I just finished July 14, 1993 and a whole bunch has happened in the past 4-5 episodes. Things are really humming right now. The cliffside cabin attack by John Davis is resolved when Roger/Ed decide to work together. Ed hangs out on the roof to jump while Roger lures John Davis out with Holly/Michelle. Ed manages to jump in at the right time and Roger very briefly tussles with Davis before flipping him over the railing where they show him falling very, very far to his presumed death. Ed is hanging off the deck and eventually Roger saves him. In the dead of the night Ed drives Michelle home on a mountain road after having a near death experience, which is an interesting choice given how Maureen died. He and Michelle have a nice bonding moment. Roger and Holly decide to stay overnight and connect, talking about acting like it's the end of the world. They eventually have sex (twice, the second time when Holly is already showing doubt). In the light of day, Holly clearly has regrets and Roger is elated and keeps telling her how much he loves her and eventually proposes. She turns him down, saying that she just wants a calmer life and can't spend the rest of her life defending the shady things he does to the people around her. He gets angry and tells her it's really because she wants Ed, and that now he wishes he'd let Ed die. This sequence of Roger/Holly might be one of the best encapsulations I've seen. You completely understand why Holly was swept away by Roger's heroics (and she was already softening earlier when he was being sweet with Michelle and setting off fireworks gleefully) but also how his immediate leaping all in instantly scares her away. It gets ugly really fast and it really runs the whole gamut of emotions between these two. No one appears to call the cops about John Davis falling off the mountain, but Nick receives something off the wire reporting the whole situation as AM walks in. AM is worried about how Ed/Michelle are doing and rushes over to talk to Ed. There's a cute moment where AM tries to take care of Ed some by offering to make Ed scrambled eggs, which Ed strongly doubts AM is capable of doing (and then says he's not hungry anyhow). Michelle just misses AM but lights up when Ed tells her he was there and that he's coming back later for dinner when he gets off work-I love the moments with tween Michelle when she gets excited by the "cool" adults like Blake/AM/Bridget. It's striking how different stuff like this is just a couple years later when basically no one reacts to people being in danger unless they're directly in the plot. Roger goes immediately home to tell Blake the two of them are going to start their empire at WSPR and Blake gently turns him down saying Ross is her dream now. Roger lashes out and says what does she really have-no ring, no job, etc. Blake stands firm and says she's happy. Ed is worried about Holly when she doesn't come home until later, and Michelle tells him she believes Holly is interested in Roger. When Holly arrives she says Roger asked her to marry him and it was difficult, and Ed straight out asks if they slept together but Holly lies and says no. Hart gets into an altercation with Vinnie, one of the local hoodlums who used to work construction for Dylan but got fired. Hart is upset about Julie/Dylan and basically tries to commit suicide by hoodlum in the pool hall but Bridget talks David into intervening. when they are close to strangling Hart. The owner breaks it up and Hart/Bridget leave. Kat and David head out but are surrounded in the alley but the owner breaks it up again after Vinnie & Co make racist slurs, then say David will regret it. David is sure they're going to the diner because they've harassed Stavros and vandalized the diner before. Kat begs him not to go but he goes anyhow, and David arrives after Stavros has already been beaten with a baseball bat by Vinnie. Kat follows David and is held at knifepoint while Vinnie threatens to rape her and makes a series of grotesque racial slurs towards both David/Kat. This whole scene is pretty shockingly harrowing and brutal. Eventually, David manages to get the knife away and save Kat as Vinnie runs to the alley. David plans to let him go then sees what he did to Stavros, and grabs the knife and heads to the alley. They fight and Vinnie gets stabbed and dies. Kat is in complete shock and David says a prayer and leaves a crying Kat as he hears the police sirens. It turns out Vinnie is the nephew of a police officer. After striking out with Holly/Blake, Roger breaks into Hamp/Gilly's apartment and is sitting in the living room when Gilly arrives. He tells Gilly she has to return to WSPR and threatens to tell Hamp about David's arrest for murder where David took the fall for David when he was 15. Gilly keeps refusing but Hamp walks in. Roger tells Hamp that he can't believe Hamp let Kat date a murderer. Gilly keeps swearing that David isn't a murderer but can't spit out the truth. Hamp doesn't believe her and kicks her out. Roger goes full throttle on painting David as a serial killer. Bridget hides David in the garage apartment since Eve is gone. (I love their friendship and how she never hesitated to help him.) Of course, somehow the hospital has declared Eve well enough to rejoin society and she is ready to move back into the apartment. Bridget/David hide as Ed/Eve try to enter. Gilly tries to get a room as AM is there with a model he knew in NYC who is in town for one night only. Before AM gets to the elevator with her he spots the hotel clerk giving Gilly a hard time about getting a room. AM steps in and throws around the Spaulding name and the hotel clerk gives Gilly a free upgrade. The model has no patience for this and blows him off, which he shrugs off. They bond over how they were the ones responsible for their respective relationships' demise by breaking the trust. AM tries to persuade Gilly to work at the Journal. She's about to go to the room when she sees the news about the manhunt for David. She tells AM she doesn't want to just compete against Roger, she is out for revenge. Early 1993 was a bit slow moving, but they've really ratcheted things up without anything feeling rushed. The David/Kat plot is really gripping, and I am somewhat taken aback by just how overtly racist and brutal the attack was. It's not something I really expect from this show, but it makes it all very gripping.
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