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Date: 25 Feb 1998 08:36:06 -0500
From: pitman@anotherwayout.com (Kent M Pitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs
Subject: Y&R: AWO#87: "More of the Shame"
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[An AWO Classic(TM) from Feb 25, 2003]
INSIDE... * Will Sharon and Grace resolve their differences?
* Has Esther learned of a secret conspiracy?
* Will Trisha ever get a clue?
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ANOTHER WAY OUT, Episode 87, 25-Feb-98 by Kent Pitman (kmp@harlequin.com)
"More of the Shame"
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This week your AWO author is just too tired to write anything creative, so
he's gone out of town on vacation (in his dreams, anyway) and has substituted
for your viewing pleasure an AWO Classic(TM) Episode from AWO's 7th year in
the year 2003!
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AWO Classic(TM) -- Feb 25, 2003
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Tony is pacing back and forth saying, "I'm tellin' ya, Sharon, I just don't
know how much longer this can go on. You gotta tell Grace before it's too
late." Sharon looks at Tony and says, "Look, Tony, it's easy for you to say.
You're not the one who's going to lose your only daughter." Tony sighs and
says, "Sharon, you just can't look at it that way. You've gotta at it from
the positive side. You won't be losing a daughter, you'll be gaining a
daughter." Sharon paces back and forth and says, "I just don't know, Tony, I
just don't know." Nick enters and sees the two of them talking. He says to
Sharon, "Hey, Sharon, is everything all right here? I feel like I came in on
the middle of something..." "No, it's nothing, sweetie," Sharon assures him.
Tony and I were just discussing the joys of raising small children--you know
how that is." "Oh, right," Nick says. "But hey," Nicholas says to Tony, "that
Cassie--she's not really all that small a kid at this point, right? You're
pretty lucky. She must be just about old enough to head off to college right
now... Then again, with tuition bills these days--well, maybe not so lucky..."
Trisha is with Megan. "Ryan does too love me, Megan, I don't know why you
keep trying to make it sound worse than it is." "Well, if he loves you, he
has a funny way of showing it." "It's just for a little while," Trisha
insists. "Ryan says he just wants his son to feel a sense of family, so he's
going to live with Nina until his son dies." "Trisha, Ryan is older than his
son; when he says that, he means he's going to live with Nina and his son
forever." "It's not true, Megan! It's not. It's not! Ryan loves me. His
son might get hit by a bus. Or he might be out skiing and run into a tree;
it's unusual I know, but it could happen--not everyone who goes into politics
does it from his earliest years. Maybe he's planning to be a musician for a
while or something. Or he could get a fatal disease or ..." "You're right,
Trisha," Megan admits, running her hands sympathetically through Trisha's
hair. "It could happen. Any of those things could happen. Who am I to say?
I'm sure Ryan loves you... I'm sure he's just `going through the motions'
with Nina for the sake of little Phillip..."
Tony is with Grace. "Grace, ya really gotta give Cassie back." "I can't,
Tony. I'm the only mother she's ever had and she deserves the continuity
of--what's this?" she asks, as he hands her a brochure from Genoa City
University. "It's a brochure about the local college. It'll give you some
idea of how much you're looking at in tuition bills." Grace looks it over.
"Tony, we don't have this kind of money--we'll NEVER have this kind of money.
Get Sharon on the phone. It's really time we talked."
Jill is with Katherine at the Chancellor estate. "Well, I believe that's all.
I'll be going now to get my face lift." Jill rushes to block Katherine's
path. "Excuse me, but aren't you forgetting something?" "Not that I can
think of," Katherine says. "Why doesn't that surprise me, Katherine? You're
lucky that face of yours is attached to your head or you'd probably be
forgetting that, too." "My dear, Jill, I don't know what on earth you're
talking about--now I suggest that either you fill me in on your little secret,
or you allow me to be on my way, because--" Jill says, "Earth to Katherine.
Does the name Phillip ring a bell?" "Good lord, I almost forgot!" Katherine
says. "You're damned right you almost forgot. Fortunately, I've already
called Nina and told her to get right over here. He should be here any--" The
doorbell rings.
* * * Station Break * * *
It's Y&R's 32nd Year Memorable Moments
Do you remember when Cole and Victoria were to be divorced on Y&R,
Victor said, "You punk, I don't care what I promised your mother. I
think what you did to my daughter--asking her go to Ashley that
way--was despicable. I want you out, out of that tack room, or tack
house, or tack estate, or whatever the hell you call it! Your
continued presence there is just too damned tacky!!" Well, you may
remember it, but it didn't happen on Y&R--it happened only in
AWO--in Episode 87. Oh, that's right. Episode 87 was preempted by
an AWO classic episode. Well, gee, it's odd that you remember it at
all then and even odder that we showed you film of it because it
never happened.
* * *
Sharon's house. Tony, Grace, Cassie (18), Nick, Sharon, Little Noah (9), and
Little Antoinette (7) are at the Newman household. Both Sharon and Grace say
(in perfectly rehearsed unison) "I have something to--" Then both stop. Then
Grace says, "You go first." Then Sharon says, "No, you." Grace nods,
swallows, and says. "Shar, ... I ... I want you to know how much I appreciate
your letting me watch over Cassie all these years, but you know--she's about
to turn 18 and I realized--she's never really had a chance to know her birth
mother and here she is, about to embark on the most expensive--uh,--I mean the
biggest experience of her life--college. And it's just selfish of me to
insist on being the only one she thinks of when she sits down to write asking
for mon--uh,--motherly love..." Grace looks to Cassie and says, "Cassie, you
may not know this, but Sharon here is your mother..." "Are you kidding? Of
course I knew. I was just waiting for you guys to work it out--how was I to
know it would take you so long?" Nick hits himself on the forehead with the
base of his palm and says, "Now I get it! Sharon, you knew all along. That's
why you've been so hung up on this kid all that time--she was yours!" Cassie
looks to Sharon sudenly very worried and says, "Please don't tell he's--"
"Relax, sweetie. He's not your father. Your real father has the IQ of an
auto mechanic." Cassie breathes a sigh of relief.
"I'll get it, Mrs. H," Esther yells. Jill looks at her, surprised. "Mrs. H?"
Katherine crosses one hand across her body to rest her elbow on, the other
hand goes behind her head. "Yes, well, a woman has to have her secrets..."
"You married him, didn't you? Don't you know what a fortune hunter he is?"
"That isn't what he told me. He told me he was researching a book idea--about
a torrid affair between a young studly man and a--" "Katherine, do you have
any idea how many other women he's fed that same line?" Katherine looks to
the bookshelf behind her, which presumably displays a rack of Cole Howard
novels. "I do, actually," says Katherine. "And some of them led to some
really exciting developments, if you uh, know what I mean..." "In the short
run, Katherine, but in the long run--" Katherine stops her and says, "To quote
quite another author whose name I've forgotten--no doubt he's fallen victim to
his own prophecy--`in the long run,' my dear Jill, `we shall all be dead.'"
Grace looks to Sharon. "There was something you were going to tell me?"
Sharon blushes. "Well, it's nothing really, except, ... well, ... I had meant
to tell you this sooner, but you're right--you really do get used to raising a
child and--well,--here," she says, pushing Antoinette at Grace. "What's this?
Payment for Cassie?" Grace asks. Antoinette looks to Grace and says, "No,
stupid, I'm your real daughter." At this point, we flash back to a storyline
from the Summer of 1998 when in an attempt to gain bartering leverage, Sharon
set out to get a baby to offer Grace when she gave up Cassie:
"Oh, please, Tony," the 1998 Sharon begs Tony in the flashback. "Don't you
see? If Grace loses Cassie, she'll be devastated. I've got to get her a baby
that's hers to trade..." The 1998 Tony says, "Well, we did make love last
night without birth control. And Grace did say she was gonna have something
done about it today. Maybe if you buy off someone, you can get them to save
you the fertilized egg they taken from Grace and you can carry it to term
yourself. Then,--well, maybe when it's been born and stuff,--you can offer it
to Grace as a substitute." Sharon kisses Tony on the mouth and says, "Tony,
that's brilliant." The flashback spins around to the Summer of 1999 where
Tony says to Sharon, "You really gotta tell Grace the truth now, Sharon." And
Sharon says, "But Tony, I'm the only mother that baby Antoinette has ever
known. Grace doesn't care about her--she was prepared to have him or her
flushed down the drain." "It was a her, Sharon," Tony says. "Well, Grace
didn't know that. And she doesn't know either.. So I'm keeping her for my
very own. Baby Atoinette is mine!"
The flashback dissolves and we're back to normal time (late February, 2003)
where the rest of the Classic episode was filmed.
Esther leads Phillip into the front room. He is still 8 years old. "My how
it seems you never age," Katherine says. "Are you all set to go with your
Aunt Katherine for a facelift?" "Sure, Aunt Katherine. I know how scared you
get. But I'll go along with you and show you how it's perfectly safe."
Katherine pats him on the back, "Yes, Philip, you just do that...Come along
now," she says. Katherine leads him out of the house to the car. When
they're gone, Esther turns to Jill and says, "Mrs. N, do you have any idea why
Katherine always takes Phillip along on these face lifts? She isn't afraid of
them, I know that. She looks forward to them." "Esther, you're such an
intellectual powerhouse," says Jill. "Thank you, Mrs. N!" Esther says. "I'm
surprised you haven't figured it out on your own," Jill says. "Well, I guess
even an intellectual powerhouse can have her bad days. Can I have a little
hint?" Jill says, "If Phillip never reaches 18, he and that wretch of a
mother he has never get to claim his inheritance," Jill explains. "Well, of
course," says Esther. "Everyone knows kids are too young to handle their own
inheritance." "Good," says Jill. "I'm glad everyone knows that. Good day,
Esther." "Bye, Mrs. N," Esther says as Jill walks out. "Hmmm..." Esther
thinks. "I wonder why she didn't tell me about the face lift... Must be some
kind of big secret," she says.
"So you were hiding my little girl from me all these years?" Grace asks
Sharon. Sharon nods and says, "Just like you used to do to me when Cassie
first showed up." Grace nods. "Oh, Shar, you're such a good friend." "And
so are you, Grace," says Sharon. "I can't believe we wasted all these years
being mad at each other," they say in unison as they exchange children and
FINALLY (after 7 long years) this plot line comes to a full close. The tune
to "Bless the Beasts and the Children" replaces "Nadia's Theme" as the credits
roll. (And they all lived happily ever after. Especially the audience... if
any were left awake.)
[ This has been an AWO Classic(TM) Episode from Feb 25, 2003. ]
[ Regular AWO(TM) will return next week (approximately) like normal. ]
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Copyright 1998 Kent M. Pitman. All Rights Reserved.
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"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...
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