The 4-1-1 on suds of the week

Christina L. Esparza

Every week, this column will inform soap addicts of the latest goings on of their favorite daytime dramas.

This week, we are starting with ABC favorites and next week we will recap NBC's and CBS's. Not all of the story lines could fit, but I promise the good stuff.

For the week of 8-21

"All My Children"

• Alex saw Dimitri board his flight to Zurich.
• A confused Edmund confronts David about the Dimitri sighting.
• Dixie tells Edmund Dimitri is alive, but David shows Edmund Dimitri's fake Death Certificate.
• One of the maids at Wildwind finds a medication bottle belonging to Dimitri on the grounds and brings it to Alex.
• Dixie drinks with David, who is having Romantic fantasies about her, at the hospital.
• A jealous Tad is relieved when Dixie lies about why there were two cognac glasses in her office.
• Tad reveals he plans to stay at Chandler Enterprises. Dixie responds by telling him she will continue working when the boys get home from camp.
• Adam, Liza and Colby have a cozy moment at the Valley Inn until Tad arrives and Liza tells Adam to back off.
• Smitten with jealousy, Adam orders Barry to bring Tad and Liza down.
• Vanessa bribes Arlene for more money to keep their secret about Stuart (who is on his way to Pine Valley).
• Arlene finds out Hayley is only pretending to accept her and Adam's marriage.
• A hurt, drunk Arlene yells at her daughter, Hayley, who then tells Adam to leave her.  Instead, Adam walks away from Hayley, holding Arlene"s hand.
• Greenlee asks Leo's Wade, for the money needed to keep Ryan out of jail.
• Greenlee meets with Wade and he tells her he knows where the money's going and threatens to tell her grandfather
• Gillian realizes Ryan is going to Chechnya to find Jake, and begs him not to go.
• After they make love, Gillian reveals to Ryan that she plans to go to Chechnya.

"General Hospital"

• Liz took a sip of water Zander offered her and got drugged. Lucky then took Liz away from Zander and professed his love to her and kissed her. Knowing she would not remember what happened, Lucky told her there was something wrong with him.
• His premonition rang true when Liz woke up only remembering drinking the water.
• Gia and Nikolas ran into Zander, but oddly, Zander did not recognize Gia.
• Gia and Liz fight before Lucky shares his gruesome plan to frame Zander for Ted's murder. He plans to stick Ted's frozen body into Zander's car.
• Taggart arrests Sonny, Carly and Sorel. Carly then confesses that she tipped off the cops because she wanted to get Sorel arrested, she had no intention of getting Sonny arrested. Sonny then forces Carly to move in to the penthouse, but says she is "addicted to lies" and he can never forgive her.
• Alexis tells Sonny that the only way Carly cannot be forced to testify is if he marries her.
• Jason shows up at the penthouse and stuns Carly.
• Chloe is almost Helena as Jax talks to the Brenda Look-alike.
• Pleased that his plan to distract Jax worked, Stefan arranged for a picture of "Brenda" to be in the paper, after he found out Chloe was going in for treatment for the tumor that gives her the premonition.
• Jax sees the picture in the paper and Chloe convinces him to fly to Paris.  Chloe, afraid of losing him, follows.
• Jax sees a woman who is looks identical to Brenda get into a limousine in Paris!
• The phenomenally beautiful Vanessa Marcil is back! But will she reprise her role as the deceased Brenda Barret, or is she just another Brenda look-alike?

 Christina L. Esparza is the city editor for the Daily Forty-Niner.