What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

 

 

General Hospital

At the MetroCourt, Carly sees Nelle eating with Monica and Michael, and wonders what she’s up to. Josslyn brings in the dress Carly ordered for her. It’s not what they ordered. We never saw what they ordered, but it is kind of hideous. Although I’m thinking, since it’s an alternative dance, the drag queens might like it. There’s a note saying the dress was out of stock, and here’s something better, signed Brenda. Carly says she did it just to spite her. Josslyn says she can’t wear it. She’s telling Oscar they’re not going. Carly tells her not to do that, and says mom always comes through.

Nelle thanks Monica for including her. Monica is glad she and Michael are being civil, and is sure they agree the best thing for the child is if the parents on the same page

Scotty meets Franco, who got to Kelly’s early to stress eat. He needs to ask Scotty something, and Scotty tells him to spit it out. Franco says it’s about his wedding. He needs for his father to come through for him. Scotty says he’s not paying for wedding, but Franco wants Scotty to give him away.

At the hospital, Elizabeth asks Drew if he isn’t supposed to be on his honeymoon. He says there was a change of plans. Can she get him in to see Faison?

Sonny asks Anna if she’s slept, and she says, no; she had a lot of forms to fill out. Sonny says he hopes they bury Faison, and Anna says he’s in luck.

Jason comes by Aurora, but Sam says Drew is at the hospital. He wants to talk to Faison. Jason says, too late; Faison is dead. These people are seriously messing with me this week.

Monica leaves for work. Nelle asks if Michael meant what he said, or was it for Monica’s benefit. He says the more they cooperate, the better it is for the baby.

Carly promises Josslyn that they’ll find something. If it’s not in Port Charles, they’ll go to NYC. She’s sending the dress back with her own note. Josslyn steps away, and Carly gets a call from Sharon. She tells Sharon that she wanted to dig up dirt on Nelle, but decided to let it go. She listens, then says it didn’t come up on the initial report, and asks Sharon to continue.

Franco says he’s giving Scotty a chance to compensate for all the T-ball games Scotty missed in his youth. Scotty tells Franco to calm down. Franco says he doesn’t need Scotty’s blessing, or his arm. Scotty asks if Franco doesn’t think the wedding will happen. Franco wonders why invest anything if it’s just going to fall apart. Scotty says he can’t keep up with him. He tells Franco that his own father always gave it to him straight, and he thinks the only person doesn’t believe in Franco is Franco. Why torture himself with the bad seed business? He needs to drop it.

A surgeon tells Doc it’s highly unusual. Doc says the WSB signed off on it, and Anna agrees his interest in the case is well-founded. They go into the morgue; Doc carrying a jar.

Sonny tells Anna it’s too bad it took so long; much of Anna’s pain could have been avoided. Anna says it’s what he wanted. He asks if Maxie knows. Anna says she hasn’t talked to Maxie, but she told Robin, and they talk all the time. She says Maxie is devastated. Sonny says that kind of grief makes you lost, and you can’t find your way. He asks Anna what’s the other reason she’s there. Now that Faison is dead, she wants to know Sonny’s intentions.

Elizabeth tells Drew that Faison went into cardiac arrest, and there was no way to revive him. Drew says he’s faked his death before. She says the WSB ordered an autopsy. He’s really dead. Really? A major villain, and fan favorite (also mine), and we didn’t get to see it? Really?

Jason tells Sam that Faison died of complications from the gunshot wound. Sam says that means Jason killed him. Good. He got what he deserved. Faison took him away from her and Danny, took everything away from Jason, took Jason’s chances, and took whatever chance at life they had together. She hates him for that, and is glad he’s dead. Jason – a man of few words – says, him too.

Nelle tells Michael that Monica is taking her shopping for the baby, and asks if he wants to join them. He says he has to go to work. Carly calls him over. He tells her that he worries about her charging into things, and she says she didn’t ask Faison to take her hostage, and Jason was there. She’s sorry he was too late to save Nathan. Michael says that Dante called to tell him how much he means to him. Carly says when something horrible happens, it sweeps away the petty things, and shows you what really matters; family matters. She says this is her roundabout way of saying she found out something about Nelle.

Scotty tells Franco he doesn’t know if he pushed Drew or he fell. Franco says Betsy sent Drew away to protect him from something. It’s not a huge intellectual leap to figure out that he might be it.  Franco tells Scotty about Doc’s study regarding people who are capable of violence, and what makes them tick biologically. Scotty calls it hogwash. He tells Franco that if he thinks he’s crazy, he’s got nothing on Doc.

The surgeon pulls back the sheet to reveal Faison. He prepares to open Faison’s skull.

Sonny tells Anna that he wants to find Faison’s son. He reached out by email, but the account for PK Sinclair has been disabled. It looks like he doesn’t want to talk to them anymore.

Elizabeth tells Drew that he can live his own life going forward. Drew says that’s the plan.

Scotty tells Franco to forget about it. He has enough to worry about with the wedding. He says, what father would let his son down? He won’t walk him down the aisle, but wants Franco to make him best man. He has trouble with the father/son dance thing. Franco suggests the Macarena.

Sam guesses she’s indirectly responsible for bringing Faison there. She tells Jason it’s her publication that ran the article. Lulu wrote the article, but she put Peter in charge. He nearly got shot, but at least he got closure. He went to the hospital to confront Faison. Jason says he talked to Faison too, and Faison told him why he replaced him with Drew. Sam asks if Jason believes him, and Jason says it made sense. Faison’s mind control wouldn’t work on him, so he gave Jason’s skill to someone he could control. She wonders how he found Drew, and Jason says he was researching a SEAL team, and saw Drew’s face. He took Drew, and took him, and they know the rest. Sam says, it’s just that random. Faison might not have found him or taken Jason, and their lives would be completely different right now.

Nelle sees Josslyn, and says she hasn’t seen her in a while. Josslyn says things have been tense between Nelle and her family, but Nelle says they’re working it out. Nelle tells Josslyn that they’re cool; they share a kidney. Since she and Michael are having a baby, they actually are family. She asks if Josslyn is ready to be an aunt. Josslyn gets excited, and Nelle asks how things are with Oscar. Josslyn says they’re supposed to go to a dance, but there’s been drama over her dress. The one she tried to get is sold out. Nelle asks if it’s the one from the November Crimson, and Josslyn shows Nelle a picture of it on her phone. Nelle says she can’t believe it. She got it after working a runway show. She tells Josslyn it’s hers, since they’re practically sisters.

Carly tells Michael that Nelle spent a year in a mental hospital. He asks if she’s still investigating. She says that Sharon called her, and told her that Nelle had a nervous breakdown after Zack died. Michael says he’s known it for months, and Carly asks if Nelle volunteered the information. He says no. He thought he could help her more if he knew what she was going through, and he asked her about it. She said it was a painful time. She was dealing with a lot, and eventually broke. Michael says it doesn’t concern her, but Carly says he concerns her. He says it’s his choice who to get involved with, and she says he’s too forgiving. He says the one person who has no choice is the baby. The baby is going to have to live whatever life he’s made for them. He wants to get along for the baby’s sake. What’s bothering me here, is that Sonny has a mental illness, as did Morgan, and Carly is acting like Nelle committed a crime.

Jason tells Sam that he got no information on Faison’s other son, Henrik. Sam says he tried to make a deal with them. If they helped him escaped, he’d tell them where Henrik is. She wishes they’d taken him up on it. He could have wound up having a heart attack anyway, and they could turn his body over to the WSB and laugh. Jason doesn’t think she’s the type who would stand over someone and laugh. He knows her. Sam has no idea how to grieve for Maxie. Maxie is grieving for Nathan, and she couldn’t stop thinking about it. How you try to fall asleep, but don’t want to because you dream it’s all been a horrible mistake. You’re laughing and smiling, and holding each other. Everything is fine, but you wake up, and live the nightmare again. Sam got the miracle. Maxie won’t. She’ll never open her eyes and see Nathan again the way Sam saw Jason that night on the pier.

Franco (omg, I originally wrote Todd by mistake) goes to the hospital, and sees Elizabeth. She asks if his dad is giving him away. He says gender reversal isn’t Scotty’s thing, but he’s going to be best man. He asks her about Doc’s brother being the inspiration for his work. Elizabeth says it’s personal and painful, but he channeled it into something good. Franco says Scotty doesn’t agree, and Elizabeth says that’s for personal reasons.

The surgeon says Doc got what he came for. Doc looks at the brain floating in his jar, and says he certainly did.

Anna wonders how Henrik is at fault for keeping Jason alive. Faison ordered him to kill Jason. He could have done that, and saved himself a lot of trouble. He chose not to, and Sonny owes him for that. Sonny asks if she doesn’t see the parallels. Robin was kept alive, not because the Cassadines were nice, but because she was useful. Henrik wants to keep Jason alive because he’s a useful hit man. He wonders what happened to Anna that she wants to defend him. She says she wants to debrief him with no interference. Sonny should consider himself done with it. Sonny says, like hell.

Nelle gives Josslyn the dress. Josslyn is thrilled that it’s the right one; she thought it was too good to be true. She’ll owe Nelle forever. Carly comes by, and asks what’s going on? Josslyn says she owes Nelle big time. Nelle says just send her the details and pictures. Josslyn tells Carly that Nell brought the dress they’d planned on getting.

Elizabeth says Scotty isn’t a reliable source when comes to Doc. Franco says he wants no part of it. Doc wants to fix him because he couldn’t fix his brother. Elizabeth says Franco had a brain tumor, Doc’s twin had other issues. Franco asks what shaped Ryan?

Jason thought Sam was too out of it to remember. She says she was, but does remember. She remembers being cold, and coughing up water, but she knew someone was holding her. She looked up, and saw him. We flash back to that. Sam says the strangest part is that she didn’t question it, or think why it was possible. She just knew he was there, and she would be okay. Jason always hoped she felt that way; that she knows he’s there, and will do whatever she needs. Drew arrives, and asks if there’s something he can do for Jason. Nice to see you too.

Anna tells Sonny that it’s WSB business. Sonny says, not if they get there first. He wants Henrik for his own. Anna says she doesn’t like his methods that go outside of the law. It was different when the ends justified the means, but this is an official matter. Stay out. Sonny says this isn’t a jurisdictional issue; it’s personal. Why?

Elizabeth tells Franco that what made Ryan tick is a question for Doc. He can help Franco, if he’ll let him. Think about what he might gain. Franco says what scares him is what he has to work through to be free.

Jason tells Drew that Faison is dead. Drew says he knows. Jason did get some answers as to why they were switched. Drew says, lucky him. Jason tells him that Faison’s mind control wouldn’t work on him because he has brain damage. Drew asks if Faison went looking for Jason’s twin? Jason says, no, but when he was researching a SEAL team, he recognized Jason’s face. He gave Drew to Helena, and Henrik was supposed to kill him, but wouldn’t. Drew says he didn’t know about the flash drive, and wouldn’t talk about Henrik. All he got was a bag of rocks.

Sonny says he’s known Anna for years, but she tells him not to presume he knows her and her motives. Sonny says he knows when someone is hiding something, and there’s more. Anna says, of course there’s more. She’s spent her whole life looking over shoulder, but she didn’t have to grow up with Faison. She wants to question Henrik, and offer him a path to a normal life, an attitude he doesn’t share. Henrik went after Jason once, and Sonny doesn’t want it to happen twice. Anna tells Sonny not to go after him. Sonny tells her not to threaten him; they’re friends. Anna tells him not to change this. He doesn’t want to be her enemy; not in this matter.

Franco walks into Doc’s office, and sees the brain on his desk, and Doc eating some take-out. Franco says, there’s a brain on his desk, and Doc says that’s for the study. He needs to get to the lab, but he missed breakfast. Franco asks if he cuts the brain out of all of his patients, and Doc says only the dead ones. He says it’s not unusual to examine the brain of criminal. Franco says this isn’t making him want to confide in Doc. Doc says he’s just trying to make him laugh. Now that he knows Franco is here to confide, how can he help?

Josslyn tells Nelle the dress is more beautiful than in the magazine. Carly suggests Josslyn put it in the office for safekeeping, and get going to school. Josslyn dances off on a cloud. Nelle says, they grow up so fast. Carly has to hand it to her; she doesn’t miss a trick. Nelle undermined her with Josslyn. Nelle says Josslyn needed the dress, and she just happened to have it. Carly says how convenient. Nelle says it’s convenient for Carly, since she saved her a trip to the city. Carly says she’s trying to break down Michael’s defenses, but it won’t work. Nelle says, it already is.

Nelle tells Carly that nursing a grudge will alienate Michael at the end. They’re going to adore the child, and it will bring them together. Carly says she sounds delusional, but it’s not surprising. She knew something was off about Nelle, something deranged. Sharon gave her the “ah-ha” moment. How crazy must Nelle be to spend a year in an institution? How crazy is she still? Ew. I’m not liking Carly. If you really think someone has a mental illness, this is what you do???

Sonny talks to Brick on the phone about monitoring IP addresses and such. He gets another call from Caruso. He asks what the news is about his father. Faison isn’t his father too, is he? Ha-ha!

Franco asks Doc if he gets confidentiality, and Doc tells him nothing leaves the room. Franco says let’s talk about the mind of a murderer. Most people get started in their teens, but he was precocious. His first attempt was at three years old. Doc tells his secretary to hold all calls, and cancel his appointments for the rest of the day.

The surgeon takes Anna to Faison’s body, and leaves her there alone. She tells Faison he died without ever knowing her secret.

Drew asks how close Jason is to finding Henrik. Jason says he agreed to a meeting, but Henrik never showed. Sam says maybe it was a set-up to distract them. Drew asks how long he’s known about Henrik, and why was he waiting to tell them?

Anna says her whole life, Faison terrorized her. She tried. She had to keep him in the deep recesses of her mind to keep going, and she did for all those years. He was grasping in the dark to get a piece of her soul to call his own, but he never got it. She picks up a scalpel, and cuts off a lock of his hair. She puts it in her pocket.

She says there he is, and she’s still standing. She made it. Does he want to know the kicker? There is a child out there. Their child. He sits up and grabs her, causing us all to have a collective heart attack. He asks if it’s Henrik.

The surgeon comes in and asks what is it? Everything is as it was before, and Anna says, nothing at all.

Tomorrow, Maxie dreams about Nathan, Ava warns Nelle, and Drew asks who Jason is working with.

😐 Pondering…

Okay, I have a couple of questions. If Doc is carrying Faison’s brain, did they take it out through his chest? We see autopsy wounds, but at no time does it look like his head is anything but whole. If Anna had Faison’s child, when did that happen? Was this before Robin? (Although it did cross my mind that she might be Henrik’s mother.) Is Faison really dead? Seriously, we wouldn’t have gotten a death scene? I understand no one is really ever dead. We never saw Nikolas bury Helena either. Speaking of which, we don’t know that Nikolas is dead. Maybe these people are all living on an island somewhere…

👗 This week’s Relative Success with Tabatha found her dealing with a family run clothing company called NewMe. As usual, the dynamics of the family affected the business itself. I once worked for a family run business, and the atmosphere was thicker than the wall of smoke at the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the 70s. Avoid at all costs. In this episode, it was the son having left the family’s Jewish faith that caused part of the problem, but when he left the business, they all got along much better, and the business had a plan and turned a profit. Tabatha also got them organized, and gave me ambition to organize my eBay business better. In my head anyway.

😸 it’s That Time Again…