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Original posting of Episode 33:

Date: 04 Apr 97 19:23:12 GMT
From: kmp@harlequin.com (Kent Pitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs
Subject: Y&R: AWO#33: "Jurassic Pack"
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INSIDE...  * Grace and Tony attempt to rectify the past
         * Kurt struggles to balance past and present
       * A villain from eons past resurfaces

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ANOTHER WAY OUT, Episode 33, 04-Apr-97  by Kent Pitman (kmp@harlequin.com)

                           "Jurassic Pack"
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"I don't know," Tony says to Grace as they drive along in the car.  "I'm not
so sure we should have just taken the kid that way."  "My name's Cassie!"
Cassie says.  "We know that, honey," Grace says.  "Aren't people going to call
it kidnapping?" Tony says.  "Oh," Grace whines.  "I don't think they would
do that.  They couldn't.  We're taking her to her mother.  And the paperwork
she had before was a scam.  How could that be kidnapping?"  "I know how it
could be," Cassie says.  "How's that?" Grace says to her.  "Because I'm a kid.
And I'm going to be napping now.  So NOW it's kidnapping.  Ha, ha. ha, ha!"

Kurt is dining at the Abbott estate with Ashley, Jack, Diane, and John.
"Well, Keith," John says, "it's very nice to finally have a chance to meet
you.  I've heard so many glowing things about you from my daughter."  Kurt
darts an exasperated glance at Ashley.  "Thank you, sir.  I--" John, who is
now taking a bite of food, suddenly starts to choke.  "Kurt!  Save him!"
Ashley says.  "Somebody call 911!" Diane says.  Jack nods to her.  "I'll go,"
he says.  He pauses for a moment.  "Diane, have I told you how beautiful you
look today?"  She shakes her head.  "Save it, Jack.  Your father?"  Jack looks
at his choking father.  "Oh.  Right.  Hang in there, Dad.  Help is on the way."
"Kurt, do it.  Hurry up!" Ashley says.  Kurt goes to John and holds his head
in his arms, but does nothing.  "He's turning blue!" Ashley says.  "Kurt!
Save my father!"  "Isn't someone calling 911?"  Kurt asks.  "It'll be too
late," Diane says.  She tries pounding on John's chest, but to no avail.
"Kurt!" Ashley urges.  Kurt looks to John and says tearfully, "I can't!  I
just can't!"

The phone rings and Sharon answers.  "It's Grace.  I have your child!" Grace
says.  "Did you arrange that with Nick?" Sharon says, confused.  "No, I did it
all on my own.  I just came in while the child was alone and--" "I don't
understand," Sharon says.  "Is this a kidnapping?"  "I wish people wouldn't
call it that.  But you can come visit.  We'll be in the open field at the edge
of Potter's Pond."  "We?"  "Tony helped me."  Sharon sighs. "What time?"  "One
o'clock.  Will you be there?"  "Of course I'll be there.  What kind of a
mother do you think I am?"  Sharon hangs up and dials 911.  "I can't believe
it!  My baby has been kidnapped!  No, I'm not sure what they want, but I've
arranged a meeting place...."

Michael Baldwin is in a room that looks like a restaurant kitchen turned
laboratory.  He wanders back and forth muttering.  "I've waited for this time,
Christine.  You want to play hardball?  I'll show you hardball.  You'll wish
you never crossed my path."  He thumbs through a reference book and reads a
passage or two.  "Aha! Perfect," he says.  He pours some chemicals from one
test tube to another and it fizzles dramatically.  Then he pours it into a
spiralling tube that leads into nearby horizontal freezer unit.  And the
camera zooms in as he lifts the top of the freezer and peers down into it to
see a frozen child inside.  "Very, good.  Very, very good."

Joshua comes racing into the Abbott dining room but Kurt looks up at him and
shakes his head.  Joshua puts his hand on John's neck to take a pulse and then
shakes his head, too.  "I see I'm too late," Joshua says.  Ashley bursts into
tears--"oh, I'll never forgive myself.  I never meant to hurt Dad..."  "What
are you babbling about, Dogface?" Jack asks.  "I put that bone in dad's
food--I didn't mean any harm.  I was just sad I missed the emergency surgery
on Hope the other day, so I figured I'd re-stage the event.  And now Dad is
dead..."  "Sis, I can't believe you'd do such a stupid thing," Jack says.
"You are definitely in the doghouse for this little stunt."

Potter's Pond.  Sharon is waiting as Grace drives up.  "Where is he?  Where's
little Noah?" Sharon says.  "Noah's dead!" Grace says.  "Get a grip!"  With
those words, we hear a booming voice, "Grace Turner.  Antonio Viscardi.  Place
your hands behind your head and lay flat on the ground.  You are under arrest
for the murder of Noah Newman."  "No!  You don't understand!"  Grace says,
running to the car.  But she is shot dead by one of the sharpshooters.  Tony
gets out of the car.  "Don't shoot!  Don't shoot!  I didn't want to go along
with this."  Cassie gets out, too.  "Well, shoot, I wanted to go along.  This
is fun!"  A sharpshooter, misunderstanding this as a confession, shoots her, 
too.  Music (Bless the Beasts) swells as this plotline comes to a mercifully
quick ending.

Michael Baldwin is in another corner of the lab, this time working with some
shipping boxes.  As he dons some wrist-length rubber gloves, he mutters, "Just
wait, Christine.  You think you're little Miss Perfect.  You think no one can
touch you.  But I know your weakness.  I studied while I was in prison.  I
focused on this moment.  I got early release for good behavior because I was
such a bookworm.  But do you know what I was studying?  No, you don't, do you?
But you will...."  He reaches into the freezer and lifts the still body of the
baby, then carefully deposits it into the shipping crate.  "There there,
little one.  You don't know yet what your mission is, but I promise you--you
will doing the world a great service."  He seals the box and as he does we see
the box is marked "Switzerland.  Rush order."

Some days later.  Kurt enters a confessional.  "Bless me Father, for I have
sinned.  I held a man's life in my hands, but I couldn't bring myself to save
him."  A voice comes from the other side of the screen.  "Tell me what was in
your heart, my son."  "It was Ashley-- Ashley Abbot.  She was right there--she
would have still more cause to be grateful to me.  No matter where I went in
the world, she would have tracked me down and slobbered all over me.  Just
like a puppy."  "Say no more, my son.  All is understood and I forgive thee."
Kurt looks surprised.  "God forgives me?  God understands?"  The voice hedges.
"Just between you and me?  Who knows what God thinks?  I'm just speaking for
myself--from personal experience.  Do you know I gave the woman forgiveness
once and I have NEVER heard the last of her thanks on the matter.  I know what
you mean, believe me.  I daresay if that woman turned up dead, I would move
Heaven and Earth to find a way to offer absolution to the Saint who did it!"
Kurt perks up.  "Really?  You know, Father, it's been really great chatting
with you, but I just remembered-- there's a little something I've got to go
and do.  I'll talk to you later."

Back to the Baldwin's hideaway.  It's some days later here, too.  (Wow, the
continuity must have been working overtime to get this transition right.)  A
large shipping crate has arrived.  He takes a dolly and turns it up on end,
then uses a crowbar to rip it open.  As he does, we see the return address on
the box.  "Switzerland."  Michael chortles to himself.  "Michael Crichton step
aside.  What you did ONLY IN A STORY with amber, I've done FOR REAL with the
maggots I got from that trash compactor!"  The box is turned momentarily away
from us as Michael sprays some sort of gas into it and we hear some rustling.
"Welcome to the world, my friend.  Come out and look around.  We have great
work to do."  And with that, David Kimble steps out of the box!

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         Copyright 1997 Kent M. Pitman.  All Rights Reserved.
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"Another Way Out" takes plotline state at time of publication and shows that
there are interesting places right around the corner.  The goal, besides
having some fun with good-natured parody, is to challenge the notion that we
must be mired in certain tired plotlines for months just to have a good time.
There is always another way out...

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