General Hospital 2018; #270
The Metro-Court Hotel
No matter what people thought about Carly Corinthos, and there was a wide variety of opinions, there was one thing that people around her all agreed upon; she had good instincts…and why not? She had those Spencer genes inside of her.
Carly was standing in suite 4016; it was the room where Sonny had been gunned down by his sister; Briseis. That was the official story, but Carly (and others) didn't believe that was how it went down.
Standing beside, on her left, was Jason Quartermaine. Standing to her right uncle; Luke Spencer.
The three of them watched as Damien Spinelli was using a device. It was an experimental scanner he had pilfered from the WSB tech lab earlier in the day.
The nerdy WSB agent was crawling slowly upon on the ground, and as he did, he swept the device along the carpet just as slowly. What the device was doing was lost upon Luke, Carly or Jason had a clue…for now.
"So;" Luke said to Jason and Carly as Damien continued, "You both really believe that Mikkos had something to do with Sonny's death."
Carly nodded her head.
"And this," Luke continued, "is despite the police coming into this room and finding Sonny dead, along with his sister, in what looked like an episode of the Jerry Springer show gone wrong."
Carly looked at her uncle and gave him a defensive look.
"Sonny only found out about her that day," Carly told Luke. "He didn't even know his sister even existed, so no; I don't think they had enough time to even have a sibling rivalry let alone for her to kill him and turning the gun on herself."
Luke shifted his glance over at Jason.
"And you," Luke said to the stone-cold Jason, "you actually believe Mikkos was here and pulled the trigger himself?"
Jason only nodded his head once.
"Look," Luke said to them both, "I am no fan of the guy, and if I had the power inside me to make his head spontaneously explode; I would. But…"
Jason suddenly cut Luke off and looked right him.
"Luke," Jason said with anger in his voice, "I was in the man's home; he taunted me with a tone in his voice that proved to me he killed Sonny."
"Why is that monster even allowed to be prancing around like an untouchable swan?" Carly suddenly cut in with.
"I'm going to kill him," Jason continued to say, his eyes still locked on Luke.
Luke took a deep breath and smiled at the two of them; his moment of playing devil's advocate was over.
"Of course you both know that I believe you," Luke told them. "But the guy has diplomatic immunity; but from what Robert told me, it can be revoked if it is ever proven that he has crossed the line."
Jason stepped closer to Luke; coming face to face with the man.
"I don't care about his diplomatic immunity; Mikkos threatened my wife and my son," Jason said through gritted teeth. "The second we get any whiff of his being involved with whatever happened in this room; I am going to put a gun to his head and I'm going to kill the mother f****r. And if Robert and the WSB have any problem with that…they know where to find me. I made that perfectly clear to them."
Jason pointed at his own leg; it was where Section-7 had surgically implanted a GPS tracker years ago.
Luke reached out and put a hand on Jason's shoulder.
"No," Luke told him. "If anyone is going to cross the line and take that evil bastard out; I will. I should have taken care of this a long time ago on Cassadine Island."
"I might pull that trigger," Carly said upon seeing the two men square off over killing the person they all believed was behind Sonny's demise. She looked over at Damien as he deactivated the device.
"So?" Carly said to Damien as he stood up. "What if anything did that device tell you?"
Damien looked at the readings displayed on the device's small screen.
"Mind you," Damien said to her, as well as to Luke and Jason, "any readings this experimental device takes would not be immiscible in any court in the world."
"Okay, we get that," Carly told him.
Damien nodded his head and then continued.
"With that being the case," Damien said, with trepidation in his words, "I can state, with a 76% level of confidence that Mikkos Cassadine has been inside this hotel suite. This device can scan for flakes of skin that all of us, every man, woman and child, shed just by simply moving our arms. Mikkos' DNA has been detected in this room."
Carly's eyes opened up wide.
"Hah!" Carly blurted out.
"How can that be?" Luke asked Damien. "We all know that there is no video surveillance of Mikkos even being inside the Metro-court hotel. How can you explain that and what that little toy of yours is telling you?"
"That is true, Mr. Spencer, there is no video surveillance of Mikkos being here. However," Damien Spinelli said with a pause, "that was also the night the entire city block was darkened by what appeared to have been a localized Electro Magnetic Pulse. One of the results of that pulse was the effect of wiping out all the data stored on the Metro-courts computer system."
Luke nodded his head.
"You're implying that the pulse was detonated to…" Luke began, but Jason completed his train of thought "…cover up the fact that Mikkos was right here all along," Jason said pointing at the place on the floor where the bodies and Sonny and Briseis were discovered.
WSB Headquarters beneath an abandoned industrial complex in New Jersey; inside the dining room of a top-secret suite located there…two men sat across from each other at a dining table that had several newspapers scattered about…
Sonny Corinthos, alive and well, was sipping from a mug of coffee. Sitting with him was WSB reserve agent Sean Donely. Both men were reading different sections of a newspaper.
Sonny set down the paper and looked at Sean.
"The WSB can't keep me here forever," Sonny said to Sean; just as he had done on several mornings just like this one.
Sean looked over the top of the section of newspaper he was reading and simply smiled.
Continued…
This issue featured;
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos
Steve Burton as Jason Morgan
Bradford Anderson as Damien Spinelli
Maurice Bernard as Sonny Corinthos
John Reilly as Sean Donely
and Tony Geary as Luke Spencer