From: Lisa Klobucar <klobuca1@pilot.msu.edu>

>Hey, the VCR and the cable didn't freak for the second week in a row, so
here's the update for Friday August 1 [comments mine]:
>
>SHES A MANIAC....
>At the Bowlarama, Joe remarks at Paulina's new found energy, her weight
loss...and she's doing it all without pills.  Paulina  quickly shoves the
bottle back in her purse and tries to change the subject.  Neil comes over
and Joe invites him to join them, which pisses Paulina off.   She gets all
upset and Joe and Neil talk shop.  Later, Paulina asks Neil to show her his
muscles as Joe comes back with the food.  Paulina bowls some more and does
cartwheels and jumps up and down.  Paulina asks Neil if he wants to go with
her to a new club on Center Street [is EVERYTHING on Center Street in Bay
City?]  Joe tells Paulina that he has never seen her this way and that maybe
she should take a breather.  Paulina quips its because he never sees her
cause he's so busy at work.  Joe apologizes for asking Neil over, but
Paulina says she's having fun, is there something wrong with that?  Joe says
whatever makes her happy is fine.  Paulina dances round some more while Joe
and Neil sit down, winded.  Later Neil brings Paulina a trophy.  Neil begs
off dancing and leaves.  Paulina starts to fall over, and Joe asks if she's
taking the pills again.  She insists she isn't, she just worked too hard and
didn't eat, but she promises to get a physical.  She looks in the reflection
of the trophy and says she looks like a string bean.  She flashes back to a
conversation she and Joe had when he found the pills in the trash.  She says
she has to be thin again and pops another pill.
>
>ON THE ROAD AGAIN...
>Toni and Josie head to Chicago to find Joanne Taylor, a woman from Nick's
past.  Toni is pessimistic about the prospect and feels she destroyed the
DA's case after admitting on the witness stand that she might have been
incorrectly identified Nick as her rapist.  Josie tries to reassure her.
Toni remarks that all of this must be hard on Josie-she and Nick are
practically family [they are: by marriage, they are first cousins] but Josie
says she believes Toni.  Toni wonders why Josie isn't at home with Gary, but
Josie says she will have time for a honeymoon later [not after that baby
comes you wont] and that Gary was going out of town on business tonight
anyhow.  Josie tells Toni to look over the file, which was sealed, but might
have some useful information.  Toni flashes back about her conversation with
Etta Mae following Toni's testimony where she admitted she thinks she blew
the DA's case.  Josie asks if Toni has been going to support meetings.  She
has, about once a week, and she admits that its helped to both talk about
her situation and listen to others about theirs, and she believes that she
is stronger than the person who snuck up behind her and raped her.  Josie
says she is brave; most women would have locked themselves away.  Toni
thanks Josie for her friendship.  Josie says that Gary helped her through
hard times after the incident with Cody Murcer, that no matter what happens,
they are still a team.  
>
>SEARCHING FOR JOANNE TAYLOR
>Meanwhile, Gary talks to Joanne Taylor [who looks a hell of a lot like
Josie, IMHO] at her home.  He warns her that some people may come around
wanting her to dredge up memories of the past.  She insists that she has put
all of that behind and has nothing more to say about it.  Gary remarks at
Joanne's ring.  She mentions that she is getting married in two months and
that her fianc doesn't know anything about what happened so long ago and
doesn't want it to come out.  Gary assures her he won't tell anyone. Later,
Josie and Toni arrive at Joanne Taylor's house.  They show their ID and ask
about Nick.  Joanne says they can't force her to say anything and she told
the other guy that she wouldn't make a statement.  What guy, Josie queries.
Joanne shows them Gary's business card.  Josie says they need her help.  If
you knew who the victim was, Josie begins.  Toni interrupts and tells Joanne
that she was the victim, and that Nick is the prime suspect in another case.
Joanne says she's sorry, but she can't get involved.  Josie asks if she can
live with the fact that, if Nick walks, there will be another victim.
Joanne agrees to help out.  Toni hugs Joanne and tells her that the will
help not only them, but other women.
> 
>ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR MCKINNON...
>Jake looks for Gary at his office and starts playing with Gary's detective
hat and pipe and magnifying glass.  Sherlock must be on a case, he muses.
Lila finds him, and when he pokes fun at her, she says her heart is
breaking.  No waterworks, Jake protests.  Lila says she merely had something
in her eye and proceeds to tell Jake that Shane is now free to pursue Vicky
since he and Lila are legally separated.  Jake tells her that Shane will
have to give up on that notion after tonight.  Lila mocks him saying that
the ink wasn't dry on the papers and Vicky was making plans with Shane to
get together tomorrow morning.  They could be together tonight, she states,
by the way they were looking at each other.  Jake gets pissed and turns to
leave, but Lila stops him and tries to make nice with Jake.  He insists that
he doesn't know her very well nor does he want to, but Lila presses him that
he doesn't know the "real" Lila.  She says she's Mrs. Shane Roberts.  Jake
scoffs at that, reasoning that a smart woman like her doesn't need a man to
define her.  [Amen to that.  I'M so sick of "I'M Mrs. (man's name)."
Dammit, I'M not Mrs. Adrian Hall except on wedding invitations.  I'M Dorothy
Hall, my own person!  OK, time to cease this rant.]  Lila insists Shane was
the first person to make her safe, that she grew up afraid of things like
rain.  Jake says Lila is beating herself up cause a man took off and that
it's his loss.  Lila insists she belongs with Shane, and that Jake would
turn himself inside out for Vicky, but Jake counters that he doesn't want
anyone who doesn't want him the way he is..especially Vicky.  Later, Gary
calls Jake and tells him Joanne Taylor wants to keep a lid on what happened
to her because the guy doesn't know.  Jake hangs up and tries to call Vicky,
but he gets her machine.  Lila comes in bearing pasta from Carlinos and
remarks that she calls Shane too, to hear his voice and then she hangs up
when he answers.  The only thing standing in the way between Vicky and Shane
was her, and now that obstacle has been removed.  There might be something
else, Jake replies.  Lila wonders if that Jake is that other obstacle.  She
says when she went to Carlinos to get the food  she called Shane and he
wasn't there either.  Eventually, Gary returns from Chicago.  Lila gives
Gary some papers and goes off to make copies for Cass.  Jake asks how Gary
can be sure that Joanna Taylor won't talk.  Gary explains that she was
underage at the time, her parents dropped the charges, and the court sealed
the file.  Case closed.  So were home free, Jake asks.  Gary remarks that
there still is the problem of no alibi.  Jake insists that someone saw him.
Gary says the real rapist saw Nick, but he isn't going to come forward, now
is he?  Jake comments that he is going to find out tomorrow if he's getting
married or not.  Gary congratulates him while Lila smiles.  Lila returns
with the copies.  Gary insists that she go home, that she wont have much of
a life if she keeps working, but Lila insists her prospects in Bay City are
improving and she doesn't mind helping out.  Lila leaves.  Jake asks Gary
what he knows about Lila.  Gary wonders why, but then he realizes its cause
Shane still loves Vicky.  Gary tells him to concentrate on Nick's case: Toni
backed off on the positive identification, which puts them in a much better
position.  Gary tells Jake that Michael is over at the Cory's at a party.
Jake says that he's going over there to give Michael the news in person [and
to check up on Vicky, to be sure].
>
>I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU....
>Vicky and Shane encounter each other at Rachel's party.  Shane  says he
needs to talk to her, but Vicky awkwardly tries to back out, even going so
far as to try to beg out of the party, but Rachel insists she must stay as
this is something special for Shane.  Michael borrows Vicky away, and Amanda
tells Shane they will be sitting together.  Michael tells Vicky he would
have never asked her to be his date if he had known Shane would be there.
Vicky says she has to deal with it Shane because he's on staff at BCUH.
After all, they are doing this for Nick [I thought this was a party for
people who have funded projects at the hospital].  John makes a similar
apology to Shane, but he loses concentration when Felicia enters [without
Nikos chained to her hip, I might add].  Carl and Rachel come in and thank
the supporters for funding the neo natal unit and an outreach program at the
hospital and recognize Shane as a new surgeon and their hero, saying that he
saved both the twins and Rachel and that he has just accepted a staff
position at the hospital.  Shane says he can now be a doctor because someone
took a risk and believed in him.  He and Vicky lock eyes.  After dinner,
Vicky and Michael go to get dessert so Shane can't talk to her.  Losing your
touch, doc, Amanda asks, that's kinda dangerous for a surgeon.  Rachel comes
in and thanks Amanda for making the party a success: she could have taken
pot shots at Carl, but she didn't.  Amanda insists Rachel can't be happy if
Amanda and Carl are at each other throats.  Rachel leaves and Amanda comes
in and starts fishing for information about Alexander and Carl's past.
Shane finds Vicky and tells her Lila signed the separation papers and he's
getting a divorce, so now he's a free man and they can get married [down the
line they could, at any rate].  It's too late, Vicky tells him.  Amanda
interrupts Shane and tries to get Shane to go see the twins.  He tries to
stay with Vicky, but Amanda drags him away.  Meanwhile, Felicia and John
make small talk.  John says he went to visit Greg with Sharlene.  Felicia
says he doesn't owe her an explanation anymore that she has to explain why
Alexander isn't with her.  Felicia excuses herself and bumps into Rachel.
Rachel asks if Felicia and John are trying to work things out, but Felicia
insists she should have listened to Rachel when she said Felicia shouldn't
be with John.  But then I saw how happy you were, Rachel replies.  Shane
comes down and says he's seen the twins and they look fine.  Shane excuses
himself and goes out on the terrace to tell Vicky that it isn't too late for
them.  Vicky reveals she asked Jake to marry her.  Shocked, Shane asks her
why.  Vicky explains that she proposed to Jake cause she loves him and wants
to spend her life with him.  Shane insists it isn't love, its habit, that it
isn't the same thing as loving someone the way they do.  She insists she
doesn't love him.  He asks if this is punishment for Lila, but Vicky insists
that it isn't about Lila.  Jake makes her whole and happy while Shane tears
her to pieces and makes her miserable.  He can't believe it.  He tells her
she cant run away from the way she feels about him by marrying Jake.  He
says he won't let her marry Jake and let her ruin the rest of their lives.
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>FADE TO BLACK [Bring back the FREEZE FRAME!!!]
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>TTFN,
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>Dorothy
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Lisa K.- Aloha Baby!
http://www.msu.edu/user/klobuca1
klobuca1@pilot.msu.edu

