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Subject:     GH: Update Tuesday 12/2
Date:        12/02  8:58 PM
From:        Kate Barry, kbarry@cts.com

GH Update for Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1997

In which a whole lotta exposition is, um, exposited.  Or something.

WHY AMY SHOULD RUN GH:

Tony is fed-up and looking dangerously close to some kind of
breaking point.  [Updater speculation at end of report.]
Carly makes her usual promises and he leaves for work.

(At the Nurse's Station)
Amy & Edward banter about sexual harrassment and "outreach".
Ned tells Ed that ELQ Djakarta will be theirs again within
48 hours.  Alan describes his Outreach plan to bus in kids
to witness surgery as aversion therapy for vice.  When prodded,
AJ admits that he thinks that the more extreme the scare tactic,
the more likely the kid will dismiss it.  Alan gives AJ grief for
siding against him in public and refuses to listen when AJ tries
to clear up the misunderstanding.  Big Al then grouches at Amy.

Tony and his dark cloud step off the elevator.  Tony growls
at AJ's concern [as if he sees yet another liar in front of him],
and rather desperately approaches Alan, needing to talk.  Alan
puts on his happy drug face and obliviously brushes off his
best friend.

AJ goes home for lunch and runs into Carly in the hall.  They chat,
amiably wary, and he ends up telling her that she reminds him of himself
when he was drinking.  He'd take the blame for everything, but not the
responsibility...how much blame and pain can one shoulder before
something snaps?   Carly leaves in a huff.

Amy tells off Alan.  She's fed-up with his erratic behavior and doesn't
like the Outreach idea either.

Tony and his dark cloud call Laraine about a job at GH.

YABBUT YOU REALLY *LIKED* DIGGING UP THAT GRAVE...

Stefan tries to win back the petulant Katybelfry [please, um,
insert the appropriate Bat joke of your choice here] with the old
tired excuse about how his cousin made him dig up a grave, yadda
yadda yadda...Natasha, Mikkos, Helena...yadda yadda yadda  and
well, golly, hon, you coulda died.  "You coulda told me," she
says, continuing to play what appears to resemble defiance.
No, he insists, Helena's spies are everywhere.  She watches and
waits for the opportunity to recover what's rightfully hers.
Kat smirks most irritatingly to learn that Alexis set this trap,
and while she understands why Stefan did what he did, she wouldn't've,
and she won't go back to Port Charles with him *pout*.

TASHA, MEET NATASHA, SHE'S THE SADDEST CHICK IN OL' PC:

(On the docks)
"Who is Natasha?"  Alexis asks Luke, more than once, as if she's never
had confirmed what she's long suspected.  "I didn't know until just
now," he replies, pulling up a sapphire & diamond ring that she wears
on a chain around her neck.  "They said it belonged to my mother," she
confesses.  "Natasha was the daughter of the murdered woman who wore
this ring," he declares, and he then relates a long story about Kristin
Bergman, with Alexis contributing some information to fill in his gaps.
It seems Luke has been researching her for a long time with the help
of his Connections Who Know Things, the caretaker at the upstate cemetery,
and an informative trip to Stockholm last summer, and now he's put it all
together.  Here is the tale:

Kristin Nilson was the beautiful Cassadine governess, seduced by Mikkos with
a romantic villa built just for her.  So in love was he that he rented an
Opera House in Stockholm for a free weeklong production of Tosca just to
showcase her vocal talent.  So talented was she that the audience rioted
after her final suicide scene until the curtain was raised and they were
assured that the spellbinding performer was not herself lying there dead.
For ten years she captivated Europe, until she was murdered, found with
her throat slit and her vocal cords ripped out.  It was called suicide,
however, as the knife was in her own hand.  Some suspected murder for the
ring, but Luke & Alexis both know it was jealousy [Helena's].

Kristin wore the ring in every photo Luke had seen and it has its own legend:
Once, after a peformance in Berlin or Paris, Kristin met her fans & VIPs,
and a professor of medieval history fell to his knees and kissed her hand,
recognising the ring as a sacred artifact.  He told the room about how the
Persians, invading Jerusalem in the 7th C., destroyed all but the tabernacle
of a Church of the Holy Sepulchre built by Emporer Constantine.  Religious
folk adorned the tabernacle with 12 sapphires in the shape of a cross, each
stone having the protective power to protect from harm whoever possessed them.
Mikkos must have had that in mind for Kristin.  Nice try.

Alexis listens quietly to Luke's story, wincing in pain at certain details.
He asks her questions...she doesn't remember her mother, knows only Mikkos,
Stavros, Stefan, & (pause) Helena.  Was she told her parents were dead?
She nods, Alexei Davidovich and Sophia, born Cassadine.  She changed her
name to Davis for her career.  Does Stefan know?  No.  So why the fake
grave, to break it to him gently?  No, it was something else.  They both
know what Helena will do if she finds out she raised the daughter of Kristin.
Alexis never wanted another living soul to know about this.  Luke says
"I'm sure.  I understand.  But I know."  [Piano & violins] He threatens
her quietly not to dismiss him or peeve him in any way, parting with,
"It's nice meeting you, Natasha."

Alexis calls Ned on the cell phone, he arrives immediately.  She won't tell
him what's wrong but he doesn't care, hugging her as she cries on his shoulder.
She tells him she found out who she is and it could kill her.

And they all lived happily ever after.

[UPDATER SPECULATION:

No more lies for our boy Tony.  I'll bet 100 net.dollars that he will
threaten to or attempt to take sole custody of Carly's baby and
that Bobbie will intervene on Carly's behalf. ]

-Kate
PCMDT Propheteer
FGC Jax,Luke