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Prince Charming! I loved that film.

Unfortunately the impression was that Sonny paid for Monica's wing. And not only were Sonny and Carly there but so was Donna. It's next door to money laundering, they get their souls cleansed in exchange for the donation. At least the money was given to the hospital and not the church Godfather-style.

Sonny: "I had a lot of conversations with God in this chapel." Me: They didn't seem to do any good, did they? I hate that so much of this episode is Sonny propping. On that note, is the Nurse's Ball the whitewashing mechanism of the show? First it was Sonny, now Sidwell is going to underwrite it. There are hundreds of nurses in a hospital the size of GH. How did Maxie afford all those gift bags? I'm glad that Monica got the new wing named after her but with Leslie Charlson gone, I'm wondering how long Monica is going to be up in her room off-screen. I have an image of a mummified Monica lying on her bed while family members visit and talk to her. Seeing Lila's picture on the wall reminded me that I saw Anna Lee last week opposite Boris Karloff in Bedlam. She was good. This show really done her wrong. Liz said that she was going to take a ride share because Aiden has her car. Is he old enough for a driver's license? (This is something that really bugs me, that everyone on the show, no matter how wealthy e.g. Joss, always takes ride shares. What about the taxi drivers who have invested thousands of dollars into the taxi ticket and are just trying to make a living? In my city a taxi license used to cost $360,000 (a large investment by the taxi owner), now it's a quarter of that and taxi drivers are struggling.)

There better be a big donation coming from him. Edited to facepalm because of course the anonymous donor is ...

Maybe more than I, I can't quite remember. But it's not up to Santos to decide which orders she follows and which are too "boring". To be fair, he is a teenage boy. Not being aware of what is going on for other people is SOP.

Soliski is dead. Are we getting a crossover with Law & Order: Toronto? They are both on CITY TV. Maybe Young & Munroe can pursue Sonny and Jason to Port Charles and finally catch them. I'm impressed how quickly Lucky protected Kristina and told her to pretend that she never was there. Luke's son for sure. But now that he knows Elizabeth got hurt ... I like that Emma called out Anna. About time. It's ironic that Emma brought up Robin's HIV because AIDS is about to get worse now that USAID is no longer providing treatment or prevention. Poor Alexis is having a bad day. Drew was being a pooh head around Scout, who he's using as an object to get Willow, and then having to go to the hospital for Molly. I did like the line about not trying out a new family like trying out a tie. And there is no way that 6 year old Wylie and baby Amelia are in any way a replacement for Danny and Rocco any more than Willow is for Sam. What would be best for Scout is to stay with the Quartermaines with Danny and Rocco for as long as Lulu let's him but Drew needs her to reel Willow in. GH timeline: At Ava's presumably after leaving Alexis' office, Rick tells her that he just made a truce with Alexis and doesn't want to spoil it by Kristina finding him there. At Charlie's Molly told Kristina that the truce has been on for a couple of days now. Where did those days slip in?

Mickey and Kacey suggested that Ahearn was in on it since he was friends with both Lafferty and Jimmy. But even if he weren't and only knew about what Lafferty was doing, it would be smart to get Lafferty away from Mickey when she started looking deeper into the ODs. She's smart and she cared about the women so the odds were good that she was going to figure out that Lafferty was involved. To protect Lafferty and himself, Ahearn would have agreed to let Mickey drop Lafferty. Emily/Melissa told Kacey that the murderer is Mickey's partner. Kacey told Mickey that it's Truman because that is who she thought Mickey's partner was. After Mickey blew up her relationship with Truman, she went back to Kacey and pressed her for Emily's exact words. As soon as she heard the word "partner", she figured out that it was Lafferty and called Detective Danjarat who checked out Lafferty's place and found the insulin. In the last scene with Danjarat, they are talking about IA investigating Ahearn. Ahearn was denying that he had anything to do with the drugs. Mickey suggested to Danjarat that he may be willing to talk in exchange for a plea deal.

King was put in charge of an area (yellow?) with Santos and Whittaker under her. Yes, Santos repeatedly ignored what King told her. At one point Santos finished with the patient and asked what's next. Mohan (3rd year) told her to monitor the patient that they had just brought back with Narcan. Santos replied "Boring" and went off to look for something more exciting. Santos is, in the parlance of my youth, "a cowboy". More an adrenaline junkie than Langdon who at least will treat everyone who needs treatment. She wants to fly before she can walk and she wants the glory of being the top. It's unfortunate that Abbott reinforced her because while it was a kickass job that she did, Santos is going to hurt someone skipping steps the way she does. This episode felt longer than the last one even though technically it was shorter. I liked that the woman with the arm injury even though her actual injury was not so bad was in shock. The WWI term "shell shocked" is a good descriptor. That would have been a much better way to have handled it, although I can understand that she was too stressed to be able to think outside the box like that. (Also I don't trust that one of the cops wouldn't have arrested her on the spot.)

I'm getting tired of so many characters using sex as a drug when they're felling bad. I know that it started from the pilot episode but after 21 seasons, it's a very tired trope. I also never understand how the research stuff on this show works because it has nothing to do with how real life works+. Do they pull it out of their hats? Meredith published the research so Koracick could use it as a jumping off point but it was still Meredith and Amelia's research. That should count for something when deciding who gets money for further research. The problems with research on males only has been well known since Carol Tavris published Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex in 1992 so no one should have been surprised that Meredith was offended that Koracik was using only male mice. Koracik is studying mice, Meredith and Amelia were going to do a retrospective human study (if I understand correctly). Why not fund partially? Neither can be that much money, not like a drug trial. The irony is that in March 2025, Meredith's study on female mice would be considered DEI and not eligible for federal funding money and probably rejected by private.

You've just described most of my Twitter feed.

Kristina is a bit old to develop bipolar affective disorder but what she did there was definitely lacking normal thought processes. I wonder if that's where they are going with this. (I'm not looking forward to it if they are.) On the plus side, that's showgirl material. (I used to work with a colleague who was a former Vegas showgirl. The stories she told!)

Drew is a miracle worker if he can get the demolition papers sign and the bulldozer there in less than a day. if only he would be as effective with his actual job. (It's absolutely ridiculous that it happened so fast and without the Quartermaines being informed about the court date.) Good payoff on Emma's abrasiveness and joy in bucking the system. Finally someone is recording! What is the point of an android phone if you don't use it? So now Maxie's apartment which became Finn's apartment is now the Canadian apartment of the hitman. At least change the walls up a bit. Lucy also thinks that Sidwell is interested in her. The only person I saw any spark with Sidwell was with Alexis and that's because she hates the Cassadine legacy. That was awesome. That's a great point. If I were Kai, I would be running this by my doctors first before agreeing to anything. We're not used to subtle on this show. Good plotting though because Ric, who is now in danger, is Molly's father. And we've just had the scene of Lucky and Liz planning their getaway. There's even some tension because unlike Sonny, Carly and their kids, something bad may actually happen to them.

I'm sorry, that was insensitive of me. I should have said that Michael has not processed it.

Lucas is upset that Brad blackmailed Portia to get close to him. Not that Portia did something so bad that she needs a lawyer to get her out of it. Also Lucas, who now is a renal specialist as well as a trauma and ER surgeon, thinks that people should do their own medical research. Do real doctors agree? Whatever Becky Herbst is doing to keep looking 30 years younger, I want some. The Esplanade/Pier discussion makes no sense. The original reason for rejecting the pier is because it has no infrastructure and it would cost too much to put it in. So why is everyone suddenly saying it's a good idea? Sonny, you do realize that you can't take a gun to Toronto, right? Canada has laws against that.(Americans are always surprised when border officials take their guns away.) Also Jason, I'm pretty sure that the cardiologists in Toronto can handle anything that may happen to Sonny. The way Sasha keeps going to Jason about the baby, I expect him to be pretty fed up with her by now. The number of times Sonny has told her that if it weren't for Avery she would be dead, Ava has reason.

I really hope so. This episode had the feel of wrapping things up. Tess resolved the mystery of her mother's death and her hatred for her mother's boyfriend, Sunni saw a therapist, started a relationship with Kye and reconciled with her mother. Jake is back on the force and it looks like he and Tess are together. I just get the feeling that the producers of the show didn't know if it would be renewed so they wrapped up the stories that had been going on for the two seasons, and then threw in a cliffhanger (Jake getting show0 just in case they got a third season. Fingers crossed they do.