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

		GUIDING LIGHT UPDATE FOR FRIDAY MAY 3, 1996
			episode written by Pete T. Rich
			episode directed by Bruce S. Barry


			ALL SCENES IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

	POOL
Dahlia swims.  Marcus appears at the edge of the pool.  He tells Dahlia
that he's there to see her.


	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
A-M and Lucy run around the studio sign (the world).  He tells Lucy that
he rented the park for just the two of them.  A-M wants to celebrate the
start of their lives together.  They kiss & Lucy giggles.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Alan tells Reva it's too late and he doesn't want to talk about what
happened earlier.  Reva walks into the room and asks Alan to guess why
she's really there.

	RICK'S ROOM
Rick sees Phillip & tells him that he's been on his mind alot lately.
They hug.  Rick asks why they lost contact.  Phillip says he has been
busy.  Rick, "We're definitely not the four musketeers anymore", and asks
if Phillip's family knows he's there.  Phillip says they don't and he
doesn't want them to know yet.  Phillip wants Rick to help find the person
who cost them the last five years of their lives.

Phillip has found out that someone else helped frame him for Neal's
murder.  Rick thinks they caused their own problems by faking Phillip's
death and community service wasn't so bad.  Phillip asks if Rick's last
five years were better than his.  Rick says that being demoted and losing
his marriage were bad enough.  Phillip is surprised to hear about the
marriage, but Rick doesn't want to talk about it.  Rick, "You got off
pretty well.  You got the little girl you wanted and a beautiful wife."
He asks about Beth & Lizzie.  Phillip explains that they're still in
Arizona and that he needs Rick's help.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Reva tells Alan that what he did tonight was wonderful and she's proud of
him.  Alan calls Buzz a lout for not acknowledging his gesture.  Reva says
Buzz is like that with everything and wishes she'd realized it before...
Alan, "It was too late."

	POOL
Dahlia is surprised to see Marcus.  He tells her that he didn't want her
to be alone.  She's been lonely & thinks everyone is wierd because Lucy &
A-M's fathers don't get along, but she is excited about the suite and the
hotel.  She & her mother used to dream about staying at a place like this.
Marcus tells her to stop worrying about her mother and start enjoying it.
Marcus wants to swim, so he takes off his trousers.  Dahlia gasps, but
he's wearing a purple swimsuit.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Reva tells Alan that Buzz doesn't know that she's talking to Alan, the man
who solved all his problems.  Alan tells her to put away her shovel, cause
she's not in Goshen anymore.  Reva tells Alan that Buzz has his pride
(Alan, "That's all he has.") and he'd be furious if he know she was with
Alan.  She apologizes for Buzz and wants them to act like a family now
that A-M and Lucy are getting married.  She wants to be close to Alan
again.  Alan asks how important is her marriage.  Reva says her family
counts.  Alan asks what she's afraid of.  Reva tells him to figure it out.
He says he's had his fill of gamees.  She has too, but what he did tonight
showed her what kind of man he is.  She asks him to tell her if he did it
as a sign that he forgives her.  She takes his hand.

	RICK'S ROOM
Rick asks what more is there, a lunatic named Neal messed up their lives,
but they made it though.  Phillip asks, "What if Neal didn't do it by
himself?"  Rick says they did wrong.  Phillip asks if Rick has ever
imagined what his life would be like if this hadn't happened-- if he could
have been chief of surgery or lined up for chief of staff when Ed retires.
Phillip heard from Gary Swanson and visited him in prison.  Gary gave
Phillip a letter that proved that Neil didn't act alone.  Neil put
Phillip's fingerprints on the bomb, but he had help.  Gary found the
letter in Neil's trailer after the explosion, but before the cops got
there.  Neil was paid to frame Phillip by "A. Spaulding".  Phillip won't
let them get away with all the time he lost and the anger he vented on
Beth & Lizzie.  Rick tells him to stop it and put it behind him and get on
with his life.  Phillip says he lost his life and so did Rick, because
Phillip is part of a family that just takes & takes.  He can't get on with
his life until he finds out who it was.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Alan does forgive Reva.  She wishes that they could have come to terms
earlier, because they had something wonderful.

	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
A-M asks Lucy to dance on a replica of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  Lucy
giggles and agrees, even though there is no music.  The GL theme song
(with words) plays.  A-M twirls her around and suddenly they appear on a
balcony & kiss.

	POOL
A looong song plays while Dahlia and Marcus swim.  He's about to kiss her.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Alan is about to kiss Reva when she says she has to go.  Amanda walks in.
Reva tells her that her timing is perfect and then she leaves.  Amanda
asks why Reva was there.  Alan says it was to mend fences.  He asks her to
join him for a drink.  She wants to know where things stand.  He says nothing
has changed.

	BUZZ'S ROOM
Reva arrives and Buzz asks where she's been.  He was upset that she wasn't
there to see him storm in.  She apologizes to her "Greek typhoon" & tells
him that she was on a scouting mission.  She found out that Buzz was right
about Alan, he isn't over her.  Buzz asks if Alan touched her or kissed
her.  Reva calls Buzz cute for being jealous and goes to the bathroom.
Buzz yells, "If the South rose again, I want to know about it!"

	ALAN'S ROOM
Alan won't give up their plan to ruin Buzz because he now knows that Reva
doesn't love Buzz and "when he belly's up, she'll come crawling to me and
then I'll decide if I want her or not."  They toast to getting back what
they want, and more.

	RICK'S ROOM
Rick asks what Beth thinks Phillip should do.  Phillip says Beth doesn't
understand and it's something he has to do.  Rick asks what is driving
him, revenge?  Phillip, "Try justice."  Rick, "Now you're thinking like a
Spaulding.  You are a Marler, raised as a Spaulding.  Take this as your
walking papers.  Divorce yourself from this family.  Go back to your
roots.  Change your name!  Let the Spauldings slice & dice each other
while you stand back on the sidelines."  Phillip, "It's too late.  It's
who I am, whether I like it or not.  Being a Spaulding is all I know.
This is the only way I can play it."  Rick, "Why?  You never wanted to be
like your dad and here you are, out for revenge."  Phillip, "I guess he
raised me to be a true Spaulding."  Rick reminds him that he fought Alan
when he was a kid.  Phillip tells him he lost the war, he sold out his
soul for Spaulding stock and Alan got his golden boy.  He became the heir
apparent and when he did, someone turned against him and took the
birthright he never wanted.  "And because you were my best friend, you
went down with me.  Me being a Spaulding didn't just ruin my life, it
ruined yours too.  Think about what I cost you growing up.  Beth,
Meredith, a child that you thought was yours, five years of your life."
Rick never thought of it that way and if he did, he would hate Phillip.
Phillip says Rick should hate him, but Rick couldn't hate him as much as
he hates himself because he let Alan do it to Rick.  Sometimes he thinks
about what it would be like if he'd been raised as a Marler, in a family
that loved him for who he was, not as a piece in a chess game.  But then
he thinks about the letter.

	ALAN'S ROOM
Amanda asks Alan if he's happy.  Alan is content because his son is
getting married, his daughter is his partner and confidant, and his sister
will keep her yap shut for 18 more hours.  Amanda asks if his world still
includes Reva.  He can't imagine a world without her and he'll have her
back and then he'll be happy.

	BUZZ'S ROOM
Reva tells Buzz that she didn't kiss Alan.  Buzz goes to the couch to
sleep.  Reva tells him to join her in the bed because he won't get any
sleep over there.  Buzz, "I slept through high school and Southeast Asia.
I'll manage."  She tries to get him join her by putting two pillows down
the middle of the bed so they won't touch & calls it the "bump her guard".
Buzz joins her on the bed.

	POOL
Frank calls to Dahlia.  Marcus goes underwater and Frank doesn't see him.
Frank asks Dahlia if she's done swimming.  She's not, so he offers to stay
with her, but she says no.  She wants him to trust her.  He does, so he
leaves.  Marcus comes up.  They laugh and look at each other.  He tells
her that her face lights up when she laughs.  She thinks he was holding
his breath too long.  She decides to go and Marcus says he'll see her at
the park tomorrow.

	RICK'S ROOM
Rick has learned in the last five years that you've gotta do what you've
gotta do.  Phillip has to find out who set him up.  Rick offers to help
him and then can't believe he just said that.  Phillip thinks that when he
sees whoever did this, he will show him something, so Rick should keep his
eyes open.  Rick, "Can I change my mind?"  Phillip, "No, it's too late."
Rick asks when he's going to say hello to his family.  Phillip, "When the
time is right.  I think I'll know when that is."  They hug and say
goodnight.

	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Lucy sees a lighthouse and wants to go.  A-M tells her that it's all
behind them.  They get on a boat.  She can't stop thinking about it.  She
yells at the lighthouse, "Go away!" and starts crying.  "He almost killed
us.  I want to be with you forever.  I want to see a lifetime of sunsets
and I wanna have your children and I wanna be your partner in crime in
everything you do.  I wanna live every day like it's the very last one,
because it may be."  A-M says they will & when the end does come, they'll
be together forever and ever, "The worst is over.  There's nothing to be
afraid of."  The Jaws shark jumps out of the water at them.  They jump &
scream.  Lucy giggles, "What were you saying?"  A-M, "That's what I was
talking about.  All those scary things like sharks & gorillas &
earthquakes & ghosts, are all illusions.  Nothing is real except our
love."  Lucy giggles, "That's the movie of our life.  Our love.  It will
last forever."  A-M, "Tomorrow is ours."  <The beacon in the lighthouse
comes on.>  "And the day after.  I promise to make each one the best
moment of your life."  They kiss and the light shines between them.
Freeze-frame.


						--Karen



