August 1976
The Young And The Restless
Written by: William J. Bell
Produced by: John Conboy
Brad Eliot had left his wife, Leslie, after he found he was losing his sight without confiding in her because he didn’t want to be a burden to her during her career as a concert pianist. Leslie's sister, Lorie, and his brother-in-law, Dr. William – Snapper - Foster, were the only people in town who knew of his plight. Lorie intercepted Brad as he was leaving town and insisted that he go to her apartment. Lonely, Leslie found herself responding to Lance Prentiss, but asked him not to see her after Snapper informed her that she was pregnant with Brad's child. Lorie was the only one Leslie had confided in and had told the rest of the family that Brad was visiting his sick mother.
Lorie had taken Brad to San Francisco to consult another doctor, but he also could find no reason for Brad's blindness. He thought she was taking him to Chicago, but realized he has been tricked when the stewardess announced that they would be landing in Genoa City. Lorie wouldn’t let him go off on his own in this condition.
Lorie Brooks and Lance Prentiss were fencing with each other again. She wouldn't tell him why she went to San Francisco with a friend and he wouldn’t tell her who was living with him in the house he had rented for the summer on Lake Geneva. Lance called his mother to tell her he was bringing Lorie to the house. Lorie told Lance that the time she spent with her friend had brought all her feelings to the surface and made her very vulnerable. Lance said that she was so different when she was like this, and it made him very vulnerable to her. Vanessa, Lance's mother, was watching all this through the two-way mirror she had installed between her room and the living room and vowed that Lorie would never get Lance.
Vanessa warned Lance about a "woman like Lorie" and said that she was after his money. Lorie wondered about the room Lance wouldn't show her and then found that his roommate was a woman. Lance assured her that she had no competition, but wouldn't say that his mother was staying with him.
Lance and Vanessa discussed the fire which deformed her face many years ago. Lance talked about how she saved him from the burning building and that the fire inspector said it appeared that a child had been playing with matches in the room he shared with his younger brother, Lucas. The first people out of the building found Lucas outside sobbing. Lance stated that Lucas was driven away by guilt, and if he ever returned, she would have to face the reality that Lucas started the fire. Vanessa protested that it was never proven.
Lorie was afraid that Leslie would break under pressure as she did before. She asked Brad what he would do, knowing that he would be responsible if she couldn't perform at her New Orleans concert. Brad was sure that Leslie was strong enough, but if not, he would go to her. Lorie called the Maestro and asked that he leave the phone off the hook so that they could hear the concert. Leslie performed brilliantly. Lorie asked Brad if he wasn't hoping she would fail so that he would have a reason to go to her.
Snapper visited Lorie thinking that she could tell him where Brad was because he had to get in touch with him. He said it was about Leslie, but he couldn't tell her any more than that. Lorie claimed that Brad would tell him before he would tell her. Lorie and Brad both wondered what it was.
The Maestro was concerned about Leslie. He had to go to South America and it was three weeks before Leslie's next concert. She was in pain, but had great determination.
Brock Reynolds had asked that Jill Foster and Derek Thurston help Joann Curtis by giving her a new hairdo to go with her new figure. Joann had a new confidence in herself and her future. Johnny told her he felt he should move out as she was starting to date and had gotten hold of herself. Joann refused to feel sorry for herself and wouldn't let Johnny pity her either. She told him she would get a divorce, but Johnny said he was not sure Peggy wanted him anymore. Joann went to see Peggy telling her she was getting a divorce and asking Peggy to reassure Johnny because he blamed himself for the terrible time she was having. - Peggy was trying to think things through after she found that Jack – Johnny - was married. She went to stay at her sister's only to be raped by an intruder.
Ron Becker was told by the Public Defender, Mr. Lawrence, that since he was not destitute - they used the nine thousand dollars Nancy just inherited from her mother to pay his bail - he could no longer defend him for nothing. Ron and Nancy persuaded him to take the case and they would pay him as soon as they got the bail money back. Mr. Lawrence listened to Ron's story and caught the part about Peggy seeing him before the line up.
Ross Andrews, the prosecutor, called the Brooks family together and told them Mr. Lawrence had petitioned to have Peggy's identification thrown out of court because of undue influence. Chris admitted that she told Peggy she thought it was Ron, but all said that Ron willingly introduced himself to Peggy at the line-up. Ron was sure that he would win the petition and everything would be all right. He told Nancy to stay home with their daughter, Karen. Nancy said they would leave town after this was all over and get a fresh start. When she got Ron's jacket, she found a slip of paper in the pocket with "516 Summit" written on it – Chris' address -. When she asked Ron about it, he explained he had misunderstood Chris and written "560" and when he couldn't find this address he threw the paper away. When Chris later gave him the correct address, he wrote it down, thinking he would deliver her nightstand later. Nancy dismissed all her doubts.
At the hearing, the judge ruled that although Chris had talked to Peggy she had not described Ron, and since he identified himself willingly he created the situation himself. The petition was denied. Ron told Nancy it was because the Brookses had money and influence that little people couldn't get an even break.
The night before the trial, Ron told Nancy that he wanted her to get a divorce if he was convicted. Nancy was so disturbed she went to the Brookses’ to again plead with Peggy not to take Karen's father from her. While at home by himself, Ron remembered how he waited for Chris in her apartment and found that it was Peggy he raped.
In the morning, Ron asked that Nancy bring Karen to court. Nancy objected, but Ron said he was scared and needed his family around him.
Jennifer asked Peggy why she wasn't dressed to go to court. She said she had been thinking about Nancy's visit, and the man who raped her had no face. Jennifer pleaded with her daughter not to identify Ron if she was not sure he is the man who raped her. The event flashed through her mind again and she saw his face. She was sure then.
Liz Foster was upset because she introduced Ralph Olsen, a friend of hers, a plumber, to her employer, eccentric widow Kay Chancellor, and then Kay planned a swim party for two at which she planned to seduce Ralph. As she disrobed herself at the pool to show a new revealing swimsuit she had sent to the house, Ralph commented, "How beautiful!" Kay thought he was speaking of her daring suit, but turned to see him staring at the pool. She mentioned a sore leg muscle and thought Ralph was going to ask if he could massage it when he inquired if she would join the church choir.
The following morning, Kay tried to make Liz believe that she was intimate with Ralph, but backed down when she thought Liz was going to ask him. Ralph told Kay that he knew what she was up to and asked if they could slow things down. She accepted a dinner invitation and then called to say they would dine at her house. Liz wanted to fix and serve dinner, but Kay was having it catered.
Derek Thurston would like to open a posh beauty salon, but didn't have access to that much money. A customer of his agreed to back it but her husband turned it down. Derek got Jill to talk about her past and he found she knew Mrs. Chancellor very well. He called and told Kay he could change her life if she would have her hair done. Later Kay became so nervous that she canceled. Derek asked if he might do her hair at her home. Kay acceded and agreed that the hairstyle he gave her made her look much younger.
Ralph told Bill Foster that the only thing that stood between Kay and himself was her money. Kay vowed that if he didn't propose, she would. She wanted to show him that with a little polish they could go a long way. Kay did propose but Ralph said it was because she had to change him that they would never be happy together. Brock, her son, told her that she would be just as lovely if he didn't love her. Kay drank almost a bottle of liquor from the time Ralph left until Liz arrived in the morning.
Deciding he had learn how to get along on his own, Brad was going to take braille courses and do some studying. As long as Leslie thought he would come home, he had tied her down so when she returned from South America with the Maestro, he would contact her and ask for a divorce. Lorie said that Leslie would not consider giving him a divorce without seeing him face to face. Brad would go through a lawyer if necessary.
Vanessa told Lance that a wife could only complicate his life. She suggested that Lorie was beneath him because, although she had never met Laurie, she knew what kind of person she was. Lance had to make another business trip to Rome and asked Lorie to accompany him. At first, Lorie said she would not be able to go, but decided that since Brad was learning to fend for himself, there was no reason for her to deny herself the pleasure of Lance's company.
The judge asked Nancy and Karen to leave the courtroom because they were a disruptive force. Mr. Lawrence tried to get Chris to say that she wanted to get Ron and this was why she told Peg, but she told the court that she commented to Peg that she "hoped to God it wasn't him."
Although Peg was sure in her own mind that she could positively identify Ron as her attacker, Mr. Lawrence said that only one week before, Peg wasn't sure if she got a good look at the rapist. He played upon the fact that Peg had admitted she kept her eyes closed during the actual attack in order to block it from her mind.
September 1976
(The Young And The Restless)
Ross Andrews, the prosecutor, put on his case using Chris Foster, Stuart Brooks and Peggy Brooks, the rape victim herself. Mr. Lawrence, the accused rapist Ron Becker's lawyer, based his case on the fact that Ron introduced himself to Peggy before the line-up and she didn't identify him until she had viewed all the men and then had two of them repeat the words she heard the rapist say. If she really knew who he was, why didn' she react when Ron introduced himself? Peggy didn’t have any reason for not identifying him.
Lawrence told Ron that he shouldn't testify because it would add nothing to their case. Lawrence rested the defense and then Ron asked to make a statement. He told his story bringing in the fact that his wife, Nancy, had been ill and claiming that Chris had been against him because of his police record. Ross Andrews questioned him and showed that Chris was upset that he and Nancy hadn't told her about his police record, but after he explained, Chris told them she believed Ron's story. - Ron said he saw this girl in a bar who invited him home for a drink. She had on a nightgown when he arrived, but after they were in the bedroom she panicked and started screaming "Rape." He was held by neighbors until police arrived. His lawyer didn't tell him that she wasn't going to testify and advised him to plead guilty to burglary. Chris visited Mrs. Sharon Ralston in Denver, but she refused to talk about the case because she was married then. She wouldn’t say whether Ron raped her or not.
The all agreed that Ron was very smooth. Peggy couldn’t think of anything else but the trial. They tried to persuade her to stay home when the verdict was announced, but Peggy wanted to see his face when they said he was guilty. When Jack Curtis called, Stuart thought it might help if Peggy saw him. Jack asked Peggy to marry him as Joann was strong enough that she wanted a divorce. - Joann tried to commit suicide when she found that Jack was seeing Peggy, who thought Jack was single, and had since become a more stable person with the help of Brock Reynolds and Peggy. Peggy couldn't face breaking up a marriage, but couldn't stop loving Jack. It was this that drove her to Chris' apartment that night. Brock had repeatedly told Jack to stay away from Joann so that she could build some kind of life for herself.
The verdict was in. They all waited impatiently as the jury foreman said that they were instructed to return a verdict that upheld the facts in this case. Because of this they couldn't all agree that he was guilty beyond "all reasonable doubt." Though they morally felt one way, they had to find him "not guilty."
Peggy couldn’t contain herself. She berated the judge, the jury and Ron Becker, vowing that someday he would pay for this. Peggy was crushed and full of fear knowing that Ron Becker was on the streets again.
Sharon Ralston arrived, but was too late. She and Chris agreed that her testimony would be thrown out anyway. Sharon told Chris what really happened. She did meet Ron in a bar and invited him to have a drink, but she was dressed and he did rape her. She didn't testify because the laws were different then and she would have been ridiculed. She wasn't proud of everything in her past. Her lawyer said it would look bad in court. Ron made obscene and then threatening phone calls to her. Chris and Sharon told Peggy that this trial might have scared Ron and he wouldn’t chance it again. Chris and Sharon went to see Nancy. She was alone because after they received the bail bond check for nine thousand dollars, Ron took Karen to the zoo. They told Nancy that Ron was violent and she and Karen could be hurt. Nancy refused to believe this and said they wouldn’t have to put up with Chris' interference because they were leaving town. Snapper was concerned for his wife, Chris, but she was not afraid as she knew they were leaving town.
Ron told Nancy that he wouldn’t be driven out of town by the Brooks family. He still had some business here and so they would stay in Genoa City for awhile. The following morning, he was going out to cash the check and pay Mr. Lawrence. Nancy couldn’t persuade him to leave.
Chris received an obscene phone call and told herself that it was a coincidence, but to reassure herself she went to the Becker apartment. She was upset when she found Nancy there. She told her about the call and could only say it had to be Ron because he did the same thing to Sharon Ralston.
Stuart said that not much could be done because it took ten minutes to trace a call and it would be difficult to catch him if he called from a phone booth. Chris was furious that Ron couldn’t be caught before he harmed someone again.
Nancy told Ron about Chris' accusation. Ron claimed everybody was always against him. Nancy felt terrible and said she believed him. Ron said he then had a job as a salesman.
Peggy had confined herself to the house and had seen few people since Ron was acquitted. Brock Reynolds went to see Peggy and told her how much she had to live for. He asked her to marry him. Peggy went to the Allegro alone to see Brock. She wondered why he should want to marry her when they hardly knew each other. Brock said he loved her. When Peggy got home, she told her father that she spent the afternoon walking with Brock and he had proposed. She knew that Brock loved everyone and he had done it to give her a reason to leave the house.
Joann wasn’t sure how she would feel if Jack and Peggy got married, but she didn’t want him back. Brock told Jack that he asked Peggy to marry him and she didn't say no. Jack tried to get some kind of commitment out of Peggy. She said that she was not ready to marry anyone at the moment. She didn’t know if she loved Brock, but she needed his friendship. She did love Jack.
Lance Prentiss had asked Lorie Brooks to go to Rome with him for a business trip. She would have to find out. She was concerned about leaving her brother-in-law, who insisted that no one knew about his blindness. Over Lance's shoulder, she saw the door of the one room Lance wouldn’t let her in open. While Lance made a call, Lorie investigated. She found a woman that she believed to be the landlady with a veil covering the lower half of her face. Lance called out, addressing the woman as mother. Mrs. Prentiss advised Lorie that she knew about her and she would never get Lance because he owed everything to her, even his very life, and she would keep him from Lorie. Lorie went out through the garden and around the house, saying that she went for a walk. She told Lance that she had decided to go to Rome. Lance promised to call her.
Back at the apartment, Lorie told Brad that she had a confrontation with a veiled lady who didn’t wish Lance to know they had met and because of this she had agreed to go to Rome with Lance. Brad said that he was leaving anyway. He had decided to go back to psychiatry and had to study.
Leslie Elliot, Brad’s wife, called Lorie to say that she was on her way home. Lorie wanted Brad to put off his confrontation with Leslie until she returned from Rome, but he refused. Lorie wanted to be there in case Leslie fell apart, but Brad was so sure that she could take it that Lorie suggested he had made Leslie so strong that she might want the divorce. He went to the apartment to plan the meeting so that Les wouldn't suspect that he was blind.
Vanessa Prentiss told Lance that she would try to lead a life outside the house with his help. She would go to Rome, but with him alone. Lance visited Laurie asking her if she would stay home because there was someone going who required privacy. Vanessa became ill and Lance never made the trip. The doctor who treated Vanessa inquired why she never had plastic surgery. She explained that it could not be done because of her weak heart. Even though she was burning up with a fever, she refused to remove her veil because Lance screamed when he first saw her after the fire.
Lance showed her the ring he bought for Lorie. Vanessa again suggested that it was Les, not Lorie that he was interested in. Lance called on Lorie and even though she was fresh from the shower, encased in a towel, Lance couldn't wait to give her the ring. She asked what it meant. Worn on the right hand it was a friendship ring, but worn on the left it was an engagement ring. She put it on the right and then slipped it to the left where they decided they liked it. He said he had to take care of a few things before they could get married. When she found out, Vanessa called Lorie, saying there would never be a wedding.
When Vanessa couldn’t bribe Lorie, she tried to make her jealous by telling her she was only second choice because Leslie was married.
Leslie went to the apartment and finding Brad there, thought he had come back. He told her that he had only come back to ask for a divorce. Leslie was hurt, but after she thought about Brad's letter, she decided to see him again because she wasn’t convinced that he didn’t love her.
Brad had told Lorie that he was sure he wouldn’t be able to see Leslie again without breaking down. Lorie hoped that he couldn’t. Leslie was convinced that Brad didn’t want her, but he could get the divorce. She wouldn’t tell Brad about the baby to get him back. Snapper Foster knew the secrets on both sides, but was bound to silence by doctor-patient relationships.
Hearing that Kay Chancellor was taking the refusal of her marriage proposal to Ralph Olsen very hard, Bill went to see her. Without thinking about Bill's condition, Bill had only one lung which was very badly damaged due to excessive smoking, Kay lit a cigarette which caused him to collapse. She gave him oxygen and called for help, but felt very guilty. Bill knew he didn’t have long to live and made Snapper promise not to put him in the hospital until absolutely necessary. Bill was about to light the cigarette that he knew will save his family from a lifetime of debt when Snapper found him. Liz was furious that he would tamper with the will of God. Liz and Bill prayed together.
All My Children
AUGUST 1976
Written by: Agnes Nixon
Produced by: Bud Kloss
Dr. Joe Martin had left Pine Valley for a vacation visit with his son Jeff in Wisconsin. Prevailed upon by David, Ruth told her son Philip about her relationship with David Thornton and Philip told her that he understood. He encouraged her to marry David if that was what she really wanted.
Kate Martin told Ruth she had told Tara there was another person involved in her father's and Ruth's separation. Kate insisted that she did her best by keeping David Thornton's name out of it but she couldn't lie to Tara.
Ruth told David she thought that they should be married. She went on to say that her son Philip felt she had to do what she thought was the right thing and, she added, Joe didn’t need her as he had his career and the rest of the family. When David told her that he loved and needed her, she replied that was a big factor her decision. As they talked, Ruth added that she didn't think they should stay in Pine Valley after their marriage, David should look elsewhere for a residency. And since the divorce would take some time they should make no public announcement for the time being for Joe's sake.
Anne Martin had been experiencing bouts of shortness of breath and dizzyness. Voicing doubts about the idea of the baby shower Ruth Martin and Mona had proposed, Anne told her husband Paul that she didn’t want them to do it out of pity. Becoming worked up she said, none of them wanted her to have this child. She insisted that she believed in the goodness of God and added, actually shouting, that she had complete peace of mind.
After a fall following a fainting spell, Anne was admitted to Pine Valley hospital and told Paul her doctor recommended that she stay for some tests. She told her husband that she felt so much safer and more secure there than at home and would like to stay in the hospital until the baby was born. A matter of a month, yet. When Paul, bewildered, told her he didn't think she should turn herself into an invalid, Anne shouted at him that he didn’t really care if she fainted or not; that she might fall and lose the baby. She said she believed he was hoping she would lose it by having a miscarriage. She insisted that she was not going to take any chances and told him that the baby would be born "whether you like it or not."
Paul talked with Dr. Charles Tyler about his wife's attitude and Dr. Tyler, Anne's father, assured him that the symptoms Anne had been showing did not seem to have any connection with the disease she contracted some months before, but rather were a manifestation of her own doubts about her ability to carry the child to full term and the wisdom of her decision to chance that the baby would be normal. He suggested that Paul pampered his wife for a bit and let her stay, suggesting that after a time in the hospital she might get bored.
When Ruth offered to do anything she could to help Anne, telling Paul she hoped he still considered her a friend, he told her that after the way she had treated his brother, Joe, he had doubts. When Paul guessed Ruth planned to marry David Thornton and she did not deny it, he told her not to expect him to offer his best wishes.
The following day, Kate came to see Ruth at the hospital and told her that Paul had told her of their conversation. Kate accused Ruth of handling the matter in a manner totally unfair to Joe. She said that Ruth had no right to tell Paul, and as for Ruth's intention to tell Joe as soon as he returned, although there would be some months of the three working together at Pine Valley hospital before Ruth and David could leave, Kate said Ruth would salve her conscience by telling Joe but leave him to bear the burden of the secret and maintain a front before the rest of the hospital staff. Ruth insisted that she only wanted to tell Joe as soon as possible so that she wouldn't risk raising false hopes for a reconcilliation, but agreed not to say anything for the time being. Kate added her wish that when Ruth and David's plans were made, they carried them out as soon as possible, saying that though it might seem cruel to say so, the sooner Ruth and David left Pine Valley the better for everyone concerned.
Erica Kane Brent’s plans to dine with Chuck Tyler had suffered a number of reverses and the following day Chuck had had to cut short an evening at the Chateau, Erica took Nick to task for the nasty cracks he had been making in Chuck's presence. She told him he made her feel miserable all evening and accused him of gloating over her unhappiness. She slapped Nick, and Nick, at first fighting her off, kissed her and she responded. After they made love, Nick went to his desk to write out some checks for the staff. Erica accused Nick of using her. Nick told her to be a good girl and go on home so he could get some work done and offered to call her a cab. When Erica told Nick he was acting as though she was some kind of a call girl, Nick insisted that Erica was making a big deal out of nothing and asked if she expected that they would write out some kind of a contract next time. Erica told Nick he was never to touch her again telling him that he would "regret this."
Ty had moved Donna Beck up to Estelle's room and concocted a story for Estelle to tell Chuck and Frank Grant. He warned her that if she messed up the story, she wouldn’t live to tell another. Estelle convinced Chuck that Donna had been thrown out by Ty because he overheard her talking to Chuck on the phone and that Donna had left for New York. Later Estelle confessed what she had done to Donna and after a few days Donna was desperate enough to leave with Estelle's help, giving up on recovering her "savings" from Ty and headed back to Pine Valley to get her badly hurt leg attended to.
A furious Ty called Chuck at Pine Valley Hospital and demanded to know what he had done with Donna. When Ty said that she "lit out of here a couple of hours ago," Chuck learned the truth. However, Ty told him to forget he even called. He warned Chuck not to try to play the hero again or his buddies would just have to do another "little job" on him.
Linc had sent, by special delivery, three first class plane tickets to Pine Valley for Kitty, her mother Lucy Carpenter - Mrs. Lum - and Mrs. Carpenter's doctor, in an effort to call the bluff of the woman who claimed to be Kitty's mother, or, if he succeeded in getting her to Pine Valley, to have Kate Martin, a contemporary of the real Lucy Carpenter, look her over. When the actor Mrs. Lum had hired made it clear that his “patient” was in no condition to travel, Linc asked if he might then fly out to Minneapolis to consult with the doctor at his office. In order to carry off the role he had played so well, Nigel Fargate, the actor portraying Mrs. Carpenter's doctor had no choice but to confer with his patient.
When Kitty left, Mrs. Lum explained that she was not Kitty's mother but that the act she, herself, had been carrying on had come back hard on her. She insisted that she had come to love Kitty "like she really is my daughter." She assured Mr. Fargate that, though she was indeed drawing a "star's salary" from Mrs. Tyler for her impersonation, she needed Kitty to share the love she had in her, and had been unable to give for years. She asked Nigel if he couldn’t understand, being himself alone in the world. Mrs. Lum prevailed upon Nigel to get started planning to hire office space, telling him that Mrs. Tyler would come through with any cash they might need. Nigel left, and when Kitty returned, Mrs. Lum told her that the doctor, being a busy man, couldn't stay, but they had agreed that if Lincoln wanted to spend the time and the money, he could come and the doctor would meet with him.
Brooke English was furious when Benny Sago showed up at Phoebe Tyler's house to say he couldn’t attend a pool party and buffet supper Brooke had planned. She accepted Phoebe's suggestion and invited Dan Kennicott. While Dan and Brooke were in the pool awaiting the arrival of another couple, the doorbell rang and Phoebe answered it. Donna Beck, attired in a brief purple sunsuit, stood on the Tyler doorstep asking for Chuck. When she heard her name, Phoebe indignantly tried to turn her away, but Donna fainted.
When Chuck was summoned, he administered a pain killing shot to Donna promising to take care of her, and told his grandmother to shut up when she began a tirade against the girl.
Dr. Charles Tyler, too, insisted that the girl be allowed to stay at the Tyler mansion at least overnight as there were, at present, no available hospital beds for her. When Phoebe accused Charles of condoning Chuck's involvement with the girl, Charles insisted that he was merely permitting Chuck to live his own life. Phoebe, fighting angry tears, stormed : "This time those words of yours are going to come home to roost, mark my words."
Later, that same day, Phoebe learned from Linc that he planned to leave in the morning for Minneapolis to see Mrs. Carpenter's doctor. She called Mrs. Lum to warn her - her first attempt to reach her failed when Kitty answered. - Mrs. Lum told her that the actor she had engaged was prepared to go on and had hired offices for the occasion. However, it was not until she rang off that Phoebe learned Linc was planning to take color pictures of Mrs. Carpenter to bring back to show Kate Martin.
Anne told Ruth Martin she promised Kate she wouldn't mention she knew about Ruth's decision to marry David. Anne told Ruth she felt Ruth had made a decision she was not sure of and then she had to go through with it. She said such a decision should be based on love and not need, and the need was David's rather than Ruth's.
SEPTEMBER 1976
(All My Children)
After Donna Beck was transferred to Pine Valley hospital to be registered under a fictitious name, Phoebe ordered the bedclothes burned and the room fumigated. Doctor Charles Tyler was forced to agree with his estranged wife in this matter at least, that the situation between their grandson Dr. Chuck Tyler and Donna had gone too far. Charles insisted the basis of his objections was that Chuck’s concern for the girl was compromising him on a professional basis. He promised to speak to Chuck as Chief of Staff of the hospital rather than as a family member giving advice on Chuck's personal life. -Chuck Tyler had made every effort to enable Donna to leave the life she had lived for the past three years. He hired Dan Kennicott to tutor Donna while she was recovering from the effects of having been beaten and left for dead by Ty Hardin, her pimp. Chuck also suffered a beating administered by Hardin's goons, threats to both himself and his friend Dr. Frank Grant and variously, concern, revulsion and headshaking on the part of his family and "friends."
Philip Brent had begun training with the Police Academy and, with the prospect of a steady job and the finalization of his divorce from Erica, he suggested to Tara that they plan to be married soon. When he sensed Tara's reluctance, he exploded and accused her of putting off their marriage because she was considering remarriage to Chuck. He told her he was tired of waiting; that she was jealous of Donna and wanted to "save" Chuck from her. He insisted he wanted his family — his wife and his son. - Little Philip, legally Chuck Tyler's son and raised by him and Tara, was Philip's child. When he was reported killed in Vietnam, Tara married Chuck. Tara refused to set a date, claiming her main concern was for little Philip who had just started therapy in Pine Valley, his asthmatic attacks, presumed to be psychological in origin, were under control for the present.
Ty called Donna at Pine Valley hospital after overhearing Estelle repeat the name she was using and offered to meet her across from the hospital to give her the money he had been "keeping" for her. When Letty Jean, formerly Ty's "Number One," pleaded with Donna for a stake to go back to Alabama and her small son, Donna told her she had none but would get it from Ty.
When Chuck learned about the meeting, he gave Letty Jean the money she needed himself and met Ty in the hospital parking lot telling him he offered to pick up the money for Donna. Ty attacked Chuck with a knife and managed to stab him before he was subdued by Frank Grant. Chuck's injury was superficial. When Donna heard that the money Ty promised her, "every penny, with interest" had gone for "expenses," swore she would testify against Ty for attempted murder. Ty was arrested by Sgt. Guiness on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, with Donna's complaint to be explored later. As Ty was being read his rights, he taunted Donna that she would never make it in a straight world. When Tara learned of Chuck's wound, Donna overheard her say to Frank she knew that "that girl" would get Chuck in trouble and that Ty was never the problem.
At the time Tara heard about Chuck, she had just come from Anne Martin's room. Anne had started labor. After showing symptoms of dizziness apparently unrelated to her pregnancy or the Toxoplasmosis from which she had recovered, Anne insisted upon staying in the hospital, refusing even to leave her bed for fear of falling and injuring the child she was carrying. Anne's real fears were for the possibility that the child might have already been affected by the disease. Dr. Christina Karras, a pediatrician new to the staff at Pine Valley, had established a rapport with Anne and would assume care of the baby as soon as the child left the delivery room.
Although she tried to calm Paul Martin, telling him there was no point in anticipating trouble - Paul had said, out of his wife's presence, that he believed she was going to give birth to a defective child and was not prepared for what would probably happen. Dr. Karras had to also add that some symptoms of the disease might not be visible — not right away.
At first sight of Dr. Karras. David Thornton told Ruth Martin that the past was starting to catch up with him. He said he knew Dr. Karras — they both interned at San Francisco Hospital. Ruth urged David to try to find a job immediately, away from Pine Valley, even if it was not one practicing surgery. She had spoken to Kate Martin. Trying to mitigate her mother-in-law's disapproval of her relationship with Thornton, she told Kate that David was a surgeon whose inability to save the life of his brother under combat conditions in Vietnam led him to give up surgery and become a hospital aide. Ruth tried to explain it was that shared secret, more than anything, that drew them together during her estrangement from Dr. Joe Martin. She had told Kate that David had said that he could become a surgeon again if she agreed to marry him. Kate characterized her "so called love" for David as a combination of his need and Ruth's natural compassion. She was convinced that Ruth still loved Joe and told her she hoped Ruth would realize that, before it was too late.
When Brooke English told Benny Sago it appeared she would have to return to board-ing school because Phoebe Tyler had insisted she would not interfere with her brother's plans to end Brooke's stay in Pine Valley, Benny assured Brooke that he would handle Phoebe. He told Phoebe he was sure she would call Brooke's parents because she was a "very generous lady." - Benny Sago overheard Phoebe arranging details of her scheme to set up Mrs. Lum in Minneapolis as Kitty's long lost mother, Mrs. Carpenter. The charade had proven intricate and expensive but effective, so far, in keeping her son Lincoln Tyler and Kitty apart. - Phoebe phoned. Later she told Brooke that she could stay on as long as she – Phoebe - was willing to keep her, but if Brooke did anything to make Phoebe regret her intercession, she would have to leave immediately, even if it was in the middle of the night. She insisted that Brooke clear the visit of any friend with her adding she would not have her home turned into a hotel where any "riff-raff" could come and go as they pleased.
Having learned from Linc of his plans to secure a photograph of "Mrs. Carpenter," Phoebe phoned Mrs. Lum. As the actor hired to impersonate her doctor had been unable to secure suitable furnishings in time for the offices he had rented, the scenario, whereby he restated his opinion that Mrs. Carpenter should not be allowed to travel, was staged at the apartment in Minneapolis. After Lincoln left, Mrs. Lum told Kitty she didn't believe Linc was satisfied and might be planning to seek further proof that she was an imposter, possibly even trying surrepticiously to take her picture. Kitty dismissed this as a flight of fancy on her mother's part til Linc called and asked to see her in his hotel room. When she learned from Linc that he did have a camera with him, but for her sake he would not use it, knowing that it would only add to their estrangement whatever the outcome, Kitty told Linc that he had already hurt her too much.
When she secured a job at a dance studio, teaching ballroom dancing, she phoned Anne to tell her she was giving notice on her job with Anne's boutique and planned to return to Pine Valley only to pack for her move to Minneapolis. Anne insisted that she speak to Lincoln who was visiting her hospital room. Kitty told him that she did not want to see him when she returned, saying the last few weeks had been a revelation to her. He forced her to make a choice between himself and her mother and she had made it.
Kitty telephoned Mona Kane to ask her to send on her winter clothes. When Kitty asked Mona if she would like to speak to her mother, Mrs. Lum had a coughing spell and Kitty had to tell Mona that her mother was not feeling up to speaking to her. Mona told Charles she was beginning to believe that Linc's suspicions might be correct and the following day she arranged to see Linc and offered to fly to Minneapolis to see Mrs. Carpenter in person. She called Kitty and told her she had decided to spend her vacation on a visit to Minneapolis and would take Kitty's winter things to her personally. Kitty was delighted and as her mother was not in the room, she told Mona they would keep her visit as a surprise.
Anne Martin had given birth to a girl, Elizabeth Tyler Martin. Dr. Christina Karras told Paul that the child appeared to be in good health but she had ordered a serum test from a blood sample obtained from the umbilical cord. She asked if the possibility of complications should be gone into with Anne at this time, but Paul told her that if there were problems they would know soon enough, and that he wanted Anne to have 24 hours of happiness. David Thornton reminded Ruth Martin, when she was so optimistic, after having seen the Martin baby, that he had seen many cases of Toxoplasmosis in Vietnam, and in every case the child appeared normal at birth.
Erica Kane reminded Nick Davis that it was David Thornton who first made the diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis and confided to him that she had seen a letter addressed to DOCTOR David Thornton.
Chuck went to Tara and told her that she was making herself and everyone miserable. He included little Philip, saying that the child needed a family life and a live-in father. He urged her to call Philip. But when she did ask Phil over, he noted Tara could concede he was right only when Chuck said so. He wondered if Tara, having seen that Chuck risked his life for Donna, might be giving up the idea of remarrying Chuck because she figured she didn't stand a chance against that kind of competition.
Brooke English suggested to Benny that he ask Phoebe about the possibility of his moving into the pool house, as he had got a job at a garage in Pine Valley. She told him he seemed to be very persuasive with her aunt and asked if he had something on Phoebe. Benny replied it "wouldn't be nice to tell."
When Benny saw Phoebe, he told her if she had any car trouble, all she would have to do was knock at his door; he was moving in. Once again, Phoebe had to give in, but to herself, determined she would find a way to turn the tables on Benny Sago.
One Life To Live
Written by: Gordon Russell
Produced by: Doris Quinlan
August 1976
Cathy Craig Lord bitterly asked her father what right he had to decide her baby was going to die. She told Jim that she and Joe might have taken Megan to another doctor and saved her life. When Tony tried to intercede, she shouted at him to stop nagging her. Tony told her not to let her bitterness build a wall between herself and her father but Cathy said she didn't want to see or speak to her father as long as she lived.
Dorian Cramer Lord waited with Dr. Peter Janssen in an outer office as the hospital board was meeting to decide who would head the wing named for Meredith Lord Wolek. Peter told Dorian he was wondering about whether he should have withdrawn his name as Jenny suggested but Dorian told him that he didn’t have to let anyone ever tell him what to do about something he wanted very much. Viki and Jim entered the room and Viki walked over to Peter saying "Congratulations, you've been appointed head of the new wing. Good luck. I'm sure you'll do very well."
At the Craig home, Jim broke the news to Larry saying the vote was 3 to 2 for Janssen. Jim said Dorian got away with it; that she knew all the time the board was going to vote the way she wanted. Jim continued that with Victor Lord gone, it became purely and simply a matter of money as the funds from the foundation would only be forthcoming if Dorian said so. He said that Dorian didn't have to tell them anything. They knew that Peter was her hand-picked candidate.
Karen made a drink for Larry. He told her he was got to stop being "Mr. Nice Guy" and said he made some decisions when Jim told him the news. Though he wanted to have a few drinks and go to Llanfair to tell Dorian she could take her lousy job and stick it in her ear, he decided to take the whole thing as a sign that he should get on his horse. He told Jim he was submitting his resignation, effective as soon as he could find a replacement. Karen cheered Larry on with "Give 'em hell!" and he went on to say that he would continue to be passed over for advancement at the hospital as long as Dorian was in control. He talked about accepting the job out West, reminding them that Anna had said if he did what was right for him, it would turn out to be right for his son Danny, and even mentioned the possibility of going into private practice. He concluded that he held Dorian responsible and if he had to settle accounts, he would do it in his own way and his own time.
Pretending to be on her way to see Dr. Vernon, Cathy went to see Viki and accused her of ruining her life. She said that Viki killed her baby; that Joe and she could have saved Megan because they loved her. Cathy left saying that when she got finished with her, Viki would be sorry she was ever born.
Tony learned from Viki that Cathy had come to see her and, from other sources, including Brad Vernon – Dr. Vernon’s son - and Dorian, that Cathy had not been seeing Dr. Vernon but had been with Joe on a number of occasions. - Joe had told Viki when she questioned him about when and if he would be able to forgive her, that it was not a matter of forgiving but of not being able to forget. Viki said there was nothing they could do about the baby but there was something they could do about themselves. Joe replied he was not making judgements but was just going by the way he felt, and he just didn't feel the same anymore. - However, Joe had told Cathy repeatedly that she had a husband and Tony would be very glad to help her. He reminded Cathy that they had both made their mistakes in the past and who were they to condemn anybody.
After confronting Cathy with a number of deceptions she had practiced and the fact that she was shutting him out of her life, Tony asked what Joe Riley could do for her that he couldn't. Cathy accused Tony of being jealous of Joe and Tony advised her not to be flip or pull a cop-out on him. He told her she was taking their whole relationship and putting it on the line for something she had learned about Megan. Cathy wailed that Megan was their child - Joe's and hers - and Tony added "and she's dead." Cathy screamed that she didn't ask for Tony's help and she didn’t need it. Goaded, hurt and puzzled, Tony asked Cathy repeatedly: "Then why did you marry me?" Cathy, remembering Pat telling her about Tony and Brian, quickly told Tony that she married him because she loved him.
Dorian dined with Peter Janssen and Dr. Will Vernon at Tony Lord's Place prompting Brad, who was there to have a drink with Karen - an obvious second choice since her sister Jenny turned down his not very impromptu invitation - to comment "Good old Dad, out on the town and Mom at home."
Within a few days, Naomi Vernon's – Will’s wife and Brad’s mother - athsmatic attacks became serious enough to cause Larry Wolek, as her physician, to recommend a nurse in attendance. He mentioned that his cousin Jenny might be interested and both Will and Brad Vernon considered the suggestion a good one. Jenny accepted the position. When Brad received an offer to play in a tennis tournament, Naomi told Jenny she was concerned with trying to avoid a fight between Brad and his father. Will had expressed the fear that Brad was becoming a tennis bum. However Will told his son the possibility of Brad's accepting was all right with him, things would be all right at home as Jenny was here. Brad asked Jenny to go out with him when Will was present and when she turned him down, Will went on with his previous conversation saying maybe he was becoming reconciled. After Jenny left, Will told Brad that if he was going to be a tennis pro he should be one, go on the tours and see what he could do, or give the whole thing up completely. Brad professed to be thinking about it and when Will asked about his motivation, Brad, who had been told by his father that Jenny didn’t seem to be his type, asked "How about the love of a good woman?"
Viki, doubling over in pain as she was about to answer the door, called out and Vinnie, hearing her, rushed in. He helped her to the couch and called Larry who ordered an ambulance. Vinnie tried to locate Joe and left a note as he joined Viki for the ride to the hospital. When Joe, who had been on the move, rushed to the hospital, Larry and Jim told him that Viki was having mild uterine contractions and hemorrhaging. After a day or so Viki was released but had to have a housekeeper to take care of her. Dorian, ready to "change her image" sent her housekeeper Felicia to Viki. Unwilling to risk hurting Felicia's feelings, Viki accepted. On her doctor's advice Joe and Viki were to have separate bedrooms for the duration of Viki's pregnancy.
Cathy had been in New York seeing her agent Sidney but ordered him to cancel her appointments and arrived back in Llanfair after being gone only one day. She told Tony that she was going to have a baby and from then on, everything was going to be all right. When Tony asked if Cathy saw a doctor in New York she told him no, but she was having the weirdest feelings, light-headed and sick to her stomach, and didn’t need a doctor to tell her what she already knew. When Tony suggested that she see Dr. Hodges to confirm her pregnancy, she refused to have anything to do with him, saying everyone at the hospital played God with her baby's life. She said that she would call a doctor in the morning.
Brad Vernon had decided to turn down the tennis tour offer and told his father that he intended to seriously seek pupils and begin to settle down in Llanview, perhaps taking up his scholastic pursuits once more. Will wondered at Brad's attributing much of his motivation to Jenny but told his son he believed he was doing the right thing and wished him well. Jenny finally accepted Brad's oft repeated invitation to give her a tennis lesson.
Jenny’s sister, Karen, had sensed Anna Craig's coolness toward her and wondered aloud to Jenny why Anna didn’t seem to like her. Jenny insisted that Karen was reading Anna wrong, that she was upset about Cathy's failure to soften her attitude toward Jim even after Jim had pleaded with her to do so as she was pregnant, and bring the family together at such a time. Jenny also pointed out that Anna was disturbed at the sudden change her brother Larry's life had taken. Anna sensed Karen's preoccupation with money and success. Tony Lord told her that Karen was disdainful of taking a job she badly needed as a waitress in Tony's place and tried to promote a hostess role for herself instead. She turned down the job but later accepted it after enlisting Larry's sympathy and support.
Karen made up a grandly unsuitable series of sketches for furnishing Larry's offices suggesting that he take out a loan to finance impressive surroundings in his new venture into private practice. When Larry told her that he had already taken on considerable indebtedness to finance medical equipment and that such surroundings would scare off most of the patients he would have, Karen answered they were not the ones he should have — he should have wealthy patients. She agreed to re-do the sketches and Larry and she spent more and more time together, he waiting for her during the last hours of her stint at Tony's and driving her home afterwards. Finally, one night, as Jenny was working late at the Vernon's, Karen took Larry to her wing of the Craig house for a nightcap and the evening ended with she and Larry making love. The following morning, as Jenny left the room, Larry asked Karen if she was ok, and she said that she was very happy but the fact that everyone in the house was so close was disturbing to her. Larry told her not to worry, no one was going to know.
Cathy told Tony that Dr. Vernon agreed with her when she went back to see him, that she did not need to continue therapy. When Tony checked with Will, he was told that Cathy misled him; that Dr. Vernon, in fact, had made it clear to her he believed that she had a deep underlying disturbance that would not be swept away by her happiness at being pregnant. He told Tony that he had to try in any way, without pushing Cathy, to get her to see she should seek counseling of her own volition.
Tony told Cathy he had been to see Dr. Vernon and he wished she would look at herself as the woman of perception and intelligence she was. Tony did not push his wish to be present when she saw a doctor to confirm her pregnancy, but told her he would be waiting patiently. When Cathy went to keep her appointment, she was impatient upon learning the doctor was delayed and would have to see a number of patients before her when he returned. She agreed to stay and wait but fumed to herself, as the time went by, that she couldn’t understand why she should put up with the delay, telling herself she knew how she felt and didn't really need confirmation. When she returned to the apartment, she told a delighted Tony that after a careful examination using all the latest scientific methods, the doctor confirmed the fact that she was pregnant.
The previous day, she sardonically confronted Pat Kendall saying that she believed Pat was using ploys to force Brian on Tony. Pat countered that, as far as she was concemed, if there was any way to break up Tony and Brian's relationship without hurting her son, she would be glad of it. Cathy told her that Tony's time would soon be taken up in any case, because she was pregnant.
Both Anna and Matt McAllister noticed that Pat seemed disturbed, and when Pat and Matt had lunch with Dorian, some remarks McAllister made upon seeing Pat stop at Tony's table to congratulate him, caused Dorian to question Pat about the time she knew Tony in the past, to Pat's evident discomfort. When Pat left, Dorian told Matt to keep his eyes and ears open and keep her informed, saying it could be that Tony had something to hide. Matt said he would, adding "Just like old times, isn't it?"
Tony had told Cathy about an offer he had had to expand and take on new responsibilities in the club management field. When he told her he had had to turn down the opportunity for the moment, flattering as it was, Cathy asked why. He said that he couldn't afford to overextend himself. All he needed to do, he reminded her, was to miss "one lil ol' payment" and Dorian would foreclose on "Tony's Place."
September 1976
(One Life To Live)
Karen Wolek had sublet the apartment of a co-worker at Tony Lord's Place, for a month. At first telling Larry that she wanted to stop by to water the plants for a vacationing Margo, she revealed that she had taken the apartment for them to have a place to be to-gether, adding that it was a steal at $200 and “we can afford that." Karen and her sister Jenny Siegel had rented and just redecorated a wing of the Craig home where Larry lived.
Back at the Craig house after spending the night at Margo's apartment with Karen, Larry asked why she insisted on keeping their relationship a secret, saying he had already had to lie and was very uncomfortable about it. Karen insisted that she didn't want to share the knowledge of what they had with other people and still wanted to keep it to herself. Larry went on to say that telling people would be a way of acknowledging their commitment to each other. As Larry and Karen were kissing, Anna came into the room. When Karen went out, Larry told Anna that Karen felt that Anna did not exactly approve and Anna answered that she was not in the business of approving or disapproving. Larry told his sister that he had not been close to a woman since Meredith died and that Karen made him feel very happy. Anna relied: "O.K. Enough said."
Later, Karen told Jenny about Anna walking in on them. When Karen said: "Don't pass out or do a dozen Hail Marys over my face, we've been sleeping together;" Jenny said blandly, "I know that." Jenny reminded her sister that because she had been a nun before her marriage to Tim Siegel, Karen had frequently implied that Jenny was a self-righteous "Goody Two-Shoes" and she resented that.
Vince Wolek, Larry’s brother had been told by Karen that Larry was her "best friend" in Llanview but no more than that. After work, Vinny talked a friend, Doug Napolitana, into stopping off for a beer at Tony's place so that he could meet his cousin Karen. After seeing Karen, Doug left the table to phone and break a date he had that evening in order to be free to ask Karen out. As he came back to the dining room, he saw Karen, in her cocktail waitress uniform, ran across the room to welcome Larry with a very public kiss. Doug hurried to call back the girl he had just phoned and Vinny had time only to ask angrily of Larry just what he thought he was doing, before he had to hurry after Doug. Later he made clear to Larry that he disapproved of Larry's relationship with Karen, Larry's second cousin, and held Larry responsible because Karen was "just a kid."
Samantha Vernon’s, Dr. Will Vernon’s daughter, arrival was the occasion of another asthmatic attack for her mother, Naomi. What appeared to be an old pattern emerged as Samantha, within a few minutes of her arrival, disregarded or resented the things Naomi said to her while she deferred to her father, sat on his lap, and presented the picture of a very grown-up looking "Daddy's girl." Within a few minutes there was a feud going on between Brad and Samantha. Jenny walked in as Will was taking the two of them to task with the emphasis on Brad as the one most culpable in keeping it up, since he was the elder of the two. Jenny assured them that she had seen and engaged in inter-family fighting herself.
Some days later, Larry pronounced Naomi a great deal better and able, if she took things slowly, to dispense with the services of a nurse. Brad tried to talk Jenny into staying on after the end of the week when she was scheduled to leave. When Karen heard of it, she told Brad at Tony's Place, where they both worked, that her sister was a trained nurse and not a paid companion.
Brad was turned down by Jenny when he asked for another date because she needed some time to herself to attend to personal matters. He urged her to drop by for a drink if she found she had some free time and then arranged a date with Lana, one of the cocktail waitresses. Lana told Karen she planned to ask Brad to take her to a "Disco" and tried to promote a double date with Larry and Karen. Karen told her that she and Larry had other plans. Just then Jenny arrived, to Brad's obvious discomfort - Brad's plans for Lana were a quick bite to eat and her place for the rest of the evening. Jenny told Karen that Viki had gone into labor and Larry would be delayed at the hospital as Viki was being prepared for a Caesarian Section. Karen blurted out that Viki Riley wasn't even Larry's patient and when Jenny reminded her that Viki was Larry's sister-in-law and fighting for her life and the life of her child, Karen said she "forgot" and asked Jenny to forgive her and assure her that she "won't tell him what I said." When Jenny told Brad that she was thinking of taking him up on his offer to buy her a drink, Brad told her he had promised to pick up his sister Samantha. When Lana asked about his startled reaction to seeing Jenny, he said that she was his mother's nurse and he was afraid that there might have been trouble at home. When Lana reminded him that Jenny would surely have called instead of appearing, Brad told her he resented the "third degree." He told her that Jenny was an ex-nun adding as far as he knew she "doesn't date, at all."
After going into labor prematurely, Viki Lord Riley gave birth to a son; a beautiful baby, weighing in at four and a half pounds. Because of the strain both Viki and Joe Riley had been under, Doctor Thornley, a heart specialist at Llanview hospital agreed when prevailed upon by Dr. Jim Craig, to x-ray the baby's heart. - Joe Riley and Cathy Craig Lord had only recently learned that their daughter Megan, who was killed in an automobile accident as Viki was rushing her to the hospital, was the victim of a congenital heart ailment, inherited through Joe, and would not have survived adolescence. When Dorian Cramer Lord's "slip of the tongue" made Joe aware of the fact that Viki, Larry, and Cathy's father Dr. Jim Craig, withheld the knowledge of the full extent of Megan's heart condition from himself and Cathy, it caused some problems between him and Viki but they were resolved. Cathy, however, had refused to forgive her father for his part in keeping the secret and still believed that Viki, who had been severely injured in the accident that took Megan's life, recovering only a short time before she, herself, became pregnant - had killed her child. - After the x-rays were evaluated, Jim Craig beamed as he told the Rileys’ that their son was normal. Viki and Joe decided to name the baby, who was born on the late Victor Lord's birthday, Kevin Lord Riley.
Wanda Wolek, Tony’s bookkeeper, told him that when she went to the bank to make the latest payment on the mortgage, the manager informed her that the loan had been paid in full. Tony, furious that Dorian was playing "The Lady Bountiful" called the bank but was stunned to learn that he had no choice in the matter; that someone like Dorian could come along and pick up his loan anytime. Cathy insisted that the gesture was a very generous one on Dorian's part and that they could then concentrate on buying a home in which to raise the baby they were expecting. Tony told her that nobody ever gave something for nothing and that if she wanted a house that badly he would borrow the money. He told Dorian at Llanfair that he intended to keep making payments to her till the full amount had been paid.
Jim Craig learned at a meeting at which Cathy's gynecologist was present, that Cathy did not stay for the pregnancy test nor make any further appointment to be tested. After learning this from Jim, Tony confronted Cathy accusing her of lying to him. Cathy countered that it was her body and she would go to the doctor when she saw fit, telling him to stop presuring her. But Tony went on, insisting that she lied to him three times about seeing the psychiatrist, seeing Joe, and that the gynecologist had confirmed her pregnancy. Again, he asked her why. Cathy said that she lied to him because he got angry with her. He told her not to be ridiculous and ordered her to call her doctor to make an appointment immediately. Cathy told him that she used to be independent and that she was sick and tired of being dictated to. And he, Tony said, was sick and tired of being treated like a fool. Cathy called but told Tony the lie was his own fault because he made her be and do what she couldn’t.
Cathy was killing time the following day, shopping in a department store while awaiting the results of her tests, when she encountered Dorian, who saw that she had been buying baby clothes and offered, as it was Victor's birthday to buy the baby's Christening outfit. Cathy accepted.
Tony was at his apartment working with Wanda when Dr. Morris' office called to give him the lab results. The test was negative, Cathy was not pregnant. When Tony told Cathy on her return, she insisted that the lab made a mistake and that she was determined to prove it by taking a blood test. The following day after she learned that the blood test too was negative, Cathy at first told Tony that the doctor was a quack and she would find somebody else. Tony pleaded with her to go back to seeing Dr. Vernon.
Cathy went to Llanfair to return the Christening dress and told Dorian that she was not pregnant. She learned that Dorian was expecting some people from the paper to celebrate the birth of Viki's son and the fact that the child was healthy. Cathy said Lucky Viki always got what she wanted and when she learned that the baby was born the previous day, she asked Dorian why people were keeping things from her.
The following day, on her way to see Will Vernon, Cathy saw Joe outside the nursery. She saw the baby through the window and told Joe he was beautiful. In Vernon's office, Cathy admitted to feeling pain about Megan's illegitimacy. When the psychiatrist seemed to be exploring the possibility that Cathy was concerned with sparing a child she so badly wanted the pointing fingers that might have been directed at Megan and wished to marry Tony to provide her yet to be conceived child with a "respectable background," Cathy asked him why he didn’t ask her about Viki. She was sure the car crash was deliberate and when Vernon asked how Viki could have known that she herself would not be killed, Cathy replied "ask Viki." Vernon asked her thoughts about Viki and Joe's baby and she said he was tiny and fragile. She said that Joe was so happy and it was Viki's baby that was making him so. She screamed at Vernon, "Wouldn't you hate her? Wouldn't you want a woman like that dead?"
When she saw Pat at the hospital, she called her a hypocrite and once again accused her of having made up the story that Brian is Tony's child. When Brian was at Tony's place on her return, Cathy sent him packing saying she had no idea what the odd jobs Tony dreamed up for him to do could be. Brian later told his mother that Cathy really scared him that afternoon, sometimes staring at him and then not answering him, pretending he wasn't there. Pat told him that Cathy might have just been abstracted; that she had had a disappointment learning that she was not about to have the baby that she thought she would. Brian asked: “What does that have to do with me?"
Cathy again had "forgotten" to keep an appointment with Dr. Vernon, but after a particularly disturbing nightmare, resumed her sessions. Dr. Vernon left the subject of the dream and asked her what else had happened since. He too was puzzled that she had gone to see Viki and asked why. Cathy insisted that she and Viki used to be friends and told him that if he couldn’t take anything she said at face value, they were wasting his time and her money.
Naomi Vernon met Larry in the hospital cafeteria on her way to visit Viki. She told him she had almost forgotten how good it felt to feel good. She expressed a wish that she could learn to control her feelings and Larry agreed that would be half the battle, saying that stress made people more susceptable to illness. Naomi smiled and said that she didn't feel any today, and then looked up to see her husband approach with a pretty nurse. Larry left and Will introduces Robin Crosley, immediately leaving to fetch Robin her "usual" order. Robin told Naomi, whose smile was increasingly becoming forced, that her husband was such an interesting person to work for, in that he discussed his work with her. - Naomi had never been able to get Will to do this with her. - Naomi excused herself and left the hospital without seeing Viki.
Cathy told Tony that she went to see Viki Riley at the hospital. She said she allowed Viki to become close to Megan, and had to take some of the blame for Megan's death herself.
Will got home to learn that Naomi and Samantha had had words but not what it was about - Samantha had given her mother a promise that she wouldn't smoke which she had gone back on, and had begun cutting classes again. - When Will asked Naomi what her behavior was about, she told him he knew very well, but he insisted that he wanted to hear her tell him. She said: "It never fails; they're always pretty and they're all so excited to be working for you." He asked if they were going to have to deal with his one indiscretion the rest of their lives. He called out angrily to a retreating Naomi, that he was not sitting back and letting her talk herself into being ill again.
At Anna’s, Larry asked, as he was leaving for work, if Karen would shop for a present for Viki's baby, telling her he wanted something for twenty or twenty-five dollars. When she returned later to show Anna and Jenny a lovely white quilt and pillow set with a music box, she told Anna she got it on sale for $24.95. Jenny saw the receipt for fifty dollars and asked why Karen lied to Anna. Karen insisted she would make up the difference herself because she didn’t want to give anything chintzy to "this baby especially."
General Hospital
Written by: Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock
Produced by: Tom Donovan
August 1976
Three recent events had convinced Dr. Lesley Faulkner that there was no future for her with her husband, millionaire Cameron Faulkner: Cam's evident delight, devoid of compassion, when he produced the purported father of Lesley's daughter, Laura Vining; Cam's blatant attempt to get Dr. Peter Taylor out of Lesley's life by having Peter offered a job in California; the discovery of a cancelled check for $25,000 given to Barbara Vining by Cam. Cam was in New York to find out who had been embezzling from him. Peter persuaded Lesley to leave before Cam returned, somewhat apprehensive for Lesley if she didn't, citing Cam's almost pathological possessiveness.
Cam had returned early from New York to confront the embezzler, Mac, his trusted associate. Cam demanded his money back, saying he always kept what belonged to him. Mac had gambled it away. Cam fired him, without sever-once pay, saying Mac had had that and more. Mac warned that one day Cam would get what he deserved for running roughshod over people. Lesley packed her suitcase, made a hotel reservation, and prepared to leave the apartment. As she opened the door, Cam walked in.
Cam refused to allow Lesley to leave. She insisted their marriage was over. Cruelly Cam pointed out that a marriage meant a husband and wife sharing a bed and told Lesley she had never been a wife to him, always putting others - Laura, the clinic project, patients - ahead of him. Lesley pointed out that he was admitting the marriage was over. Cam suggested that Lesley wasn't the type to respond to patience and gentleness. He raped her. Meanwhile, Peter discussed Lesley's plight with Dr. Steve Hardy. Steve didn’t want to believe ill of Cam, but Peter convinced him Cam was not a generous man. He noted Cam didn't give people what they wanted but what he thought they should have. Peter was glad Lesley was safe.
While Cam was mixing a drink and taunting her, Lesley ran out the door, but the private elevator wasn't there. Cam grabbed her and told her that if she wanted to get away, he would take her. He put her in the car and headed for the mountain lodge he purchased recently. Lesley pleaded with him to let her go. Cam retorted that he never gave up what was his. He informed Lesley that he was going to teach her to be a proper wife to him, that he would teach her ways to respond to him she never knew existed. Incredulous, Lesley asked if he intended to rape her again. If necessary. Lesley told him that if he laid a hand on her, she would kill him. She grabbed for the steering wheel, and Cam tried to wrestle it away from her. They crashed. Lesley was found wandering in the woods by the state police. After being taken to General Hospital, suffering from shock and exposure, Lesley remembered a bridge, enabling the police to find Cam, dead in the car wreckage.
Singer Terri Arnett, Lesley's best friend, rushed to her side. Lesley poured out the awful story to Terri, ending in tears. Terri, who had often acted as peacemaker between the Faulkners, wondered how she could have been so wrong about Cam, but put it together. It fell to Peter to break the news of Cam's death to Lesley. When he was finished, she cried that she killed Cam. Peter pointed out how foolish that was. He asked Les to consider that she was in the clutches of a truly evil man.
Upon hearing of Cam's death, Kimberly Hughes, a writer for Men-Women magazine, sneaked into Lesley's room, demanding a story about Cam, asking details of life with this "giant of a man." Lesley asked her to leave, but it took the intervention of Dr. Rick Webber to get rid of Hughes.
The Men-Women article told how Peter and Lesley saved a man from committing suicide. It was the inspiration for another person in Port Charles. Upon overhearing the Taylors' babysitter mention she had leave her job on short notice, Heather Grant, fascinated by the lifestyle portrayed in the article, contacted Diana Taylor to apply for the job. Heather heaped praise on Diana, winning her over with flattery and feigned sincerity. Diana asked for references, which Heather and her mother forged, saying it was the only way she could find to better herself, to meet the kind of people she wanted to be like. Diana accepted the references. No sooner did Heather start work than she began a campaign to move in with the Taylors, culminating with a fake phone call with her mother. Heather told Diana she had to quit and return home because her mother didn’t want her living alone in a strange town. Diana had broached the subject of Heather's moving in to Peter. He refused. However, after meeting Heather, and realizing the conveniences of a live-in babysitter, he consented.
Heather had met orderly Derek on a cruise and mistaken him for a doctor. She learned the truth back in Port Charles and turned cool. She had her sights set on the likes of Dr. Jeff Webber.
Diana Taylor had been having grave doubts about her ability to hold onto Peter, feeling totally inadequate when compared to beautiful Dr. Lesley Faulkner. A psychiatrist recommended to her by Peter guessed the problem immediately. Unable to handle it, Diana stopped therapy. Diana feared Lesley and Peter were falling in love, drawn by the common bond of their work. Neither Audrey nor Terri was able to dissuade Diana. When Peter and Lesley were invited to address a symposium in Chicago, Diana was very upset. Her mother suggested she would stay with Martha and Heather, and Diana persuaded Peter to take her along. Lesley's accident and Cam's death caused Peter to postpone the trip. Diana didn't understand why Peter couldn’t still go. He pointed out it was a joint project. Besides, postponing would give Lesley a chance to get away later. Finally, unable to hold it in any more, Diana blurted out all her feelings of jealousy and inadequacy, saying she feared losing Peter to Lesley, especially as Cam was dead. Peter lovingly reassured Diana, but she was not totally convinced she was wrong.
When Lesley asked Terri about Diana's not visiting her, Terri explained Diana's feelings. Lesley had Diana come to her room, where she explained that the "romance" between Peter and her was trumped up by Cam, who hoped to use Diana's jealousy to keep Peter away from Lesley. After Lesley explained Cam's aberrant thinking before his death, Diana felt more secure in Peter's love.
Following a fall down hospital stairs, Dr. Steve Hardy was paralyzed from the waist down by a fracture of the 7th thoracic vertebra. Dr. Otto Marriner, head of neurosurgery, said surgery was contraindicated since the bone sliver that was pressing against the cord was in an almost unreachable position on the internal side of the spine. He recommended that Steve let nature take its course, and perhaps he would heal himself in less than a year. Meanwhile, Steve had to wear a brace and function from a wheelchair.
Steve couldn’t stand the idea of being an invalid, especially since he and Audrey Hobart had just found their love for each other again. Audrey insisted she would marry him anyway, and outlines plans for how they could get around. Steve pointed out that the paralysis was total, meaning he wasn't able to perform sexually. He told Audrey their marriage was off.
Rick Webber told Steve that when he was in Lamonda, Africa, he met a man who had performed surgery in a case very similar to Steve's. Steve invited Dr. Mark Dante for a consultation, over the strenuous objections of Dr. Marriner. It seemed that Dante had served under Marriner at another hospital as an intern. Marriner classified Dante as a hot-shot. Dante insisted Marriner was angry because he won an honor post Marriner had earmarked for a protege.
After examining Steve’s x-rays, Mark told Steve the fragment could be reached through an antrolateral approach — cutting through the chest and going in from the side. Mark agreed to spend the night in Port Charles and consult with Marriner and Steve in the morning. Audrey begged Steve not to consider surgery. Rick invited Dante to stay at the Webber house. Dante found Terri Webber Arnett good company.
In the morning, Dante and Marriner met before seeing Steve. Marriner revealed that Dante is an ex-con, who persuaded a member of the parole board, Judge Lowell, to take an interest in him. Dante pointed out he had paid back Lowell - Dante had revealed he was married to Lowell's daughter, who had been in a sanitarium for two years, refusing to speak to him.- Steve opted for surgery. Dante pulled Audrey aside and explained that her lack of support might give Steve too much to handle during the dangerous operation. Realizing Dante was right, Audrey went to Steve with her blessing, to find him wondering if he had made the right decision. She pointed out that Marriner was often too conservative and might well be afraid of being shown up. Marriner had refused to operate, so Steve arranged for Dante to do it. Dante asked Rick to assist, and Rick asked his brother Jeff to assist with the thoracic surgery. Steve gave his consent to the team, calling Jeff in to give added moral support. - Steve was very close to the Webbers, having known their father, Lars. Steve felt Lars gave Rick the lion's share of attention, and wanted to make some of it up to Jeff.
The long surgery began. Jeff assisted well in his part of the surgery. Dante got most of the fragment using a high-speed drill. He had to use a curette to scrape away the last bit of bone. Steve started both epidural and bone bleeding. It took an hour to stop the hemorrhaging! Dante finished, and they closed. The prognosis was good.
Mark Dante, aware of Steve's great impatience to be well, asked Audrey to recommend a tough physiotherapist. After he listed all the qualifications, mainly having to do with not letting Steve get away with anything, Audrey, as he had hoped, volunteered. Dr. Otto Marriner, angry that Steve rejected his opinion and feeling a lack of confidence, resigned as head of neurosurgery. Steve offered the job to Dante, who explained that he was an ex-con. At 17, he beat to death the man who killed his father. His hands were lethal weapons — he had been a Golden Gloves champ. Steve still wanted him. Dante had to go to Boston, but promised an answer when he returned.
The Webber home contained several unhappy people. Terri turned off to men after her husband's death some five years ago. Rick and Jeff's wife, Monica, were once in love. Monica married Jeff after Rick went to Africa and wrote her that it was all over. Rick was captured by rebels and held captive for many months. Since his return, Monica had been plotting to be with him again. Unable to stay in the same house with Monica, whom he still loved, knowing she shared his brother's bed, Rick had decided to move out. Monica finally decided it was best —for her, and set about persuading Terri to help her find and furnish the apartment, which Monica envisioned as a love nest. Monica had also chosen surgery, Rick's service, as her specialty. But she had to stay on clinic duty until Lesley recovered. Monica went to see Lesley, demanding to know how long she would have to wait. Acceding to Monica's demand for an early release so she could do what she wanted, Lesley promised to return soon. But Lesley was upset with the pressure, and blurted it out to Peter. He reprimanded Monica for her lack of tact and feeling, saying it looked like she was not very good medical material after all. Jeff also let her have it, to which Monica replied that he had what he wanted. When Rick confronted her, Monica turned it all around, saying Lesley misunderstood.
Dr. Rex Pearson, Monica and Jeff's head resident, thought Terri needed a man and set out to be the one. He put her off guard by keeping her apprised of Steve's condition after the fall, then hid in the men's room after she closed her supper club and attacked her. Rick happened by, letting himself in with his key, and pulled Rex off. Rick beat Rex, who wanted to strike back insidiously. Learning from another intern that Monica never noted a previous leg injury that threw an embolism which killed little Joey Galvin following surgery to correct a subsequent injury, Rex wondered if Rick might not be covering for Monica, and contacted Mrs. Galvin, suggesting she look into the possibility of a malpractice suit against Rick and Monica. The lawyer, Mr. Bannister, wondered at Pearson's interest in the case, but told Mrs. Galvin he would look into it and let her know if there was a case.
September 1976
(General Hospital)
Dr. Steve Hardy, recovering from surgery to alleviate paralysis of his lower body due to spinal pressure, began to regain movement, with the help of passive massage administered by nurse Audrey Hobart. Steve and Audrey planned to be married one month after the day Steve was able to walk. Their plans to tell Audrey's son Tommy met an obstacle when Tommy declared that a friend said Tommy didn’t have a father because a father was someone who did things with his son. Audrey told him his real father died in Mexico. But Tommy also remembered that his step-father, Jim Hobart, walked out on them. He felt mistrustful of step-fathers, even after Audrey told him she was going to marry his good friend, Dr. Steve. To reassure Tommy he had a real father, Steve took him on a tour of the hospital, pointing out where Tom Baldwin worked. He and Audrey also investigated how Steve could adopt Tommy. There should be no problem since the coroner had a document to prove Tom was dead in Mexico.
But was he ? Dr. Tom Baldwin was serving a life sentence in a Mexican prison for a murder he didn't commit. He passed out in a bar, and when he woke, he was holding a knife and a man was dead. Tom sent Tommy, with his nurse, back to Audrey. Unbeknownst to Tom, the nurse kidnapped Tommy, and never told Audrey of his real plight. Tom was resigned to his fate, until lawyer Ramon Hernandez took pity on him, perhaps out of boredom after being eased out of the family law firm by his son. Hernandez discovered a possible eye-witness, but urged Tom not to get his hopes up because the red-tape was tremendous.
Dr. Mark Dante, the man who performed the operation on Steve, had been offered the job of chief of neurosurgery by Steve. Mark wanted the job, but he had a wife who had been institutionalized for two years for depression and her doctors in Boston didn’t want her moved. His father-in-law urged him to take the job. He accepted. As he was telling this to Terri Arnett, sister of his friend Rick Webber, Terri told Mark it wasn't right for him to walk out, that he owed his wife Mary Ellen something. Mark consulted with Dr. Peter Taylor about a local sanitarium. - Two years ago, Mark and Mary Ellen were having an argument in the car. Mary Ellen wanted Mark to leave clinic practice for a more lucrative private practice. Mark wanted to stay where he was. Mary Ellen threatened to get out of the car. Unaware she had loosened her seat-belt, he slammed on the brakes, smashing Mary Ellen against the dashboard. She was pregnant. As a result of the accident, she lost the baby and had to have a complete hysterectomy. Mark moved Mary Ellen to Port Charles. The head of the sanitarium, Dr. Ralph Stason, provided Mary Ellen, once an artist, with art materials. He then warned Mark never to discuss the past or his relationship with Mary Ellen in conversations with her. Ralph's therapy began to work. Mary Ellen talked to Mark about flowers he brought her and she began to paint. Terri was elated that she had been of help, but was torn up because she realized she was falling in love with Mark. Her solution was to try to avoid him as much as possible, turning down dinner. However, she had to relent finally when Mark saved her from another onslaught by Dr. Rex Pearson.
Diana and Peter Taylor decided that finally their marriage was on solid enough footing to consider adopting a child. Diana had to have a hysterectomy following the birth of her daughter Martha. They tried an agency, but were told their chances for an infant are poor, since more women were then keeping their babies. They would have to wait two or three years. They next considered a private adoption, consulting with Adam Streeter, head of obstetrics. Adam told them much the same thing, but promised to keep an eye out. Adam learned of a private clinic in Switzerland, run by Dr. Lederer, that sometimes had babies for adoption. However, Diana and Peter would have to be in Switzerland a week before the baby was born, plus get the mother's approval of them. When Peter called Dr. Lederer, he told them he had a mother due to give birth in a week who wanted an American couple to adopt her baby. The Taylors left immediately.
Martha was left in the care of Heather Grant, the Taylors' recently hired mother's helper. Heather, a poor girl with great ambition, forged references and got the job. She wanted a life like the Taylors' and even had her future husband picked out — Dr. Jeff Webber. Heather's ex-husband Larry Joe Baker appeared--Larry Joe wanted her back. Heather refused. Later, fired from his job, he had a chance to buy into a gas station, but he didn’t have the money. He demanded she steal the key to the clinic drug cabinet, so he could steal drugs to sell. Heather, a volunteer in the clinic, refused.
Larry Joe stole Dr. Monica Webber's purse. Monica and Jeff were married, but Heather had observed signs of a rocky marriage, even seeing Monica in Dr. Rick Webber's arms. Heather guessed what Larry Joe had done when Monica discovered her purse missing. Heather got the purse and got Larry Joe off her back by promising not to turn him in if he didn’t tell the Taylors about the forged references.
In the purse, Heather discovered the letter Rick wrote to Monica before he was believed dead and Monica married Jeff. In the letter, after telling Monica it was all over, Rick told her he still loved her and would never be able to get her out of his blood. Heather returned the contents of the purse, minus the letter, which she put in Jeff's mail slot in the hospital.
Dr. Rick Webber and his sister-in-law, Dr. Monica Webber, were called into Steve's office. Mrs. Galvin was bringing a malpractice suit against the hospital for the death of her son on the operating table. The only question Steve had was could Rick have covered for Monica? Rick reassured him, and Steve told them not to worry. Monica was panicky. She went to see Rick at his new apartment, saying she was afraid their past would be dragged in and everyone would discover they were still in love. Rick told her it was all over between them. Later he told her their love would die if they let it. Monica didn’t want that. After a nightmare, Monica told husband Jeff she was panicked about the malpractice suit. He determined to help and went to Mrs. Galvin's apartment. There he met a next door neighbor who was fond of Joey and privy to the fact that Mrs. Galvin wouldn't let Joey be treated for the leg injury that threw the clot that caused his death after surgery for another accident. After Mrs. Damon reported it to Steve, the suit was dropped.
Steve gave his married proteges a day off. At the lake, Jeff tells Monica he'd like to have a baby. She panicked, then told him she was not yet ready to let medicine take a back seat to motherhood. In truth, it was Rick's baby she wanted. When Monica reported Jeff's idea to Rick, he told her her future was with Jeff, not him, but he couldn’t deny he still loved her. Jeff attributed Monica's reluctance to having his baby to the fact Monica was a foundling and never had a secure home. So, with Rick's agreement to co-sign, Jeff got details about buying a house. Monica also quashed that idea. Desperate, she consulted lawyer Chet Davis about a no-fault divorce, only to discover she'd need Jeff's cooperation or grounds, such as desertion.
Meanwhile, Terri had offered them a big party for their first anniversary. When Jeff reported her lack of enthusiasm to Rick, and Rick told Monica she had hurt Jeff, Monica castigated Jeff for tattling on her and moved out of their bedroom. Unable to sleep, Jeff took pills. The following morning, when Monica came in to dress, he had a hard time waking up. He was late, but he decided to have it out. He grabbed her arm, to keep her from running away again. She wrenched away. Still groggy, Jeff took uppers. When Terri found out, she told him he ought to know better, but Jeff felt he had nowhere to go but up. Monica used the ensuing bruise on her arm to convince Rick Jeff mistreated her.
Dr. Rex Pearson accidentally learned of Monica's visit to the lawyer from his friend Chet Davis. He tried to use the information to blackmail Monica into becoming his lover. She refused, then set things up with Rick to cover, in case Rex went to him. Jeff showed Terri the letter, which he thought Monica put in his mail slot. He felt Monica had been in love with Rick all along.
Monica was very upset to learn Rick had had her transferred to Dr. Pearlman's surgical service, instead of to his. He claimed he couldn’t handle two surgical interns at once, but he was afraid of being that close to Monica all the time. Monica showed her bruised arm to Audrey, Terri, and Rick, claiming Jeff was not as sweet and gentle as they all thought. Jeff, unable to handle his feelings since receiving THE letter, tried to force Monica to talk again, causing her to accuse him of being high on pills. Her constant rejection of him in bed drove him to take more pills. As a result, he had a reaction, like suffocating, from them. Heather Grant, who was with him when it happened, helped him through it and promised to keep it quiet.
Jeff played into Monica's hands by getting drunk at their first anniversary party. She played the brave, understanding wife who was trying to cover for her unstable husband. Rick bought it.
Dr. Ralph Stason suggested to Mark that Mary Ellen needed more contact with the outside, although she was not ready to be released yet. Mark asked Terri to be Mary Ellen's contact. Terri agreed.
Dr. Lesley Faulkner, beseiged by reporters since her husband's death, took Rick's advice and went on a cruise. Lesley had been feeling faint and nauseous. She suspected she was pregnant. In talking with Audrey about her previous pregnancy, Lesley told Audrey that she should have had an abortion, that some babies shouldn't be born. Lesley told Terri, finally, what she suspected.
Dr. Peter Taylor and wife Diana had flown to Switzerland to try to adopt a baby, having found that they would have a long wait here, whether they went through a private adoption or an adoption agency. They arrived a week early and met the pregnant woman, Gretchen, who wanted an American couple for her baby. Gretchen told Peter her father disowned her. He was a prestigious banker. Gretchen didn't want to see the baby, which she felt would remind her always of her foolishness. Gretchen gave birth to an 8 pound boy. Peter and Diana were ecstatic because their daughter Martha wanted a baby brother. When the doctor told them Gretchen wanted to hold her baby, Diana's hopes plummeted. She felt no mother could reject a baby she had held in her arms, and Diana's fears were realized. Gretchen told them, when she held her baby she realized she was a woman, her own person. To lose the baby would be to lose a part of herself. Peter consoled Diana by telling her their happiness lay in what they had already got. Meanwhile, Heather, their mother's helper had also been caring for Tommy Baldwin while his mother Audrey was assisting her sister, whose husband had just had a heart attack. When the Taylors returned and saw how well Martha related to older Tommy, they felt Martha could accept an older sibling and returned to the adoption agency.
Lesley Faulkner had her suspected pregnancy confirmed. The doctor felt the baby would be a great comfort to Lesley after the recent death of her husband, Cam. However, Lesley came to know Cam as an evil person, and feared this child, conceived in rape, could bear the same evil as its father. Lesley considered abortion, but knew she couldn't go through with it, just as she couldn't abort an illegitimate baby when she was 18. Her friends affirmed her decision. Just as Lesley came to accept the baby, she was contacted by Cam's former secretary-mistress, Peggy Lowell. Peggy had a letter from Cam that discussed in graphic detail the differences between the two women. Since Peggy was out of work following the collapse of Cam's empire at his death, she offered the letter to Lesley for $1,000, saying that was the offer she had from Kimberly Hughes of "Men-Women Magazine." After reading the letter, Lesley wrote a check. She was also plummeted back into the abortion quandary. Her best friend, Terri Arnett, urged Lesley to discuss the whole thing with Peter. Peter assured Lesley her fears were groundless, saying Lesley "has enough love to give to make any child turn out right."
Mary Ellen Dante, wife of Mark Dante, new head of neurosurgery, had been confined to sanitariums since the loss of their baby and a hysterectomy following an accident caused by Mark's slamming on the brakes during an argument in the car. Mark moved Mellie to Lake Cliff, outside Port Charles, when he accepted his new position. Mellie had been making progress, she then spoke to Mark and had resumed painting. Mellie asked Mark to take her to a play, but he had surgery in the morning and couldn't. Dr. Stason saw the request as a good sign and suggested Mark bring in someone to tell Mellie about the world. Mark asked his good friend Terri Arnett to do it. Terri tried to refuse, but Mark persuaded her. Terri's husband had been dead for five years. Mark was the first man she had responded to in that time. He was also fond of her, but loved his wife. Terri knew it was hopeless, but couldn't help falling in love with Mark. Terri's visit was a disaster. Mellie, a bit jealous of the lovely Terri and her friendship with Mark, brought the conversation around to babies. Mellie told Terri what Mark "did to her," and went into hysterics. Terri, dumbfounded because she had no idea, tried to comfort Mellie, to no avail. Terri called in the doctor. She and Mark left. Terri told Mark he had no right to send her in there without telling her everything. Mark's explanations fell on deaf ears. He told Terri he was afraid to reveal his bad temper.
Mark and Terri finally made up. While discussing the situation, Mark got a call. Mellie disappeared from Lake Cliff and was hit by a car. After talking to the driver, Mark felt sure it was a suicide attempt. He told Terri he was sending Mellie back to Boston, where he wouldn’t be around to drive her to such extremes. Terri went to see Mellie to plead Mark's case. Terri said all Mark wanted was Mellie's happiness. Terri pleaded, "Please forgive Mark. He loves you. Let that love get through, if nothing else."
Mellie’s father, Ben Lowell, arrived to take her back. Mark, meanwhile, told Peter of his decision. Mark felt Mellie hated him so much she'd rather be dead. Mellie asked Ben what he'd do if he had enemies, keep them in view or ignore them. Puzzled, Ben replied that he'd keep them in view. He wondered who Mellie's enemies could be, but she reverted to silence. Mark took the "enemy" to Peter, who said "enemy" could be something other than a person. Mark decided to keep Mellie in Port Charles and asked Peter to take her case.
Tom Baldwin, serving a life sentence in a Mexican prison for a murder he didn't commit, had been given hope by a Mexican lawyer. Hernandez had found an eyewitness and had petitioned the judge for Tom's release. However, since Tom had papers forged to prove he was dead, in order to save son Tommy the ignominy of having a jailbird father, the judge refused, saying he couldn't release or re-try a dead man. Tom's only hope was to find the nurse who was taking care of Tommy and supposedly took him home. Meanwhile, Steve Hardy and Tommy's mother, Audrey Hobart, were making plans to marry and for Steve to adopt Tommy.
Terri gave a first anniversary party for her brother Jeff Webber and his wife Monica. Jeff was drunk, then convinced Monica loved his brother Rick, after receiving a letter Rick once wrote to Monica. Rick and Monica were lovers, but Rick wasn't ready for commitment. He accepted a medical post in Africa. On his way, he wrote Monica a letter telling her it was all over, although he didn't think he'd ever get her out of his blood. Monica swore the letter was a proposal, after Rick was believed dead. She wanted to stay within the bosom of the Webber family, never having had a family of her own. She married Jeff. Six months later, Rick was released by insurrectionists and returned home. He had moved out of the family home to better avoid Monica, whom he still loved. The highlight of the anniversary debacle was Steve Hardy's gift, a week's honeymoon in Miami. Monica accepted, then worked on Jeff to get them out of it. When he purposely failed, feeling it would be a chance to get their rocky marriage back on an even keel, Monica faked flu. Monica had told Rick she was afraid to go away, reminding him of the bruises -accidental- Jeff gave her recently. Monica had taken advantage of the bruises to convince Rick Jeff abused her. After the trip was cancelled, Monica made a remarkable recovery. She learned Rick's surgical mentor, Dr. Pierre Namath, was at the hospital for a check-up. She visited him, reminding him she was Rick's girl. Rick entered to see Pierre, who invited them both to his farm to talk shop. Rick refused for Monica, telling Pierre she was married to his brother.
Rick was flabbergasted to find Monica at the farm when he arrived. She had taken the bus. She assured Rick Jeff knew her whereabouts, saying she left a note. After a pleasant day with Pierre, Rick's car broke down on the way home, necessitating their staying in a motel. Rick called Terri so she wouldn’t worry.
Heather Grant, aware of the rift between Jeff and Monica, and wanting Jeff for herself, saw Monica buy her bus ticket and carefully worked it into a conversation with Jeff. Jeff dropped more pills, then got drunk. Rick learned from Terri that Jeff didn't know Monica's whereabouts. He was furious, but Monica twisted it and ended up crying in Rick's arms. Jeff learned from Terri about the breakdown and tore out after them. Terri's warning phone call broke up an intimate encounter between Rick and Monica. Rick got another room. When Jeff arrived, full of recriminations and jealousy, Monica coolly told him Rick had his own room, which Jeff confirmed. He was humiliated and apologized profusely, but Monica rejected him again, asking why he didn't read her note. At home, Monica quickly wrote a note and dropped it on the floor for Jeff to find. When Jeff found it and tried to apologize, Monica told him, "That note is a symbol of the miserable state of our marriage. We were a mistake." She slept in Rick's old room again. The following day, after Rick told her they almost made a big mistake, Monica told Rick Jeff told her their marriage was a mistake.
Heather called Jeff to the Taylor house to treat Tommy. While there, he poured out his heart to her. Heather told Jeff she was no kid, that she had been married and knew the torment he felt at not being appreciated. He took more pills. They ended up in bed. When Jeff sobered up, he apologized.
Rick destroyed a scathing report by Rex Pearson on Monica. Jeff apologized to Rick. He confided he had tried to talk to Monica, but she wouldn’t listen. Jeff asked Rick to try. Rick said it was Jeff's fault, and refused help. Pearson told Jeff about Monica's visit to a divorce lawyer. - Rex pumped his old friend when Chet called Monica "Mrs. Wagner." - Jeff confronted Monica, after Pearson promised to find someone to cover for him. Monica said Pearson was lying. Jeff tried to kiss her, but Monica broke away. She went to Rick, having mussed her hair and torn her sleeve, crying that she couldn’t go back to a maniac. They made love. Rick confessed he still loved Monica and the trip to Africa was an attempt to run away. Jeff was getting drunk in a bar. The bartender persuaded Jeff to get Rick to talk to Monica, since it was obvious Rick didn't love Monica. Monica asked Rick if he would marry her if Jeff weren't in the picture. Rick wanted to talk it out with Jeff. Monica insisted Jeff accepted none of the responsibility for their problems. Rick gave Monica a key. After Rick left on an emergency, Jeff arrived, pounding on the door, calling for Rick.
The following morning, Jeff was late for work. Steve was informed. Jeff missed surgery with Dr. Pearlman. Later that day, Jeff arrived. He told Steve he had personal problems and forgot the surgery. Steve wouldn't tolerate marital problems interferring with Jeff's duties. Jeff was relieved of surgery until Steve was satisfied he could be trusted. Jeff asked Rick to tell Monica that there could be nothing. Rick refused.
After a terrible nightmare in which her baby was born a devil, Lesley decided to have an abortion and gained a leave from Steve. Lesley swore Terri not to reveal her pregnancy to Rick, denying she had feelings for Rick.
Florence Anderson, Tommy’s old nurse, received a letter from Tom asking her to come to Mexico and testify to the forged death certificate. She was afraid. She found Tommy in the park and took his picture. Florence was upset to learn Steve and Audrey would be married in a month.
Rick failed persuade Steve to remove Jeff's suspension. Mark, aware of what might be going on in the Webber menage, told Steve Jeff was good material and it would be criminal to waste his talent. He asked Steve to lift the suspension and place Jeff on his service. Steve agreed. Jeff later told Steve he was with a girl and had been drinking. Jeff promised it wouldn't happen again.
Rick told Monica he wanted his key back, that he couldn't move towards her as long as she was under Jeff's roof. Monica had a duplicate key made and moved into intern quarters. She told Steve that Jeff's unpredictable behavior had driven her out. She told Jeff they both needed space to figure things out. She told Rick Jeff suggested it because he needed space and said she rubbed him the wrong way. Rick interpreted the separation as the first step towards a divorce and agreed to let Monica come to his apartment.
After a visit from Peter, Mellie asked Mark to see Terri again. Peter, after telling Mark Mellie might be enjoying being the center of attention as she was before their marriage, offered Mellie Diana as a friend. Mellie unenthusiastically agreed. Peter noted her attitude.
November 1976
Dr. Lesley Faulkner, against the advice of her friends, had flown to New York to obtain an abortion. - On the night her husband Cam died in an auto accident, he had raped Lesley. That night and a subsequent letter Lesley bought from his mistress had convinced Lesley that Cam was a truly an evil man. She had had nightmares about bearing a devil, about carrying a bad seed. - The doctor told Lesley that her operation had been post-poned, due to a scheduling foul-up. Lesley was furious. She calleds her best friend, Terri Arnett, to tell her of the disappointment. Terri’s brother, Rick Webber, an old friend of Lesley's since intern days, overheard Terri's end of the conversation. He got the story from Terri and left immediately for New York. Rick, one of those who pointed out Cam's evil nature to Lesley, felt responsible for her step. Lesley, to kill time, went up to the nursery. Rick arrived and found her room empty. As he was on the phone trying to find out if she was in the operating room, Lesley walked in. She had decided to keep her baby, feeling it had a right to live. They went out on the town and spent an enjoyable evening.
Mark Dante, an old friend of Rick's from Africa, was having trouble sleeping in his hotel. Rick, before leaving for New York, gave the key to his apartment to Terri to give to Mark. Mark had had a heart-to-heart talk with Monica Webber, Rick's brother's wife. Monica had been in love with Rick for years. She was in the process of destroying her marriage to Jeff Webber to marry Rick. Monica had moved into intern's quarters, and unbeknownst to Rick, had a duplicate key to his apartment. She used it to let herself in and was stunned to find Mark there and Rick off to New York with Lesley, although Mark didn’t know the reason. Mark asked Monica to be fair to Jeff and make a clean break. Monica told him it was none of his business.
The following morning in the Clinic, where Monica was covering for Lesley, Monica opened a lab report and found Lesley was pregnant. She immediately assumed the baby was Rick's. Confronted with her suspicions, Rick realized Monica was still the same mistrusting, possessive, mercurial girl he went to Africa to get away from. He cited the duplicate key as an example of her game playing. He turned away from her.
After they returned from New York, Cam's lawyer asked Lesley to go up to the mountain lodge and take inventory of her things there, as he had a buyer. Lesley was apprehensive and poured it all out to Rick. He volunteered to take her, and she accepted. Lesley later told Terri she thought she was falling in love with Rick. Terri was pleased, and unaware of Rick's involvement with Monica, she told Lesley that Rick's recent helpfulness could be a sign he was falling in love with her. Meanwhile, Rick confided to Mark that he was tired of the constant up's and down's of his relationship with Monica. Mark encouraged him to fall in love with Lesley, an idea Rick liked. He felt even better when Terri told him Lesley would probably reciprocate loving feelings.
The day Rick and Lesley were to drive to the lodge, Monica arranged to have lunch with Rick. She also cleared her afternoon to be with him. When Rick told her of his plans to be with Lesley, Monica decided there was only one way to handle it. Monica went to Lesley's apartment and told her she and Rick were having a love affair and Rick belonged to her. Rick was mystified at Lesley's silence when they were together. Lesley refused dinner or his company for the evening. Monica arrived at Rick's apartment with a housewarming gift. She admitted she had been manipulative and returned his key. As she was leaving, she asked for one last favor — a kiss. But they couldn’t stop there. The following morning, Lesley arrived to apologize. Monica awaited her chance, then paraded into the room in Rick's robe. Lesley fled. Rick later told Mark he was wrong about both Monica and Lesley. Mark was skeptical.
Mark, earlier, had called Jeff in to ask him about bruises Monica had displayed to everyone, claiming Jeff often roughed her up. Jeff explained Monica wrenched free of his grasp as he was trying to hold her to talk to her. Mark sent Jeff to Peter and Diana Taylor's house with tests for Peter. The Taylors were out, but their mother's helper, Heather Grant, was very much there. She reminded Jeff of an earlier romp in the hay and made it clear she was ready again. He refused, saying he loved his wife. Heather told her mother that she wanted to be Jeff's wife and the one way she knew to accomplish it was to get pregnant with his child. Her mother was horrified. Snooping outside Monica's room while Jeff was there, Heather overhears Monica tell Jeff there was no hope for them, that he didn’t turn her on, that he find someone he did turn on.
Heather found an excuse to go to Jeff's house. She told him what she overheard and that he did turn her on. They went to bed. Jeff felt guilty, but Heather reassured him. He found her childlike ways endearing. Heather suggested she tell the Taylors she was enrolling in a self-improvement course and they meet regularly. Jeff was reluctant. The first meeting they tried to arrange almost fell through. Steve Hardy, chief of staff, had been close to the Webbers for years. He offered his services as a marriage counselor. Jeff agreed and went to talk to Monica, who refused. Jeff and Heather had another tryst.
Peter and Diana Taylor, frustrated in their attempts to adopt an infant, and finding their daughter Martha got along so well with older Tommy Baldwin, decided to try to find an older brother for Martha. They were introduced to orphaned Mike, who had been bounced from one foster home to another for years. Diana, who had hoped to find another Tommy, was devastated by Mike's show of hostility. Peter, on the other hand, was intrigued, saying Mike had a lot of spirit. He reminded Diana Mike hadn't had Tommy's advantages, and urged her to give him another chance. Diana agreed, reluctantly.
The happiness Steve Hardy and Audrey Hobart shared over their forthcoming marriage was palled by the appearance of Audrey's son Tommy's old baby nurse. Florence Andrews Jennings talked with Tommy in the park and took his picture. Audrey set out to find Florence. Florence's husband was hostile, telling Audrey only that Florence had been away. Audrey was still nervous. Florence was in Mexico giving a deposition about buying a forged death certificate for Tom Baldwin, who was in jail for life for murder. His lawyer had an eyewitness who knew Tom was innocent, but the judge wouldn't reopen the case because Tom was officially dead. Florence told Tom of Steve and Audrey's wedding plans and Steve's plan to adopt Tommy. Tom refused to let her interfere until he was freed, if he was freed.
In discussing their mutual concern over the relationship between Jeff and Monica, Terri and Mark found themselves in each other's arms. They confessed their love for each other: Mark was distressed because he was afraid of hurting Terri, considering he was already married. He asked what he could give to Terri? She replied, "The joy of being alive." Mark's wife, confined to a sanitarium, had intuited Terri's threat to her marriage and had decided to befriend her, to keep an eye on her. When Mary Ellen – Mellie - asked to see Terri again, Peter, her psychiatrist, decided it might not be advisable. Peter sent Diana instead, who returned with glowing reports of Mellie's sincerity in establishing a close rapport with Terri. Terri visited. Mellie expressed the desire to go shopping with Terri, who arranged it. The trip was a disaster. Mellie bought a very sexy gown, despite objections from Terri and her nurse.
Mellie wore the dress at Mark's next visit, making an overt attempt to seduce him. Mark managed to evade her saying it wasn't the time or place. Mark sent Peter out, who felt after talking with Mellie, that she wanted to be Mark's wife again, a healthy sign. Mark confessed his love for Terri. Peter pointed out that if Mark ever wanted a full life with Terri, he had to help to make Mellie well first. Mark started hunting for an apartment and making arrangements for Mellie to visit on weekends. Terri agreed to the arrangement, feeling it was their only route.
Monica worked on Terri to get Jeff to ask for a divorce. Realizing Monica truly wasn't the woman for her brother, Terri agreed, but insisted on waiting until after Steve and Audrey were married.
The day Steve and Audrey were married in a lovely ceremony in the Webber home, Tom Baldwin was released from his Mexican jail.
Jeff made a date with Heather for after the ceremony, avoiding Monica's demands that they have a drink and talk. Monica had told Rick that she intended to ask Jeff for a divorce. When Jeff wouldn't cooperate, she accosted him in the Webber kitchen. She told him she wanted a divorce, no news to him. He refused, saying he loved her and he couldn’t give up the chance she might come to love him. Monica was beside herself.
Mellie called her father with the good news that she would be allowed out of the sanitarium on weekends. Judge Ben Lowell credited Mark with Mellie's great improvement and her new maturity. Mark hadn't the heart to tell Ben he had found a new love in Terri.
The strain of discovering Monica and Rick's affair had elevated Lesley's blood pressure. Rick told her he was disappointed in her because she judged Monica and him, instead of reacting like an understanding friend.
DECEMBER 1976
Dr. Jeff Webber kept his date with hospital aide Heather Grant, following the wedding of Steve Hardy and Audrey Hobart. However, having just had a nasty scene with his wife Monica, in which he refused to give her a divorce, Jeff was unable to live up to Heather's expectations for the evening, which was to culminate in more lovemaking. Jeff apologized the following day, suggesting he and Heather cool it because he still loved Monica, even though she had moved out and had asked for the divorce. Jeff told Heather that he would be there to pick up the pieces when Monica realized his brother Rick didn't love her any more. That day, Monica told Jeff that, if he didn’t agree to a civilized divorce, she would name his girlfriend as co-respondent. Jeff told Heather they would have to stop seeing each other. Monica questioned Jeff's friends and family about who the girl could be. Nobody knew. Rick and Monica were involved while Rick was interning and she was in med school. Monica, insecure and unstable, made such a roller-coaster ride of their relationship that Rick went to Africa to work to get away. While there, he was captured by insurgent forces and held prisoner for nine months. He was reported killed, so Monica married his brother Jeff. Rick's return fanned her never-quite-quenched love for him, and Monica had been plotting and manipulating her way out of her marriage to Jeff. After moving out, Monica persuaded Rick a divorce was imminent, and he gave her a key to his apartment, where they then met. Jeff was unaware of their love affair.
Heather, aware of Monica and Rick's affair, found a way to expose them. Seeing an ad for a night doorman for Rick's apartment building, she called her ex-husband Larry Joe. Heather had been poor all her life. She forged credentials to obtain a mother's helper position with Peter and Diana Taylor, in order to be closer to the life she craved. Learning of Jeff's rocky marriage, Heather conned her way into his affections by being a willing bed-partner. She had told her mother that she intended to get pregnant, feeling Jeff would give up Monica to have his own baby. Heather told Larry Joe that Jeff used her and tossed her aside, so then she wanted to hurt him back by exposing his wife's affair with his brother. Larry Joe agreed to take the job when Heather promised to give their marriage another try.
Meanwhile, Dr. Lesley Faulkner, long a colleague and friend of Rick's, and then in love with him, had discovered the affair. She found Monica in Rick's apartment with his robe on early in the morning. Terri Arnett, aware of Lesley's love for her brother Rick, pressed Lesley about why she had backed off. Finally, Lesley told Terri about the affair, stating her relationship with Rick had naturally been very cool lately. Ironically, the night Lesley and Rick agreed to let bygones be bygones was the night the whole situation began to lead to tragedy.
As Lesley and Rick went to the aid of a patient, while Monica waited in Rick's apartment, Terri confronted Monica. Terri agreed to persuade Jeff to accept a no-fault divorce, if Monica stayed away from Rick, starting immediately. Monica replied that she would stop seeing Rick after Jeff agreed. Larry Joe reported to Heather that Rick and Monica were together. Heather directed Larry Joe to call Jeff and tell him he would find his wife in 18C of the Towers. Jeff couldn't get off duty, so he waited. Monica and Rick were awakened by the doorbell shortly after mid-night. They ignored it. Jeff decided to wait outside all night. He observed Monica leaving, excited because Rick had chosen her to assist in heart surgery, on his and Lesley's emergency patient. Jeff confronted Rick. Rick replied that Jeff didn’t deserve Monica, considering how he had roughed her up recently. During an argument, Jeff had grabbed Monica's arms to hold her to talk to her. She wrenched away, hence the bruises and her claims of physical abuse. Jeff finally got through to Rick that they had both been manipulated by Monica. Jeff told Rick that he had always admired him and would never have believed that Rick could betray him. Jeff knocked Rick down. He recalled a childhood incident in which Rick saved his life, then said he wished Rick had let him drown. Jeff went on, that despite all Monica had done to betray his love, he still loved her. He left the apartment.
Neurosurgeon Mark Dante was upset when Jeff missed surgery. He quickly had another surgeon fill in, then went to see Rick, a friend from Africa, to inquire about Jeff. Rick confided the confrontation to Mark. Rick was afraid Jeff might try suicide. They began to search, to no avail. Before surgery that morning, Monica gloated to Lesley about her affair with Rick. Monica was thus unpleasantly surprised when Rick treated her sharply, abruptly when he arrived. Later Monica asked Rick about his behavior. Rick told her about the confrontation and his fears. Monica glossed over them, saying Jeff was probably just off somewhere getting drunk.
Chief of Staff Steve Hardy, noting the substitution on the surgical roster, called Mark about it. Mark was as evasive as possible. Steve then talked to Terri. She knew nothing, so he talked to Rick, who told him about the morning's events. Terri, alarmed by Steve's visit, went to see Mark, who finally told her.
Ironically, Monica was right about Jeff. He was on a binge with alcohol and drugs. He ended up at a familiar bar, just before closing. The bartender refused to let him leave, fearful he would get in trouble himself. He fixed up a bed for Jeff behind the bar. While the bartender was gone, Jeff stole his gun. He counted the bullets "three for Monica, three for Rick." The following morning, the bartender was alarmed when Jeff didn’t seem to be coming out of it, unaware Jeff was still popping pills. The bartender knew Jeff was a doctor and finally wheedled Mark's name out of him. He called Mark. Jeff, hallucinating, saw Rick and Monica in bed in the room with him. "They" taunted him. Mark arrived. Jeff talked to "Rick" and "Monica," pointing the gun at them. As Mark called to him, the gun went off. Mark and the bartender broke in and find Jeff on the floor, a bullet in his head. Mark rushed him to the hospital.
That morning, distraught to know how her stage-managing worked out, Heather fainted in front of Dr. Adam Streeter, who put her through a check-up. She was pregnant. Later, Larry Joe dropped by with a gift and she told him to buzz-off. Heather rushed to Jeff's side as soon as she learned of his condition. Steve noted her concern, and guessed she was Jeff's enigmatic girlfriend.
X-rays showed the bullet lodged in a precarious spot in Jeff's brain. If it should shift at all, it would mean sure death for Jeff. Monica went to see Rick. He told her that considering what Jeff did, they couldn’t go on. Such a termination hadn't occurred to her. Rick viewed Jeff's situation as "God's personal punishment to me." Monica passed it off as just alcohol and pills, saying it wasn't their fault. Rick, however, took the responsibility. He told Monica he didn’t want her, and turned a deaf ear to her "reasoning."
Monica wouldn’t believe it was all over with Rick "just because Jeff shot himself." She talked to the bartender and found Jeff was threatening to kill Rick and her. She took the information to Rick, who refused to believe her, especially since Lesley told him Monica revealed her presence in his apartment deliberately. Monica tried to blame Jeff's condition on Lesley because Les told Terri about Rick and her. Lesley was talked out of any responsibility by Rick. Lesley found it hard to believe that Monica's concern was in absolving herself of responsibility for Jeff's condition rather than for Jeff's recovery. Following an angiogram, Mark found he had to operate if Jeff was to have any chance of surviving.
Terri told Steve her mother left a letter she was to open with Steve, if Jeff's life should be in danger. She found it was time.
General Hospital
December 1976
Steve and Audrey's honeymoon was interrupted when they learned Tom was alive and back in Port Charles making claim to Tommy. Turned out by Jeff, Heather conned Larry Joe into spying on Monica to prove she's living with Rick. Mike agreed to spend Christmas with the Taylors. Adam is worried about Lesley's condition. Mary Ellen was released for a weekend, determined to encounter Terri on her home grounds. Jeff confronted Rick after receiving an anonymous tip about Rick and Monica. Lesley and Rick made a truce and worked together on a new patient, Amy. Jeff went off the deep end when he learned about Rick and Monica and stole a gun -- intent on killing them. He locked himself in a back room of a bar. Heather thinks she's pregnant. Mike joined the Taylors for the holidays. Christmas for the Webbers was a bummer. Jeff lay near death after he shot himself in the head. But little Mike added cheer to the Taylor household. Everyone chastised Monica as Jeff made slow progress to recovery. Mary Ellen resolved that the coming year would be the best for her and Mark. Tom told Audrey that he asked brother Lee Baldwin, his lawyer, to arrange for a divorce, and that he's not yet ready to tell Tommy the truth. Mike and Martha planned a New Year's Eve party just like the grownups.
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