General Hospital 8-27-24
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00:00girls went after each other they literally yeah they turned on each other i've never
00:05seen molly so angry honestly and i i've never seen i've never seen christina more
00:13i'll call you back
00:30hi molly hi you uh out for a run that was the original idea yeah um as you can see i haven't
00:47made it very far i'm uh happy to leave you alone if you prefer i just wanted to make sure you were
00:53okay i'm okay thank you
00:59actually that's a lie
01:03i'm not okay at all elizabeth i sure hi
01:13is everything okay yeah yeah i'm surprised to see you here i thought you would be with
01:19your family after the funeral i was so sorry to hear about the baby
01:23thank you very much it's just been a difficult day all the way around
01:37how do i join you
01:40hopefully you can decompress a little bit
01:43so what can you tell us about lulu's condition
01:59her family that's right and no one sticks together the way spencer's
02:13so
02:27i'm so sorry
02:29so
02:36seems to be the problem nothing my little lizzie beth can't fix
02:59so
03:07heather what are you doing here blood test but they've kept me twiddling my thumbs for so long
03:15i missed chow time at bentonville and apparently i had the audacity to request dinner and then when
03:22i pointed out that they forgot my jello your subordinate got very huffy this is not a hotel
03:29you're not ordering room service no no i understand that sweetheart and i'm grateful
03:33truly it's just that we don't have jello at pentonville or pudding or anything that jiggles
03:40really except things that shouldn't like meat so i was just so looking forward to that jello
03:46okay i'm gonna get you something special from the cafeteria if you promise to take it easy on
03:52my staff of course the last thing in the world i want is to make any trouble for you
03:59or for me i mean god forbid that i should jeopardize my
04:06jeopardize your what can you keep a secret it depends soon i'm gonna have access
04:15to all the jello i want i am dixon to go free lulu's condition has changed that's why she had
04:25to be moved to general hospital changed how a routine blood test came back with flagged results
04:33lulu's liver has been compromised likely due to the medication she's been given while she's in a
04:38coma your cousin has cirrhosis and she will need a liver transplant to live test me
04:50so tell me how are you are you taking care of yourself in here i'm in one piece
05:00how's ace oh he's growing up wonderfully i i have pictures i brought them for you here
05:06look at that smile i know he's really a happy kid he smiles and laughs all the time
05:17hitting his milestones oh yes everyone was flying colors matter of fact he just learned how to say
05:24the word no except get this he can say it in three languages so he says no
05:32and he says no and he says nine
05:38isn't that funny it's because his babysitter is a language major
05:43my little cosmopolitan yeah just like his father and his big brother
05:50doctor and how are you i'm guessing not good considering the last minute flight and
06:02pulled strings for this visit yeah we have a problem that's part of why i need you to
06:10toe the line in this place not just for your own sake but also for your sister's sake
06:15what's going on with lulu she needs you
06:22to what do i owe the visit
06:27i don't know i guess i just uh wanted some company mine
06:38i want to thank you for being here
06:40it helps me knowing that you're here for lulu if she gets into trouble
06:52i am not here to make things easier on you well i know but it does
06:58you've always had a special place in lulu's heart and she and mine
07:03you stepped up for her a lot of times
07:07you also knew when to step aside which is impressive
07:15you helped shape lulu cut her loose on the world oh i can't take responsibility for that no thank
07:24you well she would be the first person to give you that credit for who she became she became
07:30someone i don't even recognize do you need a ride somewhere if your phone is out of juice you can
07:36use mine to call tj my phone's fully charged i'm just not ready to go anywhere not yet at least i
07:44don't want to face my family funeral is taxing in ways i did not anticipate and i'm just still
07:54putting myself back together telling me to take a hike is always an option
08:07i blew up at my mom and my sister i mean i said some really awful things i've been there
08:14and i had all sorts of fights with my family before i finally took off
08:18so you don't talk to them at all anymore no but it doesn't have to be that way for you
08:25there's still time to patch things up to what end so i suck it up and i apologize when i'm
08:33not actually sorry and i what suppress my feelings because my sister is a walking disaster and my mom
08:41doesn't have time for anyone else apologizing would just bring things back to the status quo
08:47and honestly i i think that i would rather have nothing than have that promise i'm not
08:53going to stay long i can't have an appointment with satan christina's upstairs so keep your
09:00voice down well i'm glad to see that you're taking care of sonny's offspring mine not so much oh it's
09:06good to see your fraternal inferiority complex hasn't improved i'm trying to help who you and
09:13molly she's hurting alexis of course not just over losing the baby molly's upset with the way
09:19you've been treating her and how have i been treating her like an afterthought don't argue
09:24just listen our daughter is in pain and she holds you accountable not for all of it but part of it
09:30now you have a chance to change that and i suggest you seize that chance or you're not
09:34going to get another one still can i'm just absorbing with horror
09:45it's always seemed like you and your mom had a great relationship
09:50in a lot of ways we do i mean we we get along well we can talk to each other about almost anything
10:00my mom respects me and that's mutual and in many measures she is the definition of a good mother
10:09okay but what about the other measures
10:13look i know that there are so many people who have it way worse i mean i was raised in a safe
10:19and stable home where all my needs were met and i know that my mother loves me
10:24to the extent that our circumstances allow those circumstances being
10:30my mom raised a family all on her own and i commend her for that i do but any one individual
10:37only has so much time and energy to go around so when one member of the family is unable to stand
10:44on her own two feet in her power then that member gets more love more understanding more time and
10:50the rest of us learn to live with less i need your advice like i need an acid bath you know
10:57instead of immediately jumping into defense why don't you just try listening for once i'm sorry
11:04am i taking parental advice from absentee daddy you have not got a leg to stand on okay look i
11:11know i haven't been around much much i haven't been around period but don't let that be the
11:15excuse for why you don't help you know make things right with molly look alexis she was crying
11:20on my shoulder after the funeral for hours and i tried to reassure her that you were going to
11:26reach out and try to fix it and you never call well i'm going to i just haven't had a chance
11:31because i'm too busy trying to protect post-op post-partum post-arrested christina from having
11:37a nervous breakdown she's my daughter so is molly okay she needs you just as much as her sister does
11:44i am trying not hard enough look all you needed to do was let molly know that she was on your mind
11:51and your heart molly knows that she's in both of those places she doesn't feel it
11:59you understand there's no doctor patient confidentiality here right
12:04i can't keep quiet about an escape attempt
12:07escape elizabeth no no no you're looking at heather 2.0 i from now on i'm going to do things
12:17the right way the legal way are you appealing your sentence scott baldwin took my case he told me
12:26it's a slam dunk speaking of he's actually supposed to be overseeing these blood tests
12:32and meeting me here you haven't seen him have you i haven't but no one has scott's gone
12:42really flexing your mayoral muscle bring your own lab tech with you
12:48well time is of the essence and it really isn't that much of a flex all i needed to arrange having
12:54you moved back to port charles is a simple blood test that just proves that your liver is healthy
13:00and it's functioning since we both know i'm already a match for lulu yeah so the infirmary
13:06said that they will have the test back within the hour so when we get that we can fly home
13:12can't wait yeah but nicholas the surgery is not without its forget the risks i do anything for
13:23you know that i do let's just hope it's enough it was last time
13:31who's the same person she was when she went into that coma
13:37surprises me none that you don't see it don't see what
13:42dante what do you remember about lulu when you first met her
13:52well she was a handful
13:56she was fiery
13:59and mischievous and she was always up to something she was confident she didn't take
14:05crap from anybody yeah lulu kicks some ass she did and then she changed she became insecure
14:15and cautious and and conservative in her approach to life okay maybe i'm not so grateful that you're
14:22here after all no fun having me hold up a mirror showing you what you did and what did i do
14:30lulu had spirit determination courage you robbed her of it
14:43i hate that molly feels that way but she knows that it's patently untrue then tell her because
14:50right now she feels that christina is getting the lion's share of the attention because christina
14:55will crumble without it you you saw her you saw her at the funeral she is about to lose it she
15:01almost died their baby did die she's recovering from surgery she's recovering from postpartum
15:07and she has a real threat that she's going to lose her freedom and she just doesn't possess
15:11the tools to be able to navigate that without my help and molly does in a word yes wow
15:20you don't think that i want to be spending every minute with molly right now because
15:24i do but i am one person and i can't be in both places at the same time both my girls are
15:32suffering a profound loss right now but one of them is able and more equipped to handle it than
15:38the other and that is molly do you think that your mom would agree with your evaluation of
15:45our family dynamic when christina's in play no god no but but there's no denying the facts i mean
15:54christina is a mess like she always has been she always will be she simply could not function
16:02without her mother's oversight luckily i figured that out young okay and how did that play out
16:09i learned to be strong an independent problem solver you know i mean this might sound
16:18vain but i i learned to be excellent not because it was demanded of me but because i knew that if
16:24i asked for more my mother would kill herself trying to give it to me and my sister would
16:30suffer as a result this is the one thing isn't it you said you and your mom could talk about
16:38almost anything this is the exception you're very perceptive
16:45my dad abused us he hurt my whole family and because of that my brothers have hurt people too
16:54i'm so sorry it was it was our mom that got the worst of it did she think about leaving
17:02i always wondered maybe she thought that that's what love was or that she didn't deserve any
17:07better i bet she wanted to leave she just didn't know how do you think she was scared of your dad
17:18and if she left no one would go with her
17:24i wish i had asked i i wish i had told her that i was on her side but instead i
17:29just took off and never looked back
17:35you never asked your mom for more because you assumed she couldn't give it
17:40but maybe she didn't give it because you never asked that's right walk away memory serves you
17:49good at that huh i didn't change lulu your absence did you left and it shattered her
17:58i was sick tracy i had ptsd i understand and you sought help alone away from your family
18:08outside of your marriage because i didn't want to hurt
18:11my family i didn't want to drag them down with me oh nobody dragged
18:18to stay by your side when you were at your weakest
18:22you're most vulnerable despite the fact that you slept with her cousin
18:28and you turned her away i didn't want to do that oh it doesn't matter what you wanted to
18:37do it matters what you did do you abandoned your wife you shattered her confidence she became
18:45a shadow of herself and if she dies
18:52dante if she dies without ever reclaiming that spark that she inherited from her father
18:58i will never forgive you well you know tracy i can live the rest of my life
19:04without your forgiveness so why don't you save that you keep that for yourself
19:09what are you thinking about when i first saw lulu after her operation
19:17you know i still have the mark on the small of my back from where they drew the bone marrow yeah
19:25i thought it would hurt more oh and they told me to take it easy for a while but
19:31i couldn't wait to see lulu and make sure she was okay
19:34i know you brought her flowers to a toddler i should have brought a stuffed animal or
19:41toy or something well it's the thought that counts and besides what did you know about babies back
19:47then or about sisters yeah but you saw a little girl who needed your protection and care and you
19:57yeah but you saw a little girl who needed your protection and care and you know what
20:05you told her that you were going to do that for her yeah i said those same words to my boys too
20:18tell me mom is it too late for me will i ever atone for destroying my family
20:27i know that lulu's brother nicholas is already a confirmed match but i'd still like to be tested
20:33just in case it's very selfless of you to want to help lulu in that way she's my cousin but from
20:42what sharina told me you're already an organ donor recipient yourself isn't that right yes
20:47yes jocelyn had childhood kidney cancer that makes you ineligible to donate even if you're a match
20:55oh you'd be surprised at how many factors come into play um i don't think any apply to me
21:03can i be tested let's get the ball rolling
21:10can you draw carly spencer's blood it's for a liver function panel absolutely as soon as elizabeth
21:17released me she's still in there with the pentonville patient i'm sure it won't be much
21:23longer you know actually i can keep an eye on things here and draw blood at the same time
21:30it's called multitasking right what do you mean scott's gone where i just know he's out of town
21:39indefinitely indefinitely i guess some big possibly lucrative case fell in his lap no i have
21:48a big possibly lucrative case and scott's supposed to represent me he told me that he
21:54was going to get me out of that hellhole to be with my grandson we have plans you know
22:01what they say about plans god laughs and so do i
22:09so what brings you here from pentonville a court order my lawyer wherever he may be
22:33pushed it through scott baldwin arranged for a blood test scott baldwin the same scott baldwin
22:40that left you high and dry i believe the order stands regardless dr robinson i'll take care of
22:47this there's no need i would be more than happy to take care of this blood
23:00your reasoning which may be spot on it doesn't change the fact
23:06that molly thinks in her eyes that you are choosing christina over her i have never done
23:12that i never will really what about the the document that you found in your briefcase
23:16it was misunderstood albeit understand alexis your relationship with your daughter is in jeopardy
23:23do you understand that yeah yeah i do i get it i get it rick i do my relationship with my daughter
23:29that i've had since the day she was born no breaks no hiatus the entire time so i will
23:36run my relationship with my daughter against your long distance phone calls any damn day of the week
23:42you don't think i know my daughter no i think i know her better i also i know you you know you
23:52show up here with this flashy righteous argument despite its its its logical flaws such as molly
24:01strong christina's weak therefore molly needs to be she requires more than you're giving her
24:06except she doesn't deserve it yes i know and do i want to give it to her of course i want to give
24:13it to her but it's about need right now and christina needs more because she can't handle
24:18less and molly knows that and she will understand that eventually what if she doesn't
24:32i pray you're right
24:40i'll call you later okay i love you love you too
24:48so
24:54whatever dad said i wish he didn't i can fight my own battles is that what this is
25:03now that maybe you came by to work things out with your sister not with christina with you
25:11i believe in you nicholas that makes one of us i guess the proof is standing right here in
25:18front of me you turned yourself in you saved ace from a life on the run you made the selfless choice
25:25just like you did for lulu all those years ago and you're about to do that again it is so hard
25:33to hold on to that in here okay all right i get it with you i get that you're struggling in here
25:39but you can do this you can survive and that's how you atone
25:46you serve this sentence you get out of here and you come home and you'd be a good father to them
25:59and you save your sister
26:01so
26:05before you delve any deeper let me just warn you that i have lived too long and
26:12on my past mistakes what about promises you ever think about those what promises
26:18well i bet you promised laura that lulu would have the best care possible
26:21and she has it right i'm sure since you promised laura that you probably promised
26:28you promised him the world maybe something like uh lulu will will always have top-notch treatment
26:36she will always be cared for maybe you even told him that you'd be able to wake her up
26:41you'd use all your money and all your resources and you treat lulu as if she were your own daughter
26:48maybe that's what luke thought of as his life flashed before his eyes
26:52the promises you made to him maybe it gave him comfort
26:57knowing that he'd be there to look after his little girl
27:02you've kept almost all your promises tracy but
27:07lulu has nothing to show for it
27:14what is it
27:15you can't do it you can't help lulu
27:30guess who
27:34i recognize those hands anywhere you're right tracy
27:41lulu wanted me to stick it out with her she wanted to help for us to do everything together
27:45she even told me that if i left that was the end of it there would be no coming back
27:50didn't that scare you yeah it terrified me but the alternative was worse i was more afraid of
27:56what would happen if i stayed so i left better to abandon than be abandoned
28:10i know what i did was wrong
28:16but it's done now
28:20and she's fading away in there and there's
28:25there's just nothing i can do about it
28:30there must be some mistake of course i'm a match we already know this lulu has my bone marrow
28:37it's not because of that okay well what else could it possibly be
28:41the test shows that your liver functionality doesn't meet the criteria for donation
28:48but i'm not sick and i'm certainly not drinking in here your liver is fine it's okay for you
28:57but it's not fine enough for donation no
29:01i don't know how this could happen
29:09so i hear you want to get tested to help lulu yes please great i'm assuming laura will also
29:15get tested just in case nicholas can't donate for whatever reason yeah i'd like to also add
29:21my name to the national registry i mean who knows maybe one day i can give a gift like the one
29:26jocelyn received god i remember that so clearly how sick she was how how hard it was for you
29:36that's pretty hard for you too you know if someone had told me all those years ago that
29:43there would come a time when you and i were actually friendly if not friends hell just not
29:50at each other's throats exactly i would have believed them it's too bad so many of the things
29:57that tie us together are just so awful yeah well here comes one of those things now
30:08you know you have a really nice bedside manner when you want to you didn't really think i was
30:24gonna hurt you did you i certainly thought you'd be tempted that's another difference between us
30:30i don't give in to every temptation that arises besides i took an oath one that i take very
30:36seriously and i intend on living up to i was referring to portia the mother not the doctor
30:43so pain is vengeance yeah that's not my style you may not believe this but hurting people was
30:52never my goal just a pesky byproduct of a bad hip implant then in my mind i truly thought
31:01that i was just protecting esme maybe we do have something in common because you clearly
31:07would go to great lengths for your daughter and make no mistake so will i christina is a lost
31:15cause you don't mean that there's no mending fences unless both parties are willing to put
31:22in the work in order to do that christina would have to a acknowledge that she has actually done
31:28anything wrong and be offer a sincere apology neither of those things are going to happen
31:34so i have no illusions about my sister and i'm certainly not expecting anything more from her
31:40i am hopeful for more from you i'm listening what more do you want from me
31:50i want you to know that i will do anything i can to get you to the other side of it
32:03you can tell me the truth always
32:12if irene had lived would you have helped christina take her away from tj
32:21i think i was gonna see you tonight i'm disappointed you already know the answer to
32:27that well it was too late to see lulu i wanted to stay but my mom kind of kicked me out how come
32:37um there was nothing really left for me to do there and she said i should just
32:44go live my life remind me to thank her so you are glad i'm here of course i am
32:54hard to turn it off though isn't it the worry
33:01there's a chance that lulu will be okay and i'm just trying to stay optimistic about that
33:08but bad things can happen and i just don't want this to be another thing added to the list
33:16let's pray that it won't be
33:19she came to me with the document and she asked for my legal opinion and you told her
33:27i told her what i told all of you all along that if she asserted herself in court it would probably
33:35go her way i also told her that i wouldn't get involved at all if i had given her a hard no
33:44in her condition i would have lost her just like i stand to lose you now
33:51i've got three daughters who i love more than anything in this world
33:55equally
34:00imperfectly perfect they are but i couldn't bear to lose any of them ever you haven't lost me
34:12well look what the cat dragged in
34:24i'm in time for an infant's funeral carly the attitude really necessary
34:29i don't know was training me to a wall necessary
34:35i'm sorry for molly and t.j's loss thank you how are you dealing with all of it
34:42okay what elizabeth really means is what are you doing at the hospital i have business you
34:50had business the memorial service but now that's over so now you can go back to whatever hole you
34:57crawled out of always good to see you carly we get an opportunity to catch up
35:04so
35:11that can't be good i'm not a threat anymore you don't need to protect trina from me well now i
35:19don't have to scott's gone and you are far too toxic for another lawyer to take you on so you
35:26heather will spend the rest of your days in pentonville where you belong excuse me i'm sorry
35:32you can't be in here heather weber yeah that's me i'm in the right place is heather your patient
35:42rick pentonville send you no scott baldwin dead um heather was his client now she's mine
35:48i'm rick lansing your attorney uh i'd like a word alone
36:03oh is this really happening yes it is now let's get you out of prison
36:10and make those bastards that hurt you pay
36:21i should not have said what i said well apology accepted did you hear me apologize
36:33i stand by what i said it's just that my timing could use some work
36:41beating up on you now accomplishes nothing
36:43well you can beat up on me all you want i can take it look tracy i know
36:53you don't have a whole lot of use for me and that's not like i mentioned to be your best
36:57friend either but you're important to lulu and that makes you important to me
37:04you
37:13she needs both of us
37:21it's gonna be okay but you were a match
37:28just because i can't help doesn't mean no one else can
37:32but lulu has other relatives including a mother who will do anything to save her
37:40you have to find him mom
37:44for leslie lu
37:47find lucky and bring him home
38:02on the next general hospital you're badgering me or do you want to save lulu it's time that
38:07the wsp repaid that favor i want to help lulu wait for my signal then we move who are you
38:14you are going to make all of your daughter's troubles go away