Jax and Chloe

The Cassadines

The Spencers: Lucky, Elizabeth, and Nikolas

The Spencers: Luke and Laura

Roy and Bobbie

Sonny and Carly

The Scorpios

Taggert/Hannah/AJ

The Quartermaines

The Quartermaines:

• Mike refuses AJ's bribe to let him see Michael. (5/3)
• Juan suffers a bit of career envy when he sees Ned's talent and finds his own attempts in the business to be in vain. (5/3)
• Edward goes to see Chloe when he finds out that Jax is after AJ's and Tracey's stock in ELQ. He asks her to intercede. But although Jax sees through his ploy, Chloe is persuaded. (5/3)
• Meanwhile, Monica and Alan blame Edward for this latest predicament, and fight over how to help AJ. They decide to ask Lila to speak to Carly about letting AJ see Michael. (5/3)
• Across town, AJ asks Mike to arrange a meeting with Michael again, and Mike again refuses. AJ then picks a fight with Tammy, aiming to get arrested. Hannah steps in, sends Taggert away, and takes AJ to her room to play cards until he's sober enough to leave. (5/3)
• Alexis tells Ned that she's had a facial to keep up with the competition of his adoring fans. While she makes Ned sing for her, Juan listens, impressed and a little intimidated. He's had bad news from the radio about his demo tape, but Emily cheers him up. (5/3)
• Alexis tells Chloe that she's afraid Ned will remember too well his time with Lois when Eddie Maine makes his comeback. But when Ned gets cold feet, Alexis reminds him that he really wants to perform. (5/4)
• Meanwhile, Emily asks Sonny to fund Juan's singing career, even though she knows Juan doesn't want that. Sonny agrees, but they have to convince Ned. He finally gives in, and promises to keep it a secret. (5/4)
• When Carly comes to visit Lila, AJ fights with her and assures her that he will get his son back. (5/4)
• Juan finds out that Emily is writing a poem about him. He tells her it's beautiful, and promises to keep it with him always. When she sees Elizabeth distraught on the docks, though, she sends Juan away so Elizabeth can tell her about seeing Lucky. (5/9)
• AJ apologizes to Lila, but is still upset about the situation with Carly and Sonny. He asks Lila to intervene to help him see his son, and she says that she'll speak to Carly. She also encourages him to stop drinking. (5/10)
• Juan begins to be jealous of Lucky, and resents, a little, the time and energy Emily's spending with Elizabeth because of him. Meanwhile, Lucky pays Emily a visit in her room, and assures her that he's alright. She hides him when her parents come to see her. (5/10)
• AJ rebuffs an offer of friendship from his father, saying all he wants from his parents is their help to see Michael. Monica and Alan reach out to Emily as they reflect that they may have lost two sons now, with AJ's recent behavior. (5/10)
• AJ meets with Jax and threatens to back out unless Jax fully intends to take down ELQ. Jax assures him the deal will go down, and AJ signs away his stock. Edward arrives, and AJ tells his grandfather that he wants him to lose everything. Edward then appeals to Jax for a compromise, but Jax won't back down. Edward tells Jax he'll be sorry. (5/10)
• Monica and Alan go another round with Edward due to his treatment of AJ. But they say they'll support him at the next board meeting against Jax. (5/11)
• Meanwhile, AJ continues to harass Hannah at Kelly's. This time, he announces Carly and Sonny's engagement for good measure. (5/11)
• Sonny's money arrives at L&B. Emily convinces Elizabeth to help her cover up Sonny's help from Juan. (5/11)
• At the hospital, Alan and Monica inform Tony that he's the first choice to become the new chief of neurosurgery if his recovery goes well. He's thrilled to accept. (5/11)
• A sober AJ has dinner with Hannah at the PC Grille, where he confronts Carly. (4/12)
• After the fight, he tells Hannah about what he once wanted with his now ex-wife. After she's gone, he has a drink. (5/15)
• Ned refuses to sell his shares of ELQ to Jax, and he warns Jax that he could lose Chloe over this deal. (5/16)
• Emily and Juan put up fliers for the Eddie Maine concert and talk about working backstage. Taggert lets them know that posting signs in the park is illegal, but lets them off easy. (5/16)
• At the hospital, Alan squares off with Stefan over Tony Jones. (5/17)
• An anxious Ned makes rehearsal tough for his band. Juan and Emily look on, imagining the day he'll be the one on stage. Alexis arrives and manages to get Ned to calm down and sing for her. (5/18)
• When Edward calls Sonny to the Quartermaine house for a meeting about Jax's attempt on ELQ, Carly goes along to visit Lila. While Edward and Sonny talk, Carly comes downstairs from Lila's room and runs into AJ on the way up. They argue, and Carly loses her balance and falls down the stairs, her screams attracting Sonny and Edward and horrifying AJ. (5/19)
• Sonny stays with Carly while Edward calls for the ambulance. A stunned AJ takes a drink from his flask, then tries to defend himself. Edward rages at him, and after Sonny and Carly leave for the hospital, Monica and Alan arrive. Edward throws him out, and he's getting ready to drive when Hannah stops him. Meanwhile, Alan and Monica argue with Edward about AJ, and Edward actually holds himself partly to blame for letting AJ in the house. (5/22)
• Edward calls Taggert to take AJ in for driving under the influence, and Taggert finds AJ and Hannah together. They take AJ home, and the family learns that Carly has lost her baby. They all turn on AJ. (5/23)
• While AJ suffers from guilt and Edward, Lila comforts Sonny. (5/24)
• Edward arranges to have Ned locked in a closet at the concert to wreck his career as Eddie Maine. Meanwhile, Emily asks Lucky to come to the concert, where Juan fills in while they wait for Ned. (5/24)
• Juan performs as the warm-up act, while Alexis rescues Ned with an axe. Ned performs, but later turns down an offer to tour. Emily is a bit put off by the attention Juan gets from a record exec who's caught the show. Lucky's uncomfortable with seeing Nik and Elizabeth so close, but agrees when Emily urges him to accept Elizabeth's plans for a reunion dinner at Kelly's. Meanwhile, Juan's not too happy to meet Lucky. Chloe and Jax arrive late. (5/25)
• Edward goes to see Carly, who warns him to stay away from Michael. Alan asks AJ to go into rehab, but he refuses. Later, AJ runs into Sonny on the docks. (5/26)
• Meanwhile, Edward asks Jax to stop his raid on ELQ in respect for Sonny's tragedy. Chloe arrives to overhear, and turns on Edward. (5/26)
• Emily tells Juan that she can't go with him to his radio interview because of her plans with the others at Kelly's. He says he understands, but it's clear that he's irritated. (5/26)
• Sonny tells AJ that he owes his life to the fact that he's Michael's father. (5/29)
• Though Alexis encourages him to do what he loves, Ned says that he won't appear as Eddie Maine again. (5/30)
• Meanwhile, Juan and Emily celebrate his new-found success. (5/30)
• Edward is thrilled when Jax has to postpone the ELQ board meeting because he needs the capital to buy the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug Chloe needs. Chloe, who's visiting Lila on Emily's request, overhears him planning to strike back at Jax, and chastises Edward for his manipulations. (5/30)
• AJ confides in Hannah. After a fight with Mike, AJ tells Alan that he would not run from Sonny and would not go into rehab. (5/30)
• Emily visits the penthouse and comes to an understanding with Carly, while Juan finds Sonny at Lily's grave when he goes to put flowers there on the anniversary of her death. (5/31)

I. Edward Tries to Circle the Wagons (5/3)

Edward: "You tell that viper to call me the second that meeting is over. I have every right to call her that. She's my daughter."

Monica: "You tried to pawn A.J. for Michael and Jason. If it costs you E.L.Q., you have yourself to blame."
Edward: "I will not let Jax get away with this. I will save my company despite everything that your turncoat son has done to destroy me. Get--excuse me. I'm out of here."

Monica: "No, for once I disagree. I think he knew exactly what he was doing. He slapped Edward in the face and cut himself off from the family."
Alan: "And now he has an unlimited supply of cash at his disposal."
Monica: "I can only imagine what he'll do with it. And the damn thing is we can't stop him."

Monica: "I just feel so useless. I feel--I feel like I failed him."
Alan: "We have failed him in a way by favoring Jason all these years."
Monica: "I wish we could go back."
Alan: "Well, we can't go back, Monica. We're in the present. We've got to deal with A.J. right now."

Monica: "We have to force him into rehab."
Alan: "You can't force him into seeing something he doesn't want to see, Monica. He's got to bottom out."
Monica: "Is that your brilliant solution? Wait till he sees the light? When is that going to be, Alan, before or after he kills himself?"

Alan: "You know what we're doing? We're falling into the same old trap of fighting over A.J. when there is no obvious answer. It is not helping him."
Monica: "Or us. No, you're right. We can't get so caught up in A.J.'s problems we lose sight of each other. I just wish there was something we could do, some positive step we could take."
Alan: "There's got to be something to help him turn his life around."
Monica: "Michael."

Monica: "Carly is such a vindictive tramp, she'd keep Michael away from him just out of spite."
Alan: "Look, if we brought mother into this--"
Monica: "Maybe she could get through to Carly."

Edward: "Oh, what a touching sight. Perhaps if you had poured some of that concern on your drunken louse of a son, he might not be trying to sell E.L.Q. to the enemy."
Alan: "Don't you accuse me of anything when you've done nothing but belittle A.J. You've taught him to double-cross his family, lie, and deceive. Congratulations. He's a master now. If you lose everything, it's your own fault."
Edward: "Well, that may be. But if E.L.Q. flounders, I won't be the only one who loses. Either we stand together or Jax will take everything."

II. A Meeting of the L&B Groupie Society (5/3)

Ned: "Even more radiant than usual."
Alexis: "I had a facial."

Alexis: "I actually stopped working and went to the spa because I know there's going to be a lot of young, screaming fans who are going to throw their underwear at you, and I want to stay competitive."

Alexis: "It's just it's odd because it just brings everything so close to home."
Ned: "Meaning?"
Alexis: "Meaning I see myself in him. I see what he's trying to do. He's trying to start his own life and make his own decisions. And he does that, and there's Stefan and Helena trying to pull him back."
Ned: "And did you offer him sage advice?"
Alexis: "I did."
Ned: "And did your words sink in?"
Alexis: "Why do I suddenly have the impression that I am now the subject?"
Ned: "Ah, you see the parallel."
Alexis: "I do, and I would like to call a moratorium on that subject. In fact, I'd like to change the subject. Sing!"
Ned: "We'll get back to that subject later. All right."

Ned: "Well, I was inspired by my number one fan."

Alexis: "He is talented and humble. How'd I get so lucky?"

Emily: "They don't like the tape?"
Juan: "Don't like the quality. Said it's no good. But I knew that when I was making it. Then I walk in here, and Ned's playing, and he's--"
Emily: "Got a lot more experience than you do? Yeah. He's also got success and money behind him. But you know what?"
Juan: "Reality bites?"
Emily: "No. It takes time to achieve all that, you know? And you're going to be good. You may even be better, you know? Once we get money for you, you are going to be on your way."
Juan: "You really believe in me."
Emily: "I believe in us."

III. The Disheartened Groupie (5/4)

Alexis: "Have you ever dated a rock star?"

Chloe's answer was that she had a date with one once, set up for the Prince's Trust Concert. I assume that was a reference to the date she stood up the first night Felicia found her, when she was planning to go to that event.

Alexis: "So you've never had the feeling of watching someone you love become a total stranger right in front of your very eyes? A very dynamic, sexy, talented stranger no doubt, but a stranger none the less."
Chloe: "Does this mean you're not as happy about Eddie Maine as you thought you would be?"
Alexis: "I never realized how much Ned likes to perform. And I'm--I'm trying to be very supportive of him, and I'm being his cheerleader. This is just a world that I don't really know anything about, so I feel like I'm speaking someone else's words and I'm standing in someone else's place."
Chloe: "Lois."
Alexis: "You know, she's--from what I understand--half the reason that Eddie Maine exists, so it would make sense that as Ned is discovering, rediscovering this part of himself, that he would miss her."
Chloe: "Maybe he does. I know that Jax misses Brenda. The trick is to not let myself think that he loves me any less because of that. I can't replace Brenda. I would never want to try. But what Jax feels for me is separate and special. Just like what Ned feels for you."

Alexis: "I have perfect faith in Ned. It's just this Eddie Maine I'm having trouble getting used to."

Chloe: "Try and remember--Eddie isn't real."
Alexis: "I know."
Chloe: "No, it's a role Ned plays. And thank god because the company needs the money. But Eddie Maine only exists on stage. I think, in the end, that's why Lois left. She wasn't prepared for Ned Ashton. You, on the other hand, already know you love him."
Alexis: "You're right. You are absolutely right. I will just think of this as a temporary thing. It's a phase that he's going through."

Alexis: "But I've been listening to you and every day there's a new reason why this concert shouldn't happen. Now, if you don't want to do it, if--if you really don't want to do it, just say so because I'm a master of finding loopholes."
Ned: "I'm just afraid that I'm going to walk out on that stage and freeze. That I won't be Eddie Maine. I'll be some guy trying to impersonate him. There's something sad about trying to relive the past."
Alexis: "Then don't. Sing for yourself. Whether it's Ned or Eddie, I don't really think it makes all that much difference. You do what you love. Or you walk away."
Ned: "And risk all those law suits?"
Alexis: "There'll be dozens."
Ned: "Not to mention all the disgruntled fans."
Alexis: "Irate promoters."
Ned: "L&B's creditors trying to repossess the furniture. I guess I better go through with it."
Alexis: "It's much more cost efficient that way."
Ned: "Plus, it's what I want to do. Thanks for reminding me."
Alexis: "It's included in my services."
Ned: "Hmm. I guess I'll pay you now."
Alexis: "You'll be just fine."

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