Jax and Chloe, Ned and Alexis

The Quartermaines

Sonny and Carly

Roy and Hannah

The Scorpios

The Cassadines

The Spencers

Elizabeth Webber

Sonny and Carly:

• Mike comes to Kelly's to ask Tammy for a date. While he waits for her, a former client of hers comes in and wants to see her again. She turns him down. After talking with Mike about it, they continue with their plans. (3/1)
• Mike comes over with breakfast, but Sonny's in a foul mood because of Edward's restraining order and the possible custody battle. Sonny asks Mike to perjure himself about Deke's abuse, even though Alexis had told him that it wouldn't affect the case significantly and that he shouldn't lie. At the same time, Carly's talking to her mother about Sonny. (3/2)
• Mike's not convinced that this is the right thing, however, and tells Tammy that he's worried. (3/2)
• When Alexis tells him he's officially a father, Sonny ignores her cautions and Edward's restraining order and goes to the Q house to visit Carly. He asks her to come to a compromise, but she's too scared that the Qs will take Michael away from her. Sonny fights with Edward. Back at the penthouse, Jason calls. (3/2)
• Jason tells Sonny that he's found the arsonist and has proof that can get Carly and Michael out of the Quartermaine house. Sonny thanks him, and also tells him about Carly's baby. Sonny goes to the Quartermaine house, blackmails AJ, and Carly and Michael are free to go. (3/3)
• In the limo, Sonny tells Carly that he's taking them home. But when she realizes that he doesn't mean the brownstone, but instead his penthouse, she's not at all happy. (3/6)
• Carly acts up, trying to frustrate Sonny into letting them move out, but he won't fall for it. After hearing the news from Monica, Bobbie comes to the penthouse to offer the brownstone as a home for Michael and Carly, but Sonny won't agree. (3/8)
• As Sonny and Carly squabble over an ottoman, Bobbie arrives. Sonny leaves for a meeting, and Bobbie asks Carly for help. Carly hesitates, but finally gives Bobbie the key to Sonny's desk so that she can look for information. (3/10)
• Bobbie goes to Kelly's, where she mentions the new living arrangements to Mike, who asks Sonny is he's sure he's doing the right thing. Hannah overhears the news and taunts Sonny with it, but he's unaffected. Meanwhile, Bobbie goes to the warehouse where Roy is going to meet with Sorel; Sorel finds her. (3/10)
• At the same time, AJ arrives to see Carly about Michael. She tells him that Jason was the one who got the proof against him. AJ grows angry and grabs Carly, but Sonny arrives and throws him out. (3/10)
• Mike meets Tammy for a date, and while they wait for the next shift to arrive, they talk again about Sonny. Mike wants to buy a present for the baby, and he asks Tammy's advice. As they leave for their date, Tammy notes that Carly was the first one to realize Hannah was a liar; Hannah overhears and chastises them again for thinking the worst of her. They remain unimpressed. (3/13)
• Sonny and Carly continue to banter with each other over dinner plans. Sonny says that he intends to take Carly to the Dominican Republic to get her divorce. She agrees. They don't realize what's going on with Sorel, Bobbie, and Roy. (3/13)
• While out of town, Carly and Sonny realize that neither one of them is as bad as they appeared to be. Carly gets her divorce papers filed and wants to celebrate. (3/15)
• On Sonny's island, Carly is a bit jealous of the female help, but she and Sonny enjoy a night at the casino. Even when he tries to teach her a lesson about pushing to hard by arranging her to lose all the money she's just won at the tables, they're still laughing. Then they get the news of Bobbie's kidnapping and immediately head home. (3/17)
• Back at home, Sonny tries to get the update on Bobbie and Roy while Carly is frightened about what might happen to her mother. Sonny sends her upstairs to rest for the baby's sake, promising that he'll take care of it. Roy shows up and tells Sonny what happened; Carly hears him and comes downstairs. She's making demands, but Sonny tells her she can stay only if she calms down and lets them deal with it. Carly fixes his cuts as they talk, and the look on her face tells Sonny that she knows something. He talks about the "leak" until he gets her to admit what she did to help Bobbie. (3/20)
• Angry, Sonny sends Carly upstairs. Sonny and Roy don't agree on the next step to take. Sorel calls, and puts Bobbie on the line, but she doesn't follow the script and tells Sonny to find Roy. Meanwhile, Carly comes down to see who's on the phone. Sorel demands that Sonny run dugs for him. Carly asks Sonny to save her mother, Roy promises that they will, and then leaves to go on his own while Sonny decides what to do about Sorel. Later, Sonny phones Roy and they set a plan in motion. (3/21)
• Carly wants to know what Sonny's doing to help her mother, but he keeps her in the dark. She asks Roy to promise to bring her mother back safely and tells him that Bobbie loves him. He promises that he will do whatever it takes to rescue Bobbie. Later, Sonny and Roy go to meet with Sorel. Carly tries to follow, but Johnny won't let her. (3/23)
• Sonny and Roy trick Sorel and save Bobbie. Meanwhile, Carly turns down an offer from Edward. Sonny is a little suspicious when he finds them together. Finally, Bobbie arrives to see her daughter. (3/24)
• Carly asks Sonny to give her another chance, but he refuses. (3/27)
• Mike drops off a present for the baby: a rocking chair. He and Sonny discuss Carly. Meanwhile, Carly buys Sonny a gift--an antique desk--and has it delivered to the penthouse. But when she returns to the penthouse to find Elizabeth sitting in the new rocking chair, the two begin to fight, and Sonny walks in on them. They fight, and when the desk arrives, he doesn't want her peace offering. (3/30)
• Rae Cummings comes to town looking for a desk that contains a bible, which in turn contains information about the daughter for which she is searching. She comes into the antique store, and the dealer tells her that the desk had been sold the day before. She sends him to bring out another selection and looks up the address of the buyer. (3/31)
• Bobbie stops by to talk with Carly while Sonny's out offering Roy a business opportunity. Later, Carly asks Sonny to take her with him to a meeting with a coffee dealer. Since the last time Sonny met with the guy, Sonny was arrested, Carly says she can be helpful in lightening the mood and will prove that she can be trusted. Sonny acquiesces, and the meeting goes well enough for him to soften towards her, but when AJ sees them together at the grill, he starts a fight. When AJ lunges for Sonny, Carly tries to stop him and AJ knocks her over instead. (3/31)

I. Tammy and Mike (3/1)

Mike: "Well, let's hope that he turns out to be a better dad than his old man."
Tammy: "Well, you know, if worrying counts, then you're doing a pretty good job."
Mike: "Thanks."
Tammy: "Ok, you're on. You know what, Mike? You would probably do better to take my advice rather than just thank me for it. You know what I mean?"

Mike: "Ooh. Say, you know, I'm sorry, but I forgot to even ask if you play pool."
Tammy: "Yeah, a little. You?"
Mike: "Forget about it. Champ of Moe's billiard parlor for three years. Hey! But don't worry. Don't worry. I'll go easy on you."

Tammy: "And I had a little speed problem, which, like most little speed problems, gets out of control. So when some of the regulars started to ask me out on dates for money, I took them up on it. After a while, I was making so much money I just quit dancing altogether. I know that you know all this, Mike. I just--I just want to make sure you're ok with it."
Mike: "Well, the way I've always seen it is we do what we have to do to get by. And I think you are one hell of a woman for dealing with all that and getting beyond it."
Tammy: "Well, you know, going legit wasn't all that easy. I mean, it wasn't--it wasn't because of the money. It was just I had sold myself short for all those years, you know?"
Mike: "Yeah, tell me about it."
Tammy: "Drugs and hooking, they just--they go hand-in-hand, like poison, antidote. After a while, you just--you don't even know which is which. It's pretty scary stuff. But after I got clean, the hooking still meant independence for me. I actually had myself convinced that this was the life that I wanted. And--well, thank god I had the friends, you know, the friends I had that helped me to get clean, get me off the street, bring me here, give me this job. I can't even believe where my life was two years ago. It's done a complete turnaround."

Tammy: "Mike, there's one more thing. I just--while I'm still in the confession mode, I got something I got to tell you."
Mike: "Yeah?"
Tammy: "You know, I am--I am--I'm a lot meaner pool player than I let on. But don't worry. I promise I will go easy on you, ok?"

As much as I adore Tammy and Mike, we were due for several repeats of this scene. I appreciated more the scenes with Mike and Bobbie, and wished for more of them.

II. Sonny Asks Mike to Lie for Him (3/2)

Mike: "It's--what does it look like, a time bomb? It's lemon danish from Aquista's."

As Mike entered, he shook hands with Sonny, who then looked down, knowing what he was going to ask. Sonny would fall back on his little nervous tics throughout this month, and it would be interesting to see how quickly he hurried, at times, when he wasn't putting on a show for the Qs or Carly. Here he hurried through the news, smiling that little nervous smile he sometimes has (the one that looks almost exactly like the cold smile he gives when he clearly has the upper hand).

Mike: "You're a successful businessman. I mean, you give generously to charitable causes. There's no way that they can prove that you've ever crossed over the line."
Sonny: "So instead, they'll say I'm damaged."

Mike: "You mean lie?"
Sonny: "Well--forget."
Mike: "I just wish you had come to me or a teacher or a priest or a friend. You have to know that I would have made this right."
Sonny: "Make it right now, Mike. Back me up in court."
Mike: "Whatever you want me to say."

Terry: "I do think they are overdoing the whole 'brave little soldier Sonny' and the irony that having been an abuse victim could work against him in a custody battle. I don't think in the real world that it would be just taken for granted that he could not break the chain. I know it's a way to work more people into the story--Mike, Tags--as Guza used to promise every story would work, but a little of this goes a long way. Don't pull out the violins too often, Mr. Guza, and we'll listen to them more attentively when you do."

What disappointed me wasn't that they played the abuse card again; I would be very interested in when Sonny told his story and to whom. But while I was glad we weren't in for a custody battle, it kind of felt like this possibility dropped off with no more thought, after Mike agreed to lie for Sonny. That was, perhaps, the point, but I wondered that we didn't have any follow up to Mike's willingness to do anything for Sonny--even that which he thought would be a bad choice. Instead, we were almost immediately back to squabbling.

When Lucky returned, we would see that, for whatever reason, he would be back the same complaints against his parents that Luke thought they had settled before he "died." I feel the same way about Sonny. I can't forget the scene before Sonny left town: he told Mike that he loved him. But when he came back, that had disappeared, and we were back to business as usual. What happened? I know Sonny's circumstances have made it hard for him to get back to that moment, but I'd like to see some awareness that it happened at all.

Meanwhile, this was one of those scenes that reminded me how many variations of fathers and sons we had going on. Sonny, like AJ, is both father and son. And, like Luke and AJ, Sonny is fighting for his son.

Mike: "I--I took danish to Sonny this morning."
Tammy: "Oh. Well, that was nice."
Mike: "Yeah. It was like taking a water pistol to a four-alarm fire."

Mike: "I wasn't there when he needed me."
Tammy: "But you're here now."
Mike: "Yeah. Yeah, and I'm still letting him down. Only this time he doesn't know it and this time he's actually thanking me for nailing a hole in his heart."

Mike: "For Sonny, I'd incriminate a dozen nuns."

Tammy: "You're helping him get his kid."
Mike: "Yeah, in impossible circumstances and with a mother who's a curse from hell."

III. An Update from Alexis (3/2)

Alexis: "Carly is the key. Until she comes down to your side, the order stands."

Sonny: "Well, you know that--that's going to be iffy."
Alexis: "Well, then, the court's going to assume you're a dangerous man."
Sonny: "I thought groundless assumptions were inadmissible in court."
Alexis: "Not if it's backed by documentation."

Alexis: "Congratulations. You're going to be a father."

Alexis: "Don't push her too hard. You will blow the whole case."
Sonny: "I'll be very careful. See you later."
Alexis: "It's ok. I'll let myself out."

IV. Jason Sets Carly Free (3/2, 3/3)

Carly: "Sonny's going to fight me. I know it."

Sonny: "Yep. Jason. Hey. Where are you? How? Are you sure about this? No, no, I hear you. Oh--um--you just turned this whole thing around for me."

Terry: "Another nitpick--Jason calls out of the clear blue to save Sonny's bacon? I'm quite sure he'll turn out to have told Sonny about the arson. But why would he call? Does he know about the baby? And if so, would he really be so helpful? It's a convenient development I don't buy. Why on earth not just have Carly remember to tell Sonny herself? She was the one who overhead the conversation, after all. Unless we're going to be really lame and have Jason turn out to have tracked down the arsonist, in order to help Carly out of the Q house. And if so, why?"

On the next day:

Sonny: "I don't even know how to say this, but Carly's pregnant, and I'm the father. Jason? I wish it wasn't like this, man. I will get them both out of there. Thanks."

They did answer most of Terry's questions on the next day. And I have to point out that while Carly knew about the arsonist, she didn't have proof. It wasn't an issue of telling Sonny what happened, but proving it. And I would assume that the trail was cold for Sonny, but Jason had been working on it from the beginning. At any rate, it made sense to me that Jason would do this, at least for Michael, and that Carly couldn't manage it from her end, even if she knew.

Here was another moment where Sonny hurried. Usually so in control, it was interesting to see him actually rush where his kid was concerned, as if he couldn't wait to get to the Qs and get Carly and Michael and the unborn child out of there.

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