Gossip for Wk of 3/11/13
by Carol Banks Weber

Helena abducts and brainwashes Lulu, just as she had done with Lucky after that fire. Luke and Laura will go chasing after the Cassadine to rescue their daughter. In the meantime, Maxie mourns Lulu’s death, then tells Dante that the baby she’s carrying is really hers and Spinelli’s to spare the cop the burden of single fatherhood.

Maurice Benard (Sonny) recently tweeted about sharing some scenes with the recently added Vanessa Marcil (Brenda)…really deep, emotional scenes.

Jerry returns to Port Charles, either with Robin in tow or chasing after her. Jax returns too, having suspected his brother of kidnapping. He’s the first one to find Jerry red-handed. Patrick spies Robin at a distance, just like Luke did with Laura many years ago, and go running to his wife. Jerry’s return will be a complete upheaval in Alexis’s love life with Shawn.

Examine Molly and Connie’s novel, “Love In Maine,” closely. It parallels Alexis’s love affair with Sam’s biological father. Sam will go digging into her past to find him—as well as the missing Quartermaine heir. Sam’s dad will make it to PC with a burning curiosity about that novel.

When Nikolas whips out his big check for the Nurses’ Ball, Sabrina swoons. Patrick, who? Britt winds up falling in love with the undercover cop, or another guy—perhaps Patrick’s dad, Noah?—soon enough.

Will Dr. Noah Drake even make an appearance after his portrayer Rick Springfield got nabbed by the cops on a bench warrant for failing to show up at his court-appointed time? According to TMZ (March 8, 2013) sources, Springfield was expected in court for his May 2011 DUI back in February, but never showed. Springfield was supposed to show the court he finished his alcohol education program and pay $1,555 in a fine. “A rep for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department tells TMZ, deputies went to Rick's L.A. home this morning to execute the warrant ... but by the time he was being booked, Rick's attorney had the warrant recalled. Rick was subsequently released.” The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department issued the bench warrant on Springfield last Wednesday. The actor posted on his Facebook that he had no idea of his court appearance: “I didn't know that I was supposed appear in court a few weeks ago. It was to do with the old DUI charge and it's been cleared up and I am free to go.”

What if there’s one more alter to Kate? Portrayer Kelly Sullivan thinks so. “She's been living as Kate for so long that something snapped and she reverted back to this sort of menancing, crazy, over-the-top, tortured soul...that could very well be another alter,” Sullivan told ABC Soaps In Depth, March 4, 2013 interview. Or how about this… Kate is an alter too and we’ve yet to see the host?

Viewers are theorizing that Scotty might’ve brainwashed and mind-controlled Laura into marrying him. She’s only doing it so he won’t make Lulu’s life a living hell over Logan, or maybe worse, Luke’s right about the Ice Princess torture.