07-14-2016 (Thursday)

Sonny and Carly check in on his “investment”, the coffee shop he loaned Cristina’s boyfriend money to open; looks like it’s in good hands, Sonny says.  Maxie sneaks at look at Nathan’s phone… when Valerie asks if she can talk to Nathan for a minute.  She asks if she can help with the investigation.  Claudette gets a text ‘from Nathan’ – hmmm.  When he comes back, Maxie tells Nathan that she has already texted Claudette from his phone, asking her out, so he doesn’t really have a choice – he asks why this is so important to her – she shows him Claudette’s room key (which she somehow grabbed out of her purse).  When he asks if that is Claudette’s, she says of course not (because her boyfriend is a police detective and she would never put him in the awkward position of knowing something like that).  Kisses him and tells him not to be late for his lunch date.  

Franco steps onto the elevator with Elizabeth, just before the doors close… she asks how his day is going and he glares at her, as he pushes the ‘stop’ button.  Elizabeth looks worried; he covers the camera.  She asks if he is trying to scare her; he begins to talk, about the toast, the kiss – he tells her she is the reason he believes in himself.  He asks why she doesn’t believe in him any more; tells her he overheard her talking to Apiphany.  He asks why; she tells him it’s because she doesn’t trust herself.  She says she is not afraid of him; she is afraid of her feelings for him.  He smiles.  He starts the elevator again; but in the meantime, security has seen the covered camera and thinks he is holding Elizabeth hostage on the elevator.  They are on their way.  

Curtis tells Jordan that he has decided to do some solo P.I. work, instead of joining the force; she tells him that TJ overheard them talking the other day.  Molly tells TJ that she was so worried about her mom yesterday, she didn’t even think about how mad she was at her yesterday; she tells him that she thinks he should go talk to his mom.  He does; after talking he still doesn’t get why she kept it a secret in the end.  But he forgives her; he knows she never meant to hurt him.  Molly questions Cristina’s reason for still dating this boy, and why she hasn’t told him about her feelings for Parker – she said she did tell him, everything except her gender.  Molly gets a notice on her phone that Port Charles University is having a ‘key note speaker’ at the Academic Conference – Parker.  

Nathan meets Claudette for lunch; she is beaming.  He does his best to keep her talking as long as possible, while Maxie rummages through her room – Curtis happens to let himself in and he and Maxie decide to work together to find dirt on Claudette.  Carly gets an email from a website she set up, which might be a lead on where Joslyn’s kidney came from; she sets up a meeting.  Maxie tells Curtis that Claudette could cause a lot of trouble for Nathan… Nathan tells Claudette he wants to find the man he shot, just to know he is okay; to give him some peace of mind; he asks her to tell him his name.  Wow.  This is going to get interesting.

When Franco and Elizabeth get off the elevator, the police grab Franco; Elizabeth tells them the elevator just got stuck – Franco actually calmed her down and told her it would be okay; smiling, she asks them to let him go now, saying “Franco would never hurt me.”