Ten Tear-ifying GH Moments
10. (2004) Zander gets shot by the PCPD: The desperate Zander Smith stepped out of the cottage with estranged love Emily and feigned reaching for a gun so the cops would cut him down. It was a shocking, heart-wrenching sacrifice only a rebel with a cause could make.
9. (1989) Frisco is alive!: When Frisco Jones was presumed dead in 1988, young widow Felicia was despondent. And just when she was able to move on with new husband Colton, Frisco returned. When she saw her bearded, bedraggled love on the docks, she fainted and he whisked her away to the catacombs!
8. (1998) Elizabeth is raped: When Lizzie Webber crawled out of the bushes in the park on Valentine’s Day, fans saw nothing but the fallout of the violence that had been done to her…fallout that even impacted friend Lucky’s view of his parents, Luke and Laura — whose historic love affair had begun with rape twenty years before.
7. (1987) Tania dies and Tony operates on her killer: After Tania Jones was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver, and she died in husband Tony’s arms, only one thing was more wrenching — when the troubled boy who had hit her ended up in the doctor’s OR and Tony saved his life.
6. (2004) Sam’s daughter dies and Alexis’ daughter lives: The death of baby Adela giving stem cells and new life to half-sister Kristina Davis brought humanity and grief back to the mob and showcased the depths of two mothers’ love.
5. (2004) Lila’s memorial service: When the legendary Anna Lee died, the mourning was real and reel, as the Quartermaines and their friends bid adieu to a grand dame. Even the stoic Jason faltered and viewers knew that Lila’s death marked the end of an era in Port Charles.
4. (1994-1995) Monica’s breast cancer: Watching Monica fight with husband Alan is always fun, but her fight with cancer, grappling with chemo and hair loss, was anything but. When she took off her bandages and stared at herself after her mastectomy, it was one of the most haunting, honest, moments of the 1990s.
3. (1993) Dominique’s death: Dominique Stanton brought laughter and light into jaded con artist’s Scotty Baldwin’s life and when she died in his arms at their special gazebo, she left behind that light in the form of their daughter Serena growing inside Lucy Coe.
2. (1995) Stone’s death from AIDS: Whether it was Robin finding out that she, too, had tested positive for HIV, or a shaken Mac embracing the terrified young man who’d encouraged his niece to rebel, this story redefined the teenage love story and taught important lessons at the same time. “I see you Robin,” whispered the blind, weak, Stone as he died and the viewers sobbed.
1. (1994) BJ’s death and Maxie’s transplant: Killing off a soap child is never an easy storyline, but when Barbara Jean Jones’ school bus crashed and her heart was given to ailing cousin Maxie, there was no denying how it shattered characters and viewers alike. From Tony laying his head on Maxie’s chest to hear his little girl’s heart beating in his niece’s chest, to Felicia dropping to her knees in the hall as she realized whose death had facilitated her daughter’s survival, the anguish has stood the test of time and never lost its pulse.
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