#8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
#9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
#10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Ellen is often portrayed as a dry drunk, the type of person who is just barely dry but certainly not sober and growing.
How about a story where Ellen is trying to work her ninth step? Growing, changing, being more than simply dry?
How could her attempts to make amends interact with L&C and Clark's other role?