From: dooley@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Lois-Anna Dooley)
Subject: Gl - update for monday sept. 28
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:14:01 GMT

Opening Scenes:

Michelle is especially "huggy" and affectionate with Blake this morning,
who is dressed fancy for Ross's Country Club speech.  Michelle actually
steals Blake's silver earrings right off her, and nearly gets away with
it too.

Henry gives Ross a campaign contribution at the Country Club.

Eve and Skinny White-Boy are having lunch at the C.C. too, he pumps
her for info on Nick's progress in Paris.     

Harley comes home from work to bring Mallet lunch.  Boy is he grumpy.
He wonders what will happen to him, if he will ever work again.

Weird scene with Bridget & Nadine at Nadine's house.  She slept in
the pregnancy padding and is looking fondly at a jar of lactation
formula.  Bridget is a little queasy as usual.  Nadine waxes poetic
about the beauty of lactation, comparing it to a lovely piece of
driftwood (I'm not kidding).  Billy shows up at the door with suitcases.
Nadine is surprised when he announces he's moving back in!


(violin arpeggios up and down, the lighthouse begins to spin, seven
diaper commercials...)


Nadine is very unwilling to let Billy move back - she pretends that
it's because he hasn't truly forgiven her and doesn't really love
her.  She tries to throw him out.  When he won't go, she brings
down HER backs and says SHE's leaving.  She doesn't want to be a
"charity rescue mission".  She wants him to really, really love
her again.  He says she's pushing it.  She tells him to push off.
He goes.  Bridget asks incredulously, "What did you DO?!"  Nadine
smiles smugly and says, "He'll be back."  After a few commercials,
Nadine admits to Bridget that that was too close a call and Billy
must keep his distance during her "pregnancy".  She wants Bridget
to move in with her right away, although she admits it will probably
be tough for Bridget to put up with her.  Bridget turns all soft and
says she is devoted to Nadine - aside from Ed & Mo, she is the only
person who has been kind to her.  Also, she admires Nadine's strong
love for Billy - she could have had tons of money in a divorce
settlement, but just wanted her man back.  She thinks Nadine will
be a good mother for her baby.  She starts to cry.

Harley asks Mallet if people look funny when you can't hear their
voices but just see their mouths moving.  He says everyone looks
funny to him except her.  (Aw.)  She says something about catching
up on his soaps, and he says "Yeah those things are great.  People
have really big mouths and talk really slowly, and they keep saying
the same things over and over and over..."  (A little meta-humour
for us!)  The physical therapist comes over, she is a bit of a
battle-axe type but nice.  Mallet calls her "Sarge", she calls him
"Valentino".  Harley goes back to work.  The physio doesn't go very
well, Mallet gets frustrated and insists that Sarge leave.  She does
so reluctantly.  Mallet starts doing push-ups in his wheelchair in
a burst of testosterone or something.  Later at the police station,
Harley and Eve are talking about Mallet's progress.  Harley phones
home to ask the therapist how it's going, and is alarmed when there
is no answer after tons of rings.  Meanwhile, back at the firehouse,
Mallet is accidentally knocking things over and unable to clean them
up, getting more and more frustrated.  Soon Harley shows up and scolds
him for sending the therapist away.  He yells at her to stop hovering
over him, and then looks sad.  She kisses him on the head.

Blake tells Maureen about Michelle's little stunt.  She's pretty ticked
off.  Jenna arrives (I guess Mo called her during the diaper commercials)
and tells Michelle not to try to be like her - she is ashamed of her
stealing.  She asks her to admire her good qualities, like cheerfulness.
(?)  Michelle says "And you're pretty", and Jenna says "And so are you!"
After Michelle is sent off, Jenna tells Maureen not to worry, Michelle
will tire of her just like Roger will.  (I guess Blake had made some 
snide remark about Rog.)  Jenna goes.  Blake asks Mo about moving into
the spare apartment now that Mallet & Spinner are gone.  Mo asks who -
you? or you and Ross?  Blake says Ross won't move in with her before
the election and, if he wins, he'll go to DC.  She doesn't know what
will happen with them, and mentions he has not said the "L" word yet.

Henry & Ross discuss Vanessa, Henry sorta hopes the two of them 
might get back together.  Ross says it would be unwise to start a
new relationship right now.  (No kidding.)  He goes off on a tangent
about Roger and Leo Flynn, trying to smear him, and wonders if Rog's
contributions to Leo are as above board as the one Henry just gave him.

Eve is defensive and insulted at W-B's implication that she is close
enought with Nick to know all his little secrets.  W-B seems nervous
that he has now alienated her too.  A Country Club waiter tells Eve
she has a phone call.  She goes.

Back at Spaulding, Henry runs into W-B.  W-B asks him if it bothers
him to have Nick McHenry on the Spaulding board.  Henry says no, the
only thing that bothers him is insolence!  W-B has a little tantrum
about Nick being into everything, which Henry has no time for.
A little later Blake stops by to see W-B.  He is clearly annoyed to
be interrupted, but then remembers that Blake is the only one still
on his side so he humours her.  She asks if he ever really loved
her and why.  He says she is funny, outrageous and beautiful.  She
asks why he loves Eleni, and he says probably her lack of selfishness,   
and that she sees people as being a little better than they really are.
He goes into a panic about losing her.  Blake says well you know what
my Dad always says, "If a magician wants to hide what he has in one
hand, he has to do something dazzling with the other."

Ross's speech at the Country Club is about to start.  He is speaking
to a group of pastors, priests, nuns and rabbis about religious
education - but Blake has not shown up yet and he can't find his
notes.  Jenna is there schmoozing with a rabbi, which is pretty funny.
She nabs Ross and asks him about her deportment - he says he has
no influence in that area but if he did he would be sure she was
sent away.  She implies that she has information on Roger & Blake's
"plans" for Ross which she will be happy to share only if he helps
her.  Yikes.  When it is time for Ross's speech, Blake is still not
there.  He greets the group nervously, and thanks the "Inter-Faith
Inter-(something else) group for allowing him this - er - interlude."
He coughs nervously as no one laughs at his little joke.  He gets
serious and starts winging a speech about religious education - 
unfortunately he uses the word "intercourse" by accident (probably
meant "discourse" or something) and there is a shocked murmer through
the crowd.  He mops his forehead, drinks water and wonders where
Blake is with his speech.

Back again at WSPR, W-B makes a phone call to Paris and requests
that any documents which might implicate him be shredded immediately.
Henry, passing by in the hall, overhears this and rushes off.  W-B
thinks he hears something so he runs out to the hall, but no one is
there.  He is sure someone eavesdropped, but he doesn't know who.
He sweats.

The End.


Lois-Anna