From: Robert Willers <willers@trombone.sps.mot.com>

THE CITY Update for Friday, March 22:

STORYLINE: SLEEP-WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT
           (starting location: Tess Wilder agency)
* Angie returns to the party and she and Lorraine trade barbs.  Lorraine
 excuses himself.
* Angie is tired, so Jacob offers to take her upstairs to their place:
 "Go up, slip into something comfortable, bring out a bottle of wine,
 you know..."  Lorraine looks on in disgust as they leave.
* [In Angie's apartment.]
Jacob says HE's playing doctor tonight, and he prescribes some brandy
 and soft lighting.  Angie apologizes for ruining the party for him; he
 says he's having a great time right there.  He suggests that they go
 to bed, but she says she won't be able to sleep.  She will toss and
 turn all night, with all the things that have gone on.  Jacob hugs her
 and reassures her.  His second prescription: to plant a nice, wet kiss
 on him every five seconds.  "That's a lot of kisses."  "You're a lot
 of woman."
* Angie is laying restlessly on the couch with a sleeping Jacob.  She
 gets up, puts on her shoes and goes to the door.  She then goes out.
[In the stairwell.]
Alex sees Angie walking downstairs (her eyes still closed).  He asks
 what she's doing walking around in the stairwells.  Angie (apparently
 sleepwalking) just continues down the stairs.  Alex calls out to her:
 "Angie?"

STORYLINE: FLOWERS FOR MOM?
           (starting location: Free Clinic)
* Zoey thanks Richard for finding her mother.  Richard tells her not
 to thank him quite yet, even though the Val in question lived a block
 away from the orphanage, is about the right age, and looks like Zoey.
 She asks how the investigator knows what she looks like, and he says
 he gave him a photo of her.  She is impressed that he had a photo of
 her.  He gives her Val's last name (Zoeller) and address.  He wishes
 her luck and, excitedly, she starts to leave.  Then, she runs back to
 him and says she can't do this.
* Zoey decides that she can't look like "some dork Veejay from MTV."
 She wants to make a good impression.  He says she looks fine, and
 claims he'd be the first to say if she didn't.  They kiss.
* Richard is trying to get Zoey to get up and get going.  She resists.
 He makes the point that he cares about her (considering all he has done
 for her).  She says that if he did, he'd leave her alone.  He offers to
 go with her, and she takes him up on that offer.  They leave.
* [At an apartment building on West 57th, in the hallway outside #2E.]
Richard asks Zoey if she's ready.  She tells him to hold her hand and
 not let her run away.  She takes her hat off and asks if they should
 have brought flowers or wine.  He has her take a deep breath, then he
 knocks.  A lady (apparently nice) answers the door.  Richard says that
 they're sorry to bother her...then Zoey asks the lady, "Do you know who
 I am?"

STORYLINE: PLAY THE GAME
           (starting location: Penthouse)
* Sydney goes to her closet and picks out a red outfit, saying, "Let
 the games begin."
[Later, at the Tess Wilder agency.]
Jared asks for a tour of the agency.  Tess notices the bandage on his
 hand and he says it is only a scratch.  She observes that she knew
 Sydney bites, but she didn't know she scratches.
[Later.]
Tess is explaining the ins-and-outs of the agency to Jared.  Sydney
 enters and she and Tess trade barbs.  Sydney says she'll "take it from
 here," grabs Jared by the arm and whisks him away.
* Jared asks Sydney why she's there.  She says she just wanted to be
 the "little woman" from his fantasy happy couple.  Tess interrupts to
 "introduce" Azure to Jared (which she had already done in the bar).
 Azure introduces Bernardo to Jared.  He asks why "Azure C" -- "It just
 came to me."  He asks her real name, but Tess says that's one of her
 mysteries.  Jared says he loves a good mystery.
* Jared tells Tess that she has a very impressive setup.  Tess says she
 wants to do more; she's going to L. A. to scout out new talent.  She
 asks for any advice he has, but he repeats that this isn't his forte.
 He says he'd be happy to kick things around with her, though.
[Elsewhere.]
Sydney and Danny happen into each other.  She recognizes him as
 Jocelyn's brother, they introduce themselves.  She knows he models,
 to which he adds, "Among other things."  Sydney can "well imagine."
Sydney then walks up to Jared and Tess, and Tess excuses herself.  Syd
 says she likes to see those two getting along so well -- it reminds her
 of Godzilla and King Kong.  Jared observes that she is enjoying this
 game, and she reminds him that she can play games, too.  "Why not?  You
 learned from the master."
* Sydney brings Jared a drink, and he takes a sip.  She says he's living
 dangerously.  "How so?"  She says she could have poisoned it.  Jared
 smiles: "Did you?"  She says she left her cyanide capsules upstairs
 tonight.  She tells him that he might have her backed into a corner,
 but that desperate people do desperate things.  She says she hasn't
 decided on her method yet, but she _will_ keep him up to date.

STORYLINE: NO MORE SECRETS
           (starting location: Tess Wilder agency)
* Danny reassures Bernardo that his friend will call about the pill.
 Azure interrupts, saying she hopes she didn't interrupt.  Bernardo
 hauls her off to get something to drink.
* None.
* Danny is on the phone.  "Are you sure?"  He hangs up and Bernardo
 asks if that was his friend.  Yeah.  "That was no antibiotic, pal."
* Azure is talking to Tess and Tony.  Bernardo comes up rather angrily
 and pulls her aside.  Tess asks what that is all about.  Tony doesn't
 know -- true love, perhaps.  Tess, staring at Jared, says that love
 *is* in the air tonight.
[In the stairwell.]
Azure asks Bernardo why he's so upset.  He says he just wants to ask
 her a question: "Why don't you trust me?"  "I do!"  "Then why didn't
 you tell me the truth about yourself?"

STORYLINE: WHORE!!
           (starting location: Alex/Danny/Tony's apartment)
* Having just found the earring, Ally covers up for her looking through
 the agency's files by saying that her stomach hurt and she was looking
 for something.  She says she needs to lie down and it will pass.  She
 tells Tony to go back down to the party.  She leaves, still holding the
 earring.
[Later, at the Tess Wilder agency.]
Alex says he wants Jocelyn around when his kids come up so that she can
 show them around the town.  She says it has been a long time since she
 has had anything to look forward to.
* Alex says this party is fine, but he's ready to leave and to go their
 other party -- the one at his place.  Jocelyn says that sounds like
 her kind of party, and says she has to go upstairs and get her things.
[Later, at Ally/Jocelyn/Molly's apartment.]
Ally is staring at the earring.  Jocelyn enters and Ally stares at
 her.  Jocelyn asks what's wrong.  "It was you, wasn't it?"  "Excuse
 me?"  "You were the one in that hotel room.  You're a prostitute."
* Jocelyn asks Ally if she is insane.  Ally hands her the matchbook.
 Jocelyn says she had a drink there with somebody and asks Ally what
 she was doing in her desk.  Ally begs Jocelyn to stop lying to her.
 Jocelyn tells Ally to let her know when she is ready to apologize to
 her.  Ally holds out the earring.  "You tell *me* who's crazy."
[At the Tess Wilder agency.]
Alex tells Tony that they just got a message from someone at the NYPD
 about the call girl ring, and they didn't sound happy.  Alex changes
 the subject and asks Tony what he found out about the explosion at the
 bar.  Tony says it was just like the police said -- a "racial thing."
* Ally is chasing Jocelyn around the apartment.  She asks what is going
 on.  Jocelyn shouts that she stuck her nose in where it doesn't belong.
 Ally tells her not to turn this around -- she just found out that her
 best friend is a--  "Whore!?  Why don't you go ahead say it?"  After a
 pause, Ally asks how she can do this to Alex.  The door closes; Alex
 enters the apartment.  Jocelyn and Ally stare at Alex.

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