#77 Friday, July 18th

Aaron walks up to the front door of the McGregor Estate. He rings the doorbell and Anna answers.

Anna: Aaron McGregor, I haven't seen you in I don't know how long.

Aaron: You do remember me, I'm glad.

Anna: Come on in the house, I was just about to sit down to dinner with a friend.

Anna brings Aaron into the dining room.

Anna: Aaron, This is my friend John Phelps. John, this is Andrew's nephew, Aaron.

Aaron: Pleased to meet you.

John: Likewise.

Aaron: Anna, I spoke with Yvette earlier, I assumed she told you I was in town.

Anna: She picked up a lot of the slack for me at work today, so she probably forgot.

So what brings you to town?

Aaron: Business actually, M.I. to be exact.

Anna: I'm guessing you heard about the mess.

Aaron: Yes and I'm here to lend my assistance. I know a little about corporations.

Anna: I can use all the help I can get.

Aaron: I especially though you could use this.

Aaron gives Anna a printout of Lightner's record with Sterling.

Anna: This is very interesting. John, take a look at that.

Anna passes the printout to John.

John: This is exactly the sort of thing I needed, a link between Lightner and Sterling Hart.

Where did you get this?

Aaron: A reliable source.

John: This could prove Sterling had the motivation to help Cassandra and George.

Aaron: Possibly.

Anna: Well, with Sterling Hart's history of assisting hostile takeovers, this should be the proof we need

for court.

Aaron: I was hoping it would.

John: Check this out, it's an old telephone transcript between Cassandra and Sterling.

Anna: Let's see that.

John: Seems like Sterling phonied up records to keep him and Cassandra from being prosecuted for the savings and loan failure.

Aaron: I saw that, but I wasn't sure if it was of any significance.

John: Yep, it is. Sterling gave us a study that he claimed caused the shareholders to vote against the board, but

no one seems to have viewed it until now.

Anna: You think he faked that study?

John: It's not out of the realm of plausibility.

Anna: How could we prove he did that?

John: I don't know. There are some discs with the papers that George handed over for review, but I doubt

there's anything incriminating there.

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Cassandra is in her office at Lightner, looking for something.

Cassandra: Where could it be? I know I had it here.

George walks in.

George: What are you looking for?

Cassandra: It's a disc, it has the study we gave the shareholders on it.

George: Don't worry, we've got other copies.

Cassandra: No, that was my original disc, I needed it for something,

George: The study is all the same, it makes no difference what disc it's on.

Your disc might have accidently gone out when the courier took some of the files I sent Phelps to show him the takeover was legal.

Cassandra: What? That's not good.

George: It's no big deal, calm down.

Cassandra: This is serious.

George: I think it's time you took some time off, you've been acting odd. First, you say you

saw Dad and now you're freaking out about a disc.

Cassandra: I'm fine.

George: Just try to relax then, now is not the time to stress out.

George leaves.

Cassandra: (thinking) If Phelps sees that disc, this whole deal is finished.

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Jim stops by Lynette's room at the Town and Country Inn.

Lynette: Jim, come on in.

Jim: I can't stay long, I just wanted to let you know there's been a change in plans

for the divorce proceedings.

Lynette: What?

Jim: I want it over as soon as possible, so I'm having my lawyer expedite things, just wanted to give you notice.

Lynette: That's fine.

Jim: How are the kids doing?

Lynette: They're great. I'm glad they are too young to understand what is going on.

Jim: Yeah, I thought the same thing.

Lynette looks at Jim, noticing that there's something different about his demeanor.

Jim: Why are you looking at me like that?

Lynette: I don't know, something seems different about you.

Jim: I am about to get divorced, that can change a person's personality.

Lynette: No, it's more than that.

Jim, thinking that Lynette has sensed that he's been drinking, slowly back away from the door.

Jim: I've got to go, I just needed to tell you that.

Jim walks away. Lynette has a puzzled expression on her face, not sure why Jim seemed so different.