From: Riley <LMT94002@uconnvm.uconn.edu>

The City-Update--Friday, January 31, 1997

There is really only one storyline today:  All In The Family

Alex is looking at the invitation for the engagement party.  Joc asks if he
is going to lay in bed all day.  He says he might get lucky.  She tells him
he might get a heart attack from all the coffee hes drinking, but she
doesnt think hell get lucky.  A guy can hope and pray and drink his
coffee.  He doesnt want to go to the party.  Joc says it might be worth it.
He tears up the invitation.  Joc says she could dress to kill and drive
Tracey crazy.  Shes already certifiable, Alex says.  Besides, the last time
they were all together, they got into a big fight.  Joc says that is true, but
she seems to remember the outcome being enjoyable.  Alex is beginning
to remember that himself.  They kiss and Alex agrees to go.  He owes her
one anyway:  the whole Danny/Carla conspiracy problem.  Joc says hes
forgiven.  They kiss again, but Joc says that it still doesnt mean that hes
going to get lucky.  Alex asks what her hurry is.  He doesnt want to know.
Yes, he does.  Joc goes to the closet, gets her coat, and picks up a message
as she leaves.

Danny is sleeping on the couch in the agency.  Carla comes in and kisses
his cheek.  She tells him to get up.  Another ten m inutes, Mom.  She
wakes him up and tells him that his face looks worse than a 3-day-old
banana.  He walked into something.  Like Tonys fist, Carla says.  How
did she know that?  When she left the apartment, he was bandaging his
hand.  What did Danny say to him?  Just the Danny wanted Ally and that
Tony wasnt good enough for her.  All in all, he was pretty humorous
about the situation.  Carla agrees, Danny is still alive.  Carla has a major
problem.  The engagement party is tonight.  Tracey has something
cooking and she has a feeling that she is the main course.

Zoey answers the door and Tracey and Dillon walk in.  She sends him to
detonate the TV.  Tracey says she would put Mary Poppins on the
unemployment line.  Zoey asks about the decorator.  Tracey finally talked
him out of importing the statue of David, but what they end up with is
anyones guess.  Zoey says anything is better than Sydneys leopard print
chairs.  Tracey asks if Zoey can handle this.  In her sleep.  Tracey says her
assistants dont sleep.  All Zoey has to do is keep Dillon away from the
actors playing his grandparents.  Tracey doesnt even want him to even
know that there is an engagement party going on.  Zoey tells her not to
worry.  The only strange face hell see is hers.  Tracey says that only
Dillon and one other person can blow this charade out of the water.  What
other person?  Tracey says she is going to go take care of it--now.

Tony pours coffee all over himself and his bandaged hand.  He yells out.
He picks up the phone and calls Buffalo information looking for Allys
mothers number.  Its not listed.

Carla brings Danny a cold compress and tells him to put it on his eye.
Isnt she overreacting?  She has seen road kill with less bruises.  He was
talking about Tracey.  No, shes not overreacting about Tracey.  It is a
critical situation.  Since when?  Since she was forced to put the pregnancy
test in the couch.  Tracey found it?  Carla tells him to relax.  Tony found it
and held it up for show and tell.  And Danny assumes that she told them it
was his.  At first, but then she confessed that she was afraid that she had
lost the baby and wanted to check and make sure that it was still there.
And they bought that?  All except Tracey.  She told her to watch her back.
Tracey has something on her.  Not if shes pregnant.  Thats a pretty big
if.  Doesnt she know?  Tracey threw away the test.  Cant she buy
another one?  How careless can Carla be?  Careless?  She reminds him
that if he hadnt left the bracelet in her hotel room, she wouldnt be after
her.  Tracey thinks that nonexistent baby is his?  It might exist...and
technically speaking, it will be his.  Right.  And if Tracey breathes a word
of this to Gino, that fight with Tony is going to seem like a trip to
Grandmas.  Carla says they shouldnt be seen together anymore.  She tells
him not to go to the engagement party.  She needs to use the phone.  Does
he know her?  He says he has to make a few calls.  She should use the one
in Jocs office behind the partition.  Carla leaves.  Danny goes to call
someone, but Joc walks in and sees him.  He tells her he was mugged by a
group of hot dog venders.  She asks him what kind of scam he has going
with Carla Soleito.

Alex answers the door.  Its Tracey.  She came to apologize for everything
shes done since she came to NY.  Apology accepted.  He and Joc
considered the source and didnt take it to heart.  She says that she knows
that they received an invitation to her little get-together, but she knows
that the two of them would rather spend a quiet evening at home.  Why
would they want to trade barbs with Gino?  He says to see her family.
Tracey doesnt know that they will be there.  Shes working on it, but it
promises to be a very difficult evening either way.  Alex says she will
survive.  She always does.  She goes to leave and Alex says that he and
Joc really do wish her well.  Tracey is truly sorry.  She tells Alex not to
think twice about the invitation.  She is taking him off the guest list right
now.  She leaves.  Alex laughs, then realizes that she doesnt want him
there.

Zoey is talking around blindfolded.  She walks into the clock.  Dillon says
shes getting colder.  She turns around and starts walking toward him.  Is
her nose bleeding?  Shes getting warmer.  He moves away.  The doorbell
rings.  Its Tony.  She answers the door with the blindfold still on.  He asks
her if she is babysitting or if she is being held hostage.  Is there a
difference?  Tony wouldnt know.  He looks like he lost his best friend...or
killed him.  Dillon pops out and says he won.  He asks Tony if he wants to
play Blind Mans Bluff.  Tony has been blind-sided one too many times.
Zoey tells Dillon to go hide.  Shell count to 10.  She gets to four and he is
gone.  It works better than bug spray.  Tony just stopped by to get a
phone number.  Thats what they all say.  He just wants Allys mothers
number.  She goes to write it down.  She says he has it bad for Ally.  She
knows what it is like.  She hasnt heard from Richard since New Years
Eve.  Hes sorry.  At least he knows that Ally is in Buffalo.  He also knows
that she doesnt want to hear from him.  Zoey tells him thats not true.
She loves him.  Loved...past tense, he says.  Zoey tells himt hat love
doesnt just die like that.  He says that their love is dead and buried
already.  Too many complications.  She says that they are perfect for each
other.  He says that she sounds really convinced.  She has to.  Shes trying
to convince both of them, but he must have already been a little bit
convinced.  He is over there getting her phone number.  She tells him to
call her.  He says she probably wont even take her call.  What if she does?

Carla is listening as Joc demands that Danny admit that he and Carla are
conspiring to ruin Ally and Tonys relationship.  He asks if this is before
or after they shot JFK?  He says its crazy.  Joc takes out the message.  She
knows it was the Plaza Hotel, where Carla was staying.  So he called her,
big deal.  The big deal is that ever since the two of them have been
hanging around each other, things have gone from bad to worse for Tony
and Ally.  Danny says its their problem.  Joc says she is sure that he and
Carla are helping to create it.  He stepped in to drive Ally and Tyler to her
mothers house, and he just stepped in to bring Tyler back from France.
Danny says it was a gesture.  He just stepped in on New Years Eve to
comfort Ally when she found out that Carla was pregnant.  Danny admits
that it is true that he loves Ally, but he was just trying to be her friend.  Jo
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bets being a good friend to Ally is what got him that shiner.  Shes just
surprised that it took that long for Tony to give it to him.  Danny doesnt
think she believes a word he is saying.  She says its what hes not saying.
She leaves.  She has to get some files.  Shes late for court.  Carla scoots
out of sight.  Does she need any help?  No.  Does he want any sisterly
advice?  If his conscience wouldnt leave this alone, she and Alex,
outsiders, figured this out, how long could it take for insiders to figure it
out?  She leaves.  Carla comes out and says she was not overreacting.  She
is leaving.  Shes going as far away from him as she possibly can.  She
tells him not to call her.  Shell call him.  As they get to the door, she sees
a newspaper from Port Charles.  The whole Q family is on the cover.
Carla needs to do some damage control.  Carla says this could be the end
of everything they have worked for.  She is going to get to know her future
in-laws a little better.

Danny runs into Tracey and she says that she hopes he can get cleaned up
for her party.  Danny says, given his present condition, he is going to have
to respectfully decline the invitation.  Tracey says hell fit right in,
especially with Ginos side.  Gino specifically asked that he be there, so
Gino can apologize.  Gino would be very disappointed and in this case,
disappointed is not good.  Danny will think about it.  He leaves.  She gets
into the elevator and says that she believes that is a Danny Roberts--yes,
and a Alex Masters--No.

Alex calls Joc.  She has had better days.  Maybe they should just stay
home and relax, she says.  No, they need a party, he says.

Tony stares at Allys phone number for a moment, then picks up the
phone and dials.  As someone picks up, Carla walks in.  He says hes
sorry, he has the wrong number and hangs up.  Carla says he should let his
fingers do the walking, unless, they are bandaged like a mummys.  Who
was he calling?  Where has she been?  She was out walking.  Is she okay?
Yes, she is fine.  Tony says she should be off her feet.  She has a big night
tonight.  Oh yeah, the party.

Tracey is talking with Dillon.  He made her a picture.  She can have it, for
five bucks.  Zoey says hes got good business sense.  Tracey tells him
okay.  She needs to use the phone.  Zoey and Dillon go to get his picture.
Tracey calls Dr. Marino.  Its payback time.  She wants him to attend his
engagement party tonight.  Its blacktie.  She hangs up.  Dillon and Zoey
come back.  She says the picture if beautiful.  How beautiful?, Dillon asks.
Zoey says hes going to up it to ten.  She tells Tracey she should send him
for juice before he turns into a used car salesman.  He goes.  She says it
really is beautiful, in fact, everything in her life is beautiful.  Anyone
would could possibly blow the whistle on her is occupied and she has a
surprise for her soon-to-be stepdaughter.  Lets just say that she will be
blown away.

Carla reads the headline.  Quartermaines finance new hospital x-ray
machine.  She wonders why, if the family is such a bunch of do-gooders,
Tracey is so uncomfortable every time they are mentioned.  What is
Tracey up to?

Have a good week!

