Duke & Anna & Robert #16  November 12 - December 5, 1986 - 8 hour original edit

DVD #16A  Robert tells Anna the evidence that Bert is lying and Duke is telling the truth that Bert Ramsey is the head of the mob! Robert admits that he has had his suspicions about Bert for sometime now. Anna is shocked at Robert's suggestion.

November 12, 1986 - Concerned about Duke's safety, Robert asks Captain Lewis to watch over him through the night. Duke tells Anna that he has lied to her about certain things but his love for her is true. Anna remains cold towards Duke and tells him that she won't forgive him for putting Robin in danger. Robert informs Anna that he has a team working for them, Frisco, Felicia and Sean. Frisco explains to Anna that he pretended to hate cops as part of his cover. Anna is happy that Frisco didn't give up his dream of being a cop. Ramsey checks out of General Hospital and meets with Angus, who has a plan to get Duke. To Lavery's face, Angus tells him he will help Duke escape. Duke is demanding to see Anna and Bert goes to his cell to find out why.

November 13, 1986 - Angus tells Damon that he has a plan to help Lavery escape from jail and then kill him. Robert and Anna tell Duke that they believe what he is saying about Ramsey being in the mob and they have a plan of their own to get him out of jail. Robert plans to have Duke go in the police van but instead of Ramsey's guards as escorts, Robert will have his own people with Duke. The plan almost fails when Bert changes the time schedule for the van's departure but Frisco, Felicia and Sean manage to help Duke escape certain death. To hide Duke somewhere that he will be safe from the police and the organization, he is given a car and told to drive to the cottage. At the courthouse, Ramsey is furious when Captain Lewis informs him that Duke has escaped.

November 14, 1986 - Robert and Sean make arrangements for Robin to stay in Donely's penthouse for safety reasons. Told that  she is playing a game, Robin is led to a secret room at Sean's place, where she will be protected. Sean assures Robert that nobody will get to her. Robert tells Anna to join Duke at the cottage.  Scorpio admits that he may have been wrong about some things concerning Duke. Robert believes that Duke would lay down his life for Anna. As part of the plan to fool Ramsey, Anna's bracelet is discovered in the police van that Duke escaped from. 

November 17, 1986 - Ramsey, David and Phillip are looking for Anna and Bert thinks that Robin may know where she is. Duke tries to explain to Anna that he cares about Robin but Anna resents him for putting her daughter in jeopardy. Anna considers Duke a criminal and to prove it, she holds him at gunpoint. Damon and Phillip are installing a radio at Duke's Club in order to communicate with Sister Island, Frisco and Sean decide to use bugging equipment to listen in. Ramsey goes to Sean's apartment and questions both Felicia and Sean about Anna and Robin's whereabouts but they claim to have no idea where they are. Listening in on Damon's radio communication, Frisco learns that Sister Island is a ship.

November 18, 1986 - Robert tells Ramsey that Robin knows where Anna is, she has run off with Duke. Ramsey concludes that Anna is an accessory to Lavery's escape. Bert surprises Robert with the news that he is going to resign from the police force. Frisco informs Robert that Sister Island is a ship, not a place. There are mob members on it and they are waiting to come ashore once Duke is dead. Believing that Duke has told Anna that Ramsey is Mr. B, Bert and Damon decide that both Anna and Duke must be killed. Robert arrives at the cottage where Anna and Duke are in hiding. Robert reveals a plan for Robert to shoot Duke and  fake his death. 

November 19, 1986 - Tired of being in Sean's penthouse, Robin complains to Frisco, Felicia and Sean that she wants to see her mommy and daddy. Frisco informs Robin that Robert will be coming to see her later that day. Robin packs her bags and Sean tells her that he will take her to Mexico.

November 20, 1986 - Burt informs Angus that he plans to kill Duke. Robert and Robin do a taped TV interview with Tiffany at Sean's apartment in order to fool Ramsey into thinking that it is a live interview at the Brownstone. Robert tells Sean to take Robin to a safe location. Robert doesn't want to take on the mob until he is sure that his daughter is out of danger.  Robert has convinced Ramsey that Duke and Anna will come back  to Port Charles, Duke to get his money and Anna to get Robin. As Anna and Duke arrive at the Brownstone, the plan is for Robert to "shoot" Duke with blanks, but Ramsey fires his gun, instead. Duke falls to the ground and Tony tells Robert to call for an ambulance.

November 21, 1986 - Duke is alive and Tony tells him to play "dead" in order to fool Ramsey. Tony informs Burt that Duke is dead. Robert tells Anna that Duke is alive, because Sean put blanks in Ramsey's gun. Burt goes to see Duke at the morgue to make sure that he is dead. Burt  questions Anna about her participation in Duke's escape from jail. She convinces him that she was Duke's hostage, an unwilling participant.  Frisco, Felicia, Olin and Yank hide Duke in the catacombs.

November 24, 1986 - Against Robert's wishes, Anna goes to see Duke. She tells him that she loves him and has known it since the moment that she thought Ramsey had killed him. Frisco bugs Damon's ship-to-shore radio. Damon is taking over Duke's club and fires Frisco so he can't listen in on Damon's communications with Sister Island. Duke tells Robert that Angel can be trusted. Robert tells Frisco to confide in Angel. After being told by Frisco that Duke is alive, Angel agrees to monitor Damon's ship-to-shore messages. Robert berates Anna for visiting Duke as it is too dangerous.

#16B  November 25, 1986 - Bert Ramsey is retiring from the police force and informs Robert that his new job will be at the Dockworkers Savings and Loan. Bert and Damon have a meeting in the catacombs. Duke and Frisco narrowly avoid being discovered by them. Angel tells Frisco that he heard Damon say that the disc was safe. Robert decides to search Duke's office and discovers the floppy disc which contains the mob's illegal business dealings. Robert tells Frisco that the disc is Jones' ticket into the mob. Felicia has been hired to serve a catered lunch on Sister Island and gives entry passes to Scorpio and Frisco. They both leave for Sister Island leaving her behind.

November 26, 1986 - Anna tells Duke that Robert has a plan to trap Bert Ramsey. Robert and Frisco arrive on Sister Island and go below deck. While there, they find a jeep with a secret hatch. Robert assumes it will be used to put illegal mob money into. Felicia tells Duke how afraid she is for Frisco's welfare. Anna calls the state police commissioner and arranges for her and Robert to meet with the man in a couple of days. Anna tells Felicia that Frisco could be killed by the mob as he is on a dangerous assignment. As planned, Scorpio leaves the ship and Frisco is left behind to take on the mob on his own. Angus spots him on deck and demands to know why he is there. Frisco tells Angus that someone in his organization is trying to betray him. Frisco, also, tells him that he wants to join Angus' mob. Angus doesn't  believe his tale of being an embittered cop and sends him to the brig.

November 27, 1986 - It is Thanksgiving Day, Scorpio is keeping surveillance of the ship, watching out for Frisco. Locked up on the ship, Frisco is demanding to speak with Angus, but one of his guards informs Frisco that Angus won't speak with him until tomorrow. After speaking with Robin over the phone, a lonely Anna takes food to the catacombs for Duke. After Tony demands to know where his brother is, Robert tells him that Frisco is working undercover and in danger.

November 28, 1986 - Angel overhears Ramsey tell Phillip that he needs to coordinate his retirement lunch with Pilgrim's arrival in Port Charles. Pilgrim is the top mob boss on Sister Island. Frisco tells Angus that Damon is trying to sell-out the mob and that he is turning state's evidence and giving the state commissioner of police the floppy disc. Sam and Eric hold Damon at gunpoint in his hotel room, while Robert and Anna meet with the state police commissioner and get his cooperation in setting Damon up as a traitor to the mob. Angus orders Phillip to find Damon. Damon agrees to turn himself into the police, realizing that the mob will be after him. Phillip spots Damon being escorted by two cops from his hotel and reports this news to Angus, who believes Frisco and tells him to meet with Phillip and David and wait for further instructions. Robert tells Felicia that Frisco will be okay, but Bert Ramsey tells Pilgrim and Angus that Robert might be using Frisco in a scam to get to them. Pilgrim decides to give Frisco a test and orders him to kill Damon before he can testify to the grand jury.

December 1,1986 - Robert and Anna shock Captain Lewis when they inform him and other members of the police department that Ramsey is a bad cop. Frisco, David and Phillip are in a hotel  waiting for the day that Frisco is assigned to kill Damon. Duke tells Olin that he hates being stuck in the catacombs, unable to help the police. Robert and Sean figure out that the mob will drop the illegal money into a manhole next to the Dockworkers Savings and Loan. Robert and Sean find another manhole in the neighborhood and will try to divert the mob's cash into it. Duke tells Anna that the mob will probably order Frisco to hit Damon as a test of his loyalty. Disguised as a hotel employee, Sam goes into Frisco's hotel room. Jones gives her a coded message that she relays to Anna that Frisco is to kill Damon. By Robert's orders, Frisco is told to go for it. Anna yells at Robert for setting Frisco up for a murder charge but Robert says that Pilgrim, Angus and the other mob members won't come ashore unless Damon is out of the way.

December 2, 1986 - Frisco is nervous as it is the day that he is supposed to kill Damon. Robert tells a group of police officers that they must stall Bert Ramsey at his retirement lunch for as long as possible so that Scorpio can deal with the mob arriving from Sister Island. Frisco shoots Damon and escapes the courthouse. Felicia is upset to learn that Frisco is the one that shot Damon. Frisco is the toast of the mob, until Pilgrim sees a TV replay of the shooting and spots a bullet-proof vest that Damon was wearing in the video. Pilgrim realizes that the hit was a set up and Damon is still alive and Frisco is working with the police. Pilgrim will come up with a plan to get rid of both of them.

December 3, 1986 - Sean, Anna, Duke and Felicia are in the catacombs, trying to gain access to the alternative manhole through a chamber door. The mob finally kills Damon through his lawyer. Damon never knew the water he was drinking was laced with poison. Pilgrim gives Frisco the assignment of driving the jeep  with the illegal money. The mob from Sister Island and Frisco come ashore to Port Charles. With instructions to drop the money into the manhole next to the Dockworkers Savings and Loan, Frisco manages with Sean and Felicia's help, to drop the money into the alternative manhole where Anna, Duke and Robert are waiting to take possession of it. At Ramsey's retirement lunch, Buzz, Bryan and Steve are keep Bert occupied. Robert tells Anna and Duke that he is going to find out why Ramsey turned into a bad cop. As a reward for driving the jeep, Angus gives Frisco a watch that is rigged with a bomb.

December 4, 1986 - Anna learns that Damon is dead and she wants to go to the bank to warn Frisco that the mob is on to him but Duke won't let her walk into a trap and knocks Anna out cold. Duke goes to the Dockworker's Savings and Loan instead. Sean hears Frisco's watch ticking and manages to hurl it away before it explodes, saving both of their lives. Duke confronts Angus and demands to know what instructions he just gave two hitmen. Angus admits that they are out to kill Robert. Duke races out of the bank to find Robert before the hitmen get to him. Pilgrim, Angus and the other mobsters are arrested by Anna and the police at the bank.  Robert confronts Bert and demands to know why he betrayed the police force. Shaken, Ramsey confesses that he was bitter at having to be co-chief of police with a woman, Anna. Bert hands over his gun to Robert and starts to cry. Along the docks, two hitmen are perched with rifles, ready to shoot Robert. Duke arrives and yells out to Robert to watch out. Duke then jumps infront of the gunmen and takes a bullet in the back that was meant for Robert. Scorpio  returns fire, shooting both hitmen. Anna holds an unconscious Duke, while Ramsey is arrested.

December 5, 1986 - Anna and Robert are at the hospital, waiting for word on Duke's condition. Dr. Tony Jones tells them that the bullet Duke took might have severed his spine. Duke wakes up and tells Tony that he can't move his legs.

**The End**