During
the month of April, Matt draws closer to Grace. He likes Grace as a friend, but he feels
an enormous sense of guilt over Grace's having gotten shot by Bobby. Grace has genuine
feelings for Matt, and she relishes his attention, even though she knows deep down that
Matt loves Ellen. Matt has tried to make Ellen realize how much he loves her, but she
keeps resisting him. She is still afraid to open herself to love.
In the meantime, Ellen receives a phone call from a hospital in San
Diego. They are interested in interviewing her for a position there. Ellen talks it over
with Matt. Matt, reluctant to say anything to Ellen that would jeopardize her chances for
advancement, encourages her to go. Ellen tells Matt that it is evident that he and Grace
have something going. Matt tells Ellen that he has tried in every way to let Ellen know
that he loves her, and that he is tired of being turned down. He tells her that he wants
to get on with his life. After Matt leaves, Ellen calls the people in San Diego and tells
them that she will go for the interview.
As Matt slowly gets his life back together, events leading to murder begin to unfold in
Port Charles. Kevin Collins, a psychiatrist in Port Charles, wrote a book which he titled
"General Homicide." The characters in the book were all based on the inhabitants
of Port Charles, particularly the doctors and nurses at General Hospital. In the book, a
serial killer stalked the environs of the hospital, methodically killing people by bizarre
methods. The first to be murdered was the surgeon, Bennett Devlin, father of Matt's fellow
intern, Julie. He was stabbed to death with a fountain pen through his heart.
One by one, the interns of General Hospital are drawn into the murder plot. Some of them
have genuine motives for killing Devlin. Because of Matt's past experiences with him, Matt
immediately suspects that Chris Ramsey is involved in some way.
Matt had confronted Chris after his father told him about Chris sending him the picture of
Matt. After Chris denies everything, Matt decides to have a private investigator
investigate Chris' past, and he learns that Chris had forged checks and was involved in an
insurance scam. He also learns that Chris had made a deal with Bennett Devlin for $20,000,
which Devlin had transferred to Chris' account the day he died. Matt suspects that the
deal involved proceeds from the sale of a formula for a nerve regenerating drug that
Devlin had acquired by stealing it from three of the interns who had developed it, Jake,
Karen, and Joe.
Out of gratitude for what she had been through for him, Matt gives Grace a surprise
birthday party. It is the eve of Ellen's departure for San Diego. When Ellen gets to the
party, she finds Grace and Matt kissing. She becomes angry and hurt, and later a
conversation with Matt concerning her impending move to San Diego, she leaves the party
abruptly. In the morning she flies to San Diego without telling Matt goodbye. Matt is hurt
over Ellen's actions.
When she returns a week later, she tell Matt that she has been offered the job, and that
she is seriously considering taking it. Feeling that he has done everything in his power
to convince Ellen of their love for one another, to no avail, Matt, obviously very
troubled, wishes her the best.
As the month of May ends, the race for the Quartermaine Residency heats up. The top
contenders are Matt, Chris and Eve. Eve is resigned to the fact that the prize will go to
either Chris or Matt. Chris becomes even more determined to do everything in his power to
see that he beats Matt out of the Quartermaine. |
