From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>

When last we left The City (on Friday)....

Tony offered to go with Ally to her mother's to attend her step-father's
funeral.

Danny and Carla were sweating because Tracy remembers seeing a bracelet that 
matches the description Jocelyn gave of Danny's missing piece of jewlery.

Tuesday, in The City:

In the agency, Tony offers to go with Ally. This funeral will not be easy, Tony 
says. Her mom needs her, Ally says. No, Ally needs him, Tony says. Things
are so 
complicated, Ally says, they need time to sort things out. Tony offers to take 
that time on the train, they can talk. Ally says things will be complicated, 
people will be around, her mother will need her whole attention. Tony asks if 
he'd be a distraction for her, then. Tony wants her and Tyler to know that he 
will be there when they need him. She knows that they can count on him, Ally 
says, but...What is stopping you? Tony asks.

At a table, in the City Bar, Tracy says she might have seen that bracelet.
Where? Danny asks. Alex wants to know what the deal is with the bracelet. 
It's just a bracelet, he says, isn't it? Jocelyn says that he wouldn't say 
that if he bought it. Carla remembers Tracy picking up the bracelet in her 
room. Tracy says it'll come back to her where she's seen that bracelet. 
Carla says she doesn't want to talk about cheap jewlery anymore. Gino 
agrees that he wants to stop talking about that, he wants to talk about 
the big ticket items, like the little trinket that Alex gave Tracy. 
Jocelyn wants details. Alex says it was *nothing*. Tracy looks to Jocelyn 
and says a necklace, nothing substancial. 

Tracy says it was nothing, compared to that bracelet Danny lost. Danny 
sneezes a few times. Gino hopes he's not contagious. Alex says we'll know 
in 10 days. Jocelyn excuses herself and Alex, saying she's late for a 
desposition. After Alex and Jocelyn leave, Gino tells Tracy that he doesn't 
see what she ever saw in that man. Carla gets up and Tracy yells SIT, and 
tells Carla to put her head between her knees. Tracy knows what can happen. 
Carla excuses herself to splash water on her face. Tracy tells Gino 
she was pregnant once, she remembers the tricks a body can play. She offers 
to take care of his daughter. Tracy follows Carla to the bathroom. Danny 
starts to leave. Gino tells him to sit, they need to talk. In the bathroom, 
Tracy tells Carla that she remembers where she saw Danny's bracelet.

Ally and Tony talk about why Ally can't take Tony. Nobody was so happy for 
her as her mother when Ally and Tony got together. She told her mother 
everything. Ally cannot take Tony and pretend that everything is okay. Her 
mother will notice and then Ally will have to tell her everything. Tony asks 
what she'll say if her mother asks why he's not with her. She'll say they're 
having problems, and they're in different places right now. Where are they? 
Tony asks.

Tony repeats the question. What is going on with them? Ally says she 
doesn't know. She loves him, but with Carla...and Ally has to think about 
Tyler, she says. Tony loves her and Tyler. They could be a family, filled 
with love. Then, Ally says, Carla will call and he will be gone. Tony says 
he would be with her and Tyler as much as possible. Ally doesn't like that 
offer (assuming Carla wouldn't let him be with them a lot). Ally tells him 
not to make her miss her train. He offers to carry her to the train, if
necessary. She turns around and picks a photo up. She looks ready to cry. 
She finds the picture she took of him playing basketball. She took the 
picture because she didn't want him to know how she couldn't keep her eyes 
off of him. She turns around. He begs her not to turn away from him...from 
*them*.

In their apartment, Alex says that Tracy gave herself the necklace, to make 
Gino jealous. It gets more interesting, Jocelyn says. She doesn't beleive h
im, does she. Should she? Jocelyn asks. I give up, Alex says. Alex plops on 
the couch. Jocelyn comes out laughing. Tracy used him to get Gino Solieto, 
she laughs. What's so funny about that? Alex asks. She gave you up for *him*? 
She laughs. Alex looks confused.

Gino wants to know how close of friends Danny and Carla have been. Just 
friends, Danny says. How close friends? Gino says. Not *that* close, Danny 
says. Gino wants to know why Danny knew about her pregnancy before her own 
father. Danny says that he would never lay a hand on his roommate's wife. 
Gino says good, cause if he ever did, he'd have to handle it. Understand? 
Danny sweats, and says yes, he understands. He has to go now. Danny sneezes. 
Gino says God bless. Danny says he hopes so. 

Tracy and Carla talk about Danny being in Carla's room. Tracy hopes Danny 
didn't give her anything...but then, Tracy says, they'll know in 9 months, 
won't they? Carla says Tracy has no proof, unless she has a picture. Damn, 
Tracy says, she left her camera at home this time. Carla says blood is 
thicker than water, and if it was Tracy's word against Carla, Daddy will 
believe Carla before he would believe Tracy. Especially, Carla says, patting 
her stomach, now. Tracy says she'll just have to get proof, then. What kind 
of proof? Carla asks. She'll let Carla know when she finds it, Tracy says. 
Tracy's parting shot is that Daddy might be interesting to know his daughter 
is playing in someone else's sandbox.

Alex says that Jocelyn doesn't believe him, does she? Alex tells Jocelyn 
that Tracy said that she told Gino that they were seeing each other, to get 
Gino jealous. Then Gino came to talk to Alex to warn him away from Tracy. 
Threatened him, Alex adds. Jocelyn says really? No, he's kidding, Alex says, 
yes, of course. He was serious. Alex says Tracy thinks Gino is dying. Jocelyn 
wonders why she thinks that, his type like to be very old. If they dodge the 
bullets, Alex says. Tracy wants to marry Gino, Alex says, then when he dies, 
she'll have it all. Jocelyn says when Gino dies, then Alex can marry Tracy. 
Huh? Alex asks as she kisses him. Maybe he likes intrique in a woman, mystery, 
danger. She says that, when he marries Tracy, she can be his mistress, and 
(as she takes off her blouse), then he can have his mysterious woman *and* 
excitment. Is that intriquing enough? Down right sensual, Alex says as he 
grabs for Jocelyn. They fall to the bed.

Ally says she loves him, but that is not enough. It is for him, Tony says. 
Ally and Tony kiss, as Danny comes in and eavesdrops. Tony asks Ally if she 
remember what happened the last time they were in this room. Yeah, Ally sighs, 
they made love. They kiss. Tony offers to watch Tyler, while she travels to 
her Mom's. Ally kises him again. Danny is outside the door to the dark room, 
then leaves.

Carla and Tracy come back, and Gino says it's so nice that they cleared the 
air. Jacob comes over and says there is a phone call for Carla. It's Danny. 
He tells Carla that not only did her father warn him away from her - or he'd 
break his legs, but he just walked in on the lovers in a lip lock. Ally and 
Tony? Carla says. Yes, of course, and they're about to shuffle off to Buffalo, 
Danny says. They're planning a long trip, Danny says, if she doesn't do 
something quick. She'll think of something, Carla says, hanging up the phone 
and frowing. Meanwhile, Gino is talking to Tracy, saying it's so nice things 
are going well. Tracy, looking at Carla, says things may have just improved.

Danny-better-wear-shin-guards-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


