When GENERAL HOSPITAL'S Robin stumbled upon her supposedly dead dad in a file room, it led to a reunion that had been 14 years in the making.  Attempting to downplay the shocking moment, Robert's response was a gruff attempt at humor.  "I guess there's a bit of explaining to do," he said nervously.  "If I don't, you're never going to understand what I'm doing..."  But Robin cut her dad off, unwilling to let her slick father charm his way out of her line of ire.  "Oh, my God!  It was all a lie, wasn't it?"  She asked, shock quickly turning to rage.  There was nothing he could say that would erase the pain she felt having "lost" him and her mother as a teenager.  There could be no excuse to such a huge betrayal.  "Was there ever a boat explosion, or did you two just go off on some mission , and then when [mom] missed me, she decided to get in touch with me?"  Robin demanded.  "You let me believe that you were dead!  Or worse, you let me believe that you were brutally murdered!  Why should I ever listen to anything you ever have to say again?"  Shaken, Robert did his best to explain the unexplainable, but his daughter wasn't willing to listen.  All she could see was that he had a choice between saving the world and being with his daughter...and the world won.  "I decided to leave you with your childhood intact, memories of a father that could do anything," he said softly.  "That Robert Scorpio, he was a better man that I am.  That's the father you deserved."  This was not the joyful, "Oh thank goodness, you're alive" reunion viewers may have expected.  But the powerhouse performances of Tristan Rogers (Robert) and Kimberly McCullough (Robin) realistically conveyed the notion that there's a fine line between buffering and abandoning.  It was a moment filled with pain and resentment, beautifully acted by two actors reconnected on every level.

Picture Caption: "Robert didn't get quite the reaction he'd expected from daughter Robin." 

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