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

Happy Halloween, everybody!  And away we go....

EXAM ROOM

Tomas is looking more and more distressed as the minutes tick by for  
his EMT 

exam.  The instructor reminds him that he only has an hour....

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Maggie is aghast at the arrival of her mother Cecile..

VICKY'S HOUSE

Vicky is trying to reach Jake on the phone, with no luck.  The doorbell  
rings, 

it's Michael, back from the clinic and feeling much better.  His  
leukemia is in
total remission.  Vicky is very relieved to see him.  She tells him  
about 

Paulina and Jake splitting up.

CARLINO'S RESTAURANT

Jake and Joe are still locked in the freezer.  They start squabbling, 

naturally.  Jake yells "HELP!  I'm trapped in a freezer with my wife's  
jerky
boyfriend!..."

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Maggie just can't believe that Cecile is in Bay City, especially after  
she's 

made such a lifelong habit of ignoring her role as a mother.  Why, she  
didn't
even remember to send her a birthday card until a month after Maggie's 

birthday.  Cecile knows all about Maggie's boy troubles, and tells her  
that
Rachel is concerned, so she decided to come see for herself.  Cecile  
tells Mags
that Mama is an expert on men -- how to get them, keep them, and win  
them back.
Cecile tells Maggie that she's moving in....

JOHN & SHARLENE'S FARM

Frankie comes in all upset, and tells Sharlene that Emma has had a  
stroke.
Frankie wants Sharlene to come with her back home to Chadwell, because  
she 

can't handle this all alone.  Sharlene is reluctant -- she just spent  
the whole
summer there, after all -- but John comes in and convinces her she  
should go.

CARLINO'S RESTAURANT

Joe and Jake take turns trying to open the door.  Joe offers to lend  
Jake his 

jacket, but Jake refuses.  Jake accuses Joe of planning the whole thing  
in 

order to get rid of him.  Joe scoffs at Jake's paranoia.  Then Jake  
starts 

getting sleepy...

VICKY'S HOUSE

Vicky tells Michael how grateful she is to Nick for saving Mike's life.   
Mike
finds Vicky's journal, and she tells him about her revenge fantasies  
against
Justine.  Michael tells her that is natural, but she will only start to  
heal 

when she finally lets go of the anger and bitterness, like he did after  
finding
out about his illness.  Vicky tells Michael that today was the day she  
told 

Steven about Ryan's death, and how he's been acting out.  She also  
relates how
Grant managed to actually be helpful with Steven earlier today.  The  
doorbell
rings, and it's Donna.  She is very happy to see Michael, but after she  
hugs 

him and makes sure he's all better, she slaps him....

TOPS

Paulina is still sitting and waiting for Joe to arrive....

CARLINO'S RESTAURANT

Joe tries his best to keep Jake from falling asleep, the first sign of 

hypothermia being sleepiness.  He taunts him with remarks about how  
Paulina 

complained that Jake always fell asleep on her, and that's why she  
chose Joe,
a guy who could stay awake.  It doesn't work.  Finally, Joe takes off  
his 

jacket and wraps it around Jake, and then, veerrryyy reluctantly, puts  
his 

arms around Jake in an effort to stave off the cold....

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Cecile has a present for Maggie -- a velvet beret from Paris.  Maggie  
tells 

Cecile that she can't play dress-up with her anymore, she's not a doll,  
she's
an adult with her own life, even though it may suck right now...  


VICKY'S HOUSE

Donna is angry at Michael for being incommunicado while he was at the  
clinic.
It turns out that he called everybody regularly, except Donna.  Donna  
is 

worried about Vicky, and tells Michael that Vicky is in denial, and  
hasn't 

started grieving for Ryan yet.  Vicky comes in, saying it's nice to  
have the 

two of them together again, sort of, just like old times....

JOHN & SHARLENE'S FARM

Frankie is all packed.  Cass tells her that he wants to come along.   
She 

convinces him to stay behind and patch things up with Morgan.  Frankie  
tells 

Cass that she regrets not attempting to get closer to her mother before  
now,
and says Cass shouldn't cop out, but should make the most of the time  
he has 

now to make it up to Morgan.

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Maggie tells Cecile all about her boy toy problems.  Cecile tells her  
about a 

time when she had two dukes in love with her, and went off with some  
Polish 

count instead.  She tells Mags that love is only worth it as long as it  
remains
fun -- when it stops being fun, that's the time to vamoose.  Mags  
sarcastically
thanks her for the advice.

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Tomas is at the door.  He meets Cecile, and then wants to talk to  
Maggie alone.
Cecile pretends to go upstairs, and eavesdrops instead.  Tomas is  
furious with
Maggie for giving him the test answers, instead of just a few sample  
questions
like she said they were.  He accuses her off setting him up to cheat,  
something
he's never done before in his life.  


CARLINO'S RESTAURANT

Joe is still trying to keep Jake awake.  Jake is taking every  
opportunity to 

needle Joe about their clinch to ward off the cold, saying things like  
"Will 

you sing me a lullaby?"  They're finally rescued by the night watchman.

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Tomas is tempted to go and confess his cheating to the proper  
authorities. 

Maggie manages to talk him out of acting on his rigid conscience and  
thereby
ruining his burgeoning medical career.  Tomas tells Mags to stay out of  
his 

life, and storms out.  Cecile comes in and is all sugary and solicitous  
towards
Maggie...

VICKY'S HOUSE

Donna and Michael are both sitting on the couch.  Donna is looking at  
Michael
with a dreamy, distracted expression, but snaps out of it and says that  
she 

is thinking of her fiance, and must go now.  As Michael helps her on  
with her 

coat, it's obvious that his nearness stirs up old feelings in her.   
Donna beats
a hasty retreat, leaving Vicky to wonder what that was all about.

TOPS

Joe finally shows up for dinner with Paulina, and tells her all about  
his and 

Jake's freezer experience.

VICKY'S HOUSE

Jake and Vicky share a good laugh about his escapade.  Jake says that  
this 

doesn't mean that he and Joe have buried the hatchet, quite the  
contrary.  "So
Carlino's opening up a restaurant, heeheehee" Jake chuckles to himself.   
Vicky
asks Jake what he's planning now....

JOHN & SHARLENE'S FARM

John asks Tomas how the EMT exam went.  Tomas uneasily says it went  
great, and
John replies that at least something is going right in this family...

CORY/HUTCHINS MANSION

Cecile tries to reassure Maggie that just because Tomas said he never  
wants to 

see her again, that doesn't mean that he's really sincere about it.   
Maggie 

says that she doesn't know Tomas, he has this thing about honesty and  
she 

really messed things up for good this time.  Maggie finally goes  
upstairs to 

bed, and Cecile makes a phone call -- to Cass.  "I'm BAAAAAAACK!" she  
trills,
as on the other end of the line Cass looks comically dismayed.  FREEZE  
FRAME.


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-- Anna Sado  (aka Champagne, BikerChick and DanceFloorDiva)  :-)
anna.sado@syslink.mcs.com
"I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that  
glory I
create as an illusion!  I want it real!"  from _Ideal_

