General Hospital’s Jonathan Jackson unpacks the big Lucky and Elizabeth reunion

Twenty-seven years ago, General Hospital teenagers Lucky Spencer and Elizabeth Webber set eyes on each other for the first time in Kelly's Diner. In the ensuing years, they became friends, lovers, spouses, and exes. They also hadn't seen one another in nearly a decade until this week.

General Hospital's Lucky and Liz together again

On the Monday, September 30 episode, Elizabeth stopped for coffee at the former Kelly's, now called Bobbie's. When she turned around to leave, she saw Lucky standing in front of her just as she did back in 1997 when Elizabeth and Lucky were still in high school.

That is where GH left things as it heads into a two-day break so ABC can air the Major League Baseball playoffs on October 1 and 2. When GH returns on October 3, Elizabeth and Lucky will have their first face-to-face conversation since Lucky rescued Liz's presumed-dead son Jake from Helena Cassadine and returned him to his mother in 2015.

Jonathan Jackson dissects the reunion scenes

Before Lucky made it back to Port Charles, he hallucinated Elizabeth while trapped in Sidwell's prison cell. Those scenes were the first ones in which Jackson and Rebecca Herbst performed together in nearly ten years.

"Becky is so great at what she does, and there’s such a history there between Lucky and Elizabeth, so most of [how we played it was] just very intuitive," Jackson told Soap Opera Digest. "In that dream, the version of Elizabeth that comes to him has some righteous indignation, and I thought Becky was really amazing in that scene."

In Lucky's hallucination, Elizabeth was angry at him for staying away for so long and leaving her to raise their son on her own. However, Lucky's reality is quite different when he and Elizabeth see each other at Bobbie's for the first time.

"Unlike in his vision, Elizabeth is not — outwardly, anyway — angry, or sort of chiding him. But there’s a tension there. There’s a lot of remorse and guilt, I think, in Lucky. And so in the scenes, there’s the familiarity and the awkwardness of the situation, of him not really being there for the last decade."

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With Elizabeth single and having turned down a rekindled romance with Ric, does that mean Lucky might be the lucky man to re-win her heart? Stay tuned to find out.

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