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by
Todd Brown
November 1, 2008
In the greater scheme of things, Schemes are the
Themes in Genoa City these days. Everyone seems to
have a least one scheme going on.
Jack Abbott has a scheme involving a forged diary
meant to implicate Victor in murder. I'm not sure
what Jack expects to get out of this scheme aside
from the usual revenge. You'd think he would have
learned his lesson by now after countless failed
attempts over the last 25 years. His planning is a
bit sloppy too. He went to a lot of trouble to
distance himself from the forger, letting Adam do
his dirty work. Yet he never seemed to consider the
possibility Adam would name names. Once the forger
knew who Jack was, he started calling him on his
cell phone right in the middle of Crimson Lights for
everyone to hear.
"Hello, Jack Abbott? Mr. Forger here. Yes, I am at
Crimson Lights, on the patio. Where is my money? Oh,
you say you have left it on the chair right next to
me, in the pocket of a jacket? Thanks!"
Boy, I've got to get to Crimson Lights more often if
millionaires are leaving packets of money lying
around unattended. And sure, Jack could have
pretended he still didn't know the forger after the
forger publicly outed him on the patio. That is,
until Jack himself later "snuck into" Crimson Lights
- during business hours - just to recover the
jacket, and throw it in the trash! I wonder what
Jana thought when she went to empty the trash cans
that night and found someone's jacket in there.
Possibly "This must be the jacket the forger was
talking about, when he was on the phone with Mr.
Abbott. Who I saw sneak onto the patio earlier."
Wow, Jack. Lame planning.
And where did Jack find the whore to distract the
forger so he could find out where the forger lives?
Oh, that's right. Jack knows lots of whores. As
examples, see his current wife and his previous
wife. But ultimately Jack's scheme may be the
undoing of his marriage to Sharon after she caught
him in several awkward conversations. Still, it's a
credit to Jack's acting skills when Sharon said
"Don't treat me like I'm stupid" and he didn't burst
out laughing. I mean, how else should she be
treated?
Adam isn't very bright for a Harvard man, is he? He
sure let Jack put one over on him good. And after a
couple of failed attempts to catch him on tape he
gave up and started spilling his guts without
considering that Jack might be taping him. And what
was with his giddiness upon learning the diary would
be published and he'd have some money "for a
change?" What was he making when he was working on
Wall Street? Peanuts? He also had a high powered, if
short-lived, tenure at Newman Enterprises, so didn't
he sock anything away for a rainy day? Maybe he
spent it all on candy and gum.
Meanwhile over at the Newman Ranch, Nikki has a
little scheme going on too. It's called "Trying to
throw the authorities off Victor's trail." I'm not
sure Nikki is quite up to this scheme. Until Monday
she had no idea where Victor was, so by leading the
authorities to South America, for all she knew she
could have been leading them straight to Victor!
After all, Victor was last seen in Mexico, and he
could just as well have been in Rio or Buenos Aires
as anywhere else.
I'm not so sure Nikki is all that anxious to find
Victor anyway. She has certainly made herself right
at home in Victor's house by the invitation of no
one, even playing his records and eating his food.
Meanwhile Estella and the other fired servants are
living in a dumpster somewhere for all Nikki cares.
I just hope someone is taking care of all of those
horses, not to mention the dog.
Nikki seems to have passed along her stupidity to
her children. Even after the learned they were being
bugged, they openly spoke of their plan to meet
Victor in secret, an attempted ruse that seemed to
demonstrate they had no idea they were willingly
providing the feds all the evidence they needed to
throw them all in jail for obstruction of justice.
Meanwhile Heather sat alone in a van with a bunch of
burly men who were surely aroused as they listened
to Phyllis fake orgasms and sex talk. That could not
have been a very comfortable situation for Heather,
nor even an especially safe one.
If Heather wants to find out where Victor is, the
last people she should be listening in on are Nikki
or her children. A house practically had to fall on
them before it dawned on them Victor might be in
France. As they wandered around and around wondering
where Victor was, news arrived that the chateau in
France that Victor owned burned to the ground. Yet
they still didn't make the connection. Then a box
arrived from France with stuff from the chateau.
Still they scratched their heads in wonder. I think
someone actually had to mail them a big map with
France circled in red before the light bulb finally
went on.
It occurs to me that Heather is a kind of
replacement for Christine Blair, who has thankfully
vanished without explanation. Heather is kind of a
bitch, and so was Christine. The difference is that
in Christine's case, nobody seemed to notice, and
everyone loved her anyway. On the other hand,
everyone in town - except for Adam - hates Heather's
guts. Finally, I have something in common with these
people!
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