The Young and The Restless
March 1978
Chris Foster was very concerned that the judge might give Karen back to the Beckers after reading the psychiatrist's report. The Beckers saw Karen several times after being given visiting rights. Karen refused to call Nancy "Mommy," but talked to Chris about her other mommy and frequently called her (Chris) "Chris." Ron and Nancy took Karen to the zoo, helping her to recall her past with them. - Karen remembered Ron, but felt abandoned by her mother when Nancy was taken to a mental hospital in a catatonic state. - Brad Eliot talked to Chris and got her to admit that if it were in Karen's best interest to return to the Beckers, she couldn't hurt Karen emotionally by keeping her. Chris and Karen discussed Nancy, and Karen asked if she could go to live with her other mother and father because she missed them. Chris called Snapper, asking him to come home. She was too hysterical to call the Beckers to come over. Nancy could see how hurt Chris was and felt sorry for her. Snapper came home from the clinic to find Chris packing her own suitcase and said she would never solve anything by running away. Chris explained that it wasn't enough to be just his wife. She had to find out what she wanted out of life for herself. Snapper was remembering that his father went away for nine years. Chris said she didn’t think she would even be away for nine days.
Snapper’s suspension from the hospital was up and he could return to the staff there.
Lance Prentiss found Leslie Brooks in a highly agitated state in Denver after newspaper reporter Rod Jackson told Leslie that her sister Lorie confirmed that she wrote the book about two rival sisters; one a writer, the other a pianist who spent time in a mental institution after a breakdown. Lance was ready to call the paper for printing an unsubstantiated story until Leslie told him what Jackson claimed. Lance called home to read Lorie out, but Lucas told him that Lorie had denied everything. The Maestro had contacted another pianist to take Leslie's place, but Lance took the responsibility of convincing her that she had to perform. He got her to eat and then had a piano brought to the suite for Leslie's practice. The Maestro was against this because he remembered the other time Leslie was in such a state. He felt she would not be able to take the stress.
Brock Reynolds and Stuart Brooks were making plans to fly to Denver after they learned Leslie had cancelled two concerts. Psychiatrist Brad Eliot, Leslie's ex-husband, told them that the worst thing they could do would be to go to her. It would show her that they didn’t have confidence in her ability to handle herself. He said that the friendship she had with Lance was what she needed at the time because he understood her talent.
Lance promised to be in the wings during her performance. Leslie heard people discuss her and the book, but pulled herself together and walked on the stage. She started very well, but when Rod Jackson walked up behind Lance, she floundered, started again and floundered, then ran from the stage. She retreated through the cold night to her suite without her coat. Lance had her get out of her wet clothing while he ordered hot tea. She confessed that she fled before she did have a breakdown because Jackson made her nervous. Lance felt responsible for this mistake. Leslie couldn’t bear to be alone yet. The experience drew them closer and though Lance knew he should leave her suite, he couldn’t. Later, they both felt this was a moment they would always remember. They met too late; Leslie used to be married and then Lance was.
Lorie got a call from a man who wanted to promote her book and she turned him over to Lucas, calling him her business manager. She said that maybe she needed someone to help her since Lance was always helping Leslie. Lucas suggested to Laurie and then to Lance that Leslie might be dependent on Lance as a revenge against Lorie.
After they returned to Genoa City, Lance couldn’t stay away from Leslie. She told him that night should never have happened and he should forget it. Brad arrived at that moment asking her to dinner. Leslie accepted, but they knew it was only to free her from Lance. Leslie wanted to go on with her life, but being a concert pianist might never be a part of it again.
Jill Foster didn’t believe Kay Chancellor's story about being married to her fiance Derek Thurston, but was so upset that Derek drew the story out of her. They agreed that Kay must have flipped out. Derek went to see Kay to set her straight, but found that she was serious. She explained that they were married by a friend of hers and then spent the night together. When he didn't remember the marriage in the morning, she put off telling him, hoping he would remember. She reminded him that she had explained to him that night that she wanted them to open the new beauty salon as man and wife or not at all. Derek shouted at her that he didn’t want any more to do with her or the salon. He went straight to Greg Foster to find out about getting an annulment quickly so that he and Jill could get married. Several things bothered Greg. The judge who performed the ceremony had an excellent reputation and would not have allowed the marriage if Derek was so drunk that he didn’t remember. After learning that Derek spent the night with Kay, he said they would have to file for divorce instead even though Derek claimed to have been too drunk to have consummated the marriage. It would only be his word against hers. Since Kay wanted this marriage desperately, it could take a year to obtain the divorce.
Brock was with his mother when Jill arrived to tell her that she wouldn’t get away with this, but she couldn't get through to the drunken woman. Hearing the details, Liz told Mrs. Chancellor that she was quitting because she couldn’t work for someone who was so devious.
Brock had been unsuccessful in pleading with his mother to allow the divorce. Derek decided to try once more. Brock suggested that he tell her that he was not angry with her. They went up to her room where they assumed she was sleeping off the results of her drinking. Brock found a medicine bottle cap and their search turned up an empty sleeping pill bottle. They rushed her to the hospital, hoping they weren't too late.
Jill became very worried when she didn’t hear from Derek and there was no answer at the house. Remembering that Kay tried to kill Philip by running the car off the road when Philip obtained a divorce to marry her, Jill was sure that Mrs. Chancellor had harmed Derek. He called to tell her of the suicide attempt. Jill said their problems would be solved if Mrs. Chancellor died because Derek would inherit one-third of her estate.
Stuart was furious when Lorie wanted to straighten things out with Les so that she and Lance could solve their problems. Lorie suggestes that Leslie might be seeking revenge and Stuart didn’t know Leslie as well as he thought he did. Lance was not willing to give up his relationship with Leslie, but she had decided to face reality and knew that they had to not see one another again. Lucas had suggested to Les that deep down she really was a woman and hoped that her music did not get in the way when the right man came along. Over the Maestro's protests, she had given up concert work for the time-being to teach music.
Feeling guilty, Derek returned to the hospital to urge Kay to fight for life. Dr. Casey Reed, a new resident, and Brock refused to give up when she went into cardiac arrest. Their persistence paid off and she was brought back among the living. Jill couldn’t help but feel that they would have all been better off if Kay had died.
After her close brush with death, Kay agreed to whatever Derek wanted if he would remain her friend.
April 1978
Greg Foster ran into an old school friend of Snapper's, who thought she might need Greg's help when she learned he was a lawyer. Linda Larkin married and had children right out of school, as most girls of her generation were expected to do. As the romance had ended, Linda was dissatisfied and thought she wanted a divorce. Greg suggested that she look for a job to get her out of the house so that she could make friends of her own and find new interests. This was easier said than done because employers weren’t willing to hire "inexperienced housewives." Linda was unsettled by a talk with Snapper when he suggested the problem was hers because she had refused to communicate her feelings to her husband. She felt he should know there was a problem, what was causing it, and do something to change it. Linda thought that because their sex life was no longer what it was, Larry was probably having an affair. Snapper said her emotional conflict could have something to do with this. She had to communicate before her problems got worse.
Snapper had found living in the empty apartment lonely while Chris was away trying to find herself and a purpose to her life, since Karen Becker had gone back to her parents. Dr. Casey Reed didn’t care for the inconvenience of sharing a bath with Snapper in the residents' quarters. Snapper related Linda's problem to Casey who thought people should work things out before marrying. Her method was complete uninvolvement for the time being. Casey was surprised that Snapper wasn't out chasing women while Chris was gone.
Casey managed to pull Kay Chancellor through cardiac arrest, but was disgusted that someone who had "everything" could decide to throw it all away. Before Mrs. Chancellor left the hospital, Casey gave her a lecture on "giving up," putting a plan in Kay's head.
After Mrs. Chancellor consented to a divorce, Derek and Jill made some plans for the future. Derek wanted to adopt Philip after their marriage. He knew how much Jill would like a home of their own and was sure the plans for the new salon would continue because Mrs. Chancellor had really changed since her brush with death. He asked Liz to move in with them because both he and Jill would have to work for a while and she could care for Philip.
Kay told her lawyer that she had changed her mind and intended to fight the divorce. She phoned Jill and asked to see her about something very important. She relayed her decision to fight the divorce and explained why. If it were only for Derek, she would consent, but by giving him the divorce she would be helping Jill also and couldn’t bring herself to do this. Her hatred for Jill had not changed. She hated her for taking Phillip from her and having his baby. She said if Jill really loved Derek she would have to prove her love by waiting, and it could be years. Kay was very cool as she explained all this. Jill's hand found a letter opener on the desk. In her anger she held the opener as a dagger with the intention of stabbing Mrs. Chancellor. Kay turned and dared Jill to kill her, saying she hadn't the nerve. Jill missed and the opener bent. She cursed God for stopping her, and then took charge of herself, saying she wouldn’t let Mrs. Chancellor push her into doing something that couldn’t possibly set her free.
Derek and Liz found Jill in a trance-like state and draw out the reason for her meeting with Mrs. Chancellor. Derek was sure that Kay couldn’t hold up the divorce, but Jill became hysterical, saying Kay's money could buy anything. Jill said she had to end it all and rushed for the door. Liz and Derek could only contain Jill after Liz slapped her in the face. Jill calmly said the only way out was for Mrs. Chancellor to die. Derek said Kay might be able to keep them from getting married, but there was no way Kay could keep them apart; they loved each other and could live together to give Phillip a father. Their plans fell apart when Greg told them that this would make Kay the injured party and Kay could keep Derek from ever getting a divorce. Brock heard of his mother's intentions and told her Derek and Jill would survive this because they were young and in love, but Kay's hatred could only wither herself on the inside. Brock walked out when Kay refused to reconsider this vengeance. Even Liz could no longer stand by a woman (Kay) so filled with hatred that she could almost drive her daughter to murder.
Leslie Brooks was fighting her feelings for Lance Prentiss by convincing herself that she was interested in the other men in her life. She had dinner with her ex-husband, Brad Eliot and later agreed to wear the ring Brock Reynolds gave her after her divorce. She told Brock that she wanted to love him.
Vanessa said she could see that Lance's interest in Leslie was more than in her artistic ability and suggested to Lorie that she and Lance should consider starting a family. Lorie wasn’t sure she was ready for a baby yet.
Dorsett arrived in town and wanted to discuss promoting Lorie and her book. She went to the meeting with the idea of turning down his offer, but agreed to think over his proposition. Dorsett wanted to promote Lorie herself, but they needed to jump on the bandwagon of popularity her book was causing. Leaving for the meeting, Lorie told Lance she would tell him if anything came of this unexplained appointment, and when she returned, he assumed she visited the doctor and found she was not pregnant. He suggested they keep trying. Lorie wasn't willing to give up her pills, because the time wasn't right.
Leslie thought she should see what Laurie's book was about and read the sections dealing with her admittance and stay in the mental hospital. Reliving the humiliation of that time caused Leslie such distress that Stuart refused to let her continue.
Lucas visited Leslie again and remarked on the time she spent alone and with her music. He suggested that she needed to get out occasionally. He was surprised when she agreed to have dinner with him. Learning of his date, Lorie said he should wear a suit because this was the kind of dress Leslie was used to. Lance guessed that his date was with Leslie when Lucas borrowed a shirt and tie. Lance's distress continued all evening and was evident to both Lorie and Vanessa. Leslie dressed in jeans to accommodate Lucas and he asked her not to change. They had dinner in a small seafood restaurant where Lucas explained his theory that Leslie was really all woman but tried to hide it. Stuart wondered why she would go out with someone who was so unlike any man she had ever dated before.
Lorie urged Lance to call Leslie to see that she got home safely. He continued to keep an eye on the boathouse, watching for Lucas to return. Lucas checked in upon his arrival, causing Lance and Lorie to collapse in laughter.
Derek and Jill tried to lease the Golden Comb again, only to find that Mrs. Chancellor had taken a two year lease on the building. Derek started the search for a new beauty salon. Kay asked Liz to see her about something that was vital to them all. She knew that there was a shortage of money for them at the moment and offered Liz her job back at $300 a week. Jill decided that the way to get back at Mrs. Chancellor was to ask more, because Kay was lonely enough to pay for it. Kay agreed to the $400 a week that Liz asked.
Linda Larkin told her husband Larry that she was at the end of her rope. He didn't agree that their lives were sterile and couldn’t see that she needed a job, not for the money, but to find herself, Larry agreed not to stand in her way.
Lorie was about to tell Lance of Roger Dorsett's offer when she saw that he was disturbed. Lance had just told his mother that he and Lorie had plans to start a family and then discovered that Lorie was still on the pill. He felt better when she brought this up herself and admitted that she had held off because she thought he agreed only to please her. Lance said he wanted a family, but wanted her to be ready on her own first.
May 1978
Linda Larkin was determined to find a job to relieve the boredom she felt at home. Jeffrey Allen said Linda didn’t have the qualifications for the position of receptionist that he advertised for, but was willing to make a place for her as his Girl Friday. Larry was stunned when she tolds him that she had found a job so quickly, but finally told her that he had always been proud of her because he considered taking care of his home and children important. Greg and Snapper Foster didn’t like it when they heard how Allen hired Linda. Snapper arrived at the office as Linda was leaving after quitting upon hearing that Allen hired her with the thought of an affair motivating him. Linda didn’t want to tell Larry about Mr. Allen’s advances because she was sure that the only reason he let her look for a job in the first place was his belief that she wouldn’t find one. Snapper was not at all sure that a job was the best thing for a woman as discontent as Linda was. Larry guessed why Linda quit a job she liked so well and said that it was probably for the best, because her job is at home. Summer was almost here and the kids would be out of school. If she wanted to look for a job next fall, he would agree, but he “demanded” that she spend the summer taking care of his children. He thought she was selfish to think of her own needs. Linda retorted he had never taken any of the responsibility for the kids.
Snapper learned that Casey Reed’s apparent dislike of men probably stemmed from her early family life. Her father drank and beat her mother. Her younger sister, Nikki, lived with her mother, but Casey tried to keep tabs on her. Snapper set up a meeting between Casey and his brother Greg. Neither was very happy about it, but Greg later decided he would like to see more of her. Snapper confided Casey's past and said he thought she needed company. He told her that he could understand her feelings because his father walked out on them, not returning for seven years. She admitted that Greg was at least a man of his word.
Having lost the lease on his old salon, Derek could only find a rental in a poor neighborhood. When everything went wrong, Derek walked out and ended up at the new “Golden Comb” that he and Mrs. Chancellor designed. Kay invited Derek in « just to look around » and made him a proposition. He could run the Golden Comb and have his freedom if he would live with her for one year. She would set up a trust of $100,000 for little Phillip that he could have at the age of eighteen. The only conditions were that he could see other women, provided Jill was not one of them, and no one, including Jill, had to learn of this arrangement. Jill could see that something was bothering Derek, but could only agree to trust him when he wouldn't confide in her. - Kay Chancellor managed to trick Derek into marriage one evening when he was so under the influence of alcohol that he awoke the following morning with no memory of what had happened. -
Derek discussed the arrangement with Mrs. Chancellor and signed an agreement when she agreed to some of his conditions. He took Jill to dinner to explain the situation. He said that they could be married after one year and he would own the Golden Comb. The stipulation was that he live in Kay’s house and see only women she had never met before. Jill said she couldn’t live with these conditions, even though Derek had assured her there would be no other women in his life, and he would not be sleeping in the same bed with Mrs. Chancellor. He felt this would be as much for Philip as for them, since they could be together several years sooner.
Leslie Brooks had had several bouts of dizziness. One occurred while Lucas Prentiss was visiting, and he insisted on taking her to the hospital to be checked out. She admitted the possibility of being pregnant to the doctor and the test confirmed their suspicions.
Lorie Brooks Prentiss planned to tell Lance about Roger Dorsett’s offer to manage her and the possibility of her books being made into a Broadway play, but Lance mentioned first that he was glad she hadn't tried to promote the book and profit by Leslie’s misery. Lucas told Lance that Leslie’s refusal to talk about Laurie meant that she could be willing to forgive. If she were really unforgiving, she would be only too glad to vent her anger. Lance stopped by to see Leslie on his way home from a business trip, to thank her for the good advice she gave him about making up with his wife. Lorie appeared at the door, just as Lance kissed Leslie goodbye. Lorie left unseen, and returned home urging Lucas to accompany her to New York to see Dorsett. Lance was surprised that she had gone to New York, as he had planned a surprise vacation in Europe. Lorie called Lance, but didn’t tell him why she was in New York or where she was staying. Vanessa assured him that Lorie looked upon Lucas as a brother and must have had a very good reason for asking him to go with her.
Lorie was thrilled with the attention she was getting, but made it clear to the interviewers that Leslie did not have another breakdown and she was proud of her sister for overcoming her difficulties. Lucas could see that something was wrong between Lance and Lorie and said he would be there to listen whenever she wanted to talk.
Brock again helped Leslie find peace with herself, and she had come to a decision about him after a talk with her father. Stuart had a lot of respect for Brock and believed that she could never find a better man. Leslie said there were many things Brock didn’t know, but he said he was happy to take her the way she was.
Lance learned why Lorie had gone to New York, when he was asked to give an interview to supplement Lorie’s. Lance tells Leslie that Lorie had begun to exploit her.
Lorie was enjoying all the attention she was getting. Roger Dorsett called her to inform her that Lance was contacted about an interview. She broke down and told Lucas how she went to see Leslie to reconcile the differences they had, but found her in Lance’s arms. Lucas said that if he had known this was the problem, he would have advised her to talk to Lance before coming to New York.
Lance felt he didn’t know his wife. If she had plans to promote this book when she talked to him about starting a family, then he could only believe that she was the person everyone said she was before he met her.
Derek had moved into Kay’s house, but let her know that as far as he was concerned, this was strictly a business arrangement. Brock talked to his mother and then visited Derek at the salon. Brock knew that Derek was doing this for Jill and Phillip, not for the Chancellor money.
JUNE 1978 (Young and Restless)
Greg Foster offered Linda Larkin a position in his law firm. Since he was just starting a practice he couldn't afford a trained legal secretary. If she took the job she could learn as she went, getting a better salary as he acquired more clients. Linda told her husband Larry that she couldn't abide with his ultimatum that she stay at home with their children for the summer. She had arranged for her friend Beth to babysit and felt the kids would be better off because Beth was happy to stay at home. She contributed Beth's contentment with having worked outside the home before motherhood. Linda threw herself into working for Greg and enjoyed teaching herself new skills. Linda and Greg were out of the office when Larry came by to check Greg out. Larry told Snapper of his fear of Linda's working. Snapper relayed this to Greg and rather than be the cause of problems in the Larkins' marriage he fired her. Linda was furious with Larry for his interference. After thinking it over and discussing the problem with Beth, Linda decided that the source of her discontentment was her acceptance of the idea that every young girl was to go from high school to marriage and children. She explained this to Larry and told him that she didn't know who she was or what she wanted out of life. He couldn't understand why being his wife and a mother to his children wasn't a full satisfying life for her. She said they had lost sight of the happy young couple they were and then didn’t know each other. In fact, she didn't know herself and would sometimes just like to start over. Larry told her to pack and leave if she felt that way.
Dr. Snapper Foster was upset with his father-in-law when Stuart told him he visited Chris who was trying to find herself by working with special children. Snapper tried to understand that after Karen went back to her natural parents Chris was having trouble coping, but he was becoming impatient.
Dr. Casey Reed was very concerned about her sister Nikki as summer vacation was here. She asked Brock Reynolds to consider her for the job of bus girl. Nikki, very unenthused, and another teenage girl Patty Minter, arrived at the same time and he agreed to try them both. Patty was a very hard working girl who had attended girls' schools and had very little experience with boys. Nikki, on the other hand, although she had been warned repeatedly about having boys in the apartment, liked to live dangerously. Nikki thought smoking pot, drinking beer, and using her body was what made a girl popular. Nikki used Patty to cut out of work early in return for tips on how to get dates. Brock told Casey that they had to tread easy or they would loose Nikki altogether and it would be better if he could keep an eye on her. Brock warned Patty not to try to be someone she was not and also not to use Nikki as a model for her life. Nikki's comment to Casey, "I need men as much as you don't," made Casey realize that Nikki was hurt by their alcoholic father also.
Mrs. Kay Chancelor set about to trap Derek Thurston into marriage and accomplished it with the help of her lawyer and several bottles of champagne. Kay claimed the marriage was consummated and therefore a divorce rather than an annulment was necessary. Greg had warned Derek that if he lived with Jill Foster, whom Derek intended to marry, Kay could hold the divorce up forever and under the circumstances as they were she could drag it through the courts for several years.
Seeing that he had no alternative, Derek decided to accept Mrs. Chancelor's arrangement that he live with her for one year and not see Jill socially. In exchange, in one year Derek would own "The Golden Comb" and Phillip, Jill's son, would have a $100,000 trust fund that would be available when he was eighteen. Jill suggested that Derek treat Kay miserably so that she would let him go before the year was up. Derek tried this, but couldn’t bring himself to continue when Kay accepted his rudeness without complaint.
« The Golden Comb » opened with a flourish true to Kay's form. They were flooded with appointments because Derek and Kay's dream was the dream of every woman. What woman could resist being pampered in a salon where everything was designed to make a woman look and feel her best? Jill left because she couldn’t bear to hear people call Kay Mrs. Thurston. Jill told Derek that she couldn't stay at the salon under these conditions and couldn't wait for marriage, hoping that Kay would set him free after a year.
Thinking over her situation, Jill decided she needed a father for her young son and maybe she was wrong to expect love, happiness and security all from one man. She told her mother that it could't hurt to call David Mallory and invite him over. - David received Bill Foster's eyes upon his death which enabled David to see again. He felt very close to Bill's family and became attracted to Jill. Her attraction to David seemed to be that she saw her father in him. Jill had been very close to her father when he returned after an absence of nine years. When David proposed, Jill realized she didn't love him and she needed more than security out of marriage. -
David inquired about Phillip and Liz and then said he thought Jill's refusal to marry him might have been for the best. He introduced his blind wife whom he met at the clinic where he worked. They were very happy and had just found out that they were expecting their first child. Jill's plans to marry David were squelched.
Derek arrived home with a beautiful young woman to show her his "golden cage." She used very catty remarks to make Kay aware of their differences; age, beauty and sexual allure. Derek thanked her for her help and then tried himself to stress these points. Kay broke down and poured herself a drink. Unable to bear this, he knocked the drink from her hand and held her while she sobbed out her hurt.
Leslie and Lance felt a bond because of Lorie's decision to advertise herself and her book, "In My Sister's Shadow." Lance's attention caused Leslie to fall more deeply in love with him. Lance told her that he was not at all sure where his marriage was headed. Brock Reynolds could see that Leslie was happier and learned that it was not her love for him that caused the change. Stuart guessed that Lance was the man in Leslie's life when she told him she had decided not to marry Brock.
Vanessa told Lance that he was blind not to see Leslie was in love with him. She was so upset with Lorie that she withheld Lucas' telegram of their arrival. Lance and Lorie's first encounter solved nothing because Lance said he had lost all respect for her and Lorie said he was a hypocrite. Lucas decided that Lance should know the truth about why she went to New York. Lorie tells Vanessa that she was going to see a lawyer, but Lance wanted her to understand before she moved out that he had gone to ask Leslie to make up with her and what she saw was a kiss of good-bye. He was truthful in admitting that he had been attracted to Leslie, but did care what Lorie wanted. This was what Lorie wanted to hear.
Leslie was about to tell Lance she was carrying his child when he broke the news that he was not going to divorce Lorie because he still cared for her. Lucas had begun to guess what Leslie's condition really was and questioned Lance's feelings for Leslie and Lorie.
Remembering that Mr. Brooks told her her he would like to help her, Jill told Stuart how much she would like an office job. He hired her at the paper, but explained that she would have to work hard. Derek was furious when Kay said their marriage was never consummated because then he couldn’t have the marriage annulled.
Nikki made a play for Snapper at the Allegro and Brock asked him to play along and then explain to her how dangerous a game she was playing. Patty told Nikki that Brock and "the doctor" seemed to be good friends, warning her that this was a setup. Snapper didn't believe that she was a sweet naive girl who wanted to go for ice cream. Casey saw Nikki in Snapper's car and jumped to the wrong conclusion, but he explained Brock's plan.
JULY 1978
The Young And The Restless
Larry Larkin told Linda if she really felt she was missing something and would like to start over, she should move out, but the kids stay with him. Linda got Greg Foster to rehire her as his legal secretary who was to learn on the job. She didn't tell him that she had to leave home to return to work. Greg had really become dependent on her and was happy to have her back. When Linda finally confessed her home situation, Greg told her that she had to make an effort to see Larry and straighten things out. She had been waiting because she was afraid if she saw the children, she would buckle under to Larry's demands. The decision was made for her when Larry came to the office and offered to let Linda see them, but in his next breath he asked if she was ready to come home and give up this crazy idea. This brought them back to where they started.
Snapper Foster told his brother Greg that he could see how much Greg was drawn to Linda. He suggested that he wasn't being fair to himself or Linda. He reminded Greg that he hadn't been attracted to or involved with a woman since Gwen. - Greg helped Gwen to get out of the prostitution racket. She gave her savings to an orphanage and became so involved with the children that she became a nun.
Nikki Reed tried putting the make on Snapper, but felt a trap when she learned he was a friend of her employer Brock Reynolds and a doctor at the hospital with her sister. When he met her after work at her request, she pulled an act of being naive and not understanding how he could have mistaken her intentions. Snapper told Nikki's sister, Casey, about the circumstances as she saw Snapper drive off with Nikki. Casey decided to take a hard line with Nikki, but was warned by both Brock and Snapper that she could easily alienate her.
Nikki had been trying to educate Patty in the art of getting dates. At first Patty, a hard working girl who had little time for social life, was willing to listen, but had since decided that she couldn't live her life through Nikki. Snapper tried warning Nikki that some day she might turn on the wrong man and not be able to handle the situation. A friend asked Nikki if she had been intimate with Paul, a guy Nikki had seen a lot since she arrived in Genoa City. Nikki’s friend confided that Paul had VD and it was a good thing things have been cool between them.
The health department official asked Paul for his female contacts, but he refused. The doctor gave him cards he could give the girls if he couldn't bear to tell them face to face. At first Paul was going to send Nikki the card through the mail, but decided he had to be fair and tell her in person.
Jill Foster had obtained a job at the newspaper after hinting to Stuart Brooks that she had always wanted an office job and had never really been satisfied as a hair dresser. When her mother, Liz, confided to her the details of her dates with Stuart, Jill said that any permanent relationship between them was impossible because their life styles were so apart and he was such an attractive man he could have his pick of all the eligible women in town. Jill herself then made a play for Stuart, but he spent the evening talking about Liz. She told Stuart that Liz could only think about her deceased husband.
Jill was determined to find a man immediately although her recent attempts had been fruitless. She would not wait for Derek Thurston and returned her engagement ring to him.
Derek couldn’t understand how Kay could take so much mental abuse from him. He realized that she was as much a prisoner in this "golden cage" as he was. She knew how much children meant to him and had offered to have a child so that he would not leave her after one year as planned. When Derek showed disgust, Kay said she lied when she claimed their marriage was consumated. Derek asked why she would tell him then that it couldn’t improve the situation. - Kay tricked Derek into signing the marriage license and then gave him champagne until he did not realize they were being married. She agreed to give him title to their "Golden Comb" salon, a divorce and a trust fund for Jill's son if he lived with her for one year. –
Kay learned by her lawyer Mitchell Sherman that Derek’s ex-wife had been left a widow by her second husband and travelled to California to see if some arrangement could be made concerning his son. Derek had consented to adoption, feeling the boy should have one father. Suzanne, Derek’s ex-wife, told Kay that she had thought her husband was well off, but his business had many debts when he died, leaving Jamie and herself with virtually nothing. Kay said she would help financially if Jamie could spend some vacations with Derek. She finally admitted to being Mrs. Kay Chancellor Thurston, prompting Suzanne to say that Derek had probably married her for her money. She asked if Derek explained why he gave her custody of Jamie. At first Kay wanted to hear but then decided she loved him and it made no difference.
Lance Prentiss took Lorie to Europe for their second honeymoon as he promised. He took her to Venice, the one place she had always wanted to see. This time alone together seemed to provide the healing a marriage needed.
Leslie Brooks had agreed to return to her concert work after Lorie showed her the magazine article in which she praised Leslie for overcoming her mental illness and having the strength to become a talented concert pianist. Leslie had been about to tell Lance that she was carrying his child when he told her he couldn't give up on his marriage. She then knew she had to provide for her child-to-be and would go away soon so that Lance would never know the child was his.
Lucas Prentiss followed Leslie to Denver to be with her for her first concert. He told her that he knew of her plight and agreed with her decision not to tell Lance. He said her plan was no solution though. He suggested she marry him, seeing the practicality she agreed.
Lorie placed a call to Denver, but was out of the room when it came through. Lance was surprised, not only by the call, but that Lucas was with Leslie. When Lorie returned to Genoa City, she made peace with her father and told him that Lucas was with Leslie. Stuart was stunned and puzzled. Lorie said that Lucas probably thought that she needed someone. She believed that most people didn't understand Lucas.
The Maestro gave Leslie a long lecture about how a sensitive person who was as talented as she should only marry for love, but still she planned to wed Lucas in Denver. During the ceremony she left the room, but after being reminded of the alternatives she returned and the ceremony procedeed.
Over dinner, Greg told Linda that her children needed to hear from her to know they were loved. Snapper accused Greg of dating another man's wife.
Leslie and Lucas broke break the news of their marriage to her father who was not very happy about the situation. Lorie was surprised, but happy to hear that Leslie wanted to put the past behind her. Vanessa was also thrown by the announcement. Leslie should be married to Lance! Vanessa wanted to find out the real reason behind this sudden wedding.
Kay returned to hear what was so terrible about Derek's past. Suzanne claimed that they had to leave Atlanta when the syndicate found Derek after he had testified against them. Derek’s real name was George Bowman. As George, Derek was wanted by the syndicate for killing the brother of an important mobster. Suzanne warned Kay that any man who was involved in murder was terrible.
Casey was beginning to see Snapper as the man he really was – a sensitive, kind, understanding fellow. -They had attended the 4th of July at Liz’ together which had upset Stuart Brooks since his daughter, Chris, was still married to Snapper despite missing in Genoa City for a while. - Casey had then agreed to a date with Brock but Snapper’s obvious concern and compassion for Nikki had proved him to Casey to be a genuine friend. Snapper suggested the best way to show Nikki that there were other ways to get guys to like her besides sex, was to introduce her to a guy who would ignore her come ons. This guy was Dr. Scott Adams, a young intern at the hospitaL He was quite sure that as soon as Scott learned the seriousness of Nikki’s problem, he would be glad to help out. Unaware that she was being set-up, Nikki was very glad to find this handsome, young intern, sitting in the doctor’s lounge. She was very impressed when he asked her out. Looking forward to a night of lust, Nikki was surprised when Scott ignored her signals and made her realize he only wanted to spend time with her.
All My Children
JUNE 1978
Donna Tyler was baby-sitting with Dottie Thornton as Jeff and Lt. Tolliver arrived to question the little girl. A tape recorder was turned on as Jeff played a "remember game" with Dottie. She re-enacted picking up her mother's glass on the evening David died, putting it down untasted because it smelled bad, then carrying the glass around to David's place setting and setting it down there to reach for some cookies. Jeff found David's medical bag containing the Digitalis with which David began his campaign to poison his wife, Edna. The D.A. dropped the case against Christina the following day but Edna maintained publically that she still believed Chris murdered David, unable to admit to herself that David planned her death.
Dr. Jeff Martin and and Dr. Christina Karras were married privately with no friends or family in attendance on the day that Dan Kennicott graduated. Devon Sheppard, in an attempt to cover her humiliation at seeing Brooke and Dan together, had told Dan and her mother that she knew all along that Dan was in love with Brooke and that she had gotten over her "crush" on him. However she had reacted privately by vowing to herself that she would never again he the "little miss Goody-Two-Shoes" Brooke had called her. She phoned her old friend Wally MacFadden and invited him to visit Pine Valley. As Wally planned to drive to St. Louis to visit his parents, she told her mother that she had decided to drive there with him to reconcile with her father. Although Ellen Shephard believed the trip would be made in one long day's drive, Devon proposed to Wally that they take their time and arrange to spend a night together in a motel enroute.
Tara had embroiled herself in deception by keeping from Phil the fact that little Phillip has sneaked out of his room to meet Sammy, a friend of his. Chuck was there with Tara when a noise from the boy's room revealed that he was back. After Chuck left, Tara found a hubcap hidden under the boy's bed. When he begged her to keep it a secret from Phil, saying that he would think he had stolen it, though he told his mother, he found it on the street, Tara agreed. Once again Tara learned that her son was with Sammy when he told her that he had been playing with another neighbor's child. This time, though Tara did not know it, Sammy and little Philip – who wanted to be called « Charlie » - sold Sammy's three hubcaps - Charlie had kept his as a "souvenir"- . Sammy got six dollars from a junk dealer, but in retaliation for the man's stinginess Sammy dipped some liquid from a can on the lot and asked Charlie for a match, warning him to get ready to run. Sammy then set fire to an old car on the place.
Phil and his partner Sgt. Jacoby answered a call from Tom Cudahy's steak house to learn that Mona Kane's hubcaps had been stolen from the parking lot. Phil withheld from Jacoby the fact that when they had answered the arson call at the junkyard, he found Charlie's watch, a present from Chuck, engraved with Chuck's name. Phil went home to confront his son and got little Philip's version — Sammy had the hubcaps and set the fire. As Phil was questioning Sammy at the boy's house he got a call from Chuck who had been appealed to by Tara. Phil was furious and even more so when he returned home and learned that he was correct in his suspicions that Tara had told Chuck the things she knew about the situation which she withheld from him. Phil made it clear that after the boy admitted giving Sammy the matches, and faced with the evidence of the watch and Sammy's story that Charlie set the fire, he would have to report it. After Chuck left, Tara blamed Phil for not having been home at the time, claiming he put his devotion to duty above his family. She went on to say that if Phil turned their son in, their marriage was over.
When Donna learned that Estelle had accepted an engagement ring from Billy Clyde Tuggle, she and Maggie Flannagan arranged to invite Stelle and Benny Sago to a dinner party at Donna's. Benny was about to speak his mind to Stelle when Chuck arrived and their moment alone was lost. Hope for another chance on the way home was dashed when Billy Clyde arrives to pick them up. Over Stelle's objections, Billy Clyde dropped Maggie off across the street from her apartment and Maggie's poor eyesight proved her undoing as she stepped in front of a car and was struck down.
Kelly Cole made an appearance on WRCW-TV in Pine Valley. Initially, the interviewer seemed a little leery about Kelly but when she explained that she was a native of Pine Valley and the circumstances surrounding her return – Linc Tyler discovered that Kelly was really the twin sister of his deceased wife Kitty – the interviewer joined Kelly in asking the listening audience to call in if they had any information about Kelly’s mother or grandmother Lucy Carpenter.
Eddie Dorrance was hospitalized on Dr. Charles Tyler's recommendation after he experienced severe stomach pains at the Chateau. Though Eddie had been urging Kelly to leave Pine Valley at the end of her successful engagement at the Chateau, he wasted no time in sending for Claudette from his hospital room to inform her that he had contacted Nick Davis long distance in Chicago and Nick's reaction to the reports of full house attendance was to offer Kelly an unlimited engagement. Kelly pointed out to Eddie that Claudette would be harder than ever to work for since Eddie had seen fit to go over her head.
While in honeymoon with Jeff, Christina kept thinking about Edna who accused her of murder. In Pine Valley, Edna realized she knew Kelly. They worked together in San Francisco.
Tom Cudahy had assured Mark Dalton that he had no plans for marriage to Erica but Mona Kane learn that her daughter had been attending Mass with Tom and was considering converting to Catholicism – Erica had learned that Tom used to think about becoming a priest –. When Erica asked Tom's friend Father Chaney if she could begin a course of religious instruction he agreed, but loaded her down with books on theology and philosophy to study.
Billy Clyde bugged Maggie's hospital room when he heard her refer to something she had to give Stelle that would change her life. He learned that Maggie had sensed all along that Stelle and Billy Clyde were covering up their true "profession." She told Stelle that she had $20,000 secreted in her room and directed her to go to her apartment immediately after her death and use the money for a new start in life. Maggie died after receiving the last rites of her church.
Devon Sheppard and Wally were in a motel room together when Ellen got a phone call from Devon's college asking if she would be available to repeat her performance as Phoebe in a summer theatre production. Ellen considered phoning her ex-husband's home in St. Louis to break the good news but held off, believing that Devon must have arrived there but might be sleeping after her long trip. In the motel, Devon admitted to Wally she was a virgin. He was surprised she didn’t make it with Dan. Wally was a virgin himself.
Mark tried again to give Ellen an engagement ring but she refused. Erica tore into Paul Martin for his interest in Ellen. He was upset.
Dr. Charles Tyler learned that Chuck had been drinking although he had been forbidden alcohol because of his kidney condition. He told Chuck that his place was with Donna instead of rushing off to Tara on any pretext which arose. Chuck went home only to quarrel with Donna. After she apologized for her jealousy and asked him to comfort her he left, telling her he was going back to the hospital.
JULY 1978
Tara and Phil were separated, as Tara had reaffirmed her position that when Philip turned over the information he had on their son Charlie's involvement in the theft of Mona Kane's hubcaps and an arson incident involving an old car in a junkyard, it meant the end of their marriage. Phil was living with his partner Sgt. Jacoby, whose wife walked out on him, taking his son with her, after they were unable to resolve conflicts over Jacoby's career as a policeman. Tara had told Philip that she intended to get a full time job and pay her own way. - Tara had told her father that she was frightened because Phil was so unstable; he carried a loaded gun off-duty and she didn't know what to expect of him any more. - Phil learned that she had asked Chuck to appear in Phil's place at the boy's probation meeting, angering Phil further, and Chuck added fuel by an unsuccessful attempt to get Paul Martin to seek a restraining order keeping Phil away.
Phil was agreeable surprised to find Erica amenable to his request that she sell the house they formerly owned when they were married, as the mortgage payments were a financial drain on him and his separation from Tara was a further complication. Erica told him confidentially that her reason was that she and Tom Cudahy were to be married. - As usual, with Erica, this was premature. Erica had told Tom's friend Father Tierney that her first marriage to Jeff Martin failed because Jeff was too immature and her second, to Phil Brent, because Phil was still in love with Tara and she – Erica - married him only because he wouldn't take no for an answer. - When Erica saw Tom and Father Tierney talking together, she assumed the priest told Tom everything and she blurted out her efforts to snag him. Tom was flattered and admitted his love for her, then wound up proposing marriage. Erica stuck by her story that Jeff Martin was psychologically unfit for marriage since, in the eyes of the Church, Erica's first marriage was a valid one and she told Tom she would work on getting Jeff to admit she had grounds for annulment.
When Erica approached Jeff with her proposal he was floored. He and Erica had been divorced for years, he was married to his late wife Mary in the interim and he and Christina Karras had been married only a short time. He refused to perjure himself to suit Erica and he later learned that just before he arrived, Erica was baiting Christina in his office with phony sympathy about Chris's having been in prison. Jeff went along with Chris's suggestion that they dine out instead of with the Martin family in order to comfort her.
Kate Martin told Ruth she was concerned by Chris's apparent reluctance to join in the home life of the Martin family even though she and Jeff were living with them – Chris had an interest in Jeff buying a house and she chose to retain her maiden name for her professionnal work –. Ruth – who was suffering from dizzy spells – maintained that Chris might be overwhelmed by the closeness of even such a "perfect" family as theirs. Kate accepted this good naturedly but upstairs, young Tad, who had then been legally adopted by Joe and Ruth, remarked that Jeff's former wife Mary was very loving toward him and once there had been the possibility of Tad's being Jeff's adopted son instead of his brother, causing Chris to wince and change the subject.
Linc Tyler had a dream about his deceased wife Kitty. In the dream, Kitty spoke to Linc and asked that he take care of his sister-in-law Kelly. He promised to do so. Once released from the hospital, Eddie Dorrance was furious because Kelly gave Linc back $150 he laid out for her salary. Eddie planned to become manager of the Chateau, Eddie told Claudette – who attended a Chicago convention – that he would help her with book work she had to do to keep her position. He did the work but didn’t mail it. Phoebe Tyler met Kelly and planned to dash any relationship Linc hoped to have with her by getting information on Kelly’s past from Edna Thornton – Since David’s death, Edna was to go to a charm school in order to become a more socially acceptable person. – Myrtle and Kelly clashed because Kelly said she liked Phoebe.
Erica was disturbed when Father Tierney asked her if she was in love with Tom for what he was or for what he could save her from, wondering aloud if Erica needed a husband in order to be acceptable to herself. She told him he was lousy at psychoanalyzing and should stick to being a priest. She arranged a meeting with Joe Martin who was appalled by her gall in trying to recruit him in her campaign to get his son to go along with the annulment, telling her if anyone was unfit it was she. Erica asked Torn, if anything went wrong would he consider marrying outside the Church. Since Erica was taking instructions and she assured him again that Jeff would give no trouble on the annulment issue, he told her she was concerned with something that would not apply. Rather than reveal that Jeff was adamantly opposed, she agreed that she was being silly and dropped the subject.
Estelle La Tour had come to accept Mrs. Flannagen's gift to her of $20,000 in the spirit in which it was given, so that she could be free to choose a life aside from the one she was contemplating as Billy Clyde's wife. She told Donna that she was seeing Benny and if he proposed that evening she would accept, though she was engaged to Billy Clyde Tuggle. That day Benny agreed to work on Edna Thornton's car, insisting that he would leave by 7:00 P.M. so that he could meet Estelle. On the way his bike was sideswiped and Benny went off the road. When Estelle called the Tylers’, she was told that Benny went to Edna's. As soon as Phoebe Tyler learned of Benny's accident she went immediately to the hospital where Benny asked her to phone Estelle. Though she agreed, she told herself she would "no more make that call than summon the devil!" Donna learned from Caroline about Benny and went to see him. She had no faith in Phoebe's promise and phoned Center City herself, but Estelle had left her apartment for church to pray before going through with her plans to marry Billy Clyde and Billy took the call.
When Benny learned that Estelle and Billy Clyde had been married, he turned on Phoebe, refusing to return to work for her. Dr. Charles Tyler went to see Phoebe at home to emphasize that she had to make plans to replace Benny as she needed someone to care for her and Phoebe was delighted with his show of sympathy. Charles left but turned back up the path to the Tyler home when his beeper sounded, intending to call the hospital, and saw through a window that Phoebe was up on her feet and dancing for joy around the room.
Dr. Charles Tyler returned to his office to tell Mona Kane of the scene he had witnessed and when she asked if he intended to confront Phoebe, he replied that he intended to get some fun out of it first. The following morning on his instructions, Mona telephoned Phoebe with a message from him that not only would he not comply with her request to pick her up for her therapy session, but he had cancelled her future sessions. Phoebe exploded in anger and left word with Mona for Charles to call her. She wailed to Brooke that she would have to exercise on her own, as without the therapy to offset all the time she put in playing invalid in her motorized wheelchair, her leg muscles might atrophy. She left the main house to start her exercises by the poolhouse.
Charles arrived moments later determined to put an end to the farce and warned Brooke not to try to contact Phoebe by intercom. He came upon Phoebe resplendant in her sweat suit and called her name as she was in full swing, startling her into nearly falling over. His joking mood soon gave way to anger at Phoebe's contrived story of having suddenly, miraculously recovered a few days before and keeping a secret to surprise him.
He reminded her of the valuable therapist's time she had been wasting and wheeled away her chair, intending to return it to the hospital where it could be put to genuine use. As he stormed through the Tyler house, Paul Martin witnessed his exit and learned from Brooke what has happened. Phoebe walked in and demanded that Brooke pack her bags for her part in the "betrayal" and that Paul and Dan Kennicott leave the house. Paul presented Phoebe with a letter of resignation from Benny Sago, then bid her goodbye in high humor remarking as he left, "Sure is good to see you up and about." Dan filles in as a bartender at the Goalpost while bartender Bruno was in Italy.
Devon Shepherd and Wally McFadden started for home from St. Louis after Devon forestalled Wally's suggestion that they make another short stop at a motel on the homeward trip by calling her mother and telling her they would arrive by suppertime, then pretending to Wally that her father had made the call. After the night they splet together, Devon wanted to bring their relationship to an end but Wally decided to follow Devon to Pine Valley and get a job there. Devon made it clear she’d rather be friends than lovers.
Ellen Shepherd turned down Erica's request that she be her bridal attendant on the grounds that she didn’t know Erica all that well. Erica stormed off, furious at what she considered to be a deliberate snub. - Erica had unilaterally set the date. When Claudette Montgomery informed her that Nick Davis would be back in town for a visit on the first week in September, Erica remarked on the coincidence of it being the weekend she and Tom would be married, adding that she would be sure to send Nick an invitation. –
Phil showed up at Charlie's probation hearing only to be sent to an antechamber by the judge, after she heard the story of the relationship and tried to quiet the furor after Charlie’s remark to Phil that he was not his father. She placed the boy on six months probation, requiring him to report to her regularly and forbidding him to have any contact with Sammy.
When Dr. Tyler was unable to attend a conference out of town and asked Dr. Frank Grant if he would be willing to attend. Frank happily said yes and considered it quite an honor. Caroline however was not so pleases. Once again, they argued about Frank’s ex-wife Nancy. Caroline couldn’t forget that unbeknowst to Frank, his ex-wife was carrying his child. Caroline, in a mad rush to get pregnant herself, couldn’t forget that she was infertile. Frank, not knowing any of what Caroline was going through was sick and tired of Caroline’s continued hostility towards Nancy. Frank was so furious that he suggested to Caroline that a separation might just do them a world of good.
After Paul Martin invited her to a 20-year high school reunion, Ellen Shepherd realized how much older she was than Mark and nixed another plan to spend the weekend with him. Paul considered staying away from Ellen because of Mark’s resentment.
One Life To Live
(Audio)
General Hospital
March 1978
After Gail had read Greg's notes for "Forever Spring," Monica begged to speak with her, saying that what had happened wasn't the way Greg wrote it; that he forced himself on her. She went on to say that Gail had worshipped the ground Greg walked on and had turned him into a saint, so that Monica was afraid she wouldn't have been believed. Afterward Greg threatened to tell Gail that it was Monica who had seduced him and it was still going on. Gail cried out that she saw Monica go through one man after another and it was always someone she had no right to.
Gail turned to Lee to say that she had no further interest in Greg's royalties or works and ordered him to transfer everything to Maria Schuler. Miss Schuler protested that she wanted only what was due to her from "Forever Spring"; that she came to right a wrong, but Gail stopped her saying she no longer trusted anyone or anything and told Miss Schuler to keep the money, spend it or give it away — it was no longer any concern of hers.
Monica returned to Alan at the hotel saying that she wanted the money to help Gail but she couldn’t tell him about it except to say Gail had turned on her and hated her. Alan suggested they combine a short vacation to his home on Long Island with a trip to N.Y. he planned to take with Rick for a presentation concerning the cardiac wing, and Monica agreed gratefully.
While Rick was in New York, David Hamilton got drunk at a dinner with Lesley, Jeff and Heather, and stopped off at his apartment before taking Lesley home. He made a play for Lesley, insisting that she had been coming on to him all along and was as big a tease as her daughter, Laura. When Les said she couldn't bear to think of David having been for so long a time in the same house with Laura, he told her to come off it; that she knew that Laura had been sleeping around and it wouldn't hurt Lesley to loosen up, too. Lesley threatened to scream the place down and shortly after she got home, Jeff stopped by and learned what had happened. He went to David's place to get a scarf and Lesley's purse, which she had left behind, but David denied everything, insisting that he didn’t have Lesley's things. Jeff could barely keep his hands off David and left without them. Lesley was unable to reach Rick by phone that night and when she heard from him, he was so wrapped up in his chance to head the cardiac wing that she decided nothing should interfere with his concentration. When David came to see her, to apologize, she threw him out, warning him to stay away from herself and Laura, and she was convinced that was all that was necessary for the time.
Hamilton contacted Cates again, and arranged to cash in on his knowledge that Hauser Chemical planned to relocate in Port Charles. Cates backed David with the money to buy up the land which the company would eventually need. In a continuance of his private vendetta, David told Laura that Mr. Cates had agreed to using drawings David wanted to do of her in an advertising campaign but that Lesley had priggishly refused to hear of it. Laura arranged to pose for David, using dates with Scotty's roommate Darren as a cover.
Bobbie Spencer broke a date with Scotty to care for Jessie Brewer, who had been having dizzy spells and was anxious that it not be rumored around the hospital. Barbara received a present of a lovely music box from Jessie's collection. When Bobbie's landlady discovered Scotty in Barbara's room a few days later, she ordered Bobbie out of the house. Scotty offered to ask Lee for the money to cover the cost of finding a new place but when Jessie heard that Bobbie was being evicted - she believed her story of being thrown out in favor of some relatives of her landlady -, she offered to have Bobbie as her guest until she could find something of her own. Bobbie also accepted a present of a wrist watch from Lamont Corbin - against hospital policy - in return for an errand she did for him. The errand involved delivering a gift of a check for $1,000 as a shower present to Dr. Gina Dante, causing a disagreement between herself and her fiancee Dr. Gary Lansing. Despite this additional insight into Gary's attitude toward money, so different from her own, Gina and Gary were married.
Lamont had for his right hand man, Dan Rooney, telling him he wanted his wife Katherine's movements watched, as he believed she was a potential target for kidnapping. Dorrie noticed the fact that Corbin had been checking very closely on Katie and relayed her uneasiness to Dr. Mark Dante. At one point she called down to the cafeteria where Mark and Katie were having coffee to alert them that Rooney was on his way down. Corbin made it clear by his attitude toward Mark that there was a confrontation coming. His gift to the hospital had resulted in major renovation, and though the board thanked him informally after a celebration at which city and state politically figures were present, Steve was anxious to get permission from Mark for Corbin to appear at a more formal ceremony. He was exasperated at Mark's refusal to give a date and was convinced that there was something behind Mark's behavior.
Mrs. Grant then knew that her grandson, Steven Lars is alive and was all the more frightened that Heather continued to see Jeff. As the Taylors had the final adoption papers for the child, Mrs. Grant warned Heather that she did not believe that Heather could keep her promise to be silent. Heather's cousin Susan had noticed both Heather's and Mrs. Grant's unease on the night of a party at the Taylors' - where Mrs. Grant saw the baby and recognized him - and was determined to find out Heather's secret.
When the files of the Hauser Corporation were missing, Lee Baldwin revealed that David Hamilton knew of the plans and claimed that Monica had told him. Monica confronted David who sticked to his story and agreed that she might have mentioned the project on the day she was so upset because of Gail, but insisted that she never used the name. She was afraid that no one would believe her because of her past but Alan told her he did and Lee confided to Alan that he believed Monica was telling the truth. The files reappeared - David had gotten them back - and Monica conceded that she might have misfiled them for a time.
Mark Dante arranged to be alone with Lamont Corbin to break the news of his and Katie's love for each other. Corbin pretended to be devestated at the news but when Katie saw him, he told her that he had had her followed and had had Dan Rooney keep a record of the times she spent with Mark, calling it a complete history of their sordid affair with every detail carefully documented. Lamont insisted that if Katie wanted a lover he would permit it, but Katie was shocked and insisted she wanted a divorce. He told her that he would hate to have to take her to court and charge her with adultry, and asked if she believed Mark would still love her after he was made more famous as a seducer of patients' wives than as a surgeon. When Katie told Mark of Lamont's threats, Mark insisted that Corbin had too much pride to make a public scandal and would think better of it in time.
Mark called Gary and Gina to tell them the news and asked for a key to their apartment so that Katie could stay there for the time they were away, rather than return to her residence in the Corbin suite at General Hospital. Gary hesitated but finally told Mark that his brother had the key and that he would call Howard and tell him to turn it over to them at Mark's apartment. When Howard arrived, Katie retained him as her lawyer as he had accepted a position with a law firm in Port Charles. Gina was upset at Gary's hesitation, agreeing that Corbin hasd been very generous to them but maintaining that they had no choice but to take sides with Mark and Katie. - Gina was unaware that Gary had reapplied for a grant from Corbin Limited, urged on by Lamont, who insisted that there would be no strings attached. –
Howard was a guest for dinner at Peter and Diana's house earlier that evening but the plans were cancelled when P.J. was taken to the hospital with a fever and the threat of developing pneumonia. Heather had come unstrung and followed the Taylors to the hospital. She phoned her mother from there, and Susan overheard Mrs. Grant insisting to Heather that she leave immediately and not try to contact Jeff, as he was the last person in the world for Heather to talk to in her distraught state.
Lamont Corbin had told Dan Rooney that he suspected from Dorrie's attitude to his personal questions about Mark that there might be more than a professional relationship between them. - On the evening before Corbin's surgery, Dorrie and Mark spent the night together, but there had never been a repetition and Dorrie had assured Mark that she wished him and Katie happiness together. - Rooney was instructed to order the New York office to check thoroughly into Mark's background. Rooney then went on to tell Lamont about the stock manipulations and though they both conceded that neither Dr. Copeland nor Mark were likely to have been involved, Corbin told Rooney to check out Mark's personal account, saying he intended to see to it that an amount of money was deposited into it, reflecting a payoff stock manipulators would have made for information.
APRIL 1978
Dr. Lesley Webber learned about Monica's involvement with Dr. Gail Adamson's late husband from Gail, and she and Rick disagreed about Gail's refusal to listen to Monica's side. She was angered that Rick had invited Monica to a dinner they were hosting for purchasing agents of Hauser Chemical and just then her daughter Laura came in three hours late. Lesley and Rick demanded to know where she was, and to cover up the affair she had been having with David Hamilton, she gave them money out of the advance David had given her for posing for him, saying she had been working for a teacher after school in secret so that she could pay back some money she took from Lesley's household funds when she ran off to Buffalo.
Monica Webber learned at the meeting that large pieces of critically situated land were unavailable for purchase, having been acquired by phone transactions by a man calling himself William Slattery, representing a "Port Charles Development Company." After she accepted an engagement ring from Alan Quartermaine, he left town to go to New York and she tried to get in touch with him, believing that David Hamilton might very well be Slattery.
Laura was suspicious of David when she cleared up some dishes in his apartment and found a lipstick stained wineglass - Monica's - and did not accept his story that he spent the previous evening with Cates and took the phone off the hook so they wouldn't be disturbed. Mr. Cates covered for David but Laura waited in a hallway and saw David leave for dinner again that evening with Monica.
Dan Rooney reported that he was on to some good leads in the stock manipulation of Corbin Limited but was told by Lamont to hold off on the investigation. Corbin insisted that if they exposed the man responsible, they would lose out on their trump card, the money he had deposited in Dr. Mark Dante's account, to make it seem that Mark was involved. Corbin made it clear to Rooney that it was more important to him to ruin Mark than to avoid jeopardizing his business empire.
Dr. Steve Hardy met with Mark and learned about his involvement with Katie and the divorce she was seeking from Corbin. He endeavored to explain Mark's position with regard to turning over Corbin's outpatient treatment to another doctor, but the board insisted that he try to talk Mark into continuing in accordance with Corbin's expressed wishes and he began to get some idea of Corbin's manipulations when he learned that the board had made Corbin an honorary member.
After talking things over with his brother Howard, Dr. Gary Lansing met with Lamont Corbin and turned down the grant he had just been awarded from Corbin Ltd. However, when Gary saw Steve Hardy to accept his offer of a permanent position on the staff of General Hospital, which he had previously stalled on, Steve had to tell him that while he was away at a medical convention in Chicago, his administrative replacement had filled the post.
Against Mark’s strong objections, Katie met with Lamont to discuss disposition of some property and Lamont told her that he had information that Dante killed a man in Boston in a fit of rage. Katie was unmoved, saying she knew of the incident; that the man tried to rob Mark's father's store and his father was killed. Mark was a young Golden Gloves champion and the beating was considered assault with a deadly weapon. Corbin went on to tell Katie that Mark had an affair while his wife, the daughter of the judge who took an interest in Mark, was institutionalized. Finally, he told Katie that Dorrie Fleming was seeing Mark at the same time Katie was, before Lamont's surgery, and that Rooney had been following Mark and had records to substantiate a number of meetings. - There was only one episode, the night preceding Corbin's surgery. Corbin ordered Rooney to add to his notes to strengthen his case against Mark. - Katie burst into Mark's office afterwards, to find him talking with Dorrie, but she went on to tell him all that Corbin said. Mark talked over with her his situation with his late wife Mary Ellen, and the truth about Dorrie and himself. Katie told him this was an example of what Corbin was prepared to do and emphasized that Howard Lansing had to know, so he could deal with Corbin as her lawyer.
After Baby P.J.’s crisis and recovery from pneumonia, Diana Taylor took a leave of absence from the hospital upon the baby's dismissal, determined to care for him herself until her mother could move in with the Taylors. Peter finally told Diana that her excessive concern was turning their home into an intensive care unit and begged her to move out of the nursery where she had been keeping constant vigil and return to their bedroom. Diana replied that P.J. still had congestion in his lungs and that she was not in need of therapy from her psychiatrist husband.
David Hamilton managed to talk his way out of a confrontation with Laura, telling her that Cates cancelled his meeting at the last minute and that he ran into Monica and decided to have a bit to eat with her since she was at loose ends because of Alan's trip to New York. Laura apologized profusely for doubting David and gave him a gift of a statuette which she had charged to Lesley's account, intending to pay for it with the final fee for posing for David. She begged him to take her away with him for awhile and he told her he had been making plans to do just that.
Dr. Steve Hardy asked Lesley to attend a two-day seminar in Syracuse and Rick told Les he welcomed the chance to spend some time alone with Laura as he wanted to tell her he would like to adopt her, legally. When Les ran into David Hamilton she warned him that she had not told Rick about the pass David made, but if he went back on his promise to avoid the entire Webber family, she would.
On his return, Alan downgraded Monica's suspicions of David, even after she had told him she learned from Jessie Brewer that David had been in Alan's office while she, Alan and Rick were in New York for Rick's presentation. He insisted that the group behind the land speculation was a powerful New York syndicate. They learned from one of Hauser's purchasing agents that the man, Slattery, refused to do business in person and was insisting on a price way out of line for certain parcels of land. - Monica made it a point to tell David what was patently not true; that Hauser would pay any price for the land. –
Monica intercepted Gail at the hospital and told her that she was destroying her relationship with Lee Baldwin out of her refusal to face her late husband's guilt in his relationship with Monica. Monica angrily added that she refused to take the entire blame any longer and would not try again to speak to her. That evening, at dinner with Lee, Gail told him that she felt it was unfair to go on seeing him at all after what happened between them some nights before. - Lee was trying to get through to Gail and she turned to him for comfort, only to call him "Greg" when he had his arms around her. - After she left and Scotty and Bobbie said goodnight, Lee, an alcoholic who had been dry for years, downed a Scotch and pushed the shot glass back to the bartender.
On the day final settlement papers were signed, Lamont got rid of Howard and showed Katie the bank deposit slip and a statement from the wife of the man Mark killed, claiming Mark had robbed her husband before the final beating. He threatened to ruin Mark if Katie didn't return. Katie phoned Mark to tell him she was flying to Boston to see her sister.
Jeff insisted Heather see Peter professionally but she was reluctant. Her cousin, Susan, got a hostess job at the Floating Rib Restaurant near the hospital.
May 1978
Under the threat by Lamont Corbin to ruin Dr. Mark Dante if Katie did not resume her role as his wife, Katie left for Boston phoning Mark from the airport to tell him she was going to stay with her sister Sally while she sorted things out. When Mark followed her, she told him that when it came to signing the final divorce papers she realized she couldn't give up everything that being Mrs. Lamont Corbin meant. Though Katie returns to Corbin, he ordered his man Dan Rooney not to proceed with trying to uncover the real culprit in the stock manipulations because he might still want to keep active his threat to use manufactured evidence against Mark. Rooney, who had begun to date Jessie Brewer and was showing signs of rebellion, apologized to Katie for his part in Corbin’s schemes and Katie told him that no one knew better than she, herself, that Corbin was not a man to cross.
Lee Baldwin’s drinking had resulted in missed appointments and a loss of confidence by some of the men working on behalf of the Hauser Corporation in Lee’s reliability. Alan Quartermaine questioned Lee but was assured by him that the missed meetings were due to pressure of work by other clients. Scotty Baldwin, who had seen Lee’s seedy condition which he had managed so far to keep from business associates, begged Lee to admit to himself he was out of control so that he could begin again but Lee wound up telling Scotty his life was none of Scotty’s business. When Monica learned of Scotty’s concern she tried to appeal to Gail to take a good look at what Lee was coming to and her responsibility for it, but had to stop short of telling Gail about Lee’s reversion because of her pledge to Scotty. Gail refused to listen.
Monica’s suspicions of David Hamilton were vindicated when Hamilton was forced by his backers to back down on the price he was asking for the land under the threat of losing out on the deal, and she watched as he met with Pierson, representing Hauser Chemical. Monica told Rick, backed up by Pierson’s description of the man. When Rick confronted David, who was in his apartment to await word on the sale of his car against orders from the syndicate,
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he learned of the years of jealous hatred David had been waiting to get revenge for. As Rick started to leave, telling David that he was determined to forget he ever knew him, Hamilton yelled out that Lesley and Laura were not going to let him forget. Rick punched David and they traded blows. Then Rick warned David as he left to get out of town or he would return and finish what he started. Hamilton prepared to leave holding in his hand an envelope addressed to Rick and Lesley containing all the love letters and notes he had gotten from Laura. As he opened the door, she was standing there.
Jeff and Heather returned from their vacation trip to announce that they had been married in Toronto. Mrs. Grant was very upset but finally agreed to Susan's plan for a surprise party for the couple at the Floating Rib where Susan had begun work as a hostess. When Jeff broke the news to Steve and Audrey, he accepted Audrey's congratulations but Steve was visibly upset, saying only that he thought the timing was bad, as Jeff was planning to take exams soon for his Medical license. - Steve was Jeff's natural father, a fact only Audrey knew, and neither were aware that the grandson Steve could never acknowledge and whom they believed to be dead had been adopted by Dr. and Mrs. Peter Taylor. -
Lamont Corbin had been readmitted to General Hospital for testing after he had experienced a number of episodes of numbness in his hand, a repetition of symptoms he experienced before his recent neurosurgery. At Dr. Steve Hardy’s insistence, Mark had taken himself off the case.
Lesley arrived home to find a note from Laura saying that she was in love with David and he was taking her away. She was unable to contact Rick and drove immediately to Hamilton’s apartment. As she got to the corridor, Laura burst out and stood in a state of shock, keening over and over that David laughed at her. - David was furious at finding Laura at his door and took delight in telling her that he used her and planned to run out on her. When he learned that Laura had already left a note revealing their relationship he showed her the envelope with her letters that he planned to send and told her it was not necessary then, tearing them to pieces and throwing them up in the air to scatter all over the room. Laura struck out at him and David went down. As Laura and Lesley were in the hall he got up and staggered around the room. -
Lesley told Laura to stay where she was while she went into David’s apartment to call Rick. She stepped to the doorway and saw David on the floor. Lesley looked back to see that Laura had disappeared. She examined David and found him dead. She gathered up the fragments of paper and retrieved a night-gown of Laura's and the sketch Hamilton did of her and stuffed them into a suitcase Laura had brought with her, hiding them in the trunk of her car. Unable to reach Rick, she picks up the phone and called the police to report that she, Dr. Lesley Webber, had accidentally killed a man.
At the police station, Lesley contacted Rick but as he was delayed by virtue of the fact that he had been unable to locate Lee Baldwin - Scotty had lied that Lee’s whereabouts were unknown and sent Barbara Spencer home when he found Lee drunk in his room -. Lesley went ahead and gave the police a statement, waiving her right to have an attorney present. Rick finally arrived with Howard Lansing but Lesley had already made her statement alledging that David was drunk and attempted to rape her. - Lesley’s story was convincing as she was reliving the episode months before, which she had kept from Rick. -
Lesley was released on her own recognizance and Rick took her home. Laura was asleep, having gotten home on her own. The following morning Lesley woke Laura and learned that she had no recollection of being with Lesley in the corridor or anything past the moment when David threw up the letters and poems. Lesley told her that she had destroyed any evidence that Laura was there and insisted that she never mention it, saying that she had not told Rick. Lesley told Laura that David attacked her and she – Lesley - killed him.
Indications were that Corbin’s artery, which Mark Dante replaced in surgery, was malfunctioning. After conferring with Dr. Copeland by phone it was clear that another operation was out of the question. Mark told Katie Katy that the trouble might be due to strain and if she was responsible for Lamont’s emotional strain, as she had indicated in their personal life, she had better see what she could do to counteract it. At Steve Hardy’s insistence Mark arranged for Dr. Cantrell to fly to Port Charles and Mark himself prepared to leave for a vacation in Boston.
When the District Atttorney reviewed the Coroner's report the following day, he was faced with contradictions: there was no trace of alcohol in Hamilton’s system and David appeared to have fallen against the hearth where there were traces of blood, not to have been struck by the statuette which Lesley reported was the cause of death. - Lesley was not aware that the statuette was a present to David from Laura and was charged to Lesley’s account. -
JUNE 1978
With Katie’s promise to resume marital relations upon his recovery, Lamont Corbin's physical condition showed a marked improvement. For a time Lamont's second reprieve from death had him euporically considering plans for the good life on a tropical island but reports from his Board of Directors outlining the financial deficit from his extensive grants which further overextended finances after the stock manipulation losses brought Corbin down to earth. He ordered Dan Rooney to go after Cates, even if it meant jeopardizing his scheme to make Mark Dante the goat. - As Mark Dante had seen bank microfilm photos of the man - Rooney - who deposited the windfall to his account, that scheme was all but useless. - Corbin informed Mrs. Hewett of the General Hospital Board that he would drop the Neurosurgical grant and resumed control of his empire.
Mark Dante had pieced together the reasons for Katie's rejection and faced her in New York, forcing her to admit that she lied to protect him. When he learned that tests on Lamont showed his recovery to be complete, he and Dan Rooney got Katie to return to Port Charles by pretending a summons from Lamont in order that Katie might hear for herself Lamont's doctors opinion that Lamont's determination to put his health first would not be undermined again by emotional upsets in his private life. Katie and Mark went to Lamont's room where Katie told her husband that she wanted her freedom.
Once again, Laura had run away to Buffalo to seek refuge with Barbara Vining, the woman who brought her up. Lesley was unable to leave town, restricted by the terms of her release during the continuing investigation of David Hamilton's death. Drs. Jeff and Rick Webber drove to Buffalo and Howard Lansing was present as Rick left, learning to his puzzlement that Lesley, whose official statement declared that she had very little to do with David, was driven there by him in a previous trip to bring Laura home. Barbara Vining accepted Rick's assertion that Laura was emotionally unstable and needed psychiatric help which she was not in a position to offer. She rejected Laura's pleas to allow her to stay in Buffalo and get a job to help cover her living expenses. While Rick was away further discrepancies in Lesley's story made themselves apparent to the investigators for the District Attorney.
Laura’s nightmares continued and Lesley finally got her to agree to see Dr. Peter Taylor. Lesley had to tell Peter that her story of a young man, a patient of hers, who was unable to account for a period of time in his life and faced the dangerous emotional consequences of a sudden recall of the events he had blocked out was really the condition of her own daughter. - Laura at first accepted Lesley's story that she - Lesley - had killed David and was only trying to conceal Laura's involvement with David, but then she alternated between suspicion of Lesley's claim of attempted rape and her own conviction that it was not just the block that she herself was frightened of but that there was something more, hidden away. –
Under pressure from Howard Lansing, D.A. Richardson revealed that he seriously questioned Les's claim that Hamilton called her over to his apartment with attempted rape in mind when he was packed to leave for New York to deliver a $6,000,000 check to his powerful and dangerous backers and had no time to spare in order to make his plane. Richardson said that in the face of his doubts of the very foundation of Lesley's story, he was seriously considering asking for a Grand Jury indictment against Lesley for murder.
Dr. Gail Adamson had met with Monica in order to hear her out about Monica's involvement with Gail's late husband, Greg. She returned to Lee Baldwin, telling him that she did so to get her own house in order so that she might appeal to him to seek help from his friends and not reject their overtures as she had done with Lee. With the help of a young man from AA, Lee took the first step, rejecting a drink and contacting Dr. Steve Hardy to resume neglected business for the hospital. Gail, in turn, agreed to back off and not try too hard to help Lee, trusting him to stand on his own feet.
Heather Grant Webber voiced her disapproval of her cousin Susan's attentions to Dr. Peter Taylor, saying it was not helping matters in Diana and Peter's strained marital relations for Susan to be flirting with Peter every chance she got. Heather finally convinced Diana to accept a dinner invitation with Steve and Audrey, by offering to baby-sit with P.J., claiming to be over her obsession with the Taylor's adopted son. - The baby was Heather and Jeff's son, whom Heather had led everyone including Jeff to believe died of pneumonia in New York to cover up the fraudulent adoption procedure. - Diana agreed with relief after having confided to Audrey that she had hurt her mother by saying that she couldn't forget that she had been driving the car when her daughter, Martha, was killed in a crash during the height of a hurricane. - Diana was shocked when her mother slept through the ringing of the phone when Diana called him on a recent night out with Peter and found when they returned home that her mother, who had just recovered from a slight stroke, didn't awaken through the baby's cries. –
Richardson decided to assemble the Grand Jury after he was contacted by the car salesman David was relying on to sell his expensive sports car, before his death. The man's story made the timetable according to Lesley totally unacceptable to him. He also noted that the statuette was inconsistant with the style of furnishings in David's apartment and ordered Det. Bert Ramsey to try to trace its sale, speculating that it might have been a gift. - Lesley told the police that she struck David with it, a fact they knew to be false. She was not aware that it was a present from Laura, and charged to Lesley's credit card at a local department store.-
Lamont Corbin had apparently backed down on his threats and told Dr. Mark Dante that he could take Katie with his blessings as she was, after all, not the only woman in the world. He also accepted the resignation of Dan Rooney, who told him he intended to settle down in Port Charles. His growing friendship with Jessie Brewer had shown Dan than there was more to life than the power of big business.
JULY 1978
Dr. Monica Webber and Dr. Alan Quartermaine were married with Gail Adamson and Alan's sister, Tracy, as attendants. Ever since Tracy discovered that Gail's and Monica's antecedents stopped at the orphanage where they were raised, she had been glorying in her own distinguished family lines. Tracy's references to Alan's former love (Grace Dobson) were quickly put down by Alan but she made it a point to bring up references to Rick Webber – who caught Tracy’s eye – before Alan, while at the same time emphasizing to Monica that her brother Alan was the most jealous, possessive man she knew. Alan and Monica had been given a year's lease on the suite formerly used by Lamont Corbin (The Penthouse at the Harbor Towers). Tracy had managed to get $10,000 from her father after his generous gift to Alan and Monica, but she was keeping secret just what the money was for and her real reason for staying in Port Charles. She managed to pressure Alan into making her his assistant in Public Relations for the Cardiac section of General Hospital.
Dr. Lesley Webber had been indicted by the Grand Jury for murder in the second degree. She was free on a mere thousand dollars bail, owing to her outstanding reputation as a physician in Pt. Charles. Lesley tried to hold up in front of everyone, comforting her daughter Laura when she went into hysterics upon hearing the verdict, but finally broke down herself, sobbing to Dr. Steve Hardy. At a board meeting, while Steve tried to fight the suspension the hospital was seeking, Lesley calmly offered to submit but, through Steve's efforts, the board voted a leave of absence for Lesley.
Lee finally admitted he had a drinking problem. Gail was there to help him. She had shown him the worst in life could be handled and faced – she had finally seen Greg for the man he really was and no longer blamed Monica for the affair. Lee had to try to. Gail introduced Lee to Bryan Phillips, a young partner at the Alcoholic Anonymous.
Howard asked Lee for support on Lesley's case, but Lee had disappeared after calling Bryan, the young man in AA Gail had appealed to for help, and telling him he was tempted to have a drink. He called again to say that he had taken the drink but there had been no word from him since and he had lost a number of important clients.
Richardson told Bert Ramsay he felt the statue might provide the answer to why David Hamilton was killed. "Caress" --The erotic statue of two lovers was obviously given to him as a gift. It didn’t fit in with the rest of the décor of the apartment. Ramsey had to find out who purchased it.
FLASHBACK: "Laura apologized profusely for doubting David and gave him a gift of a statuette which she had charged to Lesley's account, intending to pay for it with the final fee for posing for David."---April 1978
Howard asked the D.A. for permission to have Lesley return to David Hamilton's apartment. Les went there twenty minutes early and tried to construct for herself what might have happened between David and her daughter Laura so that she could get her story straight for Howard's and the DA's benefit. Her story was still inconsistant. A resident of the building, Mrs. O'Brien, arrived home from a business trip as Les and Howard were leaving the apartment and turned and said "hello" to Les. Later Howard questioned this but Lesley didn't recognize the woman, believing her greeting was only a friendly gesture. In the meanwhile the police had found the receipted charge slip for the statuette Lesley claimed to have hit David with, carrying Lesley's signature which Laura forged in order to pay for it.
Laura was beginning to have flashes of recollection and turned on Lesley. She remembered forging Lesley’s signature on the receipt for the statuette. Rick learned from Monica of one rude outburst in her presence and confronted Laura, who had been warned by Lesley not to go into it. She was sweet and apologetic for her abuse of her mother. Rick went on to ask her where she was on the night of David's death, as he had called the house repeatedly over a period of an hour and a half. She maintained that she was showering and then drying her long hair and the sound of the dryer must have covered the ringing of the phone.
When Lesley demanded that Laura talk to her she was once more insolent, asking what Lesley did to encourage David and saying she was sick of hearing that Les was just trying to protect her when she was hiding the truth about David's seduction from her just as she had hidden it from Rick. Lesley slapped her face.
Heather had gotten a letter from the lawyer who arranged the grey market adoption of her son Stephen Lars. Mrs. Hadley was dead and the letter mentioned a package that would be arriving for her. Before Heather and Mrs. Grant could conceal the letter, Susan grabbed it out of Mrs. Grant's hand and noted the lawyer's address. She guessed that it was being kept a secret from Jeff. Later, when Heather again tried to warn Susan off from pursuing her plan to break up Diana and Peter Taylor's marriage, Susan threatened to go to Jeff about the letter if Heather didn’t back off. Susan arranged to start therapy with Peter for "depression."
Mark and Katie returned home from their trip to Mexico to tell Gina and Gary they were married that very morning. Before the guests who had suddenly accumulated leave, Dan Rooney gave them a present. A framed copy of the check which Lamont had Rooney plant in an attempt to implicate Mark in the stock swindle. The check, which was to be the means of breaking Katie and Mark up, was in fact, the instrument of bringing them together. Meanwhile, Gina got a medical grant that would take her out of town for a while.
Bobbie had flirted with Lamont Corbin but when he told her he couldn’t go to New York for holidays as she hoped, she was very upset. She continued seeing Scotty but her relationship was cooling off.
Lee telephoned but was incoherent and Gail managed to hear only the word "motel." Scotty and Bryan searched every place within a fifty mile radius without any luck. On the eve of the day Scotty had promised himself and Lee's friends he would report Lee as a missing person, he and Bobbie were dining with Gail when Lee called again. This time Scotty stayed with Lee's slurred speech until he mades out the word "Midway." Gail told Lee she loved him and when he told her to stop looking for him, she begged him to let them help. Scotty took the phone telling his father to stay where he was and left. Scotty, Bryan, Gail and Bobbie arrived at Lee's room and it was clear that he was unable to move without assistance. Gail suggested that he be taken to her apartment where she could care for him in the next few days so that he not be paraded in this condition through the lobby of his club, where he was a resident.
Lesley confronted daughter, demanding an apology and telling her she couldn’t live in the atmosphere of Laura's surliness and suspicion. Laura told her mother she only said what was on her mind, following Dr. Peter Taylor's orders to give her emotions free rein. Later Laura snapped Bobbie's head off, telling her to stay out of her business, leading Bobbie to remark that she didn't think Laura was such a good judge of character and reminding her how she was always going on about how kind and understanding David Hamilton was, and that was the man who tried to rape her mother.
After a long session with Susan, Peter called home to ask Diana to have dinner with him before he had to go back to work on correspondence late into the evening. Diana's mother was not there and she told him she couldn’t leave the baby. Heather offered to sit with P.J. after Diana hung up, insisting that Jeff could pick her up there when he got through. Diana called back but Peter had left his office. - Peter had been prevailed upon by Susan to have his dinner at the Floating Rib, where she worked, instead of the hospital cafeteria, as he'd planned. – When Dr. Steve Hardy saw Heather teasing Jeff in the hall, he feared having Heather as a wife was going to ruin Jeff’s medical career.
Diana arrived at the restaurant to see Susan staring adoringly up at Peter as she pinned a rose from the table arrangement to his lapel. Diana stayed to have a cup of coffee with Peter, as he had already eaten and had to get back to work. She stopped on her own way out, after Peter had left, to congratulate Monica and Alan, and Tracy dropped a catty remark about having taken Susan for Diana at Monica's wedding because of how attentive she was to Peter. Diana cornered Susan, telling her that if her therapy was a cover for her designs on Peter, to forget it. Diana added she was on to her. Susan countered that she had seen wives like Diana, afraid their marriages were going stale, who kept on boasting about how perfect they were.
