General Hospital Recaps: The week of February 3, 1997 on GH

Robin returned to Yale. Mac and Taggert discovered that Laura and Lesley were alive. Friends and loved ones felt betrayed by Laura's deception. Sonny struggled with his claustrophobia while he languished in jail.

Monday, February 3, 1997

by Soap Central

The Spencers are with Tom in the house that they're hiding in getting ready toleave for Switzerland. Tom argues a bit with Luke about Sonny and Luke tellinghim what to do all the time, but Luke yells and says that he won't let this bescrewed up by Tom's inexperience. Laura begs Tom to just hang in there for thenext couple of days and he agrees. Laura goes over and tells Leslie that Tomis going to give her some medication for the trip and Tom talks to her sometoo. Then Laura gets up and tells Luke and Lucky that she's worried aboutgiving Leslie more drugs, but Lucky reassures her that everything will be okonce they get to Switzerland. They joke about an alias that Lucky hated,Howard, and how he hopes that Sonny gets them better ID's for Switzerland.Suddenly there is loud knocking at the door. It's Mac and he's looking forTom, who he saw in the window hugging a blond woman. The Spencers and Lesliehide in the back room and Mac comes in yelling at Tom for cheating on Felicia. Then he smells the cigar smoke and yells for Luke to come out and he does. Theothers stay in hiding. Luke and Mac have a shouting match about the Cassadinesand Katherine's shooting. Leslie starts getting very restless and Laura getsworried. Just as Luke is shouting that the Cassadines killed Laura, Laurawalks out and asks Tom to come and look at her mother. Mac is shocked. Laurahas LeslieLu in her arms and Mac is very quiet and smiles and says that one ofthe hardest things about her funeral was knowing that the baby would grow upwithout her mom. Laura starts to explain, but Mac tells her to take the babyupstairs, because things could get ugly. Laura exits. Mac asks Luke to tellhim about how the Cassadines were behind the explosion and the grief and thelook on that boy's face when Lucky told him that his mother was killed. Macsays that Luke should be proud, he raised a son that could cut his brother'sheart out without a problem. Mac accuses Luke of doing this all because Laurahad a son that wasn't his. Luke tells him that he just doesn't get it, but Macsays he doesn't care to and then tells Luke he's under arrest. Laura pleadswith Mac to let them go and get Leslie the help she needs. Mac says ok, aslong as Luke stays with him. Luke asks Mac if he wants Lucky and Lulu to endup like Leslie and says the only way to protect his family is to run. He asksMac to let him go.

Robin and Jason are sitting on the bridge. Robin is makinghim guess what she is going to give him for being so wonderful. Whenhe can't she tells him that she's going to live--for him. Jason jumps up andRobin follows suit and then hugs him and says she'll start the new HIVprotocol. Jason tells her not to do it for him because it doesn't matterwhat he thinks, only what she wants. Robin says that she wants to make himhappy and Jason says that she does that for everyone else, Mac, Stone, all thepeople she does HIV speeches for, but she doesn't have to do that for him. Allshe has to do is love him. Robin gets quiet and asks Jason outright if hewants her to start the new medication and Jason says yes. Robin says thatshe wants to too. She remembers the night they were on the bridge and Robinasked him if he wanted to jump. She never would have, but she thought he mightand he was holding her hand. She tells him that because he didn't jump hechose life for the both of them and that's what she's doing now. Robin tellsJason that before she just considered him to be the one good thing she gotbefore she died. She could love him and then get to die and be with Stone. Now that she know she could have a lifetime with Jason that's what she wants. She pleads with Jason to let her give him this gift--her life. He's reluctantto take it, but finally simply thanks her for it. They kiss and then hug.Sonny comes over a short time later and tells Robin that he's come to help. Robin tells him that she's made her decision, that she's going to start theprotocol. Sonny is thrilled and hugs her and tells her that everything willwork out, that she's going to live. Robin says she knows that and then goesover and hugs Jason again. Sonny starts remembering when they scatteredStone's ashes off the side of the bridge and how alive Robin looked then andhow he couldn't help but think that Robin could be next to die. He tells herhe wanted her to take the medicine because he can't imagine living without heraround. He tells her that she's the last person that he should love, but hedoes. They hug and Robin laughs and says remembers when she used to think thatSonny was a "bad guy." Sonny says he is a bad guy and laughs. Then his cellphone rings. It's Lucky. He tells Sonny to get over there right away becauseMac found them. He tells Jason there's a problem in Rochester, but insiststhat Jason take Robin back to school and that he can handle the problemhimself. Sonny argues with Jason a little about who gets to pay for Robin'streatment and then she mentions they'll have to fight with Mac about. Sonnysays he'll pay and he'll take care of Mac and exits. Robin and Jason hug alittle more before they leave for Yale. Robin says that she's not afraid and that she loves him. They kiss.

Mikolas is at Laura's grave. He's brought her some daisies. He's says he'snot surprised they were her favorite. They're simple and hardly have any scentat all. He "tells" Laura about his favorite flower, the rose, and the rosebushes "back home." He asks if Stavros ever held him or if Laura and Stavrosever smiled at each other once. He asks if she was happy that he was alive. He says that she said that she was, but he was too angry to listen. He sayshe's sorry...

At the courthouse, there's a recap of Alan hitting Dorman and hurting his handa lot. Dorman's lawyer asks that Alan be taken into custody for hitting Dr.Drone-on and the judge agrees. Alexis tries to get Alan out of it, but thejudge isn't being convinced. Then Dorman announces that he's not going topress charges because his dispute is with Alan's wife and in a way the tow ofthem (dorman and alan) are both victims (gag!). The court fines Alan $1000 forcontempt and court is ajourned until the day after tomorrow. There's a scenein the courtroom where Edward yells at Alan for costing them so much money byruining Monica's case and even suggests that they settle the case out of court. Justus tells Edward to put a sock in it. The Quartermaines and others decideto go to the hospital to get Alan's hand checked out. Outside Dorman ismilking his decision to not press charges against Alan with the media. Monicacomes out is swarmed with the press that follows her out of the courthouse. Nikolas comes in looking for Stefan. He finds Bobbie instead and they decideto go over the GH together. Ned and Alexis go off to the sideand decide to go get a drink together. Dorman sees them and calls someone onthe phone to set up a meeting.

At the hospital in Alan's room, Edward is still fighting over what a mess Alanmade and predicts that Dorman will change his mind about the law suit and costthem a fortune. AJ sticks up for Alan and says who cares, so they won't buythat software company. It was worth it for Alan to have the chance to hitDorman. Monica spies Bobbie outside the door and goes out to talk to her whilethe Q's continue to argue. Monica and Bobbie look at Alan's x-rays and talkabout possible nerve damage. Then Monica admits to Bobbie that it kind of feltgood to see Alan stick up for her. Later, when Alan and Monica are alone, sheadmits it to Alan too and gives him a BIG kiss.

Still at GH Stefan is talking to Katherine. He offers her a present thathe says is a memento of their night together. Katherine refuses to take it atfirst, but Stefan makes her open it. It's a necklace with a crystal tree onit--like the tree outside of her hospital room window. She loves it and askshim to help her put it on. He does so and then he sits down in front of herreally close and takes her face in his hands. He almost kisses her, but stopsand pulls away from her. Katherine asks for a mirror to see what it looks likeon her and Stefan gets her one. Katherine tells him that she told a friendabout him, but that since she didn't know his name that the friend might nothave believed that he was real, but now she had proof. Stefan starts to tellher his name, but she stops him. She tells him to tell her his name whenthey're both standing at the window together. Stefan agrees and goes to exit. She thanks him and he looks at her and says, "I've given you very little."Stefan exits. Later, Nikolas comes in and Katherine teases him about notvisiting her for a while. Nikolas admits to having heard her say to Dr. Jonesthat she didn't want any visitors so he stayed away. Katherine tells Nikolasabout her change of heart and he's pleased. He goes to leave, but Katherineknows that something is bothering him. She guesses that it's his mother. Nikolas asks Katherine if she knew Laura. Katherine says not very well andNikolas says that he didn't either. He says that Laura was the only person inhis life that told him the truth (that's what he thinks) and that he didn'tbelieve her when she said that she loved him. He starts crying and says thathe wish he could tell her he's sorry and that he loves her. He wonders why hecouldn't tell her when he had the chance.

Stefan is at Laura's grave. He tells her that he misses her and mourns thedream that he had of she and Nikolas and himself being a family together. Heapologizes for all the pain he caused her and thanks her for Nikolas. He saysthat for her sake he let her husband live and that he won't kill him unlessLuke provokes him. Stefan then kneels down and touches the daisies thatNikolas left there. "It's over, finaly." he states. It wasn't the end that hewanted, but it's finished. "I'm still here. Does that mean that I won?" heasks.

Tuesday, February 4, 1997

by Jessica Greig

The show opens in Jax and Brenda's apartment. Brenda is reading a book onthe steps when Jax enters. They greet each other and then Jax suggests havinga late supper. Brenda wants to talk and Jax tries to get out of it sayinghe's too tired, but Brenda plunges in anyway. She brings up Miranda and Jaxtries to reassure her by saying that he's divored and Miranda is history, butBrenda questions why he gave her the poem book then. Jax asks Brenda why shebrought the book of poems to Miranda if it bothered her so much. Brenda tellshim that she was concerned about him and about "us." Jax doesn't believe her.Then Brenda says that she wanted to tell Miranda to let him go. Jax yells thatit's not up to Miranda, it's up to him and he decided it was over. End ofstory. Brenda says it can't be over if he still has feeling for Miranda. Jaxadmits that he still cares about Miranda and that they'd probably still be married if there was no explosion, but there was one. He mourned her and thenfell in love with Brenda. He tells Brenda he loves her and asks her to believehim because he is there with her. Brenda says that a part of him is withher, but another is still with Miranda. Jax gets frustrated and Brenda saysthat this whole thing comes down to the fact that he should have told herabout Miranda before they got married. Jax tries to cut in by saying that heexplained that already, but Brenda won't let him give her excuses again.She says she knows her told her he was too hurt and all that other stuff, butthe real reason he didn't tell her was because he knew what it would do totheir relationship. Jax says that he knows she's hurting, but not toevery tell him how he felt after Miranda died. Brenda gets so angry and tellsJax that he doesn't have an exclusive on pain and that she hurts everydayknowing that he didn't trust her enough to tell her about Miranda beforehandand knowing that he's still hung up on his ex-wife. She asks him to stoppretending everything is fine when it's not just because he ahs some stupidpiece of paper. Jax tries to reassure her AGAIN, but Brenda mentions overhearing Jax say that Miranda was the love of his life to his mom inthe hospital and reading his love letters to Miranda that say things thathe's never said to her. Jax promises not to keep anything from her againand reaffirms his love for her. It looks like everything is working outwhen Brenda asks Jax if he slept with Miranda in Australia. Jax getsangry and tells her he didn't. They argue some more and Jax again triesto stop the conversation, but Brenda won't have it. She tells him she's showing him the woman he married, the real her and that all she wantsin return is to see who the hell he is. They fight some more aboutMiranda and then Jax brings up Sonny. Brenda says this has nothingto do with Sonny, but Jax disagrees because Sonny brought her back tobreak them up. He begs her not to let Sonny win. Brenda startscriticizing Miranda and how she always ends up looking shallowin comparison to Miranda. Jax says he's trying to be fair, but Brendascreams that she doesn't feel like being fair right now and goes onabout Miranda manipulating him. Jax can't listen anymore and exits.Brenda calls after him that nobody's perfect. She throws a pillow fromthe couch around and then says that she'll prove to him that nobody's perfect.She picks up the phone and starts calling someone.

At the Spencers' hiding place. Laura is pleading with Mac not to takeLuke in. They argue some more and Sonny walks in to try to helpconvince Mac to let them go. He yells at Tom for not following instructionsand Tom says he doesn't take orders from Sonny. Luke tries to convinceMac again that Stefan is trying to frame him for Katherine's shooting. Maccomes up with the scenario that while Luke was threatening Stefan, he shotat him and accidentally hit Katherine instead. Luke says Bobbie was thereand will vouch for him. Sonny says they're wasting time, that Macis outnumbered and tells the Spencers to get their stuff and get readyto go. Mac says that no one is going anywhere. Luke promises to come backafter he gets Leslie and the family to Switzerland, but Mac says hecan't trust him after their stunt of faking Laura's death. Luke promisesthat after his name is cleared he won't hear of them again in Port Charlesif Mac will just let him get his family to Switzerland. They make thecase for Leslie's recovery and need to get to the swiss clinic and Tombacks up their story. Suddenly we hear a loud voice being amplifiedfrom outside. It's Taggert saying that he's got the place surrounded, soput down your weapons and put your hands where they can be seen. Mac saysyou heard the man and pulls out his gun. Luke goes to the door and opensit to face Taggert. He says he's unarmed and Taggert orders Luke ANDLaura's arrest (Laura's an accessory). Then he waltzes in and yellsat Mac for not calling for backup. Mac yells back and asks how Taggertgot there in the first place. He was following Tom, like Mac toldhim to and when Mac went and then Sonny entered and Mac didn't comeout Taggert got worried and called for backup. Sonny mouths off andTaggert orders his arrest which Mac agrees with. They cuff Sonnyand Tom. Laura asks Mac to take the kids to Ruby's and Mac agrees. Leslie starts getting upset. Mac tells the other police officersnot to cuff the women and when Taggert protests Mac tells him that hebetter listen to him or he'll have Taggert collecting tolls on theinterstate for the rest of his career. Taggert backs down and Mac callsfor an ambulance for Leslie. Taggert takes Sonny and Tom outside tovan waiting to take them to the police station. Sonny asks Taggertwhat his beef with him is. Sonny says it seems personal, but Taggertbrushes off the comment and pushes him towards the van. Mac apologizesto the Spencers and promises to help and to post a 24-hour guard at thehouse until this mess is cleared up. Laura is sitting on the couchlooking awfully distressed and says that she has to find Nikolas beforehe finds out the truth from someone else. She promises to come and seeLuke after she meets with Nikolas and Luke is cuffed and takenout to the police van. Laura watches him being taken away throughthe window. Lucky comes over and asks her if she's ok, but Laurais upset and sends him upstairs to check on LuLu. Laura approachesLeslie and starts crying. "It's all falling apart. Everything is fallingapart." Leslie looks up at her and touches her arm. "Don't cry Laura,"she says. Laura is overjoyed at this development in her mother's conditionand cries even more and gives her a hug. Leslie smiles.Outside in the van Tom apologizes for letting himself be followed andSonny scolds him for doing it. Luke says that this whole scenariowas an accident waiting to happen because he tried to hide too close toPort Charles with a dog and two kids, a wife and Leslie. Tom mentions thatStefan really stacked 'em up today--he's got Sonny and Luke and a reasonto get rid of him, too. Luke says not to worry about Stefan, thathe's got a lot of explaining to do.

In Katherine's hospital room. Nikolas is upset about Laura and how he nevertold her that he loved her. Katherine reassures him that she knew thathe did. Nikolas apologizes for getting so emotional, but Katherinetells him it's ok to be open because they're friends. Nikolas mentionsthat he could never act like that in front of his uncle and Katherinecriticizes Stefan for being rude and not coming to visit her afterhe went to all the trouble to get a specialist to come in and operateon her earlier. She tells Nikolas to tell him her opinion and that theonly thing that "uncle" has going for him is Nikolas. Nikolas smilesand then gives her a book on Tai Chi Kwan, the martial art he waspracticing when they met that is alos know to have restorative powers of the mind and body. Katherine thanks him and Nikolas gives her shortkiss on the lips just as Miranda walks in. She apologizes for intrudingand goes to leave, but Katherine stops her. Nik and Miranda are introducedand then Nik exits. Katherine says that she has a mad crush on Nikolas andif he were a little older she'd have to marry him. Then she asks Mirandato fill her in on what happened with the divorce and Miranda does so.In the end Miranda says that they're better off now because she and Jaxare different people. Katherine asks Miranda about her past, but Mirandaavoids talking about it. Later Katherine is fingering her tree necklacefrom Stefan. She falls asleep and later wakes up to see Stefan standingby the window telling Katherine to come and join him. She starts togo to him and falls off her bed and looks up to see that Stefan wasn'treally there. She lies on the floor and looks at the necklacein her hand and asks, "Where are you?"

At the Cassadine mansion Stefan comes into the living roomand sees Katherine dressed up in a gown with a drink in her handsitting on the couch. She stands up and asks him if he'd like a drink.Suddenly Kat turns into Bobbie and she notes Stefan's surprised lookon his face. Bobbie is concerned and Stefan says that he just got backfrom visiting Laura's grave. They talk for a while about his feelingsabout her death and how they're affecting Nikolas. He mentions thathe thinks Nikolas was there earlier, too. Bobbie fills him in onwhat happened at Monica's trial and remarks on how somethingso horrible has brought Monica and Alan closer together. Bobbiehopes there's still a chance for she and Luke to patch up theirdifferences. She says that maybe Luke will even realize he was wrongabout Stefan. Stefan gives her a look and they both laugh. Bobbie says,"yeah, right" and then asks Stefan if he has a San Francisco bridge tosell her. They hug. Bobbie exits and later Nikolas enters while Stefanis going over some paperwork. He tries to have a conversation with Nikolas,but they end up fighting. Nikolas tells him he's got a message fromKatherine Bell for him. He tells him about how she feels about himnot having visited her and Stefan promises to visit her tomorrow. Nikolasgoes to leave and Stefan asks him if he went to Laura's grave. Nikolassays he did and they fight about Laura's, um, honesty and all of Stefan's liesabout Laura and Leslie's "first" death. Nikolas says that Laurawould stil be alive if he hadn't come to Port Charles. Stefan pointsout that LeslieLu would've died, though. They fight some more and Stefansays that no matter what he still loves Nikolas, even though his otherfamily members are gone. He offers to send Nik back to Greecebecause he's so unhappy, but Nikolas says that he's staying becauseBobbie convinced him to, so that he could do something good to honorhis mother. Stefan tells him not to forget that he's a Cassadine, but Nikolassays that that's for him to decide now and goes to exit. StefanCOMMANDS him to come back, but Nikolas looks at him and says that he's sorry,those days are over and exits. Later Stefan is getting ready to goto the hospital to make last preparations for the tribute to Lauraand Leslie when Nikolas enters to say good night. Bobbie is thereand asks him to keep her company for a while and to be her escort atthe big event tomorrow because Stefan will be so busy. Nikolas sayshe's going because he wants to give his mother the respect that he couldnot give her when she was alive.

Wednesday, February 5, 1997

by Jessica Greig

At the Cassadine's mansion Bobbie tells Nikolas that she thinks Laurawould be very pleased if he would represent the family at the ceremonyhonoring her and Leslie at GH. Bobbie says that she sees lots of Laura in Nikolas--they both have a big heart. She asks him to be her escort there (again) and he agrees and exits. Bobbie and Stefan talk about the changein Nikolas that happened after Laura's "death" and Stefan vents his frustrationover the fact that Nikolas seemingly misinterpreting everything that hesays. Bobbie explains that Nikolas has been hurt by all the changes inhis life this past year and by the fact that Stefan never told him thatLeslie was alive all those years. Bobbie says that Nikolas is just learningthat his idol is only human, but that Nik loves Stefan and that lovewill win out. Stefan thanks Bobbie and exits to head over to GH.

Katherine is being tucked into her hospital bed by Audrey and anotherhospital worker. She fell on the floor during a dream in which shesaw Stefan and was able to stand by herself. Audrey says that shegot on the floor by herself, so maybe she can do more than she thinks shecan. Audrey says she's going to send a doctor in to look at her and Katherinetells her about the guy on the night shift that comes to visit her.Audrey exits and Katherine looks at her "tree necklace" from Stefan.Later, Stefan enters the room and Katherine tells him that she knewhe would come because she dreamt it. She tells Stefan about her dreamand he tells her he thinks it symbolizes that she's ready to walkagain. Katherine talks about how happy and optimistic she is becauseof Stefan and she tells him that it must be wonderful to have sucha positive affect on people. Stefan has visions of the explosionthat supposedly killed Laura and tells her that he usually has theopposite affect on people. In fact, he's not who she thinks he is at all.Stefan describes how life was a game to him and he enjoyed the pursuitof his goals much more than he enjoyed actually arriving at the goals.He liked his life that way up until recently when he began to wonder abouthis destination in life. He thinks that maybe arriving is most important,not the pursuit, and belonging somewhere and to someone is also important.Stefan says that the person that Katherine sees in him he doesn'trecognize. Then he describes how much being with her helps him to getthrough everything and she feels the same about him. He touches her faceand looks like he's going to kiss her, but stops. He kisses her on theforehead instead and goes to exit. He looks back at her longingly fromthe doorway and exits leaving Katherine with a confused and worried lookon her face.

In Rochester, where the Spencers have been hiding, we see Lauraholding her mother who has just told her not to cry. Laura is overjoyedthat her mother has recognized her. She pulls away crying and looksat her mother and Leslie says, "My baby!" Laura hugs her again andsays that she knew this day would come. She calls to Lucky to comeand meet his grandmother, but by then Leslie has gone back into hertrance-like state again. Mac and Lucky come in to find the sameLeslie they saw when they left. Laura is crushed and says thatshe wishes they could have made it to the clinic and Lucky suggests stillsending her there, but Laura won't let Leslie go by herself. She can'ttake her because she's got to stay and fight with Luke to clear his name.She just has something to do first. "Nikolas," Lucky says with a tear in his eye. Laura confirms his suspicion. Lucky gives her a hardtime about going to see him, but eventually agrees it's the right thingto do, though he makes it clear that his opinion of Nikolas hasn't changed.Mac promises them safe passage back into Port Charles and suggests callingKevin in to consult, even though he doesn't have his medical licenseanymore. Laura agrees as long as he's not told what the case is about or WHO it involves until he gets to the house. She doesn't wantNik to find out about her being alive before she can tell him herself.Mac says that it's too late to catch the early edition anyway and callsKevin. Then Laura calls Bobbie and Bobbie is shocked when she recognizesthe voice on the phone.

Kevin arrives at the house after Laura leaves and examines Leslie. He talks to her and shines a light in her right eye. He looks up at Macwith an awful look on his face and asks him what happened to her.Mac says that the Cassadines did it to her and Kevin is shaken (maybehe's going to reconsider thinking about taking that job offerfrom Stefan, hmm?). Lucky complains about messing up and throwingthe gun into the rocks the night Luke threatened Stefan. Mac saysnot to blame himself and that faking someone's death is a really seriousoffense. Lucky asks how bad things will be for Laura if Luke is foundguilty and Mac sighs and looks away...

At the police station Luke is being interrogated by a very, very, more-than-he-usually-is arrogant Taggert. Luke claims that Stefan set the bombto kill Laura and Leslie and that he found out about the set up in thenick of time through a computer game that Stefan had created for Lucky. He gotthere just in time to save them and thought faking her death was the onlyway to keep Laura safe from the Cassadines. He also claims that thisplan was a spur of the moment kind of deal and that Sonny and Tom werebrought in after they were in Rochester and that they both tried to talkLuke out of trying to leave the country and continue with the whole charade (Inother words, he lied a lot). Taggert asks him how 2 dead bodies, one witha wedding ring with the inscription "Luke and Laura" on it, werefound so conveniently at the scene of the crime if hadn't planned thewhole thing before the explosion. Luke blames it all on Cassadine. Tomsuggests pulling Taggert in for questionning, but Sonny says that Taggertwon't do that because he wants to get Sonny no matter what and Taggertpretty much agrees with him. Taggert says that he has to follow theevidence, which leads him right to the three of them. Taggert exitsfor a few minutes and Luke asks Sonny if he's ever spent a night in aholding cell before and Sonny says it'll be no problem only he saysthat a too many times and seems very nervous. When Taggert returnsSonny asks him to see his lawyer and Tom asks for his. They allask for their one phone call. Taggert wants to do it all in the morning,but Luke wins his phone call. Taggert refuses to let anyone see theirlawyer, even though it is revealed that Sonny's lawyer is alreadythere at the police station. Tom and Sonny are put in a holding celland Sonny has flashbacks of being beaten with a belt and being put ina closet (claustrophobia!). Luke calls Rochester and gets an updateabout the situation there from Lucky. Luke wants to talk to Laura,but Lucky says she's already off to go and see Nikolas.

A short time later in thick fog at night Bobbie and Laura meet on the beachon Spoon Island. Bobbie asks Laura if it's really her and Laura saysit is. Then Bobbie slaps Laura (!) and says, "You selfish bitch!" Theyargue about her deceiving everyone, but Laura asks her to hold off heranger until after she tells Nikolas that she's alive. She asksfor Bobbie's help in telling him, but Bobbie is livid and goes offon Laura. Laura tries to explain her actions by describing what Stefandid to Leslie, but Bobbie can only see that Stefan saved Leslie's lifeand Lulu's and the hospital. She says that Luke has brainwashed heragainst Stefan and tells her how hurt Nikolas was by this whole fiasco.She tells Laura to do everyone a favor and stay dead! Laura says she can'tbecause their cover has been blown and she wants to tell her sonthat she's alive before he finds out from someone else. Bobbie says Nikolas is HER son now and goes on about Stefan feeling responsiblefor her death and how guilty he feels. Laura says that she's afraidfor Bobbie because she knows sooner or later Stefan will do something toBobbie and still end up looking like a victim himself. Bobbie screamsthat she won't let Laura say anything else bad about Stefan and thenasks Laura if Luke filled her in on the details of her funeral--whichshe was banned from! Bobbie tells Laura that Amy was so upset she hadto take a leave of absence from the hospital and Ruby aged 10 yrs afterher death and Luke and the kids leaving Port Charles. She alsosays that Nikolas has been walking around like a ghost. Laura begs bobbieto help her make it easier to tell Nikolas and Bobbie screams thatshe's not going to make it easier for Laura to torture Nikolas some more.They fight about Laura choosing Luke and Lucky and Lulu over Nikolasand Laura says that she couldn't just stand there and watch her two sonskill each other. Then we hear a voice say "Who's there?" It's Nikolas. He starts walking down the steps and almost falls due tothe shock of seeing Laura alive before him.

Thursday, February 6, 1997

by Jessica Greig

Stefan is at Laura's grave. Alexis comes up behind him and asks him whyhe wanted to meet in the graveyard. Stefan says he wants to say goodbye.Stefan talks about how fed up he is with his life and how he feels like he'ssuffocating. Alexis says that it's understandable because of what happenedto Laura... Stefan shouts that it's not all about Laura. He feels likehis whole life is dragging him down and he's sick of being needed.Alexis suggests a vacation and Stefan gets mad at her for trivializing the situation. Alexis says that she's not doing that and tells him that hecan't leave because then there'd be no one to head the family. Stefanoffers Alexis the job. Alexis suggests that Stefan is afraid that KatherineBell will identify him as the shooter and so he wants to run away beforehe gets caught. Alexis tells him that he has a life in Port Charlesand he can't just give it up. Stefan says he doesn't feel like his lifeis his own. Alexis tells him he has all of the power that he can makehis life his own, he controls everything. Stefan says that's not true--Laura's still dead and Katherine may never walk again. Alexis tells him thatthose aren't reasons to run away. She reminds him of Nikolas and howhe's too young to take on the responsibilities of running the familyand Stefan says that he hadn't considered Nikolas when he was thinking ofleaving. Alexis asks Stefan what this all really is about and Stefanadmits it's about Katherine and how much he wants to be with her.Alexis tries to rationalize away the feelings that he has for Katherineand convinces Stefan to wait a few days before making any decisions aboutgoing away and Stefan agrees. Alexis says she has to be in court and exits.Stefan kneels down on Laura's grave and remembers a time long ago when Nikolaswas a baby and he missed his chance to tell Laura that he loved her. He asks"Laura's spirit" if he had told her he loved her that day would she have goneback to Luke. He says that he lost Laura because he waited and he won't makethat same mistake again. He kisses his hand and touches the headstone andexits.

Katherine is in her hospital room lying in bed (as usual) figuring the"tree necklace" that Stefan gave her. She remembers the last timeshe saw Stefan and how he almost kissed her. Miranda enters looking forMac. She wants to find out if he has any old pictures of her from beforethe accident. Katherine is surprised that Miranda is showing an interest inher past because she seemed reluctant to think about it before, whenKatherine had asked her about it. Katherine asks her why she's sointerested all of a sudden, but Miranda is too preoccupied withKat's tree necklace to answer. She takes it from Katherine and getsall nervous and asks her where she got the necklace from (Miranda=Cassadine,I think) and Katherine tells her it's from her secret friend. Mirandasays it's beautiful and unique and that it's extraordinary craftsmanship.Miranda asks Kat if she knows her friend's name yet and Katherinesays no. Miranda is all of a sudden in a hurry to exit and rushesout of the room not even hearing Katherine's last words to her (somethinglike, I'll ask Mac about those photos for you). In the hallway, Mirandaleans up against the door and lets out a huge sigh. She's reallyworried about something. Later, Stefan enters. He says that he neededto see her. Katherine is pleased and tells him that he looks troubled.Stefan tells her he has something to tell her. Katherine waits. Stefansays he's not who she thinks he is. Katherine asks, "Who is?" He thenjust says it. "I'm Stefan Cassadine."

At the main desk in the renovated GH (the new set looks cool) Lucy andAudrey are talking about all the hard work that the renovations tookand about how hard it is to believe that Laura and Steve are gone. Lucyalso defends Luke and says that he could never have shot Katherine andthat even though the kids are on the run, Luke is probably doing a goodjob of taking care of them. Audrey exits after confirming the time when the memorial service for Laura and Leslie will start. Lucy walksover to the plaque on the wall that says that the renovations are dedicated to the memory of Laura and Leslie. Then her cell phone rings.It's Luke. Lucy is ecstatic. He tells her he's in jail and asks her tohelp him. Later, in the police station in a visitation room, I guess, Lucyenters and gives Luke a huge hug. The policeman there says they can't hug--Tagger's orders (ugh!). Lucy is all excited and ready to help Lukeget out in anyway possible and suggests getting a saw or some otheroutrageous ideas. Luke says he needs her understanding and then tellsLucy that Laura is alive. Lucy doesn't believe him at first and thenit sinks it. At first she's elated, but then it sinks in that Lukelied to her. They argue about it and she gets so angry that she saystheir friendship is over and she leaves. Luke looks upset about itand then Lucy reenters and asks him what he needs. Luke tells her he'scrazy about her, but Lucy tells him that she came back because she doesn'ttreat her friends the way Luke treats his. She says she's going tohelp him because the Cassadines are swooping down on her Kevin and Lukemay be the only one that can stop it from happening. Lucy postshis bail and Luke and Lucy go to exit to check on Laura and thekids, when Alexis enters. She sees Luke and is surprised. Luke saysthey have to go to the "Cassadine mouthpiece" and they exit. Alexistries calling Stefan, but of course he's otherwise occupied.

Nikolas is coming down the stairs to the beach on Spoon Island. He seesLaura and says, "You're alive." He falls into her arms and theyhold onto each other so tightly. Laura and Bobbie exchange concernedlooks. Nikolas pulls away for and says that he can't believe this ishappening. Laura tries to explain to him right away what happened, butNikolas has things that he wants to tell her first. They argue fora while and Nikolas finally says, "Mother, let me finish." Laura isshocked that he called her mother, because it's the first time that he'sever said it to her before. Nikolas says he can't wait one more minuteto tell her that he's sorry for treating her so badly and that he didn'tunderstand until it was too late how much she realy loved him. He saysthat he understands that the only reason she left him was because she hadno other choice. Laura tries to get him to stop because she knowshow hurt he will be when he hears what really happened and she tellshim that what happened to him was truly unfair. Nikolas says it doesn'tmatter now and he has tears in his eyes when he says they can start over.Laura is overjoyed. Nikolas tells her that he loves her and Lauragrabs him and hugs him so hard and tells him she loves him too andthat she's always loved him, butnever more than this moment. Nikolaspulls away and asks her what happened. He guesses that Luke forced heraway against her will. Bobbie speaks up now and challenges Laurato tell him the truth. Laura explains that Leslie is still alive and that she went freely with Luke and that Stefan had nothing to do withthe explosion. Nikolas finally sees clearly what Laura is sayingand Laura makes no excuses about leaving. She apolgizes and Nikolassays that sorry is her middle name. He asks her if she's sorry forabandoning him, sorry for choosing Lucky and Luke over him. Nik asksif Lucky knew this whole time that she was alive and Laura says thathe did. Nikolas reminds her that she said she loved her sons equallyand points out what a hypocrite she is. Laura says she had no choiceand Nikolas says that of course she didn't because the Cassadines are to blamefor everything (sarcastically). He says that she came to him withtears and protestationsof love, but what she put him through was justall a game. He tells her that Helena pales in comparison to her becauseHelena doesn't stab someone that she loves in the heart and then twistit around for good measure. Laura says that Luke was afraid he'd tellStefan and that's why they couldn't tell him that she was alive. Nikolassays that he's just a Cassadine and so his tears don't count. He asksLaura if Luke enjoyed this, getting Laura to leave her son for the thirdtime. Laura says she made a huge mistake and Nikolas DISagrees. Hesays now she can be honest for once and just admit that she doesn'tgive a damn about him. He says that he made her into some kind ofsaint in his head and now he won't make the mistake of missing her again. Hetells her to go back to her "real family." Laura tells him she thoughtof sneaking away to tell him that she was alive and that Luke promisedthat when they got Leslie to a clinic that they would come back for him.Nikolas asks why would they come back--to get him in case LeslieLugot sick again and they needed him. Nik tells her not to worryabout that, he'll be there for his sister. He'll gladly shoulder theresponsibility of LuLu's life. He shouts at Laura that nothingabout her is real and tells her that he should have heeded his uncle'swarnings about her. He says that he's a Cassadine and so they havenothing else to say to each other. Laura pleads with him notto do this, but Nikolas just looks at her and says that she's deadto him and exits. Laura tries to go after him, but Bobbie stopsher and they fight. Bobbie threatens to call the cops and gether removed from her property. Laura's cell phone rings and sherushes off to take care of some emergency, leaving Bobbieto look for Nikolas.

At Laura's grave. Nikolas picks up the daisies he left her there theday before and tears them to pieces and says, "Goodbye, Mother."

The Quartermaines and Co. and Ruby and Amy and lots of others are atthe ceremony to honor Laura and Leslie and the hospital. Monicatalks about how great Laura was and then Audrey starts to dedicatethe renovations to Laura and Leslie when the elevator doors openand out walks Laura. Everyone gasps...

Friday, February 7, 1997

by Jessica Greig

Ned and Brenda are at the Gatehouse. Brenda asks Ned for all of theinformation he has about Miranda, but Ned has none to give. Brenda gets aweird feeling, like the feeling she got the day Sonny almost died of aheroin overdose. Ned compares the feeling to one he gets at nightwhen he knows that Lois is up with the baby in Brooklyn. Brenda resolves toget info on Miranda. The phone rings. It's someone calling to tell Nedthat Sonny is in jail. Brenda rushes out. Ned smiles and says that Sonny'sdays are numbered as an ELQ board member. He says, "Look out Brooklyn,here I come!" There's a knock at the door. It's Lois and the baby...

At the police station. Tom is freaking out about the fact that Lukewas released and that he might get charged with something. Sonny says thatwon't happen. Luke will get off and so will they. Tom complains about themedia coverage the situation might bring. He then notices that Sonnyis pale and sweating and asks him if he's having a panic attack. Taggertenters and starts banging a club (I thought they only did that in movies--oldmovies) agains the bars. Taggert assumes that Sonny is suffering from drug withdrawal. Tom and Sonny complain about their civil rights beingviolated because they can't see their lawyers or make any phone calls. Taggertsays the paperwork isn't done yet. Taggert goes off about Sonny's "heroinaddiction" again and says no one will believe Sonny's claims of hisrights being violated. Tom says he can substatiate Sonny's claims.Taggert says that Tom is free to go. Tom starts to leave, butthen decides to stay until Sonny gets out. Taggert is surprised, butcan do nothing. He tells Tom he's crazy to want to sit for anotherfive hours in the cell with Sonny while he goes through withdrawal.He makes some more remarks to Sonny and exits. Sonny ask Tom why hestayed. Tom guesses that Sonny is claustrophobic. Sonny says thecops can't find out or they'll call him in and keep him in a cell for anythingincluding jaywalking, just to see him sweat and see if they can get him totalk. Tom guesses that the cause of his claustrophobia is childhoodtrauma. Sonny has flashbacks of being beaten and stuck in a closetas a kid. Tom provokes Sonny with too many questions and Sonny pinsTom to the wall. Brenda enters and screams and Sonny to stop.

At the hospital. Laura enters during the dedication of the renovationsto her and to Leslie. Everyone is shocked and wants answers. Insteadof giving them, Laura begs Alan to come with her to see her mother.Everyone is stunned to hear that Leslie is still alive. Luke and Lucyenter. Laura begs Alan and he finally agrees to go with her. Amy, Ruby, Tonyand just about everyone else yell at Luke for what he put them through. Edward criticizes Luke for what he did. Luke goes on about Stefan shootingKatherine, but Edward won't believe it. Luke is left alon with Lucy, whostuck up for him. Mac comes over and tell Luke that Laura and Alan arewith Kevin and Leslie. Some men with the mayors office come for Macbecause the mayor wants to talk to him. Mac goes to the side to talkto them and comes back later. Mac asks Luke to tell Katherine that Stefan isprobably the persone that shot her. He agrees to do it. Luke tells him that Sonny and Tom are stil in jail. Mac leaves.

AJ, Justus, Keesha, Alan, and Monica talk about how horrible Luke andLaura were to do that. Audrey finds out that Tom knew Laura was aliveand didn't tell her.

In Katherine's hospital room. Stefan tells Katherine that he's the onethat shot her. He tells her that it was an accident. He meant to justshoot at a tree to with Luke's gun, so that he could frame Luke forattempted murder (of Stefan). Stefan says that he couldn't stop himselffrom shooting when he saw Katherine there--it was too late. Katherinegets angry and asks him why he's telling her now. Stefan says he nolonger has a choice. He expresses his deep emotions for Katherineand tells her he can't stay away from her. Katherine just gets angryand basically tells him that she doesn't want to see him anymore and throwsthe necklace he gave her at him. Stefan doesn't leave and picks up theunharmed necklace and gives it back to her. He tells her he'll leaveif she wants him to...Luke enters.