From: Lisa Klobucar <lisa@ah5.cal.msu.edu>


Howdy, folks!  A pretty uneventful episode today, except for the last  
five
minutes or so.......Waaaaaaay too much Mugs/Tums/Prick today!  :={

HOSPITAL

Tomas catches Maggie peeking in on Nick in his hospital room, and  
confronts 

her about the kiss he saw her share with Nick.  Tomas asks Maggie if  
she ever
had any intention of telling him about it, and she flatly tells him No,  
she
hadn't ever planning on discussing it with him at all.

Meanwhile, Michael asks a nurse for pen and paper so he can change his  
will...

THE DOCKS

Jake is looking at a piece of paper he has with Paulina's number on it,  
and 

debating with himself whether he should call her.  Finally he goes to a  
pay
phone, and starts to dial.

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Joe and Paulina are on her doorstep.  The phone rings inside.  Paulina  
goes 

inside, picks it up, says hello...and on the other end, Jake hangs up  
and says
"Showtime, kids!"...

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Paulina and Joe are necking, and when they finally stop swapping spit  
they 

start discussing the wedding.  Joe tells Paulina that Eddie's up and  
gone to 

Italy to visit his brother Bruno, and doesn't even know about the  
wedding 

tomorrow.  Paulina tries to convince Joe to postpone the wedding until  
he can
have his whole family present, but Joe is adamant -- he wants to go  
ahead and
have the wedding tomorrow.

HOSPITAL

John comes into Michael's room and chastises him for not following the  
hospital
rules more closely;  any paper or pen he requests must be sterile.   
John tells
Michael that his system is very vulnerable to infection right now, and  
he must
be careful.  Michael tells John that he planned on changing his will to  
include
Nick.  He also tells John about how facing death changes a person's 

perspective, and how he needs to tell the people he loves how he feels  
about
them.  


Meanwhile, Maggie and Tomas are having it out about Nick.  Maggie  
claims Nick
was the one who kissed HER.  Tomas says she makes it sound all so  
innocent, 

but when he sees her and Nick together he gets a different impression.

HOSPITAL

Matt comes into Michael's hospital room, wanting to talk about Donna...

Maggie tells Tomas she has Nick figured out -- he's just starving for  
attention
and affection, and needs a good friend right now.  Tomas asks her what  
she will
do if Nick tries for more with her, and Maggie replies that she will  
just say 

no.  Tomas makes Maggie promise not to kiss Nick again.

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Jake comes up to the front door.  Inside, Joe and Paulina kiss, and  
continue to
make wedding plans...

HOSPITAL

Maggie comes into Nick's room.  Nick makes a comment about how she and  
Tomas
are fighting again.  She denies it.  Maggie asks how Michael is doing,  
and this
gets them to talking about their families.  Maggie repeats the same old  
tale 

of woe about how Blaine and Sandy ignored her, and Cecile didn't have  
any time
for her, what with all her boyfriends.  Nick tells Maggie that they  
have a lot
in common -- new homes, new families.

Matt tells Michael he is sorry for laying into him over Donna.  Michael  
is
understanding, says he would have done the same thing or worse.  Matt  
remarks
how angry Donna will be when she comes back from her trip and finds out  
Matt
didn't tell her Michael was sick.  Michael asks Matt to continue to  
keep it a 

secret, and please not tell Donna about his illness.  When Matt asks  
why, Mike
says he doesn't want to interfere with the wedding in any way.

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Jake is on the front step.  Paulina and Joe go out the back way,  
because she 

wants to grab a magazine from the kitchen on the way out.  Jake tries  
to break
in, but a meter reader or repairman of some sort comes by and lets him  
in, and
gets to work.  Jake walks around his living room for a few minutes,  
finding 

a picture of him and Paulina.  He then comes across the tape he left  
for 

Paulina, and pops it into the VCR...

HOSPITAL

Frankie is there picking up a prescription for Cass, and she runs into  
Joe,
who tells her about the upcoming nuptials.  Frankie agrees to come to  
the 

wedding, but she suddenly starts getting one of her "bad feelings"....

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Paulina comes to visit Matt and tell him about the wedding.  She  
invites him,
also asking Matt to be the one to give her away.  He says he would be  
honored.
Paulina says that THIS time, she is marrying the right man...

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Jake finishes watching the tape.  He can't believe he could have  
totally 

forgotten a woman whom he obviously loved very much.  He wanders around  
some
more, and finally sits down on the couch, saying he might as well hang  
out 

there, it's his own house, after all...

HOSPITAL

Joe asks Frankie what it is that she's sensing.  She says the feeling  
is 

passing, and it probably wasn't about him and Paulina after all.  Joe  
tells
Frankie about how Eddie won't be at the wedding.  Frankie chides him  
for 

going ahead anyway, and says his whole family will kill him if he gets  
married
without them.  He says they'll be angry at first, but eventually  
they'll have
to understand -- this is something he has to do.

Tomas and Jake are resting in the doctors' lounge.  Nowadays they are  
both 

working double shifts.  John admits he is doing it mainly because he  
misses
Sharlene and doesn't want to go home to an empty house.  Tomas tells  
John
a little about his Maggie/Nick problems.  John reassures Tomas that  
Maggie
is just being kind to Nick, she is very compassionate and warm-hearted.
Tomas hopes it won't go any farther than that.

Nick asks Maggie if he will ever be able to kiss her again.  She jokes  
about
his persistency, and says she doesn't know.  He tries, but she rebuffs  
him,
nicely.  He asks her what the hospital buzz is about his father, if  
Michael
will really be okay now.  She says Michael is doing very well.  Nicks  
tells
Maggie that now there is only one thing that could make him happy, and  
only
she can give it to him...

HOSPITAL

John is trying to reassure Michael, who is not doing too well -- he is  
unable
to stop shivering, apparently as some sort of reaction to the  
treatment.
John tells him that his entire organism is hyper-sensitive right now,  
and he
will be experiencing sensations with a heightened degree of intensity.

Nick asks Maggie if she can stay with him for a while longer.  She says  
of 

course, and offers to hold his hand.  Tomas passes by the door and sees  
this..

CARLINO HOUSE

Joe has a conversation with God and his dead Ma, asking them to send  
down good
vibes to Eddie in Italy.  He is sorry he is excluding his family from  
the 

wedding because of his haste, but says "I have to marry Paulina, she is  
my
destiny."

PAULINA'S HOUSE

Paulina comes home and is puzzled to find the picture of her and Jake  
out of
place.

THE DOCKS

Jake is wandering around the docks, asking himself what he should do  
now.  

"You can't just move in...or can you?" he wonders.  Matt comes by and  
is
about to pass when he sees Jake and does a doubletake.  Jake leans over 

the rail with his head down, preoccupied, and Matt peers at him to get  
a 

closer look, and says incredulously:  "Jake?!?"     FREEZE FRAME



