From: pboren@rand.org (Pat Boren)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: SB: Update for Monday, Jan 4
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:00:59 GMT
Organization: RAND


So I took all these great notes and left them at home.  I guess
with my birthday approaching (this Friday), the senility is starting
to bother me.

Show picks up with Ted and Lilly standing before the minister and
Rafe barges in, declaring "No, she does not" take this man to be
her husband.  Rafe steps up, declares his love for Lilly, and says
he doesn't want her to make the mistake he made by marrying the
wrong person.  Ted also says he loves Lilly and tells Rafe to get
lost.  Being the "ballsiest" (sorry) guy around, Rafe actually
tries to kiss Lilly at the altar.  Ted takes a punch at him, Rafe
and Ted tussle a bit, and Lilly yells at them to cut it out, she's
not a consolation prize, doesn't she have a say?  She asks to speak
to Rafe in another room.

Gina is stunned, Ted is stunned, Lionel tries to be nice, Connor roles
his eyes, Julia and Mason talk about this and recall one of their
weddings, and Sophia gets sick.  She and Ken go to the kitchen, and
Kelly quickly follows.  She yells at Ken to keep away when she sees
that Sophia is bleeding from the mouth.  Ken wants to take Sophia to
the hospital, but Kelly won't let Sophia out of her sight.  CC and
Connor come in, and Connor tells Kel and CC to go with Ken and Sophia
to the hospital -- Connor will check something out.

At Sophia's house, Connor snoops around and sniffs the booze decanters,
looking for the strychnine.  He stumbles upon the sweetner packets,
opens one, tastes it, and makes an "aha" face.  Takes the packets with
him and leaves.

Lilly and Rafe talk.  Basically, Lilly listens as Rafe tells her
about making a big mistake in marrying Lisa.  So Lilly can't marry
Ted.  (Tell me, Rafe, is she supposed to sit around waiting for you?!)
He tells her she's the love of his life and always will be.  Lilly
is silent and semi-gaga eyes.  Rafe leaves.

In the foyer, Rafe tells Ted to tell Lilly he'll be outside waiting
for her (AARRGH!!! this guy!).  Next to talk to Lilly is Gina.
Gina's advice to Lilly is that the one thing she's learned in her 5
marriages is go with your heart, that's it.

Ted talks to Lionel that it's all over--he's very quiet and clearly
hurt.  Ted is informed that Lilly wants to speak with him.  Before he
enters the room, Ted and Angela chat.  He sadly says he's back where
she gets to him best.  She nicely tells him more or less that she's
very sorry things turned out this way. (This isn't quite right -- help
out there?).  She kisses him on the cheek and leaves.

Ted enters and quietly tells Lilly he knew this day might come, that
he can't hold her back, that he'll step aside and let her go to what
makes her happiest.  He also mentions he should have swooped her up
the first day she walked into town.  Lilly smiles and says, "Ted, thank
you for making this so easy" and she hugs him.  He hugs her as if it's
over.

Later, Ted & Lilly enter the foyer together.  In walks Rafe with a
"well, let's go" attitude.  Lilly announces to everyone there will
be a wedding after all.  End of the show, Gina, Lionel, and Angela
watch as Ted and Lilly recite their vows and kiss.  Rafe suffers it
off by watching through a window.  Angela seemed semi-down, but not
much.  Ted and Lilly seem truly in love and happy.

OK, back up and I'll finish Sophia.  At the hospital, Kelly finally
blasts Ken with "I know you poisoned your other wives and you won't
get away with it this time."  CC is ready to kill Ken.  Ken's reaction
when Kelly tells him that she and Connor exhumed the body of one wife
in Texas and found that strychnine had done her in:  "You mean someone
murdered my wife?!"  Shock, surprise, oh my.  Tests on the comatose
Sophia show she, too, has strychnine poisoning, and in large doses.
Connor arrives with a policeman, read Ken the riot act, and arrests
him on the spot.

	YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

And a storyline I almost forgot:  Mason and Julia leave the interrupted
wedding when they get a call that Gracie has gone into labor, yes,
a month early.  At the hospital, Gracie writhes in pain while the
nurse does nothing -- she's not dilating at all, maybe it's a false
labor.  Little bells go off in Julia and Mason as they realize she's
faking labor.  Julia chews out Gracie, saying the only person allowed
to make a fool of her more than once is her husband and herself.
So, they take Gracie home and discuss her alternatives, like adoption.
So long as the adoptive parents are "filthy rich," says Gracie.  Julia
and Mason leave the room, and Gracie smiles that she's already found the
perfect parents.  She rubs her tummy and refers to "Chester Capwell the
First."

Phew.  Only one more update after this.  Jan 15 is coming much to
quickly, isn't it?

Pat
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	Patricia Boren
	pboren@rand.org