IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

"SEASON ONE"

EPISODE: 1x06. LADY LUCK

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: 1/07/2006

CHARACTERS: Jerry Carson, Larry Dawson, Aimee Harris, Chris Fredicks

ALSO STARRING: Pam Carson, Peter Carson, Kathern McWannabe, Denise Robinson, Dana Adams, Henry Hamlin

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'Time...ah yes, time. The one thing everyone hates in life, time. It either goes too slow, or too fast, and by the time you realize what has happened it's too late. The point being here is that when it comes to time, you never seem to have enough of it to be able to do what you need to do.'

"Oh no! Not again!" Jerry yelled as he raced down the street while trying to look at his watch.

He was already five minutes late in meeting Kathern at the restaurant. Jerry turned the corner and sprinted as fast as he could over to the restaurant. He went inside.

"Jerry! You made it!" Kathern greeted him.

"Oh... yeah..." Jerry bent down to catch his breath.

'On the other hand, if we all could have bionic boots, we could all fly to where we need to go in less than a second...'

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CREDITS PLAY.

"Oh my! How could you afford a place like this?" Kathern asked when Jerry and her were sitting in a very fancy restaurant.

"It's nothing. Just had some extra cash hidden away."

"And you don't even work. What do you do on your spare time? Other than attending to your sick grandmother?" Kathern asked.

"I go out and about. And most of my money comes from birthdays and Christmases."

"That's good, it looks like you'll be getting some more real soon." Kathern and Jerry smiled.

"Yep, yep. Then there'll be more fancy dinners."

"Funny. I'll be looking forward to that."

"Oh yeah." Jerry looked up at the waiter who had brought them a dessert menu. "Dessert?"

"Oh yes!" Kathern took the menu, and they both started to look through it.

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ONE WEEK LATER

Jerry was sitting on his bed smiling at the television when Aimee and Larry entered. Larry saw the paper in the trash.

"Oh no! Oh no! Not again! The paper's in the trash!" Larry said.

Aimee took the paper out of the trash.

"You can't keep doing this!" Aimee told Jerry.

"Do what?" Jerry asked as he sat watching television.

"Throw the paper in the trash! Do you know how sick and tired I am of having to turn on the television to find some woman crying about her apartment building burning down, or the baby that went missing! I'm tired of it! So get up and handle the paper!" Larry yelled.

"No." Jerry replied.

"What?" Aimee asked.

"You heard me. For once in my life I'm happy. I've got a good life, good friends, and a good girlfriend. And I'm not going to let the paper get in the way." Jerry looked back at the television.

"Come on! Get up! You're not going to let anymore buildings burn to the ground." Larry lifted Jerry up and Aimee put the paper in Jerry's hand.

"Go out there and save the world!" Larry encouraged.

"No."

"Please, Jerry, please! Just look in the paper at least!" Aimee responded.

Jerry reluctantly skimmed the paper to find an article.

"There's one. A guy kills himself." Jerry replied, then threw the paper down.

"So that's it? You're not going to do anything?" Aimee asked.

"Nope. Let nature take it's course."

Aimee looked at Jerry in disbelief.

"Remember a few months ago when you first got the paper. You didn't want to then. Now, you don't want to again. Do you realize how many lives you've saved in these past few months? Hundreds. Just because you now have a life does not mean you can throw the paper away! These people need you!" Aimee told Jerry.

Jerry looked at Aimee. "Get me my coat. I'll do it just to get you off my back."

Larry handed Jerry his coat, and Jerry exited the room.

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Jerry walked down the street to an apartment complex where he read the headline.
'MAN DIES AFTER LOSING FAMILY'

Jerry entered the building and climbed the stairs to the roof. On the roof, he saw a man near the edge. Jerry looked in the column for the man's name.

"Henry Hamlin?" Jerry cried out.

The man turned around and looked at Jerry. It was the man from the parking lot who was about to be mugged.

"What do you want? Leave me alone!"

"Henry, you don't want to do this!" Jerry cried out as he moved a bit closer to him.

"I have nothing left! The fired burned down my home and killed my family! I hear about all these good things that happen to people about this kid who comes and saves them! Where was he? He never showed! My family is dead, I've lost my job! I've got nothing! Please leave!"

Jerry realized what he had done, he had forgotten about the paper, and now people were dead.

"You do have something! Me! I'm here! You don't want to do this! I am telling you the truth!"

Henry looked at Jerry.

"You don't know!"

"Yeah, I don't know. But I'd like to know! If you'd please! It's really windy out here, you don't have a coat on, let's go inside. We can talk!"

Henry hesitated, then went over to Jerry.

"I'd like that!"

"Me too." Henry followed Jerry off of the roof.

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Henry and Jerry were talking in Jerry's kitchen, while drinking some cocoa.

"And that's about it." Henry told Jerry.

"Well, I'm sorry about what had happened."

"It was such a disaster. I still wish that that kid would have come, my family would still have been alive."

"He probably was a good reason, a very good one."

"Yes, I hope he does." Henry looked at his watch. "I have to be going."

"Oh, okay. If you ever want to talk."

"I know where to come." Henry got up and went over to the front door. "Thank you." Henry left.

After Jerry had closed the door, he had seen what time it was, he had missed the date with Kathern.

"Oh no!" Jerry grabbed his jacket, and rushed out of the house.

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Jerry caught up with Kathern at the park a little later.

"I was afraid you wouldn't have made it!" Kathern kissed Jerry on the cheek.

"I'll do anything to meet up with you." Jerry smiled.

Kathern smiled back.

"That is so sweet. Okay, I got the basket and the blanket. Where should we sit?"

Jerry looked around.

"How about there?" Jerry asked.

"Okay."

Jerry followed Kathern over to a spot on the grass where she placed the blanket and basket. Jerry took out the paper and was about to trash it when he noticed an article. 'JOGGER DIES IN PARK'. Jerry stopped to think.

"I'll be right back!" He said and took off running.

"What?" Kathern asked.

Jerry ran up to the jogger who was jogging, and saw a car skidding past a corner. Jerry pushed the jogger out of the way as the car went past. The jogger looked at Jerry.

"You got a problem?" The jogger asked.

"You're welcome!" Jerry replied and threw the paper into the trash, and went back to Kathern.

"What was that about?" Kathern asked.

"Nothing important, just a bathroom break."

Jerry grabbed a sandwich, and joined Kathern.

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"One lucky devil you are! Now come on, I've got a surprise for you!" Larry and the gang dragged Jerry out of the house while the television was playing.

"Henry Hamlin, the escaped patient from Land-Oaks Hospital is still missing. If any of you have seen this man, please call the number below. He is considered dangerous with an extreme case of Bipolar disorder and is delusional. Please be careful, he is dangerous."

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Jerry and the group walked down to the go-kart track about an hour later. Jerry stopped.

"Go-karts? This is it?" Jerry asked.

"Yup, one of your surprises on your day out!" Larry replied.

"These chain of surprises would not have to do with Kathern breaking up with me, would it?" Jerry asked.

The group looked at one another.

"No! Not at all!"

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Jerry came home about three hours later to find Henry sitting on the front porch. Henry got up and went over to Jerry.

"Henry, how are you?" Jerry asked.

"Not good! Especially with Christmas coming up! Actually, I was thrown out of the hotel where I was staying! And I have no place at all to go."

"I know the name of some good shelters, if that'll help."

"Could I stay here for the night? Just for tonight?" Henry asked.

Jerry looked at Henry.

"Here." Jerry took out his wallet and handed Henry sixty dollars. "I can't let you stay here, but that's enough for a motel room until the morning. Then, tomorrow, I can call around, maybe get some help for you."

Henry looked at Jerry with a stern face, he went into a trance.

"Maybe..." Henry took the money and started to walk away.

"Would you like something to eat?" Jerry asked.

Henry turned around. "Yes, please."

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Jerry and Henry just finished eating. Jerry got up and took the plates over to the sink, and placed them into the soapy water.

"Thank you very much..." Henry got up from the table and went over to the sink.

Jerry placed the extras into the refrigerator.

"I have to go now." Henry, still in his trance, told Jerry.

"Yes, yes. We'll go around tomorrow after I get back from school to look around for a shelter or something like that." Jerry replied.

"Good night." Henry left the house.

Jerry shut the door behind Henry and locked it. Jerry went over to the sink to wash the dishes.

After Jerry had finished the dishes, Jerry put his hand into the water to grab the knife he had used to cut up the beef. He couldn't find it.

"Where the..." Jerry stopped looking, then went to bed.

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Night turned to morning.

"Six thirty, weather today will be partly cloudy..." Jerry slammed the clock off, and got the paper; fourtantly, there was nothing important in it.

"Hello, hot stuff..." Denise bust into the room, and slammed it behind her.

"Denise..." Jerry repiled.

"Listen, I know you said before that there was no hope between us, and I want you to know that there is."

"Um..."

Denise started to take off her skimpy blouse to show Jerry the hope that she had in her.

"Oh boy..." Jerry's eyes widened.

"You know, I have been discouarged about what you had said before..." Denise tried to make her voice as sexy as anything.

"Denise, as much as I..."

Denise put her finger up to Jerry's mouth. "Hush..." She slowly went toward him, and pushed him onto the bed.

"I don't think..."

As Denise closed the gap between she and him, Pam and Peter walked into the room and the two stopped.

"Oh my god!" Pam cried out.

Jerry and Denise looked.

"Oh boy!" Jerry replied.

Peter smiled and gave Jerry the thumbs up as Pam and he left the room.

"You're right, this isn't really going anywhere." Denise got her blouse and left the room while Jerry sat on his bed in sheer confusion... and embarrassment.

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Henry was lying on a hotel bed that night. His eyes were wide open and he was mumbling to himself. "He's not going to take me! They're not going to snatch my body! No! Jerry, no!" Henry got up from his trance, and left the hotel room.

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Jerry and Aimee were sitting in the kitchen.

"She hit on you?" Aimee asked.

"Yup!" Jerry replied.

"Does Kathern know?"

"No! I don't want her to!"

Kathern came into the house.

"Hey!" Kathern greeted.

"Kathern!" Jerry replied.

The two hugged and shared a kiss as Aimee quietly left the house.

"So, anything new going on?" Kathern asked.

"Nothing... nothing at all..." Jerry tried to cover himself up.

"Come on!"

"Well... I got a new toothbrush!"

"That's great!"

"Yeah, I guess."

Peter came into the kitchen.

"Hey son! Got two of them huh, lucky devil!" Peter laughed as he grabbed the carton of orange juice.

"What?" Kathern asked.

"It's not everyday that someone gets a new toothbrush..." Jerry repiled.

"Oh..."

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Morning turned to day.

Jerry was at lunch and in a teacher's classroom helping her with papers.

"Thank you for this. And thanks for the card." Mrs. Adams, Jerry's teacher, replied as she put the Christmas card onto her desk that Jerry had given her.

"No prob, I have nothing to do today."

"You know there's a party next door, if you want to go over."

"No thanks, I'm fine here."

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Henry pulled up at Jerry's home and knocked on the front door. Jerry's mother answered.

"I'm looking for Jerry. I'm a friend." Henry said.

"He's not here right now, he's at school. Would you like for me to tell you..." Henry walked away from Jerry's mother. He got into his car, and drove off.

"Strange man... I hope Jerry's okay."

Pam went to the phone when the news was on television. She started to listen.

"Henry Hamlin is still at large."

Pam dropped the phone after a picture of Henry came onto the television.

"Oh my god! Jerry!"

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Henry soon pulled up at the school and saw Aimee go past. Henry went over to Aimee.

"Where's Jerry?" Henry asked.

"Hey Henry! He's in class helping a teacher."

"Where?"

"It's an isolated building away from the school. It's in the back parking lot. It's three classrooms connected to a greenhouse."

Henry got back into his car. Aimee looked in confusion, then kept walking.

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Jerry walked from his class into the back parking lot, he walked to the main hall and into guidance. A car pulled into the back parking and Henry got out of the car. He started to walk for the classroom/greenhouse where Jerry had just come from.

Henry walked down to Jerry's classroom, he went over to the door, and pulled out a long knife that Jerry was looking for last night.

Jerry handed the papers into guidance and exited to the main hallway to meet up with Aimee.

"What's going on? Anything in the paper?" Aimee asked.

"Nope. Just heading back to class, I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, yeah. Oh, Henry's looking for you! I told him where you were." Aimee replied.

"Henry?" Jerry stopped.

"What?" Aimee asked.

Jerry opened the door to the guidance office to see the television playing.

"Henry Hamlin, the escaped patient from Oak Brooks is still missing." The Announcer was saying.

Jerry went back over to Aimee.

"Where was he?" Jerry asked.

"In the front, why?"

"Did you tell him where to go?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Call the police, would ya! I just found the missing patient!"

Jerry ran through the parking lot and over to the classrooms and he took out the paper to see the headline, 'TEACHER AND STUDENT BRUTALLY STABBED'.

"Oh no!" Jerry responded, then started to run for the classroom where he had come from.

The teacher saw a shadow and looked up. Henry was standing at her desk with the knife. Her eyes lifted up.

Jerry ran up to the door and began to bang on it.

"Mrs. Adams!" Jerry jiggled the handle and the door opened to his surprise. He went inside to see the teacher.

"Are you okay?" Jerry asked.

The teacher was in shock. "He's here."

Jerry looked around and took out the paper again. The headline was still there.

"Come on! let's get outta here!"

Jerry helped Mrs. Adams up from her seat, and started to go for the door when Jerry fell backward from a bony fist that had smacked him in the face.

"Oh my god!" The teacher yelled.

Jerry looked to see Henry with the missing kitchen knife.

"Henry..." Jerry started.

"Don't start with me!" Henry interrupted.

"You don't want to do this!" Jerry tried to explain.

"You betrayed me!"

Jerry slowly got up.

"Trust me, Henry! You don't wanna do this! Just think about it for a second! I'm... we're just trying to help you, and that's all we want to do, right Mrs. Adams?"

"What?" Mrs. Adams asked.

"Work with me over here!" Jerry whispered.

"Oh yeah! Yeah!"

"STOP!" Henry yelled. "I don't believe you!"

"Believe him!" Mrs. Adams yelled.

"Yeah!" Jerry replied.

"This must be done..."

Henry started to walk for Jerry when the police came through the door.

"POLICE! Put the weapon down!"

The police officers swarmed into the room with Pam while Henry dropped the knife and put his hands up.

"That's where my best kitchen knife went!" Pam replied.

"Mom!" Jerry yelled. "What are you doing here?"

"You're friend is an ex-con from a hospital! He was going to come and hurt you!" Pam replied.

"He wah?" Jerry looked at Henry. "You wha? You are?"

"I needed to get out of there! They betrayed me!"

"What about you're family, that apartment thing?" Jerry asked.

"It was abandoned." A police officer replied as he cuffed Henry.

Aimee came running into the classroom with some security guards.

"They beat me to it." Aimee saw Henry. "Hey, Henry!"

"Hello." Henry replied as he was being escorted out of the classroom to the police car.

"Where's he going?" Aimee asked.

"He's the escaped patient." Mrs. Adams quickly butted in.

"How'd you know? Was it in..." Aimee started to say.

"It was on the news!" Jerry quickly cut in.

"Oh..."

Jerry, Aimee, and Pam started to walk for the door.

"I'm so glad that I took this job!" Mrs. Adams said as she followed the trio. "How about some shakes, my treat!"

'Even if time's short, you know that things are going to work out somehow, someway, not matter what. And if it doesn't, with a little time and patience, it'll work out shortly. So just remember to keep you hopes up because there's always tomorrow.'

THE END...FOR NOW

A/N: This one maybe a bit short, I wasn't that all happy with this one, nor was I in the mood with this one. Plus, there's an episode missing, I'll get that one up ASAP.