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SOAP SYNOPSES By Beverly Foster Seinberg Tribune Media Services All My Children Jackson was bothered by Erica’s growing close- ness to Caleb and was consoled by Krystal. JR found the stolen jewelry in Annie’s room and returned it to Ma- rissa, claiming he found it in a pawnshop. Ryan took David to the roof- top, where he had set things up to look as if David were attempting to escape, and Jesse ar- rested him. After being summoned to the jail by David, Kendall collapsed. Griffin informed Erica and Jackson that Kendall was developing an an- eurysm, and her friends and family joined forces to persuade her to have surgery. Brot and Natalia took measures to save their relationship. David was taken out of jail to help save Kendall, who overheard Ryan and Da- vid arguing and flashed back to a memory of shooting David. The Bold and the Beautiful Stephanie agreed to Brooke’s request to put the Logan-vs.-Forrester feud to rest, but she is- sued Stephen a stern warning about his treat- ment of Pam. Donna visited Eric to tell him she and Justin were getting married and left him a memento to remember their marriage by. Amber stuck to her story that Liam was her baby’s father, while Hope and Liam blatantly questioned Oliver about the possibil- ity that he could be the father. Days of our Lives At the infirmary, Lee knocked out Jennifer, surgically removed her heart and gave it to Ben for a transplant. Daniel realized that Ben was trafficking in organs through the prison, can- celled the transplant and alerted the police.When Melanie told him that the heart was Jennifer’s, they raced to the infir- mary and attempted to reattach it and save her life. Stefano and EJ put their plan for dealing with Rafe in motion, putting an impostor in his place and taking the real Rafe captive. General Hospital After warding off Abby’s would-be rapist, Michael broke down and admit- ted to Jason what really happened at Pentonville. Carly asked Jax for a divorce after finding out he’d gone to London to play “hero” for Brenda. Robin supported Brenda in overcoming Carly’s COVER STORY Living by ‘The Chicago Code’ on Fox In the 1987 movie “The Un- By Kate O’Hare © Zap2it touchables,” a tale about Chi- cago crime, cops and corruption penned by Windy City-born play- wright David Mamet, a Canadian Mountie involved in a violent liquor raid says to Al Capone foe Eliot Ness, “I do not approve of your methods!” Treasury Agent Ness, also a native Chicagoan, fires back, “Yeah, well, you’re not from Chicago.” Writer/producer Shawn Ryan - who created FX’s “The Shield” and partnered with Mamet for CBS’ “The Unit” - may not be from Chicago proper, but he’s from the northern Illinois city of Rockford, and he’s imbued with the lore of, as poet Carl Sand- burg called it, “The City of the Big Shoulders.” On Monday, Feb. 7, Fox pre- mieres Ryan’s new drama, “The Chicago Code,” which focuses on a group of Chicago cops, led by the city’s first female superinten- dent, Teresa Colvin (Chicagoan Jennifer Beals), and her cat-and- mouse relationship with a pow- erful ward politician, Alderman Ronin Gibbons (Delroy Lindo). Also starring are Jason Clarke as Detective Jarek Wysocki; Matt Lauria as Wysocki’s partner, Ca- leb Evers; Devin Kelley as rookie beat cop Vonda Wysocki, Jarek’s niece; Todd Williams as Isaac Joiner, Vonda’s partner; and Billy Lush as Irish mob insider Liam Hennessey. “It’s just a fascinating arena,” Ryan says. “Having said that, you can look at that and say, ‘That’s not the way things should work.’ And at the same time the city is just gorgeous. They’ve gone on “He’s functioning in such a way to get things done for the people of Chicago. That was fundamentally the position I had, psychologically and emotionally. I absolutely did not think of myself as a bad person in this.” Obviously, in the last few Delroy Lindo stars in “The Chicago Code,” premiering Monday on Fox. this explosion of building and construction. “It really is beautiful, and a lot of things run really, really well. It’s the kind of city where things get done.You look at New York City, and the way that there’s still a hole in the ground at the World Trade Center - they wouldn’t let that happen in Chicago. In Chi- cago, that stuff would be rebuilt by now.” But just how that stuff would be built - how the permits would be obtained, the financing, the labor, the land, etc. - is open for discussion. If you watch “The Untouchables,” you can see a smiling alderman offer a bribe to Ness, who emphatically rejects it. “How about that?” Lindo says. “Certainly when they came to me with the offer to do this, the idea of playing a politician was very attractive. Specifically, the idea of playing a Chicago alderman was interesting, knowing a little about that history.” “The ‘Chicago code’ itself,” says Ryan, “is that the city is unique, and things just get done in a very specific Chicago way. It’s just an interesting combina- tion of Midwestern ethics with a kind of down-and-dirty Midwest- ern politics. “Chicago is just unique in the way the city runs and the way the people are - unique in bad ways and in good ways. People from that part of the country, as I am, carry a real pride not only about the strengths of that area but also the deficiencies.We like the way we are.” As to whether Alderman Gib- bons considers himself a hero or is aware that he’s skating around the edges of legality, Lindo says, “Certainly there’s an awareness of skating around the edges, but also an awareness of, ‘This is the way it’s done. This is Chicago. This is how things get done in this city.’ I didn’t have a sense of being a bad person doing bad years, the term “Chicago politics” has become very familiar - and seldom in a complimentary way - and a Google search on “corrupt Chicago politics” returns more than four million results. With former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel re- turning to his hometown in hopes of running for mayor of Chicago, the focus has shifted from Chica- goans in Washington, D.C., back to retail politics on the streets of the city. “You wish you could be a fly on the wall for some of those backroom conversations,” Ryan says, “know what those deals are about. ‘You drop out (of the race), this is what you’ll get.’ ” But no matter who wins the mayoral race, Ryan hopes “The Chicago Code” will capture the nation’s imagination. “That’s the code,” he says. “It’s a mindset. It’s a way of getting things done at a time when, in a lot of parts of the country, things don’t get done. But it’s also a way things get done that can be questionable at times, without a doubt. “It’s a pride. It’s a Midwestern blue-collar attitude, and hope- fully (the show is) going to be fun entertainment for everyone in America.” threats to ruin her wed- ding. After falling for Lucky’s trap, Siobhan revealed why she was working for the Balkan and what he held over her. Brenda admitted the truth about the baby and its whereabouts to Dante. One Life to Live Natalie and John agreed to a double wedding with Jessica and Brody. Cut- ter was visiting Dorian when the yearbook ar- rived from the French boarding school that Aubrey supposedly at- tended. He intercepted it, doctored it with Kelly’s help and slipped it back into Dorian’s house. Clint fired Vimal after intimidat- ing him to find out whom he told about the DNA switching. The Young and the Restless Tucker told Sofia that he wanted the money Cane stole from him back and her cooperation with the police in charges against Cane and Blake. Cane told Kay and Jill the truth about Blake. He was about to reveal his past with Colin when Colin ar- rived, threatening to kill Jill if Cane came clean to her. 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