What I Watched Today

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

 

⚠️ This is what I get for not checking over the weekend. A new GH episode popped up. According to my source, it’s supposed to be aired tomorrow, but we’ve heard that one before. Today, they’re showing a rerun from when Shiloh held Sam hostage on The Haunted Star. In any case – SPOILER ALERT – here’s the new one.

General Hospital

Jax kisses Nina, then says it was highly inappropriate; he’s her boss. She tells him, if it helps, she never really considered him her boss. Besides, it wasn’t about work. Ava breezes in, saying she’s glad she found them, and asks if it’s a bad time.

Nikolas goes to the hospital reception desk, and Epiphany says, Prince Cassadine, back from the dead. He asks if she can tell him where Elizabeth is. She says, working, and leaves the desk. Doc approaches, and asks if Nikolas isn’t finding everyone as welcoming as he’d hoped. Nikolas says he can understand his family being angry, but Epiphany? Doc says Nikolas hurt people she cares about, and Nikolas asks if that’s why Doc hates him. Doc says he’s angry, but he doesn’t hate Nikolas. Mostly, he’s mystified. How does a man who claims good manners and family devotion lie so heartlessly to the people he loves?

Elizabeth sees Finn, and asks how Violet is doing. He says she likes school, and loves dance, so he enrolled her in a class. She misses her mom. Elizabeth says they don’t know if Hayden is out of danger yet, but he’s not sure she was in danger in the first place. She says Hayden left to protect Violet, and he says Elizabeth doesn’t know, does she?

In Brooklyn, the shootout continues. Mike freaks out, yelling, no, no, no, no! Sonny tries to keep him down and behind something. The gunman grabs Maggie, and Jason points his gun, saying, let her go and he’ll live. And we all know Jason can shoot through the eye of a needle.

At the warehouse, Carly ducks behind some coffee bags. Gladys says they’re all going to be killed, but Tony tells her to stay in the office; the glass is bulletproof. As it always is at a coffee warehouse. A guy, presumably a warehouse worker, tells Carly not to move, and shoots back, along with Tony and another employee.

Josslyn calls 911 from the docks. Dustin comes out of nowhere, and gets the better of the guy shooting at them, but the guy takes off. Dustin chases him, and Michael asks if everyone is okay. He calls to Laura, but there’s no answer. He finds her shot and slumped over.

Still at the courthouse, Valentin sees Jordan and tells her, it’s a nice day for a stroll. She says, out on bail isn’t the same as going free, but he says, it’s a step in the right direction. She tells him, enjoy it while he can, and he says he intends to – for quite a long time.

Doc says Laura told him Nikolas was going to France to see Spencer, and Nikolas says it wasn’t the reunion he’d imagined. Doc asks what Nikolas said, and Nikolas tells him, nothing that mattered. He knew people would be angry because he lied, but he thought his being alive would be better news. Doc says, silver lining; they wouldn’t be so angry if they didn’t love him so much. When the anger fades, the love will come back. Nikolas asks if he has any idea when, and Doc nods and says, eventually. Nikolas hopes he’s right. In the meantime, he has other bridges to build.

Finn tells Elizabeth that Hayden was led to believe she was attacked. It was staged. She was convinced that she was in danger and that Violet would only be safe if Hayden left her with Finn. Elizabeth asks why Valentin would do that.

On the phone, Josslyn says, the gunman ran away, but Laura’s been shot, and they need an ambulance. Sasha tells Michael to elevate Laura’s feet. They tell Laura to stay strong; the ambulance is on its way. Michael asks Josslyn how long it’s going to be, and Josslyn says, five minutes, telling 911 to hurry. Dustin comes back, and asks if he can help. He lost the shooter, who ran down an alley and got away. Josslyn asks if it matters. He saved them. Well, yes, Josslyn, it does matter, since he’s still out there.

At the warehouse, mystery guy tells Carly they have to move, and they run to another location. Mystery guy gets shot on the way, but still keeps shooting back.

Jason tells the gunman to let Maggie go. Sonny tries to keep Mike calm, but Mike is still yelling, and says he wants to go home. Jason moves closer, and Maggie elbows the gunman, getting away. Jason shoots him, and tells Maggie, it’s okay. Sonny and Mike get up.

Nina tells Ava, it was just an impromptu celebration. Jax says, in a era of slumping magazine sales, Crimson’s numbers are climbing. Ava says Jax really does have the golden touch, but Nina thinks the editor-in-chief had something to do with it. Ava says she was speaking about Jax’s talent for picking winners. Her husband, the prince, is grateful for Jax restoring balance to his family. He’ll be happy to repay Jax when his assets are unfrozen. Jax says, so she hasn’t given him the codicil yet, and she says they’re negotiating. He asks what Ava gets once the assets are unfrozen, and she says, what every woman wants; an island of her own, and a diversified portfolio. I hear that.

Josslyn calls Jax, and tells him that she’s at the pier. Somebody started shooting. He asks if she’s safe, and she says she thinks so. The gunman ran off and the police are on their way. He asks, what pier? and she says, 55. He says he’s on his way.

Valentin tells Jordan, the judge granted him a brand new start, but she says, no, they haven’t. He says the charges are minor felonies, and since he’s had no convictions, it should all go away pretty quickly. In the meantime, he has to find a new place to live for him and his daughter. Jordan’s phone rings, and she listens a moment, then asks about casualties, telling them to send a status report. She wants to be at GH when the mayor is brought in. Valentin listens.

Finn asks why Elizabeth assumes it’s Valentin who had Hayden attacked, and she says he wanted her out of  town. He says, it wasn’t Valentin, and she says, then who? She sees Nikolas, and asks if he saw Spencer. He says he did, and she asks how it went. Nikolas asks if it’s a bad time, and Finn says, so you’re the guy. He and Elizabeth were just discussing Hayden, Elizabeth’s sister who was forced to leave town. Nikolas takes it that there’s been no word from her, and says he’s sorry to hear that. Finn says, is he? Nikolas says, of course (🍷), and asks if Finn would mind excusing them. He has something to discuss with Elizabeth. Before Finn has a chance to answer, Epiphany calls to him, telling him there’s been a shooting at the docks. He asks, how many incoming? and she says as far as she knows, just one. Elizabeth might want to sit this one out; it’s Laura. Doc overhears.

On the phone, Michael says, close the gates and double the guards. Don’t let anyone in they don’t recognize. He’s trying to get ahold of his father, but both Sonny and Jason aren’t answering. Chase arrives, and asks, what happened? Michael says, a gunman showed up and started firing. Laura was hit. Chase says he got that from dispatch, but needs to know everything that happened. Who saw the gunman first? Josslyn says she did, and Chase asks what she remembers. She says she left her journal there when she and Michael were talking earlier. She came back, and there was a guy with a gun. The gun was pointed at Michael, so she screamed for him to look out.

Carly tells Tony, one of his guys was hit. Tony asks if they can get to the office. She says they can’t, and he tells her to stay there, but she pulls mystery guy up. They don’t make it all the way to the office, but get down behind some shelving. The guy asks if Carly is crazy.

The police arrive at the bar in Brooklyn. Mike keeps repeating that he wants to go home, and Sonny says they will. Mike asks, when? A woman comes in and asks one of the cops what they’ve got. He says, the shooter is dead, and she asks, who did it? He points to Jason, then says, the waitress saw the whole thing, and she asks what Jason said. He says, so far, nothing. She introduces herself to Maggie as Detective Fiona Harlan. Maggie introduces herself, and Fiona asks her to describe what happened. Maggie says, these three guys came in, indicating Sonny, Jason, and the old man. She says Mike is the only one who introduced himself, and sat at the bar talking with her, but they were no trouble. Fiona asks about the gunman, and Maggie says he came in afterward and ordered coffee at the bar. Fiona asks if she noticed anything unusual, but Maggie says, no. Mike and the other guys paid their bill and started to leave, and that’s when the guy started shooting. Everything happened so fast. Fiona asks Maggie to just tell her what she remembers, and Maggie says she ducked behind the bar. She realized Jason – suddenly remembering his name – was shooting back, but the guy grabbed her and stuck his gun in her side. Jason had his gun pointed at the guy, who said she was coming with him, and she freaked out. She tried to pull away, and heard another shot. Then the gunman was just dead. Fiona says, Jason shot him, and Maggie says he saved her life.

Nina hopes Josslyn is okay, and asks Ava what she thinks Jax meant in asking Josslyn if she was safe. Ava doesn’t know, but says he wouldn’t have told Josslyn to stay if she wasn’t. She says it’s nice to see Nina back in the proverbial saddle, taking care of Crimson, the fashion world, and her personal life all at once. Nina says, all of that takes a considerable amount of energy, so if Ava doesn’t mind… Ava says it’s been a whirlwind. She was thrown off the parapet by Valentin, and rescued by Nikolas just in time to interrupt Nina’s wedding. Nina says, she remembers; she was there. Ava tells her, she could say Nina tossed the bouquet and she caught it. Nina adds, she ran with it, and Ava says it worked out for the both of them. Nina says if Ava got everything she wanted, why is she there? and Ava says she just wanted to check in. Nina says she knows better. She thinks Ava came there to find a friend.

Laura is wheeled into GH, and on to the ER. Doc asks Jordan if they know who did this, and Jordan says, the gunman is still at large. Doc asks if it could have anything to do with Laura’s plans to rebuild the waterfront, but Nikolas says, Sonny runs the waterfront, and there’s no way he’d do this to her. Dustin introduces himself to Nikolas, and says he must be Lulu’s brother. He already called Lulu, and she’s on her way. Jordan asks Dustin what he knows, and Dustin says he was out walking, and heard gunshots from the pier. He ran toward them, and saw the gunman firing. She asks if he was firing randomly, but he says it looked like the gunman was aiming for Michael.

Sasha tells Chase she didn’t notice anything until Josslyn started yelling. Chase asks if the shooter was firing at Laura, but Sasha says Michael pulled her behind a crate and she didn’t see anything else. Jax shows up, and asks if Josslyn is okay. Josslyn hugs him, and says, someone was shooting at Michael. Chase asks if Michael has any idea what’s going on. Michael isn’t sure, and says he can’t get ahold of his dad or Jason which is unusual.

Mystery guy tells Carly he’s okay, but she says he’s not. He’s shot and bleeding. She says she’ll be back, but he tells her not to go anywhere. Tony tells another guy that the remaining gunman ran out of ammo, and they move forward, shooting, but the gunman hides. (I didn’t see it, but I assume the other gunman took off.) They find him crouched down behind the coffee bags, and Tony tells the him that Sonny isn’t going to be happy; his wife is in the warehouse. Carly tells mystery guy the shooting has stopped, but he says, sometimes they do that to draw you out. She sees a first aid kit, and wants to get it, but mystery guy says if she gets shot, it defeats the purpose, and  tells her to stay there. She says when he passes out, she’ll do what the hell she wants.

Mike says he wants to go home, and Sonny tells him, the police want them to wait. Mike is afraid he’s going to get in trouble, but Sonny says he won’t. What happened wasn’t his fault, but the police want them to wait. Fiona asks for Jason’s ID, and tells him, Maggie said he saved her life. She asks if he has a license to carry a gun, and he says he does. She says he took a big chance; firing when the gunman had Maggie. Either he’s an expert shot, or very lucky. She asks him to tell her what happened, but he says he’s not saying anything without his attorney. I laugh.

Carly tells mystery guy, there are no more gunshots. We hear sirens, and she says, it’s over; the police are on their way. He tells her, stay put and wait for the cops. She asks if he wants to bleed to death, but he says he won’t. Tony asks who the gunman works for, and the gunman tells him, go to hell. Tony punches him in the face, and tells his guy to take the gunman to the ice house; Sonny will want to talk to him. He asks if Carly is okay, and she says she is, but mystery guy got shot. Tony tells her, it’s over, and she asks him to get the first aid kit. She also wants Sonny to know, this man saved her life and deserves a raise. Tony says, he doesn’t work for Sonny.

Jax wonders if it could be an enemy of Sonny’s targeting the family, but Michael doesn’t know. He can’t reach Sonny or Jason, and everything is quiet at the house. Jax says Josslyn seems convinced that the gunman was after Michael. Michael thinks so too, but Sasha says he has nothing to do with Sonny’s business. Josslyn says, maybe the gunman doesn’t know that. Chase comes back, and says he’s gotten multiple reports of shots fired at the coffee warehouse, and an exchange of gunfire. He asks Michael where Sonny is, and Michael says Sonny isn’t there. He’s in Brooklyn.

Fiona introduces herself to Mike and Sonny, who looks like he has a headache. She wants to ask them some questions, but Mike says Sonny told him that he could go home. Sonny says they will, but he’s going to talk to Fiona first. He steps aside with Fiona, and explains that his dad has Alzheimer’s, and asks if Maggie can sit with him, since she calms him down. Maggie says, no problem, and talks to Mike at the bar. Mike asks when they’ll get to go home, and she says, soon she hopes. She can’t wait. Fiona asks for Sonny’s ID, and says, Michael Corinthos Jr., better known as Sonny. She tells him they’re taking Jason in for questioning. It’s clear it was self-defense, but Jason has a list of priors so long, it almost crashed their system. Sonny says, Jason saved Maggie’s life, and Fiona asks if Jason was there as his bodyguard, but Sonny says Jason was there as his friend. She says she has a shot up pub, a traumatized waitress, and a dead gunman on his way to the morgue. She needs to know who tried to kill him, and he needs to answer her questions there. If she has to take him to the station, Mike has to go too, and she doesn’t think it would be good for him.

Lulu runs into GH, and asks Dustin where her mother is. He says she’s in the ER, and Lulu asks, what happened? He says he was at the pier, heard gunshots, and went to investigate. Her mother had been hit, and he knocked the shooter down, but he got away. She says, he stopped the gunman? but he says, it was no big deal. Valentin joins them, and says he heard Lulu’s mother has been shot. She says Charlotte and Rocco are safe at the Quartermaine’s, and he asks how Laura is. She asks if he’s jealous that someone got to her before he did, and he says to give her his best. Nikolas wonders why Valentin is there, and wants to find out what he said to Lulu. Doc says if Lulu needs Nikolas, she’ll let him know. Right now, Laura is the only thing that matters.

Sonny tells Fiona that he doesn’t know who sent the gunman. She asks if he’s received any threats lately, or hostile overtures. He says after New Year’s Eve, someone stole one of his trucks and burned it. He doesn’t know who’s responsible, and no one ever contacted him. She asks why he’s in Brooklyn, and he says for his dad. Maggie talks to Mike about a runner who was in the top ten of the world, and had no formal training. She thinks there’s a lesson there about living your life to the fullest. Sonny tells Fiona that his dad is supposed to be evaluated for a possible Alzheimer’s trial. They grew up in Brooklyn, and he’d hoped Mike would feel something familiar.

Carly tries to help mystery guy, when Jordan comes in. Carly calls that they need some help, and Jordan asks, what the hell happened? Carly says, first, they need an ambulance; a man has been shot. Jordan says, it’s on its way, and Carly tells him to keep his eyes open. Jordan asks Tony, what happened? and he says, two guys showed up and started shooting; we shot back. She asks if by we, he means mystery guy, but Tony says he’s never seen him before. He doesn’t work for Sonny. Carly says she was trapped, and mystery guy showed up, started shooting back, and helped her get away. Jordan wonders if he was working with the gunmen and switched sides for some reason.

Chase asks Michael to go through it again, but Sasha says he already has. Three times is excessive, and four borders on harassment. Michael is his friend, and has had his and Willow’s backs countless times. They spent New Year’s Eve together. Someone just tried to kill Michael, and Chase is acting like Michael knew something. Michael says Chase is just doing his job.

Josslyn sees Dustin at the hospital and introduces him to Jax, saying he just saved her life. Jax thanks him, and Dustin gives Josslyn her journal, saying she might want to write about this. She says they’re her innermost thoughts and feelings, and she keeps leaving them at the docks. Dustin says she was probably distracted by the gunfire.

Finn comes out of the ER, and Doc asks how Laura is. Finn says she’s regained consciousness, and is asking for him. Nikolas asks if she’s going to be okay, and Finn says it’s a difficult surgery to remove the bullet, but he’s hopeful. Elizabeth hugs Nikolas.

Doc goes in to see Laura, and she says she told him the docks weren’t safe. He suggests sending a security team first next time.  He tells her that he loves her and they’re all there for her. Lulu and Nikolas are there, and they all need her.

Ava doubts she and Nina will ever be friends. Friendship is too kind a word. Nina suggests an olive branch, and Ava thinks they should get a drink and take it from there. Valentin appears, and says, it’s a great idea. He has something to celebrate; he was released on bail. Ava says he tried to kill her, but he says there was no proof or reliable witness, so there were no charges brought against him for her unfortunate accident. He asks Ava to give him and Nina some privacy, but Ava tells Nina it’s clear she shouldn’t be alone with Valentin. If he approaches Nina when she’s alone, Nina can call her; day or night. Perhaps they could all meet on her parapet for old times’ sake. Valentin says Ava is acting like a protector when they’re standing in the office where Ava shot a woman and left her for dead. Nina tells him, go, and he says he will. He just wanted her to know he’s practically a free man.

Nikolas thanks Finn for taking such good care of his mother, and Finn says, speaking of mothers, his daughter would like hers back. He knows what Nikolas did. They can deal with it later, but in the meantime, Nikolas forgot to tell Elizabeth what he did to her sister. Nikolas says he hasn’t, and Finn says, good. Elizabeth should know the role he played in Hayden abandoning her child. Nikolas says he came straight from the airport to do just that, but now isn’t the time. Laura is wheeled into surgery.

Jordan asks how mystery guy is, and Carly says, his pulse is strong, but he’s bleeding a lot. She asks if Jordan could hurry the ambulance, and Jordan says if she could, she would. In the meantime, she needs to know if Carly was the intended target. Gladys comes out, and Jordan spins around, pointing her gun. Gladys says she has nothing to do with any of this. She was an innocent bystander, and someone started… She looks at mystery guy, and says, Brando?

Michael tells Chase that he has no idea who the gunman is. Chase asks if Michael would tell him if he did, and Michael hopes it doesn’t come to that.  Chase says, it has. He just got word there was a shooting in a pub in Brooklyn. Apparently Sonny was the intended target. Michael asks if Sonny is hurt, and Chase says, he’s fine and being questioned at the scene. The NYPD brought Jason in, because apparently, he shot the gunman. It would appear someone is making a move against Sonny. If he knows how this works, Sonny is going to tell Michael who it is, and that he’ll handle it, but if Michael really wants to save lives, let the police handle it.

Fiona says she hates to tell Sonny, but there were two shootings in Port Charles this afternoon. One at Pier 55; the intended target, Michael Corinthos III. Sonny asks if Michael was hurt, and she says he was unharmed, but there was another shooting at the coffee warehouse. She has no information on possible casualties. The way she sees it, she has two choices; she can keep him in Brooklyn, and risk another shooting, or make him the PCPD’s problem. He’s free to go, but may be contacted in the future. Sonny says she has his full cooperation. He asks how it’s going with Mike, and Maggie says they were just talking about marathons. After today, she might try running one. He thanks her for being kind to Mike, and she tells him to thank his friend for saving her life.

The clinic calls to confirm Mike’s appointment for evaluation, but Sonny says they’re not going to be able to make it; there’s a family emergency. The woman says if Mike doesn’t come in today, they can’t consider him for the trial. Sonny says he understands, but can’t bring him. He tells Mike they’re going home.

⛴ See you on Deck later!