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AMC Update, Thursday 1/21/93

Featuring:   The Spit-meister Returneth
	     starring Ted, Nola, Gloria, and some hi-tech memories
	     with perfunctory appearances by Steven & Galen

	     True Confessions 
	     starring Dix, Bri, and Gloria

             76 Trombones
	     starring Edmund, Dimitri, Erica, Charlie, & Hayley


True Confessions
----------------
It's morning at the Cooney Cage, and Bri-guy has stayed the night
on the sofa.  He and Dix have a heart-to-heart about her mental
state.  Bri tries to get her to be easier on herself about seeing
the vision of Tad.  Dix admits she has been thinking about Tad a lot
lately; Bri says no problem - he understands that part of her will
always love Tad just like how in some "sick" way he will always
love Hayley.  They both seem fine with that but frustrated by the
fact that they can't really be together with the impending "final"
(sheeah, right!) custody battle.  Gloria arrives to take Dixie
to the hospital for work and to return Ted Orsini's wallet (see
Spit).

At the hospital, Gloria and Dixie take a coffee break before going
to find Ted.  Well, Dix is getting coffee while Gloria runs off to
do something lame.  While at the coffee pot, Dix overhears 2 women
talking about her.  Woman 1: If I were her, I'd be ashamed to show
my face in public.  Woman 2: I heard she slapped her ex so hard she
nearly broke his jaw.  Woman 1: Would you trust her with your child?
Woman 2: No way.  Dix looks crushed.


76 Trombones
------------
At the lodge, Erica is gripping the razor she gave Dimitri when Dim
and Edmund arrive.  While all Edmund wants to do is get the razor
away from her (rationale - she *is* technically a patient at
Oakhaven, for goodness sake!), Dimitri thinks she was drawn to the
lodge by some memories that are coming back at any second.  When
Dimitri tries to force Erica to remember something, Edmund bursts in
and interrupts him.  Erica can't figure out why she came to the
lodge, but thinks she belongs there somehow.  Dimitri tells her the
lodge is a special place.  When Erica starts describing her memories
aloud - memories of Dimitri all dressed up in a costume, with a
sash - Dimitri gets all psyched up.  But then she lowers the boom on
him with, "Were you ever in a marching band?"  Robert Preston, he
ain't.  

Erica realizes her memories must be a bunch of garbage; no one as
important as "Mr. Marick" would dress up in some silly costume.  All
she wants is for someone to call Charlie to come pick her up.  While
Dimitri makes the call, Erica talks to Edmund.  She drops a little
hint to him (at least that was *my* interpretations, but Edmund
didn't pick up on it at all!), saying she could really go for some
*WINE* right now!  (OTF)  Edmund talks nicely with Erica, and she
announces (for Dimitri to hear) that she is sure that if she knew
Edmund before her amnesia that she must have liked him *A LOT*.  Boy
can this woman fight *dirty* !  Gotta love her!

Erica gets in a few last jabs before Charlie arrives - asking
Dimitri if there is a Mrs. Marick, wondering how she will explain
her field trip to the lodge to Charlie and deciding she "could
never lie to the man I love, I mean truth is the basis of any good
relationship, right Mr. Marick?"  He just looks at her sadly.  

Back at the Dectective Agency, Hayley has been filling Charlie in on
the fact that she gave it to Adam straight about whose side she is
on in the custody battle - Dixie's.  Charlie wants Hayley to tell
everybody, but she insists she has done her share and doesn't want 
people to know what is up.  She insists that Adam loves her and that
she must still try to stay uninvolved even though she has chosen the
enemey's camp.  When the call comes in about Erica, Hayley is
visibly disturbed by Charlie's prompt attention to his ex-fiance.
Charlie doesn't bother explaining to Hayley that the whole
return-to-summer-of-91 is just a ruse to rile Dimitri.  (I say bad
form - he should have fessed up.)  

At the lodge, Charlie arrives and pretends that Erica is a big
inconvenience (something about having to reschedule racquetball to
come get her).  Dimitri begins to give him a hard time about what
Erica needs right now, but Edmund controls him.  Erica thanks
Dimitri and Edmund and apologizes for being such a problem to them.
Once outside the cabin, Charlie and Erica laugh it up over their
fine performances.  Charlie wants to know if it is still open season
on the poor chump.  Erica responds with, "Is the poor chump still
standing?"  Or something to that effect.

Inside the cabin, Dimitri is breaking glass stuff.  Edmund reminds
him that *because* he loves Erica, he can't do a damn thing to help
her get her memory back.  Dimitri admits it took all the control he
had in the world to not mop the floor with Charlie.  Gee, and all
along I thought he was just the picture of control.  :]

Spitmeister Returneth
---------------------
At PV Hospital, Ted has been catching some Zs in the cafeteria.
Gloria wakes him and they have a tete-a-tete.  They talk about
Nola's progress, Ted's new digs at the Valley Inn, why Ted isn't
married, Gloria's impending marriage to Stuart, and a bunch of 
random things.  Ted picks up on the fact that Gloria is worried
about something, and she admits that she has a friend who is in
trouble.  Ted laughs that Gloria is trying to pass off the old "I've
got a 'friend' with a problem" routine on him.  She says it is legit
- her friend, Nola's patient advocate, the mother of the waif he
found in the park, etc., etc., is having big-time problems with her
ex-husband.  Blah blah blah.  Something happens to make Ted need his
wallet (maybe paying for food? I forget) and he realizes he lost it
in the park.  Gloria realizes that Dixie found Ted's wallet
yesterday, and splits to go get the woman who found the wallet
without dropping the Dixster's name, of course.

In Nola's room, Nola is drawing up her will with Galen's help.  Steven
is there for decoration, I guess.  They all talk about how Ted is 
against the will thing and how his returning to her life was a miracle.  
Nola wants the will to be iron-clad in the sense that anybody 
questioning the Tedster's identity will be told to take a hike - he 
gets the money no matter who he really is.

Ted walks in on the will-writing party and starts fuming, as ever.
Nola convinces him that she isn't planning on going anywhere - just
wants to be safe rather than sorry.  For some reason the topic gets
back around to Nola finding the woman Ted remembers for him, and
they make a pact - Nola won't talk about wills anymore as long as
Ted hurries up in giving her some grandchildren.  (Oh, Jamie!)

(I don't remember this stuff too clearly, having now seen Friday and
Monday's shows - if I get it terribly confused, please help out!)
Nola wants Ted to talk about his memories in hopes that they will
become clearer.  He starts having a flashback of himself talking to
Billy Clyde Tuggle - their faces are smeary/shimmery, and their
words are pretty much indistinguishable.  At the end he hears
himself telling the mystery man in his memories that if he goes near
*HER*, he will kill him!  Nola asks Ted what he has remembered...
[cliff-hanger]

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I think that's it!  Sorry this is so late!  I am having a difficult
time preparing for my return to school - can't imagine how some
people do it after taking even longer off than me!!!  

If I seriously botched the update, feel free to chastise me! :]
Or if you prefer to be constructive, please contribute details!

Susan
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