GH in Review
by Amy McWilliams

The Teen Scene
The Cassadines
The Corinthos Family
The Scorpios
The Quartermaines
The Spencers
Ned and Alexis
Taggert/Hannah/AJ
Roy and Bobbie

The Teen Scene:

• Gia continues to pester Nikolas for a job at L&B. (9/1)
  
• Emily convinces Lucky to tell Elizabeth how he feels. He tries, but says the wrong thing again. (9/1)
  
• Meanwhile, Carly warns Elizabeth to stay away from Jason, but Elizabeth tells her to shove off. Later, after the conversation with Lucky, she turns to Jason as an escape. Lucky comes after her, but she and Jason are already driving away. (9/1)
  
• At the same time, Zander runs into Emily at Kelly's, and then meets with Sorel. He wants out, but Sorel insists that he will take care of business. (9/1)
  
• Jason takes Elizabeth for a drive to help her feel better, and they talk about Lucky and Robin. Lucky tells Emily that he can't tell Elizabeth the truth, but he's worried about her and Jason. Juan arrives, misunderstands, and Emily tells the truth--that she wants to be friends but that she's not sure that they should be back together romantically. She doesn't want to be with Lucky romantically either. Juan believes her, at least at this point, and they leave together. Lucky comes to find Elizabeth, sees her giving Jason a kiss, and starts yelling. (9/4)
  
• Gia shows up at L&B talking about a job, and Nikolas gets her to leave. She goes promptly to the Qs, where she talks up a storm. Emily sends for Nikolas, and they both confront Gia about her performance after the family is gone. (9/6)
  
• The gang goes out to the rave house to practice for the frame up. Elizabeth still insists that their plan is too dangerous, and Emily shows up even though they told her not to. (9/7)
  
• Emily and Elizabeth talk about getting some help, but Emily decides against it and says she's going home. Elizabeth calls Jason and tells him what's going on. Meanwhile, everything goes as planned at the rave, until Emily shows up and Zander spots her outside. (9/8)
  
• Everything goes according to plan, but when the police arrive, Emily's stuck with Zander and they can't get to her without drawing attention to themselves. When the cops open Zander's trunk and find the body, Zander panics. He takes Emily at gunpoint, demands the keys, and they drive off in Nikolas's car. Jason arrives too late, and Taggert arrests him to keep him from going after Emily. Meanwhile, he's trying to convince the rest of the teens that the police are doing all they can; they tell him everything they know, and Lucky takes full responsibility for the plan. (9/11)
  
• Zander tells Emily that he didn't kill Ted Wilson. He tells his story, and she tells hers, but she still can't convince him to let her go or to go to the police. (9/12)
  
• Meanwhile, Taggert deals with the rest of the gang. Lucky agrees not to go after Emily himself, but starts asking questions at the rave site and then goes to see Jason. Jason tells him to lay off, but Lucky says that he has to help Emily. Nikolas tells Gia where to get off. Juan comes to the police station, desperate for news about Emily. And Taggert asks Dara not to press charges. (9/12)
  
• Lucky goes to Sorel and asks where Zander and Emily are. Sorel has his thugs beat Lucky up. Lucky then phones Nikolas to come and get him, and Gia comes along. They convince Lucky to go to the doctor; the police will find Emily. (9/13)
  
• Nikolas lets Taggert know that he'll be asking around for information on Zander from those who were at the rave. Taggert tells him he can't condone it, but also says to call him if he needs any help or finds any leads. (9/14)
  
• Meanwhile, Zander leaves Emily tied up while he goes to get food. She tries to escape by cutting the ropes with the glass from the door, but manages to cut her wrist badly in the process. (9/14)
  
• Zander almost leaves, but comes back for Emily and takes her to a clinic. At first he plans to drop her off, but winds up staying and tells her that he still needs a hostage. (9/15)
  
• Gia shows up at the hospital. Juan warns her that there are cops there, but Gia walks up to Taggert and asks how their mom is doing. (9/15)
  
• Meanwhile, Lucky and Nikolas talk to Dara about Sorel, and then Lucky goes to Helena for money to help look for Emily. He also asks her why he can't tell Elizabeth that he loves her. (9/15)
  
• Helena brings Lucky back in line and sends him off with the money. He meets Nikolas and Elizabeth at Kelly's, where the news of Luke's arrest has just arrived. He and Nikolas both say it has nothing to do with them, and they focus on deciding how to use the money to find Emily. They decide to go on the road. (9/18)
  
• Meanwhile, Juan is reeling from the news that Gia is Taggert's sister. He tells Hannah everything she's done, and Hannah tells Taggert. Taggert questions Gia. (9/18)
  
• Gia and Juan go a few rounds at the hospital. (9/19)
  
• There are a few tense moments when the sheriff comes back; Emily convinces Zander not to shoot or get himself shot. They go out the window instead. Emily wishes that she could contact her parents, but Zander says that they have to lay low. All in all, Emily doesn't mind so much. (9/19)
  
• Jason and Elizabeth talk about the guys' plan to find Emily; Jason tells her about Carly and Sonny's wedding. Later, Lucky doesn't like the fact that Elizabeth told Jason. Nikolas suggests that the three would cover more ground if they split up: he'll stay in Port Charles as a contact point and will keep questioning people at the raves, while Lucky and Elizabeth go to Albany to check out the lead they have. Lucky and Elizabeth agree, and Elizabeth knows that Nikolas is giving them time alone together on purpose. (9/20)
  
• Elizabeth fights with Carly at Kelly's after asking Tammy for time off. After he tells Roy that he doesn't want to see his father, Lucky and Nikolas meet on the pier, where they're approached by Helena, who's none to happy to hear that Lucky and Elizabeth are leaving town without Nikolas. Later, she confronts Lucky, not realizing that Elizabeth is watching, and speaks the trigger phrase: "protect your queen." (9/21)
  
• Zander goes for supplies, leaving Emily tied up. Even though she can get lose to hide when she hears somebody coming, she doesn't leave him. He brings her grape pixie sticks for the first time. Meanwhile, Jason's following a lead, and the grape pixie sticks help him know that he's on the right trail. (9/22)
  
• Juan and Nikolas check in at the hospital. Juan fights with Gia, but Nikolas sticks around to help her pass the time while she waits for word from on her mother. They talk about parents with expectations, but don't quite see eye to eye. (9/22)
  
• Elizabeth shows Lucky the trigger phrase on a piece of paper, and he realizes that Luke was right about the mind control. He's still focusing on Faison, but Elizabeth insists that Helena is the one pulling the strings. They continue on to Albany to look for Emily. (9/25)
  
• Zander and Emily talk about family, but he won't let her contact hers. Jason is still at the convenience store when Sorel's men show up, and overhears a farmer say that the kids are using his barn. The men show up at the barn looking for Zander, and while he tries to get Emily out safely, Jason blows up the men's car, giving Emily and Zander the cover to run. Afterwards, he finds the letter Emily was writing to her parents, though she never thought she could send it. (9/25)
  
• Nikolas talks with Gia after she visits with her mother. (9/25)
  
• While Lucky and Elizabeth settle into their hotel room in Albany, Gia taunts Nikolas about being in love with his brother's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Juan has a plan to release "Heart and Soul" early so that Emily will hear it and keep her hopes up. (9/26)
  
• Juan asks Ned if they can release the song, and Ned agrees. (9/27)
  
• Zander goes for a part to fix the car, and Emily covers when a police office finds her. Zander can't believe that she didn't take the opportunity to turn him in and/or go home. (9/27)
  
• Gia is upset at the prospect of her mother learning the truth about where she's been these past months. (9/28)
  
• Lucky and Elizabeth dance, and he fights off the feeling he's had so many times; he knows he doesn't want her to be with Nikolas. He tells her that he loves her, that he always has. (9/29)
  
• Meanwhile, Zander and Emily have a heart to heart, just as "Heart and Soul" comes on the radio. (9/29)
  
• Taggert fills Zander in on the reported sighting of Emily, but Juan doesn't like what he hears. (9/29)

Continue to Next Page of Review

Back to Front Page of Issue

Back to Top