February 26 2010

We start with Lucky breaking into Johnny's garage. "Freeze! Police!", he calls. And who's the perpetrator? Why, it's Luke.

Johnny and Ethan are still playing cards at the Haunted Star. Johnny seems to be losing on purpose and Ethan knows it.

Spinelli comes into Jason's apartment wearing a chefs outfit? Jason tells him that they need to breakout Sonny.

Claire and Diane continue to argue their cases, the flight risks as well as the relevance of Dante's testimony. Alexis keeps objecting and the Judge keeps shooting her down. I'm surprised she isn't in jail yet.

Steven and Lisa watch Robin and Patrick fight about Sonny. He's worried about their daughter who is growing up in a mob town. Steven tries to calm them down, but also tells Patrick to go over the rules about releasing a patient. Robin is still pissed that because they released Dante, he has to testify against his own father. Lisa finally cuts in and wants to know why Robin is always defending mobsters citing Jason waving a gun at a patient as her first example and Sonny shooting Dante as her second. Robin says that they're her friends. Really Robin? The same friends who completely shunned you when you told the truth about Michael's patronage? Lisa says it's pretty much black and white. A person who shoots an unarmed man point blank in the chest is not a good person.

Ethan thinks Johnny wants him to help because he's Luke's son. Johnny says it's not. Ethan plays hard to get. Johnny cuts to the chase. He has to go; he tells him where it will all go down and drops a wad of cash on the card table as incentive. Tracy comes in and says whatever he's selling, they don't want any.

What's Lucky doing there? Looking for hijacked goods. Luke? Pretty much the same thing in the form of cigars. Luke says the shipment Lucky is looking for is there. Which....I'm sure detective Lucky could have figured out by the 30 warehouse boxes lying around.

Jason, Sam and Spinelli plan the escape.

Alexis talks again. The judge tells her to join in as co-council or get out. She has five seconds. In those five seconds, Alexis joins Diane's firm and is now co-council. Claire wants to question Dante. Judge says she can call Dante to the stand.

Jason, Sam and Spinelli plan the escape. Part two. Sam is the decoy. Spinelli is on computers. Jason is singing lead vocals.

Alexis and Diane talk on either side of Sonny. He wants them to protect Dante. Claire questions Dante. He says his name and undercover name. Diane wants the court to know that he has since resigned from the NYPD. Claire asks Dante about Sonny's access to funds which Dante says he has lots of. Claire asks about the shooting. Diane and Alexis immediately object.

Tracy tells Johnny that they're closed. Tracy lists the reasons why Johnny is bad news. It's not like they're going to date, Tracy. Although, I wouldn't hate that. Johnny says he's a bad influence and leaves. Ethan knows he's getting played but he thinks Johnny has a good point.

Lucky tells Luke about Johnny's involvement in the shooting at pier 52. Luke tells Lucky about Johnny at the Haunted Star and Ethan's potential involvement. They're both worried about Ethan. Lucky tells Luke about his car crash and what led up to it.

Robin says Sonny has been a good friend to her. Lisa admits he's charming. Patrick says this all happened when she was a teenager. Robin brings up Stone...again. Steven joins in on the bash Sonny and Robin day....which I'm all for. Robin is offended and leaves.

Luke wants to know what happened at Shadybrook. He says he lied that he forgave Elizabeth and mentions Helena as well. Luke says it's too early for forgiveness. Lucky says he just wants to get passed the anger. He wants some advice. Luke talks about them going away again and jokes that they'll kidnap Ethan too. He tells Lucky that maybe it's time to realize that things are over between him and Elizabeth.

Tracy tries to warn Ethan about Johnny. She has no sons left in Port Charles to play mama with so I guess Ethan will do. They argue about Johnny some more. Tracy begs him to think about who Johnny really is and even tries to use "think about what your dad will go through" as an excuse. Ethan "never set out to be the stable reliable son. Why start now?"

Robin is on the phone with the lab, getting pissed. Steven takes over and calmly talks to the lab tech saying Robin will be leaving for the evening. Robin is pissed that Steven has undermined her to her colleagues and now to the lab. He calmly explains that angering the lab won't help anyone and says they need to go.

Jason, Sam and Spinelli plan the escape, part three. They have to sell everything to make this happen. Spinelli is worried that Jason will get caught and arrested. Or worse: Stuck in Canada.

I hate recapping court cases. Diane and Alexis argue that Dante's shooting has nothing to do with the case at hand. Claire says it does....it goes back and forth for a bit until - the judge wants to hear it. Claire says that Dante was heavily drugged when he first made his statement but Dante says he knew what he was saying. She asks him if he has anything to add to his statement. I see her tactic here. She's giving him an out for perjury since he was so heavily sedated so that he might tell the truth now. Very smart. Except it won't work. She asks him one last time, "Who shot you?"

When we come back, Alexis objects AGAIN that Dante already made his statement. Claire is only asking for clarification. Alexis wants to know why Claire is trying to get Dante to change his response. Claire wants to know why Alexis is so afraid of what Dante might say. Check and ....not quite mate. Judge....can I just hear the answer?? Me too. Dante asks for the question to be repeated. Really? He then tells his fake story about how he shot himself. Lulu and Jax's faces are disappointed.

Jason thinks he might have to disappear. Sam and Spinelli object but Jason says they just need to get this done.

At Kelly's, Steven buys Robin a chocolate milkshake. He tells Robin that Liz and the kids are doing fine. Steven tries to get down to the heart of the matter of why Robin defends all these mob guys. Guza speaks through Robin saying that Sonny and Jason do awful things but they also do wonderful things. There's some awful distracting music in the back round. Steven gets it a little more after Robin explains it but he wonders how it makes Patrick feel.

Patrick is playing darts at Jake's when Lisa comes by. Patrick is in a bad mood and Lisa tries to make him feel better. She thinks everyone needs to get along! For the patient's sake! Wait...Lisa and Patrick and Steven and Robin aren't in the hospital! Who will take care of all the patients?! GH doesn't have any other doctors, damn it! I can just picture Epiphany going from OR to OR..."hello....?" I bet she'll be sassy about it. Patrick buys the first round. Lisa wants to know, "what is with Robin and these mob guys?" He explains. Seems Patrick is more pissed that he's not a let in to that part of her life. Some people get to be the surgeons. Some people get to be the mobsters. You made your choice, Patrick. You made your choice.

Patrick hates that Robin never talks about Stone. He feels shut out.

Steven thinks Patrick has a point that he doesn't understand her defense of Jason and Sonny. Robin says that's because he wasn't there when it all went down. There's a lot of psycho-analyzing going on and Robin's "huh...I never thought of it that way" sitcom face shines through.

Lucky hears about Sonny's arraignment/bail hearing and tells Luke. They both deduce that Jason will try to break Sonny out. Luke tells Lucky that he needs to get his shit together for his family because this shit just got real.

Claire continues questioning Dante. She wants to know how Dante can be such a dumbass, shooting his own damn self. Alexis: Objection, badgering her own witness. Diane wants all of Dante's testimony thrown out. Judge: Nice try. Hee. Dante can finally step down. Claire again asks for bail to be revoked. Judge asks for a recess.

Robin can't believe she's married! And with a child! She describes her past love lives and how she met Patrick. Steven wants to know why Patrick isn't being let in. She says she's not trying to exclude him.

Shooting! Ethan, as predicted joins Johnny. They're being shot at!

Luke is worried and really wants to go away with Lucky but Lucky says he has things to do.

Jason, Sam, Max and Milo are getting ready. The plan is Milo will pretend to attack Sam as a diversion. Spinelli is on the phone with Jason using all sorts of code. Jason, "Spinelli, if you're going to use code, the other guy needs to know what it means." Hee! I bet this will go off without a hitch.

Jax tells Claire that he is not impressed. She's hoping the judge will read between the lines. Diane tells Alexis not to get too close to Sonny when he leaves the courthouse because she knows what's coming. Sonny goes over to Dante to say goodbye. He thanks Dante for his false testimony. Dante insists he didn't do it for him. And here's the judge's decision: We'll find out Monday. It's like waiting for American Idol results and the Judge is Ryan Seacrest.

So Monday will be my first day of unemployment so I'll probably be doing this earlier. YAY!

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