From: Susan Richmond <susan@webspan.net>

Hi everyone,

Today on The City, Lorraine tells Nick of her plan to be the surrogate 
for Angie and Jacob's baby, Carla fails to lure Tony into her bed, and 
Joc is still worried Danny is trying to get too close to Ally. Here we 
go....



				THE CITY UPDATE
			  Thursday, January 9th, 1997

TV14

NICK AND LORRAINE
Location: Nick and Buck's apartment

*Lorraine's cleaning up what looks like the remains of a poker game, 
when Nick comes in the apartment in a very good mood. He leads her over 
to sit down on the couch to tell her the good news. He just came back 
from his checkup at the doctor, and the doctor gave him approval to do 
something he's been wanting to do. "How does a promotional tour of 
Europe sound to you?" he asks Lorraine. Lorraine thinks it's wonderful 
news, but she'll miss him. Nick wants to take her with him, but she 
doesn't think she'll be able to go. "By April I may be pregnant", she 
says.

*Nick thinks that Lorraine means that she is already pregnant. Not that 
kind of pregnant, Lorraine replies. Nick doesn't understand, how many 
kinds of pregnant are there? Lorraine explains that she's thinking of 
being a surrogate for Jacob and Angie. "Are you saying that you 
volunteered for the job?", Nick asks.

*No she hasn't voluteered yet, but she's considering it. Jacob and Angie 
have been so good to her since she's moved to New York, they've been 
very good friends. Besides that, when Nick was sick Lorraine prayed to 
God that Nick would be saved. Her prayers were answered, and now maybe 
this is something she could do for Him. Nick doesn't like the idea of 
Lorraine being a surrogate at all. At the end of the nine months 
Lorraine will have a precious gift, a gift that she will have to hand 
over to two other people, Nick reminds her. Giving away that baby is 
going to be like giving away a piece of her heart, Nick doesn't think 
that she can handle it. Lorraine disagrees, she thinks she will be able 
to handle it. "With a little help from the.....", Nick starts to say, 
then changes his mind. Lorraine knows what he meant, he thinks that she 
will start drinking again.

*He reminds her that AA says that you shouldn't make any big changes in 
your life until you've been sober at least a year. Nick just doesn't 
think it's the right time to do this. Lorraine says that she's only had 
one slip in the 11 months that Nick has known her, and that was because 
she thought Nick was going to die. So your slip was my fault, Nick asks. 
Lorraine wasn't trying to say that, maybe he should be a little less 
judgemental and a little more compassionate. When Nick went looking for 
the guy who didn't get "his liver", Lorraine didn't call him a "damn 
fool" or say he didn't have the right to do it. Nick doesn't want to 
fight, he's just trying to keep Lorraine from being hurt. What Nick 
means is that he doesn't think she can do it, Lorraine says, and 
sarcasticaly thanks him for his vote of confidence before leaving. Nick 
yells after her to stop, they should talk this out, but she doesn't 
listen.

ALLY, DANNY AND JOCELYN
Location: Ally's apartment

*Ally and Danny are sitting at the table looking over photos for the 
magazine. Ally picks out a few that she likes and shows Danny. Danny 
offers to take Tyler over to his place and play some basketball once he 
wakes up from his nap. Ally mentions that Tony promised to take Tyler to 
a Knicks game, but now that's never going to happen. 

*It's not that Tony backed out on taking Tyler, Ally just doesn't think 
it would be a good idea for Tyler to spend time with Tony the way things 
are. It's ironic, she says, she spent all that effort getting them to be 
friends, and now that they are, she's keeping them apart. She feels like 
a lousy mother. Danny assures her that she's a fantastic mother, she's 
only trying to protect Tyler. Ally knows that Tyler is going to be so 
disappointed when she tell him he can't go to the Knicks game. Jocelyn, 
opening the apartment door, overhears Danny offer to volunteer his 
services (to take Tyler to the Knicks game instead). Jocelyn asks just 
what sort of services he is volunteering. 

*Ally explains that Tony was supposed to take Tyler to a Knicks game and 
Danny has offered to take him instead. Danny offers to help take the 
rest of Jocelyn's stuff over to her and Alex's new place. Jocelyn 
sweetly accuses him of wanting to get rid of her. Danny goes upstairs to 
get the stuff. Jocelyn feels bad that she's leaving Ally alone, with all 
the stuff going on with Tony, but Ally assures her she will be just 
fine. Zoey's going to be moving in and Danny's right across the hall. 
Ally can see that Joc isn't totally thrilled about Danny being so close 
to Ally. Ally admits that they have a strange friendship, considering 
all that has happened. They taked about it on New Year's Eve, Danny 
stayed with her and calmed her down until she went to sleep. Danny comes 
back downstairs with a box of Jocelyn's things and wonders if he's 
interrupting any girltalk. Joc tells him Ally was just saying how nice 
he was to her on New Year's Eve. 

*Danny says it was nothing, he just stopped by for a few minutes to see 
how Ally was. Ally's been using his technique of thinking of something 
soft and soothing to get to sleep, but it hasn't worked as well as the 
night he sat there talking to her about the beach. Joc snidely comments 
that maybe Ally should rent him by the hour. Danny walks to the other 
side of the room, and Joc tells Ally that she's sure she and Tony will 
get back together again. If Tony just slept with Carla, she could 
probably get over it, Ally says, but the fact that Carla's pregnant 
changes everything. Danny goes to take Joc's stuff downstairs. Standing 
by the elevator, he calls Carla on his cel phone. Carla tells Danny that 
Tony did come over, but then he left. Danny asks if she'll be there for 
a while because he's coming right over. He thinks he has an idea on how 
to make this whole thing work. 

CARLA AND TONY
Location: Carla's hotel room

*Carla opens the door and Tony walks in, telling Carla they've got a big 
problem. Gino's planning a double church wedding, for himself and Tracy 
and also for Tony and Carla. "That's crazy", Carla says. Did she tell 
Gino that Tony promised to marry her in a chuch, Tony demands.

*Carla denies that she ever told Gino any such thing. Gino was the only 
one who talked about a wedding and she's upset because Tony doesn't 
believe her. The first thing Gino said when he heard Carla was pregnant 
was that they would have to be married in a church. Tony still not sure 
if she's telling the truth, he can't see Gino saying the whole thing was 
Carla's idea if it was actually his own. Carla tells Tony that she knows 
Tony doesn't want a wedding and that's all that matters. Tony wants her 
to prove it then, by talking to Gino and convincing him that they don't 
want a wedding. Carla says she'll try. Tony, headed for the door, 
insists that she try HARD. Carla stops him before he leaves, asking him 
for a moment of his time. 

*If it's about the two of them getting together she's wasting her time, 
Tony says, they're never going to get together. Carla starts telling 
hime this story about how she went to church this morning and all of a 
sudden it came to her, why all these things were happening to them. The 
Feds case against Carla, Tony and Carla's fake marriage, the charges 
suddenly being dropped, everything happens for a reason. Tyler showing 
up on Ally's birthday(Tony reminds her that Danny brought him), Tony 
getting drunk and Carla getting pregnant the first time they made love, 
it was no accident(No kidding!) Tony knows she's no "religious fanatic", 
she never believed in fate or desitiny, but she can't believe all these 
things happening was just coincidence. Tony believes that sometime a guy 
drinks to much and loses his mind, and sometimes people sleep with 
people that they shouldn't sleep with. Carla insists that it was more 
than sex that night, they made love, and Tony was there even if he 
doesn't remember it now, how he kissed her, how he hugged her. Tony 
really doesn't want to discuss it. Fine, Carla says, she'll show him. 
She kisses him on the neck while Tony just stands there.  

*Tony moves away and tells Carla to knock it off. Just talk to Gino he 
say. He may have been out of control that night, but he's in control now 
and it's not going to happen. Maybe they just shouldn't be alone 
together, he doesn't want any more misunderstandings. Carla can talk 
about it until she's blue in the face or can show him a videotape, but 
it's still not going to happen again. He asks her once again to let him 
know how it goes with Gino and leaves. Carla says out loud, "OK kid, 
we're going to have to get you started some other way. It has to be 
tonight" 

That's it for today. See you next Thursday!

-- 
Susan

