Daily Updates

Subject:     GH Update for Wed, 5/7
Date:        05/08  5:40 PM
From:        Mary Brace, djmaryb@mindspring.com

Q house

Ed, Lila, Ned & Alan are discussing the family's current
PR woes - AJ, Emily, and now mobster-widow Tracy.
Ned informs his relatives about the Tracy situation
and Jax's threats to whisper in the FBI's ears if he's
not let back on the ELQ board.

Enter Monica and Alice, the family counselor, who
gets to witness a typical Quartermaine morning —

Edward: "Let her try somewhere else, it's a big house."
Monica: "It's MY house."
Alan: "I gave it to you."
...
Monica: "We're going to make a safe, peaceful environment
for that girl if it kills all of us."
Edward: "Well, now, have you thought about a boarding school?"

— and while that exchange and all that went with it
was a treat for us viewers (classic Q at its best), Alice
was alarmed, and with great 'tude called the
clamor to a halt.

Hospital, Emily's room

Jason pops in; it's Emily's check-out day, and she's
a little frightened at having to show her face in the
real world, where people can't get fired for pointing
you out for gossiping about your o.d. (naive, no?).
She's envious of Jason's arrogance, and notes that
she and AJ care too much about what others think
of them.

Jason gives Emily his pager number, and offers to
visit and get her out of the Q house whenever she
wants. Before he leaves, he gives Emily her charm
bracelet that he found in the park.

Nurses' Station

Tony and Justus yack about hospital/Ward House
biz, and segue into Lucas custody talk; Carly is
there to overhear Tony say he wants to drop the issue,
and that he thinks it all may soon be resolved, anyhow.
She then follows Justus to the elevator, schmoozes
him, and wanders off.

Bobbie wanders up to Tony, and with big, blinking eyes
and wide smile, asks him not to pretend he didn't watch her
heart break the night before. He agrees, then leaves.

Lighthouse

Lucy is at her Luciest, laying plans for the Nurses' Ball.
She runs her ideas by Kevin, including her fondest wish
for a Sonny/Mike revue. He is skeptical, and saved
by the doorbell. Kind of. It's Felicia. And she wants
to talk privately to Kevin. Lucy sends Kevin to the
kitchen for coffee, and asks Felicia what she's up to.

Felicia: "If Stefan is after me, he's using a mainframe
computer, and Kevin works for him. He knows all that
stuff."

Lucy warns her bestest friend in the world to be careful,
then exits when Kevin returns with the joe.

Qs

Alice is telling the family they're going to have to curb
the "recreational activity," though Ned points out Emily
will see a polite Q family as a lie. So why not make it
the truth, she asks.

Emily's room

AJ comes in as Jason leaves, and asks about the bracelet;
when she explains how she lost it, she starts to break down
and tells him about Matt's upcoming funeral, and Mrs. Reynolds'
accusations. The all-new, improved AJ tries to help her see
that the woman was just lashing out for the first, best
target, and partly succeeds; when he threatens to find the
punk who got her on drugs and beat 'em to a pulp, Emily
confides that he'd be looking for a dead man, and as she
recounts their use, concludes that Matt's o.d. *was* her fault,
and loses it again. (Updaters' note: Amber Tamblyn was
perfect in this scene.)

Nurses Station

*I missed most of this scene because WKRN's tech dept.
goofed their EAS test*, but what I did see, was Lucy
on a cell phone, saying "Scott Baldwin? Are you sure?"

Next, we see her getting off the phone, and rejoicing
to Lee that Serena (the daughter she bore for Scott
and Dominique) is coming for a visit.

Lighthouse

Felicia quizzes Kevin on where he thinks the person who's
been doing weird things with her accounts might be working
out of. She tosses out some ideas about who would have
access to mainframes. Gov't agency? Banks? Or, in the
private sector, mebbe ELQ? Jax Cosmetics?

Kevin: "Or, perhaps, Stefan Cassadine."

She points out the Timoria game, then deftly switches
over to speculate that Stefan's using Kevin to
go after her, somehow.

Justus' Well Appointed ELQ Office

Carly, in a wig that makes her resemble something like
a cross of Josie (of Josie and the Pussycats' fame) and
Jeanie (I Dream Of) and with full southern accent on,
is conning the secretary that she's looking to use
Justus' legal services. The sec informs Carly that he's
busy, but she's welcome to wait, and blows out to
lunch. Carly dives for the filing cabinets.

In Ned's office, the cousins discuss Jax's ploy to get back
on the board, with Ned resolving to let him on in hopes
that Jax/Sonny feud will ultimately resolve the matter.
>From the conversation, though nothing is said implicitly,
it looks like Justus gave Jax the info he used for
leverage. Ned wasn't happy, but wasn't mad enough to move
Justus to the top of his shitlist, either. He even
applauds Justus' Quartermaine genes peeking through.

As they stroll over towards Ward's office, Carly bolts up
and hides. She overhears Ned offer a "tripple-cross" to
his cousin, and when they both leave, heads back for the
files till she finds and pulls out one marked "Jones."

Hospital

Trying to comfort Emily, AJ compares her situation with
Matt to the accident that caused Jason's brain damage;
he was behind the wheel, while she and Matt simply had a
common passion for sports cars.
While she eventually sees his point, she doesn't agree with
it, but he encourages her to not close herself off to people
about it.

Due to the TPTB's confusing the psychological addiction of
marijuana to the physical cravings of alcoholism, we get treated
to a "one day at a time"-type speech from AJ, after Emily
remarkes that she doesn't know how she'll be able to get
through the ordeal of a homecoming without a joint.
AJ tells her to call him at the hotel if she needs anything,
and blows out.

Nurses' Station

Dorman dresses down Rebecca Chase righteously about
some patient; Jason lurks, and tries to get the shaken-up
nurse to see his point of view re: Dorman, but she skitters
away.

As Pierce is fiddling with paperwork, a man resembling
Robert DeNiro in _Angel Heart_ comes up and demands his
attention, saying they "have business to discuss."
Jason lurks.

Q's

Emily's back home, and Edward's being insulting, chastizing
her for her use, and informing her that she won't be allowed
to take any of the family cars out. When Lila intervenes,
Emily tells them she giving up the drugs, and says
they don't have to worry about her wild friends, because
it was only Matt, and he's not too much fun these days.

Hospital

Dorman's supplier isn't happy at the lack of funds coming
towards their end of the pipeline. Dorman makes excuses
("Hey, man, my partner's dead, give me a break"), but
the mob guy pats him on the head and tells him he's
running out of time.

Jason's still lurking, but gets an ill-timed page on his
beeper; spots some odd looking metallic object on the
ground, and pockets it.

At the phones, he talks to someone called Heather
and tells her not to call anyone, especially Mac.
(This time, it's Dorman's turn to lurk, as he watches
Jason on the phone)

Bobbie and Tony bump into each other; he says he
wants to tell her something about Katherine Bell.

ELQ Offices

AJ is entering and recognizes Carly.

Lighthouse

Kevin is commanding the telephone: "I was told that
you could handle this...well then do it...and don't bother
me here anymore." Lucy overhears but ignores it, tells
Kevin she has BIG news, but first wants him to know
she loves him and would like a non-verbal demonstration
of his love for her. Kevin is in an obliging mood.

Felicia's

Filly's on the phone, asking a contact to get the total
rundown on Kevin's recent visit to Oxford.