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Carly Walks Out on Sonny — Plus, Tracy Is Stunned to Learn That [Spoiler] Is Responsible for Her Release
Wednesday, January 12, 2022: Today on General Hospital, Harmony asks Sam for a chance to make amends, Nina asks Valentin for help, and BLQ makes things worse with Austin.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Sam joins her mom at Charlie’s and tells her how proud her daughters are of her new job. Alexis says she wouldn’t have it without their encouragement. Sam hopes that she will be going after Tracy. However, she worries when her mom starts sounding merciful. Alexis thinks losing Luke may be punishment enough for Tracy. When Harmony walks in, Sam stares daggers at her. Alexis leaps up and asks the women if they can come to a truce. She tells her daughter what a good friend Harmony has been.
The three of them sit at a table and Alexis explains what happened with Tracy to Harmony. She tells Alexis she’s in control of what happens next. When Alexis leaves to make a phone call, Sam tells Harmony they need to get a few things straight. Sam knows it must have been hard for her to testify against Shiloh. Harmony tells her she feels sick when she looks back on that time. It’s a nightmare she has to live with and she’s doing all she can to atone for it. If she wants to help, Sam says, she needs to be straight with Alexis. Harmony believes that she and her mother can help each other. They are friends. “Whatever you’re selling, I’m not buying,” Sam says. She can’t forgive and forget. Harmony insists she’s not asking her to and begs for a chance to prove herself. “You can try but I’ll be watching,” Sam says.
Robert drops by the Metro Court where Olivia gives him a hug. They sit at a table and she says he’s been making himself scarce. He doesn’t want to get in the way of her and Ned. She assures him that their problems were never about him. He’s not sure if he should be glad or sad about that. She tells him that he was more than her plaything. Robert’s just sorry that she loves Ned. Alexis calls him.
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In the cells, Tracy is complaining to Dante about the injustice of her arrest. Ned arrives and she lectures him for leaving her in there so long. He introduces her to Martin as her lawyer. After she makes some snide remarks about him and his brother, the lawyer suggests they make a deal to get her out of there. When she doesn’t like what he has to say, she fires him. Ned says he hired Martin and she can’t fire him. Tracy fires Ned. He reminds her she can’t fire her children. Dante is getting tired of all this. Tracy reminds him that Alexis stabbed him. The cop has forgiven her and he adds that prison did her some good. Ned urges his mother to listen to reason and negotiate a deal. He’s sure that’s what Luke would want. His mother is sure Luke would want her to fight without any compromise.
Martin takes Dante aside and begs him to intercede with the DA on Tracy’s behalf. Ned thinks his mother has gone out of her mind. She’s insistent she needs to fly back to Amsterdam to sort out what Luke left behind. She’s not leaving until they have a talk about his daughter and granddaughter. Ned has no idea what this means and she’s not explaining. Tracy needs more information before she gets him involved.
Dante and Martin return with Robert and announce the case against Tracy is finished. When the cell door opens, Tracy asks what changed. Alexis steps up and announces that she did. She’s decided not to co-operate so they are dropping the case. Tracy is in shock and walks out. Robert thanks Alexis for saving Port Charles time and money. Alexis tells Ned that she did this for Luke, and for herself.
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Valentin arrives at Nina’s Crimson office after she has summoned him. The last time she called she was in danger from Peter. He admits he can’t refuse her. She’s sorry for what happened with Bailey. Valentin says that Charlotte has taken it surprisingly well and adds that she’s always welcome to visit his daughter. Nina is hoping that they can join forces. She’s made a new enemy and that enemy is also his enemy. They sit down and she gives him a pitch to be tolerant of BLQ. He’s not receptive and wonders what her issue with the Quartermaines is. She has a problem with Michael. He warns that also means fighting the Corinthos family and that means Sonny.
After she blurts out that “Mike” would understand her need for a relationship with Wiley, Valentin says “Mike” might, but Sonny likely doesn’t. They talk about the feelings she developed for Sonny. Nina hopes that they have both moved on so they can help each other without complications. The Cassadine says a war on two families isn’t without complications. He’s not getting involved with that, especially when children are involved. She’s amazed he’s telling her to turn the other cheek. Once he leaves, she calls Martin for legal advice.
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BLQ bumps into Austin in the hallways of General Hospital and is eager to talk. That’s not mutual. They go into his office and he reminds her that she tried to destroy his life, forcing him to relinquish his claim on his family’s legacy. She suggests they let bygones be bygones. He can’t go along with that. But at least she wasn’t as destructive with him as she was with Valentin. She claims to be genuinely sorry but he doesn’t believe her. BLQ offers to talk to her family to see what they can do for him.
The doctor accuses her of trying to ease her conscience by purchasing his. He’s not interested in money; he just wants what’s fair for his father and reminds her she used Leo as a pawn. She follows him through the halls and they continue to argue until Valentin interrupts and asks Austin if something is wrong. “I have to go be with Chase and our baby,” she announces before storming off. Austin is stunned by the maliciousness of this. Valentin says people seem to think he’s lost his edge. Austin hasn’t forgotten what the Quartermaines did to him. Valentin asks if he wants to see them pay.
As BLQ flounces down the hall, Tracy grabs her and confronts her about having Maxie’s baby.
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Donna and Avery get their packed lunches from Sonny in the Corinthos kitchen. He gives them their vitamins and Frank takes them to school when Carly walks in. She thought they agreed he wasn’t staying last night. He says she thought wrong. When she accuses him of disrespecting her feelings, he rehashes why he came back to her and how much he still loves her. She needs more than words, she needs time. They can’t go back to the way things were before Nina. “I hate feeling like our marriage is built on quicksand,” she says. It feels like she can’t unthinkingly trust him anymore.
“You want to call it quits?” he asks. He insists she’s over-complicating this but Carly can’t stop feeling like Nina is all over their lives. Sonny suggests she’s using Nina as an excuse not to reunite with him. Part of her is already gone and it went with Jason. She refuses to apologize for Jason and says that their marriage has no chance as long as Nina is alive. Until he kills Nina in his heart, there is no chance for them. She will be the one to move out for the sake of the children. Left alone, he drinks and throws his pills against the wall.
Carly goes to the Metro Court and tells Olivia she’s moving in while she and Sonny are having a time out.
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<p>… plays Sonny Corinthos, the dimpled don who can impregnate a woman by doing no more than flash a smoldering gaze like… Ack! Like <em>this</em> one! Look away before it’s too late! Look away!</p>
<p>… cranking up the heat on Sonny’s smoldering gaze.</p>
<p>… is Carly, Sonny’s mercurial moll, who can go from “till death do us part” to “if looks could kill” faster than you can read this caption. And that’s even if you’re a <em>mega</em> fast reader.</p>
<p>… doing Carly’s best “Who, <em>me</em>?” expression.</p>
<p>… brings to life Dante Falconeri, the PCPD detective who is… Oh, awkward. He’s the firstborn of the city’s most notorious mobster. Let’s focus on Mom instead, shall we? Next picture…</p>
<p>… portrays Olivia Quartermaine, the Bensonhurst babe who married so far up, she now lives in <span style="text-decoration: line-through">her Richie Rich husband Ned’s</span> Monica’s mansion.</p>
<p>… is money, as the kids would say, as Ned Quartermaine, the heir apparent to grandfather Edward’s fortune — <em>and</em> his testiness. Good luck with that, buddy!</p>
<p>… builds a bridge to Brook Lynn Quartermaine, the feistiest firebrand this side of her mama, the much-missed Lois Cerullo.</p>
<p>… walks mile after mile in the shoes of Michael Corinthos, the corporate-minded offspring of Carly and <span style="text-decoration: line-through">A.J. Quartermaine</span> Sonny. Never mind that scratch-out; those in the family or its “business” know better than to discuss it.</p>
<p>… is Michael’s girlfriend Willow, a sweet-hearted schoolteacher who learns every day that in a town like Port Charles, it’s easy to get it wrong when you’re trying to do right.</p>
<p>… plays Harmony Miller, Willow’s mother and no longer a cult member, thank you very much. On the contrary, thank <em>you</em>, Harmony!</p>
<p>… rocks as Carly’s chip off the ol’ block, Josslyn Jacks, a Ms. Popularity with enough fire in her to reduce to cinders anyone crazy enough to hurt her nearest and dearest. While maintaining a 4.0 GPA, we might add.</p>
<p>… here demonstrates the <em>Home Alone</em> OMG expression that the audience so often wears as they watch Nina Reeves make one questionable choice after another.</p>
<p>… is the real-life alter ego of Alexis Davis, a former attorney and occasional hot mess who knows the law inside and out. As in, she hasn’t just represented criminals, she’s served time herself.</p>
<p>… plays Alexis’ oldest daughter, Sam McCall, P.I., mother and all-around action figure. She’s kinda like a Nancy Drew with a better right hook and edgier wardrobe.</p>
<p>… brings <span style="text-decoration: line-through">back</span> to life Drew Cain, the “late” Jason Morgan’s “late” brother. Until an accident and some serious plastic surgery rearranged Drew’s face, he shared not only his twin’s taste in love interests but his handsome mug, too.</p>
<p>… reminding us that Drew’s always looking for stubble. Er, <em>trouble</em>.</p>
<p>… <em>has</em> to have seen it all in her years as Monica Quartermaine. The actress is the soap’s longest-serving cast member.</p>
<p>… is Elizabeth Webber, the nurse you most want to administer your shots, if only because she can distract you with tales from her bat-[bleep]-crazy life. Pro tip: Ask her about the time she married a serial killer whose homicidal tendencies were contained in a brain tumor.</p>
<p>… makes it a point — see what we did there? — to enliven any scene as Cameron Webber, the teenage dream who’s life has been, not to put too fine a point on it, a nightmare.</p>
<p>… scrubs in as Dr. Hamilton Finn — Finn to his friends. Also Finn to pretty much everyone else. No one wants to compete with the musical to be called Hamilton anymore.</p>
<p>… threatens us daily with cuteness overload as Violet Barnes, Finn’s daughter with… Say, where <em>is</em> Hayden, anyway? By the time you read this, we may already be finding out.</p>
<p>… plays Molly Lansing, the future RBG who longs to follow in mom Alexis’ footsteps. Minus the whole going-to-prison part, though. She could do without that.</p>
<p>… is Molly’s significant other, TJ Ashford, possessor of what is arguably the winningest smile in Port Charles. Possibly even all of New York; we haven’t checked — yet.</p>
<p>… nabbed two Daytime Emmys for her portrayal of Curtis’ scene-stealing Aunt Stella Henry. She tells it like it is whether you’re remotely prepared to hear it like it is!</p>
<p>… slays as Curtis Ashford, not only the coolest cat this side of the freezer section of the grocery but the club owner whose presence is what makes his bar more than a spot, a hot spot.</p>
<p>… makes the rounds as Portia Robinson, a doctor whose romantic entanglements are likely to get her diagnosed with “acute twitterpation.”</p>
<p>… flashing a Portia smile so bright, you’d swear the doc had just come from the radiology department.</p>
<p>… holds the “honor role” of Trina Robinson, the kinda kid you’d be proud to call your own — and in a town as prone to abductions as Port Charles is, might be tempted to!</p>
<p>… plays Shawn Butler, the ex-con who, like Alexis, is rebuilding a life for himself on the outside. Step No. 1: Score some of that chili at Kelly’s. What? Like you wouldn’t?</p>
<p>… has run through almost all of the ABCs as Robert Scorpio, going from the WSB to the D.A.’s office while remaining every step of the way an MVP.</p>
<p>… illuminates Port Charles’ dark prince, Nikolas Cassadine, heir to not just a fortune but enough blood-spattered family baggage to keep him on Kevin Collins’ couch for life. </p>
<p>… is Nikolas’ better half, Ava Jerome, an art dealer and sometime mafiosa whose warm smile belies the fact that she’s been known to put the “fatal” in “femme fatale.”</p>
<p>… reminding us with a single image that we’re close, so close to Happy Hour and Ava’s favorite beverage, a martini as cold as her glare.</p>
<p>… hides behind Victor Cassadine’s cheerful demeanor enough schemes to teach a master class in chicanery. The character is, in short, a classic Cassadine.</p>
<p>… plays Nikolas’ son Spencer, a teenager every bit as troubled and brooding as Dad was at that age. Maybe a nice girl could set him down the straight and nar… Oh dear. His introductory boo is anything <em>but</em> nice.</p>
<p>… giving us a hint of what Spencer’s picture would look like on the cover of <em>Tiger Beat.</em></p>
<p>… is scheme weaver Esme Prince, a conniver that you can just tell has at all times a thought bubble over her head that reads, “Muahaha! I’m fooling them all!”</p>
<p>… with a thought bubble above Esme’s head that reads, if you really squint, “Crap! I didn’t fool Soaps.com for a second!”</p>
<p>… gives heart to Valentin, once described as the most fearsome of all the Cassadines… by characters that we assume were very, very frightened of handsome, charming fellows.</p>
<p>… is Port Charles’ Jane Bond, Anna Devane, the born butt-kicker you can always rely on to be the voice of reason. Unless it was during that unfortunate period where she thought that Peter August was her son. Then, er, not so much.</p>
<p>… plays Sasha Gilmore, who, since arriving in Port Charles, has stared down so many disasters, it’s a wonder she hasn’t started walking around with her eyes shut!</p>
<p>… is Brando Corbin, the distant relation of Sonny’s who fits in with the Corinthoses like an offer you can’t refuse. Plus, who <em>wouldn’t</em> want that face in their family portraits?</p>
<p>… taking to Brando’s heart ZZ Top’s words of wisdom: “Nothin’ drives the girls crazy like a sharp-dressed man.”</p>
<p>… is Gladys, not only Brando’s mom and a hoot and a half but our pick for the Best Tough Broad of 2021. No, really — <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/daytime-soap-operas-best-worst-2021-couples-scenes-photos/" target="_blank">there’s an award for that</a>, and she won it, hands down. If she hadn’t, knowing Gladys, she would’ve bribed the judges.</p>
<p>… keeps the batteries recharged in the Energiser Bunny of villains, Peter August, a second-generation antagonist who proves the old adage about only the good dying young.</p>
<p>… is always in vogue as fashionista Maxie Jones, who hopes to break her pattern of getting mixed up with one jerk (Peter) after another (Levi Dunkleman) after another (Logan Hayes). Where’s her next Nathan West, for Peter’s sake?!?</p>
<p>… plays <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Todd Manning</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Franco Baldwin</span> Austin Gatlin Holt, the doctor son of Edward’s bastard heir, Jimmy Lee. Or at least this week he is. The show changes the Emmy winner’s characters almost as often as we refill our chip bowl.</p>
<p>… this time serving Austin sunny side up.</p>
<p>… portrays PCPD detective Harrison Chase, given the thankless task of being a genuine good guy in a town that’s overrun with not-so-good ones for whom we still root.</p>
<p>… lends his gravitas to Cyrus Renault, the most formidable mobster to hit Port Charles since Frank Smith. Oh, and he also happens to be Laura Collins’ brother, whether she likes it or not… which she most definitely does not. </p>
<p>… plays doctor as Britt Westbourne, a reformed scheme queen whose twinkling eyes still say, “I can hatch a plot with the best of ’em — try me.” Sorry, our insurance doesn’t cover plot-hatching.</p>
<p>… is Terry Randolph, a dedicated doctor who’s overdue to prescribe herself a love life. Also of note: She’s daytime’s one and only transgender character.</p>
<p>… is Epiphany Johnson, the R.N. you most want to show up at your hospital-room doorway if what you really need is a kick in the pants.</p>
<p>… is enjoying the Get Out of Jail Finally card that was given to Brad-Not-Bradley Cooper only days before he had to decide what color after orange would be the new black.</p>
<p>… is the beloved vet who plays Bobbie Spencer, the unlucky-in-love nurse who’s never been able to come up with a cure for heartache.</p>
<p>… started 2022 back on contract as Felicia Scorpio, the enduring heroine whose 1980s adventures with ex-husband Frisco Jones made her a daytime legend.</p>
<p>… in an outfit that leaves no doubt about the color that Felicia intends to paint the town.</p>
<p>… has taken Mac Scorpio from top cop to beer slinger and back without discarding one iota of his charm along the way.</p>
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