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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:10:09 CST
From: John R. Andrews <U14780@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: GH: Update for Fri 12/13/96 & Sat 12/14/96

>> The General Hospital Update for Friday Dec 13/Saturday Dec 14 1996 <<
                     Written By:   Kathy Ellington

          You'll laugh, you'll cry...you'll kiss $3.00 goodbye!

Update for the week of December 9-13 from the newspaper:
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Stefan took a shocked Laura to see Lesley, who is catatonic. Stefan revealed
that Helena did not know he saved Lesley's life after the car crash and then
took Lesley to a sanitarium in Greece. Stefan was stunned when the building
blew up after Laura went inside to see her mother. Luke and Lucky were
"devastated" when two bodies believed to be Laura and Lesley were found in the
rubble. Luke nixed letting Bobbie attend Laura's funeral because she's married
to Stefan. Lucky kept Luke from shooting Stefan. Stef was intrigued by
Katherine who came to the island to talk to Nik. Brenda saved Sonny after a
thug injected him with drugs. At Brenda's insistence Jax followed Miranda to
Australia but Miranda said it's over between her and Jax. Ned overheard Justus
tell Keesha that he killed Damian. Lucy is upset because Kevin and Alexis are
friends.

And now the Friday Update:

At the Spencer house, Lucy, Sonny, Lucky and Luke mill around in the aftermath
of Laura's death.  Luke told Lucky that there was nothing to hold them in Port
Charles now and said he was taking both kids on the road after the funeral.
Luke and Sonny discussed how Mac would be filing double-murder charges against
Stefan.

Sonny dropped in on Mac at home; Mac was just leaving for work. Sonny got
snagged by Miranda to take her to the airport. At the airport Sonny spied
Dr Dorman meeting a wheelchair-bound man fresh off the plane from Colombia.

At Windemere, Bobbie and Stefan talk about what happened. Stefan urged Bobbie
to visit Luke.  Alone in the wine cellar, Stefan gazed at Laura's portrait and
wept big ole tears. Bobbie visited Luke and they got into a terrific argument
over the Cassadines. He forbade her to attend the funeral. She returned to
Windemere and told Stef that Luke tossed her out.  Later on, Tony went to
Windemere to visit Lucas. He and Bobbie had a tense conversation and then
Tony and Stefan mildly tangled.

Alexis, who was trying to find Nik, sought out KatyBell but the kid wasn't
with her. Apparently he's hiding out.

In their hotel suite, Brenda urged Jax to go after Miranda and resolve what's
going on between them. Then "come back to me" she smiled.  Brenda visited Ned
and asked him to be her date for the funeral. She also told him that Jax went
to Australia to have it out with Miranda.

At the Q mansion Justus told Keesha that he was going to confess to Damian's
murder. She urged him not to and suggested he honor Laura's memory by turning
his back on the Quartermaine corporate machine and returning to the Charles
Street Community to help folks. Later on, Justus went to Luke and told him he
was going to confess and would Luke be the corroborating witness?  Luke told
him not to be a chump and said he wouldn't assist Justus on his path of self
destruction.

Continuation of Friday Update - Saturday's show...Twist of Fate

A Man, A Plan, A Doofus
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Before Luke left for the funeral he tucked a gun into the waistband of his
trousers. He arrived at the funeral and stood with Amy, hugging her.  Luke
spoke to the mourners gathered around Laura's grave. He turned the solemn
occasion into an anti-Cassidine tirade but eventually Tony got him to stop.
Mac, who had glimpsed the gun, made Luke hand it over. Luke returned to his
club and got another gun, which he tucked into the back of his trousers this
time. He said his good-byes around town then he and Lucky went to Windemere to
play out the final act of his little drama. He confronted Stefan and pointed
the gun at him. Bobbie galloped to Stef's rescue and Luke withdrew after
Lucky showed up and pleaded with him to spare Stefan's life and avoid a jail
sentence.  Luke and Lucky, on a secluded road, chuckled over how smoothly
their plan went. The only thing that bothered Luke was that Lucky tossed his
favorite gun away...and "it's got my fingerprints on it!"  Lucky replied that
he had to make their scene look realistic to Bobbie and Stefan. They met up
with Tom Hardy and Laura next to a van. Lesley is in the back and she spoke
Laura's name as they fired up the car and headed off.

Drugs and Thugs...Fonzie takes a Fall
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Sonny's limo screeched to a stop outside GH's emergency entrance. He ran
inside and demanded to know where Brenda was. Seems he had gotten a call
that said she had been an accident.  He left his bodyguard at the front
desk and followed a nurse to see Brenda. Instead he was shown into an empty
emergency station and was grabbed around the neck by somebody in a lab coat.
Sonny was injected with drugs, put on a gurney and covered with a sheet.
He was then wheeled out, under the nose of his bodyguard still waiting at
the front desk, and taken to his penthouse, where he was dumped on the
couch. Brenda found him later, after looking all over town. She knew
something was wrong when Sonny didn't show up for the funeral. She called 911
and kept him talking until the medics arrives. Then she accompanied him to
GH; before he was wheeled away he said "I Love You" to her.

"The tree must have jumped out of the way, Officer"
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At Windemere, Stef gazed mournfully at Laura's portrait.  Then he burned the
picture and the dress she posed in, which he had saved all these years. Later
on, Bobbie and Stefan talked about Lesley Webber. He confessed what happened
all those years ago and ended by swearing he did NOT kill Laura or Lesley.
Later on, Stefan was wandering around Windemere calling out Nik's name. A
figure stepped from the darkness...it was Luke who held a gun pointed at
where Stefan's heart would be if he had one. Luke drew a bead on Batman but
just then Bobbie gallumped into the clearing and stepped in front of Stefan,
her "rack" effectively protecting her hubby from her brother's gun.  She told
Luke to just leave them alone. Lucky then ran up and pleaded with Luke to
spare Stefan's life and return to being a loving daddy to him and Lesley Lu.
Lucky grabbed Luke's gun and threw it into the shrubbery.  They left and
Stefan told Bobbie to go up to the house.  Then Stefan combed the bushes and
found the gun; he was careful not to disturb the fingerprints (he was wearing
special Bat-gloves at the time).  Then Stefan moosed around a bit, aiming the
gun at a tree like Luke aimed it at him. He pointed at the tree and fired.
Just as he pulled the trigger, however, a woman stepped from behind the tree
and into the line of fire. Stefan looked on, horrified, as the blonde sank to
the ground.

Katy gets her Bell Rung
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Katherine was leaving her apartment for the funeral. She opened her door and
Nikolas was standing outside. He came in and grabbed her, planting a hard
kiss on her mouth. She recognized that the kid was upset and confused and
instead of being angry at him, she sensitively drew him out about Laura's
death. They were interrupted by the clodish Mac. Nik split and Katherine,
after a few well chosen words to Mac, followed the kid. She assumed he went
home and went to Windemere. Katherine started clumping around in the
underbrush, presumably on her way to the front door. She stepped from behind
a large tree and caught a bullet that Stef has just fired at the tree.
KatyBell tasted hot lead, right in the labonza, and she went down like a sack
of wet cement. Stefan looked on, horrified.

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