Episode 73: Love To Hate.

SPECIAL GUEST STAR:
CLAUDIA WELLS as Molly Milton.


A couple of days have passed since the turn of a traumatic New Year for the Wilsons and Mcquires. Helen is worse than ever, since being committed to Belle Vue, as is Greg who has been to almost every bar in Manhattan. He too has lost his job and is thrown out of the bar after being refused a drink. Billy and Audrey offer him help, but Helen's last stunt has sent him over the edge. Harry and Tina still believe this Helen is delusional in thinking that Frank is her son, but it's the truth. Greg tries not to believe it himself, after hearing her confession nearly two weeks ago, but deep down, he knows it's the truth. His closest and dearest sibling Tina, figures that Tina has played this on Greg's mind and he too is suffering from Helen's mental outburst. Tina encourages Greg to visit Helen, but he cannot bear to look her in the face and says that she never intended to kick her drug habit out forever and now he sees no way back and returned to his bad habit.

Helen is sat among criminally insane people in the TV room, people who have murdered others, attempted suicide, hallucinated, been involved in cults etc. Two women taunt Helen and suggest that eventually bad things will happen to her if she don't play by the rules and it becomes unbearable for Helen and again she flips out and calls her sons name, before being restrained. Later, Chris pays her an unexpected visit and asks her, who her supplier is?
'Why? You looking to go off your rocker too?' Helen mumbles.
'Let's just say, life has become more complicated than I imagined,' Chris claims.
'And you can't handle it?' Helen sighs. 'Join the club...If you like I can help put all your troubles aside, if you didn't already know, I was a hooker.'
'Yeah I did, but a' I've dug myself a hole in that department already,' Chris bluntly replies.
'You bad boy,' a drawn Helen answers. 'OK, but I don't have a pen and paper.'
'That's fine I already have one,' Chris adds.
Helen whispers the suppliers address
'Promise me, you won't tell anybody I was here?' Chris begs.
'Give us a kiss and cross my heart, hope to die,' Helen assures Chris.
'Do I have a choice?' Chris asks.
'C'mon, I've already had my husband turn my back on me,' Helen begs.
Chris kisses Helen and leaves with the drug suppliers address.

Lea is concerned when Chris doesn't show up for work.

Lola informs Tina, that a few weeks before Helen was committed, she suspected Helen was breast feeding Frank and this horrifies Tina. Audrey is against the idea of Greg visiting Helen, as he too is not in the right mind.

Chris meets Helens supplier, who gives him Marijuana. That evening after work, Lea spots Chris getting too close to good time girl, Molly Milton. Lea walks over to confront Chris and asks him why he never showed up to work?
'I'm entitled to a little time off,' Chris aggressively replies.
'Well, you could have given me a little bit more notice,' Lea answers. 'There is such thing as communication sweetheart.'
'You're not my mother, Lea,' a high Chris grunts. 'I'm sure you reminded me of that.'
'Chris are you on something?' Lea suspects.
'Did hear him bitch?!' Molly interrupts. 'If you didn't already get the hint, he wants you to f*** off.'
'Isn't it like, past your bed time little girl?' Lea sarcastically says.
Molly throws a drink over Lea, but Lea reacts by dunking Molly's head in a bowl of punch and Chris orders her to leave him alone or else. Later, that night when Jeff and Molly are asleep, Chris comes in late and heads off to bed. Lea sneaks into Chris's room and finds cents of marijuana on his clothing. Chris says that he's willing to keep their one night stand a secret, as long as she keeps quiet about his new drug addiction and that there is no point in looking out for him, as it's only guilt.
'Why are you so afraid to tell your father the truth about what happened?' Lea counters.
'Maybe because there's a difference,' Chris argues. 'I love him and you don't.'
'That's not true,' Lea insists. 'I grown to love both him and you, but I think I love you more.'
'Then why did you marry him Lea?' Chris wonders.
'Why did you make love me? I don't recall you pushing me away?'
'Just as well, we got each others backs then,' Chris grins.

Greg drunkenly suggests that he and Frank get a blood test and suggests that he shouldn't be punished, because they have lost Jack. Harry and Tina refuse. Jeff intercepts Greg and orders him to back off, or he will get a restraining order if he doesn't seek help.

George notices that Chris is out of character, but Jeff passes this up as Chris being more outgoing. Chris again takes Molly out and they get high. Lea is determined to find the supplier, without Jeff finding out.

Harry and Tina consider the blood test to prove a point to Greg, who visits Helen, who is unresponsive and rocks backwards and forwards, continuously saying Franks name. Greg accuses Helen of not loving him enough and not believing in their marriage enough to have a child. Greg cruelly remarks that he hopes she rots and that he doesn't care if Kenneth Depp eventually turns up.

Three Days Later, Lea discovers the drug supplier to Chris and Helen. Harry and Tina receive the results, they are devastated by the revelation. Greg and Helen are Franks biological parents. Helen is laying in her bed in the asylum, when a man disguised as a cleaner, walks beside her bed with a cleaning trolley and reveals himself. Helen is scared when she recognizes the familiar face.

Note: Michael J Fox and Claudia Wells appeared together in the 1985 movie 'Back To The future' as High School sweethearts Marty Mcfly and Jennifer parker.

END OF EPISODE SEVENTY THREE