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Sep8

September 7, 2021 – The Bride Goes Missing, Watching Rules, New Victor On New Victor, What a Tease, C-List Split, Lost Too Soon & Last

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Portia comes into The Savoy, and tells Curtis that she was glad to get his text. He says he’s sorry, and she asks, why? He says because he asked her to come down there, now he’s all caught up with this. She says, no big deal. Is there a problem with the club? He says, it’s not the club; he’s on a case. She says she thought he left all that P.I. stuff behind him, and he says, he did, but this one’s personal. Did he ever tell her about his good friend Drew Cain? She says, he was Oscar’s dad, right? Sam’s ex? He says, he disappeared in a plane crash a few years ago. Sam has reason to believe he’s still alive. So going with that theory could set them up for some really good news, or something really disappointing. Sam comes in.

Josslyn comes into the living room with Trina, and says, good morning, bride-to-be, and Carly says she only slept a little. Josslyn says her too; she’s so excited. Trina wanted to say hi before Carly’s big day. Trina says, happy wedding, and Carly thanks her. Trina says she knows Carly and Jason are going to be really happy together, and Carly says, that’s the plan.

Jason sits in the interrogation room at the station, when Dante comes in. He says, sorry. Jason wasn’t the one who wanted to fight, but he’s the one they got ahold of. Previous charges were dropped two months ago, but the DA wants to go over the entire incident report. It’s bureaucratic BS. Jason tell him, don’t worry about it. He doesn’t want special treatment. Dante says he’s not giving any to Jason. Here they are again. On opposite sides, when there’s so much that connects them. It’s too bad Jason doesn’t just ditch the career criminal thing. They could break bread one of these days.

On the terrace, Trina tells Josslyn that her dad was asking all kinds of questions about the sauce. It must have been a big hit. Josslyn says, yeah… and Trina asks if it went bad or something, but Josslyn says, no. The sauce was delicious. She knows it’s going to sound insane, but that sauce tasted exactly like Sonny’s.

Nina gets to the Tan-O, but before she goes inside, she flashes back to Sonny telling her that he’s in love with her. She goes inside, and says, oh my God. What happened? There’s lumber and boxes everywhere, and Sonny says, Lenny left them a surprise.

Jordan and Shawn go through papers, and Jordan says, none of these names are ringing any bells. She’s sorry, but they might have to brace themselves for the possibility that the manifest from Naomie’s flight is another dead end. He says, there has to be something in there to lead them to Hayden’s shooter, because whoever it was, wanted her dead so badly, when he started asking questions six years later, they offed her mother. To go through that much trouble, this person has something major to hide, and he wants to find out what it is.

Nikolas and Spencer sit at a table by the pool (🍷), and Spencer takes a selfie. He says, Esme wanted them to have a fun day, and Nikolas says he is. Spencer says he looks like he’d like to be literally anywhere else. Nikolas says he’s sorry. The six weeks are up, and as soon as Ava gets Scotty back to work, their divorce is going to be finalized. Forgive him if he’s not in a festive mood, but he’d understand if Spencer is.

On he phone at the gallery, Ava says she knows the paperwork is ready, but she’s just not ready to go through with it yet… Does it sound like she cares what they think? She hangs up, and someone startles her.

Sam says Curtis told her that he has an update on a lead, and he says he talked to the nurse who took care of Nina at Creighton-Clark. She gave him the contact information of a guy she worked with in the records department. Apparently, he dealt with both patients and the record company. Sam says, that’s amazing, and Curtis says, there’s just one catch.

On the phone, Dante says, there is no charge… He would, but the system’s down. He can’t have access and needs authorization, so can they put it through?… There’s nothing to resolve. He’s not going to prison. It was a drunk and disorderly, so make it happen. He hangs up, and says he hopes this doesn’t ruin Jason’s wedding day. Jason says, it is what it is. As for him, he just has to put a suit on. Dante sits down, and asks if Carly is going to make Jason wear a tie, but Jason doesn’t know. He guesses he’ll find out when he opens the garment bag. He says, it must be strange to Dante; him marrying Carly after all the years she was married to Sonny. Dante says, not really. He thinks Sonny would approve. It was always the three of them, since Dante was working undercover. They were a unit – Jason, Sonny, and Carly. He remembers being amazed at how devoted Jason and Carly were to Sonny. Jason says, it’s because of everything Sonny did for them. He was a great friend, a great mentor, just a stand-up guy. Dante says, he didn’t see it that way. When he first got there, all he could think was about sending Sonny to prison. So he put that case together against him, but… Even then, there were days he didn’t want to do it. He shot at Sonny many times, even though Sonny was his father. Jason says, Dante didn’t think of him that way yet, and Dante says, no. Finally, all these years later, he’s glad he didn’t put Sonny away.  

Carly flashes back to Jason saying they’ll be each other’s safety net; that he needs her to stand by him, no matter what. She says, always, and he says, they’ll figure the rest out later. The doorbell rings, and Carly opens the door to Monica, who says she knows it’s a busy day, but she wonders if Carly has the time to talk.

Sonny tells Nina that Lenny always complained about the ceiling. She says, he mentioned there was a bad leak a couple of years ago; the plywood is rotten and beams have to come down. Sonny says, Lenny assigned him to it. Lenny was going to take down the wallpaper and paint the whole place. He ordered the supplies before he got his diagnosis, and the lumberyard order came this morning. The rest is coming later. She asks if it can be returned, but he says, a lot of it is custom, but Lenny wanted it, so he feels like he owes Lenny to give it to him. She says, in the meantime, there’s not a lot of room for customers, but he says he doesn’t think that’s going to be a problem for Phyllis. She says, Phyllis isn’t in a rush to open it without Lenny. It’s just another argument for renovation. If the Tan-O opens with a different look, there won’t be so many memories attached. I’m thinking, maybe he should ask Phyllis about it first, but he says, now Nina knows what he’s planning to do for the next two or three months. If she wants, she can pitch in. She runs a magazine and has great taste as a designer consultant. That is, if he didn’t scare her off.

Josslyn asks Trina, what’s up with her? Something is obviously wrong. Trina says, it’s nothing. She guesses she’s feeling guilty. Josslyn says, about what? and Trina says, not liking Spencer’s girlfriend. Josslyn says, don’t.   

Ava says Esme scared her half to death, and Esme apologizes. She says she’s been told she has a knack for sneaking up on people. She swears it’s not intentional. She introduces herself, and Ava says she’s Spencer’s friend. Esme says Spencer is her boyfriend. Spencer’s told her so much about Ava; it’s nice to meet her face to face. Ava says, it’s her pleasure, and asks what she can do for Esme. Esme says she’s thinking of purchasing a piece. Her parents strongly advised her to invest in artwork as she got older. Ava says she sounds like she was born into money, and Esme says, yes and no. Her parents couldn’t have children of their own, so she and her siblings were adopted. Ava says, adopted and rich; lucky her. Esme says she’s quite fortunate, and Ava says, it sounds like she had a happy home. Esme says, she supposes everyone was happy enough. Her parents were cool with each other. There was love there, but nothing like Ava and Spencer’s father.

Trina tells Josslyn, Esme’s been nothing but nice to her. She doesn’t know why she doesn’t like Esme. Maybe it’s because she’s into Spencer. Josslyn says, Trina doesn’t like Esme because there’s nothing to like, and Trina asks Josslyn to tell her how she really feels. Josslyn says, she’s a bitch with a capital B. Trina’s seen the way she treats Spencer, like he’s her property. She’s clearly threatened by Trina. Trina asks if she thinks so, and Josslyn says, it’s so obvious. So don’t trick herself into looking for something that isn’t there. Sweet innocent Esme doesn’t exist.

Esme says, Spencer told her all about Ava and his dad, and she has to admit it’s romantic. Nikolas doesn’t want to let Ava go, and it would have to be something uber extreme to get him to stay away. Ava says she just wasn’t sure how far she wanted to take it… Unfortunately, all of her pieces are spoken for. Esme says, too bad. Let her know if anything changes. Ava says she certainly will, and Esme says, safe travels. Ava thanks her, and Esme leaves. Ava makes a call, and says, that thing they talked about? She’s convinced. Do it.   

Nikolas says, before he disappeared, he doesn’t think Spencer is aware of how far he’d fallen. He crossed some serious lines, and did some unforgivable things. Spencer says, like what? and Nikolas says he doesn’t want to go into details, but he was a bad person. Ava motivated him to change his ways. Spencer can think what he wants about her, but Ava is the reason he’s more the man and father Spencer remembers, and not the man he became during those dark times.  

TJ comes into Jordan’s office, and she says, what a surprise. He says, even though he’s about to cancel their dinner? and she says, never mind; get out. They hug, and Shawn comes over. TJ asks, what’s going on? and Shawn says he’s helping Jordan with an investigation. TJ asks if that isn’t a little out of his wheelhouse, but Shawn says, it could lead to finding out who shot Hayden Barnes. TJ says he thought Shawn decided to move on with his life, and Shawn says, he did, but some things need closure, and this is one of those things. His guilt became a shield that prevented a real investigation, and from him being a father. TJ says Shawn taught him to drive. He taught TJ to shave and put on a tie, and TJ asked Shawn about his first girlfriend. He’s not saying Shawn shouldn’t pursue this – he thinks Shawn should – but don’t forget he was TJ’s father in all the right ways, even before they knew it.

Dante tells Jason, that’s a helluva thing for a cop to say, huh? He believes in the law, but didn’t apply it in that instance. Jason says he thinks it’s Dante’s call. Who was he hurting? He’s the one who got shot. If Dante didn’t want to turn Sonny in, or wanted to cover for Sonny because Sonny was his friend, that’s his decision. Dante says he doesn’t regret protecting Sonny, and Jason says, that’s good, because all of their lives would have taken a completely different path if he hadn’t. Dante says he doesn’t think he’s had a chance to wrap his mind around the fact that Sonny is gone.

Monica says she realized she’d never given Jason and Carly her blessing. Not that Carly needs or wants it. Carly says Monica doesn’t have to pretend to like her. She gets it; Monica is AJ’s mom. She doesn’t expect Monica to see the issues they had from her side. Monica says, that’s just the thing. With the truth coming out about Austin, it occurred to her that the Quartermaines can be very cruel to each other, and causes a lot of pain; the cheating, the backstabbing, the blackmailing. But they manage to get past it because they’re family. Whether she likes it or not, that’s what Carly is about to become.

Sonny says he knows he put Nina on the spot when he told her that he loved her. She says, there he goes again, and he says, sorry; he can’t help it. She says she was wrestling with all this last night, and he says he didn’t mean to make her wrestle. She says she knows he didn’t, and he says he just had to tell her how he felt. He doesn’t want her to feel pressure to feel the same, but she says, how could she not feel the same way? Geez. I feel the same way. Sonny looks hot all scruffy.

Shawn says they’re low on coffee, and leaves to get refills. TJ looks at Jordan, and she says, what? He says, come on. Since when does she add civilians to police investigations? She says she enlists outside investigators all the time, and he says, which Shawn is not. She asks, what’s his point? and he says she’s bending a lot of rules, and he knows in a large part that’s because of him. He thanks her, and she says, she does love him little bit, so… He says they’ve been talking a lot about Shawn’s role in his life, but he doesn’t want her to forget how important she is to him; what a spectacular mom she is. She’s his hero. She says, she is? Does he have any idea how proud she is of him? He’s her son, the doctor. He’s the smartest, most compassionate, loyal, and loving person she knows. There is very little credit to be had here. He is who he is because he’s an extraordinary person. To whatever extent she was able to guide, love, and support him, it’s the best thing she’s ever done. He’s the best thing she’s ever done. They hug, and she says she loves him so much. He says he loves her too.

Sam asks Curtis, what’s the problem? Is this guy far away or something? Curtis says, somewhere near the Finger Lakes (upstate NY), and Portia says, that’s lucky. Curtis says, they’re asking for access corporate and patient files. This guy was hesitant about releasing them unless they meet in person. Sam says, great. Finger Lakes, here we come. Portia asks if these are medical files he’s talking about, and Curtis says, some of them. She says, then he’s going to need to fill out a HIPPA form, unless he has a doctor with him. Sam says, how convenient. They have a great doctor right here.

Dante tells Jason, he was barely home when Sonny disappeared, and he was so messed up before he went away. Not that there was anything wrong between him and Sonny, but all the good stuff had dwindled before they had a chance to rebuild it. Go to a Yankees game, have a meal, be with Rocco together… Jason says, all the things that make them see what they have in common, and Dante says he never knew Sonny the way most kids know their dad, but he grew to admire Sonny, and look up to him more like a father/friend. Jason says, they called each other brothers, but it was also father and son. (Ha-ha! I typed don by accident.) Aside from Carly, Sonny was the first person to treat him with respect. Dante says, after his accident? and Jason says, yeah. Sonny taught him so much. Not a lot of people approve of it, but he was always grateful, and it was always his choice. Sonny didn’t force a gun in his hand, but Sonny made sure he knew how to pick one up. Dante guesses his line work isn’t what Sonny would have chosen for him, and Jason says, did Sonny wish Dante wasn’t a cop? Yeah. Dante was his son. He didn’t want to be in opposition of Dante. He didn’t want Dante to lie or look the other way; it’s not a comfortable place to be. Dante says, it’s not, and Jason says, Sonny admired Dante; his courage, honor, and commitment to his job. Most of all, he respected Dante, and that means a lot. Dante says, that’s how he knows Sonny would be okay with Jason marrying Carly. He respected Jason more than anyone. Dante’s phone rings, and he says, here we are. Jason is finally free to go. They shake hands, and Dante says, good luck. Jason thanks him and leaves.

Carly hesitates to remind Monica, but it’s not the first time she’s marrying into the Quartermaines. Monica says, they remember, and Carly says, they weren’t exactly welcoming. Monica says she thinks she was girding herself for the pain she knew Carly’s marriage to AJ would cause. Not just because of AJ’s troubles, or the fact they were so good at exploiting each other’s weaknesses. Carly says, they were experts, and Monica says, it was crystal clear to everyone back then, including AJ – maybe especially AJ – that her heart belonged to Jason. And Jason, for all he loved Robin, it was clear their bond was unbreakable.

Nina tells Sonny was the last thing she was expecting when she walked in; to find him. She saw him as a sign that she… He taught her that we don’t have to be stuck in the circumstances of our lives. If we just let go of the baggage of the past, we find out who we are inside. He taught her that. This place has really become her home, and he’s an enormous part of that. There are a million reasons why they shouldn’t be together. All those reasons, and the fear that what they have will collapse when he finds out who he is; with all of that, she still can’t stay away from him. There’s a lot of risk and vulnerability when you open your heart to someone, and she’s willing to do that with him. If that’s not love, she doesn’t know what is. He asks what she’s saying, and she takes his hand. She tells him, what she’s saying is, she loves him too.

Trina tells Josslyn, Esme said something she can’t get out of her head. She called Kiki Loren. No one ever called Kiki that. Not the staff at GH, not her mom, no one. How did she know that was Kiki’s name? Josslyn says, maybe she read it in the article about Ava’s car being lit on fire, but Trina says, the article referred to her as Kiki. Josslyn says, maybe some other legal document? She looks at her phone, and says, it doesn’t seem to be bothering Spencer. He’s busy taking selfies at the MetroCourt pool (🍷). Trina says, of course (🍷) he is. Enough about Esme. Josslyn needs to get ready for her mom’s wedding. See her there? Josslyn says she can’t wait. They hug, and Trina leaves.

Spencer asks if Nikolas thinks absolution is possible without atonement, and Nikolas guesses not. Spencer says he thinks they better talk about something… Esme interrupts, saying, she’s sorry she’s late. Nikolas looks fabulous. Nikolas thanks her, and asks if they need anything from the bar, but they’re both good. He leaves, and Esme says she knows that look. Spencer is second guessing breaking up Ava and his father, isn’t he?

A woman sees Nikolas, and says she knows him. She’s seen his face in The Invader. He’s Nikolas Cassadine. Nikolas confirms he is, and she asks him to hold a paper. He takes it from her, and she thanks him, saying, he’s just been served.  

Shawn comes back, and TJ says he has to run. He needs to get to the hospital, but a raincheck on dinner. Jordan says, absolutely. Shawn says he’s not sure how Jordan takes her coffee, so he brought a little of everything, which is impossible since he only has two cups with him. TJ says he has to run, but good luck. Shawn thanks him, and TJ leaves. Jordan says, she did one thing right, that’s for sure. Her phone rings, and she answers. She writes something down, and says, great intel; thanks. Shawn says, good news? and she says, the passenger next to Hayden’s mother wasn’t a stranger. They booked their seats together. Shawn says, so they’re close enough to travel together, but he’s nowhere to be found after Naomie dies. She says she’s got his address, and Shawn asks if she feels like a road trip.

Sam tells Curtis, Portia coming with them might be their best shot. He’s more inclined to trust them if they have a doctor with them. If it’s okay with Portia. Portia says she doesn’t want them to break the law. If she can help, she’s in. Curtis asks if she’s sure, and she says, yeah. Sam says, let’s go, but Curtis says, hold on. He was thinking Sam should stay. Sam asks, why? and he says he knows it’s important to her, but think about it. A bunch of people showing up could scare him away. If it’s just him and Portia, he can hide under the radar as the doctor’s boyfriend, and he’ll never know Curtis is a P.I. Sam says, it makes sense, and he says he’ll keep her posted. She thanks him, and tells him, good luck. Portia asks if Curtis wants to drive, or should she, and he says, he’ll drive. She says, of course (🍷).

Sonny asks if this is really happening, and Nina says, it is. Him without a past, and her, trying desperately to forget hers. He says, they shouldn’t fit, but somehow they do, and she says, she was broken, and he put her back together. It’s a huge gamble, and she doesn’t know how they’ll last, but she wants, she needs to see this through. Sonny tells her to say it again; she knows what part he wants to hear again. She says she loves him. She doesn’t know what to do with that. They kiss.  

Carly says Monica is right. Her heart belonged to Jason fully and completely, and she screwed it up big time. She could have lost him forever, but instead they landed in this beautiful place. He’s the best friend she’s ever had. Monica tells her that she’s sure Jason would say the same about her, and Carly says she appreciates Monica coming to see her. Monica says she’s really glad, because it could have totally gone the other way. They’re never going to be best friends, but for Jason and Michael’s sake, Monica would like to try and be civil in-laws. Carly says she’d really like that, and Monica says, then she’ll see Carly at the wedding. Carly says, of course (🍷), and Monica says, it’s interesting, all Carly went through to secure Jason’s love back then, and she finally gets it now. Monica leaves, and Carly ponders this.

Jordan tells Shawn, sorry, but she’s going solo. He says didn’t they agree to work together, and she says, to the extent that they could, but he’s not a cop and he’s not a P.I. He has no legal standing. On top of that, he and Sam were the last people to see Naomie Dreyfuss. And they both discovered her body. If she includes him to go interview a person of interest… He says, it starts to feel like a cover up, and she says, at the very least. Or it could taint the investigation, or even be grounds to have potential evidence or testimony thrown out. He says he definitely doesn’t want that, and Jordan says, if it leads to anything, he’ll be the first to know. She promises. He says, so she’s going alone, and she tells him that she already said that. He says, now? and she says, no time like the present. He tells her, be careful, and she says she’s got this. It’s not her first investigation. She’s a professional. He says, be careful anyway, and she says she will, and heads out.  

Spencer tells Esme, his dad was on some guilt trip that went way over his head, but he realized they’ll never be able to have a true, honest relationship with this secret between them. She asks if he could have a relationship with Nikolas if he stays with Ava. He has to pick his poison. There’s no way he can live with his father if his father is still with Ava. If she had to guess, she’d say he’d probably get used to keeping a secret from him. And if he’s having a tough time, he’s got her. She’s always looking out for him. She said that earlier when she went to see Ava. Trina comes in, and says, what about Ava?

Nikolas asks what the hell the woman is talking about. She starts to walk away, and he looks at the paper, and says, wait. This is a restraining order. His wife got the court to say he has to stay 100 feet away from her, and he’s just hearing about it now? She must have filed the paperwork days ago. The woman says, the state of New York allows for the filer to choose the method of delivery and notification. Have a nice day. He says, you’ve got to be kidding me.

Sam finds Dante at the station, and asks if he has any leads. Curtis is following up Drew’s case, but he doesn’t want her there. She can’t go with him because he doesn’t want her to scare the guy off. Dante says she is pretty scary, and she says she thought maybe the two of them could figure out another path to go down. She really thinks there’s a connection between Drew’s flight and Leethy Unlimited. He asks if she wants to wait and see what Curtis comes back with, but she says she can’t just do nothing. He says, in general or today?

Josslyn walks into the living room looking at her phone. She says she just heard from Olivia. She’s running late because of Leo. She looks up, and there’s no Carly. She says, mom?

Trina asks Esme, why bother Ava when she’s trying to pack up her life? and Esme says she wasn’t trying to bother Ava. She was just wishing her well before she left. Overprotective, aren’t we? Spencer says, Trina and Ava got close when Trina worked for Ava. She’s Trina’s mentor. Esme says she’s sure Trina is like a daughter to Ava, especially after Kiki passed away. Trina asks if she means Loren. That’s what she called Kiki the other day. Esme says, her given name, and Trina says, and the name on her hospital ID badge. The one they found near Ava’s car where it was burnt to a crisp.    

Ava puts her keys in her bag, when Nikolas comes into the gallery. She says he cannot be there, and he says, because of this? He holds up the paper, and says, a restraining order? Why? Because she’s worried he won’t stay away, or she knows she can’t?

Standing on a porch, Jordan checks the address on her phone. She tries the door, but it’s locked. She goes to a window, and tries that, but it doesn’t budge. Curtis says, Jordan, startling her. She turns around, and Curtis is there with Portia. He asks what she’s doing there, and she says, working on a case. He says, so are they.   

Sam asks, what’s special about today? and Dante says, really? She says, oh. He means Carly and Jason’s wedding. He says, yeah, that, and she says, would she like to escape the buzz? Yes. Would she like to focus on something else? Also yes. He says, you know what? He thinks he’s got a solution for that.

Jason walks in, and tells Josslyn, don’t worry. He’s just there to pick up his suit. He’s not going to mess with tradition, and try to see her mom. She says, that’s not going to be a problem. Her mom is gone.

Sonny and Nina are still kissing, and she says, so what now? He says he’s thinking this occasion calls for going to Philadelphia. She laughs, and says, why? He says he thinks they should find a restaurant, listen to some music afterwards, and just do it up. She says, okay. She loves that idea. He says, he has to get some stuff organized and sorted out, but he’ll be at her place in a couple of hours. She says she can’t wait, and he leans in for a kiss, but she pulls back. She says she’ll see him later. She leaves, and walks out, smiling. Until she sees Jax.   

Tomorrow, Esme suggests she and Trina talk about the big fat elephant, Ava asks who’s going to keep her safe from Nikolas, Jax says his business is Nina and what she’s been up to, and Sonny asks if someone has a problem with his name.

👠 The Two Toms did a Vanderpump Rules watch party, watching themselves in drag, while in drag. Host Tom S. was a fail, since he was sporting a mustache, but Schwartz looked quite cute. The VPR episode also including LVP first discussing the partnership for TomTom with Ken. And the best thing of all? Giggy! Oh, how he’s missed.

🕶 The Dish About Victor…

New Victor tells us what it’s like.

https://www.soapcentral.com/general-hospital/news/2021/0907-charles-shaughnessy-opens-up-about-playing-general-hospitals-victor-cassadine-i-consider-myself-incredibly-fortunate.php

🩲 Taking It Off…

In case you were wondering about Brando’s side job.

The Secrets Behind Brando’s Sexy Striptease on GENERAL HOSPITAL!

👎🏻 Next…

Well, he was old and had kids.

https://people.com/tv/scott-disick-and-amelia-hamlin-break-up-sources/

Sobbing into her smile.

https://www.eonline.com/news/1301452/lisa-rinna-just-weighed-in-on-daughter-amelia-hamlins-breakup-with-scott-disick

🌠 A Legend Lost…

A sad farewell to Michael K. Williams. He was amazing in Lovecraft Country.

https://www.essence.com/celebrity/actor-michael-k-williams-dead-at-54/
https://www.essence.com/articles/5-roles-we-will-forever-remember-michael-k-williams-for/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/entertainment/michael-k-williams-tributes-trnd/index.html

🛴 Home, James…

Since I had a meeting tonight for MupoEntertainment.com, it will be bi-coastal Wives tomorrow, with RHONY and RHOBH. Until then, stay safe, stay expressing your emotions in a healthy way, and stay letting go of past baggage to find out who you are inside. But don’t hide in Nixon Falls to do it.

Sep7

September 6, 2021 – One Too Many Stews On Deck, Bad Watch, Celebrating Labor, Happy New Year & Moving

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital was a rerun today, so…

Below Deck Mediterranean

When we last left, the weather was getting wicked. Outside, Malia radioed, red on deck.

Mathew looks out the window, and says, it’s getting crazy. One of the guests wants out of there, and Captain Sandy says, it’s effing unbelievable. It’s right on top of them. Malia says she’s getting a little nervous, but the captain promises it’s going to pass them. They drop anchor, and David says, it’s proper carnage. Katie tells Lexi – who’d been repeatedly trying to use the radio – obviously, they don’t use the radio while anchoring. As per the captain’s promise, the storm passes, although it continues to rain. Malia says, holy sh*t. Delaney broods in her cabin – or whoever’s cabin she’s using – and Katie tells Lexi that she’s stressed. Lexi says Katie has every right to be, because she plays both sides of the fence when she’s not playing at being an entitled bitch. In Katie’s interview, she says it doesn’t make sense to move six people, but how does she deny the help she’s been asking for? It makes her look like a hypocrite. She feels terrible that it’s her department that keeps causing sh*t for the rest of the crew. It’s a lose-lose situation. No matter what she decides, she’ll let someone down. Courtney passes out glasses of champagne, which the guests gulp down. Katie tells Mathew about speaking to Delaney, and how Delaney said it wasn’t fair that Katie wanted her to leave. It was causing more sh*t than it was worth. Mathew says Katie brought it on by her good will, and in her interview, Katie says, causing others pain is her biggest trigger, since she feels it deeply when someone causes her pain. She tells the captain that Delaney wants to stay, and she ended up looking like a bitch. Captain Sandy says Katie is just being honest. If everything is fine without Delaney, let her go. She promises Delaney will be fine. She tells Katie to go get some rest, but Katie says she has to serve lunch.

Delaney tells Lexi that Katie was trying to intimidate her into quitting, which is beyond a slight exaggeration, since Katie was obviously the uncomfortable one and Delaney rolled right over her. In Delaney’s interview, she says her mom was adopted, and taught her, the more, the merrier. She was under the impression that everyone felt the same way, because apparently, she’s not too bright. She says if she needs to prove she’s an asset, she’ll do it. David and Mzi look at Delaney’s Instagram, and Mzi likes a post by accident. Lexi says Katie is complaining, yet doesn’t want help, and Mathew gets lunch ready. In his interview, he says, it’s taco night. For every meal, he’s been picking the cuisine, and working backwards. It’s been a perfect season so far, and he wants to keep it that way. Courtney suggests getting the boys in firemen’s outfits, and Malia says they could set off the fire alarm and the guys can come out.

Mathew says, today is going solid. He didn’t even have to put out a fire with his hand. Katie serves lunch, and Malia meets with the deckhands. She tells them it sucks that the guests can’t do water sports, but they need to make today fun. She asks if they’ll put on fireman outfits, dance, and play beer pong with the guests. At the lunch table, one guest says it’s the best meal so far, and another tells her that she says that about every meal. The fire alarm goes off, and the guests start to get up, but Mzi and David come in with shots for everyone. The stews cheer them on as they dance. In David’s interview, he says, he thinks it’s been well established that he’s not Magic Mike. Mzi puts his coat on a guest. and gives them a lap dance. They all go on deck and play beer pong, and in Malia’s interview, she says, when the weather is sh*t, they all have to turn into entertainers, but she’s not actually pimping out her deck crew. Take a cold shower. Next stop, the hot tub.  

Mathew tells Katie that Delaney is messing up the system, and she says, STFU. Courtney tells Matthew that it will be okay, and in her interview, she says she’s proud of herself. She’s been bartending, while Lexi hasn’t been out of the laundry. She feels like she can handle anything. Delaney tells Lexi that she had five years of etiquette training, and she was a debutante. In Delaney’s interview, she says, people’s perception is that it’s just about being wealthy, but a lot goes into it. I’ve known women who were debs, and yeah, that’s true, but it’s not like saving-the-world work.  Dinner is served, and in Mathew’s interview, he says, instant Italian night; pizzas and pasta. Although these aren’t like the pizzas or pasta you get from your local place. Guest Kristol gripes that she doesn’t like family style, and mumbles about not getting the separate entrée she requested. With the amount this group is drinking, I don’t even know how they can tell if the food is good. Courtney asks if everyone is good, and no one complains. Why this bitchy woman is now keeping quiet, I don’t know. Maybe she needs some carbs. Or gluten. Or something. Courtney takes a group photo per the guests’ request.    

Katie tells Lexi, about some minor things, like a guest having no bath matt. Lexi says she’ll pass that on to Delaney, who she’s still calling Deloni, because she’s too entitled to bother learning anyone’s name, and Delaney is too intimidated to correct her. Mathew badgers Katie about Delaney, wondering why she’s staying if she doesn’t effing know the work. He’s working 18 hours, when she gets breaks. What is she doing there? He’s pissing me off, since this is hard enough on Katie. In her interview, Katie thinks Lexi and Delaney are merging into one. In Mathew’s interview, he says there’s a girl in his cabin, and he’s stuck in the musty chief officer’s cabin. Thanks to Lexi not pulling her weight, the fourth stew is taking up his cabin.

Delaney irons, and Captain Sandy tells Malia to take advantage of the beautiful weather. Katie tells Mathew that she can’t just let Delaney go, and in her interview, she says, he doesn’t realize how hard this is. She’s not a bitchy person or chief stew. He means well… Maybe he doesn’t, but right now, he needs to stop. He tells Katie to go be an a-hole. The slide is put out, and Lloyd thinks it’s an engineering masterpiece. In Lloyd’s interview, he says he braced it up to make it sturdier, and change the angle. Katie tells Malia, they have a beach barbecue today, with a while party later. Lexi sits on the floor somewhere, hiding from work. In Malia’s interview, she says, a beach picnic is difficult to pull off in the Mediterranean. The beaches are rocky, and logistically, it can be a nightmare. The deck crew is a full-on machine. She and David set up on the beach. In Katie’s interview, she says she’s preoccupied with Delaney, and just wants to do her job. Captain Sandy tells Malia that the slide is great, and Malia gives all the credit to Lloyd. The guests ride the jet skis, but one of the wave runners isn’t working right.

Malia checks out the jet ski, while the picnic food is wrapped. In her interview, Malia wonders if the jet ski’s plug was checked, and thinks it must have been, since that’s a basic task. Captain Sandy asks Malia, who forgot the plug? but Malia says the jet ski might have sucked up a plastic bag; she saw one floating around. In Captain Sandy’s interview, she says she loves that Malia has her crews’ back, but in no way is Malia going to dictate what’s told to her. On the beach, Lexi and Katie set up, and Lexi criticizes the table settings. In her interview, she says she thinks Katie is distracted by Delaney, and is forgetting basic competency. No comment. The guests arrive, and in Katie’s interview, she says, this is her job to a T; faking a smile, and acting like she’s good when she’s not. Back at the boat, Malia asks if David checked the jet skis, and he says he did. She rephrases the question, asking if he checked them before they put them in the water, and he says, no, after. She tells him that the jet ski wasn’t put in properly, and to always check. They find tons of water in the jet ski, and in her interview, Malia says, there’s no way the bung (the plug) was in. She tells David to make sure to check the plugs; it could have sunk the jet ski. The guests finish lunch, and the temperature drops, so they want to go back. Malia tells the captain that she thought the jet skis had been looked at, but they weren’t. In her interview, Captain Sandy says, if water is getting in, there has to be a hole. Even though Malia doesn’t see it as a lie – she’s just covering for her team – it does her no justice. Now, a seed of doubt has been planted in her mind. Decorations arrive for the party.

The white dresses aren’t exactly what Katie expected, and in her interview, she says, when she thinks of a white party, she thinks glamorous, glitzy, and fun. Provisions must have decided to go Amish. Courtney says, it’s definitely not a vibe. Everyone takes the scissors to their dresses. Lexi cuts Delaney’s dress too short. No surprise, but it backfires on her, since Delaney has fabulous long legs. In Mathew’s interview, he says, there are only so many different foods. He’s lucky it’s not a two week cruise. He’d run out of food. The guys wear white pants and their white uniform dress shirts. It starts to rain again, and covers have to be put on everything. The guests rave about Mathew’s food, except for Kristol, who gives him a 4 of 10 on a Yelp scale, saying, she has high standards. Another guest points out the million different foods they requested, from chicken fingers to Michelin star, so at least someone has a clue. Lloyd helps in the galley.

In Lexi’s interview, she says, she tells Delaney to do something, and she does it. She loves that about Delaney. One of the guests gives Mathew’s meal and 11.5 out of 10, but Kristol doesn’t like the cucumber touching anything else. Mathew thanks Lloyd, and says he would been stressed. Katie tells Mathew that the guests are happy. Guest Danielle says she’s starting a church; they don’t have to pay taxes. Lexi has a snack, while Delaney works. Katie tells Courtney that her stomach is upset, but she did it to herself. Delaney is going to want to stay. In her interview, Katie says she’s throwing up her hands. Lexi daydreams while Delaney works. Mathew says he doesn’t want this girl to be there. If one person can cook for twenty, three people can do the interior. In his interview, he says he loves Katie. She’s his favorite person he’s worked with, but her weakness is that she’s too kind and considerate. She needs to be a boss and make a decision. He wants his room back. He asks if he has to quit again, pissing me off more.

The guests go to the hot tub, and Danielle requests a fireman outfit. By the tub, Courtney asks if Mzi is staying for the show. I have no idea what’s in this woman Danielle’s head, but she dances around in the outfit, playing with a hose, ditches the coat, then slides down into the tub, not very gracefully. I guess this is supposed to be funny? Courtney films, while Danielle announces to the citizens of Florida that she’s running for mayor. (Of Florida???) Her slogan is, helping all the people with all the things. She says she’s also a minister. In Courtney’s interview, she says she doesn’t know what a mayor is, but if she was American she probably would. Apparently American Danielle doesn’t, so maybe not.

Katie goes to the bridge to talk to Captain Sandy, and tells her that people aren’t happy with Delaney being there, and they’re voicing it to her. The captain says, it’s up to Katie. If she’s fine, and doesn’t need the help, thank Delaney for the help with this charter, and let her go. Katie says she feels bad, but Captain Sandy says, don’t. It’s a fill-in; not a permanent position. In the captain’s interview, she says she needs to allow Katie to learn from her decisions. You won’t always be popular, but you need to make the one that’s right for the boat. She tells Katie to go have a conversation with Delaney.

Delaney irons, while Lexi folds the same towel twenty times, and tells the story of her drunken night. Mathew says Delaney shouldn’t have been brought there. In Katie’s interview, she says she’s not stupid, but at the same time, she doesn’t want Mathew to lose his sh*t and quit. It falls on her back, and if it blows up in her face, it’s on her. She calls the laundry, saying she wants to see Delaney. She and Delaney sit down. Mathew says he wants his cabin back.  

But we’ll have to wait until next time to see if he gets it.

Next time, a day off, waterfalls, Mzi gives Courtney a lap dance and flowers, both Mzi and David take spills, and Lexi gets stupid bitchy drunk again. I didn’t see Delaney…

🏖 The two Toms had a Summer House watch party, along with random people they called their kiki crew. So it was like a bunch of awful people watching the worst show. One of them had a dog. It was the best part. Of any of their watch parties.

🛠 Happy Labor Day…

The holiday of the unofficial end of summer.

https://www.bhg.com/holidays/traditions/what-is-labor-day/

🍎 Happy Passover…

May your New Year be sweet, healthy, and happy.

https://people.com/pets/mandy-patinkin-singing-jewish-blessings-for-dog-becky-video/

✋🏼 The Sign Says Closed…

Signing off early because it’s still Labor Day in California.  Soap you tomorrow, and whether you labor or not, stay safe, stay dignified, and stay making the decision that’s right for you, even if you won’t be popular.

Sep6

September 5, 2021 – The Reapers Attack, Small Talk, No Notches For Eugene, New Villains, Rosita’s Dream, New World, Fear Again & Don’t

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What I Watched Today

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

The Walking Dead

Everyone runs. Cole’s throat is slashed, Duncan is stabbed, and both Negan and Gabriel are hit with something. Elijah gets dragged away from the others by a rope, and Maggie is suddenly alone. She feels movement behind her, and flings a sickle she’s found at a Reaper, but it misses him, and sticks in a tree. I’m already thinking, if these people can’t get it together in ten years to gather roots, nuts, and berries, and grow tomatoes, they’re doomed.

Carol comes back to Alexandria with Kelly, and Magna asks if Kelly wants to do a shift together. Kelly says/signs, something came up, and Magna asks if she wants to talk, but Kelly says, there’s nothing to talk about. Aaron and some others raise a new wall made out of metal pieces, and Carol tells Aaron that they’re getting the horses back. He says they’ve been down this road before, and they’re about to fail. Carol says, if they don’t get the horses, they can’t carry more than a sack of grain. She gets a few supplies, and leaves.

Judith, RJ, Gracie, and RJ play cards, and talk about their parents. In other words, this part is boring.   

Maggie walks through a desolate area, and comes to a mall. She walks past a bunch of scattered cars in what used to be the mall parking lot. I love an abandoned mall. She tries a door, and a knife comes flying through the air, sticking in the wall near her. She runs, and tries another door. This one opens, and she closes it behind her. She goes down stairs, and sees some empty bottles, where apparently someone has had a drinking party. She sets a couple of them on the push-bar of the exit door to alert her to intruders. She walks through the mall, and to another set of stairs. We hear zombie noises. She shines her flashlight around, and walks up. A zombie comes out of nowhere, scaring us both, and she sends it bouncing down the stairs. She flicks on a lighter, and we see a Reaper behind her. She sends him flying too. She hears footsteps, and jets.

Gabriel sits in the woods, saying, the Lord is my refuge and my strength. He he pulls an ice pick out of his leg, and sees someone limping away and a mask on the ground. He limps in their direction.

Maggie goes through a space housing a lot of mannequins, which are always good for a scare. Something falls, and she jumps a mile, but keeps walking. Someone comes out from behind a counter, and it’s Alden, but in a hot second, a Reaper pops out and takes him down. The Reaper goes after Maggie with a sickle, and she keeps him at bay while she reaches for an empty bottle nearby. She punches him, getting him off of her, breaks the bottle, and gouges him in the side of the head with it. Negan comes up behind him, and finishes him off. Before dying, the Reaper sets off a grenade, and Negan and Maggie duck for cover. When the smoke clears, Maggie sees Alden sitting on the floor, and goes to ten to him. He has a stomach wound, and she asks if he can walk, He says he won’t know until they try. Negan says she’s not seriously thinking about keeping going. What exactly is the plan? She says, the plan didn’t change; they need that food. They’ll go to the supply drop, and radio the others from there. He says he knows theatrics, and these people just showed them how insane they are. They can’t be on any road the Reapers are using. It’s a sh*t plan. She asks him for a better one that doesn’t starve them, and he says he’s on her side. She says, then help her with Alden. They help Alden up, get on either side of them, and help him outside.

Rosita picks mushrooms or something by a creek, when Carol comes along, and Rosita says she didn’t want stay in the house. Kelly and Magna join them, and they surround a lone horse, each of them swinging a rope. They don’t try very hard, and it trots off. Rosita asks if Carol is okay, and Carol says she’ll be better when this is done. Rosita says she’s having dreams that Abe is trying to tell her something; somewhere they’re supposed to be. But just as she’s about to hear it, he gets shot in the head. She thinks it’s a message for them. Carol asks what he’s trying to say, but Rosita doesn’t know.

Outside the mall, Alden says they’d better get moving, and Maggie and Negan get on either side of him. They hear a woman scream, and head in that direction. Negan says, really? We’re going toward the screaming? Cool. They see Agatha stabbing zombies like a machine, and to prove his worth, Alden stabs one that they pass, but practically falls over. Duncan sits on the ground, and Agatha shakes her head, leaving Maggie with him. Maggie says she’s so sorry, and he asks, why? They were lucky. She says, for a little while, and he asks her to make sure Agatha gets home. Promise. He closes his eyes, and Maggie takes out a knife. She kisses his bald head, and stabs him.

Carol and her group go through the woods, when they see several dead, half-eaten horses by the river. Kelly says, no, and Magna hugs her. Carol says they’ll keep looking for the rest. Stay close to the water. Rosita says, it’s getting late, but Carol keeps walking. Rosita catches up with her, and says they don’t have to right now. They can do it tomorrow. Carol says they needed the horses yesterday. Now. Magna hugs her, and Carol says, let’s go home.

Kelly says they’ll try again next time, and Rosita says, maybe not. They run forward to a field, as a bunch of horses come running through. Kelly says, dope, and Rosita says, there’s a dairy farm. They have a paddock, and they can pen the horses in. The horses run in, and they try to round them up, but they’re about as good at that as they are growing food. Kelly tells them to drop their lassos, and Carol asks, why? Kelly says, just do it, and they put the lassos down. Kelly says, they’re not running. She thinks they’re home. Carol makes a sound like she’s calling a cat, and one of the horses comes to her. They all pet it.

Gabriel recites the 23rd psalm – the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He finds the unmasked Reaper leaning against a log, and the Reaper says Gabriel moved slower than he thought Gabriel would. He asks if Gabriel is scared, but Gabriel says he’s not. The Reaper says he’s been blessed, and Gabriel says he has a funny definition of blessed. He asks Gabriel to pray for him, and Gabriel says the Reaper tried to kill his friends. The Reaper says, they tried to kill him. Pray for him; even his enemies deserve that much. He thought Gabriel was a man of God. Gabriel says, God isn’t here anymore, and kills the Reaper. (Or as Cheech Marin said in Machete, God has mercy; I do not.)

In the woods, Maggie looks out with binoculars, seeing a load of zombies. Negan says, there are twice many as before. He believes they should rethink the plan. She says, if he wants to go, go, and he says he can help. Her friends trusted him. She was gone a long time. Things change; people change. She says he’s got them fooled, but not her. Stop pretending to be one of them. He walks away, and Alden asks if Maggie is okay. She says she can handle Negan, but he says he’s not talking about Negan. He asks if Hilltop is the place she told Hershel about, and she says, not much surprises her anymore. He says, they’ll build it better than it was. They’ll get it done. At least by the time Adam is old enough to remember. They’ll start when they get back. Maggie says, the good news is, Hershel lives in Alexandria. Small win. Negan finds a decrepit, charred zombie tied to a tree, with a sign that says JUDAS above him. The zombies surround them, and Maggie says, come on. They move faster, killing a few along the way, but Alden falls. Maggie grabs him back up, but the zombies are closer now. Agatha, Negan, and Maggie start slicing and dicing. Even Alden gets in a few licks before he falls again. Agatha gets bit, and Maggie comes flying toward her to pull her away, but the zombies are crowding in. Negan grabs Maggie, and drags her off, as the zombies bring Agatha down. Bye, Agatha.   

Carol and her group bring the horses back to Alexandria, and Rosita says she’s out. They tie the horses up, and Carol keeps walking with hers. Magna catches up with her, and asks if they can talk. Carol says, sure, and Magna says, she knows what Carol is doing, and wants her to stop. She’s giving Kelly false hope. Carol says she doesn’t understand, but Magna thinks she does. She believes Connie is alive because she can’t accept what it means if she’s lost. Carol says, Connie is family, and Magna says she wants her family to heal. Kelly looks up to Carol. She’s sorry for whatever Carol is going through, but she’s asking, begging Carol; whatever she’s telling Kelly, stop. She’s just making it harder. Carol walks away, and brings the horse to a stable where it lies down. She pets it, then cuts its throat – which, thankfully, we don’t see, but I say, WTF? She puts the blood in a huge dish, and  Alden comes in. Alden and I both say, WTF?

The boring group of children is brought a plate of horsemeat. Judith is like, eww, and Hershel tells her, smaller bites are better. She asks if he’s eaten it before, and he says, when he and his mother were on the road, they just ate what they found. It’s better than spiders. Just chew it fast; it’s not that bad. Rosita brings the baby to see the horses, and sees Carol washing up. I’m annoyed. The kids could have waited a hot minute while they rode to get something.  

Magna and Kelly sit looking at the windmill. Carol comes by, and asks if Kelly is ready. Kelly goes with her.

Negan, Maggie, and Alden walk down the road. Negan eats something, and says, goddam sh*t, spitting it out. He asks if they’d like a taste of crap cardboard, and I figure it must be low carb. Negan suggests they go through the woods, but Maggie says the road is faster. Alden says, the woods are safer, and Maggie tells him, they need a break. They go into an old church, and Maggie says, they’ll rest for a while. She tells Negan that she knows what he’s thinking, and the answer is no. She tells Alden that they’re fine, and he says, maybe for now. If these guys are anything like she says, things are going to get worse, and he’s dead weight. They all know. He walked away from Negan because he trusts her to do the right thing. No matter how hard. No matter how much it costs her. She looks at him, and he says, supplies are the only thing that matters. Alexandria needs them to do this. They’re waiting for them. Hershel… Judith… Adam… Maggie says, Adam needs a father, but Alden says, if her plan fails, everything they’ve worked for, what they want for the future, dies with it. Then what happens to Adam? She gets up, and Negan says, the sun is going down. She has to make a decision. Maggie says, it’s easy for him, isn’t it? Being reckless with someone else’s life. He doesn’t get to decide who lives or who dies anymore. It’s his fault. He destroyed everything they built. Negan says she still has to decide, and she looks at Alden. She starts going through her bag, and gives him a canteen. She goes over to Negan, and holds out her hand. He gives her his knife, and she gives it to Alden. Negan moves a pew near the door, and Maggie says Alden better be there when they come back. He says they better come back. They leave, and he pushes the pew against the door, then sits on it.

A lone zombie walks toward Maggie and Negan as they walk through the woods. Negan cracks it in the head with a crowbar. He stands there, the crowbar dripping blood. Maggie walks past him, and he follows. 

Next time, Daryl meets a Reaper in the woods, and once again I’m afraid for Dog.

⚰️ Later, on Talking Dead, Lauren Cohan (Maggie) said that the dripping crowbar was evocative of Lucille dripping blood after Negan killed Glenn and Abraham, but I wouldn’t have even thought of it if she hadn’t said that. In other trivia, the kids were eating beef jerky. Yeah, well, I would hope it wasn’t real horse.

🚇 In Case You Weren’t Sure…

Josh McDermitt confirms Eugene’s status.

https://ew.com/tv/walking-dead-eugene-virgin-josh-mcdermitt-archeron/

🔪 Fear Them…

Explaining the Reapers.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-are-reapers-comics-final-season-11-villains-reapers-pope-explained/

🙇🏻‍♂️ That’s One Theory…

I don’t know if I’d follow this trail of breadcrumbs, but like Maggie, not much surprises me anymore.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-rosita-abraham-dream-explained-season-11-father-gabriel-death-comics/

🌎 Beyond Dead…

October 3rd begins the second, and final, season of The World Beyond. Too bad. I kind of liked it. It will probably end up on another platform, since they’re all trying to entice viewers with extensions of their network shows for a price.

https://showsnob.com/2021/09/03/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-season-2-trailer/

Crossing over.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-season-2-jadis-return-rick-grimes-movie-ties-crossover/

👹 Radioactive…

Fear the Walking Dead returns October 17th.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/fear-the-walking-dead-season-7-teaser-trailer-punishing-new-world/

🛠 Labor This…

Whether you labor or not, celebrate anyway. Tomorrow’s GH is a rerun, so see you on Deck. Until then, stay safe, stay looking out for one another, and stay knowing that things change; people change.

Sep4

September 3, 2021 – Two Pre-Wedding Parties, Victor Who, Pioneer Return, Who’s On, Holiday Film, Debbi’s Drama, Livestream Soap, Just a Cold, Refresh, NYC News, More Erika, Sad Goodbye, Mauricio Talks, GoT Alums, Exactly Eleven Quotes & Real Job

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

General Hospital

At The Savoy, Curtis tells Nika that he just got confirmation the party is on their way. She says she can’t believe three guys booked the club for the whole night. He says, believe it, and tells her to make sure the drinks are filled and everyone is having a good time. Sam comes in, and tells Curtis that she has news about Drew’s plane crash. He suggests they go someplace else, and she says they don’t have to go anywhere; it won’t take long. He says he might not have to, but she might want to.

Dante sits at the MetroCourt bar, when Olivia comes in. He says he didn’t think she was working tonight, and she says she’s not. She’s on her way to Carly’s bachelorette party. She’s helping set it up, and has a surprise that’s going to blow Carly’s mind. So, is he seeing Sam tonight?

On the phone, Brando tells his boss that he’ll do what he’s paid for. Doesn’t he always?

Sasha sees Willow arriving at the party by the pool (🍷), and says she wasn’t sure Willow was going to be there between nursing school, Wiley, and everything else she’s got going on. Willow says, when Olivia invited her, she decided she was going to treat herself to a break. She doesn’t know if anyone told Sasha, but there’s definitely good news; Chase can walk again. Sasha says, fantastic, and Willow says she’s so happy for him. Sasha asks if something else is going on, and Willow says, Chase learned she and Michael were together before they could tell him themselves. Sasha says she’s so sorry, and Willow says she put off telling Chase, and only ended up hurting him worse. Sasha says, it was an impossible situation; she did the best she could. If Chase doesn’t realize that now, she’s sure he will eventually in time. Please tell her that she and Michael are happy. Willow says, very happy. What about Sasha and the baby? Sasha says, the baby is fine, and Willow says, and the mommy? Sasha says she’d feel better if she knew for certain Brando isn’t working for the mob again. Josslyn and Bobbie come by, and Josslyn says, Carly is on her way. Bobbie tells them to get ready, and Carly walks in. They yell, surprise!

Curtis tries to steer Sam away, and she asks, what is this? Why is she suddenly not welcome there? He says he’ll explain it later, but right now he has to get her out of there. Spinelli comes in with Michael, saying, a proper sendoff is in order, and a proper sendoff he shall have, and Michael says, it’s what his dad would have wanted. Spinelli sees Sam, and says, greetings and salutations, fair Samantha. Forgive him for asking, but what is she doing there? She asks if she’s not supposed to be there, when Jason walks in. Curtis says, this is why he wanted her out of there, and Michael tells Jason, one drink, a couple of toasts, and they’re gone. Spinelli says, maybe two drinks… Okay, one drink is acceptable. The point is to celebrate Jason’s nuptials. Jason looks trapped.

Phyllis sees the outside table, and tells Mike/Sonny, it looks lovely; like an outside café. They could be in Paris instead of Nixon Falls. He says it was his idea. His first official date with Nina. She asks how it went, and he says, it was great… until they ran into a roadblock. He doesn’t think there’s any way around it.

Ava asks what Jax could possibly have to say to her about Nina, and he says, it’s about his visit to her in Nixon Falls. She says she heard the highlights. He played the hero, and two robbers got shot in the process. He says he stopped one of the robbers, and Nina’s new boyfriend stopped the other. She says, the mysterious new boyfriend. The one who replaced him. Jax asks what Ava knows about him.

Spinelli says, libations are certainly in order. Can they head to the bar? Sam asks if she can speak to the man of the hour, and Jason tells Spinelli to order him a beer. Michael urges Spinelli toward the bar, and Sam tells Jason, tomorrow’s the big day. He says, it is, and she says she’s sure the wedding will be everything he and Carly want. He says, Maxie is working on it, and she says she’s sure Maxie is. She wishes them all the best. He thanks her, and says he wishes the same for her. He goes to the bar, and Curtis asks if Sam is okay. She says she will be. She’s had a lot of time to digest that Carly and Jason are getting married. Carly has always been really important to Jason, so was Sonny. Most of the time, Jason chose Carly first. Now he doesn’t have to choose anymore.

At the bar, Spinelli says, it never occurred to him that fair Samantha might be there, and Jason says, it’s fine. Michael says, it’s still pretty awkward. Jason didn’t want a bachelor party in the first place. Jason says, actually, he was wrong. He and Carly are getting married tomorrow; it deserves to be celebrated. They clink glasses.

Carly says, oh my God. How did she not know they were planning this? Josslyn says they fooled Carly Corinthos, and Carly says, Olivia told her that the pool (🍷) was reserved for a Sweet 16 birthday party. Bobbie says they didn’t want her to know what they were up to, and they wanted to tell her they love her. Josslyn adds, and how happy they are she’s marrying Jason, and Carly says, so there’s no imaginary Sweet 16 party she has to take care of? Josslyn says, all she needs to do is relax and enjoy herself, and Carly says, with her favorite people there, how could she not? Carly says, it’s so lovely, and Josslyn says, and exciting. It’s the day before her wedding day. Carly says she’s starting to feel like a real bride, and Bobbie asks why she’d say that. Of course (🍷) she’s a real bride.

Sonny tells Phyllis that Nina said she doesn’t want to get closer to him until he finds out who he is. She said when he finds out who he is, he’s not going to want to see her anymore. (That’s not exactly what she said, but okay.) What does he do with that? She says, his feelings for Nina are real. That has to count for something. Nina comes in, and asks Phyllis how she is. Then she says, that’s a really dumb question. Forget she said that. Phyllis says, she’ll always be grieving for Lenny, but she knows he wouldn’t want her life to stop. He’d want her to live it to the fullest; to find joy where she can. And since he’s not there to ask Nina, she’ll ask for him. Why can’t the two of them simply live in the moment?

Jax asks Ava to please tell him everything she knows about Nina’s new boyfriend in Nixon Falls, and she says, jealousy doesn’t become him. And she’s certainly not going to confide in the man who conspired to keep from Nina the death of her daughter; a daughter she didn’t even know she had, and is now dead. He says she can’t even imagine how sorry he is for his actions, but believe it or not, he’s trying to help Nina now. She tells him, just go. They’re done here. He flashes back to Josslyn telling him that the sauce is exactly like Sonny’s, and Trina picked it up in a bar in Nixon Falls. He says he’s not leaving until Ava gives him some answers.

Dante asks how many times he has to tell Olivia, his personal life is just that – personal. She says he is seeing Sam, and she thinks that’s great. He says he’s glad she thinks it’s great. They’re meeting there to investigate something. She says, right, and he says, stop. She says she’ll leave him to it. She has to make sure everything is right for Carly’s party, especially the entertainment. It’s going to be such a surprise. She leaves, and Brando comes out of the elevator, carrying a duffel bag. He asks Dante how it’s going, and Dante says, no complaints. He congratulates Brando on becoming a father, and Brando asks if he’s got any tips. Dante says, don’t mess it up. Brando laughs, and Dante says just do the best he can; trust his instincts. Brando says he met Rocco a few times while Sonny was still with them. He seems like a great kid. Dante says, he is a great kid. He’s excited to have a cousin on the way. Sonny would have loved to be there to see Brando become a father. Sasha approaches them, and asks what Brando is doing there. Dante says he’ll see them, and jets. Brando says he’s there on a job, and she says, one of those side gigs he mentioned? He says, one of them, and she asks if he’s going to tell her which one. He says he’s making sure the baby has whatever he or she needs, and then some once it’s born. She says just promise her whatever he’s doing is not mob related, and he says, trust him. He thought she was supposed to be at Carly’s bachelorette party, and she says she was taking a break to powder her nose, which is probably a poor choice of words for her. He says, Carly’s party is there? and she says, out by the pool (🍷). Call her later after his mysterious side gig. She leaves, and Dante comes back. Brando tells Dante that he has a problem.

Sam says she found out some information on Drew’s plane crash that she thinks Curtis will find interesting, and he says, information is only as good as the source. She says she and Dante were able to get ahold of the WSB files on Drew’s plane crash, and it was a charter flight, not a private rental. And there was another passenger on board, but the name wasn’t listed. It was paid for by a company called Leethy Unlimited. He wonders why the name sounds familiar, and she says, because it was the parent company for a clinic in Scarsdale called Creighton-Clark. He says he knows that name from somewhere, and she says, it burned down before he came to Port Charles, but Drew was held captive there, and Nina was a patient, along with a lot of other people. He says he knows where he heard the name from; when he was searching for Nina’s daughter. She asks if he knows anybody who worked there, and he says he just might.

Spinelli says he’s so glad to be out socializing. It’s a welcome break from heartache. Ellie is adamant that their parting be permanent. He asks Michael to please tell him that he’s luckier in the romance department, and Michael says he hates to break it to Spinelli, but he is luckier. He and Willow are together, and they couldn’t be happier. Spinelli says he’ll drink to that.

Olivia tells Willow, talk to her. There’s obviously a huge change in her relationship with Michael. Brook implied that there were some developments, but she wouldn’t go into any details, so she came to the source. What’s going on? Willow says it’s very complicated, and she definitely could have handled things better. She suggests they talk in the next day or two; after Carly’s party. Olivia says, just so she’s clear, Willow and Michael are a couple? Willow says they are, and Olivia says, Chase is a great guy, but between the two of them, she always thought Willow and Michael belonged together. Willow says, they agree. It just took them a while to figure it out. Olivia says Willow looks happy, and she’s happy for her, and they hug.

Carly tells Bobbie that she can’t wait to marry Jason. It’s just been a whirlwind trying to get everything ready. Bobbie asks if that’s all it is, and Josslyn says her mom’s been really busy. Yes, Maxie’s planning the wedding, but there’s still a million details to sort out and decisions to make. She’s helping Josslyn get set up at PCU, there’s dissention with her dad… Bobbie asks if Carly and Jax are at odds, and Carly says, really? They’re supposed to be having fun. Why did Josslyn bring that up? Josslyn says, sorry. She should have kept her mouth shut. Her mom and dad fight all the time, and they always work it out.

Jax tells Ava that he still cares about Nina. Knowing he hurt her is bad enough. He doesn’t want to see her get hurt again. Ava asks what he wants to know, and he asks, when was the last time she spoke to Nina? She says she doesn’t hear from Nina all that often. Just a text here and there, about how happy she is. He says, with her new boyfriend? and she says, Nina doesn’t really say very much. Last time she and Nina had a heart-to-heart, Nina was pretty evasive about him.

Phyllis says, right before Lenny’s diagnosis, he’d decided to live in the moment. He was going to take her dancing. She was on her way to buy a new dress when Dr. Ford showed up, and their lives changed. Sonny says he’s going to do everything he can to honor Lenny’s memory. Phyllis says she knows he will, and she hopes Nina tries to do that too. She leaves, and Sonny asks where Nina was. He was trying to reach her. She says she’s sorry she ran out on him, and he says they’re supposed to be living in the present. She says, he is, but she’s still struggling. When she saw his watch last night, a piece of his past, it made her stop and think for once. He asks if she came to any conclusions. Does he have to find out who he is in order for her to move forward with him?

Carly, who is now wearing a tiara, tells Olivia that she’s sneaky, and Olivia tells her, what can she say? She was motivated. What’s the point of renovating the pool (🍷) if they’re not going to use it? She wanted to wish Carly happiness; no one deserves it more than her. Carly says, that’s sweet, but Olivia says she’s not sweet. Neither is Carly. They tell it like it is. It was the first thing she liked about Carly. Carly says, since they’re telling it like it is, she thought Olivia would think it’s too soon after Sonny. Olivia says, if it were anybody else, she would think they were acting out of grief, or afraid to be alone. She would have been wrestling with herself; should she say something or keep her big mouth shut? But Carly has known Jason forever, and knows what she’s getting. She’s getting a Quartermaine for an in-law – Olivia hands her a drink – so good luck with that. Carly says they’re Olivia’s in-laws too. They’ll be allies. They clink glasses, and Olivia says, always.

Willow asks if Sasha is okay, and Sasha says she ran into Brando in the restaurant. He’s on the job, but woudn’t tell her what it is. Willow asks if she thinks he’s with the mob again, when Carly interrupts, saying, he’s not. Brando made it very clear that he is done. Sasha says, there was a part of Brando that liked the excitement working undercover for Sonny. What if he’s revisiting that part of his life? Getting in deep again, under the guise of wanting to support her and the baby.

Dante says, Brando is kidding, and Brando says he wishes he were. Dante laughs, and Brando asks if he has any advice. Dante says he’s got to bite the bullet. Do what he was hired to do. Make that money. Pay for that baby. Brando asks if Dante can just arrest him, and Dante says, not unless he breaks the law.

Curtis tells Nika that he has some business to take care of, and asks if she’ll be okay by herself. She says, it’s all good, and he leaves. At their table, Michael says he knows Jason and his mom never expected to get to this place, but now that they’re here, he knows they’ll be good for each other. Spinelli says, perhaps it’s fate, destiny, and if it is, how wonderful that it’s Carly. Michael says, incoming, and Joey Novak walks in with several other guys. He says, here it is. Here’s the groom, and a bachelor party that’s crying out for some action.

Sasha says she told Brando that if he wanted to be in her life, and the baby’s, he couldn’t work for Carly and Jason anymore, and Carly says, he’s not. Sasha says she heard Carly and Brando at his garage the other night. He was promising to let her business associates know that he was open for business, and Carly thanked him for helping her. Carly says, Brando offered to listen, that’s all. He’s not going to put himself in danger. Sasha says, what if the danger shows up anyway? What if Brando just can’t say no? Carly says Brando is crazy about Sasha and the baby. She has to trust him. How can they have a family if she doesn’t? Olivia announces, the entertainment is here, and says, Owen, cut the lights. The lights dim, music plays, and Brando comes out in a tux, and dances around. Everyone is shocked, and he makes lovey-dovey shark eyes at Sasha.

Sam tells Dante, she let Curtis in on the information they got about Drew’s plane crash. She figured he’d want to know since he and Drew were such good friends. She mentioned Creighton-Clark to him, and he said it seemed familiar. Then he remembered he knew someone who worked there who might be able to give them more information about the clinic. He says, that’s great, and she says he hasn’t been listening to a word she said. He says he heard everything, but she says, no, he hasn’t. He apologizes, and says he was distracted. She says, about what? and he says, about what’s going on at the MetroCourt pool (🍷) right now, at Carly’s bachelorette party.

What’s going on is, Brando is still dancing, with the girls all egging him on. He comes closer, takes off his tie, and pulls Olivia out on the dancefloor. She dances around for a hot minute, and he goes back to his solo act, taking off his jacket. He comes back to the group, and Carly tries to cover Josslyn’s eyes, but Josslyn is like, no way. Brando rips his shirt off, and Josslyn says, nice abs. He’s actually a pretty good dancer. He dances with Olivia for a second, and goes to Sasha, dancing with her, all romantic. Brando rips off his pants, and he’s in tighty blackies. Everyone comes out to dance, except Sasha, and Brando motions for her to come.

Nika tells Joey and his pals, it’s a private party. They’ll have to come back another night. Joey says, oh come on. There’s plenty of room for them. They promise not to disturb the private party. Jason gets up, and tells Nika, he’ll take care of this. Joey says, like Jason took care of him? Strongarming his uncle into getting him out of the country. He walks to the bar, and says, a round of top-shelf whiskey for the room. He wants to toast the groom, since he won’t be at his wedding tomorrow. He’ll be in Siberia. One of his cronies says, isn’t he going to Poland? Joey says, to the groom, and to his gorgeous bride Carly, who is as hot as they come. Michael gets up, and says, that’s enough, and Joey says, Spinelli agrees with him, right? Carly Corinthos is quite the babe. I’m literally lol’ing, because these guys always sound like they’re from the 1940s. Spinelli (who also sounds like that) says, stop this vulgarity at once, and Jason puts his hand on Spinelli’s shoulder. He says, they were just on their way out, and Spinelli says, they were? Jason puts some money on the bar, and says, Joey and his friends are going to drink on him. He tells Michael and Spinelli, let’s go, and they head for the door. Joey says, hey Morgan. How does it feel to be hitting your dead boss’s wife? Is it good? Like you won a stuffed toy at the fair? Spinelli comes flying at Joey, says, you creep, and punches him.

At the pool (🍷), Brando comes back out, fully dressed, and the women all applaud. Brando says, honestly, he had no idea he was reporting to Carly. His boss just told him it was a party at the MetroCourt pool (🍷). Olivia says she’s the one who called the agency to hire the stripper. She had no idea it was him. Willow asks how badly he wanted to die when he saw all of them, and he says he was hoping the ground would swallow him up. Bobbie says, they’re glad it didn’t because he was really good. Sasha says she’s sure he needs a drink, and Josslyn hands him one, saying he deserves it. Sasha takes his hand and leads him away. Carly remembers when she and Jason almost kissed. Bobbie says, hey, is she okay? and Carly says, why wouldn’t she be? Who knew Brando was so gifted, right? Bobbie says she’s not urging any scandalous behavior where Carly’s daughter is present, but she thought Carly might relax, cut loose a little, considering she is marrying her best friend. Carly says, that’s true; she is. Bobbie asks, so what’s the problem?

Nina says, Mike/Sonny will never know how much she wants him in her life, but it doesn’t seem right that he can’t remember who he was before. He has flashes of that other woman, and he knows she means something to him. He says he doesn’t even know if that woman is real, and she says, he won’t know until he finds out who he really is. He says, he’s Mike. He’s the guy who cares about her. He gets that she doesn’t want his past life to come crashing down on her. She doesn’t want to be hurt again. That’s why she came to Nixon Falls, to let go of her past. She says, so he understands, and he says, yeah, and he’s going to do everything he can to prove to her that he does. He doesn’t know how he’s going to do it, but he will. Because he’s in love with her.   

Ava tells Jax, Nina probably wants to keep the new part of her life separate from the old one. Does it really surprise him that Nina would want to make a fresh start with Mike? He says, Mike? Does he have a last name? She says she’s sure he does, but she doesn’t know what it is. He says, and she didn’t ask? Ava says, Nina has made an art of skillfully avoiding her questions about him. Now here’s Jax, interrogating her about a man neither of them has ever met. Does he want to tell her what this is really about?

Curtis calls Phyllis, saying, he’s not sure if she remembers him. She says, of course (🍷) she does. He’s the private investigator who tracked her down, and put her back in touch with Nina Reeves. How can she help him? He says, he’s not a private investigator anymore, but he’s looking into something for a friend. It involves the facility where she worked, when she was Nina’s nurse. She says, Creighton-Clark? and he says, that’s the one. Is she still in touch with anybody she worked with there? She says she wasn’t there long. Besides, she was a private nurse so she didn’t really know any of the staff. He says, maybe she can think on it and give him a call, and she says, wait. There is someone. He friended her on social media a while back.

Sam says, Olivia hired a stripper from an agency that happens to be Brando? That’s priceless. Dante says, he’s making some money for his baby, and she says she’s not laughing at him. She thinks he should be proud. She thinks there’s something really charming about a guy who will do whatever it takes to provide for his child. Dante would, woudn’t he? He says he’s thankful he has a job where he can keep his clothes on, she says, that is too bad. His phone dings, and he says, dammit. He has to go. Work. He hopes to see her again soon. She says he can count on it, and he leaves.

Jax tells Ava, he’s worried about Nina. That’s all. He knows Ava tried to steer her in the right direction when it came to Carly. Ava says she did try, but apparently Nina didn’t take her advice when it came to making nice with Carly. Apparently, she did the opposite. Jax asks what she means, and she says, something happened a long time ago. She was mad, and she told Carly that as a grandparent in the state of New York, Nina has the right to sue for visitation with Wiley. Shortly after that, Nina called Carly, and Carly was all fired up and went for the jugular. He says, that’s what Nina told her? and she says, words to that effect. Everyone knows that Nina was wrong to tell Wiley about Nelle. Nina knows it. She regrets what she did, but Carly is Carly. She rarely gives anybody a second chance. He says, believe him, he knows.

Sonny says he guesses he threw Nina a curveball. He’s sorry. It’s how he feels. He really couldn’t go another minute without telling her. She tells him, she doesn’t know what to say, and he tells her, she doesn’t have to say anything.

Brando asks if Sasha sees now why he was being mysterious about his new job. He didn’t think she’d be a fan of him dancing. It’s just one of his side gigs. She asks, what are the others? Centerfold modeling? Escort service? He says, ha-ha. Try cleaning the deep fryer at Kelly’s, and after-hours custodial work at a bunch of offices downtown. He’s sorry if he embarrassed her tonight. She says she bets the money is good, and he says, it’s real good, but if she doesn’t like it, he’ll quit right now. What they have is a helluva lot more important than this performance tonight.

Willow says she hates herself for enjoying Brando’s performance so much, and Josslyn says, you and me both. Olivia says, in her day, it was empowering for women to go to a strip joint. The women could enjoy strip teases as much as the men. Willow says she can only imagine the men back then. The hair… Olivia says, the fake tan, the screaming women… Josslyn says it sounds like Olivia did a lot of clubbing, but Olivia says, bite her tongue. She was a good, Catholic girl. The only thing she knew about strip joints, and what went on inside of them, was what she read. They all laugh.

Bobbie says, when she thinks back on Carly and Jason when Michael was a baby, it was just the two of them. She used to get so frustrated with Carly at times, she wanted to tear her hair out. Jason was always good for her; he always believed the best in her. And to be fair, no matter how much the rest of them doubted her, she justified that faith. Now after all these years, they’re getting married. Tomorrow they’re going to slip into their new life as husband and wife. That’s the sweetest kind of love there is. Carly thanks her, and they hug.

Brando says he’ll call his boss right now, and tell him it’s his last gig as a stripper, but Sasha says, don’t you dare. Compared to working for Cyrus Renault, this is the safest job in the world. He says so she’s okay with women stuffing bills in his costume? She says, they can stuff as many bills as they want, as long as he always comes home to her.

Curtis asks who Phyllis’s friend was, and what he did at the clinic. She says, he worked in the records department. Would he be able to help Curtis? Curtis says, he just might. Text him the contact information, and tell him to expect Curtis’s call. She says, of course (🍷), and he says, if her friend can help, this could be a very big deal.

Michael gives Spinelli some ice in a cloth, and says, he did most of the heavy lifting… or should he say, heavy punching? Jason says, party’s over, let’s go, and heads for the door a second time. Nika is coming in, and he says, if what he left on the bar isn’t enough to cover everything, let him know. He’s sorry this happened on her watch. She says, she’s sorry, but once the fight started, she had to follow the rules. Spinelli says, what rules? and Dante walks in with some officers. A disheveled Joey gets up, and says he was raising a toast to Jason, and this little dweeb went off on him. Michael says Joey deliberately baited Spinelli, and Spinelli says he denigrated the bride-to-be. Joey says he did nothing of the kind. He was complimenting… Dante tells them, shut up, or he’ll take them all down to the station. Spinelli says, actually, they have a wedding to attend, and Dante says, maybe they’ll think more clearly in the morning.

Carly tells Bobbie, there was a time when all she wanted to do was marry Jason. She lied, she schemed, she left a trail of wreckage. Now years after she let that fantasy go, it’s happening. Bobbie says she and Jason have something magical, and Jason would do anything for her. Carly says, and she doesn’t know why that is; she never has (that makes two of us). She just knows that Jason has always been there for her. Even when he thinks she’s wrong, he’s there. Bobbie says he loves her as she deserves to be loved, and Carly says she’s a lucky woman. She’s a lucky bride.

Sonny takes Nina’s hand and says she doesn’t have to pretend she has feelings for him if she doesn’t have them. Maybe she will one day, maybe she won’t, but it feels good for him to tell her how he feels. So he’s going to leave her with that, okay? She says, okay, and he goes in the back.

Ava tells Jax, Carly and Nina must have been able to smooth things over, since Nina is seeing Wiley again, but she gets the sense it’s a fragile peace. Which is another argument for Nina to stay in Nixon Falls. She’s much less likely to cross paths with Carly there. He says, it certainly seems that way, and thanks Ava for taking the time to talk to him. He appreciates it. He starts to leave, and she asks what he’s going to do. He says, what can he do? Except make sure Nina is happy and safe.

Outside on the phone, Jax tells someone, get the jet ready. He’s going to Nixon Falls, Pennsylvania. Where I’m sure they have an airport.

On Tuesday (there’s a rerun on Labor Day – see below), Shawn tells Jordan that there has to be something to lead them to Hayden’s shooter, Nina asks Sonny what happened, and Ava is surprised.   

💣 Baddie Backstory…

Who is Victor anyway?

What Happened to Victor Cassadine on GENERAL HOSPITAL

🏕 PC Pioneer, Second Class…

Wyatt to the rescue… again.

Patrick Gibbons Returns to GENERAL HOSPITAL!

🎢 Holiday Break…

Which soaps aren’t airing on Labor Day.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/abc/soap-opera-soaps-holiday-schedule

📽 Changing Lanes…

Curtis joins two GH alums for the holidays.

Three GENERAL HOSPITAL Fan Faves to Star in a New Holiday Film!

📺 A Long Way From Pine Valley…

An AMC alum joins a new series. It looks pretty good too.

‘Our Kind Of People’: Debbi Morgan Joins Fox Drama Series As Recurring

💻 DOOL Stream…

Livestreaming September 8th, it will only be available to Xfinity Rewards members, but the series Beyond Salem will be on Peacock starting September 6th.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES: BEYOND SALEM Livestream Event!

🤧 She Swears It’s Just a Cold…

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of an unknown cold though. What does that even mean?

https://pagesix.com/2021/09/01/vicki-gunvalson-denies-report-she-has-covid-19/

🧪 New Faced…

Wow. It took like a whole eight hours off her age.

https://extratv.com/2021/08/31/rhoc-alum-jo-de-la-rosa-shares-face-refresh-after-plastic-surgery-journey/

🗽 New York Minute…

The rumors of her coming back are greatly exaggerated.

https://okmagazine.com/p/bethenny-frankel-reveals-hasnt-spoken-bravo-since-quitting-rhony-not-returning/

But there might be room.

https://okmagazine.com/p/real-housewives-of-new-york-luann-de-lesseps-ramona-singer-sonja-morgan-reportedly-demoted-friend-of/

💎 Continuing Saga…

Apparently, there’s no paperwork on Tom’s crash.

Did Tom Girardi’s Car Accident Actually Happen? Erika Jayne’s Story is Questioned as It’s Revealed Pasadena Police Have No Evidence of Crash

What a shock. LisaR couldn’t keep something to herself.

Did Lisa Rinna Tip Off Erika Jayne About RHOBH Cast’s Meeting? Sutton Stracke Claims She Knew About Their Secret Chat Before Kyle’s Dinner

The tracks of Kathy’s tears.

https://www.inquisitr.com/6495331/kathy-hilton-reveals-she-was-crying-over-erika-jayne-at-rhobh-di

🎩 A Gentleman For Sure…

I haven’t been a NeNe fan in a while, but I’ve always liked Gregg.

https://people.com/tv/nene-leakes-husband-gregg-dead-from-colon-cancer-at-66/

🗣 Real Talk…

Mauricio gives the lowdown on all things real.

👑 Off the Throne…

A new gig for Grey Worm, and a reunion for the Khal and his Khaleesi.

https://ew.com/tv/game-of-thrones-star-jacob-anderson-to-play-louis-in-interview-with-the-vampire-amc-series/

https://ew.com/tv/game-of-thrones-reunion-jason-momoa-emilia-clarke-drunk-photo/

🏌🏽‍♀️ Quotes of the Week

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Socrates

Our urge to speak is often rooted in an inflated view of our own opinions. – Tripp Prince

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Seneca

This is housekeeping, not Project Runway. – a hotel staff member on The Bachelorette, when asked to fix a bridal gown

Don’t worry about being worried. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. – Tracy Kidder

Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. – W.E.B. Du Bois

It’s a general moral principle that the more power you have over someone, the greater your duty is to use that power benevolently. Well, who is the one person in the world you have the greatest power over? It’s your future self. You hold that life in your hands, and what it will be depends on how you care for it. – Rick Hanson

Can the world be your oyster if you’re allergic to shellfish? – Hyundai commercial

🌞 And Have a Pleasant Tomorrow…

Hope you didn’t get drenched by Ida or her remnants. We remained unscathed this time, but it only takes once for the word hurricane to cause anxiety, and wondering where you’re going to put stuff. But it looks to be a beauty of a long weekend, or the next three days, if weekend is no longer in your vocabulary. See you at Dead time, but until then, stay safe, stay saucy, and stay never denigrating the bride-to-be. Especially if she’s marrying the mobster best friend of her late mobster husband. No good can come of it.

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September 2, 2021 – Obrecht Gets a Big Surprise, Villainous Comeback, Don’t Bother, New Normal in L.A. & Wake Me

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Ava comes into the hospital and asks if Epiphany can give her some information on a patient that was brought in last night, a certain attorney. Epiphany says she’s not Scotty’s family, but Ava says she is a very important client. Epiphany says she can only give the information to his family, and Ava stomps of. PC Pioneer Wyatt approaches the desk, and Epiphany asks if she can help him, but he says he thinks he can be of help to one of their patients.

Ava hears Anna talking to Britt about Scotty’s condition. Britt says, he’s still disoriented, but despite parachuting out of a plane unconscious, he has no broken bones or serious injuries. Jordan asks if she can see him, and Anna says, the sooner they talk to him, the sooner they can unravel this story about him literally crashing into Finn’s campsite. Britt says, at least he’s safe and sound, which is more than she can say about her mother.

Obrecht wakes up wearing silk pajamas in a beautiful bed. She says, where am I? and calls for Scotty.

Ava sneaks into Scotty’s room, and he wakes up saying, my schnitzel, my Liesl. Ava asks if it’s really true he dropped from the sky, but he says he doesn’t know. He’s in a hospital bed, isn’t he? He looks around and says he guesses so. She says she’s so glad he’s okay. She hopes he knows that. He takes her hand, and says he didn’t know she still cared about him. She says of course (🍷) she does; of course (🍷) she cares. It’s been six weeks since he filed for her divorce. She needs to know if it’s gone through.

A waitress brings a check to Spencer at the MetroCourt, and he tells her to put it on his account. She says her manager said he’s no longer on the account. He says, thanks, dad, and Esme says lunch is on her. He says he guesses it’s true what his grandmother said. His independence is dependent on his father’s money. Esme thinks it’s high time he and his dad got past their differences, but he says, not when his dad accused him of being Ava’s stalker. She wonders where he’d get such an outrageous idea, and Spencer says Nikolas stabbed him. She says, with a fake knife. He says he didn’t know it was fake when he saw it. How can he ever forgive Nikolas? She says she doesn’t know. Ask his dad. He turns around to see Nikolas behind him.

Trina walks into the gallery, answering her phone. It’s Jax, calling from the Spring Ridge visiting area. He says, it’s Josslyn’s dad. Does she have a minute? She asks if Josslyn is okay, and Jax says she’s fine. In fact, she cooked him a lovely dinner last night. She says she knows, she helped Josslyn get ready. He says the marinara sauce was the highlight, and she says, didn’t he love it? She told Josslyn it would be epic. He says he thought for sure Josslyn picked it up from a specialty gourmet store, but then she told him that Trina was given the jar when they came to Nixon Falls to pick him up. She says, pretty spectacular, right? He says, it was pretty memorable. In fact, he’s dying to meet the person who made it.

Epiphany is on the beginning credits! I don’t always see them, so she might have been there before, but I’m excited.

Trina says she never met the person who made the sauce. All she knows is, the lady who runs the roadhouse in Nixon Falls… She forgot the name. He says, the Tan-O? and she says, that’s it. She said the bartender made it. He says, she didn’t happen to mention his name, did she? She says, no, why? and he says he guesses Josslyn’s never told her about his work. He’s a venture capitalist, and he’s always looking for new investments. This sauce was so good, he’s thinking of pursuing it. She says, Nina Reeves is friends with the nice lady who owned the bar. She’s sure Nina will know the name of the bartender. He says she’s right. If anyone knows, it’s Nina. He flashes back to thinking he saw Sonny in a cowboy hat when he was on the stretcher, and thanks Trina, saying, she’s been a great help. Alexis comes out and says, clearly Jax didn’t come to cheer her up. What’s wrong?

Spencer asks if this was Esme’s idea, and Nikolas says, don’t blame Esme. He appreciates her reaching out and asking him to join them. She says she always thought Spencer didn’t want anything to do with him, but now that she’s seen the two of them together in person, she can see they care about each other. Spencer says, some people just have a funny way of showing it. You know, with fake knives. Esme says, come on. She knows him, and he gives as good as he gets. Nikolas sits down, and says he doesn’t blame Spencer for wanting nothing to do with him, but he needs to hear this. Everything he’s done, even staying away all those years… Spencer says, Nikolas means letting him think he died, and Nikolas says, everything he’s done, he’s done out of love.

Jordan tells Britt, local law enforcement did a thorough search of the camp area where Scotty parachuted down. There’s no indication that her mom, or anyone else, parachuted with him. Britt asks why Anna is so interested in her mother’s whereabouts. She thought they hated each other. Anna says, they’ve come to a bit of a truce, but Obrecht being missing makes her think somebody else is involved… like Peter maybe. Britt says, then where is she? Where’s the plane? God knows, her mother is resourceful, but she’s not Houdini. She can’t just vanish into thin air.

Obrecht turns on the lamp, and gets out of bed. She says, what is this place? She looks around a gorgeous room, filled with antiques, and asks what she’s doing there. She remembers being on the plane with Scotty, and putting on the oxygen mask, and says, my God. She has to find Scotty. She runs to the door, but it’s locked. She yells, open this door! They can’t do this to her. She’s Liesl Obrecht, dammit! She pounds on the door, and yells for someone to open it.

Ava tells Scotty, she’s not trying to be insensitive; she knows he’s having a stressful time of it. But from what she hears, skydiving can be very exhilarating. He says, the bum’s rush out the door? He doesn’t think so. She says, the point is, he survived. Her stalker is still out there, waiting to strike at her or her loved ones. He told her that her divorce would take six weeks to go through. Isn’t there anybody he could call to nudge it along? Jordan and Anna walk in, and Jordan asks what Ava is doing there. Ava says she’s visiting her very good friend, and her attorney; their lives may depend on it. Anna says she’s not sure badgering Scotty is going to be conducive to his recovery, and Jordan steers Ava out. Ava says she’s counting on him; don’t let her down. He gives her a thumbs up, and Anna tells him, just relax.

Epiphany tells Britt there’s someone else asking about Scotty. This is Wyatt Hoover. Wyatt says, PC Pioneer, second class. He’s a volunteer ranger and was on duty last night when Scotty landed in the campground. He guesses he could say Scotty crashed. Britt says, crashed would be more accurate. What can she do for him? He says he was cleaning up the debris from the fall, and found this. He shows her the locket, and says he thought it might belong to Mr. Baldwin. She asks to look at it, and opens it, seeing the pictures of her and Nathan. Wyatt says, it’s her, and she says, the locket belongs to my mother.

Alexis asks Jax, what’s going on? and he says he made two pretty big decisions this year, and thought he was 100% correct, but they both kind of blew up in his face. She says, but that’s old news. It’s not like him to rehash the past. He says, it’s not about the past. He has another big decision to make, and he’s on the brink of doing something he thinks is right, but what if he’s wrong again?

Ava walks into the gallery and sees Trina working. She says, it never gets old, and Trina says, what never gets old? Ava says, the love of art, and Trina says she hopes not, considering she wants a career in it. Ava says she was just thinking about the young high school kid who showed up there, wanting to be an intern. She arrived with such a natural love of art, and the desire to learn all she could. Trina says she still can’t believe her internship turned into a job. Ava’s been such a mentor to her. Wait. That doesn’t even sound right. She hopes Ava knows that when Trina thinks about her, yes, she’s a boss and mentor, but she also considers Ava a friend. Ava says, oh, Trina, her eyes tearing up, and Trina asks if she said something wrong. Ava says she’s so honored to be Trina’s friend. Trina’s been more than that to her. She’s been another daughter to her. Not that she wants to step on Trina’s mother’s toes or would want Trina to take Kiki’s place. She doesn’t use the word often or lightly, but she cherishes Trina. That’s why she knows it’s going to be so difficult to say goodbye.  

Spencer says, Nikolas loved him so much, he wanted Spencer to believe he was dead, even though he was the only parent Spencer had, since his mom passed away before he even knew her. Is that the kind of self-serving garbage Nikolas expects him to believe? Esme says his dad’s there; let him explain his point-of-view. Nikolas says, he knows sometimes his methods are wrong… okay, they’re often wrong, but Spencer has to remember, Valentin shot Nikolas with every intention of killing him. Knowing how the Cassadine family operates, he couldn’t take that chance of Spencer being targeted next. So he laid low while he planned his return and his revenge. Esme wonders why Spencer left out so many details. She finds this fascinating stuff. Spencer says, because Valentin hasn’t been a threat for years, and quite frankly, he’s not even a Cassadine. Or is Nikolas insinuating Ava’s stalker isn’t the only threat out there?

Obrecht digs through drawers, and says, there has to be a knife. Or a bobby pin. Anything to pick that lock. A man dressed like a butler, complete with white gloves, comes in with a cart carrying a meal service. She says, it’s about time. She demands to know what is going on. He says, good evening, fraulein doctor, and she asks, what’s this? He says, dinner, lifting the food cover. Compliments of her host. She says, how kind, and grabs the knife. She tells hm, open that door, or she’ll cut him like a mackerel. A man comes in behind her, and wrests the knife out of her hand. The butler says, that’s a very fine glass of wine. Her host has thought of everything.    

Britt brings Wyatt to Scotty’s room, and says he has a visitor. Scotty says, a PC Pioneer. He used to be one himself, and still buys Christmas trees from them. Wyatt thanks Scotty on behalf of the PC Pioneers. They’re grateful for his support. He says he understands from Finn, Wyatt was there and helped out when he hit the ground. Wyatt says he was able to help get Scotty out of the parachute; he has his honor badge in knots. Scotty thanks him for coming and checking on him, and Wyatt says he did want to check on Scotty, but also return something he found when he was cleaning the crash site. Britt shows him the locket, and says, it belonged to her mother. Does he recognize it? He says, when everything went haywire on the plane, Obrecht gave it to him, and he stuck it in his pocket. Britt says she was hoping her mother made it out after all, and dropped it during her own parachute jump. Wyatt says if he’d observed any other parachutes, he’d have notified the authorities, but it was only Mr. Baldwin. Britt thanks him, and says she’s sure her mother will be grateful to have it back.

Jordan tells Anna that she confirmed a plane left Port Charles yesterday. A charter carrying Obrecht and Scotty; the destination St. Lucia in the Caribbean. Anna says she knew Obrecht was going to a medical conference there, but a private plane and Scotty? She understands taking advantage of the off-season low rates, but why not fly commercial? Jordan says, another question that needs answering, although Britt touched on the biggest mystery; what happened to the plane? Anna asks what the FAA said, and Jordan says, only that the plane feel off the radar shortly after take-off. There’s no May Day call, no report of a transponder signal, no evidence of a crash. The plane could be anywhere between there and St. Lucia. Anna says, or it could mean something else altogether.

Jax tells Alexis, his first mistake was helping Nina get visitation to Wiley. He says this like Nina asked him to do it. Alexis asks what he did, and he says he was on his way to the Quartermaine gatehouse to talk to Michael. Michael is his stepson, and they have a pretty good relationship – they had a pretty good relationship. He accidentally saw Michael and Willow together. She says, together together, and he says, yes. She says, isn’t Willow married to Chase? and he says, it’s a moot point anyway, since she’s annulling the marriage, but at the time, he used it as leverage to secure Nina’s visitation to Wiley. She says, he blackmailed Michael? and he says he didn’t see it that way. He used it as leverage, and doesn’t know whether they can get their friendship back. She asks what his other mistake was, and he says, when he found out Carly was taking over Sonny’s family business, of course (🍷) Josslyn was his first priority for safety. She says, an understandable goal. What did he do? He says he secretly recorded Carly in a conversation, and tried to get her to incriminate herself. She laughs, and he says, go ahead, please; let him have it. She says she’s in no position to judge. So he told her about how his first and second mistakes blew up in his face, and now he’s going to make another move that’s going to blow up in his face. What’s going on? He says he doesn’t have any details yet, and he’s still trying to connect the dots, but a friend he cares deeply about is making a huge mistake that could affect many other lives.

Trina says, Ava is leaving Port Charles? and Ava says, it breaks her heart, but she has no other choice. Trina says, her mother taught her there are always more than one choice, but Ava says, it’s the only good choice. Keeping Avery safe is her number one priority. Trina says she understands that, but didn’t she get a divorce? Isn’t that enough to satisfy whoever’s been stalking her? Ava says, no, it doesn’t seem to be. The only way to keep Avery safe is to stay away from Nikolas, and the only way is to leave Port Charles, which means she has to sell Charlie’s and give up everything that ties her here. Except the gallery. She’s not selling the gallery. She’s hired a manger, and made it clear that Trina has a job there for as long as she wants one. Trina says, she doesn’t think Ava is listening. It’s not about the job; it’s about their friendship. She starts to cry, and says she needs Ava. Ava hugs her.

Nikolas tells Spencer, he has no reason to believe another Cassadine is plotting something, but given their family’s history, it’s always wise to look both ways before crossing the street. Esme tells Spencer, he’s trying. Can’t Spencer give him that? Spencer says, what he sees is someone who wants it both ways. The freedom to do what he wants, and the ability to justify it afterwards. Nikolas asks if he’s the only one. Be honest. Hasn’t Spencer ever done the same thing; believed the ends justified the means? Spencer says he thought they were talking about Nikolas and his mistakes. Nikolas says they are. He’s not going to lose his son. He’s already lost Ava. Spencer says, there it is. See how it always comes back to Ava? Nikolas wants her so bad, he can have her. He just won’t have Spencer. Spencer gets up, and says he got along without Nikolas for years; he’ll do it again. He walks away, and Nikolas starts to get up, but Esme says, let her. She tells Spencer, wait, and Spencer says, don’t defend him. She says she doesn’t have to. He’s making Nikolas’s case for him.

Scotty tells Britt, nothing will make him feel better except seeing her mother, and Britt says he really cares about her; it’s not just a random hook-up. He says, not at all. When they were together, grieving over Franco, things changed. When they were up in the jet, and there was all this turbulence, they thought it was curtains. But they were together, and ready for the worst if it happened. She says, but it didn’t. Somehow, he survived, and they have to believe her mother did too. He says, he really needs Obrecht, and Britt takes his hand, saying, Obrecht needs him too. Even more incredible, Britt realizes she needs her mother too. 

Anna and Jordan come back, and Anna asks if Scotty thinks he can tell them the truth about what really happened on the plane. Britt asks why they’re assuming Scotty’s keeping something from them, and Jordan says, certain things aren’t adding up. Scotty says, don’t blame him. The last thing he remembers is putting the oxygen mask on, and when he came to, he’d dropped into Finn and Elizabeth’s campsite. Literally. Anna asks, why spend all that money on a private plane? and he says he was targeted by one of those low-budget jet companies. He thinks he was scammed. Anna says, too good to be true, and he nods. She asks why he was headed to St. Lucia, and he says, that’s where Obrecht’s medical conference was.

As the butler leaves, Obrecht says, do they think she doesn’t know who’s behind this? She looks forward to giving him the justice he deserves. She tries to get out the door, but the other guy blocks her, and slides out himself, slamming it shut. She says, Peter August. She’s not swallowing his food, which has obviously been poisoned. If he’s going to kill her, he’s going to have to find the courage to do it with his own two hands. She turns around, and sees a man there. She says, it can’t be… Victor Cassadine (see below). He says, hello Liesl. As Mark Twain once said, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Alexis asks Jax what he’s going to do, and who is he going to do it to? He tells her again, he doesn’t have all the details yet, and he’s not willing to name names. She says, not to worry. She already knows why he came there to talk to her. He says, really? Because he doesn’t even know yet. He gets up, and she follows him. She says, he’s gun-shy. In the past year, he’s followed his gut two times, and it’s blown up in his face. He just wants to hear his theory out loud. He wants to voice the question, should he cross the line again? He says, if his gut feeling is right, someone else has crossed the line, and he’d be pulling them back. But if he takes that step, he’ll set things in motion, and they might not stop until… She says, someone gets hurt? Are they talking physically or emotionally? He tells her, considering who the people who are involved, he’d say both. She says, he came to her for advice. Let her think for a second… No. Walk away. That’s it. He says, and leave the person he cares about all alone? She says, how does he know they’re all alone? Maybe they’ve put their trust somebody else. He says, that is a distinct possibility, and she says, let someone else do the heavy lifting. From one fixer to another, butt out. You don’t have to save everybody. From the looks of things, if he tries, he’s going to get really burned.

Ava asks Trina, this is about Spencer, isn’t it? What’s going on? She thought the two of them were clicking. Trina says she thought so too. Until the night of the party, when Esme showed up. Ava says, who’s Esme? and Trina says, Spencer’s girlfriend from boarding school. Ava says, she’s so sorry, and Trina says, they’re a lot alike; worldly and sophisticated. Ava says, so is Trina. She works at an art gallery. Trina says, it doesn’t matter. Spencer was a wreck the night of his party, then Esme shows up, and he pulls it together. Or maybe he was covering. What his dad did was so messed up. Ava says, she tried to warn Nikolas. She hopes they can mend fences when she’s gone. Trina says, what about Avery? and Ava says, she’s doing this for Avery. She can’t let anything happen to Avery, and she’s frightened, especially now that the stalker threw Kiki in her face. Don’t give up on Spencer. Trina says she thought he liked her, and Ava says she’s sure he does. How could he not? Yeah, it was poor form to flirt with her, and not tell her that he had a girlfriend. Trina asks how he could do this to her, and Ava says, he’s a teenage boy. Teenage boys are not known for their maturity or discretion. Ava thanks Spencer needs a friend like Trina. She thinks he needs Trina more than he knows.

Esme says Spencer is guilty of the same double standard he accuses his father of. He’s declaring his freedom, but still expecting him to pay for everything. He says, the  price of being Nikolas Cassadine’s son is too high, and she says she wasn’t aware he was fielding other offers. Ava’s out of the house, and maybe out of his father’s life for good. Wasn’t that the goal? Her advice? Figure it out with his dad, or get used to the guest room at his grandmother’s, knowing Doc will be keeping his expert eyes on him. He asks if those are really his only options, and she says, go get a job and rent a room somewhere, and where does she fit in? Their original plan had her living in an estate on a private island. Not that she doesn’t care about him regardless, but be honest. They’re both high maintenance, and Windymere is their best option.  

Obrecht tells Victor, this makes no sense. He’s supposed to be dead. He burned to a crisp in the fire at Creighton-Clark. He says, not to mention, she shot him. She says she was thinking about her son. He says he still can’t believe she thought killing him, and letting Faison live was the lesser of the two evils. She says, it was at the time, and he asks how that worked out for her. He’s truly sorry for her loss. The good, like Nathan, always die young, while the rest of them survive, whatever it takes. She says she doesn’t care how he escaped. She cares that Scotty is still breathing. What has Victor done with him? Victor says, Scotty took a leap of faith, so to speak, and she says, he didn’t. He tells her, don’t worry. Yes, he was thrown from the plane, but also yes, he was wearing a parachute. Does she really think he’d be so cruel to someone she cares about? She says, in a heartbeat. That’s if he actually had a heart. He says he has a pulse, and pulls her to him. It’s beating for her. Can’t she hear it? I love this already.

Scotty says Obrecht was going to a conference on Huntington’s and other inherited diseases. He was just tagging along; a little scuba diving, some island time. Anna asks, who else was on the plane? and he says, there were two pilots and a flight attendant. Jordan says, and shortly after takeoff they hit some turbulence? He says, Obrecht thought there was something wrong with the pilot, so she headed for the cockpit, but he said, no. He lead her back to her seat, and buckled her up. The oxygen masks dropped down, and they started gulping up oxygen. The next thing he remembers, he was on the ground. They were about 3000 miles away from the Devil’s Triangle. Britt asks Anna if she thinks the plane could have been hijacked, and Anna says, it’s possible, but by whom? Scotty flashes back to Obrecht saying she has to survive this. She has to help Nina. Anna says, what is it? Does he know who could have done this? Epiphany brings in Scotty’s blood test results, and Britt looks at them, frowning. Jordan says, what is it?

Alexis asks what Jax thinks, and he says he thinks his last two interventions were a complete disaster. So third time’s the charm? She says, she woudn’t be incarcerated if she didn’t try to take the law into her own hands, and I laugh. But she was drunk, so she can blame it on the booze. If Jax does something, and it blows up in his face, he’ll have no one to blame but himself. He’ll never be able to live with himself. He says, if he does nothing, will he be able to live with himself? In either scenario, a lot of people are going to be affected. A guard walks over, and Alexis tells Jax, visiting time is over. He thanks her for listening, and her advice. He’ll see her later. He starts to leave, and she says she thinks he made his decision before he came there. Good luck. He says, thanks.

Trina tells Ava, thanks for the talk, but she’s got to get back to work. Ava says, no. She wants Trina to take the rest of the day off. Find Spencer. Stake your claim. Trina says, he’s not her property, and Ava says, he’s not what’s-her-name’s either. She may have a history with Spencer, but so does Trina. Trina flashes back to telling Spencer that she doesn’t know what to believe, and him saying he’s sorry. If she tells Ava, Cam, and Joss that he pretended to be Victor, he’ll understand. She says, but he doesn’t want her to. Ava asks, what’s wrong? and Trina says, nothing. Just promise she won’t leave before saying goodbye. Ava says, she won’t. Now go find Spencer.

Spencer comes back to the table with Esme, and tells Nikolas, it pains him to say it, but Nikolas is right. He’s the last person who should throw stones. Esme says, in case Nikolas is rusty at Spencerspeak, that’s his way of saying he wants to put things back together. Spencer says, not how it was though. Better. Nikolas says, he wants that too. He’s grateful Esme was able to bring them back together, and Esme says, if Spencer is happy, she’s happy. Nikolas says, he hopes this marks a new day in Cassadine history, where all of the family ghosts are left where they belong – in the past.

Obrecht asks what Victor wants of her, and he says, the same thing he’s always wanted; her companionship. She says, he always had an agenda within another agenda, and he says, isn’t it enough that he saw her getting close to another man? She says, he had her under surveillance? and he says, she rises from the ashes, again and again, but when she turned to Mr. Baldwin, that attachment seemed distressingly real. She says, it is real. If he hurts one hair…  He says, let him go. He managed to heal himself from the physical wounds she inflicted, but he doesn’t think he could bear the emotional scars of losing her to another man. She says, deal with it, and he says, never. As soon as she accepts that, the better off she’ll be.

Scotty asks what his bloodwork says, and Britt says, there are indications of trace amounts of trichloromethane in his bloodstream. He asks if she can say that in English, and she says, chloroform. Jordan says, he told them the last thing he remembers is putting the oxygen mask on, and Anna says, what if he wasn’t breathing oxygen? What if he was being drugged to pass out, so they could strap a parachute on him without him knowing who was responsible? Britt says, who’s they and what do they want? and Scotty asks, why they would want Obrecht? Britt says she knows her mom has no shortage of enemies, but why go to all that trouble? Anna’s phone dings, and she says, it’s a message from the WSB. Scotty asks if they found Obrecht; is she okay? Anna says, they seem to be dealing with a master magician. Not only as an airplane and a person disappeared by sleight of hand, there’s something else. Britt asks, who else is missing? and Anna says, not who. It’s what. She asks Scotty what the name of the convention was that Obrecht was attending, and he says, some convention for inherited diseases. Jordan names the hotel, and asks if that’s correct, and Scotty asks, what’s the point of this? How is it helping them find Obrecht? Anna says, the convention never happened, and Jordan says, and the organization hosting it, doesn’t exist

Victor tells Obrecht, try to enjoy her accommodations, and she tries to watch what code he puts into the keypad to unlock the door. He says he thinks she’ll find he’s anticipated her every need, and leaves. She yells, a gilded cage is still a cage! She’ll find a way to escape to be with Scotty.  

Trina comes out of the elevator, and sees Spencer, Esme, and Nikolas. She says she was not expecting to see this, and Nikolas says, it seems Esme has a future in negotiating treaties. Thanks to her, he and Spencer have taken the first steps toward reconciliation. He goes over to the hostess, and puts Spencer back on his account. He waves goodbye, and Trina sits down. Spencer says she looks upset, and she says she just left the gallery. Ava said the stalker won. She’s leaving town. Esme says, that is sad, but it’s understandable she’s doing it to protect her daughter. She doesn’t want to see the same thing happen to Avery that happened to Loren. Trina says, who’s Loren? Does she mean Kiki? Oops.

Ava turns out the lights at the gallery. As she’s leaving, Jax comes in. She asks what brings him there, and he says he needs to talk about Nina.

Tomorrow, Jax says he’s not leaving until he gets answers, Sam asks Curtis why she’s not welcome at the Savoy, and Sonny asks Nina if she came to any conclusions.

💘 He Loves Liesl…

There’s a new Victor in town. In an interesting side note, Thaao Penghlis, who played Victor off and on from 1981 to 2015, will be interviewed on the new season of Mupo & Friends. You’ll be able to catch it in September on YouTube or at MupoEntertainment.com. I do the copywriting (i.e. I write the questions), and I’d asked him about playing Victor. Apparently, they’d wanted him, but he had a soapy conflict. I wonder if he spilled any beans? I’ll post the link when it’s going to air, but you can also set a reminder on YouTube.

General Hospital’s Victor Cassadine Is Alive and Well… and Being Played By Charles Shaughnessy?
General Hospital Spoilers: Victor Cassadine Returns from the Dead – Charles Shaughnessy Playing Recast Role

🍹 Craig was on the two Toms’ Southern Charm watch party remotely. That was the best thing about it. Seriously, none of their random guests would make it on People’s Couch. Those people were actually funny.

💰 I half-watched Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, and covid affected L.A. a little differently than NYC. It was both a buyer’s and seller’s market, although people were still looking for a bargain. Fredrik showed his clients a house that David and James – who now have different looks, but I still can’t keep it straight who’s who – were selling. They came to a deal, but the seller wanted it kept on the DL so he could speak to his wife first. No surprise, Fredrik opened his big mouth. During a party at Fredrik’s house, David and/or James confronted Fredrik. Tracy walked away, not wanting to be part of it, and I didn’t blame her. JoshA said he’d had his own beef with Fredrik, and it was water under the bridge, but you had to know who you were getting into bed with. Fredrik whined that he was sorry, but it wasn’t like he’d put it on Instagram. It was unclear whether this had or would affect the deal. JoshF was also obsessed with Tracy’s dog, Jake, as we all would be. He’s adorable. Jake, not JoshF, who’s annoying AF.

This season, fabulous houses you will never be able to afford, and Fredrik meets Dolph Lundgren, who says, you lie, you die.  

🔁 Leaving To Come Back…

On tap for tomorrow, tea time, wise words, and a whole lotta soap. Until then stay safe, stay forbearing, and stay maybe not trusting your gut so much if it’s consistently wrong.

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September 1, 2021 – Scotty Drops In On the Campers, Erika Wants Us To Look At Her Life & Rain

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Finn says Elizabeth is still cold, and she tells him to share his blankie with her. He does, and puts his arm around her. He says, better? and she says, much better. He says, roughing it has improved since he last went camping, and she says she’s never been so happy to get off the grid. They almost kiss, when they hear a crashing in the trees. Finn says, what the hell? and they run to investigate.

Brando is working underneath a car in the garage, when someone hands him a tool. He slides out, and sees it’s Sasha. He says, they have to stop meeting like this. She says she was thinking, they should always meet like this. The smell of motor oil, the cinderblock echo; she feels like she’s in an old Springsteen video. He says, don’t get mad at him, but did they have plans for tonight? She says, they did not. She was hoping to surprise him, and thought they could make plans together. He asks what she had in mind, and she says she’s open to suggestions. After all, things have changed a little since her last garage seduction. He gets closer to her, and says, not that much.

Jax comes home, and Josslyn says, perfect timing. The first course is ready. She brings a dish to the coffee table, and he says, wow; the first course. What inspired all this? She says he has a kitchen and a washing machine. Now that she’s living in a dorm, she understands what luxuries those are. He says she’s welcome to them anytime, but he’s a little confused. When most kids come home from college, they expect a homecooked meal. They’re not the ones doing the cooking. She says she’s not your ordinary college girl, and – she picks up the dish – this is not your ordinary hors d’oeuvres. She can’t wait for him to try the sauce.

Nina and Sonny go back into the Tan-O, and Nina says, the sauce is so good, his shirt wanted a taste. He says, that’s not important, because she hasn’t had dessert. She says, dessert isn’t important. If they don’t get that stain, it’s going to set in, so come on. Hand it over. He starts to unbutton his shirt.

Cyrus is brought to the visiting area. He’s uncuffed, and he sits down, picking up the phone. He says he hopes his visitor had a nice flight, and we see it’s Mr. Buscema, who nods. Cyrus asks what Buscema has for him, and Buscema says the question is, what does Cyrus have for him? If Cyrus wants his help taking down the Corinthos Organization, Cyrus needs to start by telling Buscema how he’s going to benefit his business.  

Gladys thanks Mr. Novak for the lovely drinks on the terrace. She appreciates his generosity. There’s no need to buy her dinner. Novak says, if she insists. A small price to pay for the pleasure of her company. She doesn’t know how much of a pleasure it’s been. She just can’t get past Carly’s rudeness. And that’s the last thing she’ll say about Carly, she promises. He says, no need to apologize about venting about Carly. It sounds like they have a complicated history.

Carly tells Jason, she’s going to go see Brando, and see if he has a lead on Cyrus’s connection with the Five Families tiramisù. He tells her, take a guard, but she says she thinks it’s safe. He says, take a guard anyway, and she asks if she should be worried. He says, no. If it comes down to it, he’ll get to Novak and his nephew; he may have to anyway. She says, why? and he says, because nobody threatens her. If anybody tries, they lose everything. She kisses him on the cheek, and the elevator door opens. Britt is there, and Carly turns, seeing her.

Cyrus says Buscema’s presence sends a clear message that, although the Buscema family supported Carly and Jason replacing Sonny, their interests align. Buscema says he’s obligated to consider all options, and Cyrus says, since this is just about business, the bottom line is, Jason and the Widow Corinthos are bad for it.

Novak asks how soon after Sonny’s passing did Jason and Carly connect, and Gladys says, practically at the wake. And this isn’t gossip – he says, of course (🍷) not, the truth and nothing but – while they were making lovey-dovey shark eyes at each other, Jason was playing slap and tickle with one of the doctors at General Hospital.

Britt comes out of the elevator, and says, the happy couple. Congratulations on picking the wedding date. Carly says, Britt heard (like it’s some big secret), and Britt says, it’s hard keep a secret like that from the internet. It’s coming up fast. Not a lot of time plan. Carly says, no time like the present, and goes in the elevator. Britt says she wants Carly to know, she wishes them nothing but the best. The elevator door closes, leaving Jason with Britt.  

Jax asks Josslyn, to what does he owe the pleasure? and she says she thought they should have some dad/daughter time. He says, that’s so sweet. What’s the real reason? She says, the celebratory dinner at the MetroCourt was a disaster, and he says, he knows; he’s sorry. He should have left his recent argument with her mother at home where it belonged. She says, it’s not really recent; there’s been tension for months. He says, she noticed, and she says, they usually work things out faster than this. She’s getting worried. There’s a beeping from the kitchen, and Josslyn thinks it’s the oven timer, but Jax says, it’s the smoke alarm.

Elizabeth and Finn find a parachuter on the ground. Pioneer Scout Wyatt (remember him?) pops out of the forest, and asks if they require assistance. Finn says, let him take a look first, and he and Elizabeth try to get the parachute off. Wyatt says he has a badge in knots, and Finn tells him to help. Wyatt runs over and says, it looks like a battle knot. Finn and Elizabeth both say, just untie it. He does, and Finn turns the man over. It’s Scotty, and I die laughing. Well, at least they put a parachute on him. That’s more than most bad guys would do.

Wyatt calls 9-1-1, and says, there appears to be a parachute accident. It’s a male, in his early 60s, unconscious… He tells them, hold on, and says they want Scotty’s vitals. Finn says he seems good; no broken bones. He thinks Scotty is just out cold. Wyatt says, there’s a doctor and nurse there, and they said no broken bones, but he’s out cold; that means unconscious. They’re about 200 yards from the campgrounds, and there’s vehicle access. He hangs up, and tells Finn and Elizabeth that an ambulance in en route. Finn thanks him, and says it’s good to see him again. Elizabeth says, they know each other? and Finn says, their paths crossed a long time ago. He asks how Wyatt is, and remarks on him being a Pioneer. Wyatt says he’s a Pioneer second class, and has two more badges to go to be first class. If they need help… Elizabeth thanks him, and rubs Scotty’s chest. Scotty opens his eyes, and Finn asks if Scotty can tell them what happened. Scotty says, are we there yet?    

Josslyn and Jax come out from the kitchen with plates, and Josslyn says, it’s the least she could do after all his effort, but apparently she inherited her mom’s talent in the kitchen. Trina tried to give her some pointers, but even Trina can only do so much. He says, when she comes over, she can practice on him. He’ll be her guinea pig, especially if it’s Lady Jane’s recipe. She says she hopes he feels that way after dinner, and he says, while they wait, tell him her concerns about him and her mother. She says, it’s mostly him. Since he came home from Nixon Falls, he’s seemed stressed. He says he’s fine; she doesn’t need to worry. She says, so his stress has nothing to do with her mom marrying Jason?

Britt tells Jason that she caught up with Maxie. She’s hard at work planning the wedding. She was surprised at the magnitude of the festivities. He says, they told Maxie understated, and she says, as in tasteful and small? Maxie is going all out, presumably with their blessing. She can’t help but wonder what he and Carly are trying to prove.   

Cyrus says, Sonny has always been in charge; Jason was just the brute force that kept him there. He’s a gifted enforcer, nothing more. Buscema says, interesting perspective, and Cyrus says, if Jason had any initiative, he would have removed Carly. Instead, he’s marrying her and asking the families to ignore that a civilian marched into the organization, and began calling the shots. A civilian who could go to the Feds, putting them all in danger of exposure.

Brando tells Sasha that he’s been working extra hours, but also picked up some side gigs so he can make improvements on his apartment. He was thinking, when Gladys moves out, maybe Sasha could move in. She says she didn’t realize he was ready for that step, and he says they’re both busy people who want to spend more time together. What better way than being in the same place when they’re not being busy? She says she hopes if they were to live under the same roof, it would be more than just a crash pad. He says, it’s a temporary home while he saves money to get a new place. Of course (🍷) he knows she can afford a beautiful home on her own already, and she says she wouldn’t go that far, but go on. He says, if and when they get a place together, he wants her to know he’ll pull his weight. She doesn’t have to decide right now, but he hopes she considers it. She says she’ll definitely consider it. There’s just one thing she needs to know. What are these side gigs? He says, they’re just side gigs, when Carly comes in. She says she needs to talk to him about something important.

Nina tells Sonny, the trick is to use a lot of club soda, and push it through the fabric, so the stain doesn’t set. She learned a lot of nifty weird tricks on how to clean clothes from being on Crimson shoots. Another cool thing is to use equal parts dish soap and peroxide… Sonny comes up behind her, and she turns to him. He kisses her, takes her hand, and leads her to the back.

Finn gets off the phone, and tells Elizabeth, Chase is loving watching the kids. He’s going to teach everyone to make something called campfire blondies? and Elizabeth says, they’re so good. He says they’re saving her one, and his daughter apparently is so excited about the prospect of scary campfire stories, she didn’t even ask when he’s coming back. She says, kids and their priorities, right? and he says, their people are taking great care of Scotty, right? She says, regardless of how many pending lawsuits he has against the hospital. He says, a man’s gotta make a living, and an orderly comes out. She tells Finn, the attending physician would like a word, and Finn says, lead the way. He leaves with her, and Jordan comes by. She thanks Elizabeth for the call, and says, Scotty was involved in a skydiving mishap? Elizabeth says, they don’t know what happened. All they know is, he crash landed near their campsite. Jordan asks, who’s we? and Elizabeth says, her and Finn; they were on a family camping trip. Jordan asks if Scotty was able to tell her what happened, but Elizabeth says, he was too out of it. Jordan asks if she thinks Scotty can speak to her now, when Finn comes out. He says he’s glad Jordan’s there. Scotty is in room 1024. Before she goes in, he and the attending physician are in agreement that he wasn’t knocked out on impact. They’re running a tox screen, and if the results are what they anticipated… Jordan says, he didn’t make the jump voluntarily.  

Britt tells Jason, don’t answer that. It’s none of her business. He says, okay, and she says, okay is an answer. It’s probably even more annoying than the answer to the original question. He starts to say something, but she says, don’t. Wow. She bets it’s the first time anybody told him to say less. He says he thinks she’s right, and she says, whatever’s going on makes no sense to her, but so what? She’s decided she doesn’t need to know all the secrets and answers to the universe. She just has to accept them. She’s glad she got that out of her system. Now she can move on.

Novak says, he takes it Gladys doesn’t appreciate the union between Carly and Jason, and Gladys laughs. She says, that gold-digging climber took her cousin for all he was worth, and the second he was gone, she threw herself at Jason. No gratitude or loyalty; no class. And how dare Carly not invite her to the wedding? Novak asks why Gladys would want to attend the celebration of a union of which she so sorely disapproves of, and Gladys says, it’s the hottest ticket in town. Novak laughs.

Jax asks what makes Josslyn think he’s worried about Carly marrying Jason? and she says, it’s impossible to miss. He says he has to work on his poker face, and she asks if the problem is her mother marrying Jason or marrying in general. He says, it’s more a parenting thing, and she says, that’s a very broad answer. He says, from the moment a child is in the world, a parent’s job is to look out for danger, and make sure they’re safe. Josslyn says they’ve done that, and he says, they have, but she’s off to college now, and with that, comes new worries. She says he doesn’t have to worry. She’ll still be the same person, just not under a parental roof. He says it’s not her he’s worried about. He’s worried about other people. Josslyn says she has a bodyguard, and Jax asks how she feels about that. She says, it used to bother her to have someone constantly looking over her shoulder, but she realized it was for her safety. Devon is cool. She acts like it’s inconvenient, but it makes her feel better, and Cameron is cool with it. He asks how that’s going, and she says they’re happy. He says, they should be. She should be living her life and having fun, and let him do the work. She says she was planning on it. She’s happy to know he’s on the job too. He says now that the food has cooled off, they should try this amazing appetizer.  

Carly says Sasha looks so beautiful; she’s glowing. Sasha thanks her, and Carly says she didn’t mean to interrupt. She needs to pick Brando’s brain about something, and it’s important. Brando says, whatever she needs, and Sasha says, while they talk, she’ll go to the ladies room. Carly promises it will just be a minute, and Sasha leaves. Carly says she hopes Sasha doesn’t think she doesn’t trust her, but Brando says he’s sure she understands some conversations don’t apply to her. Carly says, this is one of them. Cyrus being put away isn’t having the effect they were hoping for. He still has connections, and he’s using them to target people he feels wronged him. He says, the last time he saw Cyrus, Cyrus tried to kill him and his mother. Does she think he wants to finish the job?

Buscema asks what Cyrus is proposing, and Cyrus says, that the Five Families biscotti use Carly and Jason’s wedding as a window to strike. It will even provide alibis for the family heads. In one fell swoop, they can hobble the Corinthos Organization, and it will have no chance for recovery or retribution. Buscema says, it’s a risk, and Cyrus says, one has to speculate to accumulate. Is he in or out? Buscema asks if he has to decide now, and Cyrus says, not now, but soon. The wedding is approaching fast, and it might be their only shot at neutralizing Jason and his new bride.  

Carly says she doesn’t know if Cyrus is coming after Brando or not, and he asks what she needs from him. She says, Cyrus has somehow forged a relationship with someone high up in the Five Families rigatoni. Jason is trying to figure out who. He says, he was just Cyrus’s driver. He wasn’t very high up on the food chain. She says he was perfectly placed to interact with people on the ground. He and the other guards would hang out and talk, while they were inside doing business. He says, they mostly talked about sports. They didn’t exchange trade secrets. She asks if anyone seemed more loyal or sympathetic to Cyrus, but he says, no one springs to mind. He did keep a notepad. He can review it, and if he finds anything, he’ll tell her. She says, what about Joey Novak? Did he ever come in for his tune up?

Novak tells Gladys, it so happens he’s attending the wedding, and he’d be honored if she would accompany him. Gladys says, okay. It’s not her first rodeo, or her second. What’s his angle? He laughs, and says she reminds him of his of ex-wife. She says he’s not the first man to tell her that, and it’s never a ringing endorsement. He says, it is; she left him. They laugh, and she says, well then… She gets up, and says she guesses she’ll see him at the wedding. He lifts his glass.

Britt looks at her phone, and Jason asks if she has somewhere to be. She says she’s meeting someone, and they just arrived. Have a good evening. She walks over to the elevator, where she greets a guy we don’t know.   

Jax says, this is incredible. The cheese has so much flavor, and the marinara sauce is to die for. Josslyn has an odd look on her face, and says she didn’t make the sauce. He says she put together this beautiful selection. She doesn’t like it? She says she does like it; she loves it. He asks, why the face? when the timer goes off. She says she’ll go grab the stew.

Sonny and Nina are in Sonny’s bedroom, kissing, when her hair gets caught in his watch. Been there. She gets untangled, and sees the inscription. She says she’s sorry. She can’t do this.

Scotty is in a hospital bed, and Elizabeth comes in with Jordan and Finn. She hugs him, and says she’s so glad he’s okay. He says, it’s going to take more than a fall to break this Humpty Dumpty, and Jordan asks if he’s up for answering a few questions. He says he’s fuzzy, but fire away. She asks what he remembers, and he says he was on a plane. She says, private or commercial? and he says, private. She asks where he was headed, and he says, some woman’s name…  St. Lucia. The next thing he knew, they were going into a nosedive, and the oxygen masks dropped. They didn’t even have a chance to sip their champagne. Jordan asks if someone was with him, and he says, of course (🍷). Obrecht was with him. Why else would he charter a private jet? Tell him that she’s there and she’s okay.

Britt’s date babbles about himself, and she looks at her phone. She says, it’s an emergency at work. Nice to meet him. Duty calls. She jets, and Jason watches. In the elevator, Britt’s phone rings. She says, if only they’d called five minutes ago, she wouldn’t have had to lie. What’s up? Jordan asks her to get to the hospital as soon as she can.  

Finn says, Obrecht hasn’t shown up in the ER, and hasn’t been admitted. He’s having Amy check the other hospitals. Joran says, the FTA and the NTSB have no reports of any crashes. She has a call in to find out if any aircraft lost contact with flight control, but the flight plan and manifest won’t be available tonight. Elizabeth says, it doesn’t make any sense. Parachutes aren’t exactly standard safety gear, even on a private jet, right? Finn says, they’re not standard, and Scotty was dressed in travel clothes, not a jumpsuit. It’s pretty clear he was forced out of that plane. Jordan says, there’s a lot they don’t know, but this wasn’t an accident. And whoever arranged it, is powerful, and potentially deadly.

Cyrus says, if Buscema and the other families are concerned about liability, he’ll be more than happy to coordinate the takeover personally. Buscema says, from there? He can do that? Cyrus says he’s had plenty of practice running things remotely. As we all have at this point. Buscema says, all this to take Carly and Jason off the board. What’s really in this for Cyrus?

Brando tells Carly that Joey never showed up, and Carly says, he’s not likely to. He was sent abroad according to Vincent. Brando says he almost wishes he was still in good with Cyrus; he could go to the source. Carly says, unfortunately, Cyrus’s trust in Brando was gone the second Sasha chose him over Cyrus. He says, lucky him, and she says she thinks saving Sasha’s life had something to do with it. He says, funny how life works out. He always respected Sonny, and Jason came through for him a lot. He’s glad she and Jason found each other. Now they both have unexpected love in their lives. She says, love they want to protect. Sasha listens in, and he says he’s sure Joey isn’t the only made guy with a car. He’ll reach out to Novak, Woo, and Buscema’s people ,and tell them he’s open for business. With a special discount for associates. Nothing like a beer and a wait on their hands to get guys talking. Carly says he’s a great help, when Sasha comes in. She asks, what is he helping with exactly?

Josslyn says, dinner is served, and Jax says, before they sit down, tell him what was bothering her before. She says, it was nothing, but he says, it didn’t seem like nothing. She says she’s literally too embarrassed to say it out loud, but he says she knows she can tell him anything. She says, it’s going to sound weird, but the sauce tasted exactly like Sonny’s. Exactly. He says, Sonny was known to be a good cook, but most marinara sauces use the same ingredients. She says, exactly . Even the best ones taste the same. Did it taste like any he’s had before? Jax admits it didn’t, and she says, why not? He says, it had a spicy kick, almost like arrabbiata, but not; and a little smoky. She says, Sonny’s sauce was unique… until now. If she didn’t know Sonny was dead, she’d swear Sonny made himself.

Britt goes to Scotty’s room, and says, the Commissioner told her he was there. He asks if she spoke to Elizabeth and Finn, and she says she came straight to see him, in case there was a story or anything she needs to get straight. Wasn’t he supposed to be on his way to St. Lucia with her mother? What happened? He says he doesn’t know. They were on a private jet, and the next thing he knew, the plane started to go down. The oxygen masks were dropping. All he remembers is coming to on the ground, and seeing a kid in a Pioneer Scout uniform standing over him with Finn and Elizabeth. She asks, what happened to her mother? Please tell her that she bailed out with him. He says he doesn’t remember bailing out himself. He hopes to God she made it off the plane safe.

Wyatt picks up trash around where Scotty fell. He sees the locket and picks it up, looking at Nathan and Britt’s pictures.  

Carly tells Sasha, she truly has nothing to worry about, when Glady’s stumbles in. She laughs, and Brando tells her, please say she didn’t drive. She says she took a ride… Sasha says, Ride Share? and Gladys says, that’s the one. She did want to let Carly know… Carly says, know what? and Gladys says, even though Carly didn’t see fit to invite her, she’ll be a wedding guest after all. She’s coming as a plus one. Carly cringes, and says, let her guess. Gladys says she’ll never guess, and Carly says, Vincent Novak. Gladys asks how she guessed, and Carly says, easy. Gladys says she can’t wait to share in Carly’s special day. She takes Carly’s hand, and says, and she’ll have the chicken… Wait, no, the fish… On second thought, the chicken.

Jason tells Novak, there are rumors that Cyrus is making moves behind bars. He wants to make sure it doesn’t threaten the peace. Novak says, straight to the point. He admires that. Therefore, he’ll do the same. They have nothing to fear from the Novaks. Certainly not where Cyrus is concerned. He hasn’t forgotten Cyrus burning his warehouse, and he doesn’t forgive it. Under the circumstances, the enemy of his enemy is his friend.

Cyrus tells Buscema to remember, first and foremost, he’s an opportunist. Where there is turmoil, there’s an opportunity to strike. What’s in it for him is simple. He wants revenge.

Nina tells Sonny that she’s sorry, but this watch is evidence of the life he used to have. if he ever remembers that life, the people he loved, and the people who loved him… He says, the people who didn’t bother to look for him? She says, if he remembers that life, he might discover there are people out there who love and miss him, and he might discover he loves and misses them too. She can’t do this until he learns who he used to be before Nixon Falls. He says he doesn’t want to know. How many times does he have to tell her? He doesn’t want to. She takes his hand, and puts the watch in it. She says, until he does, she can’t give him all of her. Find out who he is. She leaves, and he tosses the watch on the bed.

Josslyn says, Jax probably never tried Sonny’s sauce, but he has to believe her that this sauce is exactly like it. He asks where she got it, and she says, Trina got it at a bar in Nixon Falls. He asks what the name of the bar is, and she says, he’s right; she’s being ridiculous. He tells her that he didn’t say that, and she says, it has to be a coincidence; it can’t be Sonny’s sauce. That’s crazy, right? Jax remembers seeing Sonny in a haze when he was put on the stretcher after he was shot. He says, right. Crazy.  

Tomorrow, Alexis says someone has to walk away, Jordan tells Anna that a question needs answering, Spencer tells Nikolas that the stalker isn’t the only threat, and Jax says, if anyone knows, it’s Nina.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Dorit’s wedding dress samples came; her latest venture into design. In her interview, she said designing them was different because it was one memory a woman was going to have forever. Unless it was Hollywood. Then she might have more than one memory. They weren’t all my taste, but they were all gorgeous, and I have to admit, Dorit is good at what she does. PK wanted to name the dresses, and in Dorit’s interview, she said, PK wanted to be involved in everything. She didn’t like it at first, but then she’d realize he was a visionary. They talked about marriage, which led to talking about Erika, which seems to be the topic of every conversation this season. In her interview, Dorit said she thought the reason why she talked too much with the women, was because her husband didn’t let her talk at home.    

Sutton took Kyle to see her new house, which was one of those boxy things you see in L.A., but the box is hiding the fabulousness inside. It was 6000 square feet, with 4 bedrooms, and 5 bathrooms. Sutton was still renovating, and in Kyle’s interview, she said while Sutton was waiting to move in, she was counting the rent. In Sutton’s interview, she said she was living her best life after her divorce. The house represented her independence as a single woman, and was symbolic to her. She asked Kyle what she and Mauricio were doing for their 25th anniversary, and Kyle said they were getting the kids out of the house, and having dinner at home. She asked how Sutton felt about LisaR’s launch party, and Sutton said the party itself was beautiful. She was using kid gloves with Erika, but when she got a doodoo nail pointing at her face, and Erika called her small town, she realized Erika wasn’t as special as she’d thought. In Sutton’s interview, she said she thought she and Erika had bonded in a deeper way. We flashed back to Sutton saying she had a pretty mess inside, and Erika high-fiving her. She told Kyle that she felt betrayed, and was ready for a hardcore conversation with Erika. In her interview, she said she didn’t think Erika knew exactly what was going on, but she thought Tom might have said the gig was up. Take care of yourself; it’s been a nice ride. Sutton told Kyle that Erika lied about the car accident. We flashed back to Erika’s two different stories, and in Kyle’s interview, she said she understood Erika keeping things to herself. She didn’t think Erika trusted people. She’d been married to a lawyer, and he’d probably told her to be careful of the things she said; they could be used against her. Sutton said she didn’t think it was impossible, but it seemed fishy. In her interview, she said, Erika made a deal with the devil, and the devil always comes knocking. Wow. That is so true. Kyle said she’d be eating crow if Erika wasn’t the person she thought Erika was. One of them had to be wrong. Sutton said it was all in the pastry.

Crystal prepared lunch with housekeeper Lucy, and it was quite a spread of Chinese fare. Erika applauded when she saw pancakes. In Crystals interview, she said she’d eaten guinea pig from a street vendor, and had thought it was pig. She dumb. And also, eww! The kids were being taught songs and poems in Chinese, and Crystal said her parents had spoken Chinese at home when she was growing up. She didn’t want her kids to lose their culture. I’m with her there. There are things I wished I’d learned about my own cultures when younger. Kathy joined them, and said she wanted to make a beautiful, special party. In her interview, she said she had one friend where it was always the same salmon and the same group of people. She liked to try and mix it up. Garcelle was the last one to join them, and said she thought a small group was nice. They talked about Dorit being long-winded, and Erika said it was something they’d all mentioned. Kathy said she’d even joked about it, and we flashed back to that. In Garcelle’s interview, she said, what were they supposed to do? Duct tape? Erika said Dorit was sensitive, and Garcelle said she and Erika were perceived as strong. Erika said she’d never kick a dog when it was down, and do the what about me? thing. She said Sutton had been judgmental at the launch party, wanting to put a distance between them because, what about me? In Erika’s interview, she said Sutton was disappointing. The Sutton she knew had been kind to her. We flashed back to Sutton being supportive, and Erika said, for Sutton to flip was enough to make her want to stand back. Kathy said Sutton was thinking about her social standing, which was more conservative. The good news and bad news was that nobody cared what they had to say. Everyone had skeletons in their closet. It was just that her family’s skeletons were out there. In her interview, Erika said if you wanted to talk reputation, ask Kathy Hilton. If Kathy had nothing to worry about, none of them did. Erika said she’d never heard of Sutton before she joined the group, and in Garcelle’s interview, she wondered if somebody was only important if Erika knew who they were. Before Crystal joined them, Garcelle didn’t know her, but she did know Rob. I guess we knew Tom long before Erika too. Crystal said she thought Sutton’s behavior stemmed from insecurity, and Garcelle said she found Sutton to be quirky and funny, and she finally had a voice. Crystal thought Sutton’s voice was awkward, and Erika said, Sutton was lucky that people knew who TF she was.

Kyle was impressed by the ton of candles Mauricio put out for their 25th anniversary. She asked what he had planned for her, and he said, caviar and Joe’s stone crab. They toasted to their anniversary, and in Kyle’s interview, she said it made her happy. Her husband had always been supportive, and she was supportive of him. Their lives had changed a lot, yet they were able to stay in sync. We flashed back to them over the years, and she said, mutual respect. That didn’t mean they don’t fight. She was usually the one who got mad, and he had to apologize if he wanted peace in his life. Mauricio took her past more candles and a billion balloons on the ceiling, to a table near the pool, which was beautifully lit up. He had several bottles of champagne waiting, and the caviar. In her interview, Kyle said her mom hadn’t trusted men, and said she only cared about her kids. Kyle had made sure her marriage was a priority. If she’d left whenever she was upset, she woudn’t have lasted a year. They talked about Erika, and Kyle said she and Tom had been married 20 years. In her interview, she said it was a reminder to put in the homework you had to do for marriage. Mauricio hoped Erika didn’t know anything about Tom’s dealings, and Kyle hoped she wasn’t wrong about Erika.

Everyone got ready for Kathy’s party. In Sutton’s interview, she said you didn’t have to believe your friends 100% of the time. Sometimes you had to trust your gut. Kathy went around checking everything before the party, and in her interview, she explained that she needed to touch everything. Her pet peeve was people arriving 10 minutes early when she was doing last minute touches. She was a fluffer. Apparently she didn’t know what that word means, and I was surprised the producers didn’t enlighten her. If you don’t know what it means, I’m not telling you. Google it. Butler Patrick welcomed LisaR, who was the first to arrive. In LisaR’s interview, she said it was old school hospitality at the Hilton’s. No one had a staff like Kathy’s. That’s money. Kathy was like the fourth one there, and in her interview, Kyle said that Kathy absolutely showed up late for her own parties. Garcelle came in last, wearing a fabulous faux leopard coat. Patrick passed around amazing hors d’oeuvres, and kept their glasses filled. LisaR said she was on her second drink, and not responsible for what came out of her mouth. Has she ever been? They headed for the dinner table, and Sutton said she and Erika had a second to chitchat. She wanted to make sure Erika was okay with what had happened at the party. Erika asked what Sutton was trying to do. They didn’t need clear the air. Sutton had made her position clear. Erika had heard it from everyone else, and didn’t want to talk. She had enough problems, and only had enough capacity for what mattered to her. And Sutton’s opinion didn’t matter ( …matter, matter, matter – I had a Gilbert and Sullivan moment – sorry). Erika excused herself to go to the ladies room, and Kathy asked what Sutton did. Sutton said she asked if Erika wanted to chitchat, and it wasn’t received well. She’d thought it was better for Erika to hear what she’d said from her. Caviar was served, and in Dorit’s interview, she said, never mind the homemade vodka that was probably made for Kathy personally, but when the caviar pie was brought out, they exited Beverly Hills and went to heaven.

Dorit started to rehash things with Garcelle, saying, she didn’t like confrontation, but she always spoke up for herself. What Garcelle said had made her feel sh*tty. Kathy wisely suggested that they wanted to actually enjoy it when they ate, and in Garcelle’s interview, she said she was up for a conversation with Dorit, but Dorit would have been hijacking the conversation all night. So, thanks, Kathy. Dorit was doing something right though, since that tiny Pomeranian of Kathy’s was cozy in her lap. LisaR somehow got ahold of a bell that had been taken away from her earlier, and said if anyone had anything to work out or deal with, ring the bell. Because we’re in third grade. I thought, did she not just hear Kathy? and LisaR shoved the bell at Sutton. Sutton said she’d tried to have a conversation with Erika, and it upset her. Erika said she hadn’t been upset; Sutton’s opinion didn’t matter to her. Dorit tried to interject, but Erika told her, hold on. Sutton said she had the bell, like anyone cared, and asked Erika to stop speaking to her the way she was. Erika said her life had nothing to do with Sutton, and in Kathy’s interview, she said she was starting to think she should have let Dorit talk. Patrick must be sorry he had to serve Erika the lambchops. In the kitchen, Patrick told the staff that they were fighting like cats and dogs out there. Sutton said Erika’s crack about her being small town was derogatory, not just to her, but anyone from a small town. She was proud of what she and her husband had built from the ground up, with no money. Erika asked how her life impacted Sutton’s, and Sutton said she thought it would, but it hadn’t. She’d panicked. Erika just kept saying her life didn’t affect Sutton.  

Dorit said she loved and supported Erika, and didn’t agree with Sutton, but every article did have their names dragged in. In Dorit’s interview, she said she wasn’t worried, but there was so much they didn’t know. They could be subpoenaed. That didn’t mean they weren’t friends; they just needed reassurance. Erika said a sweet day was coming, and she’d remember those who were with her, and those against her. Sutton said she wasn’t against Erika, and Garcelle said it was human nature to wonder if something would affect you. Erika insisted it wasn’t. Why would they be dragged in? A tear rolled down her cheek, and I have to admit, I thought it was a little too perfect. And BTW, waterproof mascara this time. Garcelle still thought it was human to wonder if you’d be implicated, but she didn’t want Erika to be hurt. She also didn’t like the way Erika was looking at her, which was Ice Queen Barbie. Garcelle sat next to Erika, and told her she was trying to understand a little bit. She tried to wipe the tear from Erika’s cheek, and Erika jerked away. In Garcelle’s interview, she said she was just trying to be kind. Dorit said she’d do anything Erika needed, but holy sh*t, reading about the victims was hard to digest. She would think Erika felt the same. Erika said she felt worse. In Dorit’s interview, she said she felt bad for Erika, but the victims who had nothing, and now had even less. Erika asked why they were all torturing her, and Dorit said they were trying to be there for her. Erika said it didn’t like it. And in a tone to match the look she gave Garcelle, she said, look at me. Look at my effing life.

Dorit looked like she had a headache, and said it broke her heart. Erika said if it broke her heart, why was she still talking? Dorit said nothing was being done to Erika, and LisaR started philosophizing about loving your neighbor and yourself. Erika said she loved LisaR, but that was bullsh*t. I had to agree with the latter, as is most of what LisaR says. Erika said every time she came to an event, they got things out of her. She needed compassion, and was looking around the table for support. A confused Kyle said Erika had their support. It was about Sutton being honest with what she’d said. She was Sutton’s friend, but Sutton wasn’t being honest. She was being two-faced. In Sutton’s interview, she said Kyle was calling her two-faced, and no one was speaking up. She told Erika she’d brought up hard questions at the dinner, but she didn’t think Erika was a liar. She’d softened on her point-of-view. Kyle said Sutton told her that she thought Erika was lying. In Kyle’s interview, she said they all had questions, but they all didn’t call a meeting, and have the same concerns. We flashed back to Sutton’s meeting, and Kyle said Sutton had a big voice when the person she was talking about wasn’t there, but when she saw them, it was a different situation. In Garcelle’s interview, she didn’t know why Kyle and LisaR were focused on Sutton. Why not Dorit? We flashed back to Dorit saying everything she’d believed about Erika’s life was the opposite. Why is Sutton being the scapegoat? I’ll tell you why. They always choose someone to pick on each season because they’re mean girls, LisaR leading the pack. This time, new girl Crystal also jumped on the get-some-more-screen-time bandwagon immediately. Sutton said when Erika had told two different stories about the car accident, she’d thought Erika lied. Erika said she wasn’t a liar, and Sutton said she didn’t trust Erika to tell them the truth 100%. In her interview, Sutton said, where there was one lie, there were a lot more. It was like when you saw one cockroach, you knew there were a lot under the sheetrock. Erika said Sutton was trying to accuse her of lying, and she wasn’t a liar. She could go head-to-head all day with Sutton. She had a lot of effing nerve. Sutton told Erika not to talk to her like that, and Erika said, or what? like a bully on the playground. Sutton said, or nothing, and Erika said, exactly. So STFU. Sutton had no idea what she was talking about.

To be continued…

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🛣 Hitting the Road, Jack…

Tomorrow (aka Thursday), Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles begins a new season, although I might sit this one out. Too many numbers. The two Toms are also having another Bravo watch party at 10 pm, this time for Southern Charm. I’m not that crazy about these. Although I love watching other people watching TV and making snarky comments – my new dream job – they bring in random friends whose opinions I couldn’t care less about. Not that I care about their opinions either, but at least I know who they are. Until we meet again for who knows what, stay safe, stay more competitive with yourself than anyone else, and stay not pondering the knot. Just untie it.

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August 31, 2021 – Cyrus Has an Ally, ID Switch Dinner Success, Sonja’s New Show & Boom

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Turbulence wracks the plane Scotty and Obrecht are on. Obrecht takes something out of her bag, then starts to hyperventilate. Things settle down, and she asks, is it over?

Nina wonders if Sonny is asking her out on a date, and he says they haven’t had a chance to be together, just the two of them. She says, it’s like they’re the only two people in the world, and he says, aren’t they? She says, how about tonight they are? and he says, just her and him. She says she knows they’ve gone through some tough times lately, but maybe now it’s going to be okay. He asks, why wouldn’t it be? and hugs her. She says, so has their first date officially started? and he says, the good thing is, they’re not going to have first date jitters. She says, or wonder if the date’s going to end in a kiss, and he kisses her.

Carly asks Jason how Cyrus can be making moves. She thought he was in a Federal prison in the Midwest. He says, Jordan said Cyrus targeted someone; not them, but it proves he’s still a threat. She wanted him to know, the Feds believe Cyrus made contact with people on the outside who still back him. She says, but he’s not after them? and he says, not as far as Jordan knows. But it is Cyrus. so that can change at any time.

Josslyn goes into Jax’s place with Trina, and calls to him. She says, good; he’s not here. Let’s get started. Trina says, let’s do it, and they take some bags into the kitchen.

Shawn takes it Jordan isn’t wildly enthusiastic about his decision, and she says, forgive her. She thought this conversation was going in a different direction. He started by agreeing with her advice to focus on his present and his future. He says, it’s excellent advice, that he just can’t follow. Especially since he thinks he stirred things up by poking around. Maybe that’s what led to Naomie Dreyfuss’s murder. She says, let the police handle it. She’s on this. He says she knows he’s never been one for hanging in the back or sitting on the bench, and she says, is that it? Or does he just not trust her to find out the truth?

Elizabeth looks at the directions for putting up the tent, when Finn joins her with Violet. He says it looks like she’s having a little trouble, and she says, it’s been a while. Cameron and Jake used to put the tent up. He says, it’s too bad they didn’t come, and Aiden says, they’re too old for camping. Violet says, that’s silly. Daddy and Aunt Elizabeth are old, and they’re here, and so is Uncle Chase. Elizabeth says, excuse me. First of all, she’s not old, and second of all, she’s not prepared. She should have asked Jake how to set this thing up. Isn’t it supposed to be easier? Finn gets the tent up in a hot second, and says, viola. She says, look at that. Her hero. Violet says, good job, daddy.

Anna says, Drew’s plane was a chartered flight, with someone else on board connected to Leethy Unlimited, when it went down over the Gulf of Adan. Sam asks how long the WSB has been sitting on this, and Dante says he thought it was supposed to be a full investigation back in 2019. How come they’re only hearing about Leethy Unlimited now? Anna says, maybe there was more to the crash than they’re being told. There has to be a reason for that. Sam says, maybe the reason is, Drew is still alive.

Scotty says, what is going on? He paid good money for a romantic trip to St. Lucia, not some death watch. Obrecht says she normally doesn’t give way to terror, but this was an exception. She’s holding a locket, and he asks what she’s clutching. She says, just a little keepsake to remind her of her children. Perhaps Nathan was watching over them just now. She looks out the window, and says, they seem to be turning around. Perhaps there’s something wrong with the plane. He wonders where the pilot is, and tries the plane’s phone. He says, no one’s answering.

Anna says, the WSB had full control over the investigation, which means the other person was left out deliberately. Sam says, so this mystery passenger could be connected to the WSB? Anna tells her, she wouldn’t be able to say with any certainty; she has clearance issues. Dante knows she’s been blocked from several cases because the Bureau thinks she was compromised by Peter. Dante says, to that end, is it possible the WSB still doesn’t trust her?  Are they sure they can trust this information is accurate?

Chase joins the campers, and Aiden asks how Finn knew the trick to the tent. Finn says he’s done his fair share of sleeping on the ground, and Aiden says, him? Finn says, yes, him. Should he be insulted here? Elizabeth says, she thinks what Aiden means is Finn is well put together. He’s a doctor, and probably didn’t spend a lot of time camping. Chase says, maybe not lately, but Finn used to camp all the time when he was Violet’s age. Violet asks if he’s sure, and Chase says he’s heard plenty of stories. Their dad used to take Finn camping year round. Aiden says, even in the snow? and Finn says, snow is tricky because you have to find the right place to set up your tent. Packed snow is better than soft snow, so you have to stomp around the campground and make it nice and flat. Then you put your tent on top of it. Violet asks if they can go camping in the winter, but he says, only if the car breaks down. Chase says, come on. Snow camping sounds like an adventure. Finn says, it was. He remembers them being in their sleeping bags, with the wind howling around their tent. He’d imagine they were the sole survivors of an avalanche. Violet asks if he was scared, but he says, no. He knew his dad would protect him. Violet says, like Finn protects her? and he says, always. That’s a promise. They pinky swear.

Carly says, Jordan told Jason that Cyrus already targeted someone? and he says, the Feds were able to intervene, and protect them, and she says she bets it was Laura. She just got Laura’s RSVP to their wedding, and she said she can’t make it; that she’s stuck in DC for weeks at a conference. He says, she doesn’t buy it? and she says, no. Spencer is back in town, and things blew up big time between him and Nikolas. When Spencer broke his leg, Laura dropped her entire life, and went to France. She would be there for her grandson. He wonders why Cyrus is using all the influence he has left to go after Laura, and she says, other than his mother, Laura is the person he wanted approval from and never got. And worse, he feels Laura wronged him the most. He says, if Cyrus is out to settle personal scores, who else is he after?

Scotty asks if Obrecht thinks the pilot had a heart attack, and she says, maybe that’s why the co-pilot is trying to go back to New York. She hands Scotty the locket, and says, she’s a doctor. She’s going to provide medical assistance. She undoes her seatbelt, but he says, no; buckle up. Unless she knows how to fly a plane. She says it pains her to say it, but no, she neglected that aspect of her education. The turbulence starts again, and oxygen masks drop down. She says, maybe the pilot needs assistance, but he puts her back in the chair, and says, buckle up. He asks her if she needs help with the mask, but she says, no. She needs to survive so she can help Nina.

Nina and Sonny kiss, but this time, Sonny pulls back. He says, it’s just that every time they get close, they get interrupted by something or someone. Is Peter out there? Is she sure he’s gone? Nina flashes back to Obrecht instructing her to tell Peter that Valentin and Anna have a lead in St. Lucia. Soon Peter will never bother anyone again. Nina tells Sonny, trust her. They’ve seen the last of Peter. He says they shouldn’t even be thinking about the guy. What he wants her to think about is the man in front of her. She says she is, but she has one question. What did Peter say to make Sonny want to take his head off? He tells her that he asked if Peter knew who he was, and she says, why? Did Peter seem familiar? Sonny says, no. It’s how Peter looked at him the first time Peter saw him. Does she think Peter knows who he is?

Chase asks, who wants to scout for more firewood? The kids volunteer, and Finn asks if Chase is sure he’s up for it. Chase says, the outdoors is doing him good. And if he has any problems, he has a doctor on call. He tells the kids, hut-two-three-four, and they march off. Elizabeth says, Chase is a big kid, and Finn says, he’s having more fun than they are. She says, it looks like he’s making a full recovery, and Finn says, that makes it all worthwhile. They’d better get the bear bag secured so the bears don’t get their food. The bears want to avoid them as much as they want to avoid the bears, but the bears do love their delicious food. He hoists the bag up, and secures it, and Elizabeth says she still can’t get over him being this master camper extraordinaire. He says he’s not, but he used to live and work in some amazing third world countries. He’s done his fair share of roughing it. She says she’d forgotten about that. There’s a lot they don’t know about each other.

Shawn says, Jordan thinks he doesn’t trust her to do her job? Where’d that come from? She says, there are still some things she’s kept from him over the years. When she first came to Port Charles, and was undercover with the DEA, that was something she neglected to tell him, even though he was looking after TJ. He says, that’s ancient history; there’s no point in dwelling on it. She says she still regrets not pushing the investigation into Hayden’s shooting harder, and he says, he pled guilty, but she says she should have seen the unfair sentencing practices. She should have gone to bat for him. He says she can’t save the justice system and the city of Port Charles. She’s just one person. Besides, she doesn’t have to protect him.

Anna says she’s had conversations with higher ups at the Bureau, and her integrity took a hit because she sought to protect Peter. She assured them that was no longer the case, but the only way she’s going to redeem herself is if she takes part in his capture, and takes him down. Dante says, let’s presume Peter caused Drew’s plane crash. Maybe she raised some red flags by requesting the file. If the info is real, maybe she alerted the person who’s trying to cover it up. Anna says, if that’s the case, the request alone would have been enough, and would have been denied. Sam says, unless they gave her what they wanted her to see. Anna says, if the file was truly altered, that’s a major cover-up, which begs the question, why?   

Josslyn tells Trina, the meat is on marinade, and Trina says her dad’s pantry is impressive. Josslyn says her dad’s a foodie, thank goodness. Trina says Josslyn’s dad is going to flip out when he finds out she’s making him dinner. Does he know she can cook? Josslyn says, she didn’t know she could cook until this summer. Isn’t it strange she moves into a dorm with no kitchen, and has the sudden urge to cook up a storm? Trina says, it’s probably some deep psychologically rooted response to leaving home, but it’s still nice she’s doing it. Josslyn says, it’s a reminder that she loves him and will always be there for him, and he could use the pick-me-up. Trina asks if there’s any specific reason, and Josslyn says, he won’t say it, but she knows he’s upset about her mom marrying Jason. Trina says, Cam told her that the dinner with her parents was super tense, and Josslyn says, that’s an understatement. Her mom and dad act like it’s all cool around her, but she can tell things are definitely not cool between them.

Carly tells Jason, Martin checked out of the hotel, just days after he asked her about their yearly rate versus their month-to-month. Jason says, Laura and Martin suddenly leaving town isn’t a coincidence, and Carly hopes they’re okay. He says Jordan told him the Feds derailed whatever Cyrus had planned, and she says she’s relieved for Martin and Laura, but what about them? He says, they have to assume Cyrus is going to make a move against them at some point; he may already be trying. She says, first Jax tries to trick her into incriminating herself, now they’re back to looking over their shoulders because of Cyrus? He says, the whole thing with Jax was painful, but Jax is not a threat. Cyrus could be. She asks what they’re going to do, and he says he’s going to get to the bottom of it.

Sonny tells Nina, he knows it’s a long shot, but the guy was always so creepy around him; like he had leverage he wanted to spring on him. She says, it was obviously Peter’s arrogance. He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. Sonny says, she knows how he told her not having a past makes you pay more attention to the present? There’s something he’s feeling; he’s listening more and watching more. And from the beginning, Peter gave him bad vibes.

Scotty doesn’t know what Obrecht is talking about, and thinks the lack of oxygen is already affecting her brain. He wants her to put the mask on, but she says she’s breathing just fine. He says, she can until she can’t. Please, liebchen? She puts it on, and he says, if this is it, he wants to tell her something. He thinks that he loves her. He sees that she’s passed out, and he says, schnitzel, come back. He puts his own mask on to help her, and passes out. Rut-roh.  

😒 The President interrupts, but The Man can’t keep me down.

Nina says she really trusts Sonny’s intuition. She only wishes she’d listened to him about Elijah in the first place, but she’s learned her lesson. She’s listening now, and Peter, he’s gone. She couldn’t be happier, and just hopes they don’t spend their first date talking about Peter. He takes her hand, and says if he’s learned anything about Lenny’s passing, it’s that there’s no use in worrying about the future. What’s going to happen is going to happen. She says, all they have is right now, and he tells her, what do you say we make the best of it?

Jordan says, of course (🍷) she wants to protect Shawn. It’s part of her job as a cop. He says they both know what he’s talking about, just like they both know he can handle himself. She says, no question, but it’s still her job to find Naomie Dreyfuss’s killer. He says, it’s not a stretch to think that whoever tried to kill Hayden years ago, killed Naomie. If that’s true, he unintentionally freed this person by pleading guilty, and he has no intention of letting that stand. They can investigate the case separately, or do it together, and find the answer that much sooner.

Elizabeth gets everything ready for them to eat, and Finn pulls some twigs out of Violet’s hair. He says it looks like she’s having fun, and she says, camping is the best. They saw a deer. Chase says, they were so close, Violet wanted to touch it, and Finn says, she knows they don’t pet wild animals, right? She nods, and he says, no matter how cute they think they are, but they’re fun to watch. Aiden says, let’s eat, and Chase seconds that.

Dante says, the Cassadines probably top the list of those with ties to Creighton-Clark, and Anna says, Victor and Helena used that place as their own personal prison. Sam says, Drew was kept there, and Anna says, as was Robin. Dante says, so was he. Lulu, Maxie, Nathan… Anna says, and Obrecht, when Victor believed Nathan was his son. She was just about to arrest Victor when Obrecht shot him. Dante says, they barely got out of their alive when he blew the place up with himself in it in… 2014? Sam says, Victor was in charge of the WSB at the time, and Anna says, it was a very dark path for the Bureau under his leadership. There was unsanctioned, illegal, covert activities all the time. Sam says, think about it. Drew was held at Creighton-Clark when Victor was in charge. They messed with his memory, they programmed him to be their assassin, until Drew was able to break that programming. Dante asks what she’s getting at, and she says, maybe the WSB took down Drew’s plane.

Josslyn takes a recipe card out of a file box, and tells Trina, it’s her grandmother’s recipe, so she’s really hoping she can pull this off. First they have to read it; it’s in cursive writing. It’s a stew that Lady Jane used to make every fall. She knows it’s still warm outside, but her dad loves it. Stew shouldn’t be hard, right? She looks at the card, and says, the cook time is three hours. They’ll be starving by then. Trina says they need appetizers, like cheese and crackers, but Josslyn says they have to do better than that. She gets up, saying, she remembers she saw one she liked. She looks on her phone, and says, baked mozzarella with marinara sauce. They’ll need bread for dipping, cheese, and sauce. Trina says she has the perfect sauce; the one she got in Nixon Falls. Remember when she was starving, and while Josslyn was waiting for her dad, she went to get something to eat? This cute lady at the roadhouse gave her some pasta, even though they don’t serve food, and gave her a jar of the sauce because she was raving about it. She froze half, and it’s enough for the appetizer. Josslyn says she doesn’t want Trina going through all this trouble, when they can get sauce from the supermarket. Trina says she doesn’t mind. The sauce is amazing, and just what they need for tonight. Josslyn says, Trina for the win, and they high-five.

Anna says, the WSB is responsible for Drew’s plane crash? She thinks that’s a bit of a reach. Sam says, is it really, though? There’s a big gap in this file, and that normally indicates cover-up. Dante says, if it was a real cover-up, wouldn’t they have wiped Leethy Unlimited and the passenger from the file altogether? and Sam says, maybe it wasn’t a sanctioned cover-up, but it could have been someone from the Bureau. Dante says, maybe they didn’t get all of Victor’s allies when they cleaned house after his death. Anna says, it would have to be someone with enough authority to conceal the identity of this anonymous passenger, but not enough reach to be able to eliminate the records entirely. Someone who could still be working at the Bureau, and was at least there in 2019.

Elizabeth and Finn come back to the campsite, towels around their shoulders, and Elizabeth asks why the water is so cold. It’s had all summer to heat up. He says he’ll get a fire going. Chase comes back with the kids, and asks if they’re okay. Elizabeth says, never better, and Aiden says she was so funny. She was so worried about Violet falling in, she fell in instead. Violet says, daddy tried to help her, and fell in too. Aiden says, it was so funny, and Finn says, it was so funny, and their concern is so touching. He thanks Chase for scooping up Violet, and Chase says, he’s too polite to gloat, but he finds it interesting that the guy just relearning to walk is steadier on the rocks than either of them. Elizabeth and Finn both say, but he’s not gloating, and Chase suggests they get out of their wet clothes, and he’ll get the fire started. Aiden reminds them about watching the meteor shower, but Elizabeth tells them to go on without her. Chase says he’ll take the kids, and they can get warm. Finn says, sounds like a plan, and Chase leaves with the kids.

Sonny asks if Nina has given any thought to where they’re going tonight, and she says she thought she’d leave that in his more than capable hands. He says he has some ideas of how to make tonight special, and she says, what is it? He says, it’s a surprise. He has to get ready, and it’s going to take some time, so why doesn’t she go put something fancy on and come back? She asks how much time he’s talking about, and he says she doesn’t need a lot of time to get beautiful. So go change and come back. And can she park out back? She asks, why? and he says, humor him. She says he’s lucky he’s cute, and he says, see you soon, and she leaves.

Jason tells Carly that Brick is checking with Sonny’s contacts to see if anyone is dealing with Cyrus, or heard any rumors about him coming after them. She says she just got off the phone with Devon, and Josslyn’s fine; she’s at Jax’s house. He says he talked to Tony about more security at the wedding, and she says, where all of their loved ones are going to be… in one place.

Two guys come out of the cockpit, and check Obrecht and Scotty’s pulses. One nods to the other, and the second guy gets on the phone, and says, it is done, in a foreign language.

Anna asks if she can play devil’s advocate, and Dante says, please do. She says, Leethy Unlimited is a multi-national company with varied interests, and employees all around the globe. What if this anonymous passenger was just a legitimate coincidence? Dante says, they do have an office in Addis Ababa. So what she’s saying is, that anonymous passenger was just a Leethy Unlimited executive, who just happened to grab a seat on that charter flight that Peter was sabotaging and just got caught up in it? He guesses it’s possible. Sam says, then why conceal the person’s identity?

Jason says, Brick is a security genius. Between him and the rest of their people, the wedding is going to be safe. She says she trusts him, but it’s unsettling that Cyrus still has allies on the outside. His organization is shattered and in pieces. Where is he finding these people to carry out his revenge? Jason says, it’s right in front of their faces. Cyrus must have aligned himself with one of the Five Familiespasta e piselli.

Shawn meets Jordan at the docks with food bags, and says he’s come bearing refreshments; two lemonades and donuts from Kelly’s. She says he thinks of everything, and he asks if she’s given any thought to his suggestion. She says he’s right. They can get a lot farther if they work on this together. He says, for real? The donuts must have sweetened the deal. She says, they didn’t hurt. Let’s do this. It would be a waste of time for Shawn to track down public information that she can get much quicker. They can work on this together, but only when she’s off-duty. He says, off-duty? and she says, it’s her final offer; take it or leave it. He says he’ll take it. He hands her the donuts, and says, what he knows so far is, Naomie was murdered, and whoever killed her tried to make it look like a suicide or an accidental OD. What doesn’t he know? She says, it just so happens, she got new information on Naomie’s case just this morning.

Finn asks if Elizabeth is okay. He can hear her teeth chattering. She says she can’t get warm. It feels like it’s freezing outside, but she’s really just freezing inside. You know where this is going, right? She suggests they talk about something warm. Maybe the power of suggestion will help. He thinks he has a place. One of his favorite memories. He was in Namibia for a year, just south of the Sahara; it’s one of the driest, most remote places on earth. It’s desert as far as the eye can see, but not just any desert. It’s vibrant, it’s warm, red-colored swirls of sand, culminating in the most beautiful sand dunes you’ve ever seen. Cascading waves of sand in the burning sun, against a blue sky that seems to stretch forever and ever. An endless horizon. In the late afternoon, all the colors soften to pinks and purples, and a warm breeze engulfs your skin. Does she feel warm or not? She’s still shivering. Elizabeth says, it sounds beautiful. He was lucky to experience that. She’s still chilled to her bones. He says, come here. They can share body heat. She sits next to him, and they look at each other without looking at each other.

On the plane, the guy on the phone says, yes, we have her… She’s fine, sedated… Yes, we’ll take care of Baldwin.

Finn says, Elizabeth is still cold, isn’t she? and she tells him to share his blankie with her. He does, and puts his arm around her. He says, better? and she says, much better.

Trina comes back to Jax’s house, and Josslyn says, stew’s in the oven. Trina says she thought stew cooked on top of the stove, but Josslyn says, not this recipe, which is why it takes so long. Fair warning, the kitchen’s a mess. Trina says she’ll help Josslyn clean it up, and takes the sauce out of her tote bag. She says, now behold everything she needs for her recipe, including a to-die-for sauce. Josslyn says she’s most appreciative, especially since Trina is donating this miraculous sauce to her dinner. Trina says, save her a bite or two so she can have one last dip, and Josslyn asks if it’s really that good. Trina says, trust her. It will change your life.

Carly tells Jason, Vincent Novak was there earlier, and made a point of telling her that he was sending Joey out of the country, and there would be no more trouble from his family. Jason flashes back to Buscema telling him that Joey’s behavior was unacceptable, and that he intended to make his feelings known to Novak. Jason tells Carly, yesterday, Buscema made a point of condemning Joey’s actions, and she asks if he thinks it’s just a smokescreen for the Novaks. He says, and so, what? Joey wasn’t in charge of his actions; he was working off of Vincent? She says, the Novaks are going to try and make a run for their territory, and he says it wouldn’t be the first time the Novaks challenged them. Right now, they can’t rule out anything or anyone.

Someone in an orange jumpsuit is led to the visiting area. It’s Cyrus. The guard uncuffs him. He smiles, sits, and picks up the phone. Someone sits on the other side. Cyrus says, hope you had a nice flight. On the other side of the glass, Mr. Buscema nods, and Cyrus asks what Buscema has for him.

Jordan tells Shawn, they tracked Naomie’s movements up until her death. She wasn’t lying when she told Finn that she’d just come back to the U.S. Passport control confirmed Naomie flew in from Paris the day before she came to Port Charles. Shawn says, that’s like saying LaGuardia or JFK. She could have been coming from anywhere. She says that’s why she requested Naomie’s ticket info; where it originated, the flight manifest. Maybe knowing where Naomie came from can help them figure out why she ended up dead.

Anna puts the papers back in the file, and says, so this other passenger was a person of significance, and that’s why their identity was omitted. Dante says, all they have to do is find out who the other passenger was, and Anna says and if there’s any connection to Victor’s tenure at the WSB. Sam says, no. Maybe it’s simpler than that. Maybe this other person had a connection to Drew.

Nina comes back to the Tan-O, and calls to Mike/Sonny. He comes out, and tells her that she looks beautiful. She says he doesn’t look so bad himself. He asks if she’s ready to go, and she says she can hardly wait to find out where he’s taking her. He says, let’s go check it out, and takes her hand. He brings her outside, where he’s set up a candlelight dinner. He says he couldn’t think of a better place to take her than where they first met. She says, it’s perfect, and he leads her to her chair. She thanks him and sits, and he sits opposite her. He says, a toast. To their first date. She says, to their first date, and they clink glasses, gazing into each other’s eyes.

On the plane, the first guy asks, what did the boss say to do with this one? indicating Scotty. The other guy says, chuck him, and first guy takes off Scotty’s oxygen mask and seatbelt. He lifts Scotty out of the chair, and drags him toward the front of the plane. Obrecht is still unconscious.

Tomorrow, Cyrus asks if Buscema is in or out, Britt can’t help but wonder what Jason and Carly are trying to prove, and Nina says she can’t do this.

The Real Housewives of New York City

As the women were wrapping up the Pin the Lips on Harry game, Ramona’s phone rang, and it was Harry, which freaked everyone out. Since LuAnn is so tall, she easily kept the phone from a jumping Ramona, and answered, trying to fake Harry out. In Leah’s interview, she said Harry was a 60 year old f***boy. Sonja got on, and said she still loved him, but he was toxic. He said she needed to find a nice guy, and she said he was a nice guy until he cheated. Everyone agreed it was weird and random. In her interview, LuAnn didn’t buy that Harry and Ramona didn’t hook up at all, and in Sonja’s interview, she said Ramona didn’t have time to be friends with a man. They sat down, and Leah wanted to hear everyone’s best and worst sexual experiences. Making a really long story short, Ramona said she’d cheated on a boyfriend, and the other guy had a pencil d*ck. She thought God was punishing her for cheating. In her interview, Eboni said Ramona ran from the room if they talked about body parts. Now they knew the truth. Sonja suddenly jumped up, and grabbed LuAnn for a slow dance, and in her interview, Eboni said who was she to question it? Sonja wouldn’t be specific about her experiences, and just gave vague reminiscences about places and positions. Ramona pulled out a pair of pasties from her bag, and then flashed everyone the ones she was wearing. They were like sparkly snowflakes, and she gave them out to everyone, telling them to put them on. No surprise, Leah came out first, and LuAnn said, if you couldn’t get naked with your girlfriends, who could you get naked with? I dunno. Your significant other? Everyone danced around, topless except for the pasties, and in Ramona’s interview, she said she thought covid changed her. Of course, the two tequila shots didn’t hurt.

In the morning, there were remnants of the party everywhere; glasses, feathers, and God knows what. Leah went to Eboni’s room, and Eboni said she was surprised Ramona encouraged wearing pasties. In Ramona and Sonja’s room, Sonja said she was surprised that Eboni loosened up so much. Leah was excited about the identity switch dinner. She wanted to see what everyone else was doing. They took their fancy van to a restaurant, which made Ramona squeal. LuAnn wanted everyone’s best Valentine’s Day story, but Leah didn’t have one. In her interview, she said she wasn’t exactly a romantic, and she asked the others to tell her what she’s missing. Ramona talked about Mario writing extra stuff on cards, and Leah said Rob sent her an old school telegram once when she was away. LuAnn said she kept special voicemails, and Leah said she did too. (Me too.) Leah got teary, and LuAnn detected melancholy. Leah said Rob had disappointed her, but he’d done a lot of great things. You had to accept who someone was. They were still close, and she didn’t want to start a new life with someone because of it. She’d sacrificed that part of herself. In Leah’s interview, she said she’d chosen to do that. She liked what she had with Kiki and Rob, but got sad when she thought about it. Eboni said Leah would move on when she was ready, and LuAnn said, it would just happen. In LuAnn’s interview, she said it was tough out there, but Leah had her guard up. After lunch, they broke plates to banish evil spirits and bring good luck. The each proclaimed what they wanted out of their lives, and what they wanted to come in.  

Bershan arrived, and in Ramona’s interview, she said, the identity switch was LuAnn’s idea, and she’d assigned them whoever they butted heads with the most. For Ramona, it was Leah, and for LuAnn, it was Eboni. Sonja butted heads with Bershan. In LuAnn’s interview, she said she’d done her homework. She wanted to get Eboni down pat. It was all in fun. You had to be able to laugh at yourself. In Leah’s interview, she said she was trying to understand the human that is Ramona. In their interviews, all of the women talked about how they were going to achieve their switch. Eboni was presenting the Cabaret Countess, of course wearing Jovani, and Ramona said Leah was all about shock value. They got in their costumes, Leah stopping by the kitchen to get red coloring for her IV bag of Pinot Plasma. I thought Bershan was going to bust a gut when she saw Leah as Ramona, but Eboni was louder when saw LuAnn as herself. They all seemed like they were having the best time, which is so much better than them fighting. Leah thought Ramona looked hot as her, and in her interview, Ramona said Leah’s portrayal was amusing. She’d nailed the look, except the dress was more Leah. She had to put a little Leah in Ramona. I agreed with this. It was a sparkly mini that I didn’t see Ramona as wearing. Sonja as Bershan came downstairs last. Bershan pointed out her Sonja by Sonja outfit, under $200 at Century 21, and in Sonja’s interview, she said Bershan had her nailed. As much conflict as they had, Bershan got her. Leah told the bartender, whatever your name is, there’s not enough ice in this, handing him her glass, which is totally something Ramona would do. Eboni as LuAnn said she heard it was Ramona’s birthday, and sang Happy Birthday a la the Countess. In Leah’s interview, she said, being LuAnn was hard. You had to sing, and Eboni was doing a great job. Agreed again.

They sat down for dinner, and LuAnn said they each had a card, and there was a question they had to answer as their alter-ego. Leah’s question was, if the New York Times was writing an article about you, what would you want it to say? I was surprised at how kind Leah was, listing all the positives in Ramona’s life, and how she’d achieved so many goals. Ramona said Leah really got her, and they hugged. In Ramona’s interview, she said it was another side of Leah; a softer side that she didn’t show. She wished Leah would show it more. In Leah’s interview, she said just because she and Ramona had differences, that didn’t mean she couldn’t recognize things about Ramona that were good. She wanted to dig deeper. Eboni’s question was, did she, as LuAnn, consider herself a triple threat? and Eboni said she knew she wasn’t Barbra Streisand, but it was about entertainment value, and bringing people joy. In LuAnn’s interview, she said she and Eboni had come a long way. It was nice to see Eboni impersonate her in a positive, spirited way. Sonja as Bershan was asked, who needed the most help? and to give her two-minute best life coaching. Sonja did a little riff on each of the women, and Bershan said she was right on the money. The question for Ramona as Leah was why she talked about raunchy sex so much, and Ramona as Leah threw hydrangeas at Leah as Ramona. We flashed back to Leah throwing ravioli at Ramona in that restaurant in Newport or wherever. Leah said Ramona was scaring her, and hid under the table. We flashed back to Ramona and Sonja huddled under a table, possibly during the same trip. LuAnn’s question to answer as Eboni, was why she referred to herself as Eboni K. Williams, and who was her alter-ego? LuAnn said she’d worked hard to get where she was, and she was going to use her entire name. Eboni was absolutely screaming, and said LuAnn made her feel excited about her own self. In Eboni’s interview, she said, LuAnn did a helluva job. Leah finally couldn’t be Ramona any longer, and ditched her wig and IV bag. In LuAnn’s interview, she said they had all kinds of parties, but the identity swap was the bomb. Agreed one more time. This was the best episode of this season.  

Since it was the finale (sort of), we saw blurbs about what they’re all up to. LuAnn was going to shake her booty on stage when her cabaret show resumed, and was also working on a non-alcoholic rosé. Ramona aced her real estate test, and had gotten a  waterfront condo in Palm Beach… near Harry. Hmm… Eboni had met her new sisters, but had yet to meet her dad, and was working with a matchmaker to get back in the dating scene. Sonja had rented out her townhouse for two years, and was getting ready to do a Comedy Caberlesque show. Leah was going to be a fulltime Jew in the fall, and Kier was enrolled at a top all-girls school, much to Bunny’s delight.   

Leah raised her glass, and said, even though the pandemic happened, they embodied something the country could take notes from in terms of their listening to each other. Even though they were different people, they figured it out. Not just how to co-exist, but they also found something they loved about each other.

Next time – not the Reunion yet, but a Very Special Episode. Remember those? A spitting contest at Martin’s gym, Sonja instructs on how to remove a dingleberry off your dog’s butt, Ramona toasts herself, and LuAnn gets a tattoo.  

😆 Comedy Tonight…

Apparently, Sonja is killing it.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/30/sonja-morgan-slays-at-dress-rehearsal-for-her-new-comedy-show/

🎈 Up, Up, and Away…

Tomorrow, more hellish behavior from the women with too much money in Beverly Hills. The two Toms will also be hosting a watch party of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City at 9 pm on Bravo. I saw the Vanderpump Rules one – sort of; I was doing something else at the same time – and it looked mildly amusing. They’re just a wee bit full of themselves though. I guess no one has the heart to tell them a Bravolebrity isn’t a real celebrity. No matter what side of celeb you fall on, stay safe, stay gratified with whatever your accomplishments, and stay not petting wild animals, no matter how cute you think they are. Seriously. Don’t do that.

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August 30, 2021 – Nina Sets Obrecht’s Plan In Motion, All Girls On Deck, Red Explanation, New Runway, Only One Left & Epic Faith

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Brook thanks Valentin for a ride to the pool (🍷). Bailey can get some fresh air and sunshine, while she gets some lunch. How long is his meeting going to be? Maybe they can catch a ride going back. He says, of course (🍷). His meeting’s right there. He points to Scotty and Austin, lying on lounge chairs, and tells her to enjoy her lunch. Maxie comes in, and asks if Brook is there for lunch; they can sit together. She tells Bailey/Louise it’s good to see her

Austin says, Valentin, my man. Pull up a chaise. Suck up some vitamin D. Valentin sits, and Austin says, and explain to him why he should vote to keep Valentin as CEO of ELQ. Scotty sits up, and Valentin smiles at him.

Alexis jumps a bunch of Shawn’s checkers, and says, king me. He says she’s a shark. He should have known better than to play with her. She says she’s glad he threw caution to the wind. She’s missed him. He says he’s missed her too. This is definitely an improvement over Pentenville. He just wishes she was out of the system altogether. She says, it’s a nice prison, but it’s still a prison. How is his new life on the outside? Sam comes in, and asks, who’s winning? He says, her mom. Alexis asks if everything is okay, and Sam says, that depends. She got a call from Drew.

Gladys, Brando, and Lucy approach Sasha’s table at the MetroCourt, and Sasha asks how the apartment hunting is going. Gladys sits, and says, terrible. They’ve been to seven apartments, and none of them was acceptable. Lucy and Brando sit, and Gladys says, good thing Lucy has Deception. She doesn’t think this real estate gig is going to pay off for her. Lucy says, considering she’s doing this as a big, fat favor – she looks at Sasha – she’s not really worried about it.

On the phone, Jordan walks down to the docks, saying, she’s glad Mayor Collins and her brother arrived safely. Do they have any more intel on who’s been carrying out Renault’s orders?… Okay, send her the prison phone logs. She wants to know who Cyrus has been talking to. Jason arrives, and she thanks him for meeting her.

At the MetroCourt, Carly looks at her engagement ring, and sighs. Possible competition for Jason. She flashes back to Jason giving it to her. Anna says, hey, startling Carly, and asks if she was daydreaming.

Sonny hears someone walks into the Tan-O, and says, they’re closed. Peter says, Mike, Mike, Mike. Is Nina here? Sonny says, no, and Peter says, she’s not at her place either. He wouldn’t happen to know what she’s up to, would he?

Outside on the phone, Nina asks if Obrecht was able to make arrangements. Obrecht says, it’s all set. She needs Nina to direct Peter to the town of Soufriere in St. Lucia. It’s large enough that tourists won’t be noticed, but too small for any significant police force. Nina says, okay, and once Peter gets there? Obrecht says, the scourge that is Peter August will be eradicated once and for all.    

Sonny says he doesn’t expect Nina to tell him where she is every minute of the day. Why would she tell Peter? Peter says he’s sorry his question upset Sonny, but Sonny says, Peter doesn’t seem sorry about anything, least of all, him. Peter says Sonny is perceptive; perhaps it was one of his gifts. Sonny asks if Peter wants more of his perception. Peter had a strong reaction when they first saw one another, like Peter was surprised to see him. Peter says, his point being… and Sonny says, stop now. Does Peter know who he is? Peter says, yes, as a matter-of-fact, he does.

Jason meets Jordan on the docks, and says her message sounded urgent. What did she want to talk to him about? She says, his wedding. He’s inviting more than family and friends. There are business associates on the guest list. He says, right, and she asks if he expects trouble. He wonders if she heard something, and she says, Cyrus may be behind bars, but he’s not sitting quietly.

Nina tells Obrecht, be careful; Peter is on his guard. Obrecht laughs, and says Nina is kind to worry, but Peter is no match for her. His exit is long overdue. No one will miss him, and the world will be a better place without him in it.

Sonny says, if Peter knew who he was before he lost his memory, start talking. Peter tells him, when he said he knew who Sonny was, he meant he knows the type of guy Nina is drawn to, and simply can’t resist.

Sam tells Alexis and Shawn that she heard a commotion, like a struggle, then the line went dead. Alexis says, and she believes it was Drew? but Sam says she doesn’t know what to think. She’s been processing the whole thing, and guesses she believes it was Drew. She’s been asking questions about the plane crash. Dante is helping her investigate, and Anna agreed to let them see the WSB file on the crash. Shawn says, it sounds like she has a lot of support, and Sam tells him that she doesn’t want him to think she dropped the ball on the Hayden Barnes investigation. She’s still going to find the shooter. Shawn says Sam needs answers once and for all, and Drew has to be her focus.

Anna congratulates Carly on her engagement, and says, Jason is a good man. She’s fortunate. Carly agrees that she is, and Anna says, it reminds her of her and Robert. They went to hell and back. They didn’t make it, but she thinks Carly and Jason will succeed, and wishes them every happiness. Carly thanks her, when Mr. Novak comes in. Carly says, she has to work, and excuses herself.

Anna tells Dante, sorry to keep him waiting, and hands him the file, saying, it has all the intel on Drew’s plane crash She hopes he can find something to pursue. He says, he’ll take a look, and let her know. She tells him that she’s available to help, and he says he appreciates that. Any theories? She says, other than Peter is responsible, either Peter, or someone worse, has Drew. If Helena wasn’t dead, she’d say it was her, and Dante says they should send someone to Cassadine Island. She says, done, and he says he was just kidding. She says, the Bureau keeps the place on their radar. She’s learned the past doesn’t stay in the past. Obrecht comes by, and says, truer words were never spoken.

Gladys tells Lucy that she’d like a harbor view, something like the loft space she’d been in. In a trendy area, where there are boutiques and coffee shops. Brando says, the place with the large windows that Lucy showed her would be great, and Lucy says Gladys should reconsider that one. The natural light will make her look better. Sasha says, it sounds great for plants, but Gladys says, no plants, no cats, and no canasta. Next, they’ll want to put her in the old folks home. Brando says he liked the place, and Gladys says, all he needs is a couch and a wide-screen TV; he could live in a cave. Lucy says she was instructed to work within a modest budget, and Gladys says, it’s not her fault she was shot. Brando says, in the shoulder, and Sasha says, three months ago. She returned to work. Gladys says, in the fashion industry. She needs a place suitable to her new career. Sasha says she’s Brook’s assistant, and while it’s important, it’s still an entry level position. Gladys tells Lucy, that reminds her. When can she expect her first raise?

Valentin tells Austin, he’s actually not there to pitch himself. He has a bit of a reputation, but Austin isn’t a voting shareholder just yet, so they’re getting ahead of themselves.

Maxie suggests she just tell Valentin that she and Brook ran into each other, and decided to have lunch. It makes total sense. Brook says, Valentin is trying to pull Austin into his camp so he can retain control of ELQ.

Scotty tells Valentin, they filed a motion with new evidence. Edward left a letter saying he wanted to change his will. It’s only a question of time before Austin gets his voting shares of ELQ. Valentin says, with all due respect, filing a motion is just the beginning of a lengthy and a contentious process, but Austin says, with equal respect, the evidence is strong. He thinks the lawsuit is just a formality. Valentin hopes Austin is right. Assuming Austin becomes a voting shareholder, he’ll want Austin’s support.

Maxie asks Brook, now that Austin found out Edward intended to add his father in the will, what’s next? Brook says, if the judge rules in Austin’s favor, he might be the deciding vote. (Hmm… I thought that was Lucy, and it was set up so it would be someone outside the family.) It’s up to them to convince Austin that the family business is better kept in the family. Maxie says, good luck with that, and Brook says, exactly. Maxie says she’s so sorry. After everything Brook did to put her father back as the head of the company. Now she’s back to square one. Brook says, not entirely. There’s no bigger payoff than keeping Maxie’s baby safe.

Valentin tells Austin, the company has been thriving on his watch. He’s been a very effective CEO. He’s regarded the bottom line, he’s increased profits, and the price of the shares Austin is about to receive have increased and are very strong. He’d say replacing him as CEO at this time would be stupid. Austin tells him, anyone can say they’re well-meaning, honest, and straightforward. That doesn’t mean they are. He believes Valentin thinks he’s some kind of hayseed, but if Valentin thinks he’s some guy who just fell off a turnip truck, he’s not.

Sam tells Shawn, she knows she said she’d help, and she’s going to, but he says, family first – always. Alexis says, if Scout’s father is alive, she should know, and Shawn says, he’ll get justice. He’s not giving up, and not going anywhere. Except to stretch his legs. He gets up, and says he’ll let them talk, but he’s coming back for a rematch. Alexis says she’ll be there. He leaves, and Sam says, he’s great. Alexis says, he certainly is. Sam must have a lot of questions. Sam says, no. She knows it was Drew’s voice.

Obrecht asks Anna for a word, and Anna tells Dante that she’ll be right back. He tells her, good luck.

Carly asks what Novak wants, and he says he wanted to apologize in person for his nephew Joey’s inappropriate behavior. Carly says, if his nephew behaves inappropriately again, he’ll find out firsthand why Jason has the reputation he does. Novak says he’s making arrangements for Joey to be out of the country indefinitely, and she says she hopes so. He says, have no fear. An early wedding present. Gladys listens in, and when he leaves, she sits down. She says, Carly and Jason finally set a date. Her invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Or is it too awkward to have Sonny’s family at her wedding to Jason?

Lucy asks Sasha and Brando to excuse her for a tiny moment, and leaves the table. Brando says his mother doesn’t know when to quit. Now she’s harassing Carly. Sasha says, Carly can handle his mom, and he says, no question. She says, speaking of Carly, Maxie mentioned that she and Jason set a date of September 17th. He hasn’t said if he’s going, or doesn’t he want her to go with him? 

Obrecht asks if there’s been any word on that schwein Henrik, and Anna says, if he’s out there, he’s doing a good job being undercover. Obrecht asks what the chances are that he’s dead, and Anna says, it’s a possibility. She can tell Obrecht this much, she’s not giving up. She’s going to find him, dead or alive.

Peter tells Sonny, when Nina sees someone lost or in pain, she feels compelled to help. He pegged Sonny as her latest charity case. Sonny flies out from behind the bar with a baseball bat, and tells him, say it again. Nina comes in, and runs over, saying, stop. What’s going on? Peter says, just a difference of opinion, and she says, it doesn’t matter. Peter is leaving today. Peter says, oh really? and she says she was able to get in touch with her contact – the fiction editor. He agreed to meet Peter, and if Peter waits outside for her, she’ll fill him in. He says he can’t wait to hear about it. Best of luck… Mike. He leaves, and Nina looks at Sonny. He says, what? That guy is bad news. He doesn’t understand why Nina is listening to him. Nina says, she agrees, and after today, they won’t see Peter again. That’s a promise.

Outside, Nina asks why Peter is provoking Sonny, and he says, who cares? Does she really have a lead, or was her performance for Sonny’s benefit? Nina says, yes, there’s a lead. Anna and Valentin think Louise is in St. Lucia. He says, Valentin just offered up the information, and wasn’t suspicious? and she asks if that isn’t why he blackmailed her. To exploit Valentin’s feelings? He says, Nina doesn’t actually care. Clearly, she’s moved on. She says she told Valentin that she was worried about Maxie, and needed to know if they were any closer to finding a lead. That’s when he told her they had a new lead. Peter wonders, why St. Lucia?  

Obrecht asks Anna to keep her apprised if there’s any new information. She’s going away to a medical conference, and she’s worried about Maxie and James. Anna asks if she didn’t lose her license, and Obrecht says, thank you. She’d completely forgotten. She still likes to keep up with new information, and there’s a conference in St. Lucia. She and Scotty are taking advantage of it as a romantic getaway. When he’s finished at the pool (🍷), they’ll be on their way. Anna says, with Scotty? and Obrecht nods and smiles. Anna tells her not to worry about Maxie. She’ll keep an eye on her. Enjoy. Obrecht says she shall, and laughs.

Valentin tells Austin, since he came to ELQ, he’s just wanted to make the company money. Every decision he’s made as CEO is to further that goal. The Quartermaines can fight, bicker, and argue, and not make the company suffer. Austin says, that’s a good point, when Lucy appears, and says she has to speak to her pal (Scotty) pronto. Scotty says, they’re talking business, but she says, pronto. Austin says, they can take a break, and Valentin says he can make some phone calls. They leave, and Lucy calls Scotty a nincompoop, and Scotty says, that’s a little harsh, but Lucy says it’s not. She has harsher words, but she’s kept her mouth sealed this whole time. She’s been a good girl, and hasn’t said one word about his dangerous liaison – his liaisons dangereuses – with Obrech. But him jetting off to an island with her is too far. He says, first of all, it’s Obrecht, with T. She smacks him in the forehead, and tells him, get a grip. Obrecht almost ruined the Nurses Ball for her. She’s out for herself, and if Scotty doesn’t snap out of it, she’ll be the death of him.

Austin approaches Brook and Maxie’s table, and says he’s run into Maxie two days in a row. The universe is trying to tell them something. Maxie says, that the MetroCourt has a great pool (🍷) lunch menu? Brook says, they would have invited him over, but he looks too busy. He says he’s not too busy to say hi to a friend. He and Maxie are friends, right?

Jordan tells Jason that Cyrus is up to his old tricks, intent on revenge. He asks if Carly and her family have been threatened, but she says, not so far. Steps have been taken to protect the parties involved, and she believes the threat has been neutralized… for the moment. He says he appreciates the heads up, and she says she appreciates his cooperation. Who’s doing Cyrus’s dirty work? Does he have any names he can pass along?   

Carly says Gladys’s her constant jabs trying to make her feel guilty about marrying Jason won’t work. If she knew anything about Sonny, she’d know Sonny would be all for this. Sonny would want her to move on and be happy. He trusted Jason more than anybody in the whole world. Carly gets that Gladys can’t grasp that concept, and that’s why she’s not invited to the wedding. Gladys says, they’re family, but Carly says, they’re not family. And Gladys better change her attitude if she wants to be part of Brando and his child’s life. Carly leaves, and Gladys sits and stews.

Brando says he wasn’t planning on going to the wedding, and Sasha asks, why not? He says he made a promise to keep his distance, and he meant it. She and the baby are his first priority. She says she appreciates that, but she’d never ask him to give up family

Dante looks through the file, and says, bingo.

Alexis says, if Sam continues to follow this, she has to promise to be careful. Drew was capable and determined guy, but if someone is holding him, Sam finding him could be dangerous. Sam promises to be careful. Her phone rings, and she steps away. Dante asks if she’s still coming in, and she says she’ll be there; she’s with her mom. Did he get the file? He says he did, and there’s something she’s got to see. She says she’ll be right there.

Dante says Sam got there fast (she used the GH teleporter), and she says he told her there was something she needed to see. Anna sits down, and he says they both need to hear this. Drew found Andre in Ethiopia, and sent Andre home before continuing on to Afghanistan, but they didn’t know he’d chartered a flight to Addis Ababa. Anna doesn’t see the significance, and Dante says, Drew wasn’t alone. There was another passenger on the flight.

Alexis tells Shawn, it’s his move, and he says, right. She says maybe they should stop. Neither one of them are paying attention anyway. He says, because of Sam? and she says, because of Sam, because of him. He was very galante; she knows he was disappointed. He let Sam walk away with a clear conscience. He’s a good guy. He says, the one thing he learned in prison was patience, but he didn’t tell her the other part of the story. Hayden’s mother was in town, and gave them a story about Hayden abandoning Violet. The next thing they knew, she’d been murdered. Someone wanted to keep her from talking about Hayden. Alexis asks if he thinks whoever shot Hayden six years ago is still after her, and he says, who knows? If he keeps at this, maybe he’ll uncover more than he bargained for. Jordan thinks he should let it go; focus on his present and future. Maybe she’s right. Alexis says, Jordan is a very smart woman. Of course (🍷) she’s right. Too bad he won’t listen to her.

Jason says this is the first he’s hearing of a threat from Cyrus. Is Jordan sure her sources are good? She says they are. He says, but Cyrus’s organization has been dismantled, and she says, is it possible Cyrus still has an ally on the outside? Can he be 100% certain that no one in the Five Families Tuscan white beans would work with Cyrus?

Sasha tells Brando, there’s a difference between being part of a family and part of the mob. Brando says, with Sonny, there was barely daylight between the two, and she tells him, look at Michael and Dante. He says he thinks Dante is a special case, being a cop, but she says he gets what she’s saying. He wants a life with his child unconnected to the mob, but he’s Sonny’s cousin. Carly and Jason are kind of a family extension. She’d never ask him to cut ties completely. He says, she’s amazing, and Lucy comes back. Sasha says she thought Lucy left, but Lucy says she was just visiting the pool (🍷). Sasha says, apartment hunting with Gladys is taxing, and Lucy says she prides herself on her professionalism. All she can give is her hard won words of wisdom. She can’t help it if certain people don’t listen.   

Brook tells Austin that Maxie has more friends than she needs, and doesn’t need another one. Austin asks if that’s true, and Maxie says, it’s not his fault that every time she sees him, she thinks of Louise. She’ll always be grateful that he helped bring Louise into the world, but then Maxie lost her. He says he’s sorry, but she says, don’t be. He says, it’s a real trauma, and he should have considered that. Forgive him. He leaves, and Brook says, oh my God. He’s so into Maxie.  

On the phone, Sonny asks if he and Nina can take Phyllis out to dinner… Oh, that’s good news… No, Nina’s not here. She’s outside with that Peter guy. He doesn’t like that guy at all, but he’s leaving today, so good… As a matter-of-fact, if Nina isn’t back in there soon, he’s going out there to send Peter packing.

Nina tells Peter, the WSB tracked a woman with an infant who traveled from Albany to Miami the day after Louise was taken. She rented a cottage on the outskirts of town called Soufriere, St. Lucia. He asks if she has the name of the woman, and she says, what possible reason would she have for asking Valentin her name? He asks how sure she is that the lead is legitimate, and she says, Valentin and Anna are going to St. Lucia tomorrow. He says, that means he can still get there before them. She starts to walk away, but he grabs her arm, and says, if she’s lying, she won’t be the only one who suffers. She says she knows he’s capable of anything, and wouldn’t dare double-cross him.

Jordan tells Jason, Sonny’s death created unrest. She’s glad he shored up Sonny’s interests. He says, he and Carly are getting married; that’s all, but she says, there are many reasons people join their lives. It’s a statement to the world of strength and commitment. Believe her when she says she wishes them the best in their future together. He thanks her, and says, thanks again for the update, and leaves.

Alexis says she knows Shawn, and she knows he’s not walking away from this. He says she’s right. He can’t let it go, especially after Hayden’s mother was killed. She says he knows she likes to dig into something herself, and he asks what she’s thinking. She says maybe they can work together. She’s not a P.I., and she’s not even free, but they made a good team when they were digging up information to expose Judge Carson. She’s thinking they can do it again. What does he say?

Dante asks Anna, what’s with the report being only five pages? and she says she thought it was more window dressing than an investigation. Drew’s plane went down in the Gulf of Adan, there was minimal wreckage, and no bodies. What was there to investigate? Sam says, Dante’s right. There was another passenger on the plane; it just doesn’t say the name. Anna says, that’s interesting, and Dante says he thought that was weird too. Sam says, there’s transaction there that says there was a seat reserved and paid for by a corporation – Leethy Unlimited. Why does it sound familiar? Anna wonders where they’ve heard of that company before.   

Gladys asks if Lucy is ready for another round of apartment hunting, and Lucy asks if she’s talking about another round of her unreasonable standards? Glady says she’s sorry if she was unreasonable, and Lucy says, she’s using the if word? Gladys says she realizes she has to get ready for her grandbaby, and needs the perfect apartment. Perhaps with the friends and family discount? Brando says he thinks they’ve had enough for today, and Lucy thinks they’ve had enough for a lifetime. Ta! She leaves, and Gladys says, that was rude. She needs a drink. She goes to the bar, and Brando tells Sasha, he’s so sorry about her… and Sasha says, she’s with Lucy; stop apologizing. Besides Gladys has one major redeeming quality – her son.   

Brook says she thinks Maxie broke Austin’s heart, but props to her for chasing him away without suspicion. Maxie tells her, everything she said was the truth. She just left out the part where she’s terrified he’ll remember seeing them together that night. Brook says, but for now at least, she thinks Austin will steer clear of Maxie. Maxie says, good.

Valentin asks Austin, where were we? and Austin tells Valentin that he was saying something that was true. He’s not a fan of Quartermaine infighting, and he’s more than happy to stay on the periphery. Valentin says, the quiet above the fray. Austin can claim what’s rightfully his, but doesn’t have to be the thing he hates.

Scotty leads Obrecht to the only seats on the plane, and she says, a private jet. He says he wanted to go all out for his schnitzel, and she says, it’s too much. He shouldn’t have. He says, nothing is too good for them, and pours champagne. He clinks his glass against hers, but she’s clearly distracted. He asks, what’s wrong? and she says, only her regret that his trip isn’t just pleasure for her. He says, Huntington’s. He wants her also to enjoy island time, and she says, once her business has concluded, she promises she’ll definitely enjoy herself.

Sam tells Anna and Dante that she found it in one of her closed case files. Leethy Unlimited. Dante asks, which case? and Sam says, Nina Reeves.

Sonny starts to head outside, but Nina comes back in. He says he was just going to get her. Is he gone? Nina says, the interview came though, so he left, and Sonny asks if she’s all right. She says, yeah, and he says he doesn’t understand. Peter is so creepy. Why is she helping him? She says she owed him a favor, but now her debt is paid, so can they not talk about him anymore? Did he check on Phyllis? He says, Phyllis is going out to dinner with Janice, and she says she’s glad. He says, since Phyllis is out, and the bar is closed because of Lenny’s death, he thought – he takes her hand – she deserves a little time for herself. She says she likes the way he thinks, and he asks if she’ll go out to dinner with him.

Dante asks when Sam investigated Nina, and she says, it was before Nina came to Port Charles. Nina’s then husband Silas Clay hired her to figure out where Madeline Reeves was keeping her comatose daughter. Anna says, that’s it. Leethy Unlimited. It was the operating company for Creighton-Clark, the facility where Nina was a patient. It was the same place Drew was held before Robin revived him and helped him escape. Dante says, small world… or not.

Shawn goes to the docks, and thanks Jordan for waiting for him. She asks if everything is okay, and he says, for the most part. He gave some thought to what she said about moving on with his life. Her points are valid, reasonable, and practical. She’s glad he sees it that way, and he says he does, but he can’t move on until he gets the truth, and to get the truth, he’s going to need her help.

Austin says Valentin makes some valid points. He’ll take them into consideration. Valentin says he doesn’t need an answer right now, but appreciates Austin’s time. they shake hands, and Brook sees. She says, her poor father. Austin is definitely going with Valentin. Austin tells Valentin that he’ll be in touch.  

Maxie tells Brook that she’s sorry, and Brook says, Valentin can be convincing and charismatic when he wants to be. Fortunately for her, she’s got an ace in the hole. Maxie says, who? and Brook smiles.

Going to the bar, Gladys wonders where the bartender is when you need him. Novak says, the hospitality in this place could definitely use an upgrade. He saw her talking to Mrs. Corinthos earlier. Gladys says, she won’t be Mrs. Corinthos for long, and good riddance. He takes it she’s not a fan, and she says, Carly’s late husband – may he rest – was her cousin. He says, she and Sonny were related? and she says, they were like this, crossing her fingers. Carly isn’t showing the proper respect. Remarrying when It’s been less than a year? She’s been civil, but it’s wasted on Carly. The woman has no class. Novak orders a drink, for the lady.  

Carly asks Jason if everything is okay, and he says, Cyrus is making a move.

Nina wonders if Sonny is asking her out on a date, and he says it’s something they haven’t had a chance to do; just the two of them. She says, like they’re the only two people in the whole world, and he says, aren’t they? She says, for tonight, they are. It’s just them. She says she knows they had tough times, but maybe now everything is going to be okay. He hugs her, and asks, why wouldn’t it be?

The plane starts to experience turbulence. Obrecht reaches into her pocketbook, presumably to hold her gun in place. She tells Scotty, everything is going to be fine. The lights go out, and everything tumbles sideways.

Tomorrow, Jordan asks if Shawn trusts her to find out the truth, Scotty wonders what the hell is going on, Jason asks who else Cyrus has to settle a score with, and Nina wonders why Sonny would ask her that question.

Below Deck Mediterranean

My first thought it, they can’t even have ranks now because of this twerp – i.e. Lexi.

We slide back a little to Katie telling Lexi, to her, it seems more like laziness. Whether it is or not, that’s how it’s coming across. She isn’t up to second stew standards. Now that they have an extra hand, she doesn’t want to have ranks anymore. She’s doesn’t know how this is going to go down. In Lexi’s interview, she thinks Katie’s decision is idiotic. To demote or suspend them makes no sense. Of course it seems idiotic to her. She probably thought she should get a promotion. New stew Delaney comes onto the boat, and David shows her where the bridge is. In Delaney’s interview, she says she has a psyche and languages degree. The best thing she did in college though, was to join the sailing team. In the second grade, it was discovered she had a speech impediment. But in her second grade mind, she realized if she made it worse, she’d get to skip classes. She meets Captain Sandy, and tells the captain that she was a sailing skipper on boats in Croatia and Greece. She’s a deck/stew because they need to do everything on a small boat. She never did anything in interior, but they did whatever it took to make the guests happy. The captain tells her that they need support inside. In her interview, Captain Sandy says, since it’s a pandemic, she could only get a chef and deck/stew. She chose someone with deck experience, hoping she could learn interior. I would it shouldn’t be that hard to grasp, but on the other hand, why the hell did this woman indicate she had interior experience when she hadn’t? The captain says Delaney will probably be sharing a cabin with a male, and Delaney says she’s cool with that. She’s introduced to Katie, and Captain Sandy says, she was bringing her on for the deck, but she had stew on her resumé, and she thought Katie could use the help. However, it’s Katie’s decision. She’s not forcing Katie to take on a crew member. Delaney says, everything will be new to her, and Katie asks if she’s sure. Delaney says she’s happy to do it, and Katie shows her around.

Mzi comes back from being in the harness, and Malia says he conquered it. Delaney meets her new roommate Mathew, and meets Courtney and Lexi. Delaney tells Malia that she’s worked more on deck, and says, if she has time, she could come out to help. Courtney worries that Delaney’s done no stew work. Delaney moves in her stuff, and in his interview, Mathew says he’s overwhelmed. Reading the preference sheets, they’ve listed enough sh*t for a month of chartering. Courtney gets weepy, and worries that her work is inadequate, but Katie says she’s an effing good stew. She’d be f***ed without Courtney.  

David thinks about hitting on Delaney, who he calls Andrea, and in Lloyd’s interview, he thinks David might do well… or he’ll be rejected twice. Who knows? David says he was so wrong thinking her name was Andrea. Delaney gets into her uniform, and in Lexi’s interview, she doesn’t think Katie should keep her title, if they’re all even. She should lead by example. What a peabrain she is. But then, she’s like 30 and still has a slam book. Delaney says she knows nothing about laundry, and in Courtney’s interview, she says just because Delaney worked on a yacht, doesn’t mean it was the same job. She explains the ins and outs of laundry, and in Delaney’s interview, she says she does laundry at home. She was the valedictorian of her high school. She’s not an idiot. She’ll figure it out. I dunno. What was the grade average in her high school? Everything is relative. Provisions come in, and Captain Sandy tells the crew to get in their whites, and meet on dock in 30 minutes.  

They line up, and welcome the all-women’s charter aboard. Captain Sandy says, Katie will show them around, then they’ll take off to their destination. Unloading the luggage, Malia notices one guest had brought wine, and she likes their style. Katie gives the tour, and a guest asks, what if they get too drunk and drown in the hot tub? Who asks that kind of question? Katie says she’ll put life jackets on them. They ask to see the galley, and Mathew says he’ll be serving a family style lunch, since they have so many likes and dislikes. As Delaney puts on her mic, she says she’s not used to so many items being attached to her. Primary Danielle lists all the types of liquor she likes, which is all liquor. The lines are removed, and the boat heads out. Lexi says one of the guests sounds like a drunkard. One, I wonder who uses the word drunkard anymore, and two, how this woman girl can speak to that after her drunken tirade, I have no clue. Although I will admit, the guests don’t waste any time in acting stupid. David, Lloyd, and Mzi talk girls in the crew mess, and guest Bailey twerks. Not very well. Danielle puts her leg up on the railing of the boat, and Courtney jets over, telling her not to do that. In her interview, she says she likes a good time, but nobody can die today.

Lexi tends bar, while Delaney works in the laundry. Katie tells her that she knows they’re in an annoying situation. If Delaney feels it’s not for her, be honest; she won’t take it personally. Delaney says she’s super happy to do whatever, and Katie says, happiness is what they’re about. Anchor is down, and Malia fist bumps Mzi. Katie goes over the schedule with Courtney and Lexi, who says, cool, which always means, not cool. Sure enough, in Lexi’s interview, she says she has back to back breakfast shifts, and thinks it’s bullsh*t. Delaney wonders how to fold a fitted sheet, which only Martha Stewart knows the mystery of. In Mathew’s interview, he says their preferences are insane. With serving family style, you can deconstruct anything, and serve any combination. Apparently, they didn’t call each other, and ask what they all enjoyed. It’s the weirdest group. As usual, the food looks amazing, and there isn’t one thing I wouldn’t eat.

Katie tells Delaney to help Courtney with cleaning the pantry. In Mzi’s interview, he says, attractive women make the work situation better, but you have to be focused, because things can go wrong so easy. The guests ride the jet skis, and when one of them tries to stand on the seat, they fall off. Yes, I laugh. Mathew studies the preference sheets, and wonders, what’s wrong with these people? As he’s mincing scallions, the fish catches fire. He grabs the pan, tossing it in the sink, and he, too, catches fire for a literal hot second. He’s burned his fingers, and there are a lot of bleeps. He puts ice on it, and in his interview, he says, with all the preferences on this charter, it’s hard enough with two hands. Now all he has is one. He radios the captain, telling her that he’s been burned pretty bad. She goes to the galley, takes one look, and says, holy sh*t. They need to get that taken care of. Malia looks sick, and says she thought Mathew had iodine on his fingers, but it was his burned skin. Captain Sandy says she’ll see if she can get the doctor to come to the boat. Mathew swears it’s not like his knee; he’s not trying to leave. In the captain’s interview, she says she’s concerned that she’s going to lose her chef. She calls the doctor, who says she’ll be there as soon as possible.

Mathew says he can’t believe he effed up, and Captain Sandy tells him that the doctor is on her way. The guests are in the hot tub, and drunk already. They need service, and Lexi introduces Delaney to the them, calling her Deloni. I wonder if it’s on purpose, or if she just doesn’t bother paying attention to anyone’s name since they’re beneath her. The guests ask for tequila shots, and Delaney serves them, saying she brought the fun. Dr. Tea arrives, and Mathew shows her his hand, explaining that he grabbed a pan that was on fire. Dinner is in an hour and a half. The doctor says, it’s a second degree burn, and he’ll be okay. In his interview, he says he can’t let this be the end of his season. He’s come too far. He needs to talk himself off the ledge. Katie radios Delaney, telling her to have dinner. Dr. Tea says, hopefully, she won’t see them soon, and gets in the boat to go back.

Malia explains about Mathew to the deckhands, and says, he might need help in the galley. Lexi sets the table for dinner, and Katie pours wine. When she’s gone, one of the guests pours more into her glass. Katie thinks Delaney is doing all right, considering she’d never been a stew. Lloyd helps in the galley, and Mathew is in pain. In Mathew’s interview, he says he worked in a restaurant where a woman got hot oil poured on her arm by accident. She wrapped it up, and went back to work. If she could do that, he’ll be fine. One of the guests says the table is classic, simple, and elegant, like her. Danielle hunts for her room, and says she’s getting ready for her big debut. Katie serves dinner, while Lexi shows Delaney what to do with the cabins. Katie tells Mathew that everyone is loving it. In his interview, Mathew says, thank God he got a store bought cake. He needs a break. Katie puts on candles that spell out Happy Birthday, and lights them. She presents the cake, and they sing Happy Birthday. Mathew soaks his hand in ice.  

Captain Sandy calls Katie to the bridge, and the guests go inside. The captain explains that management called, and they can’t allow cabin sharing between males and females there; the liability is too high, and the risk is too much. In Captain Sandy’s interview, she says they have to weigh in with the management company on everything. Because of where they are, they can’t share cabins, and Katie will have to deal with it. She tells Katie that she’ll have to move everyone. Delaney can’t sleep in Mathew’s cabin tonight. Oh come on. It’s a big boat. Someone can’t share with the engineer or something? Captain Sandy couldn’t sleep on the bridge for a night or two? The captain says Mathew could share with chief engineer Marten, and they’ll figure out the rest in the morning. In Katie’s interview, she says, every crew member will have to shuffle their cabin, but they’ll make it work. She tells Mathew that she’s sick of thinking about it. They’re on charter, and she has no time for sh*t like that. Right now, it’s more of a hassle than a benefit. Captain Sandy tells Mathew that he’ll be sharing with Marten for now. Courtney asks how Mathew’s pain is on a scale of one to ten, and he says, eleven. Lloyd says, it’s all a sh*t show. Katie tells Delaney about the cabin situation, and Mathew tells Marten, sorry to invade his personal space. Marten is cool about it though. Malia asks how Delaney’s first day was, and Delaney says, it’s not what she expected. In Malia’s interview, she says, if you don’t understand the stew side of deck/stew, don’t put it on your resumé.

Danielle joins the other guests in the lounge, and throws a bag down, asking, who wants some? She takes out a blow-up costume, almost like those sumo wrestlers, but it’s a woman in a bikini. David is sacrificed brought in, and one of the guests says, this poor man. Danielle dances around him, doing as much of a lap dance as you can do in a get-up like that. In David’s interview, he says, is he afraid of Danielle? Yes. Any sane person should be scared. Danielle twerks, sort of, and Courtney asks Katie if she looks like that. In Courtney’s interview, she says Danielle looks like a weird armadillo. She thoroughly enjoyed it. Malia asks how Mathew is, and he says he’s in a mess. In his interview, he says he’s just trying to finish the day, and go to bed. He thanks Malia for her help.

The guests go to bed, and Katie tells Delaney to come straight to her with anything. Mzi and David talk on the bridge, and it starts to rain. Lexi says it’s some nasty weather, and sets the table. In Lexi’s interview, she says she personally doesn’t have an issue with changing cabins. She doesn’t want to room with the chief stew. The captain asks to meet with Katie on the bridge, and Katie tells Captain Sandy that she doesn’t think Delaney is happy. Captain Sandy says Katie wanted someone, but Katie says she’s concerned about the cabin switching. People are unhappy and voicing it to her. The captain tells Katie to have a conversation with Delaney, and decide whether she stays or goes. If she stays, Katie will have to make cabin arrangements. They have two more charters after this one. It’s up to Katie and Delaney.  

In the morning, Mathew makes bacon. Lexi shows Delaney how to make beds. Maureen the unicorn floatie isn’t looking good, and Malia tells David that she doesn’t know if she can save her. In Malia’s interview, she says, Maureen is struggling. She’s had a rough go of it, and Malia thinks it’s time to say goodbye. She tries to patch Maureen, and in David’s interview, she says, everything comes to a natural end. They’ve been through so much. Every minute that passes now is just painful. He’ll genuinely miss her. We flash back to moments with Maureen. Lexi instructs Delaney on how breakfast is served, and it continues to rain. David tries to help in the galley. Mathew says he’s not pumped up about the situation. They got less tip, and he lost his cabin. Delaney and Lexi do laundry, which just seems like an endless task. In the pantry, Katie tells Courtney, it’s too much; too much drama. It’s not worth it, and she feels terrible. The guests proclaim breakfast yummy. Katie says she feels so sick, and then, she literally is. In her interview, she says she just wants to be done with the situation. It’s not worth it. She asks Delaney to come with her to the bridge. I’m wondering why they don’t put Delaney in the galley, since Mathew could really use help. Katie tells Delaney, she’s been great, but she was under the impression that Delaney was a deck/stew, but she hasn’t really been a stew. She’s not having a go at Delaney for it, but does she take that risk when Delaney isn’t doing what she actually wants to? Now they have new rules and regulations, and it seems like it’s more of a problem than it’s worth. Not her as a person, but it’s caused a commotion. They have to move everyone around. Delaney thinks it’s unfair to judge her on how she might be in the future. She should be given a chance, since she’s been doing a good job so far.

Delaney says she’s done a great job. The laundry is her kingdom, and she’s been a benefit to Katie. Since she’s been there, stuff is getting done, and she thinks she should be given more of a chance. Katie says it’s going to be awkward, but Delaney says she has a positive attitude. In Delaney’s interview, she wonders how she’s not meeting expectations. When she got an unsatisfactory grade in school, she’d go to her teacher, and convince them to change it. She asks Katie, why get rid of her if she’s being helpful? and Katie suggests Delaney stay to the end of the charter, and they’ll talk then. Delaney thinks that’s fair, and Katie tells her to take two hours. In Katie’s interview, she says she tried. This is just causing more stress, but they’ll see where they’re at when the charter is over.

Malia says, it’s gnarly out, and it’s supposed to be like this all day. It’s pouring rain, and Malia says the anchor is dragging. David says, it looks nasty, and Malia says, it’s coming straight for them. They start to bring up the anchor, and Captain Sandy says, when they see it, let it go again. Malia says she sees lightning, and Lexi radios the deck crew. Malia says she’s getting nervous, and Mathew looks out the window, saying, it’s crazy out there. One of the guests says they’re scared, and want out of this place. Lexi tries the radio again, but the captain tells her that they’re anchoring. Lexi says, it’s right on top of them, and Malia says, holy sh*t. Red on deck. The captain promises it will pass.

There was no preview. I’m not sure if it’s on next week, since it’s Labor Day.

🛥 Red On Deck…

I didn’t know what it meant either.

https://celebsaga.com/yachting-what-does-red-on-deck-mean-on-a-boat-red-on-deck-meaning-explained/

👗 On the Catwalk…

Project Runway will be coming back October 14th.

‘Project Runway’ Gets Season 19 Premiere Date On Bravo

📺 He Hated Spunk…

Saying goodbye to Mr. Grant. Betty White must be feeling a little lonely right now.

https://people.com/tv/ed-asner-dead-actor-dies-at-91/

📖 Turning Another Page…

Another day, another Deck, with the possibility of Wives tomorrow. FYI, there is also a Vanderpump Rules watch party with the two Toms on Bravo at 10 pm. The only thing better than watching TV, is watching other people watch TV. But whether you watch or watch those watching, stay safe, stay upstanding, and stay giving better wedding presents than sending your nephew out of the country indefinitely. Cash is always good.

Aug30

August 29, 2021 – There’s a New Gang in Deadtown, Ratings Dip, First Of the Last Season, They’re Engaged & Insane

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What I Watched Today

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

The Walking Dead

A zombie toddles around making zombie noises. Maggie drops down and shoots it in the head. She shoots a few more, but she and her bullets are outnumbered.

Gabriel drops into the subway car, followed by the others. Gabriel beats the crap out of a zombie, and they walk toward the next car. Negan looks tired, and Alden asks where Maggie is. Negan says she was right behind him. She wanted them to keep moving forward. Gabriel gets the door open, and says, they’ll go from car to car, hop off, and keep going.

Daryl busts through a wall to find Dog. He and Dog travel quietly. They come to a room where there’s all kinds of random stuff. He sees, It comes for us all, written on the wall. Next to it, a dead person sits on the floor, handcuffed to a briefcase of cash. Apparently, it didn’t do them much good. Daryl looks at a weird mural on the wall, a royal family overseeing what looks like a bizarre party. I have no clue what this is about, but later on Talking Dead, they explained it was people fighting each other, but not the zombies surrounding them. Okay, well, it looked like a strange party to me. And who were those people with crowns on? I want answers.

Yumiko tells Princess that the Commonwealth has structure and laws. There has to be someone in charge. She’s going to speak to them and demand results. Princess says, that’s her plan? Is she sure she can be cold as ice? Yumiko says she was a lawyer; it comes naturally. She loves her brother, and hasn’t seen him in a long time. She’ll be fine as long as she can speak to them. A trooper comes by, and Princess says, that was the woman from last night. She knows. Eugene comes back, and says he’s looked everywhere for Ezekiel, and he’s freaking out. It’s probably because Ezekiel told off the big guy. They should come clean about who they are, and where they’re from. Yumiko tells him to stick to the story. She gets up and strides over to the trooper. She says she demands to know where her friend was taken, but the trooper tells her, calm down. She doesn’t know where Yumiko’s friend is. Yumiko says she’d like to speak to someone who can give her answers, and the trooper says, Yumiko wants to speak to her supervisor? Princess says, yeah. They want to talk to the manager.

Daryl sees a plastic bag that has, among other things, a couple of candy bars in it. He takes them out, and pulls out a hundred dollar bill. He reads a message on it that says, Dear Dad, you always said if you don’t come back in a week to move on. Mom didn’t listen and went looking. It’s been 3 weeks, so we’re going next. I’ll watch Jesse and turn on the radio every day at 10. See you both soon. Love, Tom and Jesse. It’s accompanied by a photo of two kids. Dog senses something, and Daryl follows him. Dog leads him to a zombie lying by the wall, and Daryl shoots it with a crossbow. He sees a map on the wall, but he and Dog are distracted by a loud yell. Dog takes off and goes into a pipeline. Here we go again. Daryl calls to him, but Dog doesn’t come back, so he follows. Must we really have a heart attack about Dog tonight? Although this is the thing I like the most about Daryl now. He takes responsibility as a pet parent.  

Yumiko sits in an office with the assessors, and the woman says she’s not sure why Yumiko is there; she’s already been assessed. Yumiko says, they think they’ve been assessing her? She’s been assessing them. The woman almost smiles, and says, Yumiko doesn’t know anything about them. Yumiko says it’s a large community; organization and bureaucracy are part of that. Probably the woman’s job before this was forensic psychologist. The guy was perhaps academic; a researcher. He assesses the lab rats in his community. Someone above them based their jobs on who it was thought they were. The assessor’s poke around in the dust of their brains, and push the boundaries about their toilet habits. They raked one of her friends over the coals for a two dollar bill. They use money as a powerful psychological tactic, because it’s familiar, and they know how desperately people miss the old world. They decide whether someone will enhance their community or just drain their resources, but the truth is, they need to justify their existence, because at the end of the day, they could rely on their gut instinct. She was a lawyer. She likes rules. They bring order to the chaos. She believes her brother, a thoracic surgeon, is at the Commonwealth. She’d like her groups’ processing expedited. The woman asks again where Yumiko went to school, and Yumiko says, Oxford and Harvard, but she knows that. Would she like Yumiko’s credentials again? Mercer comes in, and gives Yumiko a cup of coffee. Yumiko comes thisclose to smiling.

Eugene and Princess wait out in the hall, and Princess says she has to pee. She shouldn’t have mentioned it, since now she really does. Eugene doesn’t want her to go, but she says, the big guy just walked in with coffee; it must be going good. She goes up to two trooper, and speaks to one of them in another language – Italian? Spanish? I can’t find this out. She goes into another room, and the trooper follows her, leaving the other to guard the hallway.

Daryl follows Dog’s bark, and goes through another pipeline.

Gabriel manages to get the door open, and the group goes into the next car. They can hear zombies, along with a banging sound from underneath. Alden says, it’s Morse Code. SOS. It gets louder, and they open a trap door, Maggie popping through. She stares at Negan for a hot minute, then whacks him in the head with her gun. She says, she slipped. He saw her, and left her to die. Negan says, okay. So what? Gabriel says, he’s just going to admit it? Alden says, he tried to kill her? Negan says, she was in trouble, and he didn’t help; there’s a big difference. Duncan slams him up against the wall, and Negan says, Maggie was just talking about killing him sooner than later, and now somehow he’s a big a-hole because he didn’t risk his nuts for her? He’s been an asset. He killed Alpha – nice of him, he knows. If he hadn’t, every person they know, their skull would be on a spike. He did what needed to be done. He’s trying. Duncan says he’s not buying word of it, and Agatha says, they can get through the city without Negan. They hear someone yelling for help, and they run to the other end of car. Gage is in between cars, and he says he’s locked in. They were in the tunnels, and there were walkers everywhere. Maggie asks if he locked the other car door, but he didn’t, and she tells him, if they open the doors, they’ll all get in. Zombies are coming toward Gage, and he says he’s sorry; he won’t do it again. Gabriel says they have the time, but Maggie says they don’t have the ammo. She tells Gage that she’s sorry; they can’t. He says, liar, and pulls out two knives. He stabs himself, as the zombies reach him. Negan should point out the irony here, but maybe it’s too easy. Or he doesn’t want to die. They watch as Gage is torn apart. Now I’m wondering, why didn’t they just tell him to go underneath like Maggie did? It’s a wonder these people have survived eleven years.

Eugene shakes and twitches, and gets up. He wanders down the hall, and tells the trooper that he’s been waiting for his friend Yumiko. She was being questioned in that room, and he was wondering if they had an ETA for when she’d be done. The trooper says, there’s no one in there, and Eugene says, but he saw her and them. The trooper repeats, there’s no one in there, and Eugene says, his other friend went in to use the ladies room. The trooper says, what friend? He needs Eugene to leave.

Duncan messes with the door, and Negan paces a little. He sits, and Gabriel asks, what is it? The flashlight goes out, and Maggie lights a flare. They see Gage heading the zombie crowd. Alden does too, and he says, they don’t want to look, but he wants them to look. Gabriel says, all it is, is the shell of a man who died a coward, which is pretty harsh, if you ask me. Alden says, he didn’t deserve to die in the worst way imaginable. Maggie says, there are worse ways. She and Hershel were alone for a long time, and they came across an old man kneeling by a grocery cart full of scavenged clothes. He said they were for his daughter, and asked if they’d help him haul the cart back home. He’d give them some food for their trouble. She knew he was a liar, but she was starving. They followed him back, and she held a knife to his throat. She reached in his pocket, pulled out the chloroformed rag he was going to use on her, and stuffed it in his mouth. They went inside, and she locked her boy in a room, then went through the house. She came across three deformed… she woudn’t call them men. They came after her, and she handled them. The house was quiet, but she could hear a thudding sound from the attic. She thought there might be people tied up trying to get free. She opened up a door, seeing a set of stairs, and saw a shadow at the top. It was rocking back and forth, and she thought it was some kind of animal. It fell down the stairs, and came at her face. It was a walker. It used to be a woman. Her arms and legs were cut off and stitched up; her eyes had been gouged out; and she had no tongue. There was a cauterized gash in her throat where her vocal cords had been ripped out. Whatever was in there, was trying to get out. There were three more just like her. Their hearts were still beating. The first thing she thought was, if they’re alive, there must be food. She took care of it, and found the food; lots of it. She and Hershel filled the cart, and left. She tells Alden that she doesn’t feel anything when she tells him that, because that’s what’s out there. That makes it clear what they have in Alexandria; what they had in Hilltop and Meridien. It’s rare compared to everything out there. If it isn’t… Negan says, it means nobody has it figured out. Nobody ever di,d and nobody ever will.  

Daryl keeps going through the pipe, and a zombie grabs his leg. He shoots it, and falls out the opening back to where the tracks are. He whacks a few zombies, cracking their heads with a pipe, gets his bag and light, and keeps going. He sees blood near the tracks, and hears Dog in the distance. He calls to Dog, and Roy comes out of the darkness, stumbling toward him. He falls, and Dog attacks a zombie. I won’t watch just in case, but Daryl shoots the zombie and Dog is okay. Seriously, they could kill off the whole cast, and I’d be fine as long as Dog made it. And I don’t trust them after Ezekiel’s tiger. More zombies pop out, and Daryl dispatches them. This is starting to get old. He goes to Roy, lying by the tracks, and Roy asks, how bad is it? Daryl says, it ain’t good, and Roy says he lost Cole. Daryl asks where the ammo bag is, and Roy says he lost that too. Daryl tries to tend to Roy’s head wound, but Roy says, don’t waste it on him. He gives Daryl some bullets and a grenade from his pockets, and says, it’s all he’s got. Tell the kids he didn’t die a coward.

Duncan pries open the next door, but the one going into the next car is locked. Zombies are coming, Gage leading the pack. Duncan uses an ax on the door, and Gabriel and Maggie get ready to shoot at the zombies. The door starts to give way, then falls. The zombies swarm in, Gage at the head.

Daryl and Dog run.

Gabriel shoots the oncoming zombies with a machine gun, and the rest use bows and arrows, getting the dead one by one as they straggle in. Duncan sees zombies coming from the other side, and Maggie hands a gun to Negan. He shoots, but the zombies just keep coming, and I think, either they have to run out of dead people or ammo at some point.   

Daryl is inside the subway car, on the other side, and shoots his way through as the theme music plays. He gets to the door, and Negan opens it from the other side. Everyone runs into the car where Daryl is, and he tells them, get down. They duck under the seats, and Daryl shoves the grenade into a zombie’s mouth. He kicks it into the other car, and shuts the door. The grenade explodes, and it’s quiet. Blood cascades down the window.

Eugene sits at the table, and researcher dude opens a pouch that looks ominous, but really just contains office supplies. He takes out a pen, and Eugene asks what they’ve done with his traveling companions. Mercer says, they’re being processed, and Eugene says, as in administratively, or as in bologna and other meat stuffs? He’d like to see them. Mercer says, only one thing gets his heart pumping. Battling the dead gets it pumping every time; not in a bad way. He hands Eugene a box of tissues, and tells him, mop up. Eugene blots his face, and Mercer says Eugene can’t lie for sh*t, so don’t lie. Eugene says he wasn’t going to, and Mercer says, that makes him like Eugene. Keep doing that, and it will help him. But if he doesn’t… Does Eugene get him? Eugene nods, and Mercer says he knows Eugene is holding back. He has two questions, which require two answers. Truthful ones. Do that, and he’ll get to go, and see his friends again. Everything will be okay. It’s that simple. Ready? Where is their settlement, and why were they at the train station? If Eugene lies, he’ll know. Eugene says, okey-dokey. He has been holding something back. He was afraid of what his friends would think. In the course of their travels, he found a radio. Night after night, he would speak into the void, holding on to what if, as fools are wont to do, and he’s nothing if not a fool. He starts to cry, and says, then one night, a voice came back, a woman, a beautiful voice. They got to talking, and she was not repulsed by his musings. They spoke of train museums and ice cream cones, laughed, and sang Iron Maiden. They wanted to meet, so he got his friends to go the train yard, under the guise of asking for help. He knew they wouldn’t go otherwise, but he was thinking about Stephanie. He was lying the whole time, afraid he’d lose the three friends he has. He lied to Stephanie, saying he was from a large settlement, because he thought she might be a femme fatale, laying a trap for a lonely heart. He’s not one to whom relationships come easy, particularly those with the fairer sex. He is in fact a virgin, even though he’d observed the act more times than he cares to admit. He was hoping, after a suitable period of courtship, Stephanie might be the one to change his unenviable status. He’s afraid if Stephanie finds out he wasn’t honest with her either, she’ll have nothing to do with him. He cries, and says, here it is, and he’s very relieved to get it off his chest, because everything he’s said up until that has been the goddam truth.

Troopers bring a hooded Eugene in a wagon to a trailer. They bring him up the stairs, and take the hood off. He sees Yumiko, Princess, and Ezekiel. He hugs them, and laughs. He asks where they took Ezekiel, and Ezekiel says, the infirmary. A medic steamed his face, and gave him some nasty herbal cough syrup, and then he slept. Eugene asks if the tea was spiked, but Ezekiel says, no. They took the light from his room so he could sleep. They checked on him periodically, then brought Yumiko to visit him. They were brought to a holding room with Princess, then brought there. Mercer reads a bunch of legalese from the Commonwealth’s constitution, and says they’ve been granted asylum and citizenship. When they walk out, they’ll be escorted to orientation. He looks at Ezekiel, and says, by a beat cop. Welcome to the Commonwealth. He tells Ezekiel, I went to West Point, a-hole.

Princess asks what Yumiko found out, when a woman comes in. She asks which one of them is Eugene, and Eugene raises his hand. She says, she’s Stephanie, and he smile. Little hearts pop out of his eyes.

The group finally gets to the outside  Negan gives Maggie back the gun, but hangs on to it for an extra beat or two. Maggie asks Daryl what he’s looking at, and he says, it’s a letter from the kid to his parents. Maggie tells everyone that they’ll be heading out, but they need to take a detour first. Arbor Hills. It’s a supply depot Georgie set up. They’d been set up all over, with ammo, food, and weapons. They’ll rest up there, and restock. A radio tower marks the neighborhood. Does Negan know where that is? Negan says, yeah, and they head out.

They see some dead men hanging upside down, and Negan says, this place sure has gone to s*h*t since I was here last. Let’s double back. They barely start to turn, when Roy, who is somehow still alive, gets an arrow to the forehead, and a sickle comes winging through the air, hitting Cole in the leg. Dragging Cole, they quickly find cover. We see a group of masked people marching toward them, looking like something out of the old Warriors movie. It’s the Reapers.    

Next time, a fight in the woods, Maggie says the plan doesn’t change, Carol says they’re going to starve to death, and Gabriel says God isn’t here anymore.  

📉 Dead Dive…

I’m kind of surprised. Geez, we’ve made it this far, why not finish it out?

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the-walking-dead-amc-season-11-ratings-1235050635/

⚰️ First Dead…

Who cares? As long as Dog is okay. And face it, dude was a pretty minor character

https://comicbook.com/horror/news/the-walking-dead-season-11-episode-2-death-spoilers-gage-dies-explained-reactions/

💍 Sorry Ladies…

Daryl is officially taken.

https://ew.com/celebrity/norman-reedus-diane-kruger-engaged/

🥱 Nighty-Night…

After Netflix and work this weekend, it’s back to the old Bravo grind. Until we meet on Deck, stay safe, stay following through, and stay out of that space between subway cars. No good can come of it.

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August 27, 2021 – A Plan To Lure Peter To St. Lucia, Million Dollar Finale, Team KJ, Guessing, a Surgery, Salem Preview, Tributes, More Troubles, Shade Feud, VanderShare, Doom’s Rouge, Dead Talk, a Half Dozen Quotes & Feeling

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Jax goes to the MetroCourt, and Carly says she’s not in the mood, but he says she came to apologize. She says, go on, and he says he’s sorry he made Josslyn’s special dinner awkward. She says she hopes he plans on apologizing to Josslyn, and he says, of course (🍷) he does. He asks if they can start over. Mr. Buscema comes in, and Carly welcomes him to the MetroCourt, saying, it’s an honor. He says it’s an honor to be her guest. He received her save-the-date, hand-delivered no less. She says she wanted to make sure he got it, and he says, consider this his RSVP. He wouldn’t miss it for the world. He’s sure all of her late husband’s business associates won’t either. Jason comes by, and says, excuse them, steering Buscema to the bar. Jax tells Carly, if that guy is any indication of the guest list, their daughter isn’t getting within a mile of the wedding.

Harmony tells Alexis that she has two visitors. Spencer and Esme are there, and Alexis says, no way, Spencer! He’s all grown up. He says, that depends on who you ask, and wonders if there are rules against hugging loved ones. She says, since when did he care about rules? and they hug. Alexis says, Nikolas said he was back, but didn’t say anything about him visiting. He says, his father hasn’t been keeping up with what he’s been doing, and he intends to keep it that way.

Ava puts sunflowers on Kiki’s grave, and says, her sweet girl. She misses Kiki so much. Ever since the stalker left Kiki’s ID, Kiki is all she can think about. A cruel reminder of how she couldn’t protect Kiki, and pointed her in Ryan’s direction. Then Ryan took Kiki’s life in a sick desire to please her. She’ll always regret… She doesn’t know where to begin. She has so many regrets. Nikolas appears, and says, so does he.

At the MetroCourt, Austin gives Scotty the paper from Edward’s office, and says, that ought to do the trick. Maxie runs in, looking around for something, and Austin asks if he can help. She says she thought she left something there, but it seems to be gone. He says they probably have a lost and found, and she says she’ll check there. He says, the last time he saw her, she was leaving town. Did it help? She says she’s afraid not. The thing with some problems is, no matter where you go, they follow you.

Obrecht asks Nina what the problem is, and Nina says, Peter is alive. Obrecht asks if she’s certain, and Nina says he’s there in Nixon Falls.  

Outside the Tan-O, Sonny says Peter isn’t just a business associate of Nina’s, and Peter says he’d like to think they’re friends. Sonny asks why he gets the feeling Nina doesn’t like Peter much. Peter says Sonny doesn’t mince words, and Sonny says he calls it the way he sees it. And the way he sees it, Peter makes Nina very uncomfortable. He thinks it’s time for Peter to get out of town.

Obrecht tells Nina, that schwein. She knew they hadn’t seen the last of him. She asks if he’s made contact, and Nina says, unfortunately, he’s as malignant as ever. Obrecht says, since Nina is freely speaking, he must not be with her, and Nina says, he’s outside, so she has to make it fast. Obrecht says, if Nina is jeopardy, call for help, but Nina says she’s not. He made threats, but she’s not in immediate danger. Not yet. Obrecht says it’s good Nina hasn’t called the authorities. The jailhouse is too good for Peter. She has much better plans for him.

Peter admits he and Nina aren’t exactly friends. They’re professional rivals, and what Sonny thinks is tension, is nothing more than healthy competition. Sonny asks if Peter thinks he’s a good liar. Peter’s got a better shot at playing the lottery than playing him. Phyllis returns, and asks if that’s how Sonny treats Nina’s guest.  

Austin says he’s happy to see Maxie back, and she thanks him, calling him Dr. Gatlin-Holt. He says he loves being a doctor, but after everything they’ve been through, she should call him Austin. She says, of course (🍷). She has a lot on her mind. He says, of course (🍷), and she says, goodbye, Dr… Austin. She leaves, and Scotty says, well, well. Austin is making himself at home. Austin says, it’s just a routine follow-up. Back to business. Scotty says. this document is gold. It’s Austin’s ticket to ride.

Carly tells Jax, that guy is a colleague, but Jax says, everything about that guy screams gangster. She says, go to hell, and he says, his name is Buscema? Doesn’t she think he knows who the Five Families Ragu alla Bolognese are? He learned everything about them when Sonny became Josslyn’s stepfather, and just gave himself a refresher course when that Joey Novak guy approached her. Carly says Josslyn is not just going to be at the wedding, she’s going to be the maid of honor. Josslyn is an adult, and makes her own decisions. He says, they should be informed decisions. Won’t Josslyn be heartbroken when she finds out she’ll be standing up for a sham marriage?

Buscema thanks Jason for meeting him, and says he’ll be brief. Like Jason, he’s concerned about the Novak organization’s lack of control over Joey. Joey approaching Carly’s daughter was unacceptable, and he intends to make his feelings known. Jason says, like Buscema, like any of them, he won’t tolerate his family being threatened. Especially now that his and Carly’s family are about to become one. Buscema says he respects that, and they shake hands.  

Ava asks how Nikolas found her… Wait, don’t tell her. He asked her bodyguard. He tells her not to blame the bodyguard; it’s his fault. She says she should have hired her own. She offered the job to Shawn, but he’s busy tracking down whoever framed him. Nikolas knows it’s dangerous for them to be seen together. He says he figured they wouldn’t have much of an audience there, and she says, they had an audience at the gallery, but he’s here now. Say what he came to say. He says he feels bad, intruding on her there, and asks what’s in her hand. She shows him Kiki’s ID, and says, a gift their stalker left after they torched her car. He says he’s so sorry. He convinced himself that Spencer was the stalker, and  he was wrong, very wrong. She says, which leaves them with one very alarming fact. The danger is real.

Spencer introduces Esme as his girlfriend, and Alexis says he brought his girlfriend to prison; how lovely. Esme says the pleasure is all hers. Spencer’s been positively enthused about Alexis. Alexis says he’s been tight-lipped about Esme, and Esme asks Spencer, why is that? but Spencer is busy staring at Ryan. He says, so it’s true. Ryan Chamberlain is here. Alexis says, every single day, and Spencer says, someone should make sure that freak of nature never draws another free breath.   

On his way out, Buscema says, it’s good to see you, Mrs. Corinthos, or shall I say, the future Mrs. Morgan? He’s looking forward to her nuptials. She says they’re happy to have him, and he tells her, until then, good health, and a long life. She says, same to him, and Buscema leaves. Jax asks what the deal is, and Carly says she doesn’t know how many times she has to tell him, she and Jason really do love each other. It’s sad that he can’t accept that. He says every move she’s made since Sonny died was to shore up Sonny’s illegal business. This sprint to the altar is nothing more than theater, with Josslyn as an unwitting player. She tells him not to expect an invitation, and don’t crash the wedding. He asks if she’s really comfortable putting their daughter on display in front of those dangerous people; her business associates. She tells him that he needs to leave, and he says she needs to care enough about her kids not to paint bullseyes on their backs. But hey, if Josslyn gets killed, she’ll still have Sonny’s blood money to keep her warm. He leaves, and Carly asks if Jason heard that. Jason says, he heard enough, and she says she has to get back to work. He says, not like this, and she says she needs a drink, but she’s on the job. Although, she’s the boss. She can do what she wants. She turns, but he grabs her hand, and asks her to come with him.

Scotty says, the correspondence shows Edward intended to include Austin’s father in inheriting ELQ voting shares. He’ll go to the courthouse tomorrow, and see if he can get the hearing moved up. Austin wonders how long it will take to hear back, and Scotty says, the wheels of justice turn very, very, very slowly, so don’t panic while he’s our of  town. Austin asks where Scotty is going, and Scotty says, to a tropical, romantic island where he’ll be doing all kinds of fun stuff you do on an island. When he gets back, they’ll get Austin his ELQ shares. Can Austin get this drink? He’s going to be rolling in dough soon. Scotty leaves, sticking Austin with the tab.

Ava tells Nikolas, Doc gave her the broad strokes. Has he spoken to Spencer? He says his son refuses to have anything to do with him. Spencer is ignoring his calls, texts, and emails. He even messaged Spencer on social media, but nothing. She wonders if Laura can’t run interference, but he says his mother made it clear she’s sick of his antics too. Ava says she’s so sorry, and he says she told him not to accuse Spencer unless he was absolutely sure. And he knows she sent his mother and Doc to stop him. She says she didn’t know what else to do, and he says she did what she could. He just wishes he’d listened. She says she wishes she’d been wrong. Things would be so much better for everybody if Spencer had been their stalker.

Harmony takes Ryan outside, and Spencer says, pretty sweet gig for a serial killer; minimum security, full-time attendants. How is that legal? Alexis says, it’s absurd. When she inquired about it, she was told to butt out, and if she didn’t like it, there was a cement wall and a shiv waiting for her at Pentenville. Esme says Spencer told her that he was Doc’s brother, but it didn’t quite prepare her, and Spencer says he’s glad Ryan is a vegetable now. Alexis says, his condition is called locked-in syndrome, and Esme says, he can’t move or speak, but his mind is as sharp as ever. She saw a movie based on a locked-in guy’s memoir, which he’d written by communicating letters one by one. Spencer says, it sounds like hell. Good. Alexis says, have a seat. She doesn’t want to spend their visit talking about Ryan. He asks how she is, and she says, pretty much as he sees her; this is as good as it gets. She asks, what’s going on with his father? She figured if Spencer could forgive Nikolas for faking his death, he could forgive anything. Spencer says, she’d be mistaken, and Alexis says, clearly, Nikolas didn’t heed her advice. He accused Spencer of staking Ava, didn’t he?

Maxie gets her notebook from behind the bar, and thanks the employee. Some papers fall out, and Jax helps her pick them up. He says he sees she’s back to planning weddings, and she say she’s planning Carly and Jason’s. Isn’t it great that they’re getting married?

Phyllis tells Peter to please forgive her friend Mike. He’s the most loyal and protective guy he’ll ever meet. Which means, sometimes, courtesy takes a backseat. Peter laughs, and says, no apology necessary. He’s just glad to know Nina has such good friends there in Nixon Falls. Knowing Nina, he’s sure she’d want to make sure all of them are protected in return.

Nina tells Obrecht that Peter wants her to use her connection to Valentin to help him find Louise. If she doesn’t, he said he’ll take James. Obrecht says Peter is targeting her grandson? and Nina says, his exact words were, if she doesn’t help him, James would be more than an adequate replacement. Obrecht says Nina knows there’s only one way to deal with him, and Nina says she does. If Obrecht can’t for any reason, she’ll do it herself. Obrecht says she can most definitely manage it. She has to go, but whatever happens, do not panic. Keep her head on straight. Nina hangs up, and Peter walks in. He asks, who was that?  

Spencer says he bets Alexis’s clients were never able to lie to her, and she says, rarely; stop deflecting. She and his father know about the letter Ryan wrote him. He says, which he returned, and she says, unopened. Esme says she saw a coffee machine in the lobby (prisons have a lobby?) and asks if they want anything. They say, no thanks, and Esme leaves. Alexis says, lovely girl; intuitive. Spencer says, lovely and intuitive, just like her. She says clearly, he’s picked up his father’s tactic for evading uncomfortable conversation, but Spencer says, he’s nothing like his father.

Nikolas says, if Spencer had been the stalker, they could have gotten him help, and Avery would be home. Instead, they’re more alienated than ever. Now, here they are. Ava says, together. It’s open provocation to the stalker. He says, the irony isn’t lost on him that they’re going against the express wishes of the stalker, but he already lost his son and his mother. He can’t lose her too

Outside, Harmony asks if Ryan would like to continue with Moby Dick, or read Frankenstein again. He blinks, and she says, it’s interesting that he’s so fascinated in a book about a monster. Esme comes out, and she says she was hoping Harmony could help. She’s there visiting her boyfriend’s aunt, and she was telling Esme that Ryan has locked-in syndrome. She’s never heard of it before. Harmony says, put simply, he’s lost voluntary control of all his muscles except the eyes, but his cognitive functions are unaffected. He’s fully alert and aware of his environment. Esme asks if she can speak to him, and Harmony asks Ryan if it’s okay. He blinks, and she tells Esme, he said go ahead. Esme says, hello, and Ryan blinks. She asks what he said, and Harmony tells her, hi there.   

Scotty tells Obrecht, good evening my waffle strudel. Is she excited to go to St. Lucia and soak up the sun? She says, perhaps now is not the right time for this venture, and he asks, why not? She was all about going to the medical conference to find out about Britt. What’s going on? What changed her mind?   

Phyllis says she wondered why Sonny was hustling her out. It’s a good thing she came back for her glasses. Sonny says, the guy is creepy; he doesn’t deserve courtesy, but she says, if he’s in her bar, he does. Sonny says that’s why he took Peter outside. She asks, what’s with him? He always takes an immediate dislike to anyone who gets close to Nina. He says, it’s been two people; Peter and Elijah. She says maybe he should question why he’s suspicious of anyone from Nina’s former life.

Peter asks if Nina was talking to Valentin, but she says, no; it was just Crimson business. If he’d just leave, she could calm down, call Valentin, and get what he needs. Peter says if she double-crosses him before he leaves to start a new life with James, he’ll not only wreck this little fantasy she’s got going in the middle of nowheresville, he’ll make sure she can never show her face in Port Charles again.

Jason brings Carly to the pool (🍷), and she asks, what the hell is going on? Where are her servers? He says he arranged for a private party, and she says, when? He says, when he saw Jax unloading on her. It was this, or punch him in the face. He stopped himself. Josslyn doesn’t deserve to be in the middle of this. Jax doesn’t get why they’re getting married, and the way he’s acting, Jason is starting to think Jax doesn’t know anything about Carly. She says, maybe not, but Jason does.

Maxie sits with Jax at the bar, and she asks if he’s feeling weird about Carly getting married, especially since he’s single. He says, Carly is important to him. They share a child together, and he doesn’t want to see anything bad happen to her, so… That’s not what she asked him. She asked if he felt weird about Carly getting married, and the answer is, no. She says, forgive the observation, but he seems less than thrilled. He asks how Nina is doing, and Maxie says, she seems happy. Jax says, she seems happy to have a relationship with Wiley again, and he hopes they can be friends when she comes back. Maxie says she didn’t get the impression that Nixon Falls was a detour for Nina. She got the feeling Nina was putting down roots.

Peter asks how Nina will feel, not holding her precious grandson ever again. When Michael and Carly find out what she’s been keeping from them. When Mike discovers this grandson she’s so afraid of losing, is also his. She says he’s made his point, and he says he hasn’t even gotten started with Jax yet. Her knight in shining armor. How’s he going to feel when he finds out she’s been playing footsy with Carly’s husband, a man he loathes?.

Obrecht tells Scotty, it’s imperative that she find out about the latest research on Huntington’s, but there’s no need for Scotty to sit through boring presentations. He says he’s been to his fair share of legal conferences, and one he’s learned is, once you’re signed in, your colleagues don’t know whether you’re sipping martinis, laying on the beach, or elsewhere. She says he’s a genius, and he says he’s heard rumors of that. She says, they shall discuss how much, or how little she should pack, but she has to make a quick phone call.

Ava says Nikolas hasn’t lost her; he has her heart. If anything their stalker’s attempt to come between them backfired magnificently, hasn’t it? It just made them love each other more. He says, so there is a silver lining; who knew? She says, but they are under siege. Until they find out who’s doing this… He says, they will find out, and she says she hopes so. The threats are escalating. Nobody has been hurt, but how long before that happens? She can’t live like that. Can he? He says, no, but he can’t live without her either. She says, then they’re at an impasse. Their stalker doesn’t want them together, but they can’t seem to stay apart. So it will be her job to keep them apart. He asks, how far apart? and she says, oceans apart.

Alexis says Nikolas was just trying to teach Spencer a lesson, and Spencer says, by pretending to stab him? Alexis says she told Nikolas it was a bad idea, but he did anyway. She’s sorry if it hurt Spencer, but she’s also sorry for his father. He asks how she can possibly be sorry for his father, and she says, because he was raised in the middle of a tug-of-war for power between Helena and Stephan. Can he imagine how hard it is to grow up in that environment and have a moral compass; to know right from wrong? Does Spencer have any idea how lucky he is?

Esme says it’s nice to speak to Ryan. It’s incredible. Does he communicate through Harmony? Harmony wonders why she’s asking, and Esme says she’s starting classes at PCU; she’s going to medical school. She imagines in working with patients who have that diagnosis, there’s never a dull moment. Harmony says, sure enough, and Esme says she has an idea. Maybe she could volunteer there. Ryan blinks like crazy, and she asks what he’s saying. Harmony tells her, he’s saying, go, go, go, over and over.

Jax says he thought all Nina needed was a reason to come home, and Maxie says, now she has a reason to stay. He says, Phyllis? and she says she should get back to wedding planning. He says, no, come on. What’s the real reason Nina is staying in Nixon Falls? She says, it’s not a what; it’s a who. Nina has found someone special, and Maxie is under the strong impression it’s getting serious.

Peter says, Nina has been keeping Sonny’s identity a secret to get back at Carly, and she asks if he doesn’t think she knows what she’s done, what she has to lose. He says, but it’s so much fun to remind her, and she says, why don’t you just get out, you psycho? So she can get him a lead on Louise. Sonny and Phyllis come back in, and Sonny asks if Nina is okay. She says she’s fine. She’s going to walk Peter out. Phyllis says it was nice meeting him, and she hopes Peter drops by again. He says she can count on it, and he and Nina leave. Sonny says, see what he means? and Phyllis says, there was definitely some tension. He says, some tension? and she says, Nina will either explain or she won’t. Until she does, they have to respect her privacy. If Nina doesn’t like Peter hanging around, she’ll tell him where to go.

Outside, Peter says Nina has twenty-four hours, before the people she loves suffer the consequences of her stalling.  Are they clear? She says, yes, and he says, good, and leaves. Nina calls Obrecht, who says she can tell by Nina’s voice things have gotten worse, and Nina tells her, she could say that. Obrecht says she knows under normal circumstances, Nina would rely on lawful means to end Peter’s reign of terror, but since Peter has threatened James, that’s not an option, right? Nina says Obrecht read her mind.

Esme says, Ryan can’t want her gone already. Is Harmony sure that’s what he’s saying? Harmony says, sometimes when they’re tired, people with locked-in syndrome can suffer eyelid spasms, and Esme says, that must be it; he’s just tired. Ryan glares at her, and she tells him, get some rest. She thanks Harmony for her time, and says she didn’t catch her name. Harmony introduces herself, and Esme says, she’s Esme. Harmony says she was going to guess that. She looks like an Esme. Esme says she knows, right? She hopes to come back and visit both of them. 

Ava says she needs to get as far away from Port Charles as possible, and Nikolas says maybe they can figure out an alternative. She says, there’s no alternative that includes the two of them together. She’s hoping to get far enough off the grid that the stalker loses interest. He suggests they grab Avery and go, but she says it would defeat the purpose. There is something he can do for her though. He says, anything, and she says, make peace with Spencer. He says he wants to, and he’s trying, but Spencer and his girlfriend have moved in with his mother. She says, girlfriend? and he says, Spencer had a secret, just not what he suspected. She says, poor Trina.   

Spencer asks Alexis, how is he lucky? Look at everything that’s been done to him. He has every right to be angry. Alexis says, furious, livid; yes, he does. But isn’t the real reason he’s angry, because Nikolas didn’t trust him and accused him of stalking Ava? She knows things will be difficult to fix between him and his father, but it’s worth it. Don’t be so focused on punishing his father that he ends up punishing himself. Esme comes back and stares at them.

Carly says, the pool (🍷) looks beautiful, and Jason says, they did a good job. She says, it’s a long way from Jake’s, and he says, Jake’s was okay too. She says, Jake’s was paradise, and he says he woudn’t go that far. She says, that’s because to him, it was a place to shoot pool and drink beer. For her, she spent all day, every day, running, lying, and manipulating; chasing she doesn’t know what. Some idea of what she thought would make her happy, but what really made her happy was when she was with him.

Obrecht tells Nina, it would be a blessing to wipe Peter off the map, and Nina asks what she needs to do. Obrecht says, tell him that Anna and Valentin got a lead in St. Lucia. Nina asks, what’s there? and Obrecht says, a medical conference… and her alibi. Nina says, Peter is as good as there, and Obrecht tells her, take a breath, drink some champagne, and give herself a hug. Soon, Peter will never bother anyone ever again.

Jax asks Maxie who Nina’s mystery man is, and Maxie says she doesn’t have a lot of details, but she’ll say this. Lately, Port Charles has given Nina nothing but pain. She thinks Nina wants to keep her life in Nixon Falls separate from her life there, including the people in it. She only told him because she thought he should know that Nina moved on. Maybe he should too.

Esme tells Spencer and Alexis that she’s sorry to interrupt, but from the looks of the guard, time’s up. Alexis says it was nice meeting Esme. She’s sorry they didn’t get more time to chat. Come and visit her in prison any time. Spencer too, and remember what she said. They hug, and Harmony wheels Ryan back in. Esme looks at him, and gives him a little wave. She and Spencer leave, and Harmony tells Alexis, her nephew’s girlfriend, Esme, she’s trouble. Alexis says, she thinks so? and Harmony says she’s had a lot of experience with wayward girls. Some are victims, some are not. If Alexis’s nephew knows what’s good for him, he’ll steer clear of that one.   

Nikolas asks if Ava knows where she’s going, and she says there are a couple of artists she’s been trying to woo in Europe. That will take a few weeks. After that, who knows? He says, maybe she’ll come back, but she says, only if the stalker is caught, but at this rate… She’ll miss him. He says all he wants to do is talk her into staying, and she says, all she wants to do is let him. He says, unfortunately, he had one more lesson to learn. He’s done trying to control people he loves. She says, it’s a lousy time for him to start building character, and he says he hopes she comes back. She promises to love him wherever she is.

Carly says, back then, when she walked into Jake’s and Jason was there, he always gave her a good night. He says, him too, and she says she always thought she annoyed him. He says, she did… sometimes… most of the time, but he always liked seeing her. She says, know what she liked? and he says, oh no. She says, dancing. He brought her here to make her feel better, and dancing would make her feel better. They put down their beer bottles, and he says, will she dance with him? They dance, and she smiles. They come close to kissing, and I cringe. She suddenly pulls away, and says she has to get back to work. Thanks for the beer. He says, anytime, and she leaves, while he ponders.

Phyllis tells Sonny, whatever is going on with Nina and Peter, it’s definitely not romantic. He says, that’s not what bothers him about the guy, and she asks, what is it? He says, when he and Peter first met yesterday, he got the feeling Peter knows who he is.

On Monday, Anna tells Obrecht that she’s not giving up until she finds Peter dead or alive, Carly says someone is going to find out why Jason has the reputation he does, and Sonny asks if Peter knows who he is.

Million Dollar Listing New York

KJ told husband Stefano that she was ready to sit at the table with the big boys – i.e. start her own team. Kemba called Tyler with an offer on Whitney’s 77th Street apartment. The buyers loved Whitney’s style, and wanted a lot of things included. She said, Whitney wasn’t married to the furniture, right? but Tyler said she was married to everything. If she could peel the paint off the walls and take it to Florida, she would. Fredrik was in L.A., but called team member Charlë in NYC, who said she’d done a deal with KJ at the Baccarat. Woman to woman, they did pretty good.

Ryan went to a listing appointment in downtown Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Point building, and met with developer Ari. In Ryan’s interview, he said, not in his wildest dreams did he think one of the biggest developers would call his new company. They’d completely changed the skyline in NYC, everywhere. If he got this, it would be a complete game changer; everyone would call. It was the tallest building in Brooklyn, with 483 apartments, and a 25 year tax abatement. That means no property taxes, folks. You know the drill; luxury appliances, custom cabinetry, amazing fixtures, some of them copper. Ryan didn’t know you could get views like that outside of Manhattan. The building had from studios to 3 bedrooms, and the top floor had extra high ceiling, giving the feeling of a penthouse. The three bedrooms ranged from $2.5 to $3.5 million, and the 2 bedrooms ranged from $1.8 to $2.5 million. The amenities included a state of the art fitness center, with a 35’ rock climbing wall, and a 65’ salt water pool. Ryan told Ari, if he lived there, he’d retire, since he’d have no reason to leave. Yep, me too. In his interview, Ryan said he was no longer working for a firm; he was the firm. Everything was on his shoulders, so he had to get this listing, which would be over $400 million in value. Ari wanted to know what Serhant was all about, and what Ryan’s competitive advantage was. Ryan told Ari that Serhant was a real estate firm that sold real estate, and I wondered where all his Rico Suave went. In Ryan’s interview, he said he was nervous, and his palms were sweating. Get it together. He admitted to Ari that his new company hadn’t signed any new buildings yet, and Ari said they were aware. Like this guy wouldn’t have checked Ryan out ahead of time. Ryan said they were in the middle of negotiations, but they’d just started. The building would get his personal attention, since it would be his baby. He’d decided he wasn’t going to change even though it was his company. He’d still show, because he loved it; he’d still sell, because it was what he was best at; and he’d still focus on brands, because that was how he’d built his career. Ari said they were eager to make a decision, and Ryan said, let’s go. Ari said they would take a leap of faith, and in his interview, Ryan said he was so effing freaked out. The potential sales were $460 million.

KJ met developer Alex at 175 w 95th Street. Alex’s family had bought the remaining rental units in a condo from the previous developer. As the rent stabilized tenants left, they renovated the apartments, getting them ready for buyers. At the beginning of the pandemic, she’d been tasked with selling nine of their units. In her interview, she explained that developers were sitting on finished units, and it was costing them a ton in carrying costs. They still had five units to sell, and we flashed back to KJ advising Alex to lower the price to $1.495 million. I know, I write this like it’s some every day cost, but when in NYC… She’d gotten an offer of $1.425 for a mid-floor apartment, all cash, and the buyer would pay the closing costs. Alex said, a year ago, the apartments were $1.6 million, and KJ told him for the billionth time that the market was competitive right now, and everyone was looking for an opportunity (aka, lowballing). Alex said he appreciated her honesty, and decided to roll with the deal. In KJ’s interview, she said, now she had to move on to the next one on a lower floor. She told him that she’d gotten an offer of $1.35 million for that one, and Alex was like, oh my God, but understood the market is what it is, and agreed on that one too. KJ said she had one more for the highest floor, starting at $1.35 (she should have gotten the defibrillator ready for Alex), but she had a good feeling. Alex pointed out the beautiful view, and she said the buyers were investors from Hong Kong, and had all cash; it was an attractive offer. They wanted to take it sight unseen, at least not in person, and she thought she could get them to come up to the 1.4’s. Alex said he needed $1.5 million to make the deal work, and KJ called Karishma. Karishma said she’d spoken to the clients, and they were willing to come up to $1.4 million, but KJ said she needed something closer to $1.5 million. The developer was getting more for apartments on the lower floors, and the clients would be getting a good deal. In her interview, KJ said that it was a smart move to sell the property at a lower price. Rip the bandaid off and move on. Karishma called back, and KJ told Alex, they countered at $1.435 million, but Alex was concerned if they accepted the lower pricing on the higher floors, they’d be setting a precedent. She told him that there was a lot of competition and a lot of inventory. Eventually, the market would change, but it was time to move on, and focus on the apartments coming up. She thought it was the best offer they could get, and a one-off because it was during covid. It was time to get it off the books, call it a day, and move on. Alex agreed, as long as KJ would get him better pricing next time. Sold at $1.435 million, KJ’s commission being $126K.   

Ryan did a video shoot at Brooklyn Point from the roof, telling his viewers that it was the highest infinity pool in the Western Hemisphere. Steve invited the brokers to an open house at Hudson Yards. 

Fredrik was in L.A., and spoke to developer Cliff, owner of the $15 million penthouse Fredrik was now living in. We flashed back to Cliff saying he’d extend the listing with Fredrik if he agreed to live there, and promote it on his social media. In Fredrik’s interview, he said, the strategy was a little awkward – we flashed back to a broker telling him that he needed to make his bed – but there had been interest. However, the feedback had also been unanimous – the price was too high. You couldn’t argue with the market, and the price reduction had worked. There was a huge amount of interest, and he’d done a lot of showings. He called Cliff, and said he’d gotten an offer of $9.995 million, full asking price. Fredrik thanked Cliff for the opportunity, and said social media was his best selling tool. Cliff thought social media was a colossal waste of time, but Fredrik asked if $10 million was a waste of time. As we know from General Hospital, two things can be true. After Fredrik hung up with Cliff, broker Glenn called. His clients had made an offer of $9.8 million, but Fredrik had told him to come up. So, sorry not sorry. Glenn whined that the apartment had been on the market for a long time, but Fredrik said he’d told Glenn to move fast. Glenn was pissed off, and Fredrik told him the only way was to come in over the asking price substantially. They had another deal. It would have to be cash and quick, with the buyer paying closing costs. No playing around. Glenn said his buyers told him to go to $10.7, all cash, and paying the closing costs, but he needed to know he had the deal. They wanted it done in three days. Fredrik told Glenn to promise he wouldn’t back out, and he’d call him right back. Fredrik left the car by the side of the road – a convertible, open to any and all thieves – jumped out, and ran across the street where he jumped around in a fountain. He called Cliff with the offer, and in his interview, Fredrik said it felt good to close a deal at a pre-covid price. New York is waking up and roaring. She is back. He was returning soon, and going to do a victory lap when he got there. He got back in the car, and as he continued to drive, yelled, I love New York… and L.A.! I love both coasts!

Steve went to the Sky Rink, meeting his hockey buddy Adam to play ice hockey. In his interview, Steve said it brought him back to childhood. It was fun and he played once or twice a week. It was good for him both physically, and psychologically, and was like real estate; super competitive, sometimes you got in fights, and there was a winner and a loser. He liked to win. They were also meeting Preston, the broker who had a possible renter for Steve’s client, and also an old hockey buddy. We flashed back to Steve showing the rental, and in Steve’s interview, he said he’d told Preston to bring him the offer on the ice. Steve had played competitively when he was younger, and knew his way around an ice rink, but it was only a hobby. Preston said the six month lease was a challenge. His clients didn’t want a one-year term. Steve said furnished properties of that caliber were few and far between. Right now, he had the only one. The owner had to turn the apartment over, painting and taking care of repairs, in between renters. A shorter term meant more wear and tear. In Steve’s interview, he said he thought this might actually be beneficial. In six months, the market would be different, and his client could raise the price. He’d bought it as an investment property. Steve called his client, telling him it wasn’t ideal, but the offer was 6 months at $60K a month. Right now, rentals were up because of the uncertainty of the market. People wanted to see what was going to happen. Steve saw an opportunity, and suggested they offer full ask for six months, then get a long term offer after the market was better. Steve came back to Preston with an offer of $60K a month if it was one-year, or the full price of $69.5K a month for six months. Steve continued to play hockey while Preston made the call, and came back with 6 months at the full ask, and in his interview, Steve said, six months from now, he’d get to rent it again. It was a win-win for him.

Tyler has a dog named Peggy, which I find worth mentioning, since I think it’s amusing when pets have human names. In his interview, Tyler said, before he could turn Whitney’s apartment back into a whitebox, buyers came along who said it was their exact taste, and loved everything. They made a $4.1 million offer, but wanted some of the furniture and curtains included. In Tyler’s interview, he said, it wasn’t uncommon, but it was far from his favorite thing to do. Buyers didn’t consider what the seller had paid for it, or the sentimental value. He just had to try and make it work. He told Whitney that she should be flattered, and she said she was, but it didn’t sway her. We flashed back to Whitney saying she was taking the curtains, and I flashed back to the previous owner of my house wanting to keep her curtains when we’d already agreed they came with the house. It has 21 windows. I held firm. And seriously, what was she going to do with them in senior living? Whitney told Tyler, it was like, my furniture is coming with me; thanks for coming. He asked if she didn’t want her legacy to live on. Plus, she didn’t need nursery furniture. She said she’d poured her heart and soul into her son’s room, and wasn’t giving his crib to a stranger. He managed to wheedle most of the furniture the buyers wanted, minus the crib, and made a deal at $4.1 million. He told Whitney, well done-ish. He would take an ish. His commission? $123K.    

In her interview, KJ said, after some hard conversations about the future – we flashed back to her talking to Ryan and Fredrik – she decided it was time for her to start her own team. Elliman had the best infrastructure, and the top producing agents in the city. She gathered her new team – Benjamin, Karishma, and Jill – and told them that it wasn’t just like she was moving to a different firm, she was creating a team. Jill was her COO, and would be keeping them on brand and helping grow the business, but they had room for another agent or two, so keep their eyes open. In her interview, she said she’d hand-selected people who were in line with her values and also had incredible experience.  Getting teary, she said she’d spent years thinking that others did it better. If you believed in yourself, you could do it, but it took time. It didn’t happen overnight, but one day you woke up and said, holy sh*t; it’s real. She felt a ton of pressure, an told her team they’d be working a lot.

Steve said, the $29.5 million penthouse at Hudson Yards was the accumulation of years of hard work. It was a game changer. Since he could only have a limited amount of people at an event, he’d invited the top brokers for an open house. In Ryan’s interview, he reminded us that he was the reason Steve got the listing; he’d brought Steve a buyer for the other apartment. We flashed back to that, and Ryan said, you’re welcome. To refresh your memory, the penthouse was 5211 square feet, 4 bedrooms, and 5.5 baths, two floors, 26’ ceilings, and 270* unobstructed views. In his interview, Ryan said he’d seen a lot of apartments, and this one screamed penthouse. It was a piece of art, and whoever bought it would crush it. $30 million today will be $60 million tomorrow. Watch. KJ and Tyler joined them, and in Tyler’s interview, he said he was excited to be invited, but even more excited to see the penthouse. It was everything. This was the dream. He thought Steve looked good in his tux. He’d brought prom to the penthouse.  Steve gave them the tour, and said they were the first to see it.   

Steve broke open the champagne, and in KJ’s interview, she said, in the future, she saw expansion of the business. She saw herself getting larger deals and building a well oiled machine that would run until she died. She’d be doing this to the grave. In Tyler’s interview, he said he’d busted his ass. He was proud of himself and his team. They’d sold more than they ever had before. He didn’t just want to build a team in the city. He was also starting one in the Hamptons. Even though there had been challenges, he was most excited about their growth. Fredrik arrived, wearing a bright yellow jacket, and in his interview, he said, since he moved to L.A., he’d been dressing brighter. He was the sunshine of New York, and when Freddy came back, it brightened everything. He’d moved past the Ryan thing. He didn’t need that kind of negativity in his life, and he was closing so many deals, chose to focus on that. In Ryan’s interview, he said Fredrik had been arguing with him for nine years. He was over it. They’d never be best friends, and never see eye to eye on everything, because they were naturally born competitors who played in the same market. We saw they both had property listings in buildings across from each other.

Steve showed Fredrik the 88th floor views from the primary bathroom, and Fredrik mentioned that the old Steve wore scarves and wrinkled T-shirts. Steve said, the old Steve wasn’t in a committed relationship with a child. People changed. In Steve’s interview, he said it had been a horrible market, but the downs only made them more successful. He and Luiza were stronger as a couple, and baby Rose was almost two. He wanted to continue to be competitive and be better, but at the end of the day, he had all he needed. Look where they were standing. The sky was literally the limit. In Fredrik’s interview, he said he wouldn’t change anything about the past year. His business was very different than it was 10 years ago. He moved to L.A. when the pandemic hit. He’d wanted to have a foot in each coast. He couldn’t travel, but he moved with it, just like Robot Freddy. Would it ever replace the real thing? Never. He expected to be number one in New York and L.A. in the coming year.

Steve thanked everyone for coming, and in his interview, Ryan said it had been a lot of work, but super exciting. If they handled this year, they could handle anything. He thought he said that about last year too, but scratch that. This year was f***ed. They were all new people. He’d spent more time at home in 2020 than he ever thought he would. He worked the entire time, and wouldn’t have wanted to do it with anyone else other than Amelia and Zena. When people looked back in ten years, they would say, this was the start of the greatest real estate boom in the history of New York City. Steve said, to the next chapter and a brighter future. To New York. Ryan said, New York is back, baby!

This was the season finale, so no preview.

🎺 Getting On the Bandwagon…

KJ on starting a new chapter.

https://www.bravotv.com/million-dollar-listing-new-york/style-living/kirsten-jordan-talks-starting-her-own-team

🤔 Sonny’s Speculation…

But what about poor Nina?

Maurice Benard Previews Sonny’s Return on GENERAL HOSPITAL!

👉 Blackie’s Trigger Finger…

Some people will do anything for an Instagram story.

https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/john-stamos-undergoes-surgery-reveals-hospital-photos/

🧼 Release the Trailer…

Behold Beyond Salem. It looks pretty good.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES: BEYOND SALEM Trailer Released!

💖 Loved By All…

Tributes to Michael Nader from those who worked with him.

Stars Pay Tribute to the Late Michael Nader

👠 Can’t Catch a Break…

Well, she wanted to be famous.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/25/erika-jayne-ducks-paparazzi-questions-on-tom-girardi-on-cvs-run/

It’s even more XXPEN$IVE to be her now.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/27/erika-jayne-sued-for-25m-in-girardi-keese-bankruptcy-case/

Get in line I’m sure.

https://people.com/tv/tom-girardi-law-firm-owes-101-million-in-debt-bankruptcy-case-filing/

🧮 But She Is Annoying…

And irrelevant, and boring, and hardly accountable, and yeah, what is she doing here?

https://screenrant.com/housewives-garcelle-teddi-feud-twitter-guest-shady-comment/

Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave Slams Garcelle Beauvais For Calling Her An “Annoying Gnat” On Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, But Then “Reaching Out” To Her “In Private”

🍸 Sharing…

I’m kind of over Vanderpump Rules. I’ll always watch LVP, but I miss that show where she got the celebrities drunk. She was really in her element with that one. And Vanderpump Dogs. That was good too.

Lisa Vanderpump Details Run-In With Stassi Schroeder, Shares Where She Stands With Jax and Brittany and Teases New Season of Pump Rules

💣 Doom Addition…

Doom Patrol was one of my favorite comics as a kid. I haven’t seen the series yet, but this woman looks just like the one in the comic book.

https://ew.com/tv/michelle-gomez-madame-rouge-doom-patrol-season-3-photos/

https://screenrant.com/doom-patrol-season-3-images-madame-rouge-villain/

⚰️ Dead Start…

Everyone weighs in on The Walking Dead’s first episode of the last season. Daryl, Maggie, and even Negan.

https://ew.com/tv/walking-dead-norman-reedus-daryl-negan-maggie-archeron-premiere/

https://ew.com/tv/walking-dead-maggie-negan-premiere-archeron-angela-kang-showrunner/

https://ew.com/tv/walking-dead-jeffrey-dean-morgan-negan-glenn-season-premiere-archeron/

🖋 Quotes of the Week

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King Jr.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – e.e. Cummings

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. – Alexander Graham Bell

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. – Shirley Chisholm

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies. – Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

☮️ Peace Out…

Thus ends another week, or seven Xs, however you’re counting. Until we meet on the Deadside, stay safe, stay leaving them wanting more, and stay letting the downs only make you more successful.