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Subject:     gh update 8/21/95
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 14:58:06 PDT
From: kathy@gundog.lbl.gov (Kathy Ellington)

      General Hospital Update for Monday, August 21, 1995

He Ain't Heavy -- He's my Ectoplasmic Manifestation!
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Lucy and Maia chat over coffee at the PC Hotel.  Maia tells Lucy that she can
sense something is troubling her. Lucy says that Kevin would like Maia to keep
her insights about Ryan to herself. Maia agrees to knock off the RyBaby stuff.
She tells Lucy that the root cause of Kevin's problem is Ryan...himself!  In
another part of town, Kevin meets with Mac and tells him about Ryan's ghost.
He tells Mac that he saw an apparition materialize in Lucy's apartment. Mac is
totally skeptical and Kevin explains it.  He says there was a light that had a
shape to it, a semi-translucent light that spoke.  "We heard a voice that
seemed to emanate from the light" said Kevin.  He said he recognized the voice
as Ryan's.  Then Lucy ran outside and the light disappeared.  Kevin insists
that "something happened" here and wants Mac to find out what happened.  Mac
says he's not a ghost-buster.  Kevin wants Mac to find out if the voice of
Ryan was man-made or not; whether he was set up or not.  Mac says that stuff
like this is way out of his league.  Kevin insists that Mac sweep the house
and look for hidden microphones, etc.  Mac reluctantly agrees to have the
place swept; he'll call in a special team.  Meanwhile, the gals are still
quacking over coffee.  Lucy asks Maia if she really believes the dead exist
someplace else in another form.  Maia says that dead people haven't traveled
a distance but are merely in a different "space".  Lucy asks her what if Ryan
came back...what form would he take?  Maia questions her and Lucy blabs about
what happened the night before.  She says that Ryan appeared as a blob of
light and spoke to them ("Keh-eh-eh-vinnnnn"). She tells Lucy to overcome her
fears. Lucy gets all excited and wonders if she has "the gift" (of second
sight) because she was able to see Kevin's "ghost".  Maia agrees that she
might have special powers that could have lain dormant for years.  Maia tells
Lucy that her powers sharpened Kevin's sense of perception and allowed him to
see Ryan's "ghost".  Lucy asks for Maia to teach her; Maia warns that it's
more a responsibility than a gift. Then Maia invites Lucy to join her seminar
on Spiritual Women [Womyn??].  Lucy is jazzed.  Later on, Maia checks in with
Damian and says she invited Lucy to the seminar.  She also tells Damian about
Ryan's ghost; Damian doesn't seem shocked.  Maia tells him he's outdone
himself this time and will he have a guy in a sheet pop out at Kevin and Lucy
next time?  Over at the apartment, Mac gets the verdict that the place is
clean of bugs.  Kevin starts to freak out at the possibility that the ghost
may have been real.

When You're Out of Brain Surgery, Young Man, will YOU be in the Doghouse!!
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Over at GH, Lucky is finished with surgery and, in Tony's words, is holding
his own. Tony is encouraged and fills the family in.  Luke is worried because
Lucky isn't awake yet; Tony suggests they talk to Lucky and it might help him
come around sooner.  Bobbie mentions that it's Lucas' birthday.  Laura starts
talking to Lucky, pleading with him to wake up.  They tell him that they know
what happened to him was an accident, just wake up. Then Luke and Laura start
to blather on about the old days and what a cute, impish scamp Lucky was.
Laura orders the kid to open his eyes and he obeys, sick to death of listening
to them gas about the past.  They fill in Lucky on what happened.  He promises
to wear a helmet in the future. [a double-yawner]  Outside the room, Luke
talks to Laura.  He tells her that Lucky is aching to have them reconciled
again.  He says that getting back together is way overdue; they're a family so
why not get together again.  Nope, she says, not yet.

Ned is confused: is this the afternoon following the morning after the night
before...or what?
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Brenda breezes into the gatehouse and runs into an angry and tearful Lois.
"My weasel has come out of his hole again!" she tells Brenda. Brenda begs for
an explanation and Lois tells her that some babe answered the phone in Ned's
room instead of hubby.  Lois then says that she took a flight to Ned's hotel
and found him passed out, covered in lipstick and stinking of cheap perfume.
Brenda tells her to slow down and that there has to be a rational explanation
for his condition.  Just then Ned blows in and says he needs help.  He tells
Lois that he woke up with a bad head and surrounded with cheap underwear. Then
he asks her if she was in his hotel room.  He doesn't remember a thing but he
knows he's in troule!  Lois tells him that he's been busted.  She's hurt and
says that despite his promises, he's back to his old cheating ways.  Brenda
splits.  Ned says that no matter what she thinks, nothing happened.  He tells
her what he remembered.  He was in the hotel bar..alone..and a fan came over.
Then he had a drink and felt sick.  The next thing he remembered was waking up
this morning with a bad head.  Ned pleads with her to believe him. Lois tells
him that she saw all the evidence in his hotel room and it looks bad.  He
reiterates that he did nothing with that, or any other, woman.  Ned tells her
that Lois had a hard time waking him up, didn't she?  She agrees.  So how
could he do "anything" in his condition.  And why would this mysterious woman
leave her underwear around, he asks [good question, Nedly]?   He says he
couldn't have cheated on her and he knows she believes him, underneath.  Lois
stops to think about it and agrees that there's something fishy going on. But
still, she's got her nagging doubts.  Okay, she says she believes him and
forgives him.  They end up hugging and kissing.  The phone rings and Ned
answers.  It's Sonny and he wants to see Ned "pronto"...Ned agrees and says
he'll meet him at Luke's Club.  Over at Luke's Sonny gloats over the candid
snaps of Ned and the bimbette.  Ned ambles in and Sonny hands him the photos
of the night before.

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