From: peea224@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Joanna L. Castillo)
Subject: KL on TNT: Summary for April 1 to April 3
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 04:13:50 GMT

KL on TNT summary for April 1, 1992 to April 3, 1992:

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

4-1-92:  "The Longest Day"    [New season! -- #6 I believe.]
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Mac and Ben chase after Mr. Fisher (Harry) in Ben's car.  Mrs. Fisher 
(Shiela) closes her door and calls the police.  Val frantically tries to 
get into the house and Gary stops her.  Abby stops Val right before she 
tells Gary he's the father.  Harry drives like a maniac and nearly 
causes an accident -- Mac and Ben continue to follow him.  The police 
arrive at the Fisher residence and try to sort things out.  After Harry 
nearly causes another accident, Mac decides to quit chasing him so they 
won't hurt any innocent people.  Gary asks Abby what happened and she 
says she got an anonymous call from a man who told her -- thinking she 
was Val -- that the babies were alive.  The police try to get Shiela to 
open the door but she refuses.  At that point, Harry calls and tells her 
it's all a mistake and to just to stay in the house and not talk to 
anyone.  She's about to crack and tells him to come home soon.  He tries 
to call the lawyer who arranged the adoption.  Mac and Ben get back to 
the Fisher house and Mac tells everyone that the only thing they can do 
at this point is to go to a judge and get a restraining order against 
the Fishers to keep them from leaving town until the court can decide 
whether the babies were stolen or not.  He convinces everyone to go home 
so they can start on the legal battle.  Val refuses to leave and Ben 
stays behind with her.

Harry finally gets hold of the lawyer (Cavanaugh) who tells him to keep 
calm and to be assured that he has nothing to worry about.  Greg stops 
by Abby's house to congratulate her on pulling off the scam of the year 
-- reuniting Val with her babies.  She asks what he wants and he says he 
just wants to show her he's not a sore loser.  He points out to her that 
he's the only one who know what she did.  Val and Ben continue to wait 
outside the Fisher house and Ben tells her that Karen believed the 
babies were alive and they've been working on finding them for months.  
She asks why they didn't tell her and he says they were worried about 
what might happen to her if it turned out the babies really were dead.  
Mac tries to get a judge to sign the restraining order against the 
Fishers and she says she'll sign it if he can get some sort of proof on 
paper.  Karen tells Lillie Mae and Cathy about the babies and they start 
to look through Val's papers in an effort to find some sort of 
documentation about the babies.  Mac gets to the hospital but the 
records section is already closed.

Cathy calls Laura (who's got a new job in a real estate office) with the 
news of the babies.  A co-worker starts to hit on her a bit but she 
brushes him off and gets back to work.  Mac goes to Nurse Wilson's 
trailer but she's not home.  Her brother tells him it's none of his 
business where she is.  He asks Mac to leave and quit trying to scare 
his sister -- he says she almost freaked out when she saw Ackerman kill 
himself.  Mac tells him he realizes how much she's been suffering 
through this whole thing but if she doesn't come through for them, he's 
going to nail her to the wall.  Shiela keeps looking out her window and 
seeing Val and Ben sitting outside.  One of Mac's investigators arrives 
at the house to keep watch.  Karen and Lillie Mae arrive to comfort Val.  
The police arrive just before Harry who has birth certificates for the 
children  which say the Fishers are the parents.  The police insist that 
everyone leave.  Val snaps and starts screaming that she knows the 
children are hers -- Ben has to drag her away.

Back at Val's house, Lillie Mae makes tea for Val.  Karen talks to Mac 
on the phone who says he can't get the birth certificates for Val's kids 
until the next day.  Ben tells Karen it's possible the Fishers are 
telling the truth and says their emotions might be clouding their 
judgment.  She can't believe he could doubt it but he points out to her 
that they'll all feel awful if it turns out the Fishers really are the 
parents of the children and they've put them through all this pain.  
Laura arrives at a house which is supposed to be a new listing for her.  
She's greeted by a waiter with some roses.  Greg walks up and says she's 
been avoiding him -- she seems a bit peeved at him.  He's got a 
violinist playing and kisses her on the cheek.  She agrees to have 
dinner with him but says she won't be staying.  Joshua and Cathy 
congratulate Val on finding the children.  Joshua tells her they have 
prayer to thank for finding them and insists they get on their knees and 
thank God.  Val refuses saying she'll thank God in her own way once she 
gets her children back.  She leaves and Cathy tells him he shouldn't 
insist that way with Val -- he says he shouldn't have to insist and it's 
none of her business anyway.  Gary continues to question Abby and she 
says she doesn't have any idea why the people talked to her and the 
whole thing is bizarre.  Val goes for a drive and parks in front of the 
Fishers' house.

Val waits all night outside the Fisher home.  Mac tries to get the info 
on the babies but the woman in charge refuses to help him -- saying it's 
against regulations.  She says she can't afford to lose her job and says 
she must speak with one of the parents unless he has a warrant.  He 
calls Karen to get Val.  Karen goes to Val's house looking for her and 
Lillie Mae says she's still upstairs and goes for her.  Joshua tells 
Karen he believed all along that the babies were alive but she doesn't 
believe him and asks why he never encouraged Val in that case.  Lillie 
Mae rushes down saying Val's gone and they rush off to the Fisher house.  
Harry stalks out of the house and tells Val the babies were adopted 
legally.  She asks how he got birth certificates and he says it's 
standard procedure in cases like these.  He goes back inside just as 
Karen and Lillie Mae arrive.  They convince her to go to the hospital 
with them to get the medical records.  Gary gets in and Abby tells him 
she just got a call that Bobby's been involved in a terrible accident.  
[:-) They never did address "The Dream" in KL, did they?]  Val arrives 
at the hospital and the clerk starts looking for the records.  She has a 
hard time finding them and asks if they're sure they've got the right 
date -- she tells them she doesn't have a birth certificate or a death 
certificate for the entire month for a set of twins.

4-2-92:  "Here in My Arms"
==========================
The clerk continues to search to no avail for some record with Val's 
name.  They're told that the appropriate records just may not have been 
filed yet.  Shiela gets ready to take the twins for a walk but Harry 
stops her saying it's not a good idea.  She's obviously starting to 
crack under the pressure and he tries to calm her down saying she knows 
what happens when she gets stressed out.  Karen, Mac, Val and Lillie Mae 
wait at the hospital for the records and Val decides to go back to the 
Fisher house.  Mac warns her to stay in the park.  Gary gets a call from 
someone involved with the EV project complaining that nothing's getting 
done since Gary's in Dallas at Bobby's funeral.  [Still chuckling -- 
sorry.]  Ben arrives at the hospital looking for Val just as the babies' 
papers are delivered -- including fetal death certificates.  Ben says 
now they know they're forcing two innocent people to suffer.  Mac and 
Karen insist the babies are alive and they're with the Fishers.  Greg 
gets to the EV site and the construction manager (Elliot) tells him 
they've moved the blasting site like Gary told them to and Greg insists 
he move it back.  When Elliot says he can't do that because it might 
affect the water supply, Greg fires him.  Mac calls his secretary and 
finds out his investigators were chased away from the house by the 
police.  He tells her to have them to go back and watch but to stay out 
of sight.  [This is Peggy's first appearance I believe and she wasn't 
refered to by name!  :-)]  Lillie Mae tells Val, as they sit in the park 
across the street from the Fisher house, that when she saw the baby the 
day before, she *knew* he was Val's because he looked just like her.

Abby looks over the pages from Eastman's notebook and hides them away as 
Karen walks in and asks how she managed to find the babies so easily 
when they'd all been looking for them for months.  Abby jumps all over 
her insisting she helped Val and that should be all that matters.  Karen 
asks what's bothering her and she says Bobby was killed in an accident 
and Gary's gone to the funeral.  Karen asks if there's anything she can 
do and leaves when Abby says there isn't.  After Karen leaves, Abby 
burns the notebook pages.  Mac goes to Nurse Wilson's house and talks to 
her brother again.  Mac tells him they just need her to say she saw the 
babies alive.  He says if she shows up at the judge's office that 
afternoon, he'll do everything he can to make sure she gets out of it 
but if she doesn't show up he'll do everything he can to make sure she 
spends the rest of her life in jail.  Cathy has lunch with Laura who 
offers to help her find a place to live.  Cathy asks if it was hard to 
leave Greg and she says it was but things had degenerated so much she 
just didn't want to live her life that way.  Val sneaks around the side 
of the Fisher house to watch the babies outside.  Shiela insists she 
leave and Val says she just wants to see the babies and when she 
threatens to call her husband, Val says she just wants to talk to her.  
Shiela tells her the babies are a little sick and Val suggests she use 
salt packs.  Val warns her to be careful and Shiela insists she's a good 
mother and goes back inside.  

Greg stops by Laura's office and plops down $60,000 in cash.  She asks 
what he's doing and he says he just wants to show her what it can be 
like.  She tells him she doesn't want to start all over again -- he says 
he just wants to help out her sale's record and she asks him to just 
leave her alone for awhile.  He walks out.  Ben gets to the park and 
asks Val how she's doing.  Lillie Mae tells him she talked to Shiela.  
Val says she knows Shiela loves the kids very much and it makes her 
scared that she might never get them back.  Elliot tells Abby about Greg 
firing him and she says he didn't have any authority to do that and to 
get back to work -- that she'll take care of Sumner.  Cathy tells 
Joshua, as he's getting his makeup done for a taping, that Laura's got a 
couple more places for them to look at and he says he doesn't have time 
to go with her.  She tells him she's going to take the next apartment 
she likes -- that she's tired of his excuses.  He pulls her aside and 
tells her never to talk to him that way in front of someone again.  She 
tells him he's hurting her arm and when he refuses to let go, she shoves 
him away and he cuts his hand on one of the lighting fixtures.  Mac 
waits impatiently for Nurse Wilson to show up and tries to convince the 
judge to sign the restraining order but she says without the nurse's 
testimony, there's nothing she can do.  As he's leaving, he runs into 
Nurse Wilson and takes her into the judge's office.  Ben convinces Harry 
to talk with him in the front yard.  Ben says he understands the pain 
they're going through but wishes they'd realize the pain Val's going 
through.  He asks if he wouldn't like to see everything settled once and 
for all.  Harry goes back in and Shiela insists they run away -- that 
she's never going to give the babies up.  He tries to tell her they 
won't be able to get away but she won't listen to him.

Mac arrives at the Fisher house and tells Ben and Val that he got the 
restraining order.  Ben tells him that Harry seems to be weakening.  
They go to the house and give the restraining order to the Fishers 
telling him they can't leave the area.  He says for their sake he hopes 
the babies aren't the Ewing babies but if they are and he's forced to 
drag things through the courts, things will be ugly for them.  Mac 
insists that they all leave except for his investigators who can now 
legally watch the Fishers so that everything will now be done by the 
book.  Abby storms into Greg's office and tells him he can't fire anyone 
who works for Ewing Enterprises.  He says they have to get things moving 
again and she says he'll have to work with her in that case and he 
finally agrees.  Harry finally gets hold of Cavanaugh who won't admit 
anything about the babies and suggests he get a good lawyer.  Shiela 
asks him why he let her get so attached to the babies and he says he 
didn't think there'd be a problem.  Greg tries to call Laura but gets 
her answering machine and hangs up.  Harry suddenly decides they're 
going to make a run for it and tells Shiela to get the babies ready.  
Lillie Mae tells Val she's had Joshua start getting the nursery ready 
again.  Val tells Karen she's not going to get the babies back and Karen 
tells her that they're half-way there.  Val says she knows Shiela won't 
give them up without a fight.

Karen drives by the Fisher house and sees them bundling the kids into 
the car to leave.  Shiela drives off and one of Mac's investigators 
follows after them.  Karen barges into the house and tells Harry she 
knows the babies weren't with Shiela.  She tries to convince him that 
the babies were stolen.  She says she doesn't know why they had to adopt 
illegally and begs him to bring the babies back with her to Val.  She 
insists that now that he knows the truth, there's no way they can raise 
the children and live with the guilt at the same time.  She says she 
feels terrible for him but nothing about the situation is right except 
the babies being with their real mother.  He finally gives in and they 
take the babies to Val who cries happily as she hugs her children.  They 
just cry and Harry leaves them behind without a word.  

4-3-92:  "While the Cat's Away"
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Abby meets with Greg at the EV site.  Greg tells her they need to build 
the broadcast center at one site while Gary insists it be moved because 
the chosen site might damage the water supply.  She tells Elliot to put 
the site at the spot Greg indicated saying it's got Gary's complete 
approval.  She tells him Gary just forgot to tell him with everything 
that's on his mind (Bobby's death).  Abby tells Greg it's gonna cost him 
lunch and arranges to meet with him later.  Mac meets with the Fishers 
who are quite distraught over what's happened.  Mac says he's just 
trying to find out how something like this could have happened.  Val 
plays with the babies and tells them everything's going to be okay.  The 
Fishers insist that they were told everything was legal.  When Mac asks 
why they didn't go through a traditional agency, Shiela starts getting 
upset and going on about how they weren't deemed adequate.  Val and 
Lillie Mae feed the babies and Ben calls to see how things are going.  
Val tells him things are going okay and the kids are really smart.  She 
hangs up and promises to call when she puts the babies down to nap.  
Joshua walks into Ben's office during the conversation and starts giving 
Ben a bad time about the fact that he and Val are having trouble finding 
time for themselves.  Gary's stranded on the road somewhere waiting for 
his car to get fixed.  He buys a broken oil rig drill bit from the 
mechanic after it sparks a memory of a time he and Bobby found one when 
they were kids.  Greg meets up with Abby for lunch and asks why she's 
being nice to him.  She says she knows they're on a deadline and that 
they're building where they shouldn't be.  He says he's happy they're 
working together and that what's good for EV is good for Ewing 
Enterprises.  He says he hopes they can get things going before Gary 
gets home and she says she can handle Gary.  That night, Gary calls Abby 
from the road and seems to be rather upset about Bobby's death.  She 
offers to fly out and drive the rest of the way back with him but he 
says he'll be fine.

Mac tells Karen that Shiela had a mental breakdown and that's why they 
didn't pass the routine screening at a regular adoption agency.  She 
says she's just worried about them and wants to talk to them.  He tells 
her to stay away from them since he's investigating the incident and it 
might look unethical.  Greg tells Coblentz that he had to get Abby's 
help to make sure the broadcast station was located at the right spot.  
Greg says Abby can't let Gary find out what she's done and the more she 
helps them the less she can afford someone else finding out.  Coblentz 
warns him not to bring anyone else into the project.  Karen and Val go 
for a walk with the kids and Val tells Karen how upset she is about 
Bobby's death since he was the only one of the Ewings who was ever nice 
to her.  She says she wishes she could do something for Gary.  She then 
tells Karen she was worried about how the children would react and Karen 
says she almost wants to have another child.  Val encourages her to do 
it and Karen says she's already done her time raising children.  Val 
says she never properly thanked her for what she did and says she'll 
never forget it and she loves her for it.  They hug happily.  Greg tells 
Elliot that he gets nervous when things slow down.  Elliot says it's 
important to be careful when they start this sort of thing and they 
might be ready to begin blasting tomorrow.  Val's napping on the couch 
when Ben calls and she realizes she never called him back.  She says 
she's sorry but it must be a problem all new parents face.  He offers to 
come over and she says she's just exhausted but maybe they can get 
together later.  He offers to do something on Sunday and leave the kids 
with Lillie Mae.  She says she'd rather take them with her and one of 
them starts to cry so she hangs up.  Ben's a little upset.  Greg calls 
Abby at home saying he needs her to be at the site the next morning to 
make sure the blasting starts.  Olivia listens and after she hangs up, 
asks Abby to help her with her homework.  Just then, Gary walks in and 
they hug him.  Olivia leaves them alone and Abby comforts Gary saying 
she missed him and is glad he's back.  [The wheels are turning.  :-)]

Greg wanders around his office and stops to contemplate the night sky.  
He starts to call someone and a woman [a prostitute?] walks out of the 
next room in her lingerie and says he was great.  She puts on her dress 
and asks if they'll see each other again.  He says he doesn't know and 
after she leaves he dials the phone again.  He gets Laura's answering 
machine and just says it's good to hear her voice -- Laura sits looking 
at the machine.  Abby tries to convince Gary that what they need to do 
is get away for awhile.  He says he thinks he should go back to work and 
she continues to try to convince him they need to take some time off.  
He says he's going to the site.  She says she'll go with him but needs 
to call the office first.  She calls Greg and pretends she's talking to 
her secretary and says she's on her way to the site with Gary and will 
be in late.  Greg calls Elliot and tells him to go ahead with the 
blasting without them.  Greg rushes to the site.  Gary and Abby also 
head out there and Abby apologizes to Gary for taking so long to get 
ready.  Greg gets to the site and gets upset with Elliot that he hasn't 
started yet.  Greg pushes him to hurry and just as everyone is getting 
cleared of the blast area, Gary and Abby drive up.  Elliot starts to 
show Gary what's going on and Gary notices another old drill bit on the 
ground and starts reminiscing again.  He suddenly yells at Elliot about 
the men leaving things laying around and storms over to the truck.  Abby 
tells Greg she'll handle him and gets in the truck with Gary.  As Abby 
and Gary drive away, Greg tells the men to start the blasting.  BOOM!

Val, Lillie Mae, Cathy, and Joshua watch one of Joshua's taped sermons.  
He's talking about the miracle of the return of Val's babies.  Cathy 
asks if he changed the lighting and he gets upset with her and says the 
words are more important.  Ben gets there and Joshua looks a little 
upset.  Ben tells Val he wished he'd missed the whole broadcast.  Joshua 
is thanking his followers for all their prayers and says thanks to them, 
Val got her babies back.  The Fishers watch the broadcast as well.  
Lillie Mae is quite happy at the end of the broadcast and asks Val if 
she doesn't want to thank Joshua for what he did.  Val says she was the 
only one who kept the faith for a long time and if Joshua had asked her 
she would have told him not to talk about her children again.  Lillie 
Mae thinks she's being ungrateful but Joshua says he's not surprised and 
storms upstairs with Cathy in tow.  Ben tells Val he's proud of the way 
she stood up for herself and starts to kiss her.  Upstairs, Cathy tells 
Joshua she's not against him but just because he thinks something's 
right, it doesn't make it so.  She tells him she's found the perfect 
apartment for them and he agrees to look at it the next day.  Olivia 
stops by Abby and Gary's room to tell them good night but Gary's gone 
for a walk.  Abby tells her to be patient with Gary -- that he just 
needs some time.  Val and Ben are making out on the couch when the door 
bell rings.  It turns out to be Gary and they tell him they're sorry 
about Bobby.  Val insists he see the babies and Gary congratulates Ben 
and Val on getting their children back.  As Val leads Gary upstairs to 
see the kids, she tells him she wants to name her son Bobby if he 
doesn't mind.  He says that would be nice and Ben (who overhears from 
the bottom of the stairway) seems a bit upset.

The next day, Laura and Cathy look at the apartment again and the 
manager says he can't continue to hold it.  Cathy gives him a check for 
the deposit and says she realizes she'll forfeit the money if her 
husband doesn't like it.  Ben tells Abby he's upset with the way Joshua 
is handling himself -- that he feels no need to answer to anyone and 
it's not right that he doesn't distinguish between fact and opinion.  
Abby tells him he's now got the authority to change things since she's 
promoting him to General Manager of the station.  He's shocked and she 
says she's too busy with things at Lotus Point.  She says he'll also get 
a raise which he'll need since he's going to get married soon and will 
have so many extra expenses.  Cathy shows the apartment to Joshua who 
seems to like it.  She takes him to the bedroom and as he starts to 
agree to living there she says it's a good thing since she already gave 
a deposit to the manager.  Joshua gets quite upset with Cathy for doing 
something behind his back and says if she like the apartment so much, 
she can just live there by herself and storms out.  Gary, Abby, and 
Olivia play cards and Gary seems to be quite preoccupied.  Olivia's very 
worried about him and as he starts to crack, Abby quickly hustles her 
out of the room.  Gary just starts to sob and Abby holds him saying 
everything's going to be okay and she'll take care of everything.

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That's all for this week.  As usual, I hope you enjoyed!  

Joanna.

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