This Week on Port Charles (January 5-9)
 
Rex realizes that Lucy and Kevin are play acting and arranges for her to recieve a ''special batch'' of her fertility pills. But old Rex has a change of heart and sends his thugs to her hotel to retrieve the herbs.
Ellen's past comes into focus for Matt.
Frank befriends Lark but is unaware of her drug involvement.
When Lucy searches for damaging information to use against Rex, he traps her in his bedroom. Will Lucy use sex as a cover-up for why she was there?
The Scanlon brothers clash over their father.
Winston is successful at keeping Ellen from her mother.
Lark comes to General Hospital with mysterious bruises on her body.
Matt learns what really happened with Ellen's husband.
Rex tries to make Lucy believe he is a good guy.
Lark blames Frank for her injuries.
Alice's condition worsens and she undergoes surgery.
Frank makes a decision concerning Lark.
Rex has a test for Lucy in court. Lucy comes through in court which pleases Rex but hurts Scott.
Alice rejects Ellen.
As the jury deliberates, Scott gets nervous that Lucy's plan is running behind schedule.
Lucy gets Eve to help her with a scheme.
Lark does not hit it off well with Eve or Julie when Frank brings her home.
As Lucy and Rex continue their charade with each other, Rex realizes he is actually falling in love with her.
As Scott and Kevin dive deeper into Rex's past, they come up with more questions than answers.
 

PREVIEW
Rex discovers that Lucy's fertility pills are fake, and he becomes suspicious that Kevin and Lucy are still together. Rex manages to switch Lucy's pills with poisoned ones. A still suspicious Rex decides to put Lucy's loyalty to the test. He gives her false information about Scott that she can use in the courtroom. Lucy knows the information is incorrect, but if she does not use it against Scott, then all will be lost. Lucy comes through with flying colors. Rex is very pleased with Lucy's performance on the stand, but Lucy's testimony does Scott much harm. The jury is in deliberations, and Scott fears the worse. He reminds Lucy that time is of the essence. Lucy steps up her scheme to gain Rex's trust. She enlists Eve's help to distract Rex. Rex provides Lucy with some more false information that makes him appear to be a nice guy. It will look like he is confiding in Lucy, but a flashback will reveal to the audience the real truth. Ellen's mother suffered a heart attack, but it does not bring mother and daughter any closer. Winston is so concerned that Ellen's presence will only upset their mother that he continues to now Ellen to see Alice. When Ellen finally manages to get into Alice's room, her words of comfort are rejected by her mother. Winston sarcastically mentions Ellen's husband, and Ellen informs him rather heatedly that her husband is dead.Ellen then confides all in Matt and breaks down in the process. She tells Matt that she was an outcast from her mother the day her husband died. Later, complications arise during Alice's surgery that will be life threatening.


PC DAYS
Monday, January 5 ~ Rex suspects Lucy and Kevin still carry a torch for each other. Rex has a plan for Lucy.
Tuesday, January 6 ~ Alice rejects Ellen, and Ellen informs Winston that her ex-husband is dead.
Wednesday, January 7 ~ Ellen tells Matt the whole truth concerning the death of her husband in an emotional confession. Lucy's testimony harms Scott's chances in court.
Thursday, January 8 ~ Joe confronts Frank about his past as a child.
Friday, January 9 ~ Rex makes up a phony past that doesn't show him to be a bad guy to impress Lucy. Frank takes on the responsibility of becoming Lark's foster parent. Rex has a flashback.
Next Week: (1/12-1/16) Serena meets Aunt Katherine. Lucy and Eve prepare a Marilyn Monroe photo shoot to distract Rex. Lark continues to cause problems. Matt's own secrets have sparked Chris' curiosity. Rex shocks Lucy by asking her to marry him.
 
DOCTOR ELLEN BURGESS
"Winston curtly mocks Ellen about her husband, but Ellen blasts him back by informing him that her husband is dead. Ellen confides in Matt and breaks down when she tells him that her mother eliminated her from her life the day her husband died". Ellen sees her mother, Alice, for the first time in years this week on Port Charles. Alice, has a heart attack and is brought to the hospital. The two have been estranged for a long time due to a family disagreement over choices that Ellen made early in life. Winston, Ellen's brother, will not allow Ellen to come into their mother's room. Later when Alice does see Ellen, Alice is surprised that Ellen is a successful doctor, but she rejects Ellen's attempts to comfort her. Later, Ellen breaks down during her explanation to Matt of the "bad feelings" in her family. Ellen explains that Alice was extremely disappointed in the direction Ellen was headed early in her adult life. The splitting of mother and daughter was not a pleasant scene. Both women are very much alike in the fact that both have difficulty showing their true feelings. Both women carry a lot pain and cover that pain by being hostile to one another. Emotionally, the two are stuck in the past. Alice did not know that Ellen had gone to medical school. Apparently, Alice had big aspirations for her daughter, and Ellen took a different path. When Alice sees that her daughter did indeed make a doctor, she says, "Oh, well, you did go to med school. How about that!" Alice is a proud woman and will not say more. At the time of Ellen's parting from the family, everything Alice had wanted for her daughter was totally ignored. Alice had worked very hard to give Ellen opportunities, and those opportunities were discarded as far as Alice knew. Alice loves Ellen but won't allow herself to forget and forgive. In fact, the last time Ellen called home; Alice hung up on her. One would think that Alice has no quarrel with Ellen's professional choice, so it must be the man she chose to marry. Alice (HattieWinston) teases, "I can't tell you yet, but it's something worse than that!"

REX STANTON
Rex is always one step ahead of Lucy. As Lucy is trying to prove that Rex was in the Cayman Islands when his passport says he wasn't, Rex taunts Lucy by planting many different passports around his room. Rex discovers that Lucy's herbs are for fertility and becomes suspicious that Lucy and Kevin have not broken up but are in a plot against him. Rex will not be played a fool and arranges for Lucy to receive herbs laced with poison. Later he changes his mind, but does his men replace the lethal herbs with the original ones in time to save Lucy? Lucy's time is running out to help Scott, and she is desperate to outdo Rex. She gets Eve to help her with a scheme that will allow Lucy access to Rex's mansion to gather incriminating evidence against him. As always Rex has planned ahead and gives Lucy false information to use against Scott. Lucy has no choice but to go through with the damaging testimony in court. At week's end a shocking revelation comes to light about Rex. Is Rex who he says he is? 



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