12/29/2000



"Derek escorts Greenlee to a jail cell. She is angry and indignant, saying, "What do you think you're getting away with here, Detective?" Derek corrects her, "Lieutenant." Greenlee retorts, "General, chief of flipping staff, whatever. Oh!, I am not in jail!" Derek says, "Well, yeah, you are, actually." Greenlee insists, "I don't belong in here." Derek says sarcastically, "Well, I'll work on an upgrade with the concierge." He offers to call her grandfather, but Greenlee adamantly demands that he not. As Derek leaves, she tells him, "You're going to be sorry for this. You are." Greenlee cringes as she looks around her cell. Later on, an officer takes her to make her phone call. He takes her arm but she flings his arm away. She calls Leo.

Meanwhile, Leo is over at Erica's house, talking to Bianca. Erica is on the stairs, listening. Leo is incredulous, saying, "Come on, Bianca. Blackmail? I know Greenlee, and -ok, she's awful. But even Greenlee wouldn't do something like this." Bianca says, "Greenlee threatened to tell my mom that I was gay if I told anyone she was the one that pushed Laura off the yacht that night. And it worked -because she knew that there was nothing worse that she could hold over me. Nothing." When she hears this, Erica leaves and goes upstairs. Leo asks Bianca to tell him everything. Bianca tells him she almost told the truth several times, but Greenlee would swoop in and threaten her again. Leo is shocked and angry, saying, "How could she do this? Who is she? What kind of person did I fall in love with?" Bianca says, "I know this really hurts, Leo. I'm so sorry." Leo says, "I can't believe she would torture you like this. Like you haven't had enough to deal with in the last few months." He reassures Bianca that he'll make sure Greenlee doesn't tell Erica. Bianca tells him that Erica knows she is gay. She tells him about Sarah coming over, and says, "I watched her throw away who she really was to keep something that she never had to begin with. And I decided right then and there that I couldn't live that way, not even for another minute." Bianca describes how Erica walked in on Sarah and her hugging and her mother throwing Sarah out. "Then I came out, right here, for Christmas," says Bianca. Leo asks Bianca how it was and she replies, "It's bad Leo, and I don't know how it's going to get better." Then Greenlee calls and asks Leo to come bail her out of jail. Leo leaves, telling Bianca he'll talk to her soon.

Over at the jail, Leo goes to see Greenlee in her cell. He is cool but Greenlee is jabbering happily, "Now I know what you went through when your mother had you thrown in here for something you didn't do. I mean, what could be worse than having to defend yourself against bogus charges?" She goes on about the Crystal Ball and what a great time they will have. Suddenly, Leo grabs her arms and pushes her away. "You pushed Laura off the yacht," he says angrily. Greenlee is shocked and denies it. Leo explodes, "Oh, for God's sakes, Greenlee, shut up! I know! Ok? I know.... Can you stop lying to me for three seconds?" Greenlee tries to smooth things over, "I can see how mad you are and I can accept that.... But I love you and you love me. That's all that matters," she says. Greenlee claims it was a drug-induced impulse and she didn't mean it. Leo says, "Oh, you didn't mean it? That's going to be a wonderful defense, Greenlee-'I didn't mean it, your honor." Greenlee insists, "I'm not going to trial." Leo says, "You can go to hell for all I care." Leo reminds her of when he asks her if she did it. "I wanted one honest moment from you, Greenlee, but you kept lying to me over and over," he says. Greenlee tries to defend herself, saying she was afraid of losing him. But Leo says, "Even if I could forgive you for lying to me and lying to Laura, do you really think I could forgive you for abusing an innocent and vulnerable girl like Bianca? Greenlee, you tried to ruin that kid's life by blackmailing her to keep quiet.... What kind of sick human being would go after somebody's biggest fear, Greenlee? How do you ever expect me to look you in the eyes again?" Greenlee is tearful and pleading, "Can't you see? I'd do anything to keep you loving me forever." Leo replies, "You got a pretty twisted idea about what love is, Greenlee. It's awfully familiar...my mother could really relate to your idea of devotion." Greenlee says, "Don't compare me to Vanessa." Leo says, "Greenlee, you're just like her.... It's a pretty tight race on who's a bigger bitch." Greenlee pleads with him to get her out of there and let her make it up to him. "I'll die without you, Leo!" she says. Leo says, "I'll die if I stay." He throws the apartment key into the cell and says he will never set foot in that apartment again. He leaves and Greenlee cries.

Then Derek brings Greenlee's grandfather to see her. She says, "I told you not to call my grandfather. I never wanted you to see me like this, Granddaddy. I don't know what you heard." Her grandfather appears angry and exasperated. He is very brusque with her. He asks if she was drugged, and when she says yes, he tells her that will be her lawyer's defense and they'll get the charges dropped. She asks if he called her parents and he tells her they're in Switzerland. "They don't want anything to do with me, do they?" she says. Her grandfather coldly says, "Let me make sure your bail is in order." He leaves and Greenlee sinks to her knees, sobbing her heart out.

Meanwhile, back at Erica's house, Erica tries to comfort Bianca, "Honey, I heard what that horrible Greenlee did to you. I am so, so sorry." She hugs Bianca. Erica tells her she wishes Bianca could have come to her sooner and asks if Bianca was that afraid of her. Bianca says, "Mom, the only reason Greenlee blackmailed me is because I let her. I mean, if I didn't care if she told you about my being gay, then-." When Bianca mentions being gay, Erica becomes visibly upset and cuts her off, "No reason to rehash this. And about this -this gay thing." Bianca, looking troubled, repeats, "This gay thing?" Erica asks, "Who else knows? You're not telling people, are you?" Bianca tells her that Uncle Jack and Myrtle know. Erica says, "I know Myrtle won't tell anyone. No, I am confident that we can contain this whole thing." Bianca is disturbed, saying, "Contain this? Mom, you make it sound like an Ebola outbreak or something." Erica wants to know how Greenlee found out. Bianca tells Erica how Leo and Greenlee found her at a gay bar that Rain had taken her to. Erica says, "First, this Rain, she tries to turn you into a panhandler, and now she's trying to turn you into a--." Bianca finishes, "A lesbian?" Erica says, "Bianca, you are so impressionable. I don't think you should be putting labels on yourself. I don't think you should even be making a choice like this for yourself at this time." Bianca replies, "It isn't a choice. It's who I am." Erica wants Bianca to see a psychiatrist, Dr. McGrath, immediately. Bianca says, "Mom, I'm not going to get cured. So as much as you pay this psychiatrist of yours, please just drop it." Erica says, "I've already consulted with Dr. McGrath." "Why?" says Bianca, "What do you expect him to do, Mom, deprogram me? It doesn't work that way." Erica thinks Bianca is confused and says, "I know that's what you believe, but Bianca, what I'm hearing is a cry for help. And I'm here. I'm here to help you with that." Bianca insists, "Mom, I'm not going to start liking men, not the way you think I'm supposed to." Erica says, "This belief of yours that you can't have a great relationship with a man-it's all about not wanting to walk down the same path I have. You look at me-I've had one failed relationship with a man after another, and you say to yourself, 'uh-uh, I 'm not going to do that. I'm going to choose another way.' And you have, mistakenly. And Dr. McGrath can help you get back on track." Bianca says, "To happily ever after?" Erica says, "Yes, isn't that the goal, Bianca?" A man delivers Erica's dress for the Crystal Ball. Bianca says she hasn't thought about what she is going to wear. Erica looks disturbed and says Bianca isn't going. Bianca says, "You don't want me there?" Erica says she thought Bianca hates parties and it's an adult event. Then Erica leaves on an errand.

Erica goes to the jail to see Greenlee. Erica tells her, "You listen to me, you nasty, poor excuse for a woman. You say one word about my daughter-one word-and I will find you and I will ruin your life." She tells Greenlee that Leo is well rid of her. She leaves and Greenlee says, "You don't scare me. And I'm not losing Leo to anyone."

Back at Erica's house, Jack comes to see Bianca. She tells him her mother doesn't want her at the ball because she's ashamed of her. Jack says he will take her to the Crystal Ball, that he will save her from her mother's worst instincts and it's what Travis would do if he were here.

Leslie is at the Valley Inn. Tad comes in and confronts her about going to see his father. He tells her she is sick, (meaning obsessed) and he could get a rabbit and she could get busy making soup. Leslie starts to cry. Tad gets out a handkerchief and several plastic cards fall out of his pocket. Leslie helps pick them up. She whines, "Why are you being so awful to me, so dismissive?" Tad replies, "Because talking to you like an adult doesn't seem to work?" He tells her to back off and grabs her arms. Leslie sees Jake behind Tad and hugs Tad suddenly. Jake has his divorce papers for Leslie. She goes to check the papers and Jake asks Tad what is going on between him and Leslie. Tad says he took Leslie off retainer at Chandler Enterprises and that's why she hugged him. Jake doesn't buy it. Leslie returns with the papers and tells Jake she'll see him at the Crystal Ball. Jake leaves. Tad tells Leslie not to talk to him or anyone in his family and it would be better if she didn't go to the ball. Leslie plays innocent and says she's not trying to ruin his marriage. Tad says she's being deliberately dense and he leaves. Leslie picks up a phone and orders a necklace for the Crystal Ball. She pretends to be Tad's wife and charges it to his credit card, which she picked up before.

David and Dixie are eating together. He wants her to come back to work for him, but she refuses. She asks him if he had any happy childhood memories. They end up swiping serving trays at the restaurant and going sledding on them. They are both laughing and having fun. They end up at the boathouse and Dixie complains her hands are cold. David rubs them and blows on them. There is a good deal of sexual tension between them. Dixie hears Junior and his friend coming so she and David hide. After the kids are gone, Dixie wonders why she hid. David says, "How much longer are you going to pretend that this isn't right in front of us?" Dixie gets flustered and leaves."

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