B&B - brief update for Tuesday
r.wendt
I managed to catch B&B on Tues (Wed was cancelled as we learned of the
impending end of the war!) -
I skimmed through a lot of it, but this is what I remember.
Mom and Pop and Unc are downstairs talking about how ill Jake is and that he
should really go back to LA where he was doing ok before. Upstairs Jake is
dreaming about the horror of his dad coming into his room. We hear the
tinkling of the chimes outside his window, and some other kind of tinkling as
well. Downstairs, Mom wants Dad to bring some juice up to Jake, but Uncle
Charley takes it up instead. He goes into Jake's darkenend room and says
"I've brought you some juice, son." Jake says to put it on the table. Uncle
Charley walks around the bed and bends over to put down the juice. We hear
the tinkling again, only this time it's Uncle Charley's dog tags rattling
together. Jake's eyes widen, and as Uncle Charley goes to leave the room,
Jake springs up and flicks on the light. The knowledge of what has happened
to him hits him suddenly and he is stunned. He says nothing, while Uncle
Charley wants to know why he's looking at him that way. Downstairs, Uncle
Charley reiterates that Jake should go home - he's one sick pup. Unc leaves,
Margo enters. After some words with her Dad, in which she says "If Jake
leave,s I leave too,", she runs upstairs to Jakes room only to find him gone.
. .
The window is open and the chimes in the tree are chiming . . .
Next scene is Uncle Charley in his home building a fire. A knock at the door,
and he goes to open it. It's Jake. He asks his uncle how it felt to be able
to live with his brohter when he was down and out, and how it felt to be part
of a family who loved and trusted him, and a doting niece, and an innocent
5-year old boy . . . Uncle Charley orders Jake out of the house, but Jake
slams the door that Unc's opened and continues with his accusation. He says
how wrong he was about his Dad, and the hell he put him through. He closes in
on Charley, and finally grabs him by the collar (or throat, I'm not sure) and
says, "It was you, you who took advantage of that little innocent boy, who
crept up to his room and brought him milk and said "It's me, son, your dad."
Uncle Charley looks absolutely terrified, and the look in Jake's eye is
menacing. We are left wondering whether Jake will kill this man or if Charlie
will die of heart failure first!
The other scenes involved Bill confronting Eric about Stephanie. He wants to
know where she is, but of course Eric can't tell him. Bill mutters about how
he and Stephanie are kindred spirits, that Margo's gone all the time, and he
and Stephanie always did get along . . .
Maybe it'll be Bill who "saves" Stephanie . . .
That's all I can remember . . .
Gripping episode, finally . . .
Too bad they couldn't leave the Bill and Eric confrontation till another
episode and continue with the Jake storyline.
Rita Wendt
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