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Ned & Lois #7 August 23 - September 27, 1994: 4 hr dvd8/23 Lois tells Ned she wants to throw a dinner party for his friends & clients. Ned tries to talk her out of it but has to relent. Brenda warns Ned that Sonny is coming over. Ned leaves. Brenda learns about Lois’s party and later storms into the Q's yelling at Ned and how could he deceive Lois about the party. He tells her he will hire actors to play his business associates. 8/24 Ned visits a casting director in NYC. Ned interviews some prospects. He entices them by flashing lots of cash for the actors to make it a truly horrible evening. 8/26 Ned tells Brenda about the faux-dinner plans with the stand-in actors posing as his business friends. He wants her to stand guard, but she refuses and storms out. Ned begs off plans with Katherine. When he leaves, she makes plans to accidentally run into Damian. Lois nears panic as she prepares for their dinner party. Brenda tries to calm her down. Ned and Lois’s staged dinner party begins with the arrival of the fake guests and things quickly go south and is a complete disaster, just as Ned planned. Lois promises never to meddle in his day job again. 8/29 Katherine wants to drag Ned to a concert in the park. He agrees, but only after he is sure that Lois will be in the studio all day. But then, Brenda and Sonny drop by the studio and persuade Lois to join them for the concert. Brenda pretends to be sick when both Lois and Ned and Katherine show up at the picnic. 8/31 Miguel lays downs a track at L&B. Brenda freaks out when Lois tells them that everyone is going to meet her Eddie today. Jason and Keisha stop in at L&B to see Miguel. Ned has to cover when he walks in on them. Ned has to work hard to keep his identities straight as Lois comes in and out of the room. Ned dodges meeting Sonny. Its getting harder for him to keep his two lives separate (read nearly impossible), Brenda begs him to fess up. 9/2 Lois arrives and she and Brenda pick a photo for Miguel’s CD cover. Katherine tells Ned she's sick of being a “private” wife. She wants a huge birthday party. He tries to convince her to have a small intimate party, but she won’t hear of it. N&L alone for at last make out on the couch. Lily arrives at the gatehouse to see Miguel. Lois thinks she is a groupie and gives her the brush off. 9/5 Lois talks to Miguel about love and the heartbreak that goes along with it, where would they get all the great love songs. Lily walks in and sees Lois and Miguel hugging, gets the wrong idea and leaves. 9/6 Lois finds Brenda crying in the dark and notices her chopped hair. Lois thinks she is upset about her hair and offers to fix it. Brenda is upset about her fight with Sonny. Lois gives Brenda a brief history of Sonny as best she knows. Sonny's stepfather was a cop. Ned asks Lois how she feels about birthdays? They talk about past ones. He promises to make every day of her life as special as a birthday and just melts her heart completely. She tells him that just knowing they are together is the best present she could ever have. He takes her into his arms and kisses her sweetly. (Enjoy this moment as will be awhile before they reconnect). 9/7 Lois raves to Miguel that the song he wrote for Lily is amazing and predicts it will be the hit of the album. Miguel lays a track down at the L & B studio. Luke questions Bobbie. 9/8 Ned gets word on Damian’s injury in the catacombs. Edward ponders what if Damian does not survive? Edward realizes that if Damian doesn’t survive that gives them the chance to regain control of the company. Edward is heading over to Lee’s office to get papers drawn up to give them the right to buy back the stock. Ned arrives at GH and sees Katherine in with Damian. Lucy arrives and gets her digs in about Katherine and Damian to Ned. Ned asks if Katherine is at GH for Damian’s stock. She claims he is there over genuine concern for him. Ned visits Damian. Damian refuses to sign any contract that gives Ned his stock. 9/9 Ned scrambles when Edward orders him to at the meeting. Lois tells Brenda she plans to use Ned's full photo for the album. Brenda tries to persuade her to use one that does not show his face. Ned cancels with Lois telling her he agreed to help some business clients by attending the city council meeting. Ned nixes the photo. He heads over to the courthouse and laments to Katherine that the Q’s are standing on the deck of a sinking ship. Lois turns the tv as Tiffany is covering the courthouse beat. Tiffany pulls Ned aside as Lois watches, and calls him “Ned Ashton”! Lois is excited to see him as they have never met. She is horrified when he turns around and it is her Eddie. 9/12 Lois questions to herself as to whether Brenda is in on Eddie’s scam. Brenda returns to the gatehouse and finds Lois acting strange. Lois asks her about Ned Ashton and questions why they have never meet him, giving Brenda the opportunity to come clean with her. Brenda asks what is going on as Lois has a strange look on her face, and asks her repeatedly if she is okay. Lois claims exhaustion and looks wiped out. After Brenda leaves her alone, Lois breaks down and sobs as she realizes the betrayal of her husband and her best friend. 9/13 Lois goes to Tiffany to get another look at Ned from her newscast. Tiffany shows her the clip and freezes on Ned’s face. Tiffany asks her what is wrong, she looks like she has seen a ghost. Lois claims that this isn’t her ex brother-in-law that the resemblance is very close but it isn’t him. She asks for a copy of the tape to blow her sister’s mind. Lois goes to the Q mansion to quiz Edward and Lila about Ned. Edward tells her that she and Ned meet months ago. He saw the two of them together a couple of months ago. Lois flashes back to when she slept over the Q's. Lila gives her a brief history of the life of Ned. Later, Ned finds out from Lila that Lois just left full of questions. 9/14 Ned tells Brenda that juggling his wives is almost over, he only needs two more days. He has the incriminating information that he needs on Katherine. She doesn’t understand why he is waiting. He is going over his strategy to get her to back out gracefully. Brenda accuses him of enjoying his double life. He swears that he just wants Lois. He plans on throwing himself on her mercy. Brenda tells Ned that Lois is acting weird. She tells him that Lois was asking a lot of questions about Ned & Jenny. He tells her that there was a brief news clip last night. Brenda urges him to go check it out, and urges him to tell her the truth. Ned comes home and finds Lois sitting alone in the dark. As he tries to get close to her, she gets up and walks away. She talks about him changing when he gets up on stage. He reminisces about the night they met and how she has changed his life. He has one last chance to tell her and he blows it. Instead, he lies to her again, only this time she knows it. She doesn't let on though. Lois looks sick as he rambles on about how much he loves her. She tries to get him to just tell her the truth. Lois gets the skinny on when she and Ned got married and learns about the birthday party. Katherine invites her and Eddie. Lois wants a copy of her marriage certificate and orders a cake. 9/15 Lois’ mom arrives and she tells her the truth about Eddie being Ned and how he and Brenda lied to her for months. 9/16 Ned plays it very cool with Katherine. Katherine says she can't wait for Ned's birthday surprise. Lois receives her special delivery. Brenda wants to know what it is; Lois tells her it's personal. Brenda and Lois discuss the party. Lois tests Brenda by saying she's decided to go. Brenda tries to talk her out of going. Lois let's her off the hook and agrees not to go. Lois opens her marriage license with the name Ned Ashton on it. Mac informs Ned that Lucy is going public at the party. Ned asks Lucy not to reveal the truth about Katherine. Ned admits that Katherine was blackmailing him. He proposes to reinstate her as head of Deception if she will wait. She happily agrees. The birthday party is in full swing with everyone in tuxes and evening gowns. Brenda begs Ned to tell her this nightmare is almost over, he assures her just one more night. Mac tells her that a surprise has arrived for her. She is dying to see it so he has it brought out. Everyone starts singing “Happy Birthday” as the giant cake is rolled out. Ned is stunned when Lois jumps out of Katherine’s birthday cake and wishes happy birthday to Mrs. Ned Ashton from the other, Mrs. Ned Ashton! 9/19 Everyone is stunned to meet the other Mrs. Ned Ashton. Lois whips out her marriage certificate and reveals Ned to be Eddie Maine. Ned tries to convince Lois he loves her but she tells him their whole life together was a lie. She vows to never forgive him. Katherine tells Edward that Ned will pay for this but Ned drops the bomb about knowing she is an embezzler. Mac settles the crowd down by having Miguel start to sing. Brenda tries to apologies to Lois, who is furious, but she is already packed and ready to leave. 9/20 Brenda tells Ned that Lois is gone and never wants to see either of them ever again. Brenda unloads on Ned saying that he has ruined both of their lives. The Q’s attack Ned. Ned tells him that they only one that lost in this situation his him. The Qs are thrilled to learn that Katherine is an embezzler. The Qs have both Damian and Katherine right where they want them. Ned tells them all about Eddie Maine. He is proud of his music and it is important to him. Sonny arrives at the gatehouse looking for Lois. Brenda tells him that Lois is probably on her way to Bensonhurst. Sonny says that she claimed to be her friend and she let Ned break her heart. Sonny tells her that his business is right in the middle of this and why didn’t she tell him. She tells him she is willing to not be an active partner if it would mean Lois would come back. 9/21 Katherine tries to hock her wedding ring but learns it is fake diamond worth $200. 9/23 Ned goes to Lois to plead his case. He comes face to face with her father, Carmine. Lois's mother berates Ned for what he did to Lois despite his attempts to explain. Ned tries to explain but Lois is unforgiving. When he attempts to kiss her, she belts him and throws him out. 9/26 Ned gets grilled by Brenda about what happened with Lois. Sonny arrives at the Cerullos’s to talk to Lois. He pleads Brenda’s case and convinces her not to throw L&B away and come back to PC. Ned tells Edward that he is not giving up on Lois. Ned learns about the meeting that Katherine wants with the Qs. 9/27 Lois returns to the gatehouse. Brenda wants to tell her side of the story. Lois stares at her with icy blue eyes as the screen fades to black. **The end of #7** |
