Daily Updates

Subject:     GH: 9/23/96 update
Sent:        10/13/96 8:23 PM
From:        lraneri@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu

                        Monday, September 23, 1996

        Carly and Tony are snuggling and kissing in bed.  Carly has "Puff,
the Magic Dragon" going through her head, which reminds Tony of Lucas and
his family.  Tony gets dressed.  Carly says she would never tell Bobbie
what happened, but not because she's ashamed or sorry about what happened.
Tony says he's not going to say he's sorry either.  Carly tries to tell
Tony it's okay for him to leave, and Tony says "who made you think that
after a man has sex, all he wants to do is leave, cause he didn't deserve
you Carly."  They kiss again.  Carly seems so sad and desperate.  Tony said
he wanted to stay with Carly but he didn't want to hurt Lucas and Bobbie.
Carly said she didn't want that either.  She asked if he would walk by the
lake with her so she would have something to remember him by.  Tony and
Carly go out to walk by the lake.
        Bobbie visits the home of Carly's adoptive mom, Virginia Benson.
Bobbie and Virginia talk awkwardly about her search for her daughter.
Bobbie thanks her for how she cared for Caroline.  Virginia asks who else
is going to show up at the doorstep looking for her, her father next?
Bobbie tearfully says that she got pregnant when she was 16 and working as
a prostitute and doesn't know who her father is, so that won't happen.
Bobbie talks with Virginia about when she had Caroline and gave her up for
adoption.  Virginia said she lost a baby when she first got married and
wasn't able to have any more children.  Her husband left her 3 weeks after
they adopted Caroline.  She said that she felt like often she was cold to
her and Bobbie said she probably did the best she could.  On the way back
from Florida, Bobbie thinks about her conversation with Virginia.  She
showed her pictures of her family.  She told Virginia about how Tony
doesn't know about Caroline.  Bobbie says she hopes someday she'll meet
Caroline face to face and Virginia says that if she hears from her she will
call her.
        Brenda and Jaz have it out about Tracy.  Brenda is upset because of
Lois' close call with having her baby and blames Jax for it.  Jax says it's
nothing personal.  Brenda says Tracy makes everything personal, and she
doesn't want Jax to hurt her friends.  She is very accusing in her tone as
she basically blames Jax for Lois going into premature labor.  Brenda's
logic is escaping me today.   Brenda is very scared for Lois' baby and
doesn't understand why Jax won't just walk away from ELQ and try to take
over another company.  Jax says that's not his way because his family rose
from nothing and they don't just give up.  Brenda says she has to get some
L&B papers.  Jax asks if she has to leave .  Brenda says he gave her a
precious gift in telling her about his family and that she wants to handle
it with care.
        Lucky's having breakfast at Ruby's.  Gina comes in to work there
and talks about seeing Nickolas in the hospital.  Lucky proudly talks about
how he put him there.  Gina does not look impressed.
        Stephan visits Nickolas in the hospital.  Nickolas angrily says
Luke told him how the Cassadines told Laura Luke was dead so she would
marry Stavros.  Stephan said everyone thought Luke was dead at that time,
but eventually she found out and no one was the worse.  Except for me, says
Nickolas, the child who got left behind.  Stephan said he always loved and
nurtured him, to which Nickolas asks if he was nurtured or controlled.
Stephan is angry and says Nickolas needs to control himself.  Nickolas says
Stephan's just trying to control what he thinks and feels.  Stephan says
Luke is not exactly an objective source of information and that the
Spencers wanted him dead.  Nickolas says he doesn't feel lucky and Stephan
demands that he leave his bed and come with him to the room where Stavros
died.   Stephan says Luke was responsible for Stavros' death and asks how
Nickolas could take the word of his father's murderer.  Stephan challenges
Nickolas about why he dishonored his father and says that just as Luke
pushed Stavros down the stairs and he died, Lucky pushed Nickolas down the
stairs, hoping he would die.  Stephan says the only "accident" is that
Nickolas didn't die, but Luke wants him dead.
        Laura comes to the hospital to visit Nickolas and he's not in his
room.  She picks up his jacket, and out falls an envelope with a letter to
Lesley Lu in it.  Laura reads the letter he wrote and thinks about how
Nickolas responded to Lesley Lu.  In the letter, Laura reads that Luke told
Nickolas that he didnt' belong in their lives, and she looks distressed.
Laura finishes reading the letter and leaves the hospital.  Home at the
Spencers, Luke looks at warm family photos.  Laura comes in and pulls out
the letter Nickolas wrote for Lulu.  She tells Luke that Nickolas came to
say goodbye to his sister, which Luke should have known since he told him
he didn't belong there.  Laura angrily asks Luke what right he had to tell
a teenager, her son, that he should go away and that no one cared about
him.  She asks him why he didn't tell her that he had seen Nickolas when
everyone was looking for him.  Luke says that she is more of a lier than he
is and that she should have been at home comforting Lucky instead of at the
hospital with Stephan worrying about whether Nickolas would live or die.
He storms upstairs, leaving Laura with her thoughts.  Can this marriage be
saved?