From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>

 in "the city":

At the penthouse, Tracy is looking over the guest list. She just 
can't wait, she sighs to herself. The doorbell rings. Carmine, 
Gino's designer is there. Zoey comes in and says Dilon is asleep. 
Carmine looks around and says this place definately needs his 
touch. When he's done, the two of them will love living here. She 
lives here alone, Tracy says. Carmine tells her Mr. Solieto will 
like living here. Gino's moving in? Tracy asks.

At the clinic, Angie is talking to Tess on the phone (one-sided 
phone call). Angie reminds her to call the doctor! Jacob comes in 
as Angie is hanging up the phone. Jacob says Loraine never came 
in to work. Nick said she went to an AA meeting this morning. They 
hopes nothing is wrong.

Loraine is at a bar, with Mike a bartender. He comes over and asks 
if she wants another drink. What's he trying to pull on her? Loraine 
says, she's the mind reader. She gets another drink. He's going to 
cut her off after this one, he says. She remembers the doctor 
telling her that she may be on a mission, but she has to think about 
this choice. She did not choose this, Loraine says, she was choosen. 
Even so, the doctor says. He's making a mistake, Loraine says, just
like the rest of them. Loraine pays for the drinks and the bartender 
offers to call her a cab. She declines, saying the cold air and a 
walk will do her good. The bartender says that she looks like she's 
on a mission. She sure is, Loraine says, she'll bring light to the 
blind. Someone needs to see the light, and she's the one to show it 
to her.

At the bar, Nick asks Jacob if he's seen Loraine. Nick says seems 
her AA sponsor didn't see her at the meeting this morning. Where is 
she? Nick wonders.

Meanwhile, there is an insistent knocking at the clinic door. Angie 
calls out that they're closed. It's Loraine, pounding on the door. 
Angie realizes she's been drinking. Loraine wants to talk. Angie wants 
her to go sleep it off. Loraine wants to talk NOW. Okay, Angie conceeds, 
what does she have to say. Bzzzzz. Loraine says, wrong...she should 
have said what does she need to hear?

The decorator is making massive plans. Tracy pays Zoey for babysitting. 
Zoey tells her not to use that word around Tyler or Dilon. Tracy says
oh, yes, she remembered what happened last time she did. Zoey can't
wait to meet her family tomorrow. What is Zoey talking about? Zoey
looked at the guest list. Zoey wonders if Tracy needs her help tomorrow.
Yes, she'll be babysitting. Tracy wants Zoey to keep Dilon down at her 
place during the party. Zoey suggests she bring him up to meet his 
grandparents. Carmine comes over, ready to talk decorating. As Carmine 
is telling Tracy about the fireplace with electric logs he'll install 
and a love seat - crushed red velvet, of course, the phone rings. Zoey 
gets it. It's Tracy's mother (another one-sided conversation). No, he's 
asleep, Zoey says. Do you want to talk to Tracy? Oh. Well, we'll see you 
tomorrow at the party. What? Oh, I must have the date wrong. Well, I'll 
tell her you called. No? Don't tell her? Oh. Well, nice talking...geeze. 
Meanwhile, Tracy declines the fireplace, and *especially* the love seat. 
Instead, she wants two areas, so that she and Gino can have their own 
space. Carmine says he'll have to talk to Mr. S about structural changes. 
Tracy hands him the phone. Zoey tells Tracy her mother called and it seems 
she was down right rude. Also, Zoey gets the feeling that Tracy's mother 
didn't know about the party. 

Zoey offers to help Tracy with the plans. Like as a personal assistant.
Tracy tells her to go. Zoey says she knows when she's not wanted. Zoey 
goes to Dillon's room to retrieve her book. The designer says Mr. S says 
whatever his bride wants, she gets...but, Carmine says, he is set on 
getting the love seat. Crushed red velvet? Tracy cringes. Yes, Carmine 
says. Well, she'll find a place for it, she supposes. As they walk to the
door, Tracy asks when can he have the stuff here? He says first thing in 
the morning. Good, Tracy says as Carmine leaves. Zoey comes over to the 
door as an actor appears in the doorway. He's there to audition for the 
part of Edward Q. A ligth dawns, Zoey says.

At the bar, Nick is worried. Loraine missed work without calling. In the 
clinic, Loraine is upset that Angie won't let her carry the baby. Loraine 
says that her mother used to say that if someone can't find the way, she 
had to show them. Loraine says she's here to show her the way to have a 
baby.

Tracy says he's early. He's sorry. Can he give her 5 minutes? Tracy closes
the door. Zoey says Edward Q? Like Quartermaine? She gets it. She's hiring 
actors to impersonate her family, Zoey says. In a word, Tracy says, maybe. 
For Gino? Zoey asks. No, for her, Tracy says. Of course. Why? Zoey asks.
Tracey tells Zoey that she can't think of any other way out of this mess. 
Zoey says lots of folks don't get along with their parents. Tracy needs 
Zoey to swear she won't tell anyone. Sure, Zoey says, no problem. As long...
as long as *how much*? Tracy asks. No, the money isn't improtant, Zoey says. 
She wants a job. As Tracy's personal assistant. Zoey says Tracy owns half 
this building and she must be busy with things related to that. Zoey wants 
to help her and to become known in this town. Tracy has no choice. But, 
Tracy says, one word of this and she's a dead assistant. understand? Zoey 
understands. And, Tracy adds, the nose ring goes. Oh, Zoey says. The 
doorbell rings. It's an actress auditioning for the mother role. The actress
mistakes Zoey for Tracy. Zoey says she is not Ms. Q, but rather her personal
assistant. The actress looks at Tracy.

Loraine tells Angie that she's here to show her God's plan. Angie tells her 
this is not about God, this is about what Loraine wants. Loraine yells at 
her to shut up, SHUT UP, S H U T  U P!. Angie says she's sorry that Loraine 
wants something, but Angie isn't willing to give her that at her own expense. 
Angie goes to the phone. She's going to call Nick to come and get her and 
take her home. Loraine says Angie is not going to write her a prescription 
and hope this goes away. Loraine says they are not done. She takes the phone 
and hangs up.

As Jacob and Nick are moving some cases of beer, Nick says he and Loraine 
were doing so well. Then Loraine got on this baby track. Jacob says, Like he 
got on the liver donor track when he insisted on finding the guy he bumped 
off the list? And Angie on this...well, Jacob says, they all get distracted 
at one time or another. Out in the hall, Nick and Jacob hear Angie yelling 
at Loraine to leave, and Loraine yelling back that they are not though. 
Sounds like round 15, Nick says. Angie tells Loraine to leave, now. Loraine 
has Angie by the shoulders, yelling at her. Angie pushes, and Loriane falls 
backwards, hitting a tall bookshelf. She falls, and the bookcase falls on her. 
Angie puts her hands out (to stop the bookcase, but she was too far away).
Angie screams. Jacob and Nick come it to where Angie is. Jacob tries to lift 
the bookcase. Nick goes to Loraine's head. The bookcase is up against the desk,
and Loraine may be pinned by her legs. Loraine's upper body is clearly visible
near the desk, away from the bookcase.

Angie-better-request-a-blood-alcohol-test-for-the-law-suit-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


