The Young And The Restless
Written by: William J. Bell
Produced by: William J. Bell & John Conboy
Brad Elliot was told by his brother-in-law Snapper Foster that his condition was stable. The optic nerves were still swollen, but since he had had no headaches he should continue the cortisone. Brad still refused to tell his wife, pianist Leslie Brooks Elliot.
Lance Prentiss, a wealthy industrialist, and Lorie Brooks, found each other arrogant and egotistical, but when Lance needed a date for his trip to London he called Lorie and she accepted. Lance's private jet pilot suggested that Lorie turned him on because she was turned off by him. The same seemed to hold true for Lorie. In London Lorie found it difficult to take orders about details for a party he was giving especially when they included how she should dress and act. When he invited himself into her suite later for a nightcap, Lorie thought they had come to the reason he brought her along, but to her amusement he was going to a poker game. When she suggested that girls had no place in his life except as decoration, he kissed her passionately enough to leave her filled with amazement.
Their last evening in London, Lance and Lorie came to a better understanding of each other. Lorie had considered staying, but had no funds and was shocked that Lance offered her money. He tried to tell her that she should not be jealous of Leslie because she had talent of her own. She said she had a book coming out, but it wouldn’t be published under her own name. She explained that because she was an outgoing child her parents didn't feel that she needed the attention that introvert Leslie did - Lorie had always believed she had existed in her sister, Leslie's shadow. Leslie was married to Brad, the man Lorie wanted, and Leslie, a successful concert pianist, had the fame and recognition Lorie had tried so desperately to achieve. The book, a novel, was based on Leslie's nervous breakdown and recovery, something she was trying to put behind her.
Lance was a self-made man whose father died a debtor when Lance was six. Lance had a need for success, but said you had to make it happen.
Gwen Sherman, then Sister Magdalene, would soon take her final vows, but as the time drew nearer she became confused. The Reverend Mother wanted to send her to school, but Gwen would rather stay in the settlement house. She found it difficult to accept that nuns were not used where they felt most useful. The Reverend Mother noticed that Sister Magdalene had doubts about herself. She felt that God held her past against her because no one could possibly believe that a prostitute could be pure enough to become a nun. She hadn't found peace in God's love and felt she wouldn’t until she could forget about her past. She found it easy to pray for Greg Foster who was having a hard time fighting for his sister's child - Greg and Gwen were once in love. He helped her get out of the hole in which she found herself.
Jennifer and Peggy both thought they would have trouble adjusting to Jennifer's move back home, but Peggy found that she could still confide in her mother.
Jack Curtis – real name Johnny Curtzynski - liked Peggy Brooks, but felt he couldn't abandon his wife Joann especially since a lot of her weight problem was due to the secret abortion she had when he told her they couldn't have children until he finished school. Jack had every intention of telling Peggy to see other men, but ended up telling her it would make him jealous.
Joann was trying very hard to lose weight as Johnny knew about the abortion and seemed to care. Peggy had seen Johnny talking to Joann, a waitress at the Allegro, Peggy's sister’s restaurant, and told Joann how wonderful she thought he was. She confided that she was in love with him. Joann had a difficult time concentrating on her lunch tables and ended up spilling a tray. Brock dragged the story out of Joann and then gave her some time off.
Knowing that Chris Foster at Legal Aid was Peggy's sister, Joann dropped by to ask Chris about changing her name legally. She explained that their name was very difficult and her husband went by Jack Curtis at the university. Chris made the connection and told her father Stuart Brooks about it.
Stuart asked Peggy what she knew about Jack and she explained that he was from Pittsburgh and had a cousin in Genoa City. Stuart called Jack asking to see him, leaving Jack wondering how Stuart knew his home phone number.
Explaining that he knew about Jack's wife, Stuart asked how he could have done this to Peggy and what he intended to do about it. He insisted that Jack tell Peggy.
In a later conversation it slipped out that Stuart had talked to Jack, but Stuart couldn’t tell Peggy that Jack was married. Furious, Peg informed her father that if he didn’t stay out of her relationship with Jack she would never forgive him. Chris set her father straight when he assumed that Jack was using Peggy sexually. She said Jack was very protective of Peggy and Peggy's own feelings. Jack asked Stuart for time to let Peggy down easily. The reason he had become so involved was because emotionally Peg was at rock bottom and it was too late when he realized she was in love with him. If she was let down suddenly she might return to the bottom. Stuart agreed and told Brad that he actually thought Jack was a good guy and this was the only way it could be handled without hurting Peggy.
Stuart talked to Joann at the Allegro, letting her know that he was aware of the situation. She told both Stuart and Chris that she didn’t know what she would do without Johnny and that she only needed a second chance and a little time. Chris told Jack that Joann was aware, but in order to save face she didn’t want him to know.
That evening, Peggy apologized for the things she said to her father because she knew that he was only concerned about her. She asked if he was concerned because Jack had not said he loved her yet and she might get hurt if he didn’t. She pushed Stuart into saying, "He's not right for you," and then Peggy listed all the ways he had helped her. When Peggy had him backed into a verbal corner he blurted out, "For God's sake, he's a married man!" Peggy refused to believe this and told him she would prove him wrong by going to Jack. Seeing that she was upset, Jack asked if her problem had anything to do with her family. Peggy said her father had said he was married. When he asked her to sit down rather than denying the accusation, Peggy burst into tears realizing the truth of her father's words. Jack tried to explain that he started to tell her many times, but she begged him to never leave her and, not wanting to hurt her, he kept hoping for a better time to tell her.
After Peggy’s sobs had quieted, she sat in a booth at the Allegro. Seeing her long face Joann told her that she had been through a hurt like that also. Due to some personal problems she had gained weight which caused her husband to become distant. Then another woman had fallen in love with her husband. She gently told Peggy that they were both in love with the same man because Jack Curtis was her husband.
Jack called the Brooks' home and Peggy answered. She hung up and Jack realized that he was in love with Peggy.
Jill Foster asked her brother Snapper to do a blood typing on her son because the hearing for the suit to obtain an inheritance for her son would be the following week. Snapper reminded her that this would show only that Phillip Chancellor could be little Phillip's father. Chris Foster asked her father, newspaper publisher Stuart Brooks, not to publish news of the trial since it could only hurt reputations and not really inform anyone.
Mitchell Sherman, Kay Chancellor's lawyer, asked Kay if she would consider settling out of court, but she intended to see this through. Jill took the baby to Phillip's grave on the Chancellor estate for the first time and was run off by Kay.
The geneticist testified in court that Phillip could be the baby's father, but Brock Reynolds also could be. Sherman said there were other tests which could prove more positively who was the baby's father, but Greg explained that Phillip was in the hospital due to an injury and the blood was not typed that extensively.
Jill testified that Phillip was the only man she was ever intimate with, and then only once. Jill testified to telling Phillip about the baby and his idea of the divorce from Kay and their marriage so that this baby would have his legal name. Sherman brought up the "Dead Man Statute" which said that conversations with a deceased person were not admissable because he couldn’t defend himself. When the judge ruled that the "Dead Man Statute" would be upheld, Jill came close to being held in contempt of court.
Brock substantiated the fact that although he and Jill lived together they were never intimate. Brock testified that his mother, Kay Chancellor, offered to make the family funds available to him if he married Jill. Snapper and Jill thought that this was what he did, but Brock explained he never cashed a check and he got a job to support Jill because he cared what happened to her.
The judge ruled in favor of Kay. Jill emotionally told the judge that he had denied a child a decent life and a man his dying wish.
Brock intended to use the account Kay set up for him when he married Jill to care for the Fosters, but Kay closed it out the day he testified.
Jill arrived at Kay's with a bag over her hand, demanding that Kay admit Phillip loved her and this was his child. Fearing for her life, Kay repeated it. Jill put the sack on a chair saying Kay could do it to herself. The sack contained a bottle of liquor.
The Young And The Restless
Written by: William J. Bell
Produced by: William J. Bell & John Conboy
Sister Magdalene, Gwen Sherman, found her accidental meetings with Greg Foster very influencing. Greg's brother, resident Doctor Snapper Foster, warned Greg against seeing Gwen unless he could make a definite commitment to her if she left the convent. Snapper also explained to Mother Superior that Gwen had known men and was meant to have a man in her life physically. The Mother Superior told Gwen to ask God's guidance. After a long session in the chapel, Sister Magdelene felt she had been hiding in a convent and this was the reason she hadn't found peace there. She dreamt of Greg holding her in his arms and having his child. She told the Reverand Mother that she had decided not to take her final vows and the Bishop was notified of her intent.
On the day her release arrived, Sister Magdelene was told to remove her habit and put on the civilian clothes left for her. Gwen asked Greg to meet her in front of the settlement house, not telling him that she was leaving. The only request made of her by the Reverend Mother that she didn’t agree with was that she was to take the five hundred dollars that she earned as a prostitute that she gave the settlement when she entered the convent. This was to see her through until she had a job. Gwen felt that this was "dirty" money and that the only way to clean it was by putting it to good use through charity.
Before Gwen could meet Greg out front he arrives with a little boy, Ramon, in his arms. Ramon was walking on the fence and fell, hitting his head. When Ramon became conscious, the Reverand Mother was about to take him, but he asked to stay with Sister Magdelene. Under ordinary circumstances this would be nothing, but Ramon had not spoken since entering the convent even under Sister Magdelene's gentle persuasion. Gwen saw this as a sign from God she had prayed for. She then decided to stay on at the convent.
A few days later, she visited Greg at Legal Aid to tell him how happy and content she was that God had given her the sign. She removed her baby ring telling Grey that subconsciously she had been thinking she would marry and give this to her child, but since she had adjusted to the fact that she wouldn't, she would like Jill to have it for her baby. Sister Magdelene was going to enter nurse's training in St. Louis after taking her final vows. If God wanted it she would come back to the settlement house and if not, she would go where he sent her.
After Jill Foster lost her case to have her baby son, Phillip Chancellor Foster, claim his inheritance from his father, Phillip Chancellor, she decided that she had to have revenge. Jill delivered the first bottle of liquor herself to Mrs. Kay Chancellor, and continued to have a bottle a day sent to her. Jill's mother, Liz, disapproved, but couldn’t stop Jill. When this doesn't tempt Kay enough to make her drink, Jill started spending the evenings with Kay pretending that it was two years previous when Jill was Kay's companion. When Kay made a reference to Jill's baby she was told there was no baby. Jill used incoming calls from salesman to convince Kay that Phillip was on a business trip. When she had convinced her of all this it was easy to get Kay to take a drink to steady her nerves.
Liz put together Jill's nightly errands and Mrs. Chancellor's references to Jill when she went to the estate to care for Mrs. Chancellor during the day. Liz and Brock who visited his mother to find Jill acting her part, tried unsuccessfully to bring Kay back to the present. But she refused to believe that Phillip was anywhere other than on a business trip. Brock took his mother for a walk and showed her Phillip's gravestone on the estate. Kay wandered in and out of reality never understanding everything.
Jill went to see Mrs. Chancellor and capitalized on Kay's belief that Jill's son was her grandchild. Kay agreed to give her money if she would bring the child for a visit. Brock and Liz tried to stop her saying that Mrs. Chancellor wasn't stable enough yet to trust her around the baby. Jill took the baby to Kay who chastised Brock for not caring for his wife and child properly. Brock tried to explain, but wasn't given the chance. Jill asked for the check before she left. When Jill held out her hand to accept the thousand dollars Kay saw Jill's hand holding a drink and realized that Jill started her drinking again for which she hated herself. Furious, Kay knocked Jill's hand aside making the baby fall to the floor. Brock rushed Jill and Liz to the hospital with the baby and then returned to his mother who was trying to piece things together. Jill was blaming Kay for the accident, but Liz reminded her that she was just as much at fault. Snapper told them that Phillip had no broken bones or internal injuries — he would be all right.
After Jack Curtis realized that he really loved Peggy Brooks, the student he was tutoring, he thought about his own marriage and how different his wife Joann used to be. She was a very independent person until she gained a lot of weight. Jack, Johnny to Joann, recently found out that Joanne became a compulsive eater following an abortion when he unknowingly told her he didn't want children until he was through with his education. Joann had been trying very hard to lose weight and win back Johnny's affection even when she found out that Peggy Brooks was also in love with Johnny and had no idea he was married. Jack told Peggy that they could be together once he helped Joann find her old self again. Not wanting to cope with seeing Jack, Peggy accepted her girlfriend's invitation to spend the spring vacation on her campus out of town.
Jack tried to interest Joann in returning to college, but told her it had to be because she wanted to, not for him. Johnny was trying desperately to make Joann an individual.
Brock told Joann that he would rearrange the work schedule at the Allegro and get a loan for her to go to school. He sent her off to see Johnny at the university, but Joann overhears Johnny explaining to Peggy, who had returned, that he would divorce Joann after she was strong enough to care for herself. Peggy told him that she would wait.
Lance Prentiss had made it a point to visit Genoa City so that he could meet Brad Elliot, pianist Leslie's husband. Leslie's sister, Lorie, had been telling Brad that Lance was in love with Leslie and Lance admitted to Brad that he was in love with her talent. Lorie felt that he used her to get close to Leslie.
Leslie had another concert in Mexico City and this time Brad planned on going along and then taking Leslie to Acapulco for a vacation. Lance had to fly to Rome on business and then plans on attending the concert in Mexico City. He suggested that Leslie and Brad go with him to Rome, but Leslie had rehearsals and Brad had a lot of work at his newspaper, so Lance again invited Lorie. The evening before their departure Brad bought Lorie a new dress for the occasion knowing she had very little money of her own. She told Brad that she had decided that the best way to handle Lance who was used to having females swooning at his feet was to play hard to get. Lance confided in Leslie that since Lorie was used to adoration by the male species that he would ignore her.
Lorie was dreading her her return slightly since her second book would have been released by then. "In My Sister’s shadow" dealt with the story of her life as well as Leslie's stay in a mental institution. Leslie had admitted that her past wasn't always as far behind her as she might wish.
On their flight to Rome in his private jet, Lance was able to put his plan into practice. When the washroom door was stuck and he let Lorie anguish over his indifference for awhile.
Once in Rome, Lance conducted his business, but promised to take Lorie shopping. When she returned to her suite one afternoon Lance was using it to select dresses being modeled privately for him. When he ordered them in Leslie's size and asked that they be altered to his specifications by the end of the day, Lorie was sure she was a front for him to see Leslie. When he returned to her room she demanded he send her home the following day without going on to the concert. Meanwhile, the dresses were delivered to her suite in her size and Lance chastised her for returning early this afternoon and almost spoiling his surprise. When he had a magnificent dinner sent to the suite instead of dining out he admitted that being predictable was boring. Lorie decided to stay on.
While Leslie was preparing for her concert, Brad's violent headaches were returning. He had Snapper take all the tests again, but there was no change in the results. Brad decided that he would go to Chicago - Brad had been a neurosurgeon in Chicago - to have more tests taken while Lorie was in Mexico.
Brad broke the news to Leslie that he wouldn’t be able to go to Mexico City and asked that she just trusted him. Leslie let it go at first, but then she remembered that he cancelled his trip to her concert in Puerto Rico. She asked Brad to tell her.
Brad told Leslie that his mother was very ill and he had to be with her. Leslie sent flowers and a card, but when she called to inquire about Mrs. Eliot's health after Brad left, she was told that there was some misunderstanding. Les wondered what Brad was up to, but didn't ask when he called her in Mexico City because Lorie was in her room.
Jennifer Brooks, Leslie’s mother, agreed that she and Stuart should meet Leslie and Brad in Acapulco rather than Mexico City since Lorie was still rather hostile after finding out that Bruce Henderson was really her father. Jennifer was afraid that Lorie might tell Stuart and they were very happy since their reconciliation.
Chris Foster tried modeling as a new career path, but gladly gave it up when she found that Jerry Estes, her boss, was a voyeur.
