What I Watched Today
(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)
General Hospital
Curtis is having a drink with Drew at the MetroCourt, but has to leave for a meeting. Drew says he’s not in the mood to celebrate. Curtis asks how he found out; was he snooping? Drew says, not snooping. He was hungry, went to the kitchen, and saw the cake, It’s a great cake; three layers. Curtis says a three-layer cake would piss him off too. Drew says he appreciates it, but doesn’t like to be the center of attention. Curtis tells him, suck it up, and let those who love him, love on him. He’s worth it. Curtis says, happy birthday. Have fun and act surprised.
Monica and Kim are on the patio, where Monica is putting last minute touches on the party. She’s sorry Ned and Olivia can’t be there, but glad the rest of them will be. Kim thanks Monica for inviting her and Oscar. Sam arrives.
In the elevator, Maxie tells Peter that she’ll talk to Olivia. She’d talk to Carly, but she’s distracted. She’s surprised Olivia didn’t notice. The elevators are slow during peak hours. They should take that into consideration and add more elevators. The elevator jerks to a stop.
Valentin thanks Curtis for meeting him; he’s eager for an update. Curtis doesn’t want to waste Valentin’s time. If he gets something concrete, he’ll tell him. Valentin says they need to find Nina’s daughter as soon as possible. Curtis says not them, him. Then Valentin can deliver the information to Nina in hopes of saving his marriage.
Nina meets a man named Amit at the MetroCourt. He understands she wants an appraisal. She asks what he can tell her whatever he knows about this, and shows him the necklace. I just have to say it, they couldn’t have found something that looked more expensive? This was bought at Target for sure.
Margaux asks if Jordan found something to identify the body, and Jordan says, not quite, but it will put them on the right trail. Forensics got the remains of a bullet out of a bone. Margaux isn’t sure that will shed light on the body, but it might get them closer to identifying the killer.
Sonny asks Carly how his dad is. Carly says, like him, pretending everything is fine when it’s not. She doesn’t want to have the conversation any more than Sonny, but she loves him, and has to be straight with him. Things are adding up. When Mike took off with Avery; what happened with the alarm; and now Charlie’s. All of them could have ended in a tragedy. She thinks they’re running out of time. They can’t keep it up. She knows that Mike knows, and she thinks Sonny knows too.
Nina asks what he can tell her, and he says there’s no signature marking; at least nothing familiar. Nina asks if it was made to look like it was divided, or is it part of a whole piece. Amit says, it appears to be half of a larger piece; an original heart pendant divided. Nina says she has to find who has the other half.
Valentin tells Curtis, it’s a win-win. Curtis will find Nina’s daughter for her, and be paid handsomely. If it’s too much, he can find someone else do it. Curtis says he’ll do it for Nina, but Valentin had better not hold any of the information against her. He says there’s been a development. He’s been working a new angle, and his forensics accountant’s trace on the transfer worked. There’s no telling what will come of it. It’s twenty years old; it still may end up going nowhere. That’s why Curtis was waiting to tell him. Valentin says he’s anxious to let Nina know. In that soap way of how things work, Nina is suddenly there and says, let me know what?
Jordan says she’ll get an answer from ballistics soon. Margaux says she’s optimistic. Jordan can’t promise anything, but she’s got a good team. They can see if the bullet matches anything used in another crime. Margaux says tell her more about Charlie’s. Jordan says it’s connected loosely to Frank Smith Margaux says maybe they can connect him to the history of the body, and Jordan calls for his file to be pulled.
Sonny asks if Carly really wants to do this right now. She asks if he honestly believes this is working. He says he just has to figure it out; he needs more time. Carly asks, how much? Mike has been with them for months. They keep making arrangements, but things happen; big things. Now Julian is involved. Sonny says Julian isn’t going to say anything. He understands Sonny would do anything to keep his father safe. Carly asks if he really thinks he is.
Monica asks Sam where the kids are. Sam says Danny is at a breakfast, and wonders where Michael is. Monica says he wasn’t feeling it, and Sam tells her Scout is upstairs napping. Monica leaves to peek in. Kim says she feels bad for what Michael is going through. Sam says they just need to be there for him and listen. It’s unimaginable. Kim says it sounds like she’s speaking from experience, and Sam says she is. She tells her about Lila being stillborn, and says a foolish woman said she was lucky to never have known her. It would have been worse if she’d started a relationship. Kim says, that’s horrible. Sam says the words came back in her head when Danny was diagnosed with leukemia. She tells Kim that he’s fine now, with no traces of the disease; miracles happen. Sam says, she’s sorry. She didn’t mean to… Kims says, didn’t mean to what? and Sam says, nothing. Kim says she knows, doesn’t she? Sam says Drew told her. She’s so sorry. Kim does not look happy.
Sonny says everything he does is to protect his father, and Carly says he’s gone above and beyond, but she doesn’t think it’s working. Sonny says when he makes a mistake, he tries to fix it. Carly says he can’t fix what’s wrong with Mike. She loves him too, and wants what’s best for him. Sonny needs to decide while Mike still can. Sonny tells her Mike has already said he doesn’t want to be a burden, and Carly says he’s been clear about that. Sonny is wonderful with his dad, but he’s missing something important. He needs to take Mike at his word, and let him go. Mike hears the conversation.
Sam tells Kim that she could tell something was wrong. Drew didn’t want to, but finally told her Oscar’s prognosis. Kim says it’s none of her business. Sam says Drew was a wreck; he needed to talk to someone, and he trusts her. Kim can too. She’s sorry. They’re a family; their kids are siblings. If they need anything, Sam is there for her. Kim says they’re fine. Monica runs in, saying Drew is early.
Drew comes toward the patio. Monica, Sam, and Kim grab balloons and yell, surprise! He fake smiles.
On the phone, Maxie tells Olivia, tell the elevator guys to hurry. She has a meeting, and they’re stuck between eight and nine. She tells Peter the elevator company is on the way; there’s no need to freak out. She isn’t. He starts hyperventilating. He hits some buttons, and she says they shut the elevator down. They need to work on it for an hour – or less.
Nina tells Valentin, keeping secrets as usual. She doesn’t care. She needs to talk to Curtis about a pressing matter. Curtis leaves with Nina.
Nina describes a man in the bar to Curtis, and says he’s following her. (He bumped into her earlier.) She asks if Curtis thinks she’s paranoid, and he says no, judging from what appears to be a firearm in his jacket. He tells Nina, stay cool; he’s got it. He throws the guy against the bar, and the guy says he has a permit to conceal. Nina says she calls it being stalked. She’s calling the police. Curtis looks at his ID, and tells her, hold on. He’s a bodyguard. Nina asks, for who? and the guy says her. Nina says she didn’t hire a bodyguard, and Valentin says he did.
Maxie asks Peter if he’s okay; he seems a little not okay. Does he have a thing about being confined? Usually he’s so in control. He says this is new for him, and continues hyperventilating. Maxie wonders if him being tied to a bed for weeks has something to do with it, and he says, could be. He unbuttons hi shirt, saying he doesn’t feel like he can breathe. Maxie tells him the air is fine; it’s not hermetically sealed. She suggests they sit and try breathing; in through the nose, out through the mouth. She says the last time they were breathing together, she was on the side of the road in labor. This should be a piece of cake. He says it’s embarrassing, and she begins a breathing exercise.
Curtis tells the guy, his bad, and Valentin tells him to go. Curtis tells the patrons, everything is fine; pardon the interruption. His phone rings, and he steps away to take the call. Nina asks why Valentin hired someone to spy on her. He says he’s protecting her. It’s been brought to his attention that she has an enemy. Nina says, you can’t run a fashion magazine without occasionally stepping on Erica Kane’s toes. Valentin tells her Cassandra is on the loose.
Monica tells Drew to trust her. He might think a family birthday is a big ordeal, but he’s going to be happy looking back on the memories. Kim leaves to check on Oscar, and Sam says Scout should just be finishing her nap, so they should go. I wonder where everyone else is. Drew asks why Sam is leaving, and she says she was just planning to drop by; she didn’t think he’d want her to stay. He asks her to stick around.
Inside the Quartermaine’s, Kim leaves Oscar a message, saying she doesn’t like going to voicemail. He’s supposed to have his phone on at all times. His father showed up early, and they had to start without him. She tells him to text her, and hurry up. Drew walks in, and she asks if he was really surprised. He says he picked up on a clue or two, but didn’t want to put a damper on things. She asks if they can meet later and talk about Oscar. Nothing has changed, but they need to figure out how to communicate better. She had no idea he was going to tell Sam.
Oscar strolls on to the patio. He asks Monica if Drew was surprised. She says, yes, but it was fake. Sam asks about his hand, and he says he bumped into something. She says it looks like he was in a fight.
Margaux asks about Luke and Laura, and Jordan explains that Luke was Frank Smith’s guy. He ran a club, and did money laundering. He and Laura eventually turned Frank in for racketeering. Margaux would like to talk to them, but Jordan says they’re both out of town. She might have more success with Laura. She says she can speak with Laura’s husband; he testified for Carly. Margaux says that Sonny is on the list of Frank Smith’s known associates. Wouldn’t they have known this already? Oh, never mind.
Sonny says he’s not abandoning his father, but Carly says he’ll be honoring his father’s wishes, and taking a step to him from himself. He’s terrified he’ll hurt someone he loves. He can’t say it straight out. Mike doesn’t want to abandon Sonny. Sonny says he doesn’t know how to send Mike out of sight; it’s painful. There are a lot of options; they can come up with a plan. Carly says it’s not about him, it’s about Mike, and what he needs and wants. Sonny says what if Mike doesn’t know? Mike comes out, and says he’s wondering that right now. He has a full deck and a sound mind. Carly is right. He has to go. It’s what he wants, and it’s time.
Sonny asks how long he’s been there, and Mike says, long enough. Carly says they didn’t mean for him to hear, but he says, everything needed to be said. It’s not like it isn’t true. Sonny says, nothing is settled, but Mike says he and Carly are in agreement. He gave it his best shot; it’s time to rethink things. Sonny says he’s open to other arrangements. They could get live-in help, make him more secure. Staying there is better. He has family who love him. Mike isn’t so sure that’s a selling point. He says right now, every day, he’s losing himself, bit by bit. A little more; a little faster. Avery told Carly that her other name is Courtney, because that’s what he calls her sometimes. He wonders about the day he doesn’t recognize her. He can’t bear to think about it, and doesn’t want to cause more worry in Sonny’s own home. Carly says it’s his home too; it always will be. Sonny says he’ll always do everything keep Mike. Mike asks, at what point does a home stop being a home, and become a prison?
Kim tells Drew, the more people who know, the better the chance of Oscar finding out from the wrong person or the wrong way. Drew says that’s easily remedied by telling him the truth. She says he needs to pull it together; it’s all over his face. Sam interrupts, saying Oscar is there; they might want to come out. Don’t worry, but it looks like he’s been in a fight.
Nina says Valentin is making this up, and he tells her, ask Anna. She wanted to tell Nina, but he asked her to let him do it. Nina says, Cassandra is in custody, and he says, someone broke her out. She says, Cassandra is in a coma, and Valentin says, now she’s not. Thanks to Finn. The same people who held him and Anna in captivity, forced him to treat her. Nina wonders who would help Cassandra, and Valentin says he’d like to know himself. She says, the WSB must be on it, and he says, they lost her in the first place. Nina isn’t happy that the bodyguard reports to Valentin, so he can monitor her every move. Valentin suggests she move back to Windemere. She can have her own wing; he won’t bother her. I’m in. He needs to know she’s safe. Nina says she feels safer on the mainland. If she needs a bodyguard, she’ll hire one herself. Here he is now. Curtis returns.
Peter asks Maxie, how much longer, and she says, they’re working on it right now. She suggests they play game. Would You Rather. She asks if he’d rather lose all his money and valuables, or all his photos. He says, it’s a draw. He’s already lost all his money, and he lived; and he has no pictures. She asks why, and he says he’d need to have someone to be in the pictures. She asks if he’d rather lose short or long term memory, and he says short. Maxie says she’d be the opposite, and he says if he forgot the bad things he’s done, he couldn’t make up for them.
Curtis joins Nina and Valentin. He asks what Cassandra has against Valentin, and Valentin says they worked together long ago. She’s obsessed with him. She’s violent, and has it out for Nina. Curtis says he can hook her up with some protection, but Nina says she can take care of herself. Cassandra had better steer clear of her, or she’ll heed protection.
Peter says, there are some things in life you can’t atone for, and Maxie says, people throw that word around easily. They say it like it’s difficult to accomplish. She’s not aiming that at him, but her own experience. She’s made mistakes and hurt people. He says, way back in her horrible days? and she says it wasn’t that long ago. He says she’s come a long way. A lot of people hold her in high regard. Maybe there’s hope for him yet. She asks if he’d rather wear his shirts too big or too small, and he says, too big. She says, and hide his muscles? If you’ve got them, flaunt them. Oh brother. The elevator starts moving. Peter thanks her, and when it stops, the doors open and they fall out. Nina is like, wha-a-at?
Oscar tells Kim and Drew that they need to chill. They’re making way too much of this. Kim says he was in a fight, and Oscar says, barely. Monica says it’s not bad, and Oscar points out she does open heart surgery. Someone said something he didn’t like, and it was over in seconds. If Drew hadn’t taught him how to throw a punch, he would have gotten his ass kicked. Drew says he taught him how to defend himself, not throw a punch at whoever pisses him off. Oscar says, it’s not like anyone died. Kim says he just got out of the hospital. Monica is surprised.
Jordan says Sonny worked for Frank Smith; he ran Franks strip club, but there’s no connection. Sonny wasn’t in Port Charles at the time the body was buried. Margaux says, then their best lead is to learn who knew the pub owner and locate them. She knows where to start.
Sonny tells Mike it’s not a prison. Mike says Sonny has to listen, now, while he’s having a good moment. It’s no fun see people watching him from the edge of their seats or hovering, being totally confused about who he is. This is his reality, and he can’t stand them seeing him like this. Sonny says it’s just his pride talking, and Mike says, so what if it is? Isn’t he allowed to have some pride and dignity? Sonny asks if he thinks he’d be better off with strangers. Mike asks what happens the day he wakes up and they’re strangers? Will he understand then? Sonny says he doesn’t know how to do this. Mike says he left Sonny before, to his everlasting regret. He’d do anything if he didn’t have to leave him again, but it will happen one way or another. This way, they leave with good feelings instead of Mike just disappearing before his eyes. They’re both crying, and making me cry. Not only is Mike killing me, I’ll be very sad to see Max Gail go.
Nina doesn’t want to know. Maxie says she has the wrong idea, and follows her down the hall.
Curtis asks Valentin how much of the Cassandra situation he left out, and Valentin says he’ll worry about Cassandra. He wants Curtis to focus on Nina’s daughter. Curtis says the phone call was from his forensic accountant. The trace went through. Officially, it’s a single mother with a daughter the same age as Nina’s would be today. Well that sure narrows it down.
Monica says, you don’t go to the hospital for a headache, but Oscar says he didn’t eat, passes out, and Jason overreacted. Kim says, he acted with an abundance of caution, and she’s glad he did. Oscar suggests they cut the cake, and Monica asks him to do it. He says he’s bad at it, and doesn’t like being the center of attention (like his dad). Monica says she’ll keep that in mind when it’s his birthday – and throw an even bigger party. Do five people, including the guest, even qualify as a party? I ask again, where is everyone?
Sonny tells Mike there are places that have all-day activities, and you come home at night. He can ease into it, and they can ease into it. Mike says it sounds like a plan, but he’d still like to check out the residential facilities while he still can. He wants to have a say before he can’t. He and Sonny shake on it.
The house phone rings, and someone is at the door. Sonny tells Max to have them go away, but Carly says it’s too late. Margaux and Jordan walk in. They have questions related to the body found under Charlie’s. Sonny tells them that he’s said everything he has to say. Margaux says they’re not there to speak to him. They’re here to talk to his father.
On Monday, Oscar tells Josslyn about the fight, Robin says a hideous injustice has been done, and Cameron wants to know why Elizabeth is so interested in Oscar.
👹 The Sy – we can’t spell – Fy channel has been showing mini marathons of Z Nation on Friday mornings. Today they had one of my favorite episodes, Day One, where we see the backstories of the major characters; where they were when the apocalypse broke out. My main question was, how did Doc know what was going on so quickly? He just grabbed a bag of drugs and ran. It also unearthed (pun intended) a great quote from Addy’s story:
Zombie night? ** No. That’s next Thursday. – one hockey player to another when zombies appear at a game.
I’m hoping this is paving the way for the new season. And when will that be? Who knows? This was the latest I could find…
🍗 And For the Ravenous Fan…
Neal McDonough will be in both the new season of Yellowstone and Sonic the Hedgehog.
📚 Quotes of the Week
Five for the literary, and three for the fun.
Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. – from An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be the same person every day. – from Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read. – from Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
When in doubt, go to the library. – from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. – from Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
I just ate a duck fetus out of the shell. – Tarik, 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days
The only thing that separates us from animals is out ability to accessorize. – Claire (Shirley Maclaine), Steel Magnolias
Damn. There’s all kinds of gravity in here. – GG, Shahs of Sunset
🏇 Until Next Time…
What I Watched - TV With Theresa 