Monday 05-09-2016

Yep, it’s Jason; he’s alright.  He’s going to investigate the van; I thought it was on its side… I guess not.  The driver is unconscious; oh wait, he’s dead.  Jason’s cell phone is broken.  Dante is badly injured; he’s trapped under the van in addition to being stabbed.  Robin appears, telling Jason he has to save him.  No sign of Nathan or Carlos yet.  Jason asks Robin to tell him what to do; she laughs, saying she could ever tell him what to do – he does what he feels is right, regardless of what anyone else thinks.  That, she says, was his “one defining trait”.  

Michael stops by to see Sam; tells her he saw Carlos today, that Carlos was trying to ‘make a deal’ with him, and that Jason showed up and told him what he needed to hear just in time.  Sam and Michael discuss Jason (how he is now, and how he used to be); Sam is frustrated that she tries to tell him stories from their past and he doesn’t connect with them.  She says she wants to talk to him about it but doesn’t want to jinx anything (Michael asks when she became superstitious and she replies, when Helena cursed her).  Jason hallucinates Carly now; she is smiling and telling him he needs some encouragement – she tells him to never talk himself into giving up.  He realizes he needs to move the van.  Carly asks what Jason thinks happened; he imagines a prisoner was being transported and he is now running.  He almost decides to try to start the van, then thinks he needs to check for a fuel leak – the fuel line is leaking.  What now?  For whatever reason, Jason sees Helena now… as he looks for a non-existent jack to get the van off of Dante, she taunts him about his skill set not being one that will allow him to lift the van.  She tries to convince him that her conditioning is still in effect; that he should just pass out and when he wakes up, he will be free, his mind cleared and he will go back to his original mission.  She refuses to give up; he turns to Sam, who is now not really standing there – he tells her how much he loves her, saying if he is about to lose his life again, he wants to spend his last few moments with her.  

Meanwhile, Sam is really still talking to Michael, who is trying to convince her that she and Jason belong together.  Jason realizes Dante is getting worse; he tries to leverage the van using a rock and pole, but he passes out.  He wakes to hear Sonny calling him; he gets on his bike, saying he’s leaving – Sonny tells him Helena doesn’t control him, says he’s there to help him.  Sonny asks him why he did everything he did for him; Jason replies, “because we were friends”.   He recollects how they became friends; he remembers everything.  He gets back off his bike and tries again to move the van.  Danny comes home from his play date with the puppy at Monica’s; he asks where daddy is… Sam assures him that daddy will be back again soon, telling him to trust that nothing will ever take him away from them again.  Jason checks to see if the van moved and sees sparks flashing underneath.  He pulls him out and backs away; the van explodes.