaces "Summer in Provence"
with the fake, thinking herself unobserved.  Of course, Constance
observes and doesn't fail to mention this to Faison in a secret
telephone conversation.  This seals Holly's fate.  Before, Faison and HB
were going to let her go, but THEY CANNOT REWARD DISLOYALTY.  They
decide to kill her while Bile watches, maximizing his punishment.

Before Bile goes to pick up the painting the next morning, he goes to
Ruby's for breakfast, tells her about his painting, and she relates to
him the story of the Q's, Dom, and herself.  Bile is now certain that
the painting is a fake.  But when he goes to get the painting
authenticated, he finds out it's the real McCoy.  He tells Ruby and
everyone else and they believe that their paintings are just going
through the normal wear and tear incurred by the damaging practice of
hanging them on the wall.

But Bill is still suspicious because he notices that his painting is NO
LONGER FLAKING!!  But all he has is a vague suspicion that Holly is
somehow involved.  He quickly suppressed it because where else could he
get sex for so little?   

Around this time, everyone forgets about their art for a while because
of the excitement generated by Mac's wonderful plan to have a New Year's
Eve Masked Ball at the Outback!!!!  Everybody who's anybody, everybody
who's somebody, and even everybody who's nobody is gonna be there.  It's
gonna be the party of the year!  The party of the decade!  The party of
the century!  Hell, it'll be the party of the MILLENIUM!!!!!!!!  Faison
learns of it through his periodic visits to the Outback in his MISSION:
IMPOSSIBLE! disguise.

When he tells HB of the party, they formulate an evil plan to wipe out
all of Port Charles from the gas left over from the first time they
planned to eliminate the entire city of Port Chuck.  Of course, there's
no Robert and Anna to stop them this time, so their idea is destined to
work!!  

Holy shit, Batman!!!!  What'll happen??  Will Mac and Felicia rise to
the challenge and save Port Chuck?  Will Anna and Robert return from the
dead to foil their old enemy??  Will we really see the end of Bile and
Holly?!??  Tune in next week, same bat time, same bat station.

Jenn