Dr. Matthew Harmon of Port Charles

"Dwell on me."
- Matt to Ellen -

Synopsis
August - November 1998

Mike Corbin, Matt's landlord, is behind the bar at the Recovery Room when the electricity suddenly goes off. Knowing that Matt has had problems with his air conditioner, Mike enters Matt's apartment, and finds Matt unconscious on the floor next to his shower stall. He calls 911, and Matt is rushed to the hospital, where Ellen is on duty in the Emergency Room. Ellen is on duty when Matt arrives, and she immediately thinks the worse.

Matt has survived the electrocution attempt and is regaining consciousness. Ellen asks him if he knows where he is. "Heaven," he answers, "from the looks of you." Matt suffered a mild concussion, a cut on his forehead and second degree burns on his right hand. Mike realizes that the electrocution attempt was an attempt on Matt's life and the serial killer is suspected. The police place a guard at Matt's door. While he is in the hospital recuperating, Mike suggests that Matt take some time off for R & R, and he offers Matt the use of his friend's cabin at Pleasure Point, up in the mountains. Matt asks Ellen if she wants to go play with him in the woods, and she eagerly accepts. Mike promises to put the keys and address in Ellen's mailbox near the nurse's station, but he mistakenly places them in Eve's mailbox instead.

Lucy Coe, who is currently estranged from Kevin Collins, snoops in Eve's mailbox and finds the keys and written directions to Pleasure Point. When she later goes to the Lighthouse to check up on Kevin, she sees a pad on which "Pleasure Point" is written. She doesn't know that Ellen had called Kevin to let him know that she and Matt would be away for a few days at Pleasure Point, and Lucy jealously assumes that Kevin is meeting Eve there for a love tryst.

Matt is delayed from going with Ellen at the appointed time because one of his patients has to have emergency surgery. He promises to meet Ellen at the cabin later, and cautions her to be careful, because storms are predicted. Ellen goes up to the cabin by herself to wait for Matt. She doesn't know that Lucy has preceded her to the cabin, forced her way inside, and is waiting, expecting to see Eve.

When Ellen enters the cabin, she is greeted by a bucket of fish entrails being dumped over her head. Lucy is surprised and appalled to find out that it is Ellen and not Eve. Ellen is furious. She tells Lucy to leave and calls Matt to tell him that their holiday is off and that she's heading back home. Just then, Lucy comes back in and informs Ellen that it is storming and she cannot start her car - she has to spend the night. Ellen makes the worse of a bad situation by letting Lucy don her flannel nightgown. Lucy complains of the heat and opens the windows, letting mosquitoes in.

After a miserable night, Ellen is compelled to let Lucy know in no uncertain words that she feels that Lucy is a spoiled, trouble-making woman who thinks only of herself. Lucy is absolutely stunned - and momentarily silenced - by Ellen's tirade. Lucy leaves and Ellen calls Matt. Matt tells her that the roads up and down the mountain have been closed because of the storm. Lucy returns, with an unwelcome follower - a bear has smelled the bag of marshmallows that Lucy has been carrying and chased her back to the cabin.

While Lucy and Ellen hide in a closet, the bear, in an attempt to find something to eat, destroys everything in the cabin, including their cellular phones. Lucy immediately begins chattering about how she cannot live without her telephone. Ellen, completely unnerved by the chain of events and Lucy's constant chattering, decides to try to make her way off the mountain alone. Shortly after she starts out, she stops to rest and sits on the cover of an old well. The cover collapses and Ellen falls into the well, injuring her ankle. She notices that the water level in the well is rising, and realizes that she might soon drown if she isn't rescued. She cannot climb out and begins calling for help.

Lucy hears Ellen, and she immediately goes to her rescue. Lucy ties sheets and blankets together, along with her expensive shawl, and manages to haul Ellen out of the well. By then, Ellen is suffering from exposure and hypothermia. Lucy gets her to the cabin, wraps her in blankets, lights a fire for warmth, and then sets out in her car to find help. The car becomes mired in the mud, and Lucy abandons the car to try to find her way down the mountain on foot. She quickly becomes disoriented and loses her way.

In the meantime, Matt sees Kevin at the hospital and asks him if he's heard from Lucy. Matt fills Kevin in on the chain of events that caused Lucy and Ellen to be at the cabin together. Matt decides to go look for them, because he senses something is not right after he cannot call Ellen on her cell phone. A frustrated Kevin decides to go with Matt.

Arriving at the mountain, Matt and Kevin find roadblocks and learn that the bridges is out and all roads are closed. They talk a Ranger into flying them to the cabin in a helicopter. When they arrive, they find Ellen wrapped in a quilt on the sofa. Matt is frantic with worry. He tells the Ranger to order a Medivac helicopter to fly Ellen to the hospital. He sits next to her on the sofa and begins to assess her medical condition. He and Kevin conclude that she is suffering from hypothermia and they immediately begin to take measures to get her body temperature up. The only thing that Ellen is able to tell them is that Lucy left.

Kevin decides to go look for Lucy while Matt stays with Ellen. Slowly, Ellen begins to recover, and she is able to tell Matt what happened. Kevin and the Rangers find Lucy, and Matt escorts Ellen down the mountain and to the hospital in the helicopter.

Lucy later visits Ellen in the hospital - Ellen and Matt are both grateful that Lucy saved Ellen's life. Because of their ordeal in the woods, Ellen and Lucy have begun to bond as friends.

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