ANOTHER WORLD 306 Bridget spurns Vicky

ANOTHER WORLD 306
Created by William J. Bell and Irna Phillips
Written by:  C. Nathaniel Richardson
Consultant:  A. Washington Beeby

In this episode:  Jake McKinnon, Vicky Hudson, Paulina Cory, Russ Matthews, Bridget McKinnon, Michele McKinnon, Donna Love, Allen Love, Thomasina Mason, Steven Frame, Joy Kramer, Lily Mason

PREVIOUSLY ON ANOTHER WORLD

• In her scheme to break up Cory and Bridget, Michele hacked the hospital server and switched her sister Bridget's negative test with a positive test.  Bridget suffered anaphylactic shock after taking amoxicillin.  She was prescribed the antibiotic after she was diagnosed with chlamydia.  It turned out she never had chlamydia at all.  Before Bridget collapsed in front of the Corys, Michele revealed all to Bridget.  Bridget was placed in a medically induced coma, and she has just awakened.  Everyone thinks it was just a test mix up, but Jake suspects otherwise.
• Lily Mason, a 1980s character, has come to town to make amends with her estranged daughter, Joy Kramer.  Lily left Joy with her cousin Thomasina and Thomasina's husband Carter Todd to raise

PART 1

A FEW MINUTES LATER, JAKE, VICKY, PAULINA, AND RUSS ENTER BRIDGET’S ROOM AS BRIDGET LIES IN HER BED.  BRIDGET STARTS TO OPEN HER EYES.  JAKE WALKS UP TO HER BED WITH PAULINA BEHIND HIM.

Vicky Hudson

Paulina Cory

Jake McKinnon

Bridget McKinnon

Michele McKinnon

JAKE:  Hey honey.  Welcome back. 
PAULINA:  We’re right here.

BRIDGET LOOKS AT JAKE AND PAULINA AS MICHELE ENTERS THE ROOM, THEN BRIDGET FIXES HER EYES STRAIGHT AT MICHELE, AND THE TWO  MAKE EYE CONTACT.

BRIDGET:  Dad?
JAKE:  Baby.  I’m so happy you’re back with us.
PAULINA:  We all are.

MICHELE walks up to BRIDGET.

MICHELE:  I’m so happy that you’re awake.

BRIDGET just looks at MICHELE.

DONNA:  How are you feeling honey?
BRIDGET:  Like I’ve…been sleeping I guess.
JAKE:  You have been.
BRIDGET:  What happened?   How did I get here?
PAULINA:  That’s…that’s not important right now.  Let’s just celebrate that you’re awake.
RUSS:  I’m gonna arrange for some tests to be run.  Until then I will ask that she have two visitors at a time.
VICKY:  Of course.
DONNA:  We’ll give you all the time you need to get better.
BRIDGET:  I wanna…I wanna speak to mom.  In private.

JAKE looks back at VICKY, and then back at BRIDGET.

JAKE:  Sure baby. 
PAULINA:  We’ll be right outside.

EVERYONE LEAVES VICKY AND BRIDGET alone.  VICKY walks slowly up to BRIDGET, and sits on a stool next to BRIDGET’S bed.

VICKY:  How are you feeling?
BRIDGET:  How did I get here?  Can you tell me what happened?  I was talking to Michele one minute, and now I’m waking up.
VICKY:   You…had an allergic reaction to the Amoxicillin.
BRIDGET:  I was taking that for chlamydia.
VICKY:  Honey there’s something I need to tell you.  After you were brought in, Dr. Matthews ran your blood.  They didn’t find any chlamydia in it.
BRIDGET:  What?  I only took the Amoxicillin once.
VICKY:  There may have been a mix up with the tests. 
BRIDGET:  What are you talking about?
VICKY:  They discovered that you…that you never chlamydia at all.

MICHELE walks up to the door and looks inside through the rectangle shaped glass, then walks away.
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AT THOMASINA’S HOUSE, THOMASINA is with JOY and her mother, LILY MASON.

Thomasina Mason

Lily Mason

Joy Kramer

LILY:  Joy it’s up to you.  I wasn’t there for you like a mother should have been but…I’m not gonna justify my reasons for asking Thomasina to raise you.  I hope you will let this bitterness go and be happy.  That’s all I want for you.
THOMASINA:  She’s right Joy. 
JOY:  I’m not giving you a break just because you’re sick.  If you were healthy you wouldn’t even be here, so the answer is hell no.
THOMASINA:  Oh my God Joy you don’t mean that.
JOY:  I DO mean it.  You have the audacity to come back into my life after all these years, asking me for forgiveness!
LILY:  Baby I know I did you wrong, but please, I don’t have much time left.  I hope that…I hope that you can find it in your heart to give me another chance.
JOY:  As far I’m concerned you blew it.  I got this far in life without you, and I sure don’t need you laying a guilt trip on me.
LILY:  Joy baby where you goin?
JOY:  After all of this, I think I need some air.

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MEANWHILE, STEVEN is in the waiting area with DONNA.

Steven Frame

Donna Love

STEVEN:  Are you serious?
DONNA:  It’s very shocking.  I have no idea how they could get the tests mixed up like that, especially with today’s technology.
STEVEN:  It happens, but it could have cost Bridget her life.
DONNA:   That’s the thing.  They should have been more careful.
STEVEN:  I’ll have a word with Dr. Mason about that.  It’s unacceptable.  I’m just happy that she’s okay.
DONNA:  Yeah me, too.  How about you?  What’s going on in your life?  How are things with Joy?
STEVEN:  We’re good.  It’s mom that has to get on board. 
DONNA:  I noticed that Victoria doesn’t like her very much.
STEVEN:  Not at all.  Mom’s gonna have to accept that I love her, and nothing she does is going to change that.

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IN ANOTHER PART OF THE WAITING AREA, PAULINA walks up to JAKE with two cups.

PAULINA:  Coffee?

JAKE smiles and takes a cup from PAULINA.

JAKE:  Thanks.
PAULINA:  I’m starting to wonder if I should have gotten you one.
JAKE:  Why you say that?
PAULINA:  Because you’re already jumpy.
JAKE:  No just…can’t shake this feeling.

MICHELE walks into the waiting area unseen by JAKE and PAULINA.

PAULINA:  What is it?
JAKE:  How could Bridget end up in a doctor induced coma, but never have chlamydia?  Something is off about all of this, and I’m gonna find out what it is.

CAMERA PAN ON MICHELE…SLOW FADE TO THEME SONG.

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PART 2

AT THOMASINA’S HOUSE…

LILY:  I gotta go after her.
THOMASINA:  Aunt Lily maybe you should let her calm down for a bit.  This is a lot for her to process.
LILY:  I know I was wrong.  I just wanna make it right…before it’s too late.
THOMASINA:  I mean, you gotta give her some time.  You haven’t spoken to her in years.
LILY:  She has to understand why I left her with you.  God only knows what could have happened to her if I kept her with me.
THOMASINA:  Look if it’s any consolation…I think you did the right thing.  Carter and I did our best to give Joy a good home.
LILY:  I’m so grateful to you for raising my daughter.
THOMASINA:  Joy has made some mistakes in her life, but she’s a good girl.  I think she’ll come around eventually, but today ain’t the day.

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AT THE CENTER, ALLEN LOVE is walking and talking on his cell phone.

Allen Love

ALLEN:  That was a long ass flight from Geneva.  It’s gonna be a while before I do that again.  Yeah mom it was worth it.  I’ll tell Aunt Donna to call you…I love you, too.

ALLEN presses end call.  He walks into the Center and sees JOY, who is sitting at one of the tables.  JOY notices as he walks past.

ALLEN:  Hey you're...Steven's girlfriend right?
JOY:  That would be me.  How do you know him?
ALLEN:  I'm his cousin Allen.   I forgot your name.
JOY:  Joy Kramer.
ALLEN:  You aiight?
JOY:  Well…outside of my mother showing up after years of not speaking, and begging me to forgive her, I’m just fine.

ALLEN sits across from her.

ALLEN:  Sorry to hear that. 
JOY:  Please…don’t feel sorry for me.  I was raised by good people.  How could your own mother leave you on someone’s doorstep as if you were some type of package?
ALLEN:  Did you talk to her about it?
JOY:  Oh she’s here, with all of her reasons why she couldn’t raise me, but it still hurts you know?  I realized that my mother didn’t even want me.

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BRIDGET:  What did you say?
VICKY:  They said that you never had chlamydia.
BRIDGET:  So why didn’t you believe me?
VICKY:  What do you mean?
BRIDGET:  I told you that I didn’t cheat on Cory.  You didn’t believe me mom.
VICKY:  I can explain that.  I’m so sorry.
BRIDGET:  Why are you even having to apologize at all?  I’m your daughter.  You’re supposed to believe me.
VICKY:  You really don’t understand where I’m coming from.
BRIDGET:  All I can see…is that you hate me.
VICKY:  Oh my God.  That couldn’t be further from the truth.  Sweetheart I don’t hate you.  I just…
BRIDGET:  Just what?  What is it mom?
VICKY:  All the paternity questions.  I schemed and lied, and I just don’t want you to be like me.
BRIDGET:  What are you talking about?
VICKY:  Everything you did on prom night, I saw me in you, and I didn’t like it.
BRIDGET:  I did some horrible things back then, but I’m not like that anymore.
VICKY:  Michele doesn’t seem to think so.  Ever since she came back you both have been fighting. 
BRIDGET:  And you side with her.
VICKY:  That’s not what this is about.  I want you to be better than I was.  I didn’t know who Steven’s father was, and I didn’t know who Kirkland’s father was.  Custody battles with Grant. I don’t want you to go through any of that stuff. 
BRIDGET:  What are you getting at mom?
VICKY:  I…I see you heading down that path I was on and I don’t want that for you.  I want you to be happy.  I want you to tell the truth.  I want you to be a stronger woman than I was.
BRIDGET:  No mom.  All you wanted was Michele to be better than me.  You always took her side.
VICKY:  You’re both my daughters.  You have to see that I had reason.
BRIDGET:  No.  I don’t.  I can’t see why you don’t love me.  I can’t see why you didn’t believe me.  And it turns out I never even had a STI.
VICKY:  Please try to understand where I’m coming from.
BRIDGET:  You say you don’t want me to be like you, well, I agree.  When I have children, I’m going to stand by them.  I’m going to believe them over others.  I’m always going to think the best of them.  That’s the opposite of how you treat me…your own daughter.  I’m going to be nothing like you.
VICKY:  I’ve made some mistakes, but can we start over?  Can we be mother and daughter?
BRIDGET:  I’m tired.
VICKY:  I love you.

BRIDGET turns over in her bed.  Her back faces Vicky and Bridget does not answer.  VICKY leaves the room.

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PAULINA:  Jake come on.  This was all just a big mix up.  Do you really think that this was done on purpose?
JAKE:  This doesn’t make any sense.  If Bridget never had the disease, and Dr. Davidson says she tested positive…
PAULINA:  You might be on to something.  That means the tests may have been switched.
JAKE:  The question is who would do that?

MICHELE tries to leave but JAKE spots and catches up with her as Paulina follows.

JAKE:  Michele.  Where are you going?

MICHELE turns around and faces Jake and Paulina.

FREEZE FRAME ON MICHELE.  SLOW FADE OUT..END OF 306