From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>

Wednesday in "the city":

At Zoey's (Ally's apartment), Richard asks, what's this? as he stands 
at the door, seeing Zoey and Joey. Who's this, Joey corrects. Joey 
introduces himself. Zoey says that she invited Joey. Richard says that 
he went to the clinic and was told that she moved in here. Well, if he 
had phoned her in the last month, she would have *told* him. Joey begs 
out and leaves to go to the party. Zoey kisses him and tells him she's 
looking forward to their date. Zoey tells Richard bye bye. She has 
nothing to say to him.

Upstairs at the engagement party, Carla thinks Tracy is crazy for 
thinking Carla isn't pregnant. Carla tries to get the doctor to support 
her claim. Tracy cuts him off. Carla insists that she *is* pregnant. 
Tracy says okay, should we tell Gino about Tracy's fake family...or 
(as Tracy points her Carla's stomach) Carla's fake family? Downstairs, 
Gino and Tony wonder where Tracy and Carla are. Gino asks Danny what 
he's still doing here. Danny turns to leave and runs into someone with 
champagne. He gets drenched. This cannot be happening to me! Danny says. 
Upstairs, Tracy and Carla talk about her non-pregnancy. Tracy says that 
before her "miscarriage" scare, Tracy was in the doctor's office...she 
heard her admit everything. Carla blanches. Carla suggests that she 
might have other insurance. Only a paramedic will save her when they 
colide, Tracy says. Tony comes upstairs. He sees the doctor and wonders 
if Carla is okay. Tracy says she and the doc go back a long way. Tony 
says Carla doesn't look good. Tony takes the doctor downstairs. Carla 
is all set to go downstairs and tell her father about Tracy's fake 
family. Tracy says that Carla has a pair of dueces, whereas Tracy has
a full house. Yes, Carla admits...of fake family.

Zoey and Richard argue about his inability to communnicate. He tries to 
explain and she yells at him. What? Did he think she's be alone, stroking 
his pendant and wishing he was here? Well, he's wrong, Matey. She rips 
the pendant off her necklace and drops it. She tells him to pick it up 
and get OUT befroe she has him thrown out! He wants to explain why he 
went to Australia in the first place. She knows, Zoey says, she knows...
now get OUT!

Upstairs, Carla and Tracy argue some more and Carla decides to tell dad. 
Downstairs, Joey arrives, and sees Danny. Trouble? Joey asks. Yes. Women? 
Joey ask. Any other kind? Danny asks. Tony finds Gino and says the girls 
were upstairs, talking. Gino thinks it's great how the two of them are 
getting along. Tony is not so sure. Gino says Tracy's family is strange.
Her mother doesn't talk, and her father...What, Tony asks. Gino points 
him out, and Tony smiles. Carla and Tracy come over to Gino and Tony. 
Carla says she has somthing to say. Gino gets everyone's attention. 
Carla looks to Tracy. Tracy says, it's her show, baby. Carla looks like 
she's wondering what to say.

Zoey tells Richard that she was worried...was he alive? was he shacking 
up with a shepardess? did he give her a pretty pendant? Richard says he 
knows, but he tried to get in touch with her. Not hard enough, Zoey yells. 
Richard agrees he could have gotten in touch with her *if* he was in 
Australia. But, he was in London, with Sydney.

Tracy asks to have a little talk with Carla. She takes Carla off to the 
side. Tracy mentions that she forgot to mention one thing...the doctor 
gave her Carla's medical records! WHAT! Carla asks. Yup, Tracy says, 
proof positive that there is nothing in there (pointing to Carla's 
stomach again) except maybe some indigestion. Keeping with the poker
analogy, Tracy says, that would be the Ace in the Hole. Go, ahead, Tracy 
says as she walks Carla back to Gino...say what's on your mind. Carla 
stalls. She finally has a touchy speech about how much she loves her 
father, and how she is ready to pass some of the responsibility of making 
him happy to his woman. She *knows* Tracy will make her father happy. She 
gives her blessing to this union. Tracy makes a toast to her beautiful 
step-daughter. Carla says thanks. And, Tracy says, to Tony. And to the 
grandchild that they will give Gino and her. Tony's mother says Carla is 
pregnant? Is *that* why you're not with Ally? Tony says, it's not as 
simple as that. Tony's mom says it was that simple when she had *him*! 
Tony's dad asks if Carla is really pregnant. Tony says well... Tracy's 
"mother" gets out of the wheelchair and says she's gonna have a 
greatgrandchild. Tracy says it's a *miracle*.

Joey takes Tony aside and he asks Tony to tell him it's not true. Tony says 
he was drunk. Nobody has ever gotten this drunk, Joey says. Joey asks how 
Ally is taking this. How does he think? Tony says that he will make sure the 
child is healthy and taken care of. Meanwhile, Tracy ushers her "family" out 
the door (on the pretense of getting mother back home before she has a set 
back). At the door, her "dad" wants his paycheck. It's in the mail, Tracy 
says. Bye, Mom, her "son" says. Tracy smiles, a little. Carla comes over to 
Tony and Joey and says that she doesn't feel well. Joey says join the group. 
Carla gets Tony to take her home. Gino tells Tracy he didn't get to say 
goodbye to Tracy's family. Now, Gino says, he wants to talk to Tracy about 
her family - her *real* family.

Richard says that he spent some time with Sydney. He tried to get the pieces 
of his life to fit. She still can't understand how he couldn't get in touch 
with her. What hurts, is that he called Nick. Nick is his father, Richard 
says. He was a piece of the puzzle. She gets it now, Zoey says she's a piece 
that doesn't fit. They argue some more. Zoey tells him to get out. He's not 
finished, Richard says. Yes, Zoey says, he is. Richard leaves. Zoey colapses
in tears. Outside the door, Richard looks sad.

Gino says goodbye to the last of the guests. Tracy says he knew they were 
not her family? They were strange, Gino says, and especially her father, who 
had more than his eye on her son, if she knows what he means. She can explain,
Tracy begins. He thinks she did it for him. Gino explains that he thinks her 
family refused the invitation, because they don't approve of the engagement. 
Tracy agrees. So, Gino continues, she hired a family for him. He is impressed 
that she would do that for him. He says that she is the best thing that ever 
happend to him. She offers him a night cap. As she gets the drinks, she 
wonders where she went right.

Tony and Carla enter Tony's apartment. Tony gives her some crackers. The sight 
of them makes her sick, Carla says. Eat them, Tony suggests. Tony goes to the 
kitchen, and Carla lays down on the couch, saying she feels sick. Then she 
wonders if she really could be pregnant.

Now-that-Tracy-has-all-the-cards-will-she-still-play-poker-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


