Related Clues:

• Watergate, for one
• Early Robin Cook thriller
• Catered event
• Hospitalized patient's state
• Common soap opera affliction
• Soap opera plot line, often
• Whoever's in it is out of it
• Soap-opera plot device
• Robin Cook book
• Occasional soap opera plot feature
• Festive gathering
• Brief romance
• Trauma-induced sleep
• Bourne's problem, in 'The Bourne Identity'
• What someone who is out might be in