Soaps last week

— (This column represents on-air summaries for the week of Nov. 19-23.) The Bold and the Beautiful: Bill revealed a different side of himself to Brooke, while Steffy gave Liam a set of conditions under which she would consider his offer to move back in. Katie told Taylor she would disappear forever if Taylor revealed Katie’s whereabouts. Stephanie insisted that a conflicted Eric leave her bedside long enough to attend an emergency meeting Thomas called at Forrester Creations. Brooke took his place as caregiver at the Big Bear Cabin.

Katie, stricken with a massive panic attack, was rushed to the hospital. Rick clashed with Thomas over his proposed million dollar changes at the company. Eric tried to help Pam understand why Stephanie had decided to go away for her final days, but he had a hard time concentrating on Forrester business.

Days of our Lives: Kristen visited Brady in the hospital to thank him for fending off her muggers, but he just told her to leave town and stay away from Marlena and his dad.

When Kristen tried to leave some messages on John’s phone letting him know what had happened to Brady, Marlena deleted them without listening, but she later was horrified to realize she inadvertently had kept John from learning his son had been seriously injured. Hope was elated to hear that Caroline’s doctor was optimistic about her prognosis once she started her medication, so Caroline and Bo should be home soon.

Nick confided in Hope that he was smitten with Gabi. John blew up at Marlena when she confessed to deleting Kristen’s messages and demanded that she stop being so paranoid, but Marlena’s suspicions were confirmed later when Kristen “thanked’’ her for playing right into her hand. Lucas made peace with Sonny, based on their mutual love for Will.

General Hospital: Robert gave Olivia a history lesson, and after starting to put the pieces together, wanted to warn Anna, who was on the verge of consummating her relationship with Duke. AJ realized he had been had by Tracy when he found Michael alive and well. Sam demanded AJ vacate her premises, but Michael begged her to let AJ wait there until he could do damage control with Tracy. Monica suspected Tracy was behind AJ’s disappearance, while Tracy plotted to get AJ behind bars and steal Monica’s house to boot. Spinelli was confronted with a choice. As Tracy and AJ bickered, a nurse told Monica that Edward had taken a turn for the worse. AJ resigned himself to doing whatever it took to help his grandfather. After spending the night on Michael’s couch, Starr helped him work through his feelings about AJ and his parents. Sonny told Alexis he wanted a court order requiring AJ to stay away from Michael. Sonny told Shawn he resented how AJ and Connie had both worked the system so shrewdly. Todd urged Carly to be careful where Connie was concerned. Sam had another half-baked idea about what had happened to Jason.

On Thanksgiving Day, the Quartermaines honored their patriarch.

The Young and the Restless: Nina realized things with Paul were over after she saw him kissing Christine at Crimson Lights.

Although he insisted Christine was only comforting him, Nina told Katherine she wanted to go back to Los Angeles. Although Christine later suggested that she and Paul forget that first kiss, he told her he didn’t want to. Leslie accepted Neil’s offer to be his corporate lawyer, but Cane was uneasy when Devon revealed to him and Lily that he would be working at Jabot, too. Chelsea told Adam she knew that Sharon was still in love with him, but he insisted he only loved Chelsea. Sharon, meanwhile, told Noah she couldn’t stay at Adam’s any longer and confessed to burning down the house. Although Phyllis told Avery she would never be OK with her dating Nick, Adam told Phyllis the two women needed to work as a team for the sake of the company. Later, Phyllis left a voice mail for Avery saying she didn’t want to fight anymore. Tucker told Jack he had reservations about how the latter was running Newman Enterprises, and Jack shot back that Tucker was trying to get Katherine out of Chancellor Industries. Jack kissed Phyllis after she promised to stand by him no matter how hard things got. During a heated argument with Jill, Katherine began gasping for breath, but when Jill immediately dialed 911, Katherine told her she was just testing her loyalty. After Devon told Tucker he didn’t want his advice, Katherine urged Tucker not to keep pushing so hard.

When Victor told Nikki he blamed himself for letting Victoria marry Billy, she replied that they would have gotten married no matter what. Meanwhile, as a handcuffed Victoria tried to persuade Eddie to let her go, a gunshot rang out, and he fell to the floor.

TV Week, Pages 83 on 11/25/2012

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