From: djg@city.hq.ileaf.com (Deborah Graham x1506 4SE tech:writer)

Wednesday:

Tony goes to show Alex the building plans and realizes 
that they are missing.

Tess threatens Jared with a bat. He calls the police. 
She tells him to wait. He hangs up.

Jocelyn's father tells Jocelyn that what he did, he did 
for love.

Zoey tells Sydney that she does not want the $10,000 check. 
She does not want her bribe! It's not a bribe, it's her 
way to thank her for not telling Richard. Zoey says she 
knows that if Richard found out Syd and Nick were his 
real parents it would kill him. They argue and Richard 
comes in and asks what she's doing there.

Sydney covers and says Zoey came to ask out of her Hotline 
contract. Richard says if she goes, he goes. Zoey agrees 
to stay on Hotline....for now. She tells him the sparks 
between them are gone. Sydney suggests they get Zoey a job 
at an afflilate in Canada and they can banter by satellite. 
Richard says no go. He thinks they still have the chemistry. 
He chages the subject and says he wants to see Jared, 
about the Azure story. Zoey says they can't exploit Azure! 
Richard sasy there's the spark, he eyes are glowing! Richard 
says it's not exploiting, he wants to tell the story. She 
says that Azure's life is ruined now. Exactly, Richard says 
and he wants a quote from Jared, to hang him with it.

Tess tells Jared that his lawyers overlooked a couple of 
things, and she's not leaving. She tells him that he 
should go back to his penthouse and she'll keep an eye 
on him, as his roommate.

Jocelyn's father said that *his* father took him upstate
to a...to a group of women...well, it was a brothel. Jocelyn 
says that she doesn't care about what happened to him. She 
was molested by adult men. No, it was to teach her...She 
screams that it was SEXUAL molestation! Fathers have been 
doing this for years, he says. NOT ANY FATHERS THAT SHE KNOWS 
OF. What kind of monster is he? she screams.

Tony thinks that Jared took the files. Alex thinks they're 
acting like the keystone kops. He can't think of one day, one 
day! where things haven't gone wrong. Ally tells Alex that 
she and Jocelyn talk. Alex says he figured. Ally says 
Jocelyn doesn't blame him for talking a long time with "this". 
THIS? Alex says, This...turning tricks? Alex says he 
understands that no matter how hard he's taking it, he 
knows Jocelyn is taking it harder.

Jocelyn's father says these were men he knows, men he 
trusted. Does he know what they did to her? she screams. Yes. 
He says he knows that girls have trouble, with getting to know 
their bodies, how to satisfy a man. WHAT? she screams, you 
were trying to make me a better WIFE? he didn't want her to 
turn into his wife, a cold fish. Well, you made me into a 
terrific PROSTITUTE! He says a parent can only show the way, 
only teach the fundamentals, what a child does with the 
knowledge...Jocelyn says she expected him to deny it, or to 
feel remorse. He says he did it for her own good. Go ahead, 
she dares him, slap her and tell her it's for her own good.

Tess toasts Jared, may he rot in hell. Well, we'll see, Jared 
says. Jared refuses a drink; she may have poisioned it.

Zoey leaves, telling Richard that she loves Luke. She loves 
HIM, Richard says, trying to get into the elevator with her. 
He calls after her, that she's afraid to be with him, because 
she loves him. She looks like she's gonna cry.

Tony comes back and says there is nothing out of place upstairs. 
Alex says he's gonna pack it for the night. He wants them to 
stay put for the evening. He asks Ally to keep an eye on Jocelyn 
for him. She agrees. He kisses her. Tony says he forgot something, 
doesn't he get a kiss, too? Alex approaches him. Tony kicks him 
out of the apartment. Tony tells Ally that with all the bad that's 
been happening, his brother getting shot and all that, there are 
some good feelings that keep coming through. Why is that? She 
says that sometimes you can't keep the good feelings out. They 
hug, she says goodnight.

Jared says that this sparring could go on for days. He's 
willing for put her up in a penthouse. She declines, saying she 
has a letter, in her safe deposit box, detailing how he swindled 
her and threatened her life. And the real reason why he wants 
the agency. Which is what? he asks. Is he willing to gamble 
that she doesn't know? She says she wants her $100,000 and 
$50,000 as the high return he promised her. He wants the letter. 
After she has the cash. Deal. She's not leaving until she 
gets the money. Jared leaves and runs into Alex, who says 
he's thinking of moving into the building, but everyone is 
into everyone else's business. Jared says that yes, it's a 
shame about his girlfriend, or is that ex-girlfriend? Jared 
says it must have been a shock to find out she's a hooker. 
Alex grabs him, as the elevator arrives. Alex lets him go, 
and Jared says "temper, temper..." as he gets into the elevator.

Sydney and Richard have a mother/son talk about getting closer. 
It was starting to happen before Jared returned, Sydney prompts, 
can they try again? They hug.

Jocelyn's dad says that she almost drove her mother to suicide,
and now she's trying to give him a heart attact. If it was so 
bad, he adds, why didn't she tell anyone? She screams that he 
made sure she didn't. Well, he says, she could have...maybe she 
didn't want it to stop! NO! She cries, as she runs out. She 
runs to the outer wall, and cries, as she hears her father 
repeat maybe she didn't want it to stop.

maybe-Dad-will-kill-Jared-and-we'll-be-rid-of-them-both-hanger

deb
(djg@city.hq.ileaf.com)

