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General Hospital Update for Monday, 30-Sep-2002

At Courtney’s apartment she gets another creepy phone call from a man who tells her he’s been watching her. Weirded out, she runs around the apartment closing all the blinds. She calls A.J.’s hotel, but he’s out trying to beat the RECO charges in the middle of the night. With no lights, no t.v., no radio, she uneasily dials Jason’s cell phone. She tells him that she’s all alone and that she thinks someone is stalking her. Jason offers to come right over. While Court and Rosie are waiting for him, someone begins pounding on her door and rattling the doorknob. Courtney dials 911 and as the operator is asking the nature of her emergency, Mike’s voice cuts through the pounding on the door. Shaken, she hangs up and opens the door to her drunk daddy.

Carly returns from her run in at the safe house to a run in with her mother. Bobbie has made plans for them to fly to Sonny’s private island so that they can begin breaking the news of Sonny’s death to Michael. Carly is at a loss and doesn’t know how to stall her mother who is insisting that Michael begin the healing process. Carly’s saved by the appearance of Scott. Carly fills her mother in on Scott and Taggert’s latest escapade. Bobbie is upset, but not so upset that she lets Scott have it like she should. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of Bobbie’s scolding mother demeanor. She has to preface every sentence with “ Now Scott… or “Now Carly…” it’s getting redundant. I don’t like her with Scott anyways – all together now, Jerrreeee, Jerrreee, Jerrreee!

Sonny and Jason are riding in the mobmobile, when Jason asks Sonny point blank what he intends to do with Brenda when they find her. He suggests Europe, she was happy there before. Sonny says no and that they will have to stash her in Puerto Rico until the Alcazar issue is resolved. Jason says nothing, as usual. Meanwhile one of Alcazar’s men helps him into what looks like a cabin. He tells no-name goon to get him a doctor and to make finding Brenda the top priority. Cut to the GH parking lot where Monica has ducked out after a long surgery session. As she’s getting a breath of fresh air, she’s abducted by no-name goon.

Jax slowly turns around and spots Brenda. He can’t believe his eyes and they stand there staring at each other for what seems like hours. Jax finally speaks and tells her that he knew she was alive. He tells her that he saw her in Paris, “it was you, it was you…” Brenda says yes and runs and jumps into his arms doing the patented Brenda leg-wrap thing (that didn’t take long). Jax hugs her tightly as he starts to cry. Inside, his new little wifey-poo blissfully prepares for her wedding night shag.

Brenda tells Jax all about the night of her accident, stating that she doesn’t really remember anything after she hit the water. He tells her how tortured he was to watch the whole thing happen and relives diving into the water from the helicopter that Jerry (see, he was mentioned again!) was piloting. Though Brenda wants to answer Jax’s questions, she interrupts to tell him quite succinctly that he’s in grave danger from the man that she’s been shacked up with for the past four years. She wants him safe, that’s the only reason she risked even seeing him. Of course, Alcazar says Jax, you’re the only thing that Sonny and I have in common. Brenda says that Alcazar shot Sonny and she’s not going to let him hurt anyone else she loves. “He’s been good to me, took me to the best doctors money can buy and has been feeding me lies and meds I don’t need in an attempt to make me stay with him forever” – oops, oh well, I paraphrased her. Jax asks why it was so easy for her to believe that Alcazar would stand beside her during her illness when he promised the same exact thing.

Mike is telling Courtney that he was honoring Sonny’s memory by getting smashed and losing a bundle gambling. Sonny always thought that’s the only thing I was good at, so why not live it up? As Courtney is telling dear old Dad that Sonny wouldn’t want him to beat himself up like that, Jason arrives. Mike lashes out at his son’s right hand man and demands to know why he’s socializing instead of out tracking down his son’s murderer. He leaves Courtney’s and Jason begins questioning Court on her alleged stalker. She admits that the power outage probably made her more afraid than she would have been otherwise. Excuse me, but didn’t the writers use this same device to throw Liz and Zander into bed together? (O.K. it was a couch) It’s looking like Déjà vu’ all over again! Jason offers to spend the night (on the couch!!) and a relieved Courtney gets him a blankie.

Sonny comes out of hiding and compliments Carly’s performance with her mother and Scott. She offers him some chips with his vino – apparently some private culinary joke. Sonny says that he hates that Courtney and Mike are suffering because of his pseudo-death. Carly tells him that when the stuff with Alcazar is over and done, he can make it up to them. She also tells him she likes the fact that he’s got to stay put for the time being and she’s going to take advantage of it!! Knock-knock, wise guy calling… Sammy Tagliotti is shown in by another one of Sonny’s guys – has anyone seen Johnny lately???? Sonny listens as Tagliotti hits on his wife and offers to keep her company while she mourns her hubby. Carly snaps back that he isn’t fit to walk in Sonny’s shoes, or on his territory. He asks if he can escort her to the family meeting and she shows him the door. Now Sonny’s really pissed, he wants this over because he can’t take Tagliotti’s disrespect for very much longer.

Alexis and Ned are in a candlelit Kelly’s discussing ways that Alexis can alleviate some of her work pressure for the good of the baby. Scott and Bobbie make a noisy entrance and Alexis overhears Bobbie scolding Scott for deliberately hurting her family. Alexis is quick to point out that if Scott didn’t have a warrant when he busted in on Carly, he can be charged with criminal trespass. Scott fires back at Alexis and asks if she shouldn’t be at home knitting baby booties with a pickle plugging up her mouth. Ned and Alexis return to their table where Ned laments the fact that unless someone steps up and challenges Scott for the D.A.’s position, they’ll be stuck with Baldwin. Alexis looks at him and says “O.K., I’ll do it”.

Skye’s looking for her groom and Jax tells Brenda she can’t just leave again. She says she did what she came to do which was warn him. She tells him to take his new bride and just vanish. Jax begs her not to disappear, gives her his cell phone and tells her to go to her old cottage. He’ll see her there tomorrow – promise me? She tells him she’ll be there and hides behind the foliage to watch Jax and Skye smooch. Jax tells Skye he’s never seen her look lovelier and they proceed to make big whoopee surrounded by eighty-four thousand candles. Enjoy it while it lasts Skye…

Nice little interlude here where we get to see Jax driving Skye to China while a desolate Brenda sits alone in her old cottage fondling Jax’s old wedding ring amid the candles. Later while Skye’s sleeping, Jax steps outside and calls Brenda. He knows she said that she would be there tomorrow, but she didn’t promise. “I promise” she says and then he says “remember, nobody leaves”.

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