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Subject:     GH Update 7/25
Sent:        8/3/96 11:21 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

UPDATE, THURSDAY JULY 25:

WHO HEALS THE HEALER?
Felicia waylays Kevin in the hospital.  She's worried about Tom.  Kevin
tries to brush her off by saying it's just too bad Tom's mourning is
making her uncomfortable, and Felicia, quite rightly, tells him off.
What are they paying him the Big Bucks for, anyway?  Kevin apologizes.

Felicia meets Tom at the Outback, and surprise surprise, here's Kevin!
Filly excuses herself to talk to Mac, and Tom figures out he's been ambushed.
Tom has turned down a forensic job because of all the work at the
hospital.  Lucy comes burbling in, and Felicia waylays her.  They look at
the book ARTISTS OR MADMEN.  Lucy: "Here's the chapter on Vincent Van
Gogh or do you say 'Vincent Van *clears throat*?'" Felicia: "I don't
mention him much."  Lucy goes on about her favorite (and, since "The
Scream" is, IMO inappropriately, in his office, Kevin's as well?) Edvard
Munch.  He went for the Olympic gold medal in nervous breakdowns.
Felicia points out you can't believe everything you read, there are
always folks who will read the worst into one's life.  Lucy is relieved
and kisses Felicia on the cheek.  Felicia mutters "please don't kiss me
like that again!"  Meanwhile, Tom and Kevin are dicussing Kevin's
father's death, and Steve's.  Kevin asks Tom if he believes in life after
death, and then postulates that people's psyches come into those closest
to them.  Tom's sudden responsibility toward the hospital is really Steve
making the decisions.  [Could be a Ryan-hint?]  Felicia returns when she
sees Tom smiling and Tom and she decide to go home for some casserole.
Lucy comes back from the bathroom and Kevin and she discuss the book and his
new paintings.

CARLY WEASELS IN:
[I gotta say, this actress is a real find!  Bet she's offered bigger
things soon!  She conveys slyness, vulnerability, hurt, vindictiveness,
all very well.]
Carly waylays Tony at the Nurses' Station and tells him she's a bit
worried about money.  He refers a patient to her, and she's thrilled.
First thing she does is tell Bobbie, who is not happy that Tony is not
following procedure.  Carly sees Jason and speaks to him, and just then
Robin comes up looking for Alan.  Carly pages Alan for her, and while
Robin is seeing him, Carly talks to Jason.  "Why does Robin always come
first?"  That's the way it is, Jason answers.  "So you sleep with me, and
she gets the roses?  Put us together you have one whole girlfriend."
"What's the problem?  We have what we have and YOU picked it." He then
says if the question is, does he like Carly, yes he does.  Carly: "What
is it about me?  I mean, I could be walking down the street with Robin or
just about anybody and we both fainted at the same time... people would
drive over my limp body to bring her smelling salts."  "Because," Jason
responds, "You wouldn't faint.  You'd be faking."  Carly mentions there's
one man who really likes her.  Bobbie interrupts to give Carly a message
for Tony.  She's about to go harass Laura, so she'll be late to dinner.
Robin's tests are good and we get the Public Service Information about
how there's so much more information about HIV just even in the last year.
Jason is pleased that his Dad is good for something.  He hugs Robin,
while Carly watches.

Later, Carly "just misses" Tony, so he shows up at the Outback at the
agreed-upon time.  She invents a porno photographer who will meet her to
give her enough money to continue with the Nurses' Program.  Tony "talks
her out of it."  They are laughing together when Bobbie comes in and
gives her the ol' fish-eye.  Carly explains how she'd missed Tony at
the hospital and came to deliver the message.  "You could have called!"
Bobbie huffs. [I'm loving this.  Bobbie has paid no consequences for her
affair with Damian, for trying to kill him, for her affair with Alan...
it's about time karma caught up with her.]

WE'RE SPENCERS, AND WE'RE SPECIAL, PART 1.
Bobbie and Tony look at Lulu.  Tony wonders about the guard, but Bobbie
can't tell him what's up, it's not her secret.  She asks Tony if Carly
ever gets on his nerves, she's always weaseling in everywhere.  She's
always there, tuggin on your sleeve, asking for something.  [Attention,
would be my guess.] Bobbie and Tony make plans for dinner.

Laura and the Brat are at breakfast.  [Yes, he's especially obnoxious
now, yes it's Luke's doing as well as puberty, but Laura laid the
groundwork for this back when they first came to town and Cute Little
Lucky ate under the table and Bobbie objected.  Laura let Lucky make the
decisions then.  Remember the pet spider?  Laura never said "wait a
minute, young man, *I*'m the grownup here."]  He won't go to the
hospital, what if Dad calls?  Where has he gone, anyway?  It's all
Laura's fault.  Why did she have sex with the Cassadine?  Laura asks if
he'd rather she were dead?  The phone rings.  It's Bobbie, telling Laura
that Lulu's can go home tomorrow.  She hears that Laura is close to
tears, and wonders where Luke is, anyway.  Then, hearing he's out of
town, she drops everything and races over to "help."  [Think she'd have
dashed off to help if it were TONY?  Heck, no!  But this is her precious
Spencer brother.]  Lucky sulks off to his room.

Bobbie-the-Comforter is in full mode again, but it keeps slipping into
Bobbie-the-Jealous-B-word.  Laura says how hard it is to tell the most
gruesome secret of your life and then have to comfort the person you
told, keeping them from spinning off in all directions.
Bobbie: "Maybe sympathy was just too much to expect."
Laura:  "Well, it wasn't too much for YOU to expect, when Luke was off
looking for your daughter."
Bobbie: "Oh, c'mon, Laura, that was something I was doing for YOU, and
for Luke, and for your little girl, not that I was given a whole lot of
choice, mind you."  [Updater's mouth falls open, along with Laura's.]
L: "Oh.  So you know yow it feels.  OK, fine, look.  When YOU go all the
way [Been there, done that!], and you come clean with YOUR husband, THEN
you stand in judgement of me!"
B:  "Oh, c'mon, what is this, an honesty contest?  I mean, how do you
think _I_ felt when I was standing there bleeding while you, and Luke,
and Sonny Corinthos and his sidekick were picking over my inglorious
past?  My big mistake about the age of 16.  Discussing my daughter like
she was some blood bank.  I mean, WOULD it have killed you to say 'I know
how much you miss her because I've been there as well?'"
L:  "I couldn't ... do all of you just not believe me?"
Bobbie, rolling her eyes: [Bobbie-slappers?] "Oh, *of course*, Laura.  I
mean, you had a perfectly good reason for keeping your secret.  I don't,
I'm just a bad person."
Laura, asking the question I'd been wondering for a while: "Why did you
come over here, Bobbie?"
Bobbie: "Because, Once Again, my brother is off risking his neck on YOUR
account.  Not that it's your fault, mind you, it never is.  But does he
at least have a clear picture of what he could be up against?"
Laura tells her about Stefan.  Bobbie wants to know why Laura didn't tell
Luke.  Bobbie reiterates how dangerous the Cassadines are [later
developments lead me to think this may be the big appeal to Bobbie, who
can't stand the safe life, and this conversation is very ironic.]  Lucky
overhears this, and Laura wondering "if my children will be next."  Laura
asks Bobbie if, in the same situation, she could hope never to hear from
her daughter again?  She finally gets rid of her sister-in-law, and calls
Lucky, but he doesn't answer.

In the final scene of the day, with the buildup of how dangerous the
Cassadines are, we see Lulu being taken from her crib: the t-shirt
could be anyone's, but the childish hands lead one to the belief that
it's Lucky doing the taking.

WE'RE SPENCERS AND WE'RE SPECIAL, PART 2
Luke knocks out a guard, gets into the Cassadine estate.  [Why did
Nikolas complain about the gothic Windemere, if he grew up in this creepy
twilight place?]  He gets into Helena's room, and she's on a respirator.
"Darling!" she says, "What took you so long?"

"Forgive me if I don't get up."  Luke wants to know if she'd die a
painful death if he threw the respirator out the window.  He wants to
know why she sent Nikolas and she tells him this is all Stefan's
project.  In fact, Stefan is also keeping her prisoner.  Luke is stunned
to hear about Stefan, and Helena puts her finger on it: "Poor Luke.
Armed for battle and no one left to fight."  In a pervertedly sexy scene,
she has him lie down by her "and we'll be friends till morning."  "Tell
me where Stefan is or I'll make him an orphan before dawn."  Luke turns
off her respirator but she still won't tell, he has to guess.  Suddenly
[mighod, it took him long enough!] he realizes Stefan is in Port Charles,
where he, Luke, the idiot, had left his family.  He looks thunderstruck.