What happened on General Hospital
Nina walked into Carly’s living room and explained that she was there with Willow when she was served with the custody papers. Carly admitted that she had asked Diane to request a court date. Nina thought that meant Michael would be coming home. Carly informed her that he wasn’t, but she refused to move the court date.
“Nina, wake up. Willow is never going to leave Drew, so I need to protect my grandchildren,” Carly said. “Well, they’re my grandchildren, too, and you’re not doing this,” Nina declared. She tried to reason with Carly just as Sonny tried to reason with Willow, but Carly didn’t care what Nina had to say.
“Willow is never going to see who Drew really is. Hell, she walked in on Drew in bed with a sex worker, and she’s still standing by her man,” Carly correctly pointed out. “You have had enough time. I have to do something besides wait to protect my grandchildren and I don’t regret it for a second,” she added.
Suddenly, Nina realized that Carly had requested this court date weeks ago and had broken their pact. Nina was furious while Carly only smirked. “You have been going behind my back this entire time? You lied to my face,” Nina accused.
“I never made any promises. And you’re the one lying to your daughter, pretending to be okay with her disgusting relationship with Drew,” Carly said. The two women went back and forth trading accusations. “I want what’s best for my daughter, which makes me no different from any other mother out there,” Nina explained.
Carly then turned nasty, telling Nina, “This just proves what I already knew. You’re not a mother and you never will be,” Carly spat. Nina defended herself, so Carly told her to act like a mother and to stop treating Willow like a friend and tell her how she felt about Drew. “Is your relationship that fragile? What the hell are you afraid of?” Carly asked.
“Of losing Willow permanently. I already lost Nelle. I am not losing Willow,” Nina declared. Carly pulled the mother card again. “That’s what a good mother does. They sacrifice their own happiness for the good of their child,” Carly said without a hint of self-awareness that she hasn’t always done that. Even Nina pointed it out. “You do exactly what you want, no matter who it hurts.
As their shouting match continued, Carly went all the way back to Sonny’s flannel-shirt bartender days. “This coming from the woman who kept Sonny in Nixon Falls for months away from his family,” Carly said. “And let’s talk about Willow. She had a rough upbringing, but thank God you didn’t raise her or she’d be an even worse mother than she is now.”
An outraged Nina listened to Carly yammer on about delusional Willow. “She doesn’t deserve those kids, and she doesn’t deserve to be a mother,” Carly shouted. That was enough for Nina to let loose and clock Carly across the face. Carly slapped her right back, resulting in the two women rolling around on the floor and the couch like a common Alexis and Krystal Carrington.
“You sanctimonious bitch!” Nina screamed before reaching for a ceramic knick-knack. Josslyn suddenly appeared and pulled Nina off of her mother. Nina gathered herself and started to walk out, but got in the last word: “You made a big mistake because there’s no way I’m gonna let you take Willow’s children away from her.”
After Nina left, Carly explained to Josslyn what happened, who thought it was a little off that Carly scheduled a custody hearing without telling Michael. Josslyn suddenly became the voice of reason and handed Carly her phone. “You need to tell Michael and tell him about the hearing,” Josslyn said. Carly put down the phone and refused.
At the Nurses’ Ball rehearsal hall, Sonny continued trying to reason with Willow. She claimed she didn’t want her kids growing up torn between both parents, “but Michael and Carly seem to want to take my kids from me.” Sonny agreed that Carly never should have interfered and requested a custody date. He asked Willow to request a postponement.
Willow said she didn’t want to. She was sick of the custody question hanging over her head and wanted it over with. “I just think you should wait for Michael to get home and find a compromise. Something you both can live with,” Sonny suggested.
Willow argued that Michael wanted full custody. “No, he doesn’t. He told me that himself,” Sonny said, surprising Willow. “I had a long talk with Michael the night be was burned before the accident. He flat-out told me he asked for full custody as a negotiating tactic. I know if he didn’t get hurt that night, then you two would have worked out a joint custody agreement,” Sonny explained.
Willow was shocked by this news, but felt something had changed since she thought Michael refused to see her when she flew to Germany. Sonny was stunned to hear this. “That’s confusing cause that doesn’t seem like Michael at all,” Sonny said. “Call for a postponement until Michael comes home and he can speak for himself. What do you say?”
Willow was ready to agree to Sonny’s request when Nina stumbled into the room. Willow saw the bruise on Nina’s face, stunned to hear that Carly had hit her mother. “Carly is completely irrational,” Nina made sure to tell Sonny. Willow turned to Sonny and told him that Carly wouldn’t allow a compromise, so she wasn’t postponing the date.
After Willow stormed off, a quiet Sonny approached his ex-wife. “I came this close to getting her to postpone the hearing,” he said, but Nina was not quite as quiet and calm. “Sonny, your ex is a psycho bitch. This time, Carly went too far,” Nina cried. Sonny disagreed. “You’re the one who just got Willow’s kids taken from her,” Sonny said.
A grumpy Tracy confused Ned and Olivia with her attitude when they gathered in the Q living room at Brook Lynn’s behest. They asked Lois if they knew what was going on. “I don’t know. It seems like Tracy being Tracy,” Lois shrugged.
Brook Lynn and Jason soon appeared. Brook Lynn wanted to talk about Gio without Dante there, but didn’t know Gio was listening. “Gio’s been beating himself over it,” Brook Lynn said of the incident on the beach. “So has Danny,” Jason chimed in. “For the sake of family unity, can we all just move on?” Brook Lynn pleaded.
Tracy finally spoke up. “Is anyone really surprised that two teenage boys snuck out to go to a party and got drunk? Isn’t that a rite of passage?” she asked. “Nearly dying of alcohol poisoning is not a rite of passage,” Ned pointed out. Olivia then asked Jason if Danny was being punished. Jason assured her that Danny knew the deal.
Brook Lynn and Lois returned to defending Gio, who finally came out of hiding. “I just want to say how sorry I am. I really screwed up. I used incredibly bad judgment and Rocco almost paid for that. I can’t change what happened and I’m gonna work incredibly hard to regain your trust,” he said, before walking out of the room.
Lois followed him into the foyer, where Gio asked Lois and Brook Lynn to stop making excuses for him. He thanked Lois for taking care of him when his mom died. “But thanks to you and Uncle Sonny, I am not that little orphan anymore. I have an amazing life. I go to college. I study and perform music because of all of you. I can stand on my own now,” Gio declared with a smile.
Gio noted how Lois and Gloria always defended him when he was younger, but he didn’t need that anymore.
Back in the living room, Ned expressed how impressed he was with Gio for owning up to his mistake. Jason decided Gio had said enough, so he walked off. Brook Lynn was worried that she had made things worse for Gio. “I just wanted him to feel comfortable in his own home,” Brook Lynn said.
Dante found a hungry Sasha chowing down on baked goods in her usual spot in the Q kitchen. They made some small talk about Rocco, with Sasha pointing out that both Rocco and Danny were good kids. “I don’t want you to think that Danny isn’t taking what happened to Rocco seriously, because he is,” Sasha said.
“Don’t get me wrong, I love Danny. I just think he’s a little too much like Jason for his own good,” Dante lamented. Sasha tried to defend Jason, but Dante wasn’t sold. “Look, Jason loves his kids. He’s just not a big help with disciplining them. Danny needs boundaries, and with Sam gone, it doesn’t seem like he’s getting a lot of that,” he said.
Just then, Jason walked in, so Dante walked out. Jason thanked Sasha for going to bat for Danny. A process server soon appeared. Sasha was surprised to learn she was being called to testify at Willow and Michael’s custody hearing. “Do you think Willow knows that Michael is the baby’s father?” Jason assured Sasha there was no way Willow could know.
As for Dante, he was surprised to find people gathered in the living room. Olivia told him that everyone felt Dante was being too hard on Gio, including her. Dante still insisted that Gio needed some tough love to be set on the right track.
Gio could hear Dante’s voice from the foyer and told Lois that he was sure Dante was still trashing him. “I’ll just stay out of his way from now on. There’s no reason that we need to be friends,” Gio said. Olivia suddenly appeared and told Gio how proud she was of him for admitting wrongdoing.
Lulu and Cody made their way back to the stables with Lulu’s trusty laptop. Cody stressed that he didn’t think that Brook Lynn knew Gio could be her son. Lulu was sure that Brook Lynn only tried to seduce Dante all those years ago so they could reunite and she could tell him they had a son.
Lulu did some more research and found that Camilla was touring in New Zealand when Gio was allegedly born in Los Angeles. Lulu planned to find the other musicians who traveled with Camilla so she could question them. She left voicemails with them and was pleased when a woman named Margaret called her back.
Margaret told Lulu that Camilla quit their 2003 tour with no explanation. She also told Lulu that Camilla wasn’t pregnant
In Curtis’s office, Drew tried to shrug off Curtis’s accusations. “Blackmail. That’s such an ugly word,” he said. “I’m surprised Portia even mentioned this to you, cause in order to be blackmailed, someone had to have done something wrong. Illegal even. Something that could cost a doctor her medical license. And that’s just the beginning,” he said with his usual sadistic tone.
Drew kept going. “Let’s say, hypothetically, that a husband found out that his doctor wife tampered with a patient’s test results, intending to keep that patient wrongfully imprisoned. You would be morally obligated to do something, right?” Drew asked, not realizing Curtis already knew that Portia tampered with Heather’s results.
Curtis grew angry when Drew mentioned how upset a certain doctor’s daughter would be if she knew what her mother did. Drew went on to threaten the hospital, too — all hypothetically, of course. Curtis told Drew that his hypothetical blackmail was pointless cause nothing could erase the damage Drew’s body shot photos did.
“I’ve got the situation completely under control,” Drew said, before issuing the same demands to Curtis that he’s given to Portia. What Drew didn’t realize was that Curtis recorded their entire conversation. After Drew left, Curtis listened to the recording. As for Drew, he called Mac and told him he knew who had drugged him.
