General Hospital Recaps: The week of December 22, 1997 on GH

Helena admitted that she had had Alexis' mother murdered and that Mikkos had persuaded Helena to spare Alexis' life. Brenda made a pass at Jason. Carly began to bleed and passed out.

Monday, December 22, 1997

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An intimidated Alexislistened as Helenarevealed that she hadalways known the truth about Alexis's true identity. Helenaexplained how she had managed to have Alexis's mothermurdered and how Mikkos had convinced her to spare Alexis.Helena then had Alexis tell her everything she knew about herpast in order to determine if she should live. Alexis'ssuspicions were confirmed when she learned that Helenawanted to use her to take control of the Cassadine empirethrough Nikolas. They were interrupted by Luke who hadalready learned that Helena was back in town. Luke charmedand sparred with Helena which culminated in Helena makinga veiled threat to him about the harm done to Nikolas.Looking for Helena, Stefan found Luke with Alexis. Afterseeing Alexis rejected by Stefan, Luke made Alexis realizethat between Helena and Stefan's wrath, she would be killed.Luke then suggested to Alexis that they team up. A panickyNikolas and Lucky realized that Nikolas had a speechproblem. Lucky got help for Nikolas, but Stefan blamed himfor what had happened. Tony exonerated Lucky andKatherine stayed with Nikolas as Stefan looked for Helena.Tony examined Nikolas and ordered a CAT scan. Nikolas'sfears grew when he failed a speech experiment. Lucky toldBobbie that Nikolas had asked if Laura knew about hiscondition. Stefan then learned from Tony that the CAT scanoffered no answers about Nikolas's condition. Meanwhile,Jason admitted to AJ that he had slept with Carly, but did notclaim paternity of her baby. AJ, however, jumped to his ownconclusions and lashed out furiously in Carly's presence bystating that she was a danger to her baby. As AJ and Jasonargued about Carly and AJ's claim to her child, all of the guiltthat AJ had been carrying since Jason's accident dissipated.AJ also cited the pain caused to Robin, but Carly spoke up forher. AJ gave up on Jason, but he told Carly that between himand Tony, Carly would never be able to keep the baby. Bypledging his full support, Jason helped Carly calm down andstop fearing that she would loose her baby.

Tuesday, December 23, 1997

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Still unable to speakproperly, Nikolaswas sent for an MRI. Sarah learned from Stefan thatLucky was at hand when Nikolas's symptoms firstappeared. Sarah confronted Lucky, who felt guilty that hemay have caused the symptoms. Tony told Stefan thatNikolas had a stroke and was suffering from Broca'sAphasia. Stefan tried to put a positive spin on Nikolas'scondition, but Nikolas shut down and insisted on beingleft alone. Resisting Alan's well meaning intervention,Jax sought out a specialist for Brenda. Jax felt that Alancontributed to Brenda's breakdown when he had overprescribed Brenda's pain medication at one time. Dr.Marx thought that Brenda needed to spend more time atthe hospital, but Brenda begged to go home soon. Tesslead Mac to believe that she had imprisoned him as asubstitute for her "dead" James. Meanwhile, Jamesenjoyed Christmas with Felicia and the girls.

Wednesday, December 24, 1997

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The Quartermaines madetheir Christmaspreparations with theirusual bickering. All were happy when Ned arrived with BrookLynn, but were disappointed when Ned had to bring her backto Lois by evening. AJ snapped at Monica when she inquiredif the secret he had been keeping had been about Jason andCarly. Keesha realized from AJ's mood that things did not gowell between him and Jason. Katherine gave Nikolas a peptalk. Sarah sneaked into Nikolas's room, but he rebuffed her.Determined to get Brenda released from General Hospital,Jax finally resorted to blackmailing Alan by threatening tomake it known that Alan had over-prescribed Brenda's painmedication. Despite Dr. Rogers warning that he was makinga terrible mistake, Jax took Brenda back to her cottage wherethey had their own special Christmas. Bobbie learned fromTony that Carly had claimed that Jason was the father of herchild. Carly and Jason accidentally crashed the hospitalChristmas party. Before Carly could see her doctor, Bobbieconfronted Carly about what she had done. Carly told Bobbiethat she had only been after Tony for his money and that shehad always been seeing Jason. Carly told Bobbie that shefinally got tired of living up to Tony's expectations and that sheno longer needed him since Jason was rich. Thinking thatCarly had at least cared for Tony, Bobbie was shocked byCarly's attitude and regretted that she had felt even an ounceof sympathy towards her situation. Stefan confronted Jasonwhen he tried to pay Nikolas's medical bills. Stefan refusedJason's money and tried to blame Jason's medicalprocedure for Nikolas's condition. Jason defended himselfand he and Stefan then threw their respective power in eachothers faces. Ned arranged to have saxophonist Dave Kozperform at the hospital Christmas party. Tony played the roleof Santa Claus and Alan delivered the traditional Christmasstory. Later, Carly surprised Jason with a Christmas tree andgifts and then vented her guilt over not missing Tony.

Thursday, December 25, 1997

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Due to the Christmas holiday, General Hospital did not air today.

Friday, December 26, 1997

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Tony examines Nikolas and decides he is ready to leave the ICU unit. Nikolas is not very thrilled with the news and after Tony leaves, Stefan tries to comfort Nikolas telling him everything is just a minor setback, once Nikolas starts speech therapy, everything will be fine. Stefan leaves and Sarah shows up to visit Nikolas. Nikolas won't look at her and calls Bobbie to make Sarah leave.

Luke tries to convince Alexis to join him in his fight against the Cassadines. Alexis refuses saying she still believes Stefan will protect her against Helena. Later, Alexis arrives at Wyndemere and tells Stefan that Natasha does exist and she is the infamous Natasha.

Julia asks Brenda to return to London with her. Brenda declines and Julia admits she has to leave tonight to salvage a business deal she had to leave in order to see Brenda. Jax makes plans for Julia to return to London and while Brenda is out of the room, Julia admits her doubts about Brenda's condition to Jax. Jax agrees with Julia that Brenda isn'tready to live on her own and tells her he has hired a nurse to take care of Brenda. As he says this, the nurse arrives. Brenda walks back into the room and surprisingly likes the nurse and asks her to start tonight.

Jason and Carly arrive back from the lawyer's office with a document that will allow Jason to have power of attorney for Carly and have his name on the baby's birth certificate. Jason warns Carly she should still be cautious because paternity tests still have to be performed once the baby is born. Also, AJ could still press charges against Carly fordrugging him. Jason tries to comfort Carly telling her he will do anything she needs done to help her keep the baby. Jason then leaves to run an errand.

After Jason has left, AJ knocks at the door and threatens Carly. He tells her she should be afraid because he is going to take away her child. Carly then has AJ thrown out.

Julia and Jax leave for the airport and Jason shows up to see Brenda. He apologizes to her for anything he may have done to put her in the hospital. Brenda asks him if Sonny sent him. When he tells he no, she realizes he has really taken over. Jason tells Brenda Sonny isn't trying to kill her and didn't want any of this to happen to her. Brenda then starts to act a little strange and tells Jason he doesn't have everything of Sonny's and starts to kiss him.

Carly wakes up and realizes she is bleeding. She walks down the stairs calling for Jason then collapses at the foot of the stairs.