From: Susan Richmond <susan@webspan.net>

Hi everyone,

Today on The City, Angie learns the truth about Tess's medical 
condition, Carla bothers Ally, and Tracy visits the doctor to learn the 
truth behind Carla's pregnancy. One small note, Tracy kept calling Carla 
her (future) daughter-in-law, which really bugged me because Carla would 
be her step-daughter if Tracy married Gino, not her daughter-in-law. So, 
I wrote daughter-in-law because that's what she said, but as far as I 
know, it's not correct, is it? Anyway, here we go....


				THE CITY UPDATE
			  Thursday, January 16th, 1997


ANGIE, TESS AND BUCK
Location: Angie and Jacob's apartment

*Buck is in his apartment, packing an overnight bag while talking on the 
phone to the car rental agency. He's making arrangements to keep the car 
a few more days to take Tess up to Vermont.

*In Angie's apartment, Angie tells Tess that her doctor called and wants 
Tess to call her back right away, it's very important. Tess tries to 
fool Angie by telling her it must be about insurance and then tries to 
avoid Angie by going to pack. Angie doesn't let her get away, though, 
and accuses Tess of not telling the truth. If she has to, Angie will 
call Dr. Burke back herself and get the details. She's Tess's friend as 
well as her doctor. Tess finally admits to Angie that te lump in her 
breast is a tumor.

*Tess lied to Angie about the tumor because she couldn't face it. "And 
you think ignoring it is going to make it go away?", Angie asks. Tess 
hasn't told Buck anything about the tumor yet, and she doesn't plan to 
do it now and spoil their trip. When will she tell Buck, next month, 
next year, Angie demands, or will Tess wait until Buck's a widower?

*Angie reminds Tess how important early detection and treatment are. 
There's no need, though, for Tess to imagine the worst. Tess insists 
that she's not in denial, she just doesn't want to ruin the happiest 
moment of her life. How happy can she be, carrying this secret around 
with her, Angie asks. Telling Buck will change the way he looks and her, 
how he feels about her. Once she tells Buck, just about everythin will 
change. Tess doesn't want to ruin what could be the last happy moment 
for the rest of her life. Angie understands what Tess is saying, but "we 
are talking about life and death". Buck overhears this last sentence and 
wants to know what's going on.

*Tess tells him that Angie was thinking about reupholstering the sofa 
and they were talking about fabrics. Buck doesn't see how that could be 
life or death, but Tess says a man doesn't have any idea how important 
that sort of thing is to a woman. Tess goes to finish packing. Angie 
congratulates Buck on his engagement and wishes him all the happiness in 
the world. Buck leaves. Tess comes back out and thanks Angie for not 
saying anything to Buck. Tess promises she'll call Dr. Burke and make an 
appointment as soon as she gets back. Angie wants Tess to realize that 
every hour, every minute, counts. Tess has never understood that more 
than she does now, that's why she wants the next few days with Buck. She 
gets Angie to give her a kiss on the cheek and leaves. 

TRACY, DR. MARINO AND DEE
Loction: Dr. Marino's office

*Tracy is warning Dr. Marino that it could be bad if anyone outside the 
family finds out about Carla's condition. The doctor swears that he 
hasn't told anyone, he's very busy and can't spare anymore time to talk 
to Tracy. MR. SOLEITO feels that he hasn't been given enough information 
on his daughter's condition, Tracy warns, hoping that fear of Gino will 
make the doctor talk. Mr. Soleito wants answers, and he will get them 
"by whatever means necessary".

*The doctor doesn't appreciate being threatened. He promised Carla he 
wouldn't discuss her condition with anyone and he's kept that promise. 
Tracy tells the doctor that Mr. Soleito would not be happy if his 
daughter's pregnancy ended up all over the tabloids. The doctor stands 
up and tells Tracy their conversation is over.

*If the doctor won't give her the information, she'll call Gino and have 
him send over one of his 'associates', Tracy says, picking up the phone. 
Dr. Marino still refuses to give the information because of 
doctor/patient confidentiality. The doctor can't spend any more time 
talking to Tracy and they go out into the waiting room. Dr. Marino tells 
his assistant, Dee, she can't have the afternoon off as he promised 
because she has to work on the paperwork for his time-share condo. Even 
the fact that Dee promised to go to Parent's Day at her son, Adam's, 
school doesn't change the doctor's mind. Dr. Marino leaves and Tracy 
comments she has a son and knows how much it hurts to disappoint them. 
Tracy asks if she can talk to Dee for a moment, she's concerned about 
the treatment her daughter-in-law has been getting there.

*Tracy's grown to like Carla so much, and this is her first pregnancy  
and there are genetic conditions in her family that should be taken into 
consideration. Tracy just wants to check to make sure that Carlo listed 
all of the important information. Dee tells Tracy she's not authorized 
to give out information on patients, she could lose her job. Tracy 
reminds Dee that Dr. Marino isn't around, he's gone to Belleview 
(Hospital). Actually, he's at the racetrack, Dee explains. Belleview is 
the doctor's code name for Belmont race track. She asks Tracy what the 
last name was and looks for the file. It's missing. Dr. Marino must have 
it in his personal files, and Dee doesn't have the key to them.

*Dee apologizes for not being able to help and leaves the room. Tracy 
swears to herself that she will get the information, one way or another.

DANNY, CARLA AND ALLY
Starting location: 5th floor hallway

*Danny and Carla are leaving his apartment and headed toward the 
elevator. Danny's sneezing and complaining about having to go out on the 
hotel ledge the other night. He does, however, admit that sleeping with 
Carla wasn't so bad. They are both curious about what Tony meant when he 
said that he was "making headway with Ally". Carla decides to go right 
to the source and knocks on Ally's door. Ally opens the door and, not at 
all happy to see Carla, asks "What do you want?" Ally then slams the 
door in Carla's face and Danny warns Carla to leave Ally alone.

*Carla knocks on Ally's door again. Ally finally agrees to let her in. 
She sends Tyler up to clean his room, despite his protest that it is 
already clean. Carla tells Ally how adorable Tyler is, then, touching 
her stomach, wonders if she'll have a boy or a girl. Ally asks what 
Carla wants and why she's there. Carla explains that she's in the 
building to have dinner with Gino and Tracy. Ally asks her to get to the 
point. Carla pretends to be queasy and asks for some crackers. Ally 
doesn't get her any, she just asks Carla again what the hell she's doing 
there.

*Carla thinks they should talk, but Ally's not interested. Any 
self-respecting person would have signed the annulment papers and bowed 
gracefully out of the marriage Tony obviously didn't want, Ally accuses. 
But Carla used the oldest trick in the book, she got Tony drunk and got 
him into bed with her. It didn't take much to get Tony into bed, Carla 
taunts.  And now Carla turns out to be pregnant, Ally never like Carla, 
but at least she gave her credit for originality. Carla knows that Ally 
wants to see Tony as the innocent in this, but that's hardly the case, 
Carla says. Tony doesn't remember going to bed with Carla, or remember 
making love to her. Ally really doubts that Carla is even pregnant. 
Carla offers to give her the doctor's name. Ally orders Carla to leave, 
but she doesn't go. Ally tells Carla to face reality, if Tony's nice to 
Carla at all, it's only because of the baby. That's all Carla will ever 
have of him, because Ally has the rest.

*Carla says Ally is the one that is pathetic. Carla is married to Tony 
and having his baby, and Ally still thinks she has a chance with him. 
Ally claims it wold kill Carla if Ally and Tony got back together after 
all Carla's tries to do to them. Carla's not worried, it will never 
happen. "You'll never have him and you know it", Ally says. There's a 
knock at the door. It's Danny come to get some proof sheets. He quietly 
says to Carla he told her not to get near Ally. "Yes, master", Carla 
says sarcastically. Carla says if he wants Ally, he should leave it all 
up to Carla. Ally comes back with the proof sheets and Carla and Danny 
leave. Waiting for the elevator, Carla assures Danny that as long as 
Tony thinks she's carrying his child, everything will be fine. All they 
have to do now is hope that their night together got Carla pregnant.

That's it for today, see you next Thursday!

-- 
Susan

