From: peea224@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Joanna L. Castillo)
Subject: KL on TNT: Summary for March 30 and 31
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 04:17:49 GMT

KL on TNT summary for March 30, 1992 to March 31, 1992:

[Editorial comments, as usual, appear in square brackets.]

3-30-92:  "Vulnerable"
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Karen and Ben go to talk with Nurse Wilson together.  She says she 
doesn't have time to talk with them and Ben says he's the father of the 
babies.  Val worries about Karen not showing up for an appointment.  
Joshua says it's not surprising because she just makes her friends 
nervous.  Cathy can't believe he'd say something so cruel to Val and he 
says she needs to know the truth.  Nurse Wilson kicks Ben and Karen out 
of her trailer without telling them anything and calls Ackerman but he's 
not in.  Gary tries to speak with Coblentz but can't get through.  Val 
calls her therapist and says she's feeling shaky -- like she's losing it 
again.  She says Karen missed an appointment and Ben hasn't called.  
Joshua comes in the room and stares at her in disapproval.  She asks if 
he needs anything and he just walks away.  [What a pig!]  Gary meets 
with his contact to Coblentz saying he needs to talk to Coblentz 
directly.  Karen calls Mac who tells her he'll arrange for a cop to 
speak with Nurse Wilson in the hope that it will shake her up enough to 
tell them what she knows.  Abby  gets to work and starts to worry when 
she realizes Karen's still looking for the kids.  Mac and the cop arrive 
at the nurse's house only to discover that she's fled.

Abby asks Ruth about the pages and she says she's working on it but 
she's been having difficulty getting to the papers because Laura's in 
the way and they need to work together to get her out of the way.  Greg 
takes some plans concerning the Empire Valley (EV) project for Gary to 
look over and Gary won't give him an opinion straight away.  Ben, Mac, 
and Karen have a strategy meeting and Ben suddenly realizes he didn't 
call Val all day.  Karen says not to worry about it since he's doing all 
this for her.  Meanwhile, Val tries to call Ben but he's not home, of 
course.  Karen worries that she did the wrong thing but Mac tells her 
they wouldn't be as far as they are if she hadn't persisted.  She 
suggests to Mac that they tell Val what they're up to and he insists 
they need to speak to her therapist first.  Cathy tells Joshua she 
doesn't want to have a baby yet -- she wants to spend time being his 
wife before she starts being a mother.  He says fine but he obviously 
doesn't mean it.  The next morning, Val stops by Karen's house and Karen 
apologizes for forgetting their appointment the day before.  Val says 
it's okay and opens the door to leave only to find Nurse Wilson standing 
at the door.  

Val doesn't recognize her and leaves.  The nurse obviously realizes who 
Val is, though.  Nurse Wilson tells Karen and Mac she's tired of hiding 
and being afraid.  Val gets home and Joshua comments that Karen's too 
busy for her all the time now and asks if she doesn't notice it.  Val 
says no and asks if he and Cathy will be apartment hunting today.  She 
walks out and Lillie Mae asks him to leave Val alone.  He says he's 
worried about her and the fact that she's covering for those people who 
aren't really her friends.  He says he's got to stick by her and maybe 
he shouldn't move out.  Coblentz tells Greg not to worry about Gary -- 
that he'll take care of him.  Mac asks Nurse Wilson what Ackerman's got 
against her that would make her cooperate in his scam.  She refuses to 
tell them but agrees to help find the babies.  Coblentz tells Gary it 
was his people who placed the bug on his phone and were following him.  
Gary gets quite upset and says he's quiting.  Coblentz laughs and says 
he can't just run away.  Gary says he's not running away -- he's just 
not going to work for Coblentz anymore.  

That evening, Joshua gets home and taunts Val a bit more about Karen and 
Ben no longer being there for her.  Cathy tells Joshua she's going to 
take the next apartment she finds and if he doesn't like it that's too 
bad.  Ben shows up at Val's door with a big bouquet of flowers which 
delights her.  She tells him she appreciates that he, Karen, and Mac 
aren't shying away from her despite the way she's been acting.  He 
assures her he loves her and she says something about Joshua saying 
those things.  He storms into Joshua and Cathy's room, escorts Cathy 
out, and tells Joshua in no uncertain terms to leave Val alone.  He says 
he can see through him and the way he nibbles away at people's self-
confidence until he has them in his control.  Joshua says he's never 
turned his back on Val when she really needed him and Ben punches him.  
Karen frets about the fact that she warned Ackerman that she was on his 
trail and doesn't think they'll ever find him now.  She suddenly 
realizes that he's so obsessed with bridge that he will show up at the 
championship tournament anyway.

Abby and Gary watch the news and Gary notices that Abby's distracted -- 
he asks what's going on and she says it's nothing.  The news stories are 
all about terrorist activities and Gary watches intently.  He puts in a 
call to Coblentz [to re-up?].  The next morning, Coblentz reassures Greg 
that he should be thankful to Gary and what he can bring to the EV 
project.  Karen, Mac, and Nurse Wilson go to the bridge tournament in 
San Diego to look for Ackerman.  Laura arrives at the ranch and comments 
to Ruth that it's a beautiful day.  "Not for long" says Ruth under her 
breath.  As Laura looks through a few things in Greg's office, Abby 
walks in wearing a bath robe and acts surprised saying she didn't 
realize she'd be there so early.  Laura rushes away and Ruth tells Abby 
she did a great job and she shouldn't have any problem getting the 
notebook pages.  Greg walks out and asks if that was Laura driving away 
and what's Abby doing there.  Ruth says she didn't notice who drove away 
and Abby's just visiting.  Greg says seeing the two of them together 
causes chills to run up and down his spine.  Mac, Karen and Nurse Wilson 
push their way into the bridge tournament.  Ackerman sees them, gets 
rattled, and makes a run for it.  Mac chases after him on foot and Karen 
blocks his escape with their car.  Mac yells at him that it's over and 
to get out of the car.  Instead, Ackerman reaches into his glove 
compartment.....pulls out a gun........and..........kills himself!

3-31-92:  "The Long and Winding Road"
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Someone breaks into Ackerman's house and ransacks the place.  A police 
detective talks to Karen trying to find out what caused Ackerman to run 
and why he killed himself.  She says she'd prefer to wait for Mac before 
she answers his questions.  He asks who the other woman was and she says 
she's a nurse and doesn't know where she went.  The man continues to go 
through all the files in Ackerman's office and finds an envelope taped 
to the bottom of one of the cabinets.  A couple of policemen show up at 
Ackerman's office and get the jump on the man who turns out to be Mac.

Ben plays some bag-pipes and marches around in a kilt while Val sits in 
the bed saying he's crazy.  She finally gets him to stop and he jumps 
into bed with her.  Mac calls Ben to bail him out of jail.  Ben tells 
Val it can't wait and he needs to go to Mac to help him out.  She asks 
what's going on and he says there's no time but things will be okay.  
The detective tells Karen they still haven't been able to find Mac and 
she may as well check herself into a room.  Ben gets to the jail but 
they don't have a record of Mac being arrested.  The sergeant takes Ben 
aside and says they've got a guy in custody who looks like the 
governor's special investigator but he doesn't have any ID and won't 
answer any questions.  Karen calls Ben's house and Val says Ben went out 
looking for Mac.  She tells Val to tell Ben and Mac she's still at the 
hotel in San Diego and when Val asks her what's going on, she says she 
doesn't have time and quickly hangs up.  The sergeant tells Ben that Mac 
wasn't charged with anything and he's free to go.  Mac gets to San Diego 
to pick Karen up and asks about Nurse Wilson.  Karen says she couldn't 
force her to stay around and asks where he was and says they've really 
messed things up now.  He tells her it's not over yet.  

Ben, Karen, and Mac stop at Ackerman's house and Mac finds the papers 
and his wallet that he hid so the police wouldn't find.  The papers turn 
out to be lists of people and adoption agencies.  Mac notices the name 
Fisher but can't remember why it seems familiar.  Karen says as soon as 
the adoptive parents see the news of Ackerman's suicide, they'll make a 
run for it.  Ben says the parents may not know the adoption was illegal 
and may not run.  Gary sees the news of Ackerman's suicide and shows it 
to Abby who doesn't know what to make of it.  Greg tries to call Laura 
and as soon as she hears his voice, she hangs up.  He tries again and 
she hollers at him that there's nothing he can say she wants to hear and 
hangs up again.  Abby calls looking for Ruth and Greg tells her he put 
her on a plane this morning and can't believe the stunt they pulled.  He 
calls Laura again and she hangs up again before he can say anything.  
Ben tries to get Karen to get some rest but she won't and starts calling 
people in the phone book with the same last names of the people on the 
list Mac found.  Meanwhile, the Fishers [the people who adopted the 
twins -- husband played by Joe Regalbuto who now plays Frank on Murphy 
Brown!] see the article about Ackerman and don't see anything important 
about it.  Greg tells Laura he hasn't even slept with Abby since they 
started going together -- that it was all a stunt to get her out of his 
life.  She says it worked and she's sick of the whole thing and is tired 
of being on the outside.  He says if that's the case for her to marry 
him and she tells him she's already married and walks away.  Abby storms 
around her bedroom fuming at Ruth and the maid brings in an envelope 
from Ruth which contains the pages from Easton's notebook.  Mac and Ben 
talk to a judge about getting a court order to open the records for a 
couple of adoption agencies.  A news report is broadcast saying Mac and 
Karen were two of the people chasing Ackerman.  Karen calls people from 
her list pretending to be a friend from Lamaze class -- no one she calls 
is the right family.  Gary barges into her office demanding to know 
what's going on -- she tells him they've discovered that Val's babies 
are still alive.

Mr. Fisher frantically drives home and tells his wife to pack some 
things -- they have to leave immediately.  She obviously doesn't know 
anything about the illegal adoption.  Abby stops by Val's house and 
Lillie Mae tells her Val's at Ben's house.  Mac suddenly remembers who 
the Fisher's are and he and Ben rush out to look for them.  Mac calls 
Karen and asks her to meet him and Ben at a spot near the house.  She 
and Gary rush out.  Abby finds Val on the beach and says she got a 
strange phone call for Mrs. Ewing.  She says they thought they were 
talking to her [Val] and that her babies are still alive and they told 
her where to find them.  They get in Abby's car and head toward the 
Fisher's house -- they're pretty uncomfortable in each other's company.  
Ben, Mac, Karen, and Gary all meet up and start looking for the house -- 
Ben and Mac can only remember the general location.

Abby asks Val if she's okay and comments that it's weird that she got 
the phone call for the wrong Mrs. Ewing.  She says she's surprised that 
Val's so calm and Val says she always knew they were alive.  Ben and Mac 
are frustrated that they can't find the house -- they switch drivers in 
the hope they'll have better luck.  Mr. Fisher gets irritated with his 
wife for dawdling around saying they have to get going.  He goes to the 
store and takes one of the kids with him.  She asks what's wrong and he 
insists there it's nothing.  Everyone wonders what they'll tell the 
Fishers when they find them.  Mac finally sees the house -- he and Karen 
approach.  Gary comments to Ben that he's handling things pretty well -- 
saying he couldn't be as calm if they were his kids.  Mrs. Fisher 
answers the door and recognizes Mac from his previous visit.  Mac asks 
if her baby was adopted and when she says they adopted twins, he says 
they were illegally taken from their mother.  Abby and Val drive up at 
that moment and Ben and Gary just look at them in amazement.  Val starts 
walking toward the house and Abby tells Gary not to ask any questions.  
Mr. Fisher drives up at that moment and everything turns to incredibly 
sloooooooooowwwwwwwww motion as the camera goes from Mrs. Fisher with 
one of the babies, to Mr. Fisher in the car with the other baby, to Val 
looking back and forth between both of them.

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That's the end of season #5, I believe.  I'll post the next three
episodes tomorrow.  There needs to be at least a mini-cliffhanger, I
think.  :-)  As usual, I hope you enjoyed!  

Joanna.

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