BAY CITY CENTER

Paulina is walking with a cup of coffee and Grant is walking toward her. The two stop in front of each other.

Paulina: Grant.

Grant: Good evening.

Paulina: How are you?

Grant: I’m...pretty good. How about you?

Paulina: I’m good...I...I have to go…

Paulina walks past Grant and suddenly...

Grant: You know Kirkland forgave me.

Paulina turns back around…

Paulina: That’s...that’s wonderful.

Grant: It meant a lot for me to hear those words from my son, after everything I did to take him from Vicky, and I put you and Dante in danger in the process.

Paulina: If Kirkland, Vicky and you could give me another chance I almost ran him over while I was high, then it’s not that big of a surprise that he’d forgive you, too. He’s grown up to be a fine young man, Grant. You should be proud of him.

Grant: Mind me asking where you’re headed?

Paulina: I’m going to the hospital to be with Rachel.

Grant: May I come?

Paulina: Um...sure.

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OUTSIDE OF FRANKIE’S ROOM

Charlie: Mom can be very stubborn.

Cass: You’re right. Frankie needs to take it easy.

Kirkland: I see where Charlie gets it from.

Charlie: Hey I’m not like that.

Kirkland: Sure you are.

Cass: You two look like you just went to an elegant restaurant.

Kirkland and Charlie look at each other.

Kirkland: Uh we did.

Cass: Hmm...did something else happen?

Kirkland: Yes I...proposed to Charlie.

Cass: You what?

Charlie and Kirkland put their arms around each other, and Charlie looks up at Kirkland.

Charlie: We were interrupted at the restaurant, but my answer is yes.

Cass: Charlie you can’t be serious. You marrying Kirkland right now would be a big mistake.

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MITCH’S ROOM

Felicia: How could you have kept all of this from John?

Mitch: Sharlene swore me to secrecy,

Felicia: She needed professional help, and needed her husband. I can’t believe you took it upon yourself to try and help her. You may have to take some responsibility for what Sharlene’s alter did.

Mitch: Don’t blame me if Sharlene didn’t trust her husband enough to tell him what was going on. That sounds like a marital problem, and I’ve got nothing to do with that.

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SHARLENE’S ROOM

John: Emma please. Sharlene needs help. Let her out so she can get the treatment that she needs.

Emma: Johnny you need to clean the wax out of your ears. I told you that Sharlene is not going to be handle it when she finds out what Janice did.

Jack approaches Emma and sit at her bedside.

Jack: What did Janice do?

Emma: Where should I start?

Jack: From the beginning. I want to know everything that she did.

CAMERA PAN ON EMMA….SLOW FADE TO THEME SONG…

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PART 2

Felicia: So Sharlene trusted you instead. You’re MY husband!

Mitch: I was being a friend to her.

Felicia: You should have said something to John because you might not be lying here if you did. I don’t want to lose you again.

Someone walks in to Mitch and Felicia’s surprise...

Felicia: Matthew?

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Charlie: How could you say that dad?

Cass: You haven’t even finished college yet.

Charlie: I love Kirkland, and he loves me, so why not?

Cass: Because you’re too young to be married Charlie. I don’t think you’ve thought this through. Neither one of you have.

Kirkland: I know I can make your daughter happy, and she makes feel the same way.

Grant and Paulina approach Cass, Charlie and Kirkland.

Cass: I don’t want my little girl getting married.

Charlie: I’m not five years old anymore. I capable of making my own choices.

Grant: You should listen to Charlotte, counselor. My son and your daughter are full grown adults, and they certainly have MY blessing.

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Emma: Are you sure you want to hear the story?

Jack: Yes.

Emma: Okay, once upon a time…

Jack: I don’t need a book to be read. Just tell me what happened.

Emma: Don’t be like that. Don’t all stories begin with that phrase? Sharlene has been through a lot. Sexual abuse, divorce, infidelity. She was hurt when Mitch told her what Janice had done.

Jack: What did Janice do?

John: She tried to kill Mac Cory.

Jack: I wanna hear it from Emma.

Emma: John I don’t need your overprotection like some porcelain trinket. Shall I continue Jack?

Jack: Yes…please.

Emma: Janice was slowly poisoning Mac, and Rachel found out about it. Sharlene was very disappointed by all of this, but then she met John Hudson.

Emma then looks at John.

Emma: He was a flawed veteran of the Armed Forces. They fell in love, had a son, then he CHEATED on her with Felicia Gallant. However, they found their way back to each other, and everything was hunky dory until the day Bay City Center opened. She suppressed the memory of who shot Grant and killed Joe Carlino.

Jack: Evan Frame?

Emma: Bingo! But I haven’t even started yet. Sharlene’s troubles REALLY began after she was kidnapped by her beloved nephew.

Jack: You’re talking about St. Croix.

Emma (smiling): You’re getting warrrrrmmm. What Sharlene saw down there sent her careening straight to the edge.

John: What was it? What did she see?

FREEZE FRAME ON JOHN...SLOW FADE OUT...END OF EPISODE 139

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