Making the Rounds at General Hospital - Broken Pieces

Last week on General Hospital Patrick broke his hand, Lulu and Jason found Spinelli and made a break for it while Ric broke all the rules to try and stop them, and a broken hearted Sonny ran away.

The week opened with Robin, still looped from her tequila binge, taking Patrick to the hospital after his fight with Coleman. Noah ordered X-rays and did an exam, and Patrick returned later with his hand and lower arm in a cast. When Noah told him he should hire a practical nurse to help him dress and care for himself—to protect his gifted surgical hands—Robin stepped up to take the job.

Patrick returned to the hospital the next day, determined to be useful even though he couldn't operate. He was quickly frustrated by the fact his father had stepped up to perform the operations he had scheduled. Robin tried to comfort him by offering to help him find an apartment – deciding he had lived in the hotel room too long. (She has a point, he's been in town a year now.) But it was Monica who truly helped him feel useful when she asked him to give a lecture to a class of medical students.

This story arc was a nice turn in Robin's latest attack of self-destruction. There's a new maturity in Patrick that gives the character great depth. the onscreen chemistry between Jason Thompson and Rick Springfield as this father/son duo continues to shine, even though the pair seem to have moved beyond their issues and are developing a more supportive relationship. Coming up in the New Year we will get the final results of Patrick's HIV test (from the surgical accident) and I look forward to seeing these three continue to act and interact with each other.

With Lulu's help, Jason found Spinelli's grandmother's house. They put a scheme in motion, allowing Grandma to believe Lulu was there as a pregnant girlfriend so she would let them wait for him to return. Spinelli first refused to go back to Port Charles, but when he unknowingly tipped off Lorenzo's henchmen, he realized he had little choice but to implicate the mob-boss before he could have him eliminated.

Meanwhile, back in Port Charles, Lorenzo discovered Ric had assigned Lucky to watch his house and decided to turn up the heat on the crooked DA. He called off his henchmen and allowed Lulu, Jason, and Spinelli to return to Port Charles. While Sonny distracted Ric, Jason turned himself in, and Spinelli showed the police detectives how he had faked and coded the flash drive, providing a duplicate copy of the evidence.

Mac Scorpio asked Ric to produce the original flash drive for comparison. Ric found his locked drawer empty. Though he blamed Jason and Sonny for stealing it – it was in fact Lorenzo, who also has a taped confession of Ric saying he planted it in Sam's apartment to frame her. To the rest of the world Ric is beginning to look corrupt, to Lorenzo he is looking more and more like his personal puppet. At some point, amidst all of this, he also found the time to plant a ziplock full of pills in Lucky's desk. (Who is going to find them first is the big question for next week's viewing.)

Article Author: Connie Phillips

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