Tape#17

April 12,2000

Ned was devastated to learn that L&B's sound board needed to be replaced, to the tune of $10,000. As he was mourning the loss of their last capital, Edward came in and began needling him about L&B's shaky ground. He offered to buy out Ned's ELQ stocks to give him some ready money. Ned refused and showed him the door. Chloe arrived and Edward speculated that Jax had pulled her into his camp and she told him she was in her own camp. Together, she and Ned went to the back and Edward started to leave, just as Emily arrived. He asked what she was doing there and she told him her classes were late that day. She pitched to him about backing Juan and he turned her down cold and left. Juan overheard and said he had asked his father and had gotten the same response. Emily whined, wondering why no one else would help him and he said that they would in time, for now, all he needed was his GIRLFRIEND. Elizabeth was distracted and having trouble getting orders right at Kelly's. Taggert was there having breakfast and waiting for Hannah, who came down and joined him. As they chatted, the issue of her father came up and she told Taggert he was the reason she joined the FBI and was the best agent ever. He said he hoped he could meet him some time and Hannah said maybe he would. Emily came in and asked if there was any word from Luke and Laura. Liz dejectedly told her there was not. Emily worried what would happen if Nikolas and Liz got into a fight on the road and Liz said that wouldn't happen. When Emily tried to press her friend for "the plan", Liz admitted that they didn't really have a plan...that they were just going to start looking. Lucky went into a biker bar with a "room for rent" sign in the window. He offered to pay first month and a deposit, but admitted that after that, he was tapped. He said he could fix their computer and the bikes out front in exchange for room and board. The scampy looking owners agreed. Lucky said he would get busy as soon as he took care of some business. He left for Port Charles, the next town over. Bobbie and Roy woke up together and again, she tried to get him to stay and not report to the FBI. She encouraged him to ask Sonny for help, but he said there was nothing Sonny or anyone could do. He was a federal snitch who had outlived his usefulness. Alexis came to talk to Stefan about the events and he told her Helena was in custody in British Columbia. She told him that if he didn't find Lucky, he'd have no case. He was sure that he would. He filled her in on Helena letting Lucky go and what that could mean. He also told her that he was over Laura. Nikolas stormed in and demanded to know where Lucky was. Stefan said that he didn't know, but would find him. Nikolas informed his uncle that he would not be waiting that long. Roy came into the diner and asked Elizabeth if Hannah was around. When she was not, he phoned Bobbie and she arrived. He made her promise to tell Hannah the truth about him. She said she would and he left for his meeting with Ford. AJ arrived at Jax's penthouse and wanted to know why he was summoned. Jax smiled playfully and told him he had a deal that might interest him. They reached an agreement on some deal to do Edward in (off screen explanation that we, the viewers, were not privvy to). AJ said he was just trying to picture the look on Edward's face and said he was in. Chloe arrived and they exchanged pleasantries and condolences. AJ left and Chloe immediately asked Jax what AJ was doing there. Jax told her he had worked out a deal with AJ and she expressed her concerns over dealing with AJ when he was drinking. Jax told him he'd take his chances. Alexis arrived at L&B and Ned filled her in on the soundboard problems and Edward's visit. He told her he had considered selling his ELQ stock, but couldn't do it. She told him there was one way to bring money into L&B immediately...two words. "Eddie Maine" He balked at first, but agreed to one night, money up front. They talked about some of the insecurities he had about performing again. Nikolas and Liz talked about all Stefan had said. Nikolas said he didn't know what to believe any more. He said he was going out to look for Lucky and Liz said she was going too, she just had to clear it with Bobbie and Chloe. Roy arrived for his meeting with Ford and told the back of a chair that he was done with the FBI. The chair turned and Larkin was polishing his new name plate and informed Roy that Ford had been put into early retirement for being on the take from Sonny. Roy scoffed at the notion, but Larkin blew him off and told him he was heading for prison. Liz told Bobbie she was going to need some time off to go search for Lucky. Bobbie was skeptical and said that if Luke and Laura didn't find him, how could Liz? She said she would just follow her heart. Bobbie encouraged her to do so, then sat with Hannah who had just come in. She asked Liz for coffee and Lucky watched from outside as she poured it. Hannah asked what was wrong? Was something wrong with her father?

April 13,2000

Jax was busy on the phone with business dealings, and when he hung up, asked Chloe if his career was going to be a problem for her. She admitted that she was not entirely comfortable with his rivalry with the Quartermaines, but other than that had no problem with his endeavors and promised no interference. She did say, however, that AJ's involvement concerned her, and when Jax left to go to a business meeting, Chloe phoned AJ. AJ arrived shortly thereafter, and wondered who had asked Chloe to telephone him. She said that she'd "made a unilateral decision all on my own" [Ed.: is there any other way to make a unilateral decision?] and they talked about the bad breaks they'd both experienced recently. Chloe urged AJ not to trash his life - to stop drinking, make up with his family and not raid "some little ELQ subsidiary." AJ picked up on this last bit, realizing that Jax hadn't told Chloe that he was going after ELQ in its entirety, but before he could comment, Jax returned. Jax was surprised to see AJ, but Chloe explained that they were simply discussing family matters. AJ left, and Jax admitted to Chloe that his deal with AJ was to buy his shares of ELQ stock. Carly returned from shopping to find Michael playing cheerfully with Sonny, and took the opportunity to point out that they could be a happy family without marriage. Sonny took Michael upstairs, and Johnny announced Father Coates. Carly greeted him with some confusion, assuming that he was there to hear Sonny's confession. Sonny came down, and cleared up the misunderstanding: the priest was there for premarital counseling. Sonny explained that they were going to be married in a church, and that later the baby would be baptized. Carly said that she didn't agree, but Sonny quietly insisted that she would, explaining to Father Coates that Carly was just suffering prewedding jitters. The priest understood, gave Sonny a paper with questions for the happy couple to consider, and left. Carly took the paper and tore it up, calling Sonny arrogant and presumptuous. Sonny explained (again) that they must do what's right regardless of their individual wishes, that the children need a proper family and home. Carly angrily stated that she would never marry Sonny, threatened to take the children and leave, and stormed out of the room, leaving Sonny with a bemused smile. Felicia returned home to find no one there, and only her own phone message on the machine. She had just phoned the PD and determined that Mac was in Texas when he walked in. She was at first relieved, then Mac interrupted her to state that he'd packed enough of her things for her to get "resettled." Felicia didn't understand, protesting that she'd left messages, and said she'd go get the children now. Mac informed her that she would not go get them, and they argued vehemently about the children. Mac pointed out that "they need a mother" and when Felicia angrily protested that "they have a mother", replied "No, they have you - a woman who's never around because she's off trotting the globe with her lover." Felicia defended herself as best she could against Mac's charges of infidelity and neglect, but Mac stated that the children were staying in Texas and told Felicia that he'd explained everything to Mariah, including showing her the videotape. Felicia tried again to explain the videotape and then accused Mac of being vindictive, asking if he'd ever considered how he was hurting the children by his actions. This was too much for Mac, who left to go to work after telling Felicia to take her stuff and be gone by the time he got home. Felicia began to cry, then called Mariah and left a message to call her at the Port Charles Hotel. At Kelly's, Lucky watched through the window as Elizabeth cleaned up. She felt his eyes on her, but saw no one when she turned to look. At a table, Hannah and Bobbie talked about Roy. Bobbie explained that Roy was caught in a lot of tension with the FBI, and Hannah offered to come to his rescue, citing her own Bureau troubles, but Bobbie advised her to let Roy work it out himself. She gave her blessing to Bobbie and Roy's relationship, and they talked about Hannah's childhood and what a wonderful "agent" her father was. Hannah left, and Bobbie was about to do the same when Lesley came in with Lulu. Lesley told Bobbie that she hadn't heard anything about Lucky, and Bobbie left. Elizabeth went over to hug Lulu, and got the update while Lucky watched from the window. Laura entered next, and Lulu excitedly ran to her mother. Laura explained that she and Daddy had gone to look for "something special", and that they'd found it but not been able to bring it home quite yet, although Daddy is still looking and will surely bring it home soon. Lulu and Lesley went on home, and Laura told Elizabeth all about the encounter with Lucky and it's unsatisfactory ending. Elizabeth began to cry, and apologized, and Laura tried to comfort her by telling her that they were still hopeful and that Luke is still looking. Elizabeth told Laura about her plan to go with Nikolas to search for Lucky, and Laura warned her against Helena's long reach. Later, Nikolas arrived and Elizabeth excitedly gave him the update on Lucky. They grabbed suitcases and left to begin the search, as Lucky watched from his hiding place. Roy arrived at Ford's office to find Larkin in the desk chair. Larkin explained that Ford had been taking bribe money from Sonny and had been sent away, leaving him in charge. Roy found this a little too convenient and was suspicious, but Larkin moved on to other matters. He had Roy's file and explained the situation to date: after Roy's attempted assassination of Senator Mitch Williams (a federal matter, since it was mob-ordered) Roy had had his sentence reduced to 25 years in exchange for his services as an informant. Roy still owes five years on that agreement, unless the Bureau determined that Roy had violated the original agreement, in which case Roy would have to serve out his original life sentence. Roy protested that there had been no chance of a life term, then realized that Larkin had changed the document and hurled it to the floor. Larkin demanded that Roy pick it up, reminding him that he can have Hannah charged with obstruction of justice. Roy told him that he understood that Hannah could be used as leverage, picked up the file and stated that he needs time to get his affairs in order before returning to prison. Larkin smirked, called in Officer Matthews to place Roy under arrest, and at that instant Bobbie barged in and shouted "No!." Roy calmly tried to get Bobbie to leave, but she refused, demanding to see Ford. Larkin informed her that he was in charge now and left with the officer and Roy. Bobbie promised Roy she would get help for him, and they swore their love to one another as he was led away. Larkin later returned to find Bobbie still there. She tried to plead Roy's case with Larkin, but he refused to listen, stating simply that the deal was off the table now. Meanwhile, Roy was placed in his prison cell. -

April 18,2000

Jax tried to get Chloe to drink a protein shake, but she managed to evade him. The bell rang and Stefan was at the door. Chloe excused herself for a walk. Stefan tried to get Jax to join his crusade against Helena, pointing out that Helena had almost killed Chloe and tried to kill him and Alexis when the helicopter crashed. He said he wanted Jax to get Helena to do business with him and then to set her up. Jax said he would consider it. Ned and Edward met with Edward saying he hoped Ned had changed his mind about selling the ELQ stocks. Ned pointed out that battling Jax alone was going to be a challenge for Edward. Ned made it clear that he was not there to come back to ELQ but to make Edward aware of how serious the Jax situation is. Edward pretty much blew him off once he learned he wasn't going to return to the ELQ fold. While Michael and Carly were playing in the park, AJ came up and demanded to see Michael. He pleaded with Carly to let him see Michael and she reminded him of all the times she tried to get him to give her a divorce and work out a custody arrangement. She told him he was a drunk and wasn't getting anywhere near her son. Johnny manhandled him out of the way and Carly and Michael left. Bobbie went to see Sonny and told him Larkin was dirty. She (again) begged him to help Roy and he said he couldn't go see him or Larkin would know Sonny was onto him. Bobbie complimented Sonny for having thrown Larkin through a window. Sonny then alluded that he had indeed bribed Ford and told Bobbie to stay out of it. He told Bobbie to thank Roy for letting him know that Larkin was out to get him and promised he would help Roy from the outside all he could. He told Bobbie she was a fool to visit Roy in Pentonville because Larkin would see she was the connection between Sonny and Roy. Bobbie said she was seeing Roy as soon as she left Sonny. Carly and Michael came in just then and Bobbie left, saying a hurried good-bye. After she badgered him, Sonny filled Carly in on the details of his conversation with Bobbie. Larkin came to see Roy in prison and blackmailed him by saying he would have Hannah ruined if he didn't keep his mouth shut. Alexis and Chloe rested on a park bench after their power walk. Alexis had a hard time talking having lost her voice. They commiserated about Jax's protein shakes. Chloe confided in Alexis how hard it is having her medical condition between her and Jax. Ned went to see Jax and conferred about Chloe's medical condition and the doctors Jax had consulted. Ned also spoke to Jax about the war with Edward. Jax shared his fears and pain over Chloe's illness with Ned while Chloe and Alexis spoke. Hannah came to visit Roy in prison and he told her the truth about himself. She was angry and wanted to know why he had lied to her her whole life. He told her he had never been anything but a two-bit hood, but with her, he was a great FBI agent and he liked that. She asked if he would have lied to her forever and he admitted that he probably would have. She told him that she loved him and that he was the perfect man, whether he thought so or not. Larkin came in just then and mocked them, saying, "Isn't this touching?" A guard came and manhandled Roy away, saying visiting hours were over, despite Roy's observation that they had ten more minutes. AJ burst into Kelly's and demanded that Bobbie intercede with Carly to allow him to see AJ. She sent him packing, saying he was a drunk who didn't need to be around Michael and that she had her own problems. Sonny reminded Carly not to deal with AJ and Carly admonished Johnny for ratting her out, calling him a punk. He threatened to call the DA and send AJ to jail that night just to get rid of him. Carly said that if Sonny sent AJ down the river...they Sonny started laughing at her for saying, "Down the river" asking her "Where is the river, Carly?" and telling her she'd been watching too many movies. They laughed together and she asked if he was making fun of her and he said, yeah, he was a little. She reminded him that sending AJ up the river would hurt Lila and Sonny said he didn't want to do that. He reminded her that he would do anything, ANYTHING to keep her safe. She smiled and said she was finally starting to get that. Back at home while Jax was out on business, Chloe dreamed of a music box playing the song, "Once Upon a Dream". The dream was so real, it was hard for her to tell that she'd been asleep.

April 20,2000

Nikolas and Elizabeth were still searching for Lucky in New York City. Elizabeth complained of being tired from staying up late looking in coffeehouses where people were playing, and Nikolas expressed hope that one "no show" would turn out to be Lucky. He went off to check some other places while Elizabeth waited, in case Lucky happened by, and returned with a young man named Kirk. Kirk professed to be a friend of Lucky's, and Elizabeth was excited at the prospect of Kirk setting up a meeting for them, but when they questioned him about Lucky before giving him money, Kirk turned out to be a fraud - he didn't know that Lucky played guitar rather than piano. Nikolas ran Kirk off, and they vowed to keep searching. Nikolas went off to check some pawnshops, and Elizabeth was selling sketches when a man approached her, assuming she was selling more than sketches. The man offered her money and suggested she could make more, and when Elizabeth demanded that he leave her alone, he grabbed her by the wrist and insisted that she go with him. Lucky sneaked aboard Helena's yacht and overheard Andreas arrange Madame's dinner, as she'd been released from custody. Andreas left, and Lucky came out of hiding to examine things, then hid again when he heard someone approaching. Andreas and Helena returned, and Helena ordered her dinner, a hot bath, and a massage. Stefan appeared, and Andreas offered to throw him out, but Helena considered that Stefan probably was "a master of some martial art or other" and dismissed Andreas. Helena proclaimed Stefan's vendetta tiresome, and asked that he run along and let Mummy recover in peace. Stefan replied that he'd would do so as soon as Mummy told him where he would find Lucky Spencer (Lucky overheard all this with great interest). Helena insisted that she has no idea where Lucky is, that he is free to go wherever he pleases, but Stefan suggested that perhaps Helena is simply not ready for Lucky yet, as she may have other pieces to get into place. He wondered if Lucky were a pawn, or a more useful piece...perhaps a bishop or knight. Helena replied that chess is Stefan's game, and said that it bored her (this bit seemed to puzzle Lucky). Stefan continued the analogy, suggesting that Lucky is a pivotal piece, then he walked over to the actual chessboard and moved a piece into checkmate. Stefan left, and Helena hurled the chessboard then left the room, demanding to know how Stefan got onto the yacht. Lucky climbed out of his hiding place and stood, considering what he'd heard. At the hospital, Tony told Bobbie about his decision to have his hand repaired and mentioned Rae Cummings. He asked Bobbie if she would be willing to meet with Rae to discuss reconnecting with an adult child, and Bobbie agreed. While Bobbie was on the phone arranging to visit Roy in prison, Tony told Rae that Bobbie would speak to her. He introduced the two, and left. Rae told Bobbie the story of the search for her daughter, and Bobbie confided the tale of Carly, how Carly felt abandoned and is still testing the relationship with her mother every chance she gets. Rae admitted talking to Carly at Kelly's, and reassured Bobbie that Carly very much wants Bobbie to love her. Rae asked Bobbie if Carly's father ever knew about her, and Bobbie replied that the circumstances had made that impossible. Rae pursued the topic a little more: if Bobbie could tell the father, would she? Bobbie was emphatic that she would not, and left after Rae thanked her. There was a page for Alan, and Rae watched thoughtfully as he arrived to take his call at the nurses' desk. At the prison, Larkin demanded that Roy stop calling Washington to make "unsubstantiated claims", threatened that someone close to Roy would get hurt if he kept it up, and also had Roy's telephone privileges revoked. A prisoner named Adams was washing floors, and Larkin pulled him aside to tell him that the FBI wouldn't have been able to send him to prison if they hadn't had testimony from a snitch - Roy, in cell block C. Larkin said that Roy was worthless and it would be a good thing if he were to simply disappear. Adams questioned whether he would get in trouble if Roy were to disappear, and Larkin assured him that no one would notice, and that it would prove that Adams could be useful. Bobbie came to see Roy also, and Roy was less than thrilled to see her. She told him that she wanted to see him, but he didn't care - he didn't want her to see him in prison, in a cage. She made him admit that he'd made mistakes (shooting Mitch Williams, lying to her, etc.), then said that he owed her the chance to see his face, hear his voice and know that he was all right. Roy said that she'd be notified if he were not, then said that Bobbie or Hannah could get hurt if they keep coming around. He insisted that he could do his five remaining years as long as he knew they were all right. Bobbie protested that "our friend", meaning Sonny, would help him and get him out sooner, but Roy said that Larkin is trying to set up Sonny, and if he knew Roy was in contact with Sonny, he would be sure to "eliminate the link." Roy insisted that Bobbie promise not to tell Hannah anything about it, to avoid putting Hannah in further jeopardy, and said that he doesn't want to see either of them. He informed her that if she came to see him again he would refuse the visit, then hung up the phone on her and walked out. Adams watched him go, and Bobbie began to cry. At the penthouse, Carly reminded Sonny about how helpful she was at his business dinner. She pointed out that the coffee business is half Michael's, and since he isn't of age, his half should be monitored by her, thus making Sonny and Carly equal partners. Carly offered to help Sonny with the business, but he refused, saying that maybe she should start her own business instead. Again she tried to get him to agree to let her help, but Sonny refused to discuss it. Carly was on her way out the door to go shopping when Mike dropped by. She thanked him for his gift of the rocker, then noticed he had another present with him. Mike told her it was for Sonny, for his birthday. Carly was surprised, and after a bit more chat, she left. Sonny came in and he and Mike made small talk about Carly, then Mike gave him his gift. Sonny stood silently, then took the gift, but Mike had to pressure him into opening it. It was a frame for a baby picture, and Mike was pleased to give it to Sonny, but Sonny was obviously unhappy. Mike guessed that it was because of al the birthdays he missed when Sonny was a child, and asked if Sonny was ever going to get past that. Mike said he planned to be a better grandfather than he was a father, and Sonny agreed that Mike would be allowed to love the children but that Sonny would never allow them to be hurt by him. They parted somewhat awkwardly, and Sonny picked up the frame and shoved it in the desk drawer. When Carly returned, she said she had a surprise for Sonny, that she wanted to try to make up for the fight they'd had before about the business. They picked that argument up where they'd left off, but not seriously, and this time Carly asked if Sonny had been serious about setting her up in her own business. Sonny smiled and asked to see his surprise, and she showed him a tiny outfit for the baby to wear home from the hospital. Sonny couldn't believe that the baby would be so small, and they made friendly small talk about whether it would be a boy or a girl and the relative importance of dimples. Sonny suddenly turned serious, and admitted that while he regrets having hurt Jason, he thinks the baby is the best thing that ever happened to him. Carly added that it doesn't matter how the child was conceived, the only thing that matters is that they love it. Sonny got choked up and left quickly to go to the warehouse. Later, when he returned, Carly informed him that she wanted to be taken out to dinner, and when Sonny went to check on Michael, she made secret phone arrangements for a birthday surprise. At the bank, the trust officer told Emily that she would need signed papers before she could get into her trust fund, and she handed them over to him. He left to start the paperwork, and Emily sat down, relieved. She was waiting anxiously when the officer returned, and asked him if there was a problem. Alan entered the room after the officer, and informed her that there was indeed a problem - a very large one. He demanded to know just what Emily had been up to, but she was speechless. They returned to General Hospital where Monica joined in. Emily told her parents about the plan to finance Juan's singing career, and they were horrified. They decided that Juan was a bad influence, and that the worst of it was that she'd lied to her family. All began to argue at once and Juan showed up, willing to take all the blame. Alan ended the discussion by declaring Emily grounded, with a 6:00 p.m. curfew, and threatened to call Juan's father and have him sent back to Puerto Rico if there is any more trouble. Emily tried to apologize, but Alan and Monica were already on their way. Juan declared that the only thing that matters is that Emily liked his singing, and they got into the elevator. Lucky was walking on the dock when he heard someone call his name. Mike had spotted him, and hurried up to him, declaring in wonder "It is you."

April 21,2000

Mike is shocked and elated to see Lucky in the flesh on the docks. Mike tells Lucky that everyone is looking for him and that he can't believe he is seeing him. It is wonderful. Lucky pleads with Mike not to tell anyone. He doesn't want to be found. Lucky explains he only wants to see his sister and brother. Mike asks him about Elizabeth. Mike tells Lucky that Liz was destroyed when she thought Lucky died. Since she found out he is alive she probably hasn't slept. Lucky tells Mike that too much has happened. They have both grown and changed in the last year. They can't go back and start from where they left off. Mike asks Lucky if Liz has a choice in this matter. Lucky says he knows what he is doing and he must not tell anyone or he will bolt again. Mike says he doesn't like it but he will agree not to tell. Just then AJ arrives on the dock and shouts out to Mike. Mike covers and shakes hands with Lucky and calls him Tim. Lucky leaves. AJ tells Mike he needs his help to arrange for him to see Michael. AJ offers Mike a substantial amount of money if he can do this. Mike can supervise the visits. He knows how much Mike likes the ponies and he can bankroll his habit, especially since Jason is gone. Mike reminds AJ that Michael is his godson and he won't help. He tells AJ to go to court and walks away. AJ is pissed. Back at the docks, Lucky sits on the bench and takes out a picture of Liz. He strokes it gently and sighs. He looks pained. This pimp in the park is attacking Liz and telling her she will get in his car with him. He is grabbing her had by her wrists as she struggles. She is totally freaked and seems to be glazed over, as she is obviously thinking of the rape. She is screaming for someone to call 911 as he tells her to be quiet. Nik comes racing over and saves the day. He grabs the thug and tells him he can mess with him. He throws the thug off and runs to Liz. She is fine just extremely shaken up. Liz and Nik continue to share their mutual kudos on how they handled the tense situation. Liz tells Nik that being alone in that situation brought the memories of that night in the park flooding back. She remembered being alone and then Lucky finding her. Nik tells her he knows Lucky would be proud of the way she handled herself. Liz is getting discouraged about the search for Lucky. She tells Nik that every place they have gone, he isn't there. She knows that if he wanted her to find him he would frequent the places they did when they were there. Nik tells her they can go to PC if she wants. She says no that she will stay. He has another coffeehouse they can look at and she seems pleased. She tells Nik that she couldn't have done this alone and she really thanks him. Rae and Tony are toasting at the grill. She is looking forward to continuing the search for her daughter. He is pleased that she finally got him to agree to go through with the surgery to repair his hand. He tells her he is terrified. He also tells her that had it not been for the desk they wouldn't have crossed paths again. Rae and Tony wrap it up and head back to GH. Once they arrive they run in to Bobbie. Rae excuses herself and leaves Tony with Bobbie. After filling out paperwork, Bobbie gives Tony a card that Lucas drew for him. Tony is touched and Bobbie tells Tony she will be there for him as well. He is glad. Rae returns and offers to take Tony to surgery. He reminds her he is a big boy. They hug again and Tony is off to go under the knife. After the elevator door closes the thrift shop guy comes up to Rae. He asks her to please give Tony a bible. She agrees and he tells her to tell him just to give it to some other patient, because he got it off the book cart. She says she will tell him. Rae opens the bible and realizes it is the bible she is looking for. Alexis arrives at the nurses' station and Bobbie excuses herself to discuss Roy's situation with her. She fills her in on Roy's dangerous life inside the big house. She wants to know if there is some way Alexis can get an emergency transfer. She further explains that Larkin is corrupt. Alexis says she can try but it will be difficult without proof. Bobbie begins to cry and Alexis tells her she will do whatever she can and begin working on it right away. Bobbie says thanks and tries to compose herself. Carly is all dressed up and making final phone arrangements with the Grill for Sonny's birthday. They both compliment each other about how good they look. Carly reminds Sonny that Carlybabes likes to go out and paint the town. Sonny wonders aloud where her knee high boots are. He likes those. She tells Sonny maybe she can wear them again sometime. As they are walking out the door, Sonny says he would like to go to the No-Name. Carly insists on the Grill. He agrees and they are out the door. Ned and Alexis are at the Grill discussing the return of Eddie Maine. Ned assures her it is a one-time deal. Alexis tells Ned that she hopes not. She is looking forward to seeing her man in those leather pants. He explains to her that it has to be a one-time thing. He was a different person when he was performing. He was married to Lois and had Brenda as a manager. He isn't the same. Alexis says she is worried about the fans and is polishing up her groupie skills. Ned tells her he will still wear the pants for her. Alexis's cell phone rings and it is Bobbie. She asks Alexis to come to the hospital to talk to her about something important to do with Roy. Alexis says she is on her way. Ned and Alexis get up and start to leave the grill. Just then Alexis and Ned run in to Sonny and Carly. Alexis tells Sonny she needs to speak to him. Carly and Ned exchange looks. She wants to know what he is looking at. Ned replies, "A human wrecking ball." He thinks AJ deserves whatever he gets, but not his grandmother. Has Carly made arrangements for Lila to see Michael? Yes? Good, Ned replies. Ned excuses himself to get Alexis's car and Carly goes to the table. Alexis fills Sonny in on the call she received from Bobbie. Sonny says to give her time and he will pick up the bill. Alexis says she doesn't care about the bill she just wanted him to know what was going on. He thanks her. Chloe arrives at the penthouse to find a gift and flowers. She calls out to Jax he comes down and tells her to open the gift. It is a book about St. Petersburg. He wants her to plan their itinerary and he wants to take her tonight if possible. Chloe is concerned that this trip could be Jax's way of distracting her from the ELQ takeover that Jax is planning. Jax tells Chloe they have phones in Russia. He knows that if she wants to tip off Edward he can't stop her. They decide not to talk about anything, any takeovers, illnesses, and just each other. They will meet back in four hours and hit the road. In the meantime, Jax goes to GH to see Tony. He wants to make sure that he doesn't get stuck in Russia with a very sick Chloe. Tony gives his blessing and tells Jax to take her and have as much fun as possible. When Jax returns to the penthouse he finds Chloe sleeping on the couch. He goes upstairs. Chloe is dreaming that she is at GH. That horrible music box music is playing in the background as she sees Tony. He is holding the music box in his hands. Helena makes a phone call from the yacht. She wants to know where Lucky is. The person on the other end wants to know if she wants him picked up again. She angrily tells the person she just wants to know his whereabouts and that is what she is paying for. After the scene with Ned and Alexis, Carly is whispering with the waiter about the surprise. Carly wants to know what Alexis wanted. Sonny tells her that it is his business and he isn't going to tell her. He also tells her that there is a likeable quality about her. Just then the waiters come out with a cake and begin singing Happy Birthday. Sonny looks like a ghost. He is in a different world. He is flashing back and seeing someone stomping on his birthday cake. He is not well. Carly looks scared. Sonny tries to collect himself. He says it is time to go and Carly agrees. Just as they are walking in Edward, Lila, Monica and Alan arrive. Edward comments that he wasn't aware that Carly was throwing birthday parties now. Alan asks Sonny how it feels to have stolen another man's child. Sonny tells Alan he isn't in the mood. Alan gets in Sonny's face and says he would love to give a piece of garbage like Sonny a piece of his mind and an all out argument ensues. Roy is at Pentonville in his cell. He gets a visitor and it is the social worker assigned to his case. As the thug prisoner is mopping up outside the cell listening, the social worker offers his help. Roy tells him he doesn't need it. The social worker tells Roy that he knows he has worked numerous times as an informant. Roy tells the social worker that the information is not supposed to be in his file. It is confidential. Roy tells the guy he has to see what is in his file. The social worker hands it over and Roy tells him he is being set-up. He begs the guy to contact someone in the D.C. Office of the FBI on his behalf. The guy tells Roy he can't do anything without going through Larkin first. Roy shouts that Larkin wants him dead. The guy says he is sorry and leaves. Later when Roy is returning to his cell the thug that Larkin tipped off confronts him. He reminds Roy about how they met and that he got busted but Roy didn't. He throws a mean punch as several other guys join in. Roy falls to the ground.

April 24,2000

As they left the PC Grille after their unsuccessful birthday dinner, Sonny and Carly were confronted by the Quartermaines. All the Q's ganged up on Sonny, with Alan threatening to "give him what he deserves", and Carly came to Sonny's defense, although she apologized to Lila for the unpleasantness. Monica calling Sonny "Carly's latest sperm donor", then went on to blast Carly for having trotted four "Daddy"s through Michael's young life (Tony, Jason, AJ and now Sonny) and called her a slut, which was more than Sonny could tolerate. He insisted that Monica extend an apology to Carly, and when Monica refused, threatened to send AJ to prison for the arson immediately. Monica backed down and apologized, and Sonny warned Edward to keep his family in line. Sonny reminded them that Carly is the mother of their grandson or great grandson, and she deserves to be treated with respect, a sentiment Lila applauded. After Sonny and Carly left the Grille, the Quartermaines tried to go on with their dinner in their fashion, quibbling mildly with Lila over her defense of Sonny. When Edward pointed out that AJ had brought the difficulties on himself, Alan and Monica leapt to his defense and arguing ensued. Rae entered this family scene, much to Alan's apparent pleasure and Monica's chagrin. Rae announced that she'd located the Bible, and Monica made a nasty crack about Rae's finally leaving Port Charles. Rae said that perhaps she would stay in PC permanently, and Monica took the bait, telling Rae that Alan is a confirmed bed-hopper and that she shouldn't think she was his only affair, then storming out of the Grille. Rae wanted Alan to go after Monica and calm her down, but Alan refused, with Lila and Edward backing up his claim that this was normal Q behavior. Edward asked Rae point blank if she were having an affair with Alan, warning that Alan was hopelessly in love with his wife (to which Alan off-handedly replied "I am not in love with her - I can take her or leave her"). Rae persisted, but Alan insisted that he didn't "...have a marriage, just a bad habit I can't break." Edward and Lila adjourned to the bar for a sherry, and Rae asked if all the Quartermaine family gatherings were like this, and she and Alan had a good laugh when he answered that they were. He jokingly suggested that they go upstairs, since everyone already assumed they were having an affair, but they laughed it off and Rae apologized for her part in the turmoil. Meanwhile, Sonny and Carly arrived back at the penthouse. Carly was expecting a scolding for speaking out of turn, causing the nasty birthday surprise, and getting into a scene with the Quartermaines, but Sonny surprised her by thanking her for standing up for him. Carly said that the look on his face when Alan was yelling at him was the same as when they got stuck in the elevator on New Year's Eve, and Sonny explained that birthdays and elevators have a lot in common for him. Carly misinterpreted his remark, but he explained that if they were going to be a family they would have to be open with one another. He recounted his eighth birthday, when his Deke (his step-father and Taggert's mentor) got jealous of the attention Sonny's mother was paying to the birthday, threw the cake on the floor and beat Sonny with a belt buckle after hitting his mother. Deke had said "It's time you got what you deserve" - the exact words Alan had uttered that evening. Sonny again thanked Carly for stepping in, and Carly thanked him for trusting her with the personal information. She offered to do without birthday celebrations, even for the kids, if it would be easier for Sonny, but he said that he wanted big celebrations for the children, with balloons and cake and everything he never had. They joked about his lack of baking skills (he insisted he can bake a cake, he just chooses not to) and were going upstairs to check on Michael when an envelope fell from her pocket. Carly tried to hide it, but he insisted on seeing it - a birthday present from "someone with no money." It was a gift certificate good for winning one argument with Carly Benson, and they joked about it and went upstairs on a pleasant note. Jax came out with his bags, all set to take Chloe to Russia for a holiday. Chloe told him about her dream of Tony at the nurses' station with the music box, and admitted that the tune is familiar but she can't quite place it [ed. note - ask Alan]. Jax reminded her that Tony had warned her about vivid dreams, and they decided the dream simply reflected her fears about the tumor. Ned and Alexis arrived for a bon voyage champagne, and while Jax and Alexis conferred, Ned told Chloe that he would tell the family about her trip. Ned and Alexis left, and Jax noticed that Chloe was a little withdrawn. He wondered if she were nervous about the trip, and admitted talking to Tony about her medical well being. She said that she didn't mind that he'd spoken to Tony, and reminded him that they'd agreed to have no secrets from one another. What concerned her, she admitted, was that Ned had made her realize how much Lila and Edward care for her, and she was having misgivings about Jax's plan to take ELQ away from them. Jax insisted once again that his business dealings were nothing personal, and that Chloe should accept what he does they way he accepts her design business as none of his concern. Jax said that he was beginning to regret having told her about his plan, and after Chloe admitted that she was tempted to tell Ned about the takeover plot, she vowed to forget everything that might stand in the way of their holiday together. Back in their room, Alexis waited in bed while Ned tried on Eddie Maine clothes. She approved his wardrobe and they made love (with Eddie Maine music in the background). Later, they enjoyed some pillow talk about the music business and Eddie's prospects. Larkin, Hannah and Bobbie discussed Roy's predicament, with Larkin sticking to his "there's nothing I or the Bureau can do" position. Larkin suggested that the only way to get Roy out of prison would be if he were to bring new evidence against Sonny, and suggested that Hannah go talk to Roy. Hannah agreed, but Bobbie protested that Roy would do anything to keep Hannah out of it, and suggested that she go speak to him instead. Larkin reluctantly agreed, and exited. Bobbie and Hannah went for coffee and discussed what had happened. They agreed that Larkin used Hannah to keep Roy in line, and that neither of them trusted him. Hannah expressed hope that Bobbie cold get new info from Roy, and she admitted that there was no way she could get anywhere near Roy as he refused to see her. They talked about the love Roy and Bobbie shared, and Bobbie vowed that the three of them would get through this somehow and find a way to get Roy out of prison. Meanwhile, Roy got beat up by two other prisoners (one of whom he'd set up years before). A guard rescued him and later admitted to being on Sonny's payroll. He warned Roy to watch his step, as the word was out that Roy was an informant. The guard left, leaving Roy looking thoughtful.

Tape#18

April 27,2000

Edward learned through a telephone call that AJ had sold his ELQ stock. Just then AJ came in to pick up his mail and Edward lit into him, offering him a drink to celebrate making a fortune selling out his family. AJ explained that he had neither the time nor the interest in elaborate revenge plots - he just wanted to make a little money easily. Edward demanded to know Jax's plan, and as AJ was protesting that he didn't know or care, Lila entered the room. She asked AJ to consider moving back home, but he replied that it was best this way and left. Lila informed Edward that the family was splitting apart and asked him to do something before it is too late, and Edward replied that that is just what he intends to do. Bobbie and Tammy were at the diner counter as Mac entered, looking for Taggert. He had not yet arrived, so Mac and Bobbie visited for a while, comparing notes about their lives. Mac told Bobbie that he'd taken Maxie and Georgie to Texas to live with Mariah, and when Bobbie protested that this was too extreme a measure, slammed Felicia by replying that the girls deserve to be with someone who gives a damn about them. Bobbie warned that Felicia wouldn't take this lying down, and Mac answered that Felicia can do what she wants but the girls stay in Texas. Alexis entered Kelly's next, and Mac went to a table so Alexis and Bobbie could confer privately. Alexis reported that she'd met with officials in the Justice Department who'd told her that there was no evidence of a deal between Roy and the FBI, and even if there had been such a deal the FBI would be within their rights to revoke it. Nothing, therefore, could be done to help Roy; he must somehow make himself valuable to the FBI again. Meanwhile, Taggert had arrived and tried to give Mac the update on a case, but Mac was obviously not listening. Taggert tried to suggest that Mac and Felicia had something special that was worth fighting for, but Mac replied that Taggert simply didn't understand what was going on. Felicia remembered her attempt to reconcile with Maxie and Georgie, and began to cry. She'd gone to the door and Maxie had refused to let her in and run away. Mariah had eventually invited her in, but was very cold as Felicia admitted that she'd made mistakes but denied an affair with Luke, explaining that she only wanted to help him find his son. Mariah said that she understood attraction outside of marriage, but wondered how Felicia could have left the girls, who already had "abandonment issues", and referred to Luke as Felicia's lover. Felicia admitted to having feelings for Luke but again denied that they'd been lovers, and asked Mariah to get Maxie. Maxie came down shortly, and Felicia tried to be upbeat but Maxie wasn't having any of that - she told Felicia to go back to Luke and leave them alone. Felicia apologized, explaining that she had no idea the effect her trip would have had on the girls, and asked for another chance. She reached out her hand but Maxie refused to take it. Maxie explained that she didn't want Georgie to know that Felicia had been there and thus get her heart broken again, and suggested that Felicia just go back to Port Charles. Later, alone, Felicia called Kelly's and asked Tammy if Mac were there. Tammy alerted Mac, who told her to tell Felicia that he was not there, and Tammy did so. Felicia thanked Tammy for trying, and hung up, crying. Hannah went to the prison to visit Roy. Larkin watched their conversation, then reprimanded Adams for failing to eliminate Roy. Adams apologized and offered of get rid of Roy another time, but Larkin said he would do the job himself and told Adams that his services were no longer needed. Roy tried to reassure Hannah that he was in no danger as long as he stayed out of hostile faces, and they disagreed about whether Bobbie should be allowed to visit. Roy maintained that Bobbie deserved better and refused to reconsider his decision, but Hannah eventually won him over, and he agreed to see her. Larkin came up behind Roy, where Hannah could see but not hear him, and wondered aloud what Hannah would do if she knew that someone had tried to kill Roy. Roy asked Hannah to leave then, and told Larkin to keep his daughter out of it. He told Larkin that he knew it was he who set up the attempt on his life, and vowed to get the word out that Larkin was crooked. Roy was taken to his cell, but a little later Larkin had him brought back. Larkin told Roy that he'd spoken to the warden about the attack, and Roy would be transferred to another facility for his own protection. Roy demanded to see the warden but Larkin refused to allow him to speak to the warden or anyone else, and informed Roy that he would handle everything. The guard on Sonny's payroll watched as Roy was taken to the van. Later, back at Kelly's, Hannah told Bobbie that Roy had agreed to see her, and Bobbie left for the prison immediately. At the penthouse, Sonny fixed Carly a healthy meal (egg white/spinach omelet). She promptly tried to bribe Johnny to go get her some donuts, but Sonny made a new rule: Johnny was to make NO donut runs for Carly, no matter what. She pretended to resent Sonny's hovering over her, but secretly smiled, and sent Sonny on a series of little jobs - get her newspaper, fetch an apple for her, maybe a nice glass of freshly squeezed OJ. Sonny caught on, but it was all right. Across the hallway, Emily and Juan crept into Jason's apartment to "be alone." They began to kiss passionately, but Emily soon broke away. Juan tried to reassure her that he'd brought protection, but she wasn't sure she was ready and admitted to being scared. They went back to kissing and he was beginning to remove her clothing when Sonny and Carly came strolling in. Emily scrambled to get her shirt back on as Carly demanded to know what they were doing there. Juan replied "Nothing, just hanging out" and Carly snidely answered "Oh, is that what they're calling it these days?" Emily tried to tell them that she had Jason's permission to use his apartment any time, but Sonny and Carly both answered that that wasn't what Jason had in mind. Emily replied that she was sure Jason would be happy that she had someone who cared about her, then tried to leave with Juan, but Sonny stopped them and hustled Carly into the hallway for a conference. Sonny insisted that they had to split them up - Carly at first misinterpreted, thinking he wanted to break them up, but he explained that he just wanted to talk to Juan while Carly spoke to Emily. Carly reluctantly agreed, and they went back in. Juan went with Sonny across the hall while Carly stayed with Emily and tried to have the "big talk" with her. Emily was smart-mouthed and obnoxious, but Carly persisted and they almost had a genuine moment when Carly admitted making mistakes, hoping Emily could learn from them. Emily admitted not being sure that she was ready, but worried that Juan was more than ready, and Carly suggested that if Juan were the right one, he'd wait. She told Emily that the most important thing in a relationship was trust and Emily quickly reverted to nastiness, pointing out that Jason had trusted Carly and she'd betrayed him with Sonny. Carly had enough, and told Emily that she could just learn the lessons herself, and left Emily sitting on the sofa, looking smug. Across the hall, Sonny had better luck with Juan, counseling him that passion is all well and good, but that if you're not careful the consequences can be more than you'd bargained for, and stressed safe sex. Sonny finished his lecture, and Juan escaped with Emily. Carly cracked "Don't bother to thank me or anything, you little brat", as they left, and then admitted to Sonny that the talk had been less than successful. She said she'd never been much good at the sex-with-love thing, and Sonny suggested maybe she'd designed it that way, afraid, and running away her whole life. Carly agreed to his assessment, and said that she'd often thought of what it would be like to stop running and trust someone.

April 28,2000

Jax took Chloe to a music box museum in hopes of finding a match for the one in her dreams. They found one that was slightly different, so they surmised that hers was of Russian origin. Bobbie went to visit Roy and after waiting for a long time, finally was informed by the warden that Roy had been transferred after an attempt was made on his life. Bobbie freaked out and demanded to know where Roy had been sent. The warden was firm that he was not at liberty to release that information and that Bobbie would have to speak to Agent Larkin. Carly and Sonny shared several close moments and the passion between them started to grow. Carly confided in him that she loved the mornings, with the two of them reading quietly, allowing one another time to gently wake up. He told her he loved coming home and hearing her and Michael playing together. He said that it made the house feel full. He asked her if she'd like to go out, just the two if them. She hurriedly agreed and returned in a dazzling evening dress. Sonny voiced his admiration just as Bobbie burst in and demanded that Sonny do something about Roy's situation. She railed into him until Carly told her to back off and show Roy some respect. Bobbie left and Sonny told Carly it surprised him that she defended him, first to Alan and then to her mother. He said that Jason had always said that she was great in a bind. She said Jason had always said Sonny was a stand up guy. Slowly, they came together for a tentative, then tender and gentle kiss. Roy tried to learn from the driver of the prison van where he was being taken. Just then, the driver veered hard to the left and the van crashed. After returning dejectedly from New York, Nikolas and Elizabeth split up. Nikolas went to question Helena and Liz sat on the docks, remembering Lucky and their first kiss. Emily startled her out of her memories, glad to see her friend had returned. After Emily consoled Liz over not finding Lucky, they giggled excitedly together over Emily and Juan almost "doing it." Together, they made fun of Carly's attempts to talk to Emily about relationships. Helena was pleased to see Lucky, but scolded him for taking an unscheduled trip to New York. He told her he knew what he had to do and he would do it. He told her he had seen Nikolas and Elizabeth, but that it hadn't seemed right to approach them. Just then, Andreas announced the arrival of Nikolas, so Lucky left. Later, as Liz prepared to leave the docks, she was shocked to look back and see Lucky staring at her.

May 1,2000

Chloe dreamt she was walking on the Port Charles docks and saw the music box floating in the water. She tried to reach it, but it floated out of reach and she woke crying out "No, come back!." Jax was there, and after Chloe told him about her dream he tried some amateur psychology to help her figure out the meaning. He wanted to start on a new travel adventure, but she decided returning to PC would be the best bet, since, in her dreams, that is where the music box is always located. Jax vowed to help her understand what the dream is trying to tell her. Nikolas demanded that Helena tell him Lucky's whereabouts, but she denied knowing or having any current involvement with him whatsoever. Nikolas asked if she'd killed his brother, and she laughingly denied that also, but did say that she'd rescued Lucky from Faison. She suggested that Lucky simply needed time to adjust from his captivity with Faison, away from family interference, and said that she's sure Lucky will contact Nikolas when he is ready to do so. She tried to tell Nikolas that she'd brought Lucky back for Nikolas, because she loves him, but Nikolas refused to listen and demanded that Helena stay away from him. After Nikolas stormed out, Helena softly remarked that he would soon change his mind. The van transporting Roy to another prison crashed, and although the driver was knocked unconscious, Roy emerged unscathed. Johnny appeared from the bushes, admitted he'd stopped the van by parking a 4x4 in the middle of the road, then hustled Roy off in a waiting car. Johnny took him to a safe house, and Roy asked to speak to Sonny. At the penthouse, Sonny and Carly's tender kisses turned passionate, and after inquiring about the health of the "no name" and being reassured by Carly, Sonny led her to his bedroom. It was a little awkward at first, and Carly was scared and hesitant, but eventually they did make love. Afterward, the phone rang and Sonny explained that he had to leave. After he'd gone, Carly got up and went to the dresser where she toyed thoughtfully with her rings and his. Later, Leticia brought Michael in for his bedtime story (very cute, the two of them on the bed with Michael chortling over the "lions" in the dinosaur book). On the docks, Elizabeth and Lucky gazed at one another for a few seconds, then Lucky ran away, leaving Elizabeth devastated. Nikolas came by to find Elizabeth huddled on the steps, and she cried as she told him how Lucky had recognized her and then run away from her. She anguished over Lucky, worrying that perhaps he doesn't love her anymore, perhaps he's angry, insisting that she knew all along that he wasn't dead, and trying to make sense of his actions. Throughout the hysterics, Nikolas was the voice of reason and reassurance. He reported Helena's explanation of saving Lucky from Faison, and he and Elizabeth hugged one another for comfort. Lucky came around the corner just in time to see, and obviously misinterpret, the hug, and he ducked back behind the wall as Elizabeth remarked that Lucky feels so close she can almost hear him breathing. Nikolas convinced her to go to Kelly's, and they left as Lucky stepped out of the shadows to consider what he'd heard. Sonny arrived at the safe house and offered Roy $500,000 and transportation out of the country, but Roy declined, explaining that he "had ties in Port Charles." Sonny warned that he can't protect Roy and that Larkin won't back off, and Roy suggested that they team up to go after Larkin. He explained his reasoning: if he can prove that Larkin is dirty, the FBI will have to retry all his cases, which is expensive, lets a lot of criminals out of prison, and makes the FBI look bad, so therefore the FBI might be willing to let Roy go for time served and back off Sonny in exchange for not having Larkin thrown in their faces. Roy admitted that he had no hard evidence against Larkin, and they agreed to go after him together. Sonny decided that the first step would be to set up Larkin to falsify evidence against Sonny, and then Johnny brought Bobbie in. Bobbie and Roy kissed, then she thanked Sonny and apologized for blowing up at him earlier. She admitted then that she'd confronted Larkin and told him she knew he was crooked, and tried to justify this by saying she'd thought he'd killed Roy. Roy and Sonny convinced her that by doing this she'd brought Larkin down on herself, and warned her not to do anything to attract any further attention whatsoever. Sonny left, and Bobbie and Roy kissed and pawed at one another for a bit before Johnny came knocking and Bobbie had to leave. Helena and Andreas danced to the "Once Upon a Dream" music as the music box from Chloe's dream lay on the table. Sonny returned to the penthouse, and after some small talk he told Carly that Roy is all right and admitted that he'd told Bobbie. Carly thanked him, and said that if he hadn't changed his mind, maybe marrying wouldn't be the worst idea they'd ever had. Sonny clarified: "For the baby, right?" and Carly agreed, "Yeah, for the baby." She left the room, and Sonny smiled.

May 2,2000

Elizabeth was devastated that Lucky had turned and run when he saw her. She and Nikolas debated all the reasons why he could have done that and Nikolas tried to encourage her. Stefan phoned Nikolas, demanding that he come to Wyndemere at once, that it was urgent. Nikolas excused himself and said he would see her later. Bobbie dressed up is a ridiculous pizza delivery boy outfit to visit Roy in his basement lair. He told her his and Sonny's plan to set up Larkin and phone Larkin while she was there. He told Larkin he was alive and well and coming after him. He and Bobbie then made out for a while. Benny came downstairs to tell Bobbie she should leave. Bobbie said, "Can't you see we're busy?" and they made out some more. Zzzz Larkin laid in wait for Hannah, then angrily insisted that Hannah tell him where Roy was hiding. When he finally registered that Hannah was in shock that Roy had escaped and also did not know about the beating, he filled her in. He demanded that she inform him the second he had info on Roy...or she'd end up in jail just like her old man! Nikolas arrived at Wyndemere and angrily asked Stefan what was so important. Stefan told him that as heir, there were papers for him to sign. Nikolas was astounded. "THAT is what was so important?" Stefan pooh poohed him and Nikolas informed him that he had left Elizabeth at a bad time to hurry here, at his request. Stefan told him that the papers would help stop Helena. They began to argue about Stefan's involvement in Lucky's kidnapping and Stefan marveled that Nikolas and Laura could not believe him. Nikolas reminded him that was because of all the lied he'd told to them. He said that they were all in agreement of one thing...Helena must be stopped and he angrily signed the papers and left. Laura stopped into Kelly's to look for Liz. While she was there, she ran into Mac, who she joined for a brief chat. He asked her how she felt about the fact that when Luke returns, he and Felicia will be without hindrance to be the couple of Port Charles. After he told her what had happened, she encouraged him to never underestimate the power of the family and remarked that this must be tearing Felicia apart. She told him how many times Felicia had commented while they were together about how much the girls and Mac meant to her. Mac was unshaken and maintained that if they'd meant that much, Felicia would not have gone. Laura wished him well and said that if he ever needed to talk, she was available. Lucky paid LuLu another visit as she sat on the Spencers' front porch, evidently unattended. He talked to her for quite a while, making sure she had kept their secret, talking to her about how the fish in heaven fly instead of swimming and how much he loves her. When they heard Laura's car in the driveway, Lucky told LuLu he had to go and reminded her that she must keep their secret. She smiled and agreed. When Laura came up to give her a hug, she noticed LuLu staring into the bushes and asked her what was there. Seeing her doll there, she presumed that was what LuLu saw. Felicia went to the ranch in Texas and determinedly waited for the girls to arrive. Mariah told her how much her last visit had upset them, but Felicia insisted that they had to get used to her being there. Georgie arrived home first and sadly told her mom that she had forgotten she loved them and left them. Felicia teared up as she told her daughter that it wasn't true, that she still loved them very much. Georgie looked like she was going to cry. Maxie arrived and demanded to know what Felicia was doing there. She told her that they lived there now and she was not welcome. Felicia insisted that the girls were coming home with her and they were going to be a family again, but Maxie was adamant. Mariah had said they could stay there and that's where they were staying. Bobbie and Hannah ran into one another at Kelly's and Hannah excitedly told Bobbie that Roy was a fugitive. Bobbie told her that she knew and that Roy was safe. She filled Hannah in on everything except Roy's location and said that Roy would contact her if he needed her help. Hannah says she's going to Larkin for help and Bobbie frantically told her not to, that Larkin was crooked! Liz dejectedly went to the boxcar and looked sadly at the mural furniture. She remembered the time that she had given Lucky his guitar and started to cry. She took a paper and pen from her purse and wrote him a note telling him that she loved him and was waiting, whenever he was ready to see her. She was startled to hear a sound and thought it was Lucky, but was disappointed that it was Nikolas. Together they left. Later, Lucky came to the boxcar and found the note. He read it carefully, then got the confused look on his face that NuLucky always seems to wear.

May 5,2000

Chloe met with Tony, who gave her the sad news that the second medication was not shrinking the tumor. They discussed her options, which included trying experimental drugs with varying and unknown side effects or beginning a light round of chemotherapy. Chloe asked about the possibility of surgery, but Tony informed her that surgery was too invasive a procedure for the area of the brain in which her tumor was located. He said that she did not have to make a decision then and there and suggested that she take the night to think about what she wanted to do and to meet with him in the morning to let him know. Devastated, she held her countenance until away from Tony, then on the docks, she broke down. Helena came upon her and asked why she was crying and Chloe warned her off. Helena said she simply wanted to inquire after her well being since she was obviously distressed and Chloe told her if she didn't leave, she would call the police. Jax arrived and bullied Helena away,! then asked Chloe why she was upset. She told him about the meeting with Tony and Jax was dismayed that she had not included him. She quietly said that she had wanted to hear the news herself this time. Luke returned home and told an anxious Laura that he had not found any sign of a trail on Lucky. Dejected, the two of them decided that the best thing to do was to wait and see if he came to them. Hannah caught up to Bobbie and gave her the heads up that she was being followed and pointed out the tail. Bobbie asked what she should do and Hannah told her she would distract the guy while she shook him off. She pleaded with Bobbie that if she saw Roy to tell him that she understood why they could not have contact and that she loved him. Bobbie promised that she would. Hannah then ran into the fed who was tailing Bobbie and acted as though he had accosted her, giving Bobbie just enough time to lose him. At the basement hideaway, Bobbie was all over Roy like a bad suit as soon as she saw him, but did manage to give him Hannah's message. They proceeded to make out like bandits and practically in mid-sex, Roy said that he would have to remember to thank Hannah. It was really disgusting and inappropriate to hear him talk about his daughter in that moment, I can tell you. Elizabeth went to visit LuLu and invited her to come to her art studio where she had pictures of flowers and animals and Lucky. LuLu shyly told her that Lucky had come back from heaven to visit her and that it was a secret. Elizabeth was taken aback, but gave LuLu the subway token pendant to give to Lucky the next time she saw him, along with the message that she loved him. After Elizabeth left, Lucky came to visit LuLu and she told him that she had a present for him and gave him the token. He asked her if Elizabeth had given it to her and she said she had. When he asked her if she had said anything, Lulu told him that Elizabeth had said she loved him. Lucky held the token and stared at it thoughtfully.. Elizabeth went straight to Nikolas and told him what LuLu had said. She was upset because this meant that Lucky was not avoiding them because he was concerned for their safety as they had thought. He was avoiding them because he didn't want to see them. Visibly upset, she leaned into his arms as he comforted her. Lucky watched on angrily.. Carly was really upset to find Larkin hassling Sonny at the warehouse. Larkin taunted her about Sonny going to prison and Sonny told Carly to leave. Carly refused and Sonny told Johnny to get her and Michael out of there, which he did most efficiently. Larkin promised Sonny that the drugs he'd planted in the coffee were more than sufficient to get him to prison unless he produced Roy. Sonny called his bluff and told him that he didn't know where Roy was and that he doubted the federal agents in his office were willing to perjure themselves for Larkin. Larkin assured him that he would go to prison unless he delivered Roy. Sonny offered Larkin $500,000 to back off and Larkin blew him off, saying he had 24 hours to deliver Roy or it was prison. At the penthouse, Carly was insisting that Johnny go out and find Sonny when the man himself appeared and told Carly to back off. He insisted that his business was none of hers, but she maintained that he is the father of her baby and what affects him, affects him. She pointed out that if anything happened to him, she, Michael and the baby would both be in the streets. She told him how AJ had threatened that if Sonny went to jail, he'd have Michael in a heartbeat. Sonny told her that would never happen and that when he asked her to marry him, he meant that he would take care of her and be a good father to Michael and the new baby, that they would be a real family. He told her, smiling sheepishly and looking deliciously boyish, that he had this - and the extracted a big, honkin', gorgeous diamond engagement ring - to give to her as a symbol of his promise to always keep her safe.

May 8,2000

At the club, Luke and Laura discussed the fact that there has been no sign of Lucky, although Luke was certain that Elizabeth would hear from him eventually. Laura remembered an incident from the past, and decided that Lucky was once again frightened of something. They agreed that Helena had let him go, but Laura worried that he is on the other side of the earth, starting over without them. They shared a close moment, and agreed to let Lucky come to them rather than chase after him. They chatted about Lulu, and Luke asked if Roy had taken her fishing. Laura realized that Luke knew nothing about Roy's arrest and subsequent escape, and filled him in. Laura left for home while Luke decided to go see Sonny to confront him about Roy's situation. Elizabeth and Nikolas discussed Lulu's statement about having seen Lucky. Nikolas thought perhaps she was imagining it, but Elizabeth persuaded him that she was telling the truth, and admitted giving Lulu the token necklace to give to Lucky. She lamented Lucky's avoidance of her, and Nikolas tried to convince her not to take it personally, suggesting that there must be something wrong for Lucky to be acting this way. Meanwhile, Lucky was visiting Lulu, who admitted that she'd told Elizabeth about his visits. She swore she had not and would not tell anyone else, though, and he gazed thoughtfully at the token, then left after promising to visit again. Chloe dreamt of sitting on a bench on the docks, hearing the Sleeping Beauty music playing. She walked over to where the music box lay, and Helena came up behind her, telling her that it is "not going to work". Jax woke her and she told the dream to him, and he tried to come up with some hokey pop psych explanation of it. She got angry about her inability to eradicate her tumor, and Jax encouraged her to hang onto her anger as it allowed her to be in control. He told about a new drug therapy his European doctors had suggested, and she agreed to try it in conjunction with the low dose radiation Tony was planning. Jax gave her a pep talk, then she called Tony to discuss the drug treatment. Chloe told Jax that "You're extremely sexy when you're all...motivational" and asked him to promise to tell her if she were leaning on him too much. He agreed to take a few hours to himself if he started to burn out, but vowed that there was no way he would ever walk away. Later, after Chloe had fallen asleep, Jax got on the phone to announce that he was ready to make his move on Helena. Roy and Bobbie kissed, talked about their lives as they were and as they might have been, fantasized about having a regular married life with Lucas asleep upstairs and the dish washer running, then danced together. Sonny gave Carly a huge diamond ring as a promise to take care of her and her children. She liked the ring, but decided that she couldn't accept it, as a ring is a symbol of love and they don't love one another. They talked about Jason and his rings, and Sonny said that he didn't want to take that away from her, he wanted to give her something. He wanted to make a commitment to her and hoped that she would make one to him; they would both honor their commitments, and if she can do that, she should wear the ring. She agreed that she can be loyal and can make a commitment, but that she wasn't ready - she had to get to a place inside where she knows and believes that Jason will never return, then she will be able to take off his rings and put on Sonny's. They kissed, but Sonny stopped before things progressed too far, saying that they needed time to adjust. Carly went up to check on Michael and go to bed, inviting Sonny in "to talk...or whatever." Carly was upstairs brushing her hair and looking at her ring when Luke arrived on the doorstep. He demanded to know what happened with Roy, and when Sonny assured him that he was handling it, told Sonny that whenever he "handles" things, someone gets killed. Luke insisted that Sonny back off and allow him to deal with it instead, and Sonny was about to reply when Carly came down. Sonny told her to go back upstairs, but she refused and lit into Uncle Luke, suggesting "Why don't you go bother your own family, that is if any of them still want to see you". Luke looked from Sonny to Carly and back again, as the truth of their living arrangement slowly dawned on him. Nikolas was playing with Lulu when Laura arrived back home. She told Lulu that Daddy had come home, and Lulu replied "Everybody's come home". Nikolas alone caught the significance of Lulu's statement. He took Lulu upstairs to go to bed, and when he returned, Laura was looking at baby photos of Lucky and wondering where they'd gone wrong. Nikolas assured her that they'd done nothing wrong, that the present troubles were Helena's doings, not theirs. Nikolas tried to convince Laura that Lucky is safe and surely just needs some time to adjust before contacting them. They discussed how hard all this must be on Elizabeth.. Elizabeth, on the docks, remembered Lucky telling her about "having the backpack ready", and talking about their future together. She sat on a bench and said aloud, "Wherever you are, I'm here and I'm waiting'. Lucky had come up behind her, but run away again. She got up and left, and he came out of hiding, then Elizabeth returned and saw him standing there. He turned, and she pleaded with him not to go and told him how much she'd missed him and loves him still. Lucky didn't leave, but had no reply..

Tape#19

May 8,2000

At the club, Luke and Laura discussed the fact that there has been no sign of Lucky, although Luke was certain that Elizabeth would hear from him eventually. Laura remembered an incident from the past, and decided that Lucky was once again frightened of something. They agreed that Helena had let him go, but Laura worried that he is on the other side of the earth, starting over without them. They shared a close moment, and agreed to let Lucky come to them rather than chase after him. They chatted about Lulu, and Luke asked if Roy had taken her fishing. Laura realized that Luke knew nothing about Roy's arrest and subsequent escape, and filled him in. Laura left for home while Luke decided to go see Sonny to confront him about Roy's situation. Elizabeth and Nikolas discussed Lulu's statement about having seen Lucky. Nikolas thought perhaps she was imagining it, but Elizabeth persuaded him that she was telling the truth, and admitted giving Lulu the token necklace to give to Lucky. She lamented Lucky's avoidance of her, and Nikolas tried to convince her not to take it personally, suggesting that there must be something wrong for Lucky to be acting this way. Meanwhile, Lucky was visiting Lulu, who admitted that she'd told Elizabeth about his visits. She swore she had not and would not tell anyone else, though, and he gazed thoughtfully at the token, then left after promising to visit again. Chloe dreamt of sitting on a bench on the docks, hearing the Sleeping Beauty music playing. She walked over to where the music box lay, and Helena came up behind her, telling her that it is "not going to work". Jax woke her and she told the dream to him, and he tried to come up with some hokey pop psych explanation of it. She got angry about her inability to eradicate her tumor, and Jax encouraged her to hang onto her anger as it allowed her to be in control. He told about a new drug therapy his European doctors had suggested, and she agreed to try it in conjunction with the low dose radiation Tony was planning. Jax gave her a pep talk, then she called Tony to discuss the drug treatment. Chloe told Jax that "You're extremely sexy when you're all...motivational" and asked him to promise to tell her if she were leaning on him too much. He agreed to take a few hours to himself if he started to burn out, but vowed that there was no way he would ever walk away. Later, after Chloe had fallen asleep, Jax got on the phone to announce that he was ready to make his move on Helena. Roy and Bobbie kissed, talked about their lives as they were and as they might have been, fantasized about having a regular married life with Lucas asleep upstairs and the dish washer running, then danced together. Sonny gave Carly a huge diamond ring as a promise to take care of her and her children. She liked the ring, but decided that she couldn't accept it, as a ring is a symbol of love and they don't love one another. They talked about Jason and his rings, and Sonny said that he didn't want to take that away from her, he wanted to give her something. He wanted to make a commitment to her and hoped that she would make one to him; they would both honor their commitments, and if she can do that, she should wear the ring. She agreed that she can be loyal and can make a commitment, but that she wasn't ready - she had to get to a place inside where she knows and believes that Jason will never return, then she will be able to take off his rings and put on Sonny's. They kissed, but Sonny stopped before things progressed too far, saying that they needed time to adjust. Carly went up to check on Michael and go to bed, inviting Sonny in "to talk...or whatever." Carly was upstairs brushing her hair and looking at her ring when Luke arrived on the doorstep. He demanded to know what happened with Roy, and when Sonny assured him that he was handling it, told Sonny that whenever he "handles" things, someone gets killed. Luke insisted that Sonny back off and allow him to deal with it instead, and Sonny was about to reply when Carly came down. Sonny told her to go back upstairs, but she refused and lit into Uncle Luke, suggesting "Why don't you go bother your own family, that is if any of them still want to see you". Luke looked from Sonny to Carly and back again, as the truth of their living arrangement slowly dawned on him. Nikolas was playing with Lulu when Laura arrived back home. She told Lulu that Daddy had come home, and Lulu replied "Everybody's come home". Nikolas alone caught the significance of Lulu's statement. He took Lulu upstairs to go to bed, and when he returned, Laura was looking at baby photos of Lucky and wondering where they'd gone wrong. Nikolas assured her that they'd done nothing wrong, that the present troubles were Helena's doings, not theirs. Nikolas tried to convince Laura that Lucky is safe and surely just needs some time to adjust before contacting them. They discussed how hard all this must be on Elizabeth.. Elizabeth, on the docks, remembered Lucky telling her about "having the backpack ready", and talking about their future together. She sat on a bench and said aloud, "Wherever you are, I'm here and I'm waiting'. Lucky had come up behind her, but run away again. She got up and left, and he came out of hiding, then Elizabeth returned and saw him standing there. He turned, and she pleaded with him not to go and told him how much she'd missed him and loves him still. Lucky didn't leave, but had no reply..

May 15,2000

Laura dropped by the studio to show Elizabeth the photos that prove Lucky is in Port Charles and was shocked by Elizabeth's reaction. Elizabeth admitted that she'd known for a few days and had spoken to Lucky herself, adding that he'd also been to see Lulu. She said she hated not being able to tell Laura the truth, then told her about Lucky's visit to the studio and his strange, distant behavior. Elizabeth admitted that she still loves Lucky, and Laura encouraged her not to give up, that he's still the person in the portrait she painted. They made a bit of small talk, Elizabeth apologized again, and Laura left. Elizabeth put away her paintings, holding the portrait and declaring "This is who Lucky is", closed up and went home. Later, after she went to bed, Lucky returned to the studio, broke in, and gazed at his portrait thoughtfully. At the Port Charles Grille, AJ and Hannah continued to trade barbs with Carly, and she threw her impending marriage to Sonny in their faces. The argument began to heat up, with Hannah calling Carly a "heartless bitch", and Mike stepped in and broke things up before they got totally out of hand. After a few parting shots, Carly allowed Mike to escort her home. Arriving at the penthouse, she invited him in to see Michael, but since Michael was asleep Mike didn't stay long. Before he left, he warned her against looking for trouble and said that since she is pregnant her job is to walk away from fights, not incite them. Carly rose to the new argument, replying that Mike had ditched his son without bothering to see if the next guy was beating him up, and therefore was in no position to offer parental advice; he should deal with his own guilt rather than lay it on her. He replied that all that may be true, but Sonny isn't walking away and he needs her to be careful. Carly said she needed no favors from Mike, and he cataloged the ones he'd already done her with Jason. Carly replied that he'd better make more of an effort to get along with his future daughter-in-law or he'd never see his grandchild, and he in turn warned her that she'd better "be good" or she'd wish she'd never met his son.. Back at the Grille, AJ and Hannah returned to their dinner after Carly and Mike left. AJ tried to explain his attraction to Carly and told Hannah about their trip to Hawaii. Hannah suggested that he still misses her, and he admitted that he misses being Michael's father, being a successful businessman, and a respected member of the family - he misses what he had when he was married to Carly, but not Carly herself. She always wanted Jason, and he couldn't be Jason. Hannah observed that when he's sober, AJ is a terrific guy and suggested that he stop trying to live in terms of other people. They exchanged a few more pleasantries and left. Later, AJ returned to the bar alone and ordered a vodka.. Luke encountered Lucky on the docks, and for the first few minutes Luke did all the talking with Lucky just standing there looking at him. Luke told Lucky that if he ran away again he'd just follow him and would always be able to find him since "he taught him all his best moves". Lucky replied that "if it doesn't go your way, you force it" and Luke realized they were back to the rape again. Lucky expressed anger about the rape, and said that they had given up on him when they thought he was dead, not even bothering to search. Luke asked "what did they do to your head?" Lucky maintained that Helena did nothing and all Faison did was lock the door, but it gave him time to think about the lies Luke and Laura had told him. His parents, he said, were his role models - meaning that he wanted to be like his mother's rapist, and be programmed to look for a woman who has secret affairs and children she never tells him about. He explained that he finally concluded that "bad is bad" and that he didn't want anything to do with Luke and Laura, that he cannot trust them. Laura appeared then, and was at first overjoyed to see her son, but her face fell when she realized he wasn't glad to see her in return. Lucky insisted he had no interest in tawdry reunions, and when Laura asked, "what's wrong?" began to list some of Luke's "wrongs'. Laura asked what she had done, and he replied that she was a liar. He said that they never seemed to realize that there are consequences for their lies and manipulations, and that for making Faison angry the consequence was that he gave a year of his life. He stated that he wanted nothing to do with either of them, warned them to stay away from him, and left. Laura called out, begging him to stay, but Luke said to let him go. Laura and Luke speculated about what had happened to their son, comparing notes and discovering that he'd seen Elizabeth, Lulu and Mike. They agreed that his twisted version of history is Helena and Faison's doing, but whatever the cause, his anger is real and it is directed at them. Luke looked at the photos Stefan took, and Laura explained that she'd gone to Luke's office to show them to him but encountered Felicia. Luke replied "One thing at a time - let's deal with Lucky first", and she agreed. They decided that they have to figure out what's been done to him, and Laura instructed Luke to let her know what he finds out when he speaks to Helena. Luke said "did I mention Helena?" and Laura replied "no" and walked off, leaving Luke smiling a little and shaking his head.. We had a replay of Friday's shooting of Roy. Bobbie heard the shot and raced to Sonny, demanding to know where Roy was (he had slipped into the water, vanishing). Bobbie was frantic, but Sonny explained that it was just a truck backfiring and instructed Johnny to take her home. After Bobbie left, Larkin expressed concern about the "witness", but Sonny assured him that it would be all right since Bobbie is his fiancee's mother. Sonny returned Larkin's gun to him, and Larkin preserved the fingerprints, explaining that he'd chosen this spot because the current will take the body away. Johnny took Bobbie to the safe house, and after a while Sonny arrived, too. They were congratulating each other on their performances when Roy got there, joking about this "death" being much easier than the last one. Roy explained how he'd been able to stay under the water with his little portable oxygen tank. They rehashed their performances, and Roy admitted to being a little unnerved when he didn't see the gun switch. Sonny explained that he'd done it when they were searching Roy for the vest, and cautioned Bobbie to act grief-stricken for a while as Larkin is a little uncomfortable with her as a witness. He said he'd tell Johnny to pick Bobbie up in 1 hour, then left and Bobbie and Roy fell into each other's arms. Roy told Bobbie that she'd done a really great job of putting Larkin and his men off guard, and said that they couldn't have pulled it off without her. Bobbie made him promise to keep her in the loop for any further developments, and he agreed. Sonny arrived at the penthouse to find Carly asleep on the sofa. He woke her, and then confided that Roy is fine and that Bobbie knows that. He asked why she wasn't in bed, and she admitted that she was worried about him. He said that she never needs to be, but she said that nonetheless it was good to have him home safe, and he hesitantly replied that it was good to come home to her. It was cute, and they ended with a kiss.

May 16,2000

Jax is about to begin a luxurious breakfast at his penthouse when Chloe comes downstairs. She decides she has time to join him before she goes off on her second radiation treatment at GH. Alexis is going with her much to Jax's discomfort. After Chloe leaves, Jax receives one of his typical "I will bury you with my deal and wallet calls." Ned rings the bell and is delivering Eddie Maine tix for Jax and Chloe to attend the concert. Ned wants to hear how Chloe is doing. Jax fills him on that she is with Alexis and not him and that he feels completely frustrated. Jax asks Ned if he wants to sell him his ELQ stock. Ned says no way. Ned also asks Jax to try to figure out why he is going after Chloe's family. Especially, if he is trying not to add stress to her current situation. Ned points out to Jax, that the Q's are Chloe's family. He reminds Jax he could lose more than just the takeover deal. Jax looks as though he is listening. He asks Ned one last time if he will sell! his stock. Ned sticks to his guns and says no. Juan and Emily are putting up fliers for the upcoming Eddie Maine/Juan concert. Taggert happens upon them and tells them what they are doing is illegal and they had better get on to class. Hannah comes along and Taggert stops to chat. Hannah warns Taggert that he could be putting his job at risk by even talking with her. Taggert assures Hannah that he wants to be with her and he thought she wanted to be with him. They grab hands. Hannah says just when she gets close to him she wants to run. Taggert urges her not to run and pulls her in for a kiss. Of course, just then Sonny comes up and looks semi-amused. Before he can get anything out, Bobbie runs up saying she must speak with Sonny. Taggert and Hannah excuse themselves and say they will go back to the station. Bobbie says she can't thank Sonny enough for all he has done. Sonny tells Bobbie that Roy wants to see her and that he will arrange it. Bobbie addresses the upcoming nuptials between Sonny and Carly. He is sure it is the right thing to do. Bobbie reminds him that Carly had a marriage of convenience with AJ and it didn't work. Sonny shoots back that he isn't AJ and knows he will treat her right. Stefan is at GH and comes across Tony. Tony is obviously exercising his newly operated on hand. Stefan asks how the therapy is going. He gets a typical Tony response, as Nurse Spencer looks on. Stefan tells Tony he does not feel he is appropriate for the job of Chief of Neurosurgery since he is not able to perform surgery yet. Tony assures him he will be soon, but Stefan tells him his kidnapping charge is also a problem. A disappointed Tony walks away and Bobbie laces into Stefan for having the nerve to call Tony a kidnapper. Stefan insists that when Lucky turns up, he will clear his name. Bobbie snipes at him that the one good thing to come of this is that Laura finally sees him for who he really is.. Chloe and Alexis arrive at GH. Tony comes over and tells Chloe that when they are ready to begin he will come get her. Chloe tells Alexis that she feels empowered by the treatments and she feels hopeful. She asks Alexis to keep her secret, until she knows for sure. Helena walks up as Chloe and Alexis are talking and is thrilled to see them. She explains that she would love to help Chloe and has wanted to ever since she came upon her crying on the docks. She also knows exactly what Chloe is suffering from and what her treatment plan is. Alexis wants to sue and tells Chloe they should. Chloe and Alexis cut her good intentions off. Tony comes to get Chloe and they agree that Alexis should stay and wait. Alexis makes a call from her cell. She demands to see the person on the other end and references that Helena must be stopped. I know it is Stefan. When Stefan arrives at GH, Alexis fills him in on the latest Helena/Chloe news. Stefan tells Alexis that they must use each other and Jax in order to defeat Helena. Alexis is upset about Stefan's lack of compassion for Chloe's plight. She tells Stefan that she doesn't want Jax or Chloe hurt. Felicia is in Texas talking to her grandmother about taking the girls' home. Mariah doesn't want them uprooted when they have just begun to settle in. Neither does Felicia, but she assures her grandmother that they will not be uprooted again. The girls walk in and Georgie runs to her mother. The ever angst-ridden Maxie is not pleased to see her mother. She wants to know what Felicia is doing there. Felicia explains it is time to go home. Maxie informs her mother that they are happy there and don't wish to go. She adds insult to injury when she tells Felicia that if she takes her home, Maxie will run away, just like her mother does. Mariah asks Felicia to give the girls a moment with their great grandmother. Felicia listens outside as Mariah pleads her case. She will go with the girls to PC if they promise to try to make things work with their mother and if Maxie won't run away. Agreed. Felicia thanks her grandmother. She tells Felicia that if it happens again she will take the girls and bring them back to Texas and that will be the end of it. Sonny is at the safehouse with Roy. Larkin calls on Sonny's cell phone and says he is changing the parameters of the deal. He wants more money. He threatens to mess with Carly when Sonny says it can be done. Roy and Bobbie are again reunited at the safehouse thanks to Sonny. Roy tells Bobbie things are moving faster than they thought. Larkin already wants more money. He tells Bobbie to tell Hannah not to antagonize Larkin and to keep her distance. Bobbie tells Roy she will do it. She fills Roy in on Sonny and Carly's upcoming wedding news. He doesn't seem to think it is as big of a deal as Bobbie. Sonny stops in at a baby store and is browsing the cradle and crib scene. The clerk says she can help. Sonny doesn't need it until he spots one he likes. She offers to let him look at some catalogues so he can customize it. He has to special order it and it may take some time. (I can already see where this is going)) Sonny looks thrilled as she goes to retrieve the books..

May 18,2000

Stefan confronted Lucky and Helena and tried to convince him to denounce Helena and admit that she'd held him prisoner, but Lucky stuck to the story that she'd actually rescued him. Lucky refused to become involved in the "sick feud" between either his parents and the Cassadines or Stefan and Helena, and left them to argue between themselves. Helena looked after Lucky, commenting that she admired his independence, but Stefan replied that that independence is the flaw in her plan and will inevitably lead to her undoing. He suggested that she had used mind control on Lucky, which she denied as ludicrous, but warned her that the longer Lucky is in familiar surrounds and routines, the less control she will be able to maintain. Chloe found Felicia sobbing on a park bench and tried to comfort her. They talked about the children, and Chloe suggested that Maxie and Georgie need Felicia to reassure them that they are central to her life and that she will not leave them - in other words, pay more attention to them. She agreed, and left with new determination.. Sonny and Roy met at the safe house. Sonny at first balked at wearing the recording device Roy offered him, explaining about the Brenda debacle, but eventually gave in. He later met with Larkin, gave him the $1M and got him to admit (on tape) that he'd demanded the money in return for leaving Sonny alone, that he'd want more money in six months and that he'd forced Sonny to shoot Roy.. Bobbie went to visit Carly at the penthouse. Carly pressured her mother to tell her what Roy was up to with Sonny, but Bobbie refused, saying that she'd have to take it up with Sonny herself. Carly pointed out that she'd allowed her mother access to the desk when she needed it, but Bobbie stood firm. Carly was upset, but she and her mother exchanged hugs and "I love you"'s before Bobbie left.. Ned (as Eddie Maine) and the band tried to rehearse, but Ned was unhappy with the band and himself. Juan and Emily watched, and Emily reassured Juan that his turn on stage would come soon. Alexis showed up and fabricated a conflict with the promoters to end the rehearsal before the band members got too fed up with Ned. After the band left, Ned played just for Alexis, and they both seemed pleased with the results.. Bobbie went to BJ's grave, as it is the anniversary of her death. Tony came by a few minutes later and they reminisced about their daughter. After Bobbie left, Tony apologized to BJ for using her death as an excuse for hurting people.. Felicia ran into Mac in the park and told him again that she was sorry for what she'd put him through. They talked about when Maxie got BJ's heart, how Felicia had been by her bedside twenty-four hours a day, and Mac said that the girls need her to be that same kind of mother to them now. Chloe went home to Jax after talking to Felicia, and told him how much she appreciates him. Later, she had a dream in which Stefan, seated by the music box, told her that "it will not work; you know it will not work". Sonny returned home to the penthouse where Carly was anxiously waiting. She explained that she was afraid for him, but he assured her that there was nothing to be afraid of, that he knew how to stay out of jail. She tried to bargain with him, saying that she'd wear his ring if he demonstrated good faith by telling her what he was up to with Roy, but he explained again that it was safer for her to not to know details of his business. That way, he said, if he were ever to be arrested, she could honestly deny knowing anything about it. She was reluctant to give up her "leverage" and wear the ring, but he convinced her that they were on the same side and reminded her that his ring was a symbol of his promise to take care of her and the children. She eventually relented and agreed to wear his ring and marry him. He took the ring and proposed, vowing to respect her, love the children and never leave, and then placed the ring on her finger as she repeated the vows.. Bobbie went to Roy at the safe house, and he told her what had happened with Larkin. She wanted to come with him to tail Larkin to the Grand Keys, even producing some fake ID that Luke got for her (she is now Carol Levinson). They were debating the issue when Roy got a call saying that Larkin was already at the airport gate, so he reluctantly agreed to take her along with the stipulation that she follow his directions without argument, and they hurried off..

May 19,2000

While Edward lobbied for Sonny's support against Jax's takeover of ELQ, a drunken AJ confronted Carly. Carly and AJ's exchange got more and more heated and Sonny was later horrified when he heard Carly's screams as she fell down the stairs at the Quartermaine mansion. Luke interrupted Felicia's tentative rapprochement with her daughters. A chance meeting between Liz and Lucky at the boxcar ended in a kiss. Bobbie and Roy followed Larkin to the Grand Keys.

Tape#20

May 24,2000

Roy and Bobbie were hot on the trail for Larkin in the Grand Keys. Roy was watching Larkin's movements from the suite. Roy informed Bobbie that in order to catch Larkin they have to have all his account numbers. Roy and Bobbie waited outside for Larkin to leave the banker's office. Bobbie was dressed up as a rich widow who was trying to keep her inheritance from his family. She sweet-talked the banker into leaving his office so that Roy could get on the computer and grab the account numbers. Roy and Bobbie were successful and obtained their goal. Back at their suite, they were celebrating their feat and started to kiss when out of no where, Larkin busted in the door holding a gun! Emily went to Kelley's to go to the concert with Liz, but Tammy informed her that Liz left approximately one half hour ago. As Emily was on her way out, she ran into Lucky. She immediately invited him to the concert. Lucky turned her down. She asked if he was trying to avoid Liz, but he replied no; he just did not want to go to the concert. Emily asked if he had lost his love for music. He said no. Emily asked if he had plans for the evening. Lucky replied no again. She said that concert is going to be fantastic so he should go and also because she so wanted Lucky to meet Juan. Emily took off her backstage pass and handed it to Lucky. She said come if you want and I hope to see you there. Emily, Liz, and Nikolas were back stage discussing how exciting this concert will be. Ned walked up to the group but was stopped by a stagehand that indicated that there were static problems with the sound system, which required his immediate attention. The stagehand led Ned down stairs into a basement. Ned kept asking the stagehand why he waited to the last minute to inform him about the sound system problem. The stagehand never replied. The two continued down stairs and then the stagehand led Ned into an electrical closet and locked the door behind. Ned yelled let me out various times but come to find out the stagehand was hired by Edward to keep Eddie Mane from singing in the concert. Meanwhile back stage, everyone is scouring the place for Ned. The crowd was growing restless. Alexis checked in with the group and informed them that she had another place to look for Ned. Emily and Liz suggested that Juan go on stage and sing until Ned was located. Juan and Nikol! as said no way, but has the crowd continued to yell louder, they conceded. Juan Santiago is announced as a special opening act. Juan began to sing while Emily, Liz, and Nikolas looked on with pride. Emily sang along (she knew all the words by heart it was cute). Alexis found the electrical room and sensed Ned's presence. She almost left but Ned yelled out. Ed and Lila arrived at the hospital to visit Carly and Sonny. Lila asked to speak to Sonny alone. Sonny confessed to Lila that he does not have the words to tell Carly, when she awakens, that they have lost their baby. Sonny shared his thoughts about Carly with Lila. He said she was indeed a good mother although not many people see that side of Carly. Lila mentioned that Sonny and Carly shared a child together and now they must grieve together for the loss. Sonny takes Lila's hand and asked her if his son was in heaven somewhere safe and happy. Lila responded I believe in God and I believe that your son is with God. Sonny started to cry and he thanked Lila for her visit and returned to Carly's side. AJ arrived at the hospital to be greeted by Edward. Edward asked why AJ was even at the hospital and reminded him about retribution for his actions. Edward basically told AJ that it was his poor judgment and lack of control, which cause Carly to loose her baby. Edward asked AJ to do the right thing and just leave the hospital. AJ refused. He next came upon Tony and asked how Carly was doing. Tony informed him that Carly will be fine. Tony tried to reason with AJ and used this instance as reach bottom point and told AJ he needs to retake control of his life and actions. AJ thanked Tony for his efforts, but his words fell on death ears. Carly awakened and told Sonny of her dream with him and their boys celebrating his birthday. Then she opened her eyes. Carly asked why she was in the hospital. Where is the baby? Is something wrong with the baby? Sonny responded by saying the baby is gone. Carly, not fully awake, does not understand and demands to see her son. She yelled to Sonny to leave so that she can see her baby. Finally Sonny had to just say that their baby is dead. Carly loses it. Amy rushed in to give her a sedative. Sonny looked lost at this point, even pitiful. Once the medicine took effect, Sonny told Carly to take it easy. Carly was devastated. Sonny tried to explain to Carly was happened to her and the choice he had to make to save her own life. This day ended with Carly asking Sonny did he at least get to hold their son. Sonny said no. Carly continued to repeat, it is not fair, they had a son and did not get to hold him. It is not fair. It is not fair (tears just continued to r! oll down Carly's face)

May 25,2000

Jax and Chloe met with Tony at the hospital, and got the results from her latest CAT scan. The mass is apparently no longer showing growth, but it isn't shrinking either, so Tony recommended another course of radiation after a suitable rest. Tony said that he expects to save Chloe's vision, and when Jax mentioned the experimental drugs, agreed to give them a go, too. Chloe and Jax left to join their friends at the Eddie Maine concert. Juan stepped in to entertain the crowd when Eddie Maine turned up missing, and everyone seemed to enjoy his singing. Lucky, invited by Emily to attend, arrived to see Nikolas and Elizabeth standing with their arms around one another. Meanwhile, Alexis located Ned in the storeroom and broke down the door with a fire axe. Hey discovered they were trapped in the next room also, so Ned boosted Alexis up and she crawled through the transom. She unlocked the door and freed him just in time to prevent the concert from being called off, and Eddie Maine took the stage to thunderous applause. While Eddie and the Idle Rich played, Emily introduced Juan to Lucky, and made a comment about how perfect it was that the four of them - she and Juan, Elizabeth and Lucky - were together again. Elizabeth and Lucky were obviously uncomfortable with this assessment, but didn't have a chance to comment, as Nikolas whisked Juan away to schmooze a talent agent named Lynn. Lynn was taken with Eddie Maine and Juan, gave Juan her card and encouraged him to call her.. While Ned was celebrating the great success of the concert, Jax took a call from someone with news about experimental drugs for Chloe, and arranged to obtain them. Laura went to Luke's club to talk to him about the Lucky problem. She explained that she feels Lucky is trying to "divide and conquer" her and Luke, and that if they present a united front they will remain in control rather than Lucky. She felt that this was a chance to rebuild their family, but Luke ridiculed the idea, saying that it is a fantasy - he and Lucky have both been gone too long, and neither one is coming back. Laura looked stricken and began to cry. She said that she was apparently the only one who hadn't moved on, promised not to bother Luke again, and left, with Luke looking after, comprehension dawning. Laura went to Jake's bar, where she ordered a double Scotch from Jake, who recognized her. She approached a pool player and they got involved in a game. Several rounds of drinks later, she and the pool player were getting rambunctious and Jake quietly called Luke. She told him that his wife was there and might be getting in over her head, but Luke explained that Laura was an adult and entitled to do whatever she chose. Things with Laura and the pool player were getting louder and wilder when Mac and Dara arrived. Laura saw them and introduced Tim (whom she repeatedly referred to as Tom) to Mac and Dara. Turned out that Tim and Dara had been to law school together, and Dara got Tim away from Laura on the pretense of escorting her to her car to hide her cell phone, leaving Mac and Laura alone. Mac questioned Laura's actions and she tried to defend herself, maintaining that she was having a great time, but began to cry. Mac put his arm around her to comfort her just as Luke walked in. He saw them huddled and took a rain check on Jake's drink offer, slipping out unnoticed by Laura and Mac. Mac offered to drive her home, and she agreed not to think about the hangover that awaits.. Larkin burst into Roy and Bobbie's hotel room and threatened them with a gun, but Bobbie distracted him just as he was about to shoot, and she and Roy escaped by jumping off the balcony. They landed in the hotel pool, then made their way to the beach where they enjoyed one another and the setting, and Roy vowed to get them both out of the situation safely. Meanwhile, Larkin got on the phone and asked someone to come and help him track Roy and Bobbie, and promised that they wouldn't get off the island alive..

May 26,2000

Jax and Tony conferred about an experimental drug that might help Chloe's condition. Tony admitted that if the results of the new drug was as successful in the test subjects as Chloe's radiation treatments have been on her, he'd definitely want to try it. Chloe walked in on the end of the conversation and Jax filled her in. Bobbie and Roy sat in a bar and debated ordering anything when they have no money to pay for it. Roy said that he had heard that some high stakes poker games went on in that bar and he hoped he could win enough to hire a plane to fly them out of there. Bobbie wondered where he would get the money to play and Roy told her that theft was not out of the question (no, folks, this guy isn't a criminal). Bobbie offered to help and Roy balked when she said she'd sell the diamond bracelet that Jerry gave her. Bobbie said that Jerry would whole heartedly approve of the move, that he would want her to be safe and happy. Liz and Emily planned the special evening for the four friends and Elizabeth said she wanted everything to be perfect. She hoped that having the four of them together like before would give Lucky to opportunity to tell them what had happened to him and help him relax. She left to get her clothes from the dry cleaners and Emily ran into Juan who told her he was being interviewed on a radio show that night. He said he'd gotten permission for her to come and they could go out somewhere afterwards to celebrate. She sadly told him she already had plans, that the four friends were going to recreate the last dinner before Lucky "died" and that she hadn't had a chance to tell him about it. He said that was OK, but looked hurt. She asked how the interview had been scheduled...did the DJ call L&B? Juan told her that Lynn Risinger, the agent from Supernova had put the two of them together. He then went on to put in some time at L&B and promised to call her soon. AJ asked Alan how Carly was doing and was told that she would make a full recovery. He lamented that he kept playing those critical last five seconds over in his head, wishing he had grabbed her, that there was something he could do. Alan told him there was indeed something he could do. He could go to Arizona and get help. He told AJ that he understood what it was like to feel like your life was out of control and to be hurting people when you didn't mean to. AJ said he wasn't going to run from Sonny and Alan said he wouldn't be running, he'd be getting his life back together again. Just then, the hospital paged Alan and AJ told him to go on, but to remember that he life was in no one's hands but his own. Carly asked the nurse if Bobbie had called and the nurse expressed her regret, but said that Audrey could not seem to contact Bobbie. She asked if there was anything else she could get for her and Carly shook her head "No." Just then, Edward knocked and came in with flowers from Lila's garden. He offered regrets from both himself and Lila. He asked if there was anything they could do and she said they could let Michael go. She told him it was AJ's fault that the baby had died and Edward assured her it was just a horrible accident. Carly insisted that AJ was drunk and assaulted her like he had so many times. She asked how many babies Edward had lost to that drunk! Edward wished her well and left. Sonny arrived at the penthouse and Leticia told him that Michael had been watching for him. She explained how edgy the little boy had been, jumping at every sound. Sonny told her that he was bringing Carly home that day and asked her to put some things into a bag for her. He started talking to Michael about the baby, unsure really of how to proceed. He told the little boy that their baby would not be coming home, but would be going straight to heaven instead. Later, Leticia commented that she was surprised Sonny could get Michael to go down for his nap so easily. He asked her if she'd gotten the nursery cleared away like he asked and she told him Johnny had done it for her. He told her he didn't want Carly to have to see it when she came home. Johnny announced Mike and he came in with a flourish, suggesting that he, Sonny and Michael go to the park. He was taken aback when Sonny told him they had lost the baby and asked why he hadn't been called. "What could you have done?" Sonny asked. He told Mike that he had to go get Carly from the hospital, then sadly told him that the baby had been a boy. Felicia saw Lucky on the docks and stopped him to talk. She told him that she had helped his parents look for him and that they didn't really understand why he is so angry with them. She tried to explain to him how much his parents love him and asked him to consider giving them another chance. Luke interrupted then and asked if the two were getting reacquainted. Lucky sneered and asked if Luke couldn't ever tell the truth? Hadn't he asked Felicia to plead his case? Felicia insisted that Luke hadn't put her up to anything and Lucky reiterated that he doesn't want anything to do with his parents and left. Luke asked Felicia what exactly she had said and she told him she was simply trying to explain to him how Luke feels. Luke coldly told her that how he felt about Lucky did not concern her. She suggested that maybe it was a little late for that after all she had invested in trying to help find him. Luke reminded her that he had said thank you for that, but that now they were in Port Charles again and he didn't need her help, particularly when it comes to how he feels. Felicia told him he was in good company because her daughter also doesn't want anything to do with her. He told her it wasn't about kids, it was about the two of them and how it just doesn't work for anyone concerned. He said he was sorry, he hadn't wanted it to sound so harsh. Just then, Laura came upon them and commented that Felicia didn't really look like someone trying to save her family. Felicia told her to stop being so judgmental when she didn't have a clue what they were talking about. Luke asked if she was feeling OK and told her he had seen her at Jake's the night before, heavily tanked. He told her she would only hurt herself. She railed into him, saying that she was sorry her pain was wearing on him and she guessed she was taking the decimation of their family a little harder than he was, but then, she does decide to just shack up with the first person who comes along (Stefan??). Roy was devastated that they only got $400 for the bracelet when it was easily worth ten times that. Bobbie reminded him that it was how pawn shops worked. They spotted a poker game in the bar and Roy joined in with some shady looking characters. They also decided to call Sonny and see if he could arrange for a rescue. Later, Bobbie came back to the table, told Roy there was no luck reaching Sonny and started her over-affection routine. A man at the poker game suggested that Roy "get a room or play" (speaking for all of us). Roy went on to lose (again). Edward stopped by Jax's apartment to ask Jax to postpone the ELQ stockholders meeting. Jax crowed over that, saying that Edward was using the loss of Sonny's baby to buy more time to block his takeover. He went on to say that since AJ was responsible for the tragedy, he probably had a new ally. Chloe overheard this and was aghast at Jax's callousness. Edward asked how he could stoop so low as to take advantage of Sonny's misfortune to forge a bond with him. Jax coldly told Edward he had miscalculated, then Chloe interrupted saying, "That is enough." She said that Carly and Sonny had suffered a terrible loss and she wouldn't have them talking about it as if it were a factor in a business deal. Jax explained that Edward had come there trying to use the situation to his advantage and he had merely turned it around on him. Chloe asked if it would be such a tragedy to postpone the meeting out of respect for Sonny and Jax told her business doesn't work that way. Edward pointed out to Chloe what a cut throat she had fallen in with and left. After he was gone, Chloe apologized to Jax for putting him on the spot. Jax reminded her that he doesn't get involved in her business and she countered that she hoped he would always challenge her to be a better human being. She again asked him to postpone the meeting out of consideration for Sonny, but he adamantly refused. He asked her if they could please just not interfere in one another's business and she said that wouldn't work because he was hurting people she cared about. He asked how she could care about them so much when she only met them a year and a half ago and she pointed out that he had only met her a year and a half ago (ouch!). She said that she had promised herself she wouldn't do it, but that she was asking him one more time not to go through with the ELQ takeover. She pointed out that she had never asked him for anything, not the months of games when the three friends had jumped in to save her company, not the battle of her disease...they only thing she'd ever asked was that he come to St Petersburg with her and she'd even backed off on that because of his business. Now she was asking that he stop the takeover. He told her it was too late for that. She had to understand that it was who and what he was. She said that maybe she had never really known him. The phone rang and it was Tony, sadly telling Jax that the pharmaceutical company refused to let Chloe into the trials of the drug. Jax argued, but Tony said they were at a standstill. Jax swore that he'd find a way to get her that drug. Tony came in to speak with Carly and see how she was doing. She asked if Bobbie had called and Tony told her, "Not yet" but assured her he had left a message on her voice mail and with Betty and he was sure they'd be hearing from her soon. Carly said that she guessed Tony was happy she'd lost the baby since he said he pitied a child had her and Sonny for parents. He told her he would never wish this on her or anyone and that he wanted her to know the medical team did all they could to save the baby. Carly said she didn't want to hear it. Tony went on to say that there was no complication from her head injury and Carly countered that at least AJ hadn't given her a new personality like he did to Jason and that she imagined everyone was disappointed about that. Tony said that, speaking as a person who has lost a child, it might help to know that there was no way to save the baby's life. They just had to save her and he hoped that would give her some peace. She started to cry and Sonny arrived right then and ordered Tony out of the room. He explained that he was trying to tell Carly how sorry he was for her loss and Sonny backed off, then asked Carly if she was alright. She said she just wanted to go home. She asked if he had heard from Bobbie and he said he hadn't, but that he had somebody looking for her. Noticing the bag, she asked if Leticia had helped him pack it and he said she had, so if she didn't like what was in there to blame the nanny. Carly said she would be ready in a bit. As they left, she sadly said she hadn't pictured going home from the hospital like this. When they got home, Carly snuggled Michael and said they were all the family they had left now. Everyone showed up at Kelly's and Elizabeth asked Lucky how many ribs from Eli's he'd eaten on the way over. He said he had managed to hold off and she teased him, saying he'd probably eaten there every night since his return. He told her he'd saved it for a special occasion. She said she was going to light candles and asked if it would make him uncomfortable. He said he had no bad memories of candles...only happy ones. She smiled and asked him to get the lights. Nikolas and Emily were talking about the radio interview with Juan and Lucky suggested that they get a radio and listen. Emily told them Juan was going to get a tape of it from Reginald (the Port Charles tape connection). She said last night was Juan's night and tonight was Lucky's homecoming celebration. Nikolas proposed a toast to his brother and their friend...welcome home. They all drank to that. Later, Lucky took the last rib, amongst jeers from the other three. Emily asked if he remembered the first time he took her to Eli's and they laughed about her trying the hot sauce. Elizabeth reminded them to save room for the piece de resistance, brownies. Emily said that before they could eat them, they all had to make a wish. They all said, "Best friends forever" then Elizabeth broke the mood by saying, "More than friends forever." Lucky jumped up and said, "This is all wrong" then left. Roy continued to lose, then Bobbie turned on some poor hapless guy at the bar, shrieking that she wouldn't be talked to ‘like that'. Roy insisted that if the bartender didn't throw the guy out, he would, so the protesting guy was tossed out of the bar. When they came back to the table, Roy was ready to show his hand. As Carly cuddled Michael and told him how much she and Sonny loved him, AJ approached Sonny on the docks to apologize. Sonny asked why he would want to talk to the man who got drunk and killed his baby.

May 29,2000

Roy won his big poker hand, but when he went to pick up his winnings, the loser refused to allow it, protesting that Roy had been cheating. Before a fight broke out, the bartender made the loser hand over the winnings, and he left. The game broke up, and Roy and Bobbie decided to ask the bartender if he could arrange a private plane for them. He was reluctant, but Bobbie gave him some story about their passports and everything being stolen, and he relented and said he could arrange it. Later, they met with the pilot, gave him money, and agreed to meet at the airstrip at sundown tomorrow for the trip back to Port Charles. Bobbie and Roy rented a room above the bar for the night, and talked about their plans to start a new life together. Jax was on the phone with Tony, who explained that the experimental drugs for Chloe were unavailable. Jax hung up as Chloe came in, and vowed to her to get the drugs somehow. She turned the conversation to the ELQ takeover, again explaining that she was unhappy with Jax 's business dealings. They talked a bit about their relationship, and Jax said that her pressure concerning ELQ felt like emotional blackmail. Helena arrived at the door, stating that she could hear them arguing out in the hall, and asked if there were trouble in paradise? Chloe promptly went out for a walk, and Jax tried to get rid of Helena. She thoughtfully touched his face and invited him to call her any time, adding as she left that he'd be calling her sooner than he thought. Later, Chloe returned from her walk and apologized. She explained that she understood that the business between Edward and Jax was "a guy thing" involving territorial imperative, and since Lila doesn't get involved, neither will she. They made love (probably a ploy on his part to get her out of that hideous outfit), and she fell asleep and dreamt that Jax was threatening to her. She awoke with a start, but when Jax asked her about her dream said only that someone was threatening her.. Carly and Michael snuggled on the sofa and chatted quietly while Michael finished his bottle. Carly put him to bed, then slowly walked into the nursery. She was shocked to see that it was completely bare, sank to the floor and began to cry.. AJ apologized to Sonny for his part in Carly's accident, but Sonny was absolutely still and hostile. He said that AJ was drunk and took the life of Sonny's child, but because of AJ's child, AJ's actions will go unpunished. . He said that AJ was not a man, had no pride or honor, and that AJ owes his life to Michael. Sonny said that he does not want the blood of Michael's father on his hands, but warned AJ never to come near him or his family. AJ scooted away as Luke arrived on the scene and asked Sonny what that was all about. Sonny told Luke about losing the baby, and explained about Michael when Luke asked why he didn't just kill AJ. Luke was extremely sympathetic, and Sonny tried to say that it wasn't the same for him as it had been for Luke, as he hadn't known his son as a person, but his heart wasn't in what he was saying, and he left.. At Kelly's, Nikolas, Emily and Elizabeth were surprised and dismayed when Lucky bolted the dinner, saying that he couldn't handle it. Elizabeth followed him outside and explained what it had been like for her the night of the fire and the following year. Lucky was listening when Laura showed up, and he immediately assumed Elizabeth had staged the meeting. He started to leave and Elizabeth jumped on his case, saying that walking away is his answer to everything. He turned to Laura and said that he didn't want anything to do with her, and Elizabeth remarked that she didn't understand how he could be so cruel, then denied setting up the meeting. Lucky again said that he thought she had set him up to meet Laura, and that everything had changed. This time Elizabeth agreed - maybe they didn't have anything left if he couldn't believe she was being honest with him. This seemed to reach Lucky, and he apologized for hurting her, but explained that that was why he thought they shouldn't see each other at all. He left, and Elizabeth told Laura about the dinner. Laura advised her to hang in there where Lucky was concerned, then Elizabeth went back into the diner. Nikolas left to go look for Lucky, and Elizabeth and Emily rehashed the dinner. Elizabeth decided that maybe Lucky really doesn't love her anymore, but Emily was reassuring.. Lucky ran into Luke on the docks and accused his father of lying in ambush for him. Luke tried to deny it, asserting that not everything is about Lucky, but Lucky wasn't buying. He went into his speech about plotting parents and lies, and how he wishes they would leave him alone, and Luke replied that he'd gotten that message but wondered if underneath it all Lucky really wanted him to keep after him. Lucky was starting to reply when Nikolas showed up, and so he complained to Nikolas instead, saying that at least Nikolas was someone he could trust. Luke suggested that Lucky was perhaps a bit paranoid and asked him again what had changed. Lucky replied that he had "finally wised up", and Luke shrugged it off and left. Nikolas and Lucky talked about the dinner and Lucky asked Nikolas to tell Elizabeth to leave him alone.. At the penthouse, Sonny came in to find Carly in the nursery. She demanded that he return the nursery things, and asked if he were trying to pretend the baby never existed. He tried to explain that he thought it would be easier for her not to be reminded, but she shouted that maybe it was just easier for him, and asked if he had moved on? He told her he had not, and admitted giving the baby things to a children's shelter where it could go to a child who needs it. Carly screamed that she needed the things, and demanded again that Sonny or Johnny go and get them back. Sonny miserably explained that he couldn't do that as Carly cried over and over, "How could you?" A minute later, huddled on the floor once again, Carly quietly apologized to Sonny, adding that she knew he missed the baby, too, and asked if they could start over. There was no answer, and Carly turned to see that Sonny had gone. Downstairs, Sonny poured himself a drink, looked at it and started to shake, dropping the glass, then stared miserably at his reflection in the mirror..

May 31,2000

Bobbie and Roy arrived at the airfield where they hired a private plan to return them to Port Charles. Bobbie was very hesitant to board the plane when she saw how small the plane was. Roy said it was their only way back. The pilot advised them that he was ready to go. Roy tried hard to keep Bobbie's mind on things other than the plane's steady rocking and shaking motion, but it was hard. Bobbie went to ask the pilot about the flight when to their surprise Larkin greeted them with a gun. Roy began to struggle with Larkin for the gun and finally knocked him out for a few minutes. Roy seized this opportunity to remove himself and Bobbie from the plane. He took the only parachute and attached it to Bobbie. He and she jumped out of the plane. On the ground, Bobbie crawled out from under the parachute calling Roy's name. Roy had fallen a few feet from her landing. They hugged each other and congratulated themselves for surviving this feat. The couple talked for a while and guessed on their location (Florida). As they fell back into each other's arms they decided to make their way to the main road in the morning. Maxie was in rare form today. Felicia was in her normal mode trying to win back the affection of her eldest child. Felicia had asked Chloe to meet with her and Maxie to buy her a special dress. Maxie informed her mother that she could not be bribed by a Chloe Morgan original. Maxie continued to blasted her mom in from of Chloe and her grandmother, Mariah. She strongly refused to look at any of the dresses that Chloe had sketched and said she did not want to have anything to do with her mom. Mariah interjected and offered to take Maxie home. Felicia became even more flustered by Maxie's actions. She sighed to Chloe and said does she see what she is up against. Chloe responded and said she could understand Maxie's point of view. Chloe, too, was a product of divorced parents. Felicia asked Chloe for help and what can she possibly do to win her daughter back. Chloe told her to keep loving the girls. Felicia also admitted that she has feelings for Luke Spencer. She does not understand why or what happened to their friendship, but she definitely has feelings for him. Felicia said that she does not know how to chose between Luke and Mac because she feels that choosing Luke would be like losing the girls. Chloe reiterated the same words that everyone seems to be saying to Felicia daily. You need to make a decision about exactly what you want in your life, then continue to love your daughters and never stop showing them you will always love them; they will eventually come around. Hannah came across AJ at Kelley's and she informed him that he maybe arrested because Dara and Taggert are at Sonny's Penthouse checking into Carly's fall. Hannah continued to talk with AJ to help him in any way. Dara and Taggert arrived at Kelley's too to get coffee. Dara, of course, is irritated by the sight of Hannah and especially because she is with AJ. Dara told AJ that neither Sonny nor Carly filed charges against him. Then Dara asked Hannah exactly what she was talking to AJ about. Taggert interrupted and asked Dara to get him some coffee. Once Dara was inside, Taggert also expressed his disappointment in Hannah for warning AJ. Hannah still proclaimed that she believed that AJ was innocent in this instance. Mariah dropped Maxie and Georgie with Mac to have dinner at Kelley's. While they were waiting for dinner Felicia arrived to buy take-out for the girls at home. She informed them that she did not know that they were out with Mac. Mac extended the dinner invitation to Felicia and she accepted. Carly thanked Sonny for getting Michael to sleep. She said that he always does that so well. Then Carly asked Sonny when did he think that Michael will stop asking about the baby. She had tried to explain the loss to him, but Michael was still not grasping the concept. Sonny replied that maybe Michael is having a difficult time because they are still struggling with the issue as well. Dara and Taggert arrived at the Penthouse and questioned Sonny and Carly about the fall. The paramedics reported to the police that Carly may have been pushed. Taggert asked Carly if she would like to press charges. Sonny answered for her and said that the fall was an accident. Carly then confirmed that it was an accident and she had lost her balance. Dara and Taggert excused themselves and left. Sonny, being his protective self, asked Carly to get something to eat to keep up her strength. He had run an errand and would be back shortly. Sonny went to Lilly's grave. It was the anniversary of Lilly and his first child's death. Sonny informed Lilly that there was a new baby in heaven and she should look after him too. Juan showed up at the grave too and bought flowers. Sonny congratulated Juan on him being the opening act for Eddie Mane. Juan said it was the best time in his life. Afterwards Juan gave his condolences to Sonny for his loss. Sonny told Juan that he hoped that everything good in life will come to him. Then, Sonny left to give Juan time with his mom. Emily visited Carly at the Penthouse to offer her sympathy for the loss of her baby. At first Carly was skeptical, but soon she realized that Emily was serious in her compassion. Emily even said that maybe she and Carly should work harder to get along for Michael's sake. Carly extended an open invitation for Emily to visit Michael. They ended in a very nice place. Mike showed up at the Penthouse and cut Emily's visit with Carly short. Mike stated that he is there to see Sonny and will wait for him. Emily left and Mike started in on Carly. Mike advised Carly that today was the anniversary of Lilly's death and the loss of his first child. Mike went on about how this baby meant everything to Sonny and that Carly disregarded the importance of this baby to Sonny. Mike further insulted Carly by stating that she was reckless and was unable to care and protect her own baby and was not concerned with the cost to Sonny and his emotional state. Carly was in a bad place and not her normal fighting self. She cried out that she loved her baby several times. Carly screamed that she did not want to fall she did not want to hurt the baby. Sonny entered and asked Mike what the hell had he done to Carly. After seeing Carly's present condition, Sonny ordered Mike to get out. Sonny immediately tried to comfort Carly. He informed her that Mike was totally out of line for what he said to her. Carly asked Sonny if he thought that it was her fault. Carly started to sob heavily. Sonny's private line rings. It is Larkin (with a ice pack on his head) calling from the airfield. Sonny told Larkin to disappear or he would report him to his superiors at the FBI and hung up on him. Sonny returned to Carly and side that he was sorry for the interruption. He looked at Carly and said she looked exhausted and she should try to get some sleep. Carly asked Sonny about his day. He admitted to her that he went to visit Lilly's grave. Carly cried that she made his day worst. Sonny replied no and told Carly to get some rest. Carly finally agreed and headed upstairs. She looked back at Sonny, in pain, and felt awful for the anguish state he was experiencing.

June 2,2000

Sonny and Carly talked about what would have been their son's favorite toy had he lived. Sonny encouraged Carly to spend some time with Michael because Michael was asking for her. Carly got angry because she felt Sonny was insinuating that she was neglecting Michael. Sonny reiterated that Carly is a good mother, he just wanted her to see Michael this morning. He added that whatever she needed him to do, he will take care of it for her. Carly realized that she was being too hard on Sonny and resolved to make a better effort to reach out to him. Roy called Sonny to inform him that they had returned and Sonny asked to speak to Bobbie. He then handed the phone to Carly, who asked Bobbie to come over. When Bobbie arrived, Carly told her that they lost the baby and explained how it happened. Bobbie comforted her daughter and then encouraged her to make a bigger effort in sharing her pain with Sonny. Sonny meanwhile ran into Roy, who was having a reunion with his daughter at the docks. Unbeknownst to anyone, Agent Larkin had been following Hannah. Larkin heard Roy tell his daughter about his successful trip to the Grand Keys. Sonny asked him if he thought it was a good idea to be in a public place when he was still wanted man. Roy responded by saying that he had seven years worth of hard evidence in the forms of direct deposits, transfers from other accounts, possible ties to organized crime etc. He plans on being a free man pretty soon and doesn't think that anyone will notice him. Sonny then shared the pain of his loss with Roy. Roy asked Sonny if he would have taken the child without the mother. Sonny responded by saying he would have traded his life to save his son and Roy tells him that he did the only thing he could do and that was to save Carly. Laura went to Kelly's to meet Nikolas for lunch and learned that Luke and Felicia were quarantined together. She runs into Elizabeth and they discuss how to move on when the love is gone from a relationship. They also wondered if it was even possible do so. Mac hung up the phone on Felicia when he assumed that she lied to him about going to see Tammy. He talked to Kevin about what he considers Felicia's misplaced priorities and his frustration with her lack of focus on her family. Felicia wondered how she would explain her presence quarantined with Luke. She told Luke that he was a source of temptation that always seemed to get her in trouble. Luke urged her to throw caution to the wind and make the most of their moment together. They began flirting and dancing very intimately, when suddenly they were interrupted with news that the quarantine was lifted, and they were free to go. When Felicia got home, Kevin was a little aloof with her and she realized that Mac had told him his side of the story. When she confronted Mac, he retaliated by threatening to take the girls away from her and back to Texas. Lucky and Helena continued their strange covert communication as she convinced him to "do what has to be done." When she took Lucky shopping, Stefan emerged from his hiding place and searched his mother's yacht. He found a picture of Lucky and Helena in what seemed to be a happy moment and he realizes that there is no way that they would be so amiable unless Lucky's mind was altered. Stefan confronted his mother saying that he knew what Helena did to Lucky and how she did it. Meanwhile, Lucky ran into Liz at the pier and asked her to sit down for a couple of minutes. He told her that his feelings for her have changed. However, he cares for her deeply and wants her to be happy...with Nikolas. Sonny was cooking dinner as a present arrived for Carly. When she opened it, it was the crib that Sonny had bought several weeks ago. As he apologized for the crib, Carly just put her arms around him and embraced him.

tape #21

June 6,2000

Jax and Chloe are at the penthouse; (they are there way too much). Anyway, they are discussing her medical condition and Chloe tells Jax that Tony thinks it is time for aggressive therapy. Jax tells his beloved that he just needs a little more time to work on a solution to getting the miracle drug from Helena's company. Chloe pleads with Jax not to involve himself with Helena or any other Cassadine. He reminds her he will do anything to make her well and stop at nothing. She chides him for being so stubborn. There is a knock on the door and it is Stefan. He is curious as to why Jax has summoned him. Chloe excuses herself and tells Jax to remember what she said. Jax tells Stefan once she has left that he thinks they need to work together. Jax fills Stefan in on the quest for the drug and that Helena holds the cards. He offers to throw in with Stefan to battle Helena. In addition, he offers all of his assets and holdings. He only wants in return the drug for Chloe. Stefan says he is sorry, but he cannot help. He tells Jax that since his previous offering of aligning each other's goals, Luke has become a major obstacle to him. He holds Stefan directly responsible for kidnapping Lucky and is completely irrational. He can't focus his energies on both. He tells Jax no. (I smell a Luke Spencer set-up). Later, Chloe comes back home and tells Jax that Tony is convinced that the drug will help her. He suggests they enlist Alexis's help since she has Cassadine connections. Chloe doesn't want her friend to risk anymore for her. Jax tells Chloe that he wants her to let Alexis help if she wants too. She still feels guilty about Chloe's accident and it might alleviate some guilt. Chloe says okay. Helena is on her yacht when her fabulous manservant Andreas arrives. She is thrilled to see him and says she is planning a cruise. Andreas is excited and wants to know details. She informs him that they will have a guest. She says it involves someone going out on the cruise but not returning. He wants to know if this is a game or a riddle. She replies, " Who comes to visit mother and never comes back?" Andreas guesses, "Stefan." Helena tells Andreas that it is a shame that her second son must die just when he is starting to show some talent. She tells Andreas that they need to figure out how to lure Stefan to the yacht and that will be up to him. Andreas gives his madam a massage. Afterwards, she is feeling so relaxed and can't really decide why. Is it because of the massage or because she is getting rid of Stefan? They kiss passionately and Helena tells her boy toy she will be waiting in her boudoir. Stefan sneaks up behind him and puts a knife to his throat. He demands that Andreas tell him everything or madam will be waiting a very long time. Andreas says Helena will kill him if he tells anything. Stefan cuts him and says his life is worth nothing he better talk. Andreas wants Stefan's word that he will protect him. Yes. He tells him that his mother is planning to kill him. Stefan says he knows, but how. Andreas explains they will lure him to the yacht, drug him and throw him overboard. Stefan says good make sure you stick to the plan. Andreas is confused and Stefan tells him not to worry. Stefan takes a drink and throws the glass down and it shatters. Helena calls out concerned. Andreas tells her he broke a glass. Stefan grabs Andreas's hand and tells him to tell Helena that he cut himself with the glass. Taggert arrives outside Kelly's and Tammy sees him. He asks her if she has seen Hannah around. She says she hasn't since she got back into town. He asks if maybe she has seen AJ. Tammy says neither. Taggert says he was worried she might be pulling the loyal friend thing again. He asks Tammy if he can go upstairs and check out Hannah's room to see if she left a note for him. Tammy tells him to go right ahead. Roy and Bobbie are playing around half-dressed at the brownstone. They begin smooching when Sonny walks in. He wants to know why Roy isn't in the basement or the attic. Roy explains he didn't think it was necessary since they are about to contact the FBI. Bobbie asks Sonny about how Carly is doing. He says she doesn't want to see anybody or go out. Bobbie informs Sonny that when she called earlier in the day, Carly wouldn't even come to the phone. She also reminds Sonny of Carly's history with postpartum and what happened when she had Michael. She encourages Sonny to get her to a doctor. Sonny says he will. The phone rings and Bobbie answers. It is Larkin and he asks to speak to Sonny. Bobbie says he must have the wrong number. He forcefully tells Bobbie to put Sonny on the phone and that he has Hannah. Bobbie relays the message before handing the phone to Sonny. Roy looks frightened. Roy starts to record the call, but Larkin tells Sonny it is no use because he has a scrambler. He tells Sonny he is willing to make a trade. He has to leave the country. They get Hannah for $2million. He gives Sonny 24 hours. Larkin reminds Sonny that if he smells a cop the deal is off and Hannah will die. He hangs up. Sonny tells a panicked Roy that he will get his men on it immediately and get the money in the works. He tells Roy he has to sit tight. Sonny tries to calm Roy down. Roy explains to Sonny that he is trained and cannot just sit there. Sonny says they have to wait. If they are exposed it could endanger Hannah and blow their whole plan. Bobbie leaves to go check out Hannah's room at Kelly's for any clues or signs that she was taken. Later Bobbie is in Hannah's room snooping around for clues. Taggert walks in and a defensive Bobbie wants to know what he is doing in her tenant's room. Taggert tells her that he is worried and hasn't seen her. After looking around he figures maybe she was going to see her father and didn't want him to know since he is the law and her pop is a fugitive. He knows Bobbie understands this since Roy is her boyfriend. She tells Taggert that she was looking for a book she loaned Hannah and doesn't see it. She asks Taggert to lock up when he leaves and she exits. Taggert follows her. Sonny asks Roy what his plans are when all this is over. Roy tells Sonny that he will breathe and then take Bobbie to Hawaii. He explains that is where they were supposed to go on their honeymoon. Bobbie arrives back at the brownstone and tells the duo she ran in to Taggert in Hannah's room. She thinks he could help because he really cares about Hannah. Sonny says no cops and no Taggert. Former Agent Ford calls on Roy's cell phone and says he may have a location for Larkin. Roy asks him to keep in touch just as Taggert barges in. He isn't surprised he says to see Bobbie having a tea party with a crime lord and a fugitive. Taggert tells the trio they better come clean or Roy goes back to the big house. Roy tells Taggert the whole story; he was framed by Larkin and is trying to get the goods on him so he can be free. They explain that Larkin has Hannah. He only wants $2million. The phone rings and it is Hannah and she wants to talk to Roy. She tells her dad that she is okay and that she thinks she is in some warehouse near the docks. She can't give him anymore clues. Larkin walks up behind her and grabs her. He throws the phone against the wall and breaks it. He tells his victim that Sonny needs to only think she is alive. At the Q mansion, Edward and Alan are in the library discusses ELQ. Ed is elated that the heat is off and he has his shares back from Jax. He reminds his son that he did it with no help from anyone. Alan tells Ed that he should give AJ's stock back to him because they are his birthright. Ed angrily tells Alan that if it had not been for AJ they wouldn't even be in this situation. Ed tells Alan he will not give his shares back to AJ. AJ is a traitor like Tracy, Ed says. Alan says he will not abandon his son even if it means giving AJ his stock to make him feel a part of the Q's. Monica walks in and tells Alan he cannot do that. Monica reminds Alan that they have to exercise tough love when it comes to AJ. AJ needs to take care of himself. Ed tells Alan they have spoiled him since the day he was born and that is why he cannot stand on his own two feet. Ed continues to rag on AJ when he walks in and kisses Lila. AJ asks his father if he wanted to see him. Alan says yes and he would like some privacy. Monica replies that he is her son too. Alan says please. He tells AJ that ELQ is out of danger and Jax sold all of his shares back to Ed. He wants to give his shares to AJ. AJ says thanks, but no thanks. There are more important things in the world besides a piece of paper saying you own something. People are dying he tells his dad. He suddenly looks haunted and tells Alan that he noticed the foyer has been cleaned up as if nothing happened. He also tells his dad that he doesn't want to meet there anymore. Alan tells AJ he needs to clean up. AJ tells Alan that he likes drinking and he isn't going to stop. He tells Alan that it isn't his fault though and walks out. Larkin is at his hiding place with Hannah. He is on his cell phone telling someone that if Sonny or Roy leave the brownstone he wants to know about it. When he hangs up Hannah tries to engage him in a "what if" conversation. She says she understands the lure of all the money, cars, boats and women. She wants to know what would have happened if the case had gone another way. Would Larkin have asked her out? Larkin wants to know what Hannah wants. Is she happy working at a desk job and living over a diner? She lived the good life with Sonny; doesn't she long for that? Hannah tells Larkin it was Sonny's world. He tries to entice her. She wants to know is he talking about sharing his $2 million? They lean in to each other and kiss passionately. Larkin pulls away and tells Hannah he knows she was in love with Sonny, because she is not that good of an actress. She tells Larkin to think about what he is doing. He is a kidnapper and adding all kinds of other crimes to his list. He says he is tired of being the good guy and never being rewarded and watching Sonny walk away every time. He tells Hannah he is finished.

June 8,2000

Jax asked Chloe about her dreams because she wrote in her journal about a dream in which he threatened to kill her. He told her that he is the last person he wants her to be afraid of. Chloe told Jax that she wasn't afraid of him and it was just a dream. He told her that he must have been doing something wrong for her to be dreaming of him in this way. She assured him that she loves him and trusts him very much. Jax told her that he loves her and would never do anything to hurt her. He would go to Europe that night to try and get the experimental drug that she needs. Mac served Felicia with divorce papers and a petition for full custody of their two girls. Felicia was both shocked and outrage by his lawsuit. He told her that he was just doing what is best for their girls and she responded by saying that he was just using the girls. She then asked him how long he would punish her for an affair she didn't have. She agreed to give Mac a divorce but added that she would win the custody battle. Felicia threatened that if he does not cease with his current behavior, she would make sure that he has nothing to do with the girls in the future. Maxie was very excited that Mac was suing for a divorce and custody of them. She told her mother and sister that it was about time that Mac came and got them to live with him. Liz and Nikolas discussed Lucky's conversation on the docks with Liz a few days ago. Liz explained to him that Lucky want Elizabeth and Nikolas to be together. Nikolas told her that she must have misunderstood and that Lucky is still the same person he was a year ago. Liz said that she has stopped pretending that Lucky doesn't want her anymore. As they continued their dialogue, a police officer dragged an eavesdropping Lucky out of his hiding place and told him that he had to come to the station for questioning. Liz and Nikolas were baffled by Lucky's behavior, but Nikolas offered to go to police station with Lucky. Lucky told him to stay and take care of Elizabeth. Sonny's men covered the docks in preparation for Hannah's rescue; while a worried Roy decided to take matters into his own hands and look for Hannah himself. He got a list from the retired Agent Ford that detail old warehouses converted to safe houses that the rogue Agent Larkin used frequently. As he was about to takeoff, Hannah called to give him Larkin's instructions. He has 24hrs to come up with the two million dollars and a subsequent phone call will let him know where the drop off location will be. Hannah begged her father not to comply and an angry Larkin hung up the phone. Hannah tried to escape by hitting Larkin over the head with a lead pipe, but she could not open the door. When she called her father, Larkin woke up, and told her she will pay for what she did. Luke came over to visit Bobbie and Roy came out to see him. Bobbie and Roy filled Luke in on what has transpired thus far, and also they told him of Hannah's abduction. Luke vehemently opposed their dependence on Sonny, he reminded them that Roy and Bobbie has more to lose than Sonny does. Roy and Bobbie thanked him for his concerned but they were willing to take their chances with Sonny. Mac apologized to Lucky for not discovering the scheme and saving him. He said that he would make it up by putting the people responsible behind bars. Mac asked Lucky about Helena and Stefan's involvement in his kidnapping. Lucky told Mac that Faison was responsible for the kidnapping and that he worked alone. He also continued his assertion that Helena saved him from Faison and Stefan did not have anything to do with his abduction. Mac decided that there were no legal grounds for continuing the investigation, so he will close the case. Laura and Luke were outraged and Luke threatened to kill Stefan while Mac listened on. Lucky told them that he is ready to put this last year behind him and move on with his life. So he was ready to sign his statement and leave. Laura told Lucky that she cannot totally let him go, but she will give him the space that he wants.

June 12,2000

Luke and Felicia awoke together, all snuggly and cuddly. She asked him how many rules he had in life. He said two, "Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're sleepy." She said she had 4000. They told each other sweet stories and giggled together. Felicia wondered if she should call home and check in with the girls, but soon she and Luke were swept up in another moment of fun and passion Laura and Nikolas talked about Stefan and what he did and didn't do wrong. Laura tried to divert the conversation to Nikolas and Elizabeth, but Nikolas would have nothing of it. Laura admitted that she did still have feelings for Stefan. As they started to leave, they wondered why the study lights were still on, but dismissed it. Alexis arrived at Chloe's to find her friend frantic over her latest nightmare concerning Stefan. She agreed to stay with her and keep her awake. Chloe anxiously asked if Alexis had seen Stefan. Jax called from Zurich and Chloe was glad to hear from him. Alexis and Chloe talked about whether or not Stefan would help Chloe get the drug she needed. Mrs Landsbury called Alexis to see if Alexis knew where Stefan was. Chloe looked like she'd seen a ghost as she heard Alexis' side of the conversation. After she hung up, Chloe told her, "Find him." Later, upset about her dream, Chloe phoned Ned. Helena gloated over Stefan's poisoned body as he lay there alive but unable to move. Andreas brutally kicked him in the side and Helena burned his fingers, but he did not react. Helena told Andreas she wanted a moment alone with him and then knelt beside him and said there was something she wanted to tell him. She informed him that no one loved him and he would die alone and cold, as he had lived. She told him what a wretched baby he had been, how he cried ceaselessly and only endured her, where Stavros had loved her with all his heart. She told him how much she wished Luke and Laura had killed him instead of Stavros. She lay beside and practically on him, stroking his face and telling him that she had never loved him, and wondered if she'd miss him...probably not, she decided. She kissed him gently on the lips and told him, "Good-bye, Dear Boy" and instructed Andreas to throw him overboard. When he returned, he found her pensive and she admitted she was feeling slightly melancholy. Sonny and Roy argued with Taggert about whether or not he should go on the rescue of Hannah. They got into the building where Larkin held her and Larkin's men let him know they were on the premises. A vengeful Larkin said that they needed a diversion. He kissed Hannah hard, then threw her over the ledge of the roof. While Roy took care of Larkin, Sonny hurried to the roof and pulled a terrified Hannah back up. Roy and Hannah were joyously reunited while Taggert prepared to take Larkin into custody. Roy and Sonny told Taggert that they had enough evidence to strike a deal with the FBI and a reluctant Taggert agreed to let Sonny have custody of Larkin for one night.

June 14,2000

Wednesday started off wonderfully. Sonny was being so marvelous to Carly. Who would have thought he could be so considerate to Carly? Sonny arranged for the nursery to be repainted today. Carly felt relieved by this changed. The two were talking with Bobbie and Roy arrived. Roy and Sonny had a date with the FBI. Carly became irritated by this news because she felt left out of Sonny's life. Sonny told her not to worry because it was all over today. Sonny kept his composure as he lessened Carly's anger. Roy and Sonny left. Bobbie said that she would stay at the penthouse and wait with Carly. Carly told her mom what an important step it was to get rid of the nursery because to change that room would change things for her and Sonny. Carly had seen Sonny lose control and felt helpless in being able to help Sonny through his grief. Bobbie told Carly she must give herself and Sonny time to heal and work through the pain. It will be a long process. Carly insisted that there was only one thing left to be done to be over the loss. Sonny and Roy awaited the visit of the FBI. Roy informed Sonny that he had to see Larkin for one last time. Roy looked at Larkin and informed him that his threats no longer had value. As a matter of fact, his threats now were signs of weakness. Roy was glad that Larkin would indeed suffer and experience the pain that he had felt all those lost years. There was a knock at the door. It was former Chief Ford and Supervising Agent Edwards. Sonny and Roy started to reveal Agent John Larkin's history of crime and back kick moneys. Initially Edwards did not believe them, until they brought out Larkin and the proof. But it was a deal package. Sonny wanted amnesty; Roy wanted freedom for himself and his daughter Hannah. Roy informed the FBI that they had to accept the deal in order to receive the evidence on Larkin. Edwards took a moment and discussed the deal with Ford and then agreed. Sonny and Roy were glowing with success. Roy said we are free and gave a sigh of relief. Sonny indicated that freedom is not an option available, but Roy, however, is free to do what ever he wants. Carly still needing someone to blame started in on AJ. Bobbie told Carly to put AJ out of her mind. The only important people on her mind should be herself, Michael, and Sonny. The phone rang at the Penthouse. Carly answered. It was Sonny letting her know that all was clear and free. She asked him to rush home. Bobbie asked about Roy, but Carly said that Sonny did not mention him. Carly told Bobbie she was fine and to go ahead and look for Roy. Sonny returned and Carly congratulated him. She said, you do not like unfinished business. He said that is true. Carly was being quite odd with her conversation about Larkin. Sonny changed the subject and said that Carly and Michael come first with him. Sonny reiterated that he will give them whatever they need. Sonny again mentioned to Carly that he does not want business coming into his home with her and Michael. Sonny asked had they been to the park. Carly said of course not because they were waiting on him. Sonny said let's go then. Mac arrived at Felicia's house to talk to her about the girls. She questioned him about their conversation yesterday. She asked if he was still of the same mindset and not going to sue her for custody of the girls. Mac confirmed. Mac asked about summer vacation. Felicia told him of her plan to take the girls away to a dude ranch in Colorado for the summer. She wanted to re bond with the girls alone with out the tension in Port Charles. Mac was being pretty wonderful too on this Wednesday. He agreed that would be good for the girls. He told her good luck and then returned to work. Felicia then went to visit Luke who was expecting Alexis. Luke was so happy to see Felicia. Felicia asked about his bag and getaway. Luke informed her that he was the number one suspect for the disappearance of Stefan. Felicia told him he was safe because he was with her all night. That is exactly why I am leaving, Luke informed her because we cannot jeopardize your reunion with the girls. Luke went on to say that Mac overheard Luke threatening to kill Stefan the other day and was taking full advantage of the situation. Luke provided Felicia with reassurance regarding her impending trip with the girls. And of course, they shared one of their passionate kisses before Felicia left. It is so obvious now that these two will have a hard road to travel in order to be together. Poor Chloe, she really was suffering in every way. If it is not the headaches then it is most certainly the dreams. Chloe decided to talk to Tony about the dreams. She expressed her concern about the content, but also indicated that she now thought her dreams were psychic experiences. Chloe asked if there was any medical documentation about these types of events. He replied in a medical and scientific way. Tony said there is some information about precognitive experiences. But for sure she should follow her instincts and find out what it means in terms of her illness. Ned arrived at the Hospital to inform Chloe that Alexis had been unsuccessful in her search to locate Stefan. Then Ned proceeded to tell Chloe that she needed to tell Mac about her dreams. She agreed. Ned and Chloe arrived at Mac's office to reveal that she may have seen Stefan's murder in her dream. Chloe told the story that she saw Stefan being poisoned and then he came to her a second time walking toward her grasping for air and help. Mac did not believe her until Taggert arrived with the forensic report indicating that there were traces of poison in Luke's safe. Mac has Luke brought to his office for questioning. Luke was of course resistant in his normal way. Mac asked the question where was he last night. Luke, really not wanting to answer and protect Felicia, does not answer. Mac informed Luke that he was under arrest for the murder of Stefan. Roy entered General Hospital as a man with a mission, to find Bobbie. He arrived on her floor and she quickly ran to embrace him. Roy told Bobbie their lives were just starting. Roy asked Bobbie for one week of her undivided time for their long awaited trip to Hawaii. Bobbie's eyes were sparkling as the two embraced and kissed.

June 15,2000

Nikolas took over some of Lucy Coe's responsibilities for the Nurse's Ball due to the difficulties Lucy is experiencing in her personal life. One of his duties was to gather the orders for the tickets, a task that brought him to the Quartermaine mansion. When AJ told Nikolas to put him down for a ticket, Edward yelled "over my dead body." He said that he did not want to be embarrassed by AJ and that he has a feeling that something terrible will happen if AJ goes to the ball. Edward threatened to boycott the Nurse's Ball if AJ goes to it. Lila warned him that if the family including AJ were not present at the Ball, Edward would be sleeping in the guestroom. When all the Quartermaine commotion was going on, Nikolas received a call to come to Commissioner Scorpio's office immediately. Emily went to visit Elizabeth and promptly noticed that something was wrong. When she asked her about it, Liz responded by asking her if she has noticed any romantic expressions between Nikolas and her. Emily said no and Liz explained that Lucky keeps trying to push her towards Nikolas despite her adamant declaration of her love for him. Emily told Liz that she would get to the bottom of the bizarre behavior. Lucky got a room at Jake's and asked Jake not to tell his parents that he is living there. Lucky then contacted Helena and to let her know of his whereabouts. Lucky also called Emily, who came to visit him in his new living quarters. Emily asked him why he was treating Liz like he doesn't love her and Lucky said that he could tell that Nikolas is in love with Elizabeth. Emily asked him if he could look her in the eye and tell her that he did not love Liz anymore and he couldn't do it. Instead he insisted that he has changed over the last year and things can't be the same. Emily said if he doesn't love Liz anymore then tell her so she can move on with her life. And if he also means it, then he should stop looking at her the way he does. After 12 hours in jail, Luke was brought in to see Mac, who informed him that he was going to be charged with the murder of Stefan Cassadine. A vile of poison was found in Luke's safe. Coupled with the notation of a meeting with Luke on Stefan's calendar on the Friday night in question, Luke seemed to have motive and means for murder. Roy and Bobbie plans to depart for Hawaii was interrupted by a phone call from Luke. Luke asked his sister for her help in getting a lawyer and she went to visit him at the station. Roy came to visit Luke, ...and to help him escape. When Nikolas arrived, the commissioner questioned him as to Stefan's whereabouts. When he responded that he did not know, Mac told him that Alexis filled a missing person's report on Stefan last Friday. Nikolas asked if they had arrested Helena and Mac responded that Luke not Helena was their prime suspect. Nikolas filled Laura in on what was going on with regards to Stefan and Luke. Nikolas became irritated when it appeared that Laura appeared more concerned about Luke than his missing uncle. Laura quickly assured him that Luke did not murder Stefan, and Nikolas asked her how she is so certain of that. Laura couldn't answer but she told him that they would find out. Laura and Lesley Lu wen to visit Liz at her art studio. Laura asked her if she was spending time with Lucky and she responded that Lucky acts as though she doesn't exist. She said that she was beginning to think that there was no hope for them and that she should just do what he says and leaves him alone. Laura begged Liz not to give up on Lucky because she may be their last hope in reuniting with Lucky. Lucky came to Liz's studio and apologized for trying to push her together with Nikolas. He continued to look at her with great affection as they talked.

June 16,2000

Lucky told Elizabeth that he gets mad when his parents tell him how to feel, so he has no right to tell her how she should feel about Nikolas. Liz told him that she understands that he has been through a lot this past year and she still loves him. She also told him she meant her vows to him and he needs to stop thinking and feel instead. She asked Lucky what she did to lose his trust and faith in her, and Lucky replied that he does trust her. He told her that he believes her when she says she loves him. She is like a light to him that is so warm and comforting, but when he gets close to her, he slams into some invisible force. Elizabeth asked him if there was a wall between them now, and he kissed her. As they were kissing, a frantic Nikolas burst into Liz's studio. Nikolas shared the news concerning Stefan's disappearance and/or murder and Luke's arrest. Luke began asking some questions concerning the circumstance of his father's arrest and Nikolas got irate. Nikolas screamed at Lucky for defending Luke and pointed out that Luke had threatened Stefan in front of Lucky that Friday. Lucky left to go to the police station in search of some answers and Nikolas turned his anger on Liz. He yelled that he was sick and tired of hearing about what Lucky needs. The man he has known as a father is missing and/or dead and no one seems to care. Mac was upset that Luke was able to escape from custody, but was happy that Luke's escape further implicates him in Stefan's murder. Mac asked Felicia if she knew about Luke's plans and she told him no. Mac then asked Felicia to promise him that she would inform him if Luke contacted her, and she did not have a chance to respond because they were interrupted. A worried Laura defended Luke vigorously and told Mac that they were still not sure that Stefan was murdered, so he should not use his badge to get revenge. Mac in return, asked Laura why Luke would escape from jail if he weren't guilty. Roy took Luke to the safe house where he has been hiding in order to buy Luke time to come up with a plan. Luke asked Roy for a couple of fake ID's and enough money to escape to Switzerland. Roy then took Felicia to see Luke, who was happy to see her. Felicia told Luke that she suspects that Mac is setting him up to get revenge and she has to go tell him the truth about their alibi for Friday night. Luke refused Felicia's help and told her to stay out of it. Besides, he added, he wants her to have time to get her kids back and work out her feelings. Taggert came upon Carly and Sonny, who took Michael out for some ices, and told Sonny that the Commissioner instructed him to bring him in for questioning. Carly immediately came to Sonny's defense, but Sonny told her that he would be fine and that she should go home with Michael till he gets back. When Sonny and Taggert left, an apologetic AJ suddenly appeared. He told her that he was concerned about her and had thought about her everyday. Carly accused AJ of attempting to kill her and the baby, and she also asked him if he was happy with the result. A provoked AJ replied that it is just a matter of time till he gets Michael from Sonny and Carly. A scared Carly told AJ that she would do anything it takes to keep him away from Michael. She said that she wished she had listened to Sonny when he warned her to stay away from AJ because he was dangerous. She thought he was harmless, but obviously she confused harmless with spineless. She then added that AJ belongs at the bottom of a river. At the police station, Mac accused Sonny of helping Luke escape, and Sonny explained that he had not seen Luke in weeks, nor did he even know that Luke was arrested. After listening to Sonny, Mac realized that Sonny had no idea of what was going on, so he let him leave. Mac concluded that one of his officers must have accepted a bribe form Luke and that he will figure out who it is. When Sonny returned, Carly told him what happened at the docks when he left and asked him to kill AJ. Sonny replied that the damage it would do to Michael is not worth it. He was not willing for Michael to hurt Michael that way. He does want Michael to look at them and think of them as his father's murderers. Carly did not appear appeased by the answer but let it go. As Stefan was getting a massage, Nikolas was grieving and reminiscing about their last couple of times together arguing. An upset Lucky ran into Helena at the docks and told her she should be the one getting investigated for this crime. She called out his name and told him to " always remember to protect your queen", and the zombie Lucky reappeared. Nikolas hid in the shadows as he witnessed the whole scene.

Tape #22

June 19,2000

Sonny was disinterested in attending the Nurse's Ball, but Carly convinced him that she really wanted to go and that he owed an appearance to the cause since he had made such an incredible donation. He finally agreed that they would attend and she hurried off to buy a new dress to wear. When she returned, she showed him the purse she had purchased to wear with the dress and told him it would "hold all of her stuff." After he went upstairs, she murmured to herself that it would be plenty big enough. Hannah turned down AJ's invitation to be his date for the Nurse's Ball, saying she thought she already had a date. AJ moved on to Bobbie, trying to win her sympathy for wanting to see his son. Bobbie was having nothing of it and after smacking him down a couple of times, she told him he'd better be gone when she got back from the kitchen. Taggert met Hannah at Kelly's and she let him know that she wanted to dance with him, so he invited her to the Nurse's Ball and she accepted. In Paris, Stefan gleefully read of Luke's arrest, while Nikolas intervened between Helena and Lucky, demanding that his grandmother leave his brother alone. Helena professed her innocence and feigned grief for Stefan's death. After she left, Lucky asked if Nikolas now thought Luke was innocent and Nikolas confessed that he hoped Luke was not guilty. He also warned Lucky that he should not be hanging around Helena. Roy took Laura to the safe house to see Luke, but found he had already left and Felicia was there, weeping to her memories of Luke. Laura got smart with her, saying she was surprised Felicia hadn't dumped her kids and followed Luke again. Felicia got back in her face, telling her that she didn't know Luke at all. Laura called her a bitch rather vehemently and Roy had to separate the two women. After Felicia stormed away, Laura collapsed into tears as Roy comforted her, reassuring her that Luke had not killed Stefan. After Helena's repair on the brainwashing, telling Lucky that Nikolas and Elizabeth must be together, Lucky went to Elizabeth and told her they could only ever be friends. This confused her greatly. Wyndemere was buzzing as Chloe and Ned arrived so that Chloe could look around the premises and see if she recognized anything from her dream. Mr. Landsbury was reluctant to let them look around, but Alexis arrived and gave them permission. She began going through the business papers for the estate and Nikolas arrived. He talked with her about Stefan's death and his fear that it would come between him and Lucky. Later, Laura also arrived and Alexis laid into her for being what provoked Luke to kill Stefan with her affairs with the man. She told Laura that she had only used Stefan when she needed him and that she had cruelly dumped him when she had no longer required his services. Mac encountered Felicia and asked that she let him know if Luke contacts her. He also sought out her reassurance that she would not be going after him or leaving the girls again and she promised she wouldn't.

June 20,2000

Sonny and Carly are at the penthouse and she is in the midst of shoe issues. She doesn't like either of the pairs she had picked out for her dress. She needs to run out and get some new ones. Sonny reminds her the Nurses' Ball is in a few hours and she doesn't have time. She reminds Sonny what an excellent shopper she is. She will be right back she tells him. After Carly leaves, Mike arrives to borrow some cufflinks from his classy son for the ball. He is surprised that Carly and Sonny are going to the ball. He wonders if it is too soon, but Sonny assures his pop he is doing it for Carly. He tells Mike it is the first thing she has seemed interested in since they lost the baby. Sonny goes upstairs to get the cufflinks for his pop. When he comes back down and gives them to Mike, Mike admits that it was really just an excuse to check up on him. He wonders if Sonny shouldn't be thinking more of himself. Carly comes home and overhears them talking outside the door. She hears Sonny tell Mike that he is only going for her and really has no desire to get dressed up and go through the motions. Carly walks in and says she is sorry for the interruption. Mike apologizes to Carly for their last exchange and genuinely tells her he did not mean to cause her more pain. He tells them he hopes he sees them at the ball. After Mike leaves, Carly tells Sonny they don't have to go. Sonny wants to know what is up and was she eavesdropping. She tries to say no, but you can see it all over her face. Why didn't Sonny just come clean with her if he didn't want to go? Sonny says hey if she can rally so can he. Besides, he will do it for Stone. She tells Sonny she is going to spend a little bit of time with Michael before they have to go and goes upstairs. Carly brings Michael downstairs and tells him that they have to go out and it is for a good cause. She is trying to peel an orange for a hungry Michael. Sonny comes down and tells her she better step on it or they will be late. She hands Michael to Sonny and goes upstairs. Sonny continues to peel the orange for Michael as Carly looks on lovingly. Bobbie is at the brownstone with Roy and wants to know if there is any info that he can tell her about Luke. Roy says not really and Bobbie goes on about how unfair Mac is being especially since there is no body! She tells Roy that she has gotten something for him and presents him with a tux she rented for the Nurses' Ball. He apologizes for having to cancel Maui and she assures him he can make it up to her by going to the Nurses' Ball. Bobbie fills Roy in on the importance of the ball. He tells her he will be happy to write a check but he doesn't exactly do the ball thing. He says he is concerned about her reputation too. Should she show up with a brother on the lam and an ex-con for a boyfriend? Bobbie says that after last year it has to be an improvement. He wants to know what happened last year and she won't tell him about her televised romp with Jerry on video for all to see. Bobbie tells Roy that Lucas is at Betty's all night (she is some baby-sitter). They are smooching and this is obviously going some where. After they have made love Bobbie reminds Roy the value of the ball. Is this blackmail? Bobbie reminds Roy that Hannah is going and she would probably love to dance with her handsome dad in a tux. Roy tells Bobbie that is so lame of an excuse. Bobbie comes down later dressed to kill for the ball. She tells Roy that she had to ask another doctor at the hospital who is handsome and Irish. Roy grabs the tux and makes a dash to get dressed. Bobbie is thrilled with her shenanigans. AJ is dining al fresco at Kelly's when Hannah arrives with quite a few packages. He asks her if she will change her mind about the ball. No, she has already told him she will be going with Taggert. AJ wonders why Taggert and Hannah are going at all when they should be looking for Luke. AJ wants one dance and tells Hannah to save one for him. He grabs her hand and gives her a flower from the table. Hannah says she has to go or she won't be able to dance with anyone. After she leaves, AJ makes a call on his cell phone and says he needs to change his table arrangements for the ball. Later at the Q manse, AJ and Ed are about to get dressed for the ball and Ed wants a word with his grandson. He better not be his usual drunken self. AJ says he will do what is natural. Ed tells AJ he wants no scenes with Carly and Sonny as Alan comes down the stairs. AJ wants to make a toast. Exactly a year ago he was appointed CEO of ELQ. He wants to toast to freedom. He is free from Carly, ELQ and Ed. He is now going to find out what makes him happy. Ed is disgusted and threatens that AJ better not do anything to disappoint Lila and storms out. Alan reminds his boy that he needs to live for himself and not the shock factor of the Q's. AJ tells his dad that is what he is doing. Emily comes down the stairs at Kelly's to find Juan at the counter. What is he doing and why is he not getting ready for the ball? Juan says he thinks there is something wrong with his throat. He tells Em he was messing up in rehearsal and he doesn't think he can go on. Em tells Juan it is probably just stage fright. Juan reminds Emily that when he performed the last time it was in front of strangers. This time it is front of people he knows. What if he screws up? Emily offers her support. Amy is already at the ball minding Lucy when Tony arrives with his gear and is trying to avoid Lucy. Amy says she is trying to do the same thing just as Lucy shouts for Amy's immediate attention. Liz and Nik arrive and Amy wants to know if there has been any recent news on Stefan's whereabouts. Nik replies no and that being there keeps his mind off of it. Liz and Nik continue to mill around the behind the scenes ball festivities and he talks about how much Stefan meant to him and that Stefan would want him there. Liz reminds him if it is too much they should blow it off. No, Nik wants to stay and represent his uncle. Lucy is freaking in her pre-ball mode when Mac stops by. He hasn't heard anything about Christina, but he did put Scott in touch with the police in South America. She is thrilled and thanks Mac as Kevin walks up. He wants to know if there has been any news. No, but Lucy fills him in. Kevin stopped by to bring Lucy's jewels from Charlene. They all hug as Lucy tells them everything will be great and normal. She shifts back into mode and begins freaking about her hair and shouts for Amy and runs off. Mac tells Kevin he is trying to abide by the whole make Felicia a more competent mom thing for the sake of the girls. He tells him he has to go get Robin because she has flown in for the event. Mac hasn't filled Robin in on what is going on because he didn't want any pressure on either side. He says by to Kev and that they will be sitting at the same table. Back to the freaking Lucy and thank God for Kevin. Lucy wonders if she can give it her all. Kevin reminds her she will do what she has done every year before and it will be great. She wants to know why Kev is always around when she needs him. Laura answers the door at home to Lucky. He wants to see Lulu. Laura informs her estranged son that Lulu is at a friend's house. Lucky then starts to give his mom the third degree about what she is telling Lulu about where their father is. Laura answers that she is telling Lulu the truth. Lucky reminds his mom that he heard Luke's threats to Stefan. Laura tells her son that Luke didn't do it and that he only ran because he doesn't trust law enforcement. She tells Lucky that after the fire they tried to trust law enforcement and look what happened then. She apologizes again for Lucky not knowing where they were. Lucky asks his mom if she ever walks outside of her delusions or if she is just too scared. (He is a brat) Laura tells Lucky that if Stefan is dead it was Helena who did it. She tells Lucky that Helena will have an alibi too. Lucky is frustrated and tells his mom that she and Luke always try to suck him in. Do they know how screwed up they are? He is only back because Lulu needs one person who is honest. (What a brat) Lucky reminds his mom that in all her defense of Luke, she shouldn't forget about Nik and leaves. Later at his room, Lucky answers the door to his brother. Nik wants to know what is up and Lucky asks if he thinks Luke killed Stefan. Nik says he doesn't know but if he did he wants him to spend the rest of his life locked up. He starts to cry as he tells Nik that Stefan loved him and would never not say goodbye to him and that is how he knows he is gone. He reminds Lucky how much his parents love him, even Luke. Nik tells his brother that this year he isn't going to think about what he has lost, but that he has his brother back. Lucky tells him anytime big brother. Nik likes the sound of this and tells Lucky thanks little brother and touches him on the cheek. The ball is in the final stages and Let's Groove tonight is playing as we see everyone on their way out the door. It is great. The first couple is Bobbie and Roy out the brownstone door. Next an awesome looking Taggert is thrilled with Hannah's ensemble as they head out of Kelly's. At the Q's, AJ takes a quick swig with no one the wiser. They watch Monica descend down the stairs and are out the door. Chloe, Ned and Alexis are at the Jax penthouse, sans Jax. They all head out the door and are looking great. At the ball, the guests begin arriving and taking their seats. Lucy is ready and heads for the stage. The curtain goes up and she welcomes her guests. She promises an entertaining evening and reminds everyone that the Nurses' Ball doesn't disappoint. Carly is putting a gun in her purse from the desk drawer. Sonny comes down and tells her she looks gorgeous and is she still sure she wants to go? She says thanks and she is sure. She tells Sonny that she is actually looking forward to it.

June 21,2000

The day started off with Lucy's speech about continuing the important fight against AIDS. The Nurses' Ball is so important because it raises money and awareness for General Hospital's AIDS' programs. The Ball was underwritten by Stefan Cassadine. Lucy thanked him and Nikolas made quite a moving speech on Stefan's behalf. Robin returned today to accompany Mac to the Ball. She was welcomed by all except Carly. As you know they have this love/hate relationship going on, and on and on and on . . . . . Robin went over to Sonny to say hello. Sonny was pleased to see her and began asking questions about how she was doing. Robin informed him that her health is good and she had decided to complete school and go for her medical degree. Sonny congratulated her. Next Robin proceeded to ask about Jason. Sonny told Robin to ask Emily instead because he and Jason were no longer in contact. Robin looked astonished. As they were speaking, Carly walked over to Sonny and said, Honey don't you think we should get back to our table? (Yes, Carly said this in front of Robin.) And to put the frosting on the cake, Carly kissed Sonny affectionately too during her inquiry. Of course Sonny said good bye to Robin and returned the table with Carly. Robin stood in awe. A little while later the girls, Carly and Robin had another encounter this time alone. Carly informed Robin that she and Sonny were getting married. Carly continued to berate Robin, as usual and with the pet names St. Robin and Princess. Sonny intervened, in a calm fashion, to stop these two prior to them making a scene. Robin then asked Sonny how can he be with Carly. Robin told Sonny she had lost all respect for him. Sonny replied and said there are many things that she does not know. Robin walked away. Carly told Sonny to go ahead and yell at her for taunting Robin because she knows he will, but she will not apologize because she was not sorry. Sonny looked at Carly and said, I was not going to yell at you, I just wanted to know how you were doing. Lucky Spencer did change his mind and attended the Ball. He seemed happy, but these days it is so very hard to determine if he is ever really happy or just under Helena's spell. After her performance, Elizabeth found Lucky on the terrace and invited him to sit with their common friends. Lucky actually agreed (I was shocked!) Before he was seated, however, he immediately went to Helena to say hello. Nikolas seeing him immediately got up and rescued him for the second time. With all his brotherly love, he told Lucky to stay away from Helena because she was dangerous. AJ was in rare form today. He just was so annoyed to see Carly content on any level; he just has to be miserable. AJ invited Taggert and Hannah to the Quartermaine's table just to irritate his grandfather. Then, Lucy called Carly up on stage to thank her for her kindness and donation to the Children's AIDS Charity (it was money that Sonny donated in her name). Needless to say Carly was shocked when she heard her name spoken. Sonny then tells her he did this wonderful thing on her behalf. As Carly walked to the stage, AJ antagonizes her by taunting her. Carly almost did not make it up on stage, but she re-gathered herself and kept walking. She was very shy but did indicate that it is our job as adults to protect all the children. It really and truly looked that Carly was going to loose it, but she held it together long enough to leave stage gracefully and without incident. During Robin's speech about AIDS and our responsibility, AJ leaves the Ball and shortly thereafter Carly does too. Is this going from bad to worse or what? Carly finds him on the terrace and told AJ to say good-bye, I am about to do to you what you did to my son. Carly is holding a gun and pointing it at AJ's chest. The Performances at the Ball: 1st number was performed by Juan Santiago, Emily Quartermaine, and Elizabeth Webber. They performed a very cute and playful Footloose with dancing and singing. 2nd number was performed by Eddie Mane (a.k.a. Ned Ashton). Of course he was in those tight black leather pants and singing Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible. Yes, he had the girls too with short dresses and fishnet stockings. 3rd number was performed by Lucy Coe, Alan Quartermaine, and Tony Jones. They did a real blues jazzy rendition of Hey Good Lookin.' They were being a little fictitious, but their performance was very entertaining. 4th number was an audience participation piece. Emily and Juan led the singing of Lean on Me with help from Robin, Lucy, and the audience (at times). It was moving. Also, Robin did give a speech about AIDS, responsibility. Also, know that Education is the greatest weapon against AIDS. Outfits: --Lucy's first outfit was the best on her. She really looked good in the shiny blue pants suit with a long flowered covered sheer jacket attached at the waist. This outfit was very attractive and it looked good on Lucy. --Lucy's second outfit was alike a lot of scarves wrapped around her body. This was not really attractive on her. --Lucy's third outfit -- was a lime crush velvet dress with chains as the sleeves. This outfit was not very appealing on her either. --Lucy's fourth outfit was a bronze shiny spaghetti strapped dress with length about to the knee. She also wore this dress during her Hey Good Lookin' performance. It was a classic type of dress and it did look good. --Lucy's fifth outfit was shiny, sparkly, and beautiful. It was a full-length dress that was sexy and beautiful on her. --Sonny and Carly looked good together. Sonny looked very debonair (just gorgeous). Carly looked good in her black bodice and white bottom with black spotted gown. But the hairdo was definitely not her best. It was straight with a flip curl up and it was not attractive on her particularly. -- Chloe and Ned looked very elegant. I really like those two together. Chloe had on this wonderful gold lame gown with halter-top front and very low back. Ned was classic in his nicely cut suit. -- Amy was there too. Her dress was full length and black. For her, she did well for it was simple yet elegant. -- Robin was in a strapless gown that was navy blue (another simple dress) --Hannah and Taggert looked happy together. Hannah was in a very shiny silvery dress with spaghetti straps. Taggert looked cool and mellow himself in a black tux. --Bobbie and Roy as always complemented each other nicely. Roy was in an all black suit from the pants, shirt, tie, and jacket. Bobbie wore a black slip dress covered with a lace.

June 26,2000

Sonny forgave Carly for slapping him, and she expressed to him her fear that she is losing her mind. Sonny promised Carly that he would help her get past her pain, and the two eventually made love. Back in Port Charles, Roy and Bobbie anticipated an intimate evening together until Tony and Lucas caught them in a compromising position. After her confrontation with Helena, an emotional Laura wound up at Jake's, where Mac once again bailed her out of trouble. Chloe had a disturbing dream about Laura and Stefan, and Ned realized the garden from Chloe's dream is actually at Wyndemere. Chloe paid a visit to Wyndemere but was caught by a suspicious Helena. Stefan came up with a plan to foil Helena, while Laura made a pass at Mac. Hannah was angered when AJ compromised a case she was investigating, but he later charmed her into forgiving him.

June 27,2000

Tony and Lucas walk into the brownstone and in on Bobbie and Roy frolicking. Tony explains that Lucas forgot his homework. Lucas wants to know who Roy is and wasn't he there before when Mommy almost married Jerry? Bobbie says yes to Lucas that Roy was at the almost wedding and that they were playing around. Tony tells Lucas to go upstairs and look for his homework and tells Bobbie he wants to talk to her alone. Roy leaves and Tony tells Bobbie that he wants to make sure this is a healthy relationship for Lucas to be around. Bobbie says Tony should have called and he agrees, but also points out this is not the first time this has happened. Lucas shouts down that he can't find his book and Bobbie goes up to help. Roy comes back in the room and Tony says they should talk. Tony says he knows that Roy is the love of Bobbie's life, but given his past record he thinks they should continue their affair away from Lucas and that house. Roy tells Tony that it isn't his call to make. It is Bobbie's call and Roy is following her lead. He tells Tony to take it up with Bobbie. Lucas and Bobbie come downstairs and Tony tells her he will call her in the morning before he drops Lucas off and they leave. Roy and Bobbie continue to go over the whole scene. He wonders if he is the kind of influence Bobbie needs on her son or in her life. Bobbie tells him the only thing that really matters is that he loves her and she loves him. They kiss passionately. Taggert and AJ are outside Kelly's and Taggert wants to get some things straight. He tells AJ that he has seen the damage he does and he won't stand for it with Hannah. Hannah is a fixer Taggert explains and AJ is a screw up. Taggert says he will save Hannah from AJ. AJ taunts Taggert and tells Taggert that Hannah needs saving from him. Taggert says he can't believe AJ thinks Hannah needs saving from him. AJ explains to Taggert that he knows he is only interested in Hannah because she is Sonny's ex. Taggert tells her that isn't true and that he finds one tear on Hannah he will give AJ what he thinks he has been looking for his whole life, a beating. Taggert continues to tell AJ that the one near miss he had with his wreck lets Taggert know he is dangerous. He tells AJ it will happen again and he doesn't want Hannah hurt. He tells AJ that if he cares for her he will leave her alone. AJ tells Taggert he doesn't want to leave her alone and that if she wants to save AJ, he might just let her and walks off. Taggert tells someone it is safe to come out and Hannah comes from the side of Kelly's. Taggert tells Hannah that her eavesdropping needs work. He wants to know why she just doesn't let AJ's family handle his situation. Hannah tells him that family isn't the cure all. He says in his experience people like her who are fixers are usually avoiding something in their own lives that needs tending too. Hannah says she is not a fixer and if she was, why hasn't she tried to fix him? He says he doesn't need fixing and they laugh. He kisses her and the beepers go off. It is Taggert's and it is work. He leaves. Laura and Mac are at Jake's and Laura is coming on to Mac. She tells him that she isn't looking for love she just wants to be held. Mac hugs her and they almost kiss, but Mac pulls away. Laura apologizes and Mac tells her she is beautiful but that if they were to let anything happen it would just further complicate their lives. She agrees. She tells Mac how she had everything with Luke and she is sure he had it with Felicia but it just must not have been enough. Mac tells Laura he won't take the blame for his failed marriage and Laura says that she won't discount her marriage as a mistake. Mac wants to know if she can forgive him if he is a murderer. Laura pleads Luke's case and says there are reasons for all his behaviors. Mac tells Laura she needs to face the truth. Laura tells Mac that his jealousy is clouding his judgment and he should take himself off the case. He reminds Laura that Luke doesn't even have an alibi (yes he does your wife). Mac tells Laura that she deserves better and she says so does he. He offers to walk Laura to her car and they leave Jake's together. Emily and Liz are sharing a shake at Kelly's and Emily is pouring her heart out to Liz about Juan's fans. The girls are always after him and Allison Barrington is flirting with him every time she turns around. Em is worried about this party that Allison invited him to and says she has to go just to keep an eye on him. Liz reminds her galpal that Juan hasn't given her a reason not to trust him. No, Juan hasn't given Em a reason to doubt him, but she is worried that Juan is ready for the next step and she is unsure. She further explains that other girls may be ready. She is afraid that if she doesn't do it soon she will miss her chance. Liz says that she knows how that is since she missed her chance with Lucky. Liz tells Em that maybe had she been with Lucky before he left that some connection might have helped them find their way back quicker. Lucky walks in and wants to know what is up? Em and Liz look busted and Em excuses herself. She tells Liz that on her way out that maybe she should ask Lucky his opinion on the matter they were discussing previously. Liz and Lucky laugh nervously. They share a shake and Lucky starts to open up. He tells her that when he was away he would've killed for a shake. He also tells her that he couldn't let on to the guards what and who really mattered to him. Liz says it is time to close up and Lucky asks if he can help. Liz says sure turn the lights off. Lucky switches them off and smiles. Liz and Lucky continue to clean up Kelly's and he continues to bug her about what the two girls were talking about. She says no way. He goes to the jukebox and plays their song. She tells Lucky how she used to play it and imagine that he was there dancing with her the way they used too. He asks her if she wants to dance and she says yes. They seem so happy and Lucky has her in a tight hug as they dance. Stefan is talking to one of his henchmen and tells him that he needs to point Helena in another direction or she might suspect he isn't really dead. The henchman asks if he has to go back to Port Charles. Stefan says that no he will initiate it from there. Stefan makes a call and impersonates Helena's lawyer. He tells the person on the other end that his client wants to know what is going on with the investigation into his clients' beloved son's death. Later Stefan is in bed with some blonde and tells her that if his plan is working then Mac should be at Helena's. She wants to know if this happens if all his problems will be over. No, he tells her and kisses her passionately. (They all have passion) Helena and Chloe are in the garden at Wyndemere on the bench. Chloe tells Helena she knows Stefan was poisoned. Helena is curious how she knows. Chloe says that Alexis told her and that they had a clue. Helena tells Chloe she should be furious with Luke for killing her son, but he is such a charmer. Helena tells Chloe that she is sure that Luke has charmed her too the way he charms everyone else. Helena continues to mess with Chloe's head and tells her how much they have in common. They both are blonde, beautiful and have an incredible sense of style; not to mention well traveled. She also tells her that they could eventually have one man in common (Jax). Chloe says she has to leave before she is sick and exits the garden quickly. She leaves Helena with only her twisted smile. AJ goes to Jake's to try to get more information from the bartender Phil for Hannah's case. He offers Phil money and Phil isn't interested. Jake comes up and tells AJ not to bother her people. AJ says he will pay and he will even bet Jake $300 that the next person who comes through the door is a cop. He says that if he wins he gets to ask Phil a couple of questions. Just then, Dara walks in and AJ declares a victory. When Dara approaches them, AJ tells Dara to tell Jake what she does. Dara tells Jake she is an ADA. AJ says an officer of the court and Jake takes the money. After Jake leaves, Dara wants to know what AJ called her down for. He said he wanted her to help him break up Hannah and Taggert. Dara said AJ is on his own and leaves in a huff. On Helena's yacht, Mac arrives to update Helena on Stefan's case. He tells her he won't tell her how sorry he is because he knows how Helena feels about Stefan. Helena wants to know why Mac thinks Luke killed Stefan now? Mac says because Stefan threatened Lucky. Helena asks if this is true and Mac says he doesn't think so, but he does think Luke did it and he does think he has the right man. Mac leaves. Andreas walks in and Helena tells him that Stefan is dead and Mac is setting up Luke. A very jealous police commissioner she adds is doing her work. She wants Andreas to run a bath for two because she feels like celebrating. She retires and Andreas retrieves a CD from a desk and slips it into his pocket. At Jax's penthouse, Ned and Alexis are waiting for Chloe. She comes in and asks immediately what scenario is worse: Her dreams being real or Helena thinking they have everything in common? Ned and Alexis are completely dismayed that Chloe went there alone. She says she couldn't get the vision out of her head. She tells them how Helena said they had all of these things in common, especially Jax. Chloe wants to know if they think Jax is in any danger? Should she call and alert him? Ned tells Chloe that he thinks she shouldn't bother Jax in case he is making progress with the drug company. Alexis agrees. Ned tells Chloe that if her dreams are true then he thinks she is the one in danger, not Jax.

Tape#23

June 28,2000

Edward was excited because he was planning a family dinner party. Of course Edward was expecting everyone to attend. But Emily had other plans for Friday. She looked very perplexed as she thought how to get out of this family dinner on Friday. Emily came up with a plan and used Elizabeth as an alibi. Emily told her grandparents that she promised Elizabeth she would spend the night at her house to help her deal with rejection from Lucky. Lila quickly aided Emily with Edward and Emily made a quick exit. Both Edward and Lila knew that Emily wanted to be with Juan Friday night. Lucky actually made a brief appearance at Luke's (yes it was surprising until you saw what he came to get). Lucky entered Luke's office and proceeded right to his safe. At first I thought it was money he wanted, but actually Lucky wanted to obtain his fake passport which states that he is 21. Roy interrupted his maneuver and asked him was he going on a trip or running away. Lucky replied that he was not running away, but trying to stay as far away from him parents as possible. Again Lucky went on about the lies his parents tell. Roy tried to offset that by mentioning how good friends he is with Luke and Laura and how he has known them since running the college disco with Luke. Lucky was surprised by this, but wondered if Roy knew about the rape. Lucky brought up the rape, but Roy tried to play it cool and not jump off the handle. Roy did not know about the rape, but he did still plug in good mentions and offered to give Lucky a job while his dad was away. Mike was on his gambling kick again. He sat at Kelly's counter talking to Tammy about his gambling and how he wants to show her the best time because she deserves it. Tammy informed Mike that she wants him to stop gambling. She does not want to be the reason why he gambles. Mike continued on his gambling high and promised to take Tammy out later. Mike then headed over to Luke's Place to talk to Roy. Mike was trying to convince Roy to open up the back room for Poker games, like Luke use to do when he and Sonny were partners. Mike enticed Roy by mentioning how much money the back room can bring to the table. Roy told Mike he will consider it, but he will have to get back with him. Roy then asked Claude to tell him about the former Poker game in the back room. Elizabeth stopped by the hospital to see her grandmother. They are actually on good terms. Elizabeth was keeping her grandmother up to date on her ongoing saga with Lucky. Audrey spoke about her relationship with Steve and how there were times when she was lonely and married living under one roof. Audrey said that love always brought them together. Real love can survive almost anything. Believe in the love even though you can't feel the love exist or the closeness. Liz said she was so thrilled that her grandmother was in her life. Emily arrived at Kelly's to advise Juan that yes she can go to the rave party on Friday. Then Emily proceeded to ask Elizabeth to cover for her on Friday night. Elizabeth agreed and Emily went happily on her way. Elizabeth was not so sure about this rave party in an abandoned house, so she called Nikolas to ask if they could go to the party as well to keep an eye out for Emily. Nikolas agreed, but did ask why Elizabeth did not ask Lucky first. Liz informed him that she and Lucky were making good progress and she did not want to hinder anything by asking him to this party. She was afraid Lucky would take it as a pass. Poor Nikolas, all the while he is sitting listening to Elizabeth, you just can see it in his eyes, he is wishing that she did indeed care about him as more than a friend. Later, Lucky entered Kelly's and Nikolas extended an invitation to his brother. For Emily, Lucky agreed to accompany them to the rave. Sonny came home with a surprise in hand for Carly. Carly was looking lost; she had just put Michael down for his nap. At first she thought the gift was for Michael, but perked up when Sonny informed her that he thought of her when he saw it. Carly quickly grabbed the gift and opened it. It was a beautiful spaghetti strap white full length dressed decorated with blue and silver and it was shimmery. Sonny invited Carly to the Casino to show off her new dress, but she declined and said she was not ready to be out in public yet. She was afraid that she might go off again. Sonny said not to worry, they will have a good time. Carly conceded to Sonny and went off to get ready. Sonny closed the Casino for Carly. They were the only two at the roulette table. Sonny was definitely on a mission to cheer Carly. He worked hard the entire evening to teach a very valuable lesson. Trust your own instincts because you make your own luck. He continued to compliment Carly and just b! oost her spirit and self-esteem. When they returned home, Carly told Sonny that she had learned a lesson and did he know what TGIC stood for. Sonny said no, is it thank God for Carly? Carly said it is about what he has pounded in her head all evening, trust, guts, instincts, and confidence. She said thank you for this evening that she would never forget. Sonny said you're welcome. She told him to kiss her, then they continued on one passionate kiss after another. The surprise of the day: Monica confided in Bobbie that she thinks she may be pregnant! Bobbie suggested that Monica take a pregnancy test right away. Monica was quite thrilled with the thought of being pregnant, over menopause. Monica indicated that a new baby would give her and Alan a new chance to be better parents.

June 29,2000

Jax and Chloe's happy reunion was overshadowed by the fact that Jax was not able to get his hands on the experimental drug. Later, Tony played up the drug's potential importance so Jax decided to go against Chloe's wishes and meet with Helena. Roy admitted to Laura that Lucky told him that Luke raped her, and an angry Laura later accused Helena of poisoning Lucky against his parents. Laura vowed to convince Mac that Helena killed Stefan. Bobbie visited Roy in the hopes of working out the problems in their relationship. Lucky got some insight into the way that he has been treating Liz. Meanwhile, Emily angered Juan when she once again backed away from having sex. Monica's happy demeanor led Alan to accuse her of having an affair.

July 4,2000

A naked Emily awoke next to Ted's lifeless body and was relieved when Lucky finally found her. Lucky promised to protect Emily and decided to get rid of all the evidence in the room. Liz and Nikolas later arrived to help, but not before refusing to tell Juan where they were going. Lucky and Liz feared Emily had been raped and encouraged her to go to a clinic for an exam. AJ continued to make small inroads with Hannah. Jax asked Tony to verify that the formula in Helena's possession is indeed the one that Chloe needs. Later, Chloe discovered from Tony that Jax has the formula for the drug she needs. But when Chloe confronted Jax, he lied that he had obtained the formula from another source, not Helena. As Bobbie witnessed Laura longing for Luke, Roy assured Laura that Luke still loves her. Bobbie asked Roy to live at the Brownstone after Laura informed her that he is moving out. Roy refused Bobbie's request, claiming that it would not be a comfortable living situation for Lucas.

July 7,2000

After lying about his plans to Chloe, Jax offered himself to Helena in exchange for the drug that Chloe needs. Meanwhile, Stefan decided to take a closer look at Chloe and her possible connection to Helena. Chloe began to dream about Jax bending down to kiss her, while Jax appeared ready to give Helena her heart's desire. Despite their growing closeness, Carly informed a thrown Sonny that it is time for her and Michael to move out of the Penthouse. Laura and Scott revisited their past, but he turned down her request that he defend Luke. Lucky was tender with Liz in the wake of Emily's crisis, and later Emily received a cryptic phone call which promised that her ordeal is far from over. Roy asked Mike to keep an eye on Luke's while he and Bobbie are on vacation, which Mike looked at as an opportunity to come up with a money-making scheme.

July 11,2000

Elizabeth is pleased to note an apparent change in Lucky's attitude towards her. A.J. continues his relentless pursuit of Hannah. At L&B, Juan pesters Nikolas for word of Emily but is frustrated by a news blackout. Monica confides her secret to Lila, who is delighted to learn that another little Quartermaine may be on the way. Roy and Bobbie enjoy their first morning in Hawaii. Ned surprises Alexis by readily agreeing to trot out his "Eddie Maine" persona again for a three-night stint in Detroit. Alan admits to Monica how much he's hoping their new child will be another boy so they can make up for all the mistakes they made with their older sons. Later, both the doctors Quartermaine are sorely disappointed when Monica's test results reveal that she isn't expecting at all but only entering perimenopause. Nikolas icily reminds Juan that he shot himself in the foot where Emily is concerned. Meanwhile, Emily's blackmailer phones again and demands five thousand dollars. Bobbie tries to reassure Roy that she doesn't need a lot of expensive things to be happy because she's finally back in the arms of her first love. Afterwards, out of Bobbie's earshot, Roy calls Mike and instructs him to wire three thousand dollars from the blues club.

Tape#24

Monica confided in Lila about her hopes and dreams relating to her possible pregnancy. Monica sees this as an opportunity to make up for her past parenting. Lila too was hoping that Monica would be pregnant. Alan returned home. Then he and Monica began to reminisce about their lives in the past. The both recounted the many days of the lives of their children that were missed because either they were absorbed in work, themselves, or affairs. They wished that they could just go back and spend the time with Jason and AJ (hindsight is always 20/20, isn't it?). The phone rang and it was the hospital with the results. The discussion started out good, but then Monica found out the symptoms that she was experiencing was pre-menopausal. Alan immediately came to her aid and said that its okay and even suggested that they could use this as an alarm. They could still actually make an effort to have a child. Monica, however, was not so sure because she was really devastated by the news that she was not pregnant. At Kelly's AJ's relentless pursuit of Hannah continued. Hannah was leaving Kelly's to go to a crime scene and some how AJ finagled his way into driving Hannah to work. Hannah's resistance started off strong, but she is definitely warming up to AJ and his charm. They arrived at the crime scene and Hannah asked AJ to stay out of trouble (good luck, he was looking for something to get into). He started looking over the shoulder of a detective and irritating him. Hannah had to go over and save him. Hannah asked AJ exactly what he was trying to do and he answered, to get a date. She told him that there are much easier ways. He replied that he had been trying, but he has not been able to find any. While AJ was making a case with Hannah, Taggert arrived and looked on at them from behind a building. AJ returned Hannah to Kelly's and gave her a few parting words, but as she turned around to go to her room, guess whom she saw? Taggert was waiting for Hannah. He asked how her ! day went at the crime scene. She replied that it was uneventful. Taggert surely must be worried at this time; AJ is just making himself too accessible for Hannah. Taggert then invited Hannah to dinner at his place. She accepted. Ned surprised Alexis and Nikolas with a stunning reply when both asked about this mini tour that Nikolas arranged for Eddie Mane. Ned actually accepted very graciously and without a fight. What is most odd is that Alexis became extremely bothered by Ned's quick acceptance. She tried to put up a fight but had to excuse herself for a little while. When they met later at the boathouse, Alexis was unsuccessfully trying to make hamburgers because we all know that popcorn is her specialty, microwave that is. They kissed and then decided to go out for food. Still Alexis did not resolve her issues about Eddie Mane. Lucky was helping Elizabeth at Kelly's. Next, of course, Emily entered in her can't take anymore panic mood. She told Liz and Lucky that she can barely stand it at home because it is too hard to pretend that nothing is wrong. Lucky informed her that they are all in this situation together. It was Emily's job to keep cool and keep things together. Lucky went to get French fries. Emily told Liz that Lucky is the best friend ever because he is always there to help in any type of crisis. Liz replied that maybe Lucky was returning. Lucky sat down with the French fries when the phone rang. Elizabeth answered and yes it was the black mailer. She asked for $5,000. Liz became really worried and suggested that they go to Sonny for help. Emily put up a fight about not going to Sonny. Lucky jumped in and said we do not have to go to Sonny cause Nikolas can easily get $5,000 and besides the black mailer is inexperienced. Lucky, with Nikolas' help, planned on catching the black mailer themselves during the exchange of money. Emily had to return home. Lucky offered to take Emily home. When they arrived at the house, Lucky comforted Emily. And as they hugged he reassured her that things would be okay. As Lucky and Emily hugged each other, Juan walked up to the patio door and looked on disappointed. Juan approached Nikolas about Emily. Juan asked when and why did Nikolas become so protective of his girlfriend. Nikolas replied he became this way because Juan became a jerk to Emily. Then Nikolas blasted Juan about hurting Emily by making out with Allison in front of her. Juan was speechless. Nikolas went to meet Liz. She informed him of today's events. Nikolas agreed that the black mailer was definitely not experienced and Lucky's plan should work. Liz commented on how grateful she was that Lucky was acting himself, but she was not pleased that it had to come because something tragic happened to Emily. Back at L&B, Sherry turned up at the door as Juan was leaving. She tried to coax him into a tour, but he refused and pointed out that Emily was his girlfriend. Sherry made some comment about where is Emily now and why isn't she with Juan. Since Juan did not want to make the same mistake twice, he politely escorted Sherry to the door. Sherry will be back to badger at Juan, no doubt. Roy surprised Bobbie with a wonderful breakfast in Hawaii. Bobbie was so surprised. They ate, kissed, and then decided to go for a swim. After returning, Bobbie was looking at a brochure for an evening cruise. Roy was hesitant about the cruise, so she backed down. Roy was becoming quite paranoid about his money situation and how expensive things are in Hawaii. Roy told Bobbie that he is concerned about how he will be able to keep her in the like that she is accustomed. She assured him by saying he is all that she needed. She does not love things; She loves him. Roy later went to buy the tickets to the cruise. Also he telephoned Mike and asked him to wire him $3,000 from Luke's general fund (trouble is brewing).

July 13,2000

While on their trip to Hawaii, Roy became despondent thinking that Bobbie was used to the luxuries Jerry had provided to her. Bobbie let Roy know that she didn't need to go places to be happy. Bobbie waited at the bar while Roy went to make a phone call to Mike to see how things were going at Luke's. While she waited, she talked to a man at the bar about the cruise they had just gone on. The man suggested that perhaps she could join him for it. Roy stiffly informed the man that "the lady" already had plans. The man apologized and introduced himself to them as Joseph Sutherland. As he left, he told Bobbie if she needed anything to let him know. Roy bristled at this, but later told Bobbie he was sorry for the way he acted and gave her a lai so that she would remember their trip Lucky stopped by Kelly's looking for Elizabeth and Tammy told him that Elizabeth had the day off, but to try her art studio. Lucky saw Emily come into the diner, looking nervous and anxious. They sat down at a table and Lucky reassured her, telling her about the arrangements Nikolas had made for the $5,000.00. Lucky explained that when they meet the girl to give her the money, they will grab her. Emily apologized, saying that she felt bad for getting them all involved. As they were talking, Emily and Lucky overheard Mac talking to Tammy about Stefan's murder case and mistakenly thought he was talking about Ted's murder. She was very relieved to hear Mac mention Luke and Stefan and to learn that it had nothing to do with her. Emily thanked Lucky and kissed him for being there for her. Juan had been standing outside of Kelly's looking in and when he saw Emily kiss Lucky, he came in and angrily told Lucky to stay away from Emily. Juan and Lucky ended up in a fight until Mac broke it up. Mac told Juan that using his fists was not the answer and that Juan needed to try and work it out with Emily. Juan walked out. Emily suggested to Lucky that maybe she should tell Juan the truth about what happened after the rave. Emily received another phone call from the blackmailer, who instructed her to meet her at 9:00p.m. on Friday in an alley on Hartford Street. They learned that the call had come from apartments near the hotel where Ted had died and Lucky speculated that the blackmailer must be an amateur or she would have asked for more money. He felt that she would most likely come herself to get the money and then he and Nikolas would nab her. Stefan looked for information on Chloe, trying to learn why she had been to Wyndemere. When his sources came up empty-handed, he was extremely frustrated, wondering what she could know about his "murder." Helena had made arrangements for a party on her yacht tomorrow. She personally went to Jax's penthouse to invite him and Chloe to the party. Jax told Helena he had no interest in going to her party, but Chloe spoke up and asked Helena what time it would be Helena said cocktails were at 6:00p.m. Chloe told her they might be able to make it and assured Helena they would let her know. After Helena left, Chloe told Jax that she needed to get onto the yacht and see if she was able to get any clues about her dreams. Chloe told Jax it gave her the creeps to think about him in Helena's arms or kissing her and that she was grateful that hadn't happened. Jax told Chloe they didn't have to worry about that anymore because Helena was history. Chloe told Jax she needed to get on the yacht. Jax explained to Chloe that it was a long shot. Chloe assured Jax they would take just one quick tour of the yacht and then leave. Chloe dreamed about the music box and she told Jax it was in the room where Stephen was murdered. Back on the yacht, Helena angrily noted that her music box was not where she had left it and reprimanded Andreas for not doing his job in keeping the music box where she instructed. Ned told Alexis he had made a reservation for her and him at a hotel in Detroit, but she sadly told him she couldn't go...she just didn't have the time. Ned asked Alexis why she was distancing herself from Eddie Maine. Alexis frankly told Ned she wants him to be Eddie Maine, but doesn't want to lose Ned in the process; that she was comfortable with Ned's lifestyle, but not Eddie Maine's. Ned told Alexis he would say good-bye to Eddie Maine for her. Alexis said she could figure out how to get around in Eddie Maine's world. Elizabeth and Nikolas ran into each other on the docks. Elizabeth asked Nikolas if he thought Lucky was acting more like his old self. Nikolas told Emily to give Lucky a little time.

July,18,2000

Bobbie and Roy board a flight for home following their idyllic vacation in Hawaii. At the brownstone, a jeering A.J. taunts Carly about losing Sonny's protection. Elizabeth tells Lucky she's letting go of her unrealistic dreams about them getting back together. Juan pleads for Emily's forgiveness and swears he loves no one but her. Insisting that they're through, Emily tearfully orders Juan to get out. A.J. informs Carly he's preparing to contest her sole custody of Michael in court. After listening to Chloe describe her dream about Stefan, an enraged Alexis accuses Helena of murder. Bobbie is surprised to find her daughter in residence at the brownstone. Lucky again pushes his brother to declare his love to Elizabeth.

July 19,2000

Alexis was not holding up well after her performance on Helena's yacht. She was frazzled as she spoke to Ned in Detroit. She asked him about the concerts, but she was only trying to cover her anger about Stefan's death by Helena's hands. Chloe and Jax arrived at the hospital to meet with Alexis. They filled her in on their conversation with Helena about the music box and Sleeping Beauty's Waltz. Both Jax and Chloe were afraid that they had prodded Helena too far with the questions about the music box. They were afraid she would now focus on Chloe and try to hurt her. Then like on cue, Helena walked in on their conversation. Alexis, unable to control her raging emotions, blasted Helena again about Stefan. Alexis vowed to prove that she would get the evidence on Helena if it were the last things she does. Helena then left with Alan to talk about General Hospital 's finances. Chloe and Jax continued to try and soothe Alexis, but to no avail. She asked them not to speak of Stefan or her mother. She would have to work this out herself. Chloe and Jax did convince Alexis to take a trip to Detroit and visit Ned. Alexis bribed the bellboy to let her in Ned's suite to wait for him. While she was waiting she got this wonderful idea to dress up in sexy lingerie for him. But to her surprise, Ned arrived at the suite with a TV crew and Alexis was on the bed with only a rose and some very sexy black lingerie. Mac was pushing Dara again to proceed ahead building their case against Luke Spencer. Dara tried her hardest to convince Mac to let it go. They have no body, no poison, and no fingerprints and the case is not strong enough to convict Spencer. This served no purpose because Mac just screamed louder, yes there is a case and I will put it together alone if necessary. Mac called Taggert into his office. He pounded on Taggert too about his lack of finding evidence against Luke. He told Taggert to go out and find evidence wherever you can to make his case. Taggert was offended by Mac's bias on this case, so Taggert clarified that he would go blind looking for evidence against Spencer, but he would not, under any circumstances, make up evidence. Mac angrily left his office. Taggert sat down on the couch and worried about Mac's mental state regarding Spencer. Hannah walked in and immediately comforted Taggert. She questioned him about his mood. He filled her in on Mac and how he was coming so close to crossing the line on this Spencer case. Hannah pleaded with Taggert about him protecting himself against Mac (in case of trouble with Internal Affairs ­ IA). She warned him that Mac could not only bring down himself but Taggert as well if he did not document his complaints and issues regarding this case. Taggert still insisted to Hannah that Mac is a good person and he was not going to involve IA. Taggert suggested they change the subject, so they left the office and went to Jake's. Yes you know it, as they went to the bar for drinks, they turned around to find A.J. Quartermaine downing shots and trying to lose money on the stocks. This time to AJ's surprise Hannah did not stay to baby-sit him, she and Taggert left to continue their date elsewhere. Jax and Chloe received excellent news from Tony. It seemed that the experimental medication was working for Chloe. Tony was very optimistic about the mass in her brain actually going away with these treatments. After receiving the good news, Chloe insisted that they go to see Mac and try to convince him about Helena's guilt in Stefan's murder. Jax and Chloe were not well received by Mac. As Jax tried to convince Mac that Helena is a valid suspect, Mac started his own retaliation against Jax. Mac mentioned to Jax that Helena was his rival (as Luke is to Mac) and that Helena was actively trying to prevent Chloe from receiving medication she required. Jax had to concede; he and Chloe left Mac's office, but Chloe vowed to return and convince Mac of the truth about Helena. Out of the shadow and corner, Helena surfaced after she had listened to Jax and Chloe's conversation about her wrong doings. At Kelly's, Bobbie and Roy talked about living arrangements after their returned from Hawaii. Bobbie wanted Roy to move in to the Brownstone, however, Roy had ideas of his own palace. Roy explained that he has not had his own place in 20 years and really needed to start by himself. Bobbie finally gave in to Roy's desire for his own place. Next, Roy went to Jake's to see if that small apartment out back was available. While he was waiting for Jake he ran into two guys, from the hood, who wanted to share some of their frustration with him about him being a FBI informant. They started to punch him in the back, and quite hard. Luckily (no pun intended), Lucky showed up and both of them threw those two goons out on their butts. Roy thanked Lucky for his help. Jake arrived and Roy made a deal with her to rent the apartment out back. The place was not much, but Roy seemed to be pleased by the mere fact that the apartment had running water. Later he invited Bobbie over to a look-see. She still offered him the room at the Brownstone, but he still declined indicating that affording his own place is what he has to do. We will see just how long Roy will be able to hold his own.

July 20,2000

Ned was doing an interview with a reporter and a cameraman, when Ned opened his hotel door to find a very embarrassed Alexis in a teddy on the bed. Ned told the reporter that they would finish the interview after the concert at the Arena. Ned explained to Alexis that he had signed a waiver with reporter, so that they could use any footage they wanted to. Alexis told Ned she wanted to surprise him and Ned told Alexis he was happy she showed up at the hotel. Mac found keys in Luke's belongings. Mac found out the keys belong to a yacht. Mac went to visit Helena, to see if she could shed some light on Stefan's murder case. Mac told Helena he had a witness that her yacht was not docked the night of Stefan's murder. Helena told Mac that her and Andreas went for a ride in the car. Helena told make she gave everyone the night off, so the yacht was empty. Helena told Mac that she wouldn't put it passed Alexis to steal the keys, so that Luke could make a copy. Mac went to Luke's bar and told Taggert that Luke had Helena's yacht. Emily left a message for Nikolas to call her when he got home. Edward told Emily she seems to be living in her own private world. Edward asked Emily if she was taking drugs again. An upset Emily told Emily she wasn't taking drugs. Lila told Edward she wanted to speak to Emily alone. Lily told Emily that she knew something was bothering her. Emily asked Lila not to tell anyone. Emily told Lila about the party Juan and she had went to. Emily told Lila that Juan kissed Allison Barrington. Emily told Lila she went to talk to Juan and he was with another girl. Lila asked Emily if Juan had apologized and Emily said he told her that she misunderstood what happened. Emily told Lila she broke up with Juan. Lila told Emily to speak with Juan and tell him how she felt. Edward told Lila he would have Emily blood tested. Lila told Edward Emily was a teenager in love. Lucky and Nikolas went to check on the freezer. They found the freezer and Ted's body gone. Nikolas and Lucky talked to the maid about what happened to the freezer. She told them that she had it moved and unlocked. Nikolas told her to bring the freezer back right away and it better not get moved again. Lucky and Nikolas opened the freezer and discovered Ted's body was still in there. Emily told Lucky and Nikolas she wants to go to the cops. Lucky decides to go to Port Charles Police Department and investigate about why no one has reported him missing. While Roy and Bobbie were at Roy's new apartment, Roy told Bobbie how good it felt to have his own place. Roy gave Bobbie a key to his apartment. Sonny went to Luke's looking for Roy. Carly came in and sat at a table. Hannah and Taggert came in and Carly stood in front of Hannah. Carly told Hannah she moved out of Sonny's so she could get Sonny now. Carly and Hannah got into a heated discussion and Hannah walked away. A.J. walked in and started to say something to Carly, when sonny stood in front of Carly. Sonny told A.J. he made a mistake by going to the Brownstone. Sonny told A.J. he has hard evidence to put him away. A.J. told Sonny Michael would always be his son and one-day he will get him back. Bobbie and Roy came in and Roy asked A.J. to leave. Carly and Bobbie talked about her and Sonny's living arrangements. Bobbie told Sonny she needed to talk to him about where Carly was going to live. Sonny told Bobbie he would find Carly and Michael a place to live. Carly told Sonny that Michael and her are not pieces of furniture. Carly told Bobbie she was sorry she moved into the Brownstone without asking. Sonny said Carly and Michael were his responsibility. Sonny told Carly he would find them a place to live or they could move back in with him. Carly told Sonny she would rather live in a swamp.

July 25,2000

Edward tried to find a buyer for an internet company that was going under and AJ convinced Edward to sell it to him. Lucky spied Nikolas and Liz sharing a close moment, but didn't interrupt them. Emily and Lucky argued about how he's been treating Liz and he maintained that Nikolas would be much better for Liz. A stunned Ned got an offer to take L & B off of his hands, but he had no interest in selling. Alexis expressed her fear of losing Ned to his music. Carly bumped into Roy while he was shopping for his new apartment and helped him choose two lamps. Unbeknownst to them, Bobbie had already decorated Roy's place. AJ surprised Hannah with a playful gift. Liz asserted that her relationship with Lucky is over in spite of Emily's efforts to convince her otherwise. Mike attempted to tell Tammy that he lost the money for their trip in a card game, but she guessed it before he could say a word. Alan thought he was helping Monica by arranging her visit to a fertility doctor, but she was furious with him for interfering.

Tape#25

July 27,2000

Carly decided to register Michael for preschool. Carly asked Sonny if he would be interested in being one of the responsible adults for Michael's preschool. Carly told Sonny being a responsible adult, meant he would have to attend parents meetings and and go with Michael the first week of school. Sonny told Carly he was concerned about Michael going to preschool because he is so young. He said he will be the youngest one in the class and he will be bullied. Carly explained to Sonny that she had already checked everything out with the preschool and if there was a problem, the preschool would let them know. Sonny told Carly he wanted to be the responsible adult and thanked Carly for offering him the chance to do it. Lucky came in to Kelly's and saw Elizabeth and asked her if she was O.K. Lucky told Elizabeth he could wait outside for Nikolas. Elizabeth told Lucky she was fine and that they had agreed to remain friends. Elizabeth told Lucky she wanted to stick with that. At Kelly's, two of Sorel's men were waiting for Mike. Mike came in and asked Elizabeth if Tammy was there and if she had heard from her. Elizabeth told Mike she hadn't heard from Tammy and she was probably on her way to work. Mike left and Sorel's men followed Mike out. Taggert, who had been sitting at a table talking to Lucky, noticed the men follow Mike out and Taggert followed them. Sorel's men were beating on Mike when Taggert came up. One of the men turned to Taggert and pulled a knife. Hannah came around the corner with her gun drawn and shouted "FBI." Nikolas and Juan were at L&B talking about the contract Ned had received for Juan from an other record label. Juan proceeded to tell Nikolas, that Ned already knew that Emily and he were having problems. Juan told Nikolas that Ned wanted him to stay at L&B. Emily walked in and Juan told Emily that Nikolas had told Juan to stay away from her. Juan asked Emily if that was how she felt. Emily told Juan she didn't want Juan to stay away from her. But that Nikolas was just trying to help. Nikolas left to go to the bank. Emily told Juan what happened at the party wasn't just his fault. It was both of their faults. Emily said that she thinks sometimes it would be better if they just let go. Juan told Emily he wouldn't let go. Roy was asleep at his apartment, when Bobbie walked in and surprised Roy. Roy jumped up and was ready to hit Bobbie.Roy asked Bobbie if she was O.K. Roy told Bobbie he was about to hurt her very bad. Bobbie told Roy she was married to a man who beat her. Bobbie told Roy if she thought for one second he would hurt her she would be out the door. Roy told Bobbie he loved her and he was sorry. Alexis met with Sonny to give him his papers from the FBI that said he is free and he has no record. Alexis told Sonny to please tell her that he didn't have feelings for Carly. Sonny told Alexis that he did have feelings for Carly, because of what they had been through. Alexis told Sonny to please tell her that he didn't have romantic feelings for Carly. Sonny told Alexis he didn't. Alexis went to Roy's apartment to give him the papers from the FBI that said he was a free man. Alexis told Roy that he was free. But, if he was arrested he would end up back in jail. Because he still had a record. Carly went in to Kelly's looking for Elizabeth. Carly and Elizabeth got into a heat argument about Sonny and Jason. Lucky told Carly to back off. Carly asked Elizabeth if Lucky knew whose lap she was sitting on Monday night. Carly asked Elizabeth if she thought Lucky should know that she is throwing herself at Sonny behind Lucky's back. Elizabeth walked out at Kelly's. Lucky asked Carly if Elizabeth had came back. Carly told Lucky Elizabeth was probably with Sonny. Lucky asked Carly not to go near Elizabeth again. Lucky left. Elizabeth tripped on the stairs at the docks. Sonny came up and asked her if he could help. Elizabeth apologized to Sonny for fighting with Carly. Sonny said you wanted to hurt her like she hurt you. Sonny told Elizabeth what Carly did was unexceptable and it wouldn't happen again. Lucky came up to Sonny and Elizabeth and said I guess what Carly said was true.

July 28,2000

Jax explains to Chloe how the earring Helena dropped in the penthouse may finally convince Mac that the Cassadine matriarch is a menace to society. Meanwhile, Stefan orders his operatives to keep close tabs on Chloe's progress. As they drink a toast to Roy's newfound freedom, Alexis reminds her client that aiding and abetting Luke will get him sent back to prison in a New York minute. Hannah arrives in the alley just in time to help Marcus place Mike's attackers under arrest. Bobbie urges her daughter to lay off of Elizabeth but Carly stubbornly insists that the girl is making a play for Sonny. On the docks, Elizabeth bristles when Lucky icily reminds Sonny that every woman he's trifled with has met with tragedy. Marcus gruffly questions Mike, who claims he simply fell victim to a mugging and refuses to press charges. Afterwards, a worried Hannah insists on taking Marcus back to his place so she can treat his wound. Sonny angrily orders Carly to stop spreading lies about Elizabeth. Rattled by his close call, Mike admits to Tammy how he fears being alienated from his son once again if news of the incident leaks out. Nikolas tells his surprised brother how Elizabeth took up with Jason some months back. Roy lends Carly a sympathetic ear following her fight with Sonny. Lucky and Nikolas spring their trap on the blackmailer.

July 31,2000

Helena eavesdrops as Chloe explains to a dubious Mac how she's developed the ability to see things through the Cassadine matriarch's eyes. Nikolas and Lucky roughly demand answers from the young woman who tried to pick up the blackmail money. Marcus and Hannah make love for the first time. Sonny offers Carly an apology for coming down on her so hard but reminds her that she has to stop attacking people for no reason. Admitting that she does make wrong assumptions at times, Carly promises Sonny she'll try her best to improve. Claiming she knows no one named Emily, the girl tells Lucky and Nikolas she went for the bag because she was hungry and looking for food. A.J. boasts to Alexis about the lucky streak he's been on ever since he took up drinking again. Later, A.J. reminds Ned why his relationship with Alexis is doomed to failure. Confiding that he's in deep with a loanshark, Mike asks Roy if he can borrow thirty grand ASAP. Sonny suggests to Carly that she move back into the penthouse. The "homeless" girl places another threatening call to Emily. Helena decides to bump off Chloe.

August 1,2000

A stunned Juan came home early from Albany and caught Hanna and Taggert in their post love-making bliss. Carly gave Bobbie a less than perfect surprise party for her birthday, in which Roy was late to and was unaware that it was Bobbie's birthday. Roy left he party early to take care of business with Sorel, but he did not have chance to tell Bobbie. Roy later returned when all of the guests had gone and gifted Bobbie with flowers and a slow dance. Alan told an astonished AJ that he and Monica are going to try to have another child, but AJ did not give his blessing. Lucky shared with Liz, Emily and Nikolas that the he followed the blackmailer to a mansion in which she had a key to. The foursome then decided it was time for a new plan. Edward once again harassed AJ because AJ has made a success of the internet company that Edward had sold him. Sonny spent some quality time with Michael and later showed Alexis Jason's penthouse, who decided to take it. Liz explained her platonic relationship with Jason to Lucky, who was grateful that Liz had someone to support her after his "death." Lucky was still not able to explain his feelings towards Liz about why she belongs with Nikolas

August 4,2000

Stefan prepared to give Chloe the placebo pills, in spite of the serious health risks the pills might cause. AJ annoyed Taggert by openly flirting with Hannah in front of him. Helena decided to get rid of Chloe the same way she got rid of Alexis's mother. Carly yelled at Sonny for letting Alexis move into the apartment while Ned and Alexis sat down and watched the show. Carly told Sonny that under no circumstances was she moving back into his apartment. Gia panicked when she saw Taggert, but Lucky covered for her and didn't let Taggert find her. Lucky demanded that Gia give him some real answers to his questions or he would turn her in. Roy agreed to help Mike pay off his debt by sitting in on the poker game to try and win the money. Jax and Chloe enjoyed a romantic picnic of champagne and hot dogs, until Chloe had a vision of Helena killing her. Emily told Juan the truth about what happened after the rave. Dressed for seduction, Carly set out to make Sonny jealous by flirting with a receptive Roy.

Auguste 8,2000

Roy struck it big and won $10,000 in an all night poker game to help Mike pay back Sorel. Mike tried to take the money and head to the track, but Roy refused. Roy strongly advised that since it was his money, he will try to bargain with Sorel himself. Roy then asked Mike to stay out of it. A meeting with the Quartermaines about the future of GH's finances turned ugly once again when Alexis and Helena argued over who is the Cassadine trustee. The Q's cancelled the meeting until it is official who is the trustee. Helena then shared with the Quartermaine that Alexis is now living across the hall from Sonny and that Sonny is her new landlord. The Q's wasted no time discrediting Alexis' integrity, but she fought back by calling the Q's hypocrites. A drunk and jealous AJ watched Taggert and Hanna perform their usual lovey-dovey antics in the park, but Taggert got pulled away when his beeper sounded off. As Hanna went her own way, AJ was attacked by a mugger who stole AJ's watch. Hanna tried to catch the thief, but AJ told her to forget it. Lucky surprised Gia by hiding in her closet and asked that she please help them by attending a rave. Lucky is hoping that Gia can identify the killer, but he told Gia that he had other motives for wanting her to go to the rave. Gia remained unsuspicious of the murder and refused to go to the rave. After Roy contacted Sorel, Bobbie showed up at Luke's looking for answers about Roy's whereabouts the night before. Roy told Bobbie about the poker game, but not that it was to help Mike. Bobbie then reminded Roy that she doesn't care about him having money to buy her things. Roy then admitted that the money was to help a friend, but Roy did not provide details of who the friend was. Ned showed up at Alexis' digs after hearing from Lila what happened at GH. Ned totally supported Alexis' decision to move across the hall from Sonny and told her that her happiness is all that mattered. Ned then gave Alexis' a cappuccino maker for a gift. Nikolas was upset to hear from Liz that Emily told Juan about Ted's murder. Juan tried to give Emily a small bouquet of flowers, but she did not accept them. Juan then assured Nikolas that he can trust him. Hanna escorted a slightly beaten and drunken AJ back to his hotel and while she applied ice to his head wound, they shared a short kiss. Hanna pulled away in disgust and lectured AJ on how he is wasting his life and even called him pathetic. Hanna also denied that she gave into the kiss, but she did for a brief moment. AJ told her that her criticism about his lifestyle is just an act to hide her attraction to him. While Bobbie was questioning Roy about his recent behavior of avoiding her, Sorel showed up at Luke's. Bobbie was outraged and told Roy that she would wait outside. Sorel was hoping that Roy decided to work for him and when Roy told him otherwise and presented the $10,000 in cash, Sorel refused the deal. Sorel hastily informed Roy that the only way he will accept money for Mike's debt is either from Mike or Sonny. Mike met Tammy in the park and told her of Roy's winnings. Mike then wanted Tammy to go with him to Atlantic City or Vegas to gamble, but Tammy declined. She urged Mike to go to Sonny and if he didn't, she would. Mike then reminded Tammy that Sonny cannot know of his gambling debt, since it has taken him so long to re-establish a relationship with his son. Bobbie's suspicions heightened and she thought Roy was working for Sonny. Bobbie lectured Roy that his latest habits are dangerous and could lead him back to prison. Roy told Bobbie that he is not going to change his mind about helping a friend and Bobbie left Luke's with a sick feeling. Lucky shared with Nik, Liz, Juan and Emily about his latest meeting with Gia and that she refused to attend the rave. Nik suggested that Juan ask Sherry to the rave since she may be able to identify the killer unknowingly, but he hesitated to avoid causing Emily further pain. Emily then assured Juan that asking Sherry was the best thing to do for everyone. Juan agreed to ask Sherry and it was decided that it would be too risky for Emily to attend the rave, in case the killer sees her.

Tape#26

August 22,2000

As Jax and Chloe are flying back home to Port Charles, Jax reveals that he has hired a private investigator to follow Helena. Stefan toasts with his hired Brenda look alike for a job well done in convincing Jax that Brenda may still be alive. Bobbie arrives at the police station to find some answers about the Carly/Sonny arrest, but is more surprised to find Roy there supporting Sonny. Lucky is able to persuade a very intoxicated Liz to go home with him. After Liz leaves with Lucky, Zander harasses Nikolas about where Liz went, but Gia comes to the rescue and distracts Zander. Ned returns to L & B records to discover a huge amount of fan mail for "Eddie's Angel" and also listens to phone messages about people wanting to exploit "Eddie's Angel." Juan shows up at L & B, returning Nikolas' car, and shares with Ned that he knows all about Alexis' Internet faux pas. Despite Bobbie's protest, Roy decides to stay at the police station to support Sonny until Alexis arrives. Bobbie tries to warn him, but Roy remains evasive. They finally talk to Hannah and she shares the details of the case, which ignites Dara to issue a warning of her own to Agent Scott for providing details to favoring family and friends. Juan assists Ned in destroying the fan mail for "Eddie's Angel" and Ned hopes that Alexis will never find out. After Gia points out to Zander that he had once tried to pick her up and sell drugs to her, Zander finally goes his own way and Nikolas is very thankful. Nik then takes Gia back to L & B, so he can get his car, and tries to contact Lucky to check on Liz. Gia then accuses Nik of feeling more than friendship for Liz. Lucky escorts Liz home and he reads her the riot act for drinking a beverage that was provided by Zander. Her heart out on her sleeve, Liz tells Lucky that she will always love him no matter what. Lucky then agrees to a dance and, since he knows she will never remember because she is high, Lucky opens up to Liz and tells her that he "trusts in us" and that something is wrong with him mentally. While on the flight home, Jax dreams of happier times with Brenda and is awaken by Chloe with a smile on his face. Jax does not tell Chloe about his dream and then Jax and Chloe once again pronounce their undying love for one another. Since Gia has been offered drugs by Zander, she feels this is a good way to bust him. Nik does not think it is a good idea for Gia to get involved with Zander and even offers to pay her to not do so. Gia insists and Nik agrees to help her out. As Dara is sharing her doubts about Hannah's integrity in Sonny's case, Roy comes to his daughter's defense, who then is defended by Taggert. Mac finally settles the tense situation by correcting Dara, telling Bobbie and Roy to leave and by asking Hannah to evaluate her position on Sonny's case. Lucky tells a dazed Liz about how confusing his last year has been and that he could never have gotten through with it if it wasn't for his hopes of seeing her again. Lucky finally tells Liz that he loves her and gives her the gift of their shared "You have my heart" speech. Lucky and Liz share a tender kiss and Lucky tells Liz that she has his heart. It is a very intimate time for them, but Lucky is only doing this because he thinks that Liz will not remember anything the next day. Liz has her fears of their wonderful night because of Lucky's past behavior and they make a promise that they will still love one another in the morning. Lucky then turns out the light to spend the night with Liz. Stefan feels successful at his plan to derive Jax from Chloe, using a Brenda look alike, and advances to more manipulative ways to get Jax away from Chloe.

August 24,2000

Mac suggests to Bobbie that the right word in her lover's ear might turn Roy away from his life of crime. Meanwhile, Marcus warns an irked Roy that he's put his daughter in an awkward position which jeopardizes her entire career. Chloe and Jax enjoy a late summer picnic after a day of horseback riding. Half a world away, Stefan begins pulling strings to convince Jax that Brenda is alive and well. A.J. informs his fuming grandfather that he'll soon have Michael back on his own terms. Following their roll in the hay, Chloe invites Jax to accompany her to Milan for the showing of her new fall line. A.J. bitterly accuses Monica of trying to conceive another baby to replace the dysfunctional children she and Alan have already given up on. Hannah asks Marcus not to interfere where her father is concerned. Roy refuses to join Mac's search for his missing undercover cop. Stunned by a photo in the Travel section of the newspaper, Jax tells Chloe he must go find out if the woman in the picture is indeed Brenda.

August 28,2000

Though a fretful Elizabeth warns her friends that the proposed scheme will never work, the others decide to forge ahead anyway with their plan to frame Zander for murder. Bobbie informs Roy that if he's going after Luke she's traveling with him. After recovering from the shock of Jason's sudden reappearance, Carly throws her arms around her unexpected guest and announces how much she's missed him. Meanwhile, across the hall, Alexis advises a grumbling Sonny that marrying Carly is the best way to shut her up. Jax shouts out Brenda's name as a familiar looking woman climbs into the back seat of a limousine, which then roars out of view. Roy explains to Bobbie why she needs to stay behind and avoid tipping off the authorities. Carly tells a sympathetic Jason how she lost the baby. Later, unable to stem her tears, Carly asks Jason why he left her. Elizabeth accidentally strikes a nerve with Lucky. Chloe surprises Jax in Paris but is taken aback when he declares that he's definitely seen Brenda. Jason shakes his head in dismay as Carly sheepishly admits how she got Sonny arrested for drug trafficking. Chloe sadly bids farewell to Jax. Jason is reunited with a beaming Michael. As she prepares to leave Paris, Chloe is abducted.

August 29,2000

Gia followed Nikolas to Wyndemere to find out more information about Ted. Nikolas showed Gia the dead body and Gia was able to identify him as being with Emily the night of his murder. Gia told Nikolas that she will still help them nail Zander. Zander paid a visit to Elizabeth at Kelly's and even though Elizabeth was cringing, she managed to be polite to Zander. Lucky arrived at Kelly's and was able to chase Zander off. Lucky then issued a warning to Liz to be very careful of Zander, but Liz told Lucky that being rude to Zander is not a good idea either. Sonny returned to his penthouse to find Jason visiting with Michael and Carly. Later, Sonny and Jason discussed the death of the baby and Sonny told Jason that Carly helped him through a difficult time. Hannah arrived at Roy's apartment, only to discover that he was not there. Mac arrived shortly after and questioned Hannah about her father's whereabouts. Hannah made it perfectly clear to Mac that her father is not doing anything illegal and that Mac is on the verge of violating her father's rights. Sonny told Jason his side of the story about his arrest and how Carly was involved. Sonny shared with Jason that he could never trust Carly again. Sonny then caught Carly eavesdropping on his and Jason's conversation. Roy called Lucky at Kelly's and asked him to stop by Luke's. AJ interrupted Mac and Hannah's conversation and pretended to be very intoxicated. Once Mac left, AJ told Hannah that he was only faking to be drunk to help her out of a sticky situation. As Carly, Sonny and Jason finished a toast, Alexis came over and was surprised to see Jason. Jason then shared with Alexis how he saw her poster at a Texas bar and she continued to get teased. Alexis shared her fears that the "Eddie's Angel" saga will harm Sonny's defense. AJ kindly told Hannah that he would love to be her scapegoat for anything. AJ told Hannah that her career might be suffering because of who her father is. After Hannah let AJ have it for criticizing Roy, AJ is able to assure her that he just wants to be there for her. Hannah accepted AJ's intention and then cooked him dinner at Roy's place. Nikolas took Gia back to Kelly's to search for her earring, but Gia refused to go inside when she spotted Taggert. Mac told Taggert about AJ and Hannah being together at Roy's apartment. Lucky met with Roy, who had a message for him from Luke. Lucky did not want to hear the message and then continued to discredit his father. Roy and Lucky bumped heads about Luke and Roy told Lucky that he had no right to be mad at Luke for things Luke did to Laura or him. Roy pointed out that Luke has never harmed Lucky and has always been the best father to him. Lucky told Roy that Luke did not deserve his friendship. Nikolas kissed Gia when Taggert was leaving Kelly's so that he would not see Gia. Gia was slightly offended by the kiss and then went home. Jason turned down Sonny and Carly's invite to sleep over and heads to Jake's for the night. A delighted Stefan is thrilled that his plan to get Jax away from Chloe is turning out so successfully. Alexis insisted that Sonny marries Carly to save himself and she was very upset when he told her that he did not tell Carly about her plan.

September 6,2000

Roy made it out of the US and caught up with Luke in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Luke was posing as an outside bazaar vendor. Roy took pleasure in teasing him about his friend in the US who bar he was taking care of and there was a fire, which destroyed all his friend's records. They laughed for a while and then returned to Luke's apartment where Roy further teased him about his disguise. By this time Roy discovered that Luke already had a plan in mind. He had planned to return to Port Chuckles, as he called it. Roy thought that might be a good idea since no one would look for him there. Taggert and Hannah were at Kelly's discussing what their plans would be for today. When her cell phone rang. It was Jake telling Hannah how her friend laid on her floor passed out. Hannah agreed to come right over. Needless to say Hannah insulted Taggert. He was hurt by the fact that she would run to AJ's side and leave him in the lurch. Hannah told Taggert that he was the only guy for her and that this would only take a minute or two. Taggert bluntly asked Hannah about her feelings for AJ, but she responded with the fact that alcoholism is an illness and needs treatment. Taggert suggested that she call AJ's family to help him, but Hannah insisted on helping him. Hannah does proclaim how much she cares for Taggert, but he is really unfazed at this moment. Taggert told Hannah that he does not want to wait for AJ and that he is canceling their date today. Hannah left Kelly's still determined to help AJ. After reeling from Jason's return and drinking himself into a stupor, AJ laid on the floor at Jake's. Jake called his only known friend Hannah and asked her to come and get him. On her way over, Hannah phoned Monica and requested her presence at Kelly's for AJ. When Hannah arrived at Jake's, she found AJ begging Jake for a drink. Jake informed him that he was no longer welcomed there. Immediately upon Hannah's arrival AJ puts on his best charm act (best relative to his current condition), but Hannah demanded to know what got him to this point where he is drinking himself under. AJ denied that there was anything bothering him. Hannah let it go for the moment and they left for Kelly's. Hannah ordered coffee for them both and sat down. She again persisted about what was troubling AJ. AJ still claimed nothing. Monica walked in the door. AJ looked at Hannah and cried foul. He claimed that he had been betrayed and felt ambushed (Wow, isn't he so intelligent). Monica tr! ied to talk to him but, before anything could be said AJ left Kelly's and told Hannah not to call him family anymore. Monica thanked Hannah for calling about AJ because she is worried about his state of mind with Jason's return. Emily slyly asked her father if she could attend a party on Friday and he agreed (without knowing that it was actually a rave). Then Edward, being Edward told Alan that he was not doing his fatherly duty, he needed to find out additional information about this so-called party. Emily was trying to come up with something good when Gia arrived proclaiming to be Emily's friend. Gia asked Emily to introduce her to the family. Emily does, but not before she asked Reginald to call Nikolas and ask him to get over to the Quartermaine's immediately. Gia was a talented actress. She wowed and schmoozed both Edward and Alan. She made up this whole rich kid story for herself and her father. Nikolas arrived and asked Emily if she was okay. Gia was definitely in rare form and even impressed Nikolas (who is by the way becoming quite attracted to this bad girl). Everything was going quite well until she told Edward that she was planning to get a job at L&B. Of course he went ballistic and started to defame L&B. Then Alan ushered his father out to another room. Mac was reminiscing about Felicia when Taggert walked up to him at Kelly's. Mac confessed to Taggert that he might consider staying in Colorado a little longer than planned, if all is good there. Mac and Taggert talked for a while and shared stories about their significant others being drawn to the "wrong men" (i.e. Luke and AJ, respectively). Ned had a wonderful idea. He decided to give a reporter, Chris, an exclusive interview and try to down play this Eddie's Angel phenomena. He invited Alexis to be part of the interview, but she wanted nothing to do with the limelight. He suggested that she hide in the hallway until it was over. The crew arrived to setup everything. Ned started off great and explained how he and his fiancée just wanted their privacy back. They were not ashamed, but they prefer their intimate moments to be kept between themselves. The interview ended and Ned walked them to the door. Then Alexis came running out saying I love you and thank you. You were perfect in the interview. So to celebrate this victory, they start a hot and heavy make-out session. The crew comes back in to shoot some of the studio footage, but to their fortune catch Ned and Alexis in a serious lip lock. Alexis stopped first and then told Ned the camera was rolling. Ned demanded the tape and Chris gave it to him. The question is, did Chris really give him the tape? Or did Chris pull a fast one?

Tape#27 (includes 3 episodes of AMC)

September 7,2000

Luke and Roy make plans to leave Prague and slip back into Port Charles with assistance from a Portuguese contact. In Colorado, Mac daydreams about a joyous reconciliation with his wife. Lucky, Juan, Gia and Nikolas head to the site of the rave to try a dry run before the party. Emily arrives and insists on being allowed to help frame Zander, while Elizabeth again entreats her friends to give up on their futile and risky plan. Ned and a nervous Alexis settle in to watch the Music One interview. Sonny thanks Jason for the timely tip about Carlos. As they discuss their options, Sonny tells Jason he won't stand in the way if he wants to take Carly and Michael out of the country. Alexis and Ned are appalled to see the videotape of their latest romantic exploits being broadcast to the nation. Carly trails Jason to Jake's, where she coaxes him out onto the dance floor in hopes of rekindling a spark. Mike makes another effort to mend fences with his embittered son. Luke and Roy hash over some old history and reopen a few ancient wounds.

September 8,2000

With Interpol closing in, Roy and Luke step up their efforts to escape from Prague unscathed. Sonny angrily reminds Mike that his gambling addiction has once again damaged more lives than just his own. Declaring her love, Carly asks Jason to take her and Michael away so they can finally be the family they always dreamed they'd be. As the rave begins, Gia assures Nikolas she's ready to face Zander for the last time. When Sonny orders him to stay away from Carly, Mike is surprised to realize how much his offspring cares for Michael's mother. Meanwhile, Jason tells a dismayed Carly that although he loves her they would never succeed as a couple. Stung by his rejection, Carly accuses Jason of letting his misplaced loyalty to Sonny blind him to the truth. Though Emily refuses to let her brother get involved in something which could put him behind bars, Elizabeth decides to place an urgent call to Jason. While Gia distracts Zander, Juan manages to extract the killer's keys from his pocket. Later, Lucky and Nikolas transfer Ted's body into the trunk of Zander's car. On the island, Stefan continues to befriend his "fellow prisoner" in an effort to win Chloe's trust. Emily wanders into trouble at the rave.

September 11,2000

Carly glumly informs Sonny that she will marry him. Roy saves Luke's skin again by impersonating an FBI agent and persuading two Interpol operatives to call off an arrest. Mac, Felicia and the girls enjoy a day of family fun in Colorado. Hoping to witness one of Chloe's psychic dreams, Stefan hovers over his prisoner as she sleeps. Elizabeth fills in a worried Jason about his kid sister's predicament. Meanwhile, at the rave, Emily nervously pretends not to remember Zander. As the police surround the parking lot, Lucky and Nikolas and their friends watch with bated breath while Marcus discovers the corpse of his missing undercover cop in the trunk of Zander's car. Felicia and Mac begin to hash out the problems which drove a wedge between them. Grabbing a gun from an officer's holster, Zander takes Emily hostage and threatens to kill her unless the police back off. Carly and Sonny slowly begin working their way back toward common ground. As Nikolas and Lucky hold back an anguished Juan, Marcus attempts to persuade Zander to release Emily unharmed but the gunman forces his prisoner into a car and makes a getaway. Later, Marcus arrests Jason to prevent him from trying to rescue his sister.

Tape#28

September 14,2000

Chloe tried to bribe one of the island workers to get a message to her family and was frustrated by his refusal. Luke and Roy checked into a London hotel disguised as a country squire and his manservant. Sonny tried to get information from Sorel about Zander even though Carly insisted that he leave it to the police and Emily's family. Ned demanded that Taggert do more to find Emily and couldn't believe that the cops were being stymied by a teenager. Zander was relieved not to find any headlines about Emily in the papers, but told Emily it didn't matter because he needed her and he wasn't letting her go. Roy thought Luke's plan to hide in the open was stupid and wanted to think of something better. Roy also hated the fact that he always had to be the sidekick and never the main man. Chloe marveled that Helena had never been caught and wondered how to fight her. Zander promised Emily that he would let her go once they were safely to the Canadian border where he had friends who would help him. Nikolas suggested that he start looking in clubs and talking to kids who might give him some clues on Zander. Bobbie visited Carly at the Penthouse and Carly filled her in on her upcoming marriage to Sonny. In the midst of giving orders to his officers, Taggert received a phone call and ran out of the station. Nikolas and Alexis went to see Helena who was triumphant over being named Nikolas's trustee. Nikolas was adamant that he wanted nothing to do with Helena and warned her to stay out of his way. Bobbie didn't think Carly should marry Sonny, she wanted Carly to marry for love. Bobbie boiled it down to a simple question of who Carly truly wanted, Jason or Sonny. Taggert and Hannah went to the hospital where he found out that his mother had suffered a heart attack. He was strangely reluctant to see her. Helena assured Nikolas that she wouldn't cut off his accounts, especially if he needed to help a friend. Alexis was pleased at Nikolas's show of strength and wasn't affected when Helena insulted her. Helena later rejoiced over Stefan's death and her growing control over everything. Carly believed that Jason was her soul mate, but she couldn't deny that she clicked with Sonny. Bobbie thought that Carly's future was with Sonny, but only if she let Jason go. Chloe dreamt of Stefan handing her the music box and woke up screaming. She told Stefan that the dreams weren't through Helena's eyes, but she was confident that the proper dreams would return. Emily tried to escape from the cabin by breaking a window and cutting the ropes on her hands. Zander returned from getting food to find her passed out on the floor. Alexis gave Sonny and Carly the news that the deposition had been moved up and they had to get married immediately.

September 15,2000

Zander panicked when Emily was too weak to walk and determined that the best thing to do was to leave her behind. Nikolas took Lucky to the police station and Lucky demanded that they question Sorel because Sorel knew where Emily and Zander were. Roy told Luke that he couldn't travel with him after all because it would be too easy for Interpol to catch him. Alexis found a Justice of the Peace to marry Sonny and Carly and Sonny asked her to stay for the wedding. Sonny offered Carly one last chance to back out because he didn't want to force her into marriage. Nikolas and Lucky decided that they would try to find Emily on their own, but Nikolas admitted to Lucky that he couldn't get his money from Helena. Lucky insisted on talking to Helena, convinced that she would give him the money. Maxie and Georgie surprised Mac and Felicia by setting up a romantic date at the cabin. Monica gave Taggert the bad news that his mother needed heart surgery right away. Taggert cried by his mother's bedside and told her that he had always loved her. Zander went back for Emily and told her he would drop her off at a clinic. Carly got as dressed up as she could for the wedding and when Jason came to the Penthouse, she asked him to give her away. Minutes later, Sonny asked Jason to be his best man, in spite of everything that had happened between them. Jason offered Sonny his forgiveness and let him know that he still respected and honored Sonny. Taggert revealed to Hannah that he and his mother had never been close because she never wanted him to be a cop. Zander took Emily to the clinic and she told the doctor her name was Paige Bowen so she wouldn't give Zander away. Mac and Felicia declared their love for each other, but they didn't make love. Luke went into the London bank to withdraw money from his Swiss account, but as he exited, agents were waiting to arrest him. Lucky asked Helena for Nikolas's money and asked if she knew what Faison had done to him because he didn't understand why he literally couldn't be honest with Liz. Alexis gave Carly a bouquet of roses and a blue scarf so that the wedding traditions would be covered. Gia showed up at the hospital and asked Taggert how their mother was doing. Zander and Emily were going to leave the clinic when a cop came into the other room. As Sonny said his vows, Carly stopped him and said she couldn't go through with it.

September 18,2000

As Zander prepared to shoot his way out of the clinic, Emily convinced him to remain calm. The police officer at the clinic was there to pick up his medicine, but he questioned Emily and Zander. Taggert told Gia that their mother had a heart attack and wondered how Gia heard the news and got to Port Charles so fast. When Lucky asked Helena about his missing memories, she told him he should try to forget what happened. Helena used her catchphrase to keep Lucky under control. Bobbie comforted a distraught Liz and later shared a happy reunion with Roy. Luke tried to bluff his way out of an arrest, but the agents weren't buying his act. Jason went upstairs to console Carly while Sonny reiterated to Alexis that he wasn't going to force Carly into marriage. Emily made up a story that the police officer believed and she and Zander were relieved when he left. Juan told Hannah everything he knew about Gia. Gia, meanwhile explained to Taggert that she was listed as their mother's next of kin and lied that she sped to get there. Bobbie received a phone call from London and was told that Luke had been arrested. Hannah spilled the truth about Gia to Taggert. Jason tried to persuade Carly into believing that Sonny really wanted to marry her. Sonny overheard her say that she would marry Sonny, but only because Jason wanted her to. Nikolas worried that Luke's arrest would ruin everything he and Lucky had built. Bobbie and Roy informed Nikolas of Luke's arrest. Lucky told Roy to make sure Luke didn't get Roy arrestd as well. Taggert felt responsible for the trouble Gia was in because he left home and the pressure was transferred to Gia. After Jason calmed Carly down, she and Sonny exchanged vows at last.

Tape#29

September 19,2000

Chloe asked Stefan to help her find her special bracelet when she lost it searching for an escape route. Stefan warned her again to stay away from the cliffs. Taggert yelled at Gia for all of her criminal manipulations and Gia dared him to arrest his own sister. Worried about Luke and scared about Roy's safety, Bobbie asked Roy to promise her not to go off on any more wild adventures. Zander and Emily escaped out of the clinic's window when the sheriff came back. Roy asserted that Bobbie had to trust him because he wasn't going to settle down into a boring, predictable life. Bobbie called Mac to get info on Luke's trial and Felicia picked up instead. Officially married, Carly and Sonny directed Jason and Alexis to stay for a small celebration. Sonny later thanked Jason for persuading Carly to go through with the wedding. Jason said he did it because he knew Carly and Sonny would be happy together. Stefan reiterated to Chloe that instead of trying to find a way off the island, they should concentrate on using her dreams to defeat Helena. Gia mouthed off to Hannah when Hannah tried to intercede in her argument with Taggert. Felicia delivered the news to Mac about Luke's arrest and Mac immediately went into cop mode. Alexis and Carly had a frank talk and Alexis told her that she believed Carly had deeper feelings for Sonny. Carly respected her opinion because she knew that Sonny did. Stefan questioned Chloe about her feelings for Jax and was amazed that she was so forgiving. Mac asked Felicia what her plans were now that Luke was arrested. Even though everyone left, Sonny told Carly he would give her whatever kind of celebration she wanted. Emily tried to convince Zander to let her get in touch with her family, but he refused. They came to a strange understanding of each other. Taggert, Hannah, and Juan ganged up on a defensive Gia. Later, Gia and Taggert shared a warm moment when they got news that their mother would be okay. Felicia told Mac that she and the girls were going back to Port Charles with him as planned. Chloe cried as she remembered her happy days with Jax. Sonny cooked a meal for Carly and they managed to get through a nice evening together.

September 21,2000 Ned and Lila talked about Alexis and how marriage might solve the whole thing, when Edward walks in with Eddy's Angle on the front page of the town newspaper. Meanwhile, Stephen learns some disturbing news about Chloe putting her life in danger. Stephen has a talk about Chloe's near death experience. Elizabeth informs Tammy of her trip and they begin to talk about Lucky and his feelings for Elizabeth. Felicia and Maxie have a talk about Felicia's feelings for Luke and that Felicia told Maxie she will not run out on her and Georgie ever again. Alexis informs Dara that Mrs. Corinthos will not be deposed for the case against Sonny Corinthos. Dara then threatens to prove this marriage a fraud. Monica tells Dr. Townsend that she would like to stop the fertility treatments and wants to wait. Edward then tells Monica that stopping the treatments was a bad idea. Monica & Lila thought he was out of his mind and that something was wrong. Alexis also informs Luke that Mac brought the search warrant up alone, which would take Luke off the case. Ned tells Alexis about the paper and is about to tell Lila's story and propose to her, but at that moment she leaves in a hurry to the station for Luke, where she learns that the judge of Luke's case has disposed her off the case. Lucky and Nikolas share their good-byes and Lucky goes to pick up Elizabeth and they run into Helena at the pier. Mike walks into Kelly's and he congratulates Carly on the not-so-shocking news. He then tells Carly that she makes Sonny calm, happy and that she will be the one for Sonny. As Mike leaves, Bobbie walks in and they have a talk about Carly's ceremony and feelings for Sonny. Bobbie convinces Carly that Sonny does really love her and Carly decides to try to tell Sonny that she has feelings for him. Roy visits Luke and covers up the microphones so the police won't hear their conversation on how Roy tried to help Luke come back.

September 25,2000

Liz shook Lucky after he went into another of his trances. Helena demanded that Andreas keep a close watch of Liz because she worried that Liz was going to interfere with her plan to destroy Luke and Laura through Lucky. Scott told Luke that the only reason he was taking the case was because of Laura. Taggert lost control at the hospital and shoved A.J. against the wall. Emily begged Zander to let her write to her family and he gave in, but reminded her that it couldn't be mailed. Jason got more information from the store-owner and then gave the man a bribe to ensure that he wouldn't give anyone else info about Zander or Jason. Scott tried to make Luke see reason, but Luke refused to take Scott on as his attorney. A.J. tried to use the Quartermaine name to get out of trouble, but Hannah made him understand that he was being obnoxious. Gia came back to the hospital with Nikolas to give Taggert a much-needed break. Nikolas then told Gia that he would be happy to stay with her. Carly confessed to Sonny that she hated seafood, but she wanted him to have a nice meal so she ordered it for him. Sonny in turn, decided to make Carly the best hamburger ever to make up for the seafood. While hiding at the store, Jason overheard a man come in and say that he found two teenagers hiding in his hayloft. Unfortunately, two private detectives heard the same information and ran off to find Emily and Zander. Carly asked Sonny if he wanted anything special as a wedding gift and he pulled Carly into a passionate embrace. Lucky asked Liz to walk him through what happened before he went into a trance, but she was afraid to use Helena's catchphrase in case she couldn't shake Lucky out of it. Carly told Sonny that she didn't want to move too fast because she was afraid that her physical attraction to him would lead to deeper emotions that he wouldn't return. As Zander and Emily hid in a stall, the two detectives came in--only they turned out to be Sorel's men. Gia visited her mother and they started to argue about Gia not being in school. Nikolas advised Gia to try and work out a compromise with her mother. Just as Sorel's men were about to find Zander and Emily, an explosion went off that sent the men running. Jason, who set off the explosion, found Emily's letter to the Quartermaine's, but Emily and Zander had already left.

September 26,2000

Alexis was asked to give a lecture on women who have it all. Though honoured, she felt it prudent to refuse the offer. Carly offered to make Sonny breakfast and asked him if he could tell Jason that she wanted to see him. Sonny was concerned that Carly missed him. Nikolas filled Gia in on Lucky and Liz's trip to Albany. Gia wondered why Nikolas would allow the woman he cared about to slip away with another man. In Albany, Lucky and Liz shared a motel room and worked out the sleeping arangements. Lucky confessed that he was glad to be with Liz. Mike stopped by the Penthouse with a wedding gift for Sonny and Carly. Bobbie expressed her concern that Roy keeping things from her would ruin their relationship. Sonny was informed that Mike borrowed more money from a loan shark. Roy's old boss from the FBI offered Roy a job and then informed him that someone Roy helped put in prison was killed there. Roy refused to return to the FBI and was devastated over the murder. A livid Sonny yelled at Mike for being the same loser he always was and Mike hit him across the face. Carly tried to comfort Sonny but he wasn't ready to deal with it. Alexis read Ned a beautiful email from one of her secret admirer's and later Ned, under the alias of the admirer, sent her another letter. Bobbie went to pick up Lucas and Tony reiterated that he did not like Lucas being around Roy. Lucas admitted to Bobbie that he didn't think Roy liked him. Juan suggested to Nikolas that they release Heart and Soul early so that Emily could hear it and know that they are thinking of her.

September 27,2000

Bobbie came to Roy's apartment to check on him after he did not return her message last night. She found Roy working out his tension on the punching bag. Roy was struggling with the guilt of being a FBI informant and betraying so many of his "friends" from his past life. Bobbie listened attentively as he revealed the story of his friend Leo that he knew in Miami, Florida. Leo was part of a gang and Roy was sent to infiltrate. But when the FBI was unable to obtain sufficient arrest they began to put pressure on the little guys and Roy had to testify against Leo. Leo was made to serve a 10-year sentence. However last month, a fellow inmate stuck a knife in Leo. Leo died one month prior to finishing his 10 sentence. Roy was beside himself with grief. As they lay together on the sofa arm in arm, Bobbie told him that we all have regrets and we all carry our past around with us. What we have to remember is that we have to keep moving forward and learn to live with our past and ourselves. Jason went to see his grandmother and mother to share the news about Emily. First Jason greeted Lila with a big hug and kiss. She was so thrilled to see him and that he was okay. He began to tell her about Emily when Monica walked in the room. Jason immediately gave her the letter. Monica read the letter in front of the family (except Ned, Alan and AJ). She began to cry as she read the letter so Edward took over. Emily said she loved them and proclaimed that she was safe with Zander. He planned to release her once they arrived in Canada (across the border). She apologized for not telling her family about her troubles but she did not want them to be disappointed in her. Emily stated that she would be home soon and hopefully prior to them receiving the letter. By this time Edward was up in arms, but Jason tried to convince the family to stay calm. Monica backed him up and the rest of the family agreed. Then Edward asked to speak to Jason alone. Monica and Lila hesitantly left. Edward actually had his concerned side out. He asked Jason to tell him the hard facts, what exactly are the odds of him getting Emily safely back to them. Jason said he would not lie and that he would do everything in his power to return his sister home, but he cannot guarantee anything at this point. AJ walked in the room and said he had just talked to Monica and was glad Jason was able to track Emily down. Jason said he had to go. Edward in his joy to hear news about Emily continued to brag on and on about Jason and how lucky they are to have him back. This only caused AJ more self doubt and rejection. He poured himself another drink. Mac visited Luke and questioned him about his new attorney. As anticipated, Luke rebelled and accused Mac of framing him for Stefan's death. Luke told Mac he was innocent and would be representing himself since the police department through Alexis off the case. Luke asked Mac to put all the personal stuff aside and look at the facts, surely you must know that I did not kill Stefan. Luke's statements fell on death ears. Mac started to leave and before he got to the door, he told Luke that he had to the end of today to advise him of counsel. Felicia arranged to meet Scotty Baldwin at Kelly's. Felicia tried to convince Scott to represent Luke. Scott advised her that every woman in Port Charles has been trying to get him to represent Luke Spencer. He told her that Luke refused his services. Felicia asked if Scott would go back to see Luke and change his mind. Scott said that he was done with representing anyone that did not want him. Mac went to Kelly's for lunch and was surprised by Felicia's appearance. She asked him to join her for lunch. He gladly accepted. He began to speak about Luke, but then asked if they could go forward with this conversation subject. Felicia said no and asked to talk about lunch because every time they talk about Luke they argue. Mac agreed. Then Felicia said she just had one thing to tell him and that is earlier she asked Scott Baldwin to represent Luke. Mac also told Felicia that he tried to get him free counsel. Mac thanked Felicia and Felicia thanked Mac for letting the other know about this. Then they went on to order lunch. Alexis went to see Luke. She began with his defense and started in on the reasons why he has to have an attorney today and that attorney should be Scott Baldwin. Luke goes over his past with her about Scott and Laura. Alexis jokingly called him a wife stealer and told him that his past with Scott was a long time ago and is over. However his past with Felicia is not and rings very strong in Mac's ears. They need to make a move and make it fast. The trial could start as early as next week and he has to have an attorney. Scott shows up at the meeting and between him and Alexis they convince Luke to concede. The car blew a hose and Emily and Zander look inside the hood as Zander signed relieve that the damage was only a hose and not a radiator. Zander told Emily that he would go into town and pick up a hose. In the meantime, he wants her to wait. She does not want to wait alone, but she remembers her promise to stay with Zander until they get across the border to Canada. Zander left and Emily lay in the car sleeping. A police officer arrived at the scene and questioned Emily. Emily made up a story about her and her boyfriend Billy. Then Zander arrived and hid behind the bushes. Emily waved him out of the bushes and proceeded to play the girlfriend role. The police officer did not seem suspicious of the two so he departed. Zander thanked Emily for not leaving and sticking by him. She said that she honors her promises. Then Zander went to put the hose on the car and Emily offered to help; he accepted. Emily and Zander are becoming closer at each passing moment.

September 28,2000

Alexis delivered the bad news to Luke that the petition she filed to get the evidence against him dismissed was denied. She asked him about his alibi and Luke wouldn't tell her the truth. As she left, Roy came in. Roy deduced that Luke was with Felicia the night that Stefan was allegedly murdered. Luke refused to use Felicia as an alibi, even if he was with her. Felicia was surprised when Mac asked her to visit Luke. He wanted her to be sure that she didn't have lingering feelings for him. Gia admitted to Nikolas that she was scared for her mother to find out the truth about her actions over the summer. She was afraid that her mother would have another heart attack. Nikolas advised her to be honest with her mother. A drunken A.J. taunted Jason about not finding Emily. Hannah showed up and took A.J. away from the bar. Hannah tried to comfort A.J. as Taggert watched them through the window at Kelly's. Taggert later told Hannah that she had to choose between him and A.J. once and for all. Carly did everything she could to reach out to Sonny but he rejected her efforts and shut her out. She went to see Jason and told him that her marriage wasn't working so he lost the bet they made on her wedding night. Back at the Penthouse, Sonny confessed to Michael that he knew Carly cared and he was going to make things better for her. Stefan and Chloe swam together and Chloe later told him that she had figured out how to get them off the island. Chloe suggested that she and Stefan try to escape via the supply boat. To her surprise, Stefan agreed with her. Stefan confessed how much Helena's neglect had hurt him as a child and Chloe assured him that he was nothing like his mother. Garcia gave the Quartermaine's the news that Emily was spotted near the Canadian border. He told them that Emily seemed fine and seemed to have a good relationship with her kidnapper.

Tape#30

October 2,2000

Chloe planned her and Stefan's escape from the island. Stefan was impressed with her strategies, but gave her some self-defense lessons to "help" her. Stefan ensured with his associates that Chloe's plan would fail and put another guard on Helena to protect Nikolas. A.J. woke up surrounded by the Quartermaines and Hannah. Tony tried to offer solutions to help A.J. and suggested checking him into detox. Alan and Monica decided to go through with it, even though they hated the thought. Hannah asked A.J. why he was so willing to give up on his life. Lucky reluctantly cooperated with Jason to get information about Emily and Zander. Lucky insisted that he was going to wait with Jason for Emily and Zander to show up in the border town. Jason coolly informed Lucky that what he wanted would never happen. Though Lucky pretended to back off, he told Liz they weren't going back to Port Charles as Jason commanded. Scott and Alexis worked on building Luke's case but he was completely unhelpful. Dara made Alexis a witness for the prosecution thereby preventing her from attending or helping with Luke's trial. Alexis planned to fight Dara's injunction. Scott demanded that Luke call Laura and tell her what was going on before she read about his trial in the newspaper. Nikolas escorted Gia to the hospital and when she questioned his motives, he said he needed the distraction from worrying about Emily. When Gia visited her mother, she was ordered to go back to school. Gia told her mother that she had taken a leave of absence from school instead of telling her that she dropped out. As Nikolas and Gia spoke, Helena came along and wanted to know who Gia was. Helena and Gia traded quips and Nikolas backed Gia up.

October 3,2000

Alan and Monica struggled with AJ. He did not want to be in detoxification, but they were determined to get him sober. AJ was out of his mind and he demanded vodka. He was screaming and yelling and blaming his parents. The nurses came in and had to restrain and medicate him to keep him under control. Alan and Monica explained that they did this to save his life, but he refused to listen. After his parents left, Hannah arrived. She sat and watched AJ sleep for hours until he awoke. At first he insulted her and asked her for a drink, then when she would not comply he demanded that she leave. Yet one second later, he begged her to stay. Hannah agreed to stay with him and give him support. Chloe and Stefan made it to the boat to escape "the Prison Island." The problem arose that the boat was out of fuel. Then as Stefan looked around for the fuel, two guards arrived and ordered their return back to the island. Stefan tried to take the two guards, but was defeated (no surprise there). Both Stefan and Chloe were returned to the villa. However Chloe was more determined to get off the island once and for all. Elizabeth and Lucky decided they had to continue their plan to find Emily and Zander. They made it to the Canadian border and decided to just wait. Unfortunately for them, Sorel's men are also looking for Emily and Zander and his men almost found Elizabeth and Lucky. Carly was trying really hard to get Sonny to open his mind to their marriage and forget about the annulment. They were being really playful in the morning and Sonny made her pecan waffles. Then Sonny left for work. Later on Carly paged her mom to come right over. Bobbie was not too thrilled because she was on her way to Luke's trial. Nevertheless Carly wanted to thank her mom for the good advice she gave. Bobbie was glad that Carly finally told Sonny that she loved him. But Carly said she did not tell Sonny because she wanted him to come out of himself and reveal his feeling too. Carly was planning this big seduction. Bobbie still insisted that she just tell Sonny the truth and forget about another plan. Carly thanked Bobbie again and said her plan would work out this time. When Sonny returned home. Carly turned their house into a romantic setting. She had the wine, candles, sexy dress, and of course the necklace (from her husband). Sonny was surprised and pleased at the same time. Carly offered him wine and when he sat down next to her, she began to undress him. He tried to resist, but could not bring himself to. She wanted to dance with him, so they danced. But as things moved forward, Sonny asked Carly to stop. He said this is no good for both of them, because they are getting an annulment after Luke's trial. Carly's evening did not go exactly as planned. Sonny kissed her and said good night. Luke's trial did not go well on the first day. Mac and Dara did a great job convincing the jury of Luke's guilt. Scott Baldwin called Felicia to meet with him outside of Kelly's after court. He told her that he believes that she knows something that will free his client. She agreed, but said that this information could hurt a lot of people. Scott said he realizes her predicament, but Luke's life is at stake and that he could go to prison for the rest of his life if she did not come forward. Scott told Felicia he did not want to pressure her, but he did want her to give serious thought to Luke's situation.

October 4,2000

Liz and Lucky camp out near the bridge searching for Emily and Zander....Back on the island, Stefan returns after a walk, and Chloe is shaken, afraid something happened to him.Zem have car problems. Roy tells Mac he's not interested in a job with the police,as Mac is concerned he may break Luke out of jail. Luke tells Alexis he needs a new lawyer,not Scotty. He refuses to tell her his alibi is Felicia the night Stefan was "killed". Felicia tells Bobbie her secret. Liz and Lucky wait at the bridge for Zem to arrive, since they have to cross there to get into Canada..Liz professes her love for Lucky.Dara and Alexis get in an argument over her visiting Luke. Roy goes to visit Luke and tells him Sonny is making the arrangements to get him out, but suggest he just tell the truth.

October 5,2000

Ned talks to Mac about finding Emily. Zander tries to convince Emily to walk to the bridge when the car is a gonner. He tells her if she doesn't want to, she's free to go, but she decides to stick it out with him until he gets to the border. Two of Sorrell's men grab Lucky and Liz, thinking they know where Zem is. Jason comes and they let them go. Chloe and Stefan talk about stealing the boat. Helena pays Luke a visit. Stefan fills Chloe in on his childhood with Starvos and Helena. Mac learns Zem have been spotted and takes off for the Canadian border.Alexis tries to help Ned. Felicia talks to Dara about Luke's trail.

October 6,2000

Carly returns from a shopping trip and asks Sonny his opinion on two dresses she bought for their date, as she tries to seduce him. Liz and Lucky continue to wait for Zem. Mac arrives and talks to the sherrif about Emily. Felicia just misses catching up with Mac-again. Scotty goes to see Luke in jail. Felicia and Bobbie talk about her testifing for Luke. Scotty and Luke get in an argument over Felicia.Carly learns the charges against Sonny were dropped, so they don't need to stay married. Jason tries to convince Liz to get Lucky to leave the bridge area, so he can get Emily from Zander safely. Roy goes to visit Luke, as he tells Roy to tell Felicia he can take care of matters without her help.. Laura returns to town and goes to the courthouse to support Luke. Carly tries to prevent Sonny from going to the courthouse. Lucky returns and tells Jason and Liz about seeing Mac in town. Laura catches up on what's happening with Bobbie. Carly seduces Sonny in the limo. Lucky grabs Emily, as Jason and Zander have a face off. Felicia tesifies as Mac returns to hear her admit she slept with Luke, as does a shocked Laura.

October 9,2000

Emily convinced Zander to put down his gun and leave before the cops arrived. She collapsed in Jason's arms when Zander left. Emily assured Jason that she was fine and told them all that Zander hadn't hurt her. When the cops showed up, she covered for Zander and the others followed along. Lucky took Emily aside and apologized to her for everything that had happened. Monica and Alan ran into A.J.'s room when the DT's hit him. A.J. threatened to skip town once he was released if they didn't let him go immediately. As the Quartermaine's argued about A.J.'s condition, Monica stepped away and looked up to see Emily. Emily shared a joyous reunion with her family. With Jason in tow, Emily visited A.J. to let him know she was safe and the three of them had a happy moment together. Felicia admitted on the stand that she had been with Luke the night of Stefan's murder, but she didn't say that they had slept together. Dara crucified Felicia on the stand and tried to discredit her testimony. After hearing Felicia's admission, Laura left the courtroom in tears. Luke thanked Felicia for saving him at the expense of her marriage. Mac later asked her to help him understand why she did what she did. Sonny revealed to Carly that Alexis had already told him the charges against him had been dropped and Carly freaked out. She lied to him again and told him that she only made love to him to have one last fling before their marriage ended. Back at the Penthouse, Carly prepared to leave and Sonny told her that it was her choice, but he didn't want her to go. Carly asked him if he could look at her and tell her that he wanted her for herself alone. Sonny eventually admitted that he wanted Carly to stay married to him because he needed her. Just as they were going upstairs, Benny burst in and told Sonny that things in Puerto Rico had become volatile. Sonny prepared to leave and Carly begged him not to.

October 10,2000

Terrified that Sonny wouldn't return, from Puerto Rico alive, Carly pleaded with Jason to stop him. She wasn't pleased when Jason offered to go in his stead. Sonny and Carly bid Jason a painful goodbye as he left town to take care of Sonny's business. Nikolas worked his charm on Florence when he ran into her and Gia at the hospital. Later, Nikolas and GIa witnessed Juan's reunion with Emily. A.J. was pleased when Hannah came to visit and didn't want to hear it when she told him that the night she saved his life, she was coming to tell him goodbye. A devastated Felicia tried to explain things to Mac, but he told her that he didn't want to punish her or fight with her, he just wanted their marriage over with. While Laura drowned her sorrows with scotch, Scott came to her rescue when she was harrangued by an overzealous reporter. She and Scott reminisced about their old life together and she thanked him for always being there for her. Liz brought Lucky to the hospital so he could see Kevin about his memory lapses and Lucky filled Nikolas in on what had happened to him

ctober 11,2000

AJ was quite pleased today, the day of his release from General Hospital. He was anxious to leave and be free of his family and all their concerns. AJ continued to ask his family members for a drink and they continued to refuse. Monica, Alan, and Edward pleaded with AJ to go to rehab, but he was having no parts of that discussion. AJ signed Tony's release papers and then was off and running. Hannah showed up out of the blue and asked if AJ needed a ride to the rehab center. AJ replied only if there is a bar there. Hannah tried her best to persuade AJ but he really was not reasonable. Gia was also at General Hospital checking on her mom and Taggert. Gia over heard all the commotion regarding AJ as well as seeing Hannah pleading with AJ to let her take him to rehab. When Gia returned to the waiting room with her brother, she asked him about his girlfriend. Taggert answered honestly. He told Gia that Hannah was a lot like her. She was strong, driven, and opinionated. Gia questioned him further asking if Hannah was faithful to him. Taggert, being the detective he is, responded in the most appropriate way. He did not confirm her faithfulness, but did reassure Gia that Hannah was totally honest with him. Stefan setup up Chloe by having a fashion magazine, with a photo of Brenda, at the table when she returned from her latest escape attempt. When Chloe returned to the villa to tell Stefan how far she had made it over the mountain, she stumbled upon the magazines and was pleased to see something from the outside world. She became excited as she talked about the fashions and how bad they were. Until she came upon Brenda's picture. She was so upset that she ran out of the villa. When she returned, Stefan questioned why she had left so abruptly; Chloe confessed to Stefan that she was heart-broken to see the picture of Brenda, because she knew that Jax would not be coming to get her. Chloe tried to remain strong and be positive about the situation, but she could no longer hold her pain inside, she broke down and began to sob. Of course, Stefan took this opportunity to comfort her and become friendlier. And when Chloe began to cry, he put his arms around her and hugged her. Ned found Emily downstairs At the quartermaines' alone. He asked her where the family was and she told him that they were trying to get AJ to go to rehab. He was shocked that she was left all alone, but Emily reassured him that she was fine and AJ really needed the family's attention more than she did at this moment. Ned revealed to Emily that he was going to pop the question to Alexis. He had big plans to whisk Alexis away and proposed on his knees. She congratulated him. As Ned was about to leave, Mac and Taggert arrived and asked to talk to Emily. Ned stayed while they questioned her. Emily still continued to cover for Zander. Ned commented that Emily must have liked Zander. She was taken aback by his comments and covered quickly by saying that Zander treated her well only. But Emily pondered for a while about Zander. Shortly thereafter, Alan, Edward, and Monica returned home without AJ. They informed Emily that AJ was released, but in his own custody. Monica went on to change the subject back to Emily and advised that she would be on restriction until Christmas and she had to be in every evening by dinnertime. Emily agreed to accept whatever disciplinary actions. Edward, on the other hand, was not pleased and felt this was a sentence too lenient. Felicia was at the courthouse when she ran into Bobbie and Roy. They both were surprised that she was present after what happened yesterday. Felicia said she had to be there to hear the verdict. She had scarified so much, that Luke had to be freed. Felicia confided in Bobbie that she had talked to Mac yesterday and he did listen to her side. Unfortunately it was too little too late. Mac took off his wedding ring and stated that their marriage was over. Bobbie tried to comfort her by saying Mac will come around. Felicia told her that there was something in the way that Mac took off the ring and how he looked at her, the marriage was over. Nikolas and Lucky met at the courthouse. Nikolas immediately showed Lucky the headlines in the newspaper, but Lucky told him he had seen it yesterday. Nikolas, being the kind brother that he is, tried to convince Lucky to see his dad. Nikolas confessed that he knew that Stefan had many faults and did wrong things, but he would give anything to have him alive and walk through the door because he loved him. Lucky agreed and shared with Nikolas his understanding. Lucky thanked him for his words of wisdom and went to see Luke. Needless to say, Luke was stunned by his son's arrival, although he was extremely happy to see him. Lucky was himself again. He asked his father how he was doing. Lucky actually admitted that he did not want his father to be imprisoned. Luke asked Lucky was everything okay because the last he remembered they were worst enemies. Lucky asked his father to be calm and just let him talk. Luke agreed. Lucky began to tell his father the truth about Faison/Helena's mind control over him. He also said that he was going to get help; this made Luke feel relieved. He also told his dad that his dislike for his actions was not all Faison and it was hard to have him as a father. Lucky stated outright that he loved his father (Luke said ditto) and that he would be in the courtroom to support him. The bailiff entered the visitation room and announced that the jury had reached their verdict. After Luke was led back into the courtroom, the judge asked for the jury's verdict. The jury found Luke not guilty of Stefan's murder. After the verdict Luke and Felicia's eyes met, they smiled briefly at one another. She went over to him and then Luke said thank you. Felicia responded with you're welcome and just walked out of the courtroom; leaving Luke there to ponder the road that lies ahead.

^Oct,11 October 12,2000

Bobbie was pleased when Roy and Lucas bonded in the park. Roy answered Lucas's questions about his criminal past and Roy answered him honestly. Lucas responded to Roy's honesty by teaching him to play soccer. Tony came to the park to pick Lucas up and didn't like seeing Roy and Lucas getting along. He was concerned that Roy wasn't a proper role model for his son. Hannah told Taggert about helping A.J., but told him that nothing had changed in her feelings for him. At the hospital, Taggert introduced Hannah to his mother. Gia confronted Hannah and asked when she was going to tell Taggert that she was cheating on him with A.J. Nikolas and Lucky saw Helena at the hospital and avoided her. Lucky told Nikolas that he believed that Helena was behind his brainwashing. Nikolas was appalled by his grandmother's actions. He wanted to put an end to her manipulations once and for all. Nikolas threatened Helena that he would strip her of her power as soon as he could. Lucky had his first session with Kevin and gave him a piece of paper with Helena's trigger phrase on it. Kevin suggested that Lucky was already on the road to recovery simply by recognizing that something was wrong. Stefan told Chloe that she needed to face her feelings about Jax and not try to bury things behind a pleasant facade. Chloe was angry that she couldn't get off the island and fight for Jax. Trying to find a parallel situation, she asked him if he ever loved anyone as much as Laura. She wasn't comforted when he said no, but he offered to take her on a picnic to watch the sunset and she agreed. Edward intercepted a phone call from Juan and refused to let him talk to Emily. Juan went to see Emily and Lila intervened with Edward to let him stay. He told Emily that he really loved her, but she couldn't return the sentiment. Ned took Alexis to the same island that Jax brought Chloe to so they could have peace away from the "Eddie's Angel" scandal. He asked her for his ring back and Alexis believed that he wanted to break things off with her. She was shocked when he got down on his knees and proposed to her. Though afraid, she accepted his proposal. Ned wanted to get married right away because he believed it was the perfect way to end public interest in her.

October 13,2000

Edward allowed Emily to see Juan at Kelly's and Juan declared how happy he was that they were back together. Alone in her room, Emily confided in her journal that she was too distracted by thoughts of Zander to give Juan her full attention. She was surprised when Juan climbed the tree to see her. He poured out his heart to her and she made him hide in the closet when she heard a noise. The noise turned out to be Zander. Mac offered Laura his support and Laura told him he didn't need to make up for his wife's actions. Felicia saw Mac later and apologized again for all the pain she had caused him. Mac declared that they needed to move forward and wanted to keep things normal for the girls. Upon his release, Luke went to the club where he and Roy toasted to his freedom. Luke flipped when learned that Claude had booked a band, suspecting that it was a teenybopper nightmare or country. He was surprised when Claude himself took to the stage with his reggae band. Bobbie counseled Luke that he needed to talk to Laura who was considering leaving Port Charles for good. Unfortunately, Laura saw him first--dancing with Felicia at the club. Carly drove Sonny crazy as she asked for his opinion about redecorating the Penthouse, but he was happily surprised by her spontaneous affection. Tammy stopped by to see if he knew where Mike was. Sonny filled her in on their last argument and she didn't understand why Sonny couldn't see the decency in his father. Though it wasn't something he was used to, Sonny told Carly how he felt about Mike's disappearance. Alexis and Ned enjoyed their island idyll and planned their upcoming nuptials. Ned was shocked when A.J. appeared in his hotel room and listed all the reasons why Ned was a failure and why his marriage would fail--as all the others did. Ned was gratified that A.J.'s sudden appearance wasn't real and was only a vision, but he couldn't help but be affected by what the pseudo-A.J. had said. Alexis suffered from a similar vision, but hers was of Helena telling her that she would be reduced to being a shadow of Ned once she married him. Prepared to marry in spite of their visions, Ned and Alexis were horrified when they opened the door to a gaggle of reporters.

October 16,2000

An embittered Laura breaks up the party when she finds Luke and Felicia whooping it up at the blues club with Roy and Bobbie. After scrambling to get Zander safely hidden in the closet, Emily tries frantically to persuade Juan to leave. With a few still drinks under her belt, Laura coaxes Roy out onto the dance floor and presses close against him while Bobbie looks on. After Juan departs, Zander explains to Emily that he risked returning from Canada because he couldn't bear to say farewell forever. Carly convinces a skeptical Sonny to let her cook dinner for the two of them. Ned and Alexis are besieged by a mob of roving reporters when they attempt to get wed on the sly. With the romantic mood broken, Alexis and her would-be groom decide to postpone their wedding until the time is truly right. Sonny tries to put the best face on a messy situation when Carly's culinary efforts go badly awry. Confessing how much he misses her, Zander asks an astonished Emily to run away with him. Scott finally escorts a tipsy Laura out of the club.

October 17,2000

Concerned about his nephew's safety, Stefan contemplates a shift in strategy and suggests to Chloe that they try to lure Helena to the island. At GH, Helena faces off again with a bristling Gia. As Lucas gives him another soccer lesson in the park, Roy is annoyed when Sorel approaches and interrupts the game. Lucky pays a visit to his mother to find out how she's been handling the latest revelations about Luke. Apologizing for pushing her away all year, Lucky shakily confides to Laura how he was programmed by Faison following his kidnapping. Mac and Felicia sit down with the girls to explain as gently as possible why they've decided to get a divorce. Relieved to learn the truth at last, Laura tearfully comforts her anguished son. Nikolas warns his grandmother to stop harassing his friends but Helena counters with thinly veiled threats to cut off funding to the hospital. Tony rails at Roy after spotting Sorel near Lucas. Though Georgie begins to adjust to news of the divorce fairly quickly, Maxie grows sullen and accusatory towards her guiltridden mother. Chloe finds and reads Stefan's boyhood journal.

October 20,2000

Tape#32

October 23,2000

Emily protests as Marcus places Zander under arrest for the murder of a police officer. Scott offers to help Laura get her job back but she defiantly insists she won't return to GH. Tightening his grip on Helena's scrawny throat, Luke reminds her that he can't overlook the way she messed with his son's head. Alexis confides to Sonny her concern that marrying Ned might be the biggest mistake she's ever made. Helena warns Luke that if she dies Lucky's brainwashing will automatically move to a new level guaranteed to cause the Spencers great pain for years to come. Sonny gives his nervous attorney a pep talk but Alexis explains why she fears losing her own identity after walking down the aisle. Desperate to protect Zander, Emily claims he was on his way down to the police station to turn himself in, then blurts out that Sorel's men were the ones who really killed Ted. Ned asks Alexis to accompany him to Brooklyn for his daughter's sixth birthday. With her anxious parents looking on, Emily gives Mac an official statement aimed at clearing Zander's name.

October 24,2000

Gia brings Florence to Kelly's in an effort to show her mother how happily she's become entrenched in life in Port Charles. Ned and a nervous Alexis arrive for Brook Lynn's birthday party and discuss how best to break their big news. Chloe tells Stefan she's had another disturbing dream about Nikolas fighting with Helena. Ned carefully explains to his pouting daughter why he divorced Chloe and became engaged to Alexis. After Nikolas orders his grandmother to stay away from the people he loves, Helena curtly informs him that she's cutting him off without a cent until he learns to keep a civil tongue in his month. Tony accuses his ex-wife of letting Roy distract her after Bobbie makes a mistake on a patient's chart. Emily appeals to her grandmother for help getting Zander out of a jam but Lila gently turns down her request for financial aid. Brook Lynn asks Ned why he gets married so often. Meanwhile, Alexis finds an unlikely ally in Gloria Cerillo. Nikolas offers a grateful Gia a place to live. Halfway around the world, Stefan gives his henchman some new instructions. Emily explains to her parents why she's determined to help Zander acquire legal representation.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 31ST

As Carly dresses Michael for his first Halloween party, Juan arrives at the penthouse and appeals to Sonny to stop Alexis from defending Emily's kidnapper. Meanwhile, at the jail, Zander explains to Alexis why it's so dangerous to allow Emily anywhere near him. Elizabeth beams when Lucky fervently declares that he never wants to be anywhere without her again. Marcus is taken aback as Florence reveals her intention to relocate permanently to Port Charles. Tony blanches when Lucas dons a gangster costume and proudly announces that he's going as "Roy" for Halloween. Sonny advises an angry Juan to support Emily in whatever she feels she has to do. Lucky and Elizabeth happily discuss picking up their dream of making a life together in New York City. Out of his son's earshot, an incensed Tony orders Roy to stay away from Lucas. Ned gripes to his fiancee after learning that Alexis plans to represent Zander. Helena gives Laura an earful about how Luke chloroformed her firstborn son and threatened to murder him. A lovestruck Maxie perks up when Lucky joins the party at the brownstone. Juan confronts Zander. Carly finds Mike loitering near the penthouse door.

Wednesday Nov 1,2000

Laura was seeing red with Luke as she confronted him about kidnapping Nikolas. Luke tried to explain, but Laura was getting on him for involving Nikolas. Finally Luke told Laura about Lucky's deep programming and she backed off a little. However, Laura made it quite clear that Luke was not to pull another stunt like this. She was not willing to loose one son for another and she was sick and tired of her children having to pay for their parents' mistakes. Carly ran into Mike outside the penthouse. They were very nice to one another. Mike quizzed her about Sonny and Michael. Carly even commented on how well she and Sonny were getting along much better than expected. Mike congratulated her once again. She tried to convince him to come inside so that he could visit with Michael and catch up on things. But Mike did not believe that Sonny would appreciate his presence. Mike bid Carly farewell. Yet Carly had no intentions of letting this rest so she followed Mike and found out where he was staying. Later on when Sonny returned home, Carly started talking to him about family. She commented on how grateful she was to spend Halloween with Michael at her mom's party. Sonny was pleased that she enjoyed herself. Then Carly began to push him about Mike. It was impressive to see Sonny remain so calm about the subject of Mike. He did finally ask Carly to drop the topic and then he excused himself to bed. Ned and Alexis were at Kelly's discussing their upcoming wedding. Alexis was all jittery and panicky. Ned was calm and sympathized with Alexis' plight. Yet through this they were able to decide that Ned wanted Alan to be his best man and Emily to be a bridesmaid. After further discussion it became apparent that the happy couple would need a lot of help to make this wedding go off without a hitch so they decided to hire a wedding planner. At the hospital Ned came upon Monica and Alan and was dying to ask Alan the big question. Alan was thrilled with Ned's request, but turned him down. Alan asked Ned to consider asking AJ to be his best man. This would help promote positivity in the family, Alan said. AJ always feels like the last man on the pole, and by asking him to be your best man this may give AJ the help he needs to bring him back into the family again. Ned said for any other occasion he would not mind asking AJ, but his wedding to Alexis was too important of a day to take such a great risk with AJ. Alan asked Ned to reconsider and then Ned in return asked Alan to reconsider. A very brave Nikolas visited Luke. Needless to say Luke was quite astonished. He asked if Lucky was going to run in and save him. Nikolas informed Luke that Lucky knew nothing about his visit. He told Luke that he was there to straightened out a few things. Nikolas said that he understood Luke's reasons for kidnapping him and that they are both upset with Helena for what she has done to Lucky. But he wanted to leave the threats and anger nonsense to Luke and Helena and not to pull Lucky and him in the fight. Nikolas went on to say that he does not care about the past because he and Lucky have over come the long-standing family feud. Just keep us out of you plans to retaliate against Helena. Luke vehemently denied that he had any thing to do with Helena's anger and revenge. Nikolas told him that he could keep the blinders on if he wanted too, but there is equal blame between him and Helena for this family feud. Maxie had a birthday part at Bobbie's house. The party was a success especially when Lucky arrived. Maxie was on cloud 9 when she saw Lucky (she didn't even see Elizabeth holding his hand). Felicia did not know at first, but soon she noticed the look in her daughter's eyes. Felicia confided in Bobbie about this crush, and Bobbie reassured her that Lucky was a good person for her daughter's first crush. Felicia commented like mother like daughter. Later after the party, Felicia gave in and told Maxie that she would allow her to wear a little bit of make-up. Maxie gave her mom a big thanks. After Lucky and Elizabeth left Maxie's party they headed over to Kelly's. Lucky could not hold it in any more he wanted to give Elizabeth her birthday gift (seeing her birthday is tomorrow). Elizabeth was surprised that he even remembered. Lucky gave her a card with the words free get out of Port Charles card. Elizabeth asked what did the card mean. Then Lucky told her he wanted to take her to New York City. Elizabeth was thrilled and told him that they deserved this trip and not just because of her birthday, but to celebrate being together

Thursday Nov 2,2000

Nikolas is surprised to learn about a sudden windfall coming his way from his "late" uncle's estate. Monica confides to Bobbie that she's afraid she might be entering menopause. Zander refuses to accept a plea bargain which would force him to testify against Sorel. Edward decides to meddle in Ned's plans after hearing how Alan turned down the chance to be best man. Determined to woo Hannah away from Marcus, A.J. purchases a professional football team as a gift for the girl of his dreams. Ned meets with a professional wedding planner and instructs him to leak every tiny detail about the gala to the ravenous press. Zander reminds Alexis how Sorel will target Emily if he plays ball with the prosecution. Meanwhile, Juan lets it slip to an irked Monica that Alexis has agreed to defend Emily's kidnapper. Nikolas hides from Gia the truth about his improving finances. Later, Nikolas curtly informs Helena that he's acquired a housemate. Monica confronts Zander at the jail. Bobbie makes another mistake on a patient's chart. Chloe is disappointed when she and Stefan are "recaptured." Helena gleefully fills Florence in on her daughter's new living arrangements.

Friday Nov 3,2000

Tape#33

Tuesday Nov 7,2000

Bobbie invites Felicia and her family to join her crew for Thanksgiving at the brownstone. Emily returns to the jail and is irked to learn that both her mother and Juan have already paid separate visits on Zander. Meanwhile, Alexis appeals to Roy for help convincing her young client to turn states' evidence against Sorel. Florence arrives at the cottage and demands some answers from her daughter. Though Gia explains that she and Nikolas are only roommates, Florence insists that the girl move into the brownstone with her. Felicia assures Bobbie that she and the girls would love to have Mac share their Thanksgiving dinner. On the island, Stefan gives an amused Chloe some playful instruction in the martial arts. Florence accuses Nikolas of using Gia to get back at his grandmother. Emily angrily confronts her parents after learning that Edward has enrolled her in a boarding school 3000 miles from home. Later, Emily snipes at Juan for interfering with her efforts to help a friend. Roy gives Zander the benefit of his own painful experience from being on the wrong side of the law. Afterwards, Zander tells Alexis he's decided to agree to the plea bargain.

Wednesday Nov 8,2000

Chloe prepared a special evening for Stefan. She cooked his favorite Greek food and dessert to thank him for taking care of her in the cave. As Stefan watched from outside the French doors of the villa, he was pleasantly surprised to see Chloe setting the table. The conversation started about Helena, but Stefan quickly changed the topic and told Chloe that they should enjoy her extraordinary supper and forget about Helena this evening. Then Chloe proposed a toast: May tonight bring back only Happy memories. Stefan complimented Chloe on her Greek cooking because it was very close to what he had as a child. After dinner Stefan asked Chloe to dance and she accepted. They began dancing and little by little the two became closer and closer. Chloe, however, began to reminisce about Jax and started to cry. She pulled away from Stefan and he asked if everything was all right. She replied that she was okay it was just hard. Stefan immediately realized it was Jax and tried to comfort her. Chloe kissed Stefan, thanked him, and retreated to her room. At the hospital Tony ran into Bobbie. He immediately got into it about her forgetfulness. Bobbie told Tony she left a note on his desk about Lucas. Tony responded with he never got a note. The tone of the argument escalated a little before Bobbie extinguished it by saying do you want to spend the afternoon with Lucas or not. Tony said yes, and he would pick up Lucas. Alexis asked Emily to come see her after school. Emily thought it was about Zander, but to her surprise Alexis asked her to be a brides woman. Emily happily agreed. As the two sit and wait for the wedding planner, Eldon, Carly arrives at the door. Emily leaves, but does congratulate Carly on her marriage to Sonny. Then Carly told Alexis that she came over to help with the wedding. Alexis was horrified at first, but later realized that she could use all the help she could get. Next the wedding planner showed arrived and he was on his cell phone talking to the press. He was very thrilled to meet Mrs. Sonny Corinthos and started going on and on about Carly's participation in the wedding. Shortly thereafter Carly had gone from helper to Bride's Maid. Alexis was trying to stop this media train from rolling but it just kept growing with Eldon's help. After the wedding planner left, Carly did apologize to Alexis for letting the whole help in the wedding plan get out of hand. Alexis conceded and agreed to let Carly remain the bride's maid in Chloe's absence. Carly was so pleased that Alexis kept her on that she ran home to tell Sonny. Alexis unable to fathom what just happened, laid on the love seat with an ice pack. Later, Ned arrived and gave Alexis the news about Alan finally agreeing to be the best man. He also mentioned that AJ was still on the groomsman list. Next Alexis sprung her own news about the wedding on him Carly being her maid of honor. Roy and Luke were working on accounting matters in his office when Roy told him that the club was broke. Roy gave Luke an "I told you so" because he begged him not to stop the card table in the back. Right after Roy finished that statement officers from Interpol and the IRS busted into Luke's office and informed him that they had taken control of all his assets domestic and foreign, not to mention the ice princess. Luke was enraged. He told them repeatedly that the ice princess was his and that it was a gift. It did not belong to Helena Cassadine. The officers informed Luke that Helena had legal papers showing that she owned the stone, but Luke refused to give up. Meanwhile during this discussion, Felicia showed up at Luke's to give Roy his cell phone. Roy leads the officers to another location to look at the books while Felicia and Luke started talking. Felicia read Luke well because he was working on a plan for Cruella de Cassadine. He offered Felicia a position and then remembered that she was staying put for her two children. She worked so hard to turn Luke down and barely made it out the door because Felicia was ready to start on another adventure with Luke.

Friday Nov 10,2000

After getting through the reporters and into the L&B studios, Ned asked Alexis if she would like to take a vacation from herself. He called Nikolas and asked if he and Emily could get over to L&B right away, it was an emergency. Nikolas, Emily and Gia were standing outside Kelly's; Nikolas and Emily watching Liz and Lucky through the window. Nikolas told Emily they were wanted at L&B and Gia went with them, because, she told them she wanted to apply for a job at L&B. When they arrived, Ned asked Nikolas and Emily if they would change places with him and Alexis so they could get away without the reporters on their tails. Gia made some comment about why wouldn't they like the publicity. Alexis asked who she was. Nikolas introduced her to Ned and Alexis. Gia said it was nice to finally meet you officially. Alexis asked Nikolas "so this is Gia?" Gia was surprised Nikolas mentioned her to Alexis, and did he also tell her she was looking for a job? Ned remembered her from one of his concerts. He told her she could put in an application but they weren't hiring right now, aside from the special project they had for Nikolas and Emily. They wanted Nikolas and Emily to be them and they would be Nikolas and Emily. After some discussion as to whether they could pull it off, they did finally agree and they exchanged clothes and Nikolas and Emily, as Ned and Alexis, went out the front door while Ned and Alexis, as Nikolas and Emily, went out the back. Luke was talking to someone at Interpol, using an accent and calling himself Hans von Fleet. He asked about the diamond called the Ice Princess. He wanted to know when they were returning it to Helena Cassadine. They told him that was classified information and hung up on him. He hung up in disgust to find Roy looking at him anxiously. Roy asked who he was talking to, and upon finding out it was Interpol, told Luke he knew it would come to this; he had completely lost his mind. They would have his voice on tape. Luke told him not to worry. He said justice would be served when Helena, wearing a garbage bag, was tottering down the street pushing a shopping cart with all her worldly goods in it. Seeing her penniless and destitute would make it all worthwhile. He had to steal the Ice Princess back. Roy finally agreed he would help. Liz assured Lucky that she wanted him to take the room at Kelly's; that she wanted him as close as possible. Lucky said he would look at the room, so Tammy gave Liz the key and asked her to show it to him. Carly, sitting at the counter, made a snide remark about Liz. He took the room and later, when he was by himself, decided to take a shower. He was standing outside his room with just the towel around his hips. He tried the door to his room to find it locked. He was jiggling the door knob and his towel dropped to the floor just as Liz showed up. Sonny and Sorel were talking about Zander Smith. Sorel didn't like the fact that Sonny's lawyer was helping Zander and thought Sonny was using Zander to bring him down. He told Sonny he had honored their truce, gotten rid of the drug trafficking. Sonny told him he didn't deal in drugs, only Sorel did. He started to walk away when Sorel warned him the truce would not last if he didn't get Alexis pulled from the case. Sonny let him know in no uncertrain terms what he thought of his threats. Tammy talked Carly into letting her see Mike. Carly was supposed to have Michael with her as Leticia had the afternoon off to meet Reginald. Carly asked if she could wait for a bit as she had something she had to do. She met Mike at the docks and Tammy showed up. He told Carly he didn't want to see Tammy. She asked if he wasn't glad to see her? Tammy told him she missed him and loved him. They shared some nice moments together. Bobbie asked Audrey how her foot was. Audrey said it was better but expressed concern at how long she left them shorthanded at the desk. Bobbie agreed the work had piled up and she had made a few mistakes. She hoped that's all it was; just a few mistakes, not something else. Hannah showed up at Bobbie's request. Bobbie asked her if she could do her father, Roy, a favor; would Hannah come for Thanksgiving dinner? Hannah agreed, she'd do anything for Roy. Bobbie warned her that she would also be asking Sonny and Carly and hoped it wouldn't be a problem. Hannah said she could handle it. A.J. showed up then and asked if Hannah would like to look at the playbook from the Cougars, the football team he had bought. She said no and started to walk away, but A.J. managed to catch her interest and they were talking about the team with Audrey and Bobbie watching them. Sonny came to talk to Roy at Luke's club and warn him about Sorel. Sorel was concerned that Roy had been to see Zander. He thought Roy was working for Sonny and using Zander to bring him down and was using Luke's as a front. Sonny warned Roy that the truce between Sorel and him wouldn't last much longer and to watch their backs. Laura came in then and seeing the looks on their faces, asked if Luke was in trouble. She told him she knew about the IRS and Interpol confiscating Luke's money and the Ice Princess; knew Luke would try and get the Ice Princess back; and asked Roy to make sure Luke didn't do anything too crazy. He assured her he wouldn't. She asked if either of them were going to be helping Luke. Roy just sort of shrugged. Roy got called away and Laura and Sonny discussed Deception again. They still didn't come to any agreement. She wanted an investor that wouldn't come with strings attached, like Carly. Laura left and Luke came in. He was cool towards Sonny and told him he didn't need his protection when Sonny warned him about Sorel. Carly was at Kelly's talking to Tammy about Mike. She had her back to the rest of the room so didn't see little Michael wander out the door. She said she better go and turned around to get Michael only to find him gone. She went frantically searching for him.

Monday Nov 13,2000

After catching Lucky with his towel down, Liz was kind of embarrassed. Lucky tried to explain that he got locked out and he guessed his towel wasn't tied good enough. Liz offered to get the pass key. She came back to let him in but was having a little trouble finding the right key. She asked if at least he had a good shower? He said yes and he liked the fact there was room for two. "Now I have to try and get that image out of my mind" she replied. She finally got the door opened and he went in. Later she came by with a picture she had painted as a room warming present. They kissed but then she broke it off before things went too far. A knock came on his window much later and Lucky saw Liz. She got locked out, she said. Ned and Alexis managed to get away without being followed. Their plan worked. Alexis mentioned that she thought being on the web in her underwear was bad, but if she got caught in this coat it would ruin her reputation. Ned asked when was the last time she had a good excuse to act like a teenager? Just imagine that you don't have a care in the world. They proceeded to act like teenagers on their first date. They went to a motel and she told him she didn't go to second base on their first date. Later, lying in bed, she mentioned that they had to book a church. He told her he had booked St. Timothy's. Alexis was concerned. Wasn't that the same church that a few brides had got left at the altar. Was he going to dump her? He assured he wasn't going to. Hannah was going over a play for A.J.'s football team. He wasn't really paying attention, just wanted to listen to her. After asking her to repeat it a couple of times, she got wise to him. Just then Taggert came over. He asked what they were doing. Hannah told him about the play she was advising A.J. on. He disagreed, then they took over discussing strategies. A.J. finally got fed up, took the book, and said he would run their ideas by the coach. Roy came by to pick up Bobbie but she wasn't ready. He saw Hannah and A.J. and asked what was going on. Bobbie told him what she thought. He told he would meet her later as he wanted to talk to Hannah. He went and interrupted them and asked Hannah if she was leading A.J. on. She said she wasn't. Later she went back to Kelly's to find A.J. there and told him it had to stop. She knew she was sending him mixed signals, but she wasn't interested. She was with Taggert. Carly was nearly hysterical in her search for Michael. She ran back inside Kelly's and asked if anyone had seen him. Tammy said she would check in the kitchen. Carly went back outside and ran calling his name. She ran to the docks and found him with Laura. Laura asked if this was her little guy. Carly went and grabbed him and scolded him for running off, he scared her to death. She told Laura she had just turned her back for a minute. Laura tried to calm her down; she told her this happened to mothers at least once. She told her Lucky had given her some bad moments when he was small. Carly begged her not to tell Sonny, he would think she was a bad mother. This had happened before, where she turned her back and Michael was kidnapped. Sonny showed up and asked if Carly had brought Michael to see the boats? She didn't deny it and Laura didn't say anything to the contrary. He asked Laura if they had been discussing Deception. She said no, they had been discussing motherhood. She still hadn't come to any decision about Deception. She told Michael it was nice to meet him and left. Later, at the Penthouse, Sonny was telling Michael a story. Carly asked if he wanted to order something in. He asked her what was wrong. He could tell she was upset about something. She finally told him what had happened earlier. Emily and Nikolas got back to Kelly's after drawing the media away from Alexis and Ned and then ditching them. Emily commented on his bad driving, running over a garbage can. Gia showed up and they asked if Ned and Alexis had gotten away. "Apparently", she said. She commented that she still didn't think Emily could pass for Alexis. They were sitting down in Kelly's when two reporters rushed in and started to take their picture, then realized it wasn't who they wanted. "You switched", they accused. They asked where they were but Nikolas and Emily refused to tell them. "I guess I do look like Alexis", Emily taunted Gia. Lucky came down to get a hammer and Nikolas called him over to ask if he had moved in. Yes he had and asked them if they wanted to come up. Nikolas refused as he didn't want to get roped in moving furniture. He asked Lucky what room he was in and Lucky said the one next to Liz. He left and Gia asked Nikolas how he felt about his brother practically living with Liz. Nikolas didn't dignify that with an answer. Emily left and Gia asked Nikolas how, after all their efforts on her behalf during the summer, could Emily defend Zander now. Nikolas told her they couldn't control who they had feelings for. She said not a drug dealer. He remarked about blackmailers, and she said she supposed he wouldn't ever let her forget. "No", he said.

Wednesday Nov 15,2000

Elizabeth stopped by Lucky's room to surprise him with a gift. She gave him a key to her room. Then Lucky told Elizabeth that they must be on the same wavelength because he had a copy made of his key too. You know why, just in case one or the other gets locked out of their room again. Lucky was lifting weights when Elizabeth arrived and was shirt-less. She tried not to see him and his large chest, but it was difficult. The two ending up kissing, but Elizabeth pulled away and told Lucky her shift started in about 90 seconds. Outside of Kelly's, Ari informed Helena that Stefan had left Nikolas well over a million dollars separate from the Cassadine monies. She was not happy with this fact, since she was using control of the Cassadine money to take control of Nikolas' life. Well as you can guess, Helena was not at Kelly's for the food. She was there to meet Florence and discuss the living arrangements between Gia and Nikolas. Helena took pride when she informed Florence that Nikolas was in no way broke and had over a million dollar inheritance. Florence was outraged and this sent her immediately over to the cottage. Once she got in the door, she took no time to tell Gia that Nikolas had lied to her and had been using her for who knows what. Nikolas tried to deny her accusations, but he was guilty about not telling Gia about his newfound inheritance. Gia held strong to her guns and told her mom that she would not leave and move in with her. Florence became more upset and left. Gia was furious with Nikolas and would not let him tell his side of the story. Gia was determined to leave. She told Nikolas that he was the only one in this lousy town that she trusted and who would not lie to her. Nikolas tried to plea his case, but to deaf ears. Lucky showed up at the cottage. Right away he saw that Nikolas was not happy. He tried to explain to Nikolas how it feels to be a regular person and by him pretending to be poor or just normal was an insult to Gia. Lucky's motive for visiting his brother however was to talk about Elizabeth. Lucky first asked Nikolas was the topic okay for him and Nikolas agreed. Lucky explained to Nikolas why he and Elizabeth were waiting and not making love right away. Nikolas offered his support and told him that if he and Elizabeth felt mutual about the decision then it should be fine. Lucky still was scared that he could hurt Elizabeth again in some way like when he first came back to Port Charles. Just then a limo drove up to the cottage. It was Helena to visit. Nikolas was prepared and ready to do battle. First he invited her in kindly and then started to pour on the insults. He promptly told her that he wanted nothing to do with her and wanted her out of his life. Helena was upset as normal, but this time she left and threatened Nikolas. Gia over heard the argument and came down stairs to inform Nikolas that she was staying to help protect him from his crazy grandmother. Nikolas was relieved by Gia's remarks. It was raining again at the villa. Stefan was looking for Chloe and had become very worried when she did not return prior to the storm becoming worst. He instructed the guards to locate Chloe and do not return without her. As he looked around he remembered their kiss. Just then Chloe snuck through the double doors. First Stefan began to yell at her, and then he calmed down and put a blanket on her. He later apologized. After Chloe was dry and cleaned up, she realized that she had missed dinner. Stefan offered to whip something up for her and she accepted. Chloe laid down and began to dream. This time she dreamt she heard Helena's voice. When Stefan returned he noticed that she had been dreaming. She told him that Helena was arguing with Nikolas and Lucky was present. She said Nikolas stood his ground and was strong, but Helena had a totally different tone that usual. After that comment, Stefan revealed to Chloe that there has to be a way off this island. Bobbie was working on the accounting at Kelly's when she was paid a visit. She was served papers from the State Tax Collector. It appeared as though she had not paid the property taxes for Kelly's. Bobbie becomes very irritated by this news. She confides to Roy that something is really wrong with her because lately she had been forgetting so many things and making mistakes. Juan visited Zander and got up in his face about Emily. Juan stated in no uncertain terms that Zander must stay away from his girlfriend. Zander replied and said that he does not control Emily and she is doing what she wants. Sorel paid the guard and was able to interrupt Juan and Zander. Sorel politely reminded Juan of his past incident, which was enough to send Juan out the door. Then Sorel proceeded to remind Zander about any unwise decisions and untrueful allegations. Sorel left but told Zander that he regretted the unpleasant outcome of their relationship. In the hallway Sorel ran into Emily and asked her about her health. He also told her he was glad that she returned unharmed and hoped she could stay that way. Emily goes in to see Zander and informed him about crossing paths with Sorel. Zander, being the protector, tells Emily that he cannot testify against Sorel. It would be too dangerous for her. He said he had already lost his life and was not going to lose hers too. Emily rebutted and told Zander testifying is what you have to do. You have to put guys like Sorel away for a long time otherwise they will continue to harm others.

Tape#34 This tape has three episodes of AMC

Thursday Nov 16,2000

Gia was placing a grocery order on the computer when Nikolas came home. She asked his preferences for hot chocolate or cheese and he asked her what she was doing. She told him she just orders the groceries using a credit card and they'll bring the groceries right to the door. He looked at her list and saw four bottles of Dom Perignon. He told her as long as she was paying for it. "You're the one with the million dollars in the bank", she said. He told her he wasn't touching it. He accidentally hit a key and wiped the whole order out. Or was it accidentally? Florence saw Monica when she went to General Hospital and asked where Human Resources was as she was applying for a job. Gia refused to leave Port Charles and she was liking the city more and more. She has a degree in hospital administration she told Monica. They talked about their daughters and Monica told Florence that she would give her resume to her husband Alan as he was Chief of Staff. Luke was in his office at Luke's when Scott came in. He told him to get out and if he was there to collect his padded fee for defending him to go see Alexis as she had hired him. Scott told him he was there on Laura's behalf-he's representing her in their divorce. He had papers about the property division that he wanted Luke to sign. After trading a few barbs, Luke finally signed the papers. Later he ran into Laura at Kelly's and asked if she knew what today was. "Our anniversary", she told him. "I think I will go and celebrate," she added. Hannah was on her way to General Hospital with a parcel when she ran into A.J. She told him she was taking the jacket he had given her to a kid at the hospital who liked his football team. He told her he could always give her another one, and she told him she would give it away too. Then she told him she did want to see him about his sister because she was worried about her going to see Zander just about every afternoon. A.J. was concerned and went and talked to his family. They were having their usual battles but told him to see if Emily would listen to him. Laura was at Kelly's working on Deception when Carly came in to see Tammy. After giving the waitress her list for the shower she was having for Alexis, she saw Laura and came and thanked her again for her help with Michael. She did tell Sonny about what happened and he was understanding. Laura told her she thought he would be. Carly asked if she was working on Deception? She told Laura that Sonny really did want to invest in her company and she herself didn't have to be involved. She would talk to him. Laura told her it wasn't that she didn't want her, she just wanted to do it herself. Carly insisted she would talk to Sonny. Later, when Scott came to see her, Laura told him that she might be able to work with Carly after all. Scott still didn't like the idea of her taking Sonny's money. She asked why he came by and he finally told her about the property division papers; he got Luke to sign and gave them to her to sign. Tammy went to see Sonny to plea on Mike's behalf. She told him Mike was back in town and living on Courtland Street. She wouldn't have known but Carly told her. Carly has been trying to help Mike. He was broke. Sonny was cold and unsympathetic when it came to his father. Later, Emily came by to ask Sonny to help Zander. Sonny told her Zander was going to jail, if not for murder, then kidnapping and drug dealing. He didn't help kidnappers and cop killers, he told her. She told him of all people should understand because Zander is a lot like him. After she left, Sonny called Benny and asked him to follow Carly and let him know if she goes anywhere near Courtland Street. Carly met Mike and gave him some money and tried to talk him into going to see Sonny. Sonny saw her there and called her on it later at the penthouse. She told him she had been giving Mike money and she would continue to do so, but she wouldn't lie anymore. She was doing it for Sonny because she knew he would never forgive himself if anything happened to Mike.

Wednesday Nov 22,2000

Sonny arrived at Kelly's to see Roy. Roy was working in the kitchen to repair all the damage that Luke had done. Sonny asked Roy about his opinion of Zander. Sonny has to make a decision about whether to back Zander and start a war with Sorel or just let Zander go. Roy told Sonny that Zander seemed okay and that he felt he was worth saving. In the middle of their conversation Florence came up to Sonny and introduced herself. She had remembered Sonny from Deke and asked Sonny if he was Deke's son. Sonny told her she had the wrong person. She was quite surprised, but then Taggert came in and swooped her away from Sonny. Roy and Sonny concluded their meeting, but Roy felt as if Zander was getting the raw end of the stick, so he called Agent Ford to see if he would offer Zander a deal if he testifies against Sorel. Agent Ford showed up at Kelly's to talk to Roy. Of course he offered Roy a job first and then Roy turned him down. Then they make headway to Zander. Agent Ford told Roy that he would think about the offer he made for Zander. Meanwhile Bobbie walked in on their conversation and asked Agent Ford to leave. After Taggert swooped his mom away from Sonny, Gia, Florence, and Taggert tried to have a normal breakfast. However Florence had different plans for them. She began to really put down Taggert for his job and lifestyle. Florence tried to move on to Gia, but Taggert brought her back to harping on his life. Taggert remained cool and calm during the entire conversation, but you could tell that it was wearing on him. Finally Florence had the good sense to leave, but her children remained and were wounded by her words. Gia told Marcus that she could hardly believe that mom still rags on you. Taggert told Gia not to worry about mom, because she will come around. But you have to go after what you want as a person in order to succeed. Nikolas stopped by to see his Aunt Alexis. She was very pleased that Nikolas was going to give her away. Alexis assured Nikolas that all was well with her. Next Nikolas asked for help in stopping Helena. Alexis told him that she was doing everything in her power to remove Helena as trustee of the Cassadine Estate. There is a knock on the door, Nikolas looked at Alexis and asked if it was Ned, but low and behold it was Luke Spencer. Nikolas began to leave but not before he told his aunt of Luke's behavior and the fact that Luke kidnapped him. Then Luke began to enlist Alexis' help in destroying Helena. Carly asked Bobbie to come over to the penthouse to tell her about her new job at Deception. However before Carly could begin to talk about the job Bobbie began to talk about Thanksgiving dinner. Bobbie started with the list of people that she knew were not quite big Carly fans (i.e. Hannah, Elizabeth, Mac, and Taggert). Carly was offended that her mom had even considered inviting these people after all family should come first. Bobbie tried to explain to Carly that everyone would be on their best behavior, but Carly could not see her way clear. She told Bobbie that she, Sonny, and Michael will be having their own Thanksgiving dinner at the penthouse. Bobbie decided to just leave because she could not get through to Carly. Later Sonny returned home to find Carly crying on the couch. He asked her what was wrong. She said nothing and he asked again. She asked how he would feel about making Thanksgiving dinner with her. Then Carly began to explain what happened to the dinner at her mom's house. Sonny comforted Carly and told her not to worry that he and Michael were the only family that they needed for Thanksgiving. Then Carly brought up Mike. Sonny immediately withdrew and told her not today, he had enough about fathers today. Carly asked him why he made this statement. Sonny confessed that he ran into a woman that knew Deke and had remembered him from Brooklyn. The whole incident had brought back bad memories. Carly comforted Sonny and told him not to let it get to him. Carly told Sonny that she had an errand to run and proceeded in a cab to Cordlandt Street. She went into this dive to find Mike. Mike was there all right, but gambling as usual. This situation even made Carly do a double take about Mike. After being so frustrated that Mike was gambling again, Carly left and went out for a cab, but since it was such a bad neighborhood the cab did not wait for Carly. As she was trying to secure another cab two of Sorel's goons showed up to teach Carly a lesson (or to give Sonny a message).

Thursday Nov 23,2000

Alexis and Ned spent the day discussing their wedding and honeymoon. Alexis told Ned that Elton, the Wedding Planner, wanted squid at the reception. Ned said he didn't plan menus, he planned honeymoons. A fax came through for Alexis; it was the picture of her holding her teddy with the caption reading, "Angel's New Teddy". Then, she got a lot of lewd, suggestive e-mails. Edward came by waving the picture of Alexis and did his usual bellowing that this media circus had to stop. He wouldn't come to their wedding and he wouldn't let Lila, Monica or Emily come either. Ned told him he couldn't control the women in the family. Edward left in a huff, suggesting that they elope. Alexis said maybe they should but they agreed to continue with the wedding as planned. Chloe blacked out for a minute and confessed to Stefan that she had been having problems with her vision. Stefan was going to go get a doctor but Chloe asked him how. He told her they were going to escape from the island. Later, he told his manservant that they were going to "escape" for sure this time as he wouldn't let Chloe go blind. He told him he didn't care about his plan anymore, and speculated on the reactions of the people in the "provincial town", as he called Port Charles, to see him come back from the dead. Laura was looking for office space for Deception and finally found just the place with a fabulous view. She told the snooty real estate agent that she would send a deposit cheque the next day. She was standing, admiring the view, when Scott walked in. He told her it reminded him of their first apartment, no furniture. She told him furniture she could buy but not the view, it was incredible. He asked if she could afford it. She said it was a lease, she could pay it, and she had the banking for it. Scott commented that it was being bankrolled by a mobster and his unstable wife. Laura told him she did not want to argue about it. He told her she seemed to know what she was doing. She said she didn't have a clue but it felt right. "You are in your element," he told her. "What, makeup?" she asked. "No, flying blind," he replied. He told her that her impulsiveness was her best quality and he kissed her. After they pulled apart, she told him they had remained friends all these years and she didn't want anything to ruin that. Scott agreed that friends it was. Then she told him she was going to North Carolina to bring home her mom and Leslie Lu. Bobbie was watching in concern at Roy and Sorel talking outside Kelly's. Sorel was telling Roy to warn Sonny to leave Zander Smith to him to deal with or there would be war. Down on Courtland Street, two men had Carly up against a wall. Mike tried to rescue her but they would punch him and toss him aside. One held Carly while the other started to undo her blouse. She bit one of them on the hand and she did fight and struggle. They heard a car and ran off with a last push to Carly. She fell down and scraped her hands. Sonny came over and helped her up, and after telling Johnny to find Mike a room, get him cleaned up and pay his debts, he took Carly home. He cleaned her hands up and, while she was in the shower, called Benny and asked him to find out about the two goons that attacked Carly. Carly came out and he asked her about the two guys. She described them as big and mean and she wasn't sure where they came from. She had gone to see Mike. She didn't give him any money, she got mad at him and left and wasn't sure if they had followed her from there. Sonny held her and told her he didn't want to lose her. Bobbie and Roy argued about his loyalty to Sonny. She was afraid he would get caught in the middle between Sonny and Sorel. Later, when Luke came by Kelly's, Bobbie asked him to talk to Roy.

Tape#35 From Nov 27 thru Dec 8,2000

Carly is sore from being roughed up by some thugs. Sonny insists she stay in bed and rest. Roy helps Bobbie prepare for Thanksgiving at the Brownstone. Hannah arrives to tell Roy she can't stay. Gia freaks about making dinner at Nicholas cottage, while her family is at the Brownstone. He then informs her of their guests- Liz and Lucky! Edward tells Lila this year Thanksgiving will be fool proof and they will have a traditional turkey dinner. Hannah agrees to stay since Carly isn't going to be there. Edward reveals he brought in the chef from the Port Charles grill, after giving "cook" the day off. Liz and Lucky, along with Emily and Juan join Gia and Nicholas Sonny tells Carly he's thankful for her, Michael and them being together, as she talks about her childhood in Flordia. Reggie informs everyone "cook" came home early and found the chef in her kitchen. Emily visits Zander in jail... A.J. arrives with the pizza's after getting a call from Lila!.

Alexis and Ned try to narrow down a date for their wedding, but have conflicting schedules.Whe he asks her to compromise, she loses it. Edward calls the newspaper with a tip on the wedding, as Lila catches him and forces him to hang up. Roy goes to see Bobbie at Kelly's and offers to give her a ride to the hospital, since her cars' broken. Emily fills Roy in on Zander. Juan tells Em he's making his 1st public apperance and wants her to be there...Zander thinks of the kiss he shared with Emily...Hannah goes to see Taggert and they make plans. She tells him she needs to review Zanders file for witness protection program reasons, in exchange he will testify against sorrell. Emily reluctantly agrees to go with Juan. Taggert tell Hannah not to waste her time because Zander is lying.Ned asks Alexis if she is backing out of their wedding, but she denies it, as Edward arrives wit a prenup for them to sign, as Alexis likes the idea. Roy visits Hannah and she talks to him about Zander. Monica talks to Bobbie about her medical problems. Roy goes to see Zander and tells hi to stick to the truth... Ned and Alexis kiss and make up...Emily and Juan have words about Zander....In jail, Zander gets a dead rat and a note saying snitches die!

At Kellys, Liz shows Tammy a new outfit she bought. Roy checks on the oven after Luke's mishap in the kitchen. Gia talks to A.J. about working for him, when Taggert comes in. Felicia goes to see Luke at the club when she can't reach him by phone. He runs a scheme by her about getting the password for the Cassindine accounts, by going to the bank as a new branch of cousins.Alexis goes to see Laura at Deception with some contracts for her to sign. Stefan hugs Nicholas and tells hims it's over...Sonny sees Mike at the park, as they talk about it being world Aids day. carly watches from behind some bushes.After Mike leaves, Sonny calls her out and asks if she is happy now. She tries to defend herself about trying to get them together. Stefan fills in Nicholas on what Helena did to him- then chloe. Felicia tries to talk Luke out of trying to get the Ice Princess back from Helena. She refuses to run off with Luke- again, but he convinces her to help him, since it's local this time.Hannah tries to give Gia some advice on A.J., but it goes on deaf ear..Liz and Lucky discuss bloodtest for HIV. Hannah fills Roy in on the A.J. situation... Nicholas tells Alexis Stefan is alive... Sonny tries to explain his feelings to carly about what she has done... Mike goes to Kelly's to see Tammy, and fills her in on his encounter with Sonny...Roy gives Hannah some fatherly advice.. Stefan gives Mac his statement about what happened... Laura learns Stefan is alive...Liz and Lucky go to a romantic hideaway cabin...Roy and Bobbie almost crash when the car suddenly has no brakes.

Alexis and Stefan share a joyous homecoming, as Chloe and Ned look on. Laura is shocked by the news, as Nicholas fills her in... Luke and Felicia pose as Cassadine cousins with a bank manager and put on a good act to get the password they need....Liz and Lucky feel a little awakward about their 1st time together, so they decide to just dance at the moment. Roy is able to steer the car without causing any damage or injuries. He feels Sorrell may have cut the brake line... In the park, Sorrell and Sonny exchange a tense session as Carly watches and gets concerned. Sonny plays it cool and they leave for home.... Nicholas asks Laura how she feels about Stefan, and she says she's no longer in love with him. Chloe's test results come back and it's not too good. Stefan offers to do what he can to help her..Luke and Felicia attempt to hack the bank's computer, when they hear footsteps and hide, as Helena arrives with the manager........Lucky and Liz make love for the first time...Roy takes Bobbie to GH for a check up after the car incident.......Carly talks to Sonny about working with Laura at Deception..While hiding(again),Luke and Felicia learn stefan is alive.... Chloe goes back to Jax's penthouse and thinks of him, now that he is off looking for Brenda.

The Q's try to stuff Chloe with food, while they discuss her ordeal. She shifts it to Emily and Zander. They invite Chloe to move back in, and she accepts, as Stefan comes to visit her...Helena makes plans to take over the family finances with Stefan dead, she plans to have Nick committed...Alexis and Ned discuss moving in Jax's penthouse, as A.J. is there and has decided to take it for himself. Bobbie discusses the accident with Tammy, as Roy comes and tells her the garage never fixed the brakes..Nick discusses with Gia their living arrangements and what kind of reaction Stefan will have. Liz and Lucky arrive at kelly's basking in the afterglow of their love. Bobbie swears to Roy she requested the brakes be fixed. Ned wants to know why Alexis doesn't want the penthouse. Edward tries to pursade Stefan to change Alexis mind about marrying Ned...Emily goes to see Zander, as he tells her Alexis may get him out on bail by Christmas... Juan watches them and interupts...Stefan shocks Helena when he appears on her yacht. Roy decides to investigate what happened.Zander and Juan have words about Emily, as she has to decide between them.......Helena plans her revenge.

Alexis tells Sonny about Mac pulling Zander's deal, thinking he's working for Sonny. He decides to get involved and handle Sorrell. Roy goes to see Bobbie with the original work order for her car. she feels like she's losing her mind, since it's not on there for the brakes...Gia assures her mother she and Nick are just roomates.... Allan arranges for a bachelor party for Ned at Jake's...Felicia and Chloe catch up on each others lifes.....Luke tries to balance his books, when Alexis comes to see him and asks him to go to Ned's party........Sonny goes to see Taggert about Zander.....Ned arrives for his party..........Liz and Lucky have a romantic evening alone at Kelly's...Alexis arrives for her bachelorette party given by Chloe....Luke and Roy decide to "rob" the guys at a game of poker....Juan cries on Nick's shoulder about Emily.....Carly arrives with a bag of samples from deceotions.... A cake arrives at Ned's party, and a lois look alike pops out. .. A stripper arrives at Alexis party and not too long after photographers follow.

Tape#36

Monday December 11,2000

Alexis was in Kelly's looking at the article in the paper about her bachelorette party from the night before. Ned came in and asked if she could stop the jackhammers in his head. She told him she had enough of her own. She showed him the paper with the picture of her sitting with the stripper in her lap. He said he thought he knew who arranged it as he had a surprise at his party also. "A stripper?" Alexis asked. "No, a girl who jumped out of a cake," Ned replied. "That's original," Alexis commented. He told her it was as the girl was a dead ringer for Lois who popped out of a cake a few years ago when confronting Ned about his bigamy. It brought back a few painful memories. He told her he figured it was A.J. who arranged it all. He said maybe it was a blessing because Luke had shown up with cards to play poker and he probably would have lost his shirt. Alexis said that her stripper lost more than his shirt, but at least she was fully clothed when the picture was taken. She didn't think it was A.J. who arranged her stripper because how would the photographer know to show up at just the right time to catch the stripper in her lap. Chloe came by just then to ask Alexis if she was ready for their power walk. Alexis was less than enthused but went anyway. Later, when they were on the docks stretching, Alexis told Chloe to stop being so cheerful as it was getting on her nerves. Chloe told her a younger Alexis would have been able to keep up. She told Alexis how she read about her in Stefan's journal. She said that Stefan was kind, patient, comforting, and would let her talk about Jax. He also taught her to play chess but she taught him to play gin so they evened out. Helena made her presence known at that time and said how glad she was to see Chloe back and looking well. Chloe told her she would not get away with the kidnapping. She knew, too, that Helena was the one to run her down that day. Helena said she would not find any evidence against her for the kidnapping because she did not do it. Stefan, for his own reasons, was the one that kidnapped her and then let her think that Helena had marooned the two of them. Chloe didn't believe her, but Alexis wasn't so sure. She knew what her brother was capable of in his revenge against his mother. Chloe went to see Stefan later and confronted him, asking if he was the one to kidnap her and set it up to look like his mother was responsible. Bobbie asked Roy what if something was really wrong with her. She thought she should take herself off patient care before she harmed anyone. Roy thought that was a little drastic. He said that something wasn't quite right, that maybe somebody was purposely messing with her mind. She told him he had worked with the FBI for too long and who would do that to her. He told her he would look into it. He was making a phone call about Bobbie's bank account when she came into Luke's office. He told her he had been looking into her Swiss Account and she told him the only bank accounts she had were in Port Charles. He told her she also had a Swiss bank account with a small fortune in it and showed her the printout. Luke was talking to Felicia on the phone and asked her what she was doing. She said just some errands, what about him. He said he had some urgent business at the County Courthouse. Felicia asked if it could be Cassadine business. He told her she was pretty intuitive for a cookie baker. He said he had to pick up some documents from the County Clerk and she guessed it was without the clerk's knowledge. "Something like that," he agreed. She asked if he wanted her help and he said he could do it himself but it would be nice to have a partner. He guaranteed she would be home in time for the girls getting out of school. She said she better not but later agreed to help create a diversion while he looked for the documents he wanted. Laura was in her office at Deception when Amy came in. She asked how Laura was surviving Carly. Laura admitted to a few bumps and bruises. She was looking at a book of pictures of previous "faces of Deception" Dominique and Brenda. She asked Amy about them as she didn't know Dominique. Amy said Dominique had the fresh and innocent look and Brenda was hot. She even tried to do her makeup like Brenda with disastrous results. Laura thought maybe they should go back to the innocent look again. Later she was with the guy from the ad agency looking through his book of models. Carly came in and they looked together, dismissing all the models for various reasons. They asked if he had anymore and he said those were the most voted to break out big time. They told him they appreciated his hard work but they would keep looking. After he left they talked about what they wanted for their face of Deception and they agreed on the innocent look but when Laura suggested Elizabeth Webber, Carly came up with all the reasons why she would be wrong for the job. She was too ordinary looking, etc. They couldn't agree at all and Laura accused of her of having a grudge against Liz and that's why she didn't want her. Sonny called Mike over to the penthouse. He asked why Johnny wasn't in his usual spot outside and Sonny said he was with Michael at preschool. He said that things were heating up between him and Sorel. That's why he called him over. Mike asked what was going on and Sonny said it wasn't important but Sorel was using Mike to get to him and he wouldn't let it happen again. He asked that Mike stay away from Courtland Street and Mike told him he hadn't been there since Carly found him. Sonny told him to call Benny for money if he needed it and Mike said he wouldn't as he was going to quit gambling. Sonny told him not to make promises he couldn't keep. Felicia and Mac met at Kelly's to discuss Christmas lists for the girls. Mac was reading Maxie's list and noticed gift certificates and Felicia said she didn't trust either of them to buy makeup for her. Mac suggested they go together to shop so they don't buy the same things. They agreed to go Saturday. Stefan met with the attorney for the Cassadine estate. The attorney said he couldn't give Stefan the papers he requested. If he wanted to fire Helena as the trustee he would have to go to court. Later he called Alexis and left a message to get back to him. Ned came in and told him that he could take a message to Alexis. Stefan told him it was family business. Ned suggested he get another lawyer because he wasn't going to let the Cassadines put Alexis in any more danger. He didn't care if Stefan and his mother killed each other but to leave Alexis out of it. Stefan asked since when did he speak for Alexis, she wouldn't appreciate it. Ned accused Stefan of only wanting to see Alexis when he needed her for something.

Tuesday December 12,2000

Stefan was surprised that Chloe would ask if he was the one that kidnapped her. He asked why it it would occur to her that he would do such a thing. "You must have been talking to Helena," he said. She said she met her on the pier and she didn't want to believe what she said but it made sense. "Why would she kidnap us and not kill us since we are both a threat to her; you because you come between Helena and the Cassadine fortune and me because I dream about things she wants to keep secret?" Chloe asked. Stefan talked a good game and had her convinced that he was innocent and she apologized, feeling remorseful for doubting him. He accepted her apology and then asked her to stay for dinner. He took her for a tour of Spoon Island before dinner. He asked how things were going at the Quartermaines and she told him she was glad she wasn't at the penthouse because she would be thinking about Jax. At Luke's office Roy showed Bobbie the bank deposit slip with her signature. Bobbie said she did not open a Swiss bank account and deposit money in it; it must be a forgery. Roy asked if she had ever signed any documents for Jerry. She said she could have but Jerry would not have done anything like this. Roy said maybe he thought he was doing a good thing. She said that Jerry would not do this because it would implicate her in all his illegal dealings. They continued their discussion back at the brownstone about who could have put the money in her account. They suggested the Cassadines and various other ideas but didn't come to any definite conclusions. Carly walked in to the penthouse while Benny and Sonny were discussing the danger Sonny was in from Sorel. She was worried and told them not to deny what she had heard. "Sorel wants to kill you?" she asked Sonny. Sonny told her she should not eavesdrop. She just walked in the door she told him. He told her hears and takes everything out of context. She told him not to treat her like a child. "Sorel is skipping Zander and coming straight for you?" she asked. Sonny told her Benny's job was to worry, but there was nothing to worry about. They both assured her Sonny wasn't in danger but discussed that very danger after Carly left them. Sonny told him to just make sure everyone was safe. Carly came down later and he enquired about her voice. She said she sounded like a boy. She asked if she could talk about Deception. He told her he wasn't interested. Just like we don't discuss my business, we don't discuss yours. She asked him if would then be willing to give her his 1% of Deception. He said no. She told him that they were launching the "Face of Deception" again but Laura wanted to ruin things by having a girl who wasn't even pretty. Elizabeth Webber wasn't the right one for the job. Sonny thought she would be good. Carly made a remark about him marrying Elizabeth in a couple of years if he hadn't been forced to marry her, Carly. He asked why would he marry Elizabeth? Scott came by Deception to see Laura at her request. She told him Carly Corinthos was turning out to be more of a challenge than she expected. Scott said that a simple solution would be to buy out Bonnie and Clyde. Laura laughed and said she wasn't ready to buy them out yet and she knows she wouldn't Scott to do it for her. He said that he thought she had come to her senses. "So, you're having a little trouble with Carly?" he asked. "That is an understatement," Laura answered. "I was told Carly was impulsive but she is reckless; this is all a game to her. We are trying to launch a new ad campaign and all she can do is whine about who decorated the office," she added. She told him they had called an ad executive to discuss starting up the "Face of Deception" campaign again. She saw him look at a picture of Dominique on her desk and asked if it would bother him for them to do the campaign. He said he was okay with it. She said she had never met Dominique and he told her about how they met and married and that she had given him a daughter. He had some bad years after Laura dumped him, but Dominique brought him back. Mac came across Felicia and Luke on the docks and told him he could probably hall him down to the station as he was either about to commit a crime or he just had. Luke asked what made him jump to such an unpleasant conclusion. Mac asked Felicia how she fit in when they

Thursday December 14,2000

Ned came to the Quartermaine mansion where they were to have the wedding rehearsal dinner. He peeked into the family room and saw Lila by herself. When asked, she told him that Edward went Christmas tree shopping. "Good, I didn't want Alexis to run into him as she was already nervous," Ned said, relieved. He got a call on his cell phone from the minister telling him he had to cancel the wedding rehearsal as they were having problems with the boiler at the church. Ned was worried about how Alexis would take the news. Lila calmed him down and gave him her usual sage advice. She asked if he had found the one he really wanted to marry and he said definitely. She asked why he needed a rehearsal. He called and left a message for Alexis. Edward, Emily and Reginald went searching for a Christmas tree. Lila had given Edward a list of what kind of tree but he said he wanted a Canadian Pine. Reginald was telling the clerk that they would take the one he was pointing to and Edward said they would not. Reginald said it was a Lila tree. Edward asked if the tree told him that and Reginald said, "well, yeah" like Edward was stupid to ask. They agreed that if Lila liked the tree they would keep it and she did. Emily was busy decorating the tree when she heard a knock on the patio door. It was Lucky and he asked if had heard her talking to the tree. She said he had and he asked if it talked back. She said it only talks to Reginald. He quipped that he had forgotten how crazy it was at the Quartermaines. He told her he had gone to see Zander and she told him Zander had told her. He said that he understands now how much Emily means to Zander and vice versa. He was on her side. She was happy. Luke was rehearsing his Darius Cassadine persona when Felicia came into his office. She said she would come with him to the courthouse. He thought she meant she would come to Istanbul. She thought he had decided against that. He said he had to strike while Helena was otherwise engaged with Stefan being back from the dead. She wouldn't notice any bogus Cassadine relatives like nefarious Darius or the beautiful Olga. She was skeptical about him going to Istanbul as Darius. He said it would be a cinch, as soon as he could get some information to fake credentials. He would go to Wyndemere and snoop around. She asked about the launch and he said he had his own boat. He went later to the mansion and was trying to get the safe open when he heard voices. He quickly ducked into another room. Chloe was at the hospital waiting for test results when Stefan spotted her. He asked what she was there for so early and she told him. Tony came up just then and told her he had excellent news. It was better than he had hoped. She should be better by now but the medication took effect right away and she should be able to start radiation very soon. She was glad and gave him a hug, saying that was the best news she could have. Later, she went with Stefan to Wyndemere and showed him the little tree that she had brought for him. Roy drove Bobbie to the hospital and told he would continue to do so until they found out what was going on. He told her he had a hunch about the bank accounts and he was going to call in a favour from the FBI. Bobbie objected, saying she didn't want him to be sucked back into the FBI. He said he wouldn't. When he went to see Agent Ford, he was told that the rogue agent, Larkin, made a deal and was released. He had an idea then Larkin was behind what Bobbie was going through. Sonny was on the phone with Benny, telling him that he had to deal with Carlos himself and was going to Puerto Rico that night. Carly came down ready to go to work and Sonny told her this was December and it was almost Christmas, they needed to get a Christmas tree. He told her to get Michael bundled up and they would all go looking for a tree. "The three of us spending the day together?" she asked. "Okay, but you better tell your friend Laura," she added. When they got to the tree lot they let Michael pick out the tree. They took it home and she told Michael that while he had a nap, the elves would decorate the tree. Sonny objected to being referred to as an elf. After Carly finished decorating, she told Sonny that she forgot about the star for the top of the tree. He handed her a box and in it was an angel for the top of the tree. They brought Michael down to watch him putting the angel on the tree. Later, he told Carly he had to go to Puerto Rico. She told him he can't, they have to go to Ned and Alexis' wedding rehearsal dinner. Bobbie, Tony and Lucas went looking for Christmas trees. Tony told Lucas he had to get a small tree as he didn't have room for a bigger one. Lucas asked Bobbie if they could all have Christmas at Daddy's and she told him she was going to have them all at the Brownstone.

Friday December 15,2000

Chloe asked Stefan if he had ever decorated a Christmas tree and he confessed that the staff had always done it. She told him she was going to put him to work and decorate this year. He said he didn't have any ornaments so she said she would supply the ornaments and help him decorate since it was his first time. By the time they finished he would have the Christmas spirit. Luke came out of hiding after they left and tried to open the safe again. He still didn't have it open when he heard someone come in. Someone was telling Stefan that the Ice Princess had been released to Helena in Istanbul. Stefan said that he would reclaim it after he became trustee of the estate again in a few days. They left and Luke finally got into the safe, helping himself to a bundle of cash, a piece of paper he wanted, and Stefan's family crest ring. Laura went to Kelly's to see Elizabeth. Elizabeth told her she had been thinking of her and wondering how Deception was going. Laura told her they had crucial decisions to make as they were launching the face of Deception ad campaign and she wanted Elizabeth to be the new "Face of Deception". She told Elizabeth she would be perfect for the job. Liz said she would make a fool of herself. Lucky came in and Gia, who had been listening to Laura and Elizabeth, told him to talk some sense into his girlfriend before she passed up on a chance of a lifetime. Lucky asked Liz what this chance of a lifetime was and Laura told him that she was trying to talk Liz into being the model for Deception. Lucky thought it was a great idea, she should go for it. Liz said she would freeze up when she had to do personal appearances. Lucky asked didn't she used to want to be a model. Liz said yes, when she was 12, but this is the real deal Laura was offering. Laura said because she could really do it. Liz said she was flattered by the offer but no, she couldn't see herself doing it. Laura said the deal was there if she changed her mind. As Laura was leaving she saw Scott and asked him and Serena if they wanted to come to a tree decorating party. He agreed and said maybe he could even find an ornament to bring. Roy showed up at the Christmas tree lot where Bobbie, Tony and Lucas were looking for a tree. Lucas ran up to him and asked if he was looking for a tree too? Roy said he might look around but he wanted to talk to Bobbie first. He told Bobbie that the good news was that none of what was happening was her fault. She asked what was the bad news and he told her he would see her later and tell her. Tony told her she could go ahead and she said no, they had come to look for a tree and they were going to finish. When she saw Roy later he told her that he didn't have proof and it was only speculation but he think he knew who was behind her troubles. He said it was Larkin; the FBI had released him from prison. Carly told Sonny if he really cared about her and Michael he wouldn't go to Puerto Rico. She thought that what was why Jason was there. Sonny said Jason had done what he could but he had to go and finish. They argued and finally she stormed out and went to the Quartermaines' for the rehearsal dinner. She left early and went back home and apologized to Sonny. She said she was afraid for him. They parted on a more friendly footing. It was time for the rehearsal dinner and Edward was asking where the bride was, she should be there, but then it was customary to have a rehearsal. Ned warned him, saying he had promised not to make a big deal about the rehearsal cancellation. Edward said it wasn't as important for him after all the times he had walked down the aisle, he could probably do it in his sleep. A.J. came in and looked around. Not seeing Alexis, he asked if the bride was hiding already. Ned told him to lose the attitude or he would be off the guest list. He knew that A.J. was behind the Lois look-a-like jumping out of the cake at his bachelor party. A.J. asked where was his sense of humor and everyone else seemed to enjoy it. Emily told A.J. to say something nice for a change, so A.J. wished for Ned and Alexis to have all the marital happiness that all the other Quartermaines have. Alexis burst in then, saying she had problems with a flat tire and she had broken her cell phone and didn't get the message Ned had left. She found out about the cancelled rehearsal when she got to the church and nobody was there. Edward asked if they could have dinner now as cook was already upset with the delay. They all sat down and heard crashing and banging in the kitchen. Reginald came out and said that A.J. had come into the kitchen for a snack and now the cook refused to cook dinner. It was another typical Quartermaine disaster. Lila asked A.J. if he would call out for pizza again like he had for Thanksgiving. Alexis left, saying she had an emergency with a client. She went to see Sonny, he usually calms her down. When she got back to the mansion, Ned was sitting there by himself. He told her the family promised to be on their best behavior at the wedding, but that was open to interpretation. Alexis said that was okay, the bride was supposed to have premarital jitters. Ned told her if he was pushing too hard, if she had second thoughts, tell him now. She said she loved him and when she stood beside him at the church and said her vows she would really mean them.

Monday December 18,2000

As he shows his daughter around the church, Ned tries to coax a smile out of a gloomy Brook Lynn. Though Laura looks forward to a splendid Christmas, Leslie cautions her daughter to tread lightly with Scott during the holiday season. Lila gives Alexis half a sixpence to put in her shoe for luck when she walks down the aisle. Ned promises Brook Lynn that nothing will change between them even if he and his new wife have a baby. Elton becomes frazzled when Chloe fails to materialize with the replacement wedding gown. Scott brings Serena to Laura's place for a tree-trimming party. Bobbie advises her brother not to break Lulu's heart by vanishing again without a word just before Christmas. Lucky continues to push Elizabeth to accept his mother's job offer. Stefan drops in on the serene bride-to-be and presents his delighted sister with an heirloom gift for her "something old." Luke goes to see Lulu and is annoyed to find Scott on the premises. Helena crashes Alexis and Ned's nuptials just as the blushing bride has a last minute attack of cold feet.

Tuesday December 19,2000

Suddenly overwhelmed with fears about joining the wacky Quartermaine clan, Alexis slows her march down the aisle to a crawl. As they share a cup of coffee at Kelly's, Felicia tearfully confides to Tony how miserable she feels about Luke leaving town and how sorry she is that she keeps hurting Mac and her girls. As Scott helps her top off her Christmas tree with the traditional angel, Laura recalls a similar scene from years ago. Reporting that he hasn't placed a bet in several weeks, Mike asks a beaming Tammy to join him for dinner that night. Laura tries to entice Scott into coming aboard at Deception as corporate counsel. Alexis finally makes it to the altar but panics and quickly retreats from the church at top speed, leaving behind a gloating Helena and a stunned group of guests. While Alan thanks everyone for coming, Emily tries to console a heartbroken Ned. Egged on by Amy, Laura and Scott demonstrate for Lesley Lu and Serena how mistletoe works. Stefan accuses his mother of engineering the break-in at Wyndemere. Emily breaks bad news to Zander about his attorney's abrupt exit from Port Charles. Lucky talks Elizabeth into doing a test shoot for Deception. Alexis lands at Jake's.

Tape#37

Thursday December 21,2000

At L&B, Ned instructs Nikolas to book "Eddie Maine" on a long tour of Australia. Zander receives another anonymous note warning him not to testify against Sorel. As Laura preps Elizabeth for her first photo shoot, Carly arrives with her own hand-picked candidate for the new face of Deception. Alexis encounters Chloe in the park and sadly informs her friend that Ned broke things off with her following the debacle at the wedding that wasn't. Roy fills Marcus in on how Larkin has been systematically stalking Bobbie ever since his release from prison. After asking Elizabeth and Gia to wait outside in the reception room, Laura blasts her business partner for trying to show her up. Unaware that Stefan arranged for a clever forgery, Chloe is devastated to receive a "Dear Jane" letter in Jax's handwriting. Zander shows Alexis the latest death threat. Concerned to hear Roy's news, Marcus insists on keeping Hannah in the dark about Larkin being on the loose once again. Stefan comforts Chloe as she bemoans the official end of her romance with Jax. Panicked to learn that Sonny is out of town, Emily begs Carly to get an urgent message to her husband. Sorel issues a direct threat to Alexis. Laura softens towards Carly after learning why the young woman is so out of sorts.

Friday December 22,2000

As Elizabeth looks forward to a wonderful Christmas with Lucky, Emily hopes that Zander will be sprung from jail in time for the holiday. Roy cautions Bobbie not to go anywhere alone until Larkin is safely behind bars again. Laura explains to Gia why she's so sold on her original concept of using Elizabeth as the new face of Deception, then assures the disappointed girl she's still willing to let her test for the job anyway. Rattled by Sorel's threats, Alexis pressures Carly to get an urgent message to Sonny. Laura is pleased when Scott remembers her birthday with a special gift. Emily confides to Elizabeth why she can't give up on Zander even if everyone else has already written him off. Meanwhile, Sorel's inside man at the precinct house spies on Roy's meeting with Zander. Laura's family and friends surprise her with a birthday party at her office. Bobbie questions Roy after finding an upsetting letter in his apartment. Emily and Zander celebrate when Alexis brings word to her client that the murder charge has been dropped in exchange for his testimony against Sorel. Carly is thrilled when Sonny returns home ahead of schedule.

Tuesday December 26,2000

Roy tells Bobbie that Larkin must have planted Melissa's letter in his apartment. Laura gently explains to a hopeful Lulu why her daddy won't be home for Christmas. Though Zander is dismayed to learn that his bail has been set for two million dollars in cash, Alexis remains confident that she can still get her client out of jail in time for the holiday. Carly happily welcomes Sonny home in a big way. Audrey enlists Chloe to play an elf for the hospital's annual Christmas party. Though Bobbie urges him to report the break-in to the police, Roy refuses to let Larkin's terror tactics ruin his holiday. Alexis and Ned have an awkward encounter at the precinct house. Sorel is pleased to hear that his nemesis has returned to Port Charles just in time for the fireworks to begin. Sonny readily agrees to bail Zander out and tells Alexis he'll put the boy up in a safe house until he's ready to testify. Alan commends Ned for putting on such a brave face despite his personal pain. Sonny promises Carly and Michael he'll meet them at the hospital party following the conclusion of his business. After Alan reads the traditional story of the nativity, "Santa" Tony distributes toys to all the boys and girls in the children's ward. Zander embraces a tearful Emily as he's finally released from custody. Later, Zander, Emily, Alexis and Sonny walk out of the police station and straight into a hail of bullets.

December 27,2000

Sonny, Alexis, Zander, and Emily were walking out of the Police Headquarters. When Zander was at the steps he let out a primal scream to acknowledge his freedom. He was so happy to be free that he ran down the stairs and began to play in the snow and then started throwing snowballs at Emily. Sonny and Alexis looked on them and were happy that they could finally share some fun times together. Zander picked Emily up and started to spin her around when he noticed two men, in police uniforms with machine guns. Then Sonny turned around and yelled get down. The men were already upon them and with machine guns. Zander covered Emily and Sonny did the same for Alexis. Both Zander and Sonny were shot. The gunmen went up to the four as they laid on the snow. One gunman was about to finish Sonny off, but the other one said let's go. Zander regained composure first and checked on Emily. Emily immediately started to scream. Sonny told Emily to be quiet and asked Alexis to go inside for help and an ambulance. Alexis noticed that Sonny was bleeding so she took off her scarf and used it to apply pressure to his wound. Sonny was unable to move. Finally Garcia and other officers from inside came out and started to take action. Garcia questioned the four and they all told them that the gunmen were police officers but the shooting happened too quickly they could not identify the shooters. Alexis kept asking where the ambulance was. Sonny was getting worst. Alexis kept reassuring him that he would be okay. Sonny asked Alexis to tell Carly that he loved her. Alexis promised that she would. After uttering those words, Sonny lost consciousness. Alexis again wondered where the ambulance was. The ambulance did seem to take a long time to arrive, but finally the EMT's started to work on Sonny and Zander. At General Hospital, Carly, Michael, and Johnny were walking from the Christmas party as they ran into the Quartermaines (Lila, Edward, and Alan). Carly told them that Michael wanted to say good bye to them. They were thrilled to see Michael again and thanked Carly for her offering. After the Quartemaines left, Bobbie went over to her daughter and told her how proud she was of her. Carly thanked her and told her she owed it all to Sonny. He has made her aware of how important family is. Carly told her mom that even though Michael will never live in that house again, she wanted him to know his grandparents and great grandparents. Carly then said that she knew that Sonny and she were working out great, but what really made her realize this is when he left for Puerto Rico and she thought about him day and night. The man is controlling and stubborn, but he has a side that is so very warm, kind, loving, and loyal. We just fit. Bobbie confirmed that Carly and Sonny are a fit, but then asked Carly if she had told Sonny that she loved him. Carly said no. She had not told him because she is scared of uttering the words out loud. Bobbie told her she should not be scared and to let Sonny know her feelings. Lucky and Elizabeth were on their way to Lucky's place. Elizabeth told him that she had a surprise for him, but was not going to give any hints. She asked him to close his eyes and then she walked him into his room. Elizabeth had painted the room in a holiday scene. She had painted cardboard and then put it up on the walls to make a romantic holiday scene. Lucky was so surprised and pleasantly, I will add. He was in awe of how much work Elizabeth put into his gift and how thoughtful she was. Every thing down to the fireplace looked real. Then Lucky commented that maybe he should not give his gift since it really pales in comparison. Elizabeth insisted. He gave her a box to open and inside the box was a "Y" necklace (very shiny). Lucky told her she could take it back if she did not like it. Elizabeth said she loved it and it was just her style. Then she asked Lucky to sing "their song." Lucky was a little hesitant because he had not played the guitar for so long and he was rusty. Elizabeth looked at him with very pleading eyes and so he gave into her wish. They sat near the painted fireplace and held each other. They talked about how this year would be one of their best Christmases. Next the two began to kiss and caress on the floor. Florence ran into Gia and Nikolas at the hospital and invited them to the house for dinner. Gia right away refused and cited that they already had plans. However Nikolas, being the gentleman he is, said that they would squeeze in time to stop by and have some dinner with Gia's mom. Florence was pleased and thanked Nikolas. Gia then asked Nikolas why he did not follow her lead? Why he agreed that they would stop by for dinner with her mom. He told her that it was because like Thanksgiving she would miss her family and then want to go anyway. Then Gia changed the subject and asked Nikolas why he had not informed his Uncle Stefan of their living arrangements. Nikolas told her that he was working up to that point. He wanted to slowly build up to telling his uncle. Gia asked him would she get the boot if his uncle did not approve. Nikolas reassured her that unless she did not pay the rent or something like that their living arrangements were set. When the Quartermaines arrived home, they were puzzled as to why Emily was not home yet. Edward immediately started to give Alan and Monica a hard time, but they told him to put a sock in it. Then Ned called the police station and found out that their had been a shooting and Alexis and Emily were involved. Unfortunately Ned did not get much information, so they all went to the hospital only Chloe and Edward stayed behind. AJ came back home and was informed by Edward of the situation. Edward and AJ argued a little, but then AJ took charge and called the hospital himself. He found out the details that Emily and Alexis were unharmed and Sonny was critical and Zander was shot in the arm. Chloe and Edward were relieved. Edward went upstairs to inform Lila. Chloe complemented AJ on his handling of Edward. AJ denied doing anything really. Chloe told him not to sell himself short. She said he really does help out and is still a viable part of the family. At police headquarters Taggert arrived and was filled in by Garcia as to the shooting. Needless to say Taggert was visibly upset that there was a shooting in front of police headquarters. Taggert told Garcia to go have Sorel picked up. After Taggert got all the information he concluded that this was an ambush; this shooting was professional, planned, and executed. Zander and Emily arrived at the hospital first. Dr. Jones examined Zander briefly to determine the seriousness of his injury. Sonny arrived next and was in a critical state and unconscious too. Alexis walked in and overhead the nurses saying that Sonny may not make it. Alexis immediately went to look for Carly. Covered in blood Alexis walked off the elevator to meet Carly, Michael, and Johnny. When Carly saw her, she realized that something had happened. She ordered Johnny to take Michael home to Leticia and stay with them. Alexis told her that Sonny was critical and they needed to get down to ER right away. Once the elevator doors open, Carly flew down the hall to Sonny. Alexis ran into Ned and they embraced and hugged each other tightly. Carly was crying and trying to reassure Sonny. She said, baby I know you can hear me. You are going to be all right all you have to do is get through this. You can do this Sonny. Don't leave me Sonny. Please don't leave me!

December 28,2000

In the wake of the shooting at the precinct house, Edward decides to demand Mac Scorpio's resignation. Meanwhile, Mac cautions Marcus not to rush to judgment as Sorel is brought in for questioning. In the ER, Alan and Monica order their daughter to come home but a distraught Emily refuses to leave Zander's side. Relieved to find Alexis unharmed, Ned holds her close. A weeping Carly begs her husband to fight for his life as Sonny is wheeled into the operating room. Emily describes for Marcus how Zander saved her life by shielding her from the bullets with his own body. At the mansion, A.J. confides to Chloe how he and his kid sister drifted apart after Emily began to draw closer to Jason. Alexis delivers to a tearful Carly the message Sonny sent his wife with his last breath before losing consciousness. Felicia leaps to her estranged husband's defense after Edward insists that the police commissioner be removed from his post. Juan issues an angry ultimatum to Zander. Relieved to learn that Sonny survived surgery, Carly dares to hope for the best.

December 29,2000

. An exasperated Monica gets nowhere ordering her daughter to keep her distance from Zander. Meanwhile, Alan pays a menacing call on GH's least popular patient. Carly keeps a tearful vigil in the ICU throughout the night. When Bobbie arrives in the morning, Carly clings to her mother as she tries to convince herself that Sonny will soon be out of danger. Scott objects when Mac questions Laura about the hit on her business partner's husband. Reminding Zander that he's made Emily a target, Alan instructs the young man to remove himself from her life immediately. Alexis confides to Ned how surviving a brush with death has given her a new lease on life. Felicia pesters Mac to let her infiltrate the precinct house to ferret out the identity of the dirty cop on Sorel's payroll. Carly flies off the handle after overhearing Monica warning Bobbie to start preparing her daughter for the worst. Emily panics when Marcus threatens to put Zander back into a cell for safekeeping. Laura offers a grateful Carly some words of comfort. Chloe is in a mood to celebrate after receiving good news from Tony. Alexis decides to bring Zander home with her. Carly's hopes are revived when her husband seems to respond to the touch of little Michael's hand.

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