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| Hidden Secrets: Episode #58; one year later... | |
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| Topic Started: Sat Oct 3, 2009 2:19 pm (124 Views) | |
| Matt | Sat Oct 3, 2009 2:19 pm Post #1 |
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EPISODE #58 (SATURDAY, 10/3/09) One Year Later; late morning  “Jessica… Jessica…” Jessica Randolph could faintly hear her name being called in the distance as the dark water swirled around her. Whose voice was it? Who was calling out to her? “Jessica?” Was it Jarrod? Had he come back for her? He’d told her that since she’d solved his murder, he’d be going away and she would forget about him – but she didn’t want to forget. Despite their best efforts, she’d fallen in love with Jarrod Cross and he with her. Considering that Jarrod was nothing more than the ghost of man long dead, it was an unfortunate turn of events. Now, however, as the water continued to flood over Jessica, pulling her down into the depths of the Chesapeake Bay, she could hear him calling out to her from the other side. He’d actually come back for her and she wanted to go with him. “Jessica…” “Go back.” “Jessica… Jessica…” And then, in that one brief moment, Jessica Randolph’s eyes fluttered open and she looked up into the face of her older brother David Randolph. “W-where am I?” she muttered in a weak and raspy voice. “What… what happened?”  “You’re in the hospital,” David carefully and calmly explained as he sat down onto the bed beside her and took her hand into his. “You were in an accident. You’ve been in a coma.” CROSS MEDICAL CENTER Jessica’s Room  “Jason, how is she?” David asked as he anxiously waited for Dr. Jason Dennis to finish his examination. “Is she okay?” “Well, from best I can tell, it’s almost a damned miracle.” Jason rose up and exhaled slowly, perplexed by exactly how well Jessica seemed in light of everything she’d been through. “Jess, I don’t know what you’ve done to be so lucky, but I’ll be damned if I can’t find anything wrong with you.” “How… long have I been in a coma? What happened?” Jessica’s eyes moved from Jason to David and back. Almost everything surrounding the accident and the events leading up to it were a total blank in her mind. “It was a car accident,” David began to calmly explain. “You swerved to avoid hitting a guy on a motorcycle head on and went over an embankment and into the Bay.” “I… I was in the Bay?” “Thankfully, Kevin came along in time to pull you out of the water.” Jason continued to examine Jessica as he spoke. “Kevin?” She looked up at Jason and shook her head, unsure of who he was talking about. “Who’s… Kevin?” “You know – Kevin, my brother,” Jason laughed. “You two were working on the Jarrod Cross case together. You called him to meet you up at Bellwood. He said that you said that you had proof about who murdered Jarrod Cross. He was on his way to meet you when he came upon the accident.” Jessica’s eyes moved from Jason to David and she shook her head in confusion. “Jess, what is it? Don’t you remember?” David held his sister’s hand tightly and gave it a squeeze. As she began to search the deepest, darkest recesses of her mind for any clue, any memory, of the events that had led up to her accident, she realized that there was one question that stood out above and beyond all others and she paused for a brief moment before asking…. “Who’s Jarrod Cross?” BELLWOOD Living Room   “Has she come down for breakfast, yet?” Dina Belmont asked before taking a sip of her coffee. “Is it noon?” her mother-in-law Estelle Belmont asked, almost rhetorically, without even lifting her eyes from the morning edition of the Bellview Herald. “If not, then I’d say the answer is ‘no’. You know as well as I do that that girl can’t even be bothered with getting out of bed before noon.” “Estelle, in her defense, she is pregnant. The doctor said she could have the baby at any time.” “Pregnant my behind!” Estelle snapped the newspaper closed before slamming it down onto the table beside her chair. “When I was that pregnant, I was up with the sun every single day. Yes, I had the household staff to help with the heavy work, but I still had a home to run.” “No one can ever be as wonderful, devoted and hardworking as a mother as you, Estelle.” Dina couldn’t help but roll her eyes, betraying her true emotions. “But what’s done is done. Doug married the girl and he’s determined to make this family work no matter what James says.” “I’m afraid that your husband is in danger of completely blowing his stack by the time this baby is born.” Estelle leaned back in her chair and thought about how her son James Belmont had refused to even attend the wedding and had threatened to disown and disinherit his son Doug if he’d gone through with it – threats that eventually proved to be idle. However, before Dina could comment on her mother-in-law’s prediction, their conversation was interrupted by the almost otherworldly sounding screams coming from upstairs. “What the devil was that?!” Estelle asked as she leapt from her chair and hurried over to the large wooden doors that led from the living room into the foyer. In short order, Greta, Estelle’s trusty housekeeper, hurried down the stairs. Her face was a knot of urgency, concern, and worry.  “Estelle, I… I think it’s time,” Greta called out as she wrung her hands and rushed passed her employer. “I think the baby’s coming.” “Wonderful,” Estelle grumbled. “Dina, have Bentley pull the car around. Greta, you come upstairs with me. I have a feeling that it’ll take both of us to get my overly dramatic granddaughter-in-law down the stairs and out to the car.” Having been given direct orders by the proclaimed queen of Bellwood, the trio of ladies quickly snapped into action. Each of them knew it was going to be quite a full day. Daryn Belmont was about to give birth to the latest Belmont heir. CROSS MEDICAL CENTER Jessica’s Room “You don’t remember a thing?” David shook his head, perplexed by what his sister was telling him. “The name ‘Jarrod Cross’ means nothing to you?” “Should it?” Jessica looked from David to Jason who only glanced up from writing in her chart to shake his own head. “I would hope so! You’ve been driving all of us crazy for over a year now about Jarrod Cross. You’ve been like a rabid dog with a bone investigating his supposed murder over 30 years ago.” “I… have?” She paused and carefully began to go over every faint memory that occupied her head and exhaled slowly with the realization that there was nothing there. “I’m… I’m sorry. I don’t remember anything about any of that.” “Well… what do you remember? Maybe we should start there.” Jason folded her chart closed and carefully listened for her response. “Well, I… I remember that I was working on some kind of story – I don’t know what about, though. I found… I found out… something. I needed to see someone about what I’d found out. I’d called somebody to meet me… somewhere.” “You called my brother Kevin to meet you at Bellwood,” Jason clarified. “Actually, he’ll want to know that you’re awake. He’s been worried sick about you ever since he pulled you out of the water.” “David, why don’t I remember any of this?” Jessica reached up and grabbed her brother tightly by the arm. “Anything to do with this Jarrod Cross guy and the accident is a total blank in my head. Who is Jarrod Cross?” “Jarrod Cross was someone who was friends with Mom and Kathryn years and years ago,” David explained. “He was a pretty well known guy here in Bellview. Apparently, there was some kind of accident and he ended up drowned in the Bay after going missing.” “In the Bay?” she muttered, half to herself. “Just like I did.” “Not like you.” David quickly sat down next to her on the bed and grabbed her hands. “He died. You didn’t. You’re alive, thank God, and you’re going to be fine. Anyway, you were convinced that Jarrod didn’t drown. You insisted that he was murdered – shot to death – in our house. You were determined to prove it.” “Did I?” “Well, you said you’d found proof. That’s why you were going to meet Kevin up at Bellwood.” Jessica exhaled again and shook her head as she tried to make some kind of sense of what her brother was telling her. If this Jarrod Cross mystery had been something she’d been working on for the last year of her life – if it had been that important to her – why the hell couldn’t she remember anything about it? KATHRYN’S   The sight of Natalie Dennis immediately caused Doug Belmont to freeze in Kathryn’s open doorway. Of course, it would be expected that he’d occasionally run into her in her own family’s café, but that didn’t make things any easier. As he hovered between staying and going he weighed the options of the bland coffee back at the BelCo office complex against his favorite blend at Kathryn’s and a potential confrontation with Natalie. Unfortunately, Doug’s hesitation gave Natalie more than enough time to catch sight of him, giving him no other choice than to continue on into the café and acknowledge her presence. “Natalie,” he nodded in a cordial politeness that didn’t even come close to belaying their previously intimate relationship. “Doug,” she nodded in reply, making every effort not to glance in his direction. Doug walked straight past her and to the counter where he placed his coffee order to the barista who was on duty. As he waited for his extra large espresso roast, he shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other while attempting not to look in Natalie’s direction. Finally…. “Look, Natalie, we can’t keep doing this,” he said after snatching his coffee out of the clerk’s hand and storming over to her nearby table. “Bellview isn’t that big of a town. We’re going to run into one another. We can’t keep acting like there isn’t anything between us.” “This isn’t anything between us,” she coolly reminded him, still barely even looking at him, “at least not anymore. Anything we might have had ended when you cheated on me.” “I thought you understood about Jessica.” Ignoring her obvious attempts to ignore him, Doug sat down across from her at the table and took her hand into his, forcing her to finally look up at him. “Nothing ever happened between us. I explained all of that months ago. I was… I just… I couldn’t tell my father I hadn’t slept with her because…” “I know, Doug,” Natalie sighed before leaned in towards him and lowering her voice to almost a hushed whisper. “I know that no one is ever supposed to find out that she’s really your sister. I know you can’t tell your father because you promised Dina. But that doesn’t change the fact that before you found out she was your half-sister, you were more than willing and prepared to sleep with her just because your father had ordered you to. And it doesn’t change the fact of your situation now.” “I only slept with Daryn because I was drunk and you refused to even talk to me. You wouldn’t let me explain. You quit BelCo, for Pete’s sake, just to avoid me!” “Well, be that as it may…” Natalie looked away from him, unable to meet his penetrating gaze. “That doesn’t change the fact that Daryn is carrying your baby and because of that, you’ve married her. Who the hell gets married just because of a baby anymore, Doug?” “I had to do it to protect her from my father. You know how he is! I don’t care what he says or what he managed to convince the police, I still think he had something to do with Daryn’s disappearance last year. I wouldn’t put it past him to try to make both her and the baby disappear forever. Just because I want to take care of her and the baby doesn’t mean that I don’t…” Unfortunately, before Doug could complete his declaration of continued love, his cell phone rang, interrupting the conversation. As usual, Daryn’s timing was immaculate. “Doug, what is it?” Natalie asked, immediately sensing something had happened. “What’s wrong?” “It’s Daryn,” Doug sighed in response, reminded of the futility of the entire situation. “She’s in labor. I’ve… got to get to the hospital.” And with that, Doug hurried out of the café, leaving both him and Natalie more convinced than ever that any potential future they might have had ended long ago. CROSS MEDICAL CENTER Jessica’s Room  “I’m glad you’re going to be okay,” Kevin Dennis said as he sat down on the edge of Jessica’s bed. “Jason said that he thinks you’re going to make a full recovery.” “I just wish that they were so sure about the holes in my memory coming back,” Jessica grumbled as she continued to wrack her brain for any indication that the missing portions of her life were still there to be found. “Why do I remember everything except for the accident and this Jarrod Cross guy?” “That, I don’t know,” he sighed. “Jason’s the doctor. I’m just a cop.” “Well, what can you tell me about Jarrod Cross? David said he drowned over 30 years ago, but I was convinced that he’d been murdered. Do you know why I’d even be investigating something like that?” “From what you told me, yourself, you just stumbled upon the mystery while researching the history of Bellview for some articles you were working on for your magazine.” Kevin quickly looked away, unsure about exactly how much of Jessica’s involvement with Jarrod Cross he should reveal to her. However, Jessica found his sudden silence to be very revealing. “Okay, what aren’t you telling me?” she asked him point blank. “There’s more to this investigation than just me doing some digging for a little article in a magazine. You work for the FBI. Why are you interested in Jarrod Cross?” After several long moments of silence, Kevin realized that if either of them had any hope of restoring the missing pieces of her memory and, hopefully, solving the Jarrod Cross mystery, he had to be 100% upfront and honest with her. “David told me that you thought you were seeing ghosts,” Kevin carefully explained. “You were convinced that you were actually talking to the ghost of Jarrod Cross.” “What?” Jessica shook her head in shock, unable to believe what she was hearing. “Kevin, that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard!” “Well, it turns out you were only hearing what someone wanted you to hear,” he went on to explain. “Someone had rigged your house with an elaborate sound system to make you think you were losing your mind. You were being gaslit. David’s the one who actually discovered the set up. Mom’s the one who called me because they were both worried for your safety.” “I… I don’t remember that part.” Jessica exhaled slowly as she attempted to process everything Kevin was telling her. “I do… seem to remember… voices… But really, nothing significant. Did we ever find out who was behind it?” “No, but we’re both certain that it has to do with the Cross investigation. The night of the accident, you phoned me and told me that you had proof that Jarrod Cross had been murdered and that you knew who did it – and that the truth was going to stun the entire town.” “Who… who did it? Who killed Jarrod?” “You wouldn’t tell me over the phone,” Kevin sighed. “You just told me to meet you at Bellwood and you’d explain everything there. I ran into the accident scene on my way up the hill. You’d run your car off into the Bay trying to avoid hitting this guy on a motorcycle.” “You… pulled me out of the water?” “I just barely managed to get you out before the car sank to the bottom.” Kevin’s voice slowly trailed off as he remembered that night. “You weren’t breathing when I got you to shore, but thankfully the CPR worked and the ambulance got there in time.” “What about… what about the evidence? What happened to the evidence?” “It’s gone,” Kevin sighed. “When we pulled your car out of the Bay, there was nothing in it. All the evidence you said you had must have just washed away. It’s all gone.” “So there’s no way of knowing who killed Jarrod Cross. If I didn’t tell you, then nobody knows who did it.” “That’s not entirely true,” Kevin pointed out. “Someone does know who killed Cross – you do. You might not remember anything right now, but somewhere inside your head is the truth. Now, we just have to figure out some way to get you to remember.” |
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| Scott | Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:21 pm Post #2 |
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I'm so excited to have this back!!! I can't wait to see what's in store for all the characters! |
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| Amello | Sat Oct 3, 2009 6:20 pm Post #3 |
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Jessica forgetting is the perfect way to bring the viewers up to speed on what what on with the Jarrod story. This way it won't seem like some awkward rehashing of events. As soon as it was mentioned the pregnant woman was with Doug I absolutely KNEW it was Daryn. God she must be one hellish bitch right now LOL I mostly want to see what has come up with Lisa Peluso' character and her revenge on her brother. God, it was so nice seeing MY Dina again. How I have missed her. Aw, why the Doug recast? Who is that guy anyway? |
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| Matt | Sat Oct 3, 2009 10:42 pm Post #4 |
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That's not a recast. It's just a different picture of the same actor. |
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| AlbieGray | Fri Oct 9, 2009 2:20 pm Post #5 |
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WELCOME back, Matt! I am SO thrilled to see HS once more! Albie |
Albert P. Gray or if you will, AlbieGray!  Creator and Head writer of Harpers Falls; writer of The Family and Sorority Girls; co-writer of Tainted Love     Harpers Falls  **** Thank you to Matt Smith for the wonderful avatar for Harpers Falls! I appreciate it!
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| Aurora | Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:31 am Post #6 |
 
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Good way to "restart" the series. Excited to see the storylines progression. Was shocked about Daryn and Doug, Daryn's probably thinking her plans are going well. |
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| Scott | Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:21 pm Post #7 |
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You putting only one episode out and then waiting weeks to do another is like giving a recovering crack addict their pipe back and expecting them not to start up again!!!! |
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| Rick | Sat Nov 7, 2009 5:08 am Post #8 |
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^ I'll second that! |
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