Carly Cap #6 November 13, 2009 – Jail Bait

This week in Carlyworld, we have been taken for the same no-thrill ride.  Carly was booked into jail, but not long enough to lament the first verse of Nobody Knows.  When did the FBI begin FastPass for international extradition?  I miss Guiding Light, at least when there was a passively progressive story, there was the pleasure of Peapack.  I’m beginning to think there is a better chance of Carrie Prejean suffering martyrdom in silence than this feature finding fruition.

The recap:

Auntie Vendetta receives her daily Dr. Manning update from Gus.  Ma damn, that is an atrocious accent.  He informs her that Carly has been arrested.  V walks over to the urn and reminds Lawrence that she warned him Carly would love him tinder.   Pack her bag; she is going to Salem.  Gus, get out of my light, I’m ready for my close-up…with Carly.

Bo checks on the incarcerated old flame.  Anyone ever notice there is never anyone else in the cells?  Where are the hookers and the Goose hounds?  Well, OK, where are the hookers?  Hope and Justin arrive at the station.  Bo asks which one of them turned in Carly.  They both plead not guilty.  Hope goes all Police Woman on Bo when he doesn’t believe her.  She suddenly realizes his animosity is not about Bo and Carly, it’s about Bo and Hope.  See, I love the old soap days…there is no Barly, Bope or Ho.

Bo wants to know who did this to Carly.  Smelling chum in the water, Victor arrives to an ominous and repetitive soundtrack.  Brady, you’re gonna need a bigger boat.  He admits he turned Carly into the police.  He manipulated Hope into revealing the truth.  Victor doesn’t want Carly to plunge a knife into his son’s belly, so he plunges one into his son’s back instead.  The sooner Carly is out of Bo’s life, the better.

Justin finesses the federal extradition and buys Carly time.  She will be released into Bo’s custody for now.  Carly of course refuses, but Bo reminds her she risked her life coming to Salem for a very important reason.  Is she going to give that up?  And I don’t think there is need for a Garmin to see where this is going…though a Nat-tracker would be nice.

Bo goes to see Hope.  She is puzzled.  He apologizes for accusing her of betraying her word to Carly.  Bo should have trusted her.  Hope accepts, and says she never should have baited a great old white like Victor.   Hope admits she questioned Victor because she is jealous of Carly.  She was a huge part of Bo’s life when he thought all Hope was lost.  Carly was her replacement back then and wonders if history is repeating.  Well, you never know with daytime budgets, first Deidre Hall and then…

Hope becomes more akin to Charity as she tries to give it away to Bo.  She wants to move back home.  Bo wants to know what brought THIS on.  Is it because she loves him or does she want to keep an eye on Carly?  Both.  Bo questions Hope’s trust in him, and to their family.  Hope says it’s Carly that she doesn’t trust.  Apparently Carly hasn’t given her that convincing Hippocratic oath speech yet.

Justin tells Carly that her extradition proceedings are continuing and he is doing all he can to keep her from being sent back to the Land of Lawrence.  She can’t leave Salem yet, but she won’t tell Justin why.  Justin is not happy with Carly’s secrecy and leaves to check on the status of his briefs.  Wait, Carly runs to the computer, you can check the V Store online.  Justin is already gone.  While Carly is at the laptop, she completes a drive-by re-tweeting and audibly walks us through a Salem Google search.  She writes something down and rushes out to find a blond street teen sittin’ by the dock of the bay, wasting time.

The kid wants to know if they have met.  Carly says no, but she thinks they might have a lot in common…like multiple alleles?  Ignoring all those “don’t talk to strangers” after-school specials (wait, those have been replaced by game shows) the girl asks what they could possibly have in common.  Fitting the demographic, what looks to be a twelve year old boy walks up and calls the girl a lying whore.  Whoa, that’s heavy.  He is holding DNA evidence that proves the child the girl gave up for adoption and tried to pass off as his, is not.  Carly intervenes on Mia’s behalf and holds the upset stranger like a…mother?  Jellybean, that boy had no right to talk to you like that.  She is comforted in the fact mothers have to make sacrifices for their kids sometimes.  Carly asks about the girl’s mother, she around?  Perhaps closer than you think…