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Jul19

July 18, 2024 – Sonny Offers Brook a Deal, Happy Birthday, Jen Is a Deadbeat, Mystery Kiss, VanderMuddle, Yuck, DeadFlix, Driven By Fête & Candy

Posted on July 19, 2024 by theresakp

What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts, recaps, and the whole GH enchilada on Fridays)

General Hospital

Jason and Carly go to the footbridge, Jason carrying a six-pack (beer, not his abs), and Carly says she loves this place. He cracks open two beers and hands her one, and she says, now that everything is done, she feels like all of him is here with her. From now on, they’re not holding back and not keeping anything from one another. Jason says, until or unless something more important is in play. He doesn’t like lying, especially to her.

Tracy shows up at the stables and tells Cody that she saw the light on. He asks if she needs him to kill a bug or something… He’s assuming a big, giant, scary bug. She says, there’s no bug, but it’s good to know he’s available should one appear. She was wondering if he’d mind company. He says, if she doesn’t mind his company, but fair warning. Comet is asleep if she’d rather hang out with him. She says, wouldn’t anybody? and he says he’s getting used to it. She says she couldn’t sleep, and he says he was going to grab a beer. Does she want one? She says, beer me, and he says, coming right up.

Dex brings Chase some dinner at the station, and Chase asks what he’s doing today. Dex says, non-lethal weapons drills and taser practice, and Chase says, he’d be surprised how many people taser themselves. Dex is also about to go on a five second ride that consists of people hitting him with bats. It will be the longest five seconds of his life, and like his entire body is having the worst Charley horse ever. The good news is, he’ll fall down, but won’t lose consciousness. And don’t forget the rule of three: don’t go hungry, don’t get wet, and get home safe.

Brook arrives at the penthouse and sees Natalia is there. She says she thought it would just be her and Sonny, and Sonny says he knows she has issues with Natalia. Brook says she has nothing to say about Natalia, but a lot to say about Blaze’s career. She’s assuming the reason she’s here is to make a plan to salvage it. Blaze’s career might be over because of Natalia’s idiotic words, so spare her Natalia’s childhood woes and let’s get to work.

Kristina knocks at Nina’s office door and asks if she can bug Nina for a minute. Nina says, of course (🍷). What’s up? Blaze walks in and stands next to Kristina.

Cody asks if he heard Tracy right. Beer me? She says she heard it on a commercial and it sounded apt. He laughs and she says, experts say if you drink alone there’s a problem, and she doesn’t want to contribute to anybody’s problem. He says, since when? and she says, if somebody she cares about has a problem, she wants to fix it. If somebody she doesn’t like has a problem, she doesn’t just want to contribute to it, she wants to be the sole cause. He says, makes sense, and they clink bottles.

Chase says he owes Dante everything, and Dex asks, what’s different here from where Chase worked before? Chase says, personalities. You need to study the community and get a feel for it. But that wasn’t his biggest challenge. Dex asks, what was? and Chase says, not being able to talk about his beloved Red Sox. There are nothing but Yankees fans here. Dex says he’s a Dodgers guy, and Chase suggests he keep it to himself. That’s something you don’t come back from. He knows Dex having Sonny on his resumé isn’t easy. He has to earn respect and it may take time. There’s nothing but admiration for Dante. His integrity was never questioned. Dex wonders if it’s better to be Sonny’s son than work for him, but Chase says, it doesn’t matter. Dex is here now and needs to prove himself every day. Dex says, that’s the plan, and Chase says he just heard himself. He sounds exactly like his dad.

Carly tells Jason that since they’re putting it out there, ever since she found out about the FBI recording and that she could be arrested, it’s been weighing on her. Jason says, that’s why he didn’t tell her, and she says she hates it, but she gets it. Now that the terms of the deal have been met, they’re off the hook. The weight has been lifted and she feels freer. He says, that’s how it should be, and she says, he’s free too. What’s going on? What is she missing? He says he just spent almost three years being pressured. Now the pressure is gone, but he’s just not sure he remembers how to be free or just live his life. She says, here’s to remembering, and they clink bottles.

Brook says, her first thought was to sue the record label for breach of contract, but Scotty says, they’ll just invoke the morals clause. Sonny says, there’s nothing immoral about Kristina and Blaze loving each other, but Brook says, they’ll just change language, and it won’t end well. If they’re provoked, they’ll say Blaze breached by having a negative impact on their reputation. Sonny says, that’s why they came up with a plan, but it all depends on Brook. Brook says she’s listening, and Natalia says, they want Blaze to be able to put out her own music on her own indie label. Sonny is going to finance it. Sonny says, on one condition. That Brook run the label. Natalia says, Brook is already fighting on Blaze’s behalf. So are they going into business? Brook says, yeah… no.

Nina says she’s glad Kristina and Blaze are here. She wants to apologize for the deplorable role The Invader played in their misery. Nothing like that should ever happen to anyone. She picks up her desk phone and says she wants someone down in her office now… She doesn’t care. Just get here. She tells Blaze and Kristina that she had no idea her new Editor-in-Chief transcribed and posted the recording. The only thing he cares about is clicks, no matter what was said or who got hurt. Kristina says she knows that’s not true about Nina, and Nina says, she can’t deny her part in it. There are no words to describe how terrible she feels, but she’s going to make it right.

Cody asks, what’s going on up at the house that got Tracy awake? and she says, the incessant humming of the air conditioning. She can feel it in her molars. Is she wrong for thinking a fan is more civilized? He says he thinks the horses would agree. Air conditioning would drive them buts, but they’ll stand in front of a fan all day. She says, not to mention the thousands of children running in and out who leave the door open. They’re cooling the outdoors. He asks, which parent is she channeling? (I’m dying laughing because I used to hear that as a kid too) and she says, her father. Her mother was too nice. If he yelled that they were cooling the outdoors, she’d think if there was one bug made more comfortable, they should do it. He says, she sounds special, and Tracy says, she was. Much to the chagrin of most people, including herself, she takes after her father. He asks how her father slept, and she says, upside down with his arms crossed across his chest in a rafter. They had their differences, but she loved him. Maybe her not sleeping well will just be how it is. He says, maybe she needs to wear herself out. She can take a ride anytime or he could put her to work. She says, thanks, but her insomnia isn’t so bad that she’s willing to start shoveling. It used to be, when her head hit the pillow, she was out. Or she would ruminate about how to get even with the people who wronged her, and within minutes, dreamland. Cody says, those were the days.

Chase says he wanted to play pro ball and was on a traveling team, but they shut him out. They’d all played together before, and he’s surprised they didn’t try to sabotage him. His dad was sympathetic, but wouldn’t let him quit. His dad said they couldn’t take something away from him that he wanted. He needed to practice hard and out hustle them, and they’d have to accept him. Once they did, then they would like him. He can hear his dad saying, you can do this. I know you can. Dex says, he sounds like a great dad. He did an amazing job at Chase’s wedding. Dex was choked up, and he could tell how much Chase’s dad loved him and Brook. Chase says, he had principles and lived them. What did Dex’s dad think about him becoming a cop?

Brook asks what kind of involvement she’d have, and Sonny says, she’ll have all the financing she needs creatively. Natalia says, within reason, but Brook says she’s not sure if they have the same definition of that. All the print and media management will be hers alone. Natalia will have no press presence or influence and will do no interviews unless she authorizes it. She’ll say where Blaze performs and how she’s presented. Natalia says she wants to talk to Blaze, and Brook says, that makes one of you. Natalia can agree or the label will never get off the ground, and when she leaves, her offer goes away.

Blaze says she appreciates Nina’s apology, but it was Ava that caused the problems. Nina says, Ava edited the conversation with the intent to cause as much harm as possible. All her reasons are self-serving and unbelievable to anyone who isn’t a sociopathic narcissist. Kristina says she’s happy Ava is away from her dad, and Nina says her too. Her hateful, spiteful editor decided to give a boost to the paper and himself and comes in second to Ava in awfulness. Adrian comes in, and she says, here’s the second runner-up now. She introduces Blaze and Kristina and says she thought he’d want to face the women whose careers and reputations he treated with such callousness. She also thinks it’s a good time to apologize and suggests he start at grovel and when he hits rock bottom, keep going.

Cody asks if Tracy thinks she can’t sleep because no one has wronged her and she can’t plot, but she says she doesn’t plot. She makes lists. He asks if plots aren’t lists gone to the dark side, and she says she never thought of it that way. She likes itemizing things that have to get done, won’t get done, are already done and need a follow-up. (Same.) It’s soothing. She makes lists of her lists. He says, it sounds stressful, but she says, a list is a gift you give yourself. Anyone can eat an elephant if it’s made into bite sized pieces. He says, she paints a disgusting picture, but maybe she’s right. He wouldn’t be able to eat an elephant if it was broken down to atoms. He wouldn’t see the elephant to begin with, even if it was charging at him. He ignores any disaster coming at him. He used to brag that he was a guy who doesn’t worry. Tracy asks when he realized that wasn’t something to brag about, and he says, recently. He pretends things aren’t happening and before he knows it, the gas fire has turned into an inferno. The elephant gets mad and rampages, and the countryside is wiped out.

Adrian says he’s truly sorry. He had no idea how big it would be. Kristina asks if they didn’t deserve their feelings and just living their lives, and he says, some – not him – believe that keeping their relationship under wraps was hypocritical. Kristina asks if they can’t live their lives in private, and he says, of course (🍷) they can. He didn’t think this would happen. She asks what he thought would happen. He yelled fire and now he’s shocked that people got trampled. Does he even believe his own apology? Nina says she thought he liked the hard-hitting questions. She’s curious about his answer too. Adrian says he hasn’t been in his position long and wanted to prove he could deliver a big scoop. He didn’t think past that, and he should have. He’s truly sorry. Kristina says she doesn’t forgive him, and Adrian says he doesn’t blame her. He’s under orders from Nina and his conscience to turn this around and they have his unqualified support. Nina says, he’s gone now. Go. He leaves, and she says she’s sorry. They came for a reason, and she put her own agenda ahead of it. What can she do for them? Blaze says, Nina actually brought it up. The reason they’re here… Kristina says, they’re planning a response and would love her help.

Natalia says she can’t be cut out completely. She’s the reason Blaze got this far. Brook says, she’s the reason Blaze has to start over, and Natalia says she made one mistake. Brook says, it was a hell of a mistake. She’s sorry. She’s not trying to punish Natalia. She was a good manager, but the maternal authority is over. No more guilt trips or coercion. The only one who didn’t see her sabotage was her.

Carly says, now that Jason is done, Cates can go back to Virginia or whatever circle of hell he’s from, and Jason gets to do what he wants. What is it? Jason says he hasn’t thought that far ahead, and Carly says she knows a great hotel where the co-owner will give him free towels all day. He says, she wants him to lounge around the pool all day? and she says, nothing would make her happier, but he says he’s not good at lounging. His boys are his priority. Jake is leaving. He got accepted to an art academy in Barcelona. Carly says, Jake is leaving just as Jason is free to spend time with him, and Jason says, he’ll miss Jake, but he’s happy for him. She says, he can visit Jake, but until then, they can go hiking and camping, and he and Danny can spend tons of time together. She wants him to promise her something. Wherever he goes and whatever he does, don’t disappear again.

Tracy asks what part of the gas fire Cody is avoiding, or is it already an inferno? Cody says, it’s not out of control, but the countryside will never be the same. She asks, what happened? and he says, remember how he told her that he found his father, but didn’t know how his father would take it? Now he knows and it’s out in the open. Tracy asks who the proud papa is, and he says, Mac Scorpio. She says, wow, and he says he wouldn’t call Mac proud. She says, he didn’t take it well? and he says he’s glad he told Mac on Independence Day since it looks like he’s going to be independent forever.

Kristina says, Nina is the most media savvy person they know, and they’d like her to coach them and give them advice. Blaze says, they need to get it right, and Kristina says, they have so much riding on it, but Brook thinks it will make a big difference. Blaze says, one mistake, and the revival of her career is gone.

Brook says, Natalia made the calls. Now let her and Blaze forge a new path that lets Blaze be seen and heard. Sonny says he trusts her, and Natalia says, Linc Brown taught her one hell of a lesson. She made a promise never to let a third-party control Blaze’s career again. It didn’t matter how great the were. The business is cutthroat and there’s only one person you can trust – yourself.

Jason tells Carly that when he first came back, it wasn’t like he was coming home. He was a military contractor in town to do a job under orders. She says, now he gets to be himself and pick up the life he had, but he says he made that mistake before. Not again. When he was gone before and came back, he couldn’t see it at the time. He couldn’t go back to his old life any more than he could go back in time. He got back together with Sam, and it wasn’t fair to her, Scout, and Danny. All he did was put them through a breakup. Sam had changed and so had he.

Chase tells Dex that his dad was an academic. He liked the law as a concept, but had zero interest in enforcing it. Dex asks how he felt about Chase becoming a cop, and Chase says, he was all for it and told Chase that he’d be a good cop. Dex says, he was right, and Chase says, his dad encouraged him to figure out what he wanted, and he was supportive and comforting, not smothering. Now that he doesn’t have his dad… Sorry. Dex says, he has nothing to be sorry for, and Chase says he knew he’d be sad, but not like this. Dex says, Chase’s father hasn’t been gone that long. Grieving takes time. Give himself some. Chase says, he had nothing but respect for his dad, and Dex says he wishes he felt that way about anyone in his family. Chase asks why he doesn’t.

Tracy says she’s sorry it didn’t go as Cody had hoped. What happens now that he ignored the gas fire and the inferno swept through the countryside and is smoldering? He says, normally, he’d pull up stakes, move on, and not look back, but he promised Maxie and Sasha that he wouldn’t. They’ve been good to him. So has she. She says, she’s not just his friend. She’s his employer and she’s going to share one of her famous lists with him. No severance, no health insurance, and no recommendation if he dares leave without giving her a 30-day notice.

Nina says she’d be happy to help, and Kristina says, Blaze has done interviews before, but not like this. They were micromanaged by her mother. Nina suggests they take some deep breaths. All they have to do is be themselves. They’re wonderful, and need to show the public, like they did Adrian, that they’re human beings. Blaze says, it’s not that simple, and Nina says, nothing is, especially family. They’re imperfect and difficult. This is a chance to show everyone that they’re doing the best they can, just like everyone else.

Natalia says she trusted her own instincts and created a media disaster. She doesn’t completely trust Brook, but she and Sonny have done more to earn her respect than anyone else in this town. It’s time she trusted her daughter, so if Allison agrees to the terms, they have a deal.

Carly says, Sam’s been hard on Jason, but he says he doesn’t blame her. He’s disappeared twice. They have a son together, and nothing has worked out the way Sam expected. That’s why it was so easy with Britt; she had no expectations. Carly says she was so jealous of Britt. She knew Jason was falling in love with her and didn’t want him to love anyone but her. (Ugh. The part of Carly that I hate.) He says, it was different, but she says she still didn’t like it. Then Britt died saving Josslyn’s life. He says he heard that, and she says, now when she thinks of Britt Westbourne, she’s forever grateful.

Dex tells Chase that he wasn’t close with his family. If his father had a dream for him, he had no intention of fulfilling it. Not having a close family, he had no one to look up to or emulate, and no one to rebel against. He wanted to get away and create a life opposite of what he had growing up. He went into the military, and it felt right, like he was finally doing what he was supposed to. Chase asks if he’s sorry he left the army, and Dex says, not anymore. Since joining the force, it feels right again. It feels like home. Chase says, he’s going to be a good cop, and they leave together.

Nina tells Blaze and Kristina, you can be a superstar, but no one has the right to treat you like an object. She won’t let them be a casualty of that kind of thinking. Their media training starts tomorrow… She sees their faces, and says, or she can offer them tea and coffee from room service, and they can start now.

Tracy says, it never occurred to her to run, although she should have numerous times at the altar. Cody tells her that she should try it sometime. It’s freeing. She says, it’s avoiding, and he should break the habit. He doesn’t look like he’s excited about being free. Every time something calamitous happens in her life, she comes home, and as soon as she gets here, she starts complaining. It just makes her feel that family is more comfortable. He says, maybe he’ll give it a shot, and she asks if his answer is yes. He says he’ll definitely try it her way… if he ever has a family and home to come back to. She asks, what makes him think he doesn’t? and he says, on paper he has one, but Mac doesn’t want anything to do with him. Tracy looks toward the door and says, oh no. Cody says, what are you doing here?

Sonny says, it’s going to be great. While they deal with the music, he’ll make sure Ava gets what’s coming to her. Brook, Sonny, and Natalia clink glasses, but Brook looks worried.

Carly says, if Jason isn’t going back to his old life, what does his new life look like? and he says he doesn’t know. She says he could run security for her hotel, but he says he doesn’t need a job. He has the coffee business. She says, Sonny owns other half and turned his back on Jason. Jason says, because he doesn’t know what happened. Now he can tell Sonny. She asks, what if he won’t listen? and he says, there’s got to be a way to get through to Sonny. He’s in more trouble than he knows.

Tomorrow, James tells Maxie that something weird is going on; Sasha tells Cody not to overreact; and Jason tells Carly that he has to get Sonny to let him back in.

🌻 Opening Up…

She’s a trail blazer and definitely deserves to have her birthday wishes come true.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital/ghs-cassandra-james-opens-up-on-her-birthday

🍊 Orange You Glad They’re Back…

Gina put on her realtor hat and vouched for Jen so Jen could rent a place, but oops, bad idea. Jen skated on the rent and got evicted. Worse still, Jen couldn’t see why this was an issue for Gina. WTF? over and over.

The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 18 Episode 2 Recap: The Ladies’ Reputations Are at Stake

A focus on dos amigas.

https://people.com/rhoc-recap-tamra-judge-says-shannon-beador-not-a-good-person-after-dui-arrest-8680557

💎 Because He Got High…

So I guess this means it’s really over? I feel badly for the kids, but this is what can happen if you get married when you’re a kid. I don’t think it had anything to do with the show. I’m not sure he even knew they were on one.

Report: Mystery Woman Caught Kissing Mauricio Umansky Revealed

🍸 VanderBoot…

Looks like Sandoval has put the final nail in the VanderCoffin. There’s no going back now.

Only a Vanderpump Rules Reboot Can Work After Tom Sandoval’s Lawsuit Against Ariana Madix

Speaking of lawsuits. Their no good very bad day.

Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney Sued Over Something About Her Sandwich Shop

🎈 VanderFringes…

All I can say is, ewwwwww!

Lala Kent Suggests Jax Taylor and Ramona Singer Hooked Up

⚰️ Coming To a Stream Near You…

Netflix will be absorbing a lot of Dead.

https://www.msn.com/en-my/tv/news/interview-with-the-vampire-the-walking-dead-spinoffs-head-to-netflix-in-branded-amc-deal/ar-BB1q6iE9

🐩 Inspired By Fame…

This might be a bit of old news, but it’s not every day you see a Chinese Crested dressed as Colman Domingo.

The Best Celebrity-Inspired Looks From the 2024 Pet Gala

👖 Traveling With My Pants…

Start your weekend tomorrow with some soap, both useless and useful knowledge, and a song. Until then, stay safe, stay coloring inside and outside the lines, and stay having principles and living them.

Jul6

July 5, 2024 – Kristina Confronts Natalia, Celebration, VanderSuit, Woe Is Her, A Tease, Dead Talk, Possible Return, Responding, Almost Here, If They’re Lost, Pets (!) At the Polls, Close To 10 Quotes & Woman

Posted on July 6, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts, recaps, and the whole GH enchilada on Fridays)

General Hospital

Drew sees Jordan at the pool, and says, she rarely leaves the Deputy Mayor’s office, so she must be undercover. She asks if she looks like she’s dressed for wearing a wire. Even her cell phone is in her locker. He says, she’s really just here to relax, and she says she is indeed. Laura asked her to take over one of the meetings for her. So many suits and so many horrible people wearing them. They were angry when they were done, but when the receptionist told them they don’t validate, she thought they were going to burst into flames. He bets she misses her old job, and she says, they do use nicer language, but after subbing for Laura at the mayor’s conference in DC and that dumpster fire of a meeting she just had, Laura told her to take the rest of the day off. For once, she took Laura up on it. What about him? He says he just took a chance to get some pool time in and take advantage of the last few days before he makes his announcement. Once he officially runs for Congress, he’s going to have to get his laps in at like 6 in the morning because the days are going to be crazy. She says, on the upside, at least he’ll probably have the pool to himself. And she’s thrilled for him, and for them when he wins. The campaign trail awaits.

Trina and Josslyn unpack at the new apartment, while Dex brings in boxes. He asks if Josslyn is sure all this came from the one dorm room, and she says, most of it, yes. That’s why it was so comfortable. He says, when he transferred units in the army, he had one backpack and one small bag, and she says she knows he’s making a point about packing light, but that just makes her sad for him. Trina says, it does. One cute pillow, and your tent becomes a home. He says, only if it’s really cute, and she says she was thinking about turning one of her bedroom walls into a gallery wall. He says, she has the space and the light, and she says, look at him, appreciating light. And her work is done. Josslyn says, there are some tools they might need in the garage. She and Dex can grab them. She and Dex leave, and Trina opens a box, taking out the Molyneaux art book that Spencer gave her. She looks at the inscription and closes it again. Gio walks in, and it falls off her lap onto the floor.

Maxie and Brook walk into Maxie’s office, and Maxie says she knows trolls live to be nasty, but some of these comments… Brook says, are over-the-top, even for a bunch of losers who don’t have lives. Maxie says, some of the lies they’re writing about Blaze and Deception… Brook says, make you want to track them down, and Maxie says, and teach them a lesson? She doesn’t know what’s worse. The homophobic trolls who are spamming them… Brook says, or the Deception customers that feel deceived and betrayed that Blaze wasn’t transparent. Because somehow, they’re entitled to know every single thing about her life, whether she wants them to or not. Maxie says, check this one out. Deception, it’s all in the name. She guesses they kind of walked into that one. Brook says, judging from all of the similar comments, she guesses they did. Trolls aren’t a particularly imaginative bunch, are they? Maxie says, no. This is a bona fide disaster. She hates that any Deception customers would think they want Blaze to hide who she really is. Brook says, or that Deception would be anything but supportive of the LGBTQ community, and Maxie says, it goes against who they are, personally and professionally, or as a brand. Brook says she feels so terrible for Blaze. Her mother knew the truth about her and still said those things. Maxie asks how much she thinks that had to hurt, and Brook says she can’t imagine. She talked to Blaze about being open with her fans, but she just wasn’t ready. Maxie says, and Brook respected that, but let’s be honest. She wasn’t ready because of her mom. And if it was up to Natalia, Blaze would never be ready. Brook says, probably not, but Blaze deserved to decide if and when she wanted to come out. She remembers a time when outing people was a thing. She hated it then and she hates it now. Maxie says she hated every single word that came out of Natalia’s mouth, but this is between Natalia and Blaze, and they deserve the space to navigate this privately. Someone took that away from them.

Kristina knocks at Natalia’s hotel room door, and Natalia lets her in. Kristina says, if Natalia wants to hate her, fine, she can. She doesn’t like Natalia much either right now, but she’ll survive. But what Natalia has just done to her daughter, to Allie, the person she loves, is unforgivable. Natalia says she didn’t know… and Kristina says, she didn’t know what? That she was being recorded? Of course (🍷) not. At the top of the list of the things she doesn’t know, she doesn’t even know her own daughter. Allie is amazing. She’s so special. How could she do this, reduce Allie to the things she said about her? Natalia is her mother. She’s supposed to protect her. What’s wrong with her?

Dante knocks at Sonny’s office door, and Sonny says, what can I do for you, officer? Dante says he just wanted to check in on Sonny; see how he’s doing. Sonny says, he checked in. He did his duty. He can tell the Commissioner he’s doing nothing. Dante says, so Natalia, huh? He knows Sonny liked her. He took her to the wedding, and it seemed like they were having a good time. Sonny says, that doesn’t mean he didn’t hate what she said on that recording, and Dante says, that makes two of them. Sonny says, but who he despises is Ava, because it was Ava’s fault, and he’s going to hurt her in ways she doesn’t even know.

Maxie says, to be honest, she’s said some things she wouldn’t want recorded and broadcast to the world, and Brook says, not her. She’s always been thoughtful and kind. Maxie says, she’s a real angel, and Brook says, even as a joke, it’s not believable. Maxie agrees and tells her, what Natalia said is out there on the internet forever and she can’t take that back, even if she wanted to. Brook says she doesn’t know how Natalia and Blaze move past this, try to repair their relationship, if they even can. Maxie says, they need to figure out how they can turn this around. Otherwise, Natalia’s comments are going to cancel Blaze and Deception. They need to shore up the company, figure out how to turn their public image around, and save their customer base. Otherwise… Brook says, otherwise, they lose everything, for everyone, including them and their careers. Maxie says, they’ll do whatever they can to support Blaze, and Brook says she’s sensing a but. Maxie says, but with everything going on, she senses that maybe they should take a break from Blaze being the Face of Deception.

Natalia asks if Kristina is done. Or does Kristina need her to order some room service so she can keep her energy up to keep yelling? Kristina asks if she’s actually making a joke right now, but Natalia says she’s taking this very seriously. Kristina says, but in her world, gay people aren’t serious about life. They’re not serious about it at all, right? That’s what she said. The alphabet soup that they call themselves? They’re very flighty? She will give Natalia this. She packed a hell of a lot of homophobia into one sentence. Natalia says, no. It was reckless and it was wrong of her to voice her private thoughts to somebody she barely knew. Kristina asks how she could even think them to begin with, and Natalia says she didn’t grow up the way Kristina did. She can’t change that and she’s not going to apologize for having grown up in a different way than Kristina did. Kristina says, part of her life she lived with her daughter. Allie is none of the things she said. She is the hardest working woman and she’s more serious about her career than anybody Kristina knows. And flighty? She doesn’t even know where Natalia got that. Natalia says, maybe she wasn’t referring to Allie.

Gio tells Trina, must be some book. It looked like she was far away from here. She says she was just caught up in a memory, and he says, a good one he hopes. She says, Spencer gave her this book. He was really into art and not the way people say they are. He really understood how important it was. Gio says, art was something they shared then, and she puts the book back in the box. She says, it really was, and they sit on the window seat. She says, Spencer traveled too. He’d actually been to places she’d dreamed of, and she used to imagine a future with him, and now none of it will ever happen. And even though she knows he’s gone, sometimes she looks up and expects to see him coming through the door. He says, it’s like you can still feel the person you lost. Sometimes you can only feel their absence.

Dante asks what Ava did now that’s got Sonny out for her blood, and Sonny says, Natalia showed up at his place to drop off something. She got to talking to Ava, and Ava recorded the conversation, and sent it to The Invader. Dante says, Ava’s behind that recording. He gets that she’s capable of worse, but why would she even bother doing this? Sonny says, because she’s jealous that he took Natalia to the wedding, and Dante says, so he was supposed to take Ava? So she’s going to completely wipe her memory of all sorts of things the Falconaris wouldn’t be forgetting about. Sonny says, he wasn’t going to offend Connie’s family by bringing Ava to the wedding. He told Ava that and made it very clear. But now that she’s gearing up for a custody battle, she’ll do anything to hurt him. Dante says, maybe he’s right about that, and Sonny says, you want to come after me, you’re an idiot. You want to come after my daughters, you’re a dead man. Dante says he gets that Sonny is furious right now. And what Ava’s done to Kristina definitely crosses the line. Sonny says he’ll take care of it. Dante can go ahead and go. Dante says he’s not going anywhere, and Sonny asks if he has a warrant. Dante asks, for what? and Sonny says, if he doesn’t have a warrant, then Dante needs to get out of his place. Does Dante want Sonny to make him leave? Dante says he’s just been shot again, and almost died again, so maybe they can save the threats and hating each other for never. Because that’s not what they do with each other. Sonny says, Dante told him a long time ago that a guy like him couldn’t live in his law-and-order life, so get out of his life, and Dante says he’s sorry, but no. Sonny says, who is Dante to come in here and say no to him? and Dante says, his son. And he loves Sonny, unfortunately, okay? So when Sonny hurts, he hurts. He knows Sonny is full of whatever it is right now – rage, aggression, he’s ready to pop. He feels like he needs to do something. He doesn’t. And the last thing Dante needs is to walk out that door and let Sonny do something that’s going to destroy him.

Jordan asks what Scout thinks about Drew’s campaign plan, but he says, she doesn’t know yet. She asks if he doesn’t think she’ll know when she turns on the TV and sees ads that say he’s running for office, and he says he just wants to make sure he’s got things lined up before he tells her. She says, it could be a challenge, and he says, Scout isn’t running for office. It’s really important that she just gets to be a regular kid. She says, this could be a pretty unique opportunity for the both of them. He could take Scout on the road with him, and she could see a political campaign in action. Hearts are going to melt when the voters see him and Scout together. She has no doubt Scout is going to be his secret weapon in this campaign. Curtis approaches them and says, Drew had his vote, even before he knew Scout was on the ticket, and Jordan says, what did she tell him? Curtis apologizes for being late. He was on the phone with the architect. But it’s nice to see that the Deputy Mayor got started without him. She says she’ll have him know she’s off the clock, and he says, she could never resist a good strawberry daiquiri. She says, why would she? They’re even delicious when they’re virgin. Drew suggests he and Curtis get in and start doing laps before they end up with margaritas in their hands, and Jordan says she’s going to soak up the sun, enjoy her drink, and maybe order some chips and guac. Curtis says, that’s just playing dirty, and he and Drew get ready to go in the pool.

Gio says he lost his mom when he was 10, and Trina says she’s so sorry. He thanks her and says, she was a musician, a violinist. She was his first violin teacher. She was great. She was a great mom too. She says, people always say that, but when he says it, she believes it. He says, it’s really true. He and his mother were like their own little family inside this big Cerullo clan. And then one day, she was gone. She says, then you’re stuck wondering how someone could just fill up your whole world and disappear all at once, and he says, that’s how it was with his mom. He didn’t mean to get them so off-track. She tells him not to apologize. She gets it. He says he knows she does, and gets up. It’s pretty hot outside, so he thinks he’s going to grab some waters from the house. She thanks him, and he leaves.

Kristina says, so she’s the flighty gay who’s not very serious? If Natalia thinks that about her, then Natalia knows less about her than she does her own daughter, which is saying a lot. Natalia says, that’s funny, because Kristina has a whole lot to say for someone who’s just seen a teeny tiny snapshot of a decades’ long relationship with her daughter. She carried her daughter in her body. She loved her before she was even born. Kristina says, then why can’t Natalia love her right now for exactly who she is? and Natalia says she does love her. She loves her very much. Kristina says, that’s not how it works. You don’t get to love somebody by picking and choosing pieces of them that you’re going to accept and expecting them to hide away the parts of themselves you don’t approve of. Natalia says, it’s pretty easy for Kristina to stand here and lecture her about things she knows nothing about, and Kristina asks what she’s even talking about. Natalia says, let’s see where Kristina is at in about twenty years, when that baby she’s carrying is hurting, and she would do anything, even if it means them hating her, to spare them the tiniest bit of pain. She knows Kristina isn’t having this baby because she wants to be a mother. She just thinks Kristina is in for some pretty big surprises. Kristina says, Natalia doesn’t know anything about why she’s carrying this child. She’s doing this for her sister because she loves her, and she’s never been more serious about anything in her entire life.

Dante says, Sonny knows he has to stay calm and take the emotion out of it. Think while the other guy’s reacting. He wants to do something he might regret because of Ava? That’s not like him. Sonny says, it’s not like him to let Ava live under his roof, and the only reason he did it was because he needed somebody to talk to. Dante says, Sonny is going through something right now and she was there. So was Avery. Maybe it felt like Sonny had his little family. Sonny says, the Jeromes aren’t his family. His family is dead because of them. Connie was murdered… Morgan… Ava messed with his medication. And he still, for whatever reason, made sure she was safe. Dante says, it seems to be what Sonny does, and Sonny says, what Ava does is stab him in the back, again, and hurt the people closest to him.

Curtis and Drew come out of the pool, and Curtis says he knows it’s been a while since they swam laps together, but Drew is part dolphin. Drew says, Curtis used to swim laps just fine. He’s going to get it back. Curtis says, remember he said that. He’s swimming laps with Drew from now on. He’s going to get his strength back. He can’t have Drew flapping his pruney feet in his face. Drew says he loves it, but Curtis says, Drew might love it less when Curtis starts flapping him. Drew says he’ll deal with that when it happens. In the meantime, he wants to tell Curtis that his congressional campaign starts with the Quartermaines’ July 4^th picnic. Curtis says, he’ll be there cheering Drew on, and Drew says he knows, and he appreciates that. He also wants Curtis to know that he appreciates all the work he’s been taking on with the wellness division rollout. It’s been pretty much all him. Curtis says, alone is fine. Fewer people to butt heads with. Drew says, whatever he’s doing is working. He locked in the flagship property and also narrowed the target markets for the rollout. Curtis asks, what can he say? He loves the work. He loves what he’s doing. But Drew needs to focus on that congressional seat. It does no good to run a great campaign only to come in second. Drew says he only plans on doing the first part of that, and Curtis says, good. Because the woman he’s running against, Chelsea Grimes, is a populist reactionary. He’s convinced she’s only running to gratify her ego and to gain a few followers. Drew says, so her idea of public service is using the public services to get more for her, and Curtis says, pretty much. So when Drew accepted that nomination, he took on the responsibility of taking that woman down, and he’s going to do everything in his power to make it happen. Drew thanks him.

Josslyn slips off a chair while taking down a smoke alarm, but Dex catches her. She thanks him, and he says, happy to help. What is she doing? She says she’s changing the battery, not the smoke alarm. This one lasts five years, so you don’t have to get up in the middle of the night and turn it off a million times. He suggests getting a real ladder, but she says, no. She almost had it. He just has to spot her. He says he’s here to help, and she says, thank God. When she said she and Trina could do this themselves, she might have been a little bit over-confident. She still thinks they can do it. They just might need another week. He asks if he’s hearing she’s happy he’s helping, even though she’s too stubborn to ask for it, and she says, her? Stubborn? He sounds crazy. It couldn’t be further from the truth.

Blaze comes to Maxie’s office, and Brook asks if she texted, but Blaze says, no. She just showed up. She hopes she’s not interrupting. Brook says, no. They were just talking… Through her tears, Blaze says she’ll keep this brief. She’s so sorry about the things her mother said, and she’s so sorry for her decision to stay closeted for so long. Brook takes her hand, and Blaze says, it’s pretty clear she’s a liability to Deception, and that’s the last thing she wants. So she resigns.

Natalia says, maybe Kristina is able to just have that baby and hand it off and move on with her life and be completely indifferent to it. But her babies were her life. They still are. There wasn’t a single day she wasn’t grateful for them, not a single day. Her children are the best part of her. She didn’t just stop loving them or caring about their happiness even though they no longer needed her for their literal survival. Kristina says, her love is limited, and she can’t love Allie for who she is, and Natalia says she’s struggling to accept something she wasn’t raised to believe in. Kristina says, that gay people existed? and Natalia says, no, that gay people were confused. She tears up and says, that there was something not right, that they chose to be the way they were. It was wrong. Kristina says, okay, but she has to know now that’s not true. There’s science and genetics. It’s proven. Natalia says, it takes time to reconcile a past with a present that’s so different from what’s ingrained. So she’s sorry she’s not doing that quickly enough for Kristina. Kristina says, it’s not that Natalia’s not doing it quick enough. It’s that she’s a bigot because she’s choosing to be a bigot. She can blame her upbringing all she wants, but the reason she’s a bigot is her. And while she’s working so hard to become a decent human being, her daughter is hurting and she is in pain, and Natalia is the reason for that.

Josslyn says she’s never going to admit she’s stubborn because she’s not, and Dex says, she wins. She’s a human willow tree. She says, let’s not go that far. She’s just saying that she can adjust her attitude to situations or new information as it presents itself. He says, good to know, and she says, no one knows everything and no one’s perfect. He says, she comes pretty close though, and moves closer to her. He’s crazy about her just the way she is. They kiss, and she says she doesn’t want to rush this. He says, him either. That’s not true. He does want to rush it, but he won’t risk messing it up. She kisses him, when Trina and Gio walk in.

Nina sees Drew talking to Curtis, and tells Jordan, good afternoon, Deputy Mayor. It’s nice to see her out of her office. Jordan says she has to admit, it’s nice seeing sunlight for a while, and Nina says she hopes Jordan is enjoying the amenities. She looks over at Drew and Curtis, and adds, the view, and Jordan says she would prefer a view with fewer ex-husbands in it, but she guesses she can’t complain. Nina says she hopes Jordan enjoys herself. She deserves it. Jordan thanks her and says she thinks so too.

Nina goes over to Drew, and says she’s sorry to interrupt, but something’s come up and she wonders if they can speak. Drew asks, what’s going on? and Nina says, Blaze’s mother made some homophobic remarks and outed Blaze in the process. Clearly, the remarks were made in private, but The Invader got ahold of them and now they are everywhere. Social media has piled on from every conceivable corner. They are desperately trying to make this into a scandal. He asks what she wants to do, and she says, as publisher, she’s already done it. She held the Crimson print run, so she could give Deception time to pull the Blaze ad and replace it with a simple two-page statement – no one cancels love. He asks what kind of a delay in publication they’re talking about, and she says, twenty-four hours, give or take. So what does he think?

Dante says he hates what’s happened to Kristina, but he’s not worried about her because she’s a fighter. She’s a protector. He guesses he could say she got that from Sonny. Sonny says, all Kristina gets from him are mistakes, his mistakes. The first mistake was letting Ava back in his life. The second mistake was letting her live in his house. All that matters is Avery and he could have found a different way to keep her safe. Dante says, okay, but if he’s saying his different way would have been something happening to Ava, how does he think that would work out for Avery if something happened to her mom? Sonny says, it would have been the best thing for everyone. Avery’s mom is like the rest of the family, but everybody judges him. But he has a code. What does Dante want? Blood on the streets? Does he want drugs everywhere? That’s the Jeromes. Dante says, what’s sad is that the Jeromes aren’t around anymore, and Sonny says, Olivia Jerome’s bomb could have been the one that killed Morgan, but it doesn’t really matter because it was Ava who messed with his medication. Dante says, Olivia was a bona fide psychopath, and Sonny says, so is Ava. She just puts a face on it. That’s what makes her more dangerous. Dante says, now they know everything she’s capable of, okay? but Sonny says, they don’t know for sure. Look what she did to Connie. Look what she did to Morgan. How does he know she’s not going to do something to Avery? Dante says, she loves Avery. She’s not going to hurt her. Sonny says, Ava is what she is, the last of the Jeromes. And he’s going to take that last cycle down.

Natalia says, Kristina has every right to question the things she said. But don’t dare ever question her love for her daughter. Kristina asks, exactly where was that love in the things Natalia said about her? She has no idea what she lost. Allie is amazing, and unlike Natalia, Kristina appreciates and accepts her for the gift she is. Natalia says she thinks she’s seen and heard enough of Kristina for a lifetime, and honestly, the only reason she let Kristina go on this long is out of respect for her father. Kristina says, but not out of respect for her own daughter? That is consistent. Natalia is right. They are done. Natalia is a prisoner of her own prejudice and wouldn’t even free herself if someone was handing her the key. Natalia says, that’s enough. Come on. Kristina picks up her bag, and Natalia says, tell her daughter that she loves her, but Kristina says, nobody needs the kind of love Natalia has, and she’s going to make sure Allie doesn’t need Natalia again for anything. She walks out.

Maxie says, Blaze has nothing to be sorry for. They’re sorry she’s going through this. Her heart hurts for Blaze. Blaze says she appreciates that, and Maxie says, they were talking though. Given everything that’s going on, they think it might be a good strategy for Blaze to pause being the Face of Deception. Brook says, they’ll hit the ground running in the fall and let everything die down a little. Blaze says she doesn’t think… Brook’s phone chimes, and she says she’s sorry. She steps away, and Blaze tells Maxie that she appreciates them trying to keep her on, but she doesn’t think it’s the right move. Brook comes back and says she’s so sorry. The label just made an announcement. They’re dropping her. Blaze says, so that’s it then. There’s no reason for her to be the Face. Not anymore. Maxie says, that’s not true at all, and Brook says, absolutely not. They believe in her. They know what she has to offer. Blaze says, which is nothing without her music. They don’t want to say it, but they know it’s true. Maxie says, what she knows is, they’ve been counted down and out several times. And Lucy has come back a miraculous and upsetting number of times. Blaze is going to love when it happens. They live for payback. That’s not Deception’s official motto, but lowkey, it really is. Blaze thanks them both, and leaves. Brook and Maxie look at each other.

Drew tells Nina, this is really a tough situation. Not only for Deception, but also Crimson. He thinks she made the right call. She says she was concerned he be worried about the cost, and he says, normally, he would be, but in this case, he’s very impressed with the compassion she’s shown Blaze. And he thinks it’s a better business decision in the long run. It’s better to hold off for 24-hours and issue a statement of tolerance, than rush to meet the deadline and walk right into a firestorm. Nina thanks him, and he thanks her. Curtis says, Nina is real good with PR. It’s no small thing. This guy – he points to Drew – could use her help with his congressional campaign. She’d be a valuable asset. Jordan says, sorry to interrupt their meeting, but Drew’s phone is blowing up. She hands it to him, and says, he got five messages in the time it took her to walk over here. He looks at it, and Jordan asks if he’s okay. He says, yeah. It’s all good. Curtis says, he’s not really selling the all-good part, and Drew laughs. He says, it’s just that the name change is now legal and official. They’re now looking at Drew Quartermaine.

Trina sings as she and Gio put pillows on the couch. He stops to listen and she stops singing. He asks why she stopped. It was great. She has a fantastic voice. She says she doesn’t know about that. She loves to sing, but she usually saves it for her shower. He says, showers usually have good acoustics, and she says, the point of hers is that it has her alone in it. He says, she’s lucky. You can’t play the violin with the water running. She says, give her a break. When it comes to music, he’s like on a completely different level. He says he doesn’t think that at all. Trina’s voice is an instrument, and if an instrument gives you joy, that’s all that matters. She tells him that he has to say that because he’s her friend, but he tells her that he doesn’t say anything about music he doesn’t mean. She asks who he listens to, and he lists several musicians and says, and of course (🍷) Roman. She says, a legend, and he says, and her? Legend category. She says, Aretha, and he says, hard to imagine anyone giving her anything but R-E-S-P-E-C-T. They laugh.

Josslyn and Dex come back with a six-pack of beer, and says, it’s to christen the place. They each take a bottle, and Gio says, absolutely. Who wants to do it? Trina says she will. To good friends, independence, and new adventures. Josslyn says, cheers, and they clink bottles.

Brook says she can’t believe Blaze’s label dropped her. (Doesn’t Lois work for a music label?) They caved in to an anonymous mob. Maxie says, a mob who’s going to move on to somebody else’s mess in a few hours. She meant what she said. She’s not giving up on Blaze and neither will Deception. Brook says, but Blaze doesn’t want to be a model. She wants to be a singer. She is a singer. Maxie says she knows. It’s her passion. Brook says she may have lost her chance to sing, but there’s no way she’s letting Blaze lose hers.

Kristina comes home to find Blaze there and asks if something happened. She’s sorry. She means, did something else happen? Blaze starts to cry and says her label dropped her. It’s over. Everything she poured her heart and soul into for years. This was the thing her mother wanted for her more than anything else and now it’s gone. Kristina holds her as she cries.

Dante says, if Sonny goes after Ava, he’s going to cut his own throat. If he wants to beat her, he’s got to pull it together. Everyone needs him to pull it together.

On Monday, Laura says she’s putting all her faith in the experts’ opinions; Dante tells Sam that this might make it look like she’s got something to hide; Sasha says, this is about a thing that can only end in disaster; and Tracy wonders, who the hell invited her?

🎉 It’s Their Day Off Too…

I’m guessing we all celebrated pretty much the same way.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/gallery/general-hospital/see-how-the-stars-celebrated-independence-day

🍸 Just a Little Thirsty…

Normally, I’d never agree with Sandoval, but yeah, she’s just trying to extend her fame. If you want to call that fame.

‘Frivolous’: ‘Vanderpump Rule’s Alum Raquel Leviss Slams Ariana Madix Over Her Attempt to Escape Invasion of Privacy Lawsuit

‘Vanderpump Rules’ Alum Raquel Leviss Drops Bombshell in Revenge Porn Lawsuit Against Tom Sandoval

⚖️ Make Good Choices…

Maybe she and Rachel Raquel can get together.

https://okmagazine.com/p/brandi-glanville-no-choice-sue-bravo-health-legal-issues/

🪝 Don’t Want To Know…

This might be a little too surreal.

https://www.etonline.com/surreal-life-villa-of-secrets-trailer-teases-kim-zolciak-and-chet-hanks-hookup-228311

⚰️ All Kinds Of Dead…

The longest interview ever. Centuries in the making.

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-finale-streaming-amc

https://ew.com/interview-with-the-vampire-rolin-jones-sam-reid-season-2-finale-season-3-preview-exclusive-8670980

Like we didn’t know.

https://ew.com/interview-with-the-vampire-cast-where-are-they-now-8671571

Directing the Dead.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/lauren-cohan-to-direct-episode-of-the-walking-dead-dead-city-season-2-01j17mb26vg0

June 28, 2024 – Jason Pleads With Carly, His Exit, Not Her Season, Kathy Time, Claims, Low Moments, WWDD, Dynamic Duo, Grouchy Dancer, Rescued, A Round Number Of Quotes & I Am

Posted on June 29, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts, recaps, and the whole GH enchilada on Fridays)

General Hospital

The moss bowl🎍is back!!! Jason walks into Sonny’s old kitchen and asks why Carly needs to see him. She says, because she knows.

Chase comes back to the Q mansion and Brook hugs him. She asks how it went with Finn, and he says, okay, he thinks. He’s really owning what happened. He apologized for the lies and the other things he said. Finn thanked him for getting the restraining order. She asks if he actually said the words, and Chase says, he did. For that and for taking custody. He realized what he’s putting Violet through and he’s kind of torn up about it. She says, good… She means that in the most supportive way possible. He says he knows, and she tells him, when Violet said, I thought you died like grandpa, she lost it. He says he had to pull over on the drive back, and she leads him into the living room. She asks how he thinks the rehab is, but he says he didn’t go inside. Finn wanted to take that step on his own. She says, he made sure Finn went in, right? and he says, yeah. He watched him go all the way inside. But the outside was nice. Even at night, it was very peaceful. She says, sounds like just what he needs, and Chase asks how Violet is doing. Is she in bed? Brook says, she was out like a light. She was exhausted. They didn’t get a chance to discuss this before when Finn was here… He says, discuss what? and she says she had a long talk with her grandmother. She made a very strong case about how she thinks they should proceed. He asks what the empress had to say, and Brook says, she thinks it would be best if the two of them move in here with Violet.

Natalia meets Sonny at the pool (the glowing pool balls are back too!), and he thanks her for coming. She says she’s flattered he asked, and he says, it’s not too late for her, is it? She says, no. She’s a total night owl, always has been. And he couldn’t have picked a better location. Her room is right downstairs. The server asks what he can get them, and Sonny says, North Sterling scotch, neat, for the lady – she says, he remembered, and thanks him – and he’ll have the same thing. The server says, coming right up, and Natalia asks, what has Sonny up so late? He says he’s been feeling a little stifled lately at his place, and she says she can imagine. He says, so he had to change the living situation. She asks if he traded in the luxurious penthouse for the MetroCourt presidential suite, and they laugh. He says, nah, and she asks what he means then. He says, Ava moved out, and Natalia says, she seemed pretty ensconced. He says, even so, it’s time to go.

Ava thanks Laura for coming by so late, and Laura says she got Ava’s message. Has she heard from Nikolas? Ava says, not since he’s been transferred. She’s sorry. Did Laura think this was about him? Laura says, more like she was hoping. She hasn’t heard from him either. Anyways, she’s here. She didn’t realize Ava was staying at the MetroCourt. Ava says, as of this morning. It turns out she’s safer here than under the same roof as Sonny Corinthos.

Kristina looks at some paperwork with Blaze and says, some of this sounds impressive, but she can’t tell if it is or it’s a total line of BS. For example, oversaw the distribution of priority communication throughout a complex interdepartmental network. Sounds impressive or… Blaze says, sounds like mailroom? Is Kristina sure she wants to hand over the day to day running of the LGBTQ center to someone else? It is her baby. Kristina says she doesn’t want to. The Corinthos-Davis House was her idea. She’s really passionate about it, but she wants someone else to take charge right now. That’s what’s best for the center. Blaze asks, how exactly is Kristina stepping back what’s best for the center? and Kristina says, because she came up with a really powerful idea, but there are people more qualified than she is who can run the center and make her vision a reality. Besides she doesn’t want to start back up again at the Corinthos-Davis House, then have to go on maternity leave five seconds later. Blaze says, maternity leave?

Chase asks if Tracy’s suggestion they move in here an invitation or a demand? and Brook says, it was a very strong invitation. He says, she decided this unilaterally? and she says, Monica and Olivia both signed off on it. He says, Monica and Olivia agreed with Tracy? Both of them? She says she knows. It’s like the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse all burst open at once. Of course (🍷) she said she wasn’t going to make any decisions without discussing it with him first. He says, okay. Let’s discuss it. What are the pros? Brook says, her grandmother first pointed out that they can’t move into his brother’s place with Violet, what with her grandfather dying there and her finding her father passed out and bleeding on the floor. Chase says, that’s a good point. So they’ll move into his place. Brook says, yeah, it’s just… He says, that it’s too small. They can get a bigger place. They’ve been talking about doing that anyway. What better time? She says, they could, and he says, where would they stay here that has more privacy than their own place? She says, there’s a suite with two bedrooms and a private bath, and there are tons of kids running around. Not to mention, Monica and Olivia and Willow and Sasha. Lots of positive, nurturing maternal energy. He tells her that she didn’t say Tracy, and she says, neither did she. He says, so those were Tracy’s talking points, and she says, pretty much. She also said, Violet needs consistency now. Not when they move, but right now. He asks if she agrees, and she says she thought they were really good points. What does he think? He says, when he was driving back from the rehab place alone, he was thinking about something Finn said to him about how he was being the big brother, taking care of him. Chase’s whole life he had his dad to take care of him. Now he’s responsible for his family, to provide for them and make sure they’re safe. When he was driving, every minute, every mile, he was coming up with a plan and revising it because he’s never had a kid, and now he has custody of one. He knows it’s just temporary, but he doesn’t know how long it will be. Not really. But the whole way back, he thought, yes. He can step up for his niece. He can give her the home she deserves.

The server brings the scotch, and Sonny thanks him. Natalia says, after what Ava did to Kristina’s mom, she can imagine it got pretty tense in the house, and Sonny says, but not for long. He doesn’t know what he was thinking, letting her move into his place. She says, he was thinking about his daughter Avery. By the way, she thinks she can guess who came up with that name. He says, she’d be right. Still, he thinks it suits his little girl. She agrees, and says, it’s none of her business but… He says, fire away, and she says, aside from this recent cohabitation, Ava doesn’t seem like she’s the one who got away. He says, Ava can’t get far away enough, and she laughs. She says, to long distance, and they clink glasses. He says, there is one person he thought he could count on until his dying day. She turned her back on him. She asks if that’s his wife Nina, but he says, no. Nina was a different mistake, but what she did happened around the same time. These people he could count on, he figured out he couldn’t count on them at all. She tells him that he said people, so more than one, and he says he discovered that these two people were the closest to him of anyone, and they were conspiring against him. At that time, he didn’t think Ava was, so he let her in. He should have known better because Ava was and always will be a treacherous viper.

Laura says she knows Ava and Sonny have a complicated history, but she thought they’d come to an understanding of late. Ava says she certainly thought so. As far as she knew, she and Sonny were closer than ever. They’d become… Friends might be too big a word, but they’d begun to let their guard down. They were confiding in each other. There was a kind of trust. Laura says, and now? and Ava says, now she’s living in a hotel, scrolling through real estate apps. Laura says, it’s not like Sonny to put the mother of one of his children out on the streets, and Ava says she’s not exactly destitute. Laura says, that’s very true. Would Ava mind telling her what happened between them? Ava says she wishes she knew. She’s sure Laura’s noticed how erratic Sonny has been lately. He’s lashed out at almost everybody, and up until now, she’s avoided being a target of his wrath. Laura says, and she has no idea why he suddenly turned on her. Ava says, none. She wouldn’t be able to correct it even if she did. Because with Sonny, any offense is a capital crime, real or imagined. Laura says she’s aware of how he feels about loyalty, and Ava says she sees Laura’s been the brunt of it herself. Don’t worry. She won’t pry. Laura thanks her, and Ava says, if anything, she’s been trying to support Sonny, and he seemed to be appreciating it. Then today, he became completely irrational. He picked a fight with her over she doesn’t even know what. It was so unsettling. It was so unmoored from reality, she had no choice but to leave. Laura says she’s become aware just recently that Sonny is not the man she thought he was. Except that lately, it seems like he’s been giving in to all of his worst impulses. But she hasn’t known Ava to be a completely helpless victim, so come on now. Why doesn’t Ava tell her what they were really fighting about?

Carly says, the FBI used her to strongarm Jason into being an informant. Which means it’s her fault he lost two and a half years of his life that he could have spent with his family. He asks, who told her? but she says, it doesn’t matter. He says, it does matter. He needs to know. She says, Sam. Sam’s not happy about it and blames her and she gets it. He asks how Sam found out, and she says, how does he think? He says, Spinelli, and she says, Sam got Spinelli to hack into the FBI’s evidence file and they found a recording of her at that meeting with Cyrus Renault and the Five Families, announcing to everyone that she was head of the Corinthos organization. Spinelli wasn’t able to delete the file. He says, that’s good. He thinks they’d notice that. She says, he was able to make a recording though, and Sam played it for her. Jason had a choice. His freedom and his family, or her. Why did he pick her? (Ugh. Just get a room at the MetroCourt already.)

Ava says, apparently, Kristina made some petty accusation against her. And because Kristina is the apple of Sonny’s eye, she got the boot. She’s sure Kristina is throwing a party somewhere as they speak. Her concern is that the person who will suffer the most from her moving out is Sonny. Laura says, how so? and Ava says she’s tried to be a stabilizing influence. She hasn’t been very successful, especially considering what happened at that wedding. Laura says, what wedding? Oh, Brook Lynn and Chase. Ava says, yeah. Sonny beat a man within an inch of his life at the reception. Laura says, oh my God, and Ava says, it’s no surprise Laura hasn’t heard about this, because as usual with Sonny, no charges were filed.

Kristina tells Blaze that she just meant maternity leave like in the sense of the time period a woman takes after she gives birth, whatever that time period is called. Blaze says, so family leave, and Kristina tells her that she said whatever. Blaze says, obviously, she will need time to recover, but isn’t that like twelve weeks? and Kristina says, yeah. Blaze says, isn’t that so the new parents can get acclimated to raising their newborn? and Kristina says, it’s for whatever they need it to be for, but yes, most importantly for that. Blaze says, but if she’s not raising the baby, can’t she return to the center in the amount of time the doctors recommend? Kristina says, six weeks, and Blaze says, why give up running the center she built from the ground up when she can just start six weeks in? Kristina says, because she doesn’t know what’s going to happen. She doesn’t know if Molly and TJ are going to break up or if they’re going to stay together. She doesn’t know if they’re maybe going to stay together and then maybe a year later, they’re going to break up. She doesn’t know. And if TJ decides that he does want full custody, and he does because it’s his biological and legal right… Blaze tries to interrupt, but Kristina says, stay with her. Molly has no legal or biological claim to this child, but she does. Blaze says, hold on a second. Is she saying she would actually try to get custody for Molly?

Natalia says she hasn’t had much interaction with Ava, but Ava always seems so disingenuous to her, and Sonny says, that’s putting it kindly. She says, if she ever crosses paths with Ava again, she’ll have her guard up, and Sonny says, do him a favor. Don’t cross paths with her. She’s going in a different direction. Natalia laughs and says she’ll keep that in mind. She doesn’t scare easily though, so she doesn’t like to give anyone that power over her to be afraid. He says he’s not telling her to be afraid. He’s just saying, don’t underestimate Ava. She says, duly noted, and enough about her anyhow, and Sonny says, here you go, raising his glass. They clink glasses, and Natalia says, on to more pleasant topics. What were they talking about before her? He says, betrayal, and she says, that’s pleasant. He says, it’s a downer, he knows, and she says, well, it’s a beautiful night in a beautiful place. And the scotch is amazing… and the company... He says, loves misery, but she says, no. Not afraid of the dark. He says, to the darkness, they clink again, and she says, and to the light that follows. She doesn’t want to belabor the topic, but there just is no pain quite like the wound of betrayal. She’s so sorry he had to go through that. He says, the same. What about her? Did she ever forgive the person who betrayed her? She tells him, who said there was just one? and he says, oh, there was more than one. He didn’t know that. She says, forgive? She doesn’t know if she forgives. She moves on. She doesn’t forget. The Lord wants her to forgive, so she tries. What about him? He says, no, and she says, just no? That’s it? They laugh and he says, actually, with family he forgives. And his family forgives him. That’s what families do, right? She says, right, but doesn’t he find it harmful not tempering anger with mercy? He says, sometimes. He’s been thinking lately about the people who turned away from him, who he trusted, that they believed in him. They all have one thing in common – me.

Jason says he never wanted Carly ~~or the~~ ~~moss bowl~~🎍to know about this, and Carly asks, why? It’s her life. She’s the one who could be charged. He says he made sure she wouldn’t be, and she says, by sacrificing himself. He says, because he knew if she found out, she would confront the FBI and dare them to charge her, and that wouldn’t make any sense at all. She says, and him becoming an informant does? For more than two years? He says he didn’t think it would be that long. He thought it would be six months. One undercover operation and he’s out, she’s safe, but then it was another year, and another year after that. She cries, and he says, there was never a moment when it was too much. He never once thought about bailing. She says, of course (🍷) he didn’t. This is what he does. He always protects her, but this time, she was the target. She deserved to know, and she should have a say in how they handle things. He says, there is no we. He’s handling it the way he’s handling it. She says, that’s not an option anymore. She’s not going to let him throw his life away because… He says he’s not throwing his life away. He agreed to do a job and that’s what he’s doing. She asks how he knows Cates won’t double-cross him. How does he know Cates won’t say, thanks for your help; here’s you next mission? Does he honestly believe the FBI and John Cates are ever going to let him go?

Kristina says she just wants to know what her options are, and Blaze says, options that keep the baby in the family so Molly can raise it, or does she want the baby for herself? Kristina says, now who’s going into hypotheticals? and Blaze asks if she’s actually looked into these options. Kristina says, no, she hasn’t, but she did ask her mom for guidance. Her mom just didn’t want to give her opinion. Blaze says, very wise, her mother, and Kristina says, her mother did direct her to the legal statute involved, if hypothetically, she did want to pursue custody. Blaze says she guesses that’s not so bad, and Kristina says, and she did draw up a mock petition that could arguably be filed in court. Blaze says, Kristina… and Kristina says she thinks her chances are better than 50%. The baby’s not just a package you can hand over. If the courts agree with her and she gets custody, she’s the one who’s going to have to raise this child. Blaze once said she wished this baby were theirs. How would she feel about co-parenting?

Laura tells Ava that this is the first she heard Sonny attacked someone at the wedding. Who was the victim? Ava says she tried to ask him, but Sonny was pretty distraught himself over losing control in front of Kristina. Laura says, Kristina saw it? and Ava says, from what she understands, Kristina witnessed the whole thing, and she became extremely upset. Not that it matters now, because all is forgiven. Kristina and her father are once again thick as thieves. Laura thanks Ava for telling her this, and gets up. She gets her bag, and Ava says she knows it’s not the happiest news to impart, but she thought Laura should know. Although it’s not why she asked Laura here. Laura says, oh. She didn’t think so actually. Ava says, but it is about Sonny. He’s become so erratic, she doesn’t know what he’s going to do from one moment to the next. And the way they left things, she’s afraid he’s become so unhinged and paranoid, that he’s going to try and get their custody agreement overturned to keep Avery for himself. She cannot allow that to happen.

Brook says, Violet is Chase’s niece, so of course (🍷) he wants to take the lead in figuring out the best course of action for how she moves forward. She gets up, heads for the door, and says, so she’s going to tell Tracy that they’re going to leave… He says, wait, and follows her. He’s so grateful to her and her family – she says, they’re his family too – for wanting to help and take the three of them in. She says, of course (🍷). He knows how much her grandmother loves Finn, and Chase’s father, may he rest in peace, and she also loves making decisions. He tells her, what he was trying to say earlier. When he was driving and planning and worrying what to do about Violet, he walked through the front door and saw her. And it made him realize, he doesn’t have to do this alone. He has his wife – he takes her hands – the best partner and co-pilot and teammate he could ask for. She says she not only loves him, she admires him, because he shows up for the people he loves most, and he never complains. He says he complains sometimes, and she says, he’s kind and strong and gentle and he leads with his heart. He says, she should write all this down for when they renew their vows, but she says she’ll remember, and kisses him. So now that they’ve said all those things, what does he think of Tracy’s idea?

Carly says, Jason has no way to be sure the FBI will ever let them off the hook, not now, not ever, and he says, no, he doesn’t, but that’s the risk and he’s willing to take it. She says, but she’s not. That’s why she started exploring other options. He asks who she’s been talking to, and she says she talked to Diane because she wanted to know her chances of acquittal if she turned herself in. He says he hopes Diane said zero, and Carly tells him, she said 30. He says, Diane’s a great lawyer, but he would round that number down, and she says she gets it. They’re not great odds. But what are the odds of the FBI letting him go and him getting his life back? The only way to stop them is to call their bluff. He says, she keeps talking about the time that he’s lost with his family. If she turns herself in, if she goes to prison, then everything he did – he raises his voice – everything he sacrificed to protect her means nothing. So please, do not throw all of that away.

Chase says, here’s the deal. When he married Brook, he knew that a boatload of Quartermaines, Falconaris, and Cerullos came with the package. Brook says, for better or for worse, and he says, and now that he’s met them… She tells him that she knows what he’s going to say, but they really do mean well, and he tells her that he was going to say, he definitely thinks it’s to the better. She says, oh. Well, they do mean well. Except for Cousin Patty; she’s a mess. Anyway, what was he going to say? He says he came from a pretty small family to begin with, and now that his dad’s gone, his mom is off to parts unknown, and Finn is getting back on track, her loud, crazy family full of meddlers and busybodies… She says, he’s skating on thin ice, and he tells her that he’s just saying, he shouldn’t be surprised that they’d welcome him and Violet into the fold. She says, of course (🍷). They adore Violet, and she’s pretty sure they already prefer him over her. He says he thinks it’s because he’s easier to get along with, and she says, that’s a lot of words for pushover. And yeah, the Qs and the Cerullos are a crazy mixed bag, but we love each other. He says, even Cousin Patty? and Brook says, she keeps getting invited to stuff, so she guesses so. Which only proves her point. When something is up with one of them, they come together. They step up for each other, and Chase and Violet are a part of that family. He’s stuck with them. They kiss, when Gio walks in. He says he’s sorry for interrupting. Violet heard him tuning his violin. She came looking for the sound and she got lost going back to her room, so he helped her find it. She was pretty tired, so he’s pretty sure she’s asleep now. Chase thanks him for looking out for Violet, and Gio says, if nobody minds, he’s just going to go outside and practice. Brook asks if this is for Ava’s gallery, and he says, yeah. She says, play badly, and he says, if only he knew how. He leaves, and Brook asks what Chase thinks of the move. He gives her a quick kiss and says, hold that thought. He’s going to check on Violet. He dashes out.

Laura asks if Ava wants her to assist in a custody battle with Sonny, and Ava says, yes. Laura says she really shouldn’t be getting involved with that, and Ava says, Laura once told her that they’re family, even after she and Nikolas divorced. Did she mean that? Laura says she did, because she believes Ava truly loved her son, and actually, she thinks Nikolas still loves Ava. Ava says she loves him too, but oil and water, and Laura says she knows. Ava says, at this point in her life, other than Avery, Laura and Trina are the closest thing she has to family. That means something to her. Laura says, family means a lot to her too, and while she cares about Ava, don’t dare use that to work her. If there’s something Ava wants from her, be direct and ask her. Ava says, okay. Cards on the table then. She spoke to Scotty, and he said if Sonny tries to smear her in court, it could work, and she cannot let that happen. She cannot let Sonny have Avery. He’s barely fit to care for himself. Laura says, she’s right, and Ava says, as she sees it, the best defense is a good offense, right? So she’s looking for character witnesses. Just in case. So may she give Laura’s name to Scotty as someone who would be willing to appear in family court on her behalf?

Chase finds Brook asleep on the sofa, kisses her forehead, and sits on the coffee table. She wakes and asks how Violet is doing. He says, she’s fine. Seeing her sleeping peacefully up in her bed, then coming down and seeing Brook sleeping peacefully on the couch, has him thinking, there’s no better place for the three of them to spend the summer. She says, really? Is he sure? He says, it’s the right thing to do for Violet. She’ll have kids to play with, boats to ride, docks to swim off of, horses… Brook says, she’s super jazzed about the horses, and he says he’s super jazzed about spending the summer with his amazing wife and her massive family – their massive family. Tomorrow, he’ll start moving their stuff, and Violet’s too.

Laura says she understands Ava’s need to keep Avery really close to her right now, especially since lately, Sonny’s behavior has been genuinely concerning. Ava asks if that means Laura will help her. Can she give Laura’s name to Scotty? Laura says, yes, but that’s because if Avery has to have only one custodial parent right now, she believes it should be Ava. Ava thanks her, and Laura says, don’t make her regret this. Ava says she won’t. She promises. Laura’s faith and support mean everything. She’s sure Scotty will be contacting her. Laura says, okay, and goes to the door. Ava says she promises if she hears from Nikolas, she’ll let Laura know. She really does want only the very best for him. Laura thanks her and says her too, and leaves.

Jason says, if Carly goes forward with this and gets convicted, this life she has now, with ~~the~~ ~~moss bowl~~🎍, the kids, Bobbie’s, the hotel, it’s all done. She’s probably going to go away for twenty years. Josslyn and Michael can take turns bringing Donna to visit her until she’s old enough to visit Carly on her own. And all for what? All because she wanted to turn herself in when she didn’t have to. How’s Donna going to feel when Carly abandons her for him? Carly says, Donna will always know she loves her, and he says, enough to stay out of prison for her? She says, that’s not fair, but he says, that’s a fact. Here’s another fact. If she goes to prison, he’ll blame himself every day for the rest of his life. So if she doesn’t want her daughter to grow up without her and doesn’t want him to carry that guilt, just stop. Just back off and let him finish what he started. She says, okay, fine. She gets it. She gets that he has to follow through with all this. She gets it. He breathes a sigh of relief and thanks her. She says, but what if she can’t stand it?

Kristina says, honestly, if the situation presents itself, would Blaze want to co-parent this child with her? Blaze says, does she want kids at all? She thinks, someday maybe, but right now with her career on the upswing, she just doesn’t think it’s a good time for her to be a mom. She hopes Kristina’s not too disappointed. Kristina says, no. How could she be? It’s not exactly the right time for her to be a mom right now either. In a perfect world, Molly and TJ would peacefully and blissfully raise this child on rock steady ground. She wouldn’t have to think about this. Blaze says, then why think about it at all? Couples fight. She knows, not Molly and TJ, but yes, Molly and TJ. It will all blow over and Kristina will have wasted a lot of energy over nothing. Kristina says, no. She has to be prepared. If this goes badly and TJ wants custody of this child, she has to make sure her sister has access to this baby. And the only way to do that is by suing TJ for custody.

Natalia pushes one of the glowing pool balls with her foot and asks if Sonny usually has trouble sleeping. He asks if he looks tired, but she says, no. Restless maybe. But that might just be her projecting. There are so many nights that she lies awake with a million thoughts racing through her head. It almost feels like ghosts. Has that ever happened to him? He says, all the time, and she says she thinks he has the right idea. In situations like this, when you’re being swarmed by ghosts, you need to reach out to a friend – she picks up her glass – have a drink in the night air. It’s a good way to make all that noise stop. He raises his glass and says, to finding our friends in the darkness. They clink glasses, and she says, cheers. He says, cheers, and drains his glass.

Ava walks on to the patio with her martini. She says, to new beginnings.

Carly says she admits Jason is right about all of it, and he says, good. He’ll take it from here. She says, but what if it’s too much of a cost for her? What if she can’t live with knowing she’s the reason he hasn’t had a day of freedom since November of 2021? He says, she doesn’t have to live with it. He does. She says she wouldn’t be the person she is today if not for him. Her life wouldn’t be what it is if she hadn’t met him. So how does she let the FBI use him, knowing she had the power to stop it? He says, she told him that she was going to do this his way, and she says she knows, but she changed her mind. He says, she can’t change her mind, not about this. He chose to take the FBI’s deal. So please, he’s asking her, do not get in the way of it.

On Monday, Ava says, there’s got to be something Trina’s herd that she can use; Natalia tells Maxie, this is not what they agreed to; Josslyn tells Sonny that she’s not going to make the same mistake twice; and Kristina can’t stop thinking about what’s going to happen to her.

😭 Nobody Wants This…

Get out the tissues.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital/michael-easton-jophielle-loves-emotional-farewell

On YouTube June 30^th.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital/dont-miss-maurice-benards-interview-with-michael-easton

🍊 More About Beador…

All we know is, she wasn’t caught by the paparazzi picking up trash on the highway.

Shannon Beador Finishes Community Service Following DUI

Well, she is just a wee bit volatile.

Why Shannon Beador Might Be Isolated During RHOC Season 18

I almost feel sorry for her. It’s like they did it on purpose.

Why John Janssen Might Be Alexis Bellino’s Happily Ever After

🎤 Hey Rapper Rapper Rapper…

Could his name have been Hunky Dory?

Kathy Hilton Called Out Rapper for Ignoring Fans

🥣 Stirring the Pot…

Not a fan of hers, but that doesn’t mean she’s wrong.

Brandi Glanville Claims RHOBH Producers Knew About Taylor Armstrong’s Domestic Abuse

📺 Watch the Worst…

I’ll bet there were moments worse than these.

15 Years of Watch What Happens Live: The Show’s Worst Moments

⚰️ Carol’s Turn…

The definitive date for Season 2 is September 29^th. Be there or be an octagon.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/finally-daryl-dixon-the-book-of-carol-release-date-has-been-revealed-plus-new-images-01hzq6smywpm

https://collider.com/the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-season-3-update/

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/norman-reedus-sets-high-expectations-of-daryl-dixon-the-book-of-carol-01j08qn5shvk

🦸‍♂️ Together At Last…

How it all came to be and how it’s going to be. I don’t go to the movies a lot, but I’m definitely going to see this one.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-wolverine-news-hugh-jackman-one-in-a-billion-idea-1235932988/

https://www.cbr.com/deadpool-wolverine-mcu-x-men-elements/

https://ew.com/sabretooth-deadpool-and-wolverine-return-first-look-teaser-8671139

🩰 Dancer Unchanged…

Still confusing children everywhere she goes.

https://ew.com/abby-lee-miller-calls-fan-obnoxious-8670388

🐈 All About Them Rescues…

Dolly looks skeptical.

https://people.com/kaley-cuoco-adopts-dog-dolly-as-newest-pack-member-8671438

Well, she couldn’t just leave them.

https://people.com/meet-halle-berrys-two-new-kittens-boots-and-coco-8671178

Life imitates art.

https://people.com/lupita-nyongo-refused-change-her-rescue-cat-name-exclusive-8669582

🐝 Quotes of the Week

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. – Santosh Kalwar

Redemption is through service. – Judge Greg Mathis

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus

The most effective way to do it is to do it. – Amelia Earhart

She gets what she wants. We had to give her a Sweet 16 on her 13th birthday. – Jeremy Grey (Christopher Walken), Wedding Crashers

Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. – John C. Maxwell

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. – Muhammad Ali

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar

👠 Sissying My Walk…

Join me on the first Monday of next month for soap and TMI on Deck. Until then, stay safe, stay letting your Pride flag fly no matter how you identify, and stay never giving anyone the power over you to be afraid.

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May 31, 2024 – The Invader Causes Laura Grief, VanderReboot, Lee’s New Seas, Dead Stuff, Flix Picks, Incoming Sharks, In Fashion, Nearly 10 Quotes & Kiki

Posted on June 1, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Jason is working at his desk in the coffee warehouse when Sonny walks in. He asks if Jason is free, because he’d like to clear the air.

Chase finds Elizabeth at the hospital, and she asks how he is and hugs him. She says she’s so sorry about his dad, and she’s sorry he and Brook couldn’t go on their honeymoon. He says, that’s okay. There will be other opportunities to travel. He’s just glad they didn’t get on that plane. She says she didn’t know his dad for very long, but he really touched her life. And her boys were really fond of him. Cameron was sad to hear the news, but he sends his best. Chase says, he was fond of Elizabeth’s family, and he loved her, and she says, the feeling was mutual. If there’s anything she can do or any support she can offer, will he please just tell her? He says, in that case, his dad named him executor. Does she know who he can talk to about getting a couple of copies of his death certificate? He needs them for insurance, Social Security, and a couple other things. There’s so much red tape. She says, maybe the funeral home can get him a copy, and he says, right. He’s so scattered. He’s sorry to bother her. She says, actually, the hospital’s record department should have it. Wait here. Let’s figure this out. She gets on the phone.

We see a computer screen with The Invader headline, Mayor Makes Move To Free Hook Killer, and Laura tells Jordan, it’s just absurd. They’re acting like she’s leading the charge to have Heather’s conviction overturned and have her walk out of prison a free woman. All she has done is request copies of her records. Jordan says, they could have a problem here, and Laura says, and it was well within her purview to do it too. Not as the mayor, but as a citizen, because for better or worse, Heather gave her power of attorney. They’ve got to find out who got their hands on this information and leaked it to the press.

Curtis shows Portia his tablet and says he thought he should be the one to show her this. He’s glad she hasn’t seen it yet. She says, wait a minute, taking the tablet from him. She’s really going through with this. No. How could Laura even think of letting Heather Webber walk free after everything she’s done? He says the thought Jordan was overreacting when she spoke to Aunt Stella and Trina about revisiting Heather’s case. He’s just as shocked as she is to hear they’re moving forward. There’s got to be more to this story because the Laura he knows would never do this.

John flashes his badge to the guard, says, FBI, and walks into Jack’s room. He says, all right, Brennan, let’s go. Where’s his jumpsuit? Jack says, dry cleaners? and John says, let’s hope we can find you another one. What he’s got on is going to be a little drafty where he’s going. Jack says, and that is? and John says, back behind bars where he belongs. He’s a dangerous prisoner and a flight risk. And the sooner he’s back in Pentenville, the safer they’ll all be.

Molly sees Carly in the MetroCourt lobby and asks if she has a second to talk in private. Carly says she’s so busy right now. She’s so sorry. Molly says, please. It’s about what happened at Brook and Chase’s wedding reception. She needs to know what happened with Kristina.

Elizabeth says the records department will have Chase’s copies in twenty minutes, and Chase thanks her. He says, this helps a lot. He was dreading having to track this down. It’s one thing he can check off his list. If he’s being honest, it’s a pretty long list. She says, he’s got a lot going on, and he says, seems that way. Although maybe it’s because the reality of his dad’s death keeps hitting him in the face about every 30 seconds. It’s like he’s moving underwater. Everything is slower, because he’s slower. She says, it’s good he recognizes that. If he can stand a little advice, just accept that what he’s going through is a lot, and don’t be afraid to ask for help. He says he just did, and she came through. Can he talk to her about something else? She says, sure, and they sit on a bench. He says, it’s about Finn. Was he drinking when she showed up? She says, he was, and Chase says, in retrospect, he may have handled that all wrong. Finn wanted some time with Violet, so instead of going straight from the airport to Finn’s place, they went back to the Quartermaine’s first. He didn’t want Finn to be alone and he thought Violet could use some support, so he called her. Obviously, it blindsided Finn when she walked in. She says, he’d already been drinking by the time she got there. Yes, she surprised him, but his reaction was his own. It had nothing to do with the timing and it certainly wasn’t Chase’s fault for calling her. He says, Finn realizes he was out of line, and it proves it shook him up. Not just that he drank, but the way it made him feel acting the way he did toward her. But he’s doing all the right things. He’s going to the meetings. He’s doing the work. She says, Finn told her, and he says, Finn is going to be okay. He’s not going to keep turning to alcohol.

Carly tells Molly that she wasn’t at Brook and Chase’s wedding or their wedding reception. She was at home with her feet up, so she doesn’t really know what she can tell Molly. Molly says, she doesn’t know Sonny attacked Dex? Look, this isn’t an official inquiry. She isn’t here as the ADA. And Carly isn’t the first person she’s spoken to. She talked to Anna, off the record. Carly says she doesn’t know what else she can tell Molly, and Molly says, Carly is family. She was Kristina’s stepmother for years and her aunt by marriage, which shows her how convoluted their family ties are. But what she means is, Carly has known her for her whole life, and she’s asking Carly for help. Carly says she really doesn’t know what she can tell Molly, since she wasn’t there, and Molly says, but Jason was. Jason tells her everything, right? Kritina witnessed the altercation and had a physical response, and that could impact the baby Kristina is carrying for her and TJ. She would ask Kristina herself, but she can’t risk upsetting her right now; she’s too fragile. But she thinks she has a right as the mother of the baby Kristina is carrying to know what happened. Carly says, as long as Molly understands what she says stays between them. If Molly turns this into a statement for the DA, she’ll have no recollection of this conversation whatsoever. Molly says, understood.

Curtis says he still can’t imagine Laura taking this on, but Portia says she can. She is testing the waters on this, and this article is proof of that. This is another step on the road where Heather Webber gets released. He says, they’re not going to let that happen, and she tells him, that’s what she’s been trying to say, but realistically, what can they do? If Laura finds a lawyer who’s willing to take Heather’s case and a judge to reopen it, how are they going to fight the whole justice system? A nurse comes up to Portia and says she needs Portia to sign this patient’s outtake form, and Portia asks Curtis to give her a second, but he says he’s got to go. They’ll talk tonight. He leaves, and Portia looks at the form. She says, this isn’t right. Who ordered this?

Jack says, since when does the FBI supervise prisoner transfers? and John says, only when the prisoner was head of the WSB and arrested for violations of the National Security Act. And he hasn’t overlooked Jack’s involvement with Pikeman or how he funneled money between Pikeman and the Bureau. Jack is no garden variety criminal. He’s a trained intelligence agent. He’s dangerous by definition. He should be insulted if John didn’t show up to take him back to the pen. Jack says, it’s not unusual for the Feds to feel inferior to the WSB. Don’t play into it. Portia knocks at the door, and John tells her to say goodbye to her patient. He’s leaving immediately. Portia says she hates to disappoint John, but this patient isn’t going anywhere.

Jason says, it’s been a while since Sonny stopped by, and Sonny says he’s not going to stay long. He just wanted Jason to know that he reached an agreement with Dex. He’s done with Dex. He’s free to do whatever he wants to do. Dex wants to be a cop; it doesn’t matter to him. He’s not going to get in Dex’s way. Jason says, sounds like the right call, and Sonny says he wants to make the same deal with Jason. Jason asks how that would work, and Sonny says he wants Jason to go work for the FBI or whatever it is that he’s doing. He doesn’t want to have anything more to do with Jason.

Elizabeth tells Chase, Finn was apologetic and embarrassed about what happened, both for the drinking and his behavior. He said he was in shock after finding their dad, but that talking to Chase really helped. Chase says, Finn came back from dropping Violet off at school expecting to see their dad up and waiting for him. Instead, he found him dead. Finn is the one who had to call 911, who had to sign the paperwork, who had to watch their father… watch his body being taken away. If that bourbon wasn’t in the apartment, there’s no way he would have gone out to find a drink of alcohol. She says, he doesn’t have to defend his brother. She understands the sequence of events. What she didn’t understand was his reaction to her. He was argumentative and angry with her for suggesting he go to a meeting, which he refused. Chase says he knows Finn feels terrible about that, and she says, Violet was in the house. She feels terrible about that. He says he gets it. Finn made bad choices and he knows it. They’re all pretty raw right now. He knows he’s not at his best. All he’s saying is, his brother screwed up. Nobody’s questioning that. But doesn’t she think, given the situation, it merits a little understanding?

Carly tells Molly that the first she heard anything had happened was when Jason called her to tell her that Sonny went after Dex and Kristina witnessed it. Then Jason asked her to come to the MetroCourt for Sonny. She never saw Kristina, but she does know Sonny tracked her down first. Molly asks if she knows what happened, and Carly says she knows Sonny was upset. He didn’t go into detail, but from what she understands, when Jason was pulling Sonny off of Dex, they realized Kristina saw the whole thing. She ran off, Sonny took off after her, he found her in a ladies’ room right off the ballroom, and he tried to explain to her what happened, but Kristina was really upset. He said that she was hysterical and that she was afraid of him. Molly says, can Carly blame her? and Carly says, no. And she thinks Kristina was scared of Sonny because she saw him act in a way she’d never seen before. Kristina grew up hearing whispers about Sonny being a mobster. She’s sure Molly heard it too. Molly says, absolutely, and Carly says she thinks Kristina told herself that in Sonny’s case, being a mobster in this day and age is just somebody with some shady business practices. So witnessing the attack and hearing Sonny threaten to kill Jason and Dex, she’s sure that was devastating for Kristina. Molly says, for the first time, she realized what they all mean by mobster.

Jason says he and Sonny had this conversation months ago and his position hasn’t changed. The coffee business is half his and he’s not leaving. Sonny says, the offer to buy him out still stands. What’s his price? Jason says he’s not selling, and Sonny says, the FBI ordered Jason to stay here so he can keep tabs on him? Jason says he’s not selling because this is their business. They founded this company together and they’re equal partners. Sonny says, the partnership was based on trust. That trust has been broken. Jason broke it. So he’s offering Jason a way out. If he’s smart, he’ll take it. Jason says he’s not staying for himself. He’s staying for Sonny.

John says, with all due respect, this man’s a security risk, but Portia says, he’s handcuffed to the bed and he’s guarded around the clock. She doesn’t have to like the patients who find themselves in this hospital, but she does have to provide them with the best medical care possible. And his surgeon hasn’t cleared him to be released. John says he doesn’t think she realizes who this man is. He’s a former intelligence agent, a national security risk, and well-trained in the art of disinformation, making things look like what they’re not. She’s playing right into his hands. Portia asks if he thinks this is a game for her, because she’s certainly not playing it. Mr. Brennan was wounded severely and was bleeding excessively, and it required surgery. And he will not leave this bed until his surgeon says that he’s okay to be released. She’s not sending him back to prison so his wound can open up and bleed out. Her decision stands. This patient stays right here. She leaves, and Jack says, you were saying, Agent Cates?

On the phone, Laura says she has a favor to ask Donald. Jordan Ashford would like to come down and talk to him about a confidentiality concern they have… Thank you. She’ll be down later this afternoon. She tells Jordan that Donald Rollins will be waiting for her in the records room, and hands her a paper. Jordan says she’ll check it out, and Laura says she knows Jordan warned her this might happen, and she wants to thank her for not saying, I told you so. Jordan says she didn’t expect it to happen this fast, but she really thinks Laura should get ahead of this story – now. Issue a statement saying that she has no intention of reopening Heather Webber’s case and of trying to mitigate her sentence. Laura says she doesn’t want to paint herself into a corner making a promise she might not be able to keep, and Jordan says, she doesn’t advocate for freeing Heather, correct? Laura says, correct, and Jordan says, then draft a statement saying that. There’s a knock at the door, and Laura says, come in. Curtis walks in, and Laura asks what she can do for him. He says, does she mind if they talk for a minute?

Curtis says he’s sorry if he’s interrupting their meeting, but Jordan says, no worries. They were just wrapping up. Laura says, he looks wonderful. It’s so good to see him up and about. Curtis thanks her and says, it’s good to be up and about. Jordan says she’ll get going on that project they were just discussing. She’ll be in touch. Good to see Curtis. He says, likewise, and she leaves. Laura says, okay. She thinks she might know why he’s here. He says, a few months ago, around the time of Heather’s initial diagnosis, Portia was worried Laura was looking into getting Heather’s case reopened. He didn’t pay it too much concern at first because he didn’t think she would do that. Fast forward to today, and he reads an article in The Invader that says just that. She asks him to sit down and says, that article should never have gone to print. He says he agrees, if it’s a lie, but he doesn’t hear her saying it is. She says, the headline is a lie. She’s not looking to get Heather freed. He says, so she’s not examining the legal ramifications of her medical diagnosis? and she says she’s exploring whether or not there are any legal ramifications. Since she’s not a lawyer, she needs to consult one, and in order to do that, she needed to request copies of Heather’s records from the time of her arrest through her sentencing. She can’t predict how a judge will decide, but she can tell him that it’s her personal feeling, in light of Heather’s diagnosis, she deserves to have her case reopened.

Carly tells Molly that they are family. She’s seen the relationship between Kristina and her father, and she’s truly a daddy’s girl. And Sonny loves her so much. She was going to have to see Sonny more realistically at some point. Carly is sorry it happened now. Molly says she’s still trying to figure out how she feels about it all, and Carly says she bets. What is Molly going to do about it? Molly says, nothing. She thinks she’s just going to sit on it. She can’t tell TJ. He would just go straight to Kristina and confront her, which would only make things worse, so she’ll just sit on pins and needles, and send up a silent prayer that Kristina will be all right. That she’ll do the right thing, for herself and this baby. Everything else is out of her control. Carly says, wow. She already sounds like a mom. All those feelings she’s talking about, they’re always going to be there. She doesn’t mean to scare Molly, but she’s going to be afraid and she’s going to be worried. That’s never going to go away. She’s going to constantly be sending up those silent prayers, praying that your kids are happy and healthy, all the while knowing it’s all out of your control. Kristina’s made of good stuff. She has the feeling Kristina and the baby are going to be just fine. Molly thanks her and says she really appreciates Carly being honest with her. She and Carly touch hands, and Molly leaves.

Jason says he has to stay. Corinthos Coffee is Sonny’s only legitimate business. It’s his only shield left against RICO charges. Sonny asks if that’s what Jason’s handlers told him to say, just in case he tried to push Jason out. Who does he think was running the business when he was off doing whatever he was doing? Jason says, Sonny pays no attention to this place. It was barely operational when he came back. He increased the inventory, and he added some staff. He’s trying to build this business back up because it’s the best cover Sonny has. Sonny says, Jason isn’t protecting him. He’s spying on him. He wants Jason out of his business, out of his life. Jason moves closer to Sonny and says he’s Sonny’s friend. He’s Sonny’s friend for as long as he can remember, and he’s telling Sonny right now, he is in real trouble.

Elizabeth says she’s sympathetic to what Chase’s family is going through, and Chase says, maybe things will make more sense once the memorial is over. He keeps telling himself that he and Finn will feel closure. She says she hopes they both find that, and he says his dad wanted his ashes scattered. They’re planning a small gathering, those closest to him, just friends and family. He’d love it if she were there. She says, Finn already told her, and of course (🍷) she’ll be there. It’s been twenty minutes. His copies will be ready. She’ll go get them. He says he’s imposed enough, but she says she can bypass the line. She’ll be right back.

Jack says, as the good doctor pointed out, he’s still recovering from surgery and tires easily. Would John care to clear out and give him some rest? John says, since he can’t take Jack back to Pentenville (yeah, nice try, John) – he closes the door – he’ll just have to question Jack here. Jack says, John can ask all the questions he likes, but he has nothing more to say without his lawyers being present and they’re very busy people. John says, maybe it’s time to hire new lawyers. Isn’t it curious that Jack’s spent months behind bars without his case being brought to trial? What is he paying these people for? What’s the hold up? Jack says, he’d have to ask the Justice Department, and John says he has. It seems Jack’s lawyers are very busy asking for postponements and their justifications are flimsy at best. Almost as if they’d been given the directive to stall. Jack laughs, and John says, he’d better watch that legal bill. It’s gonna be a doozie. Jack says he told them to take their time because he wanted the full Pentenville experience. His stay just wouldn’t be complete until he’s stabbed in the showers. Maybe he’ll tell them that he’s ready to move things along now. John says, or maybe he’s waiting for something else to happen. Maybe he doesn’t want to leave until the time is right.

Molly meets TJ at the hospital, and he thanks her for stopping by. He just couldn’t get away. Here’s her phone. She says, and his, and they trade. She says she promises she’ll get a different colored case, and he says, it was bound to happen eventually. He’s just glad he wasn’t on call. She says, he didn’t miss anything important. His gym membership is about to expire. Did she get many calls? He says, not really. He kind of expected to see some calls from Kristina, but nothing. Molly says she saw Kristina at her mom’s, and he asks if she’s okay. She says, if he means Kristina, she seemed fine. If he means her mom, she’s pretty sure she’s going to lose her case. (I don’t know why. It didn’t look that way in the courtroom.) But she’s not that worried about it right now. Molly thinks Gregory Chase’s death really put things in perspective for her. He says he called her office a while ago. They said she was out. She says she’s been on the go. She was just wrapping up a meeting at the MetroCourt when he called and then she came straight here.

Curtis says, so the paper was right. Laura does want to set Heather free, but Laura says, no, she doesn’t. She’s advocating to have her case reopened, taking into consideration that she was suffering from an undiagnosed illness at the time she committed those crimes. He says, even if it results in a lesser sentence? and she says she knows how upset he is about this, but at this point, this is all just speculation. All she did was ask for some records. No action has been taken yet. He says, yet, and she says, if she decides to go forward with anything, she’ll let him know first. Trina’s family does deserve the truth. He says, we deserve justice, and she says she does understand that sentiment. He says, it’s not just a sentiment. Imagine if it was her child who watched her friends and her mentors being stalked, attacked, and killed. Now imagine if it was her child who was the real target all along, that the killer was just waiting for the right opportunity. Would she still be okay with mitigating the sentence, as the article put it? Or would she want that killer locked away in a supermax where they’ll never have the opportunity to hurt her child again?

Jason says, Sonny attacked a police cadet at a wedding. Sonny threatened to kill him and Dex not 200 feet from his closest friends, and Kristina saw the whole thing. She saw a side of Sonny that she never even knew existed. Sonny looks at him with that scary face he gets now, and Jason says, he’s making sloppy decisions. He’s not thinking clearly. He’s not thinking things through. He has to rein it in. Please, let me help you. Sonny says he’s trying to be friendly. Just for the record, Jason is turning him down. So he’s not going to be friendly anymore. If Jason doesn’t get out of his way, he’s done, he’s gone. Sonny walks out.

Jack says, his lawyers aren’t stalling. They’re trying to make sense of the charges. John says, they’re pretty straightforward actually. He’s been accused of, among other things, criminal conspiracy and attempted murder. Jack asks just who he tried to kill. Carly Spencer? Even she doesn’t believe it. John says, Anna Devane and Dante Falconari, and Jack says, when Anna and the detective showed up – with their guns drawn he might add – he wasn’t holding a weapon. He made no threatening moves whatsoever. Granted, there was a slight misunderstanding with Miss Spencer. He neglected to tell her that he was director of the WSB, and she mistakenly thought she had to defend herself. Now Anna, on the other hand, she knew exactly what she was doing when she came through that door. John says, that was a nice deflection. He was talking about the hit he put out on Anna and Dante at the pier. But let’s talk about Anna’s involvement in your takedown. Very convenient, wasn’t it? Jack says, that’s not how he felt when she had a gun trained on him at point blank range, and he happens to know from prior experience, she’s an expert shot. Now if this lackluster interrogation is over, he’s getting very tired. John says, you and Commissioner Devane were in the WSB together in the 80s, weren’t you? and Jack says, John knows they were. John says, so what are the odds that when Jack gets busted, his old friend crashes through the door at the perfect moment to take him down?

Molly says she’ll catch up with Kristina later, and TJ says, it just seems strange that she’d go radio silent. She’s in her final trimester, the baby’s due in August, and it just stands to reason they’d want to know how their baby is doing. Maybe they should go with her to her next doctor’s appointment. He’ll check with Dr. Navarro… Molly says she wouldn’t. He knows how Kristina feels about boundaries. He says he understands boundaries, but he also understands they are the baby’s parents. So… Portia says she’s so sorry to interrupt, but she really needs to speak with Molly as soon as she has a free moment. Molly says she’s free now. What’s up? Portia asks if TJ would mind giving them a moment, and he says he has rounds. He’ll see Molly at home. He leaves, and Molly asks what she can do for Portia. Portia asks if she’s seen The Invader today, but Molly says, no. She’s been pretty busy today. Why? Portia says she’s extremely concerned that Laura Collins is attempting to free Heather Webber. She would just like to know how the DA’s office would plan to fight this? (Wow. It’s like half the characters have turned into tyrants.)

Laura says she understands completely how Curtis feels. He wants to protect Trina and he has every right. He says, what about everybody else’s rights? Brando Corbin, Rory Cabrera, Britt Westbourne. Those young people had a right to live. Heather killed those people. What about the survivors, Ava Jerome and Diane Miller? Has she once asked them how they feel about her reopening Heather’s case? Laura says, Heather does not deny her crimes. But she is having a hard time locking this woman away for the rest of her life when she may not have possessed the mental capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong. He says, those people are dead still, either way, and she says she knows that. But the metallosis could have been the deciding factor there. She thinks that should go… it must go in the record. He says, and if it alters her sentence? and she says, that’s for the court to decide.

Molly says, what she can tell Portia is, no motion has been filed that she’s aware of. No hearing has been scheduled. Whatever’s in this article is pure speculation. Portia asks if Molly’s mother would maybe know more, but Molly says she doubts it. She’s been out of town the last few days and she only just got back. She’s probably going to be livid that this got published without her. It’s full of holes. Portia says, but if a motion is filed, how are they going to fight it? and Molly says, Heather’s attorney is probably going to argue that Heather is not guilty because she lacked the mens rea (Latin for guilty mind) to commit the crime. There was no way for Heather to be in control of her actions because the cobalt poisoning was controlling her behavior. Therefore, she is not responsible for what she did. If she’s no longer responsible and no longer a danger to others… Portia says, that woman is a danger to others, and don’t give her the technicality of the diagnosis of cobalt poisoning really allowing this woman to walk free. Isn’t it the DA office’s duty to see that justice is done to ensure this woman remains behind bars? They owe her victims that much.

Sonny strides through the MetroCourt lobby, and Carly jets after him. She asks him what he’s doing here. Where is he going? He says he has business to attend to, and she asks if he’s talked to Kristina. He says, not today. Today, he’s dealing with Jason.

At the warehouse, Jason does actual work, taking inventory or something. He stops for a moment, like he feels something, then goes back to it. Two gunmen slip into the warehouse, but I think he knows.

Elizabeth hands Chase an envelope, apologizing for how long it took. There are ten copies. He says he really appreciates her going through all the trouble, but she says she’s just glad she could help. He looks at the certificate, and she asks if he’s okay. He says, it’s just so official. So formal and real. This is all that’s left of his dad. She says, no. He is what’s left. Him and Finn and Violet. Gregory loved them. He’s always going to be with them.

Molly tells Portia that she hasn’t seen any motions to reopen Heather’s case, but she feels confident should that happen, the DA’s office can successfully argue against any mitigation of her sentence. Portia (who is already working my last nerve) says she wants to believe Molly, but she can’t just sit here and relax, and hope Molly takes it from here. She’s going to fight against any type of release. Because she’s learned the hard way that when it comes to Heather Webber, anything is possible.

Curtis tells Laura, this whole thing reeks of what happened to Heather’s daughter. Esme was never held accountable for her actions because of her supposed amnesia. His daughter Trina didn’t press charges against the new Esme because Esme wasn’t aware of what the old Esme had done. So look at what they have now. What if some legal loophole puts her back on the street? Does Laura want to open the door to that possibility? Laura says, it’s up to the court to decide. She still thinks it’s the fair thing to do. He says, life is not fair. It certainly wasn’t fair to those young people who were murdered by a poisoned hook. Laura knows he respects her and considers her a good friend, but she’s wrong on this one. She’s wrong and she’s leaving him and Portia no choice but to fight her on it. And they will. She can trust and believe they will with everything they’ve got. He walks out and Laura looks sad.

Jack says he’s not sure he understands why John brings his prior relationship with Anna into this, and John says, maybe he and Anna planned that bust. Jack says, that’s interesting. Why? John says, maybe he was too conspicuous as the head of both Pikeman and the WSB, and Jack says, but he’s not head of Pikeman. John says, maybe that bust was a handoff of power from Jack to Anna. What’s Jack’s role in Pikeman anyhow? Jack says, he’ll have to ask Anna about that, and John says, don’t worry, he will. Heal fast. John walks out, and tells the guard, he’s all yours.

Carly says, Sonny was dealing with Jason? What’s going on? Did they talk? Sonny says he offered to buy Jason out of the coffee business. He gave Jason a chance to walk away. He refused, so what happens next is on him.

Jason is flipping through the papers on his clipboard, and suddenly chucks it aside and ducks for cover. The gunmen start shooting at him and he shoots back. Nobody seems to be a very good shot.

On Monday, Kristina asks Blaze, how does someone say something by accident; Natalia tells Ava that she’s not of the same mind; Diane says, there’s no guarantee the police are going to believe someone; and Carly asks Sonny what he did.

🍸 Time For a VanderChange…

This might not be a bad idea. The downside is having to remember a bunch of new names. I’m just not good with those, phone numbers, and zip codes. I will remember what you were wearing though.

Lisa Vanderpump Open To Rebooting Pump Rules Cast

⚓️ Stud Of the Deadly Sea…

The latest on the best Boat Daddy ever.

Captain Lee ‘Doing Great’ After Below Deck Health Concerns

What You Need To Know about Deadly Waters With Captain Lee

This story was in his book. I bet it still wasn’t as bad as trips with some of the guests on Below Deck.

Below Deck Alum Captain Lee Rosbach Details Being On ‘Drug Boat’ in the 1980s

⚰️ The Latest In Dead…

Yippie. A whole 8 episodes this time.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/the-walking-dead-dead-city-in-production-promo-features-new-and-returning-characters-01hykjcyzd3r

And in a plot twist no one saw coming…

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/pollyanna-mcintosh-marries-bobcat-goldthwait-in-private-ceremony-in-nevada-01hy8n1h3kxd

💻 What Netflix Hath Birthed…

I love a good stalker story, and this did not disappoint.

https://ew.com/baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-jessica-gunning-series-success-real-people-8645751

I’m so glad they’ve expanded on the Korean imports. Loved Sweet Home, Hellbound, and All of Us Are Dead.

https://ew.com/best-korean-shows-on-netflix-8655646

🦈 Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun…

Shark Week is back beginning July 7^th.

https://people.com/john-cena-host-shark-week-2024-shark-week-return-date-8655847

🐕 Don’t Call Them Accessories…

Who cares about the dress? This dog is unbelievably cute.

Demi Moore Dons Lace Slip Dress, Accessorizes With Pup Pilaf at Gucci Show

We wouldn’t expect any less.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/other/bethenny-frankel-coordinates-with-her-dogs-in-denim-outfits-and-matching-10k-chanel-purse/ar-AA1njU0X

🦪 Quotes of the Week

I can’t accept a bribe. And I certainly can’t make change for a bribe. – Karen (Vernee Watson), Two and a Half Men

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let’s stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another. – Anne Raver (It’s the land, Katie Scarlett!)

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. – Thomas Browne

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility – these are marks of maturity and graciousness. – William Arthur Ward

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. – Audrey Hepburn

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, charisma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society’s values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community. – Paul Zweig

Bury me in cheese. – Garfield

🌊 Looking For Some Tasty Waves…

Enjoy the unofficial start of the summer and join me on Monday for soap and perhaps a peek on Deck. Until then, stay safe, stay being respectful of others’ traditions and celebrations, and stay not freaking out over a headline in a tabloid.

⚠️ Warning: A cuppla bad words.

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May 2, 2024 – Tracy Puts Sasha To the Test, Georgie Girl, Joining Forces, Awful Summer People, Dead Talk, New Vampire, Moose & This Month

Posted on May 3, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

In the Quartermaine living room, Maxie says she’ll be Haven, and Lois says, she’s nothing like that woman. Brook says, that’s why it’s called acting, and Maxie tells Georgie and James to pay attention. They’re going to be the audience. Brook asks them to go easy on her, and Lois asks if they’re going to be an easy crowd or a tough crowd. James says, tough, and Lois says, this is so exciting. Brook’s grandmother loves Home & Heart. She’ll be over the moon about this. Tracy walks in and Lois says, her other grandmother. Tracy says, oh good. More interlopers in… Monica’s home. She walks through the room and out, and Lois asks, what’s with her? Brook says, she’s been in a huff all week, having the kids home on spring break. Maxie says she feels Tracy’s pain, and Georgie says, mom. Maxie says, they know she loves them, and Brook asks where Bailey Lou is. Maxie says, Bailey is with Felicia, thank God. She’s been a real terror lately. Brook says, not her girl Bailey, and Maxie says, yeah her girl Bailey, and asks Georgie to back her up. Georgie says, total terror, and James asks why she has to put cream on her face when it doesn’t really do anything. Lois asks how he would know, and he says he tried it. Maxie says, like the tiniest pea-sized amount, right? and James says he just dumped it in his hand and started rubbing it around. Yuri brings in Violet, Chase, and Gregory, and Brook says, they came to watch. Chase says, they wouldn’t have missed it, and Violet says, Uncle Chase said Brook is practicing to be a TV star. She might do that when she’s older too. Brook says she thought Violet wanted to be a doctor like her dad, and Violet says, TV star is her back-up if that takes too long. Lois says she loves it. A woman with a plan. Come here and join their tough crowd. Violet sits on the sofa with them and says, lights, camera, action.

In the nook, Tracy asks Olivia, where for the love of God is the nanny? There are children in every corner of this house. Olivia says, Melanie’s mother had a dental emergency, and Tracy says, oh great. Now for her second and final complaint. Olivia says she highly doubts that, and Tracy says she cannot believe that Olivia took her intention to hire a cook as an opportunity to give the job to Sasha. They don’t know if she can boil a hot dog. Olivia says, she’s worked in restaurants, and Tracy says, of the fast-food variety. Olivia says, no, real restaurants, and Tracy says, so has nearly everybody under the age of 30 without a trust fund. So what?

At the hospital, Willow answers the phone and tells the Dr. Soriano that they can find Nurse Baldwin in pediatric ICU… Of course (🍷) she’ll let Elizabeth know if she does. A nearby nurse says, everybody is looking for Elizabeth, and Willow says she knows. She’d hate to be her. The nurse says she was asked to work a double, but she can’t. Can Willow? Willow says she just worked a 12 overnight. She has kids to get home to. The nurse says, so does Elizabeth, and Willow says, maybe I’m an awful person. They can’t rule it out. The phone rings again, and Willow tells the doctor that she’s sorry. If Elizabeth’s not there, she doesn’t know. Try orthopedics? Felicia walks up and asks if there’s a problem, but Willow says she guesses not. Michael said Wiley was throwing up last night and she thought maybe she should pick up something for him on the way home, but no answer. So she guesses the nanny must be out with the kids and he’s fine. Felicia says, don’t shoot the messenger, but she’s been deputized to do a multi-floor search for a nurse who is willing to take an additional shift since Regina is out sick. Willow says she’s sorry. She just can’t. She’s been here all night, and she has a one-year-old who she thinks after a 12-hour shift doesn’t even remember her. Felicia says she hears Willow. She couldn’t have worked the hours Willow does when her girls were little. Which begs the question… Willow says, what? Felicia isn’t asking her why she has a job. Felicia says, no. Sorry. Having work that fulfills you, work that makes a difference, these things matter. The phone rings and Willow answers. She tells Elizabeth that she’s so sorry… Of course (🍷). She’d be happy to pick Aiden up… No trouble at all. She tells Felicia that Elizabeth is stuck so in the meantime, she’s going to pick up Aiden for her, so she guesses she feels a little less guilty. Felicia says she’d better continue her search. With a little bit of luck, Elizabeth will be out of here while the sun’s still shining.

James helps Cody in a stall, and Cody tells him, good job. Michael comes in holding Amelia, and Cody asks, what’s up? Michael says, since Melanie is helping out with her mom, he thought it would be fun hanging out with the kids, but apparently, he’s not as fascinating as Comet. Cody says, few people are, when Georgie comes in with Violet, and Michael asks if lunch is ready. Georgie tells him, the new cook said 45 minutes. She’s not optimistic. Michael says, she should be optimistic. The new cook is an old friend of his, and he bets she does a great job. Cody says he’s with Michael. He thinks the new cook is a real find.

Willow brings Aiden to the gatehouse and calls to Melanie, saying she’s home. Aiden says, it doesn’t sound like anyone’s here, and Willow says, it doesn’t. Maybe she took the kids up to the main house for lunch. Does he want to join them? Or she can make him a sandwich if he wants. He says he’ll go up to the house. He knows she worked the overnight shift. She must be tired. She says, his mom did too. She hopes it doesn’t take too long to find that replacement nurse. She must be desperate to get home and get into bed. Aiden thanks her for picking him up at the library, and she says, of course (🍷). He says he’ll tell Jake to pick him up from his soccer practice, and she asks how sports get away with holding practice when there’s no school. He says, it’s a travel league, so they basically do what they want. She says, let her know if he needs anything, and he says he will. He leaves, and she sits on the sofa and picks up a brochure from The New Tomorrow Institute.

Sasha tells Brook that she always found it easier to hold the products like this, but maybe that’s just her. Brook says, no, that’s better, and Maxie suggests she turn the label around so it’s facing the camera. Lois suggests Sasha show Brook how to cheat to an imaginary camera, when Yuri ushers in Scotty and Lucy. Scotty says he has the real imaginary camera right here, holding up his phone. Lucy asks what they’re doing here, since she was so rudely not invited. She just thought maybe a screentest for their new proposed spokesmodel was in order. Maxie asks, why? and Chase leads Violet out of the room. Lucy says, because she seems to think that anybody and everybody can sort of do the duties that she did so well, but that remains to be seen.

Sasha says, Brook wants to describe the texture, what it smells like, how it feels on her skin. Maxie says, with glowing adjectives of course (🍷) and Lois says, of course (🍷). Sasha says, silky, dewy, fresh. And you apply just a dab on your cheek – she puts some on her cheek and Brook does the same – and you rub it in. Lucy says, flawless, and Scotty says, let’s shoot. Brook is up. Ready? Quiet on the set. Action. Lois suggests Brook hold it closer to her face. That way the viewers can see the label. Lucy tells her that she was going to say that, and Brook says, like this? but Maxie says, not that close. Sasha moves Brook’s hands and says, here should be good. Gregory says he thinks he’s going to sit out in the sun for a while, get some vitamin D. Brook asks if she can come, and they all say, no. Gregory tells her, good luck, kiddo, and leaves. Scotty says, take two.

Michael says, Sasha is a great cook, but he never thought she’d be doing it for a living, and Cody says he thinks the offer of free room and board was too tempting. Also, the flexibility. He doesn’t think Mama Q is going to surrender her kitchen. Michael says, it’s probably just going to be breakfast and lunches while Olivia’s at work, and Cody says, plus Sasha has weekends off, which is great. Violet walks in with Chase and says, maybe she can make a music video one day. Chase says he’d love that, and she says, and ride comet while she’s singing. Cody says, whoa, whoa, whoa. She’ll have to talk to his agent first. She asks, who’s his agent? and Cody says, she’s looking at him. Georgie comes out and asks if it’s okay for the boys to play in the hay, even though the horses eat it, and Cody says, it better be because they do it all the time. Violet asks if she can go play with them, and Chase says, have at it. Violet runs off, saying, she loves the smell of hay. Cody asks Georgie to keep her eye on the littles and holler if she needs any help. She says, he’s got it, and leaves. Michael says, so what is this about a music video? and Chase says, Violet was watching Brook practice her spokesmodeling at the house. They were videotaping her, and now Violet’s got a bee in her bonnet. Michael says he thought Blaze was the new Face of Deception, and Chase says, she is, but it’s in her contract that she won’t do any of the promotional stuff. Cody says, so that’s on Brook now, and Chase says he doesn’t think she’s too happy about it.

Olivia says, Tracy is not the only decision maker in this household, and Tracy says, and she’s not the only person in this household who is sick to death of leftovers and Yuri’s borscht. Olivia says, that’s why she hired someone, and Tracy says she wants a real cook. Olivia says, no. Tracy wants someone who won’t allow anyone in the kitchen and she’s not going to allow that again. Tracy says, that’s the point. They have their domain, and we have ours. Olivia says she loves cooking for her family when she has the time to do it. That’s what makes Sasha the perfect solution to this problem. Aiden walks in and Olivia says, hello. He says hello, to them, and Tracy says, hello, another family’s child. Olivia says, be nice, and Aiden says, something smells good. Olivia says, it does smell good. Doesn’t it, Tracy? Tracy asks where he came from, and he says his mom got stuck at work, so Mrs. Corinthos picked him up and dropped him off. Olivia says, lunch is going to be served shortly, so she hopes he sticks around and eats with them, and he says he’d like that, thanks. Tracy says, of course (🍷) he would, when Sasha walks in and says she just wants to peek in the oven. Tracy says, when Sasha finishes lunch, she has a request, and Sasha says, okay. Tracy asks Aiden to get a cookbook and bring it to her. Open it to any page and point. Olivia says, mama mia, and Tracy says, ah-ha. Tournedos Rossini. Sounds delightful. That’s what she wants for dinner.

Sasha says, Tournedos Rossini, and Tracy says, one of her favorites. Sasha asks if they have pâté. And if they do, will the kids eat it? Olivia asks Tracy if she thinks the kids want pâté, and Tracy says she thinks Aiden should pick another recipe. He says, pot-au-feu, and she says, excellent choice. Pot-au-feu it is. Sasha says, dinner at 7? and Tracy says, works for her, and leaves. Olivia says she’s so sorry, and Sasha says she takes it that Tracy isn’t happy with her as the new cook. Olivia asks, what was her first clue? and Sasha says she’ll just have to prove Tracy wrong, won’t she? Olivia says, bless you. She’s going to give Sasha all the space she needs. If Sasha needs anything at all, just call her for back-up. She leaves, and Aiden wonders if he can asks Sasha a question. She says, ask away, and he says he loves to bake, but he’s never seen anything like what she has in the oven. She says, it’s a great way to use any leftovers you have in the fridge. Does he want to help her chop up some vegetables, and she’ll tell him all about it? He says, sure.

Willow is asleep on the sofa, when Michael comes in with Amelia. He says, sorry. He didn’t mean to wake her. She says, that’s okay. Where’s Melanie? He says, her mom had a little emergency, and Willow asks if she’s okay. He says, yeah. It was a dental thing. So he came home to be with the kids and Wiley is at the stables with Cody. She says, the horses were more entertaining than dad, huh? and he says, yeah, pretty much. She says she sent Aiden up the main house for lunch, and he says, Aiden Webber? She says, Elizabeth got stuck at the hospital and asked if she could bring him here and make sure he got fed. He says, that was nice of her to help him. He tells her that it’s time for Amelia to go to bed, and suggests she stay and get some rest. He’ll be right back.

Maxie says she hears Deception is debuting a new product, and Brook says, that’s right, Haven… Maxie asks, what’s it called? and Brook says, Disruptor Nourishing Moisturizer… Maxie says, catchy name, and Brook says, I know, right? She smiles at the camera, and Maxie says, can she tell them about it? Brook says, oh… yes. Their newest product – Olivia walks in and sits next to Lois – is a face cream that does wonders for the skin… Maxie says, we like the sound of that. Please go on. Brook opens the jar and says, yes, well, the texture is silky smooth, and you just take a little bit on… She takes too much and says, oh shoot. She’s sorry. Lois says, it’s okay. She’s still getting the hang of it. Chase comes in and says he wants 100 jars and a beautiful face cream model, but Lucy says, sorry. He’s not their target audience. Scotty says, come on. Let’s look at the dailies. They watch the video and Maxie says, okay. That’s what rehearsals are for. Sasha wasn’t perfect the first time either. Lucy says, she was a lot better than that, and Lois says, Brook just needs to relax. They’re going to just try it again. Lucy takes the jar out of Brook’s hand and says, why don’t they give the professionals a chance? Maxie says she’s guessing Lucy is the professional, and Lucy says, watch and learn.

Michael asks Willow how her shift was, and she says, long… exhausting. He asks if she wants to go up to bed, and she says, don’t tempt her. He says, go ahead. She deserves a nap. She kisses his cheek and says she sleeps better when he’s beside her. She goes upstairs, and he picks up the brochure.

James and Wiley wrap a rope around Cody, and he says he’s too young to die. What do you desperados want? James says, all his money, and he says, they picked the wrong cowboy. Wiley says, they’ll take his horses then, but Cody says, they already belong to Wiley’s family. Violet says, actually, she’s the sheriff and they’re all under arrest, including Cody. And now he has to marry Georgie. Cody says, that’s a weird punishment, when Sasha comes in and the kids run off. Cody thanks her and she says, what did she do? He says, she came just in the nick of time. She saved him from getting hitched. She says, he’s welcome, and he asks how it’s going up at the manse. She says she’s pretty sure her first day as a cook will also be her last, and he says, Tracy? Sasha says, she’s not a fan. And it’s a real bummer because she really liked her new room. He asks if she wants him to talk to her. Believe it or not, he thinks Tracy actually likes him. She says, that’s okay. There was something about it that was too good to be true from the start, especially the part where she got to be near him every day.

Tracy finds Gregory on the patio and says, Olivia is mad at her. He asks, what happened? and she says, they need a cook. The Quartermaines have always had a cook. He says, not since he’s known her, and she says, because since he’s known her, Olivia has lived here, and she insisted that she could take it on. But you cannot run a hotel, raise a child with special needs, and cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a houseful of people. It’s too much. He says, agreed, and she says, so instead of hiring a professional cook, Olivia offered the job to her friend. He asks if he knows this friend, and she says, he certainly does. Sasha Corbin. And she gets it. Olivia wants somebody she can kick out of the kitchen without feeling uncomfortable. He says, she means when Olivia wants to cook, and she says, mm-hmm, and she certainly understands that, but they don’t know if Sasha has the skills for this. And hiring someone to do a job they can’t do, helps no one. Not them, and not Sasha. Is she being awful? He says, she’s being practical. Some homes, the kitchen is a place to gather. Not this one. She says, exactly. They have the nook for that. How come he gets that, and Olivia doesn’t? He says, probably because he has no skin in the game, but this is Olivia’s home too. She just wants to be comfortable in it. Tracy asks if she’s being too rigid, and he says, you’re being you. She says, so that’s rigid, angry, and unyielding, and he asks where she thinks that comes from.

Lucy asks if she’s told Haven that she’s the brainchild of Deception, and Maxie says, yes, about 17 billion times. Lucy says, right, because it’s so true. And they’re all very, very welcome. Today they have the Disruptor Nourishing Moisturizer, a brand-new product, and by the way, her idea. It wasn’t her idea for the formula, but the way it benefits your skin is totally her idea. Let her show them. She puts some on her hand and says, it’s so absorbing. It absorbs right straight into your skin. Maxie says, it’s not absorbing at all, and Olivia tells Lois, she’s putting on that cream like it’s furniture polish. Chase tells Brook, yikes. She’s not very good is she? Brook says she doesn’t think she’s one to talk, but he says, she was perfect. She says, like a deer in headlights. She loves Maxie and Deception, but she can’t help feeling this is a wrong turn for her. He says, she did seem kind of uncomfortable, and she says, kind of? He says, nobody watching is going to believe she needs a face cream, and she says she loves him. Lucy rubs her hand and says, there, you see? All absorbed. Their Disruptor Nourishing Moisturizer cream is so good. It feels so wonderful on her skin. Her baby. Her creation. Get yours today. Lois says, that was… Lucy says, fantastic, she knows. Thank you. Why don’t they review it all and they can take a vote.

Tracy tells Gregory that she thinks she’s mad at time and all the years she wasted being too afraid to leave her safety net. The only risk she took in her life was when she married Luke, and she only had him for a few years before she lost him. Happiness is great as long as you’ve got it. He asks if she’s unhappy now, and she says, no. She’s disappointed. The advantages she’s been given in life are obscene, as are how little she’s done with them.

Cody says, this is going to sound crazy, and Sasha asks when that’s ever stopped him. He says, why doesn’t she move in with him? He’s got a nice, comfortable room upstairs if she can stand the spiral staircase to get to it. She says she’s not wrong in that they’ve kissed exactly once, yes? and he says, that’s right. She says, so she feels that cohabitation isn’t real as an actual next step, and he says, they wouldn’t be sharing a bed or anything. Unless she wanted to, in which case they totally could be. She laughs and asks where he would sleep, and he says, they’ve got an extra cot in the tack room for when a mare is foaling. He can just bring it upstairs. Her phone beeps and she says, that’s lunch. She needs to take it out of the oven. There’s plenty if he’s interested. She leaves, and he says he’s definitely interested. He tells Georgie to round up the kids for lunch. Let’s go.

Lucy says, nobody looks good in that kind of light, and Lois says she thinks Brook just needs one more run through, and drags her up front. She says she’s going to show Brook and picks up the jar. She says, so Brook wants to pick up and hold the product like this, okay? Not like it’s a secret weapon, but like it’s the greatest secret in life and she’s going to share that secret with the world. Or with the viewers of Home & Heart at least. Scotty films, and Lois says, then she’s going to open it very gently and – she sniffs it – mmm. Then she’s going to take just a tiny little bit… Lucy asks what Scotty is doing. Why? He says, why not? and Lois says, then she’s going to see it’s like a little pearl, which is fitting because this cream is the ultimate in luxury. She’s going to put it on. Mmmm. Silky… hydrating… It’s like she’s died and gone to heaven. Right? She looks at the camera.

Sasha comes back to the main house, and Aiden says he was just going to call her. She asks, how’s it looking? and he says, light brown on top and ready to come out he thinks. She says, perfect, and he says he’s happy to help her serve it if she wants. She tells him that he’s a lifesaver.

Michael comes upstairs, and Willow asks if he’s going back to the office, but he says he thinks that ship has sailed. What about her? When’s her next shift? She says she’s been thinking about that, about her job at GH in general. He says he saw she was looking at that New Tomorrow Institute pamphlet. So talk to him. She says, representing the non-profit would essentially be a part-time volunteer position, meaning she’d no longer be being paid. He says, it’s not like they need the money, and she says she knows, but a lot of people do. Like Elizabeth for example. Elizabeth is raising three boys on her own and doesn’t have the luxury of turning down a double shift like she does. He says he hopes Jason being back will ease her financial burden a little bit, and Willow says she hopes so too, but it’s got her thinking. Nursing is wonderful, important work and she loves doing it, but she’s starting to wonder if she’s been doing it for the wrong reasons.

Willow says, independence is important to her, and Michael says he gets that. She says she’s not even sure she realized it at the time, but it was a huge factor in her becoming a nurse. The idea of solely relying on him for money made her uncomfortable. She liked knowing that if he left tomorrow – he says, never happen – she could stand on her own two feet. And she still relates to all that, she just… Taking this position would still allow her to do something meaningful that makes her proud, while still being there for her kids in a way that she can’t now. She can see all of Wiley’s T-ball games and take Amelia to the swings herself, not hear about it later from Melanie. (So she’ll leave the hospital in the lurch and the nanny without a job.) He says, just to be clear, Melanie is a great nanny, and the kids are happy and thriving. She says she knows they are, but she’s missing stuff and she doesn’t have to. And that makes her so incredibly lucky. What Drew’s proposing, an opportunity for her to help recruit bone marrow donors and stem cell donors, who in turn could help cure cancers like she had, and also spend significantly more time with her kids. What a gift, for them and for her. He says, it sounds like she made up her mind, and she says, he doesn’t seem surprised. He says he had the feeling this is how it would shake out, but he wanted her to get there herself. She says, and here she is, and he says, here you are, taking her hand. She says, here we are. So he’s on board if she does this? He says he’s on board with anything that makes her happy, and she says, anything? He asks if she had something specific in mind, and she says, as a matter of fact, she does, and kisses him.

Gregory says, if he’s hearing Tracy right, she feels she’s been showered with temporal gifts in life – money, property, a close knit if not always harmonious family. But in her opinion, she doesn’t have much to show for it. She says, well done, and he says, achievement is overrated. He doesn’t think we were put on this earth to win trophies or become famous or make scientific discoveries. Don’t get him wrong, power to you if you do, but the way he sees it, he thinks their job is to love the lives they’ve been given and the people they’ve been set down amongst. And to be grateful for all of it. She says she doesn’t think she’s been very successful by that measure either, and he says, there’s still time. And not all of us can say that. The kids run past and into the house, followed by Cody.

Aiden sets lunch in front of everyone, and Sasha tells James that he can do it. Cody says, he, for one, thinks it looks delicious, and Sasha thanks him. He says, she’s very welcome.

Brook asks if Lois can go through it just one more time, as Scotty continues to film. Brook asks how she held the product so it was toward the camera, and Lois says, you hold it just like this. Brook asks her to show how she got just the right amount of cream, and Lois says, she’s got to open it up gently and take just a little bit – a little bit goes a long way. This cream is a miracle. It’s a complete game changer. Maxie says, that’s the plan, and Brook says, and then? Sorry. Lois says, it’s okay. She’s just learning. Brook asks if Lois can show her the application part again, and Lois says, smell this first. Brook takes a sniff, then Lois does, and Lois says, it smells like the summer. It takes her right back to the beach. And the texture of it. Come on. Maxie and Lucy exchange glances, and Lois says she happens to be a woman of a certain age, and this makes her feel brand new. Lucy says, stop. Just stop right there. Stop, stop, and stop.

Lucy says, it’s time to face facts. Brook simply cannot be the Deception spokesmodel. Lois says she thinks Lucy is being a little hasty here. Brook just needs a little bit more time. Lucy says, that’s not really the problem, and Brook says, Lucy’s right. Lucy says, besides, they already have the perfect Deception spokesmodel, and Lois tells Lucy that if she says herself again, she swears she’s going to scream. Lucy says, Lois, it’s you, and Lois says, huh? Lucy says, you’re it, and Lois asks if she’s lost her ever-lovin’ mind. Lucy says, no. Because Lois just presented their product effortlessly. In fact, it was almost poetic. Scotty says he has the footage to prove it, and Maxie says, and she loves their products. It has to be her. Lois says, really? and Brook says, really. Just imagine everyone in the old neighborhood seeing her on TV. Lois says, the girls will get such a kick out of it, and Lucy says, come on. Is she in?

Violet and Wiley bring lunch to Gregory and Tracy, and Gregory says, what service. Tracy says, it actually smells very good, and Wiley asks if she’s seen his dad. She says she has not, and Wiley says, he must have gone back to their house. Want to help him bring his dad some lunch? James says he bets he can beat Wiley there, and Violet says, oh please. She bets she’s much faster than both of them. Right, grandpa? Gregory says, she is pretty fast. Georgie says, plate, and Wiley hands it to her, and Aiden says, fork. Wiley gives him the fork, and Gregory says, on your mark… get set… go! The kids run with Aiden and Georgie following them. Tracy and Gregory start eating, and Gregory says, this is really delicious. Tracy says, gateaux salé, and he says, she’s had it before? She says she has. She and Luke were living abroad, and they used to take weekend trips to get a change of scene. He says, isn’t Europe amazing that way? A train ride and you’re in another country. She says, their favorite place to stay was this bed and breakfast in Bergerac in the Dordogne. And every morning, the server would bring gateaux salé out for them when they woke up. Never the same ingredients twice. Just whatever they had on hand, and it was always perfect, light, just like this. Gregory says he would have liked to have met Luke, and Tracy laughs. She says, Gregory would have hated him, but he says he doesn’t think so. She says, maybe not.

Sasha wonders what else goes in pot-au-feu and tells herself to think. Cody says, why doesn’t she just look it up on her phone? but she says, because that would be cheating. (I don’t remember Tracy saying she couldn’t use a recipe.) He says, well, this is ridiculously good. Tracy would be crazy to pass on her. She says, from his lips, and he says, speaking of lips… She laughs and says, what a segue. He says, about before. He doesn’t want her to think he was trying to get her alone in his bedroom. He wouldn’t be opposed, but… She says, noted, and he says, the whole point is, he’s Team Sasha. She won’t be without a place to crash as long as he’s around. Tracy comes in and says, well, my dear, lunch was superb. She’s delighted to welcome Sasha to the household. Sasha thanks her and says, don’t worry. She’s still working on dinner. Tracy says, she can stop. Actually, she can make whatever she wants for dinner. No more tests. Do they understand each other? Sasha says, they do, and Tracy says, and Cody. Isn’t he supposed to be minding the rugrats? He asks if they’re not outside on the patio, but she says, no. They went off to look for Michael. He says, on it, and runs out.

Willow and Michael get busy, when they hear something crash downstairs.

Looking at the broken lunch plate on the floor, James says, it wasn’t his fault. Wiley pushed him. Wiley says he did not, and Aiden says, it doesn’t matter how it happened. He asks if Wiley knows where a broom is so they can clean this up. Georgie comes out with a brush and dustpan and says, here it is. As they’re sweeping it up, Cody comes in and asks, what kind of party is this? And why wasn’t he invited? Wiley says he brought his dad some lunch, but he can’t find him, and Violet says, maybe they’re upstairs in bed. Let’s go look. Cody says he doesn’t think so, no. They all made a fine mess in the stables. They’re going to help him clean up that bale of hay. Violet says, fun! and little the kids run out. Cody says, all of you, and Aiden follows with Georgie. Cody thanks them and says, it wasn’t supposed to be fun. He leaves and closes the door.

Michael listens from upstairs, and Willow asks if they’re gone. He says, gone. Remind him to give Cody a raise. She says she will, and he gets back in bed. He says he loves her, and he loves their life. She says she loves it too, and him. So much, it hurts sometimes. They get back to getting busy.

Tomorrow, Kristina tells Alexis that she doesn’t deserve to be micromanaged; Ava says someone has gone too far; Drew asks if Nina is backing out already; and Sonny says, Dante would be wise to stay away from him.

🎀 The Latest In Georgies…

I like her and wish she was sticking around.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital/juliet-donenfeld-is-the-new-georgie-on-general-hospital

✨ The Force Is With Them…

May 16^th, 8 pm, in The Locher Room.

https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital/daytime-stars-join-forces-for-cancer-benefit

🏊‍♂️ Two Trainwrecks No Train…

The awful people who started it all. I almost feel sorry for Lindsay, albeit post-break-up. She can be a dragon for sure, but Carl is no prize and to have the world – or at least 5 to 10 people – watch her world unravel must add insult to injury.

Summer House Season 8, Episode 11 Recap: Carl Comes Clean

And the people who should have run before becoming awful.

Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Hurricane Summer Arrives

⚰️ Impending Dead…

What comes next after The Ones Who Live.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/the-ones-who-live-has-concluded-what-s-next-in-the-walking-dead-universe-01htsw3x5dh2

Not anything Dead, but six degrees.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/watch-norman-reedus-in-the-bikeriders-coming-to-theaters-june-2024-01hwwg1h7tey

🪦 Currently Dead…

My big question is, how is Claudia growing old in a juvenile body? Wouldn’t her mind stay the same age as well? Just asking.

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-review

Ironically Roger Ebert is actually dead, but not a vampire.

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/interview-with-the-vampire-season-two-amc-tv-review-2024

🫎 A Rare Sight…

I love an albino animal.

https://people.com/rare-albino-moose-spotted-in-canada-8641927

🥊 Punching With the Rolls…

Boomerang back tomorrow for soap, a little tea, a few citations, and a possible earworm. Until then, stay safe, stay never double-dipping at a party, and stay not being too afraid to leave your safety net.

Apr12

April 11, 2024 – Chase Changes the Honeymoon Plans, Blame Game, VanderMoments, Shading Shannon, Dead Talk, Pet (!) Diversity & Normally

Posted on April 12, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Carly wakes up in the chair and looks over at John sleeping on the sofa.

Brook says, what if they made a mistake? but Lois says, they didn’t. Brook says, what if the style’s all wrong? but Lois says, it won’t be. Brook says, what if the lace is like a gross shade of ivory? but Lois says, that’s never going to happen. Brook says, what if they ruined Lila’s dress for nothing? and Lois says, Lila’s dress was already ruined. Unsalvageable, said the seamstress, except for the best part, which they’re putting to perfect use. So what is she really afraid of? Brook says, what if she doesn’t like it? and Lois says, if she doesn’t like her wedding dress, they’ll scrap it and find her something she loves. Because there’s nothing more important than her happiness on her wedding day. Capisce? Brook says, capisce, and Sandrine walks in with an assistant carrying a garment bag. She says, ladies, are you ready? The wedding gown of your dreams.

Curtis walks slowing into Drew’s office, and Drew says, look at him. He can’t believe this progress. It’s incredible. Curtis says he firmly believes if you do the work, you can achieve anything, and Drew says he was in Greenland with Curtis, so he’s not going to underestimate him, but walking this soon after surgery is next level. Curtis thanks him, and Drew says, and he can take a compliment. Curtis says, Trina’s been on him about absorbing good energy. It sounds a little woo-woo to him, but he’s trying. Drew says he’s happy for Curtis, and Curtis says, don’t keep him in suspense. Why is he here? Michael walks in and says, what’s going on? Drew says, let the meeting of the minds commence.

Alexis says, Nina did not just say that, and Nina asks if she denies it. Alexis says, that she’s being mean to Nina’s precious gossip slinger? Are they in second grade? Nina says, DeWitt is not just The Invader’s society columnist, and Alexis says, ugh, that title. Nina says, he got a promotion. He is now associate publisher. Alexis says she knows that. Nina reminds her of that all the time. How could she possibly forget that Nina has hired someone so incompetent? Nina asks, says who? and Alexis tells her, says me. And it’s not DeWitt’s fault that he’s going to make an ass of himself. That honor belongs to Nina.

TJ meets Marshall at a park bench, hands him a coffee, and says, good morning. Marshall says, and what a beautiful morning it is, and TJ says he has egg sandwiches too, handing Mashall a bag. Marshall says, that’s very thoughtful of him. Not that he wasn’t thrilled to get TJ’s call, but since he has the morning off, why isn’t he spending it with Molly? TJ says he considered it, but he knew how the conversation would go. Marshall asks, how’s that? TJ says, she’d thank him for wanting them to do something together, then she’d say she has an arraignment in five minutes, but she’ll make it up to him tonight. Then that would turn into her trying too hard and both of them faking it through whatever she thought of, or even worse, she stays late at the office to avoid the situation altogether. Marshall asks who they’re talking about here, because that doesn’t sound anything like TJ and Molly.

At the MetroCourt, Anna thanks Valentin for meeting her and apologizes for it being so last minute. He says, lucky for her, he had no breakfast plans, and they sit down. He says he ordered her tea and pours her some. She thanks him for being thoughtful, and he says, she called, and he came. What’s this about? She wonders if he can help her with a case, and he says he’ll always help her. What’s the case? She says, Pikeman.

Brook says she doesn’t know what she was so afraid of. The dress is perfection. Lois says, the only thing more beautiful than that dress was her in it, and Brook asks if she’s crying again. Lois says, get used to it. Her baby girl is getting married in the most magical wedding gown. Brook says she doesn’t know how Sandrine did it, but she really captured the spirit of Lila’s dress to a T. Lois says, it feels like she channeled Lila, all of her kindness and her warmth and her acceptance and her generosity, because that’s who Lila was. Brook says, Lois is so lucky she got to wear Lila’s gown, and Lois says, Brook gets to be a part of that too. Brook says, in the tiniest way, but Lois says, no. In her own way. That’s what makes it so special. Brook gets to have a piece of Lila while still being who she is. Beautiful, amazing, incredible her. Brook thanks Lois for doing this with her, and Lois says, is she kidding? Is she insane? She would have busted that door down if she hadn’t gotten an invite. Brook says, then she’s glad Lois did, and Lois says she’s so happy for Brook. And she’s happy for Chase. She’s happy for all of them really. Brook says she’s happy for them too, and they hug.

Alexis says, why doesn’t Nina just admit it. Nina hired DeWitt to piss her off. Nina says she actually does think he’s an asset, and Alexis says, and the fact he’s a colossal thorn in her side? Nina says, that’s just a perk, no doubt about it. Alexis asks, why? and Nina says, why does she enjoy steam shooting out of Alexis’s ears? Alexis says, why is she doing this? She doesn’t even work here anymore. Nina says, that’s exactly why she needed a replacement, but Alexis says, Nina didn’t need a replacement. Alexis was doing just fine and would do even better if Nina would stop breathing down her neck. Nina asks if Alexis wants people to read her publication, and Alexis asks, what kind of question is that? Everything was fine before Nina got here. Nina says, but is it better since she brought DeWitt on? Be honest about that. It is, because there’s a measurable rise in website traffic. Alexis says, and she thinks that’s because there’s a gossip column? and Nina says, yes, partially. Alexis has to court their readers. She has to give them something delicious and irresistible, so they stick around for the hard news. What she can’t do is decide what’s good for them and ram it down their throats. You have to woo them. Alexis says, what if she just quits? and Nina says, there’s the door.

Michael says, it’s good to see Curtis back on his feet, and Curtis says, it’s good to be back. He hears Jason was exonerated. Michael says, yeah. They’re all relieved about that. Curtis says, when Jason was suspected of taking shots at Sonny, he thought maybe there was a chance he tried before last summer at the MetroCourt. It’s nice to know Jason didn’t put him in that wheelchair. Drew says, he didn’t stay in that wheelchair very long though, did he? and Curtis says, no. He was lucky. He had experimental surgery and it worked. Drew says, come on. The surgery just gave him a chance to walk again. Curtis is the one who made that a reality. All the rehabs, learning how to walk again… Is Curtis kidding him? He can’t imagine what that was like for Curtis. Curtis has all his respect for making it through that and getting to the other side. Curtis thanks him and says he doubts Drew brought them here to compliment him on walking again. Why are they here?

Carly asks how John is feeling, and he says, sore. She says she bets, and he says, and very tired. She says, really? He didn’t sleep well? He says, it’s hard to get a good night’s sleep with her waking him up every couple of hours. She says she’s sorry. Should she have let him monitor his own signs of concussion? He says, is he, by the way, concussed? and she says, no. He’s bruised and bloody, but somehow, his head came out unscathed. He asks if that’s her professional opinion as his almost nurse, and she asks if he’s going to start arguing with her this early in the morning. He says he already knows it won’t do any good.

Sandrine says, Lois might surprise Brook, but Brook says, nothing her mother does surprises her. She’s well-aware of her mother’s flair, shall they say, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Lois comes in, and Sandrine tells Brook, like she said. Wearing a midi dress with a black lace overlay and a short white jacket along with pearls, Lois says, ta-da. Brook says, wow… ma… that’s… Lois says, she hates it?

Alexis tells Nina that she always says that – there’s the door – but they both know Nina needs her. Nina says, agreed. And she’s been agreeing with Alexis the whole time. Her point is, she thinks the paper would benefit if they just had DeWitt’s expertise and experience. Alexis says, no, and Nina says, that’s it. Just no. Alexis says she will not sit by and let The Invader be turned back into a tabloid, and Nina says, then don’t let it. Alexis says she’s trying, but Nina is making it very difficult. A messenger comes to the door and says he just needs a signature from Alexis. Alexis signs the form, and Nina says, you know what it’s going to say on Alexis’s tombstone? Alexis says, death by frustration? and thanks the messenger. He leaves, and Nina says, no. It’s going to say, Alexis Davis, didn’t play well with others. Alexis says, and now they’re back to the schoolyard, and Nina says, because Alexis refuses to grow up. DeWitt stays. End of discussion. She leaves, and Molly walks in. Alexis says she hates that woman, and Molly tells her, take a breath. Alexis says, how? She sucked all the air out of the room. Molly says, professional differences? and Alexis tells her, you could say that. She invites Molly in and says, tell her something wonderful that has nothing to do with this publication. Molly says she would, but she can’t. The Invader is actually why she’s here. Alexis puts her head on the desk.

TJ asks if Marshall has ever looked back at a decision and known he should have gone with his gut, and Marshall says, too many times. TJ says, when Molly pitched the idea of Kristina being both their surrogate and egg donor, his instincts were screaming, this is the wrong move. For a million reasons, but the most glaring being that Kristina’s too close. There’s no finish line. There’s no cutting ties at the end. Why? Because there couldn’t be. She’s Molly’s sister. Marshall says, and since Molly couldn’t go forward without his buy-in, that was TJ’s moment to shut it down. TJ says he should have explained why he was against it, calmly and unequivocally, before anything got too far. Instead, he went with the short-term gain of giving Molly what she wanted. Marshall says, some would call that being supportive, but TJ says he calls that being a coward. She was so wrecked. She was utterly devastated that she couldn’t get pregnant. So when she pitched the idea, he knew that for Molly, the closest thing she could have to carrying her own baby was for her sister to have it for her.

Anna tells Valentin that she and Dante were ambushed on the docks by Roman Hume. He worked for Pikeman. It’s just so strange. All roads seem to lead back to this one, ultra secretive organization that’s run by a ghost. He says, a ghost? and she says, Pikeman’s ties to the WSB are clear, but no one seems to know who’s at the top of the pyramid. So she needs information. She was hoping maybe he could provide it for her. He says, Pikeman? and she says, he was working for them as recently as last summer. He says, as an intermediary, a glorified messenger, and she asks how that job came about. He says he did some contract work for them back in the 90s, and they felt comfortable asking him to introduce them to Sonny, but whether Sonny and Pikeman did any work together after that was none of his concern. She says, okay. Maybe she can pick his brain about something else. Or someone. He asks, who? and she says, Jack Brennan.

Lois asks, what’s wrong with it? and Brook says, absolutely nothing. Lois says, well, something, but Brook says, the dress is lovely. It’s classy and elegant and tasteful… Lois says she feels a but coming, and Brook says, no buts. It’s just not really Lois’s style. Lois says, it’s just and but are exactly the same thing, and Brook asks if Lois thinks that’s her style. Lois says, to go out on a Saturday night? No, but she was under the impression that what you wear to your daughter’s wedding isn’t what you wear to go clubbing. They’re two completely different things. Brook says, it doesn’t have to be this different. What kind of nails would she even do with that? Lois says she was thinking maybe just clear, and Brook says, what? Lois says she’s the mother of the bride. She’s supposed to be understated. Brook says, there’s no supposed to be here. This isn’t a royal wedding. There areno standards she has to live up to. Brook just wants her to wear what she wants to wear. Something that makes her feel like her. Lois says, this definitely doesn’t feel like her, and Brook says she didn’t think so. Back to the drawing board. Lois tells Sandrine, let’s pull some colors, some swatches… Maybe show some skin this time. You know what? Maybe a plunging neckline. Brook says, let’s not get carried away, when Chase walks in. He asks if he missed it, and Brook says, missed what? What is he doing here? Sandrine says, there’s been a special order for the bride-to-be, and Brook asks what they’re up to. Sandrine says she was commissioned to design a dress for Brook’s honeymoon, and Brook asks if Chase really thinks that’s necessary. He says, very, and Sandrine takes out a beautiful black cocktail dress. Brook says, it’s gorgeous, and Chase asks if she likes it. Brook says she’s obsessed with it, but it’s long sleeves. Doesn’t he think she’ll be a little warm in Palm Beach? He says, they’re not going to Palm Beach.

Molly says, The Invader ran a piece on the DA’s office being opposed to the overturning of Heather Webber’s conviction, her multiple convictions of assault and homicide going back nearly twenty years. Alexis says, that would be with the metallosis diagnosis. Yes. She signed off on that. Molly says, then she knows the article cited an unnamed source, and Alexis says, yes. Molly says, mom, and Alexis says, what? Molly says, everybody at the DA’s office assumes that source is her. Alexis says, it isn’t, and Molly says, Alexis knows that, and she knows that, but her colleagues, specifically DA Scorpio, do not know that. Alexis asks what Molly wants her to do about it. The story checked out. Molly says she wants Alexis to help her prove that she’s not the one who broke confidentiality and discussed the case with a reporter, and Alexis asks how exactly Molly wants her to do that. Molly says, tell her who did.

Marshall asks if Molly knows TJ has misgivings about Kristina being the surrogate, and TJ tells him that he wouldn’t say it exactly like that, but yeah. Molly has her worries too. He thinks that’s the problem, because whenever he tells her his concerns… Marshall says, about what, besides the being too close part? and TJ says he just doesn’t think Kristina is taking the best care of herself. (Huh?) She’s out late, she’s not avoiding stress, plus the small fact that she’s out with her dad, who’s getting shot at on the regular. Marshall says, points taken. So when he brings all these things up to Molly… TJ says, she takes the position of defending Kristina, even though he knows they share the same concerns. That’s why they avoid the topic altogether. He just feels like, during this time, he and Molly should be closer together, but he just feels more and more distant from her. Marshall says, and what about Kristina? Has their relationship been affected? TJ says, how can it not be? Any time he shares a worry he has with her, she accuses him of overreacting. It’s as if Kristina is having the baby and she’s going to let them know when it’s here. He sounds ungrateful, doesn’t he? Marshall says, no. He sounds human. TJ tells him, that’s what mom said. Marshall says, smart woman, your mother.

Drew says he’s been doing some research and Floodgate Consultancy Group says, the wellness and fitness space is booming out there. They’re all across the country, but especially in the high-end areas, with both residential and urban people spending so much money not only to look good, but to feel good. Really laying the foundation for health, wellness, and longevity. Michael says he read that report too. 40 is the new 25, and with the right fitness regimen and the right products, you, too, can achieve it. Drew says, so thoughts? and Michael says he thinks it’s a good time for Aurora to diversify. Crimson and print media is still a front burner for them, but it is drying up. They need to find alternative revenue streams. He thinks dipping in to an expanding market makes sense. Curtis says, an expanding market like health and wellness, and Drew says, which is where Curtis comes in.

On the phone, Carly says she just ordered toast and eggs. She doesn’t understand what’s taking so long. John comes in, wearing only a towel, and Carly says she’ll hold. She tells John that she bets the shower felt amazing. He says, it did, and she says, it’s amazing what hot water can do, but he says, not so hot really. Carly tells the kitchen that she’s still holding, and looks at John. He says, the water never got too warm, and she says, he’s got to be kidding her. Back on the phone, she says, she’s here. She’s still here… No. She’s pretty sure there’s no food in her hotel room… What? They left the food outside the door, without knocking…?… Okay. She hangs up and says, they’ve got to be kidding her. No hot water, shoddy room service… This hotel is definitely going downhill. She opens the door just as Nina is walking by, and Nina says, oh. Good morning to you. She looks at John standing behind Carly in the towel.

Valentin tells Anna, what he remembers about Jack Brennan is, his rapid rise to director of the WSB was followed by a spectacular fall. He singlehandedly orchestrated Frisco Jones’ ouster and a year later, he was out himself. She says, he knows Jack is in Pentenville, right? and he says, yeah, thanks to her. She says, in part. She went to visit him the other day. Valentin asks, why? and she says, curiosity? Valentin hasn’t been to see him yet? Valentin says, has he been to see Jack Brennan in Pentenville? No, he has not. Why would he do that? She says, because they were close back in the day, when they were all coming up together at the WSB, but he says, no, not really. Jack Brennan did really well academically and even better with the ladies, but he was in the back of the room, not making eye contact. She says she distinctly remembers them at that pub they used to go to… The Archangel. The two of them were playing dice or something. Whatever it was, they were laughing because they’d aced an assignment that the rest of them just botched. He says, that sounds like Jack, but it doesn’t sound like him. If he was at The Archangel, he was lurking. He wasn’t hanging with the cool kids. Not like her. She was at the center of the circle. Jack was too. He thinks she probably has him mixed up with someone else. She says, he and Jack were just feeding off of each other. They were pushing each other to be better, to be smarter… He says, if anybody was pushing anybody, Anna was pushing Jack. They were the best of the best. Everybody knew that. Valentin was on the fast track to a desk job. He and Jack Brennan have never shared more than ten words together.

Alexis says she cannot and will not reveal the identity of her sources, and Molly tells her that now she’s going to say journalistic integrity. Alexis says, very good, counselor, and Molly says, that’s crazy. Leaked, privileged information is not protected speech. Whoever that source is, not only violated their professional conduct guidelines, they also jeopardized future cases. Alexis says, that sounds like a DA problem, not her problem, and Molly says, it’s a very big problem if the article affected the fairness of a trial. Alexis says, what trial? Heather’s already been convicted on multiple counts, and the DA has already refused to revisit any of those cases. And without a case on the docket, Molly can’t argue that a leak compromised anything. Molly says, she’s impossible, and Alexis says, that’s part of her charm. She holds out her wrists and asks if Molly would like to lock her up until she cracks.

Marshall says, TJ is in a tough and undesirable situation. Life hands those to us sometimes. When one was handed to him, he went for the big fix; he left his family to protect them. But had he stayed, had he gutted it out, it turns out he probably would have had a pretty decent life. TJ says, so Marshall is telling him that he made a huge mistake? but Marshall says, no. He’s saying it’s human nature, or more specifically male nature, to go for the big fix. Sometimes that’s not always the answer. Sometimes you can just let it breathe and settle, and that can be the way to go. TJ says, unfortunately, that ship has sailed, and Marhsall laughs. He says, not for the here and now. Kristina is who she is. And yes, she’s carrying TJ’s baby, and he can’t change that, he can’t erase that. But what he can do is step back and take a look at the whole picture and focus on what really matters. His relationship with Molly.

Carly closes the door and steps out in the hall, telling Nina, stalk much? Nina says, just doing her regular rounds. Carly remembers. Carly says, vividly. Although this hotel is definitely not what it used to be. Nina says, better? but Carly says, not quite. Nina says she didn’t think Carly could surprise her anymore, but she’s done it. An FBI agent? What’s Sonny going to think? Or Jason, for that matter? And poor Drew, forever the runner-up in the twin department. Carly asks if she’s finished, but Nina says she could keep at it all day. Carly looks at the food under the cloche and says she’s happy that Nina’s here. Nina says, no one could be happier than her, and Carly says she’d like to file a complaint about room service. Nina asks if Carly even has time to eat, because she seems quite busy, and Carly asks why Nina doesn’t spend less time worrying about her private life and more time managing her hotel. Nina tells Carly to enjoy the rest of her stay, and leaves. Carly pushes the cart into the room, mumbling about Nina, and John comes out fully dressed. He says, friend of hers? and Carly gives a short laugh.

Curtis says he’s listening, and Drew says, as he mentioned, the wellness/fitness space is booming. Aurora wants to move into that business, but they need someone to spearhead the initiative. Curtis says, meaning? and Michael says, someone with practical experience and knowledge of the fitness industry, a strong leader with customer service experience, and multi-level management skills. Drew says, which are skills Curtis has. The Savoy is a huge success. Curtis asks how they see Aurora moving into the business, and Michael asks what Curtis would do. Curtis says, the most practical thing might be for Aurora to buy up some of the small gyms around the country, rebrand them, and combine them into a national high-end fitness club. People are spending a lot of money in wellness. Meditation rooms, plunge baths, yoga, Pilates, physical training… A mind body connection and combined with a training-slash-fitness facility, this is a one-stop shop. It might require significant capital. Drew says, which they have… Nina walks in, saying, Drew won’t believe this. She just saw Carly… She stops when she sees the other two.

John says he gets the sense Carly and Nina don’t get along, and she says, he must be an FBI agent. He asks if she’s okay, and she says she doesn’t let Nina get to her… She tries not to let Nina get to her. He says he knows a little bit about their history, and she says, lucky him. He says he takes it there isn’t enough water under the bridge yet, and she says, there’s not enough water in the world. Sorry about the eggs. He says, it’s not her fault. Besides, coffee is the only necessary component. (Agreed.) She says, when she owned the MetroCourt, this would have never flown. If a customer complained about their food, they would redo it at no charge. She refills his coffee, and he says, she’s big on customer service. She says, it’s literally what the hospitality industry is all about, and he says, she must have had her fair share of jerks blow through here though. She says, yeah, sure, but for the most part, people were great. And she loved it. She loved making people feel happy and comfortable and special. He asks if she doesn’t get to scratch that itch running Bobbie’s, and she says, to an extent. She loves Bobbie’s – she really does – but it’s a restaurant. Full stop. In this place she got a taste of all of it, really curating a space. From the carpets to the linen to the lighting. Even the music. Putting all of those things together to create the ultimate experience. She loved it. He says, sounds like a symphony, and she says, it kind of was. He says, and she was good at it, and she says, she was great at it. He asks if she thinks she’ll ever do it again, but she says she doesn’t know. She tells people that she will, that she’s going to get her half of the MetroCourt back, but she thinks that’s just a pipe dream, The MetroCourt belongs to someone else, two someone elses. She’s just going to have to accept that.

Chase says he’s been working on a surprise for Brook, and she says, but he’s terrible at keeping secrets. Chase says, it’s true. Her mom has been helping him keep this under wraps. Lois says, guilty as charged, and Brook says, so no more Palm Beach? Chase shakes his head, and she says, please tell her that he’s not working. It’s their honeymoon. He says, they’re still going away, but there has been a change in destination. He leads her over to the loveseat, and she says, okay. As long as it’s not a downgrade, she’s in. Everyone else quietly leaves the room, and she says, so what are they talking? Miami? Charleston? Palm Springs? She’s never been to the desert. He says, think a little further away than that, and she says, like out of the US away? He nods, and she asks what he did. He says he’s marrying the woman of his dreams. No, scratch that. He never dreamed of her because he didn’t know someone this wonderful could exist, and he wants their honeymoon to be a reflection of that. He wants her to remember this trip for the rest of her life. Because she deserves it. She deserves everything. She says, he’s the sweetest man on the planet. So where on this planet is he taking her? He says, Florence, and she says, he’s kidding. He says he’s not kidding, and she says, Florence, Italy? He says, her mom told him that she wanted to go, and she says, only for her entire life. Oh my God, Florence? She jumps up and says, not only does she get to go, she gets to go with him? He asks if she’s happy, and she says, happy doesn’t even begin to cover it, and kisses him.

Molly says, so she guesses Alexis wins – again, and Alexis says, freedom of the press wins – always. Except she has no idea why she’s fighting so hard for it when it comes to this paper. Molly says, because she cares about her job and the integrity of her paper, and Alexis says, integrity the new associate publisher will undoubtedly destroy. Molly starts to leave and picks up the envelope the messenger delivered. She asks, what’s this? and Alexis says, a messenger dropped it off when she was fighting with Nina. Molly asks if she’s looked at it, but Alexis says she was too consumed with rage to care. What is it? Molly says, it’s from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and Alexis says, they’re handling her appeal. Molly says, it’s probably her decision, whether they’ll review her case, or she’ll stay disbarred. Open it. She holds it out to Alexis, who backs up, saying, no. She can’t. She tells Molly to do it, and Molly asks if she’s sure. Alexis nods, and Molly opens the envelope.

As Molly reads what’s inside, she looks sad, and Alexis says, it’s okay. It was a longshot anyway. So the appeal was denied… Molly says, they’re giving her a hearing. They set a date and everything. Alexis grabs it from her and looks at it. She says, they’re giving her a hearing, and Molly says, not just that. They’re giving her hope. This is hope. They hug and jump up and down.

Marshall says, TJ needs to find reasons for him and Molly to come together that aren’t about the baby. It’s those moments of now, those moments where it’s just the two of them. Those moments are precious too. Now, as much as he enjoyed that egg sandwich and this beautiful park… TJ says, and the incredible company of his grandson, and Marshall says, that too. Get his behind over to the store and buy all the ingredients for Molly’s favorite dinner. Just make sure it’s reheatable in case she does have to work late. Wouldn’t it be nice for Molly to come home and see her favorite meal on the table waiting on her? TJ says, Molly would love that, and Marshall says, don’t spend the next three months wringing his hands over what Kristina is or isn’t doing. Spend the next three months with his partner, being just that – partners – before they become parents. Molly is a very special woman. TJ agrees she is and thanks Marshall. They bro hug.

Chase says, mimosa for the bride-to-be, handing Brook a drink, and she thanks him. They say, cheers, and clink glasses. Brook says she can’t believe it’s true, and he says, believe it. She says, Florence… the Uffizi, the Duomo, David… He says, whoa. Who’s this David guy? She says, and they have to take a day trip to Pisa and an overnight to Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet. He says, she’s thought a lot about this, and she says, this is like a bucket list thing for her. And she can’t wait to look up all the best restaurants and they’re going to have gelato every, single day, no exceptions. Okay? He says, yes, ma’am, and she says, they’re going to drink wine at sunset in every piazza they can find. It’s going to be so incredible. He says, she’s so incredible, and they kiss. She says, they have so much planning to do. Wait. He asks, what’s wrong? and she says, a honeymoon to Florence is a lot more expensive than one stateside. The airfare alone. He says, that’s okay. He has the money for it. She asks, how? and he says he sold his truck.

Anna says, Valentin and Jack weren’t friends, but they certainly knew each other, right? He says, of course (🍷) they did, and she says, when he was working with Pikeman, in his dealings with them, did he ever get the sense Jack was involved? He says, she believes Jack Brennan was working with Pikeman? and she says she does. She can’t get him to admit it, but when Valentin was an intermediary, did anything jump out at him? He says he wishes he had something useful to offer her, but sadly, he doesn’t. She says, okay. It was worth a try. Maybe when she goes back to see him again. He says, don’t. Pikeman and Brennan are dangerous. If they’re working together, then they’re not to be messed with. She thanks him for his concern, but says she can take care of herself. He says, please do, and she thanks him for breakfast and leaves.

John opens the door for Carly and says, thanks again. She says she doesn’t think he thanked her the first time, and he says, then thank you. Not just for saving his hide on the docks, but for getting him back here and keeping an eye on him all night. She says he’s welcome, and he says, and he guesses they get to be friends, even if it’s just for a minute. She says, just for a minute? Are FBI agents not allowed to have friends? Oh. Worried he’s going to divulge classified information? He says, something like that, and she says, makes sense. But how does he know he doesn’t talk in his sleep? She leaves and he watches her walk down the hall.

Drew tells Nina, they’re at a meeting, so try back later, but Michael asks what she was going to say about his mom. And what did Nina do now? Nina says she didn’t do anything. She just thought Drew would want to know Carly moved on quickly from him and is now sleeping with everyone’s favorite FBI agent, John Cates.

Tomorrow, Tracy tells Brook, disrespecting your husband is no way to start a marriage; Maxie asks why Lucy is insisting on taking this all on herself; Alexis tells Gregory that it’s a risk she can afford; and Carly says she did something that someone isn’t going to like.

🛟 Here It Comes…

Now it’s somebody else’s fault she was a pita. Maybe she confused Fraser by answering every time the primary was asked a question.

Jill Zarin Blames Chief Stew Fraser Olender for “Disaster” on Below Deck Trip, Calls Out Crew’s “Attitude,” and Reveals What Fraser Promised at Start of Charter

🍸 Between Rules and Reunion…

I can’t believe anybody actually monitors who follows who. Aren’t they busy not opening restaurants and stuff?

Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent Unfollows Katie Maloney & Ariana Madix on Instagram as Their Feud Continues, See How Fans Are Reacting

It’s not about the ~~pasta~~ mirror.

Ariana Madix Claps Back at Sandoval’s Claim That She Doesn’t “Pay for Anything,” and Discusses His Counter-Offer, as He Accuses Her of Lying & Insists He Made “Top Market” Offer

🍊 Shady John…

Andy leaps with glee as he twirls his moustache.

John Janssen Seemingly Shades Ex Shannon Beador as a “Narcissist” Who ‘Lies’ as Girlfriend Alexis Bellino Calls Out “Smear Campaign”

⚰️ About Those Dead…

Like the franchise is ever going away.

The Walking Dead Franchise Has A Very Unsure Future

Ha-ha! I thought it said giant zombie heads. Now that would be a variant.

https://screenrant.com/walking-dead-new-villain-zombies-season-1-return

Carol’s turn coming up.

https://www.cbr.com/daryl-dixon-book-of-carol-release-date-cast-news

🐕 From Around the Globe and Back…

Bollywood babies.

Say hello to your favourite Bollywood celebrities’ furry friends

Backup pups.

https://people.com/meghan-trainor-stars-in-music-video-with-dogs-8629755

☔️ April Showers Bring More April Showers…

Stop by tomorrow for pre-weekend soap, the Summer smack talk promised, and shenanigans. Until then, stay safe, stay thinking twice before engaging in online debates, and stay doing the work. If you do, you can achieve anything.

Apr6

April 5, 2024 – Anna Visits Brennan In Pentenville, Come Monday, New Manager, Their Portrayal, Buddy Project, Poor Ann, Mutual Admiration, Dead Talk, Happily Ever Afters, X Quotes & Clearly

Posted on April 6, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Lois touches up her manicure in the nook, and Brook says, thank God she’s still here. She needs Lois. Lois asks if it can wait. She’s already late. Brook says, it’s about the wedding, and Lois says, whatever it is, they’ll fix it later. She promises. She starts to dash off and Brook says, fine. She’ll just have to get married without a wedding dress. Lois says, okay, you win.

Sonny sits at the MetroCourt bar and sends a text to Lois: I’m here. Where are you? Natalia comes up to the bar and says, Mr. Corinthos, we meet again.

Molly goes into Bobbie’s and Carly says, she just missed the lunch rush, so take a seat anywhere. She’ll have someone bring out a menu for her. Molly thanks her, and Carly says she wanted to tell Molly she did a great job in court the other day… at Jason’s arraignment. Molly says she’s surprised to hear Carly say that. She thought Carly would hold prosecuting Jason against her. Carly tells her, who says she doesn’t?

In his office pretending to be working, Drew picks up the phone and says, send her in. Jordan walks in, and he asks, what brings her by? She says, when they spoke the other day, he said he’d be open to Aurora promoting the city of Port Charles. She’s here to follow up.

At Pentenville, a guard brings Brennan to the visitor room, and Brennan says, look who it is. Anna says, good afternoon, and he says, it is now. She asks, why is that? and he says he likes being right. He told her that she’d be back to see him, and here she is.

Sam brings Dante into the apartment, and he says he’s got this as he slowly walks to the sofa. She asks if he’s sure about that, and he says he might need a little help. She helps him to sit, and he takes her hand and says he just wanted her to sit next to him. She says she’s missed this, and he says, him too. She says she was afraid she’d never have him here again in their home, and he says, see? All that worry was for nothing. She says she loves him so much, and he says, him too. She says, welcome back, and they kiss.

Sonny asks what brings Natalia to the MetroCourt, and she says she has a meeting and they’re officially late. He says, the person he’s meeting is late too, and asks if she wants to wait with him. She says she would like to, and takes a seat. She’s always surprised by people who just don’t respect the value of other people’s time, but it doesn’t seem to be bothering him. He says he’s just waiting for a friend. Business is business. He asks what she’s drinking, and she asks what he’s having. He says, scotch, and she tells the bartender that she’ll have the same. He says, she doesn’t seem like the white wine type, and she says she’s found that business rivals don’t really respect a Sauvignon Blanc. He says he’s sure her rivals are impressed by her, and she thanks him. She asks if she can make a personal observation and he says, no… He laughs and says, go ahead, and she says, since they last met, he seems lighter, happier. He says, is that right?

Lois says, sit. Tell her everything. Brook says, when they decided to downsize the wedding, she called Sandrine and told her to stop working on alterations on Lila’s dress. But now that Dante’s feeling better – Lois says, thank God – and they’re having the wedding they originally planned, she called Sandrine back and told her to start working on the dress, and she said… Lois says, there was a fire, but Brook says, no, and Lois says, a broken pipe flooded everywhere. Brook says, ma, no, and Lois says, oh God, it’s squirrels again. Brook says, worse. She said the fabric is too old, that it’s falling apart, it won’t hold a seam. Bottom line, the dress cannot be altered. Lois says, that is a setback for sure, but Brook says, it’s more than a setback. The dress can’t be worn. Game over. Lois tells Brook to bite her tongue. She knows when things are impossible, that’s when they start to get creative. There’s got to be some way to salvage some part of Lila’s dress.

Rocco comes in with Scout, and says, Dante’s home. Dante says he is. He told them he was coming back, right? Rocco says, but now he’s here, and Dante says, he’s right, and Rocco’s here too. Sam asks, where’s Danny?

Molly tells Carly that she was assigned the case. She had to make the best argument she could. Carly says she knows Molly was just doing her job. If Jason didn’t make bail and Dante hadn’t woken up to exonerate him, she wouldn’t be in this good of a mood, but that’s not what happened. Jason’s free, Dante’s home with Sam and Rocco, and Molly’s niece and nephew. Molly says, and they’re crazy about him. She just hopes they’re not so excited to see him, they pop Dante’s stitches and Sam has to take him back to the hospital. They laugh, and Carly says, that would be awful. Kristina comes in and says, guess who’s on time? Molly says, not just on time, but early, and Kristina says, the end times must be upon us. She says hi to Carly, who tells them to take a seat – clearly, they can sit anywhere – and she’ll bring them menus. Molly sits, and Kristina tells Carly that she knows Nina is back at Crimson. Is she okay? Carly says she’s better than ever, and Kristina says, really? Carly says she’s busy enough here, and Drew’s a savvy businessman. She’s sure he had a reason for taking Nina back.

Jordan says, since Aurora is headquartered here, it benefits his company for Port Charles to be seen as the vital, thriving, culturally rich city it is. He says, as opposed to the smuggling mecca with outbursts of violence from organized crime get away from, and she says, that’s the image they’re trying to get away from. He says he’s sure the shootings at Selina’s warehouse didn’t help any, and she says she’s really glad they’re having this chat. He asks, why is that? and she says, there are some days she really misses being Police Commissioner, but he’s made it so she doesn’t miss law enforcement at all. They should do this more often. He says, they’ve got to find a way to make that happen. Starting with cleaning up the city’s image. She says she’s hoping Aurora Media will play a pivotal role in rebuilding the city’s image, from the streets up.

Brennan says, they told him that the Police Commissioner was here to see him. When did Anna take back her old job? She says, it’s been a couple of months, and he asks if Police Commissioner wasn’t a come down. International spy to small town cop. (Wow. It was a mecca just two seconds ago.) She says she could do worse. She could be wearing one of those jumpsuits. He laughs and asks if she doesn’t miss working intelligence, and she says, sure, but she actually enjoys doing local police work. He asks how that’s even possible. He remembers her back in the day, the ambition. She was downright scary. She asks if she’s scary now, and he says, she’s not not scary. She laughs and says, he was always such a smooth talker. He says, all Australians. It’s in the genes. He asks why she’s here, and she says, a name came up that made her think of him – Pikeman.

Jordan tells Drew that she wants to rebrand this city. Emphasize the art scene, their gorgeous location, its architecture… His phone rings and he says he thought he told his assistant no interruptions. He’s so sorry. The door opens and John walks in. He tells Drew not to blame his assistant, and Drew says he won’t. Who the hell is he? Jordans says, this is Special Agent John Cates with the FBI, and John says, Deputy Mayor Ashford, always a pleasure. She says she’s sure it is, and Drew says, as John can see, he’s at a meeting right now. What does he want? John says he needs Drew to answer a few questions about his brother Jason Morgan.

Molly asks if Kristina can be any more insensitive, but Kristina says, Carly is fine. Molly says, if she weren’t fine, does Kristina think she’d let on? This is Carly, for God’s sake. Kristina says, honestly, she doesn’t think Carly is crying many tears over her breakup with Drew, and Molly asks how it’s her business. Kristina says, admit it. She’s just as curious. Know how she knows? Molly hasn’t even asked her about… Molly says, oh my God. How’d it go at the doctor? She’s sorry she and TJ couldn’t be there. Kristina says, it’s totally fine, honestly. She’s laying there in what they have the nerve to call a gown. They put that goop all over her belly and roll that electric eye over it, and that’s it. She was totally fine doing it on her own. Josslyn comes in and Molly says, hi. Josslyn says hi back and goes to the counter. Carly asks if she isn’t sick of this place, and Molly asks Kristina, what’s up with her and Joss? Kristina says she has no idea what Josslyn’s problem is.

On the phone, Lois says, the bodice is completely unsalvageable?… How about those gorgeous pleats?… How popped and yellowed?… And the crinoline?… Oh no… Wait. What? They’re intact? Are they sure?… She’s going to put her daughter on the phone with them right now. She hands the phone to Brook, who says, yes? Hello?… Uh-huh… Oh my God, yes. That would be amazing… She can come in for a fitting anytime… Oh no. She’s so sorry. She can’t come in right now. She has a crucial meeting right now. She hands the phone to Lois, says, sorry, and leaves. Lois sees a bowl of ice cream on the counter and says, ooh, strawberry. She sits down, eats a spoonful, remembers she’s late, and runs off.

Sonny says he’s in the mood to celebrate a little bit, and Natalia asks, what is the special occasion? Sonny says his son is a cop, his oldest son, and he was shot in the line of duty. It was touch and go for a bit, and they thought he wasn’t going to make it. She says, but he did, and Sonny says, yeah. She raises her glass and says, to his son. He says, to Dante, and clinks his glass against hers. She asks if he’s still in the hospital, but Sonny says, he’s home today, and it’s going to take him a while to make a full recovery. She says, okay, but that’s wonderful. She’s happy for both of them. He says, thank you very much. He’s so happy. She says, that reminds her of something he said, that there is nothing more important than making sure your child knows you love them. She’s been thinking about that a lot lately. He asks if things are better with her and Blaze, and she says, yeah – she takes a sip of her drink – and no.

Scout tells Sam, Danny said he had to do something, and Sam asks if he mentioned what that was. Rocco says, no, but that’s just how he is. He’s not big on explanations. Sam says, all right. No big deal. She’ll just shoot him a text. Scout says, she can’t, and Dante asks, why not? Scout says, mommy took his phone when she grounded him, and Sam says, ouch. Scout’s right. She did do that. All right. She knows where to start. Dante says, she thinks he went to see… She shoots him a look, and looking at Sam’s phone, Scout asks why Carly would know where Danny is. Danny walks in with a bakery box and tells Dante, welcome home. Dante says, there he is. He’s back. Sam asks where he’s been, and Danny says, Eckerd’s. He wanted to get some donuts to celebrate Dante’s homecoming.

Natalia tells Sonny that she doesn’t want him to think less of her for saying this, and he says, there’s only one way to find out. She says she’s still struggling with mixed feelings about Allison, and he says, being gay. She says, yeah. She wishes she could wake up tomorrow morning and just feel enlightened and comfortable with the way she is. He says, it takes time, and she asks if it took him time with Kristina. He says, no, not really, but he thinks with Kristina, it took her so long to tell him because she was afraid he’d reject her, which he would never do. Natalia says she feels like it’s a little bit different with Allison, because she’s not altogether convinced that it’s not a reaction to the harassment and abuse she got from her former manager. He says, Linc Brown, and she says, that’s the one. She knows Sonny accepted her right away, but did he ever wonder with Kristina? Did he ever ask why? He tells her that he’d be lying if he said he never wondered if her bad experiences changed her and made her who she is. Know what he learned? That happens to all of us. Kristina was, is, and always will be Kristina. Natalia says, and she’s charming and beautiful, and he says, she gets that from her dad. She laughs, and he wonders if he can ask her something he thinks she may not like. She says, hold on, and takes a sip of her drink. All right. He asks if she thinks she knows what her daughter wants more than her daughter does, and she says, of course (🍷) she thinks that. Of course (🍷) her daughter doesn’t always agree with her all the time. He says, to daughters, and they clink glasses. Lois and Brook arrive and see Sonny with Natalia.

John says, if Jordan wouldn’t mind, but Drew says he wants her to stay. He’s got nothing to hide. John says, it’s fine by him. Has Drew heard from his brother? Drew says he has not, and John says, not since the charges were dropped? Drew says, nope, and John says, what about before? Drew says, the only time he saw Jason was at his arraignment, and John says, and they didn’t speak then. Drew says, actually, no, and John says, to his own brother? Drew says, they’re not that close, and John asks, then why go to the arraignment? Drew says, they have people in common. He was there for them. And that is the extent of their contact. John says he’s sorry, but he finds that hard to believe.

Brennan says, Pikeman, and Anna says, come on. Don’t tell her that he doesn’t know what that is. He says, of course (🍷) he knows. Armaments, defense systems, skilled mercenary soldiers. She says, very lucrative business, and he says, it was. He’s sure it still is. They were investigating them. She says, he was? and he says, the WSB was. Sadly, he no longer considers himself part of that institution. She says, what really amazes her is the fact that he was able to be the director of the WSB and head up Pikeman at the same time, and he says, what? She says, that was terrible, that look of astonishment. He’s not even trying. He says he doesn’t see how one can head a global law enforcement agency and a paramilitary defense contractor at the same time. But the fact she thought he could have, he’s quite flattered. She says, Pikeman has weapons. WSB needs weapons. That way we were able to… She keeps referring to the WSB as we. He says, institutional espionage is addictive. It’s a hard habit to break. She says, a partnership with Pikeman gave the WSB access to untraceable weapons, which allowed them to meddle in countries they were supposed to leave alone. He set it up perfectly. He says he did? He must be really good. She says, he’s one of the best. Then he got himself caught because he couldn’t leave Port Charles alone. Why? What’s so important here?

Kristina says, Molly was in the courtroom, so she didn’t see it, but she and Josslyn got into it before Jason’s arraignment. Josslyn went on and on and on about how Jason just had to be innocent. Molly says, which it turns out he was, and Kristina says, yeah, but no one knew that at the time. But did Josslyn listen? Nope. She was being totally unreasonable.

Josslyn sits down at the counter and says, Dex is becoming a cop, and Carly asks if she’s sure. Josslyn says, yes. He was here and he was reading the paperwork right over there. So what happens when Sonny finds out? What happens if Sonny takes him to the Pine Barrens and Carly isn’t there this time to stop him? Carly says she could try to talk Dex out of it, but if he’s that determined… Josslyn says, Dex should be able to do whatever he wants to do, but he can’t because of Sonny. The FBI should be investigating Sonny, and they should put him away in jail until the end of time like he deserves. Kristina gets up, and Molly says, no, just leave it, but does Kristina listen? Nope. She says, Josslyn is talking trash about her dad, and Josslyn says, in a private conversation. Kristina says, their voices carried. She might want to walk that back. Josslyn asks why she’d want to do that, and Kristina says, a lot of reasons. Everything her father’s ever done for Josslyn.

Josslyn says she’s sorry. What is she supposed to be grateful to Sonny for? Kristina says, he’s been wonderful to Josslyn. She grew up in his house. Josslyn says, he was her stepdad. She was a child. She had to live there. Kristina says, Sonny has always loved Josslyn and treated her like she was one of his own daughters, and what does she do? She tears him down behind his back. Josslyn says, call him over. She’ll say everything right to his face. It wouldn’t be her first time. Kristina says, Josslyn hates him like he is some terrible person. Her father has donated wings to hospitals… Josslyn says, where’s the money coming from that he donates these wings? His coffee imports? Kristina says she’s not discussing what her father may or may not be doing with his business… and Josslyn says, may or may not… Kristina says, about which none of them has firsthand knowledge. Josslyn says, Kristina might not, and Kristina says, Josslyn does? Carly walks over and says, they’re not having this conversation here. They need to take a step back. Kristina says, no, please, enlighten her. She can’t wait to hear this. What does Josslyn think she knows about what her father does? Josslyn says she knows Kristina’s father is a vicious thug and a murderer.

Brook hugs Sonny, and he says he didn’t know her mom was bringing her here. Lois says she wasn’t, but Brook was meeting someone here, and Natalia says, that would be her. Lois and Natalia introduce themselves, and Lois says she’s sorry they’re late. They had a wedding dress emergency. Sonny says, that happens, and Natalia says, does it? She’s never heard of a wedding dress emergency. Lois says, now she has, and Brook suggests she and Natalia chat somewhere more private. Sonny says he hears Blaze is the new Face of Deception. That is exciting. Natalia says, we’ll see, and Brook says, let’s take that table over there and let them catch up. Natalia says, have a nice lunch, and goes with Brook. Lois tells Sonny, she seems… nice.

Sam says, since they eat donuts with their hands, why don’t Scout and Rocco go upstairs to wash up? Scout asks if Danny is in trouble, but Sam says, no. Rocco tells Scout that their business is upstairs. Let’s go mind it. They go upstairs, and Sam tells Danny that she needs him to tell her the truth. No matter what, he’s not in trouble. When he went to get the donuts, did he go and see his father? Danny says, no, and she says, okay. He asks if she believes him, and she says, shouldn’t she? He says, yeah. He just didn’t think she would. She opens a drawer and says, how about this? She’s actually going to give him his phone back. She takes out the phone, hands it to him, and says, but under one condition. She is going to put the locator on, so she knows where he is. He says, so not only does she not believe him, she doesn’t trust him either, but she says she does believe him, and she trusts him. She just wants to protect him. He says, from his own father, and she says, his father isn’t someone he should be around right now. Jason leads a dangerous life. Danny says he’s got homework. He tells Dante, enjoy the donuts, and goes upstairs. Sam says, what? and Dante says, she’s the mom, so what she says goes, but respectfully, he thinks she might have made a mistake there.

John says, like Drew told him, he and his brother have people in common, most notably Sam McCall and Carly Spencer. Both of them were married to one, and both of them were involved with the other. Jordan says, none of which merits investigation from the FBI, and John says he was getting to that. She says, well, hurry, and John says, both Drew and his brother have been charged with a federal crime. His brother went to prison after a no contest plea, and Drew went to prison after pleading guilty to insider trading. He was granted early release, which means if Jason is involved in any criminal activities and Drew is implicated, he could be sent back to Pentenville. (Wouldn’t the FBI already know how close Drew and Jason are or aren’t?)

Brennan says he’s thought a lot about Port Charles. There’s so much to do in this city, so much to discover. Anna says, like a mission report on the defection they worked on together. Does he remember that? He asks, how could he forget? It was a dismal failure. She says, but then he found out she had a hard copy, and he couldn’t let that get out, could he? He says, because it went south? He’ll have her know that he’s been a part of more than one failed mission. She says, but none of those resulted in ten million dollars disappearing, and he says he remembers the ten million too. It’s funny, because back then they thought that was a lot of money. She says, they did, but it’s enough to provide seed money for Pikeman. That’s why he had to destroy the report and silence her in the process. He says, right. So if he’s such a diabolical mastermind, why is she still alive? If she’s the only person who can tie him to the missing money, why wouldn’t he just kill her? She says, it’s not for lack of trying, and he says, or maybe that’s what someone wants her to believe. She asks if he’s saying he’s being framed, and he says, like she hasn’t? She says, it happens to the best of us, and he says, someone didn’t like the direction he was taking with the WSB, and now he’s in here. Maybe she can help him get out. Maybe she can find out who framed him. For old time’s sake. She says she’ll consider it, if he gives her something in return. He says, such as? and she says, a name. With him in here, someone’s got to be running Pikeman. Who?

Josslyn says, Molly is the ADA. She must have access to the file on the assault of Cyrus Renault. Show Kristina. Kristina says, Josslyn wants to talk about thugs and murderers, Cyrus Renault is at the top of that list. Josslyn says, he used to be. Maybe he still is. It doesn’t matter. She should look at the file. And she should take a really good look at the photos and see what her beloved daddy did to a helpless old man who couldn’t fight back. Molly says, this isn’t accomplishing anything. They’re going to go. Josslyn tells Molly, show her. And then show her all of the information in all of the files on all of the lives Sonny has ruined and all of the people he has had killed. Carly tries to interrupt, but Josslyn says, then maybe Kristina will see him for who he really is. Kristina says she can’t be around Josslyn, and walks out. Molly looks at Josslyn, who says, if Molly wants her to apologize, she can’t. Molly says, Kristina is pregnant right now. She can’t handle this kind of stress. Even if she could, what good does it possibly do, rubbing her nose in how Josslyn feels about Sonny? He’s her father. She loves him. She has every right to. Molly leaves, and Josslyn looks guilty, as she should. She can be a mean girl.

Sonny says he thinks that’s a record. Two seconds, and Lois wrote Natalia off. Lois says, oh no. She’s as open as the next person. He says he can see that, and she says she means it. She’s willing to give anyone a chance, but come on. She’s been in the music business a little bit too long. She can spot a stage mother from a mile away, and she’s telling him, that Natalia is enmeshed in her daughter’s life. So much so, that poor kid isn’t going to be able to have a life of her own. He says, and no one can say that about her, and she says, there is no questioning how close she and Brook are. But her daughter is her own person, and she accepts the beautiful, brilliant, vibrant human being that she’s become. He says, and she is that, and Lois says, let’s see if that Natalia can say it about her own kid.

Brook asks what Natalia’s concerns are about Blaze becoming the Face of Deception, and Natalia says, she’s already a star. Brook says, she is, a rising star, and Natalia says, higher and higher every day. So forgive her if she questions some of Brook’s managerial choices. Brook says she’ll be happy to answer any questions Natalia may have. Fire away. Natalia suggests they start with the most obvious, which is that Brook has this wedding taking up all of her time. So will Brook even have time to focus on what’s best for her daughter? Brook says, yes. Next question. Natalia says, let’s just stick with this one. What if she had a wedding dress emergency and she had a meeting with a record label or a venue manager?

Dante says, the more Sam forbids Danny to see his father, the more he’s going to want to see his father. She says she doesn’t know what else to do. Does he have any suggestions? He says, talk to Jason? He doesn’t know. He may be biased right now because technically, the guy saved his life.

Brennan says he can’t tell Anna who’s head of Pikeman because he doesn’t know, and she says, might she remind him that she and Dante Falconari were targeted by Hume. Hume was employed by Pikeman, working under his orders. He says, if she has proof of that, by all means, show it to his attorneys. He’s sure they’d love to see it. As would he. Let him ask her. Does she have any evidence directly tying him to Pikeman? No? Then why does she think that is? She says she may not have anything to tie him to Pikeman now, but she can certainly tie him to it back in the day.

Sam says she’s grateful Jason helped save Dante’s life, but this isn’t about him and Jason. This is about her protecting Danny from Jason. She doesn’t want him to get sucked into Jason’s life more than he already has. Dante says, first of all, he’s not trying to make it about him. He’s with her. He’s just concerned that… She says, forbidding Danny from seeing Jason is only going to make him want to see Jason more. She knows that. She just doesn’t know what else to do. He says he’s going to do whatever it is Sam tells him to do to help her. She says, of course (🍷) he will. Because he knows what it means to be a father. And it’s more than biology. He’s the one who’s here. He’s the one who’s put in the time. He’s the one Danny can count on. He says he doesn’t know about that, but he knows he’s the lucky one, because he has her and those kids. She says, yeah, and they’re about to kiss, when Scout asks if they can eat now. Sam says, of course (🍷). Come on down. The kids all come downstairs, and Sam says she has some really good news. Olivia brought over some dinner, but she was thinking maybe they’d do something a little different. Since it is a celebration, maybe they could have dessert before dinner. Unless of course (🍷), they want to have dinner before dessert. Show of hands. Dinner first?… No? Dessert first? All the hands go up, and Sam says, dessert it is. Danny says, Dante gets first choice, but Dante says he’ll give his first choice to Scout. Scout asks if there’s a pink one with sprinkles and Danny asks what she thinks. She takes one out, and Sam asks what she says. Scout says, thanks Dante. Welcome home. Dante thanks all of them and says, this is the best welcome home ever. Now pass those donuts around.

Drew says, if John wants to investigate him, go for it. Sift through every detail of his life. John can audit his company. He has absolutely nothing to hide. He’s just going to give John a little bit of advice. Make sure he dots every i and crosses every t, because he’s going to make this very public. And he’s pretty sure the FBI doesn’t want John bringing on that kind of exposure for them. John thanks Drew and says he appreciates Drew’s time and cooperation. Drew says, he’s very welcome. So they’re done. John says, for now. If he does hear from his brother – Drew says he won’t – or obtain any information, give him a call. Drew says, John wants to bring down Jason, that’s on him. John leaves, and Jordan asks, who does Drew hate more, his brother or Very Special Agent (ha-ha!) John Cates? He says he definitely doesn’t hate his brother. It’s just, Jason brings on his own trouble, and he doesn’t want to be dragged down into it. She says, heard, and he thanks her for staying. She says she’s so glad she did. Drew tearing into Special Agent Cates was a thing of beauty.

Anna says, that mission report, and Brennan says, the one she believes he tried to have her killed over. She says, that one. It clearly states that he was instrumental in planning that operation where the ten million went missing. It put him in a perfect position to sabotage the op and abscond with the money. Everyone else involved with that op was either sidelined or demoted, but not him. His career skyrocketed. It’s almost as if someone in a much, much, much higher position at the Bureau not only approved of his actions, but was rewarding him for them. They were rewarding him with positions that were advantageous to him and to Pikeman. Pikeman is far too valuable to collapse in his absence. So who did he hand it off to? Who is running it now? He says he wishes he could help her, but alas, she’s wasting her time. He calls the guard and says, the Police Commissioner is done with him. The guard leads him away.

Brook tells Natalia, Blaze wanted to keep it at smaller venues for now, then move on to other ones once they sold those out. After all, it’s better to sell 300 tickets to a 200-person venue than it is to sell 500 tickets to one that holds 1000. Natalia says she happens to believe Blaze could sell out a 1000 plus seat venue, and Brook says, so does she, but this is Blaze’s choice and she backed Blaze because she believes in her. Blaze is her client. She and Blaze will decide what direction to take her career. Natalia says, Blaze might be Brook’s client, but this is her child. It’s her job to safeguard Blaze’s happiness. Brook says, Natalia’s not going to get an objection from her. They all want Blaze to be happy. Natalia says, to that end, she wants to make sure Blaze doesn’t publicize something she can’t take back later. So she wants Blaze’s private life to remain private. Are they clear? Brook says she doesn’t manage Blaze’s private life. And neither does Natalia. Whoever Blaze decides to spend her time with and whoever knows about it, that’s up to Blaze. A word of advice… Natalia says she doesn’t need Brook’s advice, but Brook says, trust her. She does. Sonny is Blaze’s girlfriend’s father, and he loves his little girl. He thinks she hung the moon. She doesn’t think he’d appreciate Natalia trying to keep their relationship a secret.

Lois says, thank God. She can see the relief in Sonny’s face. She can hear it in his voice. He says he’s been relying a lot on Dante lately. Not just as a son, but as a friend. Lois says, how so? and he says, Dante has a way of getting through to him – he lowers his voice – and he needs that in his life right now.

Carly says, Josslyn was right about Sonny, but Kristina refuses to see it. Of course (🍷) she does. Sonny is her father. Josslyn says, don’t tell her that she has to go apologize, and Carly says, no. She doesn’t have to apologize. Kristina isn’t a delicate flower, and she gave just as good as she got. But she’s worried about Josslyn. Josslyn is so angry about the situation with Sonny and Dex, and she gets it, but all that rage Josslyn has inside is only hurting her. Josslyn says, of course (🍷) she’s filled with rage. Sonny sent Dex to kill Cyrus and Dex was going to do it, but he felt like he didn’t have a choice. And she can’t be with someone who could do something like that. Carly says, that’s the choice Josslyn made and she’s proud of her for it. Josslyn says, even if she’s miserable? and Carly says, that’s how she knows it wasn’t an easy choice to make. And as far as if it was worth it or not, only Josslyn knows the answer to that. Josslyn says, all she knows is, she still loves Dex, and she misses him, and Carly says he understands. She’s been there. Josslyn says, but she’s terrified because Dex is going to become a cop, and there’s a real chance Sonny will have him killed.

On Tuesday (see below), Drew asks Nina what he gets out of this; Sonny asks Ava why Drew would hire the woman who put him in prison; Jason says he needs someone to do something else for him; and Carly yells for someone to be left alone.

👓 No Soap Monday…

It’s the solar eclipse, baby.

GENERAL HOSPITAL Is Preempted on Monday

📋 Carly’s New Hire…

Meet Hunter.

Kody Kavitha Cast as Hunter on GENERAL HOSPITAL

🔬 A Little Mental Health On the Side…

When art imitates life. One of the reasons I love GH. They keep it relevant.

Maurice Benard Addresses GH’s Portrayal of Mental Health

💣 Joining Forces…

I can see them as The Blues Brothers 2.0.

William deVry Updates Fans on His Project With Kin Shriner!

🍸 For Ann’s Sake…

But will she ever actually be working?

Something About Her: Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney Hire Tom Sandoval’s Ex-Assistant Ann Maddox

There’s no doubt it was stressful.

Tom Sandoval’s Former Assistant Ann Maddox on Her ‘Stressful Work Environment’

But apparently, the worm with a mustache doesn’t think it’s stressful picking up his dirty drawers and being a go-between for two people who shouldn’t be sharing a house in the first place.

Tom Sandoval Threatens Ex-Assistant Ann Maddox With Legal Action Over Podcast, Accuses Her of “Betrayal” & Lying, and Claims Ariana Never Wanted Her Around, Plus Ariana Suggests Ann Was “Fired” as Schwartz & Katie Weigh in

💎 When Worlds Collide…

Definitely a meet cute.

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan Reveals Hilarious Experience Meeting Sutton Stracke

⚰️ What’s Next In Dead…

New addition to the City.

https://undeadwalking.com/posts/dead-city-season-2-update-sons-of-anarchy-actor-kim-coates-added-to-cast-01htqk16jafm

Thoughts on the Dead future.

What’s Next for The Walking Dead?

🐶 Miracles Happen…

Best happy ending ever.

https://people.com/woman-viral-search-for-senior-dog-missing-from-animal-hospital-exclusive-8620174

That grasshopper must live!

https://people.com/zoo-vets-make-tiny-neck-brace-for-grasshopper-bug-8619996

He’s in love.

https://people.com/simon-cowell-cuddles-adorable-black-white-puppy-8620886

💡 Quotes of the Week

It’s not a lie if you believe it. – George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Seinfeld

I’d rather see my face aging than a face I don’t recognize at all. – Cameron Diaz (Thank you.)

Quitting can be a hard choice to make, but often it’s a brave one as well. – Susan David

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. – Bryant H. McGill

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B. B. King (No one can take integrity away from you either.)

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable – and, most of all, fear puts hopelessness at the heart of life, while faith rejoices in its God. – Henry Emerson Fosdick

People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. – Steve Maraboli

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

And that, my dear, is how you run an asylum. – Matron Grady (Judith Light), Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story

⚡️Aftershocking…

Enjoy the eclipse then join me on Monday really Tuesday for what’s cringeworthy on Deck. Until then, stay safe, stay opening/holding the door open for any human immediately before or after you, and stay celebrating with dessert before dinner on occasion. Unless of course, you want dessert after dinner.

Mar19

March 18, 2024 – Marshall Correctly Diagnoses His Misdiagnosis, Two Goodbyes On Deck, Let’s Talk About Ones & Born

Posted on March 19, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Josslyn asks what Nina means. Dex was there when Cyrus was there? Nina says, that’s right. Cyrus survived the beating from Sonny and also survived his hospital stay, which she’s guessing was just as dangerous. Josslyn asks what Dex was doing there, and Nina says, he was in hospital scrubs. Let’s not forget that detail. Josslyn’s smart. She’ll figure it out. Nina leaves, and Josslyn looks at Dex.

Sitting next to Dante’s bed, Sonny says he knows Dante is in God’s hands, and he believes Dante’s spirit is strong enough to come back to them. He knows Dante can hear him and wants Dante to know he hasn’t given up on him, and he doesn’t want Dante to give up on himself. If Dante can hear him, Sonny wants him to know that his father is always with him. He puts his hand on Dante’s.

Tracy puts a blanket on Olivia, who sits up and says, Dante. Is he okay? Tracy says, no change, and he’d want her to sleep. She was at the hospital all night. Olivia checks her phone and says, no word from the hospital. She thinks she’s going to take a nice, hot shower. Tracy says, actually, she just walked past Olivia’s room, and Sam and Scout are asleep on her bed, and Olivia says, hot coffee it is (because there are no other showers in the house). Tracy says, coming right up, and Olivia says, Tracy is going to make it? She didn’t think Tracy knew how. Tracy laughs, and leaves for the kitchen.

At the gallery, Trini tells Ava, what a talented artist. Ava knows she studied at the University of Paris, right? Ava says she knows that, and Trina says, so many colleges and universities, all a part of each other and around each other. Paris is really the perfect creative environment. Ava says she understands the impulse to throw yourself into work to help you cope, but maybe being here, around all of this, isn’t helping. Trina says, yeah, but she doesn’t know what will.

Diane says, the Appellate Division came for Alexis after a ruling in front of the medical board, correct? That’s a division of the Department of Health, and that’s deep state. Alexis says, now they’ve gone from magical thinking to just being ridiculous. It was regulatory body; she was under oath. Diane says she knows plenty of elected officials who have lied under oath and none of them have been disbarred, and Alexis says she knows a lot of them should have been disbarred, but how does any of this have anything to do with her?

Marshall tells Doc, it’s true. During that time, he was a young Black man, down on his luck. And yes, he felt a certain kind of way toward the world around him. Curtis says, angry, right, pop? and Marshall says, yes. He was angry. Stella says she has to take issue with two things. They don’t characterize low-income people as poor. Being deemed poor isn’t good for one’s self-esteem or state of mind. And that anger Marshall was feeling was justified. But she understands what Doc was trying to say. Marhsall says, so does he, but given how things were back in the day – his age, his social standing, his Blackness – how well-adjusted could he possibly be? That doctor called him schizophrenic. Did he have to be mentally ill to feel how he felt? Doc says, exactly. Marshall just correctly diagnosed his misdiagnosis.

Josslyn asks why Dex went to the hospital, and Dex says he was told to go. She says, by Sonny? and he says, yes. She says, to deliver some sort of message? and he says, no. She asks why he was in scrubs, and Dex doesn’t answer. She asks if Sonny asked him to do something, and he says, yes. She says, to kill him? and he says, yes.

Lois puts a cup of coffee under Olivia’s nose, and Olivia sits up. She says she must be really tired. Wasn’t Lois just Tracy a few minutes ago? Lois says, no. Never in any lifetime. But she did have to go, so she asked Lois to look after Olivia. She said to bring her this – she hands Olivia the coffee – and make sure she enjoys every sip. Olivia says, aww, and takes a sip. She says, damn. That is good coffee. Did Lois make this? Lois says, no, and asks if Olivia is okay, but Olivia says, no. Is there any word from the hospital? Lois says, no, there isn’t, but she can call if Olivia wants her to. She just figured they’d call if they needed anything. Olivia asks if she means like if there’s any change in her son’s condition. Honest to God, she doesn’t know if she should be relieved or terrified.

Ava says she knows it sounds trite, but Trina has to give herself time. She’ll get through this. What did she say about that painting? It’s fire? That’s more than going through the motions. Nina comes in and asks if Ava has time to talk, and Trina says she’ll just take the painting to the back. Trina leaves, and Ava asks if Nina is okay. What’s going on? Nina says she’s not okay. The Invader ran this really insensitive story about the shooting on the pier that mentioned Sonny. Ava asks why she’s acting surprised by this, and Nina says, because she’s the publisher of The Invader and they slipped it by her and published the story. If she’d known, she would have done damage control or she would have killed it altogether. Ava says, if she’s worried about Sonny, he couldn’t care less about the story, and Nina says she ran into Josslyn. She went over to Dex’s and Josslyn was there. Ava asks why she went to see Dex, and Nina says, because she can’t see Sonny. She can’t even go to the hospital to check on Dante. Ava asks if Dex said anything, and Nina says, no, and she probably just made everything worse. But she doesn’t care because she’s being pushed aside when her husband needs her most. She has to find a way to get to him and she’s running out of options. She needs Ava to help her.

Diane says, right off the bat, she wants to take issue with a couple of things. The charge of perjury against Alexis came long after Dr. Byrne’s hearing in front of the medical board in 2020. Right? Yes. And that charge stemmed from Julian Jerome and Britt Westbourne, both of whom were known perjurers, both of whom were criminals, both of whom are dead. Alexis says, but neither of them brought this to the attention of the bar, and Diane says, but they had to be deposed and they’re both liars. That’s off to the side. What she wants to circle back to now is why Alexis never defended herself. Why she never mounted any sort of filing for herself. Alexis says, because it was true, and Diane says, irrelevant. Let’s just say, she was never presented the opportunity… No. She can’t do that. It’s just them here. Alexis knows full well she has the right to mount a defense. So why didn’t she? Alexis says she guesses at the time she didn’t think she had anything left to fight for. Diane says, well, snap out of it. Shake off the poor me’s and wrap whatever’s left of that steel-trap mind because she’s got two things to focus on now. Number one, why working here isn’t working for her, and number two, how she plans to get out of it.

Doc asks if any of them have heard of a book called The Youngest Science, and Stella says she read that. If she recalls correctly, it’s an account about medicine evolving as a science from an influential doctor’s point of view. Doc says, yes. It’s a personal, historical accounting of 20^th century medicine’s evolution. It’s a fascinating read. Marshall says, sounds great. Maybe he’ll pick it up. Why are they talking about it? Doc says, as a reference. Medicine as a science has come a long way, but after a long period of time. Psychiatry is much younger, and as a discipline, it’s made all the same mistakes all the other disciplines have made. Think of it as how astronomers used to believe that the sun revolved around the earth. The point is, scientists and researchers like to be right, and they often fall into the trap of proving what they already believe. Curtis says, that happens everywhere, and Doc says, which brings them to Dr. Braddock and his work. He wasn’t alone in his beliefs and practices. And Doc won’t defend the mistakes his discipline made when psychiatry was still trying to figure out what the heck mental health even was. The point being, the big question at the time was, what is normal and does that mean being like everybody else? Curtis says, like everybody else, and Doc says, right, and if you’re a mid-twentieth century psychiatrist making that determination, you tend to look to the people you already know, which are going to be decently educated, employed, church going, and predominantly white. That was the control group, and if you didn’t belong to this normal, predominantly cultural group, if you don’t share any of those hallmarks, or maybe you’re not as adept at code switching, then you present a problem, an illness.

Josslyn says, so Sonny gives Dex that order and he says, yes, boss. She can’t believe he’d agree to something like that. He says he tried to talk Sonny out of it, and she says, of course (🍷). Dex would never go through with something like that. It’s just Nina stirring up trouble, per usual. He says, except that’s not how it went down. He was going to do it, but Sonny stopped him.

Tracy goes into Dante’s room and says hi to Sonny. She says, any news? and he says he’d give her some if there was some. She says she left Sam and Olivia are both back at the house. They both needed sleep. She hopes he won’t ruin her reputation as being cold and unfeeling, and he says, her secret is safe with him. She says she’s sorry. Every time she sees a hospital bed, it reminds her of seeing Luke lying in it.

Diane says, perhaps Alexis’s memory is impaired, because as she recalls, Alexis wasn’t living her best life at the time. Alexis says, no. She was drinking. Defintiely not making good choices. Diane says, she never even had a proper hearing. She was the one who informed Alexis of the decision by phone. Remember? Alexis says, rings a bell, and Diane says, there’s also a case to be made for bias. Alexis says, why? Because she’s a woman? Diane says, because she’s a lawyer. Who does the medical profession hate more than anyone? Alexis says, lawyers. She hates most lawyers too, but more than anything in the world right now, she wishes she still was one.

Doc says, long ago, psychiatrists deemed aggression, anger or offensive dislocation from the dominant cultural group as a mental maladjustment. Never mind the societal injustices that existed only because they hadn’t been challenged for centuries. Curtis says, which was the actual maladjustment to begin with, and Doc says, right. So defiant, anxious, young Black men were tagged as schizophrenic, whether the diagnosis was accurate or not. Especially when one of the hallmarks of the disease is a misconception of reality, such as an institution or society at large is out to get them. Someone might be obsessed about it or angry about it. Marshall says, or desperate to figure out why his heart is suddenly racing for no reason. Why his hands are sweaty and it’s suddenly hard to breathe, or why people are just looking at him funny. He couldn’t play his horn like that. He was mad and frightened. He thought something was wrong with him. He thought somebody was trying to do something to him. Doc says, so he sought help and he, like a lot of young men, was deemed schizophrenic when all he was doing was perceiving the reality around him. On top of that, the medications he was likely prescribed would cause unexplained behaviors, which would likely reinforce the diagnosis. Stella says, Lord have mercy, and Doc says, an entire generation of unhappy women were prescribed valium. It’s a muscle relaxer. Gay, lesbian, and trans people were tranquilized, hospitalized, or worse, electroshocked into acquiescence. And that’s only if they had health insurance, by the way. Did Marshall? Marshall says, for a short time, until the insurance companies knew he’d been institutionalized, and he was dropped. Out the door with all those others he was talking about who couldn’t pay. They’d be found in the streets or bars or prisons, worried they’d pose a danger at home to the people they most loved – he puts his hand on Curtis’s shoulder – or bring shame on them. Doc says, it’s no shame for Marshall. The shame is, and always will be, ours.

Josslyn asks if it was that night Adam was in the hospital… Oh my God. It was, wasn’t it? She was in the chapel, and he came in. She fell asleep. When she woke up, he was in there, and she remembers thinking how lucky she was that he was there, and she could always depend on him. Now he’s telling her that if Sonny hadn’t stopped him, he would have what? Just come and sat in the chapel with her. He says he doesn’t know what would have happened. All he knows is what did. He was in scrubs. He had lifted a bottle of fentanyl from the pharmacy storage, and he was going to inject it into Cyrus’s IV line, when Sonny showed up. She says, and if Sonny hadn’t stopped him, if he hadn’t walked in right then, Dex is telling her that he would have done it? Dex says, yes, and she says, who are you? (Like, she didn’t know he’d been a mercenary? Told you that she was too immature for him.)

Nina says, Ava promised to help her put her marriage back together. The need to come up with a strategy, a way to break through Sonny’s anger and get him to see he still needs her. Ava says, the timing isn’t very good for Nina. What is she going to say? Sonny, don’t look at your son whose life is hanging on by a thread. Look at me. Nina says, of course (🍷) not. No, it’s more like, Sonny, let me be there to support you. Let me love you. Let me be there while you’re going through this incredibly difficult time. Let me be your wife again. That’s what it would be. She cries, and says she understands why Ava was with Sonny at the warehouse, but that means Sonny trusts her. If Ava advocates for her, he will listen. Trina comes in and says she just tracked the other packages, and another should be coming in today; a delivery was pushed up. Ava says she has to go out. Is Trina up to staying here and receiving it? If it comes before she gets back, just log it in and lock up. Trina says she’s got Ava. Is she all right? Ava says she’ll be fine and leaves with Nina.

Lois asks if Olivia remembers when her Nona told them that boys were easier to raise than girls, and Olivia laughs, saying, she lied. Either that, or she didn’t know any of the kids Dante grew up with. Lois says she thinks maybe it was just their neighborhood, because those boys were maybe just a step above hooligans, and she means a tiny step. Olivia says, and Dante was one of them. That kid got into so many scraps at that high school, they felt they had to send him away for counseling. She was scared to death there was actually something wrong with him. But it turns out it was just Dante being Dante. He was always standing up to bullies, defending the weaker kids, and not letting anyone get pushed around. That’s why he’s such a great cop. The best kind. The ones who know what it truly means to protect and serve.

Stella tells Doc that she was a social worker for many years before she was a patient advocate. The reason she switched was because she saw the inequities I the medical system firsthand. Those mistakes he spoke of were born of racism, sexism, and all the other isms, plain and simple. And what happened to Marshall wasn’t a mistake. It was malpractice, signed, sealed, and systemic. She’s sure he’s seen the stories of how Blacks, minorities, and women experience medical bias. It’s all over the news lately, but it’s nothing new. It’s been going on since the Jim Crow era and they still aren’t taken seriously by medical professionals. She knows because she has patients she has to fight for in this very hospital. Not to mention the ongoing maternal health crisis for women of color. And what burns her up is, they have great, talented medical professionals in this country. There’s no excuse for any of this. She’s sorry. She could go on, but she’s done. Curtis says, as Doc can see, his auntie is a passionate social justice warrior. Stella says, but she’s getting tired of this fight. Why, after all this time, are they still reckoning with things like this? They’re all human. It doesn’t matter the variety. Biology is biology. Doc tells her that she’s an advocate in every sense of the word. He hopes she never stops. He knows an apology from someone like him at this late date is meaningless… Marshall says, no, not meaningless. Not at all. Doc told the truth. He validated what Marshall has been going through most of his life. He just wishes he’d been able to understand all of this sooner, and not handed over his sanity and his life to some guy with a degree because he thought the doctor was helping him. Curtis says, that’s hard to do if the person he trusted to help him was attacking him. It’s insidious. He just wonders how many other people Braddock did this to. Doc says, oh there were others. Braddock was a respected, published doctor. Marshall says, they always figured it was something like this. Not only did Doc confirm it, but he’s shone the light on his life. It’s a lot to process. He gets up and says he’s so grateful to Doc, calling him kind sir, and Doc says he’s sure Marshall is a bit leery of shrinks right about now, but his door is always open if he’d ever like to talk this through. Marshall says he’ll think about it, and Doc laughs, saying, of course (🍷). They shake hands.

Dex says, Sonny gave him an order. He didn’t have to option to refuse. Josslyn says, he’s telling her that he would have killed for Sonny, and he says he didn’t want to. He just didn’t see a way out. But Sonny asking him was a test. And either he passes, or he’s the one who gets eliminated. He’s just lucky Sonny changed his mind. She says, he’s not understanding her. In her head, yeah, he’s working for Sonny, but he’s also working for her mom and her brother, her whole family. She never thought he would cross this line. She’s pictured a life with him that isn’t possible. She was willing to give up everything for him. Now she feels like she doesn’t even know him. He says, that’s not true. She does know him. And he knows her. He’s glad it didn’t happen. He didn’t see the point in getting himself killed for refusing to take out Cyrus. She says, this isn’t about Cyrus. She hates Cyrus. This is different. Neither him nor Sonny were being shot at. There were no guns out. This was a defenseless old man in a hospital bed. She cannot unsee the image of him going into that room. This is about him killing someone. Does he understand? He says he’s killed before, and she says, he’s right. He has. And she’s put him on this pedestal in her head and never imagined this is something he’d be okay with, but she’s not. This changes everything. She can’t do this anymore. She picks up her things and leaves.

On the phone, Alexis says, when they wake up, give her a call and let her know if there’s any news about Dante. Love you. Bye. Diane says, Sam? and Alexis says, voicemail. So what did she find out? Diane says, apparently, she has to file an appeal with the Appellate Court before she can file an appeal with Appellate Court. She’s glad Alexis understood what that means. Maybe she’s remembering how redundant and full of catch-22’s the law actually is. Maybe that steel trap isn’t as rusty as she thought. Alexis says, it’s creaky, but functioning. She’s supposing it has to be a special pleading since she did lie so Neil wouldn’t lose his medical license, and then he lost it anyway. Diane says, Alexis threw away her career for him, and Alexis says, why did she do that again? Diane says, because she’s a rescuer. She wants to be the heroine in everybody’s life but hers. In hers, she’s the arch villain. So no punishment is ever enough.

At the desk, Tracy tells Stella that she’d like to request a phone call if there’s any change in Dante’s condition. Her cell phone number is on file with the hospital board. Stella says she’ll note it in Dante’s file. And speaking of the board, there are a few things she needs to run by Tracy. Tracy says, oh? and Stella says, but they don’t have to get into it right now. Tracy says she’s here right now, so let’s get into it right now. Unless Stella has something else she needs to be doing.

Curtis finds Marshall in the PT room and asks how he’s doing. Marshall says he’s sorry he took off. He just figured he needed some time to himself. Curtis says, some history lesson, and Marshall says, Dr. Collins broke it down for them, didn’t he? But he didn’t say anything they hadn’t already put together. Curtis says, if Marshall wants to be left alone so he can rant, vent, curse, and damn Dr. Braddock’s name to hell, he can take off. Marshall says he came in here intending to do just that, to holler and curse, but he couldn’t. He couldn’t get something Stella said out of his head. Curtis says, which part? She said so much. Marshall says, she’s something else, but she got him when she said they’re all human, and Curtis says he guesses at the end of the day, that’s what it all boils down to. Marshall says, then why in blazes can’t they act like it? It’s so wrong. Most everybody is all wrong about everything they think about. He lost decades because of how people wanted to see him or not see him. That doctor lost a lifelong career because of his misbeliefs. It’s so senseless. Curtis says, Marshall’s being very philosophical about this doctor. Him? Not so much. Marshall says, he’s dead, and now he finds himself in the position where he has to forgive that man. Because that’s what Curtis’s momma would want him to do. Irene always said, forgiveness isn’t for the other person as much as it is for ourselves. If he carries around hate for that man, he’s going to turn into a hateful person. He’ll be just like him. Curtis says, maybe he has to work harder on that, but he will. For Marshall and himself. Marshall sits down and says he just thought of something. That disgraced doctor is six feet under and he’s here. He’s here with his family; his beautiful, accomplished, talented family. A family any man would be proud of. Everything he thought was wrong somehow turned out to be right. Or is it just another proof that there is a God?

Josslyn come into the gallery crying, and Trina hugs her and asks, what happened? Is it Dante? Josslyn says, no. She doesn’t know how Dante is doing now, but… Trina says she needs Josslyn to calm down and stop crying, because she’s two seconds away from joining her, and if she starts, she’ll never stop. So take a deep breath – Josslyn does – and tell her what happened. Josslyn says, it’s Dex, and Trina asks if he’s leaving town again. Josslyn says she hopes so. She hopes he never comes back. Trina says, what? and Josslyn hugs her again.

Stella says, Tracy is the only board member who hasn’t made an appointment for their annual complimentary wellness exam. Tracy says, it’s not necessary. She’s no longer seeing Dr. Finn. His brother is marrying her granddaughter, so it felt a little too close. Stella says, there are a lot of doctors in this hospital, and Dr. Randolph would be happy to see her. Tracy says she’ll get around to it, and Stella says, when? Tracy says, when she gets around to it. What’s the big deal? Does she look sick to Stella? Stella says, no. Tracy looks foolish. She just came down off a soapbox, talking about the inequities in the medical system, and how people are literally dying for proper care, and here Tracy is, the very picture of privilege, refusing to get a free annual exam.

Lois asks Olivia if it isn’t a rip. Olivia’s son and her daughter growing up together, and now she’s going to marry his partner. Olivia says, life is funny. Chase is really a sweetheart. Lois agrees, and Olivia says, very devoted to his job. How is Brook handling that? Lois says, she’s crying her eyes out and hiding it from Chase so that she doesn’t worry him, and Olivia says, that’s her new reality. She honestly doesn’t even know what to say to her about it. Lois says she doesn’t know how Olivia put up with it all these years. She’s terrified that her daughter is about to marry a cop. Olivia says, you’d think it would matter that Dante is on the right side of the law. A bullet doesn’t care. Sonny didn’t get shot. Dante did.

Alexis says she doesn’t think she’s still her own nemesis. She’s had her dark night of the soul. She goes to meetings, she does the work, she knows that she’s going to be the only one to champion herself. Diane says, so she’s out of the rescue business? and Alexis says she may get a cat. Maybe three. Diane laughs, and Alexis says, but in her personal life, she’s hung up the cape. But old impulses die hard. She still roots for the underdog. Diane says, until they get her law license back, the only underdog she wants Alexis rooting for is herself. Now she’s going to see how far and how fast she can push this appeals process along. In the meantime, she needs two things from Alexis. Don’t sleep with any more doctors. As far as she’s concerned, attorneys should just sleep with attorneys. Alexis says, maybe just District Attorneys. That way, they narrow down the pool. Diane says, the second thing is, get rid of that insipid gossip columnist that came for her. She leaves.

Ava puts her hand on Sonny’s shoulder. He looks at it, then back at Dante.

Josslyn tells Trina that she thought nothing could ever change the way she feels about Dex, but she was wrong. She feels like she doesn’t even know him. She feels like he’s a different person. Or maybe he’s always been this person and she’s just now seeing it, but what he’s okay with, she’s not okay with. And what he can live with, she can’t. She won’t. Trina hugs her.

Dex gets on his phone and says he needs the police non-emergency number.

Tracy tells Stella not to make a federal case out of this. She’ll get her free wellness exam. Stella says, good. Should she set it up now? Tracy says, no. She has to check her calendar. She’ll get back to Stella. Stella says, fine. You do that. Tracy says she will. Stella starts to leave, when Tracy calls her name. Stella says, yes, Miss Quartermaine? and Tracy apologizes for being rude. She’d also like it if Stella would call her Tracy. Stella says she was a little worked up already and Tracy has been rude to her before. They both start to laugh.

Sonny says he’s surprised they let Ava in, and she says, no one stopped her. In fact, they told her at the nurses’ station that Dante was stable. He says, they’re not really supposed to give out that information. Only to family. She says, maybe they thought she was Nina, and he says, don’t say that name. She says she’s sorry. She won’t even talk. She’ll just stay and wait here with him a minute. She stands at the foot of the bed, and Sonny takes Dante’s hand.

Tomorrow, Brook says John is a disgrace to his badge; Carly tells Josslyn that it’s not a realistic option; Dex says he did it and he’s prepared to pay for it; Sonny asks if someone can keep a secret; and Jason says, they can make it like it never happened.

Below Deck

Captain Kerry tells Kyle and Jared that he can hear them in his cabin and tells them to hit the sack. In the captain’s interview, he says, it’s the second time he’s been woken up, and this time, it sounds like threatening behavior. He heard yelling and screaming, and it’s unacceptable on his boat. In the morning, everyone fumbles around, hungover. Kyle says, rock and roll. In Jared’s interview, he says he doesn’t feel like he handled last night well. He has a lot on his mind and he’s stressing out. We flash back to him trying to call his daughter and not being very smooth with Barbie. He says, it doesn’t excuse how messy things were. He could have handled it better. The girls talk about Jared getting reamed out by the captain, and Barbie says, he was a total d*ck last night. Ben dances around stupidly, and Kyle says, Jared was on his ass before he had a chance to clean up.

Kerry calls Kyle to the bridge, and in the captain’s interview, he says, there was a lot going on he didn’t see last night, but it looked like Kyle was trying to deescalate the situation. Jared has a history of getting drunk and he’s going through sh*t. He needs to know the facts of the evening. Talking to the captain, Kyle admits he left a mess. They were all drinking. Separately, Barbie tells the captain that Kyle was bunking with her, which was no problem, since they’re stupid friends. Kyle stormed into the room. Captain Kerry asks if he made threats, but Barbie says, it wasn’t directed toward her, so she didn’t feel threatened. Kyle says, it was more demeaning, and Jared was angrier than he needed to be. Barbie says she thinks it was a personal thing. Cat tells Xandi that she feels alone, even though she’s surrounded by people, and Xandi tells her, that’s what she says about yachting. You’re never alone, but you’re lonely. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, Jared released heavy equipment on the dock without permission, and he’s made several docking mistakes. We flash back to that, and the captain says, alcohol doesn’t help. We flash back to Captain Kerry lecturing Jared, and he says, at the end of the day, his primary responsibility is the safety of the vessel and crew, and this guy is creating a problem. Barbie tells Fraser about Jared busting into her cabin, and Captain Kerry calls Jared to the bridge. He tells Jared that they had a discussion yesterday and he told them all to have a great night. Jared’s not getting it. He was absolutely f***ed for the second time and exhibited bad behavior. He’s in a leadership role and he’s got to be above the fray. The way he’s treating the crew isn’t acceptable. The captain has tried to show compassion, but Jared’s got sh*t going on and he’s his own worst enemy. He needs to depart the vessel.

Jared says, it sounds like he’s getting the boot, and the captain says, yes. He’s got a lot going for him, but his emotional side apparently isn’t where it should be. Jared says he’s not in the right place at the right time, and Captain Kerry says, exactly. He doesn’t blame Jared. Take the time to work on himself. Keeping him would be doing him a disservice. Jared says he respects that, the captain says, goodbye, and they shake hands. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, it’s not going to be easy on the rest of the crew in the short term, but in the long term, it’s the right decision. Jared distressed and acting out, and it’s not fair to his crewmates or safe. He’s got to go. The captain calls Ben to the bridge.

Jared tells Barbie that he’s been let go, and she tells him to go meet his daughter and be happy. Captain Kerry tells Ben that Jared is leaving, so they’ll be down a crew member. Can he handle being bosun if person they’re a person down? Ben says he can, and in Captain Kerry’s interview, he says he doesn’t have a whole lot of choices. Ben knows the boat, so this needs to happen. Ben will have to lead and go along with decisions he might not agree with because the captain said so. He asks if Ben will be okay with more pressure, and Ben says he will. In Ben’s interview, he says he’ll finally be able to show Captain Kerry what he can do. Jared says goodbye to everyone and pretends he’s happy about it. In Jared’s interview, he says he thought he was in a good headspace, but he’d be lying to himself if he didn’t admit that it wasn’t as much as he’d like. The situation sucks, but he does feel lighter. His last words to the St. David are, damn, I’ll miss you. See you down the line. As he leaves, they all yell that they love him.

Kerry texts yacht staffing about a bosun and calls a crew meeting. He tells them that the deck team is down a person. He’ll help and Ben got a promotion. Either they’re going to bust out this charter or unfold. Fraser gives the stews some instruction on making beds, and I take notes on fluffing pillows. Captain Kerry calls a preference sheet meeting. The primary is Lesley, who is a mortgage loan officer. Ben reads that the guests want a surf and turf dinner with Mardi Gras décor. They also want to go to Carriacou, and in Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, it’s the most beautiful, sexy beach on the planet. There are reefs everywhere and people flock there for diving. The place is magnificent. Anthony is happy to read, no French food, and says, it’s like a vacation. Ben reads that the guests request a murder mystery after-party, and the captain congratulates Ben on his promotion. It’s a big deal. How he’ll interact with the crew will need to change. Meanwhile, Barbie tells Xandi and Fraser that her mom is a sex therapist, and in her interview, she says she tells her mother everything. Her father is super conservative and she’s in the middle. It does get weird, but she embraces it. It’s weirder for her brother. Cat’s friend calls and she’s crying hysterically. In Cat’s interview, she says, it’s a situation she can’t talk about, but her friends are her family. So she feels sh*tty that she can’t be there for her.

In Ben’s interview, he says, the tender is out and they’re a deck member down. There’s two of them on deck to run a 60-meter boat and get it off the dock. Provisions come in, and they almost make scrambled eggs trying to balance the egg cartons. There’s the last-minute running around, and Anthony calls his mom, who asks if the guests and passengers are happy. Anthony says, so far, and asks if Fraser wants to say hi. Fraser talks to Anthony’s mom in French, and says, everybody is happy with Anthony. She must be proud of him. In Anthony’s interview, he says he misses his mom.

The guests arrive, and Captain Kerry welcomes them. Fraser gives the tour and promises snacks at all times when he finds out primary Lesley is a snacker. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says he’s working harder because he’s a team player. He worked with a captain who would be in his room and pretend to be on the phone. He caught him with the phone next to his head and no call. What kind of a-hole doesn’t help when it’s needed? They pull out, and in Ben’s interview, he says he’s nervous, but can’t let it show. He saw the pressure Jared was under and saw Jared’s mistakes before he made did them. He knows what the captain expects. When they get out to sea, Ben says, and we are underway. Thank God.

Fraser schmoozes with the guests and finds out all the women do mortgages and there’s one realtor. Sunny goes out on the tender, and in her interview, she says she was never given the opportunity to prove herself on her other boat. She wanted to learn the tender and she did. She does a happy dance. At least I assume that’s what it is; she didn’t preface it. Fraser welcomes the guests to Pan Asian Japan for lunch and tells Barbie that the table is stunning. Sushi is served, and Fraser tells Anthony that the guests are loving it. Would he lie? Yes. Is he lying now? No. Anthony comes up for compliments from the guests, and Fraser says he has huge lashes like a baby camel. The guests get in the water, and in Captain Kerry’s interview, he says he’s watching Ben and things are running smooth. He has more confidence in Ben than he did Jared. Ben is ahead of the game. The guests get in the hot tub, while Mardi Gras décor is put out. In his interview, Anthony says, tonight is surf and turf, the filet medium rare. If you ask him for medium well, he’ll say, f*** you. Agreed. In Sunny’s interview, she says she went to bed with a lead deckhand and woke up with a bosun. It’s kind of hot. She hopes it doesn’t create a rift in their relationship. Fraser tells the other stews that his sister is at Mardi Gras. She’s got huge knockers. The guests are seated, and even the beet salad is exquisite. In the pantry, Captain Kerry says he’ll do the dishes and fixes Fraser’s tie. As the lobster and filet mignon are served, I realize I’m staring at this amazing dish open-mouthed. Food porn at its finest. In Anthony’s interview, he says he’s like a butterfly flying around the galley. It’s perfect. The guests love it. It’s a celebration day.

The stews are behind with the cabins, and Fraser tells them to go as quick as they can, and Barbie joins in with housekeeping. Anthony comes up with the vanilla cheesecake and takes a bow. Lesley tells the others that you can say what you want in French, and it doesn’t matter. These easy-going guests go to bed at 11:11, and Barbie deflates the unicorn.

Second day of charter, en route to Halifax Harbour. Guest Brian wonders how Fraser is so chipper all the time, and Fraser says he’s got to be. As the boat heads for Tyrelle Bay, Xandi radios Cat several times before getting a response. She tells Cat to check the sinks and mirrors. All surfaces weren’t wiped. Cat says she’s done. She’s over this sh*t. Barbie asks if she wants to talk, but Cat says, no. She goes into the bathroom and cries. Breakfast is lobster eggs benedict, and I weep into my box of water crackers. Fraser asks if Cat is okay, but she says she’s not good, as she sobs in her bunk. She says she wants to push through, but she’s losing her mind. Fraser says he’d rather put her health and mental health first and get her help as soon as he can – if that’s something she wants him to arrange. She says she feels like she might need it. She’s sorry. They hug, and in Fraser’s interview, he says he doesn’t know what’s going on, but there’s a look in the eyes sometimes that says a person has no more to give or do. They’re going through enough. Cat needs to do what’s right for her. He tells her that she’s been amazing and to do what’s right for her. Get her stuff together and they’ll make this happen. Barbie says she thinks Cat is finished, as the guests rave about the incredible food. Kyle tells Ben that Cat is leaving, and Xandi asks if Cat wants to talk. Cat says she can’t, and Xandi says, if Cat does, she’s here for her. Fraser tells the captain that Cat was in tears. She doesn’t want to disclose the information, which is fine, but he asked he if she needed to deal with it immediately and she answered yes. In his interview, the captain says he was worried about Cat’s mental state, and we flash back to Fraser telling him that Cat is fragile. Fraser says, it could be horrific, but maybe not. They need to give her the benefit of the doubt. Captain Kerry says, to Cat it’s horrific. Cat packs and anchor is home. Fraser tells Kyle and Sunny that Cat is leaving. Sunny asks if she’s all right, but Fraser says he doesn’t think so. The captain tells Cat to ask if she needs help, and in his interview, he says, his number one job is to take care of the crew. He’s well aware of mental health and Cat has to go now. He helps her with her suitcases, and Ben radios the crew to the aft deck. A guest wonders what’s going on, and the crew says goodbye to Cat. In Cat’s interview, she says she wishes she could stay, but no. It’s way too much. She needs to be with the people who need her. She’s at her breaking point and needs to protect her mental health. Her support system is at home, not here. She gets in a little boat, and heads for shore. Ben says, that’s yachting, mate, and Captain Kerry says, being one down will be hard. Two down… He sighs. In the captain’s interview, he says he’s been in tough situations before, but this is one of the toughest. Regardless of personal issues, where the guests happiness is concerned, they could all be in trouble.

Next time, a murder mystery party; new guy Dylan arrives, and Sunny is turned on; and a storm.

⚰️️ This Week In Ones…

A helicopter accident; creepier zombie deterioration; progress and redemption through innovation; Michonne reminds Rick of his own words, when folks try to save the world their own way, it tends to go to sh*t; Michonne gets trapped; a double eye poke; a double zombie poke; and lots o’ lovin’.

https://www.cbr.com/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-season1-episode4-recap-spoilers

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Join me tomorrow for soap and VanderChatter. Until then, stay safe, stay not standing in front of the elevator (or train) doors when waiting for them to open, and stay being the hero in your own life before trying to be the hero in anyone else’s.

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March 4, 2023 – Another Shot Is Taken At Sonny, Obnoxious Drunks On Deck, About Those Ones & Confident

Posted on March 5, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Laura opens her apartment door and thanks Cyrus for coming. He says, how could he not? It’s the first time she’s invited him to her home. She says, he usually takes it upon himself to just show up, and he asks if he can come inside. Or is the invitation only good for the doorway? She tells him, please come in, and he does, asking, what precipitated this step forward in their relationship? She says, Doc is with a patient at the hospital and Ace is sick with a cold, so she couldn’t leave him alone.

At the hospital, Portia asks Elizabeth, any problems? and Elizabeth says, none so far. Portia says, all right. Let’s get this over with. They walk into a patient’s room, and Heather says, daughter-in-law, so good to see you again. And so soon.

Brook walks into the nook with two pieces of cake and says, so this is where Tracy has been hiding. Tracy says she’s not hiding. She just didn’t want to get coerced into pinning a tail on a donkey. Brook says, coerced by a ten-year-old. She’s losing her edge. She pushes a piece of cake toward Tracy and says she didn’t want her to miss out. Tracy thanks her and asks what else she wants. Brook certainly didn’t seek her out because of their shared love of buttercream. Brook says, something happened with Lucy, and Tracy asks what she did now. Brook says, Lucy asked her to work against Tracy so she could regain control of Deception. Tracy asks why Lucy would think Brook would go along with that, and Brook says, because Lucy knows something Tracy doesn’t.

Selina says, her and Sonny’s arrangement can continue as before. She conducts her operation discreetly, abiding by their agreed upon boundaries under his protection. In return, he receives a 10% cut of all profits. He says, The Savoy is off-limits, but she says, if she can get a separate accommodation from Curtis Ashford… He says, The Savoy is off-limits, and Ava says she hadn’t realized this negotiation would be so realistic. Sonny says, since they’re here, let’s get down to business, when John busts in with Anna, Chase, Dante, and a few other guys. He says, federal agents. Don’t move. Hands where they can see them.

Two men walk out onto the roof, and one says, it looks like they’re late to the party. They missed their window. He can still get the shot. He unpacks his weapon, and we see the other man is Jason. I’d actually considered him as Stone early on because, Stone Cold, but I couldn’t get it to make sense in my head.

Brook says she hasn’t been completely honest with Tracy, and Tracy says she’s not liking the sound of this, but go on. Brook says she went to Maxie and proposed a way to get Tracy out of Deception, and Tracy says, do tell. Brook says, the idea was to convince Tracy that she loved Deception so much, Tracy would eventually take a step back and give her control of Deception, including Tracy’s voting shares, and she would turn around and give those shares to Maxie. Tracy says, brava. That is a scheme worthy of a Quartermaine. Treachery, deceit, betrayal. Brook has surpassed her expectations. She might live up to her potential yet. Brook says she learned from the best. Tracy only got control of Deception because she blackmailed Brook into bringing her the development notes for The Deceptor. Tracy says, Lucy stole Blair Cramer’s idea. She committed intellectual property theft. She brought this on herself. Brook says, who cares what Lucy did? Tracy, her own grandmother, forced her to betray her friends, and she hates the fact that she did what Tracy wanted, especially to Maxie. Tracy says, so Brook was just gritting her teeth. She was just enduring the time she spent with Tracy. Brook was pretending to learn from her.

Heather says she must really rate if she gets the Co-Chief of Staff to do her examination. She’s honored. Portia says, there are some things she’d rather do herself than impose on her staff, and Heather says she’s sorry if she’s imposing with her injuries. Elizabeth says she’ll be outside if Portia needs her, and Heather says, oh no, don’t go. She could really use a friendly face right now. Please stay. Elizabeth says, only if it will help, and Portia says she sees Heather is here for an MRI. She’s experiencing some hip pain. Heather says, that is correct. She’s in absolute agony and has been ever since she was attacked and brutalized by those Pentenville guards. The guard in the room says, is she kidding him? They were trying to calm her down. If anything, it was her resistance that caused her injury. Heather says she was confronting the man who was responsible for her daughter’s death… Portia tells the guard that she has to examine this patient and asks if he’d mind waiting outside. He says, sure. He’ll be right outside. Heather says she really appreciates that. It’s nice to be treated like a human being for a change. Elizabeth says, tell them what’s going on. She said she’s having some hip pain? Heather says, every time she puts weight on her right hip, there’s terrible pain, and Portia says she went over Heather’s scans from the infirmary, and it shows nothing. But she sees Heather had a hip replacement, twenty years ago? Heather says, a skiing accident. She was young, fit, wild, and free. She had a little run-in with a mobile. Portia says, Heather was also complaining about a rash on her lower back. How long has she had that? Heather says, it actually comes and goes. The sheets in Pentenville are so rough, and she has really delicate skin. These cuffs are chafing her wrists right now and putting her in a very strange position with her hip. Does Portia think they could maybe take the cuffs off for now?

Laura asks Cyrus, come, sit down, please. She wanted to talk to him about what happened at Pentenville a few days ago. Anna has briefed her already on the conversation he had with the gun dealer, O’Neill. First, she wants him to know that she’s very grateful to him, that he was willing to go through with their plan. He says he did it for her, but as she no doubt heard, they were interrupted before he was able to get any significant information. He can tell her that the guy is terrified by some figure he knows only as Stone. She asks, why? Did he say? Cyrus says, this guy has managed to convince the world he’s dead, and she says she understands his microphone malfunctioned during the conversation with O’Neill. He says, yes. He was attacked by Heather Webber. She’s got it in her head that he’s somehow responsible for her daughter Esme’s death. She says, so that’s how the microphone got damaged, in the struggle? and he says, how else? She says she doesn’t know, but they’re very frustrated that they weren’t able to get his complete conversation with O’Neill on record. So would he mind terribly just taking her through it, step by step? He asks if she thinks he left something out, and she says, you tell me.

Sonny says, what’s the problem, Agent Cates? and John says, they’re investigating allegations of racketeering and RICO violations. Selina says, this is her warehouse. They’ll find nothing amiss. John says he’ll take that as permission to conduct a search. While they’re waiting for a team to arrive, do they want to tell him the nature of their meeting tonight? Selina says she and Mr. Corinthos are avid gamblers. They’re planning a poker game, strictly legal of course (🍷). Anna asks if Ava is a poker fan, and Ava says, Texas Hold ‘Em. She plays whenever she can. Anna says, it seems a little unusual to bring a cadre of bodyguards to a warehouse for a card game (which just made her sound stupid under the circumstances).

On the roof, Jason watches as other dude props open a skylight and gets in position. Selina says, in fact, to storm her private residence without provocation… Jason peers inside.

Brook says she enjoys working with Tracy. It’s surprisingly fun. Tracy says, she’s too kind, but Brook says she’s being completely sincere. Tracy is incredibly smart and freakishly shrewd. Tracy says, don’t stop now, and Brook says she couldn’t have asked for a better mentor. She’s learning so much. And while she doesn’t believe Lucy has committed intellectual property theft, she does agree Lucy’s professional whims have hurt the company. Deception deserves better. Tracy asks what that would look like. Would it be Brook, her, them? Brook says she’s not going to lie. Music is her passion. Why can’t Tracy accept that? Tracy says, Brook clings to music like it’s some tatty security blanket. Why would she not allow herself to do other things? Brook says, like running a cosmetics company? Tracy says, Brook just told her that she enjoyed, that she’s having fun at Deception, and she happens to have the Quartermaine head for business. Brook says, Tracy isn’t listening to her. This isn’t her dream job. She just can’t picture herself running Deception in the long term. Things need to change. Tracy says, all right. She has a proposition for Brook.

Cyrus says, Laura is still suspicious of him after he went against his better judgement and did what she asked, and she says she appreciates the effort the made. Truly, she does. But the fact that his microphone was compromised at the crucial point gave everyone pause. He asks if she thinks he planned for that lunatic Heather Webber to attack him. He swears on his mother’s life that he accurately and completely relayed everything the gun dealer said. Laura said she wanted to believe him. That meant everything to him. Why won’t she let herself? They hear Ace wail on the baby monitor, and Laura gets up to check on him.

Portia says she’s going to check Heather’s vitals, and Heather says, but her cuffs. Portia says, it’s standard procedure for prisoner’s to be in handcuffs at all times when they’re at the hospital, and Heather says her hip is in so much pain, she couldn’t even walk, much less escape. Elizabeth says, Heather’s MRI is scheduled soon. When she gets back, they’ll ask the guard if he can help her get into a more comfortable position. Portia says, she does have a low-grade fever, 99.5, and Heather says, see? She’s sick, and she’s still in major pain. Portia says she’s going to call radiology right now and get her in right away, and she and Elizabeth leave. In the hallway, the guard tells them, that woman was not mistreated by the guards. If her hip is bad, she did it to herself. Elizabeth says, they’re aware of Heather’s duplicity. They weren’t taken by her. He says, this whole trip was a waste of time, but Portia says, everyone is entitled to proper medical care. Now that Miss Webber is a patient of this hospital, that’s exactly what she’s going to get. She goes to the desk and picks up the phone. She says she’s sending over a patient. She’s a transfer from Pentenville. Can Portia get an MRI of the pelvic region please?… Heather Webber. Portia needs her seen and evaluated ASAP… Thank you. Elizabeth comes over, and Portia says, as soon as they get Heather back to Pentenville, the better for everyone.

Anna says, Sonny has a casino in Puerto Rico, doesn’t he? He can fly down there any time he wants. Why waste his time in this grubby warehouse? Selina says she objects to Anna’s characterization of her property (and TBH, it’s pretty bare and clean), and Sonny says he’s sure the Commissioner isn’t trying to be rude. She’s just embarrassed. Anna says, is she? On the roof, Jason and dude wait, and Sonny says, they come in, guns blazing, and what did they find? Absolutely nothing. Jason looks in with binoculars and bumps dude’s arm as he takes a shot.

Everybody in the warehouse takes cover. Dude says, Jason ruined his shot, and Jason says, let’s go. Dude says he can still get him, but Jason says, they know the shot came from the roof. Their cover’s blown. Dude starts to pack up, but Jason says, just leave it. Let’s go. They jet.

John asks if anybody is hit, but one of them men says, no casualties here. Anna says she’s unharmed. Sonny? Sonny says he’s good, and Anna says, the shooter could still be out there. Dante asks if he and Chase should check it out, but she says, no. Everybody shelter in place. They could still be at the skylight and waiting for one of them to break cover. Dante says, they can make it. The shooter can’t see them. He and Chase take off.

Brook asks what Tracy has in mind, and Tracy says, she and Brook continue at Deception. They build it into a cosmetics empire. Brook says, wow, shocker, but Tracy says she’s not done. Brook’s creative, right? CEOs are creative. They create a vision for their company, and they organize all the moving parts to see that vision come to life. It’s a different kind of art. Brook says, sorry, grandmother. It’s not the kind of art that inspires her. Tracy asks how she knows that unless she tries. She wants Brook to experience the thrill of seeing her vision succeed. And when she does, if she still wants out, Brook may leave with her blessing, and she’ll sell her stock back to Maxie and Sasha. Lucy gets nothing. Brook says she agrees with Tracy there. After the way Lucy treated Tracy, she does not deserve control of Deception. Tracy says, just another example of how she and Brook see eye to eye. She’ll sweeten the deal. Brook can still produce artists on the side, although she thinks Brook is going to be too busy and too invested and having fun. Do they have a deal? Brook says she doesn’t get it. Why is it so important to her that Brook run Deception? Tracy says, because it’s something they can do together. Brook is a very smart woman. She can do anything she puts her mind to. Brook reminds her of herself. And believe it or not, she likes to have fun. And Brook is exasperatingly fun. And she’s the future of this family.

Elizabeth tells Portia that they’re ready for Heather in radiology, when Laura comes out of the elevator with Cyrus, wheeling Ace in a carriage. She says, thank God Elizabeth is here, and Elizabeth asks if everything is okay. Laura says she’s not sure. Ace is running a temperature of 104. He’s had a cold for the past few days, and he was just coughing and sneezing, but tonight all of the symptoms got a lot worse, and he got fretful and he’s just burning up. Portia asks what Cyrus is doing here, and he says he was just visiting his sister. He came out of concern for his great-nephew. Laura says she knows babies can spike a very high temperature, but she thought it best to bring him in anyway. Is there any way Elizabeth could take a look at him, or she could just take him to the ER… Elizabeth says, no. She can see him. Will Portia be okay with the other patient? Portia says, absolutely, when an orderly wheels Heather down the hall, accompanied by the guard. Heather sees Cyrus and says, you. You get away from my grandson.

Anna says, the shot came from a high-powered rifle. She wants them to cordon off a six-block area around the warehouse… On the phone, John says, law enforcement’s on the scene… No. There’s no casualties. He needs a CSI team here to collect evidence. Behind some crates, Ava says she guesses it’s safe now, but Sonny says, they have to wait for the all-clear. She asks when he became so cautious, and he says he’s not worried about himself. Chase comes in and says, all clear, and everyone comes out. Sonny asks, where’s Dante? and Chase says, while on the roof, they observed two suspects, approximately two hundred yards away, headed toward the waterfront. Detective Falconari told him to secure the scene and call for back-up. He’s in pursuit of the suspects.

Dante sees Jason and dude, and says, police! Freeze! Do not move. Jason stops, but dude keeps going. Dante says, slowly put your hands behind your head. Put your hands behind your head. Do it now. Jason puts his hands behind his head, and Dante says, turn around. Slowly. Jason turns around.

Dante lowers his gun and Jason lowers his hands. Dante says, what the hell? Dude comes out from behind Jason and shoots Dante. Jason runs over to Dante, but dude says, leave him.

Heather says, Cyrus killed her daughter. She doesn’t want him anywhere near her child. She starts to get up, but sits back down in pain. Laura tells her, calm down please. You’re scaring the baby. He’s sick. He needs to be examined. Heather says, Ace is sick? Laura better take care of him. Laura says, that’s why she’s here. Heather says, wait. Is that what Laura wanted all along? To have Ace to herself? Portia tell Heather to calm down. She will sedate her. Laura tells Heather, that is ridiculous, and Heather says, is it? Then why didn’t she take care of his mother like she begged Laura to. She trusted Laura. She told Laura Esme’s plan, so she’d keep Esme safe, but she didn’t, and now Heather’s baby is dead. Laura says she tried to find Esme, but she couldn’t do it. Does Heather think she wanted this to happen? She lost her grandson too. Heather says, at least there’s some justice, and Laura walks away with Ace and Elizabeth. Heather says, and keep that man away from her grandson, and Portia asks the orderly to take Heather straight to radiology. No stops, no matter what she says. The guard says, let’s go, and they get in the elevator. Portia tells Cyrus, the waiting room is over there. He can wait for Laura and Ace there. He says he’s sorry. He just wanted to inquire about her husband. How is Curtis doing?

Tracy asks why Brook is staring at her, and Brook says, Tracy wants to keep working with her. She just said it herself. Tracy says she meant absolutely everything she said about Brook, and yes, she does like working with Brook mostly. Brook says, they don’t have to keep working at Deception to hang out, and Tracy says, please. Every time they’re together, they talk about work. Brook says, that can’t be true. They also talk about planning her wedding. Tracy says, yes, they do. And guess what? Brook’s getting married, and once she is, they’re back to having only Deception in common. Brook says she won’t let that happen, and Tracy asks, how? Is Brook going to take her up on her proposal? Because she’s being really generous. She doesn’t think Brook could refuse. Brook says, all right. She’ll stay… for now. But her terms are, they make an effort to get to know each other better. She holds out her hand, and Tracy says, she drives a hard bargain. She takes Brook’s hand, and they pull together for a hug. Brook says, in an effort to get to know each other better, what is going on between Tracy and her future father-in-law? Did she ask Gregory to the wedding?

Chase says, he found an abandoned rifle near the skylight. He could only do a quick search, but he couldn’t find any shell casings. John tells an agent, go up to the roof and wait for CSI. Let them be the ones to retrieve the rifle. Those guys took off from here in a hurry. Maybe they left something traceable behind. The agent leaves, and Anna says, care to lay odds that the rifle is from the cache that was taken from the WSB? and John says, it fits the pattern. It also means the intended target is almost certainly… Ava looks at the sleeve of Sonny’s coat and says, that’s a bullet hole. John tells them, as he was saying, it’s almost certain the intended target was Sonny. Looks like his trap worked. Just not the way Sonny thought. (Well, yeah, because John got in the middle of it.)

Portia tells Cyrus that she’s had a very, very long day and she’s tired. She doesn’t wish to have small talk with him about anything, much less her husband. Cyrus says he merely wondered… and she asks, what part of stay away from her or she’ll get a restraining order does he not understand? She’s trying to figure this out. He says, it was five months ago, and since that time he’s been living his life as a respectable citizen. He guesses he was hoping her feelings had changed. She says she’s really trying here. She’s trying to be professional. But does he really think she’s going to forget that he terrorized her and her daughter in their home? The gunfire, the stand-off, and it certainly wasn’t five months ago when he went to Ava’s gallery, and approached Trina. He says, that was an accident. He didn’t know she’d be there. He was looking for artwork. She asks what he did when he saw Trina. Did he leave? No, he didn’t. He stayed and actually tried to talk to her. She never thought she’d say this, but she agrees with Heather Webber. Stay away from her child. Don’t ever go near Trina again. Does he understand her. She will call the cops so fast; his head is going to spin. He says he’s truly sorry he’s caused her this much grief and anger. He hopes she can find some way to let go of it. She says, he can drop the charade. Laura’s not here to see this act and she’s not buying it. He says, okay. Maybe she’s right. Maybe what he did was unforgiveable, but he can’t go back and change it. He just hopes maybe one day she can see he’s sincere. He’s no longer the wretch who terrorized her family. God has changed him. His life today is about trying to help others. Portia asks if he really wants to help, and he says he does. She says, stay the hell away from her family, and walks away.

Tracy says she thinks it’s safe to go back. They must have pinned the tail on that damn donkey by now. Brook says, no she doesn’t. They have a deal in place. She wants the tea. Not just the one in Tracy’s cup, so spill. What is up with her and Gregory? Tracy says, Gregory is taking Alexis Davis to Brook’s wedding, and Brook says, huh. They do work together. Did Tracy even ask him? Tracy says she was planning to. She went to The Invader to extend the invitation, which is when she found out he was taking Alexis. Brook says, they are colleagues; they’re not a couple. Tracy tells her, Gregory said they’re friends, good friends, and Brook says, then there’s still a chance. Tracy says she’s not throwing herself at Gregory, and Brook says, according to Chase, she doesn’t have to. Tracy asks what Chase said, and Brook says, just that she joined him, Finn, and Gregory at dinner, and he noticed Gregory was more relaxed with her than he is with most people, especially now that his ALS is more noticeable. He also said he was impressed with the way she helped Gregory without making a big deal out of it. That really means a lot. Tracy says, it’s not a big deal. People’s bodies change. Sometimes you can’t do things you used to be able to do, so you adapt. Brook says, and she and Gregory obviously have chemistry, and Tracy wonders if Chase said that, but Brook says, oh please. Men are oblivious to that sort of thing. Which is why Tracy needs to be direct with him. Tracy says, Chase? but Brook says, Gregory. She needs to tell him that she’s interested in seeing him. Put it out there. Plain and simple.

Chase says, units are in route, and Anna tells him to see that Miss Wu, her bodyguard, and Sonny are taken to the station. Hold them as persons of interest. He says, got it, and asks Selina to come with him. She tells John that it’s her policy to always cooperate with law enforcement, calls to her bodyguard in Mandarin, and leaves with Chase. Sonny asks John what he’s got against a friendly poker game, and Anna says, Sonny’s not helping anyone by stonewalling. Least of all himself. There have been multiple attempts on his life and at least one on Miss Wu’s. So they agreed to meet here tonight to lure their enemy into another attempt for what? So he could identify them? Presumably stop them? That’s not his job. That is the job of law enforcement. Ava says, so far, their record has been less than stellar, and John asks what she’s doing here. She says she’s looking for a card game, like she told them. He says, at one point, she was head of the Jerome crime family, but that was almost a decade ago. She hasn’t been involved with organized crime since. Anna says, that they know of, and John says, the FBI knows quite a bit. It’s not likely Miss Jerome has been targeted. But she has a daughter with Mr. Corinthos, doesn’t she? And she’s currently living with him? Ava asks if she should call her lawyer, and he says she can if she wants, but her presence here when the shots were fired puts it completely withing their purview to bring her in for an interview. Sonny says, back off. Ava has nothing to do with this. John says, she does now, thanks to him, and Ava tells him that he said himself, Sonny was the intended target here tonight. Which makes him the victim. He should not be harassing Sonny; John should be protecting him.

Jason tells dude to go to the pick-up spot and find another way out, but dude decides he’s going to shoot Dante instead. Bad choice because then Jason shoots dude.

Portia thanks the guard for changing Miss Webber’s position. She seems a lot more comfortable now. How was everything in radiology? Did she give him any trouble? He says, no. Just back to her charming self. Portia tells him to let her know if anything changes. She’s still got that sedative.

Laura finds Cyrus and he asks if they’re keeping Ace, but she says, no, they’re not. The pediatrician on call wants to take an X-ray of his lungs, so they can rule out pneumonia, but Elizabeth told her to sit out here for a while because her emotional state was upsetting Ace. He tells her to sit, and Laura says, anyway, Elizabeth was holding Ace, and he’s falling asleep in her arms. Probably reminds him of Esme, right? He says, yeah, and she asks how he is. She’s really sorry Heather lashed out like that. He says he’s certainly survived worse slings and arrows. He can brush off anything Heather Webber has to say about him. Laura says, she’s a mother who lost her child, so she’s entitled to her grief, and he says, she might want to work on how she expresses it. Laura says, yes, of course (🍷), but she does sympathize with Heather’s loss. He clutches a little and she asks if he’s all right. He says, it’s just a twinge, and she asks if that’s because of what Sonny did. He says, that certainly didn’t help, but the years have left their mark. When he was a kid, he didn’t really care about risking his life or how much damage he sustained. He had this idea that he was going to get rich and powerful on his own terms or die trying. Because really, what kid of that age can conceive of their own death, except maybe as an ultimate act of rebellion or the final scene in their own movie? She says, maybe that’s what happened to Esme. Maybe she was so desperate to get her son back, she convinced herself that she was willing to do anything, that she was willing to die trying. And then she did. She starts to cry and says, and then Esme took her Spencer with her. Cyrus puts his hand on hers.

Heather looks to see that the guard isn’t facing the door and takes out a paperclip she’s hidden. She works on the lock that’s keeping her cuffed to the bed.

Tracy says she’ll take that as a compliment and Brook’s faith in her abilities. And she’ll take it under consideration. Brook asks if she still reminds Tracy of someone, and Tracy says, maybe, but Brook wears her heart on her sleeve much more than she does. That’s dangerous. Brook says, Detective Harrison Chase has her heart now, so it’s perfectly safe.

John says, Ava surprises him. She’s a change from Sonny’s usual defenders. She says she’s simply pointing out that a crime was committed here tonight. An unknown person took a shot at Sonny. And instead of trying to apprehend that shooter, he and Commissioner Devane are questioning Sonny like he’s done something wrong. John says he could make the argument that Sonny’s obstructing justice by refusing to cooperate in a criminal investigation. Sonny says, all he’s done is cooperate. John is the one who broke in here. He didn’t resist. He didn’t try to run away. All he did was listen to John’s stupid questions and guess what? He got shot at. Anna says she understands he has a history with Agent Cates… Sonny says, that’s an understatement, and she says, fine. There’s no love lost, but she hopes he knows her well enough to know she bears him no ill will. He nods, and she says, unless she were to find out he committed something criminal. Then she’d investigate him to the full extent of the law, but she’s not out to get him. In fact, far from it. She doesn’t want him to die. He says, they agree on one thing, and she says, somebody out there is trying to kill him. And he has to have an angel on his shoulder, because she has no idea how that sniper missed him from this range, but don’t bet they’ll miss him the next time. So why doesn’t he let them help him and tell them what he knows? Chase comes back and says, Miss Wu, her bodyguard, and the two Corinthos guards are on their way to the station. Sonny asks, what are the charges? and Anna says she’s detaining them. Persons of interest. John says, what about his detective? Does Chase have an update on his pursuit of the suspect? Chase says, nothing yet. Dante hasn’t called.

Jason goes over to dude, holding a gun on him, and checks his pulse. He’s either dead or out cold, and Jason goes over to Dante. He tells Dante, keep breathing, and Dante says, Jason. Jason says he’s got him.

Tomorrow, Stella says, this is Marshall’s chance to set himself free; Josslyn tells Dex that they’ll stick to the plan and go into Port Charles together; Sonny asks if he’s under arrest; and Heather gets the better of the guard.

Below Deck

The party continues, as Kyle tells Barbie, go against him and there’s going be sh*t. If he tells her, this is the way it is, that’s the way it is. It’s not personal. She says she gets it. She’s a spoiled bitch who gets what she wants and needs to get over it. In Fraser’s interview, he says, Barbie’s has a spoiled brat attitude with everything. She loves to say she’s being honest and says it how it is, but that’s not how life works. You need a filter. They all dance and drink… and drink. Jared says he appreciates what Anthony does when he cooks, and Anthony says he cooks with his feelings. In Anthony’s interview, he says, the anniversary of his dad’s death is coming up soon. He wants to use his emotions as a force to show his dad that he can do his best. The taxi comes and there’s more drinking on the way to the restaurant. In Barbie’s interview, she says she thought she was into Jared, but he’s turned her off. She’s got the ick. Whether these people ate or not is questionable, but they go back to the boat for more drinking and hot tubbing. Cat tells Xandi that she’s on a boat with people she doesn’t fully relate to, and Xandi says, everyone loves her. Cat watches Sunny be all over Ben in the hot tub, kissing him. In Sunny’s interview, she says she doesn’t want to be mad at Ben, and she loves a little shaved fuzz. It shows that you’re hairy, and for some reason she likes that. Alrighty then. In Jared’s interview, he says he only gets to talk to his daughter two times a week. He’s afraid he’s going to jeopardize that and lose all communication if he doesn’t stick to the schedule. He’s trying to build trust again, and it’s super important to maintain consistency. In the crew mess, Barbie talks about Judaism, and Kyle asks if she’s Jewish. She says, in her heart she is, and in her interview, she says she was never drawn to religion until she got into Judaism. She bawled in front of the Western Wall and connected to something bigger than herself. She found her soul and wants to be part of it. She’s not ready to make that change, but she wants it. She feels it. She tells Kyle, a Jewish man has to give his wife three things; a house, clothes, and sex.

In the morning, Jared still can’t get through to his daughter, and Captain Kerry radios, asking him to come to the bridge. Jared tells the captain that they’re prepping for the next charter. Last night, he went through different emotions. He’s supposed to speak to his daughter on Tuesdays and Fridays, but there’s been no phone service, so he wasn’t able to. The captain says, he’s learned that you need to get your emotions out. You’re stronger showing emotion than holding it. In his interview, he says he cares about where Jared is at. When he was going through his divorce, he couldn’t do his job. He tried drink, exercise, and self-help books. He can relate. He says, if Jared has issues, come see him. They all have stuff going on. He’s got to work through it. He has to hold himself to a higher level being the bosun. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, Jared is going through a tough spot, but he’s head of a department and can’t have his head in the clouds. It affects his safety and the safety of the guests. He’s got to be focused on the job. The crew gets the boat ready, while Captain Kerry works on his Turkish. Fraser goes to the bridge to talk to the captain and tells him that he thinks Cat is going through some things outside work. She’s been fragile and there have been tears most days. The captain suggests Fraser let her take a half hour when things are looking like that, and Fraser says he had a fantastic response from Barbie. She’s changed her perspective. In Fraser’s interview, he says, Barbie is brilliant with guests, but doesn’t always have the best attitude with people. It’s unclear if people and guests are two separate entities. He tells the captain that Barbie said she’s going to turn things around and be better. He’s hoping she will. He’s also going to give Xandi some stripes. He hopes it doesn’t rattle the others. Captain Kerry says, when Fraser is away from the boat, he someone who can manage it. Xandi tries to show Cat how to do stuff, and in Xandi’s interview, she says she’s more than happy to teach Cat, but whether it’s going in or not is a different story. In the galley, Kyle and Anthony agree that Captain Kerry is an amazing captain. Anthony says he’s like their daddy, but Fraser reminds him that he’s Anthony’s mummy. Jared tells Barbie that he could be sad or mad, but when he sees her, he’s glad. She tells him that he’s getting cheesy. He tries to get towels from the provider, but is having no luck. When he gets frustrated, she tells him that his tone should be more professional, and he apologizes. The captain calls Jared, Anthony, and Fraser for the preference sheet meeting.

Tina, a luxury property manager, is the co-primary along with husband Rich. Coming along are Tina’s business partner Mike and his wife Eileen, and friends Beth and Rob. Tina prefers to drink out of plastic cup, and in Fraser’s interview, he says, it’s stupid and psychotic. Tina also seems to dislike most forms of protein – no meat, no eggs, no tofu. In his interview, Fraser says, she’s got a lot of problems. Enjoy life. Have an egg. Jared reads that they want to snorkel, and in Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, the snorkeling is epic here. It’s going to be an amazing trip. The guests also want a Roaring 20s Monte Carlo themed dinner and want to compete in a friendly game of beach volleyball and drinking games. Afterward, the captain meets with Jared who says he heard what Captain Kerry said and he’s leaving behind what he needs to in order to be present in the moment. Kerry says he cares about Jared’s physical and mental health. This morning, he was either still drunk or hungover. (Or both. It’s possible… or so I’ve heard.) He doesn’t want someone in a leadership role who does that. He understands what it’s like. He’s been where Jared is as a captain and left his job. In Jared’s interview, he says he wants to be here. He hates not to finish what he starts.

Fraser has an interior meeting, puts Barbie on service, and tells Cat that she’s to go between departments. He says he trusts Xandi and would be honored to have her as his second stew moving forward. He gives her the stripes, and in Xandi’s interview, she says she doesn’t need stripes to prove her worth and now this is going to cause more attention to her. In Barbie’s interview, she says, of course he picked Xandi. Xandi is so far up Fraser’s ass, she’s not going to go there. In her mind, she’s second stew. This is all bullsh*t. Provisions come, and Cat says she’s never wanted to sleep more in her life. In her interview, Xandi says, this is a big f***ing boat, and she can’t do it by herself. She’s going to snap. In the captain’s interview, he says, things are coming together. He’s finding less and less things to point out. He’s a happy guy. The guests arrive, and Captain Kerry welcomes them to Grenada. Fraser gives the tour, and primary Tina tells him that she prefers plastic cups. She’s not picky about her food, as long as there’s no meat. In Fraser’s interview, he says, it doesn’t look like Tina likes anything at all, but he’ll do his best to deal with it. The boat heads out, and Xandi asks Fraser, at what point is it not training camp? She’s had to redo everything. Fraser tells her to just make sure Cat is doing it correctly. Stick with that for now.

In Kyle’s interview, he says, exotic women and guests, good money, good tips. He’s winning. The guests sit down for lunch, and Tina tells them, no faucet water, like they’d be given faucet water on a superyacht. In Anthony’s interview, he says, Tina’s restrictions are challenging, but he’ll let her pick from different options. Don’t worry, princess. I got you. Food porn in the form of sushi and tuna ceviche is served, but guest Eileen – who arrived on the boat drunk – is chopstick challenged. In Fraser’s interview, he says, primary Tina is in real estate and her business partner Mike’s wife Eileen loves to drink. Good for her. Ben takes the guests out on the tender for the snorkeling excursion and asks how they met. Primary Rich says his wife and Mike work together, and Eileen is the local drunk they picked up. Fraser tells Anthony that he’s keeping it tame. They’re just a bit weird. We see some underwater scenes when the guests snorkel and it’s absolutely beautiful, but it’s doubtful Eileen will remember any of it. In Ben’s interview, he says, it’s good getting off the boat. He wants to do stuff for the guests. That’s what it’s all about, not cleaning sh*t. In Barbie’s interview, she says she’s trying to be nice to Jared, but he’s turning her off. She cringes when she sees him. It’s backpedal time. Fraser and Anthony look at Tina’s preference sheet and see that the lobster needs to be cold, only for her. WTF? As everyone gets ready for 1920s Monte Carlo Night, there’s a crash from Eileen and Mike’s cabin. Eileen runs out and tells Cat that they have a problem and she’s got to see it.

Somehow Mike got locked in the shower and broke out the glass panels one the door, but the door still won’t open. In Kyle’s interview, he says he’s broken lots of doors while drunk. And roofs, his leg, and a guitar. There’s nothing better than breaking a guitar, drunk or not. He tells them, engineering is on the way. Captain Kerry checks out the décor and thinks it’s fantastic. Eileen asks, who doesn’t love giant cards? Um… Fraser tells them, welcome to the French Riviera, 1920 Monte Carlo theme. There’s a French menu, starting with French onion soup, and I wonder if I have any in the freezer. Stop laughing. Trader Joe has a great frozen French onion soup. Tina says she likes slot machines, and Mike says, she likes pushing buttons. He asks if Barbie can set down his plate more quietly, and in Barbie’s interview, she says, can you feed your wife more water? Eileen tells Jared, who is graciously helping with service, that he’s lucky he’s good looking because it’s all he’s got going on. Mike breaks a glass, and Barbie tries to get the pieces up before he can do any more damage. In the pantry, she says, it’s such a nightmare, and she’s not wrong. Tina says her profiterole tastes like egg, and causes a sudden uproar about her not waiting for everyone else to be served. She whines that the ice cream was going to melt if she waited. She tells everyone that she’s done, and gets up. She says, they can do whatever they want, and toddles off, crying at the bottom of the stairs. Guest Rob asks her, what’s wrong? while still at the table, Mike says, it’s better than getting locked in the bathroom. In his interview, Fraser says, there’s a lot of animosity. He’s glad he’s not the only one who thinks Tina is a bit of a raging… Tina.

Barbie says, the sh*t is hitting the fan, and Cat asks if Tina is okay. Mike says, she’s drunk and he told her to settle down. Eileen announces that they’re going in the hot tub, and Cat tells Barbie, let’s just power through. Jared tells Barbie, these people are straight up rude, and repeats what Eileen said to him. In Jared’s interview, he says, it brings back when he was a child and f***ed something up. His not being good enough. He puts himself down a lot, and it affects the way he feels about his self-worth. While the guests sit in the hot tub, Barbie suggests getting them some water, and Mike tells her, don’t make the trip unless she brings drinks and water. In Barbie’s interview, she says, it’s lucky she can’t say what she wants to, and imitates Eileen for Cat at the bar. When they bring the drinks, Mike tells them to watch out for the mess they’re going to bring tomorrow. Anthony says, welcome to hell. Eileen slips on a step and her head boinks off the hot tub. God forgive me, I laugh like a hyena. Karma’s a bitch and she works fast on occasion. Barbie says she’ll help Eileen, and Eileen says she wiped out. Barbie says, it happens to the best of us, and helps Eileen down the stairs, even though she keeps saying it’s all good and she’s okay. In her interview, Barbie says, it can’t be that she’s going to wake up tomorrow and do this over. If she sees them starting too early, she’s going to water down their drinks. Jared says, they’ve pissed him off, seriously, and remembers Eileen’s remark, Barbie telling him that he’s cheesy, and Captain Kerry’s mini lecture. He sniffles and says, godammit.

Next time, Fraser says, here we go again; Eileen wonders where she is; Jared tells Captain Kerry about Eileen falling out of the jacuzzi; and Jared gets into it with Kyle.

⚰️ This Week’s Ones…

Tense moments for Michonne; zombies parting like the Red Sea; Michonne makes friends; Michonne loses friends; the bloodthirsty side of Michonne; a lighter named Danger; and another familiar face. Read on.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-recap-season-1-episode-2-gone-michonne

🚛 Off the Road Again…

Stop in tomorrow for soap and VanderMess. Until then, stay safe; stay never assuming gender, sexuality, or relationship status; and stay letting your emotions out. You’re stronger showing emotion than holding it.

Feb27

February 26, 2023 – Curtis Has Words Of Wisdom For Drew, A Waterfall Wedding Off Deck, First Ones & Beautiful

Posted on February 27, 2024 by theresakp

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What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Kristina wakes up and sees Blaze is already awake. Kristina asks Blaze to please say she’s not watching her sleep, and Blaze asks if that’s creepy (a little). It’s Kristina’s fault. She looks so beautiful when she sleeps. She was thinking how lucky she is to have Kristina in her bed, and her life. They kiss.

Spinelli comes out of the bedroom and says, Maxie? Children? Maxie runs in the front door and says, he’s up. He asks where everybody is, and she says, the kids are in the car, but he says, school doesn’t start for an hour. She says she knows. Her mom has Bailey. They’re meeting them at James’s school to help his teacher to set up for the Arts and Crafts Fair. She thought she mentioned it. He says, she didn’t, but he’s glad to know the early start isn’t because she’s avoiding him.

John walks into Kelly’s and Carly tells him to sit anywhere he likes. He sits at the counter and says, she owns this place. She shouldn’t be waiting on tables. She says, one of her waitresses is running late, so here she is. She doesn’t mind serving him. Can she get him some coffee? He says, yeah, and as she pours, she says, the last time they met, he didn’t tell her why he was in town. He says, work, and she asks what he does. He says he’s with the FBI. Agent John Cates.

Drew attacks the heavy bag with vigor, when Curtis rolls into the gym. Curtis says, wow, and Drew says he didn’t hear Curtis come in. How long has he been here? Curtis says, long enough to know he doesn’t want to be on Drew’s bad side.

Nina comes into the gallery and asks if Ava is in the middle of something important. Ava says, that was phrased like a question, but sounded more like a demand. What’s going on? Nina says she’s about to lose Sonny for good, and Ava says she does have an appointment in just a little bit, but she does have some time later this afternoon. Nina says, just let her know when Ava can fit her in, and Ava says, hold on. Last she heard, Nina and Sonny were in a holding pattern. Has something changed? Nina says, Sonny had her served. He wants a divorce. Ava tells Nina that she can’t say she’s surprised.

Maxie asks Spinelli why she would be avoiding him, and he flashes back to kissing her. He says, because of what happened last night? when there’s a knock at the door. Sonny says, hello? and Spinelli opens the door. Sonny says, Damien Spinelli, you are a hard man to find.

Blaze asks if Kristina is hungry, and Kristina says, for food? Blaze says, she has someone else to consider here, and Kristina says, Blaze heard her stomach growling. This baby is not subtle. She thanks Blaze for helping her process everything last night and sort through her feelings. She feels really seen. Blaze says she thought it was time she returns the favor, and Kristina says, still, thanks for being there for her and this little one. Blaze says, always, and what would the little one like for breakfast? and Kristina says, they would like eggs benedict and home fries. Blaze says, coming right up, and I swear I will marry this woman tomorrow.

Curtis says, either Drew has beef with that bag, or something else is bothering him, and Drew says, sometimes you’ve just got to show that you mean business, right? He’s honored that Curtis wanted him in the gym his first workout after his surgery. That means a lot. Let’s get to it. Where does he want to start? Curtis says he’d love to start with what’s bothering Drew, and Drew says, it’s just Carly. She’s worried about him. She’s worried he’s changed since he came back from his time in Pentenville, that’s all. Curtis says, prison can change a man, but the Drew he knows is fundamentally the same guy, so what’s got Carly concerned? Drew says, she thinks he’s holding on to everything that’s happened, and Curtis says, he means the whole Nina situation. Drew says he knows she’s a friend of Curtis’s, and Curtis says, but that doesn’t mean he’s okay with Nina turning Drew into the SEC. He’s not cool with that. Drew is his friend too, and it’s okay if he’s mad because Curtis would be mad too. Carly doesn’t understand that? Drew says, she’s not trying to tell him how to feel. It’s just that she’s more concerned with his behavior. She thinks he’s more focused on payback instead of getting through this and moving on. Curtis says, and he is, isn’t he?

Carly says, Cates. Any relation to Michael Stone Cates? John says, his little brother, and Carly says she never knew him, but her ex was close to him, but obviously he knows that because he and Sonny share a history, and they’re not great memories. Now he’s an FBI agent, and now she knows what he’s doing back in her restaurant. He asks if he can’t just like the coffee, but she says, no. He’s here because he wants information on Sonny. He says, that’s a cynical outlook, and she says, because it’s not her first rodeo. Feds making small talk with her is never a coincidence, so let her know when he wants to put in an order. She starts to leave, and he says, believe it or not, he didn’t know she was Sonny’s ex the first time he stopped by. She says she knows he’s here to make a case against Sonny, and she’s telling him now that he’s wasting his time. He says he’s not currently building a case against her ex-husband. However, if he had his way, her ex-husband would be behind bars.

Sonny hopes Maxie doesn’t mind he stopped by. He was surprised to see Spinelli moved in here, and she says, temporarily. He’s got a plumbing emergency at his place. Sonny says, is that so? and Spinelli says, it came on suddenly. Maxie finds a lunchbox and says, got it. She’s got to get the kids to school. Spinelli asks what she was looking for and she holds up the lunchbox as she dashes out the door. He says, Georgie’s. That’s the second time this week. He apologizes to Sonny for his attire, and Sonny says, it’s early. She’s something else, isn’t she? Spinelli says, a force of nature. Sonny didn’t say what brought him here. Sonny says he has a job for Spinelli.

Nina says, Ava expected Sonny to end their marriage without so much as a word? but Ava says, no. Of course (🍷) not. Nor does she approve of him doing so. It tracks though. She thinks Sonny’s been reexamining his whole life. Nina says, he’s taking some hits lately. She’s not giving up on him. She loves him and hates that he’s had to face these challenges alone. Ava says she’s not the one Nina needs to convince. She needs to convince Sonny. Nina says she wishes she could. He’s not taking any of her calls or texts. She thinks he’s blocked her. He barred her from the penthouse. Ava says she gets it. That must hurt. Nina says, it’s a nightmare. If she could only just have a conversation with him. If she could only just look him in the eyes and remind him of what they are together, what they’ve come to mean to each other. Ava says, maybe she’s right, and Nina says she is. That’s where Ava comes in.

Blaze says she’s going to grab a quick shower. Breakfast should be here shortly. Kristina says she should get up, but Blaze says, no she doesn’t. They’re having breakfast in bed.

Spinelli says, it’s been some time since Sonny availed himself of his skills. May he ask, why now? Sonny has qualified personnel in-house as it were. Sonny tells him, let’s just say, out of an abundance of caution, he’s outsourcing this one. Spinelli says he sees, and Sonny asks if he should find another guy. Spinelli says he has the utmost respect for Sonny, but since the passing of their dear friend Jason, he hasn’t worked for anyone in Sonny’s field. Arguments over his previous hazardous exploits led to the demise of his relationship with Ellie. Sonny says he’s not twisting Spinelli’s arm. The task is relatively low risk. Spinelli was his first choice. Spinelli says he’s gratified, but also somewhat baffled. Sonny found him pretty annoying. Sonny says he did. He used to complain to Jason all the time, but Jason always said Spinelli was the smartest person in the room and he could trust Spinelli with his life, so that’s good enough for him.

Nina says, if Ava could somehow get her and Sonny in the same place alone together… Ava asks if she means like, lock the two of them in the backroom or something, but Nina says, no. Maybe Ava could get him here and he’d have to hear her out. Ava says, no. She can’t do it. Nina asks, why? Ava is her closest friend. She has access to Sonny. Ava really isn’t going to help her? Ava says she wants to help Nina. She just doesn’t think Sonny would take very kindly to her interfering in his personal… He knows they’re good friends and she’s walking a delicate tightrope as it is. Nina says she understands that she’s putting Ava in a very awkward position, but she’s running out of options because Sonny’s family has closed ranks against her. She can barely get a civil word out of any of them. Ava goes to her desk, and Ava says she’s sorry she’s interrupting Ava’s very busy day, but Ava says she’s not trying to brush Nina off. It’s just no good can come of her involving herself in this. At least not while she’s still under Sonny’s roof. Meddling in their marriage like that could really harm her relationship with Sonny. Nina says, Ava and Sonny have a relationship now?

Kristina looks at her sonogram on her phone and sinks down under the covers, smiling. She hears someone coming into the hotel room, and a woman says, Allison, mami’s here. She looks at Kristina in the bed.

Ava tells Nina that by relationship, she means co-parenting. She has Avery to think about, and Sonny still has primary custody. That factors into every single thing she does. Avery is her first priority and she’s not going to apologize for that. Ava says she understands that. She just got thrown when Ava said she and Sonny had a relationship. Really, what else would she call it? Ava says, going along to get along. They’re co-existing very well at the moment and she doesn’t want to jeopardize that. Nina says she gets it, when a man comes in and says, Ava Jerome? Ava says, yes, and he says he has a registered delivery. He’ll need her to sign for it and he’ll need to scan her driver’s license. Ava says, sure.

Kristina quickly gets out of bed and puts on a robe and introduces herself to Mrs. Ramirez (Natalia). She says she’s so happy to meet her. She’s heard so much about her. She holds out her hand, and Natalia says, it’s not Mrs., it’s Ms. Ramirez, and she hasn’t heard anything about Kristina. Blaze comes out drying her hair with a towel and asks if the food is here already. The sooner they eat, the sooner they can… Kristina says, look who came early, and Blaze says, mami. What is she doing here? Natalia says she has the same question about the young lady she just found in Blaze’s bed.

Drew says he’s focused on sending the message that he’s nobody’s victim, and Curtis says, not a victim, definitely a survivor. He went through hell and back. Drew starts to life weights and says, held captive for years, got out only to be put in prison and attacked, sent to the hospital. He’d say that kind of qualifies, right? Curtis says he hears Drew. It’s a lot to process. Drew says, the goal is to get through this and move on to the good stuff, and Curtis says, but that anger won’t let go, huh? He knows what that feels like. When he was shot and lying there in that bed, knowing he might be paralyzed, he felt everything from rage to despair to self-pity, but mostly rage. Because he doesn’t like being vulnerable. He doesn’t like being a victim. So he was mad at the world. He was mad at God. Does any of that sound familiar? Drew says, very. It’s taken him a while to access these feelings. Feelings aren’t one of his strengths. He just wishes Carly would understand that what he’s going through is what he’s going through, his process at his speed, even though it may not be the way she wants him to. Curtis says, okay. So this thing with Carly, is it a minor disagreement or something more? Drew says, they’ll see, but Curtis didn’t come here for a therapy session. It’s really good to see him. He’s amazing. He looks incredible. Curtis thanks him and says, that procedure was a godsend, and because of it, he and Portia reconnected. Drew says he’s happy for both of them, and Curtis thanks him. He says, all the challenges they’ve been through, he never thought they’d be that close again. Drew says, he did it. He got through. Congratulations. Curtis thanks him and says he’s just glad they never gave up.

Ava tells Nina, escrow papers. As of today, Windymere and Spoon Island are now somebody else’s problem. Nina says, the sale went through, and Ava says, just this morning. The money was deposited into her account. Not nearly enough to make up for her pain and suffering, but a nice little nest egg. Nina says she can’t believe Ava found a buyer for that place (if not Nikolas, Jason?), and Ava says, credit to Lucy. It took a while, but she was finally able to find a developer who bought the house and land instead of separating them into separate lots. Nina wonders what they’re planning to build, but Ava doesn’t know. Maybe they’re going to turn the house into condominiums. Maybe they’ll tear it down. That would be her vote, but it doesn’t matter really. That awful place with all the awful things that happened are part of a past that will not be revisited. The only person who had an emotional connection to that place was Spencer. Now that he’s gone and little Ace is living with Laura and Doc, nobody needs that place, least of all, her. Her focus is on the future.

Spinelli says he’s honored by Jason’s faith and that he spoke so highly of him to Sonny. He was a kind and gracious friend. Sonny says, he had zero patience for fools, and the fact that Jason put up with Spinelli, and also found him as a collaborator and associate… If he recommended Spinelli, that works for him. He knows Jason trusted Spinelli and he trusts Jason’s judgement. He has to make a decision now. Spinelli says, this job can’t put anyone in this house in danger, and Sonny says he’d never ask Spinelli to put his children or Maxie in danger. He knows how much Maxie means to Spinelli. Spinelli says he’s sure Sonny does. Sonny knows from his own experience, while a romance may end, one who becomes family is family forever.

Carly says, if John wants to continue this conversation, he can call her lawyer. Her name is Diane Miller, and he can look up her number online. She goes out to the tables and John follows. He says he’s not here to question her and he’s not in Port Charles to investigate her ex-husband. She says, he just said that, but he also said Sonny belonged in prison, and he says, he does. She says, really? After everything he did for John’s brother? He says he doesn’t deny Sonny was good to Stone, and Carly says, good to Stone? He bought a penthouse so Stone would have a place to live. He paid for the best care that was available at the time and he nursed Stone until the day he died. There’s an entire wing at the hospital dedicated in his brother’s memory, endowed by a gift from Sonny worth millions. Does he know that? He asks if she thinks that buys Sonny redemption, and she says, like she told him, she didn’t know his brother, but she heard a lot about him. Her son, Morgan, his middle name was Stone. John says, his son’s name is also Stone, and she says, isn’t it ironic that he and Sonny, who hate each other, both loved Stone so much, they named their sons after him? He sits back down and she goes behind the counter. He asks if she’s saying he should back off Sonny for Stone’s sake, and she tells him, what she’s saying is, if she were in his position, she’d be grateful a person took care of someone she loved. He says, what about a person who hurt someone she loved? Exploited their vulnerabilities to turn a profit. He’s going to take a wild guess and say she’d come out swinging and not stop until they paid. She asks, what makes him say that? and he says, professional assessment. There are people who freeze when they or someone close to them are threatened. Others will negotiate or placate. And then there are those who fight. She’s a fighter. He’d stake his badge on it. She asks what he and his badge are doing in town, if it’s not to take Sonny down, and he says he’s here to help Sonny. The attempts on his life are part of a bigger conspiracy. So far, Sonny has been lucky, but he can’t end this without the help of law enforcement… Sonny never told her about this, did he?

Drew says, when Curtis found out Trina might be his, and even when he found out she was his, he gets it. He knows what it’s like to lose years and years of time with your daughter. Curtis says he knows, and he did his fair share of blaming Portia, but recently he’s had to admit he withheld the truth about something that could affect his family. He told himself that he was doing it for the right reasons, but that was just an excuse. And he has to be honest; it hurt both of them and justice is hard to swallow. Drew says he hears that, and Curtis made it through. Curtis says, thankfully, but he sure didn’t make it easy. When he first got shot, he acted up, he acted out, he pushed away everyone who loved him, especially Portia – again. Finally, he had to accept that if he didn’t want to live his life miserable, he needed to take a long look at himself in the mirror and be real. Get out of his own way. Because the ability to change his outlook and his life, starts and ends with him and him alone. So now he and Portia are back on track, happy, and they’re excited about moving forward together. Drew says, Curtis is a lot of things, but he’s not slick, and Curtis says, they’re just having a conversation. Drew says, Curtis is dropping these pearls of wisdom, trying to give him advice not very stealthily. But he hears Curtis, and it’s exactly what he needed to hear, and lesson learned. Because he hasn’t really been playing fair himself. Carly didn’t want him to go to prison to protect her, but he did it anyway. And in one heat of the moment slip of the tongue – he punches the teardrop bag – he made it seem like he resented her for that. Curtis asks if he does, but Drew says, no. He’s the one who made the deal with the DA, even though he knew she wouldn’t want him to. Now she feels responsible for what happened to him in Pentenville, and since he’s been released, all she’s been doing is being supportive and being there for him, even when it’s meant compromising what matters to her. He flashes back to Carly telling him that she really appreciates his sacrifice, but she can’t move forward until Nina is behind her. She doesn’t want to think about Nina anymore, she doesn’t want to argue with Nina anymore, and she doesn’t want to hurt Nina anymore, because it always comes back to bite her, and she doesn’t want to do that to herself anymore. Drew tells Curtis, you know what? Maybe it’s time for him to do the same thing for her.

John says he’s sorry. He thought Carly knew about the larger conspiracy. He just assumed Sonny would keep her in the loop. She says, now that he brought her in the loop, how much danger is her family in? and he says, her family hasn’t been the focus so far. She asks, then what’s the focus? and he says, three former and current heads of major crime families. Now there’s four. She says, Olivia Jerome being the fourth.

Natalia says she’s waiting for an explanation, and Kristina looks at Blaze, who seems frozen. Kristina says, they were having a girls’ night last night and it was super late, so Allison let her crash here. Natalia says, okay. Allison is so generous like that. Blaze asks how she even got in here, and Natalia says she booked the room on Your Escort and her name is on the paperwork, so she just asked for a key. She hugs Blaze and says, but she never would have come so early if she’d known Blaze had plans with a friend.

Nina says, now that Ava has sold Windymere, is she going to have Lucy help find her and Avery a place? and Ava says, eventually. Assuming Sonny is going to let them leave. Nina says, but it’s just temporary, right? He’s not thinking of having Ava and Avery stay there permanently, is he? Ava says she doesn’t know what he’s thinking. She doesn’t know what his next move is and she’s not going to pressure him. Like she told Nina, she and Sonny are in a good place right now. She knows from personal experience that he lashes out most when he’s hurt. Nina says, Ava doesn’t need to tell her that; she lived it. She can’t believe Sonny slammed to door in her face like she wasn’t even there. Ava says, but the fact that he’s hurt means that he still has a lot of feelings for Nina. So she thinks Nina just has to give him time. Nina says she has been giving him time. She’s given him space. Ava says, and she’s right to do so. He’s going through a tough time lately. Nina says, it was a blow when he lost Spencer, and Ava says, and now Dex is gone. Nina asks, what happened to Dex? and Ava says, it doesn’t matter, but Nina says, it matters to her. She’s not budging until Ava tells her everything that happened.

Sonny puts on his coat and says he needs a decision. What’s it going to be? Spinelli says he’ll do the job, and Sonny says he appreciates that. He wants to do something for Spinelli in return. What’s that problem he’s having in his apartment with the plumbing? Spinelli says, it’s been since Christmas Eve… and Sonny says, that’s unacceptable. He’ll have his contractor go over there and he’ll fix it by the end of the week. Spinelli says, that’s not necessary, but thanks just the same, and Sonny says, the way he feels, if there’s a leak, you have to deal with it. Spinelli says, that’s a wise course of action, but in this case, there is no leak. He staged the whole thing to give himself an excuse to move in here to help Maxie with her financial situation. Sonny says, that’s one way to show someone you care. The other way would be, why doesn’t he just tell her? Spinelli says he’ll take that under advisement, and Sonny goes to the door. Spinelli says, he misses Stone Cold too… He’s sorry. Has he spoken out of turn? Sonny says he’ll keep in touch, and leaves.

Kristina comes out fully dressed, and Blaze says, the food they ordered arrived. Kristina says, her mom is probably hungry after traveling, so she’ll let them enjoy, but Blaze says, there’s more than enough to share. Kristina should stay. Kristina says she has a full day. She should just get going. Blaze tells Natalia, Kristina is starting a youth center, and she also manages a restaurant, and Natalia tells Blaze, look what I brought back from Puerto Rico, showing her a pair of sandals. Aren’t these adorable? Blaze says, but are they vegan? and Natalia says, does that matter? Blaze says, it has for a while, and Kristina tells Natalia to enjoy her stay in Port Charles. Natalia thanks her and says, all of Allison’s friends call her Natalia. Natalia takes a covered dish out of her suitcase, and says, look what she managed to smuggle in, Blaze’s abuela’s tembleque. Blaze thanks her, but says she’s told Natalia before, she doesn’t really like coconut pudding. Natalia asks when Blaze told her that, and Blaze says she told Natalia multiple times. Natalia never listens to her. Natalia asks what she doesn’t like about it, and Kristina says, the texture. She’s the same way about avocado and flan. Natalia says she thinks she knows her daughter, and Kristina says, of course (🍷), but Blaze asks if Natalia really knows her. She didn’t know Blaze lied to her earlier and it isn’t the first time Blaze has kept something from her.

Drew finishes with some pull-ups, and Curtis says, that’s impressive. Good work. Drew says, so good to see him. He’s so happy everything is working out for Curtis. Curtis says he doesn’t know what’s going on, but it must be important since Drew looks like he’s in a hurry. Drew says he is, and jets.

John says he can neither confirm nor deny the death of Olivia Jerome is connected to the case he’s working, and Carly says, so now he’s clamming up? He was super talkative a minute ago. He tells her, this much he’ll say. He’s making headway on this case, and he promises her, he will nail whoever’s behind this. She says, before or after Sonny’s death? Play this right and it saves him the hassle of building a case against Sonny and putting him away, right? He says, Sonny is a potential victim and he’ll do everything in his power to make sure Sonny is safe. If, after this case is closed, it becomes his business to investigate Sonny on charges of racketeering, he’ll do everything in his power to secure a legal conviction against him. He doesn’t cut corners. It does no good to catch criminals by becoming one himself. She says, he sure does pride himself on his integrity, doesn’t he? You know what’s funny? The most honorable man she knew, he’d consider a criminal. He says, and she doesn’t? and she says, no. He was her friend. She adds, and by the way, he’s drinking Corinthos coffee, and walks away.

Ava says, Sonny doesn’t really share much with her, and Nina says, it doesn’t seem that way to her. She thinks Ava knows more about her husband than she does. Ava says, the assumption of proximity, nothing more, and Nina says she’s not asking for a lot. She’s just asking for the opportunity to have a conversation with her husband. He evicted her from their home, he’s kept her at bay, and he hid behind his lawyer when he served her with divorce papers. Sonny walks in, and Nina says, if he wants to end their marriage, the least he could do is have the decency to say it to her face. Sonny says, here he is.

Nina asks if she can have a word with Sonny, and he asks if Ava is ready to go. Ava says, just about, and Nina says, her appointment was with Sonny? Ava nods and goes in the back. Nina says, while Ava grabs her things, can they just talk? She’s been waiting, she’s been biding her time, hoping he’d realize what they mean to each other. He says, not now, and she says, then when? After she’s given him a divorce? They made vows. He swore he’d love her until death, and now he can’t even spare her an hour?

Natalia says, Blaze lied? About what? Blaze looks at Kristina, who starts to leave, but Blaze says, don’t go. Please. She needs Kristina here for this. Kristina puts down her bag, takes off her coat, and stands next to Blaze. Blaze says, Natalia doesn’t know her as well as she thinks, and it’s partially her fault. Natalia says, partially, and Blaze tells her, when Kristina said that she let her crash here, it wasn’t the truth. Kristina was covering for her. Natalia asks why she’d need to cover for Blaze. What has she done? Is she sick? Blaze looks at Kristina and says, she’s great actually. She lied to Natalia. She and Kristina are more than just friends.

Maxie comes back and tells Spinelli that she feels like she’s had a full day already, and she hasn’t even gone to the office yet. But the Craft Fair looks great. He says he’s sure it does with her help and creativity, and she says, Sonny’s gone? He says, Sonny left a while ago, and she says, the kids are having so much fun at the Craft Fair, she didn’t want to leave. Bailey’s really enjoying playing with the clay and James is making something special for Spinelli, but she’s not allowed to say what it is, so… He kissed her last night. He says he did, and she kissed him back. She says she did, and he says, so what happens next?

Carly comes out to find John gone, and a note with his check that says, sorry for upsetting you. She flashes back to asking him how much danger her family is in. She remembers telling Drew that he agreed to her condition of ending his war with Nina if she became Editor-in-Chief of Crimson. Then telling him that this was her first and last issue. She looks at the note and says, you’re not the only reason I’m upset. I’m just so sick of not being considered. She crumples the note, and Drew walks in.

Ava comes back, and Sonny tells her to go ahead and leave. Send the car back, and he’ll try to make it to the school. If he can’t make it, he’ll talk to her tonight at home. She says, okay. Sounds good. She quietly tells Nina, good luck, and leaves. Sonny says, the floor is Nina’s. What’s she got to say?

Tomorrow, Kristina asks if Blaze is sorry that she called Kristina her girlfriend; Spinelli tells Maxie that he thinks he’s falling back in love with her; and Carly tells Drew that she doesn’t see how this relationship works if he can’t let go.

Below Deck

Second day of charter. Fraser tells Captain Kerry that Barbie thinks everyone is against her and they’re not, but she’s been vile to him. The captain asks how she gets along with the rest of the team. He can’t just say someone is gone, but if they’re not fitting in, they’re not fitting in. Fraser says, she’s not a team player, and Captain Kerry asks if he’s happy with her work. Fraser says, she could be an asset if her attitude changed, and the captain tells him to think about it open minded and professional. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, with Fraser, emotions are involved. He doesn’t have to like her. Fraser says he’ll talk to her and keep it short, sweet, and professional. Barbie tells Sunny that she feels underappreciated, and in her interview, she says she grew up with a dad who applauds her 24/7. All she knows how to do in this situation is shut down. She’s in a hard place and it sucks. Oh, does she mean actually being required to listen to her boss? Captain Kerry tells Jared that they need to be on the dock at 11, and in his interview, he says, there are going to be two vow renewals and one couple getting married. He became ordained, but he knows more about divorce than weddings. In Sunny’s interview, she says she’s mad at Ben for calling her out over the radio. It makes her look bad. She’s had past issues with men on yachts. She worked with two deckhands and a bosun, one of the deckhands being a greenie. He kept telling her what to do and she cried. Then she became emotional and sensitive in their eyes, so she’s learned to stand up for herself.

St. George’s, Grenada. Some of the crew goes to set up by the waterfall, and Captain Kerry calls his girlfriend. She asks if he can marry them, and he says, they could get mirror and go for it. We find out Barbie is most interested in Jared, and in her interview, she says she’s attracted to people’s souls. Seeing her past boyfriends, you can tell she doesn’t go for looks. Not that Jared is ugly. In the taxi with Fraser, Jared says, everyone wants a piece of Barbie, and Fraser says, he might have to hurry. In Kyle’s interview, he says he has no competition. He’s already won. She just needs to see it. Fraser says, he’s not getting a positive attitude from her and getting backlash on everything. It just takes one bad apple to spread to other crew members. Jared says, it’s like bacteria. Barbie calls her mom and says, her boss told her that she lacks respect. He’s making her look like an a-hole. He pushes her every second and attacks her constantly. In Barbie’s interview, she says, at this point, she can’t win. She tells her mom that she’s not sure this is the best thing for her.

Barbie’s mom tells her that she’s capable of handling this, and in her interview, Barbie says, she’s going to push through. She thinks quitters are losers and she’s a winner. Sunny confronts Ben about him calling her out on the radio, but he says, it wasn’t on her; it was on Jared. He didn’t know it came across like that. In Sunny’s interview, she says, recognizing that he hurt her feelings would be something. He’s a d*ck and an a-hole. Good thing they’re close together. At the waterfall, the crew sets up a gazebo, and the guests leave for the shore. When they see the set-up, groom-to-be Robert says he thinks pretty damn romantic, and Fraser says he’s getting goosebumps. The couples get ready – primaries Steven and Tara and guests Ran and Rachel are doing a vow renewal, while guests Michelle and Robert are getting married. Captain Kerry gives an amusing take on performing the ceremony, adding things like, I will trust you sometimes; and I will give you my hands, my heart, and my love, but not my last beer. He has them exchange rings to remind them of their eternal love and the promises they made today, and then tells them to kiss the bride of their choosing. In Fraser’s interview, he says he loves seeing people in love after 7 years (Steven and Tara). If he gets married, he wants a small, intimate beach wedding, wearing linen. Afterwards, the guests have sushi and cocktails. I cry because I will never be able to afford a vacation like this. In Anthony’s interview, he says, the captain is serious about crew food. They’re going to have so much food, a f***ing buffet every day. In the crew mess, Xandi tells Ben that yachting means different things to different people, and Ben asks if she wants it forever. He calls it Neverland. She says, it’s not normal, but it becomes your normal. Jared texts Ben to bring the tender for the guests, and Barbie tells Jared that he’s her favorite. In her interview, she says, she’s being her regular, honest, tragic self, and in Jared’s interview, he says he was taken aback. Maybe there’s something there. He doesn’t know.

Anthony needs help, and Kyle offers. In Anthony’s interview, he says he’d love to find love. He was married at 26 to a chief stew, and one of his uncle’s, who was a captain, found her a job. He never heard from her and guesses she left him for his uncle. For the moment, he’s literally in love with his cat. We see a photo of him with a beautiful black kitty. Aww! The guests get ready for dinner, and Fraser tells Barbie that he’s putting Cat on service, at least at the beginning. In Barbie’s interview, she says, Fraser’s moving her off service. What? Why? If he wants to mix people around to get back at her for the attitude that she knows she has, fine. At the end of the day though, it’s affecting service. Fraser goes over instructions with Cat and calls the captain to dinner. In his interview, Anthony says, love is in the air. It’s going to be important to keep following the vibe. Last night’s steak was not that great. We flash back to Robert saying it was tough, and Anthony says, it’s more pressure because it’s the last dinner. He’s got to be in shape, be strong, and do his best. It’s a parade of food porn – salmon tartare, some kind of beet thing, a local crab cake, asparagus risotto with red snapper, and a lamb chop that Anthony personally accompanies. One of the guests asks if the captain has ever had crawfish, and he says, when he was growing up, they caught something similar called a yabby. You can catch them with a cake of soap and a string. I’d like to hear more about that. Do they try to eat the soap? Do they ride on it? What? Fraser goes over cutlery for the next course with Cat, who’s been committing minor, yet noticeable, infractions. In Fraser’s interview, he says, quite honestly, it’s a cat-tastrophe. The crew is called to the galley for the wedding cake, which is white and topped with raspberries. In Captain Kerry’s interview, he says, the mistakes Cat is making are showing him that she’s not trained well enough to do service. Barbie peels some aloe for Kyle’s sunburn, and in his interview, he says he knows she likes Jared, but he has nothing to lose. Don’t write him off just yet.

The captain and Fraser discuss Cat’s mistakes, and Captain Kerry says, her response is great to them being pointing out, but she didn’t have the eye to notice. There’s lobster eggs benedict for breakfast, and Xandi suggests they see if the guests consummated the marriage. Eww! In Jared’s interview, he says, the first docking didn’t have the best communication. Inside, he’s screaming, fack – with an a. In the captain’s interview, he says, the last docking was the worst experience. He’s feeling confident, but nervous. Jared tells the captain, 12 meters, no, 20, and says, he needs to work on his meters. Ya think? In his interview, he says, nailed it, then catches a fly with his fingers, surprising himself. That reminds me of the time my father did that – in church. Why is it always the places where you shouldn’t be laughing? It’s guest departure time, and Tara says, they couldn’t have asked for anything better. Steven wishes them the best of luck for the rest of the season and gives the captain the tip envelope. They leave, and Captain Kerry says, amazing charter, and the deck team has a wash party. Jared tells the deckhands that he hasn’t met his daughter yet, because his ex isn’t allowing it, and in his interview, he says, he wasn’t ready for it when his ex got pregnant and didn’t handle it properly. Now he’s trying like hell to correct it, but it’s hard to sew back together a wound without leaving a scar behind. The captain calls the tip meeting, and he says, the guests were happy. The docking was better, and the wedding was wild with the logistics involved. It was a magical experience, and the guests were impressed. The tip is $22,500 or $1730 each. In Xandi’s interview, a producer asks what she’s doing with the money, and she says, therapy and a chiropractor. Captain Kerry says, the first round is on him, and Jared unsuccessfully tries to call his daughter. In his interview, he says, he’s on a set schedule to talk to her, but the lack of cellular service puts him in a difficult way. His fear is, if he doesn’t maintain the schedule, his ex will cut him off.

Port Louis Marina. The crew heads to the restaurant, and the captain joins them. They all agree the guests were easy, and Captain Kerry says, high maintenance they can deal with. It’s a-holes they can’t. Jared knocks over a glass, then goes to the bar for a shot of tequila. Fraser thinks he seems pissed off, and the captain makes his exit, telling them, be good or be damn good at it. Jared picks the salt off his shot glass and clinks glasses with Barbie. He asks Cat if she likes ass (negatory), and in Barbie’s interview, she says, his sloppy behavior is turning her all the way off. It’s like when you’re on a first date and think, I’ve met my husband. But on the second, you think, no, I did not. She decides to hae a smoke with Kyle and sits with him on a beach couch. Ben asks Sunny to go for a beach walk, but not in a romantic way. I don’t think. Barbie complains to Kyle about Fraser and says, the guests love her and she works her ass off. Sunny tells Ben that he likes to stir the pot (agreed) and he’s being a d*ck (also agreed). He says, there’s a difference between being a d*ck and being cheeky, and he’s being cheeky. She says, it comes off as being a d*ck, and in her interview, she says, she’s been lied to, humiliated, and hurt by former boyfriends, and she doesn’t trust anybody. Ben tells her that he’s an Aussie and charismatic, and she says, he can gaslight her all he wants.

Cat asks if they can’t have a chill night at the boat and play card games, but that’s a no. Ben asks if Sunny was worried about the captain hearing the radio, and she says, yes. He tells her that it doesn’t matter. She needs to be thick skinned. He’s sorry he offended her, but she’s probably the captain’s favorite crew member. Music happens and they dance. There’s a bonfire and Cat tries talking on the phone with a friend, but the call keeps dropping. In Cat’s interview, she says she doesn’t feel a genuine connection with anyone. It’s a huge trigger. Growing up with her foster family, she suppressed who she was. Now she’s been thrown on a boat with people she doesn’t know, and it makes her feel insecure. She’s not fully able to feel like herself. Fraser puts his arm around her, and she cries. She says she’s sad and tired and hopes she’s not bland. He says, there’s nothing bland about her, and she says she’s used to having close friends. It doesn’t feel like her previous teams. In Fraser’s interview, he says, Cat at the moment is a Leaning Tower of Pisa. She’s been through so much, it’s no wonder it’s a shock to her system. He tells her that she’s beautiful, she’s fun, and she’s everything they need. She’s his most precious stew. He tells her that he’ll be her family for the next six weeks. He’ll be there for her. In his interview, he says he sympathizes. He’s been there before. All they need is to take a breath. He tells Barbie to be fragile with Cat. He can’t deal with her attitude. She says, he’s sassy too, but he says he doesn’t have sass. If something isn’t done correctly, he’s going to be annoyed. She says she’s not doing the yes, sir, no, sir thing, and in his interview, he wonders where she gets off thinking this attitude and approach to a superior is going to work. He doesn’t care how good she is. If she goes against him, it’s going to be an issue. He tells her, f***ing bring it or bring it home.

Next time, the captain has a talk with Jared; problematic and demeaning guests; and a guest’s comments affects Jared’s self-worth, making him cry.

⚰️ About Last Night…

Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Hard to tell from just the first episode, but this one looks like a keeper. Rick is now a cosignee, working outside a secret CRM city in Philadelphia, PA. Their code is security and secrecy above all, and cosignees work outside the city, killing zombies, until they get promoted to be citizens. There are also not-so-secret cities in Omaha and Portland, which the CRM has their eye on. Remember how Jadis referred to Rick as an A at the end of Walking Dead? It turns out that’s not such a great thing to be as a general rule, since A’s are intelligent and strong and the CRM doesn’t want them around. It’s the B’s who get taken in, while the A’s are eliminated. Fortunately for Rick, someone has his back. If you want to know more, read on.

https://www.cbr.com/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-episode1-recap-spoilers

🥁 Banging the Drum At a Moderate Tempo…

Join me tomorrow for soap and VanderBS. Until then, stay safe, stay always following your words with actions, and stay accepting that if you don’t want to live your life miserable, you need to take a long look at yourself in the mirror, be real, and get out of your own way. The ability to change your outlook and your life begins with you and you alone.