The story of Stefan and Katherine begins with a tragedy.
Laura has faked her death and Luke and Lucky try to make things more realistic by having Luke go to Spoon Island and threaten to kill Stefan with a gun. Lucky makes a mistake in the plan, and takes the gun from Luke and tosses it into a ravine. The faked death and Luke and Lucky’s failed plan set things in motion for the tragic first meeting of Stefan Cassadine and Katherine Bell.
Scene 1: After Luke and Lucky leave. Stefan retrieves the gun and returns to the sight where Luke threatened to kill him. Stefan has flashbacks of Luke’s threat and his aiming the gun at him. Katherine is off the beaten path to Wyndemere. She is trying to locate Nikolas, Stefan’s “nephew”, who has a crush on the beautiful Ms. Bell. Stefan loads the cartridge into the gun. He positions himself in a shooting stance, aiming at the tree where he had stood when Luke was aiming the same gun at him. Katherine appears on the scene just as Stefan pulls the trigger. It’s too late. Katherine momentarily smiles at the stranger then her face reflects the agony as the bullet pierces her abdomen. Stefan and Katherine’s eyes meet, filled with both terror and shock.
Stefan is panicked and throws the gun down. He rushes over to Katherine and places his hand on her neck to feel for a pulse. He feels the blood on Katherine’s stomach and wipes it off on his clothes. He cries out for Barbara, as a security guard arrives on the scene.
S.G.: “Mr. Cassadine, Mr. Cassadine are you ok?”
S: “Yes. This woman has been shot, I just found her.”
S.G.: “Who is she? A trespasser?”
S: “Just go call the emergency code. Do it now, do it now.”
S.G.: “I can’t just leave you.”
S: “Do as I say, do it. Do it!” As the security guard leaves to call for help. Stefan cries out for Barbara again. She rushes to the scene.
B: “Luke, Luke. Stefan what’s the matter, what’s going on?”
S: “Here, I called the paramedics. Here. I found this woman; she’s badly hurt, she’s bleeding. Look.”
B: “Oh my God. It’s Katherine Bell,” as she shines the flashlight on Katherine’s face.
S: “You know her?” Barbara tries to calm a panicked Stefan.
B: “Here, just hold the light. Hold it on the wound. I need to see the wound.”
S: “Help her.”
B: “Just below the rib cage.”
S: “How bad is it?”
B: “I don’t know. Normally she shouldn’t be unconscious. She must have hit her head as she went down.”
S: “Who’s this Katherine Bell? Why is she here? Why would she come here?” Nikolas arrives.
S: “Nikolas, where the hell have you been?”
N: “Uncle? The guard said something about…” Noticing Katherine, Nikolas rushes to her beside Stefan and Bobbie.
N: “No, no. Who did this?”
S: “You know her?” Stefan flashes back to Luke holding the gun on him, and his own shooting of Katherine.
N: “Answer me! What’s the matter with you? Who shot her?”
S: “I know less about this woman than you or Barbara. I’m assuming this was an accident.”
Nikolas to Barbara: “Tell me she’s going to be all right. Tell me she’s going to live.”
B: “Nikolas, I don’t know. We have to get her to General Hospital. In the meantime I will do everything I can.”
N: “Why is she unconscious? Why is she unconscious?”
B: “The guard is sending for the paramedics, but we do need to get her to the hospital.”
N: “But she’s bleeding. You have to do something to stop the bleeding, please!”
B: “I’m trying. Don’t touch her. Don’t move her.” Meanwhile Stefan looks at the gun he threw down.
B: “We have to wait for the paramedics.”
N: “When are they going to get here? She’s going to bleed to death before they get here!”
Stefan is in a state of shock.
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