From: "Czajka, Marguerite" <czajkm@uf5387p01.ChicagoIL.ATTGIS.COM>

Angie and Jacob are in the bar talking.  Frankie arrives and tells
Angie about his movie being shown at the Sundance festival.  He
tells her that he has to go to LA for the summer but will come
back for the wedding.  She tells him she+s proud of him and tries
to call him by his new name - he tells her to call him Frank.  He
asks for a script he gave her and leaves for the clinic to get it.

Molly, Danny, Bernardo, and Azure arrive at the bar.  They talk
about the model coffee house and the financing that+s coming in
from using Sydney+s backing.  Bernardo is not happy about Syd
having so much power.  Molly is a bit uncertain about Syd+s
involvement also, wondering if she+s good for the money.

Shift to the Chase abode, where Sydney has very little power as
Jared forces himself on her claiming his marital rights.  Sydney
lamely tries to fight him off.  After a commercial, Jared is dressing
and dabbing at a scratch on his face while a ravaged Sydney
sits in the bed and grabs a letter opener (a little too late).  He
apologizes, but he has to run.  After he goes down the stairs, she
throws the opener after him.

Nick is sitting at the bar, discussing with Buck his pictures for the
CD cover.  Tess arrives with mockups of a cover with Azure+s
picture with a Nick inset.  Buck likes the idea, Nick is not happy
that Tess went over his head to the recording people.  She points
out that Azure is hot and will help sell records.  Nick says he+ll
stick with his "ugly mug" on the cover, and walks away.

Ally calls Verushka and makes another appointment with Malcolm
for 8:00 at the Plaza.  (Her voice doesn+t sound like Jocelyn+s but she
does a pretty good job at imitating her vocal patterns).  Tony arrives,
she doesn+t want to let him in but does.  He apologizes for bringing up
Casey and the way he died and wants to take her to dinner, or at least
down to City Bar where the whole gang is hanging out.  She makes
a really lame excuse about being sick and contagious and pushes him
out the door.  Having more than 2 brain cells or perhaps having seen
a sick woman before and realizing that they never look as good as
Ally, he stares at the outside of the door, obviously aware that she+s
up to something.

Tess brings Azure her paycheck, which is obviously large.  She also
tells her that she is the new spokesmodel for Tendress.  Azure is
happy and tells the gang about being contacted by a lawyer - some
family member died and left her money.  Bernardo thinks she would
know if a relative died, but she points out that her family probably
wouldn+t tell her.  She does comment that the letter was to Azure C,
and no one in her family would call her that.  Danny tells her to ignore
it, it+s a scam.  Bernardo isn+t sure, but Danny says he+s used it before
to track people down.  Azure says there+s no need to track her down,
everyone knows where she is.  Danny suggests that someone may be
trying to dig something up on her.  She says there have also been phone
calls to the agency about her that have made her wonder, but she
thinks she+s just being paranoid.

Tony makes his excuses to the gang and he gets carry out food for
him and Ally.  He goes back to Ally+s apartment where she is dressed
as the Red Haired Hooker.

Jacob talks to Nick, telling him fatherhood seems to agree with him.
Nick says his life is pretty good - a recording contract, a daughter, ...
Jacob adds Lorraine to the list.  Nick thinks she still is carrying a torch
for a certain dreadlocked owner of a music establishment that he+s
about to make famous.  Jacob changes the subject and asks if Nick
has okayed the extra acoustical arrangements with Sydney - this
prompts Nick to call the penthouse where Sydney and Jared don+t
answer the phone since she seems to be in shock and he+s busy
being a total asshole.  Nick comes back to Jacob and starts getting
abdominal pains that he says is just indigestion and excuses himself
to "make some calls".  One at the typical soap version of privacy,
i.e. 2 feet away - he pulls out a bottle of prescription pills.  (The
pains could have been caused by the pill bottle in his front jeans
pocket).

Jared arrives at the bar where he asks Tess to dinner.  She agrees to go
and asks if Sydney knows he+s going out.  He says yes, she wanted a
quiet night at home.

Angie arrives at the clinic where Sydney is sitting, very quiet and
looking distraught.  Apparently, this is a common sight for Angie
because she asks Mrs. Chase if there+s a problem because her son is
waiting for her in the bar.  Sydney tells the perceptive doctor that
she+s been raped.

