Friday, February 9, 2007:

The following takes place between 11:00pm and 12:00am.
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This episode focuses entirely on the Metro Court so there’s no outside storyline. Therefore, I think I’m just going to go in the scene order. This means no blue location explanations.

Luke asks Lucky if he’s in. Lucky’s all “you bet your sweet ass I am.”

Jason opens the door. Spinelli’s glad there are no alarms. Jason tells him he can still back out. Spinelli says that he’s Jason’s wingman, his Apollo to his Starbuck, etc. Jason tells him to focus. He gives Spinelli a gun.

Sam hold CJC at knife point and tells everyone to drop their guns. CJC says that the gunmen aren’t his friends. They’re paid to do a job and they will blow up the lobby. Sam lets go of him. He takes the knife from her.

Sonny and Carly are leaving the room when they run into the Henchman with Lulu. It’s not 7, as I thought. 7 has a New York accent and this one has an Irish accent. I’ll call him 8. 8 tells them to drop the weapon or she dies. Sonny gives up his weapon.

Lucky tells Luke he’s breaking laws to include Luke. Dillon wants in as well.

Mac’s mad at Ric for not following chain of command and coordinating with rest of the department. I still don’t think Ric as the DA has this much clout over the PCPD but whatever. Mayor Floyd shows up and demands to know why the hostages aren’t out.

Spinelli’s not good with guns. Jason shows him how to unlock the safety. They go in.

Elizabeth whimpers again and CJC wonders if she’s faking it. She says she’s not. He tells her to meditate on her navel. 8 brings Sonny, Carly and Lulu back to the lobby. CJC pulls Sam out of the lobby.

Nikolas wonders if CPR would help. Emily says it won’t work because Alan’s heart needs to be shocked back into rhythm. Alan says all this time he was worried about Jason because of his lifestyle and instead it’s him who’s dying in the middle of a hostage situation. Nikolas finds another aspirin. Emily says Alan needs a defibrillator soon or he’ll die.

Luke tells Dillon they’re not looking to form a possee. Dillon snits that he and Lulu are connected and that if the 2 of them can risk their life for family, then so can he. No one points out the obvious: Lucky is trained, Luke’s got years of experience on his side. Dillon’s got nothing but movie watching as experience. Luke says Dillon’s not going in. Tracy shows up and tells Luke he’s not either. Luke can’t sit back and let the cops get his daughter killed. Tracy gives him a kiss before he and Lucky leave.

Mayor Floyd blusters some more about the hostages.

Maxie’s staring at 3. He wants to know what she’s staring at. She says she’s hungry. She wants pizza. 3 says he wants a Philly Cheesesteak, but a real one from Philly. Maxie says gross but 3 says authentic ones are best. She says he has to tell her where in Philly. 3 realizes he’s said too much and tells her to mind her own business.

Spinelli and Jason are in the hallway. Jason needs Spinelli to pull up the schematics on rooms that have air ducts. Spinelli measures Jason’s shoulders with his hands. Jason’s all “don’t touch me.” Spinelli tells him he might have to hunch. Jason: “I don’t hunch.” Spinelli pulls up the schematics and realizes that Jason won’t know where he’s going. He wonders if Jason’s okay with being dependent on him for guidance. Jason says he trusts Spinelli.

CJC goes into the room with Alan, Emily, and Nikolas. He kicks them out to the lobby. He tells 6 to check on 4 as well. He then turns to Sam and tells her she’s in big trouble. He unzips her jumpsuit. She calls him a pig. He rezips her jumpsuit, and tells her he doesn’t rape women but that she was expecting it. He figures she’d do anything to stay alive, even at the expense of others.

Lulu tends to Elizabeth. Elizabeth asks Carly how Robin’s doing. Carly says from what she can tell, she’s still breathing. 8 won’t let her check. Emily, Nikolas, and Alan come back in. Sonny convinces 6 to let them use the defib machine on Alan.

Ric and Mayor Floyd argue some more.

Tracy and Dillon are standing around waiting. Scotty shows up.

CJC tells Sam there’s a certain nobility in the other women. They care about others. But not her. Self preservation is her most basic instinct. He compares her to him. And the writers pretty much hit the nail on the head as to why Sam doesn’t work for me as a character. She’s completely selfish. Sure, she loves Jason, sure she loved her brother, but in the end, she’d sacrifice them to save her own skin. Which she did with her brother, right? Didn’t she let her developmentally disabled brother take the blame for a fire that she actually started?

Spinelli and Jason enter a room, where Jason notices blood. Spinelli is freaked that the evil doers were in this room. What if they come back?

Emily shocks Alan. His heartbeat stabilizes. CJC brings Sam back to the lobby. He’s not happy about 6 giving Emily a defib machine. He rearranges the hostages. He stops Elizabeth when she goes for more water. He hears helicopters and goes into a rage. He grabs Elizabeth and gets on the phone with Ric. He tells Ric to get rid of the helicopters or else Nurse Elizabeth gets shot.

Jason hears the helicopters. He has Spinelli switch the safety off the gun and goes into the air duct. Spinelli puts his gun on the floor next to the chair he’s sitting in.

Maxie tells 3 she’s not trying to trick him. She’s just making conversation. She’s a strange combination of bored and terrified. 3 says soldiers go through that. Maxie starts to talk about her family and how she’s the family disaster.

Tracy thought Scotty was in prison. Dillon thought he’d be gone for good after the Port Charles fire. Scotty says that you can never really leave PC. Tracy wonders why he’s back now. Scotty says he heard about Laura. Dillon asks why he cares about Laura. That was ages ago.

Luke and Lucky land on the roof. They’ll get into the security offices behind the lobby.

CJC says he can still here the helicopters. Ric says it’s just news helicopters. He wants Elizabeth released. CJC wonders what’s in it for him.

Carly’s on the floor with Alan. She asks if he’s okay. He says that nothing she will do can ever make up for what she did to AJ. She’s sure that AJ wouldn’t want Alan to die just because he wouldn’t take help from her.

Nikolas notices the helicopter going away. Emily starts to cry about Spencer and Cam.

3 can’t believe that someone as pretty as Maxie isn’t popular. Maxie says she isn’t. 3 wants her to explain. She explains about Jesse, Lucky, the pills, the fake pregnancy and miscarriage. 3 thinks she’s more interesting than he thought. Maxie says that compared to him, her life is pretty sunshine and roses right now.

Ric says he thinks the gunmen will release the pregnant hostage. Mayor Floyd wants the cops and SWAT to storm the building when she’s released.

Scott tells Dillon he’s loved Laura his whole life and that he’s had his whole life to see the Luke and Laura romance. It was abusive and not what it seemed. Not that Scotty was any better for Laura. He’s a thief and a thug, just like Luke, except he comes from a better background. At least Luke admits his flaws.

Luke and Lucky are in the security offices. They view the cameras and notice that one isn’t completely blacked out. Lucky sees that Elizabeth is in distress.

CJC tells the hostage that Ric will do anything for a hostage to be released. Emily says it should be Robin. CJC says that’s not an option since she’s provided him with a lot of entertainment thus far. He thinks it should be Elizabeth or Alan. But first, CJC needs to kill Sonny.

In the air duct, Jason crawls along. Spinelli tells him that he should be seeing an opening a few feet in front of him. Jason sees it. He looks down into the lobby.

It’s Maxie’s turn to guess stuff about 3. She says she can’t really guess about someone when she doesn’t know what he looks like. She says he has nice eyes, a decent physique, interesting friends, and likes heavy firearms. 3 tells Maxie that Lucky didn’t deserve her. Maxie finds it hard to believe that 3 never cheated on a girl. He says he never did. Maxie says it’s nice to know that he has a moral code. She realizes that Lucky loves Elizabeth, she knew he always did, but she didn’t care.

Scotty tells Tracy it behooves her to help him out by staying married to Luke because if Laura ever recovers, Luke might try to go back to her.

Ric and Mayor Floyd fight some more. You can’t put the hostages in the middle of a firefight. Mayor Floyd thinks these guys will realize the money isn’t worth it. Ric says the situation isn’t about money and jewels. CJC has an agenda and you’ll get people killed.

Luke stops Lucky from charging in when he sees Elizabeth in distress.

Spinelli hears a noise and tells Jason to stop. He goes diving behind a desk, leaving his gun on the floor. 8 pulls Sonny into the room and tells him to face the wall. Sonny says that even in 3rd world countries, prisoners get a cigarette and a meeting with a priest. 8 says Sonny’s had all night to say his prayers. Sonny turns around and says he at least wants to look at his killer. 8 tells him to suit himself. Jason’s hearing all this via Spinelli’s headset.

CJC says they have a dilemma. Who gets to leave? He points a gun at Emily and tells her to choose: Alan or Elizabeth.