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


  ROGER'S NEW PENTHOUSE

Marcus & Dinah try to decide which bouquet of flowers to use on the 
dinner table (Dinah thinks the roses are too fussy and the others are 
too far Eastern).  Dinah is excited to be living in a penthouse.  Marcus 
wonders how Dinah knows what Roger likes.  She tells him that she's found 
her "soulmate".  Marcus, "Oh give me a break."  Dinah, "Roger and I are 
perfectly in tune.  I know what he's thinking and what he's feeling 
almost before he does."  Roger arrives, "What the hell is this?"

  DINER

Frank is in a booth & Eleni tries to get him to go to bed.  He won't.  
Lucy & A-M come to see Frank, they heard about the shooting on the 
radio.  Lucy asks if he's going to "rethink this police thing".  Frank 
tells her that he wants to keep guys like Brent off the street.

  BOARDINGHOUSE

Brent/Marian is in Lucy's room looking at the star A-M gave Lucy.  S/he 
remembers a conversation with A-M, gets mad, throws the star across the 
room, and says "Damn you!" loudly.  David hears her/him and asks if Lucy 
is ok.  He tries the door but it's locked, so he thinks he heard 
something from downstairs.  Brent/Marian looks at the star--it's 
shattered & leaves it on the floor, "accidents happen."

  DINER

Frank & Eleni argue about being a cop, she changed her mind when she saw 
him covered in his blood.  She's worried about having to tell <the 
invisible> Marina that her father is dead.  She can't live with that fear. 

  HOLLY'S HOUSE

Blake gives Holly the bear.  Holly hugs it while Blake tells her that 
it's her baby's first toy.  Blake apologizes for running away from the 
hospital.  She would have loved to have seen Fletcher's face when Holly 
told him.  
Holly, "That was...something."  
Blake, "He had to admit how happy he was.  When he doesn't know what to say he
cracks those really bad jokes."  
Holly, "Fletcher was Fletcher."  They were both rattled.  
Blake asks if there is a problem.  
Holly, "Well, sort of."  She tells Blake that Fletch had a vasectomy.  
Blake, "Did Fletch think you were cheating on him?"  
Holly, "It's a logical first step.  You can understand why it would cross his
mind."
Blake, "The little jerk. I was just starting to like him.  Big talk about 
the trust factor.  You get pregnant & the 1st thing that pops into his 
mind is that you're cheating on him."
Holly, "He thought that Roger was the father."
Blake, "Why would he come up with a crazy idea?"
Holly, "Your father lied & told him so."

  ROGER'S PENTHOUSE

Roger asks about the papers that were on the table & tells Dinah to go 
downstairs to the restaurant when she's hungry.  Dinah explains that it's 
a celebration of their 1st month living together.  Roger can't stay, he 
has a meeting & goes to another room to make a phone call.
Marcus, "You really do know him inside & out."  He can't believe that 
Dinah still defends Roger.  Dinah tells him that Roger is a busy & 
important man & if he's in a bad mood it's probably because of her 
family.  Marcus, "What is it that makes you think Mr. 'Cold but Cruel' 
even gives a ripe banana for you?"  Dinah tells him that Roger gave up 
his daughter & grandson for her.  Marcus, "If you don't mind acting like 
a total doormat.  He is walking all over you.  He doesn't care for you at 
all."  Dinah defends Roger, "He worships me, he'd do anything for me."  
Roger comes back & Dinah tries to talk him into staying. 
  

  COMPANY

Nola tells Bridget that this place needs alot of help, but Bridget likes 
it the way it is.  Nola suggest moving the bar, but Bridget says it's 
cozy the way it is & people like it.  Nola, "What people?" <The 
restaurant is empty.>  Matt <he's growing a mustache & beard> is on the 
phone telling Vanessa that Dinah is still with Roger & that Marcus in is 
town.  He asks if she's coming back on Saturday, but she has decided to 
stay 2 more weeks.  He asks if the wedding is still on for the end of 
Sept.  He's disappointed by her answer & says goodbye.  Bridget asks him 
when Vanessa & Peter are coming home. She wants to see her baby.  He 
tells her a couple of weeks & Vanessa won't have time to plan the 
wedding.  Bridget gets mad at him for talking her into the stupid plan.  
Matt is sorry, it sounded like a good idea then.  Nola tells Matt that 
the delay is good, it'll give him time to re-think.  Matt doesn't want 
her advice.  Nola says that Vanessa is selfish & controlling.  Bridget, 
"That's her daughter."  Nola, "Well it must run in the family."

  ROGER'S PENTHOUSE

Dinah tells Roger to forget about work.  He has to take a rain check & 
leaves.  Dinah, "Don't say a word. When did you get so judgmental?"  
Marcus, "When did you get so naive? The Dinah I know would be out of here 
so fast."  Dinah won't lose a great guy like Roger over this.  She thinks 
Roger is absolutely committed to her.  There's a knock on the door.  Dinah 
thinks it's Roger, but it's Ross.

  HOLLY'S HOUSE

Blake is shocked & sits down.  Holly holds her abdomen.  
Blake, "Dad told Fletch that you slept with him?"
Holly, "And that the baby I'm carrying could be his.  Roger at his 
finest.  I'm sorry, you don't want to believe that."  She explains that 
it was suppose to have taken place when he was recuperating at her house. 
She also tells Blake that Roger staged the accident.  She accused him & 
he didn't deny it.  
Blake, "And Fletch believed him?"
Holly, "He was upset & thought there was no way he could have a baby, but 
I talked to him & he calmed down & believed me.  Fletch believes me, and 
Roger cannot destroy that."
Blake, "This is the lowest thing he's ever done.  We're talking about a 
baby, the most precious thing in the world.  How could he steal that from 
Fletcher?"
Holly, "He would steal a cane from a blind man if that would help him.
Blake tells Holly about asking Roger to give up Dinah or he would lose 
her.  He chose Dinah, "a little Parisian teeny-bopper."  She finally 
believes what people have been saying about him, "He would push anyone 
out of the way to get what he wants."  She decides to go talk to him.

Holly calls Fletch at work, she just wanted to hear his voice, he doesn't 
have to leave early.  There's a knock at her door.  Holly thinks it's 
Blake, but when she opens the door Roger is standing there.  Holly asks 
why he's here.  He wants to apologize.  Holly tells him to leave, he 
can't talk his way out of this.  He tells her that he behaved horribly 
yeasterday & this sort of thing will continue unless they talk through 
it.  
Holly, "Talking about your unending, pathetic attempts to hurt me are a 
complete waste of time."
Roger doesn't want to hurt her.
Holly, "Why did you lie about the baby?"
Roger, "The words tumbled out of my mouth before I knew what I was saying."
Holly tells him to buy a book on self-control.  He's trying so hard to 
get her out of his heart & his system, but it's not easy.  If she had 
come to him & told him that she was carrying his baby, he would have been 
the happiest guy on the planet.
Holly, "I would have been miserable beyond despair."
Roger, "At the very least I would have trusted you."
Holly, "Get out of here."
Roger says that's why he reacted so violently when Fletch attacked him.  
Subconsciously he was trying to get her to come to her senses, to see 
Fletch as someone capable of believing the worst of her & walking away from 
her.
Holly, "Since you know I'm pregnant & the baby isn't yours, what are you 
really doing here?  Do you expect to just walk back into my life & keep 
me & this baby?"
Roger, "Is that an offer?"

  ROGER'S PENTHOUSE

Dinah asks why Ross is there, to bribe her to get her away from Roger?  
Marcus tells her to take him up on his offer and leaves.  Dinah 
thanks Ross for the flowers, but she's really busy.  Ross doesn't think 
so.  She says she's fine.  He just wanted to see his daughter, he didn't 
come to apologize, "your relationship with Roger is the worst mistake you 
will ever make, but that's not going to stop me from giving you this."  
Dinah refuses the box at first, but he tells her that it's the 
anniversary of the day he found out about her.

  BOARDINGHOUSE

Brent/Marian leaves Lucy's room & David sees her in the hall and asks 
what s/he's doing.  Brent/Marian tells David that s/he's lost & had been 
to the little ladies room.  S/he explains that s/he works with Lucy & 
wanted to find out if there was a room available.  David apologizes & 
tells B/M that Lucy had some trouble & he's watching out for her & says 
he wishes he could have helped A-M beat the guy up.  He wanted to kill 
the guy.  M/B says Lucy is lucky to have friends like him.  David shows 
M/B where Company is.
 
  COMPANY

Matt doesn't want to hear Nola.  Nola, "Of course you don't want to hear 
that Vanessa has kidnapped Peter & postponed the wedding."  She lifts her 
chin, turns, & walks away.  Matt asks Bridget how she can put up with 
Nola.  Bridget says she's not that bad, she's just had a tough time.  
Bridget tells Matt to plan the wedding himself & she'll help.  Nola comes 
back, overhears their discussion about having the wedding in the park, 
"She's going to throw a fit.  Vanessa would rather die than get married 
outside, in a park, especially Roosevelt Park."  Bridget tells her to 
stay out of it.  Nola, "And where are you going to put 2,000 of her 
closest... of course she doesn't have friends.   What are you going to 
do?  Put them in a sandbox?"  
Matt, "Why don't you go for a walk."
Nola tells him to let her plan it, if he's really going to go through 
with it.  She could plan a wedding that Vanessa would love.
Matt, "Out."  
Nola, "It's not your father you remind me of, it's Uncle Tony.  Because 
he was stubborn & pigheaded & we always used to argue."  She goes 
upstairs, as David & Brent/Marian come down.  B/M gets a menu from 
Bridget.  David asks Matt for a job at the construction company.  Matt 
tells him they added another shift & he can start tonight.  It's on 
scaffolding, but David says he can handle the height.  Brent/Marian is 
listening closely.

  DINER KITCHEN

Frank asks Buzz for advice on how to handle Eleni.  Buzz asks how he 
would feel if she wanted to be a cop.  Frank admits that he would hate it 
& wouldn't let her do it.  He didn't like her catering business at first 
because she would be out late & he wouldn't know where she was, but 
eventually he came around.  Buzz, "There's a moral in there somewhere."

  DINER

Eleni asks Lucy to tell Frank not to be a cop, but Lucy won't tell him 
what to do.  He has to make the decision.  Eleni says he'd risk his life 
for anybody.  Lucy wonders if she would want him any other way, to be 
someone who ran away from trouble.  Eleni says no.  Lucy asks why she 
wants to change him.  Frank comes out of the kitchen & asks Eleni if she 
wants him to give up his job.

  ROGER'S PENTHOUSE

Dinah opens the gift from Ross.  It's emerald/diamond earrings.  The card 
says, "Dinah, On this day 9 years ago I got the greatest gift in my 
life.  My daughter.  You will always be my greatest gift.  I will never 
forget that.  Don't you forget it either.  Your father."
She thanks him.  He tells her that in spite of Roger she means the world 
to him.  She is about to tell him something when Blake arrives.  She 
tells Ross & Dinah about "her father's latest atrocity.  My father tried 
to break up Holly & Fletcher in the lowest possible way.  He stood up at 
their wedding & made that touching speech about how he was going to stay 
out of their lives forever.  He told Fletcher that he was the father of 
the baby my mother's going to have."
Dinah, "Why would he say that?"
Blake, "Figure it out Dinah.  It's not that hard."

  HOLLY'S HOUSE

Holly, "Do you think for one moment that I would consider raising a child 
anywhere near you?"
Roger, "Chrissie turned out spectacularly, aside from her unfortunate 
infatuation with you know who."
Holly, "A baby needs love & tenderness & everything else you haven't got 
the first clue about.  It has take me an entire lifetime to realize that 
this stuff you have given me is about as far away from love as you can get."
Roger, "You keep harkoning back to when I was very young and then I hurt 
you and alot of other people.  But that's ancient history."
Holly, "This is coming from a man who lied about this baby not 24 hours ago."
Roger, "I'm attempting to apologize for that!"
Holly, "You can't!  There is nothing you can say that will ever make me 
forgive you for that."
Roger, "I did it out of love."
Holly, "That kind of love I don't need!  You think you have to destroy a 
woman to keep her.  You think if you put me down & then lift me up & I'm 
dependent on you, that is your love.  You have pulled that on me a 
million times, & I fell for it, & I fell for it, & I fell for it, & I always 
forgot that it was you who put me down."
Roger, "No man will ever love you as I have loved you.  No man will ever 
satisfy you."
Holly, "Fletcher satisfies me in ways you couldn't dream of.  HE shares 
everything with me, he believes in me, he trusts me."
Roger, "Oh sure, as he demonstrated so well yesterday."
Holly, "He was upset."
Roger, "He was completely out of control!"
Holly, "I have no problem with a man who wants to protect me.  But a man 
who wants to possess me?  Who wants to make me less than I am?  That I 
have no time for. <She gets closer to Roger.>  Now you get this 
straight.  You will never touch me again, you will never hurt me.  I will 
never be your victim.  Is that finally clear?"
 
  DINER

Eleni tells Frank that she wants him to be the best cop Springfield has 
ever seen.  He thanks her, but wants her to be sure this time.  Eleni 
tells him that somewhere in his gorgeous body is a man who needs to help 
people & how can they be happy if he can't do what he needs to do.  They 
go upstairs.  Nadine asks Buzz what he told Frank.  Buzz, "Just something 
I learned from my 1st marriage. Listen to your wife."

  CONSTRUCTION SITE

Brent <dressed in construction clothes & hard hat> enters the site with a 
hack saw <in a bag> and goes up some stairs.

  ROGER'S PENTHOUSE

Dinah, "You are totally wrong.  Roger doesn't give 2 cents about Holly."
Blake, "Then why would he lie to Fletcher?"
Dinah, "He must have had his reasons."
Blake, "He's using you Dinah."
Dinah, "You hate him.  You both hate him.  You'd say anything to break us 
up.  Roger loves me.  I know he loves me."
Blake, "Roger loves Holly.  Roger will always love Holly.  No matter what 
he says to you in bed, Roger's one goal in life is to get Holly back." 

  HOLLY'S HOUSE

Holly, <very calmly>, "You might as well leave.  I'm not in love with you 
anymore.  It's taken me forever, but I am, finally."  Roger grabs her & 
kisses her, while she pushes his chest.

  

  That's it!  Next week's update will be later than usual.  I'll be out 
of town & without access to a tv/vcr until Friday, so will try to do the 
update Friday night or Saturday morning.  Karen

