General Hospital 9-24-25

Minute Drama

2 days ago

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00:00you know how are you here

00:18i'll tell you everything that i can okay it's just i have to go get a doctor first

00:31i'll come right back

00:38i promise

00:42he's awake my brother he's awake

00:56my mom said that my dad can see me and that he's always watching over me

01:02i bet that's true buddy so do you think my mom is watching over me too

01:09how much of that between me and your mom did you hear

01:18i mean i wasn't eavesdropping i didn't have to really

01:22but i saw the look on her face when she heard that you were with jordan the night of true shooting

01:27so i mean that said it all

01:29you know if you're looking for curtis he's at his house

01:51his house yeah it's not my home anymore

01:55god i hope that granny is still at the casino and what if she took off again

02:05sweetheart wherever your grandmother is

02:08we won't track her down

02:10she can't run from losing monica forever

02:13it's true

02:14since we have some privacy

02:19there is something that i think you should know

02:23said no unbearing good news ever

02:26okay

02:28now that i am officially braced

02:31spit it out

02:32i had an affair with monica

02:35i'll stand

02:44how's wince

02:49again

02:50steal me in

02:57you

03:02you

03:15you

03:18you

03:19you

03:21you

03:23you

03:26You just said that man in that room is your brother?

03:29Yes, it is.

03:30The second that he opened his eyes and he smiled, it's Jay.

03:35It's him.

03:36But what about this?

03:37No, the man in that hospital room is Nathan West.

03:42You'll know it, too, as soon as you talk to him.

03:46How's my brother?

03:48Alert and stable.

03:50Um, are there any major injuries?

03:54He's sustained head trauma, so we're treating him for a concussion.

03:59And there's a scar on his chest, likely from a previous gunshot wound.

04:03That would make sense.

04:05But there's no evidence of lasting trauma from that or the vehicle collision.

04:11The patient is in excellent health.

04:15Any time.

04:17Shall we?

04:24Your dad is watching over you.

04:27I truly believe that.

04:29But your mom, Buddy, she's not gone.

04:33She's in the hospital.

04:35I bet she's dreaming about you, though.

04:38Think so?

04:39Absolutely.

04:40And in her dreams, you're probably riding common around all over the property like you just did.

04:46We galloped.

04:47Excuse me.

04:48Did you just say galloped?

04:50I thought cantering was the limit.

04:53Cantering is boring, Grandma.

04:55Yeah, Grandma.

04:56Give me the program.

04:57No, cantering is safer.

04:59And a complete snooze fest, right, Buddy?

05:02Yeah.

05:03I already know how to canter.

05:04That's why I'm learning how to gallop.

05:06By the time Mom wakes up, I'll be a pro.

05:08Anna, how are you?

05:20I hear you have a clean bill of health.

05:23But all I got, the doctor won't tell me anything.

05:26Sir, what is happening right now?

05:28Okay, we will tell you everything.

05:30When?

05:31When you tell us, what's the last thing that you remember?

05:39Jordan was not the reason for the strain between your mother and me.

05:43I mean, I used to think that it was Drew, but now I'm not so sure.

05:48Well, Drew was a factor.

05:50Honey, everything that went down with him, it only brought our problems to the surface.

05:56But the problems already existed.

05:59Sometimes, when external forces add pressure to a relationship, it could either bring you closer together.

06:08Or drives you further apart.

06:12Whatever happens between your mother and me, just know this one thing will never change.

06:18I will always love you, no matter what.

06:22And also, I will always have respect for Portia as your mother.

06:33I'm really sorry, honey.

06:35Whatever's going on with you and Curtis, please just leave me out of it.

06:39I don't want trouble with either of you.

06:41See, that's the thing, there is no trouble.

06:46I owe you an apology.

06:49For what?

06:50I, uh...

06:52I laid the friction between me and my husband at your door.

06:57And that wasn't fair.

06:59And it just wasn't right.

07:01The flaws in my relationship with Curtis.

07:04They were there from the very beginning.

07:06Eating away at us until they destroyed us.

07:11What are you trying to say, Portia?

07:14I'm saying...

07:16That my marriage is over.

07:25Dad, your affair with Monica is the stuff of family legend.

07:29Did you really think I didn't know?

07:31I had my suspicions.

07:32Oh, come on.

07:33That's the kind of story that makes the rounds.

07:35Fine.

07:38Allow me to shed some light on why...

07:41No, no, no.

07:42No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

07:43No.

07:44I am all set.

07:45Brooklyn, I was a tennis pro at the club.

07:48We were using different names at the time.

07:50I didn't know who Monica was.

07:52And I certainly didn't think she was married to my uncle.

07:55Oh, I beg you to stop, please.

07:57Okay.

07:58Okay.

07:59I...

08:00All I'm trying to say is that I knew Monica in a way that...

08:04the rest of the family didn't.

08:06No, I got it, Dad.

08:07I mean, the word affair sort of gave that away.

08:10No, I don't mean it that way.

08:14I mean, Monica and I were able to get to know each other...

08:21without the family politics and dysfunction.

08:26She was a remarkable, dynamic, insanely brilliant woman.

08:33And I can't help but think that I let her down.

08:39Yes.

08:43Aha!

08:44You know, if you leave now, you'll be leaving a winner.

08:53FYI, you should never hit on 17.

08:55There's a 69% chance that if you do hit the next card the dealer picks,

09:00it's gonna bust you.

09:01You know what?

09:02Enjoy your game.

09:05I'm gonna go find another table where the dealer is the only one who speaks

09:10and everyone else has thoughts they keep to themselves.

09:13Tracy, please, don't go.

09:18You know what?

09:20You're right.

09:22This is my room

09:26and my private dealer.

09:29So you should be the one to leave.

09:32I will, once I've said my piece.

09:35Oh, goody!

09:39More talking!

09:41Here, why don't you take a break?

09:43I'm sure you burned it.

09:48Ned said you.

09:51Your son is worried about you.

09:53Well, he must be pretty desperate if he reached out to you,

09:56the woman who kept his grandson from him for years.

10:01You know what?

10:02You're absolutely right.

10:05I did wrong by Ned.

10:09Oh, my goodness.

10:11Alert the media.

10:13Lois Cerullo is admitting fault.

10:19I like to think of it as a moment of reflection,

10:23which is what happens when you lose someone important to you.

10:27Forgive me if I...

10:30I don't want to reflect with you.

10:33When you lose someone who is important to you,

10:36it becomes crystal clear how short life is.

10:39And you are afraid that you're going to run out of time

10:42before you have a chance to make up for your mistakes.

10:44And you know about mistakes, don't you?

10:46Of course I do.

10:47Because I made some whoppers.

10:49And I am going to regret those mistakes for the rest of my life.

10:52And all I could do is hope and pray that I have a chance to make up for them.

10:55Yeah, well, I wouldn't take those odds.

10:58Tracy, I am terrified that you're about to make one of those mistakes right now.

11:04As much as I cared for Monica, and I truly did, I didn't show her nearly enough consideration those years that I went after AJ.

11:25Well, AJ had issues.

11:27Yes.

11:28Even Monica knew that.

11:29Yes.

11:30But I only compounded those issues by just relentlessly undermining and double-crossing them every chance it got.

11:40Being too hard on yourself, Dad.

11:42I mean, what you described is just life as a quarter me.

11:46Maybe.

11:47Maybe.

11:48But there's nothing more painful than seeing your child struggle.

11:55Monica suffered so much loss in the deaths of all three of her children.

12:02Alan.

12:03It's more than she should have had to bear.

12:05I don't know how she did it.

12:07I mean, I know I couldn't have survived it.

12:09I think about you, Liv, Mother, Leo.

12:16I don't want the daily one-upsmanship to ever make me lose sight of all that I have to be thankful for.

12:26So please, allow me this moment.

12:30Go for it.

12:33Maybe.

12:34Being your father is the most important thing in this world to me.

12:43And I need you to know that.

12:45I do.

12:47I love you endlessly, Brooklyn.

12:52I have always known that.

12:56Some homecoming.

13:00Everyone ran away.

13:03I'm sorry, Pop.

13:06The police visit probably ruined the celebratory mode.

13:11Don't be sorry, son.

13:14It's nice being home for the good times, but it's even more important to be home for the not-so-good times.

13:23Well, these are definitely the not-so-good times.

13:27I don't know what I'm worried about, Mom.

13:34You being a suspect in Drew's shooting or watching your family and your marriage fall apart in front of me.

13:50Trina, is this a bad time?

13:52Uh, it's a fine time. Is everything okay?

13:55Not really.

13:56I'm sorry to hear that.

13:58Uh, it's about my parents.

14:00Well, I mean, you and my parents, to be exact.

14:04Come on in.

14:10Well, now that I'm here, I don't know where to start.

14:14My advice? Jump in anywhere.

14:18I'm afraid that my parents are splitting up.

14:22The last thing I remember...

14:26Is...

14:28Cesar Fizan shooting me.

14:30No, no, no, no, no.

14:35No, no, no, no.

14:37No, that's, that's impossible.

14:40I mean, how am I healed?

14:43Am I losing it? Did that not happen?

14:45What happened?

14:48Mom...

14:50It happened.

14:52Yeah, Fizan shot you.

14:55Um...

14:57That was seven years ago.

15:04Here.

15:08You know, missing Monica's funeral would be a whopper if there ever was one.

15:13Oh, my God.

15:14Number one.

15:16Stop using that word.

15:21Second of all, have I ever asked your opinion?

15:25Why would I start now?

15:27Well, think about how it's gonna look then, okay?

15:31I mean, at this...

15:33At this point, you are the de facto quarter main matriarch.

15:38I mean, don't you wanna send a message to society that the family's gonna persevere?

15:44Society is going to be just fine.

15:48Trust me.

15:50Yeah, but you won't be.

15:52Tracy, you loved Monica.

15:55I did.

15:57And anything I owed her, I paid back tenfold. The debt is paid.

16:02It's not about debt.

16:05I don't wanna hear it.

16:08Monica does not need me to show up at her funeral.

16:12And nor does anybody else.

16:15Uh, hey, James.

16:17Do you think you could fill up the oats?

16:19That way we can feed the horses before you leave?

16:21I want it.

16:22Sweet.

16:26Is everything okay?

16:27Is it Maxie?

16:29She's stable.

16:31Okay, then what's wrong?

16:32Oh, God.

16:33I don't even know how to say this without sounding completely insane.

16:40There's a man who looks exactly like James's father who has been admitted to GH.

16:48I thought he had...

16:50He did.

16:51There was a funeral and everything.

16:54But somehow, now, Nathan might be alive.

17:00If that can't be right.

17:03I know it's shocking.

17:06But it's...

17:072025.

17:09What?

17:11So, I've been in a coma?

17:14Just because it doesn't feel that way.

17:15I don't feel weak.

17:16I don't feel tired.

17:17I don't feel like anything is wrong with me.

17:19You don't wanna hurt yourself.

17:20Don't get out of bed.

17:22Stay right now.

17:23I'm fine.

17:24What the hell is going on here?

17:25You haven't...

17:27Been in a coma.

17:28A coma.

17:31Jay, you were declared...

17:33Dead.

17:35What?

17:36Everyone thought that you died.

17:38There was a funeral.

17:40And a gravesite.

17:41And...

17:43I've been visiting you there for the last seven years.

17:47Well, I'm not dead.

17:48Obviously.

17:49And that's a miracle.

17:51I don't know...

17:53What it is.

17:54It's definitely something.

17:55We've gotta figure it out.

17:59Wait, wait, wait.

18:00What is it?

18:03You're both shocked that I'm here.

18:07So, does that mean that...

18:10Does Maxie not know I'm alive?

18:13I feel like Drew's shooting was the final straw in collapsing my marriage.

18:20How's that?

18:22Drew, he's had his tentacles in my life, in every area of it.

18:26I mean, you know he's the reason Aunt Stella got arrested.

18:29His manipulations led to Trina and Kai breaking up.

18:33Portia, she lied to me for months because she was being blackmailed by Drew and she didn't feel like she had a choice.

18:42I don't think anyone could blame you if you...

18:44felt like your only option was to take Drew off the chessboard, so to speak.

18:53Yeah.

18:54Well, on paper, very few people have more motive to see Drew dead than I do.

19:02And the cops clearly know that.

19:04So, it sounds to me like your family is under attack.

19:13Why aren't you and Portia coming together when you have never needed each other more?

19:19The last time that we spoke, I said that the time we shared, that was all that we were ever gonna have, right?

19:34Yeah, I remember.

19:37He said there was no future for us.

19:40Well, I want you to know I reconsidered.

19:45I think you're underestimating the importance of saying goodbye.

19:49Monica's dead.

19:56She won't care.

19:58It's important for you.

20:03Wow, right on time.

20:06Hello, Mother.

20:08Your minion here stalled until you could get here.

20:11Thank you, Lois.

20:16I'm sorry for your loss.

20:19I can't be yours.

20:24Lois, Brooklyn is on the boardwalk.

20:37Why would you do that?

20:43When Nathan died, James wasn't even born yet.

20:46I mean, he's heard about his father and he's seen him in pictures, but he never actually met him.

20:52And Maxie, she's not here. Maxie has to be here.

20:57Hey, Maxie needs to be here, period.

21:00But until she is, we'll just take this one step at a time, okay?

21:04I mean, first, we'll put our faith in the cops.

21:09You know, Mac, Anna, Dante, they'll figure out who this guy is.

21:13And if it's Nathan?

21:15We'll deal with it.

21:17I just don't want James to be hurt or scared or confused.

21:22Well, the confused part is probably unavoidable.

21:27But we'll make sure the rest is taken care of.

21:31No one's hurt my man, James.

21:33How do they get hurt? They're just oats.

21:35You know what? Let's just back up a minute and I'm going to go through the facts as we know them.

21:45I'll take them because none of this is making any sense.

21:48I know it doesn't. It doesn't make sense.

21:51But we'll figure this out, Jay, okay?

21:52Okay, okay.

21:55Okay, so a motorist came across your wrecked vehicle last night on Route 415.

22:01And so they called 911.

22:03Firefighters and paramedics got there, extricated you from the car.

22:07You were unresponsive at the time.

22:09Okay. Did I have any ID on me or a cell phone?

22:12So we ran the DNA and your fingerprints.

22:15What about the car? Are you getting any info on the car?

22:17Yeah, we got the number.

22:19But it was listed as being destroyed, so it...

22:22Supposedly it had gone through the crusher in Mississippi.

22:26In Mississippi?

22:27Yeah, of all places, right?

22:30So basically what you're telling me is that I just appeared out of nowhere and I'm missing seven years of my life.

22:35That would appear to be the case.

22:38Well, this is ridiculous.

22:41Where is she?

22:43Who?

22:45Maxie.

22:46I need to see Maxie.

22:49So Detective Falconeri came to my house questioning my dad about the night that Drew was shot.

22:55Putting together a timeline of his movements.

22:59And Curtis said that he was with me.

23:02Yeah, and my mom was there to hear it all.

23:05Well, disclosure. I just ran into your mother at the hospital. And she made it clear that things were strained between she and your dad. Now I understand why.

23:17I did talk to my dad about it.

23:21And what did he say?

23:23He insisted that you are not an issue in my parents' marriage.

23:28But is that true though?

23:29Trina, I respect your parents' relationship.

23:33And I haven't pursued your father in any way and he hasn't pursued me either.

23:38I believe you.

23:40I'm glad.

23:42But unfortunately, my mom doesn't seem to.

23:47She and my dad are splitting and that can't happen.

23:50Trina, I don't think that there's anything you can do about it. Your parents' relationship is something that they have to navigate.

23:59I don't think you understand.

24:01This isn't me trying to keep my parents together because I need them to be a couple.

24:06I'm trying to keep them out of prison.

24:08You seem pretty adamant before that things couldn't go any further between us.

24:16I know.

24:18So...

24:20What changed?

24:22My marriage is over.

24:26I haven't broken the news to Trina yet.

24:28But she's a smart cookie.

24:30She sees the writing on the wall.

24:34Does your husband?

24:36He's at the end of his rope, just like I am.

24:39And there's only so many times you can try to fix a relationship before you call it.

24:45Spoken like a true doctor.

24:48I think that this...

24:51could be a good thing.

24:54But only if you're interested too.

25:00What are you doing?

25:01Don't stand there. Go protect your daughter.

25:03My daughter does not need protection.

25:06And right now, my main concern is you.

25:10Well, I am right where I want to be.

25:14I don't believe you.

25:15I don't believe you.

25:19As I just finished explaining to your ex.

25:24I am under no obligation to attend to Monica's funeral.

25:29Because she's deceased.

25:31She won't care if I'm not there.

25:34But you will.

25:35Can you believe that I had to go to three different vendors in order to find this?

25:51There's cotton candy every five feet, Ma.

25:54Oh, yeah. But not the pink kind.

25:57All anyone had is the blue.

25:59You know? And I know you don't like the blue.

26:02It was always pink or bust.

26:04So I...

26:06I got this one.

26:07It's small, but...

26:09I thought we could share.

26:11Help yourself.

26:12As much as I hate to say it, I don't trust my wife.

26:20I hate saying that, but it's true.

26:23And every time we try to start fresh, we hit another wall.

26:29So...

26:31Two people can love each other.

26:34I mean really love each other.

26:37And still not be right for each other.

26:40Right.

26:42And they can make promises to each other with full intentions of keeping them.

26:46I believe that.

26:48I don't believe that Portia wanted this to happen.

26:50I don't believe that she set out to lie.

26:52But...

26:54Whatever it is.

26:56She did.

26:57It's good that you both seem brave enough to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

27:09Yeah, well, neither one of us wants to keep going around in this circle where we have to constantly shore up lies.

27:18It's no kind of marriage, Pop.

27:22It's no way to live.

27:23If we explore this, you have to be sure that your marriage is over.

27:31I'm not playing games with you, Isaiah.

27:34I appreciate that.

27:36I just need some time to think about this.

27:39Okay.

27:40Whatever you need.

27:42I don't want to pressure you.

27:44I know, but...

27:46We don't even know what, if anything, this is.

27:50But I do know that I love working here.

27:54And...

27:56I am not going to do anything to risk losing my job here.

28:02I'm good, thanks.

28:08How's Granny?

28:09She is in a private card room, playing blackjack and not winning.

28:19She's grieving.

28:22Deeply.

28:25It's hard for a woman like Tracy to lose someone like Monica.

28:30You know?

28:31I mean, those two have been sparring with each other their whole lives.

28:36It was like watching the greatest tennis match of all time.

28:41Gonna miss that.

28:43We all will.

28:45Thank you for coming to look for Granny.

28:50No problem.

28:52How did you know where to look?

28:55Lulu, according to her, Tracy's bolted here before.

28:59Oh, wow.

29:01Well, that wouldn't have been my first choice.

29:03You know that the Leprechaun Casino in Atlantic City does not exactly scream,

29:10Quarter me!

29:12Well, Lulu said it was Tracy and Luke's go-to after he got banned from the strip.

29:16I don't know, apparently there was some kind of incident.

29:19It had to be.

29:23I'm so proud of you, Brooklyn.

29:26You and Lulu working together for your grandmother.

29:30And for Maxie.

29:31I don't know how long it's gonna last, but...

29:35Lulu and I both get right now that there are people that we both love who will need us.

29:41I'm really sorry to hear about Maxie.

29:44I reached out.

29:46I know you did.

29:48I saw your texts.

29:51I know you did.

29:53I saw you read for scenes.

29:56I don't need you or anybody else telling me what I want or where I should be.

30:05You don't want to be a part of honoring Monica.

30:12I honored her plenty when she was alive.

30:14Then why abandon her now?

30:20Because I'm sick of it!

30:22I went to a funeral for my father.

30:26I went to a funeral for my mother.

30:28I went to a funeral for my brother.

30:30I went to two funerals for Luke.

30:32And let's not forget about Gregory.

30:33I am done burying people I love.

30:40Don't you think that you will regret it?

30:43Oh God.

30:45I do not want to listen to yet another tribute to a life well lived.

30:50I want Monica back.

30:52I want to be fighting with her.

30:53I don't want to be burying her.

30:55But then, oh gee, we don't always get what we want, do we?

30:58So I will not sit in a room and listen

31:05to platitudes about a wonderful woman who should still be here.

31:10She's not.

31:13She's dead.

31:16The end.

31:18I am so sorry, Jay.

31:21Maxie.

31:23She collapsed last month.

31:27What happened?

31:28We're not sure.

31:29She lost consciousness.

31:31She's in a hospital in Boston.

31:33Her condition is stable.

31:36But it's unchanged.

31:40We are...

31:42We were...

31:46You were expecting...

31:48Before.

31:50Did she have the baby?

31:51Is the baby okay?

31:52Yeah.

31:54And the baby now...

31:56Is a wonderful, adventurous little boy.

32:02Named after his father.

32:05James...

32:07Malcolm West.

32:08So, if you're teaching me how to gallop, will you teach me how to jump too?

32:18Uh, at some point.

32:20Yeah.

32:21Some point soon, right?

32:23Soon, yeah.

32:24Ready, Freddie?

32:25Yep.

32:26Let's go.

32:28Thanks for the last thing.

32:29You know what, Cody?

32:30You know what, Cody?

32:32What?

32:33Sometimes I really wish you were my dad.

32:39My parents are mixed up in this because they're trying to protect me.

32:43Right.

32:44So, I'm their motive for any choice they made when it came to Drew.

32:48So, if they get stressed out and break up, it gives the police even more motive to look in their direction.

32:55Trina, I know you love your parents, but it is not your responsibility to fix things for them.

33:02But I can't just sit back and do nothing.

33:05Nothing is exactly what you need to do.

33:07Let the investigation run its course.

33:10But what if it leads them to my mom and dad?

33:13What if it leads them to you?

33:15If the police determine that Drew is the cause of your parents splitting up, what's to stop them from deciding that you had motive to kill him too?

33:23Trust me.

33:25You need to stay far, far away from that shooting.

33:30So, that's it.

33:33You and Portia are calling it quits.

33:37I think we both want to.

33:40But you don't think you can.

33:43Not while this investigation is ongoing, Pop.

33:47Look, it's one thing for the cops to go sniffing around me.

33:50But if they find out that Portia and I split because of Drew, I just don't want her to become a suspect.

33:59Because you don't want her to go through that.

34:03Or because you think Portia could be guilty.

34:08I completely understand.

34:12I love my job too.

34:14And I almost just came so close to losing it.

34:17It's just the time that we shared together.

34:19It was amazing.

34:20I felt selfish, but I wanted more.

34:23I thought our time together was pretty amazing too.

34:28I thought our time together was pretty amazing too.

34:34So, if we do this, it has to be quiet.

34:41Not under the radar.

34:42Off the radar.

34:43Off the radar completely.

34:44Okay?

34:45I'm serious.

34:46No one can know.

34:47No.

34:48Secrecy is a condition.

34:49I got it.

34:50Good.

34:51Because I've been down this road before and things got complicated and I got hurt.

35:00So, whatever this is or becomes, I am not signing up for that ever again.

35:10Did I ever tell you about the time someone tried to kill your father's ex-wife, Kathryn

35:15Bell?

35:16Didn't that happen multiple times?

35:17It did.

35:18But this time, it was poison.

35:21Thanks.

35:22It was when I realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

35:25Or Bensonhurst.

35:27Anyway, she was poisoned and she fell down the stairs.

35:32And they were all there.

35:35Alan, Monica, Ned, AJ, Jason, even sweet Lila.

35:42And they were all accusing each other of being guilty.

35:45But, at the exact same time, they were all working together to cover it up.

35:51Was Granny in the mix?

35:52Mm.

35:53I hadn't met Tracy yet.

35:54But, you know, her presence.

35:57Wound large.

35:59Anyway, that's when I realized, as loony as it was, in their own twisted, convoluted

36:07way, that the Quartermains really do love each other.

36:14So, who poisoned Kathryn?

36:16Reginald the butler.

36:18But that is beside the point.

36:20My point is, family is family.

36:25Ride or die.

36:27And Monica, she, she was at the heart of all of that.

36:32If you look hard enough between the betrayal and the backstabbing and blackmailing, there really is a lot of love there.

36:43Yeah, there always is.

36:44Yeah, there always is.

36:53Smooth.

36:54Mother, you have the right to deal with death anywhere you choose.

37:05I will stay with you.

37:06I will stay with you and play blackjack for as long as you want.

37:10But, I will do it with a happy heart.

37:11But, I will do it with a happy heart.

37:12I can live with that.

37:13I know that if you don't go to Monica's service and pay tribute to the woman whose house you lived in and who you've shared the majority of your life with.