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Original posting of Episode 2:

Date: 20 Oct 96 19:09:43
From: kmp@harlequin.com (Kent Pitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs
Subject: Y&R: Another Way Out, episode 2
Message-ID: <KMP.96Oct20190943@romulus.harlequin.com>

"Another Way Out" takes plotline state at the time of publication and
shows that there are interesting places right around the corner.  The
goal, besides just having a good time, is to challenge the notion that
we have to stay stuck in the same old tired plotlines for months in
order to achieve interesting effects.  There is always another way
out...

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ANOTHER WAY OUT, Episode 2, 20-Oct-96   by Kent Pitman (kmp@harlequin.com)
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Peter returns to Genoa City, and explains that things just didn't work out
with Sasha.  He presents Phyllis with a bill for $300,000 for "services
rendered".  He tells her he now knows what Sasha knew, and he's going to
tell Danny if she doesn't make good on the debt.  Before Phyllis can go
totally ballistic, Joanie enters with Little Danny and Peter sneaks out.

It's another evening at home with pouty Little Nate and his Mother.
Suddenly Little Nate turns to his mother and mercifully says
"Mommmmmeeeee, I promise not to spit out your food or to complain about
daddddeee being gone.  Will you pleeeeassssseee stop snivvling!!"  They
play "Bless The Beasts" as this enormously tired story line is put to
rest.

Neil Winters calls Paul Williams to the house.  He admits he has only seen
his daughter once in the last six months, and wonders if she's safe and
well.  Paul asks a couple of questions on the off chance he can make
himself look like he's being thorough.  How old is she?  Neil is unusually
vague--somewhere between six months and 8 years, he responds.  Paul takes
it in stride that he could be so unsure.  Where does she live?  "With me."
"Oh, right," says Paul.  Paul starts to leave.  "You don't want a
picture?" Neil asks.  "You have a picture?  Great."  Paul promises to "get
right on it".

Phyllis calls Tim and explains to him that she's being blackmailed by an
old boyfriend who turned psycho.  Tim is suspicious and asks her outright
if there really is such a psycho boyfriend, isn't she perhaps responsible
for him going crazy?  She frowns at him. "Ha, ha. Very funny, Tim.  This
is serious!"  She explains this threatens her entire existence and that
Peter must be "disposed of".  She blurts out that she thinks Tim should do
the deed, and while he stands there flabbergasted, she dangles the video
tape of she and Tim having wild sex in front of him.  If Tim doesn't play
along, she'll mail it to the authorities and have him disbarred "or
whatever they do to Psychologists".  On the other hand, if he does do this
"little favor", she'll marry him and he can have a subscription to lots
more of what's on the tape.

Upon his return home, Paul finds evidence that he himself is not living
alone and starts to suspect that he might even be married.  He tries to
remember whether he has recently acted warm to anyone on the show.  He
checks his calendar.  It has a little heart and the word "Marriage" next
to it.  Then he looks at the next couple of days.  All it says is "Olivia"
for the next several days.  "Olivia?  Could I have married Olivia?"
There's a rustling at the door, and paul draws his pistol.  Cricket enters
and he levels the pistol at her.  "Paul, it's me!  Your wife!"  Paul is
very confused now.  He's sure he's never behaved in any way that suggests
love for Cricket.  "It's a trick," he thinks.  He pulls the trigger and
gets off two shots.  The bullets bounce off the SuperBug and Paul is now
really confused and collapses.  She shrugs and tucks him into the bed.

Dr. landers calls the family's women aside (Nikki, Victoria, and Sharon).
He explains that they no longer need to visit him professionally at the
office; any time the women need gyneocological exams, they can just stop
by his study and he'll do any necessary poking around right there.  Nikki
thinks this is a very sweet gesture and suggests that maybe they can work
it into a weekly ritual where everyone gets weekly checkups on Sunday
mornings and then Miguel fixes waffles for the whole family afterward.
All nod in agreement that this makes a lot of sense and sounds like a
great plan for helping the family to bond a bit better.  Victoria
apologizes to Dr. Landers for ever having doubted the wisdom of having him
around; she is looking forward to the upcoming wafflefest.

It's morning.  Tight shot of Dru and Neil eating cereal for breakfast.  A
voice from just offstage says "Mommy?  Why is my picture on this milk
carton?"  The camera draws back to show her eating at the table as well.
"Oh, there you are, sweetie," says Neil.  "We just hadn't seen you for
months and I was getting worried."  Dru's jaw drops and she says, "Oh my
god, I've got a child.  And here I was about to start this big modeling
career.  What WAS I thinking?"

Grace hears gossip in the mail room about the Genoa City Wife Swappers.
Seeing her opportunity, she approaches Victoria with a plan to get Ryan
hot and bothered, leaving him ready for Victoria to pluck.  "You've got
brains, Grace.  You'll go far." Victoria tells her.  Victoria suddenly
notices Ryan coming down the hall and whispers to Grace "Make like you're
doing a filing project" while she (Victoria) sneaks out the back door.
Ryan enters and his targeting radar immediately registers a lock.  Grace
has scooched down her neckline and goes about poking in low-lying drawers,
involving a lot of bending over and many good shots with the Y&R buttcam.
Ryan licks his lips a lot and keeps adjusting his tie as he makes light
chitchat.  Finally, Victoria enters and sends Grace to "deliver
something".  Victoria closes the door behind her and turns for the kill.

We return to Grace, who is wandering the hall muttering under her breath
about how Ryan wasn't really so bad and it was too bad Victoria had come
back at so inopportune a time.  Lost in thought, she whips around the
corner into a storeroom where she runs straight into Nick at full speed,
tackling him into a pile of boxes.

Kansas. Cliff dies.  Hope speaks to the doctor in private about his organ
donation authorizations.  The doctor confirms that indeed he has donated
his organs and asks if she wants something.  Hope nods that she does.  His
spine.  Hers seems to have disappeared sometime in the last year.  She is
rushed to surgery muttering "Just wait, Victor..."