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From: ninapie@NoSPAM-1821.ntcnet.com
Subject: GH: UPDATE for Monday 4/20/98
Date: 28 Apr 1998 04:23:08 GMT

General Hospital UPDATE for Monday April 20 1998--

PC Hotel--

  Jerry, Jax and Daddy Jack "discuss" their differences.  Seems

the two boys have a history of them, and now they disagree on

how to handle the current strike.

   Bren hugs Lady Jane who pulls no punches and asks flat out--

if Brenda could choose a life with Sonny or one with Jax, what

what would be her decision?  Our gal answers: Jax.  She can see

herself growing old with him.  She admits that she's done a lot

of growing up.

  Apparently that's peachy keen with Lady J.  She interrupts the

boys' argument to return the yacht piece to Brenda from the

"Family game" (okay, I'm lost here). The elder Jaxes leave and

Bren and Jax have a tete a tete.  Bren makes it clear that she

thinks Jer is a "player".

  I guess so, cause later we see Jer take a meeting on the docks

with Mystery Guy, who threatens him and his brother if "business"

does not take a turn for the better.

  "He's in the jailhouse now"--PC Jail

   Tony takes issue with how his lawyer's handling his case.  Hey,

just cause he kidnapped a few people don't mean he's crazy!  His

tough cookie of a lawyer tells him most folks won't see it that

way, and he's looking at forty years with a couple of cellmates

named Bubba and Bloodsucker.  Tone stomps off to his cell as the

cookie is met by Helena, who wants to have a word with her.

    We never see what their discussion is about, and the next time

we see Hel, she's busy bullying Alexis (more on that later). When

Tony and his lawyer meet again, Tone remains firm that he will

not plead guilty or insanity.  Instead his defense will be that

he held the moral high ground.  In face of the cookie's objections,

Tony insists "my way or the highway".  Bye-eee, his lawyer answers.

Tony reacts by kicking things but thinks better of it when a burly

c.o. gives him dirty looks.  Instead, he asks for a phone--he

needs to make a call.

  Alexis' apartment--

  Alexis' face falls when she answers the door and sees Hel there

(must have been expecting Ned).  Hel's next assignment for Alexis

is to get Tony Jones freed.  No excuses.  She won't touble to

explain her reasons but manages once again to threaten the younger

 woman's life if Her Will is not done.

  The next visitor makes her much happier.  Ned greets her with a big

smooch.  She's evasive when he asks about her trip.  She manages

to milk him for info on Tony's trial.  Ned evinces disgust that

anyone could kidnap a child, or defend such a one, and Alexis

 looks worried.

  Ned carries her to the bedroom.  Alex wishes they could go some-

place where there would be no demands, no worries.  He promises

her that they won't have to keep their relationship a secret much

longer.  Lovemaking ensues.

   Apres l'amour, Hel phones up and puts a damper on afterglow.

She tells Alex to do her stuff by tomorrow.  Alex tries to make

the most of possibly her last night with Ned by indulging in more

passionate lovemaking.

  The courthouse--

  Bobbie pleads with Jason in the hallway to talk some sense to

Robin, but he won't intervene.  Meanwhile in the courtroom, Carly

lays into Robin.  Where does she get off defending Tony?  He acts

like the baby is his!  Well, who first that idea in his head,

Robin replies.  The blame can be laid at Carly's door.  She was

the one who tricked him in the first place.

  Robin tells her that Michael's life is being built on a bed of

lies.  Carly responds that Robin is just jealous of her baby, since

Robin and Jason can't make one of their own.

  Jason overhears this and is most displeased, giving an even

stonier stone face than usual.  Carly is instructed to lay off

Robin, and Carly is snotty about him "taking Robin's side".  But

she follows him meekly enough when he orders her home with him.

  Bobbie gently reminds Robin, who wipes away a tear, of the

terrible hurt Tony inflicted on so many of them.  She urges the

girl to rethink her testimony when's she's called again to the

stand.

  Jason's place--

  Carly is whooshed home to be reprimanded once again.  He plays

Michael Corleone to her Kaye--he is the boss.  She must not

question him--especially regarding his loyalty to Michael.  And

she must never try to turn him against Robin.  That might be

enough to have him send her packing.  Carly to her credit is not

completely cowed and reminds him that if she goes, Michael goes,

too.  Jason tells her not to force it to come to that.  He

leaves a humiliated Carly blinking back tears (and I can't believe

that this is the second update in a row that I felt sorry for

Carly!)

   Bobbie comes by and delicately questions her about Jason, but

Carly swears that they're "just fine".  The women get closer as

Bobbie suggests that Lucas and Michael, along with their moms,

all get together as a family.

  Back at the courthouse--

  The Don swoops back after putting Carly in her place.  Jason

tries to understand Robin's explanations for defending Tony.  But

he can't--after all, Tony's a kidnapper.  Well, Robin reasons,

couldn't Jason himself be termed that, since he's keeping AJ's

son away from him?  As I marveled that Robin *finally* made this

connection, she somehow managed to turn all the blame onto Carly

anyway.

  Jason can't see the similarity between him and Tony, but it makes

no difference anyway.  Whatever happens to Tony, he claims, will

happen.  As Doris Day sang "Que sera, sera".

  The end!

  ***

  Nina P.

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