From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>

Wednesday, on "the city":

Ally is on the phone in her apartment with her mother 
talking about Tess' wedding and going to get coffee 
with Danny. Yes, Danny has been a very good friend. 
Yes, Ally says, they'll be up to see her soon, especially 
if Tyler is going to Paris. Danny comes in as she hangs 
up. Ally says thanks, her Mom really needed to talk. No 
problem, Danny says, well, maybe there is a problem. Tyler 
is upset about leaving New York, Danny says.

At his apartment, Tony is punching keys on a calculator. 
Nothing adds up any more, he says. He remembers Ally 
telling him to go home to his wife. Carla comes home and 
Tony asks where she was. She ran off because she found out 
her father was getting married. Not this again, Tony says. 
No, TONIGHT! Carla screams. She ran over there and she was 
too late. He married that woman!

In tracy's penthouse, Gino says that she doesn't know how 
long he's had this fantasy about their wedding night. Please! 
Tracy says, they don't have to share all their secrets, do 
they? That's not what he meant, Gino says. Yes it was, Tracy 
laughs. Guido brings in a package that was just delivered for 
Mrs. Gino Solieto. Who? Tracy says. Oh, she adds. She shakes 
the package. Too light for fur, too big for diamonds. It's an 
outfit, from Paris gino says. They do have a way with sleepware,
Tracy says. It's not for sleeping in, Gino says, as he hands 
her a drink.

In her hospital bed, Tess looks over and Buck wakes up. This 
is not the way she wanted to spend her wedding night. Buck 
kisses her. How about like this? Buck asks. Better, she says. 
He gets her to close her eyes and relax. It will be all over 
tomorrow, Buck says.

Danny tells Ally that Tyler has made some friends here that he 
said he'd miss. Can't she wait until school is over? She 
doesn't know. Danny says this will give Ally more time with her 
mother, and with Tess if the biopsy doesn't go the right way. 
Ally says Danny sure cares about a lot of people, but she didn't 
hear his name in this list. Danny says she knows he cares about her.

Tony says Carla should butt out. He can't - not with this woman. 
Tracy doesn't love Gino. tony wants Carla to back off. Why is he 
defending that woman? He just wants her to butt out, let them 
live their lives. She can't. Caral says she loves him too much to 
have him end up like...Like what? Tony asks. Like she is, Carla 
screams, in love with someone that doesn't love him back. It hurts 
too much, Carla sobs.

Tracy says she can't wear it, it's too cold out. Gino offers to 
turn up the heat. She takes it and says to herself that she needs 
something that makes him avoid her like the plague. That's IT! She 
goes upstairs. Gino asks how it's going. Fine, Tracy calls from 
upstairs. She comes down, and we see Gino (but not Tracy), who says 
she looks wonderful, radiant. Then he looks and says What the Hell 
happened to you?

What is it? Tracy asks, he looks like he's seen a ghost. Gino says 
her face looks like a bunch of mosquitos bite her. She picks up a 
silver vase. Oh my god, she says, I look terrible. She realizes that 
they itch. Gino thinks maybe it's something they put in the new 
clothes. Take it off, Gino suggests. Oh, NO! Tracy says. She 
remembers the note that Dillon brought home about an outbreak of the 
measels. She didn't think she would get them, but she's never had them. 
She's probably contagious, she offers. Gino says not to worry; he's 
had them already. He wants to call a doctor. No, Tracy says, the
doctor can't do anything. he'd just tell her to relax and see it 
through. Tracy remembers a home rememdy that's always worked. she goes
upstairs.

Tony gets Carla something to drink to calm her down. Carla says that 
she is sorry about falling apart. Carla says she knows that Tony is in 
the marriage only because of the baby. Tony reassures her that he is 
worried about her.

Danny says that her running away has less to do with Tyler being close 
to Cooper as it has to do with her being away from Tony. Ally tells him 
to stop using Tyler to get closer to her. He feels responsible for 
bringing Tyler here in the first place. Why did he spend all that money 
to bring Tyler here? Ally asks. To make her happy, Danny says. 
Truthfully, now, Ally asks. He did it hoping that she's be happy and see 
him in a different light. At the time, Ally says, she and Tony were in a 
better place. If they were meant to be, Danny says, they would have 
survived anything. Ally asks if he did try to break them apart? Danny 
says he had nothing to do with that. Ally agrees. But, Danny says, now 
that they have broken up, can she give him a chance?

Tess is in her hospital bed. She's dreaming. She's dreaming about the 
operation. The doctor opens her up and says it's bad. Malignant? The 
other doctor asks. Worse, the first doctor says, it has spread. Tess 
sits up in bed, screaming. Buck is there in a flash, holding her and 
rocking her on the bed.

Tess says that in her dream, the doctor says it was malignant. Buck 
wants her to go back to sleep. Tess wants the sleeping pill. Buck has 
a better idea. He gets into bed with her and says the nightmares have 
to deal with Buck Houston now. She puts her head on his lap and says 
he is her real hero.

Danny says that with all they've been through, there is something they 
haven't done. What's that? Ally asks. A date. What? They've never been 
on a date, Danny says. He thinks dinner, dance, maybe the theater. She 
says no...well, she's not ready for a committment. He offers to have 
her frisk him. For what? Ally asks, Danny laughs and says she should 
look for a ring, a tent he could put up outside her door, or his and 
her toothbrushes. She laughs and says okay, maybe they can go out on a 
date. How about Friday? Okay. Yeah, Danny jumps for joy. He says he'll 
leave before she changes her mind. Outside, Danny looks up and smiles.

Carla picks up the adding machine tape and asks what Tony was doing. 
He was trying to get a head start on his taxes. But, Carla says, looking
at the tape, he can't add. Tony offers to give her a foot rub if she 
helps him with the taxes.

Tracy comes down with goop on her face that stinks. Gino offers to let 
her get some sleep. Tracy says but this is their wedding night. Every 
night will be their wedding night, Gino says, once she is over this thing. 
Tracy says that's okay, if it comes off on the sheets, they can just buy 
new sheets, can't they? Gino says she looks like she needs to rest. Tracy 
is scratching all over. Gino insists that she get some rest. Gino leaves. 
Tracy says that takes care of one night...now what does she do for the 
rest of them?

Measles-tonight-mumps-tomorrow-whooping cough-for the weekend-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


