The Young And The Restless
Written by: William J. Bell
Produced by: John Conboy
Liz Foster had decided not to let her husband Bill who deserted her 9 years ago, and whom she thought dead, come home, but when her daughter Jill was so excited at the prospect of seeing him, she gave in and let Greg go to Chicago to bring him for a visit. At first, Snapper refused to go to the family dinner but then, afraid that Jill and Greg would make things hard on his mother, Snapper and Chris did attend. Afterwards, Snapper told his father how hard things were and much they needed him “before,” but not anymore. Jill took him home to meet her new husband who asked him to spend the night. After a bad respiratory attack in the morning, he told Liz he was not going to stay and Liz, Jill and Greg told him they wished he would never have come back if he was only only going to stay one day. He got no further than the porch when he collapsed. At the hospital, Snapper realized that he was trying to keep them from worrying because he only had one lung and was dying. While they were praying he would recover, Liz asked Jill about her marriage to Brock. Jill said Brock married her knowing that she still loved another man, and had asked nothing of her. Liz said they weren’t really married because Brock performed it himself. Bill Foster asked Brock to keep Jill from the hospital in the morning because he was going to leave. Snapper was telling the family that his father didn’t want them to know he was dying and so would leave the following day. Brock announced that he and Jill would ask him to leave with them. It took a lot of convincing but Brock managed it. Liz couldn’t tell Snapper why, but she insisted that she had a good reason why Bill shouldn’t stay with Brock and Jill-- Liz didn’t feel it was right as Brock and Jill weren’t really married. Snapper had had feelings of guilt over pushing his father away as he was dying and so agreed that the only logical place was at home. Liz called Sam, who had been waiting at the newspaper office to hear from Liz, and asked to see him. She explained that Bill was dying and she had asked him to come home. Sam understood and said they could wait.
Lorie Brooks had started her second book which in some ways paralleled her sister Leslie’s life : a concert pianist who was in a mental institution. Leslie asked her not to finish it, but Lorie said she could read it before it was published. Leslie’s husband, Brad, took the “only” manuscript to read and found Leslie so upset with her memories of the institution that he burnt the copy, but Lorie had another. Leslie gave her father something to look forward to when she told him she was going to do a concert in town and would like him to critique her practice since he would be recovering from his heart attack at home.
Peggy Brooks was hostile toward her mother and protective of her father since his heart attack because she knew that when he was well, her mother would ask for a divorce to marry Stuart’s best friend, Dr. Bruce Henderson. Stuart wondered why Bruce hadn’t called to see how he was and was surprised when he found out from Bruce’s wife, Regina, that he had asked her for a divorce. Peggy became so hostile toward Jennifer that Stuart noticed. Jennifer and Peggy had a fight when Peggy informed her mother that she was going to stay at home with her father instead of working for the paper as usual. She told Jennifer she should get out because she was going to leave him anyway. Jennifer told Brad that she was not going to be able to take this much longer, but Brad told her Stuart’s heart was not strong enough to stand the strain of a divorce. Jennifer told Stuart not to be too hard on Peggy.
Regina Henderson came down from Chicago to visit Mark and asked him why he didn’t tell her that his father was going to ask for a divorce. When she got no information from him, she visited Stuart where she met Jennifer for the first time. She told them Bruce could be leaving her for another woman – a nurse at Bruce’s hospital in Chicago.
When Lorie heard that Jill had married Brock, she called Phillip Chancellor and asked him to lunch. Lorie made herself available as a confidant so that Phillip spent his extra time with her. He asked Kay, a recovered alcoholic, for a divorce, but she couldn’t understand why since she had reshaped her life for Phillip and especially that Jill was no longer available. Kay was so distraught Phillip stayed on at the house. Brock ran into Phillip at Lorie’s and then went to see if he could help his mother through this without her turning to alcohol. The day after his marriage she had given him a checking account because she had promised to make the family money available when he married Jill, but when she called the bank to see if she needed to deposit money, she found he had not yet cashed a check. Brock said he married Jill “only” because he cared for her. Brock was supporting himself and Jill on the money he made singing part-time at Leslie’s club, “The Allegro.”
Phillip spent much of his time with Lorie as he had made the break with Kay and finally took her advice about living with Kay. He told Brock he felt Kay could start making a new life if he moved out and asked Brock if he and Jill would move in with her, but Brock hadn’t told Jill yet that Phillip had asked Kay for a divorce. Brock is at the Chancellors’ when Phillip told Kay he was moving out. When he refused her pleas of a little more time she headed straight for a bottle of scotch shouting at Brock to leave her alone, but he insisted she really didn’t want to drink herself to death. Brock’s singing of a religious hymn reminded Kay of her new-found faith and she cried as she smashed the bottle.
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