Thursday, February 8, 2007:

The following takes place between 10:00pm and 11:00pm.
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PCPD – The Only Interrogation Room In The Whole Damn Precinct
Luke is drawing himself a map of the hotel. Tracy comes in. She’s not bailing him out. She wants him to let the police handle things. Luke reminds her that she’s been big on him helping his daughter. Tracy sighs and says she’ll post his bail on one condition: he had to go see Skye at the hospital and find out what she knows.

Not Starbucks – Sonny’s Office
Spinelli says he can’t find info on CJC. He asks how the Boys are. Jason says they’re fine and he sent them to stay with Bobbie. Spinelli gives Jason an earpiece with a mike. They test it. Mike comes in and tells Jason he can get Jason into the lobby. Mike shows Jason a passage where he and his bookie like to do business. He and another person handle illegal business transactions inside a hotel with state-of-the-art security? Dumb. Mike leaves. Spinelli comes back in and Jason tells him that once they get in, things will go fast so Spinelli has to focus. Is Spinelli okay with this? Spinelli says he owes it to Lulu to get her out. They’re about to leave when Ric shows up. He’s got a warrant to hold Jason for 48 hours so that Jason won’t do something stupid, like mount a rescue. Jason’s phone rings. It’s Sonny. Sonny wants Jason to make arrangements to have a speed boat ready at Pier 17. Jason hangs up the phone. Ric assumes it had something to do with how to get into the hotel. He rips up the warrant and leaves. He figures Jason will distract the gunmen which will give the police the time they need to get the hostages out and Jason will possibly get killed in the process. He leaves. Jason gets on the phone and puts Sonny’s instruction into effect. Spinelli wonders what the new plan is. Jason’s all “same as the old one.” Spinelli says they can’t just walk into the trap set by the DA. Jason doesn’t care. They have a small window of opportunity.

GH – Evil Al’s Room
Alcazar asks Skye if everything’s going okay with the shipment. She thinks he’s recovered his memory but he hasn’t. Epiphany says Dr. Ford’s waiting in the hallway for Skye. Dr. Ford tells Skye he wants to bring in a cognitive specialist to help Alcazar. She vetoes that idea tout suite. Alcazar’s got evil employers who can’t know that he’s incapacitated in any way. Dr. Ford is adamant about rehab starting right away. Luke comes in to talk to Skye. She confides in Luke what’s going on.

Metro Court – Lobby, Outside, Rooms #1 & #2, Vault
In the lobby, Robin asks Elizabeth how bad is it. Elizabeth tells her. Emily asks if she can check on Robin. CJC has her change places with Lulu. Emily tells Robin the bullet’s still in her. They tell her that even Carly helped to save her life.

Outside, Patrick wants Ric to call again and try to make a deal. Ric tells Patrick that CJC doesn’t want to deal. Ric walks away. Patrick’s standing there, looking very unhappy, when Pete comes up and asks how things are. Patrick goes on and on about how he loves Robin, how he’s changed for the better since he met her, blah blah blah. Pete suggests coffee, but Patrick won’t leave. Pete leaves. Mac assures Patrick that he’ll do everything to make sure Robin stays with them a long time. And if that isn’t the biggest foreshadowing of a death knoll, I don’t know what is.

In Room #2, Carly asks Sonny why it feels like he’s saying goodbye to her. They tell each other they love one another and then kiss. Carly breaks it off and says she can’t go through this again. Sonny says they can make a go of it.

In the lobby, Robin is in pain. Elizabeth and Emily want aspirin. The Gunman (I’m thinking it’s 4) says no. Lulu proposes alcohol. 4 says ok. Emily’s not sure they should give Robin alcohol considering how much blood she’s lost and how dehydrated she is. Robin says that she’s being held together with thread and duct tape so she’ll take her chances. What hotel keeps alcohol out in the lobby? I’ve never been to one that does. Even the primo 5 star hotels don’t do that. Robin tells Emily and Elizabeth not to blame themselves when she dies. Elizabeth tells her not to think that way. Robin want them to help Patrick through things and help him find a woman who will help him.

In the other part of the lobby, Sam tries to give Fr. Ruiz the knife. He won’t take it at first but when she mentions making amends for Manny, he gives in. Before he can take it, CJC comes up and says they look rather intense. Sam says she can’t sit next to Fr. Ruiz. CJC wants to know why. Fr. Ruiz says the he reminds her of Manny, his twin brother. CJC wants to know how alike they were. Fr. Ruiz: “Enough alike until I gave myself to God.” But the way he said that made it seem like God didn’t take all of him, you know what I’m saying? CJC stokes Sam’s hair and can’t believe that Fr. Ruiz isn’t attracted to Sam. Fr. Ruiz tells CJC that he’s praying for his soul. CJC kicks Fr. Ruiz and says that his prayers are wasted. He decides to change up the hostages. He grabs Nikolas, to which Lulu protests. He tells her to sit and shut it. CJC then takes Nikolas to Alan.

In Room #2, CJC comes in to check on Carly and Sonny. He wants to know how soon Sonny can arrange for an escape. Sonny tells CJC to dial. After the call to Jason, Sonny tells CJC it’s all set up. CJC says thanks but he won’t need it. Carly asks why he made the call then. Sonny says CJC already has an exit strategy in place, but this call puts the cops on the wrong trail if they were listening to the call. Carly says CJC will still need a back up. CJC says he does. He says that he and Sonny are alike. Carly disagrees. Sonny offers CJC money to let Carly go. CJC says no. He leaves. Sonny and Carly talk. 4 comes in to check on them and they get the drop on him. They tie him up.

In Room #1, Nikolas covers Alan with a sheet and they talk about his relationship with Emily. Alan gets sicker so Nikolas calls for help. 5 brings Emily in to help. Nikolas tries to appeal to 5 but 5 says his job will be easier if people die.

Outside, the SWAT Captain tells Ric they’ve spotted movement on the south side entrance. Wait, I thought Spinelli and Jason were going in through the east side entrance? The Captain says he’s got a team ready to intercept at any time. Ric tells them to stand down. The Captain protests, but Ric covers by saying that he doesn’t want to run around half cocked in case those are hostages.

Jason and Spinelli are at the entrance waiting for the locks to resent. They click and Spinelli pushes some buttons. Jason starts to open the door and Spinelli starts his mantra of “please no alarms, please no alarms.” Jason thought Spinelli disabled the alarms. Spinelli says he did, in theory.

Luke finds Lucky and tells him about Alcazar and the briefcase. He says it’s not some botched robbery. He tells Lucky this is his last chance. “Are you with me?”

Back in the lobby, Fr. Ruiz wants to know what Sam will do with the knife. She’s not going to wait for someone to rescue her. Fr. Ruiz points out that they don’t know who has the detonator. Sam says that no one was ever saved by giving into their fear.

A henchman (possibly 7 since 4 is tied up and 5 deposited Emily with Alan) pulls Elizabeth away from Robin to Lulu. Elizabeth starts to cramp. Lulu goes to get water but 6 stops her. Sam pipes up that no one wants a baby born in the middle of all this so 6 agrees to the water. Lulu gets a bottle but CJC comes back and nixes it. Lulu protests and calls him a psycho freak. CJC tells 7 to take her back to another room. Elizabeth says that Lulu’s just scared for her. CJC wonders why Elizabeth needs the water. Elizabeth explains that dehydration causes the cramps that could lead to her giving birth. He gives her the water when she says please and thank you. I have the same water bottles. They’re sold in some of the nicer grocery stores here in Los Angeles, and of all places, a 7-11 in Studio City, which is probably near where GH films. CJC says courtesy goes a long way. Sam: “How’s this for courtesy? I’ll thank whatever cop blows your head off.” CJC starts to lean in to say something to her. Elizabeth groans, distracting him enough so that Sam can kick his legs out from under him, grab him into a head lock and put the knife to his throat.