From: Karen Highum <highum@u.washington.edu>

    
     DINER

Buzz and Eleni are wondering if Lucy is all right, when A-M comes and 
says she's not.  He thinks he knows why.

     BOARDINGHOUSE

Lucy goes to her room and sees her clothes from the night before.  She 
re-lives some of the rape, takes the clothes, and puts them in a plastic bag.

Downstairs, Matt answers the kitchen door.  It's Vanessa, she's upset 
about her talk with Dinah.  Just then, Michelle walks in and shouts at 
Bill to shut up.  He follows her in.  She says it's none of his 
business.  Bill tells Vanessa that Michelle has been crying all day.  
Michelle says that she has a right to know what's going on.

     HOSPITAL

Rick tells Ed that Eve is awake.  Ed asks if Eve knows.  Rick says no, 
does he want him to go with him?  Ed wants to be alone with her.  Rick 
tells him not to stay long, they both need sleep.  Ed goes in and kisses 
Eve.  She tells him that when she wakes up, she thinks everything is 
fine, they'll get married.  And then she remembers.  She asks what Rick 
found out.  "What's the good news?"

Josh arrives to show something to Annie.  He found a dress for her to 
wear to the ball.

     BOARDINGHOUSE KITCHEN

Michelle tells everyone that her dad asked Rick to come home to be Eve's 
doctor because they think she's going to die.  Bridget doesn't think 
it's that serious.  Michelle says she has lived through death before.  
Vanessa tells her they don't have enough information and asks if Michelle 
knows something more.  Michells says it's something with her blood and 
it's rare-- she wants to know what's going on.  Vanessa tells her that 
Eve may still be in recovery.  Michelle knows the longer it takes, the 
worse it is.  Vanessa tries to call Ed.  Bill apologizes to Michelle for 
giving her a hard time.  Vanessa decides to go Ed and see if he 
needs anything.  She asks Michelle if that's ok.  Michelle replies, "Why 
ask me?"  She's feeling left out.

     HOSPITAL

Eve's tumor is malignant.  Ed tells Eve the leukemia is the curious 
part-- it's an odd mixture of conditions.  She told Rick something at the 
lighthouse that made it sound as if she knew what was going on.  Eve 
tells Ed that there have been nine cases of this reported world wide.  
Six have died-- the other three aren't doing so well.  It came from 
Cambrai.  They were using poisonous chemicals during the war and didn't 
know the long-term effects.  She's had the symptoms for awhile.  She 
didn't want him to worry, so she did research on it and thought as long 
as she didn't say anything out loud, it didn't seem real.  Ed says that 
they'll treat it.  Eve tells him they can't do anything-- there isn't a 
cure.

Annie tries on her dress.  Josh waits outside the door.  He comes in when 
she is wearing just the petticoat, camisole and corset.  He thinks she 
looks great and should go without the dress.  They're kissing when Rick 
walks in.

    DINER

Frank wonders what A-M did to Lucy.  Eleni tells Buzz and Frank to go 
away.  A-M tells her that Lucy is upset because he told her how he 
feels.  She ran out of the room.  Buzz, "You hit on Lucy when she was 
just trying to do her job?  It's all your fault."  Eleni thinks it's more 
than that.  A-M agrees with Buzz-- he's done nothing but make life hard 
for Lucy.  Frank asks if A-M is going to fire her.  A-M isn't, it's not 
her fault.  Buzz tells him to lay off her-- she's his office-manager, not 
"his squeeze of the week".

Tangie arrives and tells Buzz that he's pulled it off.  Everyone is 
talking about the ball.  Cutter tells Buzz, he's outdone himself this time.

Eleni tells A-M that he shouldn't take all the blame.  Something else is 
going on with Lucy-- it happened before she went into the office.  At 
breakfast, she was disconnected, like she was in shock, like she'd been in an 
accident.  

     ALLEY

Lucy is throwing away the bag of clothes in a dumpster.  She tries to rub 
something off her hands.

     HOSPITAL

Josh says hello to Rick.  Annie asks how it went with Eve.  He tells her 
it didn't go well.  Rick didn't know they were-- "What are you guys?"  
Annie, "Friends".  Josh remembers that they knew each other in Chicago.  
Annie changes the subject and says she has to go back to work.  Rick 
leaves.  Annie thanks Josh and tells him she can't wait until the ball 
tomorrow night.

Eve's room.  She's crying.  Ed wonders how she can be so positive that's 
what she has.  She checked the results herself and she knew for sure when 
it was malignant.  Ed wants to go to another doctor, but Eve tells him 
that no one gets a grant for a disease no one's heard of.  Eve asks Ed to 
go home.  He won't-- Michelle is at Bridget's.  She wants him to go-- 
it's going to be hard on both of them, so they need to sleep.  She 
finally convinces him to leave.

      BOARDINGHOUSE KITCHEN

Bridget asks Bill to help her put Peter to bed.  Matt asks Michelle to 
talk, when she doesn't he tells her to yell at him.  It's hard when 
people get sick and you can't help them.  It must make her mad when 
adults treat her like a kid and she's gone through more than most of 
them.  Bill brings her flowers and apologizes.  She runs out.  Bill 
wonders what he did wrong.  Matt takes them both for a ride.  

      DINER

Cutter asks if Buzz is responsible for cleaning up 5th street and for the 
ball.  Buzz tells him the whole town will be there.  Cutter, "Don't count 
on it."  Buzz didn't get a permit to have some thing on the street.  They 
have new laws and he can't let it slide.  Buzz pretends the forms were 
lost and he can fill out new ones.  Cutter doesn't buy it, nothing has 
been filed at City Hall.  The commissioner will shut them down and arrest 
Buzz.  The ball won't happen.

      HOSPITAL

Vanessa hugs Ed and tells him she'll help with anything he needs.  He 
tells her that Eve is so sick and he's trying to handle it, but he can't 
because it shouldn't be happening to her.  It should be happening to him.  
He thinks it was selfish to call Rick, but Eve needs the best.  Ed asks 
Vanessa to go for a walk with him.  Rick watches them leave.

      BEACH

Michelle asks Matt why they're at the beach.  He said they were going to 
talk to someone.  Matt says they'll talk to the stars and the moon.  
They'll listen and not pass judgment.  Michelle tells Bill that he's been 
picking on her all semester.  He's mean.  Bill was just worried about 
her.  Matt tells her not to yell at Bill.  He didn't cause Eve's 
illness.  Yell at whoever makes this happen, the moon, the stars, the 
microbes, the cells.  She'll be there for Eve and her Dad.  That's the 
best thing she can do, outside of praying.  Right now she should YELL.  
Bill yells that it's not fair that his dad went to jail.  Michelle yells 
that she didn't do anything wrong-- what's going on?

     HOSPITAL

Annie asks Rick if Eve will get better.  He doesn't know.  Annie is 
sorry.  She wants to explain about Josh.  It's been a long time since she 
was happy.  She'd forgotten what it was like to feel ok about life, to 
feel she has a future-- that's happening because of Josh.  Rick gets up and 
angrily says he's happy for her.  She doesn't want to lose Josh.  Does he 
understand?  Rick tells her he has to go.

     DINER

Eleni and Frank talk about the ball and serving the food.  Frank has 
arranged for costumes, but she doesn't know about them.

Outside, Buzz tells Cutter to do what he has to-- throw him in jail, but 
don't stop the ball.  Cutter tells him to postpone it and get the 
permits.  Buzz can't.  Cutter leaves.  Tangie comes out and tells Buzz 
that an interview in jail will sell papers.  Buzz doesn't think Cutter 
will do that.  Tangie tells him to not underestimate Patrick.  A lot of 
people are counting on him, he won't plow right through this.

     HOSPITAL

Ed tells Rick that Eve wanted to be alone.  Rick wishes the prognosis was 
better, but they're going to fight this.  Rick is going to stay in 
Springfield.  He's going to be with Ed every step of the battle.

Eve looks out the window.

     BEACH

Vanessa shows up.  Matt left a note at the boardinghouse.  Michelle says 
that yelling makes things seem a little better.  She asks Bill to go walk 
by the boardwalk.  Vanessa tells Matt she loves him even more.

     DINER

Buzz tells everyone they pulled it off.  It's going to be the biggest, 
best ball this town has ever seen and they'll bring 5th street back to 
life.  Tangie is impressed.  She hopes it works.

A-M tells Eleni that he talked to Bridget and that Lucy was there, but 
she left.  A-M wonders when he's going to learn.  It was a stupid thing 
to do.  Eleni tells him it wasn't.  Buzz asks why he's still here.  A-M 
leaves and Buzz asks if Eleni has heard from Lucy.

    BOARDINGHOUSE

Lucy sneaks back in to her room.  She locks the door, gets on her bed, and
holds a stuffed rabbit.  She gets up to open the balcony door and 
notices a dress hanging on the closet door.  

There is a note attached to the dress: 
"This is for tomorrow.  Can't wait to see you in it.  Brent"  

She panics and looks around the room. 

