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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:25:21 GMT -5
308 Believe
Outside, a park, pouring rain
As the scene widens, we see that there was supposed to be a charity AIDS walk, but the rain has caused it to be cancelled. The organizer sits there in shock, as helpers rush around trying to get things loaded back up to keep them dry. Alvin walks up to her, places his raincoat around her, and sits down beside her.
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Post by cecilia on Nov 11, 2003 22:26:42 GMT -5
Hi, Gin! glad to see you here again!  |
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:31:05 GMT -5
Thanks Cecilia--sorry about last week.
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:35:47 GMT -5
Evening, Nick and Lulu are walking companionably down the street, each carrying a paper bag of groceries. Lulu is telling Nick about something that happened to her years ago on her birthday, when suddenly she blurts out “I’m pregnant.”
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:40:43 GMT -5
Nick is shocked by this announcement, but Lulu hands him her bag, fishes in her purse, and pulls out the result sticks from the two home pregnancy tests she took. The two stand beneath a street lamp and Lulu explains the results to him.
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Post by spunkymungbeans on Nov 11, 2003 22:43:15 GMT -5
Ah the joy of watching that little line develop.
Leonie
(lost in happy memories)
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:47:27 GMT -5
Nick’s house
Nick and Lulu are in the kitchen discussing the news, the bags of groceries on the counter near them. Nick asks Lulu if having a baby right now is what she wants. Lulu looks him in the eye and replies “Do you want to be a father?”<br>
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Post by spunkymungbeans on Nov 11, 2003 22:52:34 GMT -5
and he answers?
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:54:55 GMT -5
LSP, conference room
Alvin is telling everyone about an article in the paper about a homeless man who has been going around painting the slogan “Believe” on buildings all over town. Then Alvin introduces ?? Riddle, the organizer of the AIDs walk. She’s the director of an organization to help AIDs patients, and since their big fund raiser was canceled, she’s now got to come up with a way to raise money. The clinic is working with her on a couple of issues, and she invites all of them to a masquerade ball the next Saturday, at no cost to them, asking them to invite their friends to raise money.
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 22:57:07 GMT -5
He doesn't, Spunky. In classic television style, this is where they cut for the opening credits! ;D
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 23:01:25 GMT -5
LSP, Nick’s office
Lulu pops in, tells Nick she’s made an appointment at a clinic for 8 am the next day. Nick seems a bit worried at first to hear she’s going to a clinic (he’s thinking abortion clinic, perhaps?), but says he really wants to be there.
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 23:02:56 GMT -5
After Lulu leaves, Suzanne shows up at his office with two children, Marcus and Etta Wheat. After she introduces them (both adorable, Nick is all smiles at them), she tells the kids to go out and play in the area where she showed them for a few minutes. Once they’re gone, she explains to Nick that their mother died from AIDs three days ago, and that while she was alive, she refused to have them tested. Suzanne explains that she wants to go to Judge Damsen’s chambers and see about having a medical guardian appointed so that she can have the kids tested. Nick asks if it mightn’t be easier to place them in foster care before they’ve been tested, but Suzanne insists, and Nick agrees.
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Post by spunkymungbeans on Nov 11, 2003 23:03:06 GMT -5
Ah - the joys of having needles stuck into you for 9 months straight.
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 23:05:30 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Lulu is meeting with ?? Riddle, who is explaining to her that one of the problems is that they have contested funding. Her former lover, now deceased, left the Alliance $1 million, but his children are contesting the will. She also tells Lulu that one of the things she needs LSP to do is to arrange with a local “men’s club” (health club and sex club) to allow them to come in twice a week to provide the patrons with condoms and AIDs counseling.
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Post by Ginne on Nov 11, 2003 23:08:40 GMT -5
Judge Damsen’s chambers
Nick is appointed the children’s medical guardian, and Damsen says they can have the kids tested.
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