Tuesday 02-09-2016

Ok, so A LOT happens in today’s episode.  Alexis and Julian are keeping Leo overnight; Ava comes by to see Julian.  Alexis gets a phone call about Sam being in the explosion and leaves to go see her.  Ava tells Julian that she is jealous of the life he is living; Julian asks if she’s having second thoughts about running the organization.  She admits that she may be in over her head this time. 

Anna goes to see Paul… she tells him that she has been searching for Carlos, and that she failed.  So, even though she knows damn well that Carlos is alive and Paul has something to do with the cover-up, she tells Paul that she ‘knows’ he is dead better than anyone – she’s just in denial – says, it’s easier for her to believe that there’s a cover-up… a mystery to be solved.  Tells him she even convinced Robert to follow her, chasing non-existent clues; but, that it was a ‘total fantasy’ (he touches her face).  Hm, creepy.

Nathan shows up at Maxi’s door (tells her he wants to move in together); I forgot they weren’t still living together).  He moved in above Kelly’s a while back.  Maxi’s apartment, which used to be Lulu’s, is Lulu’s again…she’s moved back in.  Man, Elizabeth may not be able to handle all of this without cracking again; loosing Jason, him getting closer to Sam, Jake getting hit by a car again, and now her house explodes?  (Are the writers trying to drive her to another breakdown?)

Jason goes to check on Jake; lets the nurse know he will be in with Sam now if they need him.  Eizabeth is standing there when he turns around.  She tells him that she just wants to thank him, because he also saved their son that day - because if Sam had died, at his hands... she's just thankful.  She tells Jason that she understands there is an "instinctive connection" between him and Sam and that it is not going to go away. 

Paul tells Anna she is a great investigator; she breaks down and tells him she blames herself for Robin being gone all these years... that she, as her mother, should have known somehow that something was wrong.  Paul shares his own disappointments about his relationship with his son; said he made no effort to maintain contact when he was little, putting his own ambitions ahead of his child.  Mentions two daughters as well, the youngest, Jenny, and Susan; says he didn't do any better for them than he did for Dillon.

Sam reassures Elizabeth that Jake did NOT push her – she just lost her balance and fell. 

Paul offers Anna a drink; she smiles, “raincheck,” she says, as she makes her way out the door.  She asks herself, “what am I doing?”  Lulu is shocked when Maxi tells her Nathan is moving in with them; but she loves the idea and quickly suggests a movie and popcorn.  Alexis comes home happy Sam’s good; Ava makes a quick exit.

 
Who’s following Anna now???  As Jason and Sam talk, Elizabeth goes home and looks at the devastation.  Kind of sad, even knowing it’s all staged.  Just the thought is tough.