The Week in Review: April 6 - April 10

Well, this was another repetitive week.  Like last week, there were some nice individual scenes, but lots of things were repetitions of scenes we've already seen, while the payoff to the Mac/Felicia/Tess/Jax/etc. storyline was simply that Jerry Jax arrived in town.  I was just glad it was over.  Other than that, we learned nothing new.  Stuart Damon did a wonderful job with the next step in Alan's downward spiral, and Carly and Jason gave us some lovely scenes in Florida late in the week.  At least I knew we had a Luke/Stefan scene to start off the next Monday.

I.  Jax and Brenda

A.  The Assassination Thwarted

We opened the week with a replay of Brenda pushing Jax out of the way.  As we continued, Brenda feared Jax had been hit, but she was the one who sustained a flesh wound (Good.  When I read the spoilers the first time, I thought she was going to be really shot, and we'd have all kinds of desperate hospital scenes.  Meanwhile, V identified Mitch, but Jax refused to have him arrested.  Jax took Brenda home, and she told him again all about how much she loved him.  They kissed, and Jax took her up to her bedroom, placed her tenderly on the bed...and left.  Ha!  The look on her face was hysterical.

B.  The Clean-Up

Brenda came to the penthouse on Tuesday to find him making sense of the assassination attempt.  Everybody was there who had been a part of things--some were tied up and others were not.  Brenda did a double take at the double Macs, but the best part was V, who had put name tags on Mac and Jimmy: "Hello, I'm MAC" and "Hello, I'm NOTE MAC" respectively.  Ha!  Jax told her to stay, since she had almost been killed, and she just grinned.  Personally, I thought it very hypocritical for her to just smile and look pleased with herself when she had been preaching to Robin how dangerous Jason was all this time.  The gunshot had simply not phased her--and this is the same woman who, not so long ago, was scared of flashbulbs.  The whole thing--the whole storyline--seemed a waste to me at this point.  The Felicia/Mac stuff was never as fun as it was supposed to be, and the payoff was simply uninteresting.

Jimmy agreed to testify, so he would have immunity (Mac and Felicia squabbled about this one, but the fact that V might get in trouble if Jimmy were arrested guaranteed his freedom--and this means that Jimmy will still be out there so we can have a Mac double if we ever need one).  Mitch gave up his half of the company (which he had been trying to take over from Jax) to Jax.  Tess went to jail.  Jax offered Mac the job of Police Commissioner again, and he said he would seriously consider it if he could go back on his own terms.  Felicia waxed sentimental about Mac to Jimmy.

Afterwards, Mac told Felicia that he didn't trust Jax--he could have set the whole thing up to walk away with the company.  But there was something else to worry about--how to tell people they weren't getting married.  Mac was very willing to take care of that--so much that Felicia was offended.

Meanwhile, we had more with Jax and Brenda.  Yawn.

C.  The Parents

At Jax's door on Thursday were...Lady Jane and John!  Surprise!  I've never been a big fan of any of the Jacks family, but John and Jane are sweet enough.  For some reason, Ashley was there.  Too bad.  But the parents' aren't distracted.  Jane is upset that Jax left Jerry stranded, and they are both concerned about Brenda.  Speak of the devil; she's there at the door.  The parents fussed and fretted and Brenda showed them her neon colored Band-Aid.  Ha!  Ashley left, and Jax escorted her out.  Meanwhile, Brenda and the parents were all in agreement that Jax and Brenda belong together.  At one point, they left to get a present for Brenda and she and Jax had their now typical scene: "I will win you back," "No you won't."  The parents return; the present is slippers.  The women head to the kitchen, while John lit into Jax about something.  Later, more gushing all around (except for Jax), and then off to dinner, just missing the call from Mac telling Jax that he's still in danger.

D.  The Arrival

Back from dinner, Mac and Felicia arrived at the door (Terry noted that Mac was in pink and Felicia in blue; I didn't' notice, but it's indeed cute).  Mom and Dad Jacks took Brenda down to their room for another present while Mac told Jax that Jerry was behind the assassination attempt (So this entire story has really been one big set up for Jerry's arrival?  What a waste.).  Jax behaved as though he didn't believe him, as though he was outraged that he could suggest such a thing.  Mac told him about the bullion.  Jax again asked them not to say anything, and they agreed.

Afterwards, we had yet another repeat of the typical Jax and Brenda scene, but this time they did remember their first meeting, when she returned a ring for Lois.  And later, Jax came back to the penthouse to find a man playing pinball--the opening shot is the same one that introduced Jax, moving from a man's hand up his arm.  When Jax said, "Hello, Jerry," the man turned and we saw his face.

II.  Mac and Felicia

Now out of the limo on Monday, Mac and Felicia fought with the shooter.  He went over the side and fell to the ground, dead.  Tess then took Felicia hostage and left.  Mac followed, and when he got to the hotel, he overheard Felicia talking about him in very positive terms.  He busted in and saved her, and she was not happy to find out that he'd be listening--especially instead of rescuing her!

Mac and Felicia were in New Orleans on Thursday, meeting with one of Mac's old friends who's in an assassin's guild.  We have some filler stuff with the guy flirting with Felicia and Mac being jealous, and then the guy told them that the assassin had been paid in gold bullion.  Mac knew only one man who paid that way--Jerry Jax.  And the proverbial plot thickened.

III.  Carly and Jason

A.  Carly

When the shooting happened on Monday, Jason was taken aside by the police, and Carly was left to both defend him to Edward and call the strike.  Of course, Jason hadn't told her to do so, and when he was done with the police he yelled at her for making him look guiltier.

B.  At the Jail

On Tuesday, Jason was down at the police station answering questions.  Carly came in verbal guns a-blazin', and they tell her that they picked Jason up at the airport trying to skip town.  Carly told them that he was their taking *her* to the airport; she was going to Florida to settle her mother's things.  They would have known, had they followed them inside the airport.  Carly demanded that they let him go, and when they don't, she left to get Justus.

Taggert and Dara squabbled over the correct way to treat Mr. Morgan while he was there at the precinct, and Dara told him that he was in the wrong to bring Jason in.  Taggert insisted that Jason would incriminate himself if they could just get him talking.

Justus:  "You made good time from the airport but I guess you can do that when you take a shortcut through the constitution.

When Justus and Carly got back, Jason asked her to go and see Robin at the hospital.  She had called earlier, and Jason hadn't been able to return the call.  Carly wasn't happy about it, but she said she would.  Meanwhile, Justus launched into Taggert and they had some big argument about who served justice more and better.  Taggert brought out flimsy proof that Jason was tired to the unions and the strike, but Justus slapped a restraining order on him (ha!).  It didn't slow Taggert down...until Dara put him in jail.

C.  Carly and Robin

Carly went to Robin's room and tentatively entered, telling her why Jason wasn't there himself.  She asked if Robin needed anything, and Robin said that she had heard about the shooting and wanted to be sure that Jason was alright.  At that, Carly grew snarky, chiding Robin for thinking Jason had anything to do with the shooting.  But she was still calm, and asked after Robin's health.  Then the other shoe dropped.  She asked Robin why she hadn't called the police or Jason instead of going to Tony's on her own.  She should have known better than to think she could handle Tony, and she put Jason through a lot more pain than was necessary.  She composed herself (she was never out of control, but had become a little emotional--not bad, for Carly), apologized, and turned to leave, saying that she should never have come.  But Robin stopped her.  She told Carly to take a message to Jason--to tell him that everything Carly had just said was true.  She shouldn't have done it, and she knew that she had added hours of worry to everybody's life.  She explained that she had thought that Jason would harm Tony trying to get Michael back.  Carly told Robin that she wasn't Jason's mother, and Robin replied that she wouldn't stand by and do nothing.

As Carly left, she ran into Bobbie.  They were both awkward, and Carly finally said that she had been very emotional and didn't want Bobbie to misunderstand things.  Bobbie agreed, and they both put the hug from the other night behind them.  Or so they thought; I knew better.  Bobbie would not hug her child once and then be slow in doing it again.

D.  Jason and Taggert

When we returned to the jail, Jason and Taggert were in the same cell.  Crack me up.  Taggert asked for a name, or he would hassle everybody involved.  When Jason refused to answer, Taggert changed his approach.  He told Jason that he could be a dirty cop and asked what Jason would pay him.  Jason wasn't buying it, and never said a thing that would incriminate him.  The back and forth was beautiful.  Garcia interrupted, and Jason noted that Taggert's pockets hadn't been checked like everybody else's.  Taggert took a tape recorder out of his pocket.  Garcia opened the door...for Jason.  Ha!  Jason grinned at Taggert, and Garcia remarked, "And you said he didn't smile."  What fun!

Back in the office, Carly gave Robin's apology to Jason.  Carly still wanted to go to Florida, and as Jason thought about it, he realized that distance from the strike would be a good thing for him.  He volunteered to go with her.  He told Justus, and Justus said he'd take care of it with Dara.  He then thanked Dara, who stuck up for Taggert and chided Justus all at the same time.  She then went downstairs to see Taggert, who was doing sit-ups in a T-shirt (gratuitous swoon-fest for many on ratsa).   Flirtation ensued.

E.  Jason and Carly

In Florida on Thursday, Carly talked about Virginia.  She claimed that she had killed her mother, and Jason told her that she was once again blaming herself, just as she had blamed herself for Michael's condition at birth.  She told him the story of her childhood, and worried that she would fight with Michael.  Jason simply told her not to--the simplest and truest answer there was.  Carly focused on Michael's relationship to Jason, though, and in return he said that he was afraid of telling Michael what to do.  It was very sweet to see these two contemplating parenthood in a way they hadn't had time to do.  I wanted them to be Michael's parents forever, in that moment, but I think that's impossible.

On Friday, they went to the cemetery to see Virginia's grave.  Jason had ordered it, and it simply read "Virginia Benson."  He hadn't known what else to include.  Carly said that Virginia had taught her that ladies never tell their age and never had a favorite prayer--but she'd like to put that she was Carly's mom and Michael's grandmother.  He said that it didn't matter what it cost; as always, she was worried about money and he looked to what was important.  She was glad that the grave overlooked the ocean, because Virginia had always said that the beach brought her peace.  Jason said that's why he had chosen it (I love him).  He offered to leave her alone for a while, and she asked him what he thought about an afterlife.  He said that he thought that the part of us that loves lived on, somehow.  She wanted him to tell Michael someday, and we learned that Jason takes the boy to church (which reminded me that I was hoping for a scene with Mike, Emily, and Jason in church training!).

Carly:  "Hi.  Mama, it's Caroline.  I am sorry that I never thanked you...for everything you gave me.  I don't know how I managed to convince myself that Bobbie could love me more than you did.  Or why I couldn't see that the mother that I had dreamed of was the mother that I already had.  I love you, mama.  I didn't say that enough.  And I didn't show you the way I should've.  But I know that you forgive me.  Because you always did."

Carly:  "But Virginia Benson was my real mother.  Just like you're Michael's real father.  Biology doesn't make a family.  Love does.  Remember that, OK?"  

He left, and Carly spoke to her dead mother.  She apologized for everything--for not thanking her enough, for thinking Bobbie would be a better mother, for not saying that she loved her.  She promised Virginia that she wouldn't chase fantasies anymore (though I can see that she's already building castles in the air about Jason), that she would hold on to the good stuff.  She said that she was happy.  When Jason returned she told him that biology did not a family make; he was Michael's real father, just as Virginia was her real mother.  He asked her if she'd like to stay the night and come back in the morning, and she smiled.  He put an arm around her, the other arm carrying Michael in his seat, and Carly looked back at her mother as they left.

I loved her saying that her life wasn't something that you would cut out of a magazine and put on your wall; I could see her doing that when she was younger.  And I loved these two people, estranged for so long from their biological families, making a family together--or at least understanding that it was possible.  The question of biology v. choice, in terms of family, is a big thing on GH these days.  And these two always bring our attention to it in such a lovely way when they're together.  They're as much a perfect match as they are a mismatch, and I hope we get them together for a while.

Back at the Penthouse, Carly asked about the strike.  Jason told her it was going well, and Carly thought that let her off the hook.  Jason put her right back on, though he said he was sorry for the harshness of his treatment that night.  He told her that the only way she and Michael could remain safe was to stay out of the business (wait--I thought it was possible that Michael was kidnapped because of that business of which they weren't a part).  There can be no accidents.  They got ready for bed and he took the baby monitor with him.  Later, she slipped into his room wearing a slinky black nightie and crawled into his bed and began kissing him....

IV.  The Quartermaines

After the shots were fired and the strike was called on Monday, Alan yelled at Emily for defending Jason.  Monica yelled at Alan for yelling at Emily.  And Ned and AJ yelled at each other over this new development in their plans.

Emily:  "Wave to Reginald for me."
Ned:  "I'll be sure to gesture."

On Wednesday, the Qs were back at home, angry about the strike and even angrier about the strikers outside of their house.  When Ned got there, they told him that it was all Edward's fault, since he had attacked Jason.  They discussed things until Reginald entered, bearing sacks of frozen dinners.  He--and the rest of the staff--weren't going to cross the picket line.  And nothing the others could offer him or threaten him with would persuade him otherwise.  Lila was pleased with him--too cute.

Left to their own devices, the Qs had to figure out how to run the coffee maker.  Lots of people on ratsa couldn't believe that the Qs were being written as so dumb.  And it's true.  The Qs have been on the backburner for a long time, and we need a good Q storyline--business, machinations, something.  Right now they're simply a part of other storylines--and not in a good, integrated, equal way--or simple comic relief.  They deserve better.

Later, Alan apologized to Emily for his anger.  But when she started asking about his moodiness, he grew angry again and she ran away from him.  Monica demanded to know what had happened, and Alan apologized again.  He admitted that he was having trouble, but chalked it up to stress.  So he was headed out of town to a retreat for a few days to get himself in order.  Monica told Emily where he had gone, but Emily was still very worried.  And she had every right to be.  Alan had gone to a cheap hotel room, flushed his pills down the toilet, and prepared to wait it out in cold turkey detox.  On Thursday, we saw him in withdrawal, sweaty and hallucinating about Emily popping pills.  On Friday, he was growing desperate.  He attempted to make himself presentable and called the manager.  When the man arrived, he nervously handed him some bills, saying that he had lost his medication.  At the end of the episode, a drug dealer arrived at the hotel room.

V.  The Cassadines

A.  Katherine and Nikolas

On Tuesday, Katherine returned to Wyndemere after visiting Luke (she didn't even put in an appearance at the docks ceremony) and met Nikolas on the docks.  They waited for Stefan before taking the launch to the island.  Katherine was upset about the feud, but Nik acted as though it didn't bother him at all.  She asked Nikolas what Helena wanted with Lucky, and Nikolas started saying how ridiculous his grandmother was.  After all, her latest attempt to rile him up against his Uncle was to tell him that Stefan secretly loves Laura.  He laughed, but Katherine was not at all amused.

B.  Nikolas and Stefan

Stefan:  "The thing to remember is that when something ends, that doesn't mean it never should have been."

Stefan:  "The most important attachment of your life could well be one that ends, even in anger, but the one without which you cannot imagine your life at all."

Katherine left before Stefan arrived, and Nikolas asked him about Sarah (I was pleased to see that he didn't ask Katherine again--in fact, he hadn't asked her the first time.  She just volunteered her opinion.).  It's always nice to see scenes with just the two of them together, and this was a nice one.  Nikolas asked him how to break off his relationship with Sarah, and wondered at the fact that he had once thought it was such a good thing.  Stefan's line above was so lovely.  Of course he was thinking of Laura, and continued to, but he used the example of his marriage to Barbara.  Even that had some value (it was nice to hear him remember that).

C.  Katherine and Stefan

Katherine returned to the docks at the end of the episode, pleased with herself for some unknown reason.

On Wednesday, Katherine awoke with Stefan in bed and told him that Nikolas was going to break up with Sarah (as if he didn't already know; she just informs him of things, not ever asking what he knows already).  She then admitted that she had been to see Luke and had told him about Stefan's "past" affection for Laura (She never told him about that other visit, did she?).  Stefan covered his reaction well, but was not pleased with her.  He simply got up, got dressed, and called security, saying very little to Katherine.  I hoped she figured out what she had done wrong.

He left her and went downstairs to the portrait of Laura.  He raised a knife to it (I assumed he was thinking of destroying it so Luke wouldn't find it), but then couldn't go through with it (just as well; he'd just have to commission another one).

D.  Nikolas and Sarah

Down at the docks, Nikolas told Sarah that he was breaking up with her.  He handled things very well, but she wasn't happy, of course.  She asked if the fact that they'd never had sex was the reason; he said no--he actually said that it was for the best that they hadn't.  Nik said that there was no explainable reason.  Somehow, he wasn't attracted to her anymore.  It was nothing she had done, and nobody else had come between them.  She whined about his not seeing her when he was hurt, accusing him of being too proud to let her see him imperfect.  She quizzed him about Robin, and he said that they were just friends.  She told him then that he could not feel as badly as she did; it was always worse to be dumped than to be the dumpee.

Finally, Nikolas came out of the whole thing looking maturer than Sarah did.  In fact, during this scene I couldn't even imagine them together.  And in the very beginning, before the awful teenage summer, I actually thought Sara would be good for Nikolas--a normalizing influence.  Instead, she's turned out to be one of the most annoying people on the show (Sarah, Keesha, and Katherine are the only people I don't like, if you wanted to know).

After she left, Nikolas stood on the docks alone.

VI.  The Spencers

A.  Luke

Luke:  "Anywhere I hang my neuroses is home."

Bobbie:  "You want a vacation from Luke Spencer?  So do I.  Just as soon as I can figure out how to stop giving a damn about her."

Luke was sleeping it off at his desk on Tuesday when Bobbie arrived and woke him (I still like the fact that he can't bear to be in the Spencer house).  Laura had called the house, and then called Bobbie when there was no answer.  Bobbie didn't tell her anything, but she told Luke that Laura should come home.  Laura said something to make Bobbie think that Laura thinks Luke is avoiding her, but Bobbie's suspicion is that Laura doesn't want to come home.  Luke asked her again why she came, and she said that she was upset that he hadn't handled Tony for her.  Luke explained again that he couldn't ask Tony to--wouldn't expect him to--sign away his rights as a father.  And a piece of paper could never stop Tony from being a father.  Bobbie is frustrated, but not as much as when she came.

Kat:  "For a man who's about to go into battle you certainly aren't dressed like one."
Luke:  "Ya, well, my fashion sense is crushed."

Kat:  "Your son is acting on his own agenda."
Luke:  "Good.  I hate it when he borrows mine."
Kat:  "Maybe you should discuss this with Laura.  I would guess that she has a unique perspective on the Spencer/Cassadine connection."
Luke:  "Ha.  She ought to.  She is the Spencer/Cassadine connection."

Katherine:  "We both know why."
Luke:  "Really?  Then why are you tryin' so hard to tell me?"
Katherine:  "As if you didn't know that Laura's the only other woman that Stefan ever loved."

Katherine entered at this point, and Bobbie left.  And this visit made me angrier than her last one.  She pretended to be there on a mission of peace, but she really was fishing for information about Laura.  At first, Luke thought she was trying to find Laura's location (He didn't know about Stefan's visit?  He's slipping.).   But the bait she was using?  The fact that Laura was the only other woman Stefan had ever loved (Hey, chick, remember when he said that he had only ever loved one woman?  You have reason to be worried).  She presented it as a fact, even though Nikolas had dismissed it; clearly she thought it was the truth, at least enough to test Luke's reaction with it.  What was she thinking?  That he'd confirm it calmly?  If he believed it at all, it would only spur him on to more rage at the Cassadines, which was ostensibly not her plan.  And if Stefan found out that she had not once but twice gone to speak to Luke on the Cassadines' behalf?  Sigh.

Luke didn't know this one, but Katherine told him that Stefan admitted it to her--again to see his reaction.  Now, I think that Stefan at one point shortly after her accident admitted to having loved Laura in the past, when she asked him directly.  But he told her that in confidence, and here she was spreading it around for her own purposes.  Luke's face shifted slightly, and then he showed Kat the door.  And after she was gone, it was as if he realized what he hadn't let himself know all along.  He saw through Kat's ruse, most likely, but this was something he had always feared and never admitted to himself.  He had seen the portrait, after all.  But he never spoke word one about the possibility of Stefan's love to Laura.  He didn't want to hear the answers.  And once he had let himself believe that Stefan loved Laura, the pieces fell into place and he was faced with yet another...worse...possibility concerning his wife...and Nikolas.

At the end of the episode, the phone rang while Luke drank.  It had done so once before, in the middle of their conversation, but Luke had ignored it then as well.

B.  Lucky and Liz

Sarah and Liz chatted a bit at the beginning of Wednesday.  Nik called, asking to see Sarah at the docks, but before she left she asked Liz why she wasn't going to school.  Liz admitted that she was upset by the fact that she could know her rapist; she had read the statistics in some material from rape counseling.

Dara and Taggert were bickering, in the meantime, at the police station.  She was down on him for his treatment of Jason; he was angry with her for letting Jason out of jail.  But when Lucky and Lizzie arrived (she wanted to see if there was any progress on her case, and Lucky had encouraged her, since it was taking control of something), Taggert won more points from me.  He told her that somebody would have contacted her if there had been any news, but took the time to speak with her about what she could do if suspects were brought in and give her assurances that they were still working on the case.  Dara approved, as did I.

Lizzie:  "I feel like I need to come up with a new word for 'thank you' because I'm tired of sayin' it to you all the time."

Lucky:  "What d'ya say, uh, we just say, 'ditto.'"
Lizzie:  "Then, ditto.''

Lucky and Liz went back to her house and she thanked him again for all of his support.  He insisted that she didn't have to thank him; after all, she was letting him stay in her room without telling anybody.  They decided that instead of "Thank you," they could just say, "Ditto."  That was so wonderful, and I hoped that we'd have a follow-up moment later where one of them said "ditto."  Not yet.  Sigh.

C.  Bobbie

We had a kind of sweet/kind of boring sequence with Bobbie and Lucas on Thursday.  I was struck again, however, with Bobbie's mothering skills.  When she's good, she's very good.  He was going out with Betty, Georgie, and Maxie for the day.  Lucas didn't want to go to the zoo; his dad always takes him there. This starts a sequence of questions about Tony, all of which Bobbie answers gracefully.

Bobbie went to visit Tony, in the interim.  His bail request had been denied, and he was chafing at the bit that Jason was out and he was in jail.  Bobbie told him again to stay away from Lucas.  Tony told her that he would be out soon and would see Lucas.  He has a lot of character witnesses and a good record.  Bobbie asked him to name one--Alan?  Ha.

Luke had arrived in the meantime, looking for Taggert.  Garcia spoke with him instead; they wanted to know why Luke's was the only place that had garbage removal during the strike.  "Because I'm nice to people?", he asked?  When Bobbie was done with Tony, Luke left with her.  She was worried about Lucas, that she couldn't protect him.  Luke dittos that about Lucky, but is headed to listen in on the hardware he installed on the yacht.

Later she returned to Lucas.  He had more questions about the kidnapping and couldn't decide if he was scared of Tony or not.  Bobbie tried to reassure him.

D.  Lucky and Luke

On Friday, we opened with Stefan gazing at the portrait of Laura again and cut to Luke, sitting on the park bench--a key location in both Laura's rape and Lizzie's.  He was thinking of Laura as well, clearly.  Lucky and Elizabeth entered, talking about Lizzie's rape.  He was assuring her that he had found no evidence there.  He ignored and then glared at Luke, who looked tired and sad.  Luke meekly asked how Lucky was doing, and the two shared a conversation that was at least non-yelling.  He told Lucky that Laura had been calling; Lucky knew that she didn't know what had happened.  Luke asked about the stunt with "Rise" at the club, saying that it meant Lucky wasn't done with him; Lucky refused to explain.  Luke was worried about Helena and said that Lucky wouldn't have chosen her if he were truly finished with the family (true).  Lucky just hounded on the fact that Luke wasn't telling Laura anything.  He proceeded to demonstrate just what he doesn't know about Luke and Laura's relationship.  Luke just let it drop, telling him to take care of himself before he left.  Then Lucky apologized to Liz for fighting in front of her.  They decided to put off their fact-finding mission and retrace her steps in the evening--at the time of the rape.

E.  Lucky and Lizzie

They returned in the evening, and she tried to remember anything that will help them.  She told the story again, allowing herself more emotion than she had in the past (it would be interesting to watch all of Lizzie's retellings back to back, to see whom she tells and what she tells and to note the progression through them).  We saw some flashbacks--very effective--and she grew more and more agitated until finally Lucky stopped her.  He was crying too, and he held her to him and told her that they weren't doing this right and should stop.  But she said that she didn't want a professional; she wanted to go through it with Lucky.  He'd notice if she added anything because he was at the police station with her.  He assured her that she is indeed adding small details as she goes.  She continued, but reached a point where she didn't remember anything else.  She simply said "he hurt me," and I was struck by the phrase--the same one Luke used when telling Tammy what he'd done to Laura--"I hurt her."  She then chastised herself for everything she had done wrong, but Lucky stopped her.  He told her all of the excuses the rapist could use, taking them all from Luke's story, and told her that she couldn't believe any of them.  And for the first time, Lizzie was able to say, "You're right.  This isn't my fault."  Good for her.

Afterwards, she thanked him again (what a good time for a ditto, but no such luck) for finding her.  At that point, Mr. Murty passed them, cutting through the park on his way home as he said he often does.  Suspicion moved to him at that point.

F.  Luke

Stefan:  "Interesting likeness, don't you think?"

At Wyndemere, at the end of the episode, Luke arrived in the wine cellar.  He found the painting...or at least, a painting.  Stefan came up behind him and commented on it.  He seemed amused, somehow, and Luke seemed shocked.  We had to wait until Monday to see the painting, though.