Guiding Light Transcript Thursday 12/20/07
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Billy: Hey, hey, what are you doing?
Lizzie: Scoot, scoot, scoot.
Billy: What is that stuff?
Lizzie: It is lavender linen spray.
Billy: Wait a minute. Let me see that.
Lizzie: It is supposed to promote tranquility. I want you to be tranquil!
Billy: Darling, you know what? Ugh. This stuff definitely is not going to do it.
Lizzie: You know, that clinic that Dinah was in, they actually pumped that stuff through the vents.
Billy: Well, this isn't fancy-schmancy. This is rehab. It's a little tougher.
Lizzie: You're okay?
Billy: Yeah, I'm hanging in there.
Lizzie: And the fabulous visitors make it great. I can't wait for you to get well.
Billy: It's hard, but I'm going to get well because I've got a lot of people counting on me.
Lizzie: Like me. I'm really proud of you for doing this.
Billy: So, are you okay?
Lizzie: I can handle Bill. I'm keeping it professional.
Billy: 28 days, and I'm taking Lewis back for us. I don't want him hurting you or anybody else anymore.
Bill: Okay, I'll have the...
Buzz: Okay, you win. You win, all right? I don't know who fixed this election for me, and I don't even want to know, but I'm not ready to give up a job I don't even have yet, so you got what you want.
Bill: Well, that would be two eggs over easy.
Buzz: You save Company, you protect my friends, and you can have this, this Main Street project, okay? And... we stopped serving breakfast hours ago.
Bill: Congratulations, again, Mr. Mayor!
Coop: This is the agenda for later.
Ashlee: "Youth advisors," is that our official title?
Coop: Yes. Oh, come on, you don't like it?
Ashlee: No, Coop, I think it's great. I've come a long way from juvie to youth advisor for Buzz Cooper, the Mayor of Springfield. Look, your teacher said this whole education report thing is up your alley, but for me this is a really big thing.
Coop: Well, it is a big deal for me. My dad is the mayor, so there is more pressure on me.
Ashlee: I have to ask you, do I look scholarly for this meeting? Look, I worked on this. I bought these at the drugstore.
Coop: You got glasses...
Ashlee: I can't see, and they're crooked and dirty..
Coop: Ashlee, stop. I hate to do this, but I have to make a phone call.
Ashlee: It's my glasses, right?
Coop: It's not the glasses. I'll be right back.
Ava: "Youth advisor"? Sweet.
Ashlee: Oh, I take it that you don't want me to go to this meeting.
Ava: Unless you want everyone to know you fixed the votes. You're catching on, Ashlee, good for you.
( Laughter )
Mallet: You know, our tree is kind of bare.
Dinah: Yeah. Okay, well why don't we hang some doughnuts, rap sheets...
Mallet: I have ornaments.
Dinah: You have an ornament at home?
Mallet: Yeah.
Dinah: Excellent. Why don't we just go there?
Mallet: Okay.
Lizzie: Dad?
Bill: Hey.
Lizzie: Could we go to your room?
Bill: Yeah.
Ava: "Electoral fraud: Illegally interfering with the election process in order to have a certain outcome."
Ashlee: Wow, those are some big words you found on the World Wide Web.
Ava: You fixed the election so Buzz would beat Doris, your mother. You were an attempted murderer last year, and this year electoral fraud. Fantastic.
Ashlee: And now you have me exactly where you want me.
Ava: Yes. I do. See ya.
Coop: All right, Ashlee, are you ready to go?
Ashlee: Actually, I think that you don't need me.
Coop: What?
Ashlee: I need to go. I'm sorry.
Coop: Ashlee, you're going where?
Ava: Coop. Are you okay?
Coop: Yeah. No. I don't know, Ashlee and I were supposed to be going to this meeting with my dad, and now she just bailed on me. Great. Great.
Ava: What is this?
Coop: Well, this all is school reform. We were supposed to be the youth voice on my dad's committee, but she just...
Ava: Well, I have a voice. I can help out. What can I do?
Coop: Um, you know what? It's okay. Ashlee was supposed to be the voice, and she was preparing...
Ava: Come on. It's no big deal. It's no big deal.
Coop: All right.
Doris: That kind of thing isn't really mayor-ish.
Buzz: Mayor-ish?
Doris: Yeah, the kind of thing you do when you're mayor.
Buzz: That depends on who's mayor. This one runs a restaurant.
Lillian: Hello, Mayor Cooper.
Buzz: Hi, Lillian.
Doris: Lillian. I was just checking in here with the boss. I'm working in Buzz's administration.
Lillian: Don't be silly.
Buzz: I forgot to tell you.
Lillian: You forgot to tell me. Are these fumes going to your head?
Bill: So you saw your dad?
Lizzie: No. He left this. Or he had someone leave it for him. I don't know. It was there, and that means he's here.
Bill: "Dear Lizzie, you look beautiful, so grown up. I can't wait to see you. Love, Dad."
Bill: You don't know if it was your father...
Lizzie: I can't go back to my room.
Bill: You don't have to. But, Lizzie, even if this is your father, do you think he's going to hurt you?
Lizzie: I have no idea. I have no idea. I would like to believe he is the dad he was before he got sick, but even if he is different, we have no idea where he was or what he was doing. If he was okay, why would he be doing it like this, going around freaking everybody out?
Bill: Okay. Let me get you a drink.
Lizzie: No, I'm not going to drink with you, Bill.
( Cell phone rings )
Bill: Hang on a second. Lewis. Yeah, I can meet you down on Main Street in...
Lizzie: No, no, no. Stay with me.
Bill: Ah, how late can we do this thing in order to get it on the news tonight? That would be fantastic. Let's do it then. Great, fantastic. Let's do it then. Whoa, whoa, whoa, where are you going?
Lizzie: This is stupid. You have stuff to do and...
Bill: Look, look, Lizzie, listen to me. Stay here. Stay. I've got to take a shower anyway. Stay put.
Dinah: ( Laughing ) Those ornaments...
Mallet: Yeah, they're on the bed.
Dinah: Where?
Mallet: The ornaments? Give me...
Dinah: Mallet, we shouldn't be doing this.
Mallet: We definitely should be doing this. And since when did "shouldn't" stop you?
Dinah: Good point.
Mallet: Yeah, good point.
Coop: Lillian, hey, have you seen my dad?
Lillian: Yes, he's about to have a meeting with his kitchen cabinet.
Coop: Who's that?
Lillian: Me, because I think he's lost his mind.
Coop: Thank you.
Ava: What is going on with Doris and Buzz?
Coop: She works for him. I'm thrilled. No, I think it's one of those "keep your enemies closer" kind of things.
Ava: Does she know that?
Coop: Honestly, I don't think she cares. I just feel bad for Ashlee...
Ava: You know what? Why don't we brainstorm on some of these things...
Coop: What?
Ava: The ideas for our meeting with the superintendent.
Coop: Whoa, how did you know that's who we're meeting?
Ava: Well, you mentioned school reform, so I just figured. What is this?
Coop: School lunches and stuff like this. It was stuff that Ashlee was pulling up stats on, and I was writing it down. I don't think this is a good idea, because I think Ashlee...
Ava: Why? Because Ashlee is the only one who can read your chicken scratch?
Coop: It's not chicken scratch, and I think Ashlee should be the one to work on that. Just tell my dad that we're going to be late.
Buzz: Ava, hi.
Ava: Ashlee and Coop are running late.
Lillian: Coop was just here.
Doris: It didn't work.
Lillian: No, you're still here, aren't you?
Doris: Listen, Buzz needs someone in his administration with political savvy.
Lillian: Buzz is nice, but he is a little naive.
Doris: Who would think it wouldn't work to his favor.
Lillian: But I'm not naive. I lived in the Spaulding mansion for many years. You tried, but you couldn’t. People like you come and go.
Doris: Right now I really need to go.
Lillian: Well, I wish you would be gone. In the meantime, I'll be watching you.
Doris: Good. Then you can let me know if I have anything in my teeth.
Lillian: You do.
Dinah: You took your ring off?
Mallet: Yeah. Yeah, it took me a while to do that.
Dinah: Finally did it, huh?
Mallet: Yeah. Oh, Dinah, I can't live like this anymore. Every time I see you out and you turn away, it's like I'm losing you again and again and again. I just... I just don't want to end all this angry.
Dinah: Yeah, I don't want that for us either. I don't want us to be mad at each other. You know, when I think about how we are, after what we were, and I'm not losing the words, it's just there aren't any.
Mallet: You know I'll always love you.
Dinah: Yeah. I love you, too. You're the best part of me, you know. And, um, now...
Mallet: It's different. It's different now, isn't it? ( Sighs ) Okay. Okay. It’s... I guess it's time. So what do you want to do? I mean, I don't know what to do. Do you want to... do you want to do divorce lawyers? I mean, I'd like to do it friendly... I mean, it's kind of weird saying that.
Dinah: Yeah. I don't want to fight you on things. We can just, you know, divide stuff. You know, whatever is fair.
Mallet: Okay. You know, I do want to end our marriage remembering the good stuff, you know, remembering how good we were and... the good parts.
Dinah: Yeah. There is a lot. There's a lot, and I want to remember that. And it's that time when we first met that I was such a pain to you. You know, I was pushing you away. And you were so funny. You always would tell me that I'm worth it.
Mallet: Yeah, every minute.
Dinah: Still?
Mallet: Hell, yeah.
Dinah: If I manage to get my life together, maybe we could...
Mallet: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So I'll call you, you know, about, I don't know, the papers, whatever.
Dinah: Yeah, call me about the papers or whatever it is we have to do. I don't know how it goes.
Mallet: I'll call you.
Dinah: You made me better.
Mallet: I wish I could do that for you now.
Dinah: This is something that I have to do on my own. By myself.
Bill: Can I get you a...
Lizzie: I said I wasn't going to drink with you! Give it up!
Bill: A water, Lizzie. I was just going to offer you a water.
Lizzie: No thank you. Thank you for staying, letting me stay. If there had been anyone else in the hallway, I promise you...
Bill: Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Lizzie: So what's going on with the news?
Bill: What?
Lizzie: It's not like I was trying to eavesdrop. You were standing right there.
Bill: Oh, well, I'm doing an interview with WSPR, Buzz and my Main Street project.
Lizzie: How did you swing that?
Bill: It doesn't really matter. It's a big day for Lewis. That's all I care about.
Lizzie: You mean it's a big day for you.
Bill: Lizzie, I am Lewis now.
Lizzie: So what's going to happen to Company?
Bill: What's going to happen to Company? It's going to stay put.
Lizzie: Good. So you do care about something other than just work.
Bill: Yeah.
Lizzie: I... I went to see Billy in rehab today.
Bill: Oh, yeah.
Lizzie: You're such a jerk. You have no idea how lucky you are.
Bill: I'm sorry, did you just call me a jerk?
Lizzie: Listen to what I'm saying.
Bill: I'm so lucky to have Billy for a dad.
Lizzie: At least you don't have to hide out with people you can't stand because you're scared of him.
Bill: So you can't stand me. That's not a good thing to say.
Lizzie: Don’t be cute.
Bill: You are sending me so many mixed messages.
Lizzie: You know what I'm trying to say. You're just playing with me right now.
Bill: Here is the thing: You think too much.
Lizzie: Everything is a game with you. Just like the thing with my diary.
Bill: What?
Lizzie: And then you stole my project.
Bill: You were late.
Lizzie: What about my pie?
Bill: You left it there.
Lizzie: This is how you are with me, all these stupid games.
Bill: Tell me how me being here with you right now is a game?
Lizzie: Because at any minute, you could just start... I don't know, you could probably start rubbing it in my face that I didn't have anywhere else to go. Or the fact that it is Christmas and everyone is hanging out with their friends and family, and I can't think of one single place where I feel like I belong.
Bill: Me either.
Lizzie: So you don't know where you'll be for the holidays either?
Bill: You saw where I was spending Thanksgiving. You said it yourself, get used to spending holidays alone, right? And you said I don't listen.
Lizzie: It's not just you, okay? I'm not used to getting heard. Your dad is the only one, actually. Speaking of dads...
Bill: Hmm?
Lizzie: We used to have this house in Arizona, my dad, my mom and me, and after Christmas, my mom would take all of the holiday cards and string it together like a big piece of ribbon and hang it over...
Bill: Like a clothesline. My mother did the same thing, or sometimes she would put it on a mantel, all of the cards.
Lizzie: I know that the window was probably not that big.
Bill: Probably not.
Lizzie: And I was like this big. So I would jump up and try to grab a hold of the edge of the cards, and jump, and jump, and jump just to irritate my mom.
Bill: I can see that.
Lizzie: So one time my dad starts jumping with me, just to make her laugh, and he was so tall, it was ridiculous, and so he is jumping and I'm jumping, and he just said to my mom, "Just let her jump. She's a kid." ( Laughing ) That probably was the last time I was. He left us after that Christmas.
Bill: Yeah, well... you know, I was actually pretty young when my parents split. Of course, back then, you never knew if my dad was going to come home or not. Whenever he was drinking, forget it. My mom wouldn't want him around, you know. I remember one year when he showed up in a Santa suit.
Lizzie: Cool. He'd make a good Santa.
Bill: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, he, um... well, he went to prison, so... and you know my mom. She was trying so hard to make it the biggest, most special Christmas ever, I just remember pretending, "Ma, I don't care that my father's not here." I just didn't want her to feel bad, you know.
Lizzie: I'm sorry.
Bill: So I'm not that big on holidays anymore.
( Knock on the door )
Bill: All right, look, that is not your father, okay? Nobody even knows you're here.
Ava: Hey! Room service!
Bill: ( Laughs )
Ava: Oh, hi! Oh, my God, I didn't know you were working.
Bill: Um, hey, Lizzie, you know what...
Lizzie: No, no, you've got plans.
Bill: Listen, are you going to be okay?
Lizzie: Yeah, I don't care at all.
Bill: I'm talking about this other thing.
Lizzie: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm going to take care of your work stuff, too. I'll go talk to the reporter so you can just... so you can do whatever.
Bill: Liz... um...
Buzz: Our youth advisors will be here later, but as you can see, I've outlined the role they'll play interacting with the students and the faculty. I'd love your input on this.
Superintendent: Their salary is not coming out of my budget, is it?
Buzz: No, no. They're all going to volunteer. It is one of the goals of my being mayor, to foster a stronger relationship between the local government and the schools.
Superintendent: Uh-huh.
Buzz: Okay. Now, about the budget...
Superintendent: I hope there is going to be an increase.
Doris: Well, we will have to crunch the numbers.
Superintendent: I hope at least I get an increase in salary. Superintendents, we aren't making tips.
Buzz: You were going to go over the new curriculum with me, weren't you?
Superintendent: Right, right. Could I get another cup of coffee, Buzz? Decaf if you have it.
Doris: With all due respect, sir, you are in a meeting with the mayor, not a short-order cook. Buzz Cooper was able to flatten me in the election, so don't mistake his niceness for weakness. He is someone that you are gonna want on your side and if you cross him, he is liable to cut your salary in half, if he decides to keep you at all. Now, you had questions about the curriculum, Buzz?
Vanessa: Probably not what you want, but maybe it will help.
Billy: Thank you.
Vanessa: You're welcome. Is it always like this?
Billy: Well, the truth is, some days are easier than others, but, you know, Vanessa, I am going to kick this addiction for good. I have work to do.
Vanessa: That's good. I mean, you've always liked hard work.
Billy: Well, actually, I'm talking about our boy. I'm going to fix me now, and when I get out of here, I'm gonna fix him.
Vanessa: No. Wait a minute. I don't like the sound of that.
Billy: Wait. Sometimes you have to use tough love to bring somebody you care about back into the fold.
Dinah: Sometimes it takes a little time to understand that.
Vanessa: Dinah, hi.
Dinah: You know he's going to hate you at first, and he's going to fight you, and he's going to tell you that he doesn't need you and he doesn't want your help, but what he really needs is to hit rock bottom and have a wake-up call. And I certainly hope that he picks up on that sooner than I did because I slept in. I'm sorry, Mom.
Vanessa: Honey, I don't know what you're talking about.
Dinah: I know you lied to me. I know that you're not back together with Matt, and you never were.
Vanessa: Well, I... I didn't want to lie to you about that, but...
Dinah: No. You had to. You had to. I deserved it.
Vanessa: What do you mean you deserved it?
Dinah: What kind of life is that when you are so messed up, the people... they can’t... they can’t... I don't want the lies anymore. I'm the one who helped him.
Billy: You helped him what?
Dinah: When Bill leaked your drinking to the press, and I asked you for my job back that day, and I dropped the papers in front of the woman.
Vanessa: That was my producer.
Dinah: Yeah, well, it wasn't an accident. I slipped a note in with her stuff.
Vanessa: Oh, dear...
Billy: Wait, wait, Vanessa, let her finish.
Dinah: I wanted to hurt both of you, and, Billy, seeing you here now, you know, here like this, it's just like me and the pills, you know? And what they're doing in my head.
Vanessa: Pills? What pills?
Dinah: I've already lost my marriage, and I really don't want to lose anything else, you know? And I haven't told Mallet, I haven't told anybody because he thought I was off them after... you know, and I couldn't get off them.
Vanessa: Dinah, what are you talking about? What pills?
Dinah: The pain pills. After the shooting... after the shooting, the pain pills, you know. I had to take them, and I couldn't stop taking them, and now I can't stop. I know I'm a little off, but I have a feeling I'm making things worse.
Billy: Darling, if you're taking pills, it would go a long way to explaining why you didn't feel so good.
Dinah: I didn't know.
Vanessa: Dinah, all this time...
Dinah: I'm not here just to visit you, Billy. I'm checking in. I've... I've messed things up with you and with Mallet, and now even with Matt.
Vanessa: All of that stuff, that can be fixed.
Dinah: I need to be fixed. There, I said it! That's the hard part, right?
Billy: Well, that's definitely the first part. I'm not going to lie to you. It's real hard, real hard. You're going to have to commit to it.
Dinah: That's why I'm here. And not that I'm glad you're here, Billy, but in a way I am because maybe you can help me.
Billy: You're going to have to fight this one for yourself, you know that?
Dinah: I... I've got to fight. And I can't even imagine that you really want to help me, because now you know what I've done, and...
Billy: Oh, no. Hey, I'm glad you're here.
Dinah: Thank you.
Billy: I mean it's always nice to have somebody you know around, that's for sure.
Ava: I never thought I would be into casual sex, but I love it. Everybody should do it.
Bill: Do you?
Ava: It's so nice to have you here when I'm having a bad day or having a fun day, or just having a day.
Bill: Tell me what day this is?
Ava: It's a bad day.
Bill: Why is it a bad day?
Ava: The blackmail backfired. Backfired?
Bill: Backfired?
Ava: I just want to have fun and feel good.
Bill: I want to have fun, too, and, baby, if this was any other day...
Ava: No. But this is my bad day.
Bill: I know, but I have to take care of this thing,,
Ava: No. She said she was going to take care of it.
Bill: Lizzie?
Ava: Yeah, she said she would take care of everything.
Bill: Here is what Bill is going to do: I'm going to call you later and if you're still up for it...
Ava: You are walking away from a booty call. You are walking away from a booty call.
Buzz: Thanks for stepping in for me with Superintendent Chalmers.
Doris: That's why you hired me, right, the big bad wolf.
Buzz: I come from a family of cops. The big, bad cop.
Doris: Good. I think I'm going to like working with you, Buzz.
Buzz: For me, Doris. You work for me. Oh, speaking of the cops...
Mallet: Me?
Buzz: Well, never mind.
Mallet: I'm beat, Buzz. I'm beat, I'm tired. I guess it's work. Speaking of work, that's why I came down here. I want to let you know I've been talking to the officials on the election board, and I'm checking on the voting irregularities that the big bad wolf...
Buzz: Come on. Why are you working on this? It's rumors.
Mallet: But it's also Doris.
Buzz: Doris is a sore loser. And she's in my administration now, so...
Mallet: I'm not doing it for her, but I'll look into it and clear your name right off the bat...
Buzz: You're wasting the taxpayers' money. Clearing my name? Why don't you clear the streets of criminals? That would make me happy.
Mallet: Buzz, you're a good man, and it is wrong for people to be thinking of you as some kind of dirty politician.
Buzz: You're just trying to get in with me as mayor.
Mallet: I want a raise.
Coop: Finally.
Ashlee: Coop, what are you... I thought you went to...
Coop: The meeting?
Ashlee: Yeah.
Coop: You were supposed to be there, too.
Ashlee: Well, I told you that I... how did you even find me?
Coop: Ashlee, I have looked just about everywhere for you. Must be kind of big if you have to pray about it.
Ashlee: Pray about what?
Coop: Well, whatever it was that caused you to run away back there. Ashlee, what's going on?
Ashlee: You know, not all of us have clean slates like you, Coop. I've done time in juvie.
Coop: So?
Ashlee: Coop, I shot someone.
Coop: It was Alan Spaulding. It barely even counts.
Ashlee: Please don't try to make me laugh right now.
Coop: I just don't understand what that has to do with this?
Ashlee: I don't want to hurt you and your family.
Coop: Hey, I know that.
Ashlee: And now that you guys are in the public eye, I feel like I'm just a liability.
Coop: No, no, you're not a liability.
Ashlee: I'm screwing things up already. You were meant to be at that meeting.
Coop: I missed you. Come here. I couldn't go to that meeting without you.
Ashlee: Yes, you could. You had my notes.
Coop: I didn't want to go there without you. Hmm?
Ashlee: Buzz is going to flip.
Coop: I think my dad will understand.
Ashlee: You think so?
Mallet: Yeah, that sounds good. Where is your office located again? Oh, yeah, right, I know where that is. Okay. I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. Harmony.
Buzz: Is that Ted Harmony? I'm sorry, I...
Mallet: It's all right.
Buzz: He comes in, like, every few weeks to have a cup of coffee. It's an unfortunate name for a divorce lawyer, isn't it?
Mallet: Yes, it is. Dinah and I... well, you know, we're making it final.
Buzz: I'm so sorry.
Mallet: Thanks, Buzz. Thanks.
Buzz: You know, throwing yourself into your job is not going to make it any easier.
Mallet: What do you mean? What are you talking about?
Buzz: Marina does it, I've done it, part of your life falls apart, and you throw 110% into something else, like creating an investigation that doesn't need to be investigated.
Mallet: I just want to see this through.
Buzz: Just take care of yourself with Dinah.
Mallet: This is nothing for me to look into. It will probably turn up nothing. I'll tell you what, if I have to sit there and recount the votes myself, I will do that to prove that you won fair and square. I'm going to do that.
Buzz: Thanks.
Mallet: I don't know, Buzz, I couldn't help Dinah; maybe I can help somebody else. See you around.
Dinah: I'm in. Yeah, made up a whole story about the pain pills. Even messed up some words to make it sound real. You should have seen me. Nice and smooth. Yeah. Tears and everything.
Bill: Tears? Real tears?
Lizzie: That is why we have this project.
Bill: You are amazing, sis. I'll talk to you later.
Reporter: There has been some concern about the leadership of Lewis Construction. Care to comment?
Lizzie: We are aware of the speculation, but under the strong leadership of Bill Lewis, the company is thriving. He is a determined businessman who will stop at nothing to make Lewis succeed. In fact, Bill Lewis was the one who took charge of this project in the first place. His father, Billy, and I have been working on it for months. And we were all set to announce it, but smart, determined Bill Lewis, got me drunk, used secrets he read in my diary to get me into bed, stole my notes, snuck out, and swiped the deal right from under me. And then he released to the press that his father is an alcoholic. If that isn't brilliant strategizing, I do not know what is.
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