From: rpeck@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (robert william peck)
Subject: OLTL: UPDATE for Thurs. NOV12
Organization: Indiana University
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:09:32 GMT

Do this!  Do that!  Do the other thing!  My GAWD-ESS!  Everyone has
designs on everyone else's life in Llanview today, and they certainly
aren't shy about sharing these feelings.  In fact, let's hereby declare
today, Thursday November 12th, 1992, Llanview Persuation Day!

There were four worldly locations in today's show, and one other-worldly
one: LeeAnn's apartment, Asa's mansion, Llanfair, Llanview Hospital, and
the "Great Beyond."  But let's not tally any longer--on to the UPDATE...

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+We've got to stop meeting like this, revisited+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Viki appears at LeeAnn's doorway, bearing tidings of great joy...wrapped
in swaddling clothes, etc.  Actually, the tidings are of significantly
less-than-great joy: it would appear that Viki will be unable to bring
Duke to see his mother anymore.  Viki tells LeeAnn that Clint now knows
of their `little chats,' and Viki must do everything she can to hold her
splintering family together (I guess by further fracturing LeeAnn's).
LeeAnn pleads with Viki to change her mind.  Duke is her life.  Viki
maintains that the cost is too high, and the strain on her marriage too
great.  LeeAnn enquires whether her seeing Duke is the cause of the
marital rift.  Viki says no, there are other circumstances.  Then, Viki
goes into this line about Clint being a good and decent man [yeah, 
right!], and reassures LeeAnn that he will not cause her any trouble.
LeeAnn says she hopes so, that Clint won't tell Kevin.  In fact, Viki's
words about Clint reminded her about Kevin (gee, I wonder why).  LeeAnn
feels that he will ultimately come around to abolishing the restraining
order.  Viki leaves, and LeeAnn tends to Duke.  
	Suddenly, the door starts to open; it is Jason.  LeeAnn practically
throws herself (through the opening door) into Jason's arms, preventing
Jason from entering the apartment.  (You may recall, since his release 
Jason has been `playing by the rules.')  Jason asks LeeAnn why she is
keeping him in the hallway.  LeeAnn says she has a secret.  Jason confeses
that he, too, has a secret.  After their `I'll tell you mine if you tell
me yours' exchange, LeeAnn comes forward with her (obviously contrived)
secret: she will get naked and make wild and passionate love to Jason.
Jason's secret is cerainly more wholesome: he is on his way to see Reverend
Carpenter.  Why?  LeeAnn asks.  To reserve the rev. for A WEDDING!!!  (Wow!
Could it be?  I thought Jason was the `maybe in a few years' type, at least.)
Jason leaves without ever entering the apartment and seeing Duke.  After
LeeAnn re-enters, she asks Duke what Jason would do if he ever found out
about her going against the restraining order.
	Cut to sometime later.  LeeAnn is preparing her son to make the
trip over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house.  (Don't
ask me why LeeAnn was going to be taking Duke out in public.  That doesn't
seem real bright.)  As she opens the door...SURPRISE!!!  Kevin is standing
outside the door looking in, at LeeAnn and Duke.  

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+I know this advise is unsolicited, but...*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
In response to Asa's doorbell, Clint (in self-imposed exile) opens the door
to see Gen. Sloan Carpenter standing outside.  "What do you want?" Clint
asks his archrival for Viki's affections.  Sloan would like to talk to
Clint about Viki.  Sloan points out that Dorian's photos were gross mis-
representations of what happened that night in Viki's office.  Clint says
right!  The only thing Clint blames Dorian for was being the messenger.
Point blank, he asks Sloan if he is in love with Viki.  Sloan evades the
question and confesses that he wants to put an end to the whole affair 
(har-dee-har-har).  The two part; but as Sloan is leaving, Kevin and Bo
come in.  Kevin asks Clint "What the he!! is he doing here?"  Clint brandishes
his adoptive son for telling him what to do (as if talking to Viki is the
wrong thing to do).  Clint leaves, and Bo and Kevin parley.  Bo reminds Kevin
that life throws you a lot of curve balls.  Kevin agrees that he has had his
share of late.  Kevin leaves, and Clint returns looking for Kevin.  He
wants to apologize.  "Too late," Bo tells his bro.  Bo then begins to offer
his own brand of unsolicited advice: when it comes to being lonely--and
that's no fun--and missing the one that you love, why Uncle Bo knows all...
Clint won't have it.  This is, indeed, a lousy situation--and he didn't
cause it (at least not in /his/ mind), Viki and `that Sloan _Carpenter_ (like
there are any other `Sloans' on OLTL)' did it.

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+Won't you be my neighbor/or, I won't go!!!*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
After leaving Asa's mansion, Sloan shows up at Llanfair.  Viki tells the
General that this is decidedly /not/ a good time.  Sloan admits that he
knows about Clint's moving out, and what this situation must mean to Viki.
Viki challenges Sloan; if he /did/ know what it meant, he would not be these
at Llanfair!  Sloan begins to echo Viki's words to her confidants: Clint has
changed, he's blaming everyone but himself, they are growing apart, **nothing
will ever be the same again**.  Then, Sloan tells Viki that he will be staying
in Llanview.  Viki begs Sloan to leave.  This is a private matter, she tells
him.  Sloan points out that Viki needs help and support (like Renee or one
of Viki's better, and less-involved, friends couldn't offer this?).
Viki begins to shake: "I can't handle this!"  Sloan hits her again with
**nothing will ever be the same again**, and Clint will not grow with you.
Think about it.  Viki fights her feelings.  "You must go /now/!" she tells
Sloan.  "There is no /us/."  Ah, but Sloan is too close to the kill; he
tells her that there *is* an us.  "We met."  He tells Viki thzt she deserves
happiness, and that he wants to give it to her (I'll say he wants to!).
He finally confesses: "I love you more than anything else in the world."
He asks Viki to please give him a chance.

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+Death becomes him+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Luna and Renee are asking Dr. Larry as to why Max is not fully recovered,
afterall the surgery was a success, so on paper Max /should/ not be as bad
off as he is.  Yet, he holds on by a mere shoestring.  Dr. Wolek tells Max's
fans that he is in a coma, a state which modern medical science does not
fully understand.  Enter Suede.  He has been given his walking papers.  Suede
tries to console Luna that Max will be okay.  He regrets having gotten Lunar
and Max involved in the whole expedition to Ravenpoint.  Luna cries in Suede's
arms; she cannot live thinking of a day without Max.  (I thought Suede dealt
with his feelings for Luna [?] remarkably Stoically.  Perhaps he /is/ a
changed man.)  He tells Luna that he has a heart-felt belief that Max will
be alright, which lightens Luna's outlook.  Marty is looking on Suede and
Luna jealously.  After Luna leaves, Marty confronts the new Suede.  (She is
apparently unaware of Suede's innocence.)  Suede asks Marty about Max's 
condition.  Marty asks Suede if she looks like a doctor (or something to that
effect).  She asks Suede what concern Max's condition would be to him.  Suede
tells her that things are different now, which Marty interprets to mean 
including her.  Nope -- Suede tells her that she is not a part of the package.
She is trouble, and yet he is going to stay around Llanview at least until
Max recovers.  
	Larry confers (offstage) with the surgeon.  Everything /should/
be on course.  Max needs a miracle worker, and Luna takes the cue.  She
pleads with Max to give her a sign--anything.  She tells Max (bed-ridden
Max, that is) that he is a fighter: "Remember how we fought about Suede?"
And then it happened..."Heeheehee."  Luna thought she heard laughter.  
She begs Max not to leave her now.

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+It's /my/ party, and I'll die if I want to!+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
Death invites Max to a drink: Branch and Bourbon (?), one of his favorites.
Death produces a tuxedo for Max to wear to her party.  When Max becomes
a little `hot under the collar,' she explains that before this he was in
a hospital, and he was in pain--not now, and what he needs is a bath.  Max
tells her that he is not in a party mood, and moreover he doesn't know this
place.  
	Death seems to have gotten the upper hand, because next we see Max in
a bubble bath.  Death begins to sponge him off.  He expresses his worries about
the people he left behind, once he is out of the bath and dressed.  Death offers
to show him the future (actually, a mirror).  Therein, Max sees Luna and Suede
together.  Al is with them, and they all sees to be happy.  Max says that this
scene doesn't bother him, and he doesn't know why.  Death asks him to stay with
her.  There is no turning back.

Well, folks, that's a wrap.  It promises to be an interesting week ahead,
with Luna's battle with Death (do I sense a catfight brewing?).  And hope-
fully, there will be an end to this intolerable Viki/Clint/Sloan triangle
in sight (though, I doubt it).  Oh well!  :-)  It *is* a soap!!!!  Have
a good week, all!

--Bob
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