Wednesday’s Episode (3/12/08)
Countdown to today’s episode…8 minutes 
Can’t wait - y’days preview was awesome! Be back as soon as I have content to post.
And here we go…Krystal on phone with Babe, telling her she’s moved into Chandler mansion. Babe objects to her being there but insists on moving back in to make sure Krystal has backup dealing with Adam.
We then see Tad at the casino and are shown the top of a table with a few oragami animals and just then a black book drops on them, splattering coffee on the table. Uncle Robert sitting at that table looks up at Tad and says it’s good to see him again. Tad tells him he got his invitation to play golf today. Robert tells him it’s a kind of a father/son charity thing going on and since he doesn’t have a son he thought he’d invite his favorite nephew (oh just gag me now - hit em Tad LOL). “Well, for starters, I don’t play golf. And I don’t feel much like a nephew since the last time you saw me, I could barely talk,” Tad tells him. Robert suggests this is a way for them to get better acquainted and Tad quickly says NO…”How’s about you level with me? Why’d you really come to Pine Valley? Why now?” … end scene
Back at Tad’s office, we see Jesse on the couch dreaming and groaning now…then we are flashed back to when Jesse was tied up in that chair with a man telling him to tell them what he knows. Jesse says he doesn’t know anything and that he just wants to go back to his family. The man tells him he doesn’t have a family. “I got a wife and a little boy,” Jesse shouts. “Yeah, they’re both dead if you don’t talk” hisses the man. In disbelief, Jesse says “This is a big mistake, right?”. Angie hears Jesse shouting out from his dream and runs into the room. “Baby,” she says trying to wake him up. Jesse still in his nightmare yells out “Leave them alone.” Angie grabs onto him and says “Baby, wake up!” Jesse tells her to leave him alone, still not out of his dream. “Baby, it’s just a nightmare, it’s just a nightmare, sweetheart. It’s ok,” Angie tells him. Jesse wakes up, looks at her and says “Oh. Yeah, I wish it was just a nightmare.” Cut to commercial.
Back from commercial…at Tad’s office…
Angie’s asking Jesse to tell her what he was dreaming about. Jesse tells her she doesn’t want to hear about it. She sits back and gives him a look and says “Jesse, when are you going to get it? I was without you way too long. Any word out of your mouth, good or bad, is a gift to me.” she says. “You deserve better,” he says. She’s not going to let this go onto another conversation, she looks at him and says again “Jesse, your dream?” Jesse tells her it’s always the same dream. He’s in a dark room and wake him up by dumping water on him, smack him around, threatened him with her and Frankie’s safety. And that they kept asking him questions that he didn’t have answers too. “I just never have the answers.” he says. “Your mind is trying to find them. That’s why you keep having the same dream — you’re trying to figure it out,,” Angie says. Jesse tells her he really needs to figure this out qiuckly because he’s not going to lose her and Frankie again. She tells him she’s not going anywhere and that she purchased a house for them to all live in, but she knows until this is all over she and Frankie need to keep pretending that Jesse is still dead. She tells him Frankie is unpacking as they speak at the new house. Vidcap of this scene below…
Back at the casino…Robert tells Tad that he likes a mystery and it sounds like Tad does too. He tells him that the reason he’s there is not part of some Robert Ludlum novel and that he’s just lonely. Tad mentions Mary’s dying and Robert says she was the glue that held his life together. He then cries us all a river talking about how at first after she died friends came by and before long he started drinking too much and gambling. He said he just had to reconnect and he thought of Opal and Tad. “Yeah, please. Come on, man, let’s be serious. About the only thing we really have in common is a man we all hated. But if there’s something that’s bothered me my whole life, you know it’s that phrase “blood will tell.” It’s going to take a whole lot more to convince me that Ray Gardner’s little brother is anything but a lowlife, just a grifter. I’m sorry”, Tad tells him. Robert asks him if he knows anything about origami. Tad tells him that children do it at school. “It’s an ancient practice. It takes a lot of focus, but most of all, it takes patience and that is something I have a lot of”, Robert says. Tad tells him to have fun with his paper circus and that he’s got to get back to work. But of course Robert can’t let him go that quickly and says well, wait before you go, “there just was something that I was hoping you could clear up.” Tad says “What?” and Robert tells him he was looking in the paper and there was something very interesting about his friend Jesse Hubbard. Tad looks at him and says “Whic is?”. “Well, he looks to me exactly like that guy that I met in your office, but according to the paper and according to you, he’s been dead for 20 years. Can you explain that?” Robert says and we cut to commercial.
Back at the casino, Tad’s trying to hide the look on his face and you can see him scrambling in his head to get answer out. “Rick? Yeah. Ah, well, I guess I could see how you’d think there was a slight resemblance between him and Jesse, but — that’s it” Tad says looking at the paper. Robert tells him the guy in his office was a dead ringer. “Well, unfortunately, “dead” is the right word. If you see a resemblance, it’s just a coincidence. Like I said, Jesse’s been gone for more than 20 years,” Tad tells Robert. Robert tells Tad it was his mistake and changes the conversation by asking Tad if he was working on some big case today. Here’s some dialogue:
Tad: Why are you so interested in my work?
Robert: I — like I told you before, I did a little of that kind of work myself.
Tad: If you really knew anything about my work, you would know that I don’t discuss that kind of information with a stranger.
Robert: Well, just — if you ever need an extra brain on a case, I would love to help.
Tad: Uncle Robert, I got a partner. I’m not looking for another one. Whoever you end up playing with today, you enjoy your time on the back nine.
Robert: Tad? I didn’t look you up after all these years just to have an occasional polite conversation. I came to Pine Valley to make you a part of my life and I am not going to give up on you.
Tad: Well, then I guess it’s a good thing you’re a patient man.
Robert: No, I mean it, son. I would like you to trust me. Can you do that?
Back from commercial and other scenes…
“You want me to trust you?, Tad says to Robert. Robert responds with how else do we build a good relationship and Tad quickly tells him they don’t. Vidcap coming for this scene as MEK is sooo good in it. Suffice it to say Tad shares some of what Ray did to him and makes it clear to Uncle Robert he doesn’t want anything to do with him.
Back at Tad’s office we see Jesse going through the box Shonda gave Tad & Angie. “All right, Remy. I’m counting on you. I need you to help me get my life back”, Jesse says aloud. OOOOOOH, there’s some great content coming here…I must do Vidcaps now so you call can see!!! VIDCAPS done…see below…
Continuing on from the vidcap…
Back at Tad’s office we see Jesse on the sofa readin a letter Angie wrote to Remy. We hear Angie’s voice and these words:
“Dear Remy,
I’m deeply grateful for all you’ve done and tried to do since the funeral. But the pain right now is still too strong. ‘Empty’ is too light a word for what I feel. Empty, I could deal with. But I just miss Jesse so much. And sometimes, I find it hard to even take a breath in this world without him in it.”
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“Oh, baby. My poor baby — what have I done to you?” Jesse says as the scene fades. (I have a feeling you are all going to want a vidcap of Darnell in this one, huh? LOL)
Over at PV Hospital we see Angie and Joe talking. She’s telling him she wrote an article for the northeastern medical journal for research last year about advancements in the battle against leukemia. She’s been thinking about exploring new research opportunities and tells Joe that Mr. Novak would be an interesting place to start. Joe seems visibly distracted and says yes by all means “I think it would be very fortunate for Richie to have you”. Angie askes Joe if something is bothering him and he tells her it’s just personal stuff and nothing he wants to trouble her with. She tells Joe that he’s not just her mentor, but a very dear friend and she hoped he’d feel he could come to her with anything. Joe tells her it’s something he can’t talk to Ruth about or even Tad, and would appreciate her ear. Joe starts talking about Ray Gardner’s younger brother. He said his he wants to get to know Tad and Angie tells him that Tad told her about that last night. She tells Joe that she never knew Tad had family on Ray’s side and Joe says he didn’t know it either. Joe tried to put as much distance between Ray and that at an early age for Tad. He says Opal hardly remembers Robert, so he thinks he must’ve left town soon after Tad was born. Angie tells him that Ray put Joe’s family through a lot. “…Tad is still haunted by memories of that monster,” Joe says. Angie asks Joe if he thinks this uncle may want to harm Tad in some way. Joe says that if these anything like Ray that’s certainly possible. He goes on to tell Angie that he knows Tad is a grown man, but he’s still his son and we never stop worrying about our children. And she tells him that even though Ray brought Tad into this world, Tad is the man he is today because of Joe. “Tad was always special. I don’t take any credit for the way he turned out,” Joe says. Angie tells Joe that he is his Tad’s real father, nothing and no one can change that. Joe nods and says yeah. End scene.
Back at the casino (and let me just say, this really deserves a vidcap, MEK’s performance is so heartfelt)…Uncle Robert begins his sob story…dialogue follows because you have to read it, I can’t be alone in listening to this smarmy punk:
Robert: Our parents died when we were young and — thank you. Ray and I were pretty much left to fend for ourselves. I mean, I’m not excusing what he did, but we didn’t have a Joe and Ruth Martin — you know, someone kind and decent to take care of us.
Tad: Well, I guess I was lucky.
Robert: Ray hated the rain. Said it made him feel like a caged animal. So whenever there was a storm, it was trouble because that meant we’d have to stay in, alone. And I would have to come up with things to distract him so he wouldn’t take it out on me. And I was generally successful — I could keep him off me until just before dinner. Then the torture would start. Oh, he’d throw me across the room, he’d — well, he’d sit on my chest till he’d crush my windpipe. I mean —
Tad: Hit you? He’d hit you to — just to see how much you could take till you’d pass out.
Robert: How did you know that?
Tad: He did the same thing to me.
Robert: Oh, my God, you were just a kid. I used to go to bed praying for sunshine because then at least I had a chance. I’ve — I’ve never really told anybody this before.
Tad: Well —
Robert: I guess we have more in common than just our D.N.A.
Tad: Yeah, I guess we do.
Robert: I’m sorry. I — I didn’t mean to — to dredge up this past that you’ve worked so hard to — to keep down.
>>>YES IT’S ME AND I JUST GOTTA SAY THIS IS SUCH B.S. - Wake Up Tad!<<<<<<
Tad: Well, hey, you know, I — I — I didn’t think anybody could know what it was like to be part of Ray Gardner. I was wrong.
Robert: Sad but true.
Tad: Yeah. Some things — some things just better left not talked about.
Robert: Like this?
Tad: Whew. Man, where’s my mind? Uh — I’m sorry, Robert. I got to take off. I’m late to pick up my boy.
Robert asks about his boy and Tad tells him about Jamie and J.R. (stop yourself now Tad - don’t be suckered in)….Robert says he hopes one day he’ll get to meet Tad’s boys. Tad says maybe (oy veh Tad, NO!) Then Robert says “… maybe someday you’ll be able to look at me and see Uncle Rob and not the face of your father”. Tad says, he’ll call him and that he means it. End scene
Back at Tad’s office…Jesse talks aloud as he continues going through the calendar from the box. “All right, Remy. Let’s see who was trying to kill you that day, huh? The day I took a bullet for you? Ooh, hey. Oh. This could be what we’re looking for,” he says and scene ends.
When we return we see Jesse on the phone with Angie telling her this could be it, what they could be looking for. Angie tells him to slow down and tell her what he found. He told her it was a date book with all these appointments circled with the same person, someone named Pappel, Papel. Angie asks who that is and Jesse says “No clue.” She asks him then why the appointments are significant and he says…”Because one of the circled dates is the same day that I got shot”. End scene.
At PVH, Tad and JR have a discussion and he tells Tad he’s going to stay at Adam’s to heal and hopes that’s okay with Tad. Tad totally agrees and takes him to the Chandler mansion.
VIDCAP next because, well…you’ll see….
And all that remains is one more scene wherein Angie meets Richie and that’s pretty much it.
Previews for Thursday - NADA for our storyline.
Gotta run take the pups out - Enjoy and Peace!