GH Recap 1/14: Dreadening Eve

Emma's Palatial Estate: Robin and Patrick have found a house, and somehow they are able to enter it without a agent there to open the door, and she decides to buy it on the spot, and he for some reason finds this suspicious. but then he is able to determine that the house is good by just walking through it. I didn't know he was so good at assessing, regardless, Robin loves everything about the house and says weird things like it will fix everything. She says it about 15 times, but no one finds it eery. They also manage to buy the house in 4 minutes, even though it takes about an hour just to PRINT the paperwork involved, not to mention loan approval or escrow, but whatever. The good news is Liz is their neighbor and stops by to visit. Robin once again says something weird like "what did we just do" when she'd just been gushing about the decision, and Liz stares uncomfortably, as if to say "oh, I thought I smelled some Crazy" Liz later assures Robin that she knows it's hard being a mom, but if you do things one at a time, it all gets done, and that is very simplistic but remarkably true advice. She says Emma loves Robin, even if the house is messy. Robin stares distantly. Liz offers to share her snow blower and all her tools, so Liz is easily the coolest neighbor in the history of the world. of course, actually, she's the smartest b/c my guess is how that works is Patrick uses her blower and then does both of their driveways. Smart girl.

Corinthaus: Claud hangs out in Sonny's bedroom to get another bag of puzzle pieces from Jerry Probst.Kate shows up and rudely asks Claud what she's doing. Claud toys with kHate a bit and says Sonny may love kHate, but he ranks power as more important than love, and Claud gives him power, so he won't divorce her. Claud says kHate can at best hope to be is a mistress, and she's fine with that. Claud then primps in the mirror and says "The Mistress doesn't barge into the bedroom. The Mistress understands her place." heh. kHate says she'll be sure to tattle that she saw Claud searching Sonny's room. Claud flares her nostrils and begins searching the bed again.

She finds something and instead of going to her private bedroom, she runs down to the living room, and of course is once again surprised by someone. This time, it's Spinelli.

Casa de 3's a Crowd: Johnny is having money problems, but he somehow STILL has money from his security deposit from Chez Zee. Unless that was an 18,000 a month apartment, I don't see how he was able to furnish and decorate this new apartment and still have money left.

Jason's Penthouse: Jason comes home early in the morning, and Spinelli is worried b/c he rightly believes that Jason had to exchange something costly to get him out of jail. jason will only angrily tell Spinelli that he can't do anymore dangerous computer work and he angrily bellows at Spinelli when Spin presses the matter. Spinelli says Jason's outburts only proves Jason made an Unholy Alliance. Jason takes a deep breath and apologetically and sincerely says that Spinelli is a great friend, and he depends and counts on him, and he feels he took advantage. Spinelli interrupts that no one forced him to help Jason, but Jason shows his temper again and firmly says the way it is now is they don't talk about business of any kind anymore. Spinelli is bummed and leaves.

Sam's: Sam is somehow wearing an off the shoulder sweater. Her gravity defying boobs don't seem the worse for no bra, though. Sam is filling out an application to be a private eye, and Lucky manages to be a dick about even this. He throws Jerry in her face, even though Jerry was indeed a bad guy. He wants a Laura, basically, and she's a Luke. But he's neither a Luke nor a Laura, so I don't get why he thinks he gets a vote. She tells him she's fiercely independent (I don't think that word means what the idiots on this show think it means), and her job prospects are limited, and she'd hope he'd be supportive and not judgemental. Alexis shows up and can feel the tension in the room. Lucky angrily leaves and whines something about Sam and Alexis having a lot to talk about, and oh my gawd, Lucky, you are such a petty, weird dum dum. Sam and Liz's newfound friendship does have the added benefit of having taught Sam to shoot a pretty funny bitchface in Lucky's direction.

Jason's Penthouse: Jason angrily yells at Bernie on the phone and says he needs intel on the Z's as fast as possible. He breathlessly takes another call and angrily tells someone that he's home and they shouldn't come here, but he agrees to meet. Then he throws some crystal at the fireplace, so we know this is serious. Carly shows up and says she heard something break. He says he was venting. She says he doesn't vent. heh. She apologizes for not helping him set up a meeting with sonny. He says it was the right thing to not get involved. She says she had to pick Jax over them. Jason is very agitated in his voice, and movements and pacing. He says Sonny has always been his friend, but things are changing, and he doesn't know how to protect Sonny from himself and his destructive choices. Aw, I think Spinelli has rubbed off on Jason a little because he's rambling in code. And also, I think Jason has dipped into Maxie's meth stash because he can't stand still for even 3 seconds. Carly asks him to not speak in riddles, but he says he can't talk about the details and changes the subject to hear about how things are going with her and Jax. She says it's good, and she's throwing a charity function tomorrow for head injuries. She says he doesn't have to come, but he can give a lot of money. Her words are light and playful, but she's very distracted by the way Jason is clearly so distracted himself. He's only going through the motions of having a conversation, not b/c he's rude or she's boring, but because he clearly has 20 things on his mind. Her eyes get teary as realizes he's not going to let her do anything to help him, and she can't help him anyway b/c of Jax, but she can tell him that she's rooting for him and hopes everything works out for the best. Aw.

Corinthaus: Claud explains to spinelli that a confrontation is brewing between Jason and Sonny, and for now Spinelli should think of Corinthaus as the enemy camp and stay away to remain safe. Spinelli says he understands but asks her to ask Mr. Sir to call him. She says she'll ask but can't promise results.

Carly's: Looloo hangs out at Carly's and does business because magazines are totally a telecommute sort of business. I'm very pleased with how pretty Looloo and Carly's hair is looking today. Loo has come to borrow money, and Carly kindly hops right up to write a check. That's really nice. Loo says she couldn't ask Nik b/c he'd just buy her building and give it ot her. Carly says she'd have taken that offer in a heartbeat, but Loo wants to be independent. Again, maybe Port Charles should invest in a dictionary.

GH: Piph tells Johnny she can't hire him as an orderly. Johnny is learning the lesson that a recession is a crummy time to not have a job b/c there are over-qualified people out of work and looking for anything. Piph is remarkably kind and compassionate during this scene, and I'd love to see more of this side of her.

Sam's: Sam tells Alexis she's terrible at office work. Alexis cutely teases that she remembers. Sam then talks about her brush with Everyday Heroes, but since the producer left to team up with Jack Bauer, that went away too. Alexis, of course, says she doesn't have to justify. Sam says "I'm sorry, I am still in my conversation with Lucky." Heh. She says to Alexis what she wanted to say to Lucky that he's not supportive. Alexis says she's happy to help her any way she can. Sam says she expectd resistence, and Alexis assures her there is none. She says Spinelli is in trouble, and she can't help him, but she thought Sam would want to know. Sam thanks her for letting her know.

Casa de 3's a crowd: Maxie jubilantly greets Spinelli. He tells her the bad news that he believes Jason compromised himself to save Spinelli. Maxie says she's sure Spinelli had a big price tag on his head, but he's worth it, and it was Jason's decision to make. She asks if Jason told him it was handled and to stay out of it, and Spin says he did. She begs him to follow Jason's orders, for his own sake and for hers.

Casa de 3's a Crowd: I guess it's later. Loo calls the hospital for some reason b/c of Johnny's interview. Let's just ignore that it makes no sense and that Piph tells Loo that she couldn't hire Johnny b/c all that really matters is Johnny comes home and happily tells Loo that he got the job. It's never easy to deal with a lie, and Looloo sort of stammers in surprise at his news and opts to play along.

Corinthaus: Claud once again watches Jerry Probst's next bag of puzzle pieces in the living room. kHate eaveslurks from the terrace. She smirks, so we can assume she heard or saw at least a little bit of Jerry.

Jason's Penthouse: Raynor shows up and tells Jason that someone hijacked a Hallifiction truck, and Jason has to find out who did it and recover the contents. for some reason, Raynor thinks it was either Sonny or a biker gang. Um, gee, maybe it was terrorists. I know we are simply setting up Feb sweeps with this, but that was a pretty silly list of suspects. Jason thinks this will put suspicion on him of Raynor swoops in and arrests whoever did this, but Raynor tells him that he better do it in a Superjasely fashion, then.