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Subject:     GH: Update for Fri 05/23/97
Date:        05/27  11:32 AM
From:        John R. Andrews, jandrews@uic.edu

>> The General Hospital Update for Friday May 23 1997 <<
               Written By:   Kathy Ellington

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Monica reads Emily's diary about her drug abuse with Matt. She puts disparate
pieces of information together and intuits that Pierce Dorman was Matt's (and
Emily's) drug supplier.

At GH, Emily is on her way to a drug counseling session; she runs into Jason
who is spying on Dorman.  Jason says he will attend the family drug counseling
session if Emily wants him there; she decides she can do without him. Dorman
attempts to speak to Em but Alan comes up and warns him to stay away from her.
Dorman goes on the offensive and threatens legal action against the Q's if
Jason doesn't stop following him. Later on, Alan jokingly congratulates Jason
for rattling Dorman.  Monica arrives at the hospital and she and Dorman
exchange ugly words.  Jason rushes to her defense and voices another public
threat against Pierce's life.

In the Jax penthouse, he, Sonny, and Brenda argue among themselves about
the wisdom of publicly announcing Jax's innocence of the drug charges.

At the lighthouse, Lucy is all atwitter about baby Serena's impending visit.
Mac and Felicia come in. Mac is paged by Jax who summons him to the fight in
the penthouse.  Jax explains that Sonny and Taggart are using him (and the
very public drug charges against him) to deflect attention away from the real
suspect, Pierce Dorman. Jax says the negative publicity is hurting his and his
company's image and threatens to go to the media with the "real" story. Mac
leaves Filly and Lucy but says he'll return.

Mac arrives at the penthouse. He tells Jax that because they can't prove
Dorman is the drug supplier right now, Jax has to remain the number one
suspect in the public's eye.  Taggart arrives and says that all of Sonny's
info about Dorman checks out but it's not conclusive evidence. Sonny leaves.
Brenda catches him outside in the hallway. Another convoluted conversation
ensues and ends with his tongue down her throat.

Kevin visits Gail in her home. They discuss Kevin's father. Lee comes in and
he and Gail have a guarded conversation. Kevin senses that something is wrong
and learns that Scott doesn't want Serena to stay with Lucy because of Kevin's
psycho-history. Lee leaves "for an appointment" but really he goes to the
lighthouse and to tell Lucy that Serena won't be staying with her.

Lucy answers Lee's knock at the lighthouse door and becomes increasingly
tearful and hysterical as she senses the reason for his visit.  Lee confirms
her worst fears: Scott has cancelled Serena's visit because he's afraid the
baby will come to harm. Eventually Kevin returns and they comfort each other,
Lucy is on Kevin's side and she's angry at Scott for making such an arbitrary
decision. There's a knock at the door. It ain't the pizza delivery man ...
it's Pop Collins!

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