Making the Rounds at General Hospital: Tricks and Treats

There was plenty of trickery as well as treats for the viewers this past week on General Hospital as Ric moved forward with his plan to frame Sam and Jason and interfering with Lucky and Liz along the way; Alexis attempted to take back her job; Diego called Maxie out on her pregnancy (or non-pregnancy); and everyone around Laura tried to shield her from the truth.

As revenge against his brother Sonny, and in response to his deep seated hate for Jason, Ric moved forward with his plan to frame Sam, kill Jason, and have Sonny imprisoned. With Lorenzo's help, he obtained a falsified flash drive full of fabricated damning evidence against Sonny and Jason's operation. He planted it in a box of evidence collected in the raid of one of their warehouses, and removed it before it could be decoded. When it showed up at Sam's apartment, she was arrested for using the security clearance of her job at the police station to steal the evidence.

Later Ric needled her with pictures of Jason with Liz, telling the woman Jason was not going to be doing anything to save her. Scared and upset, she hit Ric with a chair and escaped police custody with the help of Detective Cruz, who has been suspicious of Ric all along. While Jason and Sam avoided being caught, the detective relayed his suspicions to Alexis and later to Jason and Sam. As he was filling the young couple in on his suspicions, Ric happened upon the trio at the docks. They feigned a stand-off and, at the very end of Friday's show, Ric had grabbed Cruz's gun and fired in Jason and Sam's direction.

Earlier on Friday's episode he visited Lucky at rehab, misleading Liz to believe he was going to show Lucky the pictures of her and Jason together. Instead, it was other surveillance information concerning Sonny and Jason. Lucky thanked Ric for his faith in him, but said he could not work on a case against Jason after he had tried to frame him before.

So Ric has become the resident bad guy, turning back to his evil ways and blaming it all on Alexis and Sonny and their inability to accept or love him. Funny thing is, Alexis was just fine with Ric until he slept with her daughter. He and Sonny had an understanding until Ric tried to push him over the edge when he was struggling with his bipolar disorder. He accuses Sam of not accepting her part in their one-night stand, but also pushes blame in everyone else's direction. All in all, he's become one of those characters who gives the viewer great pleasure to hate.

Article Author: Connie Phillips

Wife, mother, aspiring novelist, and music editor at BC Magazine, Connie Phillips spends most of her time in a fantasy land of her own creating. In reality, she writes about music, television, and the process of writing, when she's not cheering on her kids at equestrian events. …

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