Automatically (or more easily) reconnect to a screen session after network interruption

Does the -t option do what you want?

     -t      Force pseudo-tty allocation.  This can be used to execute arbi-
             trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be
             very useful, e.g. when implementing menu services.  Multiple -t
             options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.

So:

laptop> ssh -t server.com screen -dr pts-2

This seems to work in my installation.