B&B: Wednesday Update 11/23
Sara C. Wasson
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 01:43:27 -0800 (PST)
From: "Sara C. Wasson" <per...@netcom.com>
Subject: B&B: Wednesday Update 11/24
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Bold and the Beautiful Update, Wednesday 23rd November.
SHOWDOWN
In James' office, Eric and James are waiting with bated breath for Sheila
to confide her darkest past. As Sheila drifts about the room, steeling
herself, James asks if she is ready to begin? "I'm not used to this. I'm
a very private person," says Sheila plaintively. Eric comments snidely
that his wife isn't very experienced at opening up to people, and James
says sternly that that may be so, but in this case opening up is crucial
for the marriage. Sheila reluctantly consents. James begins by asking
where she was born. "Grand rapids, Michigan," she responds. She was an
only child? No, she had one brother and a sister.
DR. WEBB'S OFFICE...
Macy is waiting nervously, and Dr. Webb bounce sin and tells her that the
tests revealed no sign of strep throat or infection. She is inexplicably
reassured by this. She prepares to go, but Webb forestalls her, telling
her that since they were not able to rule out the lesser infections,
something must be causing the pain, and he needs to do a laryngostopy to
check if it is a tumour.
TALKING BUSINESS AMONGST THE VIOLINS
Ridge and Thorne are chatting at Forrester, Throne marvelling at how
action-packed Ridge and Brooke's honeymoon was. (He has NOOO idea how
much ;) Hurricanes, Moroccan princes, what a lot of fun. Conversation
veers around to Macy and Thorne's budding singing career - "a labour of
love?" asks Ridge astutely. "I take the Fifth," ripostes Thorne. They
talk about the plans for the concert in Rotterdam, and Thorne confides
that he's planning to take Macy to the Cafe Russe for a business meeting
tonight. "Oh, yeah, /perfect/ place for a business meeting," comments
Ridge knowingly. "You can push away the violinists while poring over
your concert schedules." Thorne laughs and changes the topic, casting
about the room for something else to talk about. And then his eye catches
Taylor's framed photograph. He picks it up, suddenly sombre, and says,
"I remember when Taylor gave you this picture." "It was a perfect day,"
says ridge sadly, "But then, they all were." Thorne asks delicately, "I
guess you'll be putting this picture away soon?" "Why on earth would you
think that?" asks Ridge.
AN EAGER LITTLE VISITOR
Taylor is drifting about her boudoir, and, seating herself at her mirror,
she suddenly notices a lovely yellow rose someone must have sneaked into
the room for her. She picks it up and sighs to herself, "Omar, you'll
never give up, will you," and puts the flower down dismissively. But
then she hears the soft step of little Dracina behind her, and the child
asks, "My Lady, don't you like the rose?" Taylor is taken aback, and
smiles, very touched, realising Dracina gave it to her, not the Prince,
and she thanks the child sincerely for her thoughtfulness. The child is
happy, "So you'll keep it?" "I'll treasure it," Taylor assures her. This
pleases Dracina greatly.
Taylor then asks why she is here, in the Palace. Dracina
explains that Prince Omar invited the orphans to the palace, and the
others are playing in the garden. "But you snuck away to bring me this
rose," Taylor deduces. Dracina apologises if she did anything wrong, but
Taylor assures her she did not. Dracina, relieved, then asks if it is
true what she heard from one of the guards - that there is to be a wedding?
SHEILA SPILLS ALL. (TAKE ONE)
Eric expresses disbelief, observing she'd never mentioned a brother or
sister before. Sheila says that they were quite a lot older than her and
they'd lost contact. James asks about her childhood, and Sheila responds
it was pretty normal. There's no such thing, says James, and he asks her
what images come to her mind when she thinks about her childhood years.
Sheila wistfully lists: a white picket fence, a crab apple tree, a cat
called Muffy and a dog called Sport. What about your father? asks
James. And on this Sheila gets quite impassioned. "I loved him," she
says. "I'd sit in the garden and wait for him to come home. And then
he'd hold me very, very tight." She dwells on this image of the tight
embrace and security for a while, and then says, "He died in Vietnam."
Eric, unavoidably touched, moves over to her and touches her shoulder for
a moment. James, the detached observer, comments that it is not unusual
for women with a strong attachment for their fathers to be attracted to
older men. Sheila defiantly refutes that, however, saying that she fell
in love with Eric and it wasn't a replacement or fantasy. James asks
Eric what he thinks of all this, but Sheila's spell has broken and Eric
is angry and declares that he thinks this is all a crock, and Sheila is
just trying to manipulate them. She's never mentioned any of these
things before.
"I STILL LOVE TAYLOR..."
Back at Forrester, Thorne observes that Ridge isn't ready to put Taylor
behind him yet, and Ridge says that he doubts he'll ever be ready for
that. There'll always be a place in his heart for Taylor, he says. He
misses her still, and not a day goes by that he doesn't think of her. He
talks to her, and he feels that she is still alive, in here (he touches
his heart).
MACY'S ANGSTFUL CHOICE
Back in Dr. Webb's office, the good doctor concludes the laryngostopy,
and look very grim. He informs Macy that she does, in fact, have a
throat tumour, and they'll have to do a biopsy to find out if it is
malignant. Macy is stunned, but rallies quickly, and asks if she can
schedule it as soon as possible so she can get back to her rehearsals for
the concert. Dr. Webb explains that there is now WAY she can make the
concert now. The biopsy is an invasive procedure - it'll be hard for her
to even talk, let alone sing, for at least a month. Macy, horrified,
says that she will have to postpone the procedure - this concert is
crucial to her career. Dr. Webb tells her emphatically that delaying it
in such a manner is nothing but folly - the tumour may be malignant, and
if so, the delay could mean the difference between life and death.
TAYLOR'S NEW LITTLE FRIEND
Evading the child's question, Taylor asks Dracina if her marrying the
Prince would make er happy. Dracina says enthusiastically that it
certainly would, because she is so lovely and he is so handsome. Taylor
asks if that is the only reason it would please her, and Dracina admits
that she has a "selfish" reason too. If she marries Prince Omar, she
will become head of the orphanage along with him. He is already their
"father" - and she would be their mother. Taylor, touched, tells Dracina
that that isn't a selfish request - every little girl should have a
mother. "Will you be mine, my lady? Will you be /my/ mother?" asks Dracina.
SHEILA SPILLS ALL (TAKE TWO)
Back in the paradisial marriage counselling chamber, James asks Eric if
there is /anything/ Sheila could say that would convince him at this
stage? Eric says he doubts it, and accuses Sheila of trying to
manipulate both of them. "great," says Sheila, "Why should we even go
on, then>' Eric sarcastically agrees. James, however, puts his foot down
and says sternly that they will go on. He turns to Sheila and says that
perhaps Eric will believe her if she goes into more detail. "About
what?" asks Sheila. About something more immediate, says James - "your
life in Genua City." Sheila steels herself.
James asks her what she did there? She says she was a nurse. She
claims she had no friends, no lovers - it was "a solitary time" in her
life. Eric interrupts impatiently to say that he knows that that isn't
true - she's already told him once that she got very attached to a child
there. Sheila snaps, "What are you getting at?" and Eric responds, in
genuine bewilderment, that he isn't getting at anything, he just wants
the truth. Sheila, only slightly mollified, says that, OK, there was a
doctor at the hospital who was a single father. She took care of the boy,
loved him a great deal, and was utterly devastated when the doctor in
question moved away, taking the child with him. She threw herself into
her work to forget, she says, working twelve to thirteen hour workdays.
And then she came to LA< for a better life. At this, she fixes her big,
soulful brown eyes on Eric, and says that she thought that she'd /found/
that better life with Eric. Eric visibly melts. As Sheila concludes,
James blurts out brightly that the time is up, and thanks Sheila with
cloying sweetness for her opening up like this. "I rally feel we've made
some progress," he smiles. "Maybe we have," mutters Eric, and he
leaves. But before Sheila follows, James reaches out for her arm and
forestalls her, all his sweet psychiatrist front gone. And he tells her
emphatically that Eric might have bought part of her sob story, but he
didn't for a second. And he puts her on notice that, at the next
session, he's going to pull the truth out of her. The real truth. Sheila
is at a loss for words, and leaves without responding.
IT'S NOT REALLY THE MOMENT FOR CAFFE RUSSE, THORNE
At Macy's flat, Macy is all ready to go out in a very fetching red
dress. Thorne swings by to pick her up, but before she dashes off with
him she tells him that she thinks they must have a talk. She has some
bad news - some very bad news. Thorne looks startled.
LAYLA'S NEW LIFE
Back in Taylor's rooms, Taylor tells Dracina lovingly that she'll never
be able to take the place of her real mother, but that she will always be
there for her. Dracina is ecstatic, and tells her that she and all the
orphans had always dreamed of this Taylor tells her that she can be the
first to tell her brothers and sisters that soon they'll have a mother
again. Dracina hurtles off, all eagerness, and Taylor slides open the
drawer to her dressing table, withdrawing Ridge's photograph. She leans
back, and speaks wistfully to his picture, saying that just a she did,
she has found a new life. She will marry Omar for the children. But
no-one can ever take Ridge's place in her heart, and she will live inside
of her always.
....MIRROR IMAGES...
And in Los Angeles, Ridge leans back in his chair, alone in his office,
and speaks to Taylor's photograph, saying wistfully that he never got to
say goodbye. "I'd give anything to see you once more my love. Maybe I
will one day, in a better place. I love you Taylor. Now and forever."
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And that's it. :)