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Original posting of Episode 6:

Date: 23 Nov 96 23:03:46
From: kmp@harlequin.com (Kent Pitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs
Subject: Y&R: Another Way Out, episode 6
Message-ID: <KMP.96Nov23230346@romulus.harlequin.com>

"Another Way Out" takes plotline state at time of publication and shows that
there are interesting places right around the corner.  The goal, besides
having some fun with good-natured parody, is to challenge the notion that we
must be mired in certain tired plotlines for months just to have a good time.
There is always another way out...

NEWS FLASH: Archives of this and older episodes of "Another Way Out"
  can be found at:  http://world.std.com/~pitman/awo/index.html

INSIDE... * Nina and Jill Target The Same Prey
        * Hope and Vic Jr. Head Back to Kansas
      * Esther Helps Katherine Find Some Old Friends
    * Victor Learns of Josh's Former Wife

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ANOTHER WAY OUT, Episode 6, 23-Nov-96   by Kent Pitman (kmp@harlequin.com)
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Ryan gets a call from Phillip.  "Hi, sport."  After some brief niceties,
Phillip inquires: "Why are you doing this to us, Daddy?"  Ryan gives an
exasperated sigh.  "I'm NOT doing this to you, Phillip," he says finally, in a
sudden fit of honesty.  "I don't WANT to divorce your mother.  If you want to
know why this is happening, ask your mother.  It's a mystery to me, pal.  If
you can get her to change her mind, I'll be back in a flash."  "Thanks, Dad."
Both hang up.

Hope, unsure of the wisdom of a continued stay in Genoa City, returns with Vic
Jr. to the farm.  As they are walking up to the house, Little Victor points to
the porch.  "Look, Mommy, it's Bingo!  Ha,ha.  He looks funny!!"  "Mommy can't
look, Victor, Mommy's blind," Hope reminds him. "What do you see?"  "He looks
like he's been playing in shaving cream."  "Shaving cream?" she asks
curiously.  The dog growls menacingly as they approach.  "Mommy, why doesn't
he look happy...  doesn't he remember us?"  The dog moves sideways, foam
dripping from its mouth.  It stops at the hulk of an animal that lies
motionless on the porch.  "Hey, that's Nikki, my pet pig!!" Victor squeals.
The dog bites a bit of flesh from the dead pig.  "I think he remembers us just
fine," says Hope.  "We probably should have remembered him... I think we'd
better go." "But Nikki!  And Bingo!!" Vic protests.  "The nice men from the
humane society will know take care of them," Hope explains.  Maybe it's best
if we just live in the city for a while.  There will be more dogfaces and
piggies there, don't worry."

"You're the cause of the divorce, Mommy.  Daddy said so."  Phillip yells.
"Oh, did he?"  Nina sighs.  "He says if you change your mind, he'll come back.
Please Mommy, change your mind."  Nina scowls at him.  "You're getting on my
nerves, kid.  Now either put a sock in it, or you're going on a trip to
Switzerland and I promise you you'll be amazed at how quickly your youth can
vanish beneath you."  Phillip gets silent for a moment.  "What are you packing
for?" he asks meekly.  "Mommy's going on a little trip to a cabin in the
woods."  "Oh, Can I come?" Phillip asks.  "You're a bit too young, Phillip;
but I'll do enough for both of us, I promise" she chuckles excitedly.  He
continues to watch quietly as she packs.  "Mommy, you can't pack these.  They
have a hole in--" "Give me those!"  Nina shrieks, waving him away from the
pile of clothes she's piled up.  Now you go pack because you're going to
Gramma Flo's for a few days...

It's a back room of the Chancellor Estate.  Very late at night.  Esther picks
up the phone and punches some buttons.  Then she whispers into it.  "Hello?"
Mitchell Sherman is on the other end.  In spite of the hour, he is awake and
happy to take calls. "It's me, Mr. Sherman, Esther Valentine," she whispers.
"Oh, hello, Esther, I can barely hear you."  "That's because I'm whispering,
Mr.  Sherman!  Can you please come over here right away?  And come to the back
door.  It's urgent."  "Well, I was just about to watch my life insurance
commercial on late night TV, but I guess I could set my VCR.  I'll be right
over."  "Oh!  I've seen that commercial," Esther says, "you looked very
handsome in it.  And so trustworthy.  I bought some of that insurance right
away--and I didn't even need it."  Both hang up without saying good-bye.

It's the middle of the night but Nikki is up brooding.  Victor enters.
"Victor!" she says, startled.  "Where is your husband at this hour?"  "He's at
the hospital again," Nikki says, as if in dispair.  Victor nods.  "I have had
that louse investigated," he says.  "Victor, how dare you!"  she grumbles.
Then she adds, "Don't keep me in suspense.  What did you find out?"  "Did you
know that he started his career as a neurologist?"  Nikki looks suprised.
"No, I didn't."  "Uh, huh," Victor says coolly.  "'parently he met his former
wife Veronica that way.  She came in complaining of headaches.  Just after
marrying her, he tried to operate to remove a cyst he'd seen in x-rays of her
brain, but the operation wasn't successful and he left her permanently
brain-damaged.  So he divorced her and changed specialties to something that
didn't require him to be a brain surgeon.  Hospital investigators later
concluded the cyst diagnosis was due to a stray shadow on some x-ray film he
was using beyond its expiration date..."  Nikki looks suddenly ill.  "He used
that same film on me!  Oh, Victor, if things had progressed, I might have lost
the ability to bear more children for you.  You've rescued me just in time!"

Jill, determined to dissuade Cole from going after Nina even if it means going
after the studly writer herself, drops by the Tack Estate to talk to him.
Nina isn't there but Victoria is.  "He isn't here.  I just had to shoe Nina
out, don't make me throw you out, too."  Jill pushes past her in disbelief,
and heads down the hall looking uncertainly behind each of the doors until she
finds Cole's office.  Though he is not there, a note pad is propped plainly on
the table as if it had had a note on it.  She inspects the notepad, seeing an
indentation from the previous page is still there. She tears a page from the
bottom and lays it on the top of the pad.  Using a trick she'd seen in an old
spy movie, she rubs the pencil over the new top page and the address of the
cabin begins to appear.  She tosses the pad and the pencil tracing back on the
table and rushes out.

Esther opens the kitchen door to find Mitchell Sherman waiting outside.
"What's the problem?" he asks.  "It's Mrs. Chancellor.  First she hired Kevin
Costner's brother to put up our storm windows and now she wants to put him
into her will."  Mitchell blinks.  "The loss of Rex must be hitting her harder
than any of us realized."  "Do you think she'll have to be committed?"
Mitchell nods grimly.

Victoria, clueless, picks up the tracing left behind by Jill.  "Why would Cole
be leaving secret notes for Jill?" she ponders, unable to make sense of it
all.  "Oh well.  At least I'll still have Ryan.  Oh, wait.  If Jill has Cole,
Ryan will be back with Nina.  This isn't good at all...  I could be left with
nothing."  She starts to pack.

As the show closes, we cut to what seems like a birthday party in a large,
plain white room.  The windows are barred and the party guests seem to be of
two kinds--people in white hospital garb, and others.  A doorbell rings and
many crowd around the door but turn out the lights.  From outside, we see
Katherine Chancellor and two men in white coats opening the door.  As they
start into the dark room, the lights come on and we see the cheerful faces of
Veronica Landers, MariJo Mason, Michael Baldwin, Leanna Love, Matt Clark, Amy
Wilson, and Carl Williams all wearing party hats and offering Katherine a
piece of cake and a party hat of her own.  The camera draws back out of the
door to a wrought-iron sign over the walls of the institution, reading "The
Old and the Forgotten."