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From: njs@lhdsy2.lahabra.chevron.com (N.J.Spera)
Subject: GH: Update, Wednesday, February 1, 1995
Date: 2 Feb 95 18:06:27 GMT

                                GENERAL HOSPITAL
                           Wednesday, February 1, 1995

Today's Stories         A Message For Ryan
                        A Message From Ryan, Tit For Tat & The Bunny Brigade
                        No Problem, Sonny's Fine

A Message For Ryan
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Connie is let into Ryan's cell.  He is glad she came.  She got his message.
But, Connie has a message for Ryan.  Bad news.  She's been reassigned.  Connie
explains it's all her fault.  Her supervisors didn't believe her glowing
report about Ryan and feel she's too inexperienced to detect when Ryan is
lying and she has become too emotionally involved.  She's not to be alone with
Ryan anymore.  Ryan lets out a blood curdling scream that causes the guard
to check to see if Connie is ok.  She covers for Ryan, saying Ryan had been
pacing and stubbed his toe.  The guard doesn't quite believe it and
reluctantly leaves them alone.  Ryan is angry and scared that she's leaving him
just like everyone.  Connie tries to convince Ryan they will be able to see
each other when he gets his privileges back, in the TV room or the rec area.
However Ryan figures he'll never get out of his "cage" and points out Connie
naive.  He complains that the "only positive" interaction he had is being
removed and that they want his soul and spirit to die by degrees day by day.
That way he proves them correct that he can't be rehabilitated.  He rambles
on about being their scapegoat despite the fact that he's "innocent."  Connie
asserts that she won't let it be over between them before she leaves Ryan
alone, curled up on his cot.

A Message From Ryan, Tit For Tat & The Bunny Brigade
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Lucy, going a mile a minute, complains to Kevin about the water balloon
wielding bunny brigade that confronted her outside her apartment and then
followed her once she got into her car.  Kevin, who has been staring at
some pictures, puts them down to listen.  But Lucy sees he's been distracted
and asks what he's been looking at. "A message from Ryan."  Lucy is dismayed
that Ryan is stirring things up but it doesn't matter to Kevin.  Ryan's
message was a picture of the two of them shortly before they were separated
and Ryan has torn it in half, very neatly.  Lucy wants to know what it means.
Kevin tries to explain that Ryan is lonely and not ready to give up his link
to Kevin.  Lucy isn't thrilled that Ryan has come back to haunt them but
Kevin accepts it as normal behavior, normal for Ryan.  He wants her to forget
about it, he has.  [Watch out Kevin!]  Kevin turns the conversation to the
bunny brigade.  Lucy wants tips on mass hypnosis but Kevin advises her to let
actions speak and invite the bunny brigade into Deception to see how the
experiments are conducted.  There's a knock at the door.  It's Bobbie.  She
starts into an "apology" to Lucy for attacking Lucy [in a most ridiculous
voice], obviously very sarcasticly.  Lucy manages to get out of there but
when Kevin wishes her luck with the bunny brigade Bobbie makes a few more
caustic remarks.  When Lucy is gone Kevin wants to know "What was that all
about?"  Bobbie thought he'd be pleased, she's owning her hostility.  She
apologizes for walking of the last two session and claims she needed to run
because of Tony [ah the blame game again, would someone tell me why *I* keep
getting Bobbie's tirades!?]  Kevin suggests a session then and there so
Bobbie goes to find Tony.  When the session begins Tony isn't quite sure why
he's there.  Bobbie is now willing to be accountable but she wants Tony to
take some responsibility for causing her to run out of the previous session.
She launches into a tirade about being attracted to Damian because Tony took
her for granted.  So he agrees he did take her for granted and they argue
about her sleeping with Damian "only after Tony threw her out."  Tony's really
angry now. It has become tit for tat.  The image of her with Damian makes him
want to skin both her and Damian alive and Tony can't forgive or forget.  Both
wonder then why they are there.  Tony walks out.  Bobbie walks out.  Kevin
just sits there not having said a word.

Lucy on her way out of the hospital runs into Amy, Steve and Audrey.  Amy
comments about seeing a lot of Lucy lately and that Lucy and Kevin are an
item.  Lucy poopoos the idea but Steve reminds her when they are out in public
they are rarely seen without the other.  Yes, Lucy admits, Kevin is a good
man but talks about how hard it is to keep a good relationship going and
asks Steve and Audrey how long they've been married.  Neither one can say..
it's been forever and good.  Later Lucy has one of the bunny brigade in her
office trying to show her the reports that show Deception doesn't test on
animals but the activist doesn't buy it.  Reports can be doctored.  Next
thing Tiff and AJ show up.  Tiff wasn't supposed to be there for another
week but had been alerted one of the activists would be at Deception.  AJ
gives the ELQ line, we don't test on animals but it's a hard sell.  AJ tries
turning on the charm and manages to pull the activist aside for a one-on-one
tour.  Later the activist has given a statement that even Tiff calls strident.
AJ the charmer invites her for a drink [what AJ and drinking, hmm] and
despite the fact that she doesn't believe Deception's reports agrees to one
drink.  When they're gone Lucy warns Tiff not to warn the activist about AJ.
She's getting exactly what she deserves.

No Problem, Sonny's Fine
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Luke wants to know from Sonny if having Mike around is a problem.  Sonny
tries to convince Luke he doesn't care but Luke doesn't quite buy it.  Lily
comes in to see the club that everyone has been talking about and notices
something is wrong with Sonny.  Luke leaves them.  Lily wants Sonny to let
her be a friend and he does.  He tells her about people coming out of the
woodwork.  Lily first guesses an old love, but that Sonny could handle.  No
it's his "old man" and figures he and Lily have something more in common.  He
hates his father too.  Lily figures out Sonny's father is in town, [brilliant
deduction!].  Sonny explains his father is a grifter who never stayed around
long and never noticed Sonny.  He wishes his father had stayed away the first
time he left.  Lily understands the anger and the hate.  As she puts her
arms around him to comfort him in walks Brenda who wants to know what is
going on.  Brenda doesn't believe them when they say nothing.  Lily leaves.
Brenda is not happy that Sonny turned to Lily instead of herself.  Brenda
goes to leave but Sonny yells at her not to go.  When Brenda asks why not,
it's because he needs her.  He wraps his arms around Brenda very tightly.
When Brenda has heard about Sonny's father she tries to compare their
situations but that's not what Sonny wants to hear.  When she asks why he
told Lily first...it's because Lily just happened to be there and maybe
because Lily doesn't want anything in return from him.  Sonny walks out just
as his father walks in.  Corbin introduces himself.  Brenda asks for his
story about Sonny and wants to know what Corbin did to Sonny.  Corbin says
it was that he wasn't there most of the time rather than doing something to
Sonny.  Meanwhile Lily heads over to the Outback.  Mac finds out she had been
to the Outback and overhears her telling Migless that Sonny is upset that
his (Sonny's) father is in town.  Later when Migless goes to the storeroom
Mac asks Lily Sonny's father's name.  "Mike."

Till Next Time

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