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00:00house lulu's done a lot in a short amount of time yeah i know she really did right
00:06she's not here right now and donte took the kids so i figured this would be a really safe spot
00:11for us to discuss our plan so tell me what's going on with sybil laura i think you're in big trouble
00:22aurora's media coverage of drew's candle was fair willow thought so and i just don't think
00:29it's a big deal running an editorial simply based on the facts and it is factually accurate
00:36that drew has yet to prove that he was drugged i just don't think that it's a good move
00:41why and why are you defending him because i have to i'm not up to anything i was just asking ned
00:50to endorse my mother for mayor lulu this isn't about ned or your mother or the running of port
00:59charles this is about you and brooklyn let me guess brooklyn's still complaining because i'm
01:08writing an article about adoption i know from unfortunate experience what every member of the
01:16quarter main household sounds like but they're complaining and brooklyn's not complaining
01:21what was it it was fear panic desperation and pain
01:34i swear i didn't know that brooklyn and chase were planning to adopt but you did know
01:40but she gave up a child when she was young and it broke her heart
01:53and apparently you found the shattered pieces
01:56in martin gray's hotel room and you have been tormenting her ever since
02:05okay thanks great so what do you guys say you ready to get your tango on
02:10yes i think so i mean i feel like we've had a couple of very good rehearsals but we could
02:15definitely use some feedback oh there will be feedback brooklyn is a very exacting producer
02:21i promise to be kind after all this is for charity yes and um you know now that you're here
02:31uh the tango is a very passionate dance and uh i'm his boss i'm just glad you're here because
02:40i don't want there to be any question of impriority which of course you know they wouldn't
02:45uh excuse me i don't care if you guys are a brother and sister this dance needs to have
02:50some heat if this performance doesn't go well lucy won't be happy which means i won't be happy
02:56i do live to make lucy happy yes same of course uh where's geo i thought he was gonna play the
03:02violin for you guys he is sorry i'm late is everything all right um not really i sort of
03:12had a rough night last night thanks for coming oh thank you for seeing me i'm assuming that
03:19you've made your decision on your summer research assistant yes i have um
03:25and i'm sorry to say that you did not get the position
03:29oh so good to see you did you spend a lot of time at the pool in la
03:36i spent more time in offices than i did by the pool but i want to hear about you i want to hear
03:41about school i want to hear about everything going on with you yes you will but first i've
03:46got to ask you what's going on with you and sunny you're telling me that you would sell your peers
03:54to sidwell jason i'm gonna consider it okay you know how dangerous this guy is do you really feel
04:03comfortable handing your territory over to him sidwell is not my first choice
04:10but it's the only chance we have to walk away from the business i got a heart problem
04:18for our family's sake i'm not passing it up
04:48well i'm glad rocco's all right yeah lulu must have been going out of her mind
04:56yeah she and dante were both pretty upset yeah we heard dante was pretty hard on you but
05:01i hope you're not taking it too personally though he was probably just scared for rocco
05:06yeah that's what your mom said i i know you guys are trying to look out for me and make
05:10me feel better but i'm good i'm good well if you're ready we are as ready as lovers yeah
05:16yeah let's have a go okay all right so what do you think about this for chase's tango outfit
05:25i think that he would break his own leg if he had to wear that
05:30sometimes you could just say pass sorry pass pass
05:36i'm surprised you're still talking to me oh yeah pretty sure i'm not supposed to be talking to
05:41lulu i should never have asked you to pick sides maxie and even though lulu has done one
05:48too many things to me doesn't give me the right to try to force you to choose between your friends
05:53yeah well it's okay no it's not and i'm sorry apology accepted
06:01what was it that made you decide to let go of whatever it was she did this time
06:06well chase and i are starting the process of trying to adopt a child
06:11what oh my gosh i'm so happy for you thank you and since i'm on my way to becoming a parent
06:20myself i thought this was a good time to start acting like an adult which means no more unnecessary
06:25drama or childish demands okay i have the highest grade out of anyone in your class and you
06:31practically told me that that job was mine to lose in all honesty it was and unfortunately that's
06:38that's exactly what happened how because i can't have a research assistant who can't put together a
06:43decent data model what are you talking about i spent weeks on that data model and it's perfect
06:49it is not quite frankly it's a mess do you see what i mean this isn't my work
07:01something is really wrong here there is nothing going on between me and sunny you told me that
07:08you were going to la with him to interview doctors for michael's follow-up treatment and then i'm
07:12i'm spending time with donna and she's going on and on about how worried she is because her father's
07:17sick i lied to you and i'm sorry sunny had heart surgery oh my god is he okay yes he's fine the
07:28surgery was a success he's already back here in port charles but we have to keep it quiet we don't
07:33want people to worry about him you know yes and we don't want sunny's rivals to take advantage of his
07:37condition exactly gosh i'm happy he's okay donna would have been devastated if anything had happened
07:44to her yeah she would have did you have to be the one to go with him i did and not just because of
07:53donna i did it for sunny sunny's been a part of my life for a very long time and i really needed to
08:00be there for him okay i get it just tell me there was no romantic reunion there was no romantic
08:08reunion are you kidding me sunny and i are over i'm with jack now did i just hear my name without
08:14any unflattering adjectives before wow that was perfect timing mr brennan you spying on us
08:23absolutely not i keep my business life separate from my personal life
08:29this morning i was at a meeting with sidwell sidwell's son marco who's
08:34also his lawyer and tracy drew showed up as well but he didn't stay long
08:41that's not a group i would expect to meet for coffee neither would i but they've all decided
08:48to put their differences aside so they can focus on the one goal they have in common
08:52driving sunny out of port charles ah you know i i knew that tracy was gunning for sunny but
08:59i'd hoped that i had talked her out of it yeah well she's not budging and because you're tied
09:05to sunny publicly it's a good bet they're gunning for you as well so they can install boil as mayor
09:13tracy didn't defend me no
09:19then i really am in trouble
09:27wow um you know it's one thing to go up against sidwell and and drew but tracy
09:35i i mean she's got quite a bit of sway in this town don't give up hope yet
09:44strangely enough in the end it might be sidwell comes to your rescue
09:57sidwell's willing to buy my peers at a premium which means i get to walk away with millions of
10:03dollars well i can i can put that towards legitimate businesses then i'm not just talking
10:08to the coffee why would you pay that kind of money when he knows that measures he passes
10:13he could lose the peers because he's betting that if i'm not associated with the peer
10:18the referendum will go away yeah and then he takes full control of our territory what does
10:25it matter jason we'd be out of the game i want out as much as you do but i just have a feeling
10:31that this is a trap do you have to defend him honey for you you're not looking at this
10:41subjectively you have clear bias against drew which i completely understand but that forces
10:48me to play devil's advocate honey i don't want to force you to do anything especially
10:54when drew cain is involved okay um let's say you know what let's say that you do
11:02run this editorial drew's desperate right now he's not gonna let it stand you know i worry
11:09that he could you know he could bring a lawsuit against you i'd like to see him try but you forced
11:15him out of aurora he could argue that it's an intentional attack that you wanted to do him harm
11:21there's more leeway with an editorial than a straight story it's not like i'd be the one
11:25writing it honey you know how this would look this has a potential to backfire in a big big way
11:36okay tormenting is a huge exaggeration which is typical brooklyn it was my word not hers
11:45and i didn't know that she told me about the baby
11:50she told me she got pregnant in high school and she gave the baby a food option
11:56and that's it that's all she said actually she said you stumbled across that information when
12:03you broke into martin gray's hotel room and that you have been poking around in her life ever since
12:10that is not what i don't understand lu even if you can't get along with brooklyn now
12:18how can you not have compassion for the terrified teenager she was you've been there
12:25you know what that horrible moment is like when you realize you're pregnant and you don't want to
12:31be i do feel for brooklyn it's just it's more complicated than that it's always complicated
12:42because it's so personal when you were pregnant what should have been a very quiet
12:50private decision was all of a sudden a public debate and your thoughts and feelings were
12:56obscured by everybody's opinions which were usually not what yours were
13:02mine as well at least in the beginning you got there eventually
13:09your father
13:13once told me that people get to
13:17choose the burdens they're going to carry though i never should have added to your burden
13:24and i'm so sorry but i don't understand why you want to add to brooklyn's burden
13:37so does lulu know that i asked you to choose between us actually i've not spoken with lulu
13:43and it's not because you asked me to we've both just been busy you know yeah she's got a new job
13:50and a new house and i've been going insane running deception we need a new cfo yeah we do
13:55and somehow i got roped into helping lucy yeah i'm so sorry that i added to your stress by asking
14:02you to choose one friendship over another really i'm just glad it never came to that but if you
14:08had to choose i love you both equally and would never choose between either one of you of course
14:15but you would have picked me right oh my gosh
14:20professor dalton i have no idea what has happened here but this is not the work that i completed
14:25okay so maybe that file got corrupted or something okay but whatever the case is i
14:29have no choice but to hire somebody else but this isn't the work that i did i'm sorry
14:34look i know you're disappointed all right but look at the bright side here i mean the data
14:40model was not for credit okay so it's not going to affect your grade and you are still
14:45you're still my top student i understand
14:50i just really really wanted that assistantship and you have no idea how important that job was
14:56to me jack join us no no i don't want to intrude no please it's fine she was just telling me about
15:03her trip to la she was interviewing doctors to to try to find a new job it's okay jack
15:10the real reason i was there in fact he was already on the west coast and he gave me a ride home
15:15on the wsp jet how thoughtful it was and i got home a lot sooner than i would have otherwise
15:26oh this is my professor i have to go what are you talking about we're not done catching up i know
15:32but we will i applied for his summer research position and he could be letting you know if
15:37i got the job or not oh good luck uh thank you and thank you for getting my mom home safe
15:42oh it was my pleasure uh i hope you get the position thank you
15:52i have my reservations about civil too but the pros are outweighing the cons okay let's just
15:57talk through it then okay so we always talked about getting out right there's going to be a
16:03power vacuum somebody's going to take over yeah of course somebody's going to try to take over the
16:09waterfront is way too valuable we've been protecting the waterfront for years all the
16:14families are going to make a play for it right and i've always had my conditions of what
16:19comes in and out of the city yeah and those conditions go away if you're not in charge
16:26so if the families move in right make their play
16:31it's it's not going to be good they're good there's going to be a war
16:35and who's to say we're not going to be dragged right back into this i know selling to sit well
16:44it avoids it and maybe the other families will go after him he knows how to secure his holdings
16:53secure his holdings he'll lay down the law real fast sonny
17:00is this what we want for poor charles
17:04because i have experience with this guy he is ruthless if we do this we would essentially
17:12be handing him the keys to the city and putting targets on our backs
17:16tracy i am not adding to brooklyn's burden and i promise you i am not judging her for giving up her
17:24child but you can see where it might seem like you are when you bring the subject of adoption up and
17:36you can write an article about it but the article is not judging adoption
17:41but if brooklyn feels like it is i guess it must be true
17:46brooklyn says i side with you most of the time you don't
17:52well i guess if you both feel short change that i must be doing something right
17:57for the hundredth time i pitched three ideas to the landview banner and the editor chose
18:02the adoption piece not me and you know what i'm not going to do that
18:08he's not me and you knew that one of the ideas you had was a sensitive subject and you pitched
18:16it anyway and then when the editor picked it you couldn't be blamed that's not why i pitched it
18:24i don't understand why you think you can involve yourself in something that happened
18:29to brooklyn over 20 years ago
18:32i think that brooklyn should tell
18:41the baby's father that he has a child and she doesn't agree
18:46noted moving on wait no there is more it's not your business is this article your way of
18:54disagreeing with brooklyn publicly no okay so then when this article comes out brooklyn's
19:03not going to see any parallels to her own situation i mean it's not impossible
19:11okay how would you feel if you had been keeping a really big secret for a really long time
19:20and brooklyn found out and decided to produce a song about it
19:30i wouldn't love it you should rethink things are you saying i should kill my article yes
19:38yes i think you should
19:44i love you
19:50hey what are you doing here what's wrong everything yeah i just talked to professor
19:58dalton and i didn't get the job the research assistant position is yours
20:05oh wow thank you so much um wow i i can't believe it yeah i was uh i was pretty skeptical when you
20:14applied for the position you know you started class late which didn't help your chances but
20:18you completed the coursework and you did hand in a pretty impressive data model and you did
20:23all of this in a really short amount of time so congratulations well i'm i'm glad that everything
20:30turned out okay don't do that you give yourself credit for this okay because you are smart you
20:37are motivated you are incredibly focused and i have really really high hopes for you okay okay
20:45well thank you so much for the opportunity i'm sure i'm gonna learn so much from being your
20:50assistant i appreciate you looking out for me i i do but that's what excellent lawyers are for
20:59i promise i will consult with my lawyers before i publish anything even if drew doesn't sue
21:07aren't you worried about how this is gonna look for aurora how will it look you slamming someone
21:13that might have been victimized and also going after his sweet adoring girlfriend to the public
21:21that might look like you're bullying them that's ridiculous did you see the press conference
21:26willow she was standing right by drew's side her devotion to him i i mean it's written all over her
21:32it's sincere she could sway public opinion in drew's favor even more reason to to run a counter
21:40viewpoint especially if we want to stop drew from from from getting ezra boyle elected mayor instead
21:46of laura honey please can you just do what i'm asking you to do for my sake what does this have
21:54to do with you don't tell me that you started to buy into sydwell's good guy act not even a little
22:06but he is making a move that may unintentionally make life easier for you i'm listening sydwell
22:14and i paid sunny a visit at his home sydwell made a generous offer to sunny to buy his peers outright
22:23and i assumed that sunny showed him the door actually no he said he'd think it over you're
22:30not telling me that that sunny's actually entertaining sydwell's offer i don't know
22:35but if he does that's great for you the referendum will no longer be about sunny and you can extricate
22:42yourself from him you'll be a shoo-in for re-election yeah but with sunny gone that would
22:48make sydwell the de facto mob boss of port charles look if i could choose between jen
22:55sydwell and sunny corinthals and choose sunny every day of the week i went to see sydwell
23:01when he first got here he said he was running a legitimate business yeah but you didn't buy that
23:07no but i mean you know what he he's got eyes on him now maybe he's on his best behavior keeping
23:15his nose clean or maybe he'll turn out to be a complete tyrant and cause all kinds of problems
23:20right but then we'll let the pcpc and the feds shut him down i have dealt with threats like sydwell
23:30in port charles my whole life and guess what the people can vote against me and send me packing
23:38you know what i don't want that to happen i just i just wish there was another option
23:45i'm not getting um out of the business unless i sell it to you and you don't want it
23:57so you know we're gonna have to sell it to the highest bidder
24:01to the highest bidder
24:05listen listen everything you're saying makes sense
24:08i mean okay maybe this is our one shot which is why i need to start a sydwell
24:15just one piece of information i need to know first
24:20oh hard on that dad model i don't understand how it gets so screwed up
24:26oh emma i'm so sorry yeah me too cost me the position
24:35isn't the original still on your laptop you can't show it to your professor so he can see the work
24:41for himself i mean it's an older less refined version and it's too late because he's already
24:46hired somebody else emma this meant everything to you don't you think it's worth giving it one
24:53more shot i guess i could try and talk to him can't hurt right right
25:05thank you
25:14hey any news on sydwell like has he kidnapped anyone recently or jaywalked anything illegal
25:20no no not that i'm aware of anyway okay great that's good news for a deception i mean we are
25:26making a lot of money off his ink i i'm just scared you know he's gonna do something to
25:32pull the rug out from under us yeah i understand that i think just keep documenting all your
25:38dealings with him because if his assets suddenly get frozen you're gonna need to extricate
25:43deception as quickly as you can and keep looking around for other supply chains okay
25:50thanks for your advice that's kind of what we've been doing
25:56hey where's emma i saw she was here did she go she had to head back to school oh okay that's too
26:03bad okay it is time to put this act together let's see what you guys got
26:13so when can i get started well the real work doesn't start to the end of the semester but
26:19until then you can help me get organized you know stuff like that yeah i'm happy to dive in whenever
26:25well that's exactly what i was hoping to hear but before you do anything there is
26:31one condition and uh i'm afraid it's a deal breaker
26:38i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt your mother-daughter visit i was just saying hello
26:41that's okay jocelyn had to go i think she's warming up to you i think she was just being
26:48polite oh my daughter um is not shy about voicing her opinion i mean she had plenty to say about
26:54sunny oh yeah but uh what does she have against your ex she doesn't like how sunny's trouble
27:00seems to rub off on me she's not wrong but she would definitely lose her mind if she knew i was
27:05anywhere near that attempted assassination yeah well i wasn't thrilled myself but everything
27:12turned out okay thanks to you no no brick handled the assassin i just did some light cleaning right
27:22the wsb stepped in and discreetly handled the situation so word wouldn't get out
27:28you did brick and sunny a huge favor and i appreciate it more than i can say
27:35well i didn't do it for brick i didn't do it for sunny i did it for you
27:43poor charles has always had an organized crime presence i don't see that changing
27:48poor charles is a port city not far from a major metropolitan area exactly but with sunny in control
27:54it has been in stable and and relatively peaceful it's only when a challenger shows
28:00up that it gets kind of ugly which is precisely why i'm undercover with sidwell
28:06if he gains control of those peers and starts breaking the law i will be right there to catch
28:10him and then we only have to worry about who's coming in after him okay laura one problem at
28:17the time yeah yes you're absolutely right thank you thank you for telling me about sidwell's offer
28:24it's it's uh an intriguing new development sidwell's never dull i will keep you updated
28:34yeah jordan listen please be careful okay you're risking so much don't worry i know what i'm doing
28:44before i make a deal with sidwell i need to make sure that he's not the one who put a fire bomb
28:55in my apartment and hurt michael if he is he's probably behind your assassination attempt in la
29:02too yeah well we've been going back and forth of you know him being the guy but i need to settle
29:08this once and for all it's time we do a little digging ourselves i agree i'm on it
29:22you might not realize it but your coverage of drew it affects me personally because of willow
29:28oh she's my employee if you go hard against one of my employees partners a congressman no less
29:37it could make things very difficult for me and the hospital we could be in an uncomfortable
29:42position well i don't want to do that but i do have an obligation to cover what's happening
29:47and then report it i can't let drew have his way it's not good for this city yes but it doesn't
29:53have to be your fight babe then whose fight is it the public's there are legitimate arguments
30:01out there against measure c and to re-elect laura for the sake of objectivity how about
30:08we let those arguments speak for themselves you make a good point i suppose if i lay off
30:16drew a little bit it might make both of our lives easier i think that it will
30:21uh yeah hey travis uh look i've been thinking about the congressman kane editorial
30:36i think we should hold off at least for now okay what's the condition you uh have to sign an nda
30:46right it uh stipulates that you can't talk to anybody about the work you do here as my assistant
30:54of course i will never share anything with anyone okay and uh all the research is exclusively my ip
31:04and you can't take anything that you learn here as work and use it for the basis of your
31:10own work in the future yeah that sounds perfectly reasonable okay if that's what this says i'm happy
31:17to sign well in that case welcome aboard miss jackson thank you that's not a fair ask tracy
31:29this is my journalistic comeback you're a spencer you can do anything you put your mind to
31:35sell the editor and what are your other ideas what and scrap all of my research and all of my
31:40interviews can't you just tell brooklyn that this isn't about her and make her let it go
31:46would you be able to let it go please do this for me
31:54okay fine if it'll get everyone off my back i will call the editor and i'll tell her i need
32:00to do something else and i'll just pray that she agrees and i am only doing this for you
32:07i appreciate that thank you
32:12so that's it we're we're just done talking uh yeah i figure you've heard enough of my
32:21voice for one afternoon or you have other people you need to browbeat into submission
32:28don't let me keep you
32:32i love you i love you too even though you went full step monster today really i felt kind of
32:41i felt kind of rusty
32:55boy your man has moves you're one lucky lady don't i know it you know how you said you keep
33:02your personal life and your work life separate that's not entirely true why would you say that
33:09because we were just saying how you used your position at the wsb to clean up the situation
33:14in la and then you flew me home on the company jet well that wasn't a big deal i was heading
33:20back to port charles anyway that's not the only thing you ordered a drone strike in africa because
33:25i was worried about jason and lucky's safety that is a big thing aren't you worried you're
33:31gonna get in trouble at the bureau i have not done anything that i couldn't justify to my
33:38superiors don't they want you doing your actual work though multitasking is the hallmark of a
33:45good agent besides i'm doing everything that needs to get done anyway i have dedicated my
33:54entire life to the bureau at this point i have earned the right to take a few things for myself
34:04am i one of those things you're not a thing you carly spencer are everything
34:16am i really that important to you if you don't know that by now that i'm really doing this wrong
34:24carly i am so glad you're here i really need to talk to you
34:28i'm here but i'm not alone yes i know hi hi are you okay yes but i need to talk to you
34:40in private
34:44it's me i spoke to curtis and i think i was able to make some inroads
34:49so i think you're gonna get what you want
34:57hey is everything all right it sounded urgent when you called hey um it is i needed someone
35:05i could trust to talk to okay well i'm here what's going on i think my wife is lying to me
35:20i just wanted to jocelyn what are you doing here i um i work here
35:36i'm so glad you're here i came as soon as i got your text would you need to see me about
35:41well you have had decades of criminal training and i thought perhaps you could
35:48put your skills to good use for once for our family what do you need my great grandson
35:59i need you to find me
36:06wow that was amazing that was a showstopper i think this is going to be the performance
36:11of the night oh gosh uh anna do you want to take a break we could go see sean check out
36:17what things he has for you to wear oh yes come on geo we're um we're heading home do you want
36:22all right uh before you go what's this i would like to dance the tango with my wife no no no
36:32i don't oh come on it'll be fun the tango is the dance of love yeah but i don't know how to tango
36:38then it is a good thing that i do just follow my lead can you play that song again it'd be
36:44my pleasure sir can i have this dance okay fine
36:54thanks for coming over here with me yeah well i didn't really feel like i had much of a choice
36:58but it sounded pretty serious so here i am it is you know how you warned me about not blowing
37:04things up the way robin did yes and i was pretty clear about how i felt you were very clear but
37:10there is a difference between keeping a secret and perpetuating a lie and right now someone is
37:15lying either lois or brooklyn or maybe both which is why i need to find dante's son thanks for
37:23coming by laura um there's a few things that i would like to discuss with you oh okay well uh
37:31first and most importantly are you okay uh yeah i'm doing great i had my heart surgery
37:38and the doctor says i'm making a full recovery oh my gosh oh i'm so glad to hear you say that i
37:49i'm so happy i i was worried thank you and uh the next piece of information is going to ease your
37:57mind even more and what would that be sidwell wants to buy my peers i haven't checked it out
38:07but i'm considering it is it okay for me to say that it really surprises me to hear you say that
38:15yeah yeah i mean but you know what it would solve my problems and it would solve your problems
38:30on the next general hospital you cannot make an accusation like this i think you'd be better
38:35off confiding in someone else you want dad to make peace with drew i am prepared to do something
38:40that might benefit your friends sometimes it's worth making a deal with the devil you're making
38:44a huge mistake