I’m up to November 11, 1998.
After hitting a few dead ends finding Selena’s daughter, Harley thinks they should look into the biological dad and see if that helps. Selena said she kept a book of her “John’s” back in the day, but thinks it’ll be of no use. She later meets with David and says there’s one guy she keeps thinking about. He was a young guy in college, with a scar on his face who used to get made fun of by his older frat brothers, so she felt sorry for him and always wondered what happened to him. Selena was the first woman he had sex with, and she thinks he would never forget his first time. So, they want to track him down. Meanwhile, Ben and Beth meet up and he briefly talks about his college days being in a frat and we later see a newspaper clipping about frat brothers caught up in a prostitution scandal and he privately says there’s so much about him that Beth doesn’t yet know. So I guess this means Ben is the father of Selena’s daughter - wow!
Buzz and Alan butt heads over planning Harley/Phillip’s wedding - food, venue, etc. Alan wants a grand Spaulding wedding and Buzz wants a more modest, Greek-style wedding. Harley/Phillip are so annoyed at this point, they decide to elope.
Dinah’s face injuries are bad and they’ll likely have to do plastic surgery. Given how distraught she is, Hart tells Sean he has to stay with her and can no longer be with Cassie. Hart meets up with Cassie and tells her, and she starts having pains and says it’s Braxton Hicks contractions, and angrily yells at him to leave her for Dinah and go to hell. Dinah, feeling ugly now, pushes Hart away because she doesn’t think he’ll want to live with a disfigured woman. She gives him annulment papers so they can end the marriage, which makes Hart sad.
Matt made a minor comment about Vanessa working too much again with everything else going on with the family, and it struck a serious nerve with her. Later at the hospital, Beth confides in Matt about almost taking her life after Phillip chose Harley over her. Matt tells her to call him if she ever feels that way again and then they hug, which Lillian sees from a distance. I guess they really are going through with this Matt/Beth thing huh, ugh. So far, Matt hasn’t screwed up, but we’ll see…
Dinah comes clean to Vanessa and tells her she started the fire. Vanessa walks out in disbelief and tells Matt, who calls Dinah a psychopath. Vanessa gets mad at him for not having any compassion, which he doesn’t like because he tries to remind her how many times Dinah has put herself in this situation and how awful she was to them and their relationship too. I have to agree with Matt here. Vanessa eventually apologizes, but says she can’t leave Dinah at this time. Matt then tells her that baby Maureen started crawling and Vanessa missed it because she’s putting Dinah first.
Ross meets his lady friend attorney, Anita, at Millennium for a work dinner (which I didn’t realize they had food haha). Blake catches wind and heads there and happens to sit next to Anita, both not knowing who each person is, where Anita talks about having a long-time crush on this guy she’s meeting. Blake leaves to freshen up and comes back to see Ross kissing Anita’s cheek. Later, Blake tells Ross she’s no longer with Ben and won’t be, but that doesn’t help. Anita then shows up, Blake leaves, and Ross fires Anita as his lawyer so they can get closer. They end up having sex (blah).
Mick gets out of jail because someone posted his bail and he finds Drew on the beach and threatens her. Michelle shows up and Mick starts to rough her up as well. AHH this is the final scene for Rebecca Budig as Michelle! I can’t believe I’ve now seen her entire 3-year run on GL (1995-1998). I love Budig and it was a joy to see her in this role. This is the big scene where one episode (11/04), Budig’s Michelle is fighting Mick and then the next episode (11/05), the new actress Bethany Joy Lenz takes over in the same scene. This is the actress who played the Reva clone in her young adult days earlier in 1998. A bit jarring to now think of her as Michelle and not the Reva clone. Of course I’m happy Budig left so she could join All My Children, but I don’t think that’s why she left GL. I’d love to know why she decided to leave before getting the AMC role. Anyway, I’ve seen this scene before on YouTube, but it’s nice to see it play out now that I know what’s going on. Drew hits Mick on the head with a rock, so he lets Michelle go and begins to rough up Drew, and Michelle then takes another rock and hits him on the head and he goes unconscious. This scene was shot with both Budig ending the episode hitting Mick and Lenz doing it again in the next episode. The girls freak out and go back to Millennium crying (where the announcer now says the part is being played by Joy Lenz - interesting, no Bethany). Jesse and Bill asks them what happened and they tell them everything. The police show up looking for Mick, and Drew tells Michelle to forget everything that happened. But later, the four of them go to the beach but can’t find Mick, which scares them because they know he’ll be after them, even angrier now. Later at the club, the radio announces a washed up body that was found, ID’ed as Mick Santo (not Santos, interesting they changed the last name later, or maybe the S is always silent?). The girls freak out that they killed him! Jesse tells everyone they need to stick to the story that the girls were at the club the entire time. Michelle is taking it really hard, but Drew tries to support her and I’m starting to actually like Drew now haha. I have a feeling with the Michelle recast, I might start changing my mind about Drew/Jesse/Michelle, ugh. The cops stop by again questioning them and mention Mick’s parents have sworn revenge, in blood, when they find the killer. Mick’s brother Danny then shows up the next day (11/12) asking the gang to help him find Mick’s killer.
Annie sees Josh again, who doesn’t remember anything other than her telling him about Frank. She drugs him again and tells him to start liking Cassie, who will be so irresistible to him, which will drive Reva away. This storyline with the truth drug is fun, but it’s so unbelievable, similar to the clone storyline. Anyway, Cassie comes by, Annie leaves, and Josh starts telling Cassie she shouldn’t worry about Hart because she’s pretty and can get any guy she wants. He starts to massage her, which weirds her out and just before he goes in for a kiss, Reva comes home and interrupts him, all while Annie is watching from outside. Things are fine, but when Josh/Cassie get alone, the drug has worn off and Cassie accuses him of coming onto her which upsets her. He doesn’t know what she’s talking about and basically gaslights her into thinking she’s done something wrong sho she just apologizes and leaves, but Annie is upset that the drug didn’t work long enough. She drugs him again to reinforce that he needs to fall in love with Cassie. So he later goes to Cassie’s bedroom while she’s in bed and creeps her out by saying he’ll make her forget about Hart and she needs him. Cassie tells him to stay away from her and Tammy interrupts and asks why he’s there. Cassie takes her back to bed, Josh sees a picture of Reva, says he loves her and then snaps out of it. Cassie comes back and he acts like nothing happened again haha. He gaslights her again and says she’s imagining things and accusing him of doing something he didn’t do. He later tells Reva that Cassie is acting very strange. The next day, Cassie confides in Harley about the Josh thing, but she can’t believe it either.
Ken is not doing well in jail, which upsets Holly. Holly, who is drunk, goes off on Frank telling him Ken needs to get out. Frank is convinced Ken is the stalker since they haven’t had any stalking incidents since he’s been in jail. Because Holly is drunk, Frank calls Blake to pick her up and they all go to her house to make sure she gets home safely. They enter the house to find it completely ransacked with a Jack and Jill nursery rhyme painted in red all over the wall! The rhyme says Holly fetched some scotch and left without her daughter, “some mother”. Yikes! She weirdly starts to get happy about it, claiming this means Ken can’t be the stalker. Frank thinks it’s odd now that the stalker hit someone twice (Holly), which is a change from their original motive. He starts to question Holly’s whereabouts that day and then calls out that she has red paint under her nails and declares that he thinks she did this, which Blake is incredulous over. Frank keeps grilling her and Holly finally admits to doing it so she could save Ken. Frank decides to drop it and let Holly go. Holly later asks Vanessa to not let this get out in the press, but Vanessa rather coldly tells her she can’t stop WSPR from running with the story. Holly begs her, as a friend, but Vanessa doesn’t help her. Matt doesn’t understand (and I don’t either) why Vanessa couldn’t just save her friend’s reputation, the woman that gave her daughter a kidney. This is yet another little thing that is clearly dividing Matt/Vanessa right now. Holly later shows Beth what she did to her house and tells her about Vanessa not helping her out. Matt shows up and he and Beth clean up Holly’s walls together. Matt tells her the story about finding Vanessa again through the chat room and how he built their dream house waiting for her to come back. Beth says that’s the most romantic thing she’s heard and would love to have a man treat her that way. Meanwhile, Vanessa confides in Jenna about her little problems recently with Matt and how he doesn’t want her working so much. Jenna assures her it’ll be ok and they’ll get on the same page again soon and she has nothing to worry about with Beth.
Whoa, on 11/09, there is a new actress playing Harley (Amy Carlson). I looked it up and she seems to just be temporary, but I bet viewers back in the day were shocked - a new Michelle and a new Harley within a few days! I wonder why Beth Ehlers needed the break. Amy played her for a few episodes until Beth came back on the 11/17 episode.
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