GH Recap 1/22: Long time no see..

Nik drops by to visit on robin. They share some cute trivialities. She brightly asks how he is, and he's surprised b/c afterall she's the new mom in a new house. She brushes this off and says she doesn't want to talk about that right now. Then she cleverly covers by saying she knows today is Emily's birthday and that's hard on him.

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Emma's Palatial Estate: Nik says it's been on his mind, and he thought he was past it. That's the bummer about grief. It's so not over at the funeral. It's really moments like this, the first birthday or Christmas without someone that really makes the loss unbearable.

Corinthaus: The Basoon of Bumbling Boinks plinks merrily as Max stops Sonny from walking in on Claud and Ric in bed. Claud whispers that they are gone, and Ric hotly says his life just passed before his eyes. Then they giggle and bury themselves back under the covers.

Corinthaus: the living room, office, bar, study, dining room part. Carly has visited. They talk about Jax a bit.

Jason's Penthouse: Sam is bugging Jason to let her help him help her help Spinelli. Or something like that. Jason pauses and agrees she might be helpful, but she's no good to Spinelli if she gets herself killed.

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Jason's Penthouse: Sam babbles that she has a lost of history with Wheels...that her mom in the DA? What is she talking about? She says something like there would be a lot of fall out if he killed her? Is Sam drunk again? I loved boozy Sam, so I don't say that to be judging. Anyhow, somehow Jason does understand what she's saying, and the plan is she's going to try to get hired by Wheels. Won't someone notice that she's only had jobs for downfallen mobsters in the past year and find that fishy? Spinelli runs in and babbles something.

Emma's Palatial Estate: So Nadine is officially being thrown under the bus, just in case there was any question. Robin can tell by the way Nik sips his tea that he's dating a nurse called Nadine, but he's not that into her b/c he misses Emily. Nik says it's true. Robin starts talking about losing Stone, as she does. But she seems sad about something in the present and not just Stone, and Nik eyes her closely and asks how she's feeling now. She can only look at her lap.

Corinthaus: Sonny mumbles something about being trapped with a man with a temper. Carly smiles and says he never let his bad association with snow hurt the boys. He'd go out and build snowmen. Was he tortured by snow as well as closets as a child? I didn't know that story. Carly says he'll never change.

Claud's Room: Ric starts to get dressed, so Claud grabs his pants so he can't go anywhere. She doesn't want Sonny to catch them. Ric kisses her and says this is all a lot of fun, but she's clearly after something, so just tell him what it is.

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Jason's Penthouse: Spinelli brings a tray of food from the Foodenator 3000 shelf that all these idiots have in lieu of actual kitchens. Sam and Spinny catch up a bit. He comments that before she was the first lieutenant, and he was the visitor. But now spinelli is the one giggling over Chinese food. Sam smiles and says she thinks Spinelli is trying to get information from her.

Emma's Palatial Estate: Robin says she was very overwhelmed at first. Nik says that's normal (from what he's read about child rearing, seeing as he has spent 8 minutes with his). robin sadly shrugs and says people say it's normal. Nik does admit that he's a crappy father and that he relied too much on Emily. Oh, so great. Poor little Homer was basically being raised by Emily, and now she's dead, and his mother is dead, and you ignore him? Robin talks about missing Emily some more.

Nurse's Station: Matt does some work. Gumchewily stops up and for some reason even though they are talking about getting coffee, she looks him up and down like she's talking about licking his lolly and deep throating his stethoscope. He offers to walk her to the coffee shop, but she stares at his crotch and purrs (well, as well as a person can purr while also gnashing on gum like a cow with its cud) and says she just needs directions. And about a gallon of eye makeup remover, my guess is.

Corithaus: Carly and Sonny are bickering. Why are they even having a conversation? He says she's messy. She says to drop it, or she will talk about the freaky stuff he does in the morning. Thankfully, he agrees to drop it, so we don't have to hear about it, and I'm basically reciting the pledge of allegiance as fast as I can to clear my mind and not come with gross things Sonny's ablutions.

Claud's Bedroom: Ric and Claud tickle and frolic and run all around the room basically having a pillow fight, until she stops him and says that, no, for real her family is crazy dangerous, and he really needs to come clean. He breaks the news that he knows she fired The Rifle on Sonny's wedding day. Or maybe he said he knows Wheels did it? claud covers her face in surprise. I can't remember if she knew this or not. She does looks surprised, though.

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Claud's room: Claud stands and says she knew Krapov didn't shoot Kate. She asks how ric found out. He says he walked in on Wheels with the rifle. He exposits Wheel's plan to shoot Kate, frame the Russians, drive Sonny into Sonniness, and getting Sonny to marry Claud, gawd this show is stupid. Claud angrily says Wheels and Ric undersestimate her, and she can't believe he's kept this from her. He says it's hard to trust, and he's risking his life by telling her. Claud says she knows what he's risking, but he might as well finish. Ric agrees and says that Wheels is planning on escalating the nonsense between Jason and Sonny. Claud magically figures out that this means Sonny will kill Jason, and Wheels will kill sonny. Man, I would so love to watch the show where that actually happens!

Corinthaus: Sonny is annoyed that Carly didn't invite Robin the GIGANTIC shindig that Carly has taken all of 4 hours to plan. It's how all fundraisers happen: You wait until the day of the party, and then you invite everyone, and then you hire a chef, and then you pick a venue. Carly finally leaves, and Sonny laughs at something one of the voices in his head just said. I don't know how else to describe his odd giggle.

Jason's Penthouse: Spinelli is still mad at himself for getting hacked. Sam says he has to simply trust Jason. She thanks him for the snacks and leaves. Yes, I'm so sure Sam does a lot of between meal snacking.

GH: Jason and Patrick bicker a bit about Chucky's condition. I guess Patrick has said something that gives Carly hope, and Jason is concerned about that. Hey, Jason, why not mention that his wife has PPD? Patrick really believes in the foundation Carly has set up, and if she feels happy to help someone else with Chucky's condition, they should encourage her. Patrick asks how Robin was when she visited him. This is a really busy day for a blizzard day. Every character has been across town at least 3 times. Jason says Robin was tense.

Emma's Place: Somehow Nik has managed to bring a giant white vase as a present. Did he load that in his trunk? It's as big as Robin. Robin talks some more about Emily being crazy in love with him. He thanks her, and she says she's sorry he's hurting right now. Well, I'm not sorry, because at least he's not chasing around Gidget!

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I had to stop watching Grey's Anatomy when Denny came back from the dead, and I realized that show had actually become stupider than this one. I recapped an episode for old time's sake. But I still miss Bailey when I see her on the promos.

Jason's Penthouse: Jason comes home, and Spinelli quickly brushes off the cookie crumbs and says he was just holding the cookie jar to dust it and nervously runs upstairs. Jason asks what he's really doing, and he then he yells at Spinelli for having already been arrested for treason for hacking the FBI, and now he's doing it again. Spinelli says Jason left him no choice.

Corinthaus: claud is dressed and have some post coital coffee. Sonny says he was knocking on her door later. She says she was listening to her ear buds really loud. She stirs her coffee and licks the spoon, and all of this jitteriness causes Sonny to yell at her that he knows she's hiding something. (psst, Sonny, she's a mobster. She doesn't have to be jittery to seem like she's hiding something. It's sort of her entire nature.)

Nurse's Station: Layla giddily talks to someone on the phone that she's excited about seeing. patrick and Liz walk up and gossip about Robin a bit. Nik shows up to say he saw Patrick's new place and it's nice. He asks how Robin is doing. But then the elevator door opens and Sexy Guitar starts playing, so we know something sexy is happening. It's Gumchewily, still in her kicky beret and black (because that's how you can tell a girl is independent and good in bed...she wears a lot of black!) For some reason that will never make sense to me unless Gumchewily has an obscure form of OCD, she just remains inside the elevator, eyeing Nik curiously. Or is that sexily? Or is it independently? Hard to tell.

Emma's Place: Carly shows up to invite Robin to the benefit, but oddly, Sexy Guitar is still playing. Robin glares at Carly, adn then we hear Emma in the baby monitor. Carly easily says she can wait if robin wants to get the baby. There is nothing judging at all in her tone. It's how you'd say something if someone dropped a pile of papers, how you'd ask if they needed help. But Robin crazily over-reacts and says "what did you just say" and then she tells Carly that she's in no position to judge her on parenting.

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Emma's: Carly angrily says she just said that she'll wait while Robin goes and checks on her baby. She says the baby is now screaming her head off. Robin knows she's totally messed up and revealed a bit about her crazy feelings to someone she never should have, and she sighs, sad adn chastened.

Nurse's Station: So now this crazy chick in the beret has just gotten off an elevator, but she is now trying to get on the other elevator? This is super weird OCD. A janitor is cleaning the other elevator. Though, he's hilariously cleaning it while it goes up and down to different floors, thus bumming out everyone when he shows up, and they realize they can't get on. Johnny would be much better than this guy. Nik and Patrick gossip a bit about Robin. Nik says she seemed fine and sleep deprived. Patrick says Liz was very helpful. Liz humbly says she didn't do much. Nik says that Robin stopped by and remembered it was emily's birthday. Patrick and Liz share a sorrowful look. Meanwhile, there's this whole entire world of action going on with the elevator and Gumchewily getting on the other elevator, and then 15 patients getting on with her, and all the while, she's staring at everyone like it's all so sexy to her.

Ugly Motel Room in 1974: Some dude answers a phone to do some The Danger

Cafe Interrogate: Why would the FBI hang out in an interrogation room. Raynor angrily is on the phone saying that they have a Jack Bauerian level problem with this lost shipment, and they really, super a lot have to find it, like yesterday. Spinelli visits for some reason, because I guess he knows this is Raynor's office now. Raynor explains that the death penalty is still on the table, and Spinelli says he knows. Raynor is about to eat Spinelli's head, I think. Anyone with a third of a brain would be afraid of this Raynor person, but Spinelli still thinks he simply has to ask why he was let free. Oh, brudder. Shut, UP Spinelli. Jason obviously had to turn evidence about Sonny. Gawd. Grandma Audrey knows this, why don't you?

corinthaus: Claud continues her stupid little dance of diffusing the suspicions that are on her because she stupidly keeps watching her Jerry Probst dvd's in plain sight. She turns on the waterworks, but they are so emotionally detached, that it's almost less like she's cryign than when people fake cry, if that makes sense. She says she's afraid of her father. Sonny demands she quit talking in riddles b/c this is the most scared he's ever seen her. He says she has to tell him what's up. She gulps.

The end