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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 12:45:55 CDT
From: John R. Andrews <U14780@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: GH: Update for Fri 6/6/97

>> The General Hospital Update for Friday June 6 1997 <<
               Written By:   Kathy Ellington

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Tony asks Bobbie to assist him with more surgery for Audrey. She agrees.
During surgery, when the power goes out, Bobbie remembers Luke's warning about
Stef's evil plans and that it will have something to do with "computers"!

In Stefan's office at GH, Alexis tries to talk him out of his evil scheme. He
says things are too far along to back out now. He introduces a virus into the
GH mainframe. It infects all the computers that control the central plant and
poor GH is soon without lights, electricity, or phones. Later on Stef was
taken aback when he learned that Audrey was having more brain surgery during
the power outage [guess he planned the shutdown for when nobody would be in
surgery].

Justus confronts Carly about the theft of his files; he says he's not going
to press charges now, but he warns her that he might pursue legal action in
the future.  He says that A.J. pleaded her case and that he convinced Justus
to go easy on her. Carly flashes back to how nice A.J. was the last time they
talked.

Outside the hospital, Sonny has dispersed his goons to watch for Dorman.
Sonny has followed Pierce to GH and is convinced the guy is going to retrieve
his stash of heroin before leaving town. He wants to catch Dorman coming out
of the hospital with the evidence. Later on, when Sonny sees a patient in a
gurney being moved to another hospital, it dawns on him that Pierce will
probably try and remove the drugs via a patient in a wheelchair or on a
gurney; Dorman's too smart to have the drugs on his own person. He enters the
hospital to find Pierce/Brenda/whomever.

Brenda notices Alan taking pain pills. She questions him about it, hinting
that he shouldn't still be using them. He gets huffy and dismisses her.

Alan and Monica talk to Emily in the GH corridor, prior to her drug counseling
session.  A.J. comes up and reassures the kid, too. They leave Emily
momentarily and Pierce Dorman steps off the elevator.  Dorman tells Emily to
keep quiet that she saw him then he hurries off.  Dorman goes to the GH morgue.
He tells the attendant that he promised the family he would accompany a body
from the GH morgue to the undertaker. The attendant goes to get some release
forms signed and Pierce checks the drugs he stashed inside the body. Emily
surprises him and tries to physically attack him, yelling about how he
murdered Matt. He throws her against a wall; she is dazed. She runs from the
room and wanders around a while, ending up in an empty surgery room. She
picks up a scalpel and gazes goonily at it. Clutching the instrument she
heads out the door. Meanwhile, Dorman paces the morgue, anxiously waiting for
the attendant to return with the papers. Someone quietly enters the room and
creeps up behind him. Pierce whirls around and faces his attacker. He has
his usual, smarmy look at first then is surprised when he looks down, a
trickle of blood oozing from between his lips, and sees a scalpel buried in
his chest.  Dorman falls backward, glassy-eyed, but is he dead yet?
[doesn't seem that the scalpel had a long enough blade to reach any vital
organs...where's an electric drill when you really need one?]

okay, who was in the hospital and also had the "means, motive, and
opportunity" to kill Dorman?

            Means   Motive   Opportunity
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 Alan        YES     YES      YES
 Monica      YES     YES      YES
 Ned         YES   weak       YES
 Jason       YES     YES      YES
 A.J.        YES   weak       YES
 Sonny       YES   very weak  YES
 Emily       YES     YES      YES
 Brenda      YES     NO       YES

Who really did it?
This updater's candidate for murderer is...Nurse Rebecca!

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