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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:38:52 CDT
From: John R. Andrews U14780@uicvm.uic.edu
Subject: GH: Update for Fri 08/23/96

     The General Hospital Update for Friday, August 23, 1996
          Written By:   kathy@gundog.lbl.gov (Kathy Ellington)

In modified Johnny-style ...

In the Q library, Lila and Tracy are discussing Baby Dillon's artistic
talents. Lila tells her how much she has missed her and how happy she is that
Tracy and the baby are home.  Sonny is announced and says he is there for the
emergency ELQ board meeting. Tracy says she is the one who called him and
didn't think he'd come to see her if there wasn't a good reason, so she told
him there was an emergency meeting.  Lila scoots off after politely greeting
"Mr. Corinthos".

At the courthouse, Mac is waiting for a court order to trace/tap the phones
at GH; possibly this will help find the stalker. He's on the horn to Garcia
and is worried about Robin, who still hasn't called him.

In the park, Bobbie creeps up on Laura who is sitting on a bench thinking
about her recent run-in with Stefan.  Bobbie talks about how her life seems
to be spinning out of control [and may this updater add that Bobbie is back
to her irritating old self: bad makeup, obvious dye-job on her messy and
ho-like hairdo, whiny baby-talking voice, doing that pop-eye thing again
- gack!].  She tells Laura that Alan is meeting with Stefan to see if the
Cassadines bankroll GH to keep it operating.

In Alan's office at GH, Luke is railing at Alan about going to the Cassadines
for help.
[this updater simply MUST comment on Luke's hair.  It was ugly when it was
longer, it's even uglier now that it's shorter except it gives him a comical,
girlish look...like the hairdo Sandra Dee had in those old Gidget movies.
Tony Geary, if you're reading this, why not just shave the damned hair off?].
Stefan arrives and sneers at Luke's histrionics behind his back. Alan kicks
Gidget out and gets down to business with Stefan. Stef demands to see the
accounting files to ascertain just how deep into the doo-doo GH's finances
are.  Reluctantly, Alan pulls the files up on the computer then, as Stefan is
reviewing them, Alan gets a call and has to leave the office. Stefan
immediately exits the accounting files and does a search on the system. We
see him copy down info on somebody in room 666 [the number of the Beast?
Oh, has Ruby checked into GH??  Come on, writers, isn't that a bit obvious?].

Back in the Q library, Tracy tells Sonny that, in light of recent events at
ELQ, she thinks Edward has lost his marbles. She wants Sonny on her side in
future ELQ stuff. He declines. Then she semi-taunts him about Jax and his
"pretty little wife" but Sonny doesn't rise to the bait. He's just turning to
leave when Ned and Lois blow in. Sonny greets them and hugs Lois, then he
leaves. Ned and Lois mess with Tracy a little bit before Edward bursts into
the room and demands to know what Sonny was doing in his house! A big
loud
argument between Tracy and Edward ensues; Lila rolls in and calls a halt
to the imbroglio. She says that they're going to act like a civilized
family even if she has to beat them with fireplace tongs.  Then she orders a
nice family dinner from cook.  She gushes over Ned and Lois and the
importance of the family; the kids chicken out of tellinig her, right then,
about their plans for California.

At Kelly's, Gina is still holding the ice bag on Lucky's knuckles. Gidget
peeks in and sees Lucky in Gina's thrall; he sits at an outside table and
Sonny shows up. They trade information about Stefan [nothing we don't know].
Again, Sonny offers to off Stefan and "the mongrel" [so much for the kinder,
gentler mob, huh?] but Gidget says they've got to keep them alive because
Lesley Lu might need more bone marrow down the line.  Mac arrives and starts
yelling at Sonny about Robin and Jason. Gidget grabs her surfboard and heads
for the beach. Sonny is flippant in the face of Mac's worry and anger but
after Mac leaves Sonny makes a call to mobilize the troops around the missing
kids.  Meanwhile, we see Jason being wheeled into some emergency room, his
face a roadmap of blood and bruises; no sign of Robin [remember that the
last we saw of her she was still sitting in the restaurant with some hood
standing across the table from her].

Back in the park, Laura tells Bobbie that Gidget might be wrong about Stefan,
that Stef might have no hidden agenda and that he might be an okay guy.
Bobbie does her Betty-Boop imitation with the eyes and the clown-mouth in a
grimace and says she's skeptical. Laura and Bobbie part company: Laura heads
for Kelly's and Bobbie goes back to GH.  Laura finds Lucky outside Kelly's
and gets his version of the fight with Nikolas [even though she doesn't say
it, she very much doubts Lucky could have taken Nikolas in a fight]. She is
upset that they were fighting and that Gidget got involved.  She hugs Lucky
and says she is sorry [what for?] while Nikolas watches them darkly from the
shadows. He locks eyes with Lucky and the two of them glare at each other.

Back at the hospital, Stefan has found the info he wanted and leaves Alan's
office. In the lobby, and with Bobbie rolling her eyes and flapping her ears,
he tells Alan that he has decided to not give GH any money as it would be
like pouring money down a rat hole.  He gets in the elevator and goes to the
6th floor.  He finds room 666 and enters. It is dimly lit and looks like a
storage room. He walks into the room slowly and appears to be caught in the
grip of a powerful emotion; his face is contorted with pain [this wouldn't
be the room his brother died in, would it??]. Somebody opens the door and
flips on the lights.  It's the 'hobag who says, "what are you doing here?
You shouldn't be in here!"

Meanwhile, last shot of the show, Gidget breaks into Windemere, [did he come
in through some secret door in the paneling?  Looked like it] puffing on his
disgusting cigar, and starts to creep the house.  He is caught up short,
again, when he sees the giant portrait of Laura.

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