General Hospital Recap: Carly Teams Up With Valentin To Take Down Jack, Lois Needs Sonny’s Help And More
Several partnerships were made on the October 22 episode of General Hospital. Sonny (Maurice Benard) agreed to facilitate a meeting between Lois (Rena Sofer) and their mutual grandson, Gio (Giovanni Mazza), who joined Emma (Braedyn Bruner) to plan their next move on her professor, and Carly (Laura Wright) collaborated with Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) to take down Brennan (Chris McKenna)! Plus, Jack questioned Nathan (Ryan Paevey) about his memory loss, Anna (Finola Hughes) wanted to know what Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) knew about her father, and Tracy (Jane Elliot) moved into Lulu’s (Alexa Havins) house!
At Your Service
Lois was back in Port Charles and dropped by to see Sonny, seeking his help repairing the relationship between Gio and Brook Lynn. She also wanted an update on Gio and was happy to hear that her grandson had moved in with Sonny, but sad that he’d dropped out of school and still wasn’t playing the violin. When Sonny explained that Gio now associated music with all the lies he’d been told, Lois bemoaned that her daughter and grandson, the two people she loved the most, were hurting because of her actions. That was why she needed Sonny to get her and Gio in the same room together, so she could explain that she was the one to blame for everything. Sonny warned Lois that there was no guarantee that talking to Gio would fix his relationship with Brook Lynn.
Scheme Team
Emma gave Josslyn the cold shoulder outside of Bobbie’s, rolling her eyes at another round of warnings from her rival to stay away from Professor Dalton. Emma declared she was going to take full advantage of having the position Josslyn gave up, so Joss dug in her heels, saying that Emma had no idea what the professor was really doing. When Emma questioned why Joss was so convinced Dalton was bad, Joss flashed back to her conversation with Brennan when he first assigned her to work undercover at PCU to get intel on Dalton’s research. Before she could reply to Emma, Joss received a text message. She tossed out a final “don’t say I didn’t warn you” before taking off.
Inside the diner, Brook Lynn treated Ronnie to breakfast to apologize for her grandmother’s behavior the day before. As Ronnie mixed herself a hangover concoction, they filled Gio in on what went down at the tea party, including Ronnie’s belief that Tracy had drugged her and how she’d then evicted Tracy. Gio praised Ronnie, commenting that it was important to set boundaries, so people didn’t walk all over you, but his statement stung Brook Lynn.
Emma entered and grumbled to Gio about Josslyn’s latest warning. While he wondered if maybe Joss had a good reason for saying what she did, Emma figured Joss probably just wanted her job back. Emma added that the conversation reminded her that they need to resume their scheme to expose Dalton, especially since Anna has been distracted lately. Gio made Emma promise that they would do it together, and they sealed their partnership with a kiss. Gio broke away to answer a call from Sonny, who wanted him to come home after his shift because Lois was there, and it was important that he speak with her. On Sonny’s side of the phone call, Lois looked hopeful, but Gio seemed unsure if he wanted to sit down with his grandmother.
Meanwhile, Ronnie told Brook Lynn that Gio had shared their history with her and suggested that he was trying to figure out how to make sense of being part of the Quartermaine family. She added that she gave Gio an open invitation to come back to the house, and Brook Lynn stated that she had an idea how to get him to the house. Smiling at the sight of Gio and Emma kissing across the diner, Brook Lynn revealed to Ronnie that she could have Emma come visit Outback at the Quartermaine stables, hoping that Gio would tag along. “Not bad,” Ronnie chuckled in approval. “I guess you really are Tracy’s — good — granddaughter.”
Defense Attack
Following her fight with Ronnie, Tracy crashed on Lulu’s couch — and she wasn’t happy to be woken up by noisy teenagers Charlotte and Rocco. When Charlotte laughed upon hearing that Tracy had been kicked out of the mansion, Lulu chastised her daughter for being disrespectful to their guest. After the kids exited, Lulu told Tracy she was welcome to stay as long as she’d like, but if she couldn’t handle living with the teens, perhaps she should consider finding another place to stay. Mad that she was homeless to begin with, Tracy defended herself, insisting that Ronnie set her up and was hiding something. Certain that Monica wouldn’t have disinherited Michael for a sister she hadn’t spoken to in decades, Tracy again proclaimed that the will had been forged. Playing devil’s advocate, Lulu pointed out that Michael didn’t need more money or a demonstration of Monica’s love, but maybe Monica felt that Ronnie needed both.
Outside on the porch, Rocco urged Charlotte to take it easy on Tracy, considering she’d just lost Monica, then her home. Admitting that she had been harsh on Tracy, Charlotte claimed she was still jet-lagged and cranky after visiting her father. Charlotte told her brother how weird it was to see her dad in a creepy prison, and he told her about his dinner with his “other” family. Just as Charlotte relayed to Rocco Valentin’s warning that they should not trust Britt, a moving truck pulled up to the house. The kids interrupted Lulu and Tracy’s conversation when they brought the first few boxes containing Tracy’s belongings inside the house, and their mom wasn’t thrilled to see a giant moving truck parked in her driveway.
Rinse And Repeat
Outside Anna’s office, Britt was on the phone with Elizabeth, sharing that she was going to be late for work because she’d been “detained.” When Anna arrived, they entered the office, and she handed Britt a bill for the resources the PCPD had spent investigating her supposed death. In exchange for feeding the file to the shredder, Anna wanted to know who assisted Britt in faking her death, what she was doing at the Five Poppies, and who oversaw the project. Calling Anna’s bluff that the commissioner didn’t actually have evidence linking the resort to activity in Port Charles, Britt made moves to leave. But before she got to the door, Anna explained how she was the one who pointed Jason to the Five Poppies to rescue Britt and argued that she was trying to help her, not take her down.
Angry, Britt shouted that she hadn’t needed rescuing, and snarked that she’d been working in a lab at the Five Poppies developing an exfoliating scrub with peptides. Frustrated, Anna added another fee to Britt’s bill for toxicology reports but offered to settle for the name of Britt’s boss. At that, Britt flashed back to the day she received vials of medicine from “C.” Returning to her present conversation, Britt named Pascal as her boss, but Anna knew he was just the middleman. Despite the commissioner pressing for the leader’s name, Britt remained silent. Then, a worried Anna brought up Cesar Faison, and when Britt diverted her gaze, Anna asked if he was still alive and running the Five Poppies. Blowing up, Britt yelled that her father’s name had been a blight on her entire life, and now she was at risk of losing her job because Anna wanted to ask her questions about a dead man. As Britt shut down the conversation, Anna warned her that staying silent was only making her vulnerable. After slamming Anna’s office door on her way out, a distressed Britt exhaled once she was alone in the hallway.
Once A Coincidence, Twice A Clue
Jack invited Nathan to the WSB office and demanded to know if the back-from-the-dead detective had anything to do with Faison’s syndicate, which he believed to still be in operation. Nathan took offense when Jack offered immunity for sharing what he knew. Claiming that Faison was no father to him, a ticked-off Nathan told Jack that Anna would vouch that he’d help if he could. Warning Brennan that he didn’t appreciate being pushed around, Nathan stormed out.
Later, Jack showed Josslyn security camera footage of his conversation with Nathan. While she didn’t think Nathan had anything to do with Faison, Josslyn did bring up the conversation she’d had with Anna about Faison at the Brown Dog the previous evening. Brennan thought Anna was jumping at shadows, but considering the relationship she’d had with Faison, he didn’t want to discount her concerns. “Two of Faison’s dead children show up in Port Charles, suddenly alive, while we’re investigating Faison’s last project. That’s not a coincidence. That’s all connected. Somehow,” Jack declared.
The Odd Couple
With Spinelli’s help, Carly (wearing a brunette wig) gained access to Steinmauer by posing as Valentin’s lawyer, Barbara Saunders, and pushed the guard to leave the room so she could speak with her client privately. Valentin commended her on her forged credentials, but wondered why she went to such an extreme since Jack could have gotten her in. Revealing that Jack, Sonny, and Jason were all unaware that she’d traveled to Switzerland to see him, Carly asked Valentin if he wanted to help her take down Brennan. When Valentin correctly guessed that Jack had done something to one of her children, Carly divulged that Josslyn had been recruited as a WSB agent. Valentin’s explanation that some recruits are convinced that they want to join the agency because they are exploited during a traumatic time led Carly to piece together that Dex’s murderer, Cyrus Renault, disappeared right around the time that Josslyn left town. She was horrified when Valentin indicated that perhaps Josslyn, and not Brennan, was the one responsible for Renault’s vanishing act. Since the WSB often uses personal vendettas to test new recruits, Valentin mused, Brennan may have pointed Joss in Cyrus’s direction to see how far she’d be willing to go to avenge Dex’s death. “Are you telling me that the man I was falling in love with turned my daughter into a killer?” Carly cried.
Furious that her boyfriend likely involved Josslyn in Cyrus’s death, Carly was more determined than ever to get Jack out of her daughter’s life before something worse happened. Proposing that they work together to take Brennan down, Valentin told Carly that she was Brennan’s weakness — and therefore, the one thing that could destroy him.
Were you surprised to see Carly and Valentin teaming up? Do you think that Lois will get through to Gio? Will Britt crack and tell Anna what she knows? And is Nathan really in the dark? Share your theories and predictions about GH in the comments below!
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