GH Recaps Week of May 16, 2005

Friday, May 20, 2005
“Honey, I’m home!” Luke arrived at the Q. mansion, intending to move in. This would make for a potentially hilarious Thanksgiving! Ned wondered if he had to call Luke “Dad” and Edward demanded an annulment! No dice, Pops. They’d consummated! “EWWWWW!” went the Quartermaines–with the exception of Skye who just bristled. “You chose my mother over Skye?” Ned asked, apparently remembering his own hot love affair with Skye (and forgetting his Justin’s love affair with Jane Elliott’s Anjelica when they were both on Days!). As the Qs went to bat for Skye’s appeal as a girlfriend, Luke reasoned that he was just too dark for Skye and she needed someone better. Her faux family urged her to tell Luke she loved him and stop this marriage-to-Tracy nonsense. “I can’t!” Skye cried. Why? “Because I’m in love with him!” She pointed at a bemused Lorenzo, who had just sauntered in. Quick on the uptake, the Latin Lothario pulled her close and put his hand in her hair (mroooowr!) but admitted that he’d actually arrived to call an ELQ board meeting for the first of June and also wanted a new CEO—him! The Qs were aflutter! As Lorenzo moved to leave after delivering that bombshell, Skye reminded him that he was forgetting something. Oh, right! He pulled her close and dipped her, kissing her passionately. (Take that, Luke!) Later, Edward found Tracy in the foyer and handed her a shiny camera. The easiest way to get a divorce from Luke? Catch him and Red red-handed! In her room, Skye was huffing about jealousy issues and the scruffy Spencer in question popped up on the sofa. Was this going to be too easy…?

At the hospital, Nikolas suggested that he help Emily by standing in for Connor as a focus for her rage. Dr. Winters had encouraging results with role-playing in the past, so it seemed like a good idea. Nikolas had to convince Emily, though, and he pleaded, “”I could stop what he did to you but maybe now at least I can help fix it.” After Emily relented, the two began a session in Dr. Winters’ office. Once Nikolas got the hang of talking like a rapist, Emily unleashed her rage on him, screaming, “I hate you, I hate you,” pouring out every feeling she’d locked up inside and then crumpling into a ball on the floor. A shaken Nikolas fled, telling Elizabeth that he’d made the wrong decision in pushing Em. He’d caused her pain. He would have to let her go.

Over in the courthouse, Durant put Michael up on the stand for a few quick questions. “I did not see anyone kill AJ Quartermaine,” Mikey said, after pointing out that his father was sitting “right there.” When Durant tried to ask him if he’d seen someone else do it, the courtroom exploded in the first outraged roar of the episode (there were a lot) and Carly whisked Michael out to Bobbie and Mike. “Nice work, Mom,” Carly quipped of Bobbie’s babysitting skills before making Michael promise he wouldn’t run away again. Back in the courtroom, Sonny hissed “you’re a dead man,” at Durant and Alexis told Ric, “you save your self-righteous anger!” The prosecution called more witnesses, including Steven, Alan, Elizabeth, and Mac. It wasn’t looking so good for Don Corinthos. Then, it was the defense line-up, which looked more like pages from Sonny’s little black book: Reese, Sam, and Jason. Durant drew fire from an indignant Sam and gave the viewers and the jury a history lesson on Jason, his brain damage, and his subsequent loyalty to Sonny. Then, it was Sonny’s turn to testify in his own defense. When Durant asked if he’d ever killed anyone, Justus leapt up to earn his retainer and pointed out that he’d never been convicted. That’s not what Durant asked! Sonny admitted, “Yeah,” but it had been written off as self-defense. Durant went on to list a LOT of other people sleeping with the fishes courtesy of the Dimpled Don. “It’s a dangerous world; accidents happen,” said Sonny, and when Justus got up to re-direct, Carly realized Sonny was in deep trouble. Then, it was time for closing arguments. Durant spoke passionately about Sonny’s rise to power and the people around him who “value loyalty to a mobster over justice.” (But Justus is sittng right there! Hee!) He asked for the jury to value justice and put away the “thug in a thousand dollar suit.” Before Justus could give his closing statement, Ric asked to do his own summation. Uh-oh. “You haven’t heard much from me during this trial,” he began. No kidding! And this was why: Ric admitted that Sonny is perfectly capable of killing almost anyone to protect his children…but he didn’t kill AJ. Courtroom chaos ensued…Thursday, May 19, 2005
At the Gazebo of Awkward Post-Prison Tension, Nikolas thoughtfully brought Emily cookies and her Pathology book! Cookies made her happy! The close moments that followed, however, made her a bit uncomfortable and she fled to go see her therapist. Therapy was probably what Tracy wanted after she woke up in a loud hotel room, in a very familiar loud purple shirt, with a breakfasting Luke. “Welcome to our honeymoon, you wildcat!” he greeted his appalled and hungover bride. Over at La Casa Corinthos, Carly was prepping for trial with pronouncements about AJ deserving to die as poor Jason and Sam wondered if it was too late to move to Aruba and raise turtles for a living. Sam even suggested that Carly change her sexy black dress (yes, Sam of the Death-Defying Cleavage told Carly how to dress) into something more “sympathetic.” Over at the courthouse, John Durant was giving Sonny a pre-show of his trial strategy and Sonny warned, “You’re going to alienate your daughter, Carly, once and for all.” And Reese put in her two cents, lecturing John about ethics. What is this, Irony Day in Port Charles? “You are in no position to talk,” countered Durant. Elsewhere, Luke whipped out incriminating photos, a marriage license, and a hickey (ew!) to prove he and Tracy were indeed hitched. “You want something from me!” Tracy accused. “What is it?” “Alimony,” Luke said. Hand over the Cassa-cash and he would gladly release her from the “splendor of our union.” After Carly came down in a very obvious white outfit, Jason gave his stamp of approval, enjoying the payback for the “stupid blue shirt” that Carly had made him wear when he’d been on trial (they have trial outfits! how sweet!). They headed off to court, leaving Michael in the incapable but much-missed hands of Bobbie and Mike.

At the Courthouse of Obvious Trial Outcomes, Alexis commented on “Courtroom Carly” looking very “demure” and then proceeded to say sensible things about Sonny endangering their kids. When Carly lunged at her, Jason held her back. No, really. He hugged her from behind in that non-brotherly way. Over at the Quartermaine mansion, Alice and Monica thwarted Alan’s attempts to wheel his subpoenaed self down to the trial, Edward railed at Skye about her bringing in Lorenzo to ELQ and Ned stood there being Ned…when Tracy lurched in. The Qs shifted their focus to her and they noticed her huge, gaudy, wedding ring. Tracy tried to talk about ELQ and Alcazar and her family commented on choosing between a “middle-aged runaway bride” and a “gun-running underworld prince.” Outside Kelly’s, Dillon and Georgie plotted to sneak in to Avenue Q and snag his film school letter and Skye confronted Luke. Had he really married Tracy? Oh, yeah. Was Skye jealous? No, of course not (riiiight). Dillon’s sneaking, unfortunately, wasn’t as good as his mentor Luke’s and Tracy caught him. She refused to pay for film school unless he swore not to tell the Qs who she’d married and he helped her secure a divorce.

Back at Castle Greyskull, Michael escaped Bobbie and Mike by playing on Nurse Bobbie’s insistence that he wash his dirty hands. Durant put Carly on the stand, labeling her a “hostile witness” (does this mean he’s not buying her a pony on her birthday?). Justus beamed since Durant’s questioning made only himself look bad. As Carly answered unflinchingly that she’d been in AJ’s room and threatened him, Sonny’s respect seemed to grow (Recapper hums “Reunited”). And, then, a suit-and-tie-clad Michael burst into the courtroom, yelling for everyone to leave his parents alone. They hadn’t killed AJ! (If Mikey snuck out in a TIE, even the Super Nanny can’t help his clueless grandparents). Over at the Q mansion, a few different vintage Q. arguments went on at once…and Luke strolled in. “Hey, Angel!” he greeted, kissing Tracy. What happened in Vegas, wouldn’t stay in Vegas. Oops. Over at the hospital, Nikolas caught Em after her therapy and volunteered to stand in as Connor to help her. “Confront me the way you would confront him.” D’oh! Back at the courthouse, Sonny and Carly were horrified as an earnest Durant asked to put Michael on the stand. Carly stepped down and Michael stepped up. And Ric just kind of sat at the prosecution table being generally useless. Jason handled a stricken Carly once again as the bailiff swore in little Michael and he prepared to tell everyone what he’d seen…and what he’d done.Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Dillon and Georgie arrived at the Rodeo Ranch hotel in Las Vegas, intent on elopement — yee-haw! As they christened the room with a make-out session, Luke awkwardly interrupted (again!). It was time to call up Tracy and reel her in. Especially since Tracy and Skye were getting in some quality sniping at Avenue Q. “Let’s call it a corporate windfall,” Tracy gloated about her Cassa-cash. Over at Kelly’s, poor clueless Mike got the update on Sonny being held for trial and when Sam said “aye” to some coffee, Jason wondered, “You’re not pregnant?” But Jason twinkled and Sam crinkled her nose in cute Felicia-like fashion and the twosome planned to sail under the stars and conceive a child of their own very soon! On a slightly less-even keel were Ric and Alexis. Although Alexis showed up at Ric’s door and kissed him hotly, it was talk of Ric picking the mobster that would use him over the wife and children who loved him that lit a fire. Sonny was the hot topic at Castle Greyskull, too, as Carly got increasingly annoyed by Reese trying to coach her for trial (um, Reese, trust us, Carly’s got it down by now). Don Corinthos figured in over at the park, too, as Courtney and Jax talked about their wedding and a skinny guy came up and served Courtney with a subpoena to testify (apparently, Mac got a day off from serving!). Courtney’s automatic instinct to postpone their nuptials made Jax’s brow all furrowy and Courtney said an all-too-casual “bye!” and fled when Skye interrupted them. Speaking of interruptions, Reese hightailed it over to Kelly’s and interrupted Jason and Sam’s few minutes of “us” time, saying “If you don’t do something about Carly, she’s going to send Sonny straight to death row!” Naturally, Jason booked it to La Casa Corinthos!

This offered “Everybody’s Girlfriends” (see 5/17 recap) Reese and Sam an opportunity to chat. Sam contended that Jason and Carly were like brother and sister, dismissing Reese’s little tidbit about their prior romance by talking up how Sonny and Carly were always drawn back to each other. Either way, Carly wasn’t making either gal too happy. And Brother Jason was vainly trying to keep his “Sis” calm, but when Ric and Durant showed up (does Max even bother answering the door anymore?) Carly’s temper flared again. John revealed that he’d joined the prosecution team to make sure Ric put Sonny in prison. Jason shooed away both morally questionable government employees. Over at Kelly’s, as Courtney fretted over getting married again, Mike suggested, “Maybe the third time is the charm?” Speaking of marriages, on the heels of a “Congratulate me!” phone call from Dillon (that he practiced a couple of times), Tracy rushed to Vegas via the Magic Port Charles Transporter and pounded on the hotel room door as Luke hid behind some strategically placed furniture. Tracy burst in on a beaming “just married” Dillon and Georgie and demanded, “How pregnant are you?” As the teens revealed their desire to have lots and lots of babies and Dillon’s deep dream to be a janitor…no…uh…a Las Vegas showboy, Luke continued to edge about unseen, trying to help Dillon out with hand motions (a recap does not do the scenes justice; trust me). Dillon even mentioned a double-wide! Heee! The hilarity soon waned as Dillon earnestly told Tracy how much he truly loved Georgie and she wearily sighed, “I’ll be in the bar” and stalked off. Now, the rest was up to Luke! And he joined Tracy to offer a comforting shoulder and that trademark Luke Spencer Grin.

Back near the gazebo, Luke and his shenanigans were a welcome change of subject from Courtney’s Family for Jax and Skye. Jax wistfully thought about his and Skye’s tanked relationship and Skye revealed that Luke was her “worst habit.” But was she still sober? Yes. So maybe Luke wasn’t so bad after all, Jax ventured. And outside Kelly’s, Brook Lynn and Ned appeared! Ned wondered where his spiky-haired brother and neurotic mother had gone off to. Brookie assured him that “Granny” freaking out was normal and everything was fine. If you call four martinis fine, sure! A sloppily drunk Tracy leaned on Luke and he suggested she pay back Dillon. “Maybe if you married some trailer trash? Someone as unacceptable as Georgie?” “I think I’ll do it,” Tracy agreed as she passed out on the table. Over at Castle Greyskull, Courtney dropped by to tell Carly she’d postponed her wedding to testify, which perked Carly right up! After Courtney sailed back out again, Jason comforted Carly by drawing her into his arms…as Sam walked in. Brother? Sister? Riiight. What is this, PASSIONS? Meanwhile, back at Kelly’s, Alexis wondered if Ric could take a leap of faith like she had with him. Even though Lex’ said she missed him and they seemed to re-connect, he met his fellow Sonny Fan Club member, Reese, outside the door and groused about being unable to throw Sonny’s case with John Durant watching. In fact, Durant was so good, he could probably get Sonny convicted on Murder One…
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Alexis dropped by Wyndemere to welcome Nikolas home and gave her nephew a shiny check for $500,000, admitting that she’d paid off John Durant to get the goods on Sonny. Of course, that was chump change compared to the $15 million dollars worth of Cassa-cash that Luke had siphoned into Tracy’s accounts. So, at the Haunted Star, as Lorenzo and Skye compared notes on their romantic entanglements with wacky Spencers, Luke tried to flirt the cash back. “Do you work at being insufferable or does it just come naturally, like perfect pitch?” Tracy wondered. A hot kiss from Luke almost suckered Skye in to helping trap Tracy with one of Luke’s craaaazy plans, but she pulled away and stalked off. “Consider yourself resisted.” Elsewhere, in a very nice bathroom, Sam took out a pregnancy test and beamed beatifically as she read the directions. Over at Avenue Q, Lucky checked up on Emily, who admitted she wasn’t ready to move back in with Nikolas and told Lucky that her rape was more complicated than Elizabeth’s rape. Ouch. Who says things like that? Nikolas soon showed up to confront Tracy about his missing Cassa-cash and Tracy snarked about any potential kids of his throwing people off cliffs. Heee! Naturally, Emily jumped to her hubby’s defense. She dumped a vase full of water on Tracy’s head and she and Nikolas (and the recapper) giggled like five-year-olds at the results.

Speaking of Emily, over at the PCPD, Reese appeared to be wearing a blue version of the outfit Em was attacked in as she suggested that Mikey could get some real help from a court-appointed psychiatrist. Jason gave her a look that plainly said, “Silly Reese, Trix are for kids — and things like this are for me, Sonny, and Carly to handle.” And in the luxury interrogation suite, Sonny pleaded with Michael (but not in his Inside Voice) to leave the country and take care of his mama and leave the handling-o’-murder charges to the big boys. It calmed Mikey down enough for Carly and Uncle Jase to get him back to Castle Greyskull before he confessed all over the place. Carly wondered why “everybody’s girlfriends,” Reese and Sam, had more time with Michael than she did and was appalled when Jason suggested they might want to let Michael tell the truth. No way! Ric wasn’t too happy either, accusing Sonny of wanting Michael to be just like him, to “never trust the authorities.” Sonny yelled a lot, saying he didn’t want Mikey branded a killer so he was going to keep with this whole fake-confession gig. Thankfully, Reese had her second and last ethical idea for the day. Which was either calling in Alexis to tell Sonny she’d gotten back custody of Kristina while he was cooling his heels in the clink or getting the judge to throw out Sonny’s guilty plea and send him to trial.

Over at the Haunted Star, Dillon and Georgie shared some sweet moments, where he assured her “you’re my girl” even though he was going off to film school in California. As the two began doing what two cute teenagers do when they’re alone, Luke burst in! Awkward! He asked for their help with his craaaazy plan and they both made the “hex” sign at him. “Never again!” But then Luke mentioned Tracy and the Cassa-cash, which piqued Dillon’s interest. “I want you to help me seduce your mother,” Luke announced. Ew! Back at La Casa Corinthos, Everybody’s Girlfriend Sam had a sweet talk with Michael about how proud she was of him and then Michael came downstairs and told his mom and Jase that he was ready to leave the country with them. And there was Morgan, too! So cute! Jason assured Sam that he would come back after settling Carly and the boys and she told him that her pregnancy test had been not quite blue, not quite clear. Murky pink! Mac burst in, because he gets paid to serve subpoenas now! He told Carly she was to testify at Sonny’s shiny new trial for AJ’s murder and asked for her passport so she couldn’t skip town. D’oh! And back at the PCPD, Reese wondered if her plan to keep Michael safe and prove Sonny’s innocence would earn her his “eternal gratitude.” Exactly the opposite of what Ric was earning from an angry Alexis. She blasted him about his waffly feelings toward prosecuting his nefarious brother. “If you throw this case, Ric, I’m filing for divorce,” she intoned. Uh-oh…
Monday, May 16, 2005
At the PCPD, Ric realized that Michael had killed AJ and tried to get Sonny to admit that he’d confessed to protect the boy. Sonny deflected Ric’s suspicions as Sonny’s Biggest Fan, Reese, lurked outside. Sonny told Ric that he and Reese had been lovers and she would do anything to get him free and back in bed with her — including make up crazy stories about Michael. “Cause it was good, you know?” Reese overheard the rather tactless talk about herself and, amazingly, refused to lie for Sonny. Under Ric’s persistent scrutiny, Sonny admitted that he was protecting Michael — who didn’t even remember smothering AJ. But…but…Ric couldn’t prosecute Sonny for a crime he didn’t commit (like that’s ever stopped a Port Charles D.A. before?). Then “pick one that I have!” Sonny suggested. “I’ve stolen, I’ve killed, I’ve violated RICO statutes that the government hasn’t even thought of!” Even with that awe-inspiring truth, Ric waffled. Sonny pleaded with him as his flesh-and-blood, as his brother, and Ric’s waffles got doused with syrup. How could he convict his brother? How could he torment his nine-year-old nephew? Oh, angst! Over at La Casa Corinthos, Michael overheard Carly and Jason talking about keeping him from finding out he killed AJ. As Carly and Jason fought over whether or not Carly should leave the country with the kids, Mikey clutched his pillow and then bolted out the window. Jason found Michael’s fallen baseball card and realized the mini-murderer knew that they knew what he did. A panicked Carly rushed to the police station in case he intended to confess to save Sonny. As she and Sonny talked about her and the boys leaving the country that very night, Ric lingered outside and continued to furrow his brow over throwing Sonny’s case.

Over at the Quartermaine mansion, Skye tried to play marriage counselor to Monica and Alan after bringing a wheelchair-bound Alan home from the hospital. “Save your breath, Skye!” Monica told her, wearily. So, Skye did just that, dressing to kill and heading over to the Haunted Star. She dismissed a lusty Luke by reminding him they had a casino to run. They were soon joined by Lorenzo, who assured Skye that Sonny confessing to AJ’s murder didn’t negate their business deal. After all, he owned an interest in ELQ now. Tracy arrived, unhappy to see the Latin Lothario and wanting him out of her family company since she had all that Cassadine money in her bank account. Lorenzo asked Skye to remove Tracy as CEO while Tracy assured Luke there was no getting back the money he’d given her. Uh-oh. Luke took that as a challenge: “Welcome to my world, Spunky.” Nikolas and Emily, meanwhile, re-connected after burning down the cabin where she’d been raped. “Now, we’re arsonists,” Emily observed on the Elm Street Pier. Pshaw! Nikolas reminded her that they’d — very responsibly — called the fire department and then the two talked about their future, about taking it slow, and dating. That sounded “almost perfect” to Em.

A bit later, the on-the-lam Michael found himself at the Elm Street Pier, too. Seeing a newspaper with a headline about Sonny confessing to AJ’s murder spurred another troubling flashback, complete with blood red zombie lighting, and he wound up at Avenue Q. As Monica listened to him assure her that Sonny didn’t kill AJ and AJ was a liar, Alan wheeled up to defend his dead son, even saying that some “thug” had killed AJ. Ouch. Monica vainly tried to shush Alan and Jason burst in. As Alan continued to rail against Jason and “St. Sonny,” the tiny thug in question coolly assured him, “My dad did not kill AJ” and then Uncle Jase whisked him back to Castle Greyskull. Once there, Jason asked if Michael had remembered something and Mikey admitted that he’d put the pillow over AJ’s face to keep him from speaking, that he’d wanted to protect Morgan and Kristina. Jason tried to calm the boy about his murderous tendencies with a very bizarre metaphor about Michael’s mind being like a sprained wrist. Uh…okay. However, the faulty logic seemed to work as Michael’s worry shifted to Sonny confessing to save him and he insisted that Jason take him to the PCPD. As Michael arrived at the Corinthos-Morgan Interrogation Suite and Carly tried to hustle him out, Ric grimly realized, “Michael knows, doesn’t he?” Jason urged Carly to let Michael go in and see his dad. Michael confessed that he’d killed AJ and didn’t want Sonny to pay for it…and Sonny promised the pint-sized pillow pincher, “Your dad’s going to take care of everything…”

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