From: susanm@HP-AND.AN.HP.COM (Susan Margulies)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: AMC: Thursday Update 10/1
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:59:26 GMT

AMC Update, Thursday October 1

Featuring:      Bye, Bye Bandages!!
		starring Natalie, Trevor, Galen, Dr. Steve, Dr. ?,
		and Carter

		Bye, Bye Tempo!
		starring Camera Happy Carter, Galen, and Brooke

		Hello, Adam; Bye Bye, Any Chance of Honesty
		starring Adam, Stuart, Gloria, Dixie, and Dr. BJ

Hello, Adam; Bye Bye, Any Chance of Honesty
-----------------------------------------
At the hospital, Dixie and Gloria are having one of their famous
heart-to-hearts where each bends over backwards to make sure the
other is happy (i.e. they kiss each other's butts).  Gloria
reassures Dixie for the nth time (where n > fingers + toes + any
other counting appendages :]) that she is not responsible for
Hayley's condition regardless of what Adam has to say to the
contrary.  Gloria asks Dixie if Brian is something special, and
Dixie assures her he is, but admits that their age difference
bothers her.  Gloria gives her a pep talk about grabbing the brass
ring when it comes around - "so what if that brass ring is a little
newer!" (I thought that was a cute way of putting it!)  Dixie is
impressed with Gloria's attitude of "to hell with what everyone says
or thinks," and Gloria reveals that the person who taught her that 
was Stuart.

Dixie begins to pry about Glo's friendship with Stu, wondering if
there isn't more to it than just friendship.  Dixie observes that
the way Gloria gushes about how wonderful Stuart is and how
comfortable she is when she's with him are both indications that
this is LOVE!  Gloria tells Dixie that they are not passionate, but
looks like she is kicking the idea around a bit.  

Meanwhile at the gatehouse, Stuart's dear brother has come to visit.
After the perfunctory "how's Hayley doing?" rigamarole, Stuart tells
Adam that just as today is a brand new start for Hayley, so should
it be for him.  Stuart intends to tell Gloria the truth about how he
allowed Adam to play him the night of the hospital party.  Adam goes
NUTS!  He *REALLY* doesn't want Stuart to do this, and his
over-zealousness leads Stuart to the observation that Adam acts like
as if *HE* is the one who is in love with Gloria!  OUCH!  Adam
covers by saying that he just thinks Gloria is too wonderful for
Stuart to lose, and besides, he feels responsible for the lies.

In his attempts to convince Stuart to let the lie stand he reveals 
some of that precious Adam Chandler philosophy on life.  He gives an
intense endorsement to lying - lying can keep you from hurting
people, "one little lie can do a world of good," "admitting you lied
is a serious dating don't!"  (This scene was great!)  But Stuart for
once sticks to his guns and doesn't allow Adam to lead him down the
primrose path yet again.  Until...

When Adam realizes that Stuart isn't budging in his decision to fess
up, (Adam: "Damn, honesty was always one of your biggest faults!") he
tries another approach.  He pretends to be deep in thought, so of
course Stuart bites and asks him, "What are you scheming now?"  Adam
says he is merely trying to think of a way to lessen the blow, and
what he has come up with is allowing him rather than Stuart to tell
Gloria about the switcheroo.  Adam convinces Stuart that his way is
the right way, the only way that Stuart won't lose Gloria for good.
Adam promises to have Gloria call Stuart as soon as he has finished
telling her the news.

At the hospital, Adam approaches Gloria to invite her to lunch.  She
tells him in no uncertain terms exactly what he can do with his
gourmet French Restaurant.  Adam is surprised; he thought they
burried the hatchet because of Stuart.  Gloria informs Chandler that
she is now holding his treatment of Dixie against him!  She tries to
get him to promise to lay off Dixie, but Adam will only promise to
do what's best for Hayley.  Despite Adam's protests that he wants to
talk to Gloria about Stuart, Gloria thinks he just wants to turn her
against Dixie.  She runs off after telling Adam to keep his
distance, otherwise she will reburry the unburried hatchett between
his eyes!  OUCH!

So Adam does what any good villain would do, he returns minutes
later wearing an ugly brown (read Stuart style) suit and with his
hair ruffled.  He waves shyly, and Gloria "Lois Lane" Marsh thinks 
he is Stuart.  (just my way of saying I think this disguise is right
up there with Clark Kent and the glasses thing!)  She informs him
that his evil twin was just by to see her and invite her to lunch.
When she starts saying bad things about Adam, "Stuart" defends him!
(Hasn't GloBoNurse caught on that only at certain times does Stuart
defend Adam to her?  Well, we all know those are only the times when
Stuart is really Adam!)  He tells Gloria that Adam isn't all bad and
that maybe she should listen to him because when Stuart actually
does break down and listen to him, he's always right! (Don'tcha just
love when Adam pats himself on the back while playing Stuart??)

So anyways, "Stuart" asks Gloria if she has time to have lunch with
him, and Glo says for Stuart, she will make time.  So they head out
to the park for a picnic.  Once at the picnic, "Stuart" decides it
is confession time.  He broaches the subject of Adam finding out
about Dixie and Brian, and Glo doesn't want to talk about it.  But
of course she doesn't realize she has no choice because this is not
normal, lovable, sensitive (read whipped) Stuart!  When "Stuart"
wants to explain how Adam found out, Gloria guesses that Stuart told
him but didn't want to admit it to her.  "Stuart" delivers the
shocking blow - I didn't tell Adam, you told him!  A stunned Gloria
can't understand what he means; she was with Stuart the whole night
of the party, and why would she tell Adam something like that!?
"Stuart" explains that she wasn't with him the whole night; she was
with Adam pretending to be him!!!! [sh*t-hit-the-fan cliffhanger!]

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Dixie and the real Stuart are
having a heart to heart.  She really wants to know that he supports
her in her affair with Brian.  Thank goodness Stuart is incapable of
the blind family loyalty that Adam personifies, so he is able to
reassure Dixie that he only wants her to be happy.  Dixie wonders
about Stuart's happiness, and Stuart admits that everything should
be happy for him once Adam gets back from having lunch with Gloria.
Dixie can't imagine that Gloria went to lunch with Adam (neither can
Gloria, I bet!! ha!) considering how angry she was with him earlier.
Stuart is very anxious to find Gloria once the lunch is over to know
if he is forgiven.  At the end of the conversation, Dr. BJ kinda
walks in on Dixie and Stuart for no apparent reason.  He just
takes up space in the doorway.  (I thought this was rather
pointless; it's not like there was anything for him to overhear!  At
first I thought maybe he had seen Glo and "Stu" go to lunch and
would be the one to catch Adam's impersonation, but noooo.)

Bye, bye Tempo
--------------
Camera-happy Carter is a busy beaver down in the Tempo darkroom.  He
is anxiously developing those compromising photogs of Trev and
Maggie that he took earlier at campaign HQ.  As he dreams of yet
another situation where Galen has to beg him to help her - this time
it's when she is found guilty of the murder of Det. Dillon - Carter
smiles wickedly.  Just then, the darkroom door opens, and it's
Brooke!  Carter yells at her, "Don't you know what the red light
means?!"  Brooke is most composed (I like her better like this than
when she is with Edmund) and demands to know what is going on.  She
takes one look at the compromising clinch Carter captured (ooh,
aliteration :])  and suspects foul play!  Carter covers by saying he
was just covering for Tempo since they didn't have a photographer at
Galen's Press Conference yet they are doing a story on woman
political figures or something like that.  Brooke seems to buy it
but gives him a warning to stick to his *OWN* job if he wants to
keep it.  Carter gives her much lip about how firing him would just
be harrassment since everyone he works with thinks he is an angel.
Brooke says she really doesn't give a damn; if he crosses the line
again, he's history!  Oh, and she doesn't think they'll be needing
those pictures for the cover of Tempo, so she grabs the one of T & G
in a clinch and leaves very smoothly.  (Although I think she should
have taken the negative, too)

Brooke invites Galen over to share the news and pictures.  Galen
takes a look at the picture and gets disgusted, although I have to
admit it looked more like one of those
"I-can't-believe-how-bad-my-hair-looks" faces than a
"I-can't-believe-my-ex-is-so-twisted" face!!  Galen and Brooke
discuss their options, in the legal sense.  Galen encourages Brooke
to fire Carter on the grounds that he used Tempo property for the
purpose of harrassing Galen.  While Brooke argues that Carter's
excuse was relatively satisfactory (and would probably hold up in
court), you can tell she is anxious to call in the pest
exterminators to come and get Carter Jones out of Tempo!   Galen
says she wouldn't blame Brooke for not wanting to anger Carter by
firing him, to which Brooke replies something I've been waiting to
hear some intelligent female say for months - "I think Carter Jones
has been relying on that attitude from women for far too long!"

Meanwhile, Carter is in his office on the phone with the National
Intruder offerring them a juicy picture of his favorite candidate in
a very un-DA-like pose.  "Hang up the phone," says Brooke, who is
standing in the doorway!!  Go, Brookester!  Carter gives her what he
considers his perfectly honed innocent-little-me face.  Brooke says
no sale, you're fired for using Tempo property for harrassing Galen
Henderson.  Carter starts citing court cases (he's such a [insert
your favorite piece of anatomy to compare a man to when he pisses
you off here] !!)  but Brooke tells him that won't scare her or
change her mind.  Then Carter starts to moan and whine about how
suddenly Brooke sounds like she has been meeting with a certain
ultra-feminist lawyer and plotting against him.  (Can you say
paranoid?)  He thinks they were probably "burning your bras in
celebration that you got the reformed wife abuser out of Tempo!"
(OTF!!)  

Carter thinks Brooke should reconsider firing him because of what an
ass, I mean asset, he has been.  She might not think so, but he was
invaluable help to Edmund.  Brooke bites for more info, at which
point Carter is all-too-eager to reveal that he was the source of
inspiration for Edmund's exhumation ideas!  Wrong thing to say,
Carter!  I'm sure this makes Brooke despise him all the more!!!!
Carter makes a few more threats, not really physical 
(although it is inherently implied, right?) but more about suing
Tempo and making a big stink about his firing.  But Brooke keeps her 
cool, and tells him to be outta there by 5 o' clock.

Then Brookester goes to her office to call ?Jeremey? and warn him
about firing Carter.  I'm not sure who she called - but she didn't
find the person.  Maybe it was Trevor or even Edmund.  Not
important anyways!  The point is, she was not calm cool and
collected on the inside.  But hey, fake it till you make it, right?

Bye Bye Bandages
----------------
At the hospital, NotNat is on the phone with some reporter dude who
wants her reaction to the news of Trevor and Galen's affair.
Natalie gets furious, says no comment, and slams the phone down on
the lamp, causing the bulb to blow!  Gloria, who just came in the
room, offers to help her, but NotNat claims to be in control.  She
asks Glo to check on the Doctor who is supposed to come take her
bandages off (what, suddenly she doesn't care to wait for Trevor
anymore??)  Trevor arrives and senses that NotDoll is unhappy.  She
tells him about the phone call and asks why a reporter would even
suspect such a thing.  Trev tells Not all about the press conference
and how they suspect 'tis Carter who started the rumor mill at full
speed.  Not seems a bit suspicious due to the fact that she knew
Galen had a crush on Trev at one point.  But Trevor makes it clear
to Not that he is a one Doll kinda guy.  Besides, Galen and Dr. BJ
are getting mighty close!  (Ya know, the way Carter and the press
ignore Galen and Dr. Steve, no matter how much they keep a low
profile, reminds me of how Hellcat used to ignore Edmund and Brooke!
How about a romantic pairing of Carter and Hellcat?  Yow!  Well,
maybe they could just conspire to do evil.)  Not is glad for Galen
and Steven, and hopes that Carter gets what he deserves.  She and
Trevor get down to more important things, namely finding out if she
will ever see again.  

Carter calls some doctor somewhere and describes Natalie's eye
trauma and wants to know what the chances are of her regaining her
sight.  The doctor tells him 50-50.  Carter desparately hopes, "It's
gotta go *MY* way!" (This evil SOB wants this woman to stay blind so
she will blame her husband and be dependent on the man who *really*
caused her accident!  ARGH!!!!)

When the doctors arrive (BJ and someone else I can't remember, not a
contract doctor, so who cares!?) they darken the room and prepare
Natalie for the adjustment to the light.  Unfortunately, but quite
expectedly, when the bandages come off,  Natalie is still blind.
She freaks, saying they need to turn up the lights - that is what's
causing everything to look dark.  She grabs hold of Trevor, and is
distraught about not being able to see him and his outrageous tie.
BJ and Doc try to calm Natalie, but it doesn't help much.  She is 
angry because they gave her false hopes.  Steven tries to convince 
her that her eyes have been through much trauma and that her sight 
could still return.  Natalie is beside herself with pity, and
Trevor is beside himself with guilt.  Furthermore, she doesn't want
those doctors building her up any more.  

Once alone, Trevor and Natalie start to deal, yet they are both
forcing themselves too hard.  When Galen comes in full of
congratulations, Trevor tries to get her to cool it, but too late.
Natalie informs the DA-to-be that she is still blind.  Galen feels
terrible!  Natalie feels hungry, so Trevor volunteers to go get her
some food.  Although Galen offers to stay with her, Natalie wants
Galen to go with Trevor.  Trevor says "Back in a flash with some
hash" (completely recycled dialogue - do you guys remember earlier
in the summer - "Back in a flash with some serious trash" ?) and
bolts with Galen hot on his heels.  Once outside the door, Trevor
breaks down in guilt, "DAMN IT!" and Natalie breaks down in tears,
her shaking hands reaching to her face and eyes.  (OK, I admit I
thought this was decent acting.)

Galen tries to help Trevor through this, but he feels he made
Natalie blind, and can't get past it.  Meanwhile, Carter arrives
in time to overhear Trevor say Natalie may be permanently blind.  He
rushes to her room to console the weeping woman who hugs him
tightly! [cliffhanger]
----------------------------

Whew!  That was a long one to update.  I *hate* updating after I've
seen Friday's show!!!  It is so hard to keep everything straight
once you know how all the things turn out!  If I got anything
confused, please feel free to straighten me out!!

Till next time,
Susan
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