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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 07:51:05 -0600
From: ninapie@ntcnet.com
Subject: GH: UPDATE Monday 6/30/97
X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Jul 05 12:43:07 1997 GMT

GENERAL HOSPITAL UPDATE for Monday June 30, 1997

Previously on GH:  Stefan surprises Bobbie as she snoops around "the
box"-- Brenda escapes from police custody

Scene--Wyndemere-- (It's MADdening not to be able to write fast
enough to keep up with all these good quotes) Stefan and
Bobbie--"Spy vs. Spy":

Stef stands behind Bobbie, holding her arms and hurting her while he
forces her to open her hand and reveal the medallion.  (I'm
surprised he wasn't the least bit distracted by the amazing
decolletage she displayed in that black nightgown!)  She tells him
that it slipped off him while he was asleep.

He deosn't remember falling asleep--"It must have been the port.
Was it the port, Barbara?" He tries to force her to drink the
tainted substance, telling her that he switched glasses and drank
what she intended for herself.  "This port is the best...tell me
that the best isn't wasted on you."

She pushes his hand away and the glass falls to the floor. "What
kind of poison was it?" he asks.  Alexis called him from the
hospital about Bobbie's raid on the drug cabinet.

Bobbie says she knows he's been lying and sneaking around for
months--she knows all about Katherine.  "She's trash."

"That's a presumptuous statement coming from *you*."

"At least I never pretended to be anything but what I was.  Unlike
the two of you."

"And for that you were going to murder me in my bed?"

"Tomorrow you would have woken up as cold and miserable as you are
now.  But I would have gotten some proof--"She indicates the box.
"That is where you keep her disgusting love letters, isn't it?"  she
bluffs.

How did she know the box needed his medallion to be opened?  There
was only one person who could have given her the idea.  "Say his
name," Stefan breathes.  "Say it."

Bobbie demurs.  She figured it out for herself.  Stef scoffs.  "You
have neither the wiles nor the intellect to make that deduction."
(Geez, this guy's an @sshole.)

Bobbie is amazed that she could ever have compared Stefan to Tony.
Compared to Stef, Tony is Bambi.  "Do you have any idea how it felt,
how it turned my stomach, lying in bed next to you and knowing what
you are?"  [Referring to Katherine]  "First you shoot her, and then
figure, hey, she's on her back...if you had killed her, would you
have climbed up on her corpse?"  (Woo-hoo, good one, Bobbie, honey!
You go!)

Stef gives one of his patented supercilious sneers.  He knows who
told her that "Crude and fantastical story". (That's right, @sshole,
pull that old trick.  Try to make her think *she's* the crazy one.)
"You betrayed me with my mortal enemy, your brother."

"That's right.  Luke wants to see you burn in hell--and I want to
light the match!"

"So you let him use you like a common pimp."

"That pimp saved your nephew's life."

Stef wants to know if Luke coached her from the first--even when she
accepted Stef's proposal.  No, Bobbie says--she was stupid enough to
love him, to turn against the brother who raised and supported her.
Stefan only used her. He has no right to feel disappointed now.

"I offered you everthing...I took you out of the gutter..."

"You lied to me every step of the way!  I'll take the gutter, thank
you."

Stefan tells Bobbie that he never forgives and he never forgets.
"It's time to cut the poison out."  He openes her closet, pulls out
the clothing within, throws it to the floor, and taking an armful,
flings it viciously at her trembling form.  "Take your gaudy whore's
clothing and go back to the streets where you belong.  That is the
only life you are suited for."  Bobbie's near tears during this
scene. "There's your loot, Barbara.  Take it and get out."

She looks at him.  "I'm just looking for something I used to see in
you.  I just realized that it was never there."

Bobbie puts on the old coat she wore when she first came to Spoon
Island. "You can keep the rest--or burn it.  I don't want anything
you gave me."

"Don't keep Luke waiting," Stefan delivers the Parthian shot.  "I'll
ruin you and your brother."

"We'll let a judge decide who ruins who."  Bobbie pulls the coat and
her tattered dignity around her and leaves like a princess with her
head high.

(Wow!  Incredible scene and marvelous performances.  Lots of nuances
from the two actors.  This is a day that makes me glad I'm an
updater.)

Scene--the docks (Luke makes me MAD sometimes, but he can come
through in a crisis)

Lucas L. Spencer: "What, me worry?"

Luke is gazing at Spoon Island through a pair of binoculars.  Alexis
asks him what he is doing.  Luke says he's become a
birdwatcher--he's checking for the yellow-bellied bloodsucker, at
its known habitat of Wyndemere.  They spar a bit more, then Alexis
tells him to keep watching--she'll wave to him from the manse.

"A hand is kind of a small target.  Could you moon me?"

Alexis looks like she'd rather make him see stars.  "Good night.  As
fascinating as this is, I'd rather be unconscious."

Luke calls her back.  He has a proposition for her. Luke lights up
one of his ubiquitous cigars (have you noticed he's doing a lot more
of this since Laura left?  Let's talk: phallic symbol, absence of
sexual partner, sublimation. Freudians, you figure it out.)  Then he
begins a "Bride of Frankenstein" riff which culminates in Bobbie
being compared to the Bride.  How can they get Bobbie out of
Stefan's clutches?  After all, it would be to both their advantages.

"You were groomed to be Mistress of the Manor.  Every time Bobbie
puts bean salad and tuna surprise on the menu or wonders where to
hang the black velvet portrait of Elvis--doesn't it bother you to be
playing second banana to such a peasant?"

Alexis counters "I don't think of myself as a number or a tropical
fruit.  And you don't think of your sister as a low rent bimbo."

"But I know what you people think.  You're like that Faberge
egg--hollow inside.  Bobbie, with her big heart and her guts and her
goofy dreams--it's like she's been abducted by aliens."

"You still love your sister," Alexis says.  All their "hatred" for
each other is nothing but playacting.  "You're still as close as
ever and you're still a team."

Luke tells her watch out, neither of the Spencers ars forgiving.
"Bobbie is," Alexis says.  "You've never crossed her," Luke replies.
There is then some macabre bantering back and forth before Alexis
catches her launch back to Spoon Island.

Later, Bobbie meets Luke.  She tells him their plan failed--Stefan
caught her.  "Did he hurt you?"  Luke asks. Bobbie says he tried,
but she managed to bluff that she was looking for love letters.  She
nearly collapses when she recalls Stefan's cruel remarks, but Luke
calms her. "There's a silver lining.  I got you out of there, and
you're not going back."  They hug big time.  He leads her
away--"Don't look back"--and takes her home with him where she'll be
safe.

Scene--The Port Charles Police Department (It's a MADhouse right
now)

Sonny, Taggert, Jax, Mac, et al:  "The Usual Gang of Idiots"

On Friday, Jason sucker-punched Mac to create a distraction so
Brenda could be spirited away.  Today, as Jason and Brenda run down
the alley, they run smack into Mac.  After some gibbering, Mac
allows them to go on.

Inside all is chaos.  When they realixe Brenda has escaped, Taggert
gets in Sonny's face and makes threatening noises.  Garcia pulls T.
aside:  "Are you crazy?"

Dara is there, ready to put together a case, and there is no
suspect.  She's ticked.  Taggert gets mouthy with the Distict
Attorney, but she gives as good as she gets, refusing to be
intimidated by his bad attitude.  Later, she snickers behind her
hand when he gets dressed down.  (Our friend Taggert is not doing
too well with the ladies of Port Charles--first he angers Keesha and
now Dara.  Methinks he will have to take up smoking cigars pretty
soon.)

The cops man the phones.  A call comes in--have they captured
Brenda.  No, a false alarm.  Her prison outfit was found stuffed
with newspaper behind the wheel of a car. Taggert glares at Mac in
disgust.  " I cartainly am proud to be part of the police force you
left behind."  Then he and Sonny exchange some more macho grunting,
with T. promising to be there every time Sonny turns around and
Sonny reacting with his patented sleepy-eyed "I could give a care"
response.

Scene--Katherine's apartment (Stuff like this is enough to drive me
MAD) Katherine and Nik: "Things that make me go BLECHH" Dept.

Nik arrives at KrazyKat's door with a box under his arm. After
putting her through her paces by having her take some steps around
the room, he hands her the gift.  He assures her it is from him and
not from his uncle.

She opens the box--it contains a pair of ice skates.  "I can see you
won't be happy until I'm in the Olympics."  He tells her he got them
for her a while ago--he used to imagine her skating across the
frozen river to come visit him at Wyndemere.  But why would she ever
come now, considering all that his family has done to her?

"My dear sweet Nikolas," she begins.  She tells him how much she
values his friendship.  She admits that in the past she may have
misinterpreted Stefan's behavior to her, may have wihed for more
than simple friendship, but now she realizes that he is happily
married to Bobbie.  And that's fine.  (I think she's shining Nik on
here--but I can't be sure, because I must confess I usually FF thru
all the Kat and Bat scenes unless I'm updating.)

They joke a bit before Nik leaves.  He tells her he hopes she can be
happy now.  "What's stopping me?" she smiles. After Nik goes, her
smile fades into sadness.

More BLECHH:  Brenda on the run

Scene--the "safehouse"

Brenda and Jason arrive at the hide-out.  He sets her up, lighting a
candle and telling her there are more in the kitchen. He leaves, and
a nervous Brenda wedges a chair under the doorknob.  She lies down
on the sofa wrapped in a blanket and stares at the flickering candle
in a daze. (Maybe she's wondering, "What am I doing in the middle of
this stupid storyline when by all rights it should be a Q who's
accused of the murder?")

Scene--Dracula's castle--I mean, Wyndermere (I'm really MAD that
Stef was such a jerk to Bobbie)

Stefan and Alexis: The "We've Got Bats in our Belfry" Dept.

Drac paws through the box.  Igor (Alexis) comes in. "It's all here,"
Drac tells her. "They didn't get inside."

"But they knew how.  If they got into the egg--" Ig (pronounced Eeg)
worries.

"It requires two medallions," he sniffs.  "They only have Laura's."

Drac thanks Ig for saving their future.  She places the medallion
around his neck.  Now comes the weird part.  There is a long moment
where her hands linger on his throat and shoulders and it almost
looks as though they are going to end up in a clinch.  They exchange
Cassadine mesmer-stares (patent pending).  He breathes "Are you the
only person on earth I can trust?"

On that philosophical musing, we end---

Have a great Independence Day weekend everybody!

Nina P.