From: Deborah Graham <dgraham@centra.com>

Wednesday, in "the city":

TV
PG

There's a knock on Tony's door. Come on in, it's open, 
Tony calls. Why is the door open? Alex asks. So he can
come in, Tony says with a smile. He's tired, Alex says
(sounds like he has a cold) since some idiot called 
him at 6am. It was 6:15, Tony says still happy. Why is 
he so happy? Alex asks. It's a beautiful day, Tony 
says, and it was a beautiful night. Alex wonders what
Tony is talking about, then guesses him and Ally? 
Tony is happy. Ally is not going to Paris right away. 
Tony asks if he's even told Alex how smooth Ally's 
skin is. Alex figures out that Tony and Ally did the 
deed. Tony says he did the next best thing to propose. 
Ally is wearing the ring...well, not on her finger, 
he conceeds. Alex reminds Tony that he is a married 
man. Well, he has a week, Tony says. To do what? 
Alex asks. To blow Danny out of the water! Tony replies.

At the GenX office, Danny is on the phone. He hangs 
up. He remembers Carla telling him she's pregnant, 
then her yelling that this is not Danny's baby, this
is Tony's baby, then being with her when they heard 
the heartbeat. Jocelyn comes in (she has a cold). 
She wonders what he wanted to tell her the other 
night. He tells her that her brother messed up really 
bad this time. Drugs? Jocelyn asks. No, Danny says,
but she might wish it was once he tells her what he did. 
Just tell her, Jocelyn suggests. She has to promise not 
to tell anyone else. She promises. He hands her a 
dollar. As of this moment, Danny says, she's his 
attorney.

Loraine walks to the light again. She gasps and 
wakes up in the hospital. Nick tells her to relax 
and let the nurse do her job. Loraine says someone 
is going to die. Nick says she's not going to die. 
Not her, she tries to say, someone else.

Loraine wants Angie. Nick says don't try to talk, 
she'll hurt herself. Get Angie, Loraine tries to 
say. The nurse wants him to step outside. Why? 
Nick asks. She's going to give her a sedative. 
Doctor's orders. He can come back when she calms 
down. Nick leaves and Richard asks how she is. 
She'll be okay, but he's worried about her. It 
wasn't Nick's fault, Richard says. Nick says if 
it wasn't for him, she wouldn't be in there.

Alex says does Tony expect Danny to just come out 
and say "I'm the father of Carla's baby." Tony 
tells Alex that he walked into the clinic and 
Danny was hovering over Carla. When Tony started
talking about taking Carla and the baby to 
California, Danny tried to play it cool. What if 
he wasn't playing? Alex asks. He was, Tony is 
sure of this. What if Carla doesn't agree to go 
to California? She won't have time to decide, 
Tony says, not with the business and the funeral. 
Carla comes in, crying. She can't, she says. She 
can't go to California...she can't leave Papa. 
Tony and Alex look at each other.

Danny tells his lawyer (Jocelyn) that Carla and 
he did plan to break up Tony and Ally. He tells 
Jocelyn all the details (about the plot to bring 
Tyler home the night of Ally's birthday and 
Carla's plan to sleep with Tony) and that Carla 
told Tony that she was pregnant, but she wasn't. 
Jocelyn says Carla's not pregnant? She is now,
Danny says. But, it's not Tony's baby. It's his. 
Jocelyn stares at Danny.

Nick says he just went on and on about how she 
needed psychiatric help. Richard says maybe he 
was right. Nick says it doesn't really matter,
he should have let up. She ran out into traffic, 
and got hit. Nick says he knew she was going to 
have problems when she got back to New York, and 
he promised to stick by her. The nurse says she's 
calmed down, he can go in in a minute. Nick thinks 
that it'll be better if he backed off a little. 
Richard says for him? No, Nick says, for her. 
Richard reminds him that he was in the hospital 
the whole time Nick was here, and Loraine was here, 
too. She slept here, she never left, and now Nick 
wants to back off? He doesn't know what else to do. 
Ricahrd says people make mistakes, and then you get 
over it. Now get in there, Richard says. Nick says 
he thought he was the father. It just proves the 
old cliche, Richars says that the boy becomes 
father to the man. Nick says it sounds like he's 
talking from experience. Where's Zoey? Nick asks.

Alex excuses himself to change his clothes. Tony 
asks if she wants to talk about it. She went to 
the cemetary to talk to Papa. She promised to never 
leave him alone. She is so alone, Tony could never 
understand. She has no one. Tony says she has 
someone. She has him. Tony hugs her.

When? Jocelyn asks. That night Carla was at the 
Plaza hotel. Oh, Jocelyn says, she remembers, that 
was the night he stood her and Alex up for dinner. 
Jocelyn asks why? Does he love Carla? No, she's 
impossible, Danny says. Well, Jocelyn says, Tony 
doesn't love her, either. Danny says he will love 
his baby. He wants to be a father to his baby.

Jocelyn says Danny has to tell the truth about 
this baby. Right, and Carla would deny it, and 
Tony and Carla would move to LA with his baby, and 
Ally would hate his guts. Jocelyn reminds him that 
they grew up in a house of lies. He has got to 
tell the truth. Maybe, Danny says, maybe not. 
Danny is going for a walk. Alex comes in. He asks 
Jocelyn what's going on. Just brother-sister stuff, 
she says, as she folds the dollar Danny gave her. 
They'll work it out, Jocelyn says.

tony says that Gino isn't alone, he is with his 
first wife now. It's just him and Carla now. It's 
time to make a fresh start, no mob, no ties to 
family. Carla says that she'll go to California 
under one condition, they go as husband and wife. 
They *are* husband and wife, Tony says. No, what 
they have is a piece of paper. She wants him to 
be a real husband to her.

The last time he saw Zoey, Richard tells Nick, she 
was at his apartment to pick up her "things". He 
can't seem to get to her, it's like talking to 
someone from another planet. Nick agrees that Zoey 
is different. Nick asks if he told her that he paid 
the taxes. No, Richard says, she already things he's 
a money-sucking pig. Nick says that the dinner party 
didn't help. Richard says that he should have told 
him Zoey was going to be there. Nick realizes that 
Loraine has a gut feeling about the dinner. Maybe, 
Nick says, he should have paid attention to her 
then...and now. Nick goes in and Loraine tells him 
to get Angie. Nick says Angie was at the hospital 
all night, she's gone home for some rest. Loraine 
wants Angie. She saw...she saw...death. Nick leaves. 
Someone could die, Loraine says to no one there.

only-seven-more-episodes-to-go-hanger

deb
(dgraham@centra.com)


