January 21 did not exist in Bay City. The whole of the United States became one great big inaugural whatnot, at least for 6 -- count 'em, 6 -- long hours on NBC.
Felicia busy authoring. Doorbell. Enter a strange person by the name of Dee. She asked if Felicia were Cass. Felicia did not appreciate this. (Note for posterity: Cecile's house is at 30 Meadow Lane, if you can imagine.)
Larry and Sandy are yelling about finding Carl. "He bought a cop" sa Larry. Oooh. Cop shopping. They're looking through Carl's files.
MJ is at home looking awful. Kathleen is sitting with her. MJ asked listlessly about Kathleen's date. Kathleen spoke as enthusiastically as was decent. Suddenly and still listlessly MJ said "I knew his whole family."
Dee is mucking about with Felicia's computer. Felicia called Cass and ordered him to come to her rescue. She asked Dee what she wants. Dee doesn't know. She has a note telling her she has a meeting with Cass at 9. Cass arrived and was taken aback. He knows her not.
Mac's in Zurich. They're tracking Carl in Europe.
Emily's on the verge of being interrogated. Peter's being led to her.
Didn't Rachel go to Zurich for her eyes after Steve?
Kathleen told MJ she was not in the wrong for killing Wayne Kraus. MJ's worried about the family.
Larry wants Catlin to look through heaps of Carl's files to see if anything rings a bell. Catlin doesn't want to miss forensics but Larry said it didn't matter and he'd get him excused. Catlin thinks he'd get more out of Emily. Larry prefers to get evidence from someone he believes to be sane.
Peter swore to Emily he'd never give up. She spoke of a dream she'd had about Kensington Gardens and Peter.
Nancy says it's unfair. Everyone hating his father. Rachel advised her to go to him because he'd need her [Perry, natch].
Perry's going to sit in Carl's office all alone. Silently. LISTLESSLY.
Lieutenant Graham came to Larry's office to needle Catlin MERCILESSLY. I suffer. Most of his statements dealt with Larry making things easy for his little brother. Catlin did not lose his temper but his goat was got to an extent. Larry returned and genially but firmly ejected the unwanted lieutenant, making things worse from Catlin's point de vue.
Cass asked Dee what she was about but she said she didn't have to answer to him. Felicia decided she would go to the TV station. Cass asked what he was supposed to do with THIS. Felicia advised him to throw the baggage out. (I foresee this is to become a very Pygmalion situation. This is the reason for Tony's question of January 11. Cass is certainly offensive enough for an Enry Iggins. Why can't a woman be more like a man? Except he likes them. By the way, baggage is MY word. They stuck to pronouns.) Cass was appalled by this suggestion. He can't throw females out. It's not done. Felicia propelled Dee doorward. They met Tony on the step. "UNCLE TONY," cried Dee. "Uncle Tony?" echoed Cass and Felicia. Felicia left. Tony inquired after Dee's mother. Dee knows not how her mother is. She doesn't come to visit her. She plays mahjongg instead. And bingo and bridge. Dee was requested to leave the room so Uncle Tony could have a chat with Mr. Winthrop. Cass told Tony he wants Dee out of there. Tony told him he believes Dee to be a diamond in the rough and Cass is to polish her. He can keep the book. He stipulates that Dee mustn't find out about his sharking. And she must be as fine as a true deb by the time of the Bay City cotillion. Grand enough to rival Cornelia Guest, no doubt. Tony: Her grandmother has always dreamed that one day she would be presented to society. Cass: As a menace? Further along he was raving about how difficult it would be. Cass: you don't understand. Debutantes do things like eat with silverware. Wear dresses. BATHE. Cass must do this. The alternative is death. The rain in Spain etc.
Catlin told Larry to let him handle Graham. Larry told him he didn't have to take stuff like that from Graham. Catlin said he did as long as he was in the Academy. Larry wants those files looked at by tomorrow. Catlin's going to ballistics now and he'll stay up all night if he has to (looking at files) but he won't have Larry giving him special treatment of any sort. (Why can't Larry get Sally or Kathleen? They were there too and much more on the ranch than anyone else viz. Cass and Catlin. Or call Cecile.)
The widow bears MJ no animosity. She can't see why Wayne sold out to Carl.
Kathleen is telling Cass of MJ's depression. She says MJ's sensitive and she's hard as nails. Cass had his arm about her waist rather. He doesn't seem to think she's quite as hard as nails exactly.
Tony told Dee she'd be comfortable there. She's to stay there for a month. She's not thrilled. Tony: (kindly) Well it certainly beats the detention centre, doesn't it? (There = Cecile's house I believe.) Dee says she doesn't like Cass and he doesn't like her. Tony's Dee's guardian. She's not sure she can learn to love Dee. Kathleen is sure they will. Tony says Dee is a sensitive child. Kathleen says she'll be fine and Cass would do a wonderful job with her. (Ed. Note: She was sitting on the couch next to Cass with her arm through his and with the other hand she patted his arm in a proprietary fashion. They looked so -- married. Surprising.) Tony left to go collecting with Rocco. Kathleen can't believe Dee is as bad as Cass says. Cass raved about Dee being rude and dumb and he described her as a disaster about to happen . . . "and the bad news is she's about to happen to me." Dee was listening. She looked hurt but unsurprised, I can't explain it exactly.
Nancy found Perry in Carl's office. He's crying about his father. He told her about the hostage-taking. In detail. He's upset that he trusted in his father the murderer. He said he needed some time there alone. She left telling him she'd be there for him if he needed someone to talk to.
Larry dropped by to see MJ. She seemed rather out of it. She claims to be fine. She wishes everyone would stop tiptoeing on eggshells about her. I'm not fragile I'm not going to break.
Cass called Dee to meet Kathleen. Her surname's Evans. Kathleen and Cass were both very nice to her. Kathleen offered to get her lunch. Dee declined. All nice and friendly. Until Kathleen asked Dee what she had in her hand all bunched up and red. Just an old dress she found in the closet. She cut the sleeves off. It was Kathleen's dress. Dee said she'd thought it was so old-fashioned it couldn't be anyone's. Kathleen lunged at her. The end. Can't you see Dee developing a mad pash for Cass?
I can't help thinking of Catlin as the Vogon guard. RESISTANCE IS USELESS. '"so the hours are pretty good then?" He resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. "Yeah," he said "but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except . . ." he thought again, which required looking at the ceiling -- "except some of the shouting I quite like." He filled his lungs and bellowed, "resistance is . . ." "Sure, yes," interrupted Ford hurriedly. "You're good at that, I can tell. But if it's mostly lousy," he said, slowly giving the words time to reach their mark, "then why do you do it? What is it? The girls? The leather? The machismo? Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?" Arthur looked backwards and forwards between them in bafflement. "Er . . ." said the guard. "Er . . . er . . . I dunno. I think I just sort of . . . do it really. My aunt said that spaceship guard was a good career for a young Vogon -- you know, the uniform, the low-slung stun ray holster, the mindless tedium . . ."'
There have been 2 (two) dayouts in Bay City . . . New Year's Day and January 21. No one really noticed. They continued with life as usual. But there was a dayout. There were 2. The first was not completely successful. It hit only Emily. But the second was presumably fine. MJ Kathleen Marley Nancy Felicia Maisie and Diane (Donna too) will become inexplicably pregnant. (Although Diane may actually be explicable. Who knows what chauffeur or gardener or even stablehand she has stashed away?) I've just realised the only explicable pregnancy left would be Sally's. Tom's is not the result of a dayout and Alice and Joyce can't have children. Oh. Rachel. Rachel would be explicable. And Blaine. And Clarice. It's just that I tend to ignore them. So anyway. The purpose of the dayouts was to infiltrate ordinary American cities. The difference is there are not ALIENS but Carl. Carl is the villain behind this . . . cuckoldry. Perry will assume that Hunt is the father of Nancy's. Marley won't tell anyone. The explicable ones will assume they're really explicable except Sally who will be among the ones who figure it out. MJ and Kathleen and Felicia will also figure it out. Cass will have to have it explained. It will turn out the first one didn't work because of Cass/Krystle fouling up the calculations. Peter will figure it out but Emily won't care. Diane will resign and try to get one of her many men to make an honest woman of her. Donna and Maisie won't clue in until everyone's had it clarified. Sally and Catlin will be in horrible agonies waiting to find out whether it's normal or dayout. This whole mess will be the cause of a great many arguments and estrangements. The distinguishing feature of the dayout babies will not be gold or silver eyes but Carl's hair. Eventually they will be exterminated due to (a) faulty wiring or (b) too much lemming instinct. CARL WILL NOT TRIUMPH. The reason he left town was so he wouldn't be connected to any rash of babies occurring on or about 9 months from now. (He wanted to take Donna with him so's to spare her this but NO she wouldn't go.) For everyone would say (I mean the men) "Say, Carl was in town and they've all got his hair. My wife/fiancée/general female has been massively unfaithful/indiscriminate." Of course they weren't but men are fools. The ones who are absolutely certain it's a dayout baby will migrate to Chicago briefly. The ones who think it could possibly be fathered by real people with whom they have been sleeping won't chance it. Marley won't migrate. Blaine and Rachel's children won't be dayout babies. I'm not sure about Sally's and Clarice's. I don't hate them but I'd like to spite Larry . . . p'raps being uncle to a dayout would be enough. That's it. Sally's and Clarice's will be real true children. But the agonies suffered before finding out will be tremendous.
Can't you see Cass putting furniture in Dee's way?
Ugh. Nancy is so obnoxious.
Cass' sarcasm over Dee is sounding somewhat forced.
I can't for the life of me find an Arthur or a Trillian or a Marvin. Is there a Fenchurch?
Trillian's indistinct and fuddled up with the blonde TV one. And Arthur is so far inside his bathrobe I'd have to dredge up Alcibiades.
TV cops don't look like real cops. I maintain that real cops all look alike. The occasional variation in facial hair but that's about it. Except the women.