From: Karen Highum <highum@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

         ROADHOUSE

Matt is dancing when Vanessa walks in and sees him.  She sits at the bar.  
Lucy & Bridget arrive.  Lucy hopes Brent doesn't stay mad at her.  They 
notice Matt & wonder what's up with him, something must have happened 
with Vanessa.

         HOSPITAL

Eve is dressing, when Ed arrives.  She tells him the judge will put off 
his dinner so he can marry them.  Ed wonders if the sonogram was o.k.  
Eve doesn't want to talk about it, but he insists she tell him.

         TOWERS 

Blake tells Ross the whole evening is a disaster.  Ross, "Putting your 
father & your mother at the same table is like dining with a bomb, it's 
just a matter of time before it explodes."  Blake whines that nothing 
happened until Dinah arrived.  Ross tells her Dinah didn't cause anything 
& it's a good thing Holly left. "If we could only get rid of Roger."  
Blake thought her dad looked so vulnerable & hurt-- he was almost crying.

Meanwhile, Dinah tells Roger he put on a great performance.  Roger tells 
her it was no act, he loves Holly.  Dinah tells him he blew it, if his 
little display of emotion was supposed to keep her here.  He failed.  He 
thinks Holly will be back.

Hamp gives Blake a present.  It's cologne-- her favorite.  He asks if the 
party is over, but it would be a waste to miss what Ross has planned.  
Blake asks for strength to not mind that Dinah is here & gave her emery 
boards for a present.

Dinah asks what Roger is up to.  He has to talk to Holly for a few 
minutes and it has to be tonight.  Dinah asks if she can do anything.  He 
asks her to make herself scarce, he'll show her a video of it.  She wants 
to watch.  He has to know if he still has a chance with Holly.  Dinah 
says goodnight to Roger, Ross & Blake.  "Well Blake, you've reached that 
middle third of your life, it's so exciting, but don't weep for your 
youth.  The French love women of a certain age."

Roger apologizes to Blake for losing it -- he should have been the one to 
leave.  He hopes Holly made it home safely.  Just then Holly shows up-- 
she can't find her car keys.

       HOSPITAL

Eve says she feels wonderful & nothing is as important as being Ed's 
wife.  She thinks they should go and get married.  Dr. Sedgewick comes in 
with the sonogram results-- Eve's spleen is enlarged.  She thinks Eve 
should see someone else.  Eve's white count is elevated, & there are other 
abnormalities.  It's not her field, so Eve needs to see another doctor 
tonight.  Ed & Eve look at Eve's chart.

       ROADHOUSE

Matt is still dancing.  Lucy sees Brent come in and asks if Bridget 
thinks he looks mad.  Bridget tells her to go talk to him about it.  Lucy 
wants Bridget to go with her, but Bridget sees Skunk & starts to dance 
with him.  Brent asks Lucy to dance.  Skunk tells Bridget she looks great 
and that the guys in the band are mad at him because he met her first.  
He thanks her for fixing the amp, because it means he can take the rest 
of the night off, so they can dance till the place closes.  She agrees.  
Matt's dance partner tells him that he's burning up & should come over to 
her place to cool off.

          COUNTRY CLUB
 
Magically, Vanessa has arrived at the CC bar & starts remembering her 
conversations with Matt & her father about marriage.  Vivian interrupts 
her by complaining about Generation X and her children.  David won't talk 
to her and Gilly took a job in LA when she is risking everything she has 
here, including a fine young man.  She wonders if it's tv or loud music, 
"that's warped their brains and turned it into jello.  Why can't they be 
more sensible like us?"  They laugh.

           ROADHOUSE

Dancing continues.  Matt's partner goes too far so he tries to leave and 
Bridget follows him.  She recognizes that he's in a dangerous mood.  
Brent tells Lucy that he's not mad at her anymore.  He's feeling wild 
tonight, he wants to bust out of this white collar tension.  He wants to 
go swimming at the country club.  Lucy tells him they aren't members.  
Brent:  "Aren't you a risk-taker?  It took some guts to barge in on A-M.  
Unless you're chicken?"  She agrees to go, if her friend can come too.  
She wonders if they'll stop for swimsuits, but Brent says he doesn't need 
one, does she?

           TOWERS

Holly thinks the keys are here someplace.  Roger asks if she locked them 
in the car.  Blake is just glad Holly is back.  It's a second chance for 
them to celebrate her birthday.  Hamp brings out a cake & Blake blows out 
the candles.  She got her wish.  She tells them she's so happy to have 
the four of them together.  Roger tells her he understands she wants her 
parents to get back together, but it's not going to happen.  They came 
close, but it didn't work out.  But they still are a family.  He tells a 
story about a picnic when Holly lost her keys.  Blake remembers it even 
though she was only 6.  Blake says she was hoping for too much.  It's 
ok.  She knows Holly wants to leave so suggests Roger use a coat hanger 
to open her car door.  Holly asks him to try.  He smiles. {His plan is 
working.}  

           HOSPITAL

Eve tells Ed that something is wrong with her spleen.  Her doctor wants 
to admit her and do an extensive workup.  Ed says they'll take care of 
what's wrong with her.  He asks if she's been holding back on any 
symptoms.  She says no.  Dr. Norris (Morris?) wants a surgery consult.  Ed 
wants the best.  Lillian tells Ed she has gotten approval to go visit 
Phillip & Beth & her granddaughter.  She asks why he look awful.  He says 
he's tired.  She talks about her family & trip.  He tells her that Eve is 
fine.  She'll see them when she gets back.

          COUNTRY CLUB

Vanessa understands why Gilly doesn't want love to distrupt the life 
she's completely happy with.  Vivian wonders if she's talking about her 
daughter.  Vivian loves coming here-- quiet drink, nice piano music & all 
the confusion seems to disappear.

Outside:  Matt, Bridget, & Skunk strip down to their underwear and jump 
in the pool.  Lucy is worried that someone will hear them and wants to 
stand guard.  Brent takes off his clothes & tells her she sounds scared.

            TOWERS

Roger isn't having any luck unlocking the car door.  Holly laughs at 
him.  He's glad to hear her laugh.  She wants him to finish.  He asks 
what's wrong with them laughing together, sharing a moment, celebrating 
their daughter's birthday together.  "We've had so many years of love, 
mistakes, second chances.  It's like our lives have been woven together.  
Woven in a rich fabric & we're both clothed in that fabric, we can't shed 
it.  Why don't we accept it and enjoy it." 
Holly:  "You're asking for too much."  He unlocks the car.
Roger:  "If you happen to change your mind.  If Fletcher turns out not to 
be the man you think he is.  I'll always be here. Always."

Holly looks for her keys and can't find them, so Roger looks.  He takes 
her keys out of his pocket & places them between the seats, then finds 
them.  He tells her she was probably anxious about tonight & dropped 
them.  She says she wasn't anxious.  He says he was.  She tells him he 
seemed like his old self to her.  

Holly:  "Very good Roger, very slick.  Had me going there for a while."
Roger:  "I'm not following."
Holly:  "Come on, you can cut the innocent act."
Roger:  "I don't know what you're talking about."
Holly:  "That day at the lake.  Remember?  The whole thing was a 
charade.  You had the keys the whole time." 
Roger:  "WHAT!"
Holly:  "That day at the lake, a hundred years ago, when we had that 
fight.  I told you I was going to leave you.  You took my car keys and 
wouldn't give them back until you browbeat me to stay.  Is it all coming 
back to you?"
Roger:  "If you knew I had the car keys all along, why did you go along 
with it?"
Holly:  "Because I forgot for just a moment that you need to manipulate 
every situation you're in."
Roger:  "If that's true, it's because I love you and just a few months 
ago you loved me.  Enough that you were going to marry me."
Holly:  "It's over, how many times do I have to say that to you and tell 
you why?"
Roger:  "As many times as it takes for me to believe that you don't love 
me anymore."

Blake & Ross:  she asks why Ed & Eve postponed their wedding.  Ed told 
Ross it was a hospital emergency.  She's glad because now she has time to 
get their wedding present.  Ross tells her that his favorite wedding 
present was her.

           COUNTRY CLUB

Brent is still trying to get Lucy to join him in the pool, when she does 
he starts kissing her.  Vanessa walks up and sees Matt getting out of the 
pool.

           HOSPITAL

A worried Ed calls Rick and leaves a message for him to come home as soon 
as he can.

            TOWERS GARAGE

Roger:  "You love me Holly.  You know it."
Holly:  "Oh shutup!  I cannot love a man who cannot hear me, who cannot 
let go when I ask him to.  Who has to manipulate every situation he's in 
so it'll go his way.  And you really sent Fletcher off on a wild goose 
chase to Portugal didn't you?  You had no intention of moving to 
Virginia.  This whole thing was a setup, so you could try to get to me.  
You even used your own daughter.  I will not love a man who will do 
something like this!"
Roger:  You don't want to love me, but I'll never believe that you don't 
love me.
Holly:  "You're wrong and I'm going to prove you're wrong."
She gets in her car and leaves.



Next week's Thursday update will be late-- I'm going to a conference 
until Saturday.  I'll do it when I get back, unless one of the backup 
updaters contacts me.  Karen        

