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This is a new edit, and is much improved quality.
Early Carly Edits:
- Early Carly #1
April 9 - September 9, 1996 - 8 hrs - Carly comes to town, Carly's affair with Jason
- Early
Carly #2 September 9, 1996 - April 18, 1997 - 8 hrs Carly's
affair with Tony, Carly=Caroline
- Early Carly #3 April
17- August 21, 1997 - Carly's one night stand with A. J. - coming soon
- Early Carly #4
August 21 - November 24, 1997 - 8 hour original edit
- Early Carly #5
November 24, 1997 - February 11, 1998 - 8 hour original edit
- Early
Carly #6 February 10 - April 27, 1998: 8 hour original
edit
- Early
Carly #7 April 27, 1998 - January 4, 1999 - 8 hour original
edit
- Early
Carly #8 January 4 - March 22, 1999 - 8 hours
- Early
Carly #9 March 23 - June 30, 1999 - 8 hours
- Early Carly #10
July 1 - September 14, 1999 - 4 hour dvd
Early Carly
#5 November 24, 1997 - February 11, 1998 - 8 hour original edit
DVD #5A
Tony is interrupted by one of the nuns, Lorraine is left visibly shaken.
She calls Carly and tells her that Tony is suspicious but she thinks she
"handled him". He walks up behind her and overhears this boast.
Lorraine lies some more but this time Tony isn't believing any of it. Tony
presses Lorraine for answers until she admits she knows a secret about his
baby. Lorraine tells Tony she was with Carly when she had the sonogram at
Mercy. Later, the nurse phones Carly's room at GH and warns her that Tony
is coming her way under a full head of steam. Carly concocts a
plausible sounding story to explain to Tony why she lied about undergoing
the sonogram. A. J. once again is generous to a fault, he tells Carly to
go have her baby in peace and quiet with Tony by he side. They will worry
about the paternity afterwards.
On Thanksgiving at the brownstone, Luke lets Tony and Carly in.
"Hello doc Bro ex-in-law" says Luke. "Carly."
Carly hands Luke the flowers she's carrying but drops them just before he
gets them. There's an awkward pause. Bobbie suggests they stay for
dinner? Tony and Carly try to back out, with Luke saying in the background
"they have reservations" which is a double meaning for sure.
Luke certainly has reservations! Bobbie says they need to establish
a precedent. They will be having holidays together, the children
will play together, they need to practice. Tony and Carly give in.
The bell rings, and it's Amy and Ruby. Luke tries to talk Bobbie out
of having Tony and Carly. At dinner, Luke makes a toast. It's
just all so family and nice that Carly can't stand it and leaves the
table. Bobbie follows her. Carly tells her she's really good
at the holiday stuff. They have a bonding moment. Annabelle comes in, but
Luke tells her Foster is "so over you, babe!" She has a soggy
note from Edward, but all Luke can decipher is "Quartermaines
thieves!" "Well, Annabelle, tell us something we don't
already know."
At Mercy Hospital, Carly demands that Lorraine come up with a sonogram of
a boy baby that Carly can pass off as her own. Lorraine reminds
Carly that this is not Burger King, were she can always have it her way.
Hasn't she heard that meesing with hospital records is against the rules?
"Not if you don't get caught," Carly answers sweetly.
Lorraine grudgingly agrees, but Carly owes her big time. Wouldn't you know
Tony comes looking for Lorraine, and Carly hides behind a corner before he
sees her. Tony tells Lorraine that he knows that she is playing games and
wants to know the truth. She tells him that she was hoping through
Carly, that Tony could help her find a better job at GH. Now
Lorraine realizes that Carly's become a much nicer person through her
relationship with Tony. If only she could get a break like that.
Apparently Tony believes this and promises her an interview at GH before
leaving. Carly emerges and falls all over herself thanking Lorraine, who
snarls at her not to believe any of that guff she handed Tony. Cause
what she wants from Carly is a lot more than friendship, baby. Okay, okay,
Carly promises and hightails it.
When Carly arives home, Tony announces that he found the sonogram in an
old suitcase. But guess what, Carly? It doesn't show the
baby's sex. She stammers, "Oh, hmm, well, see honey..."
Tony cuts her off. He realizes that Lorraine has been lying to them
but wonders why would she do that? Tony is fed-up and looking dangerously
close to some kind of breaking point. Carly makes her usual promises and
he leaves for work.
A. J. runs into Carly in the hall. They chat, amiably wary, and he ends up
telling her that she reminds him of himself when he was drinking.
He'd take the blame for everything, but not the responsibility, how much
blame and pain can one shoulder before something snaps? Carly leaves in a
huff. Tony calls Loraine and asks her to come see him about a job at GH.
Lorraine hurries over to GH after Tony suggests that they have a chat
about her career prospects. Reminding the nurse that he's fully aware how
her job at Mercy is hanging by a thread, Tony orders Lorraine to disclose
everything she knows about his fiancee in return he will endorse her for a
job at GH. Lorraine covers for Carly and gets indignant that he is looking
for dirt on the woman he supposedly loves.
Carly runs into Jason. She is thrilled to see him. She gives him a hard
time for moving and not telling her where he went. He explains that he is
now living at Sonny's penthouse and gives her the number. He invites her
to come to the party at Luke's on Monday night. She reminds him that Luke
hates her. Em comes in and is surprised when Jason allows Carly to kiss
him goodbye (a peck on the forehead). She says he only lets grandmother
and Robin kiss him.
One night outside of Luke's club as Jason talks to Luke, we see the glare
of headlights coming towards the group, and there is a sudden barrage of
bullets from the parking lot. Jason and Luke recoil, while the
bodyguards take aim and return fire. Pete goes down, taking a fatal blow.
The neon sign outside that says "Luke's" is blown out and as the
firing continues, Nikolas lies on the ground, unmoving. Luke and Jason
approach Nik, who has been shot and is bleeding from the neck. There
is blood oozing from his neck as Jason holds a cloth to Nik's throat.
The young Cassadine is choking on his own blood, gasping for air, it's a
sickening sound. Carly and Tony are driving in their car, discussing the
baby (he is distant and hard with her), when they hear the announcement
about the shooting at Luke's. Carly is obviously affected by the news,
while Tony keeps his eyes on the road, showing little response.
Nik has taken a bullet in the throat, and Jason says they need to get it
out or Nik will suffocate from the blood. He asks for something
hollow like a pen. Nik is suffering, grabbing at Jason's
bloodstained shirt, while Mike and Luke try to steady him. Luke asks
Jason if he thinks the assailants were a carload of joyriders.
Morgan is certain they were looking for him. Luke sterilizes Jason's
switchblade with the flame from his lighter. Jason is assuring the victim
that it will be okay, while Luke takes hold of Nik's head and tells him to
keep his eyes focused on Luke. Jason prepares to perform a tracheotomy.
Carly is freaking out at the news report about the shooting, and tries to
convince Tony to stop the car and take her to Luke's. Tony wonders
why she is getting so upset, and is surprised when she blurts out that it
could be Jason who was hurt. Jason and Luke are waiting to see if the
procedure has been successful, after a few long moments, Nikolas begins to
breathe on his own. Everyone seems relieved, and Sarah rushes to his side.
Nik is taken into the ambulance by the paramedics.
Tony tells Carly to get a grip, but she insists on taking her to Luke's.
He says he'll call her from the emergency room, and that she should go
home and be safe. She demands that he take her to GH with him. They
begin to argue, and she gets out of the car, telling him she'll hitchhike.
He accuses her of not thinking about the baby. Carly argues that
"Jason could be lying in a puddle of blood" and that if the
tables were turned, Jason would be there for her. Tony says "so
what?", he's got family, people to take care of him. She claims Jason
is her best friend in the world, and that Tony does not understand.
She tells him if it was her lying in a pool of blood that Tony would be
too busy but Jason would be there for her. Tony demands she get in the
car. He says he doesn't care where she winds up but she WILL get in the
car NOW! She gets in the car.
Carly arrives at the GH emergency room with Tony. She is sure Jason was
shot, but Monica and Alan tell her that he is fine except for being
arrested. Carly now wants to go to the PD to see Jason. Tony says no that
it is too stressful for the baby. She says she is fine and the baby is
fine. She points out that Jason is all alone since Robin is in Paris. He
still refuses to take her so she says she will take a cab. He then
bitterly accuses her of holding his baby hostage. Carly causes a scene at
the precinct house as she shrilly accuses the police of persecuting Jason.
Dara, fed up with the whole mess, releases Jason. Carly kisses him on the
cheek as he leaves. Tony arrives at the PD to pick her up.
Lorraine assures Carly she covered for her during this last set-to with
Tony. Carly tells Lorraine she is actually glad to see her. Lorraine is
the one constant as the rest of her life spins out of control. She
can count on Lorraine to blackmail her for a job at GH! She tells Lorraine
that she is her best friend at the moment, she knows all of her secrets. A. J.
shows Carly a court order which gives him the right to conduct a paternity
test the minute her baby is born. Carly wants to know what A. J. would do
if he found out that baby was his? Then what? Carly is shocked when
he tells her he would want to raise his child. Carly rails at A. J.
Carly is puzzled to overhear Tony on the phone with Alexis. Claiming he
was simply consulting with the hospital's attorney on a difficult case,
Tony makes an excuse to avoid going home with his estranged fiancee. She
begs him to come home. She tells him how much she loves him, more every
day. As Carly begins choosing colors for the nursery, Tony announces that
he's already withdrawn the bid on the new house. She is hurt that he would
do so without telling her. One more sign that her dreams are dying.
He says he didn't think she was interested in the house. Then tells her
that he lost interest. He blows her off, totally uninterested in even
pretending to want to talk to her. Waiting for him in his office, Carly
snoops through a packet that is delivered to him from Alexis and is
devastated to discover that Tony has filed for sole custody of her unborn
child. When he enters she throws the court papers in his face. Tony tells
Carly he's leaving her because he can't tolerate any more of her lies. He
tells her that the begining of the end of their relationship was when she
stole the custody papers for Lucas and had them delivered to Bobbie. He
admits he had "loved her". She is crushed when she realizes he
is speaking in past tense. Her dreams for the future come fully crashing
around her. Then he tells her the baby is better off with him than her
(isn't this the same concerned father who wanted her to avoid stress till
the baby was born?). He tells her he was planning on marrying her then
divorcing her when the child was older.
Hurt, angry and scared, Carly informs Tony he has no claim on her baby
because Jason is the man who impregnated her. She tells him her passionate
affair with Jason has been going on since the first day she hit
town. Unable to believe her wild tale, Tony accuses Carly of sinking to
incredible depths in her capacity for telling lies. Taunting Tony with
stories of Jason's sexual prowess, Carly continues to embroider on her lie
by claiming that she and her lover have been laughing at him behind his
back for months on end. She reminds him of all the times he "walked
in on them", actually innocent moments but Carly casts them as being
caught like the time she was wearing only her robe, the time they were
rolling around on the floor, when he walked in on them at the cabin. She
is so convincing that he begins to believe her as he recalls the moments
she embellishes, the doubt starts to enter.
A bedraggled Carly shows up at Jason's penthouse and interrupts a
high-level mob meeting. After his other guests depart, Jason listens as
Carly reveals that Bobbie is her biological mother and that she has no
idea who fathered her own unborn child. Carly explains to Jason how she
first started using Tony as a weapon to hurt Bobbie but made the mistake
of falling in love. After Jason guesses the identity of the other man in
her life, Carly admits how she drugged A. J. and made him believe that he
had fallen off the wagon. Later, she drops her last bombshell and
discloses that she named him as her child's father. Jason warns Carly that
he'll only play along with her story until someone asks him directly if he
made her pregnant.
Jason reminds Carly she'll have to find a new place to stay if his enemies
make another attempt on his life. Tony comes to the penthouse and urges
Jason not to let Carly manipulate him with her lies. Following another
bitter quarrel with Tony, Carly thanks Jason for his loyalty and his
silence. At the penthouse, an incensed A. J. reminds Carly he can prove
that she's lying about her child's paternity by simply asking his brother
for the truth. Carly informs A. J. that she and Jason began a sexual
relationship shortly after she first hit town. A. J. doesn't believe her.
He smugly tells her that she picked the wrong guy to back her up as Jason
won't lie for her, that he doesn't know how! A. J. tries to convince jason
that Carly is a liar and that helping her is dangerous. A. J. realizes
Jason knows all about Carly drugging him and A. J. is hurt that Jason
continues to help her. Jason says it is like someone lying bleeding on the
ground that you would stop to help. Carly needs help and he intends to
give it to her. A. J. warns him that if the baby is his that he will file
for sole custody. Jason says he doesn't agree with what Carly did but she
did it for the baby. Jason doesn't like both Tony and A. J. trying to take
the baby from its mother like its a piece of property (similar to how the
Q's have treated him).
When A. J. says Carly won't be a good mother that she is a liar, Jason
retorts so is A. J. and the Q's. A. J. is disgusted by Jason's cold
hearted responses. He doesn't understand how Jason could cheat on Robin
with Carly. Jason doesn't really lie, he admits he slept with Carly he
just doesn't say when. A. J. tells Jason that he finally gets that Jason
is not his brother, that person is gone. Rather than being hurt, jason
seems relieved. After Jason confirms that he has in fact slept with
Carly, an outraged A. J. accuses his brother of being too cold and
heartless to care about anyone's feelings. A. J. vows not to let Jason
anywhere near Carly's baby even if he does turn out to be the child's
biological father. Carly is upset to hear A. J. turning his back on
Jason. She is sorry for dumping this mess on him. She wonders why he is
being so good to her. He doesn't answer but says they will see a lawyer
the next day (Jason has offered to pay all legal fees in a custody
battle). He tells her that there was no proof for a lot of what she did.
he says he doesn't want to talk about it anymore tonight and takes her out
to play pool where she proceeds to beat him.
At Jason's, Carly noted that the place could use a little holiday cheer,
as well as real food. Jason told her where to find some cash. As he was
getting ready to leave, Carly felt a small twinge and wrote it off to
impending motherhood.
At the annual Christmas party at GH, Dave Koz leads all the girls and boys
into the party. Jason and Carly nearly stopped the party dead when they
got off the elevator, but festivites resumed when Santa got off the next
elevator (although Santa Tony was taken a little aback himself). Carly ran
into Bobbie in the hallway. She invited Bobbie to call her a slut now and
have done with it. Entirely on the defensive, Carly went ahead and made
the worst of herself before Bobbie could really get any words in. What
Nurse Spencer did squeeze in was that she actually had taken Carly's side
in the custody argument (pre-Jason, anyway), but Carly was really in too
defensive a mode for this bit of info to sink in. Back at the penthouse,
Jason came home to find that Carly had completely redecorated the place,
courtesy of Wyndhams. Carly went on to describe that exchange, and
asked Jason how she could have been so shallow, to do all the horrible
things she did for someone (Tony) who turned out to be so disposable for
her. Mr. Koz played "Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas," which brought us into a montage of: Sarah, in tears. Nik,
sullen, in bed. Stefan, outside, in black, in the snow being approached
and cuddled by Katherine, in white. Carly, opening Jason's brown-bag gift,
a key chain engraved "Caroline" with a key to the
penthouse on it, Jason, on his balcony, looking sensitively studly. Brenda
and Jax, decorating her tree and cuddling.
Carly and Jason return from seeing a family lawyer where they arranged for
Jason's name to be put on the birth certificate. They go over all the
possible witnesses to her drugging of A. J.. Jason says the only real
witness, the bartender, has decided to "relocate." A. J. comes
to see Carly, and they bicker once again about the baby. A. J. says
he wants to ask Jason specifically *when* Jason slept with her.
Eventually, she has him tossed out. Carly awakens and ominously finds she
is spotting blood. Carly in severe distress drags herself downstairs
calling out for Jason. Alone and in pain at the bottom of the stairs, she
rationalizes, "Maybe it's better this way. Carly crawls downstairs to
get to the phone, but collapses before she makes the call. Jason
returns from the dust-up with Jax to find her. He carries her out the door
as he calls for Renaldo. Carly is brought into ER and Jason explains
how he found her. He asks Bobbie to stay with her as she is wheeled away.
The doctor expains that a caesarian will have to be performed to save mom
and baby.
In the OR, Carly is hysterical. "Don't let them take my
baby," she begs Bobbie. Things look grim as Jason gazes through the
window. The operation is performed and the baby is delivered, it's a boy!
Bobbie holds him as Carly's heart suddenly stops. As the doctors
rush to jump-start it, Bobbie demands "Don't you dare leave this baby
without a mother. Don't you dare!" Bobbie explains to a worried Jason
that Carly's son may need lifesaving surgery. The doctor tells Jason
that Carly is bleeding so badly with DIC and wants to do a hysterectomy.
Bobbie overhears and and interrupts, "No! You can't do that to
her!" She demands that Jason doesn't authorize it. Bobbie explains
that she woke up and had had a hysterectomy without her consent and they
can't do that to Carly. Bobbie insists that they try platelet infusion
first. Jason agrees with her. Bobbie once again keeps watch over Carly.
Later Bobbie updates Jason that the platelet infusion is so far working.
Jason promises that when Carly wakes up that he will be sure she knows
that she is okay because of Bobbie's advice. An irate Tony arrives and
wants to know why no one told him Carly was having the baby! Bobbie
insists she left him a message. He demands to know the condition of
"his son" as Jason grimly watches him. Tony tells Jason that if
he wants to play hero to Carly that is fine but he isn't needed in Tony's
son's life. Jason tells him that he isn't going any where and the child is
Carly's! Bobbie tries to intervene, Tony tells her he no longer cares
about being appropriate, that all he cares about is protecting his child
from his mother and her friends.
The doctor chooses that moment to come out and tell Jason that there is a
problem with his son. Tony immediately jumps in and begins debating the
medical options, Tony is against surgery for the baby. The doctor is
surprised that Tony is against surgery to close the PDA. Jason interrupts
and asks about the surgery and how it works. Tony stops him and
condesendingly states that this is a medical decision and Jason is in WAY
over his head. Jason retorts that nothing is going to be done to that boy
unless he says so!
The confused doctor says the decision is between the him and the baby's
father. Tony insists that HE is the baby's father. Jason sarcastically
asks if Tony wants the baby to die while he waits for a paternity test?
Tony insists that Jason is not competent to make life and death decisions.
The doctor defends Jason's rights by informing that Jason's name is on the
baby's birth certificate and that is all of the competence he needs!
Monica overhears this last statement as she enters and realizes Carly's
baby has been born.
#5B After conferring with Monica, Jason opted for the baby to
have surgery, against Tony's wishes. The surgery was successful and Tony
was saddened to learn that the baby's blood type ruled him out as the
father. The Quartermaines learned that Jason's child had been born and the
family converged on the hospital. Luke continued to wrestle with his
conscience over whether or not to tell Bobbie that the baby was actually
her grandson. An angry Luke then stopped the Quartermaine's public
wrangling over the baby's future. Dara sang "God Bless the
Child" to music montage of scenes: A. J. and Keesha danced in the
moonlight, Stefan & Katherine,.Luke watching over Carly as she sleeps,
Q's and Jason watching over Michael, assorted New Year's Eve celebrations.
When Carly wakes up, Jason told Carly that the baby's heart defect had
been corrected through surgery, but Carly blamed herself for the baby's
medical crisis. Carly feels trapped, Bobbie wants her to go see her
son. She promises that Carly will be filled with love for her son. Carly
asks if that is how Bobbie felt when her baby was born. Bobbie's eyes fill
with tears as she describes her all too brief moments with her baby
daughter. Carly saw her baby boy for the first time and she broke down at
the sight of the fragile infant. Carly angrily snaps at Bobbie when the
nurse suggests that she'll soon be able to breast feed her baby. Tony is
desperate to know and asks Bobbie to check the baby's blood type. Later
she sympathetically tells him that the baby's blood type rules him out as
the child's father.
When a sobbing Carly spits out her hatred for him, Tony assures her that
the feeling is mutual. Carly's doctor diagnoses her with post-partum
depression but assures her patient that her condition is very treatable.
Later, Carly tries to get close to touch her baby but again withdraws her
hands and bolts from the nursery in tears. Carly disguises her shock when A. J.
states that he now knows that Jason is the father of her son. After
explaining to Jason where A. J. made his mistake (that because the newborn
shares Jason's blood type, he assumed that Jason was the father), Carly
asks him to take care of the baby while she disappears. A music montage to
scenes of Luke looking in at Carly's empty hospital bed, Carly shown in an
airplane, Jason tenatively stroking the baby's hand, Robin showing up at
Brenda's door (Jax has brought her home from Paris). Sweet moment as Luke
visits his great nephew in the nursery. After finding Luke in the hospital
nursery, Jason tells his business partner he knows all about the secret
connection between Carly and the Spencer clan. When Lorraine makes an
appearance at GH, Jason warns Carly's blackmailer to go away and never
come back. Luke contemplates his options in light of Carly's disappearance
and decides to let his sister know that she is a grandmother. After Jason
advises him to keep mum until Carly returns, Luke agrees to wait one month
before he tells Bobbie the truth.
As the baby is about to be released from the hospital, he holds the boy
for the first time. Before he leaves with the baby, Bobbie instructs Jason
on how to feed his son. Marjorie, the social worker, pays an unannounced
home visit at the penthouse and is taken aback to find both Bobbie and
Emily playing surrogate mother for Carly's baby. After Marjorie departs,
Jason thanks Bobbie for warning him that the social worker was on her way
over to spy on them.
The day of Michael's baptism, Jason explains to an impressed Bobbie how he
defines faith in God. Bobbie shyly asks Jason for permission to dress the
baby in Lucas' christening gown. As the ceremony begins, Jason is
pleased to see Robin slipping into one of the pews at the back of the
church. When the Quartermaines suddenly arrive en masse, however, a
scowling Jason motions his armed bodyguards forward and Justus warns his
family that they'll go to jail if they attempt to touch the baby.
Promising to keep the rest of the family silent and in line, Lila sweetly
asks permission to stay for the ceremony and Jason reluctantly gives his
consent. There are readings by Emily and Bobbie. All appears to be going
smoothly despite some muttering from Edward. The chaotic christening is
interrupted yet again when Marino and several of his goons stroll into the
church. Jason and Justus greet Marino; he expresses his respect for Jason
and desire to discuss Jason's truce overture. After ascertaining that his
"competitor" has simply come to pay his respects, Jason asks the
priest to continue with the ritual. Jason announces the child's name will
be Michael after Sonny. Mike is touched but the Quartermaines are
outraged. Things grind to a halt as people mill around bickering,
and the choir singing louder and louder. Finally, Jason has had enough and
orders them out, but Robin takes Jason outside for a talk. She argues that
he allow them to stay since they do have a right as family. As little
Michael is finally baptized ith Emily and Mike as godparents, The audience
looks on with mixed emotions. Jason turns around to present the baby
to the assemblage and discovers that Carly is standing in the doorway.
After handing off baby Michael to his godmother (Bobbie), Jason approaches
Carly and encourages her to step forward but she insists on slipping into
a back pew instead for the remainder of the ceremony. As the baptism
concludes, Monica icily advises Carly to vanish again before she wreaks
havoc in the lives of any more innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, Edward vows
to find a way to wrench the baby away from Jason and rename him with a
moniker more befitting a Quartermaine. Jason and Carly catch up but she
still can't bring herself to hold the baby. The priest announces a
reception later, but Jason makes it clear that the Qs, after crashing the
baptism, they are not invited. As Jason invites Marino to come to the
reception, Bobbie talks Carly into allowing the Quartermaines to attend as
well. Edward snarls at Jason's treatment, but Lila puts him in his place.
Later, at the penthouse, Carly nervously avoids handling her infant son as
the guests file in for Michael's party. A. J. loses no time in sidling up
to Carly. He tells her how Jason pulled a gun on them when the Qs tried to
"persuade" him to leave the baby with them. Carly sneers
at him thatJason was bluffing, because he knew they would back down. A. J.
commends her and Jason for being so in tune, Jason doesn't care that she
drugged A. J. and she doesn't care that Jason pulled a gun. Only
what happens when they turn on each other, or worse yet, on the baby?
Their voices rise and Jason comes over, telling A. J. to beat it.
"Sure, Jase," A. J. answers coolly. After the party, Carly says
goodnight and makes to go to bed. Jason holds little Michael and begins
having a little private conversationwith him, while Carly, hiding in the
background, looks on with a mixture of guilt and longing.
Bobbie drops by the penthouse and finds Carly studiously avoiding even
looking at her own baby. Carly bristles when Bobbie attempts to dispense
some advice on child-rearing. Later, Bobbie urges Jason to force Carly to
hold her son for the first time but he insists that Michael's mother be
allowed to deal with her fears in her own way and in her own time.
Carly wonders if her inability to hold her own child means she is truly
devoid of any maternal instinct. Annoyed when Carly treats Bobbie rudely,
Jason reminds his houseguest that Michael's nurse deserves respect for the
assistance she's been giving them. Later, Bobbie catches Carly in an
unguarded moment as she stands over her son's crib.
Virginia Benson, Carly's adoptive mother, arrives in Port Charles to
surprise Bobbie with an unannounced visit. Virginia heads to the hotel
lounge after checking in and introduces herself to Tony when she finds him
occupying the adjacent barstool. Meanwhile, Carly is holding the blue baby
blanket and flashes back to Bobbie holding Michael and Carly not taking
the baby. There's a knock on the door and it's Bobbie. Bobbie
is surprised that Jason took the baby out. Carly asks her if Monica is
hiding in the hall. Bobbie asks if Carly has held her baby yet?
Carly gets snotty and asks Bobbie to go home. Bobbie tries to tell
her there's help. Carly says she was partying in Florida all month.
Bobbie says mothering is not a job you can just leave. Carly
bitterly informs Bobbie she doesn't want her coming around anymore with
her condescending attitude and hypocritical advice on how to be the
perfect parent. Bobbie says Michael needs a woman's love, and post-partum
depression can be treated. Carly blows up, "YOU gave your baby
away!" Bobbie tells her about Caroline's birth. She tells about
her perfect baby while Carly, behind her, cries. Bobbie tells about
counting the baby's fingers and toes, and then having her taken away.
There's never been a day she hasn't thought about her. "Honor the
reality next time you want to bludgeon me with what an awful mother I
am... if that makes me a bad mother in your eyes, I guess I'll find a way
to live with that, too." Bobbie suggests lighting candles if the
power goes out. Carly announces, "Bobbie, I want my baby."
As the blizzard closes roads and knocks out power all over town, many of
Port Charles' residents find themselves stranded at the hotel. Caught up
in the camaraderie engendered in the blackout, Virginia rattles on to Tony
about her daughter's wonderful life (he has no clue that Caroline is
Carly). Filled with a sudden yearning to cuddle with her son, Carly is
grateful when Bobbie offers to brave the blizzard and drive her to the
hotel. Passing the time playing cards with Mike, Jason is annoyed to
suddenly find himself surrounded on all sides by Quartermaines. Bobbie's
car slides into a snow bank, stranding her and Carly on the side of the
road. Carly and Bobbie manage to walk the rest of the way to the PC
Grill. She tells Jason she's there for her son. Bobbie hands the
baby to Carly who is apprehensive at first but slowly begins to bond with
him. As she holds her baby, Carly is moved by the moment to the point of
telling Bobbie that she's her daughter Caroline. Bobbie looks at her
uncomprehending the magnitude of what Carly's telling her.
"It's true," Carly tells a stunned Bobbie. "I'm your
daughter." Bobbie's joyful tears from seeing Micheal at last reunited
with his mom are still glistening in her eyes. Her face turns stony
with shock. "Jason, please take the baby," she murmurs.
Everyone is there, the Qs, Keesha, Robin, all watching in stunned silence
as Jason carries the baby off. "You're diabolical," Bobbie
tells her. Was this whole set up tonight just another step in
Carly's plan to destroy Bobbie's life? "You're relentless.
Like the plague." Carly has softened (at least temporarily),
why would she lie? It just seemed like the perfect time, after
Bobbie has helped her hold her son, to tell her that she has a daughter
and a grandson. Carly tells her that she never knew how to get what she
wanted without fighting dirty. When she first came to PC she didn't
know what she was looking for. She realizes that she should have told
Bobbie the truth at the very start. Carly's sorry for everything
she's done, and wants to make it up to Bobbie now. "My little
girl is dead, all right?" Bobbie cries bitterly.
"She's dead!"
"I'm
not the only one who lied to you," Carly answers. (Luke is the one
who told Bobbie that her daughter, Caroline, was dead).
A seething Bobbie accuses Carly of sinking to new depths to hurt her with
yet another terrible lie. Carly tries again to convince Bobbie that
she's on the level about the bond which ties them. She apologizes for not
telling her sooner. She says she was angry at Bobbie for abandoning her.
She thanks Bobbie for helping her to connect to her son, Michael. Bobbie
isn't believing any of this, as she turns to walk away, Carly grabs her
hand. Bobbie flashes back to her baby girl holding her hand. Tony enters,
and Bobbie shares the news with him. Tony believes Carly, he says it
answers a lot of questions about why Carly entered the nurse's program
when she was obviously so unsuited for it. He goes through a list of
Carly's actions since she first came to town. It all makes sense to Tony.
Now he knows it was never about him but about Carly sleeping with her
mother's husband.
Virginia Benson, Carly's adoptive mother, enters the bar. Bobbie's jaw
drops when Virginia walks in and hurries over to embrace Carly, calling
her " Caroline". Bobbie realizes Carly is telling the truth.
Virginia happily introduces Bobbie to her biological daughter. With
Carly's bizarre story now confirmed, Bobbie bitterly calls the girl a
bitch and accuses her of sending for her adoptive mother. As a baffled
Virginia wonders what's going on, Carly is forced to admit how she came to
Port Charles two years ago to find Bobbie. Virginia berates her daughter
for trying to destroy Bobbie's life, then reels in shock yet again when
Tony informs her that she has a grandson. Tony continues that while she
was sleeping in his baby, she had a baby with another man. Carly and
Virgina sit quietly at a table to talk privately. Carly raves to her how
everything has worked out, she lives in a beautiful penthouse, how
wonderful her baby is, how great the baby's father is and how much
Virigina will like him. Carly assures her the lies are all over now, the
truth is out and Virginia can be part of her life. Her hurt mother can't
believe that Carly thinks they can just pick up as if nothing has
happened, after she has kept the truth about her life secret for almost
two years. Virinia asks if she is going to take any responsibility for her
actions? She broke up a marriage, deceived Virginia, and kept the
existence of her grandchild from her, and now she thinks it is all okay
now that she told the truth for one night?
Tony walks up, thrilled that Carly is getting her comeuppance but snarks,
"I don't think guilt is a word in Carly's vocabulary!" He tells
Virginia about the baby's heart defect, how Carly abandoned him when he
was in ICU, that the father is a gun totting criminal and she left her son
alone with him for almost a month! As Tony calls her a tramp, Carly turns
to Virgina and says, "See this is the man I took away from
Bobbie?" She tells her mother that she hurt them, but they hurt her
too, that both Bobbie and Tony treated her like dirt since she arrived.
Carly demands that just once Virginia take her side, that since Frank (her
adoptive father) walked out on Virgina that she has blamed Carly for that
and everything else. She can't believe her mother is going to take the
word of two total strangers over hers? She admits that she doesn't like
Tony, but she does like Bobbie. Carly yells at Virgina to just go. Virgina
gets up but collapses on the floor of the Grill.
Bobbie heads to Wyndemere and demands to know if Stefan knew that Carly
was his daughter? He did and admits that he capitalized on her husband's
infidelity. She asks why he didn't tell her? He says that when they
married, he didn't need to tell her and didn't want to hurt her. After
they broke up, it served no purpose. He snarks that the rumors of her
daughter's death were greatly exaggerated, by her brother! Stefan
gleefully reveals that Luke was a pivotal part of the lie and the cover-up
concerning Carly and Luke also knew the truth. Bobbie heads to Luke's
house and sits in the dark waiting for him to come home. When he does, she
tells him that Lucky is dead. As he looks at her in shock, she coldly asks
him how that feels to hear his child is dead? Bobbie bitterly reveals that
she knows he lied about her daughter's "fatal" car accident,
Luke attempts to explain why he hid the truth about Carly's true identity
to protect her from further pain. Bobbie promises a shaken Luke that she
will never forgive him for what he's done.
At GH, Monica wakes a sleeping Carly and tells her if she wants to see her
mother that she should come now. The doctor informs a weeping Carly that
Virginia did not survive her second stroke. Sitting by her mother's
body, Carly fears she's lost the one person in the world who loved her
unconditionally despite all her flaws. After venting part of her
rage on Keesha, Carly turns her anger on Tony and accuses him of killing
Virginia. As a desolate Carly stands at the elevator, when it opens she
comes face to face with Luke!
The End
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