Mob
violence continued to threaten Sonny, Carly & Michael. Sorel sent
a bomb to the penthouse in the form of a birthday present; which Sonny
and Jason disarmed. Jason then left town again. Carly had been pressing
Sonny to conceive another child with her, but he told her he refused
to bring a child into their dangerous life. Carly freaked out, and arranged
for Sonny to get arrested by the FBI and go into the witness protection
program. Sonny's men had located the man who made the bomb, and had
him tied up in Sonny's warehouse. Sonny went there to kill him, and
Carly called Roy DiLucca to contact the FBI. Roy had worked for Sonny
for a short time, but then revealed that he was an FBI informant. They
remained on good terms for a while, but then Roy decided to help Carly
with her plan. Sonny was arrested, and quickly realized that his own
wife had set him up. He told the Feds he'd take their deal only to get
released from jail. Then, he made sure the bomber wouldn't testify against
him, and they had to drop the charges. Home from jail, Sonny roughly
made love to Carly one last time before telling her that he knew she
had betrayed him. He threw her out that same night.
They
were apart for over a year, and eventually got divorced. During that
time, Sonny grew closer with his attorney Alexis Davis, and they forged
a strong friendship. Alexis' feelings quickly turned romantic, and while
Sonny didn't quite know what he felt, he enjoyed her company and her
advice. He especially needed her when he found out that his father Mike
had abandoned another family. Mike had a relationship with Janine Matthews,
and they had a daughter Courtney. Janine came to Port Charles to perpetrate
a con against Edward Quartermaine, and her daughter followed her. When
Sonny realized he had a half-sister, he tried to look out for her. Courtney
didn't make it easy on him. She got involved with AJ Quartermaine, who
saw a chance to get back at Sonny for making him give up custody of
Michael. AJ seduced and eventually married Courtney, and then offered
to trade her for his son. Sonny didn't take the deal, and instead put
a hit out on AJ. Alexis got wind of the hit, and talked Sonny into calling
it off. Sonny then pressed Alexis into showing him how she felt. They
ended up in bed, and unbeknownst to them, Carly walked into the penthouse,
went upstairs, and saw them together. In typically Carly fashion, she
lashed out, and ran to Zander Smith for solace. Carly and Zander had
been getting close, and Zander had fallen for her. Which was a bad idea,
considering he now worked for Sonny. Carly and Zander hit the sheets,
but Zander soon realized that Carly was only there for revenge. He threw
her out, and Carly drove off an emotional mess. Another bad idea, since
she had only recently learned how to drive. Her car went through a guard
rail and into the lake, and she was presumed dead. Sonny of course blamed
himself...especially after piecing together that Carly had seen him
with Alexis. Carly eventually turned up alive, having deliberately stayed
missing in order to punish Sonny. They reunited soon afterwards, and
got married for the third time. Alexis was hurt, but said she understood.
She also realized she was pregnant with Sonny's child. She wrestled
with telling him, but then her sister Kristina was killed when Sonny's
warehouse exploded. Kristina had found out that Sonny was the father
of the baby; not Ned, who was claiming to be to protect Alexis and the
baby from Sonny's world. Alexis lashed out at Sonny, and blamed him
for Kristina's death. She then vowed he'd never know the child was his.
After
helping Carly with her FBI scheme, Roy DiLucca found himself in the
employ of a mystery man who wanted Sonny destroyed. It was that man,
Luis Alcazar, who had Roy set the bomb in the warehouse. And the reason
he wanted to hurt Sonny was to prevent his girlfriend from wanting to
be with Sonny again. The girlfriend got wind that Luis was ordering
Roy kill to Sonny. Roy couldn't go through with it, and filled Sonny
in on the hit. Sonny decided to stage his own death in order to smoke
Alcazar out. When a woman called and asked to meet him at St. Timothy's
Church, Sonny put the plan in motion. He was stunned to come to face
to face with a very much alive Brenda Barrett.
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