The BEST episodes of General Hospital season 42
Every episode of General Hospital season 42, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of General Hospital season 42!
The wealthy Quartermaine family continues to be a looming presence in the town of Port Charles, with interests in much of the city's business. Characters come and go, but viewers can always count on at least one Quartermaine or Spencer to create havoc.
#1 - 03.04.05 - Friday
Season 42 - Episode 44 - Aired 3/4/2005
Justus catches Faiths confession on a recorder. He lets Mac hear it, then when Faith tells Mac that Justus tried to smother her, he is asked to leave the room. Mac himself asks Faith where Micheal is, she tells him he's dead. Luke gives Jason the transfer records from Faiths account. Skye tells Detective Reese and Ric that she broke Faith out of Pentonville alone. They both know that Luke helped her, but Skye begs them to leave him out of it. Lorenzo and Carly go to a church and pray for Micheals safe return. Jason and Sam start looking through the files Luke gave them.
#2 - 03.16.05 - Wednesday
Season 42 - Episode 52 - Aired 3/16/2005
Alcazar tells Carly that if he were in Sonny's position, he'd kill all his enemies. Luke persuades Skye he's leaving town, but he really has no intention of doing so. Luke kisses Skye goodbye. Skye asks Carly to step in and convince Sonny not to kill Luke. After talking to Reese, Sam's afraid that Jason will be caught if he kills Luke after having warned Carly of the fact.
#3 - 03.15.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 51 - Aired 3/15/2005
Sam admits to Reese that Jason still hopes that Michael is alive. Michael has indeed survived the plane crash. Skye confronts Luke for being a rapist and thinks he's a damaged person. Skye admits to Luke that he's too destructive for her. Luke feels tortured inside after she says goodbye. Durant insists that Reese find the evidence needed to send Sonny to prison. Carly asks Alcazar what he would do if he were in Sonny's place. She's unsettled by his response.
#4 - 03.14.05 - Monday
Season 42 - Episode 50 - Aired 3/14/2005
Reese starts her new assignment: gathering evidence to use against Sonny. Alcazar tries to console Carly as she prepares for Michael's memorial service. Carly tells Jason she fears Sonny will never recover from Michael's death. The Quartermaines set aside their disagreements and attend Michael's service. Jason confides to Sam that he can't stop searching for Michael. Dillon and Georgie don't regret making love, but Dillon still feels guilty for helping Luke break Faith out of prison.
#5 - 03.11.05 - Friday
Season 42 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/11/2005
Carly doesn't listen to Durant when he suggests that she and Morgan sever ties with Sonny and enter the Witness Protection Program. Durant pleads with Reese to use the information she learned during the kidnapping investigation to destroy Sonny. Carly sees how good Sam is for Jason. Dillon and Georgie act on gut instinct. Diego and Alcazar become closer. Emily is able to give comfort to Alan.
#6 - 03.10.05 - Thursday
Season 42 - Episode 48 - Aired 3/10/2005
Sonny, Carly, and Jason receive the devastating news. So do their friends and family. Courtney persuades Jax that she doesn't want Jason, she wants him. Alcazar is touched by Diego's gesture. Dillon feels guilty for helping Faith escape from prison. Alexis is concerned and notices that something is bothering Emily.
#7 - 03.09.05 - Wednesday
Season 42 - Episode 47 - Aired 3/9/2005
Before Faith can tell Sonny anything more, she dies. Reese drags Alcazar to the police station, where he insists to Carly that he's innocent as far as the kidnappings go. Carly believes Alcazar's claim that he had nothing to do with it. Sonny grows angry at Carly for believing Alcazar. Ric and Jason start suspecting that Alcazar is telling the truth. Jason and Reese locate the gunman who shot Faith, but Jason shoots him dead in an act of self defense.
#8 - 03.08.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 46 - Aired 3/8/2005
Faith is rushed to the hospital after being shot, still unconscious. Jason and Reese look for the sniper who shot Faith. Reese believes Alcazar has something to do with Faith's shooting and arrests him. Steven offers Jason a possible clue about the sniper. Durant accuses Sonny of shooting Faith and of giving Carly false hope that Michael's alive. Faith wakes up long enough to give Sonny a little bit of information.
#9 - 03.07.05 - Monday
Season 42 - Episode 45 - Aired 3/7/2005
Alan holds Jason responsible for Michael's death, but Durant blames Sonny. Ric and Alexis tell Faith that she's likely to get the death penalty. Ric and Alexis unite when Faith threatens to destroy their marriage and Ric's career. Sonny, Carly, and Jason are certain that Michael's alive. Jason discovers proof that Faith was paid to kidnap Michael, Morgan, and Kristina. Faith publicly announces that someone paid her to kidnap the children, but she's shot before she can name her accomplice.
#10 - 03.17.05 - Thursday
Season 42 - Episode 53 - Aired 3/17/2005
Skye persuades Luke to leave town. Rachel clearly warns Courtney that she's a threat to Jax. Sonny wonders whether Reese will use what she knows against him.
#11 - 03.03.05 - Thursday
Season 42 - Episode 43 - Aired 3/3/2005
Kristina is examined back at General Hospital. She is fine. Faith is transported to General Hospital. Sonny wants to kill her and lurks in the hall with a gun, but Jason stops him. Lorenzo tells Carly what Faith said about killing Micheal. Carly breaks down and cries. Detective Reese has search teams looking through the swamps, but no one has found any evidence that Faith killed Micheal. Sam confronts Justus and Luke, asking them if they knew anything about Faith that could help them find Micheal. They both say no. Emily tells Monica, Edward and Alan about Micheal. Reese and Jason decide to interrogate Faith, Reese leaves Jason alone to try and get some answers. He starts to strangle her, and she tells him the same thing she told Lorenzo, that she had killed Micheal and dumped his body in the swamp. Sonny and Carly take Morgan home and Sonny sits and looks at Michaels toys. They talk and agree that he has to still be alive. Sonny asks Luke to come and talk to him, he asks for transacti
#12 - 03.02.05 - Wednesday
Season 42 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/2/2005
Rachel asks Bridgette to steal some meds off the med cart at general hospital. She does and then calls Courtney. Since Courtney is away from Jax, Rachel calls him asking for help. She has gotten her big toe stuck in the faucet while she was taking a bath. Courtney makes Bridgette return the meds, and returns to her apartment to find Rachel and Jax together on the couch drinking whine and talking. In Louisiana, Detective Reese gets a call about 2 young kids about to get on a plane. The kids were going to be taking to a foster family in Arizona. Everyone arrives at the airport just in time to catch them. It was Morgan and Kristina but no Micheal. In the hospital Lorenzo talks to Faith right after she regain conciseness. She tells him that she shot and killed Micheal then dumped his body in the swamp.
#13 - 03.01.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/1/2005
Lorenzo arrives in Louisiana. Faith is rushed to the hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound. Jason finds a muddy shovel in the church and fresh mud on Faiths shoes. Courtney asks Rachel if an apology from Steven would make her change her mind about killing him. Emily tells Lucky about wanting to get a divorce from Nicholas. Jax and Courtney go off on a romantic get away. Rachel confronts Steven, who refuses to apologize to her for letting her take full responsibility for losing a patient years ago. Rachel calls in Bridgette and offers her some money, in exchange she has to do something for her. Back at the church, forensic crews find Tire tracks and Kristina's foot prints in the mud. They also find Michaels blood in one of the churches rooms.
#14 - 02.28.05 - Monday
Season 42 - Episode 40 - Aired 2/28/2005
Micheal called Sonny on a cell phone Friday and before he could tell Sonny where he was, you hear a gunshot. Sonny fears that Faith has killed Micheal. He smashes a window and purposly cuts his hand on a piece of glass. Ric fears that Faith took the kids to get back at him for using her when he knew she loved him. Lorenzo tells Jason where to find William Peavy, Faith's assistant. Sonny, Jason and Reese go to Peavy and hold him at gunpoint until he tells them where Faith is. They all go to an abandoned church. In the church they search the rooms but don't find any kids. There is a shootout between the two groups and Faith is shot.
#15 - 02.25.05 - Friday
Season 42 - Episode 39 - Aired 2/25/2005
Sam and Jason find out where Micheal, Morgan, and Kristina had been held, but they were already gone. Faith escapes from General Hospital after fighting with Sonny and Alexis in the stairwell. Emily tells Nicholas she wants a divorse. Lucky wakes up from a coma.
#16 - 02.24.05 - Thursday
Season 42 - Episode 38 - Aired 2/24/2005
Justus stabs Faith in the back and pushes his call button as she asks him to run away with her. Faith briefly takes Brook Lynn hostage while she's escaping from the hospital. Carly keeps Sonny from doing Durant bodily harm. Reese begs Sonny to trust her with helping him bring his children home. Faith informs Ric it's his fault that she's kidnapped Kristina. She then hits him with her gun. Reese is afraid that Sonny's having a nervous breakdown.
#17 - 02.23.05 - Wednesday
Season 42 - Episode 37 - Aired 2/23/2005
Alexis lashes out at Sonny as Jason and Sam arrive with a possible lead on Faith. Jason shares his information with Reese at Sonny's request, but he and Sam later follow up on another clue on their own, which takes them to Louisiana. Reese thinks that Durant might have helped Faith kidnap Michael and Morgan but Carly and Ric don't agree. Sonny angrily confronts Durant. Faith is keeping Michael, Morgan and Kristina in a house in Louisiana that's surrounded by swampland.
#18 - 02.22.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 36 - Aired 2/22/2005
Someone shoots Justus while he and Sonny are making the ransom drop. Sonny and Jason find out that Michael and Morgan have been kidnapped. Sonny holds himself responsible for Michael and Morgan's kidnapping and believes he'll never see his children again. Carly cries in Alcazar's arms. Reese observes Sonny as he loses control of his emotions. Jason and Sam discover a potential lead to Faith's whereabouts. Alcazar offers to help Reese.
#19 - 03.29.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 61 - Aired 3/29/2005
Reese feels betrayed and sets out to connect Sonny to the shootings. Reese tells him so. After being confronted by Carly, Alcazar explains why he's keeping Maria quiet about what she saw and heard. Diego feels that something is troubling Maria. Carly interrupts Reese as she's questioning Maria. Later on Reese confronts Maria again. Jason wants to know every detail of Michael's death in order to give himself closure.
#20 - 04.08.05 - Friday
Season 42 - Episode 69 - Aired 4/8/2005
Sonny's accusation hurts Reese. Sonny later thinks that maybe Reese has been trying to protect him. Reese discovers something startling about Durant, who catches her snooping. Michael calls AJ's bluff and goes to the car that's waiting to take him to the airport. Sam tells Carly that she and Jason know Michael is alive.
#21 - 04.07.05 - Thursday
Season 42 - Episode 68 - Aired 4/7/2005
Sonny makes the wrong conclusion about Reese but Carly later sets him straight. Sonny notices that Alan's drunk and acting very ungentlemanly towards Reese. Carly tells Alcazar she thinks Michael is alive. Jason and Sam are unaware how close Michael really is. Jax promises to expose Rachel's crimes and turns to Skye for help. Mac listens to Skye telling Courtney she won't say anything to the police.
#22 - 04.06.05 - Wednesday
Season 42 - Episode 67 - Aired 4/6/2005
Reese tells Carly that she once had a son who was kidnapped and murdered. Jason and Sam set out to investigate Faith's dealings in the Bahamas. Jax and Courtney reason that AJ and Rachel could have been involved, and that Rachel had her own motives for killing AJ. Carly tells Courtney that she thinks Michael is trying to tell her something and that she's failing him.
#23 - 04.05.05 - Tuesday
Season 42 - Episode 66 - Aired 4/5/2005
Sonny and Alexis receive their psychiatric evaluations. The judge dismisses Alexis' appeal and allows Sonny continued access to Kristina. Alexis warns Sonny she'll stop at nothing to keep Kristina away from him. AJ comes across the letter Michael wrote to Carly. AJ convinces Michael that he gave the letter to the postman, but then destroys it without Michael's knowledge.
#24 - 04.04.05 - Monday
Season 42 - Episode 65 - Aired 4/4/2005
Sonny must agree to a court ordered psychiatric evaluation. Later he warns Ric that he's going to take Kristina away from Alexis. Carly approaches Alexis after learning she's filing for sole custody of Kristina. Carly will stop at nothing to help Sonny beat Alexis. Alexis asks Reese to testify against Sonny at the evaluation.
#25 - 04.01.05 - Friday
Season 42 - Episode 64 - Aired 4/1/2005
Sam and Jason look at the picture of the 'dead' Michael on Jason's laptop and Jason becomes convinced Michael is still alive when he notices that his eyes aren't completely closed, and his pupils aren't dilated. Ric tries to play peacemaker with Sonny, but when Alexis and Sonny run into each other, they can't keep the claws from coming out. Steven and Mac worry about Rachel's condition, especially since she hasn't woken up yet, as Courtney and Jax search lawyer Martin Roth's office for information.