From: shelby@oxygen.cray.com (Shelby Anderson)
Subject: GL: Update for Monday, 1/25/93
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:06:40 CST


I seem to have rambled quite a bit in the update, so here's the abbreviated
version for those of you who bore easily.

        *) AC returns to his job
        *) Dylan resents Billy's attitude 
        *) Ross and Blake have a BIG blow-out in the ladies' room
        *) Nadine does some fast talking when Bridget announces
           she wants to keep her baby
        *) Mindy tells Nick the "whole" story

Enjoy!
Shelby
shelby@cray.com
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GUIDING LIGHT
Monday, January 25, 1993

At the police station ...

AC arrives back at work to applause and shouts of "speech, speech." He says
he doesn't know what to say and that he only brought along the cane in case
he had to beat someone to get his desk back. "The doctors say I'm 90-95%,
but I must tell you I'm a broken man ... and here's the woman who broke me,"
he says, indicating Harley. "Announcement, Piglet" he commands. She flashes
the engagement ring; while everyone cheers, someone tells her she has a phone
call. 

At Lewis Oil ...

Billy is mad that Mindy hasn't returned any of his calls. Dylan walks in
and Billy chews him out for being late for a meeting with a client (which
he isn't). Dylan is very defensive and gets mad because he thinks Billy is 
accusing Julie of making him late. He challenges Billy to fire him and tells 
him he's late because of Mindy, not Julie. Billy seems relieved that he's 
been with Mindy (and that she didn't turn to Roger).

The customer arrives and begins her meeting with Dylan. Billy isn't happy
with how things are progressing and tells the client she should speak with 
one of their engineers. "I thought I was," says the client.  "SO DID I," 
says a hostile Dylan. The client leaves to make a phone call and Billy asks 
Dylan not to be mad at him. "After all, you would have told her the same 
thing," Billy says. "Which I WAS doing until you butted in," Dylan says.  
"But then, you ARE the boss." 

In the Country Club's dining room ...

Ross, Blake, Roger, and Leo discuss Bradshaw v. Spaulding. Blake is REALLY
unhappy that Ross hadn't told her he was representing Spaulding and defends
Roger. After several nasty comments back and forth, Ross asks her "How long 
do you plan on being a little girl, anyway?" (Roger very much enjoys their 
public spat, BTW). Blake runs off to the little girls' room and Ross goes 
after her. Leo and Rog discuss the implications of having Ross on Spaulding's 
side. Leo is worried, but Rog isn't. "Marler will lose the case and my 
daughter right along with it."

In the little girls' room at the Country Club ...

Ross walks in and Blake tells him to go to hell. "What do I need hell for
when I have you?" he asks her. They have a huge fight about the usual things
(i.e. Roger) and he tells her to grow up. Blake starts to slap him, but he
stops her. Then she accuses him of agreeing to represent Spaulding to prevent
her from patching things up with dear old Dad. Ross then goes into this
long spiel about having to work for a living, being happy when Spaulding
called because it will be such a high-profile case, he can't rely on Daddy
to just write him a check (instead of working for a living), etc. Blake
is furious that Ross tried to publicly humiliate Rog when Rog didn't even
provoke it. "Roger's not the one that won't bend here, YOU are," she tells
him. "I think he might be right. You're only with ME because you hate HIM."
Ross goes off about not being able to stand Blake's constant need for
reassurance and throws it in her face that he gave up everything for her.
She doesn't understand exactly what they have -- "You don't want to live
together, you don't want to marry me." Then she says that she guesses that
he wants her to just stand around and not do anything when he hurts her.
[Third best line of the day --] "You get hurt when I don't wear the tie you 
pick out!" Ross tells her. He storms out of the restroom.

Back in the Country Club's dining room ...

[Second best line of the day --] Roger to Ross, "I know you leave no bruises, 
but is she all right?"

Billy and Dylan walk in, "discussing" what happened earlier in the office.
Billy tries to apologize and says he knows he sometimes gets anxious and
jumps in when he shouldn't. Dylan is obviously having an identity crisis
and tells Billy that he does get upset when he thinks Billy thinks he's
handling things wrong. Billy starts mumbling something about his tongue and
his temper being a curse when he notices Roger. He leaves Dylan and goes 
over to Rog's table. Roger asks about his family. Billy picks up a knife 
and says "We'd like to return the favor and put you on a train out of town."

In Nadine's attic ...

Bridget is remembering her last conversation with Maureen. "We just want
you to be happy," Mo is saying. "I love you, Bridget." Bridget responds
(present-day), "I love you too, Aunt Maureen." Nadine comes in with lunch
and a gift. The gift is a charm bracelet with one charm -- a cuckoo clock.
Nadine explains that only she and Bridget will know that it symbolizes
their friendship (since Nadine is such a cuckoo). Bridget thanks her and
then announces that she has decided she is going to keep her baby. She
says she has two responsibilities -- to finish school and to have her baby.
Nadine asks which is more important and she says the baby. She has been 
thinking about Maureen and how much she wanted a baby, so the baby MUST be
more important. Nadine does some fast talking since she is the "oldest,
wisest adult" in Bridget's life. She asks how she plans to support the
baby AND attend college for four years. Nadine says she doesn't want 
Bridget to throw away what her Aunt Maureen wanted for her (i.e. college).
Bridget says she wants to go back to Uncle Ed's because Michelle needs her.
Since Ed will have to hire a part-time babysitter/housekeeper, Bridget
figures she can look after the baby while Bridget attends her classes.
Nadine is frantically trying to convince her how impractical she's being,
saying that Ed is young and will probably remarry and won't want Bridget
and her baby around. Bridget agrees and then says she'll just go back to
Flint. Nadine has convinced her that would be a BIG MISTAKE when the phone
rings. A female voice asks if this is "the former Mrs. Frank Achilles
Cooper." Nadine says yes and the voice (from some organization that helps
families of MIAs) asks if she has any of Corporal Cooper's records because
his daughter is making a formal inquiry. Nadine gets off the phone and
tells Bridget she has to leave for a little while. "Will you be here when
I get back?" she wants to know. Bridget says "I'm not going anywhere."
After Nadine leaves, Bridget phones information asking for the number of 
the teen hot line. Then she calls home to Flint and some babysitter she
doesn't know answers the phone, so she gets bummed. Finally, she says to her 
tummy "Boo-boo, don't worry. I'm going to take care of EVERYTHING."

At the firehouse ...

Harley tells AC that she's been in touch with this organization that has
agreed to provide her with the names of the survivors from her father's
platoon. Then AC starts distracting her with kisses and saying he doesn't 
think they should be like everyone else and get married on V-Day. He says 
he's thinking about April or May when Nadine barges in. Nadine and Harley
start looking at a calendar and Harley asks in what month Nadine and Buzz
got married. [Best line of the day --] "My fourth month." Giggles all around.
Levy and Co. come to take AC out for a beer. AC makes his way to the door
and Nadine (in her oh-so-encouraging way) says "AC, it's SO good to see
you hobbling and limping like that." After Harley elbows her, she adds
"Oh, and I like your haircut too."

At the boathouse ...

Mindy asks Nick if he wants to hear her explanation or if she should "crawl
back under her rock." [I would have had her crawl, myself :-)] Nick decides
to invite her in and they exchange sound bites. Mindy looks around and 
notices the things that have changed. Nick takes that as a sign that she
wants to move back in and tells her he will move out so she can have the
place back. "No, it was a gift," says Mindy. Nick counters with "So was
the ring you sent back." 

Mindy goes off on this tangent about New York being filled with gay men. When 
Nick gets that huh? look on his face, she says she can relate to them. They 
leave home because they're hiding something and then they get to NY where they 
can be themselves. Things are good, so then they decide to return home. Usually
the people at home are upset to learn the truth, not that the person is gay but
that they were lied to.

Mindy then says she didn't think changing the test results could be explained 
or forgiven, so she left. Now she wants Nick to forgive her and tell her what
he went through. He refuses, saying "No, that's all mine; it's private now."
He's pretty upset and says he's glad she feels better about herself, but
he really doesn't care. She says she did it for love and asks him to please
understand; she thinks she deserves to be forgiven. After all, she only 
wanted to help preserve all of the Kip/Mary memories for him and save
him from Alexandra's claws. She wants him to say he understands. "Oh I
understand, all right." Mindy gets this self-satisfied smile and then tells
him about what Alex did right before he arrived for the wedding. (Alex told
Mindy Nick already knew about her changing the test results when he didn't,
and that he wasn't going to show up for the wedding.) Mindy told Nick that 
she had thought HE left HER at the altar until weeks later when she first 
called Billy. That's why she couldn't come back to Springfield until she heard
Alex was gone. Nick doesn't feel much sympathy, but he does soften up a bit
when he hears what Alex did. He says it doesn't make any difference now
because he's gotten on with his life. "Don't you understand that?" he asks 
her. "No, because I couldn't get on with mine," she responds. He tells her to
let herself out and then he leaves.

Later, Nick returns to find Mindy still there. "Okay, so I understand why
you left," he says. "But I don't know why you came back." "You DON'T KNOW,
Nick?" Mindy says with the sexiest smile she can muster. Nick says it was
obviously important to her that he forgive her so she could clear her 
conscience, but why is she still hanging around? "You're going to make me 
say it, aren't you?" Mindy asks. "That's okay, I've certainly practiced enough. 
I WANT YOU BACK."

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