Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!kjm From: kjm@brl-tgr.ARPA (Kelly J. Benjamin ) Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps Subject: Days of Our Lives Message-ID: <8032@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 12:19:22 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8032 Posted: Tue Feb 5 12:19:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 02:04:31 EST Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 159 Dear DOOL fans, I'm sorry you've been deprived of the DOOL updates, but Marie Carey, who used to write the updates, found that it was taking too much of her time to take notes on the show, write the update, and post it every day. I don't have time to do that either, but I'll try to give a brief summary of what's been happening lately. -Kelly ----------------------------------------------- Shane gave Kimberly Brady a device to erase the video tapes that Linda Anderson was using to blackmail Kimberly into working as a prostitute for her. Kimberly is ecstatic and turns over a new leaf. She is obviously very taken with Shane, but he keeps his distance, trying not to get emotionally involved with Kim, but it's not hard to see that he cares for her. A Russian named Leopold Bronsky came to Salem as the impresario of an ice show. He is actually the person who is to deliver the third prism to Meagan. Then with the three prisms, Stephano can get the operation he needs to save his life. Shane and the ISA are onto Bronsky, though, and they get Kimberly Brady to get friendly with Bronsky to try and get info on the prism. (Bronsky knew Kimberly from Europe and was always infatuated with her.) Shane was given the job of persuading Kim to do the job, but he hates having to ask her to do it since she is so happy to be starting a new life now. At first Kimberly is angry at him and slaps his face for asking her to do it. But then after she thinks about it a while and realizes she would be helping to get Stephano, who killed her brother, Roman, she agrees to move in on Leopold. Bo starts dating Meagan to try and get info from her about the delivery of the third prism. Hope is heartbroken when she finds out that Bo is seeing Meagan. Melissa has been working at a flower shop delivering flowers for Barry Reed. She didn't know it, but Barry was putting cocaine in the pots that she delivered. She found out about it eventually, but Barry frightened her into continuing to deliver the drugs. One night when she was about to go out on a delivery, Barry had to go out to the front of the store for a moment. Melissa dialed the police and told them to come to the flower shop and they would find all kinds of drugs. She didn't give her name. Barry came in and caught her. Barry took off out the back dragging Melissa with him. The police raided the place and found cocaine everywhere. They then proceeded to search for Barry and Melissa. Melissa got away from Barry and went into hiding because she was afraid she'd have to go to jail if she went back home. The police found Barry and he said Melissa was doing all the drug dealing and he didn't know anything about it. All the headlines are about Melissa Anderson: Debutante Drug Dealer. Melissa has no money so she tries to shoplift some food from a small grocery store, where Speed's sister, Ivy, happens to work. Ivy catches her but doesn't turn her in. Instead she takes Melissa to her apartment and lets her stay there. Melissa doesn't tell Ivy her real name. Pete has started dating Ivy a little bit, but Ivy calls him P.J., so when she talked to Melissa about her boyfriend, P.J., Melissa never caught on it was Pete. Melissa never knew Ivy's last name, so she never knew she was Speed's sister. Melissa decides she is imposing on Ivy so she leaves and goes to see Pete. Pete cries and tells her he loves her, but Melissa says she has to leave Salem and she wants Pete to give her some money. Pete tries to get her to stay, but she refuses, so he gives her $90 (all he had) and she heads out for New York. She doesn't go to New York, but she wants Pete to think that's where she went. Yesterday they showed her staying in a run-down rooming house, somewhere, but definitely not NY. Ivy and Speed's father is hired by Linda and Alex to burn Anderson manufacturing. He is burned badly in the fire and somehow Tom and Alice Horton came across him. They immediately started to treat him. Tom gave him an injection of morphine for the pain, but it turns out he was allergic to morphine and died. The Selenko kids, Speed and Ivy, are suing Dr. Horton for killing their father by giving him morphine, which he was allergic to. They claimed he always wore a medic alert bracelet, but Dr. H said he definitely was not wearing it that night (New Year's Eve). Mrs. H also says this. Speed has the bracelet for some reason. I didn't watch this part (I was in Hawaii during all this!) so I don't know the circumstances of why Speed has the bracelet. Anyway, Speed sneaks into the Horton house and plants the bracelet in the jacket Dr. H was wearing that night. Marie Horton grabs the coat in a few minutes and takes it to the cleaners. Of course, the cleaner finds the bracelet and remembers the story from the newspaper. He calls the Selenkos and tells them and their lawyer, Gwen Davies, about the bracelet. Unfortunately, this looks bad for Dr. H. Marlena took a trip to Caracas to try and get inside Stephano's estate. She goes in disguised as a maid and finds two cribs in a room. The cribs have names carved on them - Samantha and Eric. She returns home and hires a round the clock bodyguard for herself, Carrie, and the twins. Stephano is very taken with Marlena and plans to take her and the three children to his estate in Caracas to live there with him. Stephano is staying outside Salem on a farm with a guy named Jimmy Porterfield. Stephano disguises himself as Mrs. Lafferty, a wheel-chair ridden old woman, who Jimmy supposedly takes care of. Marlena knows somehow that Jimmy is involved with Stephano. (I'm not sure how she got mixed up with Jimmy - must have happened when I was in Hawaii!) So, anyway, she tries to see Jimmy every now and then to get some info. Jimmy and Stephano know that Marlena knows about Jimmy. However, Marlena does not know that Mrs. Lafferty is Stephano. A couple times Marlena has tried to search Jimmy and Mrs. Lafferty's house while Jimmy was no there, but Stephano was watching her the whole time through a 2-way mirror. Anna Dimera opens a new company with Alex's financial backing and is a big success. She is using Jasmine as her only model. She was hoping that by using Jasmine as a model, Jasmine would become more wordly and Tony would not be attracted to Jasmine anymore, but the plan does not seem to be working. Jasmine is still as sweet as ever. Liz has a new manager, some real big-name manager. She is really excited about this. But, this manager is being controlled by the syndicate. They are trying to get back at Neil by ruining Liz. I'm not sure what they are going to do to Liz yet. Calliope disguises herself as a debutante, Tiffany Marie something. Liz sets up a meeting between Tiffany and Eugene's mother to see if Tiffany is a suitable date for Eug. Eugene's mom loves Tiffany, so Tiffany and Eugene have a date. Eug adores Tif, but Calliope (aka Tiffany) gets mad because Eugene does not know who Tiffany really is and he seems to be really interested in Tif. Confusing, huh? Eventually, Eug figures out that Tiffany is really Calliope. It was a pretty funny story line. Hope takes her final exam at the police academy and goes to the Body Connection for her nightly soak. Meanwhile, Meagan is in the utility closet of the hot tub room wiring up the hot tub to electrocute Hope when she gets in. Meagan wants Hope out of Bo's life completely so she will never be a threat to her. While Meagan is in the closet, Leopold Bronsky and Larry Welch get in the hot tub. Leopold knows Larry's father, Victor Chervot, a brilliant Soviet scientist who was sent to Siberia. Chervot was the inventor of the prisms. Leopold explains to Larry about the prisms and Stephano, etc... He explains that the third prism will be delivered to Meagan at the ice show, but that Victor altered the prism somewhat. The prism will be frozen when Meagan receives it. As it thaws it will change colors. When it turns to red, the final color, it will explode, destroying all of Salem, and a large portion of the state. He warns Larry to get far away. He claims there is no way of stopping this. Meagan overhears all of this and tries to flip the switch on Leopold to electrocute him, but he gets out too quickly. The next thing we know Hope is in the hot tub room getting ready to get in. On Friday the last instant of the show showed Hope's foot about to enter the water. Yesterday, we see Hope pull her foot away from the water (whew!). Next we see Meagan lying in the hot tub! She is lying there not moving. Hope calls to her a couple times and she doesn't respond. Hope goes over to her and when she bends down to touch her, Hope's hair clip falls into the water and sparks fly everywhere! Hope screams and the janitor runs in just as Hope is turning off the electricity in the utility closet. The police come and take fingerprints, etc... It's obvious to us that Meagan killed herself and tried to make it look like Hope murdered her. The only fingerprints the police found were Hope's. Abe says Hope is their one and only suspect. Well, that's all for now. p.s. I just reread this and discovered I kept slipping in and out from present tense to past. Sorry! I wrote it in a big hurry and I don't have time to fix it.