From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>


Okay, I have permission to go buy a TV antenna (and to give the bill to 
my boss' boss - is this a great place to work or WHAT?), but I haven't 
gone shopping yet. Next week, I hope to have better reception. Bear with 
me one more day. Thanks.

Friday, on "the city":

Danny is getting his mail. Carla asks if it's a love letter fom Ally. Bill 
from ConEd, Danny says. Better luck next time, Carla says. She's here to 
have dinner with her father and Tracy. Danny is going to have dinner with 
Alex and Jocelyn, to make up for the night he missed, since he was with her. 
Carla notices that he is wearing the bracelet. Carla yells at him and makes 
him take it off. She *knows* Tracy would notice it and make the connection.
Danny doesn't plan on being anywhere near her and Tracy. She tells him to 
take it off anyway. Gino and Tracy are talking. Carla and Danny walk in and 
Tracy says she looks lovely tonight. Gino is not happy about "that guy" that 
hangs around with her. Tracy says it's probably nothing. Gino says that Carla 
is married. Gino notices that Alex is with some other woman, so he sholdn't 
be bothering Tracy anymore. Alex and Jocelyn are talking. Joc wonders why 
Tracy is with Gino. Alex says guess. Gino gets Carla to sit at the table. 
Carla and Tracy are not too rude to each other, but Gino tells them it's a 
party, they need to be happy. Tracy says Dilon is with Tyler, and the 
babysitter.

Tony and Ally are at the agency. Tony says he's sorry the locksmith 
interrupted them. Ally is glad, maybe it's a good thing. Tony says what would 
have happened if he hadn't? The phone rings. Tony says he's starting to hate 
phones. Ally answers. It's her mother. What's wrong? Ally asks.

Ally says into the phone that she'll be there as soon as she can. She tells 
her mother to hang in there. Ally says Tony that her step-father died. Tony 
says he's so sorry. Ally says he got sick, and she promised her mother she'd 
go see him. She cries. She never made it. Tony says it's okay to cry. Ally 
turns to him and he hugs her. She hugs him back.

Zoey is babysitting Dilon and Tyler. Joey knocks on the door. He has lasagna. 
His mother made it for Tracy. Zoey jokes about welcoming the woman into the 
family, and checking her out, too. Joey says, yeah, something like that. Zoey 
says Tracy and Carla are down in the bar with Gino, having dinner. Joey says 
that should be an interesting dinner. Joey is invited to play the game the 
kids are playing...admission is one lasagna. Joey sits on the floor with them.

Nice of you to make it this time, Jocelyn says to Danny. He appologizes. 
Meanwhile, Gino tries to order something, but Carla makes him order something 
healthy. Tracy tells Carla that she will take good care of him. Carla sighs. 
Tracy says she hears there's a cold snap coming. Gino says he's going to 
invite some people to make this a real party! Gino suggests Alex and his 
friends. Both Carla and Tracy try to talk him out of it. Gino ignores them 
and goes over to the table and invites Alex, Jocelyn, and Danny (after Alex 
introduces them to Gino) over to his table. At first, Alex and the others 
decline the invitation, then Gino insists, and Alex asks Danny. Danny declines. 
Gino insists again. They realize that Gino won't take no for an answer. On 
the way back to the table, Gino tells Alex to remember, Alex lost; Gino won 
Tracy fair and square. Gino kisses Tracy. Jocelyn looks at Alex, who is not 
happy.

Joey plays nice with the kids. Joey lands on Boardwalk, owned by one of the 
kids. That ends the game, Zoey says. I won! the kid says. You won, big time, 
Zoey says. She sends the kids off to watch TV while she and Joey clean up. 
Joey wonders how she ended up babysitting. She says it's her gig now - she 
was fired from Hot Line, until Richard comes back...if he comes back. They 
talk about Tracy and Gino. Zoey asks what it's like to be in a family with 
the Godfather. Don't worry, she says, she's not wired. Joey says she couldn't 
be, there's no place to hide the wire, unless the nose ring is the wire, they 
laugh. They talk about her nose ring, and how it's not a usual sight at his 
club. 

Gino tells Alex he owes him. Alex asks for an explanation. If Alex wasn't 
competition for Tracy, Gino wouldn't have played his best game with Tracy and 
won. Tracy says how romantic. Gino says she knows what he means. Jocelyn takes 
Alex aside (by sayign she thinks she lost an earing at the other table) and 
asks if he would like to explain what that is all about. Back at the table, 
Carla asks about Tracy and Alex. So, the two of you were involved? For a little 
while, Tracy says. How long ago was that? Carla asks. Gino says that was the 
past, and this is now.

Ally pulls away and tells Tony about her relationship with her step-father. 
(ed. note: I missed most of this, she was talking so quiet, and the static was 
overwhelming. If she said anything interesting or important, please, someone 
let us know!) Somehow, she started talking about how someone says she wishes 
they were as happy as them (Tony and Ally?)...but look at them now. Tony wishes 
that he could take the last few months and wipe them out. But we can't can we?
Ally says.

Alex tries to tell Jocelyn, but he says it will take all night. Can she wait?

Carla wants to know more about Tracy and Alex. Gino says it is the past, It 
doesn't matter anymore, he adds. Jocelyn and Alex return. Tracy asks if she 
found her earing. Yup, Jocelyn says. Tracy says Jocelyn is lucky; she never 
can find her lost jewlery. Losing jewlery must run in the family, Jocelyn says. 
What does she mean? Tracy asks. Where is your bracelet? Jocelyn asks Danny.

Joey asks if anyone has told Zoey she's a little nosy? Lots, she says. Well, 
he killed 5 people this week...and busted up a couple. Zoey says he must have 
busted a knee cap or two. He doesn't even know where the knee cap is. Zoey says 
she pictured his club as smoked filled and full of people plotting how to hurt 
people and get revenge. He tells her that she has the smoke-filled part right, 
but she's been watching too many movies. Joey says the club is men only. Only 
Carla is allowed in, and they're not happy about it - but she has connections. 
So, Zoey will go in drag, she says. They bet that she can get in and not be 
detected as a woman. Joey leaves, saying he'll see her, good looking.

Ally is on the phone, waiting to get the train schedule. Tony tells her that 
he'll get the schedule, she needs to go pack. He wonders what she'll do with 
Tyler. He'll come with her, of course. Tony suggests that Zoey can watch him. 
Tony says that she is preoccupied, it's a long trip, and she'll be alone. He 
offers to go with her.

Danny says he's not sure where he lost it. Jocelyn gave it to him. Tracy asks 
what it looks like. Danny says it doesn't matter. Jocelyn describes it. Sounds 
familiar, Tracy says, remembering picking it up in Carla's place. Jocelyn asks 
if Tracy's seen it. Tracy rubs her chin and says she thinks so. Danny and Carla 
look worriued. Now where, Tracy says as she continues to rub, where have I
seen it?

make-'em-sweat-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


