04-28-2017 (Friday) A Life Review

Monica asks Ned if he knows what he has done; Ned says, in fact, he does.  He hands the immigration officer a paper, an extension on Samira’s visa; she can legally stay in the country for six more months.  He tells the man, his services are no longer needed.  Everybody congratulates Ned on a job well done; Dillon takes Samira home.  Ned invites Kiki to join them and asks if Monica can come home, saying they need to get together with his mother and resolve Samira’s situation once and for all.  When they all get back to the mansion, they find that the painting is gone again; Monica thinks she knows who took it.  Tracy.

Tracy tells her dad goodbye; she says she is going to the land of sun and fun, and Samira is not even a blip on her radar, she tells him.  The less said about her the better, she says.  She is standing in the crypt and tells all of her family they should have treated her better; she brought roses for her mother and tells Alan she should have brought him crabgrass.  She continues saying she is the last one standing, despite all their criticism of her; she starts bragging about her accomplishments at ELQ and Alan’s plaque falls off the wall and clocks her on the head.  She falls to the floor, unconscious.  

A rough whispering voice tells Tracy to wake up; Scotty is there and he says, they were talking and her eyes just went “wing-ding.”  She insists she was home and is confused; Nathan comes out and says he is up.  Scotty drags her into the courtroom by the arm; she asks what she’s done.  Diane laughs and asks what she hasn’t done; Diane plays a video of the plaque hitting her on the head.  She tells Tracy she is dead, and reads from a book, that she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and “expired at 12”57 p.m.”  ‘Diane’ tells her she is there for a “review” where Scotty will be presenting the sum of her good deeds, and she will be presenting the bad; Tracy asks for another lawyer.  She says if the good doesn’t outweigh the bad, she’ll be reincarnated into another lifetime to do it all again… and mentions that Sky Chandler is considering adopting a baby.  The ‘judge’ walks into the room; it’s Sonny.  He lays a gun on the desk and proclaims court in session; Tracy says she isn’t ready, saying this is a mistake.  Then she says the judge hates her; Sonny plays an old video of a very young Tracy, telling a very young Sonny he is a stunning disappointment.  She brings up Brenda, trying somehow to extort money from him; he tells her Lois didn’t deserve what she did and she should watch her back.  She says that proves her point; he smiles.

Sonny says he could recuse himself, but the only other judge is Anthony Zacara; Tracy says Sonny will do.  Diane gives her opening statement and says Tracy is not capable of goodness and should be sent back; Scotty argues that she isn’t that bad, saying she’s “fine.”  They play another video; Tracy arguing with Alan, about Monica messing around with her son, then of her and Monica arguing, her shoving Monica, and more of her saying one nasty thing after another, and one of her mother saying she cannot trust her when she says such vicious things.  She says those are just words; Diane says they will move onto deeds.  Scotty stands up and says her romantic life should matter; he starts mentioning Tracy’s love interests, noting that she also dated himself.  Diane mentions the mob boss she married; Scotty then mentions Luke Spencer, saying that was true love.  Diane says it started out as a fraud; she plays a video of Luke talking to her, saying how much he loves her, and her standing coldly, the one of her telling Luke she is done being his fool, calling him a pathetic loser.  Tracy gets sad as she watches herself say she will walk away and never look back, telling Luke she was the best thing that ever happened to him.  

She argues that her children are proof that she’s done something; a video plays of her going into the labor under difficult circumstances.  But next, a very, very young Tracy, working for her brother, Alan, sits filing her nails; he gets mad at her over something that happened at dinner the night before and she screams at him, and likely messes up Moninca’s dinner party.  Another old video of her and Monica arguing, then her father telling her to pack her bags, suggesting she go to Maui with the other sharks… another of Ned telling her how much he hates her for the awful things she has done in his lifetime, and her apologizing to her mother for being such a disappointment.  Diane closes her computer and says that is not even the worst of it; another video plays on the large screen, of her talking to her father (a previous actor for Edward’s character) saying she would do anything to get her hands on the trust fund.  He tells her he is no longer her father and says he is taking her out of his Will; he starts to have a heart attack and asks her to get his medication.  She says she has to think about it, and begs him to tear up the new Will as Edward falls to the floor.  Tracy talks to the light now, pleading with it to send her back (as herself); she tells her father he wins, saying she knows he is there, pulling the strings.  She says Judge Sonny was a nice touch; she says all she ever wanted was to please him and to make him proud of her.  

Tracy wonders what might have been if she had one last chance; she wakes up and Alan’s plaque is somehow still up on the wall.  As everyone discusses where Tracy might have gone, Ned tells them not to write her off just yet; and just then, Tracy walks back into the room with the painting and tells them that she was going to take it, but has re-evaluated the situation.  She says she has realized that Samira needs the painting more than she does; she says she has to start somewhere, doing the right thing, so she is giving up the painting.  They all smile.

04-27-2017 (Thursday) The Fever

Jason and Jake are coloring; they show each other their pictures and Jason asks if he can have a hug.  Jake sits on his lap, and Jason starts squeezing him, almost putting him in a chokehold; Jake starts calling out, “not so hard dad.”  Jason wakes up; Sam says he must have been having a bad dream.  He says, “yeah.”  Sam asks Jason what’s bothering him; he tells her Jake is afraid of who he used to be.  Jason says he feels helpless because he doesn’t know how to help his boy; he thinks there might be some answers in the book Helena left him.  

Jake has a fever… of 110; very odd.  Even Franco knows he faked it; he says, he used to use a light bulb to heat the thermometer up.  He asks Elizabeth what she thinks is going on.  She tells Franco she talked to Jason about the picture of the little boy hiding from the scarecrow; she says that they have realized Jake is afraid of the man Jason used to be.  As Elizabeth and Franco talk, Jake overhears; he asks what they are trying to help him with.  They say they want to help him feel better; Elizabeth asks if she can get him a cut of tea and he says sure.  He asks Franco if he wants to color; he says that’s like asking a kid if he wants pancakes.  Jake unrolls his scroll; Franco notices he has added something to the history line… above the boy hiding behind the tree, are the numbers 0705.  When Franco asks him what those numbers mean to him, Jake suddenly starts “not feeling so good” and goes back to his room.  Jason comes over to ask about seeing the book; Elizabeth and Franco show him the numbers and ask if they mean anything to him.  They wonder if it’s a date; July 5^th, or May 7^th?  They note, May 7^th is Jake’s birthday.

Tracy talks to her father’s picture again; she says she can’t believe he would have done this.  Dillon comes into the living room, totally understanding; he says when she is ready to talk to a living, breathing person, he’s her guy.  She asks if he thinks she’s an awful person for not giving up the painting; Dillon tells his mother, her father wasn’t here for her when he was alive, and asks what makes her think that he’ll be there for her in his death.  He sits down and tells his grandfather his way of loving sucks; he tells his mom, he will be disappointed if she doesn’t give up the painting, but he’ll get over it.  He will always love her and he won’t abandon her; he says as long as they stick together, they will be okay.  He tells her there’s not many of them left, so they can’t afford to cast anybody aside; he kisses her and leaves.  She talks to her father again, saying it’s nice to have the support from Dillon she never had from him.  Laura comes in to talk to her; Tracy asks Laura what if her father was not the man she believed he was.  She wonders if the time and energy she has wasted on him was worth it, saying either he was a good and flawed man she believed in, or he was a callous bastard.  Either, the painting is a declaration of love for her, she says, or it’s the only thing of value she ever got from him; either way, she tells Laura, she is not giving it up.  Laura says, if Edward strayed, it doesn’t mean he didn’t love Lila; and he made her happy, she says.  They were a good balance Laura tells Tracy; she also says she got the best of both of them and should be proud.  She leaves. 

Kiki talks to Samira; she tells her that the Quartermaine’s will help her and she should trust them.  Samira ask why she trusts them; Kiki says, “Dillon.”   As long as he is on her side, she says, she’ll be okay.  Kiki talks to Monica about Samira; she tells her Samira is getting restless.  Monica tells her they admitted her under an alias, and ran all the tests; they are just waiting for the results.  The large gentleman from immigration walks up to the desk and demands Monica’s attention; she tells him she is busy, then asks Kiki to take care of this patient’s discharge.  She says she has already signed the papers; she hands her Samira’s alias file.  Kiki sees Dillon and asks him for his help getting Samira out of the hospital unseen; Dillon goes out to get a wheelchair.  Just as they are about to wheel her onto the elevator, Ned steps off of it; he stops them and tells the immigration man that Samira is right there.  They are all stunned.

Alexis is meeting with Diane; Carly happens to come by.  Diane apologizes, saying Sonny called her first; she says that’s okay, and asks Alexis if she wants to represent her in her divorce from Sonny.  Diane excuses herself.  Carly explains to Alexis that Sonny has some “sensitive information on Jax” and has had him deported permanently.  Alexis tells her, unfortunately, her license is still suspended; she gives her a referral.  Ava sees Alexis talking with Carly and asks Alexis why she didn’t tell her, her brother was alive.  She says she has other things to worry about and excuses herself.  Ava asks Carly if it’s too early to toast to her divorce; she sits down, but when she mentions Carly being out of Avery’s life after the divorce, Carly tells her she does not plan on being absent from Avery’s life, ever., and she leaves.

Sonny is on the phone with somebody, who I assume is analyzing the pills; he says they could be the key to what caused his son’s death.  Diane tells Sonny he needs to not be so obstinate… he says Carly will leave with what she brought to the marriage and nothing else; Dian tells him not to be so sure.  She explains, he signed transfers last year, endowing the foundation in Morgan’s name and trusts for his children, signing everything else over to Carly; he never had a lawyer transfer them back over to him.  Carly holds all of the cards, Diane tells him; and to avoid federal difficulties, she says, he may have to live outside of the country… like Jax, Sonny says.  Love that irony.

04-26-2017 (Wednesday) The Watch Continues

Nelle tells Nina that she took this job to turn over a new leaf; Nina says she understands that, but she is expanding her job description to include “covert observation.”  Nelle is surprised that she doesn’t trust her husband; she says they seem so happy.  She says the worst thing she can do is to assume something and have it eat away at her, warning Nina that she may do something she ends up regretting.  Carly ends up interrupting their conversation and warning Nina against employing Nelle, telling her about the drugging of Sonny.  Nelle assumes that she will be let go and begins to excuse herself, but Nina says that makes her all the more eager.  She tells Nelle that she is going to spy on her husband, and says she better be damn good at it.

Anna tells Valentin she owes him her life; she reminds him of how he carried her to the hospital, saving her from complications from the blood clot and getting diagnosed with cancer.  She says she tries to pretend she doesn’t have it; realizing she is vulnerable has been humbling, she tells him.  She smiles.  She says she looked at his back the other day, tall and straight and strong, and remembered how it used to be twisted; she realized what he went through to make his outside the same as the inside.  She tells him that she is celebrating her life and wants him to join her in a drink of champagne; he concedes.  She pops the cork, just as Nina happens to call; Nina hears the noise in the background, as Anna ‘whoops’ when cork pops.  Valentin pretends to lose signal; Anna insists he take his glass.  They toast and drink; she pours “just one more” and asks him if tonight could be a new beginning, offering the watch back.  He refuses at first, but then allows her to put it back on his wrist; she says she so wants to believe that something that is irreparably broken can be fixed. Griffin talks to Andre about Anna's claim that she is receiving treatment outside of General Hospital; he asks if Andre thinks Anna could be hiding something.

Kiki tells her mom that she loves working at the hospital; she says it makes her feel like she really matters.  Her mom worries about her working in the psych ward; she says it’s a choice she made, because she wants to understand more about what took Morgan’s life.  Her mom brings up Dillon; they talk about the upcoming Nurses’ Ball and then last year’s Ball.  Kiki gets sad remembering that was the night that Morgan got so angry and began his downward spiral; Ava tells Kiki she has to move on.  Kiki gets upset, thinking she means they should forget Morgan; she says she needs to go.  Her mom apologizes and says she is in awe of herr; they hug and Kiki cries.

Bobbie confronts Sonny at the hospital; she tells him, as much as she doesn’t like him, she knows he makes her daughter happy.  She says no matter what else has happened between them, they both lost Morgan; they talk a while, and Sonny brings out the pill bottle.  Lucy approaches Sonny, to talk about the Nurses’ Ball, and stops cold when she sees the bottle in Sonny’s hands; her whole demeanor changes and she apologizes for overstepping.  Sonny tells her he will take his usual table and provide an additional contribution; he tells her to call his accountant.  She thanks him and says there is something that she still needs to tell him; he tells her it will have to wait.  He goes to see Andre.  Sonny tells Andre that he can’t help but think, maybe the manufacturer of the pills screwed up; Andre says that would be difficult to prove.

Michael talks to her mother; she tells him that his father got Jax sent out of the country.  Michael tells her that Jax will work things out; Carly can’t believe he is defending his father.  He says he just doesn’t want her trying to get back at him; she says she won’t do anything Sonny doesn’t deserve.  He suggests she go to Australia; he says she could get a house down the street from Jax if she doesn’t want to move to fast with him.  She seems to consider it, until he mentions Nelle and she realizes he is thinking about forgiving her; she tells him, he can’t.  She explains that she tested her love with Jason because it was the only way she knew to prove it to herself, and as good friends as they are, she says, Jason could never fall back in love with her because she hurt him so badly; Michael realizes she is comparing Jason and herself to he and Nelle.  He politely ends the conversation; and acknowledges that he is going to do whatever he wishes.

04-25-2017 (Tuesday) The Gift

Nina wonders why Valentin isn’t telling her Anna gave him that watch; he comes in looking for it.  She questions why it’s so important to him; he says he is just indulging himself.  He tells her he has a surprise of her; a pair of riding boots, and a horse of her own.  They go to look at the horse and then come back in; they start making out (Anna hears slobbery kissing and moaning on her headphones).  Griffin knocks at the door; he is angry that Anna missed an appointment today.  She lies and says that she had the treatment done at a private facility because she is tired of everybody being in her business.  She asks him to respect her privacy; he says he is still going to check on her.  He mentions his concern about her obsession with Valentin and she tells him that she’s worked all that out.  

After making love on the couch, Valentin tells Nina he just wants her to be happy; he gave her the horse to see her smile.  She says all he has to do is be honest with her; she reminds him that she’s had a problem with jealousy before, for good reason.  She says she doesn’t want to go backwards; he tells her she has nothing to worry about.  He says he is going to take care of some business; she is going for a ride.  Anna calls to see if he can meet with her; he says he needs to see her anyway.

Tracy tells her potential half-sister that her only choice is to get out of the country before immigration services finds her; she says she can’t leave without the painting.  It’s the only way she knows to save her daughter; Tracy refuses to give up the painting.  She says Samira couldn’t get out of the country with the painting anyway; Samira leaves the room in tears.  Laura questions Tracy’s true motive for wanting Samira gone.  Laura pleads with Tracy to help this girl; Ned comes in and asks Tracy to take Samira somewhere safe… within a twenty mile radius, he suggests, just in case immigration comes back.  

Finn’s drug test comes back positive; he can’t believe it.  Griffin tells him they will wait for the next test, but the results better be clean, or at least significantly lower.  He reminds Finn that he is still forbidden from treating patients and leaves.  Hayden asks Finn if he has been using; he swears he hasn’t.  He tells her he wants to get everybody’s respect back; she tells him he is sweating and looks like he did when he was using.  He says he did a workout on his lunch break; it’s one way to cope with addiction, he tells her.  He says Felix was in the gym with him; she asks why the test would come back positive.  He says he just has to be wrong.  She asks him to confirm that he has been “playing by the rules” and he says, “well, not exactly.”  He tells her he broke one little rule, for Tracy; he used hospital resources for something that wasn’t exactly ethical.  He just wants her to know it had nothing to do with drugs.  He swears to her that he is going to be the kind of man she can trust.  Tracy comes in with Samira; she asks Finn to treat her.  He says he can’t; he calls Griffin for help.  Hayden tells Finn that she is proud of him and she has decided to give “them” a little time; Finn smiles.

Michael talks to Dante and Lulu at The Floating Rib; he realizes they don’t know about Nelle drugging Sonny.  As they ask him to explain, Nelle walks in.  Michael approaches her and asks if she would like to tell her brother what he needs to know; she says he could tell him, himself, and have her arrested.  Lulu interrupts; she talks about her visit with Charlotte.  Nelle tells her that Charlotte had a wonderful time; loved seeing the bunny.  Lulu is happy.  Michael talks to Nelle about how awful custody battles can be, mentioning his uncle fighting his mom and dad once; his mom and dad fighting his biological father; and then mom fighting his dad for custody of them.  He says he wouldn’t wish that on any kid.  Nina comes back from her ride and finds Valentin still gone; she thinks back about finding him with Anna before, with Anna acting weirdly.  She hopes he is not with Anna right now.  Nelle comes home; she mentions that she is reading a book about spies and Nina gets an idea.  She tells Nelle she wants her to spy on someone, for real.  Valentin arrives at Anna’s; he tells her he wants to give the watch back.  She is all smiles, grabs his hand, and asks him not to.

04-24-2017 (Monday) Jax Says Goodbye

Olivia is on her way somewhere.  Ned asks if she is sure she doesn’t want him to go; she says she will be fine and she’ll let him know how it goes.  She leaves.  Ned asks Samira if immigration is tried to get a hold of her again; she says, thankfully, no.  She asks if he knows where his mother is; he doesn’t.  She shows Ned a picture of her little girl; she asks him if he thinks his mother will give her the painting to save her daughter.  He says he wouldn’t count on it; she questions how else she will save her.  Olivia visits Julian; she tells him that she and Ned are getting married and she wants Ned to adopt Leo.  Julian says absolutely not.  Olivia points out that he will be in prison for a very long time, and says she isn’t going to bring Leo to visit him; she tells Julian he will never know him as his father, and begs Julian to at least think about giving him the gift of a loving father who can be there with him as he grows.

Laura runs into Tracy at the hospital; she overhears something about a DNA test.  Tracy asks her what she is doing there; Laura says she is there for a board meeting.  Tracy confides in her about the possibility that Samira could be her sister; Laura asks what Samira thinks about this.  Tracy tells her she doesn’t know; Laura says it’s not right to do this test without her knowledge.  When Tracy gets home, with Laura, Ned tells her that they have another problem, and it has nothing to do with the painting; he tells Tracy about immigration showing up.  Tracy smiles and says that’s wonderful; now she knows how to help Samira, she says.  She tells Samira she needs to get her out of the country.

Diane meets Alexis at the police station; Alexis is ready to give her statement.  Jordan takes them to the interrogation room.  Jordan asks Alexis about her whereabouts last night; when she mentions Julian kidnapping her, Alexis says he didn’t.  She says she went with him of her own free will; Jordan asks why.  Alexis says she was trying to get him to turn himself in; Jordan points out they were missing for an hour and questions why she would spend that much time with him.  She says Julian said what he said because one of the police officers had a feeling that she was an accomplice; she says he was trying to protect her and it was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Jake has a strange reaction to an old picture of Jason; Elizabeth says they’ve shown him this picture before and asks why it bothers him now – he says his dad having a different face doesn’t bother him, it’s “the witch.”  When they try to get him to talk further about the witch, he says he doesn’t want to talk about that and asks to go to his room; they let him go.  Jason mentions that he looked like that when he used to work for Helena… he thinks (now that they know she had Jake that whole time) Jake might have seen him with Helena, when he looked like that.  He says there is no telling what he might have done for her because she had total control over him; they both fear what Jake might have seen.  Jason then worries, he may have possibly done something to Jake and doesn’t even know it.

Jax tells Carly he wants her and Joslyn to come live with him in Australia; he says they can finally be a family.  Jax insists they are connected; he says they bring out the best in each other and they make more sense when they are together; he says he wants to spend their lives together.  Carly doesn’t know what to say; she says putting Port Charles in the rear view mirror for a while sounds tempting.  But, she says, she feels close to Morgan there and doesn’t want to leave; also, she says, she can’t leave Michael with Nelle still trying to get her claws into him.  He asks how her staying will help; she says because she can stay on him that way.  Jax says she can’t dictate her life, pointing out that he is a grown man; he says he thinks she really wants to go with him, at least partially.  He thinks maybe the real reason she doesn’t want to go is Sonny; she denies it, but he insists that she wants to keep him in her life one way or another.  He says it breaks his heart, but he needs to go; she apologizes and says it’s just not the right time.  He tells her Sonny is going to destroy her; she says she won’t let him.  She says she will come later; he says he may not be waiting.  Carly says if it’s now or never, she will have to take her chances, and she kisses him goodbye.