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From: cordet@mindspring.com (maryb)
Subject: GH: Update Wednesday 4/1
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 21:43:14 -0600
X-Server-Date: 5 Apr 1998 03:37:14 GMT

Luke takes a call from Audrey, and fishes for news
of Lucky. The only thing she can tell Luke is that
his son is being a wonderful help to Lizzie. Before
hanging up, she compliments him on what a fine
boy he and Laura have raised.

The boy in question was hiding upstairs in Elizabeth's
room, where he told her about his new gig, working
for Helena, "the homicidal branch" of the Cassadine
family. Liz has some news of her own, that she's
going to attend a group therapy session for rape
counseling. When she leaves through the door, Lucky
starts to head out through the window, when he
gets caught by Sarah. She grills him; he begs her
to say nothing as Audrey knocks on the door. She complies.
While Audrey was babbling old history (not that I
wasn't interested, but she *was* babbling), Lucky
hid behind the door. As the Webber women were
exiting, Audrey mentioned the new thriller she
was reading, "General Homicide."

**** news interruption - Thanks for telling
us about a minor school bus accident, WKRN *******

Lizzie stands outside the conference room, watching
several other women enter. After getting some
encouragement from another patron, she enters.

Inside, Liz becomes increasingly uncomfortable with
each person's shared experience, tales of how their rapes
are still affecting them. She starts to flash back to her
own, and squirms at the anxieties the other women
confess to having. As Gail tries a little pep talk, Liz
looks doubtful. When Gail calls a break, Liz tells
her that this form of counseling probably isn't for
her.

Tony's busy brooding behind bars when Bobbie makes
a visit to beat him over the head with his sins and
how they're affecting Lucas.

Tony is still convinced that he was totally in the right
in his kidnapping actions, swearing up and down that
Carly and Jason are the ones who should be described
in several ways that all have "path" as a root word.

Bobbie listens to him spout and then declares that
she will *never* let him anywhere near Lucas.

Still not sure why, but Justus made a jailhouse
visit, prolly to make sure that none of Tony's
civil rights have been violated. The good Doctor
uses the visit to insult Justus' boss.

In the precinct, Dara was trying to get a file off
Taggert's desk, and he used the occasion to flirt
with her. Just after she congratulates him on a
job well done, Justus reappears, swinging from the
gallery, saying Tony must go (must go must go) free.

Bobbie continued her jaunt around town by visiting
her bro to tell him how whacked out her ex-husband
is. Luke was stunned at how far gone Tony appears,
and suggested she get a lawyer to sever Tony's
rights, but Bobbie wanted Luke's help instead, and
asked him to try to talk turkey to Tony.

At the jailhouse, Luke presents a document to
ex-doc-bro-in-law stating a release of all
rights to Lucas. Tony says 'no deal,' and launches
into the most eloquent self-defense of his parental
skills that any "villain" could ever hope to spew.
For seven months, he devoted himself to Carly's unborn
child and he was the best possible father that baby
could have. That he was willing to go as far as he
did to protect the child was his proof that he was
a good pop (I said 'eloquent,' not necessarily logical).

Luke tried to both explain the reasoning behind
Bobbie's concerns *and* empathize with the man
behind the bars, and when Tony turns it around
and asks Luke if he would sign those papers were
he in similar shoes. We don't see Luke's face, but
Tony does and it reaffirms his position.

Luke returns to his home and a waiting Bobbie
and tells her that Tony's agreed not to see Lucas
without first clearing it with Bobbie, but that
he wouldn't sign away his legal rights, and Luke
wasn't about to lean on him to do so.

Katherine returns from shopping all full with news of her
new decorative purchase, but Nikolas only wants news
of Robin. After a bit o tease, Kathy complies

I must have missed a Katybell/Nik/Stefan scene
due to WKRN's obnoxious intrusion, because the next
scene had Stefan already in it, picking up a sheer scarf
that Kat dropped, and presenting a Greek Island
Flashback.

Ye Olde Greek Island Flashback: Stefan in white and
khaki presents a similar scarf to "Lasha" that he
found; she says Nik must've pulled it out of her
hair.

Katy drags him back to the present and wants to
know what he's thinking. A little clipped, he accuses
her of already knowing, and demands she tell him
what she thinks is on his mind. She points to the
scarf and tells him it represents the problem
they're having - she's not who he wants her to be.
She doesn't have a pedigree, and she's not wrapped
up in things that do. She's a modern gal and doesn't
have to surround herself with objects that have a
history, using the vase she bought as an example.
She says it's stunning, and points to some objects
in the room with a long history and calls them "pig
ugly."

She seems to be making headway, because he picks
up the objects in question (says they're from the
crypt of his great-uncle Agamemmnon (he really
*is* a vampire)) and says he hates them too, and
should they throw them off the cliff? They settle
for hiding the objects de-whatever behind a seat
cushion and smooch. Stefan decides he likes the
vase (okay, I'm guessing that what I missed was
a scene where he first hated the thing).

In the hospital corridor, Nik and Lucky had a quick
run in, albeit a not unfriendly one. Liz exits her
session and gets a little paranoid that Nik
would guess of her rape by where she was coming
from, but Lucky reassured her otherwise. When
he asked her about the group, she told him she
didn't belong there with people who aren't
getting well.

I'm going to include the "General Hospital Anniversary
Moment." It was of Rena Sofer's audition as Lois;
she shares that she was the last of eight to try out.
The clip they used was of her and "Eddie" (dated
11/10/93); he was asking her if she plays an instrument.
She said she played keyboards a little, but that it
was hard on the fingernails. Rena shared that
Wally, "from out of nowhere," blew in her ear at the
scene's end (and we saw it), completely surprising
her.
They also showed Wally saying: "I did think that she was the
right one for the roll, and look how it turned out."
They finished it with a quick shot of Lois and Ned
on their wedding day, w/NYC in the background.

Mary