From: Susan Richmond <susan@webspan.net>

Hi everyone!

Only four more weeks to go:-(. Today on The City, Tony finally gets a 
clue, Carla threatens Danny to keep him quiet about the baby and Tracy 
and Zoey make plans to dispose of Gino's body. Here we go.....



				THE CITY UPDATE
			Thursday, February 27th, 1997

TONY GETS A CLUE
Location: Tony's Apartment	

Tony is working out on a home gym machine (was it always sitting 
practically in front of their door?) and showing off his muscles. He 
stops and goes to get a drink in the kitchen as Carla comes down the 
stairs dressed for work. She's still suffering from morning sickness, 
but she's going to start using POPT. What's that, Tony asks. The Power 
of Positive Thinking, she replies. She only got about 45 minutes of 
sleep last night, she claims, but she's got to go, she has a lot of 
appointments today. "Time to wake up", she says as she walks out the 
door. This makes Tony remember she said the same thing to him he night 
they supposedly slept together. They were in bed, she told him it was 
time to wake up and make love to her, and Tony told her to leave him 
alone. 

Tony's coming back downstairs, buttoning his shirt. There's a knock at 
the door, it's Alex. Alex wonders why they're meeting in Tony's 
apartment instead of their brand new office. Tony doesn't want to run in 
to Danny and he'd like to talk to Alex privately. Things between Tony 
and Ally are pretty much over and Tony has decided to be nice to Carla 
for the baby's sake. They had dinner and were dancing last night, when 
Carla said something that made him flash back to the night they 
supposedly made love. "Supposedly", Alex questions. Tony says the same 
thing happened this morning, something Carla said reminded him of that 
night. Tony is 90% sure he didn't sleep with Carla that night. 

Tony thinks that Carla is making the whole thing up. Alex agrees that 
that is possible, but there might be another answer. Is it possible that 
Tony might be remembering things the way he WANTS them to be? Tony's 
thought of that, but the images are so clear, and he remembers telling 
Carla to leave him alone. But Carla's pregnant, Alex reminds him, unless 
Tony thinks that Carla is faking it. There's no way she could be faking 
it, Tony replies, Carla's been as sick as a dog. If Tony didn't sleep 
with Carla, then somebody must have, who's been hanging around Carla 
lately, they ponder. Both their heads come up at the same time and turn 
to stare at each other. "Danny!", they say at the same time. Carla walks 
in at that moment. 

Tony wonders why Carla's back so soon. Alex excuses himself, he's got 
some errands to run, but he'll be back to talk to Tony later. Alex 
leaves. Carla was just with a client, she explains, nothing exciting. 
Was the client Danny, Tony asks, picking up the blue folder Carla 
brought from Danny's office. Carla admits her meeting was with Danny, 
but it was no big deal. "If it was no big deal, why didn't you tell me 
in the first place, Carla?", Tony asks. 
 
MEN ARE FROM MARS
Location: GenX office

Danny pops a couple of aspirin, just in time for Carla to walk in. She's 
not very happy with him. A few more minutes last night and he would have 
told Tony that Tony isn't the father of Carla's baby. Is she going to 
have to have his tongue cut out so he can't talk, his fingers cut off so 
he can't write, she threatens. Tony's starting to get suspicious. Carla 
wants Danny to get it into his fat head that this child(points at her 
stomach) is Tony's, not his. "I'm sorry, but I just don't see it that 
way", Danny says.

Carla can keep reminding him that the baby she's carrying is Tony's, but 
they both know the truth, "the baby's mine", Danny says. Danny doesn't 
care if she lies to the whole world about it, the reality of what she 
has done is going to slap her in the face the first time the baby calls 
Tony "Daddy". You don't know me at all, I'm going to feel "nice and warm 
and fuzzy" when that happens, Carla replies. "Don't screw this up, there 
are all kinds of contracts", Carla warns him.

So what is Carla saying, she's going to have him wacked, Danny wonders. 
Carla warns him that nothing will stand between her and Tony. Tony 
doesn't love her, and although he's no Einstein, he can add. What is 
Tony going to think when 10 months go by and Carla hasn't had the baby 
yet. Carla will worry about that, she says. And what about what will 
happen to Danny if Tony finds out the truth about the baby. Tony will be 
"pissed off", says Danny, not seeming particularly worried. My father 
will be "pissed off", too, Carla reminds him, and he's got a terrible 
temper. That seems to worry Danny. It was your idea to get pregnant, 
Danny defends himself. That's not the story that Carla will tell her 
father if he finds out the truth about the baby, Carla threatens. "If I 
were you, Danny, I would keep my big mouth shut." Carla takes a blue 
folder supposedly containing work off Danny's desk and leaves.  

As Richard enters the GenX office he hears a strange noise. It's Danny 
throwing a tennis ball against the wall and catching it over and over 
again. That's what Richard likes to see, his employees hard at work, 
Richard comments. Richard's brought some drawings from a London artist 
for Danny to take a look at. Danny finally stops throwing the ball. He's 
having trouble with two different women, Danny explains. Richard joking 
comments that Danny should be sure he doesn't go out with a girl wearing 
a nose ring, Richard's having problems with Zoey, too. Danny is 
surprised to hear that Zoey took her job back, he thought Zoey was 
leaving town. Why did she change her mind? "Oh, that's right, she's one 
of those creatures from Venus", says Danny. "And we're from Mars, 
Richard says". "Sure feels like it today", Danny comments.

WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S
Location: Tracy's penthouse

Tracy's propping Gino up on the sofa when there's a knock at the door. 
It's Zoey with a big laundry cart filled with ice.  She got the ice at 
four different stores so as not to arouse suspicion. How is Gino, is he 
still pretty dead, Zoey asks. They look over to the couch and Gino falls 
over. There's a knock on the door and Zoey and Tracy jump. It's Vito, 
it's important that he sees Gino.

They stall Vito while Tracy covers up Gino's body on the couch and pulls 
on a bathrobe over her clothes. Zoey wheels the laundry cart away and 
hides. Tracy opens the door and tells Vito that Gino's not here(we see 
Gino laying on the couch, covered except for his hand sticking out). 
Vito doesn't understand how Gino could be out, he drives Gino 
everywhere. Tracy has no idea where Gino is, but if he calls, she'll let 
him know Vito's looking for him, she promises. She practically shoves 
him out the door and closes it behind him. Tracy takes her robe off and 
Zoey wheels the laundry cart back over by the couch. Tracy didn't expect 
Gino's associates would be looking for him this soon. Tracy at first 
thinks they should make Gino's death look like a mob hit, but neither of 
them wants to shoot a dead man. They decide to dump Gino's body in the 
alley by his social club tonight. It will look like he had a massive 
heartattack while on his way to the club. Zoey remembers there's a 
freezer in the basement that they could store the body in until then. 
She starts to leave to go check the freezer, but when she opens the 
door, Richard is standing there.  

Richard has come to offer Zoey her job at Hotline back. Zoey quickly 
agrees to take it, hoping to get rid of Richard before he notices Gino. 
Tracy and Gino are together on the couch with their backs to 
Richard(Gino's head is slumped on Tracy's shoulder). Richard says hello 
to them. Tracy lifts her hand and waves at him without turning around, 
then does the same with Gino's limp arm. Richard is surprised that Zoey 
agreed so easily to take her old job back when she was planning on going 
away. Zoey just claims she's unpredictable and tries to get him to 
leave. Richard asks Tracy a question and she stands up and turns around 
to talk to him. As soon as she stands up, Gino's body slumps over on the 
couch. Richard looks curious and asks if Gino's OK. Fine, Tracy claims. 
"Gino, stop that you bad boy", she exclaims. "Newlyweds", Zoey explains. 
Zoey readily accepts coming back to work at her same salary as before. 
Zoey changes the subject and asks Richard who the freezer in the 
basement belongs to, something about storing food from the wedding 
reception (whose, I don't know, are they planning one for Tess?). 
Richard thinks it came with the building and belongs to everyone. 
Richard suggests going down to check it out and then going to the bar 
for a few drinks. Zoey tells Richard to wait at the City Bar for her and 
she will join him in a while. She rushes him out the door and goes back 
to Tracy with the good news that the freezer is working and empty. "Not 
for long", Tracy says.

Zoey and Tracy manage to dump Gino's body into the laundry hamper and 
start covering him with pillows and sheets. Tracy notices Gino's wallet 
lying on the floor and throws it in the hamper with him. They want this 
to look like a heart attack, not armed robbery. They roll the hamper out 
the door and into the elevator. Tracy is tucking the pillows in better 
when the elevator stops and Alex gets on. He heard the news about 
Tracy and Gino. Tracy panics for a second until Alex says that he means 
about she and Gino getting married. Alex hopes they have a long and 
happy life together. This statement causes Zoey to have a coughing fit. 
Zoey moves the side of the cart and Gino's hand pops into view. Zoey 
quickly pushes it back down and Alex doesn't notice. When the elevator 
gets to the bottom, Tracy and Zoey refuse Alex's offer of help with the 
hamper. He ignores their protests and wheels the hamper out of the 
elevator. 

That's it for today, see you next Thursday!

-- 
Susan

