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General Hospital Update for Thursday, 31-May-2001

Lucky's incarceration was the main focus of today's show. Most of the action took place at the PC police station and jail.

Helena visited Lucky, who was initially unreceptive to her appearance until she used her mind control tactics to get him to respond to her. Then she told him they're onto his next "assignment" and instructed him not to tell anyone she was there. She then remained disguised as a cleaning lady while Luke and Kevin visited Lucky.

Lucky lashed out at Luke for bringing Kevin to analyze him. Luke pacified his son by asking him just to try and promised that if Lucky didn't like it, Kevin would leave him alone. Kevin gently hypnotized Lucky, who saw himself in an underground mazelike place where he encountered Helena, who was holding the Ice Princess.

Meanwhile, Laura told a disbelieving Liz that her engagement ring is in fact the ring that Stavros gave Laura. Liz didn't want to believe it, but she finally accepted the truth when she listened to Nik's story about seeing the ring many times when he was growing up.

A conniving Gia, feeling left out from the hub of action, tried to find out from Scott what the big secret regarding Lucky is. He told her he didn't know what "it" is either. She then took off from the police station and headed to the Q's to find out the truth from a naive Emily.

Before Gia arrived at the Q's, Em and Zander were basking in the pleasant afternoon on the patio, talking about travels they would take once he could afford it on his income from his new job with Sonny. Gia took them by surprise, acting totally sweet about the prom and telling Em she could keep the prom dress as a memory. Zander left, which gave Gia her opportunity to pretend she was in the know about Lucky's problem -- and that's how she learned the truth about the mind control. An unhappy Nik showed up just after Em spilled the beans and immediately took Gia out of there.

Lucky and Laura exchanged tense words when she visited him in his cell and admitted that she, too, wanted Kevin to evaluate him. He said Luke's obsessed with the Cassadines and that he's not under any form of mind control. Laura reminded him that the last time Helena was controlling him, he wasn't aware of it, so maybe it's happening now, but Lucky wouldn't believe a word his mother said.

Over at Luke's office at his club, Stefan had just cracked Luke's safe and took possession of the two discs when Bobbie arrived and tried to stop him from leaving with the discs. He pushed Bobbie out of the way in his attempt to leave but was thwarted by Roy, who just arrived. Roy would not give in to Stefan's claim that he was just trying to help, and he kicked Stefan out without the discs.

Roy and Bobbie then engaged in a long discussion about their relationship, and it didn't turn out the way Roy wanted it to. Bobbie told him it's over because since Roy's return to PC, everything had been lies. She also reiterated how upset she is over how he handled Carly's situation. Roy begged her to let them slowly renew their relationship, all to no avail. Bobbie firmly refused to reconsider her position, said they were probably not meant to be, and said they should remember what they had over 20 years ago.

At the show's end, everyone managed to convince Liz to slowly persuade Lucky to try Kevin's hypnotherapy again. She agreed. Only Scott was left out, wondering what "it" is, but he'll soon find out.