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

The City--Update--March 14, 1997

Storyline:   Trust Part I

Tracey is talking on the phone with Zoey.  She wants her to stay with
Dillon after she picks him up from school.  She's going to Brooklyn.
She spoke to Tess and she gave her the exact address of the apartment.
She may find nothing, but she may find the crown jewels.  Doesn't she
think it is worth it?  Gino's pals adore her, they aren't going to be
a problem, she says when Zoey worries.  Besides, she has a much bigger
problem:  finding a cab that will take her there.

When Ally comes off the elevator, Tony is waiting for her on the stairs.
He got her letter.  They need to talk.  She meant everything she wrote.
There's nothing more for them to say.  There's a lot more to say.  It is
going to take a lot more than a letter to get rid of him.  What will it
take to get rid of him?  She'll have to stop loving him, can she manage
that?

Ally asks him if he enjoys torturing her.  Yeah, he gets off on it.  Then
can he please stop this?  Stop loving her?  No, he can't.  Well, he is
going to have to.  He told her, when she stops loving him.  She is get-
ing really close because she can't take much more of this.  He never
thought of her as a quitter.  If wanting this pain to stop makes her a
quitter, then yes, she is.  Does she think that she is the only one that
is hurting?  No, but he can't make Carla not be having his baby.  He just
needs a little more time.  Can she do that for him?  No.  All the time in
the world isn't goign to change anything.  It can if she will just trust
him.  All he needs is a week, two at the most.  She is all out of trust.
Why, Ally?  Because of one night?  The night that Danny picked to bring
Tyler home.  The same night that he went home a little angry and found
Carla mixing Martinis.  Would he please stop?  She is well aware of that
night and the consequences that followed.  What if he could just make it
all go away?

Ally wishes to God that they could go and take it all away.  Maybe they
could, if she would just give him a little more time.  That night
changed everything, she says.  There is nothing he or anyone else can
do to change that.  Tony doesn't just want to talk about that night.  He
wants to think back to a different time.  A certain Thursday afternoon
that changed his life just as much as that night did.  What is he talking
about?  Tony asks her to close her eyes.  She argues, but then does.  He
reminds her about the afternoon, February 22, 1996.  The first day they
went out together.  They went ice skating.  He tells her about this
beautiful girl who came up to him and put her arms around him and tried
to keep him from falling.  She didn't ahve much luck, but it didn't
matter.  It just felt good to have her there with him.  Things felt
right again.  It felt as if he might actually have someone in his life
again.  And, he did.  That day changed his life jsut as much as the other
night.  So, why can't they try to thinka bout the good night, all the
good nights that they have had.  He knows they could have their skating
days back.  Ally is crying, and shaking her head.  He tells her that
she can open her eyes now.  He apologizes for making her cry.  He just
wants to make her happy.  He loves her so much.  She loves him too.
Will she give him the week, two weeks?  They'll meet at the skating
rink, okay?  No, Tony.

Location shots of street.  Tracey gets out of a cab and tries to get him
to stay by giving him a large tip, bu the won't stay.  He likes money,
but he likes living better.  He speeds of.  Tracey gets out her direc-
tions and starts walking.  She does not look very comfortable.  She finds
the place and eventually gets past the two boys throwing a ball back and
forth on the steps.

Didn't she hear anything he said?  Every word.  And she still didn't
change her mind?  Their skating rink is gone, she sayd.  If he walks out
the door, she'll never see him again--forever.  She doesn't answer.  "I
love you, Ally.  I want the last words you hear me say, forever, to be
I love you."  She cries and he lieaves.  She slams against the wall,
sinking down a little.  She thinks about their skating date and then
runs to the door.  He is in the hallway and she almost knocks him over
the railing as they hug.

Tracey is upstairs in the apartment building.  She goes inside and is
faced with the four men from Gino's funeral that spoke to Tony.  One
of them says, "Welcome to Brooklyn, Mrs. S."



Storyline:  Trust Part II

Jacob wants to know what Lorraine said.  Angie tells him she said she
was "sent" back to NY.  she was chosen.  She didn't know what for, but it
had something to do with Angie.  She went on and on about this force that
couldn't be stopped.  Angie just gets chills talking about it.  Jacob
says maybe it's just her Madam Lorraine, see-all, know-all routine.
Angie tells him that this went way beyond hetarot cards.  Jacob says
she shouldn't let it get to her.  It does get to her.  She's crazy!
She is really starting to scare her.   Jacob guesses that they are
going to have to do soeomething about it.  Nick walks upup and asks if
he is talking about someone he knows.

Nick thought Lorraine had it together this time.  Obviously not, Jacob
says.  She promised to stay out of their business.  Angie says that she
probably meant it at the time.  Was she drinking?  Angie thought so at
first, but she was sober.  Nick asks what would make her go off like
that.  angie has no idea.  She must have some idea, she's a doctor.
She's not a psychologist.  Neither is Jacob but he knows that she has
some serious problems.  Is he saying that Lorraine is mentally disturbed?
He doesn't know if that is what he's trying to say, but what does Nick
think.  Nick doesn't know what to think.  Speculating isn't going to
do any good, but it is clear to see that the woman needs professional
help.  Nick is afraid she is right.  Lorraine walks up.

Nick wants to give Angie and Jacob a little space.  They are kind of in
the middle of something.  Lorraine says that's fine.  Lorraine is sorry.
She didn't mean to upset her.  Angie says it's all right.  Nick and
Lorraine leave Jacob and Angie alone.  Angie just hopes that Lorraine
is all right.  Jacob says she's unbelievable.  In what sense?  Well,
Lorraine seems to be making a career out of playing mind games with her
and Angie still is just hoping that she is okay.  It's a doctor thing.
It needs to be a Nick thing, Jacob says.  Angie would be more than happy
to give him the job.  That makes two of them, because they need to start
concentrating on little Cassandra.  Well, not with Dorothy as a sur-
rogate.  Next, Jacob says.  No one else looked as good on paper.  Jacob
tells her not to get discouraged.  There are plenty of qualified women
out there.  She knows.  It's really not that, she says.  She has been
thinking about it, and she is just not sure that a surrogate is the way
to go.  Lorraine really did work a number on her, he says.  She just
said that she's not SURE.

So, is Nick angry with her?  No, he's not, he says, but then changes his
mind.  Yes, he is.  Lorraine is sorry, but this is something she felt
she had to do.  Does she know that twice in the last week, she has
promised him that she will stop interfering with them.  She's not
interfering.  She had to warn her.  He yells that she is trying to run
their lives and if that isn't interfering, then she doesn't know what is.
Will he keep his voice down?  if he tries to talk to her like a rational
human being, nothing seems to get through.  That's because he is yelling
at her.  He supposes their trip to Europe is out not too.  She didn't
say anything like that.  God forbid, she would have to do a week or two
without her Jacob and Angie fix.  Why does he have to be so cruel and
close-minded?  He's not being cruel.  He's just stating the facts.  Can't
he see that there is something important going on here?  Something more
important than...  Let him tell her what is going on there:  she is
trying to find something to take the place of the high she gets from
drinking.  She denies is softly.  He continues, and what does she latch
onto?  Some nonsense about second-sight and callings.  Does she have
her own private line in the great beyond.  It is not nonsense, she says.
Does she see a burning bush or something?  She tells him not to mock her.
He should try to understand her.  What he is trying to do is live in the
real world.  And, in the real world, there is no room for the kind of
nonsense she has been spouting, which obviously means more to her than
their relationship does.  Nothing means more to her than their
relationship.  Nick thought he could be enough for her.  He thought he
could help her through her troubles, but it is obvious that he can't.
What is he saying--their relationship is over?  No, he is saying that she
needs to get professional help and the only way that she is going to get
that help is by admitting to herself that she needs it.

Angie insists this has nothing to do with Lorraine.  For the last few
months, all he has heard was surrogate, surrogate, surrogate.  She bent
herself out of shape trying to get him to say yes.  He finally agrees
and now she has changed her mind?  She isn't saying anything yet.  And
on the day that Lorraine comes to Angie with her vision ion nonsense?
Okay, maybe Lorraine's premonitions had some affect on her, but the whole
idea of the surrogate hasn't been sitting well with her for a while.  he
will tell her for how long:  approximately 24 hours since they talked
with Dorothy.  He told her, they will find someoen else.  Angie reminds
him that he also told her that there may not be someone else who could
be maternal and not maternal, objective and not objective.  Jacob is
sure they will find someone.  Angie says that isn't the point.  No one
will ever be 100 percent.  She knows that.  Dorothy was probably as
close to the right person as they will find.  The feelings that she
might not have had anything to do with Dorothy.  It might have been
what he thought from the beginning:  tha tletting someone else give
birth to their baby wasn't a good idea.  The one time he wanted to be
wrong, she's telling him that he's right.  Because, she thinks he's
right.  Jacob says they should interview two or three more women and if
she still has the same feelings, they'll drop it.  Angie doesn't really
think it is going to change anything.  Jacob says she has been through
so much to be able to have a child.  Doesn't she think she owes it to
herself to give it one more chance?  How did she get so lucky?  She
didn't--she married him, he says.  They kiss.

Lorraine thanks Nick for calling her insane.  He says they all have their
problems.  Reverand Nick doesn't, she says.  The Reverand Nick thing was
a lark, he says.  he seems awfully proud of it, she says.  He doesn't
believe in God's will, just like he doesn't believe in Santa Claus or
the Tooth Fairy.  Lorraine believes in him.  Nick is trying to talk some
sense, talk her out of throwing her life out the window.  If he would
believe in her, there might be a reason to make sense of their
relationship.  He tells her not to put this on him.  Why not?  He's
perfect, right Reverand?  Nick tells her that she needs professional
help.  What she doesn't need, she says, is him yelling at her, telling
her that she is sick.  She gets up and he says she is good at running
away.  he calls her back, but she doesn't listen.  She runs out the
door.  There is a screeching of tires and a scream and Nick runs out
the door after her.

Sorry about any typos.  My roommates are having a party while I am
on-line and they keep disconnecting me.  I'm trying to keep this as
short as possible.  Have a good week!
Lisa Marie

