Friday 04-01-2016

Nathan and Dante come into the gym to work out; Curtis is there.  Nina calls him to see if he’s found anything out about who is sabotaging the magazine.  Hayden shows up at Nikolas’ hotel room door; she tries to convince him no to throw their marriage away, saying the love was real.  Maxie is hard at work preparing the office for a special guest interview.  Curtis insults Dante when Dante says that he should treat Valerie with respect.  Sam comes to see Jason’s new apartment; he tells her the pictures he found make it feel like home, even though he doesn’t remember them.  I like the way they are working in a serious conversation, between Cristina and Lucas, about a modern-day issue (the way many parents react to a child telling them they are “maybe-possibly” gay); hopefully, this will help somebody that might happen to have that conversation with their kid to handle it with grace and love.  Sam fills Jason in on Raymond Berlin and his ponzi scheme; she tells him that they need to keep investigating Hayden, she’s the best lead they have. 

No matter how much Hayden tries to persuade Nikolas, he can’t seem to get over the fact that she was lying to him the whole time.  Alexis talks to Julian about Cristina’s confession and how she handled it; she says, though, that she has a legitimate reason to be concerned.  Maxie tells their special guest how much she admires him; he tells her she’s wearing a great pair of shoes.  Maxie mentions that her boyfriend got them for her and a conversation ensues; he advises her not to “borrow trouble”, to leave the past in the past.  Sam and Jason try to figure out if the bullet that hit Hayden might have actually been meant for her.  They think there might have been a second shooter.  As Nikolas holds Hayden’s head in his hands, he looks as if he wants to choke her; he tells her their farce of a marriage is over.  He tells her he is having it annulled; she closes his hotel room door and says, “I don’t think so.”  Lucas tells Cristina to trust her own feelings and not worry about putting a label on herself or her sexuality.  Maxie introduces Nathan to their special guest, Joe Z… he gets a call and has to fly back to L.A.  He’ll facetime the feature; he’s thinking footwear.  Nathan asks Maxie to go for a walk… he tells her that Claudette was his wife.  Hayden tells Nikolas they are not getting a divorce – because of what she knows about him.