07-29-2016 (Friday)

Maxie gets home to find Nathan gone; and finds that he has left his phone.  The jeep breaks down; Nathan is under the hood as Claudette looks at her phone.  She tells him he’s a hero for getting them to the side of the road safely; he gets upset and says he just wants to be home with Maxie.  He accuses her of setting this up; she asks how she could have possibly done that.  Nurse Nancy tells Valerie that she saw Franco going into a patient’s room with something small in his hand; Valerie searches him and finds a vial in his pocket.  Griffin talks to Elizabeth; asks her if things are better… she says yeah – she found someone who understands being on the wrong side of things.  He tells her that’s a gift (people come into our lives just when we need them).  Griffin tells Liz that he believes Franco is on the right side of wrong; he says he likes to give people the benefit of doubt, which is harder to do when it comes to himself.  Nurse Nancy thinks Franco is weird; (I think she’s weird).  

Jordan tells Curtis that she took TJ to see Shaun today; they have a decent talk; she says a great weight has been taken off her shoulders.  She tells Curtis she’d like him to be a strong, male presence in her son’s life; Curtis accepts and thanks her.  Claudette gets pissy and grabs her bags and starts walking away; she trips on something and twists her knee.  She mentions an injury she had received before; Nathan remembers… says how scared he was seeing her falling (thought he was losing her forever).  She mentions how scared she was to lose him too; but then she cheated on him and lost him anyway.  He talks about how bad he feels for shooting her lover.  Maxie questions Griffin about being shot; he gives her very little information, just saying he was in the wrong and doesn’t blame the shooter.  Nurse Nancy comes out of a patient’s room, screaming “code blue” – another patient is dead at General Hospital.  

Elizabeth meets Franco for their date; he notices that she seems nervous to be alone with him, so he takes her to the Floating Rib.  Then they talk about it and he calls her out; tells her if she can’t trust him, then he’ll just leave.  She agrees to see where he really wanted to take her.  Maxie tells Griffin about her heart transplant; he says he thinks she has a good heart – she says he doesn’t really know her.  He says she should ease up on herself, forgive her failings, etc.  She asks how he can see that to her, and not to himself.  Nathan and Claudette hear a noise; he rushes her back to the jeep.  She turns on the radio and hears the song they played after their wedding; he tells her it’s on his playlist… he listens to it all the time.  She looks at him longingly.  Franco takes Elizabeth to his art studio and locks the door; she smiles at him, but looks half-terrified.