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The Diner Burns Down....and a triangle heats up on GL!
Cassie saves Susan, who is reunited with her father and Beth.
Cassie comes to the rescue this week on Guiding Light when Susan gets trapped in the fire at the diner. Jim can't thank Cassie enough when she gets Susan out of the blaze unharmed, which makes Beth see red.
Beth confides in Phillip that she is starting to get a little jealous. "Beth is completely paranoid, because Jim kisses Cassie on the forehead to thank her for saving Susan," Beth Chamberlin (Beth) explains. "Of course, Beth thinks, 'I am going to lose again.' She just has this knee-jerk reaction. She is completely beside herself, and she runs into Phillip, and he is the one who talks her down and says, 'Hey, you are reading too much into this.' She says, 'You are right; I am going to go over to the farm and talk to her.'"
When Beth gets to the farm, however, she finds Jim and Cassie in each other's arms on the floor (he has fallen off a ladder). "They are giggling and rolling around on the floor together," Chamberlin says. "Phillip just assured her that Jim only feels gratitude toward Cassie, and that her fears are unfounded. Her confidence was restored, and then she walks in on the two of them tangled on the floor."
Jim leaves, and Beth and Cassie have words. "Beth is trying to rise above this, but, you know, her insecurities get the better of her, and she starts to take little swipes at Cassie," Chamberlin says. "It sort of escalates. They don't have an all-out fight, but Beth says nasty things that, by the time she leaves, Cassie doesn't like her, and Beth doesn't trust her. So, it is just a good setup with a good animosity."
"Laura (Wright;Cassie) and I had fun working together," Chamberlin adds. "Some of the things that Beth has been saying to her have been so ridiculous. My character basically says, 'You're lucky; you're a widow!' It was so pathetic that I couldn't get through the scene. We ran it again and again and again, so we could get through it without laughing. I was saying this terrible stuff, and Laura would just be looking at me with her jaw dropped to the floor, and I would start laughing. Beth is so self-involved right now. She is so afraid that she is going to lose something else that she can't see anybody else's pain. She can only see her own fear. This story has the potential to be a great story. There are so many different relationships and complexities to it, with Phillip's reaction to Jim, Jim's reaction to Phillip, Beth's relationship to Jim and to Harley, and now Cassie has been brought into the mix."
By Mark McGarry
Soap Opera Weekly -- 1999
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